oh that I had been writ down an ass

in a kinder world i live in an i spy page

life might be better if we could all take a minute out of our day to stop and do a little puzzle

tazmuir could simply rerelease gideon the ninth over and over again but from the perspective of all of the different characters at canaan house and i would be tuned the fuck in. like the drama of all of their different expectations and relationships…. coronabeth living her hot girl summer… judith experiencing Sapphic Hell…. isaac and jeannemary on the world’s weirdest family vacation…. palamedes living out a deeply repressed regency era romance…. silas filled with loathing for every single person there…. delightful. canaan house drives me crazy. it’s like if love island was survivor

Naberius' perspective is a dating sim but he just fails everyone's routes

people with chronic pain and chronic fatigue will be like why does it hurt and why am I so tired

Can you believe it took me over a decade to come to this realization

who up feeling the kind of bone deep annoyance and dissatisfaction that makes you want to skin yourself

dear newly-out trans girl: you need to wear yr skirt up on yr waist, not on yr hips. trust me on this one

Dear newly-out trans girl: your waist is NOT where you thought it was, and it is actually 1-3 (estimate) inches (2.6-7.6 cm) above your belly button. The thing you thought was your waist (because that’s where your pants’ waistbands go) is indeed your hips

best foolproof tip I have for finding your natural waist (as someone who sews and has covered lots of ways to measure it), is to bend side to side, the middle of where you hinge from is your natural waist.

This is also useful for online shopping because you are probably not measuring the part they are expecting you to, which can throw off sizing

diagram to visually demonstrate what I mean. I find this a better explanation than saying "the narrowest part of your waist" because that is not always easy to visually see on all people for all manner of reasons.

Theres also a difference between "natural waist" (see above) and "wearing waist" which can be a few inches lower than that natural waist, but knowing the general area that most womens clothes are expecting you to wear them can help with any fit issues and if its just placement or if you need to go up/down a size.

Cool, now what do you do if you're a fat trans woman.

If you're a fat trans woman (much like I am) you can apply the same principle but add in a little calculation. High waisted pants/skirts/what have you can sit at different places depending on the garment, so its better to find a "zone" on your midsection to measure. I usually measure at the largest part of my stomach, which tends to be juuuuust about where my bellybutton is. Now this can vary depending on you and how your stomach sits, some fat girls aren't as round as I am. But generally if you do the bend test and it seems kinda high for where your waist should be, try measuring just around where your bellybutton sits and/or the widest part of your belly. Whatever you wear will need to get over that widest part to sit at your waist, especially if you're like me and that widest part IS your waist.

example of where my favourite pants sit:

you can see how high that is compared to the crotch of my pants there, but its still below where the "bend point" is like the post above says. When I bend over the crease is only about 2-3 inches below my armpit, which would be WAY too high for pants to go lol. Anway, I love you fat trans girls, we're stronger than god and more beautiful than anything <3 <3 <3

yeag

just a small thing for one of my fav wbn npcs

I think we are all legally entitled to at least one (1) local mutual. As a treat.

genuinely it is so crazy to me that like. if none of the murders had happened and it had really actually been dulcinea and protesilaus at canaan house instead of cytherea… i truly believe that none of the other pairs would have ascended. EXCEPT for ianthe, who did it ANYWAYS. like really? truly? actually? if there had been no pressure? if the heir of each house had simply been allowed to discover the eightfold word as they pleased? who would have willfully done it? who would have taken their cavalier’s life, or their flesh? certainly not the fourth, fifth, or sixth. judith has too much of a personal attachment to marta and too much of a moral obligation to not eating her lieutenant. dulcinea wouldn’t have sacrificed protesilaus to prolong her own life. silas would have considered it an abomination at best. and gideon and harrow had already started their Character Development by the time abigail and magnus were found dead - by the time harrow had actually found the key to lyctorhood, she would have rather died than kill gideon. without direct interference, only ianthe would have ascended. only one lyctor would have been created.

in trying to stop any of them from becoming lyctors, cytherea created more of them.

sometimes a family is a hacker with internet brainrot, a wizard influencer, a d2 basketball star, the scariest guy you’ve ever met, a pig, a chipmunk wearing a little sweater, a living basketball, a dubiously-sentient shadow, and two tablets forming one being that has a parasocial relationship with all the other aforementioned members of the family

WHY THEY STRIKE: Ke Huy Quan (SAG), 2023 Winner of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Everything Everywhere All At Once

lyctor chappell roan be like you can slit a hundred throats of stars

This is an opinion brought to you by a rancher, who knows quite a few other ranchers and dairy farms.

I recently watched a documentary called Earthlings, which gets praised on a lot in the Vegan, animal rights, and animal welfare tags.

This documentary is complete, biased, exaggerated, and twisted bullshit (At least when it comes to beef and dairy, which is what I’m talking about)

It opens on beef with branding, showing an animal being hot ironed on the face. In my state, you cannot register to brand a cow on a face. In fact, the face is the least common branding site available, as it can damage the cow’s jaw and make it difficult for her to eat. The most common branding site is the hip, rib, and shoulder, but the documentary simply says, cows are branded on their face.

Does it say why? No. Because obviously we scar our animals for fun, right? Cattle don’t have microchips like a dog. If your dog gets stolen, you can usually find it because of it’s Microchipped. Cows don’t have that. Cows are so expensive, they’re like gold, so often Ranchers brand their cattle. If a cow has a brand, she cannot be sold without the brand owner’s authorization, meaning, someone can not steal young, healthy animals from my pasture, and sell them for slaughter.

Next they go on to dehorning, stating that it is cruel, painful, and often done with simple pliers. HAaha.

If I have an animal, I don’t want to ruin it by painfully tearing off it’s horns. This animal will never let me touch it again!

Most cattle, and I DO mean most, are dehorned either as calves (Less painful, not remembered), or have a shot to numb the area at the base of the horn before it’s CUT off, not YANKED off. This way, the cow can still be handled.

Does the documentary say WHY cattle are dehorned? Does it mention that a cow with horns is a danger to itself, humans, and other animals? No? Of course not!

Beef cattle are not stuffed into trailers until it’s so full the animals die. This makes absolutely no sense. If the animals die before they reach the sale ring or slaughter house, no paycheck for you! You make less money if the animals die before slaughter.

Nothing the documentary covers is explained why. WHY do they do that? It’s biased. It makes it seem like ranchers and farmers WANT to hurt their cattle. They don’t. Most of us get attached to our cows. It exaggerates EVERYTHING

Dairy

According to the documentary, Dairy cattle are CHAINED to their stalls, in their own feces, with no water or food, pumped full of hormones to make them milk more. Wrong.

A dairy barn consists of a long isle down the middle of the barn, with a large alley on each side for the cattle. The cattle can walk down the main alley, or lay in a padded stall. They can stick their head through railings to eat food specially mixed to meet all their needs, or drink water. Dairy barns, because they produce milk that MUST be clean, cannot milk a cow pumped full or hormones and chemicals, and clean their barns daily to avoid bacteria. WOW! It’s almost like we take care of our animals so they produce! WHO KNEW?

Most dairy cattle are allowed to graze in a pasture with their calves, until they’re milked in the morning and the evening. Others keep their cows in a well airated barn. Calves are removed to avoid injury! Calves are often kept it smaller pens, with calf huts, pads, soft bedding, and even blankets! It is counter productive to not care for a calf. A calf is your future cow! Dairy farmers feed them the highest quality milk so the calves grow into strong, productive animals.

Dieing cows are not left in the isles. If a cow begins to appear sick, a vet is called. Simple as that.

The documentary states that a cow’s lifespan can reach 20. WRONG. at the age of 8 or 9, a cow starts to lose her teeth. If you kept a cow alive until 20 she would be malnourished and miserable, unable to eat. The average cow lives until 8 or 9, at which point they are sold. It would be cruel to keep an animal who cannot eat or fulfill it’s own needs.

Cows do not, on average, die at FOUR YEARS OLD because of exhaustion! Four years, at almost any dairy or ranch you visit, is a cow in her PRIME! We do not run our animals to death. We do NOT torture them.

You don’t eat meat? Great! Do your thing! Eat your veggies! That’s fine! But don’t make me out to be devilspawn if I eat meat. Don’t make me out to be cruel, (As stated by the documentary, as cruel as hitler to the jews), because I raise cattle. Fuck. You.

The shit thing about that documentary is it preys on people who have never been on a farm or dairy. If you’ve never been to one, it’s easy to believe things like this. If I made a documentary about how vegans grew their food, and showed it to people who have never met Vegans, or seen how crops are grown, I could easily exaggerate and make Veganism seem horrible, like this documentary does to livestock owners.

Please stop hating on ranchers and farmers. Please?

Signal boost because I’m tired of seeing people on this website base all of their “learnings” on farm life through biased cumentaries. Read it. Learn it.

I used to spend every weekend on my friends dairy farm as a kid. It’s NOTHING like the vegan documentaries suggest.

I said I was drawing all the characters from these books and I intend to do it goddamit!! tamsyn hire me Harrow the ninth if I was tasked to make it a 2D animated series, here's Gideon the ninth, Nona coming soon..

this is definitely NOT the moon girl episode with a trans character that disney shelved and has no plans on airing and i am definitely NOT advising you to spread it around like wildfire in retaliation to this stupid-ass chickenshit coward decision. i repeat, i am DEFINITELY not encouraging you to spread this episode around like crazy to show disney that trans people will not bow down to the whims of the people that want them dead. definitely DON'T do that. definitely

don't reblog THIS version of the post, since it definitely does not have a link to the archive upload of the episode that got shelved :)

I guess not