Lethal Butterfly

Friends described living under the Trump Administration as being slowly beaten to death by a rubber chicken.

It still hurts. It's still painful. But you keep hearing a synthetic BAWWW every time it hits you as a constant reminder of how it's the stupidest possible way to die.

spqr: a history of ancient rome, mary beard (2015)

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i'm glad there are episodes in the next generation where data gets reprogrammed/possessed/we meet his evil twin/etc, because as much as brent spiner is amazing as data, his real talent is playing weird little freaks

my sleep paralysis demon at 3am

this line is literally canon and he delivers it with such gusto

lets trot buckaroos. hit tingler THE SENTIENT LESBIAN EM DASH—MY FAVORITE PUNCTUATION MARK—GETS ME OFF is out now as audiobook you can download here

sighs deeply

i dont think you realize that trans men/mascs are prevented from transitioning (including being abused into not transitioning) because we "look too pretty to be masculine/a man"

this is not "male privilege", its the relief of not being constrained by transphobia any longer

do ppl genuinely think there aren’t beauty standards for men and do they genuinely think trans men aren’t aggressively and often violently held to those standards.

Unfortunately, yeah, they do. One of these days I need to write a whole essay on how male and female beauty standards both serve as violent class enforcers, but because male beauty standards are heavily based in conformity, they often get overlooked completely. I’ve never seen women punish each other anywhere near as harshly for minor differences in how they style an outfit as I’ve seen men do – but for men, it’s basically illegal to admit that that’s what you’re doing, or to explain to other guys how to avoid it. People don’t say “his lapel width is years out of fashion and his jacket color is badly out of season and his tie looks like he’s a high school debate competitor” – they say “he doesn’t fit in with the company culture” or, if they’re being unusually forthright about it, they say “some people just can’t wear a suit.” Trans mascs who say they don’t feel pressured to be attractive anymore usually fall into one of two camps: either they mean that they don’t find it as difficult to make themselves look attractive according to male beauty standards (usually because of the lack of dysphoria), or else they simply haven’t gotten smacked down by the male side of things yet (or, don’t realize that some of the times that they were smacked down were about their appearance, because they were couched as being about something else). And neither one of those is a privilege.

you guys hear about video games?

organization xiii: since sora no longer bears the recusant’s sigil, how will we keep track of his whereabouts?

larxene, who tuned out of the meeting twenty minutes ago: he’s posted 12 selfies with rapunzel on instagram in the last 6 minutes

Writing high fantasy is harder for me than it used to be because I'll write "The door swung open" and I'll imagine some tumblr user with three different grad degrees in medieval history dunking on me with a 2,000-word post about how door hinges weren't invented until 1956 and before that they'd just smash them open with axes and rebuild them each time.

#iron law of tumblr is that as soon as you post something poorly researched one of your followers immediately reveals they have a grad degree#in that exact microsubject (tags via @caesarsaladinn)

Posts that might be unhinged pending further investigation.

We talk a lot of shit about anime characters not looking their age for a media culture that routinely casts thirty-five-year-old actors to play high schoolers.

Not only are trans women real women—they’re the realest women.

We carve ourselves out of stone, sculpting our identities with love, resilience, and sheer defiance. We rise after every fall, brush off the dust, and keep going even when the world tries to convince us we shouldn’t. Every step we take is deliberate, every ounce of beauty and femininity we embody is something we fought for.

Cis women are born into it, but trans women? We become. We bloom in the face of adversity, shaping ourselves into the most unapologetic, radiant versions of who we were always meant to be. And that? That makes us unstoppable.

So here’s to my fellow trans sisters—the ones who dare to be, who dare to love, who dare to exist in a world that wasn’t built with us in mind. We don’t just belong here. We own it.

i hope you write (i hope we both write)

hand in unedited hand

Rick Astley's father Ossie Astley celebrating "Never Gonna Give You Up" making it to #1 on the UK charts in 1987.

there is one of these i am not too happy about but 🤷🏽‍♀️

Oathkeeper and Oblivion [Kingdom Hearts - Party Time]

Artist Credit: Kagachi_118 & Shiyu-artpainting

My friends and I prefer to play Commander using pre-con decks, as that way the less invested of us don't have to contend with those of us that have enough time in our days and motivation to spend crafting bonkers decks.

My personal favorite pre-con is entitled "Party Time", centering around the idea of having a "full party" on your team. As my favorite pre-con, I decided to customize the entire deck by making proxies of each card as a Kingdom Hearts themed deck. I was surprised to have found so many perfect matches for KH characters/ideas and the cards in this deck.

First up, we have the Commander, "Roxas, the Key" as a proxy of "Nalia de'Arnise". Admittedly, this proxy probably had the least association with its base card, but his presence as Nalia will make sense with further posts of these cards.

Second up is "Sora, Chosen by the Keyblade", a proxy of "Jazal Goldmane", which is a very clever reference to Sora's concept art as a sort of lion-boy. His ability to buff all creatures based on how many are attacking with him really exemplifies his "my friends are my power" mantra throughout the games.

Note: you'll notice that for this deck I opted to not use the "Legend Crown" frame around the names of Legendary creatures, this was intentional so as to maintain a cohesive aesthetic between all creatures, legendary and non-legendary alike, as even the non-legendary creatures will be represented with singular KH characters.