#paralytic states

[fanboy-feminist]

I've said it before but I believe Transgender Dysphoria Blues to be a masterclass in album track-listing.

Opening with a self-loathing title track —> defiant trans punk anthem for all time as track no. 2.

The 1-2-3-Punch of “Dead Friend,” “Two Coffins,” and “Paralytic States.”

“Paralytic States” ending with “No resolutions for the new year beginning tomorrow” —> “Black Me Out,” a song Laura Jane Grace debuted at a New Year’s Eve show.

(A huge plus is my personal favorite track, “FUCKMYLIFE666,” is the halfway point of the album.)

Against Me! Really went “let’s put the three saddest, most heartwrenching, depressing songs we’ve ever written right next to each other on the same album”

[aztralsea]

Paralytic States makes me wanna listen curl up in the bathroom and cry

[future-crab]

argaughoughaaacgh Paralytic States……,.. Every time I hear Laura Jane Grace sing “Nighttime at the hotel, there was fighting in the hall…” the whole world stops.

[yellow-computer-mouse]

Transfem Horror animatic with Paralytic States by Against Me!

[sleevesareforlosers]

re: ur barbie post: i have in fact seen it and yeah agreed </3 however i hope u have fun getting dressed up tho what’s ur barbie fit gonna be???

okay COOL im glad im not just preemptively judging but! ill be wearing this pink halter top i have and highwaist wideleg pants (also hot pink) and either all my pink kandi or my pink cuffs. potential for redying my hair in the next few days so thatll be really pink too

oh and the heart shaped be gay do crime sunglasses. naturally.

[hotcinnamonsunset]

omg what are u sewing? 👀

hopefully this fleece zip-up, for starters!!

(at least I hope for starters. my sewing aspirations always seem soooo large and I give up soooo quickly)🥲

[absolute-lithops-effecting]

You know how there are songs that make you want to write their lyrics angrily on a wall? Or am i just insane

[404shcats]

Fuck man transgender dysphoria blues is such a good album, literally improves my day every time I get the chance to listen to the full thing, I really need to check if they like sell cds of it. -Party

[agentcherricola]

3 13 and 15!

3. What were your top five books of the year? 1. piranesi by susanna clarke 2. fingersmith by sarah waters 3. silver in the wood by emily tesh 4. his majesty’s dragon by naomi novik 5. a psalm for the wild-built by becky chambers

13. What were your least favorite books of the year? of the ones i completed, autonomous by annalee newitz (i wish they did the robot gender stuff better it left me feeling cold), and the final bridgerton book, on the way to the wedding (gregory had no personality and that book was boring). i also didn’t finish legends and lattes by travis baldree (i’m sure it was fine but when focusing on a book is hard enough i need more to be happening)

15. Did you read any books that were nominated for or won awards this year (Booker, Women’s Prize, National Book Award, Pulitzer, Hugo, etc.)? What did you think of them? i don’t think so! i didn’t read a lot of stuff that came out this year at all in general

[girldickdotcom]

one thing they never tell you about making music is the risk of accidentally figuring out how to play a song that breaks your heart because then you have to think about that song

[cafffine]

hi u seem like u have Thoughts on the jungle can we hear them

I do! My mention of it was mostly that I thought The Jungle was a good example of what this post was trying to say isn’t good storytelling, ie : the plot stops dead for a while to go into excruciating detail on the horrors and gory mechanics of the chicago meat-packing industry (side note that I don’t disagree with the post overall, it’s just not useful as a hard rule)

Only of course - detail and painstaking explanation is the whole point of the novel, and the passage that lays out just how unsanitary and dangerous the meat-packing factories in Chicago were is definitely the most well-known section of the book, and one of the most well-known and influential pieces of literature to come from Chicago.

I first read it in high school and it was one of the first critiques of capitalism that really got through to me - which one would hope because it also got through to President Roosevelt who ended up pushing forward some (largely misguided) legislation impacting workers rights and food safety regulations after the book came out and caused outrage and disgust through the public. The most lasting change to come from this would probably be the current food and drug administration. (source)

But I have to add that the tragedy of the whole fiasco is that the book is written almost entirely about the oppressing and powerless experience of being an immigrant worker in Chicago/America in the early 20th century, but the only thing anyone wanted to talk about - and in fact still talks about - was that the food production system was unsanitary for consumers.

The food and drug administration is something to be proud of, no doubt, and the fact that the book inspired that kind of change is worth celebrating in its own right, but it’s depressing that even a century later workers rights - specifically the rights of immigrant workers in factory settings - has hardly improved past cases of borderline slavery.

As a fitting and truly horrifying modern example, here’s a link to an article detailing the investigation of Packers Sanitation Services for their use of child labor to clean and sanitize meat-packing factories.

“Sinclair was known to mourn that “I aimed for their hearts, and hit their stomachs.” While his impact on industry regulation was immediate and powerful, his dream for The Jungle had been to expose and ameliorate the plight of capitalist-age wage-workers. Unfortunately for him, the American public reacted more strongly to the narrative about the food they ingested rather than the less immediate issue of those that were exploited in the poorly-monitored process (Ivan 65).”

- Kristina Madarang Stahl, 2017 (Source)

[pollackpatrol]

comics mutual for sure 👍

uuuu

[satanfemme]

ur shirt slaps so hard omggggggg also pls give phineas a little kiss from me <3

thank you so much!!!

I'm giving phineas ur kiss and he's giving a little kissie back <3

[botheringlevi]

𝘏𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩

𝘛𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘭 𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘴

𝘏𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘣𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘤𝘳𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨

𝘏𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘴𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘴

𝘙𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘭𝘶𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 𝘧𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨

𝘛𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘱 𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘭 𝘥𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘴

𝘉𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘯

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘵𝘶𝘣'𝘴 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳-𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨

𝘕𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦

𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦-𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘱 𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘭 𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘦𝘵𝘴

𝘏𝘦'𝘴 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦

𝘙𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘪𝘳𝘭 𝘩𝘦 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦

𝘊𝘶𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯

𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘦𝘱

𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘩𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘨𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥

𝘈 𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘶𝘱 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦

𝘕𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦

𝘕𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘭

𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘧𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘭

𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬 𝘵𝘰 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘵

𝘏𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘦

𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘯𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘭 𝘣𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮 𝘮𝘪𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳

𝘛𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘺𝘴𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘢'𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯

𝘏𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘴𝘢𝘸 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳'𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘯