Lover of Tragedy

Maybe the most damming thing about Nolans odyssey is i haven’t seen a single gifset from it

Evil macklemore (mackleless) song about buying brand new shit you don't need called Gift Shop

I know a lot of girls who want to look mechanical and get ball joints and stuff. and that's what they define as "doll" aesthetics but. I've always been more into. ugh y'know Frankenstein? a body made up of disparate parts, held together with stitches? I identify more with that kind of thing. something like a rag doll, the colours not quite matching, new patches stitched over any holes. idk. idk. that's me

they took me apart and put me back together and I've been adjusting things bit by bit ever since and I'm covered in stitches but it's the best I can do.

(translated from Wood Pigeon): "You see, children, all the other birds have gone quiet as the eclipse goes on..."

The one thing about gender is that frankly my ideal gender situation has very little to do with me and infinitely more to do with everyone else on the earth who cannot be fuuuuuuuuucking cool about anything ever

As in, the ideas of social transition becomes completely meaningless when your preferred state would be to operate outside of the confines of sex and gender entirely, but no one else can get with the program so you are constantly put in some variety of box. I can wear whatever pronoun pin I want and change my presentation however I want but all it impacts is what box I'm categorized into. It does grate I must admit

All that said if I'm going to be in a box regardless I'm glad I have my trans siblings in it with me 🥂 I may be irritated by my circumstances, but I will never be alone

Trying to read yaoi but I keep thinking about women’s invisible labour

I don’t think we’re rick rolling each other enough anymore. 1. it CANNOT die out 2. this under saturated market is perfect for unsuspecting victims who’ve been lulled into a false sense of security. be the person you hate. bring back the dastardly link

someone actually studied the falling Rick Roll rate for their Ph.D dissertation recently and published the paper

okay but this made me wonder if there was actually any academic literature on rickrolling and YES THERE IS this is a paper about rickrolling WITHIN academic literature. As in, studies that attempt to rickroll the people reading them. Best part is no one is going to believe me and click that link even though it’s 100% true.

My friend's book is mentioned in this paper!!

There is no earthy way of convincing anyone that the rickroll study link is real. But for what it's worth. It is

I have a new goal in my almost-finished PhD dissertation.

Second link's good guys, truly

Teaboot's right, there is basically nothing on earth that could convince me to click the second link. I genuinely believe it might be real, but i'm not touching it.

Something I see getting overlooked a lot when discussing queercoding in historical media is that in many cases it's not evidence that the writers secretly shipped it; it was aimed at straight dudes specifically to freak them out. Depicting a male villain as sexually interested in a male hero reads as horror to the cishet male audience. Like, Venom didn't spend years and years being blatantly characterised as Spider-Man's creepy stalker ex because Marvel's writers were all closeted yaoi fans. That was meant to be scary – which of course doesn't mean you can't read it differently, but don't give them credit they don't deserve!

[suddenly disillusioned] my illusions..

did a bit of driving through the state of georgia today and wound up driving through a small town that i later discovered was called newborn, which is an odd name but doesn’t technically have anything wrong with it, except for the fact that i nearly gave myself whiplash doing a double-take at a building sign advertising NEWBORN TAXIDERMY

they should make it easier to get bottom surgery

special mention to how the BMI requirements are horrific and they need to go!

personally it's fucking crazy going through life not even being able to be naked around trusted loved ones or fully have sex because the dysphoria is so bad. it's unacceptable that so many of us have to live like this. it's horrible that for many trans women it's almost impossible to get the care we need. it does not have to be like this

big year for letting time pass you by

it used to be that “fascism is aesthetics as politics” was the sort of thing that took several steps to demonstrate, but now everyone in roman-column twitter says “my ideal world is this AI generated picture of a centurion driving a spaceship” and you don’t even have to draw any connections to anything they just say it out loud.

psychic beam blast. none of you understand the late victorian eugenics/determinism/orientalism/scientific history/racial-sexual-class great chain of being unity of affect enough to be talking about what dracula does and does not represent

dracula serving as a synecdoche for european aristocracy is in no way at odds with his widely recognized status as a gross antisemitic stereotype, because in the late victorian (especially english) literary mind medieval aristocracy = regressive = disabled/malformed = irrational = feminine = catholic = eastern = jewish = romani = queer = underevolved, which in turn smacks of irishness and spirituality. these are all linked together—explicitly in the scientific and literary worlds of the 1890s and more covertly today—in a web of emotional associations that smooth over all contradictions, and all adds up to: we have moved into the rational, masculine, blue-eyed light called modernity, but something is clinging to our ankles and wants to drag us back into the dark. are you one of the things on my ankle? prove to me that you are not. step into the light and assume your proper place under me, or i will defend myself by slicing you away