zapsoda:

i hate how transphobes always lobby against “transgender children,” “think about the children,” kids arent getting fucking surgeries! 8 year olds are not going through fucking hrt. at MOST kids will socially transition and/or go on puberty blockers if theyre LUCKY.

who theyre really targeting is transgender MINORS. less than 18. these transgender “children” they are actively trying to bar from treatment are old enough to drive, hold steady jobs, go to college, pick a career for the rest of their life, but not to go through life-saving treatment for a condition even with parental permission? thats too much? theyre too young for that.

you know what else is “irreversible” and “dangerous” getting in a fucking car wreck and dying. choosing to go through chemotherapy is “dangerous” and holds “risky side effects.” yet the line is drawn at this decades big bad social taboo. its not rooted in CARE or LOGIC or SCIENCE its rooted in WILLFUL ignorance and bigotry and an insatiable lust for control over individuals.

when im in school, when i take sats and ap exams i am told i am “almost an adult.” when it comes to trying my damnedest to get into a decent college without trapping myself under a lifetime of debt i am not considered a child. yet when it comes to making a decision about my own health and future i am a child, without the agency or knowledge of life experience to make such a decision. isnt that funny.

animentality:

akindplace:

All is full of love - Björk

cowardly-bisexual:

cowardly-bisexual:

i’m gonna say it

having teenages and ppl in their early 20s with little to no experience with irl sex, dating and LGBT communities lead online discourse on what is sexual orientation and what labels mean has done incredible damage to our community

so much of the shit that has come out of twitter and tumblr in the recent years literally sounds like a homophobic fever dream but if you dare point that out you will be sent death threats by a swarm of teenagers who have never talked to a lesbian offline

me: online-only LGBT communities end up developing really out of touch and homophobic mentalities 

online-only LGBT communities:

skullchicken:

aydromysis:

skullchicken:

I just had a small epiphany why you might like other people’s art more than your own:

It’s the lack of suspension of disbelief.

When you see something someone else has drawn or painted, you take in the content faster than you take in the technical aspects. You experience it as pseudo-real, the same way you stop perceiving animated characters as drawn or book characters as written as you get into the story.

On the other hand, when you yourself have made something, all you see is the machine behind the theater, so to speak. You’re probably thinking about lines, shading, coloring in a “does this make sense? Is this the best decision I could have made?”-kind of way.

I think that’s also why sometimes, pictures you haven’t looked at for a long time starts looking nice to you again, à la: “Hey past-me was unto something! Why can’t I replicate it nowadays?”. It’s probably specifically because you’ve forgotten the process of making it that you are now seeing it with fresh eyes.

Art is an illusion, but a magician has a hard time tricking themself. So don’t be so hard on yourself: it’s probably just that you can’t see the magic right now, but that doesn’t mean it’s not there.

You just put something into words that I have been feeling for a while. This might actually get me to try digital painting again, thank you.

Omg, I’m glad to hear 💖

discodeerdiary:

discodeerdiary:

Y'all have got to get better at handling uncertainty. Sometimes two people will have a falling out and you legitimately won’t be able to tell which one was the abuser and which one was the victim. Sometimes you’ll encounter a stranger online who might be a channer troll trying to stir shit up or might be a deeply traumatized person trying their hardest to speak their truth. That person with the gendery vibes might be a trans egg or they might be a cis person who just does whatever the hell they want. You have got to learn to act appropriately when you can’t know everything.

The alternative is developing really silly forensic pseudoscience so you can draw up instant answers. Sadly this is extremely popular on the internet.

interstellar-lamb:

rudjedet:

ophilosoraptoro:

teaboot:

wine-dark-sea:

rudjedet:

downside: going to have to include a picture of the Giza pyramids in the slides for the lecture
upside: i get to give people a crash course in why perspective matters in two frames, because

ALT

followed by

ALT

is such a funny sequence

i find most people who haven’t seen it in person don’t know that cairo is RIGHT THERE

I loved these perspectives so I took some of my own when I was in Cairo and yeah, they’re literally just. Right there. Pass em on your way to work, nbd

No, y'all don’t even understand.

There is literally a Pizza Hut across the street from the pyramids.

That Pizza Hut among other things is why Egyptologists laugh their asses off when we see another piece of media where the protagonists get “lost in the desert near the pyramids”, because it’s like… just turn around my dudes you’re only a seven min walk away from the nearest fastfood shop

Yall don’t know how much I adore all of this

non-bi-narism:

ppl post this sort of positivity that’s like “bi ppl w a preference for women are valid bi ppl w a preference for men are valid” and yeah sure but also, hyperanalyzing your bisexuality is not necessary. the fact that you’ve dated or liked or slept w more men or more women doesn’t have to say anything abt your bisexuality. your bisexuality does not have to be measured and counted and have a pie diagram showing gender percentages. you can just be bisexual