strangepetscomicbooksbatRebloggedluxiomaharielFollowa trans man talking about the fact that he has a uterus and needs access to reproductive healthcare is not him saying that he is a woman. why the fuck are yall acting like having a uterus = being a woman. deeply transphobic fucking behavior.femalenaturewell it is saying “he’s” female. hmm maybe we should have a word that refers to adult human females for literally no other purpose than identification….strangepetscomicbooksbatPutting the correct pronouns in scare quotes is all I need to know about you. #like#calling people by the right pronouns isn’t even hard#you can’t even#respect a fictional trans man#?#do you not hear your own words?471,3295,359

strangepetscomicbooksbatRebloggedchaumas-deactivated20240115Followfunniest part of Lolita fashion discourse to me is the idea that children dress like that. when was the last time you saw a child wearing a lace up corset and a petticoat and are you a vampire. elf-kid2I have never seen a living child draw like that. I have occasionally seen *porcelain dolls* dressed in such a way, but children and children's toys are very different categories. 5108281

strangepetscomicbooksbatReblogged mysticsoulgirlnattousanFollowok so, I approached my local library with a proposal to donate a mural as a way to A: build portfolio/gain practical experience and B: give back to a beloved public institution. The director was very enthusiastic about it and i've been working on it since the beginning of March. Come with me as I endeavor to paint what is in all honesty an excessive amount of birdsI wanted the birds to look like they were actually in the space so first thing after doing the draft was to do a lighting study after that I covered the walls in letters in lieu of a projector/vr headset bc i have neither of those :) Then i take a picture of the section of wall and superimpose the lineart over top of it so I can pencil in the lineset voilaand that was a whole week on it's own so next comes the paintin' >:)nattousanand now, the birdsBirds 1 and 2/14: Red Winged Blackbird, Male and female, Agelaius phoeniceusnattousanBird 3/14, American Robin, Turdus migratoriusnattousanhoo boy, ok *out of breath*GIVE IT UP FOR BIRD NUMBUH 5, THE CANADIAN GOOSE, Branta canadensis!!!!this guy took me about 4 days to completely finish, all of those freakingk coverts were a bear to rendernattousanspeaking of obnoxious coverts:bird 6/14, Bluejay, Cyanocitta cristatathe friggin stripes almost got me chat, i may not make it19116,12824,358

strangepetscomicbooksbatRebloggedrederiswritesFollowJust in case you need to hear this, bedtime is not for looking at news. It's not time to watch videos about what's going on; it's not time to catch up or "stay informed". Your job at bedtime is to relax and clear your head and sleep, so that you can be rested and tackle another day tomorrow. That's your only responsibility at bedtime. That's how you serve the world best. At bedtime, relaxing and going the fuck to sleep is praxis.aetherograph"but just laying there doing NOTHING is boring what am I supposed to DO?"Have you considered the good and wholesome hobby of masturbation?the-haiku-botHave you consideredthe good and wholesome hobbyof masturbation?Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.3612,62018,805

strangepetscomicbooksbatReblogged narwhalsarefallingpocket-deer-bellyFollowcan not overstate that the reason hand-tailored items were so common 100 years ago is because every family had a dedicated home tailor called a "wife" who did 100% of the domestic labor do NOT romanticize a pre-readymade clothing life unless you're willing to go to bat for every individual having a secondary part time job as a tailorpocket-deer-bellyit's correct to observe that clothing quality has gone on a downward trend and it's correct to say that clothing was higher quality before the advent of ready-made clothing, you're right to criticize ready-made fast fashion clothing but ready-made or modernity themselves are not the issue.the problem with the wastefulness of the modern fashion industry will always be capitalist imperialism, the demand for people in the imperial core to have luxury trendy goods for abysmal prices at the cost of dehumanizing labor conditions, and the fatphobia that perpetuates a lack of size inclusivity. having perfectly tailored and constantly adjusted clothing is a luxury that was maintained through a slave labor force picking all our cotton and relegating 50% of the population to feminized domestic labor. you do not have the god-given right to be fashionable at all cost.marzipanandminutiaeOhhhh boy okayClothing history researcher weighing in here. Because this isn't completely wrong, but it's also not completely rightI want to first emphasize that I am NOT saying that clothing systems of the past that resulted in most people having custom fit clothing didn't rely on unfair labor practices. Because they absolutely did, from enslaved clothing producers at some times and places to dressmakers and tailors either being underpaid and overwork themselves OR relying on the underpaid labor of pieceworkers doing the actual physical sewing, often for a very long hours with inadequate lighting that destroyed their eyesight. That is 100% a real thing that really happened in these times and I would never try to erase itThat being saidThe reason everyone had custom-made clothing for large spans of western European and colonial and post colonial North American history from the 17th to the early 20th centuries, which is what people are usually talking about when they say things like this, was because there was an industry around professionals doing that workDressmaking was a job. Tailoring was a job. Both of these things were often, though not always, different from being a seamstress or another person who did the physical act of sewing but notably not the custom cutting and fitting. That physical sewing was where you often tended to get the worst labor practices, though again not always, and where housewives frequently came into play. Some dressmakers and tailors catering to middle and working class clientele- because they had to have clothing too -offered services whereby they would cut out and fit the garments, and then someone in the household (usually the women, unsurprisingly) would it sew them together. Most housewives did not know how to make fitted clothing for adults at that time- you do see the rise of home tailoring and dressmaking to some degree around the turn of the 20th century, but that's also around the time you start to see ready-made clothing becoming more and more available. So even then, there wasn't really a shift to a model where most clothing was being made at home for all steps of the processTo the best of my knowledge, barring individual exceptions i.e. "well, my grandmother made all of their clothing!", there has never been a time within that span of years and those geographical areas where the majority of housewives were making custom fitted adult clothing from start to finishWhy does this difference matter? I think because the fundamental notion that the only way everyone can have custom-made clothing is to rely on unfair and/or coerced labor practices is flawed. Because, as with any industry, it could have been made more fair to the workers! People could have been paid better and had more rights! The unfairness was not a function of the custom cutting and fitting, any more than unfair labor practices in, say, a lightbulb factory are a function of the existence of electric light. Yeah, you could say that that wouldn't happen without the demand for electric light, but it doesn't mean electricity is inherently bad Also, what I tend to see when talking about this kind of thing online is less "romanticizing" and more "historians answering the question everyone is asking, of why our clothing doesn't fit right anymore." to which the answer is indeed "standardized sizing"was it a perfect system? Absolutely not. Like I said at the beginning, it very much relied on unfair labor practices the way we still do todayBut it's important to understand what it was and wasn't, HOW those unfair labor practices came into play, and to acknowledge that yes, that shift in how our clothing is made did lead to some of the problems we now have with it(also, I feel like there's a fascinating conversation to be had about the politics of home clothing production especially in that changeover period a custom-made model to a ready-made model. Because many home dressmaking guides from the late 19th/early 20th century frame it as a sort of liberation from the necessity of consulting a dressmaker rather than an additional workload- but of course, those were aimed at urban and suburban women of the middle class. Women who could have the time to make their own clothing because they were outsourcing some, though probably not all, other domestic tasks to at least one servant. So, while there definitely were times and places throughout history when making clothing was a tiresome part of household obligations, there were also much more recent times when it was something you required a degree of, at minimum, free-time-related privilege to actually do)(also also, I'm not going to lie, coming at this with the energy of "you should not want clothing to fit better because sometimes in the past, when clothing did fit better, there were unfair labor systems in play" is very strange to me. Like those two things are not inherently, inexorably linked)14,1687,593

strangepetscomicbooksbatReblogged narwhalsarefallingthelatecaptainpierceFollowhappy it's spring, sir!1114,71518,042

strangepetscomicbooksbatRebloggedquietwingsintheskyFollowdid i tell you guys i failed at being sexually harassed at work today?quietwingsintheskyokay so, guy at work, who i find out afterwards is famous at this place for being a sex pest, comes up and starts with what i also learn is his favorite opener to conversations where he’s going to be a sex pest, namely: “Do you know where the term ‘blow job’ comes from?”and here he made his first fatal error. his moment of hubristic sex pesting. because of course i know where the term blow job comes from, i love learning about sex and the history of sexual terms! i know so much about oral sex that i could write a book on it! Keep reading21012,49620,531

strangepetscomicbooksbatReblogged tachvintlogiccheeseanonioncrispsFollowMetahuman with super healing powers whose entire job is that once a week they go to a nearby hospital and are put into a medically induced coma for 24 hours while all their organs and blood are harvested, and kept there until they've healed up again.They get paid a small stipend by the Heroes Council for this, and they live off that. No crime fighting, no obvious heroics, and they only took a Super Identity because it's technically hero's council policy. Nobody's ever seen them in a cape.Every so often the Heroes council will release an official report to the public, and there'll be another bunch of news articles wondering how some unknown super calling themselves 'Meat Factory' somehow consistently holds the record for most lives saved across the city.cheeseanonioncrispsIt is essential to my vision that they are not at all sanctimonious about this.Like, they regularly act like they're getting away with something. They joke about how they get to earn money in their sleep. They show up to their hospital visits in deliberately ridiculous disguises, on the excuse that they need to 'protect their identity'. Part of their employment contract is that they get served the same post-operation vanilla ice cream that they normally hand out on the childrens' ward. Also a sticker. Their overnight bag is covered in stickers.msfbgravesDo you guys remember that Tumblr post about young people and "walking things off"... only you don't, you did sustain an injury, and even healing quick doesn't mean that repeatedly sustained injuries don't harm you...? Yeah in that light, this is horrific, because that guy's gonna crash, and will end up on dialysis because guess what, one time the kidneys just didn't grow back. And all they got for it was ice cream and a small stipend. And he now only has half his lung capacity. And I am guessing no health insurance because "he doesn't need it." Imagine being the one nurse that is trying to tell him this, and being silenced because someone is paying very good money for access to this program. And think of the children. And he did sign the waver. Mr. Luthor has a lot of reach. Do you want them to continue trafficking people for their organs? Shut up then. And sometimes there's not even a donor match. This guy has a very specific genetic make-up, after all. But they did use him to get funding for alternatives to classic organ donations re-directed. A small stipend. The thought. He'd be a test case for so many human rights violations. Please tell me their medical ethics board is second to none! 7610,68316,453

strangepetscomicbooksbatReblogged witless-winion1gaytanic-panicFollowwinter-rabbit-2This is what that one post was taking about. You can be as offended as possible about the language used, or you can look at the actual intent behind the words. This man grew up in a time when trans people used that word for themselves. He probably hung out with a few often enough and just absorbed the language. He was very much using it in a positive context. The barista he’s referring too is probably the only one that makes his favorite drink just right. This is why Queer elders get so annoyed with the younger members of the community. Too focused on policing the terms people use while there are far bigger problems we are all dealing with. dancinbutterfly#this is all true#baby gays PLEASE learn that the words you scream at people online for are still in active use AMONG OUR COMMUNITY IN REAL LIFE#there are trans people who refer to themselves as trannies & transssexuals. there are lesbians who call themselves bulldykes. gay men who#call ourselves faggots. and it's done not in a self-effacing way but in honest joy and reclamation and it is NOT your place as#self-appointed keyboard warriors to bitch at us to stop. YOU'RE the new ones here. learn the culture if you want to survive.#and make the fucking effort to go meet queer people older than 20 in meatspace for FUCK'S sake#i get that you didn't get the trial by fire that the rest of us got but we'll be goddamned if we're gonna let you tell us we're not allowed#to be in OUR spaces smelling like smoke#old man yells at cloud#queerdom#trans matters#twitter dot com#blog together queue aloneThis. I'm 30something and new(a year and change) to my transition and you can pry tranny from my cold dead hands. I'm also a gay man and you can pull faggot out of my clenched teeth. I stood on the outside for decades like an orphan in the rain but I never stopped fighting the good fight as an "ally" and now I'm inside I will say and do whatever I fucking want forever because those words feel right on me. It's fun and it's sexy and its mine and just fuck all the way off. I didn't walk alone through the dark for 25 years to get here to be told by angry children with anxiety what I am not allowed to do. sunderwightThis is part of what "kill the cop in your head" means, btw.Stop looking for Rules to follow or punish people for not following, pay the most attention to actions, intentions, and consequences.the-haiku-botThis is part of what“kill the cop in your head” means,btw.Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.16,27527,844

strangepetscomicbooksbatReblogged undercoverangellphotomattFollowTumblr Advisor BoardI think it could be cool to put together a board of the top Tumblristas in the world, that could see previews of what's coming up and advise on strategic direction. Who should be on it?madseanceI am going to get this out of my system upfront so that I can explain everything that's wrong with this idea in a clearheaded way: This is a bad idea, it feels incredibly gross, and it reinforces my impression that you do not understand this website at all. It is indescribably frustrating and infuriating. It makes me want to vomit, and that's even before I get to "Tumblrista".Now then.A key takeaway from the massive amount of almost universally negative feedback to the reblog change should have been: Tumblr users do not, as a rule, care about clout. We do not want quantified "credit" for how good our addition to a post is, and we don't want influencers who are anointed as more important than everyone else because they are popular. That's not what we do here; it's never been what we do here. If we wanted that, we could get it from ANY other social media. The fact that we're here instead makes it pretty clear that clout is not important to us, and in fact is actively repulsive to us. Anointing particular Tumblr users as "top Tumblristas" and putting them on an "advisory board" that gets special access to new features and the opportunity to give feedback on them would constitute the exact type of hierarchy we despise.Furthermore: When a corporate entity proposes an "advisory board of power users", what they're actually doing is trying to pre-empt wider user pushback against executive decisions, by creating the illusion of user buy-in while using social pressure to enforce decisions that have already been made. The actual reasoning behind selecting "top" users is because they are popular, which suggests they have influence over other users. The idea is, rather than convincing the community as a whole, you convince a smaller subset of influential people, and then they convince everyone else. Again, this depends on a kind of hierarchy and clout-based "influencer" system that we don't have and don't want.As for the "top users" board themselves: By choosing someone and telling them "you're a Top User and you get to be on the special committee and have special privileges," you are giving them something (supposedly) desirable: social status, (the appearance of) influence and power, etc. And you can take it away. That means now you have power over them. If they don't want to lose their special status, they will avoid displeasing you. Which means they are less likely to give you significant pushback, and they are more willing to pressure others to go along with what you want to do. That makes them incredibly useful to corporate, but completely undermines their supposed role as a voice for the community. We see this already with influencers on every other platform, who become de facto spokespeople for corporations and brands and stop meaningfully criticizing them out of fear of losing the access that is critical to their status.I'm not saying all this because I think it's news to the CEO of a tech company. I think you know all of that perfectly well already. I'm saying it because I think you assume we don't know it, and because some people might not. But I have played this game before and I know how it goes. It never benefits the community. It is always a way to control the community.You do not need an advisory board to get feedback about site changes. The community is demonstrably perfectly able and willing to speak for themselves individually. If you really want to know what everyone thinks, you have to ask everyone, not a handpicked group of influencers who are under pressure to play along.68716,20413,815

strangepetscomicbooksbatReblogged tachvintlogicphantomrose96FollowConcept I've been stewing on for a while here. I've got a name for it now and I'm calling it the Shot Dog Factor. It's a numerical value, assignable to any internet post, which represents the average number of engagements it needs to reach before someone comes along acting like this post shot their dog. And for the sake of High Number = More Danger, which feels like the intuitive and sensible read, let's call it the inverse. As in the chance that any given interaction results in a Shot Dog response."Hee hee haa haa" type of silly shitpost? Low Shot Dog Factor. Largely safe. A genuine political opinion? Critically high Shot Dog Factor. Guaranteed to elicit such a response if it breaks containment. As a result of this phenomenon, you see phrasings and circumventions added specifically to lower the Shot Dog factor. Every "now I know this doesn't apply to EVERYONE'S specific situation, but I just think--" about something where the non-specificity was obvious, but OP needed to add that disclaimer to avoid the Shot Dog from someone who thinks it needs to apply to them. And another--perhaps the most--critical thing to understand about the Shot Dog factor is that 0 is not a valid value. There's a discontinuation at 0. And as such, the Shot Dog limit, as engagement goes to infinity is, in fact, 100%. Any and every post you have ever made, given enough containment breaching, WILL piss someone off in wild ways. You can lower the Shot Dog factor but it is never 0. Sometimes when a post of yours escapes containment, you must simply sit back and accept this reality. phantomrose96#op the fact that you called it this. has skyrocketed the shot dog factor for this one astronomically. im so sorry (via @mecharose)Thank you yeah no that was part of the visionALTwhumpster-fireHow dare you accuse us of shooting dogs4910,20412,544