Miscellani

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You know what I love about the old cartoon classics (W.I.T.C.H, Totally spies, Winx club)? The characters where allowed to be as girly as they wanted and still be completely kick-arse. Hay-lin and Irma could be flirty and giggly without being shown as in any way inferior to Will the tomboy. Bloom could be the keeper of the dragon flame and still worry about her hair and nails and boys. Because being girly does not automatically equal being weak.  

literally most girls on media are feminine and are never inferior to the rare tomboy characters who exist why r u acting like it’s something that happens lol

new metric for your personality as an adult = what you named your most iconic stuffed animal as a kid

i had “baby” “new baby” and “babies” and that really is all you need to know about me

“piggy” 

I had a Dalmatian named Patch (he didn’t have a patch) and a yellow blanket named Blanket and a kind of spaniel dog named Christi, after my aunt. I was not an exciting child.

I tried so hard to rename my stuffed dog something exciting, like Comet or Starfire, but eventually I had to admit his name was always going to be Spot.

when i was three i got an alligator plush from the alligator farm and named him Heart Pink Dress

What’s striking about the discourse produced by sex positivity is how straight all of it is and how much of it absents sexualities that don’t center cishet men. Women oriented sexualities never appear within the discussions that the sex positive movement encourages, and there is little to no attention devoted to lesbian sex and its mechanics, and what it means to have sex as a lesbian, or even as a woman who desires women. For all the kink related content that dominates the sex positive movement and the talk of “queering” sexuality through the practice of overwhelmingly heterosexual “deviant” practices, you’ll be hard pressed to find any resources discussing lesbian sex/woman oriented sex (whether it involve cis or trans women) in detail.

It just goes to show how sex posi discourse is not really all that subversive or about challenging prevailing norms. As another post put it, our society is more liberal about sexuality than in the past but still patriarchal and oppressive in other ways

i really don’t like the whole “tell your parents off and call them out when they’re being racist/homophobic/etc even if it gets you in trouble with them” argument especially when it pertains to minors and people who still rely on their parents financially. you can’t morally advocate for a minor to tell off their parents when it involves them risking their own safety and well-being. and you’d be surprised how many people i’ve seen on this godforsaken website doing just that.

I ended up having a really interesting conversation with some people at the bus stop today. They were getting out of some sort of ‘clean and sober’ meeting and had starting saying how they were so bored because they didn’t have anything to do, and had to stay at home because all their old friends would pull them back. So I said something like, ‘So this is the time to do all the stuff your parents told you they didn’t have money/time for!’ “Whatcha mean?” “You know, like when you were five and you REALLY wanted to have that toy or do that thing and you were like, ‘Please mom please I gotta have this I gotta go do this’ and they went ‘Hell no you think I’m paying for that do you want to goddamn EAT?’ “ And this light went on in their eyes. The lady is going to go check thrift stores for an Easybake Oven and I told her about Wilton cake decorating classes. The dude is going to Griffith Park and ride horses, because, ‘I always wanted to be a cowboy, and you can’t drink when you’re on a horse ‘cause you’ll fucking die!’ Fuck it. This is what being an adult is. Sure it’s bills and work and relationships, but damn it, it’s also time to do the things you LIKE. I signed up for a free class/lecture on Water Gardens. I’m going. It’s time.

Jill. Jill you are wonderful.

CLEARWATER AQUARIUM WINS BC THEY NAMED THEIR LITTLE TURTLE BUTTER PECAN.