Kind of fucked how trans women especially the ones that don't "pass enough" are constantly subject to hyper-scrutiny and held to absolutely ridiculous and dehumanizing double standards by employers, doctors, institutions, industries, authorities, social media, potential partners, etc. There is no way to win.
I like the expression new-fangled. I don't know what it means for something to be fangled, but I sure as hell know it was recent
It’s from the Old English word feng, which can mean “to take”, or also “to grasp, hold, or embrace”. So something that’s newfangled is something that was taken up recently.
The reason it’s using this pretty archaic root is that it’s an older word than a lot of people think. Here it is in the Canterbury Tales.
Minutes after posting: "Why did I write archaic when I could have gone with old-fangled?"
Reblog to fangle this post
that's fucking it. bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark
it's kind of crazy climate change has occurred at such a remarkable pace that I and everyone else around my age can remember a completely different climate in our childhoods. I truly watched winter gradually disappear in my life.
"You're too young to remember this, but there used to be so many insects outside that you would have to clean them off the windshield after a long car ride" is the kind of sentence that would have been in a cheesy scifi short story earlier in my life, perhaps submitted to a literary magazine and accepted to show support for its environmentalist message - now it's something I've said in earnest.
The answer to your problems is self-discipline
this is what i was just talking about actually, if The Miss France, the elected Woman Of The Year for the Entire State of France cannot perform woman correctly enough for the gender police then none of us can, the mild oppression of "short haircut causes international discussion" exists on the EXACT same axis as "trans people killed for existing" its the same exact machine at work
its really weird when people talk about how their good practice of bdsm/leather stuff is separate from ~the fucked up stuff~ like do you seriously think leather culture in general has nothing to do with fetishization of power and abuse
either have a critic of the socially specific manifestations of human sexuality as a whole or just stop bc trying distinguish ur good leatherfag/dyke/whatever shit from the fucked up fetishizations is just not going to work
like one of the most recognizable visual symbols of gay leather culture is literally based off nazi uniform hats. you tumblr queer theorists are so unserious
This never works out because people in power think gay and lesbian sex is also a really fucked up kink btw.
Y'all forget when they said accepting gay marriage was a slippery slope to bestiality.
That's what what our sex lives are on par with to them. Bestiality. You are not doing any of us any favors by shitting on kinks that make you uncomfortable and calling them inherently fucked up. It's all the same to the homophobes and transphobes and you aren't earning special brownie points by "speaking out" and confirming that Really Gross Kinks Aren't Okay.
The moment you start turning on people with gross kinks is the same exact moment you give your permission for Lawrence v Texas to be discarded, because you fundamentally disagree with the idea that Fucked Up Sex Is Not Okay.
That ruling is what made it unconstitutional to punish people for sodomy (having sex that doesn't result in a baby).
Because it wasn't people with fucked up kinks like ageplay or raceplay that were being hurt. It was us it was queer people being hurt for having queer sex.
So if 2(+) adult people are consenting then accept that whatever happens behind their door is none of your fucking business and that it shouldn't be any of your business.
You don't have to like anyone's kinks. I'm not even gonna ask y'all to understand them.
But you do have to respect people regardless of whether or not you disagree with how they live their lives.
Kinks are like ice cream flavors to me. I don't expect everyone to like all of them or any of them even. And what flavor(s) someone else likes should Not warrant a paragraph long post about how fucked up you think they are. You should not be that passionate about what other ice cream people like. Unless someone is forcing you to eat ice cream, just walk passed the aisle next time you see it.
good notes on this post:
"You need to relax"
Best I can do is dissociate
Best I can do is maladaptive daydream
take it or leave it
ok i've been called a sex freak tranny too i get where you're coming from but like also please be more careful with extremely vague posts about Problematic Kinks
no. people's openness about what two consenting adults can do in private has no bearing on how likely they are to be child abusers or close ranks about child abusers & thinking there is some correlation is a sign that your stance on sexual abuse is mediated more by disgust reaction and aesthetic associations than by structural analysis. there is a pretty hard and obvious line between not condemming consensual sex acts between adults and being a pedophile and thinking that it's some sort of spectrum or slippery slope there imo speaks poorly to your conceptualization of why SA is a bad thing.
people love to say that X or Y kink Normalizes Abuse, but, like, actually think about communities where sexual abuse is 'normalized' in society. is the problem with the catholic church that it's too pro-kink? is the problem with US professional gymnastics that it's too pro-kink? is the problem with the amish that they're too pro-kink? was the problem with the british entertainment industry in the 1970s that it was too pro-kink? is the problem with the prison system that it's too pro-kink? &c. &c. &c.
sexual abuse doesn't happen because people are degenerate perverts and everyone is too accepting of that, sexual abuse happens because society is full of institutions that give adults structural power over children and men structural power over women. giving credence to the former, even in the form of thinking you have to be "super careful" about perverts, is a straightforwardly reactionary position.
i just need to get through this week
going for long walks alone is probably the closest thing we have to a cure for the human condition
every moment of every day i am thinking about this tiktok
Lumpfish come in a variety of shapes and colors.
[He scoops up the fish, it spits water and he turns it toward the camera]
This one is stumpy and green. Very beautiful, very powerful.
[He picks up another fish and turns it toward the camera]
This is what a normal lumpfish looks like. It is more elongated, but still a vibrant blue color. Very beautiful, very powerful.
[He picks up another fish and turns it toward the camera]
This is one of the stumpiest ones we have. Its hump is very high. It is very stumpy, but yet very beautiful, and very powerful.
[He pans over a lot of fish, all looking up at the camera]
My fish army is ever growing, and soon I will over throw the world. Very beautiful, very powerful.
because of this tiktok, i frequently murmur "very beautiful, very powerful" at myself, and i cannot recommend it enough.
jihyo, 'closer' (230820)
Wow some of you are really mad at me. Probably b/c i maimed & killed your friends, brothers, fathers, and sons on the field of battle. Thats ok though. Im fated to die soon
Crossover episode
Guessing it uses ultrasound?
Ultrasonic background noise, yes.
Ye, that’s what I’d use.
The real question is whether they’re gonna hold the patent close to their chest so they can sell it, or if they’ll open the patent so homegamers can take a crack at building their own.
They’ve already put the code and 3D printing models up on github!
God bless ‘em
Heroes.
