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“I’m going to change more than before, A good person more and more, a better person more and more, With the morning dew, burying my anger in the past.” STILL LIFE (2022), BIGBANG.
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Bigbang Still Life 🌺🌸🌼🌷🌻
This oldie is the only way I can express how this comeback is making me feel
Johnny Depp, we believe you and we stand with you.
We will not be silenced and we will not stop fighting until you get the justice you deserve.
JUSTICE FOR JOHNNY DEPP
home owners: I just want a house I can live in that will be my own that i can afford. not too picky.
people really invested in the housing market: you should move though, dont you want a new house. you should sell and buy another one. it is typical to buy a new house every couple of years! i do it all the time! dont you want something fancier. bigger? better? nicer location??? lock yourself in a different mortgage!
home owners: but this is my house? and theres a plague. i dont really want to move. affording things is already difficult.
people really invested in the housing market: anyway we should punish nasty home owners who wont sell their homes because their mortgage rates are low!
home owners: even with selling i wont be able to afford a comparable house at this rate
In unequivocal terms, the UK is a police state. We have just lost our right to protest (if they are deemed ‘annoying’ - which will be interpreted to be any protest the government doesn’t like). This means anyone in the UK might face prison for exercising our right to protest.
Please, please I’m begging non UK folks- to simply know this.
If the right to protest was lost in the US it’d be all over the internet. But nobody is here for UK folks.
This is just as trans people and gay people and marginalised races and poor people are being hit with economic and social harm and are more likely to protest.
Know about us- make sure the UK government is shamed for what it is doing. In the meantime, the UK citizens have some violence to plan.
“Intersex advocates are rejoicing at a paper released by three former US Surgeons General. The surgeon-generals called for an end to forced medical surgeries on young intersex people.
Dr Joycelyn Elders, Dr David Satcher and Dr Richard Carmona were the 15th to 17th Surgeons General respectively.
The three condemned genitoplasty and other procedures, which are often performed on infants with intersex traits.
Intersex advocates, human rights groups and even the World Health Organization recognize ‘corrective surgery’ can cause more harm than good.
The paper comes as a new study revealed people who did not have forced surgery grew up without predicted problems.
The French study found ‘so far no major concerns have been reported from patients and their families’ and ‘with appropriate medical care and psychological support, it is possible to defer genital surgery’.
Read the full piece here
A witch does a spell putting all the men in the building to sleep and I am in the corner nodding off and then popping up awake again constantly
An unfinished nonfiction essay about being transgender that I don't think I want to finish but I thought that Tumblr might get something out of it:
An old teacher of mine once said that there comes a time when one is ready to write about something. Whether that be immediately or ten years down the line, you will know.
However, I have recently come to the realization that gender is a subject I will never truly have the space to think on, breathe on, drown in ink and spit it back out again.
I do not know what delusions the cisgender people think I am suffering under. I am living quite close to the question of my body every day. The small yellow ring in my blue eyes, the strange shape of my hairline and the wonder if it’s getting shorter or darker or if that’s just my imagination, my stomach too large to allow my breasts to be replaced with the scars I’ve been waiting for, the hives gathering in streaks along my skin after I make the mistake of biting into an avocado.
There is no relief in a second puberty. Not like taking a drink of water, anyways. More like pulling out a thorn over a period of months, or taking a painkiller and not noticing that your pain has been missing for hours. Slowly realizing you can access all of the depth of your own emotions. A thing that was not permitted of you before.
How does one explain being transgender? Many have tried. It’s a lot like trying to explain why one is left-handed, only worse. It is a thing so deeply tangled up in the understanding of the self that it is difficult to see even when it is standing right in front of you. Like trying to explain why you know that lemons are sour except in matters of the soul.
I had all of these thoughts one morning as I rinsed my face after sudsing it up with an orange goo. I am too close to certain aspects of my own existence to ever feel “ready” to write about them, in essay or poetry form. And yet somehow I feel some sort of obligation to write down these things, as if I must capture this moment in history for future generations. I am living in the middle of a civil rights struggle, after all. I lived to see the legalization of gay mairrage, after all. Shouldn’t I leave behind some artifact for my children to sift through?
So far my job has been survival. And what does one write about that? It is a thing that all humans do, but for the transgender person it is, unfortunately, a political statement. A powerful show of sticking it to The Man.
To be perfectly honest, I often tire of waking up in the morning to be a living breathing political statement. But I have no choice in the matter. Every bite of Raisin Bran is supposed to be charged with some sort of either pain and torment or outrage and determination. Going out to the grocery store in the middle of the night without a bra on must be a harrowing fight for my life.
My art can’t be about being transgender, because in practice being transgender is quite dull. It consists of rubbing the cleaning goo on your face in the mornings, shoving raisin bran down your gullet, idly wondering what is so intimidating about your existence that you occasionally get yelled at in public restrooms, peeling off your chest binder like you’re a snake shedding off its skin, watching tv before bed, and doing the whole thing again tomorrow.
Really, I may as well write about cooking dinner. I am transgender when I do that. I am transgender when I run, when my feet hurt, when I clean out the fridge. I am transgender when I go to church, when I call my father, when I dust off my bookcase or bite into a cherry tomato. I am just experiencing sweet existence. That is all.
Feminism is believing Johnny. It is believing victims. He is literally going against the patriarchal status quo by doing this. What Amber is doing is setting back women so far. Her real intentions and feelings are on tape. Not falling for those white women crocodile tears ever.
Edit: to all the "feminists" in my notes, a woman can be manipulative and abusive, which can result in messy horrible reactions from the victim. It all could've been handled better, but a victim is a victim.
ALSO why are yall pressed about the usage of "white women tears". White women more often than not love to capitalize on the innocent delicate feminine image attributed to them, which is definitely not a luxury that nonwhite/POC women get to experience. Don't start
Finally, a 'Florida Man' story of merit.
combining all the worst aspects of a nuclear reactor and radiotherapy orphan sources, it's -- a reactor that can fit on a plane! brought to you by the only $800,000,000,000 military budget in the world. every blue vote matters! the empire could not build these forever-chemical biolabs without you ♥
Republicans will shriek about the lowering birth rate, legislate misogyny, and foment their endless culture war.
Create problem. Fundraise off problem. Offer absolutely no solution. Make things worse.
The thing about “the LGBTQ community” is that it has always been an explicitly political coalition. We didn’t all just come together and hug one day.
As a cis bi man, I have nothing individually at stake in political attacks on lesbians and trans people (sometimes I don’t even have anything at stake with certain attacks on gay men!) But I treat an attack on any of those groups as an attack on myself, because basically anyone who wants to target those groups also wants to target my group. This has always been the case: there is no inherent reason why gay men would form a community with lesbians, or lesbians with bisexuals, or bisexuals with straight trans people. But historically we know that an attack on one of us inevitably precedes an attack on more of us, so there was a choice made to unify under a shared umbrella.
The right knows this, and in recent decades has been investing in highlighting wedge issues to divide the coalition and weaken its collective power even as it grows larger. Attacks on trans people from cis LGBQs need to be understood as a form of support for these efforts at disempowering all LGBTQ communities (ex. those TERF orgs that signed on to a legal briefing opposing a comprehensive anti-LGBTQ discrimination law because it included trans people)
the alt-right pipeline is a real and dangerous thing that i think needs more awareness. here’s some videos that can help you learn about it
the pewdiepipeline: how edgy humor leads to violence by noncomplete
pewdiepipeline 2: how to shut it down by noncomplete
how i fell down the alt right pipeline and escaped by xanderhal
joe rogan gateway experience (into the alt right) by the serfs
how to fall down the anti-sjw rabbit hole by three arrows
the alt-right playbook: how to radicalize a normie by innuendo studios
decrypting the alt-right: how to recognize a fascist by contrapoints
pewdiepie and the problem with (fake) racism by the serfs
how the far right weaponizes nostalgia by thought slime
Born in Flames (1983)
dir. Lizzie Borden
people who have no distinct label or word for who they are or how they identify and simply say “i’m queer” are quite possibly the most powerful people on the planet, and there’s no reason for us to force them to fit into rigid boxes and labels. this is what the community is here for. cheers for the queers
So make convicts work in an industry known to be linked with high levels of depression, PTSD and PISD among its workers. Sounds like a perfect rehabilitation plan, no faults in this whatsoever.