Griminy Cricket

This July 20, 2026, Cookie wishes you a gay 21st anniversary of Canada legalizing same sex marriage federally (July 20, 2005, Civil Marriage Act)! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

For those of us raised as girls, we were told to sit down, shut up, and look pretty. Even if someone wasn’t specifically told that, it was obvious that it was being pushed by the people, media, and social norms around us.

So when we as transmascs and trans men are told /that exact same thing/, to sit down and shut up because someone “more important” is talking, it reminds us of how we were treated when we were little girls or when we were seen as little girls.

And the “look pretty” part doesn’t get left out either. The ratio I’ve seen of “shut up and sit down” in the same sentence as something referring to our genitals (or the genitals they expect us to have) is nearly 1:1.

We have to walk on eggshells constantly. We are either seen as confused and stupid little girls or scary and privileged cis men. I’ve seen countless posts saying something along the lines of “take away the trans part from trans men and it all makes sense” which is ridiculous, obviously. We are trans.

When we step outside that perfect model of either the stereotypical 14 year old with fluffy hair and a high pitched voice or the stereotypical cis man with all the power in the world, we are critiqued at best and abused at worst. When we fit into those stereotypes, we are critiqued at best and abused at worst.

We are treated like dress up dolls that are just a bit broken. We can’t be good enough for everyone, let alone anyone. People put their own perceptions of us above our experiences and then stick their fingers in their ears when we try to tell them that maybe we’re worth listening to.

And there's still people who think he'd want to "give team cap a piece of his mind", or would've still been on Tony's team had he not been kidnapped, blackmailed and lied to about why he was there.

I need more people to recognise it, I've never really been able to articulate why Peter's presence was so wrong and this has done it for me.

He was cannonically 15 at the time of this

He'd never even had a proper suit until that moment

He had never left the country

He was coerced to go behind his Aunts back into a dangerous place because his idol asked him to

He was fighting and hurting people he also idolized but also wasn't told what they had done

He had literally fallen prey to whatever Tony had told him about Steve

He got injured, Tony could not guarantee his safety, and Peter was so young he could hardly guarantee his own safety

I don't like Tony for a lot of other reasons and I can start the list from this movie alone but I really need people to recognise what the fuck he did

He's sitll getting people hurt, because of something he wants

He literally has only child syndrome on a super scale.

Steve didn't do what he wanted, so he brought other people who were either neutral, complicated or unsure into his group to basically force Steve to do what he wanted.

It's like if a child wants to play with block, but some of his friends don't want to play with the blocks with him so he hits them because they won't do what he wants

There's so many people Peter has hero worship for before Tonky Stank. Cap, Daredevil, Johnny Storm, Bruce Banner and Reed Richards!!

Not making Steve or Bruce his father/mentor figure was so dumb. Steve and Peter have similar backstory and the most in common when it comes to being a hero and morals. Especially mcu Peter and Steve

I have some opinions about Tony Stark following a 15 year old Peter Parker into his bedroom, shutting the door behind him, blackmailing him, and then telling him to keep their interactions secret from his guardian, all so he can force said 15 year to another country to work for him.

But I think I might get publicly hanged for it.

Also for those of you who want to claim Tony was oh-so-kind to Peter during the ten minute interactions they had in Homecoming, after Tony abandoned him for months…

There are a lot of misconceptions about what human trafficking is. The most common form is labor trafficking, people taking (often willing or semi-willing) people in tight spots to a place to work (often for little pay). The reason I say willing is because many victims of human trafficking want to work, agree to be transported for work, and then end up in that place with no way to escape.

[Image ID: The Destiel confession meme edited so that Dean answers 'JK Rowling posted upskirt photos of a woman on Twitter' to Cas 'I love you'. /End ID]

No one doing this should be allowed to call themselves a feminist.

forever repeating 'trust the process' in my head while making these marker portrait studies 😅 #brbchasingdreams

Penny Rose: Babbles in Baby

All of tumblr collectively at my husband:

Husband: you don’t even have to understand taxes yet! I can explain them but you’ve got several years before that’s relevant!

Penny Rose: wide eyes, staring at her father, almost intrigued

THE MAN THE MYTH THE LEGEND

Husband: Now Penny there is a lot of misinformation out there in the world and I hate to tell you this but the moon is in fact not made of cheese. That is a conspiracy theory pushed by Big Dairy.

1) Did you participate in baby talk to make up for your husband's deficit, or did you also opt to speak to the Deals Warlock like a very tiny adult from babyhood?

Something funny that has happened is that while she formally calls me Mama when she's answering me in passing she does call me "My Darling Love" and I don't know for sure but I think it's because I call her and her father "my loves" and her father calls me and her "darlings" and she's created a mash up 😂

Penny Rose is now 5 years old and she

1. Starts talking the moment she opens her eyes to the moment she passes out at night

2. Asks, and I am not exaggerating I counted, an average of 892 questions a day

3. Does not accept "I don't know" as an answer to said questions, will usually have a follow up question as to why you don't know OR a suggestion on how we can find out together

(via bsky)

In case anyone hasn't heard, the cyclospora outbreak affecting tons of people in the US right now is coming from Taylor Farms produce. Best to stay away from bagged lettuce and prepared salads completely right now, but especially the ones mentioned in the screenshot:

Taylor Farms Earthbound Farms Little Salad Bar (Aldi) Marketside (Walmart) Kroger House Brand Target private label greens Costco salads and greens etc Trader Joe's chopped salad kits and fresh produce Fast food: McDonalds, Taco Bell, (Yum! Brands), Chipotle, Subway, Pizza Hut, KFC, Olive Garden, Top Golf, Red Lobster, Burger King, etc.

This is not the first time I've heard about a Taylor Farms foodborne illness outbreak. I stopped eating their salads after reading a description of the conditions in their facilities. Doesn't sound like they've improved anything.

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