Liz Lives

tumblr staff have been consistent about one thing: making death threats against trans women is not against the ToS or user guidelines. not in the sense that they just ignore reports on it, either - they have explicitly said it is not in violation and that no action will be taken, multiple times

seeing trans girls in public living their lives and smiling and being happy in the moment is like warm honey in my veins. getting to compliment the cute trans girl at costco for her cool mask and spiky collar? that's just a little ray of sunshine in a grey world <3

people on here are always saying “we NEED a story where the art of storytelling is abandoned” like ugh literary devices are soo annoying like that wouldn’t happen in real life that only happened to further the story (why is there story in my story) why would orpheus turn around when he was explicitly told not to why would icarus fly so close to the sun romeo&juliet catcher in the rye why are they so earnest why pour your heart and soul into anything why bother why cant all art be quippy logical monotony like my marvel movies there’s a void in my heart bc i refused to fill it and the curtains were blue

“i hate poetry its so pretentious” but then you reblog a quote or a throwaway line and say “why does this go so hard” you are desperate for poetry you are starved for it and u dont even realise you’re hungry

it's a cliché by now but there's only so much history you can learn before you either become a Marxist or a liar. there's a reason that so much of liberal propaganda is explaining prejudice as a mysterious personal failing, and poverty as a not so mysterious personal failing, while so much of Marxist propaganda is explaining that both these things result from systems of exploitation that we can demonstrate through research and data

You are not "ruining" anyone's fun for demanding better for yourself, and anyone who says otherwise can go fuck themselves. Any fandom worth being a part of should have no room for racism in it.

The fact that antisemites are using the word "noticing" and "noticing patterns" as dogwhistles is annoying because I do actually notice a lot of stuff, patterns included, and one of the most obvious patterns I've noticed to date is that all antisemitic rhetoric makes no sense if you think critically about it for 5 seconds. Often less

A TERF liked this post so I just want to clarify that another pattern I've noticed is the massive overlap between anti-trans rhetoric and antisemitic rhetoric

See, I believe that the body's signalling mechanisms actually do something, rather than being fun little molecules that are unimportant in comparison to your cells' ability to read your spiritual alignment or whatever.

I feel like a lot of people can’t wrap their heads around the fact that trans women like being women.

You know what that’s not it. People who don’t understand trans women are happy as women are doing so intentionally. They are actively choosing to refuse to acknowledge our happiness as women.

This is transfeminism!

It's about to be Juneteenth I hope non-Black people have a couple grand to give to every Black american from the south, and I'm not even close to joking.

At least on 'the price is right' you know (because someone *actually told you*) that you are playing a guessing game and that there is an over/under mechanic and that the conquence of guessing wrong isn't a punishment or damaged relationship or getting fired

On an unrelated note my psychiatrist has given me a referal for a formal ASD evaluation