Lesbean

This is back on my dash! And listen, I love to see Amir Khusrau getting appreciation, but this translation ignores a lot. The original rhymes! And scans! And does playful things with register! And conveys a tone of affectionate banter between the two speakers, not least because it has them both addressing each other as sakhi (translated above as “girl”) in the last two lines. I think taking some liberties with line order is worth it to preserve more of the rest—and I think there’s a better translation of sakhi. And so:

physical therapy was good, and then we went to visit the gay leathermen in atlanta to ask them about shoulder stabilization and they were very nice and we had a lovely conversation. I love gay people. talking to gay people energizes me. it was a bit funny how the guy I was speaking to about it clearly had to totally recalibrate his brain around how small I was. it's very funny interacting with the kind of super butch gay men who mainly interact with other super butch gay men and have them sort of go "huh. I forgot about the tiny lesbians." like he was like "yeah yeah you're pretty small I guess" when I first mentioned the display ones being too big, I'm a way where he clearly sort of thought it wasn't that much of a difference, and then when he was trying to adjust it to sit on my shoulders he was like "oh you're like SMALL small" 😂 yes sir. all your tall muscular display mannequins are over twice as large as my body, that is correct. my shoulders are very narrow. yep. you wouldn't believe how narrow it is possible to be.

I (a tiny trans man) once went into a gay sex shop in Cap Hill in Seattle looking for a leather cuff-style bracelet but they were all far too large for my dainty wrists. The associate (a burly man in a pup hood, a jock and not much else) cocked his head, thinking, and then was visibly struck by inspiration --

more terror shitposting guys 🫡

Shout out to that one time I got stuck in the middle of two people arguing about what qualified as "literature" and both of them were trying to appeal to me, Certified English Major™️

Tell people about the critically endangered pygmy raccoon (Procyon pygmaeus) that is found only on the island of Cozumel, Mexico.

my work campaigning for NHS reform for trans people has gotten me nominated for Amnesty's People's Human Rights Champion

I have to confess every time I see that "they fucked that old man to pieces" meme there's a very particular old man I'm picturing:

Context for those who haven't seen the film:

#i watched this. why don't i remember this part. what the fuck (via @secondhand-lions)

#negaverse experience: #first exposure to this movie was. I believe. on a tiny silent tv up in the corner of a kids shoe store. #this song was the entirety of my time kicking my heels waiting for my turn. #didn’t see the rest of it for many years. #was pretty weird to realize that the experience of this guy doesn’t really change much #when you watch the whole movie #anastasia #allocation of screen time was not don bluths best strength I don’t think (via @themountedperfumier)

Actually!! This is by French satirical artist and caricaturist Paul Gavarni. It’s a colorized lithograph version of one of his illustrations from a series showing mostly women Getting It. The book they were drawn for is Scenes de la Vie Intime.