red mage on the internet

and the thing is that i really love hot dog decks. this guy is so fucking right

yes!!!! too many of them act like it's this game of fucking with the status quo and playing with taboo that trans women have some kind of advantage in, because to be hated more is to Win, and they are Losing because their expressions of gender are seen as more acceptable

rocky horror and much of mainstream drag serve this function. they cultivate and reproduce a sense of shock around gender nonconformity, gamifying the transgression of the boundaries of gender performance. but in order for that game to be played at all, those boundaries need to remain so they can be continually transgressed. trans women who are harmed by these boundaries and who want to truly do away with them, then, represent a threat to the game

if the boundaries are challenged enough that they go away, and thus no more games or performances can be constructed around Challenging them, then... fucking good!!!!!!!!

do you still love the idea of being the most transgressive person in the room if it won't win you any social points? if it will get you rejected and abused even by friends and peers who love the aesthetic of transgression?

me when I don’t have any stab wounds: “I am so emboweled right now”

Knowing this, whenever someone jokingly refers to raccoons as "trash bandits", I get a vivid mental image of, like, a raccoon succession crisis leading to a raccoon civil war, the aftermath of which forced the former soldiers of the losing side (who are all raccoons) to take up the life of the raccoon outlaw.

The interesting thing about this particular phenomenon in Chinese history is we've got multiple recorded cases of the winner of a civil war going out of their way to make sure the losing side's soldiers got paid; having them all rounded up and executed was politically untenable – in a civil war, the losing side's soldiers are your loyal subjects' friends and neighbours! – so the only real options were either to pay them or to have to deal with an explosion of bandit activity a few years down the road.

Theories evolve and change over time, and if you get stuck attacking modern theories by referring to shit that happened half a century ago you will disseminate anti-knowledge.

US Army Corps of Engineers sign for Dolly sods West Virginia

thank god thank god, my favourite image has come back to me once more

Found this randomly on a walk. I didn't see any sharp blades or anything anywhere so I'm???

 Scully + “when she gets computer reflection light on her glasses” {requested by anonymous}

rarely do i repost things and especially from shittr but this video is shutting down core partsof my mental processing i think