As evilas my name is, I'm not that bad.

this trans day of visibility, i want to highlight and celebrate intersex trans people.

society ignores intersex trans people and tries to erase this overlap. and also ignores complex intersex experiences around gender. society denies our intersexuality, or our transness, or both. even in queer circles we are often seen as "basically cis" or "basically trans" or "intersex aka own separate species that can have nothing in common with other queer people."

intersex trans people are often denied gender affirming care. intersex trans people get their bodily autonomy attacked both as intersex and trans. even in trans accepting circles like gender clinics, we often face ignorance and incompetence.

people feel entitled to know and question our anatomy, physiology, transition goals, identities — everything about us.

our bodies belong to us. our identities belong to us. our experiences belong to us.

we deserve bodily autonomy. we deserve representation. we deserve recognition. we deserve celebration. we deserve pride.

intersex trans people, i love you.

honestly now that you mention it, i sure am.

thanks for the reminder i am running low on

Oh my god I’m actually running so low on

@ericvilas

Happy birthday trans people!!!!!! ✨💞🥰💙🫶🌟💕🦎🏳️‍⚧️💞the world is better with you in it ❤️

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Did not mean to add the lizard 😐

Ok happy birthday trans people x2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🎉✨🎈🎉💕✨🫶🏳️‍⚧️💙🤍💖🎉✨🌟And also this lizard!!!!🦎🏳️‍⚧️💕🎉

#trans day of visibility #<- yesterday

trans yesterday of visibility

yestertrans day of visibility

this is problematic of me (joke) but i really enjoy the splashing of french into english speech or writing. just adds a pizzazz

*adds a certain je ne sais quoi

see the problem is that despite around 8 years of french schooling the french language has utterly escaped my brain so even the most obvious set up i had created for myself by accident was missed by me. such is life.

*c'est la vie

god damn it

why censor it like this

some physicist somewhere is trying to figure out what the fuck "penjses" are.

I think you mean to say "electrical engineer", physicists do use i :P

The way that tumblr celebrates the Ides of March every year is so strange to me, because like.

The assassination of Julius Cesar is maybe one of the MOST controversial moments in western history. A thousand years later, Dante Alegari (who was Italian) when writing the Divine Comedy, reserves the deepest foulest pit of hell for Brutus, Casius and Judas, condemning them to be Satan’s eternal chew toys. Shakespeare devotes an entire play to how Julius Cesar is a complicated figure neither saint nor monster, and to how the assassin’s motives ranged from virtuous to petty and spiteful. To this DAY scholars and historians still argue about the actions of the assassins, spilling oceans of ink.

And yet all of tumblr seems to accept three things as undisputed fact:

Every March 15th, this site throws a party and stubbornly insists that an event, a real historical event that unleashed untold chaos and death on the world, was actually just really cool and funny you guys: Caesar was a bad guy and his assassins where super cool, and that’s that.

And I get the memes are choice. But I think, we may collectively, be missing the point of this particular lesson of history.

This is a fair analysis, but also consider: I don’t think this celebration ever thought that much about the political implications. It started as a meme of a knife in a bottle of Caesar dressing. I know that’s probably frustrating for historians and classical literature fans, and maybe we should take it a bit more seriously.

That being said, you are possibly the first person to think that deeply about Tumblr’s view of this holiday. You made some claims about how Tumblr users view the historic event, and maybe it’s just because we’re in different circles, but I don’t usually see much thought. No one really talks about what Caesar conquered or how Brutus and the senate handled the aftermath, and no one really picks sides.

It’s more “beware the ides,” Caesar should’ve listened to his wife and stayed home, he ran into my knife 23 times even though there were supposed to be 60, “et tu Bruté,” Pizza Pizza with dressing and a side of salad.

The closest I’ve seen it get to serious is “Hey, any current senators want to be hilarious?” Which, fair, in that regard we maybe should think more about what the aftermath was and what a coup like that today would mean.

But also that gets drowned out in puns, edits of classic art, Mean Girls gifs, eyes of Marge, and the occasional acknowledgement of it also being a bad day across fictional history with Mr. Crocker losing his happiness, Marty McFly’s dad dying in the bad timeline, and even more if you get into some if the less universal fandoms (seriously, a few years ago I did a post trying to list them all, and I feel like every year a new one gets added).

Anyway, this was way too long of a comment where I said a whole lot of nothing, but also, that’s kinda what the Ides of March is: a lot of hype with little to no thought at all.

I think another factor here is that if you take the event out of context long enough to take a long view, it’s such absolute overkill. Over fifty people hated this one guy enough to stab the shit out of him, and at least half of them were really fucking bad at it. Yes, the repercussions were so severe we’re still dealing with them today, but the absolute absurdity of it is a form of dark humor. The plot to kill Caesar is like bringing in an Army tank to kill a squirrel and then only taking off its tail. It’s fucking ridiculous.

Add to this that the main formula for classic comedy is tragedy + time, and it’s absolutely ripe for the kind of cybermodernist dadaism this site specializes in.

Yeah, I think this event is just far enough back that we can partake in dark comedy about it without worrying about, like, stepping on someone’s personal trauma about it. Whatever bad things happened happened allllll the way back, and we can make stupid memes about it now. It’s partially self-referential, too: we find it hilarious that we find it hilarious, we find it hilarious that we’ve made an event that old into a website wide holiday. Specifically BECAUSE the details about the political fallout and whatnot are so far removed from even our own knowledge.

Hi! This is a rickroll. Please visit youtube dot com, type "never gonna give you up" in the search bar, then click on the first video that comes up. Thank you for your consideration.

Hey. Look at me. Please leave yourself a note somewhere you'll see it later that says "it is going to take years if not decades to get the United States government to the level of functionality it had in November of 2024." If we elect a democrat in 2028, we are not going to be up and running by 2032.

Please make sure you have a reminder in your phone reminding you to not look at 2028/32/36 Democratic candidates and say "why are they not promising/delivering Cool Shit?" because you are going to understand that to get Cool Shit we must have competent people running a decently funded government, and we are not going to have that.

We are not getting UBI. We are not getting single payer healthcare. We are not getting free college or free preschool. We are not redistributing wealth on a large scale. We are not getting free internet. We are not getting ranked choice voting.

If we are lucky, we are going to get an IRS that can collect taxes, qualified schoolteachers, research grants, Social Security, and a government that thinks maybe it should be a priority for people around the worlds to not have AIDS, malaria or TB.

To be clear, I don't mean we should forget or take our eyes off the ultimate long-term goals of getting Cool Shit, but to get there, we're gonna have to support things like "half-measures" and "small steps" and "not tearing down people who won't get us all the way there" and "understanding that they are starting from the basement basically because every government institution is being decimated"

I am CRYING with laughter

So this aprils fools 4chan is randomly closing boards to troll the userbase and make fun of musk

when you reblog a post because you think a specific mutual would enjoy it and then they reblog it from you

reblog and put in the tags the earliest songs you remember actively liking as a child (asking adults to play them for you, learning the lyrics, being excited when they came on the radio etc.)

Every day is a reason to celebrate 🥂🥳

High level physics is so fucked up it's indistinguishable from epic level magic