just a simple enby, existing

There's something really special about lil nas x being like "subtext? No. Old town road is literally about riding horses. If I was going to write a song about riding dick, like. Trust me. You'd know" and then he did

every time i see discourse about pedohysteria amidst a trans genocide i think about that news article from 2016 about the mexican immigrant who voted for trump because trump said he’d get rid of all the “bad hombres” from mexico, only to be deported himself because it turns out what trump was really saying was that he wanted to deport all mexicans, not just “the bad ones”

not just him, but there were many other examples too, like white conservatives who have mexican immigrant friends and family or people in the community important to them who were mexican immigrants, and they voted for trump because they thought trump was just getting rid of “criminals”, and then they regret it when their families and communities get torn apart by deportations of their spouses, their friends, their favourite restaurant owners, etc.

anyways, i hope young queers, trans people esp, understand that when conservatives talk about “pedophiles” and “groomers”, they’re not talking about actual child abusers, they’re talking about all queer people. they’re talking about all trans people. it’s why in florida, they’re categorizing “drag” as a child sex crime, and making sex crimes against children punishable by death. they’re trying to execute every single trans person, and that’s just the rhetoric they’re using

so stop buying into the pedohysteria. it’s easy to think “well, i’m not a pedophile, so i’ll be safe” when you don’t realize that in the eyes of conservatives, every single queer person is a pedophile and deserves death, and contributing to their rhetoric by trying to figure out which trans woman is a pedophile is just accelerating your own march to the gallows

(SICK stands for the Society for the Inclusion of Chronic Knowledge, which they feel is a precious resource post-2020)

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1. Those of us who are so severely disabled by ME and Long COVID that we are rarely able to leave our houses - or even our beds suffer from an invisibility so total, most people are completely unaware of our existence. There were millions of us before the pandemic, and 400 million more since (and counting!). But we're going to need a lot more than ramps to enable society to see us.

- Sam Pearce, SICK Pride Co-Founder

2. With HIV, we started with the same levels of denial, disinterest and poor engagement by the scientific community. If it hadn't been challenged, the course of the AIDS epidemic wouldve been very different. We had to create visibility to generate the political will to create resources. And that wouldn't have happened if people with HIV didn't stand up and overcome self-stigma in order to have a voice.

- Mark Heywood, Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) Co-Founder

3. If we cannot trust our governments to acknowledge inconvenient truths about climate change or genocide, we shouldn't be surprised at them ignoring this tsunami of pandemic-precipitated mass disability.

- Sam Pearce, SICK Pride Co-Founder

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as someone who's never had to be in a dorm room, the concept is pretty insane to me. you have to LIVE with a COMPLETE STRANGER... in the SAME ROOM? separate bedrooms is one thing, I've had roommates, but... you're just. sleeping next to some guy. and during the most stressful time in your life. what if they snore? what if they bring someone home? what if you need to... take care of yourself? what if they don't shower enough? like i know I've heard many horror stories regarding dormmates but it's wild to me that it doesn't turn out terrible for every single person

Handful of Trail Mix is your one stop solution to not passing out at 4pm. surely you cannot go wrong with Handful of Trail Mix when cooking or even using the microwave is unthinkable. handful of trail mix contains protein, carbohydrates, salt, fiber, sugar, and fat for all possible situations and challenges. handful of trail mix always tastes "okay". you are hiking your own Appalachian trail every day forgetting stuff in the other room eighty times before you can switch tasks why not try Handful of Trail Mix today and avoid breaking down your own muscle tissue for energy for another few hours

the M&Ms are in there to trick you into eating another handful. and they work

Some doodles of the bad kids in freshman year. More fan art to come lol

so true

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goosebumps as a concept are so funny ur brain is like "oh no we're threatened! quick! make us look bigger!" and your skin, that absolutely does not have the ability to do that, is like "absolutely. right away boss"

umm i need reassurance that my presence is wanted but i can’t ask for reassurance because that’s really Embarrassing and it wouldn’t feel genuine if i asked for it

Reblog to let prev know their presence is wanted

I like the fact that the two most well-known uses for lithium are treating people who are bipolar, and making batteries, which are also bipolar but in a completely different way.

Likes to charge reblogs to FUCKING cast

Please for the love of god. You should be able to change controls WITHOUT TAKING YOUR EYES OF THE ROAD. There is no reason to have to look at a SCREEEN while DRIVING

that Diana Wynne Jones interview where she’s like “I don’t understand why so many girls are into Howl, it must be because they want the challenge of fixing him” is so optimistic, like DWJ’s out here hoping I at least want to make him a more functional person as if “rogue academic turned melodramatic fashion disaster whose social skills Do Not live up to his own hype” is not a perfectly valid thing to be attracted to 

DWJ, a reasonable woman: behold this undesirable man. look at him, he dresses weird and he keeps emotional support spiders and doesn’t even question people moving into his house without asking and he has to reverse psychology himself into doing anything he’s actually supposed to do. 

every morosexual in a 100 mile radius: oh fuck yeah babey

god this isn’t even touching on the fact that Howl is??? apparently??? an ordinary-ass Welshman who was studying spells (????) at the doctoral level and then (somehow???) found a doorway into Actual Magic and promptly moved there to set up shop as a wizard with like five different names and two outfits but still goes home sometimes because he loves his niece and likes to hang out with the rugby lads (still working on processing Howl being a jock but?? okay), because PRESUMABLY all of this is supposed to further illustrate that Howl is an absolutely ridiculous sort of person but all I see is a man who made the exact decision I would make in a millisecond if given the opportunity 

Howl Jenkins is what happens when the overpowered ‘thrust into a fantasy world’ man… is not the main character.

Howl Jenkins is what happens when an a normal man gets thrust into a fantasy setting and is mostly excited to dick around and learn some magic to turn his hair different colors, only to realize to his dismay that being a powerful wizard means that people are going to ask you to actually do shit for them

Howl’s real name is just Howell which is one of the most generic welsh names ever and is like a guy named Steve going to a fantasy land and naming himself Stev.

Howl is supposed to be totally ridiculous yes but also supposed to abruptly in the middle of the story turn out to be Extremely Relatable.

We turn the black knob to the Mysterious Destination and afterward Sophie is more confused than ever (though not by much because she isn’t interested enough) but the audience has abruptly had ‘incomprehensible fantasy chaos wizard’ transmogrified before our eyes into an easygoing perpetual grad student with no job prospects whom nobody takes seriously, except he has a secret magic life, which is in fact only slightly less stupid and even more off the rails than the normal one.

poetry.

Just want to add: being invested in rugby does not make a Welshman a jock. It just makes him Welsh

As a longtime filmfan, this discourse makes me Real Excited to read the book.

so I thought this was about howl’s moving castle

it is

you actually don't have to go on dating apps to find girlfriends. many beautiful women are waiting for you on rocks out at sea

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i was at a restaurant last week, watching the political ads on the TV between sports games. one from the trump campaign ended with the slogan “kamala is for they/them. trump is for you”. it was vilely clever - and it made a clear statement about who was the enemy, the other, the unwelcome, in trump’s great america. i thought about how the right had gone all-in on transphobia this election season, and i hoped it was a gamble that would cost them.

this week has been a gut punch, and i’ve been feeling a lot of things - rage, fear, grief, and subspecies of those emotions. what i kept coming back to, though, as i digested these feelings, were the people i love. my queer friends. the trans kids in my community. the people who, already, are losing their rights to bodily autonomy, state-by-state. the way that i’ve had to start looking at our country as a fucked up patchwork of safe and not-safe. the way that access to medical care, increasingly, changes depending on which side of an arbitrary border you’re on. i’m also realizing the ignorance and privilege it is to only think of our country this way, now. america has always been about picking and choosing who deserves rights, who we consider a person. but, despite the deep-seated flaws of this country, i live in it. so do so many people i love. and that’s what I keep coming back to: the people i love, and my desire to protect them. at the very center of all the rage and hurt and anxiety and sorrow i’m feeling, is a deep, perilous love. i am holding onto that love. i hope you are, too.

surprise! i turned this into a sticker!! a sticker which i will be selling and donating 100% of the profits from to Trans Continental Pipeline, a local mutual aid group that helps trans americans relocate to colorado (a relatively safe state) from less safe states. they've had a huge increase in aid requests since the election and offer a ton of incredible services to people relocating to the state, including moving grants and providing temporary accommodations, help with finding jobs, housing, mental and other health care, and a network of peers and community.

i'm offering a preorder on the stickers at the moment, to gauge how many i should buy. i will continue to sell (and donate the profits of) extra stickers after they're ordered, so this isn't your only chance to get them, but now is a great time to support a good cause and get a sticker (in 2-3 weeks time)! the best news is, the more stickers people order, the larger a percentage of the price we can donate to TCP.

listed on my shop here!

three person poly relationship made up of two people who are already dating trying to coax someone with horrific self worth issues into a loving relationship. stray cat style

they’re all laying together in bed and the couple are both thinking to themselves like good, he stayed the night to cuddle and talk when we offered, he should know that we genuinely care for him and want this to be more then a handful of one night stands. and the stray cat guy is like wow this sure is nice i think i’m falling in love with them. it’s really too bad that they don’t actually give a fuck and hate me and probably want to kill me with hammers for no reason