#you're in my veins

[uncanny-tranny]

The absolute biggest thing I've learned as a trans guy: there is nothing more masculine and manly than not caring about looking or acting masculine or manly. Growing your masculinity or manhood takes time and care - you have no obligation to let the world water your garden when you can do that just fine (and you can, even if it doesn't feel like you can!)

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #nonbinary #trans advice #got a stereotypically 'feminine/woman' piercing and. i feel like a man *inverted shania twain riff from man! i feel like a woman* #nothing affirms my manhood more than not caring about the genuinely toxic imaginings that the world has about manhood and men like me 👍 #yes it can be a struggle ESPECIALLY if you're somebody who actively has to defend your masculinity/manhood... #...it's hard for me too sometimes. i had to not only build my manhood but jealously defend it from the 'phobes... #...but i am all the better for it because this is MINE. i have never truly owned something in this way... #...i don't own other people nor my cats nor even my material possessions - not in the way i own my manhood... #...i own it like a tiger owns his territory and i defend it similarly... #...i do not WANT to own my loved ones or possessions the same as i own my manhood and masculinity. this is special to me #my manhood was *made* for me to be owned anyway. i feel that applies to every trans person who hasn't felt able to own themselves #this is in the same vein as learning to cast aside the cissexist views of bodies&experiences that can make dysphoria worae

[bird-inacage]

Only Friends Episode 8 | Ray being bothered over Sand

But when I'm with you I'm so damn happy?? DO YOU HEAR YOURSELF RAY? DO YOU? Why do you think that is?? HUH? This boy is so dense and incapable of self-reflection, I swear to god I'm losing my damn mind.

#only friends #only friends the series #ofts #ray x sand #sand x ray #khaofirst #firstkhao #first kanaphan #khaotung thanawat #im so relieved sand stood up for himself #ray being in vehement denial or thick as a brick is testing me #ray: you love ME you're so bothered over ME - me me me #meanwhile ray: *LOSES HIS SHIT* *NO COMPOSURE* *BUSTS A VEIN* *VISIBLE BRATTY PANIC* *IMPULSIVELY SNOGS* #me: head in my hands

[kimtaegis]

true evil is, of all things, seductive

#yes I googled cheesy vampire quotes #second favourite was: darling you're already in my veins #btsgif #dailybts #networkbangtan #bangtanarmynet #jungkookedit #bts episode #me myself & jungkook time difference photoshoot sketch #usersky #usersan #userjeonjcngkook #*jk #*gifs #no colour consistency whatsoever

[daeluin]

I still think "my mind is a safe and if I keep it, then we all get rich. my body is an orphanage we take everyone in" is one of the rawest most fucked up lyrics pete has ever written that then got put into a song.

like srsly 27 is such a fucked up song, specially if you put it in the context of when folie came out

#like i don't have the words in english to explain it but??? thinking you'll get rich as long as you keep the mess in your mind locked there? #feeling like you're just a body taking people under your care? but not getting it back? feeling used in a way??? #and then patrick choose to follow it up with 'doing lines of dust and sweat off last night stage just to feel like you'??? #the parallel between drugs and having a bit of the person you want but can't have?? the recognition of the self in the other??? #like you can just inyect a person in you like a drug and be them and feel like them/happy? the I shoot the sunshine in my veins of all it??? #INSANE. THEY WERE SICK FOR DOING THIS SONG

[andy-clutterbuck]

Men's Fitness | 2014

#*Elena Fisher voice* Okay cowboy #Andrew Lincoln #* #andygifs #S I R #you need to calm down #you're being too loud #bout to invest in those kneeling pads people who garden a lot use #excuse me sir please put your forearms away thank you #happy mother's day to me im with child now #ARM VEINS #gonna go get my ouija board from the 90s and contact bram stoker #ouija board party at my house #bram stoker wants to talk

[jade-lynxx]

The biggest plot twist is that Lu Guang is actually the most unhinged one of the trio

#“past and present untouched” shut the fuck up gay boy #I know you're breaking the space time continuum all for your lover boy #You aren't fooling anyone #Lu guang #Shiguang #Link click #Link click spoilers #All my thoughts bout them rn are on the same vein and I won't apologize for it

[radmista]

Fascinating how misgendering is akin to and on the same level as real life physical violence to you guys. But calling someone an abelist slur is a-okay.

Also interesting you resort to calling me a "d*ke" despite me not being a lesbian. Almost like "t*rf = lesbian" to you and you also hate lesbians.

Also note how none of these things are arguments. You can't argue against the facts laid out, and so you resort to immature homophobic and ableist insults to what? Try and offend me?

Wasn't your community just pissing and moaning that unfair blog deletion was some egregious horrific phobic offense. Y'alll don't seem to pressed about abusing the system to get people you don't like banned/deleted.

The only pathetic one I see here is you. Tumblr is a side thing for me, I have things I do in the real world that progress my future. What are you doing with your time and life?

#asks #anon #i tried blocking anon to see if it would show a user in my blocked accounts but it didnt #alas i wanted to try and catch whoever it was #tho I'm gonna guess perhaps the artist of the hyena and invertebrate piece. but could be anyone honestly. you're all the same #unless i did it wrong and there is a way to find out who is sending the anons #mutuals I'm really sorry anon is mass reporting. idrk what to say to try and keep your accounts safe? maybe going private for a bit #mass reporting feminist blogs while complaing that tumblr admin is 'q***rphobic' is the same vein as having acab stickers #and then calling the cops on feminists having a meeting or event that doesn't center you

[veinsfullofstars]

🌌 Memories of wonder 🌌

(ID: Kirby series fanart, Childhood Friends AU, of the kids - Bow Dee, Meta, Dedede, and Para Dee respectively - seated side-by-side in their winter garb on top of a snowy hill dotted in footprints, their backs to the viewer, gazing up at the green-blue waves of an aurora glowing overhead across the starry night sky. END ID.)

Part 1 | Part 2 (you're here!)

Sketch started some time in 12/23, render started 01/08/24, finished 03/13/24.

#veins art #veins ocs #veins fanart #fanart #kirby series #kirby #meta knight #king dedede #original character #oc #kirby oc #my ocs #bow dee #para dee #AU #childhood friends au #winter #*insert Steamed Hams dialogue here* #Para is telling his friends *everything* he knows about auroras #none of them are paying much attention #(not even fellow nerd Meta) #Bow where's your scarf? you're gonna catch cold again #also dunno why but this one took *forever* to finish #woulda had it out sooner if the rendering hadn't fought me every step of the way #I blame my ongoing blood feud with backgrounds -_- #veinsfullofstars

[ladylingua]

I have a very genuine question about the tipping post I promise I didnt read it in bad faith: are people who simply cannot afford to tip not “allowed” to eat out? I’m just thinking about how it works where I am from and while tipping is the norm here if someone doesn’t tip because they can’t afford it it really isn’t a big deal (+tipping norm here us only 10%). so if a poor family goes out to eat to celebrate something and they can barely afford the meal would they still be expected to tip 20% because they shouldn’t eat out if they cant afford it? thank you in advance I’m really curious

If it helps, don’t think of the tip as a separate thing. It is part of the cost of your meal. So if you cannot afford to pay for the cost of the meal including the tip you cannot afford to eat at that restaurant. This is something I myself have to calculate when I’m deciding if I want to eat at a particular restaurant- if I have $15 I can’t go to a restaurant and order a $20 entrée and then refuse to pay the remaining cost, and likewise if I have $15 I can’t order a $15 entrée and expect not to pay the server for their service.

Now that doesn't mean families who can't afford a pricy restaurant can't eat out at all. Since it is a % of your bill you can try to go for a cheaper restaurant (smaller bill = smaller tip), or if you go to a counter service place where you serve yourself you’re not expected to tip 20% (sometimes they have a jar out you could kindly throw a dollar or more in, but there is much less expectation to tip because the workers at a place like that receive a full minimum wage, more on that in a sec). I will also say in my lived experience poor families in America understand and tip well, I’ve almost exclusively been under tipped by wealthy people (which is what kicked off the debate on twitter- if your bill is $700 then you obviously can afford to tip a full 20%, no destitute families are spending $700 on one meal).

Technically speaking you can get away with 18% as a tip, and if you go down to 15% your waiter will think you’re cheap and be annoyed (15% definitely implies you were unhappy with their service) but that is the lowest possible threshold of acceptability. 10% is not an acceptable rate here, and 20% is now the expected norm for good service, and going up from there for great service. And I would never, ever not tip at all. I can only imagine not tipping if like the server had done something deeply offensive or dangerous or something. I've never encountered a situation where I felt the server didn't deserve any tip at all.

Because you’ve asked in genuine good faith I’m going to provide some more context to help you understand a bit more why this is the way it is-

Waitstaff in america are wildly underpaid. Our federal government assumes the tips are part of their expected income, and so a) they are taxed on assumed tips and b) it is legal to pay them less than standard minimum wage. Currently the tipped federal minimum wage is $2.13/hr. Now, states set their own individual rates so some states do better, but $2.13/hr is the lowest they can all legally go. And you’ll notice in that link it mentions the assumed tips and taxing them. I said on my original post, when I worked as a tipped waitress I made $2.68/hr and sometimes my biweekly paycheck was like $60 total. Imagine trying to survive on $120 a month, you absolutely cannot. Tips made up my actual wage, and were the paycheck I depended on to pay for my basic needs. I relied directly on customers to choose to do the social convention of tipping for survival, and when someone would choose to do otherwise it was utterly devastating.

Another thing customers sometimes don’t realize is your waiter may not be allowed to keep all of the tip themselves. It’s a common practice to pool tips amongst all the waitstaff and then divide them equally, and many places require that you tip out other employees there. So if you give me $10 as a tip I might be actually giving a large chunk of that to bussers, bartenders, etc. Or maybe we pool tips and someone else stiffed my colleague so now all of us are sharing your $10 tip. So also keep in mind that the money you leave as a tip very often does not go entirely to the actual waiter, so a big tip can actually become pretty small much faster than you would think.

(and that's just legal practices, wage theft and illegal practices run rampant in the restaurant industry, just fyi)

If you are wondering why tipping culture here is so grim, it is because of slavery. Tipping got big here as a way to keep forcing Black Americans into working for free, now with a small tip but still no actual wage. It was designed for oppression. Waitstaff are overwhelmingly not wealthy people. It is very common for them to be on food stamps, require housing assistance, or to otherwise be living under the poverty line. If you are eating out and not tipping because you yourself are poor, you are taking money out of someone else’s poverty wages to do so. When we debate minimum wage here in america, conservatives are really good at painting a picture of waitstaff being perky middle class college kids making an extra buck, or teens from wealthy homes wanting some spending money. There is an implication that they don't really need the money that badly. That is not the reality of who makes up most serving jobs in america. Minimum wage workers are likely to be in poverty, they’re likely to be women and specifically they’re likely to be women of color. Americans of color are significantly more likely to be working at minimum wage than white americans. There is a pretty sizeable number of minimum wage workers who are over 50, and a not insignificant amount of them who are mothers who support their families. There are also those teens who just want extra cash, and they deserve good compensation for their hard work too, don’t get me wrong, but they are only a portion of who makes up the minimum wage workforce.

If you’re like “But that’s such a shitty system, you’re saying it’s pitting poor people against each other for basic human comforts!” yup. I 100% agree. I am a vocal proponent of raising the minimum wage for that reason. I also advocate for a Universal Basic Income, because I understand that when it comes to small mom & pop restaurants the owners aren’t always making a ton of money either and it seems like truly no one is winning in this system. It is set up to oppress and to demean and to grind us all down. There are lots of orgs in America that are fighting to improve the system, or to radically change the system. There are also restaurants that have tried to do things differently- there’s a wine bar in my city that says specifically on their menu that their wine is more expensive because they pay their workers a true livable wage so there is no tipping there. Instead as a customer I pay a higher upfront cost that covers the true expense of running the bar- including server wages. I love that, I wish more places would do things like that. In the meantime, when I’m choosing where to eat I factor in a tip of 20% when calculating my estimated bill, because paying for service is part of the cost.

Refusing to tip fully in america is not doing anything to change the system. It does not make restaurant owners rethink their pay structure, it does not put pressure on our government to fix minimum wage, it does not make a political statement. It just means your server is going home wondering if they can afford their own meal that night.

Thank you for asking for clarity, I hope this helps. Please feel free to ask more if you have any remaining confusion or are curious about other aspects of american culture. If I can answer and the questions are respectful, I am happy to reply!

#also fwiw #you know those big american chain restaurants people like to make fun of? #like olive garden or red lobster or applebees or whatever? #a lot of the appeal of those types of restaurants is they make a big production over you as a customer like you're at a high end restaurant #but the prices are much lower than an actual nice restaurant #so that is why so many americans view going to outback steakhouse as a big treat #it's not that we don't know what a good steakhouse is #it's that those places give you that service but your steak is $20.99 #and if you are like 'ha! my family wishes they could afford chilis" #no yeah those places are not cheap i feel you #but that's exactly the appeal of those big chains #a real nyc steakhouse starts at like $40 for steaks #and goes up from there #now look at outback's menu #now you get it? #so yeah if you're not a wealthy family and you have a celebration coming up you look for a restaurant in that vein

[99bowl]

part of me 😄

#valen's art #my art #original art #original character #valen’s ocs #sasha #I hope this doesn't look crazy my bad teehee #Not totally accurate but I did try my best #by the way did you know you have to be able to name every artery and vein when you're in pre nursing? #I just thought that was funny...🙂

[janokenmun]

ok it pisses me RIGHT off that "crossdresser" is on here

MY EXISTENCE IS NOT A FUCKING FETISH

FUCK RIGHT OFF WITH THAT

#in the same vein because ive been seeing this a lil bit recently: #my existence is not fucking transphobia #my wanting to not be misgendered is not fucking transphobia #stop fucking reinforcing stupid-ass gender roles and pretending you're being good #“oh men wearing skirts is transphobic” FUCK OFF!!!!!!!!!!! #STOP REINFORCING THE STUPID-ASS SYSTEM WE HAVE IN PLACE

[captain-noir]

someone needs sit louis down and make him watch phantom thread 2017 written and directed by paul thomas anderson because it will give him tips and tricks on how to deal with an annoying spouse/life-partner. every time lestat acts up louis should hand him a glass of poisoned blood and recite the iconic  ‘i want you flat on your back. helpless. tender. open with only me to help. and then i want you strong again. you’re not going to die. you might wish you’re going to die but you’re not going to. you need to settle down a little.’ and lestat’s demented self would find it an incredibly erotic and loving experience. phantom threading saves marriages and lives!

#interview with the vampire #louis de pointe du lac #lestat de lioncourt #loustat #text #basically every time he gets too big for his boots louis should phantom thread him #he kinda already did by sending him to the dump #but this is more sustainable #they already burn each others houses down in canon this is just another added step #lestat in the same vein as louis you're soaking wet: kiss me my girl #before im sick #and then louis takes him to coffin #scenes from a marriage #truly

[piplup99]

just watched the first episode of prehistoric planet. these bitches were looking at the same moon as us

#this show is making me so emotional #i finally gave in and made an apple account and got a free trial just for this show #i have so many Thoughts and Feelings #my special interest in elementary school was dinosaurs #and i can feel like buzz in my veins again #i have so much research to do after just one episode #if no one has made a special page dedicated to all the dinos and animals featured on this show yet i will #if you're on the fence about watching this i Highly recommend #i will gladly pay a months subscription just to watch this show if we get more of it later on #prehistoric planet

[the-moogle-of-your-nightmares]

i fucking hate 'do it scared' and every single variation of it that i've seen just gets worse. bets on how long it'll take before people go full mask off and add on 'do it in excruciating pain' lol

#moogletalks #ableism cw #disabilitag #if you try to invoke pancakes-and-waffles i am destroying you with my eyebeams #'well obviously if you're disabled/mentally ill nobody's talking to *you--'* destroying you with my eyebeams #'but it helps some people--' destroying you with my eyebeams #'well if you *are* disabled then you'll never get better if you don't--' DESTROYING YOU WITH MY EYEBEAMS #and quite fucking frankly i think it's something that is a whole lot more damaging to the people who are '''helped''' by it than you think #in a similar vein to 'cope with executive dysfunction and procrastination by intentionally inducing a stress response!!!' #AND people who do that--especially if they are in fact disabled and trying to power through it--WILL lash out at disableds sooner or later #it happens every single time! #and even if they don't do it directly they are still surrounding the disabled people around them with toxic background ableism radiation #in the same way it is damaging to be surrounded by people constantly calling themselves and their bodies disgusting for being fat #You are Not Immune to Bullshit Fake-Deep ~Inspirational~ Facebook Motivational Posters. Stop It

[aussie-roadkill]

Also! if you don’t know what Generation Loss is I am about to advertise

Generation Loss is a horror project by Twitch Streamer RanbooLive. It’s been brewing ever since 2021 and is finally about to become a reality. It’s currently the most technically produced and expensive Twitch production to date

It began as a simple analog horror concept- what happens to the person who finds those haunted tapes? How does it change their life now that they’ve seen something they weren’t meant to? It’s gone through a lot of change since then and is now going to premier this month as a live show, Generation Loss: The Social Experiments.

The show will take place over three days, May 24th, 26th, and 28th at 6pm est and can be viewed on twitch.tv/ranboolive!

Here is the official twitter account (been posting teasers every day)

And if you’d like to get a feel, the official youtube account

I am super hyped for this, it’s not what Ranboo initially had planned for the series, but they’ve put their all into it. They didn’t want to create Generation Loss unless it was exactly how they envisioned it, and so wrote the Social Experiments as an introduction, something to get started and gain a following/funding for the series so he can later produce the original vision rest assured you don’t need any prior knowledge to what the series is/was going to be to enjoy this show :>

#Generation loss #genloss #ranboo #ranboo live #I NEED GENLOSS NOW #I NEED TO EAT IT #I NEED TO INJECT IT INTO MY VEINS #also can I bait you into watching #cause ranboo is fruity #watch a 19 year old gay he/they direct their passion project #and if you're wondering yeah #it is that ranboo #the minecraft one #although he touches mc like once a month maybe

[veinsfullofstars]

🎨 Paint pals! 🎨

(ID: Kirby series fanart of Kirby and Shadow Kirby, the former wielding the Paint Copy Ability, the latter wielding the Artist Copy Ability. Kirby hovers near the top-left, smiling and winking joyfully at his buddy as he swings his brush up in a colorful arc from his paint bucket. SK hovers near the bottom-right, gazing up in wonder at his friend, swinging his own brush down in another arc of swirling paint. END ID.)

UPDATE 03/07/24: Changed SK's eyes from blue to purple.

Sketch some time in 12/23, render started 12/20/23, finished 01/02/24. NOTE: This was originally posted on my deleted account on 01/02/24.

#veins art #veins fanart #fanart #kirby series #kirby #shadow kirby #paint kirby #artist shadow kirby #friendship #BOY did this one fight me for a hot minute #(blaming my bummer of a holiday for that one) #thankfully sparkles and eye-stars fix everything #(also first piece of the year woo yeah) (a least it was when I first posted this oops) #(hope you're all doing okay out there) #veinsfullofstars