Love is dead and I killed it

this sewing pattern just touched me while i was in the middle of reading it

planned parenthood offering laser hair removal which is a really necessary gender aligning procedure for many trans women!

I just learned that in Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream, the problems that Miis have that you have to solve (formerly called Problems) are now called Ponderings. So in light of that

So idk if you guys know of a game called Undertale. Its by Toby Radiation Fox, the guy who does homestuck music.

You should be outraged for Murry Foust. He was missing for 28 days, almost a month. And he wasn't found by the police, or a police organized search party. No. No, he was found by an independently led group.

the clanker thing reminds me of how even beyond ai, people LOVE using the "we need a new slur for X" phrase and defend their right to do it so viciously you'd think using slurs is praxis. last year i posted "I don't think we *need* any new slurs actually" on threads and people were MADDDD. it was all "ai users aren't a marginalized group so it's fine" and "shaming bad people with a slur is good to get them to act different" and "it's not that serious" and so on and so forth. and they were firm and stubborn and SO serious about it. and then they'd make their little posts with new slur suggestions (for bad people!) and like all the replies adding onto the joke with direct references to antiblackness. i felt insane. so many marginalized groups that get called slurs yet all your jokes about your "new slur for people who Really Deserve It" just so happen to reference slavery, cotton picking, segregation, interracial marriage, etc etc??? come on now.

Like genuinely, I don’t think the problem is “aroace rep should exist without relationships” vs “aroace people can also be in relationships!” I think the problem is that people don’t think deeply enough about how a relationship involving aroace characters will be different to allo relationships and don’t bother to write about those differences or treat those differences like they’re just as beautiful and meaningful. Like you can ship that aroace character with whoever who want, but how does it work between them? What does their relationship look like? How does the aroace character express their love towards their partner(s) and how does their partner (if the partner isn’t also aroace) receive that love and/or reciprocate that love?

there's this specific grief that comes with being trans and hearing another trans person has died. because no matter how far away they were, it never feels distant, it feels communal. cellular. like someone reached into the wiring of your own body and cut a thread. trans people learn early on in their journey - often even before they begin transitioning - that survival is treated like a political statement. joy is political. transition is political. getting to exist long enough to become boring is political.