Alexandra

What the fuck is wrong with this goddamn shithole society? What the fuck did any of us do to you? Jesus Christ. At least the Omelas child could take solace in knowing their suffering was for utopia.

my childhood and adolescence was a neverending experience of abuse at the hands of this shit, and that’s *before* we get into the stuff that cis people might generously also deign to count as abuse.

it is pervasive and cannot be band-aided. it will be a generational project to change it.

because remembering that I need to boof progesterone is easy but apparently remembering to take fluoxetine when I'm groggy as fuck not so much

where's my morningsky reminder to take my meds huh?

Talking about Demeter with a friend

ahhh okay not the discourse right now today but more broadly

yeah

yeah it's been cooked lmao

I love you women

wait wait there's discourse rn? what am I missing? is it just state of the union stuff

every passing day without a fully functional female reproductive system made using my own dna in me is a violation of my fundamental human rights btw

Libbing Out at The Library and On Libby

got my ass a library card for my new council area, got my ass on Libby, and immediately found they had digital copies of like three or four of the books I've got sitting in my to-read list

let's fuckin goooooo

This would be considered a human rights crisis elsewhere

first thing that came to mind was the elevator towards the middle of the half-life chapter "we've got hostiles". it's the first time you read the surface, and it makes it immediately clear that shit is Not Good for Anyone

it/its puppygirls, dolls, elfs, robots and various others stay winning

he is though

I'd internalised the idea that everybody thinks they're big so when I discovered that no no actually that's pretty big it was kind of a shock? like wait this ain't what the rest of y'all are working with?

it's the same graph as above but reposted by Instagram account @ts_emilystone

you're famous! (had your graph reposted by an Instagram meme account)

THIS STORY IS REALLY GOOD YOU REALLY SHOULD READ IT

excuse me while I start vibrating at this one

I'm also not convinced there are any readers who don't adore adrastus at this point, true main character of PE.

@callistokhan.bsky.social adrastus pov novel when

I don't think any of us are being normal

"when does the woman part come in, I hate feeling like a teenager" uhh yeah nobody ever feels like an adult, girl, you always feel like a kid that's how being a human is

me: just a quick breakfast

also me: scrambled eggs, tomato relish (from scratch), smashed avocado, creamy mushrooms, leftover chili, homemade bread for toast

trans guy George Costanza isn't a look, it's a personality type. if he's yellin about living in a society while he does his shot? that's a costanza

my pride as a DIY girlie relies on this

standing in the pharmacy aisles googling active ingredients. girl, fuck a pharmacist, I don't need you

genuinely these mfs can't do anything right

the callout of the BBC as the broadcast partner further vindicates @badambulist.bsky.social's position of "end the bbc" (as always)

screenshot from the linked-to timeline that reads: February 20, 2016: Insofar as I can tell, the first ever claim that "social contagion" is turning kids transgender. It occurs as a comment on the 4thwavenow.com "About" page, posted on February 20, 2016 at 5:27pm, under the handle "skepticaltherapist." Shortly thereafter, 4thwavenow.com turned this comment into its own post, called... February 29, 2016: 4thwavenow.com publishes "Tumblr snags another girl, but her therapist-mom knows a thing or two about social contagion." As noted in the previous entry, this is skepticaltherapist's earlier comment, posted along with a brief intro from the folks at 4thwavenow. There are several potentially noteworthy things about it, and the comments that follow it: o It begins by referencing a Star Trek TNG episode in which the crew becomes addicted to an alien video game, then makes the following analogy: "The alien mind control device made its way into my home about two years ago when my then eleven-year-old daughter begged me for a Tumblr account since her friends all had one." o In the piece, skepticaltherapist describes herself as a psychotherapist, later adding, "As a therapist, I mostly work with adults."

precisely 10 years ago today, the concept of "transgender social contagion" was first invented on the now infamous anti-trans parent website 4thWaveNow. a full timeline of how the concept spread (not unlike a "social contagion") can be found here: juliaserano.blogspot.com/2019/02/orig...

it fucking is. it gets a little bit easier every time you quit though! or at least you'll go a little better and know a little more about how you go each time