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3x winner of Scotland’s Strongest Woman contest and first woman to ever life the Dinnie Stones, Emmajane Smith

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being so fucking worried that a foot fetishist may see your toes and jack off about it that you start censoring your feet online and treating them like a perverted thing and being weird about seeing other people’s feet is fucking weird puritan behaviour and i really wish the general internet hadn’t gotten that far

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Sebastian Grenier

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if u think about it it's incredible that DNIs have proliferated to become a ubiquitous standard for blanket boundary-setting, which is revealing of the way ppl tend to conceptualize structural harm. it's even more incredible, if u keep thinking about it, that there is such a thing as a stock set of the usual DNI. of course, most people don't think about it at all and remain credulous.

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If you're someone who believes in the "Good Freak" vs "Bad Freak" shit just know I'm one of the Bad Freaks and you're getting blocked. Thanks.

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every trans woman, no matter how dominant or sadistic or brave or stone, has a self that, if you make her feel both safe and desired enough to be so vulnerable as to become that self, melts at your touch and cries in your arms and holds you like you're the most important thing in the world and if you receive such blatant and raw trust from a woman in your life you better treasure it like an oceanbound castaway stumbling upon a freshly dead turtle and if you hurt her in this state you deserve to have every droplet of joy and value you see in your life drained from you by the hot and vengeful sun.

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You have a hard time imagining a factory after the end of capitalism, because capitalism has defined your entire idea of what a factory looks like. You can't imagine your own politics as something other than 'capitalism but with red paint' because all you read is theory about social justice and not about how labor should and will be restructured. Someone has to clean up the shit. Someone has to grow and harvest crops. Someone has to sit in a factory and watch a machine work. But communism gives us the insight to understand that the issue under capitalism isn't that the labor is difficult, but that it's performed under duress for a class of people that steal most of the value you're generating for themselves.

People would bake under the sun to pick tomatoes if they knew their community would be fed, and they themselves would be cared for when they got sick and old. People would spend hours in a factory refining heavy metals if they knew they were going to useful things like pacemakers and trains because they see the benefit in those things. People would clean up bedpans and public restrooms and collect trash if they knew that they would never be homeless, never go hungry, never wonder if they're going to loose everything.

We don't build social safety nets for marginalized people, we build them for everyone.

I promise you that it's possible. Read more, Dream bigger. A better future is possible.

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I was a woman with stubble and a receding hairline, alternating back and forth between different terrible haircuts before I got laser and bangs and became the woman you see before you today. And when I talk to some of these girls now who get hrt and laser IMMEDIATELY after coming out, it's got me having mixed feelings. On the one hand, I'm happy for them, it's really a testament to how much we've fought to get access to medical transition. on the other hand, they all ask me where I get my confidence from and literally it's because I used to look like a crossdressing faggot before I looked like a woman, and people still gendered me correctly about 50% of the time back then and it made me realize that nobody fucking notices little bumps in your clothes or the spot you missed shaving. An actress who forgets a line can still deliver a memorable performance.

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Femme allongée sur le côté, François-Rupert Carabin, c. 1900

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You know you ran your car’s gas tank to Empty when your fillup is 11.84 gallons into a 12-gal tank

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my roommate got amongus ejected from a polycule a few years back and shes always told the story as "i started argung with one girlfriend so she manipulated my other girlfriend to turn against me." and while i dont know how true to life that version of events is i do greatly enjoy imagining the polycule equivilent of the kings evil advisor whispering in their ear grima wormtongue style. its got a flair to it.

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do you ever draw something for yourself that’s so deliciously self-indulgent that you just sit there like

[Image ID: 2 digital drawings of a short-haired person drawing on a tablet. In the first image they are looking at the screen and blushing pink. In the second image they are looking away from the screen and blushing more heavily, with the caption “…is this allowed?”. End ID]

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You hear all the time about the struggles of artists/writers/etc who have a mind full of ideas yet can’t get them out onto the canvas/page/etc

You hear very little about the opposite situation, where someone wants to Create a thing and yet has zero ideas of what to make

It’s the feeling of being a pile of kindling and firewood, ready to ignite, yet staying cold for want of a spark.

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The age of eligibility for an ABLE account, allowing USAmerican disabled people to save up money without losing their government assistance for having “too much,” is going to go up to cover disabilities diagnosed by age 46 (currently it’s age 26), meaning a much larger number of people will be able to access them. As the article notes, many Americans don’t know these accounts exist, let alone whether they or someone they care for could qualify for one, so please share this information around.

It seems to me it would obviously be better if the “no more than $2000 a month” limit were simply removed and disabled people could have whatever savings accounts they chose, but this is heaps better than nothing.

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Albino CAPY!!!