it's kind of crazy how utterly assimilated the LGBT movement is into liberal politics and how much it aligns itself with the logics of capitalism, to the point where it's not even a proper political movement anymore, it's a Community® now that is held together with various commodified identiy signifiers. we have to make five billion flags and micro-labels (to make more flags) and buy Gay Product and consume Designated Gay Media* and support Queer Business as the pinnacle of activism. we need to get the stupid shark plushie, made by the company that is actively helping the rapid destruction of old growth forests in my home country, and make it part of our identiy. buy your identity in stores today!

and that's not even mentioning the role of assimilated LGBT politics in aiding imperialism accross the world. all of these western-backed NGOs in various countries, sucking up any local gay and trans politics into a black hole of hand-me-down politics from the US. and how many western gays AREN'T homonationalists when it comes down to it? how many western gays haven't said some line about the homophobic muslims or russians or whoever is the target at the time? how many haven't aspired to prove their worth by joining the imperialist war machine?

and all that... and yet gay and trans people are still treated like dogshit in the west. any minuscule progress made is quickly reversed at a moments notice. trans women are still the laughingstock and boogeyman of the western world.

we cannot liberate ourselves with aesthetics and commodity consumption and supporting the correct businesses and occasionally voting for a liberal politician. we cannot create a useful model for gay and trans politics through liberal idealism. we need a materialist and internationalist approach. desperately.

*the Designated Gay Media in question also almost always some bullshit produced in the US that has a complete absence of transfem characters or has very obvious transmisogynistic caricatures

i have invented this bunny-defeating wire to defeat bunnies

everyone who thinks "social pressure to transition" is real has naturalised the social pressure Not to transition to such a point that they have become incapable of understanding that it's real and exists. "cis guy who likes wearing a skirt has been pressured into becoming trans :(" how about "trans girl who is in the middle of cracking her egg is terrified of being trans and you telling her that it's Okay to be a cis man in a skirt is unhelpful at best and open transmisogyny at worst". you do not see that 99.99% of the social pressure is in the direction of Staying Cis because it is only that 0.01% that feels unnatural to you

been said before but so much egg discourse leaves out the part where everyone is walking around having extra layers of shell added to their egg every day. and the outer layer of shell is a thick layer of "transitioning isn't even a possibility for me". has that person experienced harm by having their egg cracked or have they only just realised that transition is for them, too

for every "it's okay to just try hrt and see" and "you're allowed to experiment with your gender" there are a million trials by fire that a trans person has to be brave enough to walk through before they can even think about the concept. like do you really think the average cis guy sees a post about E and immediately walks into the local Gender Place and gets it for fun? you think a cis girl is able to just access T on a whim? talk to one trans person.

you can't keep telling (i.e. threatening) pre hrt trans women that hormones will make them be attracted to men. think for one singular second.

I promise you don't have to date, fuck or engage in any way with men to be a woman. Internalizing this will free you.

okay so maybe the mailman wasn't actually a serial killer in disguise trying to sneak into my house and murder my owners, but the fact that so many small dogs are afraid of that just goes to show how much of a real danger it is to us

i took my friend to Hocking Hills state park yesterday and on our hike I talked all about the (now retired) park naturalist who mentored me years ago, along with the professor who also mentored me and how they got me my first job in my field after college, like I went on and on about my memories of them and the time I spent with them in the park, and then we got to a cave and they were both inside. I hadn’t seen either of then since I moved away seven years ago and then I went back to the state park for the first time since and they were just there. in a cave. they went to the cave together. one of them saw me and said “oh hi! what are you doing here?” like hey fancy us all being here in this cave together huh.

i can’t express how much this felt like a video game cutscene encounter. i established the lore for two hours about these specific two Guys and then they appeared, like, in their map.

it was this professor btw

“Cats don’t actually love you”

A cat is a small creature in the middle of the food chain that is fully aware that you are a very large thing that could stomp its head in at any moment and yet it chooses to rest its tiny little head on your leg for a nap and spreads out on the floor near you exposing its belly and its most sensitive organs. It brings dead mice and bugs to you to share food.

Don’t you get it? This tiny thing trusts you. It wants to help you too. It licks your leg thinking that it’s helping. It kneads on you to find comfort. It shares its body warmth with you in the cold and gives you your space in the heat. It hisses at other mammals it sees outside including other cats in an effort to protect its family.

Cats love you so so much. But they will keep trying to eat plastic.

data takes the pjackk challenge

normal people cant have discussions about ai art because they think all art is like renaissance oil paintings. tumblr people cant have discussions about ai art because they think all art is 3/4 bust drawings of what we do in the shadows characters

bust? i do that shit to Isabelle (from animal crossing) on the daily!

Sincerely if you’re super insecure one of the best things you can do for yourself is stop self deprecating or talking badly about yourself it doesn’t matter how much you think it’s not effecting you there just isn’t a universe where constantly ramming negative information about yourself into your brain over and over isn’t doing damage and making you believe it

Also as a secondary aspect to this I actually think that doing this will not only point to things that nobody ever would’ve noticed but it can tend to make other people believe it as well. I notice people treat me so much better and with so much more respect since maturing and not constantly apologizing for everything about myself

Going on HRT and it makes me look like your mom, which raises several pressing questions.

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she’s not even embarrassed about the fact she was going to drink someone else’s thing without asking because she believed if she pulled off the move it was going to look cool enough that the soldier would just give the whole can to her .