Hey, PSA for younger/newer transmascs:

Tumblr has been showing targeted ads for "FTM binders" off Amazon. They look like this:

Do not buy these.

A binder is a piece of medical equipment. If you use one incorrectly, or use a poorly made one, you can really fuck up your ribs. This article from the Cleveland Clinic talks about how to bind safely.

A $14 binder is guaranteed not to be safe. There's a reason reputable companies charge more- sometimes a lot more. They have to carefully design binders so they don't crush your ribs or make you sick.

You know how everyone says Don't Bind With Duct Tape? Don't bind with Amazon binders.

Just some additions

A safe binder is always made of a rigid material on the front, like cotton. It gives you a more masculine chest AND it doesn't constantly crushes your ribs, like a whole-around elastic band would do.

Ask for donations if you cannot afford a good binder. If you already have those 20$ you are halfway there for one from Spectrum. Don't waste that money on something you won't be able to use for three hours straight.

Short binders work better on smaller chests and frames. Don't be afraid of long binders they look like interior shirts. Old school vibes.

If you are not from the global north and 40$ is your weekly budget or more, search for local binder stores. Look on Instagram, ask for reviews. I'm Chilean and I mostly use binders from Trans Shop Chile (only short models) and La Tienditrans (short and long models). Search for a rigid material in the front and no visible seams inside.

You are important. Save your ribs. Bind safely.

The social attitude regarding age is consistently getting weirder. You’re not ‘pushing 30’ you’re just in your late 20s. 30 is not old and neither is 40 while I’m at it. Growing older is an enormous privilege and displaying that age is a gorgeous component of life. Spending your days trying to reverse that grace breeds an eternally wasted life.

@ the people who think all nbs are teenagers

this is amazing and beautiful but can I just say: “ain’t going away til I die so get over it” is raw and powerful as FUCK.

So yeah….seeing older Non-binary people is so fucking reassuring. Thank y'all for fighting and paving the way. We will continue the fight to be ourselves!

Dude there’s tons of us out here. We just didn’t have language for it when we were younger.

Reblogging this for my Non-Binary followers and because I like that hat

my new favourite group of people: gen x enbies

Gen X and Elder Millennial (I’m the latter) nonbinary people are everywhere. The closest word I had for understanding my gender identity growing up was “tomboy.” I would’ve loved to have more terminology at my disposal as a preteen/teenager.

Pikmin 3 floral set! The Winged Pikmin and Rock Pikmin!

In this house we love Max Galactica~~✨️✨️!!

just woke up from a really weird dream where i was in the body of a fictional character again and now i wanna ask

*ie: animals, monsters, fictional characters, friends or family, list goes on

req'd by @wolvereaux

TRU

text: Love is stored in the friend who reads your fanfiction

falling in love with the most obnoxious character like

Reblog and put in the tags a ship you enjoy but hate the fandom's commonly used ship name for

Remember these terms for professions to help encourage gender neutral language!

KOSA IS BEING PUSHED FOR REAL THIS TIME

‼️URGENT: KOSA has been officially introduced in the House as of today.

We need to spread the word on social media and urge people to send emails to Congress through stopkosa.com.

• There will be a hearing on Wednesday (17th April) where KOSA, along with some other bad internet bills, like the Protecting Kids on Social Media Act could be pushed.

• We will be having a calling day on TUESDAY (16 th April) to make clear to Congress that there is still a ton of opposition to these bills. https://energycommerce.house.gov/posts/chair-rodgers-and-ranking-member-pallone-announce-legislative-hearing-on-data-privacy-proposals-1

• House Energy and Commerce is holding the hearing so they are the best offices to call this week ‼️ https://energycommerce.house.gov/representatives

• You can use http://badinternetbills.com/ to contact your congresspeople !

• And https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative to find all of the phone numbers of your House Representative, and faxzero.com to send up to 5 free faxes a day

While the bill needs to be aproved by both the house and senate WE NEED TO MAKE SURE IT NEVER LEAVES CONGRESS.

SPREAD THE WORD !!

@cutesmokes @ferocioustrout @oswaldswackywareshop @ajxrn @dragonsgirl572 @arseniccattails @saturn-galatic-07

Everyone talks about whether third cases in Ace Attorney are filler or for drawing parallels or for characterization or for a breather before the emotional stuff… but i have another suggestion. The real purpose of the third case of each game is to piss the prosecution off as much as humanely possible

Usually I don't talk about serious stuff but Ross Scott's recent video on his current crusade against the destruction of games got me needing to speak my mind!!!

As someone who is very for right to repair as well as consumer protections in the gaming industry this shit matters a lot to me!!!!

He made an ADHD/TLDR version of this video!!!

Seriously if you care about games and consumer rights please go support this man!!!! I can do only so much as I never bought the crew and live in murica but I can share the message!!!

You know, an interesting tumblr transformation that's happened gradually, and which I've seen no one talk about: ask-culture has essentially dropped off to nothing.

By which I mean, asks used to be WAY more of the tumblr economy. They used to be more common to send, and receive, and see. They were integral to the collaborative, forum-like behavior of old tumblr communities, not even to speak on the HUGE number of ask-blogs that used to exist to only be interacted with in ask-form.

I'm not saying this in a vying-for-attention way but instead in an observational way: I used to get way way more asks in like 2015, even with a fraction of my follower count. I wonder if it's due to the homogenization of social media sites? There's a lot more of this divide between "content creator" and "consumer" instead of just a bunch of peer blogs who would talk to each other. "Asks" aren't really a thing on twitter, are they? And as I understand it, the closest thing to an "ask" on instagram or tiktok would be a creator screenshotting some comment and responding to it in a new reel or video or whatever those content mediums are. Are asks just too tumblr-specific? Is that aspect of the site culture dying out as more and more people converge to using all their social media sites in the same way?

it's probably from assholes making asks a minefield of trolling/harassment for years with no real blocking ability, which turned people off from allowing asks on their blogs so as a whole the site moved away from it

but now that we do have better blocking, we should try to revive it.

Reblog if your ask box is open.

self-care phrases to boost your confidence

Reminds me of one duel in particular

I am never trusting any of you with directions, holy shit.