Being insane but cognitively aware of how insane you are is a special kind of hell because you know that you aren't normal and you can pinpoint the behaviors that label you as other and make people kinda go quiet and twitchy around you but you can't change them or your neurosis so you're stuck in a brutal cycle of trying to emulate normal people and failing horribly cus you know in theory how normal people look and act but in practice you can never change what you are and everyone else knows it too and this goes on forever until you die
tumblr ocd advice is kind of astounding bc youll see posts like "OCD LIFE HACK!!!!! if you have [obsession] try [compulsion]" and people are passing it around like its genuine advice and not literally the worst possible thing you could do in that scenario
this piqued my interest so I went to read the story and oh my god you weren't lying it's actually abysmal
why is it so unnecessarily spiteful?? what did Le Guin ever do to her?!??
the isabel fall event was, of course, fueled by transphobia but its genuinely pathetic, looking back, at how much of it appeared to be fueled by petty professional jealousy over the mere concept of being completely overshadowed by something and someone novel to the field
Azazeel by Youssef Zeidan, it’s set in 5th century Egypt and Syria. It’s about a monk with a demon in his head (Azazeel) caught in a struggle between paganism and Christianity
oohhh amazing tysm :o
Severance is crazyyyy they shouldn't be doing all that. They shouldn't be doing that stuff
the other day my girlfriend told me "I like being flesh" and I just stared at them like this
the use of homeswitcher samples on soundcloud is reaching critical mass I fear
usamericans and europeans love to moralize objective economic categories by transposing the relations of oppression to a good-and-bad dynamic which affects everyone as individuals, so that a statement of fact without any bearing on their individual personhood becomes an accusation to them, one that must simply not be true because their self-imposed moralization goes against the real oppression they do face, an oppression which has of course also been unnecessarily moralized, resulting in a completely self-fabricated contradiction between being oppressed (good and righteous) and benefitting from the oppression of others (bad and despisable)
still sometimes think about how when my apartment got raided by cops back in 2021 i had a massive neon sign on the wall of my living room that just said "crime"
the way you guys treat transmascs is actually fucking disgusting
that's a very unfair accusation, I have many transmasc friends who I treat with only love and kindness :)