#variancy

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

[crossdreamers]

More transgender comic strips from Sudae Kids

The Sudae Kids are made by a couple living in Thailand:  Illustrator Pratchaya “Poysian” Mahapauraya and her boyfriend Kavit Thienvutichai.

See also: You are free to be who you want to be.

Sundae Kids on Instagram.

[villainboygirl]

Not Mobius and Ravonna pointing out randomly and uselessly that they are single to their crushes they have just met:

[kuwusa]

Significant Annoyance 😘

[daisybell17]

THE TVA IS BACK!! LOKI IS BACK!! MOBIUS IS BACK!!

DEADPOOL IS BACKKK!!

[kusakichan15]

Watching from afar 😔😔😔

Inspired from this post over on Twitter 👀✨

[wildmelon]

devora wilde honestly deserves the same amount of praise and hype as neil for her portrayal of lae'zel

[olemisekunst]

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Loki Season 2 (2023) – TVA Sets

[moss-opossum]

I am really not a fan of "love is love" as a slogan for the queer community. It centers queerness as romantic/sexual interest in other people, and to me feels like it’s inherently ignoring or even excluding intersex people, gender variant people, aspec people, and people with intersecting queer identities. It sanitises queerness into a form that’s easily consumed by a perisexist/endosexist, allonornative, amatonormative, cisnormative culture, instead of critiquing the harm those structures cause.

“Love is love” takes the focus away from important pieces of queer history and culture, such as drag queens, butches, trans folk, and other gender variant or fluid identities. With a slogan like “love is love”, it becomes easier to imagine every queer person as looking straight or at the very most slightly camp, and just happening to be attracted to and wanting to marry someone of the same gender, with a little wiggle room for polyamorous people too.

I think it just becomes a form of respectability politics. Queerness ought to be about accepting and embracing other ways of Being, not making a little extra wedge of space for certain people in an oppressive framework that still demands gender conformity and adherence to certain relationship rules, and still pathologises intersex and aspec people. It ought to be about tearing down that framework so it’s safe for people to be however they want or need to be — regardless of whether or not that falls within what was acceptable in the original framework.

Queer culture and queer liberation are intersectional, they always have been, saying “love is love” just feels like whitewashing it away.

[markscherz]

if you had to pick 3 to 5 frogs in an attempt to show off the diversity of frogs on a whole to some aliens, which frogs would you pick?

(is this just so I can see some funky frogs? maybe)

Flat–Round:

Pipa pipa and Breviceps macrops

[first image: originally form Arkive, which no longer exists, which is sad as hell; second image src]

Big–Small:

Conraua goliath and Paedophryne amauensis

[first image src; second image src]

And a fifth one for good measure: an arboreal, green, weird-shaped frog with stunning patterns.

Cruziohyla craspedopus

[src]

[trapezequeen]

Sophia di Martino as Sylvie Laufeydottir in Loki Trailer

[butch-dragongirl]

not 100% solf on this design yet but i think i got the colors and concept down

[loki-stuff]

Loki: BE A BETTER PERSON!

Mobius: WHY?!

Loki: BECAUSE SOMEONE NEEDS TO HAVE MORALS IN THIS RELATIONSHIP, AND IT SURE AS FUCK AIN'T GONNA BE ME, SWEETHEART!

[villainboygirl]

Casey listening the same tape of Steven Grant😍

[kuwusa]

Well he technically did fix him tho 👀

[crossdreamers]

Estrogen is Made from Testosterone and other T&E facts that will Confuse Bigots

We been told this over and over again. Testosterone (T) is the male drug that makes men “real men”, and estrogen (E) is the female drug that makes women sweet and dainty. 

This is a story that makes the hypermasculine narrative about traditional gender roles seem “sciency”. The fact is, however, that this is not how the hormones work.

Did you know that E is made from T?

Gemma Stones writes over at twitter:

If you block your testosterone receptors then your T says "fuck this I'm transitioning" and becomes oestrogen. Your actual hormones themselves can change sex. This is a biology fact.

"Can people change sex" seems like a really fucking dim question in the face of facts like this huh.

This is also why gym bros who take T sometimes get lil titties. your T receptors can only handle so much and the rest of it has to go somewhere! so it becomes oestrogen!

More hormone facts I've been told today: Pretty much all of the E in everyone's body was once an androgen like Testosterone. This happens more in bodies with ovaries because they have more of the enzyme that does it. All oestrogen is transgender.

And here's a fun graph showing that across a cis woman's life time she has significantly more testosterone than oestrogen. again, smashing the binary thinking we have of these lil chemical boyos.

[This graph is from a tweet by the urologist Ashley Winter MD, who writes: 

“So your whole life, you should have been shown a better graph. Like this one. With Y-axis labelling. Which shows that (in average over the lifespan), WOMEN HAVE MORE TESTOSTERONE THAT ESTRADIOL. Thats right. Every goddamn human has more testosterone than estradiol.”]

Photo from Barbie movie.