spurious biped

let’s talk about housecats and how fucking weird they are evolutionarily/anthropologically

like who thought it was a good idea to have tiny malicious predators in our homes anyways????? (not us actually)

are they even domesticated????!!!?? (yes) do they even feel LOVE???????!!? (yes)

LET’S LEARN ABOUT CATS

“you ready 2 learn punk”

they’re beautiful and poetic and tragic and heart-wrenching and brave. i highly suggest going and reading the excerpts. 

here’s the one that broke my heart:

“She’s on the other end of the phone loving me like I’m her next breath and she never wants to exhale.”

Menagerie is about girls having sex with girls. It’s dedicated to every  girl/non-binary person who has felt the gravitational pull of attraction to girls. 

bet yall forgot I was a serious artist huh

*edit

listen, you are not a life support machine, you are not to be expected to carry someone’s organs. it is easy to fall into the rhythm of building your life around people who hope they are already dying, but that is not healthy.

i know. i am no stranger to people like this. i have known people who swallow pills with a snakejaw, who drink vodka straight without flinching and pray quietly that it’ll kill them, who smoke on their roof at 2am while crying. people who starve themselves until they can barely stand, who burn or cut or bruise their bodies because no one taught them to forgive themselves and be soft with their own skins. i have been these people.

there is only so much help you can give. if you learn anything, learn how to tell them: i am sorry, i cannot do this today. i am aching from holding the weight of your sky, please talk to a professional.

i see a mentality a lot amongst middle and high schoolers. i see it in college kids too, in some of my closest friends and in the drug dealer i talk to on weeknights. and the mentality says “if you are not willing to drop everything for me, you are toxic and a bad friend”

i understand that mental illness does a good job of making you feel isolated and it makes you scared of losing people, but realize that your support systems hurt too, and in ways that you might not even know.

listen, no teenager should have to add “keep my friends alive” to their to do list.

it can be hard to exist sometimes and it is okay to need help but you cannot place your fate in someone else’s hands. they shake just as much as yours, they are not any safer.

Every so often, there is a flurry of discussion and arguments in the online LGBT+ community about whether or not it is transphobic to say that you won’t date someone who is trans. That argument is once again happening, mainly among Youtubers, but I wanted to share my thoughts. 

Cis people who don’t want to to date trans folks argue that it is simply a preference, that you can’t help preferences, and therefore it’s not offensive or transphobic. I’m not going to spend too much time dwelling on why it actually is transphobic to say that you just “don’t like” or “aren’t attracted to” trans folks because a lot of it has already been said. Briefly, for those who are curious, it is transphobic for a few reasons. First, it is separating trans men from cis men and trans women from cis women. Second, it is making assumptions about trans folks bodies. Third, it is implying that you can tell if someone is or is not trans.

More than arguing about whether or not it is transphobic to say that you won’t date, or have any kind of romantic or sexual relationship, with a trans person, I want to take a minute and ask why do cis people feel the need to keep telling us that they don’t want to us? 

The most recent incident which caused this current conversation in the community involved YouTuber Arielle Scarcella who, despite having a very fraught past with the trans community, claims to be an LGBT advocate. Arielle, and others, keep arguing that they have every right to not want to date trans folks and that it is not transphobic. The first part is correct: no one is forcing you to date or sleep with a trans person. You never have to date someone that you don’t want to. Why do you feel the need to keep bringing it up? Why do you feel the need to keep making trans folks feel othered and dysphoric? Why do you feel the need to add fuel to the fire of hatred that trans people already face? Why can’t you keep it to yourself? 

Plus, they’ll have to change all astrology charts.