Athena Munden

My kid has to see a psychiatrist and an endocrinologist every 3 months in order to be himself. The process to start took more than a year. These people are forcing cosmetic changes on their kids, and I'd bet money there's no consent involved. But sure, trans kids are being "mutilated."

None of this would be happening if I had an enormous cursed sword

Re-watching Andor and yk what? When I die, I also want to be turned into a brick and smacked over the head of fascists

Black Flame (2025) by @scumbelievable.bsky.social

If they ever get my ass please remember me by going to the Market Basket in your gym clothes, buying a thing of spinach and a couple Polar Ruby Reds, and getting like a fucking ala carte cheeseburger or a fried chicken sandwich that sucks taking two bites and throwing it in the trash on the way out.

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Hey all! I'd like to thank the world's media institutions, and of course the Bluesky mods, for being totally normal and proportional about a barely famous trans woman cracking wise about a Nazi's death.

While I got my knuckles rapped by corporate America for being rude and tasteless about a guy who dreamed of the stoning of me and everyone I love, Fox's Brian Kilmeade advocated explicitly for the state murder of all homeless people -- on live TV, no less -- to virtually no response.

For sale: Blahaj, never cuddled 😭

jason momoa made public rape jokes and it didn’t stop him from being a face of DC but gretchen refuses to mourn a man who literally worked to kill her and they try to take away her livelihood. this is how transmisogyny operates.

You guys put podcast hosts in charge of the FBI and fired all the competent agents because you thought they were woke.

democrat melissa hortman was literally politically assassinated in her fucking home less than 3 months ago and now everyone wants to comment on how bad it’ll be now like ok

If *your department head and your dean* can be removed for supporting your colleague in teaching in their area of expertise, then you have no academic freedom. In a functional sense, you don't work at a university at all.

PAULIE: Why da you pilot da EVA, T?
TONY: I can't have dis convasation again
SILVIO: Ah, c'mon, Tone
TONY: Ahh, alright, I guess... I pilot da EVA ta let da world know I exist
PAULIE: You said it, T
SILVIO: When he's right, he's right

waiting for the hollow knight vs silksong transition timeline photo trend

The fact that flybase is cutting staff due to disruptions in NIH funding has hit me harder than anything else so far. I used that site so much during grad school

i wrote a novella

it's about longtermist vampires, doing too many drugs, and socialism

it's available right now merrittk.itch.io/vampirocene

thanks to @slimyswampghost.bsky.social for the killer cover art

Reinstate @scumbelievable.bsky.social you bitch ass mods

Ulrike Reichhold of Cineric, Inc., one of the foremost film restoration laboratories in the world, at her workbench inspecting a negative prior to repairing and scanning. Photo by Simon Lund, courtesy Cineric.

A still from Sunset Boulevard, Joe Gillis (William Holden) seated beside a standing Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson), who holds her hand up as she stands bathed in the light of a projector

Sean Chapman as Frank Cotton, flayed and bloody, sitting against a tiled wall in a pool of his own blood, I AM IN HELL HELP ME written in blood on the wall beside him

The burning shack in the desert from David Lynch's Lost Highway

Midnight. A light flickers on in the darkness. Coils of smoke hang in the projector's glow. The movie is about to begin, and the theater waits in breathless silence.

BLACK FLAME is finally here. You can get it at the link below, and wherever books are sold.

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Just the best time with my girl @mattielubchansky.com tonight at Brookline Booksmith. Wonderful turnout, great questions from the crowd, a lot of love for books and comics and queers 🖤

call my hips my best ideas the way I bounce them off my girlfriend at 3am

I've wanted to write this article for years. About my and other's struggles to even survive sometime in #academia. Thank you to the amazing editors at @plosbiology.org that gave me the forum to write this piece. #science

Spent the day with my girlfriend yesterday and that's now the first time in my life I didn't have a background feeling of shame about my body.

Get you somebody who can erase, even temporarily, the memory of your mother repeatedly telling you 'no girl can love you if you're fat'.

Notice the sexually-charged language that makes anything trans people do, no matter how innocuous, obscene simply by nature of it being done by a trans person.

Reactionaries project their psychosexual hang-ups onto trans people and call us perverse for their blatant, open sexual harassment of us.

growing less and less concerned about my retirement accounts by the day

well, this became relevant again real quick

The same anime box posted, except with the following animes additionally highlighted: non non biyori, kill la kill, zombie land saga, miss kobayashi’s dragon maid, and girl’s last tour

Added my recommendations! These are all either anime that I think do something interesting (such zombie land saga with interesting animation choices + a trans character that’s handled well!!!) or ones that are just all-time personal favorites

That’s what authoritarians & fascist regimes like to do: remake institutions to lend thin veils of status & legitimacy to bolster their efforts of controlling people, policy, & the histories of how we got here.

Funniest basketball team of all time.

Now I'm getting served Ozempic ads absolutely everywhere I go online and fuck you, I'm gonna get fatter out of spite