We're eating so well this week...

Psychologists out there saying things like "I only give medicine to people I would bang" and they just get away with it.

Like, think about how important HRT is for the average trans person. It's completely life-changing and unmatched as a medical intervention for that population's mental health.

And these people are withholding it based on "would I fuck that?" standards.

I was a patient of Zucker's; he was very much like this. He explained his very conservative verdict on HRT (a tentative prescription of blockers after years at the clinic) by citing my lack of femininity; in particular, that I was still wearing pants. I noted that my mother, and his research assistant (a much younger woman, like all of his research assistants I saw over my treatment), the only two other women in the room, were both wearing pants. He mumbled something about "different styles." He always felt entitled to me like that, thinking nothing of asking a high schooler about my fetishes during appointments for reasons he never decided to give. The judgment only goes one way.

When I was referred to an endocrinologist, he not only took Zucker's cautious prescription at face value but also recommended I see an aesthetician about my eyebrows. When I showed myself not especially grateful for this treatment, he expressed an unwillingness to increase my very low dose of HRT, since most trans women would be excited about this. He referred me to another doctor and washed his hands of me.

I had been excited and hopeful, but that considerably faded after several years of being sexually demeaned by Zucker and then him. I wasn't a wide-eyed girl anymore, I was a bitter, broken shell of a woman, twisted both physically and mentally. So excitement and hope rotted into cold hatred. Let me have my hormones and I'll let you have all ten of your fingers. I could hide it, but I couldn't make it look like gratitude.

They want to be your judge and, if they wish, benefactor, a pediatric Pygmalion letting only the sexiest of minors transition. They are nothing more than petty tyrants of the endocrine system, bullies all grown up who have found an easy and lucrative source of bodies to hurt and control.

This is what people demand to go back to when they want transitioning to be even harder.

Some other horror stories from the notes.

This needs to be considered some form of malpractice for real.

One of my internship tutors, a psychologist, was very fond of talking about his brilliant intellect at lengths, and quite conservative. He once told me of when he was an intern himself at one of the first clinics that approved for delivering HRT, back when you needed a psychiatrist's approval (something that he bemoaned the lack of nowadays 💀).

And he was saying that all those women (he did not call them women, of course) were so cliché! That they were caricatures of feminity, and that it proved that they weren't women at all because they were trying too hard. When I pointed out that maybe, those women who were coming to get mandatory approval from a psychiatrist to get started on HRT, were trying to pass in the eyes of that psychiatrist, he looked taken aback and then recovered and asked smugly "then does that mean identity is in the eye of the other?"

Like he was sooo smug about it. Idiot.

So you can never win. Either you're too masculine in their eyes and so you must not really want to be a woman, or you're a caricature of feminity and it makes you pathetic in their eyes. That's why there shouldn't be mandatory referrals like that.

When I was getting large batch electrolysis in preparation for bottom surgery, the doctor who ran the clinic would come into the room at the start of each session. He’d give me an injection of a strong sedative so I could handle the painful numbing injections and then would immediately tell me “you’re beautiful, but you could be gorgeous. I mean absolutely bombshell. You should really consider facial feminization surgery and breast enhancement, we do both here”

Btw just so transfems in the Chicago area can know not to go there, this was Dr Mark Zukowski at the Cirine Hair Removal Center in Wilmette, IL

"We removed a major character growth moment"

Mindless attempts at pandering like this drive crazy

To me this too, is enshittification

no war in Ba Sing Se...

There is no war in Ba Sing se??? 😢😢😢

Look whatever people think of the live action version of Avatar, I think it's really important to clear up this repeated misinformation:

the part about no war in Ba Sing Se is not real.

It's a joke.

The first prominent example of it (that I saw) was posted by parody twitter "DisbussingFilm" as a joke, found here:

And plenty of other people have continued the meme straight faced, with their less obvious accounts, still listing IGN as the source, so more and more people are missing the joke.

I know explaining the joke is bad or whatever and I assume even some of the people reblogging this now are aware it isn't real and just memeing, but as it's placed alongside an actual article in this string of reblogs I assume it's being take at face value by at least some people.

Glad we're finally addressing the bare-faced misogyny of all those "transfems and transmascs should be sucking and fucking instead" posts bc they're absolutely vile

that genre of post has always driven me crazy because it makes the bias against trans women on here so obvious. a lot of people can understand that a cis man saying “feminists don’t need to hate men because i can fuck them really good” would be be super misogynistic and insane. but when the man is trans, and the “women who won’t stop infighting” he’s talking about are trans… then suddenly things are different. failing to recognize misogyny against trans women is a blind spot way too many people still have

Again, the animation has brought me to a stunlocked point rn…

we used to write rpf with the common sense to never share it with the actors and overarching knowledge it was just fun because real people have real chemistry. now everyone's so terrified of only indulging in "morally correct" fiction they barely write it at all and need seven thousand disclaimers and notes to "please not send hate." we used to be a proper country

POOR THINGS (2023) + Letterboxd Reviews

PJ & Hazel BOTTOMS (2023) | dir. Emma Seligman

SALTBURN (2023) dir. Emerald Fennell

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1994) dir. Henry Selick

TOMORROW IS HALLOWEEN!!!

WHAT THE FUCK IT’S CHRISTMAS EVE WHY DID SOMEONE REBLOG THIS

TOMORROW IS HALLOWEEN!!!

TOMORROW IS HALLOWEEN!!!

🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃

TOMORROW IS HALLOWEEN!!!

🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃

TOMORROW IS HALLOWEEN

my timeline is full of tweets like this. i’m going to throw up

Attacks are worse than ever and no one has any way to document it or cry for help.

the red crescent cannot reach their teams and is deeply worried about their safety

Willa Fitzgerald as Madeline Usher in The Fall of the House of Usher (2023)

Posting faggot and queer like 2am gunshots to keep property values on my blog low and scare away assimilationist LGBTs who want to replace my empty lot full of native wildflowers with a 5-over-1 because they're too traumatized by their upbringing to accept the reality of our diverse marginalized community

The dykes and trannies in the notes have informed me they would like to be included in this commentary on the homogenizing forces of gentrification within the queer community as represented by language discourse around "slur" reclamation