Nothing But Words

IM SO PLEASED TO LEARN THIS!!!

You can't just leave this in the tags

one thing that casually interests me about trans self-naming conventions is that while transmasculine names tend to align at least somewhat witih broader naming trends for children, transfeminine ones tend to do so less. i think this has to do with the fact that masculinized names are, on average, less interesting than feminized ones, which means that people choosing masc names (for themselves or for their kids) often need to reach into obscurity to find ones that sound good. hence your biblical names, your noun names, etc. there's nothing wrong with Leo and Ezra and River, but they're also borne of a relative lack of interesting options.

likewise i think that the stereotype re: nonbinary names ("Sock" and so on) is less a testament to the perceived immaturity of self-namers (this, anyway, is pretty much always grounded in a combo of transphobia, ableism, and ageism, as the nonbinary subject is often assumed to be a neurodivergent teenager who will at some point 'grow out of it') makes a lot of sense when you consider the persistent and unavoidable gendering even of names that ought to be genderless, and/or the ability of names to travel across gender lines but never remain androgynous. mckenzie from the above post is a good example - a name more commonly given to feminized people now, at one point masculinized.

#I also think that like. the reason there are fewer interesting masculinized names (at least in the United States)#is in large part because names can change from being considered masculine to being considered feminine but almost never the reverse#a name being perceived as having even a hint of femininity means it is completely unusable for a baby who is amab#but a traditionally masculine name which is starting to be perceived as slightly feminine is a good strong name for a baby who is afab#so we’re left with increasingly narrow options for masculine names and a huge and interesting variety for feminine names

hrt and transgender surgeries being positioned as dangerous and experimental despite being around for much longer than ozempic, which many people are pushing as a miracle weight loss drug while ignoring its real medical indications and any possible negative side effects

living in america be like

Ok like. Imagine life without ads. You wake up, check your messages across a variety of apps, no ads. You get up and put on the tv while you prep your breakfast, no ads. Maybe you drive somewhere and switch on the radio, no ads. Maybe you drive a long distance, yet somehow, not a single billboard on your path. You pick up a newspaper or magazine to pass the time, no advertisements only articles. You turn on your game console, the home screen is just about your games, no ads to buy more. You open a streaming app, you don't pay extra for no ads, there's just no ads ever.

Hey hey, as a librarian, can I just say don’t pace yourself at the library. I get a lot of customers saying “oh I shouldn’t get too many books out at once” but like you should!!!! Max out your card, take everything we have on a subject you’re interested in, make a book fort in your home. We love that shit! It doesn’t matter if you read them or not; just take them for an adventure and bring them back whenever they’re due!

You know on this most joyous of days , I know people will come with the usual “We shouldn’t celebrate someone’s death” and I say we ABSOLUTELY should