The Bechdel test is actually the craziest shit because at first you’re all like “two female characters discussing something other than men, alright, easy peasy, what a low fucking bar” and then you start to pay attention and you realize that like 80% of the films you watch don’t pass this simple test and it’s just
what the everloving fuck is wrong with our society
Washington-based artist Tyree Callahan transformed and old 1937 Underwood Standard typewriter into a functional painting device he calls a Chromatic Typewriter. He did it by replacing the ink pads of the typewriter with colored paint pads and the letters with color markers. (Source)
seeing an uptick in the pan vs bi shit lately so I’m gonna say a few things
pan is not transphobic; pan does not other trans people or say they aren’t their gender. transphobic individuals in a community doesn’t mean the identity itself is transphobic.
pan is not biphobic; pan is not trying to be better than or replace bi. it is not saying that bi is bad or unneeded. biphobic individuals in a community doesn’t mean the identity itself is biphobic.
pan isn’t transphobic/biphobic in origin; actual trans and non-binary people who lived through and helped pan come about have said it was in direct response to the transphobia in the bi community at the time and served as a way to create a safe space for trans people. how is trans people creating a safe space for themselves transphobic? how is a movement in response to a very real issue in the bi community biphobic?
pan is not an unnecessary label: pan has a history and importance to people that can’t just be thrown away. and definition wise, some people prefer more specific terms and some people just relate to pan in a way they don’t with bi. that alone means it IS a necessary label.
bi is not transphobic; bi does not exclude trans people. transphobic individuals in a community doesn’t mean the identity itself is transphobic
bi is not binary; bi is not limited to men and women, or specifically cis men and women. it does not exclude anyone.
bi is not outdated; bi is not and never will be an outdated term. it is a very historic identity with a whole lot of history and no amount of other specific terms or embracing fluidity or umbrella terms or anything else will ever erase the importance and relevance of it.
not only are the claims against at both identities sometimes very ahistorical, but they’re also just garbage at this point and I’m tired of seeing people continue to throw them around and contributing to this hateful and unhelpful narrative
pan is attraction to people of all gender identities/lack thereof
bi is attraction to people of two or more gender identities/lack thereof
both labels/communities are not competing and can coexist
pan trans and non-binary people exist. bi trans and bi non-binary people exist; stop erasing trans and non-binary people’s existence and experiences in order to use them as a mere argument point in your narrative against another identity
people who identify as both pan and bi exist; stop the “this or that” framing that erases people who identify as both or fluctuate between the two
all in all
pan and bi are not bigoted identities
they are very valid and important identities
neither is more legitimate or better than the other
please stop this pan vs bi bullshit, we really don’t need it
Anyone else only in their 20s but feel like they are running out of time to get their life together??
Don’t.
I felt this way too, in my twenties, but you know what?
I began transitioning at 30. I went back to grad school at 32. I’m living my best life, and while I’m a little behind the curve compared to some of my classmates on some things, I’m also so far ahead of them on others.
You need follow nobody’s schedule but your own.
Life is hard and the world isn’t doing any of us favors.
Be kind to yourself, and remember that you still have plenty of time. The only difference between starting now and 5 or 10 years earlier is now you have more experience.
I love how humans have literally not changed throughout history like the graffiti from Pompeii has people from hundreds of years ago writing stuff like “Marcus is gay” “I fucked a girl here” “Julius your mum wishes she was with me” and leonardo da vinci’s assistants drew dicks in their notebooks just for the banter and mozart created a piece called “kiss my ass” so when people wish for ‘today’s generation’ to be like ‘how people used to’ then we’re already there buddy we’ve always been
The Hagia Sophia has inscriptions that were considered sacred for centuries until they were deciphered in the 70s to be Nordic runes saying “Halfdan wrote this”
my old english prof told us that theres a cave in Scandinavia where a viking gratified some runes like 14 feet up on the wall and when they finally reached it all it translated into was “this is very high”
Ancient Shitposting
Now on the History Channel
‘People have literally just always been people’ is genuinely my favorite fact about the world
“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106 BC – 43 BC
so not nearly as old but, this is a 12th century stave church in lom, norway (one of less than 40 left in the world)
it’s hard to see, but in the top left corner of this photo where the light comes in from the window, there’s a runic inscription
these photos show it more clearly, it’s easier to see in person. so of course one of the people i was travelling with asked what it said, and we were told it basically translates to:
“on this day, I climbed to this point, in the corner of the church”
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