and the rest is rust and stardust

3 months ago (964 notes)

came up with a new insult. hey did you hear that the bolshoi ballet started a new troupe? yeah… it’s for dumb fucks. and you’re the prima ballerina

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3 hours ago (34,822 notes)

androgynuisance:

eviltransnecoarc:
We have GOT to stop being assholes to people with receding and balding hairlines. There’s not a single person that it can’t affect. It affects trans men, particularly on hormones, it affects trans women, particularly those not on hormones, it affects people with endocrine issues, something that’s becoming more prevalent and common, and it can affect people without a particular cause, including cis women. It’s a normal part of being human and we NEED to stop dehumanizing and humiliating ppl for it
My bf started losing his hair in his early 20s and the effect it’s had on him is devastating.
He’s an actor and he was dropped by his agent after he stopped hiding his hair loss. The roles he was cast in narrowed and shifted from more heroic characters to villains, and eventually he became so miserable about it that he stopped going to auditions altogether.
He used to enjoy dyeing his hair bright colours, and he lost that means of self expression. It alienated him from his own appearance, which knocked him back in coming out and exploring his queerness. The way he talks about it often feels dysmorphic. He says shaving makes him feel like he’s “rotting” - like he’s “scraping the mold off [his] head”.
I’ve seen drunk people and teenagers yell at him in the street and mock his baldness. I’ve seen people come up to him and slap his head or touch it without asking for permission. I’ve witnessed this behaviour from other trans people and women who I know would absolutely kick off if he took such a degrading or entitled attitude towards a part of their body, but seem to think it’s OK to do it to him.
Since going bald people perceive him as more masculine. He feels people are more suspicious of him. Women are less likely to approach him. Folks are quicker to put him in a box or misread his behaviour as aggressive or threatening, when the reality is that he’s neurodivergent and can’t conform to rigid social norms.
Baldness is a heavily gendered characteristic. If someone is conventionally masculine enough and/or is protected by other intersecting powers and privileges (eg wealth) then baldness can reinforce their maleness and the harm to their social standing is minimised. But if their performance of maleness is complicated by something like queerness or disability, it creates a dissonance. They have what is perceived as a hypermasculine trait standing in sharp contrast with their refusal/failure to perform normative, idealised masculinity.
And that’s how baldness is typically read - as failure. Especially when it exists outside of wealthy, successful, heterosexual masculinity but tbh even there too - just look at all the jokes about Jeff Bezos’ baldness or Elon Musk getting hair plugs. It’s similar to insulting Trump over his weight. Like yeah fuck those guys but all you’re really doing is revealing to the fat and bald people in your life that you think their bodies are deserving of mockery.
And God help you if you’re a bald woman. All women with receding hairlines are at a huge risk from transmisogyny.
Sorry for the essay. Baldness is absolutely a body neutrality issue. It’s an ageism issue, and a trans issue, and I WISH there was a broader recognition of this.

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1 day ago (98,205 notes)

kirbyofthestars:

kirbyofthestars:
if i ever write something set in the united states im just going to do zero research whatsoever and make stuff up to sound cool it’s equality
the lush impenetrable jungles of massachusetts

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1 day ago (2,054 notes)

classicmeevs:

mrfunksandwich:
classicmeevs:
classicmeevs:
A bunch of worms rolling down a hill one after the other (horizontally)
Somehow they figured out its faster than crawling underground. Smart worms.
can they roll vertically? curl themselves up into a wheel and just go?
what you are describing is against god’s design

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1 day ago (39,630 notes)

amtrak-official:

dembirdboiz:
depsidase:
@amtrak-official
You should be angry, you should demand change, you are completely correct to be angry about how you are denied access to a livable and cheaper life because your representatives, local government and Senators sold you out to the automobile lobby. We need to fight to change our cities for the better and you can’t fight without any anger.

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2 days ago (168,961 notes)

edderkopper:

Source

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2 days ago (41,913 notes)

mollyjames:

There was a group of angels at the bar tonight. Super intense vibe, but they kept to themselves and didn’t disturb the other patrons, except for one point when they all suddenly burst into cheers and ordered a round for the bar. I asked what they were celebrating. They told me that for a split second all of the air molecules bounced petfectly into one corner of the room. It’s like their version of the dvd screensaver.

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3 days ago (137,107 notes)

thebigbiwolf:

the-frog-in-the-bog:
“I want to decompose in a bog” well you clearly don’t know the first thing about bogs. Clout chaser
Huge fan of the phrase “get pickled, idiot”