Just a Lil Cutie

its always helpful imo to remember theres a cis person with whatever problem you have as a trans person 9/10 times. theres a cis man as short as you, a cis woman as tall as you, with hands and feet as big or small as yours. theres a cis woman scared to go out without shaving twice a day, theres a cis man whos upset bc he will never grow a beard. theres a cis woman who worries her infertility makes her less of a woman, and theres a cis man feeling similarly about his lack of potency. theres cis women who dilate and cis men with phalloplasty. theres a cis man scared that painting his nails will make people think hes not really a man and a cis woman whos exhausted with spending hours grooming just so people treat her like she wants to be treated as a woman. they dont put it in the terms we do but theyre worried that these problems make them inadequate at the gender they want people to see them as. our patriarchal system has made the boxes were supposed to fit into so small and you arent alone in not fitting it--nobody really fits

i have a suggestion

Our patriarchal system has made the boxes so small that no one fits, and our capitalistic system sells us razor blades so we can cut ourselves into pieces to fit.

there are people out there who are naturally good at talking and making friends and standing normally and i think they should be systematically oppressed, even tortured

im developing cataracts in my right eye and ill be getting surgery for it on sunday so art might be paused for a bit next week ...

that's okay. you dont need to do that actually

apparently if a mother dog has a singleton puppy and you can’t quickly get other same-age puppies to be its foster siblings then you have to do all kinds of shit to ensure it grows up with a well-developed nervous system and social skills, including “filling socks with stuffing and shoving it around while it tries to nurse” which is both hilarious and a nightmare

it's truly crazy how much of early puppy proprioception/nervous system/stress response development depends on being gently but persistently inconvenienced by siblings in the first month of life

i will replace chatgpt

men got a taste of women's beauty standards and immediately started bashing their facial bones with hammers

happy 125th birthday to bunny roger

Oh man I can't believe I forgot. You know that post that was like "tell me what clothes you've bought because of a character" or whatever. I searched for ages to find an adequate white cable knit sweater because of Ransom's in knives out.

I don't knit but that's hilarious because this looks like such a complicated pattern for a beginner

Oh it is. There's at least three different styles of cabling. And more advanced cabling at that. That sweater would take me like a year to finish.

All the cabling is done the same way. You just need to read your knitting and keep track of which row you're on

You sound like me telling a beginner crocheter "nah the alligator stitch is easy for a beginner, it's all just double crochets!" (a real thing I have said to people picking up a crochet hook for the first time). I'm not saying you can't start with a complicated stitch I'm saying it's very funny when people do.