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It is called "Gay School Bus" as the company was called Gay Toys, Inc. (As in the surname.)

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What’s your typical day like?

i wake up. i malfunction. i call it a day

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this website is cuckoo bananas. for years i’ve been watching trans girls post “hey, have you considered that even though trans guys are obviously treated worse than cis guys, the limited male privilege that they do have access to means that they are taken more seriously, treated less dangerously & just respected more than trans women in most if not all circumstances” and everybody’s been going nuts like, calling us separatists, calling us “divisive” for even pointing out men in the trans community can be misogynistic etc.

and then today, i saw a pretty mild post from a trans guy saying “passing as a man is so weird. other men are treating me with more respect than they treat my girl friends in public now. i used to have to argue & cite 100 sources for anybody to listen to me, and now all i have a beard all i have do is say ‘hey maybe women should be treated better’ and everybody listens to me immediately”

….and then i go into the notes and there’s a bunch of transandrophobia bloggers saying “wow, you really opened my eyes… i never saw it this way before…” like am i going crazy??? am i the only one who sees the incredible irony here? maybe you guys… here’s a thought… should listen to women also?

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knitting tutorial made by a twenty-something knitting influencer: 18 min long, 12 of those minutes being the intro and a sponsor plug, they show the first few steps of the tutorial at the slowest speed known to man, they show the most important steps at a neck-break speed, they stop every five seconds to talk about what they just did, 40,000 comments filled with questions ranging from insightful to “how do i knit”, filmed with a camera that costs more than a car, the tutorial is incorrect.

knitting tutorial made by a seventy-something grandmother: two min long, filmed 17 years ago, shows you what you want with the skilled patient hands of a beloved deity, made with the world’s shittiest camera, the best video on the fucking internet, four comments and 30 views, you lose the video and never find it again.

#not video content but i find that blog explainers with pictures are most helpful for me for fiber arts stuff generally #except spinning where i needed article and video #and still struggle lol

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I've been reading Emily Wilson's translation of The Iliad and I'm about to make it everyone's problem.

Not enough people appreciate that Athena pulls Achilles hair to stop him from attacking Agamemnon. I'd like to think, had they been invented, she would have used a spray bottle.

Also, I know that my illustration of the Athena and Achilles scene is more generically classically inspired, and the Aphrodite and Helen illustration uses Bronze Age aesthetics. They're not meant to exist sequentially, I'm just vibin'.

#need to read emily wilson's translation #on a deep level

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#love this tbh

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Just checking.... We all pronounce Miette like My-TAY in our heads, right?

#me-yet. wtf???

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It's incredible how people have been protesting pants and skirts not having pockets but not a single peep is heard over the fact that skirts no longer have underskirts by default. Underskirts (or lining) was a thing when I was a child, no skirt would be made without lining, you didn't have to think and check if your whole ass is visible in a skirt because lining was a thing!!!! Now most skirts don't and it's simply because it's cheaper, fuck the fact that a customer doesn't want their panties shown in broad daylight, it saves a couple of cents on material.

#also please for the love of god don't line silk with polyester #getting ready to take a seam ripper to a skirt i thrifted for that reason

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Passover cups, Bohemia, 1900s

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Happy Pesach wherever you are and however you sat it! Our unique cultural traditions are beautiful and worth celebrating!

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Ildjima Masrangar and Nastya Kublitskaya by Alexandra Sophie for Vogue Portugal December 2023

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‘DON’T TALK TO THE MEDIA ABOUT DIY HRT’

prints available here

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Am I handsome in my harness??

#yes you are

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Vanessa Lubach - Tabitha's Kitten linocut

#cat cat cat

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Lover Lover Lover // Leonard Cohen

“Then let me start again,” I cried,  “please let me start again,  I want a face that’s fair this time,  I want a spirit that is calm.”

#leonard cohen #meeeeeee

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eleventh plague. emails.