whats up its walnut

So, very unfortunate news. I actually received a follow up in the mail, too.

Dirty Pair (1985 anime) S1:E7 - “Love is Everything. Risk Your Life to Elope!!”  (Watch the clip here)

This mid-80′s anime really said trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️ 

Screenshot of a TikTok video. There is a closeup of a person wearing makeup with their eyes closed. Text overtop reads: when the drinks start to taste like admitting to the whole function that i gave up on the pipe dream of being a boy years ago and that i shoved myself so deeply into the closet that now people wouldn't even know that im attracted to women at the very least and now i just present as a cis straight fem to the general public. Caption at the bottom reads: the fear of what others will think is a poison that slowly kills you.

Screenshot of TikTok comments section.

vic??¿: I look in the mirror and he's still there, he's just hiding for now knowing that it's not safe anymore. It's bittersweet because he's still me. Just beneath it all

(watermelon emoji) aubrey (watermelon emoji): the fear of being perceived is so scary. but eventually you'll realize people's opinions Dont matter. the only thing that matters is making little you feel safe and comfortable in his body.

kayla (bubbles emoji, cherry blossom emoji): I can't repost this but I know deep in my soul I was never a girl.

Taten (ribbon emoji): i have dreams about being a boy, i often wake up crying and grieving the boy i should be, i pray immediately after

Image #2: Tumblr tags reading: #my husband started hrt at 48 #a transfem he's friends with started her journey at 63 #there is no 'too late' #dum spiro spero /End IDs]

I would never pay money for a redbox. if you ask politely and are very very persistent (i.e. annoying) they will let you take it away

here's my dad and i taking it away

luckily there are no shortage of freaks like us who will just take them away on our own volition. we did it all "by the book", too: we set up cones and caution tape, disconnected electricity properly, used an angle grinder to grind down the bolts in the concrete so nobody would trip on them, then cleaned everything up afterward and sealed off the electrical panel so the store would know everything is safe and tidy. though they were hesitant when we were first contacting them, they were honestly very relieved and grateful when we finally took it away, especially once they saw that we "knew what we were doing" (we don't) and look like we've "done this before" (we haven't).

the fun part: the reason why this redbox, in particular, was completely full and unraided is because the computer hardware inside had failed some months before the bankruptcy, and a failing company sure as hell wasn't gonna send a tech out to our podunk dipshit city to fix it, so it was impossible to rent movies or take any discs out. plus, for who knows how long, people were returning old redbox discs to this machine and not taking any out, leading to a much higher variety of movies than your average redbox.

there is a thriving community of redbox hackers and modders out there, as well, creating open-source software for repurposing the machines and not letting their very interesting and robust disc-management hardware go to waste. this one belongs to my brother (who was very annoying persistent and did all the legwork of contacting managers and securing permission) who is a programmer by trade and will be hacking it into a family-access movie library, with whatever discs we want. i mean the machine is completely weatherproof and has a built-in AC unit, it would be such a waste to not try to turn it into something cool.

if we get another one, i'm gonna try to mod it into some sort of art or zine vending machine. the disc boxes are just the right size for small print art or stickers. would make a great "little free library" too.