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So it really seems like a lot of you have never spent time with or spoken to high support disabled men, schizophrenic men, bipolar men, or autistic men with high aggression symptoms the way you speak about masculinity and being perceived as men as always being rewarded.

Say that to the black bipolar man getting the cops called on him by a white woman while he's having an episode.

Tell that to the autistic boy getting restrained in school and then sent to a separate class that is essentially a prison pipeline for having "loud scary meltdowns" when he gets overstimulated.

Tell that to the man who gets muscle spasms, or the man who doesn't have control over his facial expressions, the man who has hearing loss, or the man who has mobility issues. Who are immediately side eyed, assumed a public threat and subsequently put into danger because of the way these symptoms in men are perceived by abled people.

You cannot say "But masculinity is always rewarded" and not show your ass being ableist and racist. You cannot claim to care about disabled men only when you only care if you can strip them of their manhood, masculinity and in turn, their humanity and autonomy. You cannot erase the men who are attacked because of how anti-masculine sentiments intersect with their disability.

And guess what? It compounds on disabled trans men, who yes, do exist, whose issues need to be seen, are not just "outliers", and are already facing violence because of socially accepted hatred of trans manhood on top of the prejudice of being a man while disabled. Whether you want to see it or not, it happens. We are actively attacked for the masculinity many of us have to fight for years to finally have the ability to express.

We should not have to shrink ourselves into an accepted box of femininity, mask our disabilities and have our ability to self actualize stripped from us because our identity and disability make you uncomfortable. We should not be expected to stay silent because you only want to see manhood as encompassing a white, abled, cis strawman.

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need a t-shirt that says i had a weird heavily symbolic dream last night please don't talk to me

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'floral still life (bleeding hearts),' albumen print from glass negative, charles aubrey, french, 1865.

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So there's gossip about some version of kinktober over on twitter adding a bunch of nonsensical rules this year, and I am fascinated. Studying this like a bug.

Like, what the hell.

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Black Dragon, Fiesta

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they need to make a pocket dimension you can hide in where time doesn't pass and everything is soft

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i think that other people have access to an Energy source that i don’t but that’s okay i’m happy for them i do wish that was me though

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getting that august feeling (things that have ended endlessly are ending again)

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Yup returning to necromancy, I’m so back. And you’re so back, and you’re so back, and you’re so back, and you’re

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If you’re LGBT reblog and tag with your opinion on beer.

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Stories About all Kinds of Animals (Рассказы о всякой живности)

N. Ustinov / Н. Устинов

1976

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Tiger Moth (Trichomia sp.), family Erebidae, Venezuela

photograph by Arthur Anker

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Matthew Nochisaki

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.83" Fossil Fish Fang (Aidachar) - Kem Kem Beds, Morocco

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Emerald Cockroach (Pseudoglomeris magnifica), family Blaberidae, found in Viet Nam and Southern China

photograph by Richard's Inverts