forever grateful i was simply too lazy to let the makeup industrial complex get its hooks in me. I was just like im not doing all of that. in fact. im doing none of that
yeah I have political reasons for it now but my original and still most powerful reason is “I am not getting out of this bed one single second before I have to”
if you’re a trans man reading you have to live. you have to live and be trans and a man and continue to live. keep on living and don’t let them take it away from you.
I’m paying to force seven thousand strangers to see a photo of my late husband having fun with his dog. Tumblr Blaze is totally worth it. XD
Thank-you to all of my new Internet stranger friends for being so gracious about having my post shoved onto your dashboards. I loved reading all of your kind tags and comments! Both Martin and Bosco have been gone for several years now but for 24 hours, they felt very present in my life. I greatly appreciate this gift. ❤️
Reblog to have your dashboard be visited by the spirit of joy that death can end but not erase.
Love that this is well beyond 7000 people now and still going
@leavescrown Exactly! It’s a beautiful gift. Martin and Bosco out there travelling around the Tumblr community, continually making new friends.
it’s necessary to fight back against adult content bans obviously because it leads to queer bans, but also, you cannot forget that we must fight back against these bans because adults have the right to make and enjoy adult content. no credit card company has the right to censor what we look at. yes, this includes the “problematic kinks” and stuff you think is gross and bad. just as we deserve to be openly queer online, we deserve to enjoy adult content without fear of total censorship, and it’s absurd how few places there are to do that online nowadays
sometimes it also seems like people tend to forget that the expression of sexuality is a core part of queer identity. there is no clean division between censorship of queerness and censorship of “adult content.” there is no world in which queer expression can be truly safe online if adult content is censored. our sexual identities and experiences are literally a core part of us and there is no way to only filter out “acceptable” queer experiences and still claim to be supportive of the queer community. obscure queer fetish art has just as much a right to exist as corny gay teen movies because they are both representative of queer experiences.
I’ll join you in celebrating platonic and familial relationships if you keep the “romance inherently makes a story worse” far away from me. I am allergic.
One reply that I get to this post is the problem is not romance, but relationships that are given the shortcut of they’re in love in lieu of a well-written dynamic. Which I agree with and concede, and I want to submit the same thing happens with found family dynamics.
I call them “Bring Your Own Feelings” relationships. They’re not going to sell the characters feelings for each other to you, they’re counting on you projecting.
Source: ‘When a sperm and egg get together, the body creates tissue in order to support the developing pregnancy. Here are photos of that tissue from 5-9 week pregnancies. This is called the gestational sac, and it’s like the “house” for the pregnancy. Inside this sac there are cells that have the potential to become a fetus but there is no visible embryo at this stage. We rinsed off the blood and menstrual lining (decidua) for these photographs.’
The published images sparked a lot of debate, leading to the story being picked up by other news outlets. For example:
Source:‘Last week, the Guardian published images of pregnancy tissue after abortions in the first 10 weeks of pregnancy. The small size and appearance of the tissue were shocking to many. We have all absorbed, knowingly and unknowingly, the pervasive anti-abortion narrative that a pregnancy resembles a tiny baby starting in the earliest weeks. Though an early embryo can be seen under the magnification of ultrasound, it can take months for it to be perceptible to the naked eye.’
Source:‘People have responded in disbelief, citing the (magnified) images they’ve seen on ultrasounds. […] ”Think of the illustrations on pregnancy and medical websites. The Mayo Clinic, one of the preeminent medical organizations in the country, shows week-by-week illustrations of embryonic and fetal development without any context of scale, like the rulers in the MYA photos.’
As stated in the article, whilst people talk about a ‘heartbeat’ at 6 weeks, there is no heart developed at this stage - only a group of cells that will become part of the heart.
Source: ‘But what exactly do we mean when we talk about a “fetal heartbeat” at six weeks of pregnancy? Although some people might picture a heart-shaped organ beating inside a fetus, this is not the case. Rather, at six weeks of pregnancy, an ultrasound can detect “a little flutter in the area that will become the future heart of the baby,” said Dr. Saima Aftab, medical director of the Fetal Care Center at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in Miami. This flutter happens because the group of cells that will become the future “pacemaker” of the heart gain the capacity to fire electrical signals, she said.’
It should also be noted that the images show an embryo, not a fetus, until the 9th week.
Source:‘In human pregnancies, a baby-to-be isn’t considered a fetus until the 9th week after conception, or week 11 after your last menstrual period (LMP).’
The co-founders of the MYA Network responded in a New York Times article.
Source: ‘Many people, even those who support abortion rights, did not believe the photos were accurate. Some insisted we had deliberately removed the embryos before taking the photos. The images weren’t consistent with those often seen in embryological textbooks, magnified on ultrasounds or used in anti-abortion propaganda; these enlarged images are not what you see with the naked eye after an abortion. A Stanford gynecologic pathologist has validated our photos, but many people could not believe the pictures were presented unaltered.
Ngl, i kinda wanna see images of the week by week development of the later stages now. Just pure curiosity.
The museum of science and industry has an exhibit like this, if you’re curious
The trouble with mending, and all the cute visible mending trends especially, is that mending is predicated on the idea that what you have is an essentially sturdy garment that has worn out in a high-wear area or gotten damaged/torn. Whereas what most of us are actually dealing with is cheaply made shit that has simply given out at the first sign of adversity. If you mend something that’s weak to begin with, it’s entirely likely that it will just tear at the edge of the mend, which will suddenly be the strongest part of the garment. Or if your shirt has worn through or ripped out at the seam, it’s just a crap shirt, and you can fix that seam, but another will give soon, and you have to make an honest assessment of whether the work you put in is worth it. My cheap Hanes white cotton socks blow out at the heels far faster than they ever used to, and fuck a bunch of that, but I’d never bother darning them. They’ll just blow out at the toes in a month.
I don’t have a solution to offer for this that doesn’t involve spending either more money or more time. It is still barely possible to buy quality clothing, but it costs more than most of us can afford. And you can still make your own clothing, but as the skills and tools become less common, it’s all the harder to learn. All I can say is look around, make a real assessment of your resources (like, say, Grandma still has a working machine and a stash of probably unfashionable but maybe cute fabric, or you think you can afford two pairs of good work pants a year and then keep them mended), and do your best.
Strategies to help alleviate this (not solve because that’s an industry+cultural wide problem, and like OP said it all takes at least more time if not also more money):
Have different nice clothes and clothes that you’re ok with getting worn down, it will extend the life of your nice clothes
Change out of your nice clothes when you get home
Get an iron and use it on your nice clothes between most wears and only wash every few wears or when there’s a stain or you got too sweaty (take care of your iron too, use filtered water in it)
When you wash your nice clothes, use cold water and then hang to dry. Hot water and dryers put a lot of wear on clothes
Get some wool dryer balls for when you use a dryer, it will speed up drying so you can also reduce the length of time clothes are in the dryer
This one’s hard: don’t overstuff the washer and dryer
Wear tank tops/undershirts. Thicker/higher quality clothing can be stiffer/more uncomfortable than cheap fabric so a tank can give you a buffer. It also helps keep your sweat off the clothes
Try going up a size when you buy new clothes, a lot of wear comes from clothes stretching/getting pulled around your body as you move rather than just the friction between you and the things around you
For socks: try loosening your shoes and cutting your toenails more often
Be mindful of how you take off your clothes, if you pull on the collar to take your shirt off, that’s where it’s going to start to rip
Be ok with small holes in your clothes. I agree it’s often a waste to repair but it doesn’t have to be trashed immediately
in more pleasant news: this year is seeing the biggest humpback migration in Australian history, bigger than it was PRE whaling. That’s right, there are more humpbacks migrating off the coast of Australia than there were BEFORE industrial whaling started.
A huge, fat W for environmentalists and Greenies. what an achievement
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33 years old, been here too damn long. Partially a meme blog, part reference blog (#refererence/#resource), part hot mess. Also a variety streamer over on Twitch under TwistedViper007!