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so if there's baby carrots that means... carrot... my man 😂🤝

sometimes i’m like hahaha yeah im not bioessentialist haha gender is a construct but then i observe a man and it’s hard not to feel like testosterone is Poison and penises are Evil #whoops

and it’s also sort of permanently tainted my relationship with my parents because now, even if they pretend to see me as a sort of equal, i’ll never actually be comfortable talking to them like grown adults i can be unflinchingly forthright with.

it’s sort of #over for me because as a kid i was literally hit or yelled at for asking for anything too much. and so i internalized indirectness as a sort of politeness. now, i’m constantly accused of doing this. and the most ironic thing is that people tell me it’s childish.

granted i’ve also noticed this is a common Man way of treating things. if you ask for help you’re being a burden, and if you don’t, you’ll be a burden when the problem eventually snowballs. what the fuck are you supposed to do with that?

@hellspatisserie i took ONE queer theory class once and i left so pissed at myself, the instructor, the discipline. it’s hopelessly myopic and self-congratulating.

I genuinely cannot recommend to young queer people enough: get the hell out of intracommunity discourse. Literally read anything else all day. Read history, any history, not just queer history, anything really. This endless identity powerscaling is a poison.

*trying to escape saw trap* I’m not going to play your gay little game! Gay Jigsaw: it’s the way you have no choice 😭

i say this as a fat brown trans woman … omg it’s giving hijabi amputee

being fat is unironically worse then being trans. fat girls and trans girls have the same class interests

mentally ill i mean. obvious example of someone who really doesn’t have much else going on and channels her frustration either into nothing substantial or vaguely self-destructive posting. bitterness breeds bitterness - and then, horrendously antisocial opinions

i followed cl-ckstiqqun for a short while and had to unfollow because everything is a goddamn crusade for her. when i see her on my feed now i just feel immense dread. i actually think she’s a lot more intelligent then most of the people she argues with, she’s just extremely ill

you guys don’t understand how much i would give up to go back to this time in nyc

@ArizonaFleshPit @dlondonwortel ha! those rear porches look very unqueens-like and OP had been posting about NJ recently so i had some suspicions but, took him at his word :)

@w0rmpr3y @dlondonwortel Roughly 725 miles west, to be specific. You can see the Sears Tower in the background and I think this is either Rockwell or Western on the brown line

Where in Queens am I

@ThatchEffendi you do wonder about the reverse then… early 19th century minstrels obviously sought to mock black speech, but they couldn’t have made it up out of thin air. at least least some of it must be based on perceived common features of contemporary AAVE.

@ThatchEffendi reminds me of 1930s efforts to track down the “last slaves” - of the cases that were not taped but merely interviewed, lots of them had their speech transcribed phonetically in a way that seems almost offensive today. an exceptional example is zora neale hurston’s “barracoon”

18th/19th Century African American Vernacular English must have been a lot different from modern varieties, right? I'd guess it sounded a lot more like Gullah or Jamaican English, but I don't think many depictions of slaves in American media would feel comfortable with that because it would sound a bit like a Minstrel show. Must be hard to reconstruct, though, given the obvious restrictions on literacy.

he was bald too

one time on my finsta a random white guy from NC asked to follow me and i was like . ah WTH sure. and he was lowk chill. but one time i posted abt trying to quit weed and he told me to try kratom. n i was like, isn’t that basically an opioid. and he got really mad and blocked me

past two days i’ve broken down crying for no reason at all #OK

granted i haven’t tried particularly many drugs but shrooms are really fucking magical. i have GOT to grow some again

shrooms are the best drug on earth