#it's even from New York...

[lostinthewoodsomewhere]

I forgot to post this before, but I found this at the Natural History Museum the last time I went...

[zoe-oneesama]

Some "Special" Girls! And the late girls.

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[starfata]

Perse: Guess I'll be eating traditional Greek food.

Plants that haven't come to Greece and will not for centuries, if not Millenia:

Perse: Oh. Oh no. Basically none of the traditional Greek food exists yet. Time to start turning people into plants I guess. Where's the olive oil?

Olive tree: *Has existed for about two minutes longer than she has*

Perse: This is fixable!

[communistkenobi]

struggling to reconcile my dislike of the use of “choice” in relation to transgenderism. sex assignment itself is not a choice and I don’t find it meaningful or helpful to think I “chose” to be transgender. in fact there were many things I “chose” to do prior to transitioning to make this feeling go away and it did not. Choice is further wrapped up in intentionally de-politicised ideas about social action and agency, constantly positioned in opposition to “structure” or “social pressure” or what have you. “Choice” is what happens only in the absence of domination, it is the expression of the “individual” trapped within us all. What this leaves you with is a subject who appears to rise above the power of history, making decisions ‘of his own free will’ in spite of all this violence as a result of, um, well that’s not important! Let’s not look at the law or the state or history to see where these ideas of personal individual freedoms come from or how they are themselves enforced through violence. It’s just an individual acting on his desires! To “choose to be trans” in popular consciousness means to be given the privilege of being free from patriarchal social pressures. And this is a line terfs often use - trans people are reinforcing patriarchy by deluding ourselves into thinking we can “simply choose” to be another gender. I think committing to the idea of choice as a concept and all its attendant ideological baggage (overwhelmingly structured by bourgeois legal frameworks in the popular imaginary) forces you into some deeply flawed analyses of power and domination.

And I likewise hate that the other dominant framework is “born this way/born in the wrong body” because of how it naturalises the very political and violent nature of sex assignment and its embeddedness within state census data, administrative architecture, the pathologisation of sex and desire (all of which are not natural or eternal), and so on. furthermore I deeply respect the position other trans people have when they say that they chose to be transgender - outside of conversations of individual validity, I think that is a politically useful and powerful way to position yourself. Even if we were to accept that being transgender is fully a choice, people would still do it, because being trans is not disgusting or shameful. I am not a sick individual, or a tragedy, or a danger to others, I am transgender and that is an incredibly meaningful and fulfilling part of my life. To frame this as a sexual perversion or life-long condition means reinforcing the idea that transgenderism is a shameful deformity (we have much in common with our disabled & intersex comrades in this regard), that the cissexual body is the exclusive site of beauty and authenticity.

And so this is where I find the idea of autonomy much more useful - while ‘choice’ is situated as a thing that individuals do, autonomy is power that is granted to you. I can’t meaningfully demand choice as a political goal, but I can demand autonomy. I don’t want choice, I want the autonomy to act on my desires, and the way that will happen is through the state provision of free hrt, surgery, name and gender marker changes, and so on. Autonomy feels like a much more productive articulation of “choice” because it necessitates that we think about who and what grants autonomy, for what purposes, in which contexts. Who gives a shit about choices! Transgenderism is not a social position an individual can have in society, it is produced through cissexualism, through state and medical sex assignment, through coercion and pathologisation and violence - all of which can be changed.

As a direct comparison, I don’t think people should be given the “choice” to have an abortion, but the autonomy to do so - sure you can choose to get one, but unless there is the medical, financial, and social infrastructure available to you to act on that decision, then that is not a meaningful choice you can “make.” Abortion being legal (and therefore an action you are granted the ‘choice’ to take) doesn’t mean it is actually realisable as a decision, it just means that whoever already has the power & resources to act on that legality will, and those that don’t, won’t. Who decides which people have those resources and which don’t? Well let’s not worry about that, the important thing is that people have choices!

[eleonorpiteira]

Photo from New York Comic Con 2024, courtesy of @luguardio 😁

aka: HUGE Penguin Random House booth with the covers I painted!!!

[dear-ao3]

thinking about this one authors note that i read on a fanfic awhile ago that was like "hey guys pls leave feedback i hate when people write stuff like 'the older man' or 'the englishman' or stuff like that to refer to people but idk how to not do that" like. just write their names. they're their names. no rules against using them a million times.

[pnchinbeez]

GUYS

NATM COMMUNITY

I WAS DOING RESEARCH TO SEE WHAT JED ACTUALLY LOOKED LIKE AND

1. Bro got attacked by a grizzly bear, then told one of his friends to sew basically his face back on, AND GAVE HIM DIRECTIONS ON HOW TOO,

Bro was awake during face surgery, honestly badass

2.THE GUCKER WORE HIS HAIR LIKE AND EMO TEENAGER

SOMEONE PLEASE PLEASE I NEED TO SEE EMO JEDEDIAH

IM LITERALLY BEGGING

😭😭🙏🙏🙏🙏🤠🤠

[alexandreacole]

guys i need more post-canon choreman fics right now

like bro there's only FOUR on ao3 HELLO?? IM GONNA TWEAK

ESPECIALLY WITH THEIR PARALLELS WITH HOUSE AND WILSON AND HOUSE AND CUDDY LIKE PLEASE GUYS WHY IS THERE ONLY 100 FICS OF THEM??

IM BEGGING YOU GUYS FOR MORE. POST THEM HERE OR ON AO3 IDC JUST TAG ME OR LET ME KNOW BUT IM ACTUALLY TWEAKING

[bitchslapblastoids]

do you remember exactly where you were when basically im gay dropped? are there other d&p videos/content that you’ve had that experience with? am reminiscing and curious

[peacenfly]

🎵🎵🎵

[zibanejad]

yankee time

[afantasyoffiction]

more bony thoughts bc ppl asked??? actually idk why im confused that there are lots of bony fans on tumblr we’re all queer nerds here

i’m barely starting the tomb episode (chapter five book 1 of dark age??) so all i know rn is synnove fully worse than killed a man in converting him to stella and idec cos she’s never done anything wrong ever. like is she fully committing evil acts bc she’s a religious fanatic? yessir. but when she does it it’s funny and cute. her and katari make out sloppy style when

meanwhile aelys is clearly a million different kinds of fucked up but she’s also a bitch abt it which means i LOVE HER and i want to know everything that makes her tick. like YES every time ppl have to lift stuff shes like ‘omg JB wants to help’ bc she’s too good to get her hands dirty AMAZING I LOVE THAT FOR U

meanwhile everyone else is precious silly goodfy hilarious and i spend all my time either watching it or thinking abt it. jfc. they’re all hot in the sense that i would die for them and i think abt them all the time. bony i have commitments in real life wtf r u doing to me

[dazzelmethat]

2/26/25

Don't let anyone tell you that drawing 90s era inspired anime faces is easy. It's hard to balance them right.

Have three Linas. The sketch, and two lineart attempts. I've been listening to the slayers audiobooks. Lina is such a funny narrator.

[nerd-flash]

[mathewboeser]

if you’re a real barzy fan, you know damn well that man loves new york and bleeds orange and blue. just because the team sucks rn doesn’t mean you should be advocating for him to move. that’s messed up

[danishphoner]

one thing that really fascinates me about alex is his devotion to art – and more specifically, how he chooses to get some inspiration from scientific works of what he aims to implement in his art. every time one gets to examine some of his lyrics, or even how he explains these lyrics in an interview, they can be greeted by some bits of actual scientific information. an example is how he named his taquería on the moon with the term “information-action ratio”, coined by the critic neil postman, and referenced it in the song four out of five, something that might also indicate an interesting articulation with postman's concept. the line “cute new places keep on popping up”, for example, can express his well-known sardonic discontent regarding the flood of information being generated and transmitted over and over and, as much as it seems visually appealing and does give the idea of benefiting from advanced technologies, it doesn't really add anything substantial to the receiver's critical thinking – and worse, it distances the information receiver from the sender in a communication channel, according to postman.

what i'm saying with this interpretation is, it's known that alex is enamoured with the idea of gathering a bunch of references and condensing them into a mixture of metaphors in his writing, but it's so thrilling how, at times, we can find some bits of science inside of it – and it's even more exciting, just like playing a puzzle game, to find these references and analyse them by doing a similar research to what he did to create his works.