collection of some of my favourite derek guy (dieworkwear on twitter/the menswear guy) tweets

happy twenty years of new who!!!

My dad sent these pictures of quail in his yard. Happy fat fuck Friday

you will live to witness manmade horrors that are completely within your comprehension if you've paid any attention to a single piece of human history but are nevertheless still huge bummers

imagining an alternate timeline where shakespeare wrote a play about king arthur. we would be so unwell

yeah cause thou art so well otherwise, tumblr user currently crying about Lancelot

you know what verily i deserv’d this

There's a lot of stuff that counts as dystopian about modern society, but one of the smaller yet insidious things I've noticed recently is the rise of companies whose entire marketing strategy is to convince you you're a burden to your friends and families.

I'm talking about that one dog watching/walking service that has a whole commercial implying that your family members secretly hate you for asking them to watch your dog to the point it counts as a modern social faux pas.

And there's this moving service commercial that I think someone else referenced in a big tweet that says something along the line of "Real adults don't ask their friends to help them move."

Like fuck that, man. You're supposed to want to watch your friends' pets, and you're supposed to want to help your friends move, and you're supposed to cook for people when they're sick, and you're supposed to show up to check on friends you haven't heard from in awhile, and you're supposed to remember your friend needs a large frying pan when you find one cheap at the thrift store and bring it to them.

One of the reasons the younger generations are so miserable and lonely is because the rise of technology and the concurrent pushing of this rhetoric that all effort is a major inconvenience, and asking someone to put in effort for you therefore makes you an inconvenience has conditioned them not to seek community.

And because they've never experienced it, they don't know that's what's missing. It's a vicious cycle because when you're depressed from lack of community, finding the energy to put in effort for other people is a lot harder than getting quick dopamine hits from scrolling on social media or watching Netflix. Then you encounter the further issue that our media glorifies romantic love to the exclusion of all else, so most of the young people I know who are lonely jump to "Well I just need a girlfriend/boyfriend/partner," and that sets up rough relationships because one person is expected to fill the void of a dozen or more friends and neighbors.

So please believe me: If you're lonely, try volunteering somewhere in the community. Try going to events around your interests. Try talking to local shop owners. Bake something and surprise a friend with it. Search for nearby clubs or intramural sports teams. There are companies literally capitalizing on subtlely encouraging you NOT to do these things. We've reached the point where helping your friend move is an anticapitalist act.

They’re scared because they know that the public is with Luigi.

They’re violating his rights because they need to maintain capitalism.

Keep talking about Luigi.

I think the historical treatment of left handed people is objectively the funniest form of bigotry mankind has ever displayed

Bitches will create a binary and use it to oppress the other side for ANYTHING

Me when I went to the neurologist last and was offered an injection that took away the stabbing eye pain (and migraines so far, it's week 2) I've been telling doctors about since middle school.

worst part about the Internet is knowing that there are finally people who both match and complement your freak. the nearest one is 2,318.4 miles away and your time zones are awkward

i know i got nuked for saying this but it's still on my mind cuz i just can't get over how much i feel about how little of transfem history is preserved.. like transmascs will pass around their little "lesbian dressed as a man" idols from scattered points in history and dig up their entire history to the tune of thousands of notes. i haven't seen a single figure even close to that in transfem circles and part of that is we often dont care to mythologize our ancestors into great men unaffected by the pressures of their time but also because... they aren't there, few historical texts care to remember us. we have like.. marsha and the joke abt temple priestesses and that's it. and it's not like transfem history is completely barren but it is so significantly unkept that we really do have very little in the way of historical transfem figures we can look back on (don't lecture me abt applying modern labels transmascs do this to every lesbian pirate in history and nobody argues with them)

not that i want to do what transmascs do with their history, i've judged that behavior before, how it becomes the creation of a flattened and totalizing mythology that feels more like fandom than actually keeping any kind of trans history in tact. i don't want a transfem pirate from 400 years ago to become blorbo of the week but i do want her story to be kept and accessible. i want transfem history to not be shuffled into a corner that hides its existence and disconnects us from time. part of that is just loss of knowledge, our stories are not kept safe the way others are especially through colonization. most colonized people have their transfems, by whichever name they have for us, erased from their culture by their colonizers. and no i'm not saying that doesn't happen to transmasc history because it definitely has, but again, there's a reason we know about a european transmasc pirate more than we know about any transfem. the degree of loss is what i weep over

218 – 222 – Roman emperor Elagabalus who wore wigs, used female terms for herself, and offered money to any doctor that could give her a pussy

c. 1322 – Kalonymus ben Kalonymus writes a heart wrenching poem for a jewish ethical treatie that you can read here called "becoming a woman"

1347 – Rolandino Roncaglia who was tried for sodemy due to her inability to find women sexually appealing, become a prostitute after his wife's death and according to her clients looked and behaved like a woman

1836 – Mary Jones, a transgender African-American sex worker put on trial for supposedly pickpocketing a client

1876 – Frances Thompson, a former slave, is arrested for being in woman's clothing

1895 – The Countess, a French transgender courtesan and singer, published her autobiography, The Secret Confessions of a Parisian: The Countess

1895 – The Cercle Hermaphroditos, the earliest known transgender organization in the United States, was founded this year where "instinctive female cross-dressers" had a safe place to socialize

1930 – Lili Elbe had recieved one of the first trangender surgeries and an ovary transplant and was a painter who made beautiful works of art like these (L: View from the Garden of Versailles, R:Jardin de Versailles)

As well as being the subject of paintings herself

1931 – In Berlin in 1931, Dora Richter became the first known transgender woman to undergo vaginoplasty.

1931 – Toni Ebel and her partner Charlotte Charlaque, received vaginoplasty and became first transsexed couple.

1950s – Rina Natan becomes the first known transsexual woman in Israel to undergo sex reassignment surgery after trying to perform one herself. She got the law changed from this.

1952 – Christine Jorgensen becomes the first widely publicized person to have undergone sex reassignment surgery, in this case male to female, creating a world-wide sensation.

There's so, SO many more well doccumented trans women if you take a moment to do the research. Their histories only go undoccumented if we forget them.

I ripped pretty much all of these from This Wikipedia article and beg you to read it yourself because there's more trans women that I didn't have the time to add and more details than I can currently list.

this is what i mean!!! thank you for this, cuz we do exist in history and as much as was lost we still hold on to so much and more people should know that!!!!! we exist we exist we exist! i'm gonna cry im rly happy seeing this

For a long time nobody knew what happened to Dora Richter after 1933, but RBB and the German Red Cross managed to get a hold of her trail in 2024 - and not to spoil the ending but she lived to be 74 years old, passing away in a hospital in Allersberg, Bavaria (Germany) in 1966.

German language article by RBB about the research that led to this discovery. Extensively covered by lilielbe2019 on instagram, who also curates a library dedicated to preserving trans history. There are those of us who do the work!

Adding one more!

Eleanor Rykener travelled around southern England in the late 14th century, working variously as an embroideress, barmaid, and SW. She was arrested in London in December 1394, along with a client, John Britby. She gave the court names of some of her clients, and also added that she had lost count of the number of women she'd topped, but that there were definitely numerous nuns, unmarried women, and married women in that list. No charges are recorded and it is unclear what became of her after this.

chillin on a Saturday night

Calm down jojo

you’re right, I am looking a little stiff here, I should try to relax

You call that “chillin”?

Everyone knows the best way to relax is with a good book and a warm drink

I dunno, man,

 sometimes I like just relaxing on my laptop

get on my level boys

Unfortunately to “get on your level” I’d need a boat trip to the Mariana Trench and a pair of cinderblock shoes.

Thats gotta be the sickest burn ive ever read holy fuck

Ianthe Tridentarius and Baru Cormorant are two wildly different people and yet at the first book of their respective series they are in kind of similar positions? Like, they have spent ages meticulously scheming. They're smart and strategic. They've got everyone deceived. They're ready to take decisive action to gain the power they need to achieve their long-term goals. There's a cost to that power and they think they're ready to pay it, hell, they think they have paid it with their life of their cav/field general, but little do they know that the cost is just going to keep coming due in New and Interesting ways until the end of time. Being 22 and gay is just Like That, I guess.

First post via @professor-pants, second post via @manywinged, tags via @toastsnaffler