blakesb0nes

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hello. I think that the minotaur is a transmasculine icon for reasons that are difficult to articulate. A heavy lumbering "spliced" creature sealed for the crime of his creation, he is a monster and he is a child, the bull a symbol of violence and masculinity but also fertility and prosperity, a being of great suspicion and veneration. A body seen as unwhole and offensive. A body that is hairy and hot and fills the dark winding halls of the labyrinth with its smell and its breath and its voice. The horns and the eyes and the blood, the soft ears and curling tail and thin dainty hoofed legs. I also feel like being transmasc and not having top surgery can feel like being an awkward top heavy uncomfortable sort of creature? Always hunching and curling to try and make space in the uncomfortable constriction of the flesh. Does this make sense.

You, dear anon, are a visionary.

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Butch boys

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John Brosio - Dinosaurs Eating a CEO (2013)

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Something very sad and dumb is happening. During the slow collapse of the Roman empire we lost many "luxury" trades and techniques due to them not being sustainable in a post-roman less connected world. People didn't get dumber, and they kept using and inventing new things to improve their quality of life, but, to take an exemple out of many, the recipe of the seawater concrete that was so closely tied to Rome's monumental architectural projects was forgotten for over a thousand years simply because for quite some time there just weren't cities vast enough to attract the kind of patrons to fund them, which stopped the process known as euergetism to take place. Somehow we have been going through the same process again over the past hundred and so years, not because there's no upper class to chase civic recognition by sponsoring the arts, but because the upper class has lost interest in sponsoring the arts at all. It seems like rich people have become more and more into the idea alone of accumulating money, and just can't think of ways to spend it that wouldn't also be thought off by the most basic dudebros around. Not to glorify rich people at any point in time but it used to be that when you had an insane amount of money you'd use it to foster a court of artist, build gigantic public baths or commission a rank in the navy to discover new continents. Nowadays it all goes towards a dick measuring contest of yachts, mansions and what just seems like the least satisfying way one could ever spend their money. This wouldn't be so much of a problem considering the lower class has had more spending money than ever before in history, but aside from that and in lock step with exponential capitalism, rich people seem to take personal exception to the arts existing at all, opting instead to commodify everything, copy it and sell it for cheap. We're staring down the barrel of losing thousands of crafts honed over dozens of generations simply because the mercantile hellscape we live in does not, for whatever reason, value having the best possible teapot ever produced, or the best knife, or the best brush, etc... instead these products are undermined by cheap imitations sponsored by rich assholes wanting the appearance of quality over the real thing for revenues' sake, possibly because the idea that an ultra-skilled artisan class getting paid insane amounts of money completely proportional to their labor feels alien to this bunch of parasites. And I don't think that trickle down economics has ever been a thing, but it sure as hell feels like we went from being the paid monkeys of the elite, to them not being willing to spend the piss it would take to save us from a fire.

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MULTIGENDER LORDE MOMENT???!!!!

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It’s that time!!!!

Tag yaselves yanks 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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Yooo chill I know I been teasing u but I’m afraid of sex damn look at the stars

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starting a collection of whatever this is

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starting a collection of whatever this is

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"" BUT DADDY I LOVE HER ""

Painting 🎨

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trans men who talk about how much ~male privilege~ they have are fucking class traitors lmao. like congrats on your extremely fucking conditional shield from violence but a lot of us don't pass like that and even if we do we're still at risk of violence if anyone figures out we aren't actually what cis society considers "real men". stop throwing other trans men under the bus just because You Specifically have managed not to be clockable in cis society, lol.

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an important thing to remember about colonialism is that places that were colonized were not perfect utopia but often full of their own horrors and abuses

the other important thing to remember about colonialism that the above does not justify colonialism

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the afab transfem stuff is funny because on one hand its simultaneously an act of third gendering trans women and a fucking heinous erosion of our ability to even talk about ourselves but also its a problem largely confined to a dying microblogging sire where reactionary transmisogyny has to take weird shapes in order to fly in nominally progressive spaces

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"the new pope is problematic" well folks it's the catholic fucking church so im not really sure where your hopes were at