The entire idea of the egg as "someone who is trans but ~doesn't realize it yet~" instead of "someone who would clearly be happier if they chose to be trans" has broken a lot of people's brains

No one is trans. Everyone is trans. Most people live their entire lives not realizing that being trans is just An Option for them that they could take at any given time--and furthermore, most people will resist this knowledge even when they're beaten over the head with it. We should be asking everyone, absolutely everyone: "Did you know that you can do whatever you want?, and also "Are you really sure that you know what you want?" And we should ask them over and over again until they also want to destroy this gendered nightmare.

PSA: the guardian is not working on a hit piece on diy hrt, and claims they are are misinformation

on the 18th, this post appeared on 4chan's /lgbt/ (slurs in thread: link). a screenshot was posted to reddit, then to tumblr. you've probably seen it:

today, the 23rd, another screenshot popped up on various discord servers, then was reposted variously to twitter. it shows a supposed email from guardian journalist and notorious TERF Susanna Rustin, claiming as the original 4chan post does.

it's now been shared around, and it's with good intentions. the message is useful: don't share your personal information or medical data with journalists, especially ones that happen to be TERFs.

but the post does this through misinformation and fearmongering. i'm still waiting on my response by email from Rustin, but she's reiterated twice (once, twice) that she did not write the email and is not working on such a story. on the 19th, i talked to other guardian newsroom journalists, who said they also did not know of a story's existence.

the moral of the story: this is misinformation, and it's dangerous. it spreads a fine message here, but it does it through spreading anxiety and terror.

you can follow along with this post on my parallel thread on twitter. also calling on @wakewithgiggli to delete their original post!

medieval judge: i sentence you to a swift and painless death in private with all of your clothes on

gay masochist pervert criminal: NOOOOOO PLEASE, ANYTHING BUT THAT!

going to a salsa dance class tonight with my gf (who knows how to dance) and im nervoussss i also dont know what to wear T_T

class got cancelled wtf 😭😭

Audition - 1999 - Dir. Takashi Miike

“Palestinian women dancing at a wedding in Yatta.”

Photographed by Eddie Gerald, 2006.

Highly recommend Tavi Gevinson’s series of essays critiquing Taylor Swift, the culture of Swiftieism, the nature of becoming famous as a young person, and the concept of person-as-brand, from the perspective of someone who both became famous on the internet as a tween and was briefly friends with Taylor in her girl squad era

Some more “what’s in my bag” posts from flickr. We have always been the same…..

going absolutely feral over this collection of items that washed up on Cornish beaches Lego Lost At Sea on twitter

"Not sea glass but fragments of plastic car tail lights, indicators and brake lights, probably washed into storm drains after heavy rain, eventually making their way to the sea." Lego Lost At Sea on twitter OUGH

Larissa De Jesús Negrón - The watcher knows best, 2023 - Acrylic, oil pastel and color pencil on canvas