Icon by @ThatSpookyAgent. Call me Tir or Julian. 37. He/They. Queer. Twitter: @tirlaeyn. ao3: tirlaeyn. 18+ Only. Star Trek. The X-Files. Sandman. IwtV. OMFD. Definitionless in this Strict Atmosphere.
I think we need more respect and visibility for trans men who don’t experience major changes on T.
For those who grow little to no facial/body hair. For those who don’t have a deep voice. For those who don’t experience significant change in body fat distribution and/or can’t gain additional muscle. For those who continue to be frequently misgendered while having been on T for YEARS.
It’s amazing seeing trans men who have achieved the body they want. But when the trans men being praised for being “successfully” transitioned are almost exclusively those who are lean/muscular, bearded, and just generally pass as cis men, it leaves behind every trans man who literally CAN’T achieve that because of genetics and other factors.
help i’m in london w my dad and he keeps pointing at buildings and saying ‘there used to be a coffee shop here’ but by ‘used to be’ he means. in the seventeenth century
we went past a pub and he was like ‘when this was a coffee shop (in the seventeenth century) isaac newton dissected a dolphin in the back room one time’ like ok. we are about to miss the train
two cousins are both trending on twitter. one cousin is trending for telling his listeners to vote republican because scientific experts are spreading propaganda about covid. the other cousin is trending because they are wearing the tiniest camouflage shorts ever worn in the history of existence in front of 20,000 people onstage. they are not the same level.
Here’s another one from my archives. It’s the town under a rock, Setenil de las Bodegas, Spain, where around 3,000 inhabitants are living quite literally, under a rock.
The small white washed town
has a unique setting along a narrow river gorge eroded by the Rio Trejo river, with many of the houses being built into and under the walls of the gorge itself.
There was a practical reason for living here.
The natural caves are
ideal living quarters because they didn’t need to build whole houses to keep out the heat and cold- the cave did that. All they had to build were the façades.
The bars, restaurants and food shops
are ranked as the best in the region.
In summer, the town is vibrant.
The town used to be used to be large store rooms for local produce, b/c of the cool environment in the rock.
It’s fascinating to think of them building this town.
Look at this little house.
Even though a lot of the town is under the rock, a lot of it still gets the sun. It’s like going in and out of tunnels.
That’s the other thing. Very few people charged with a crime are completely innocent of any crime, but a lot a lot a lot are definitely innocent of the crime they’re being charged of.
But “I’m guilty of theft and carrying a knife in my pocket, not armed robbery” is not something you can say to a jury or to a prosecutor and receive even the slightest grace.
“I, a small time drug dealer with no weapon, am guilty of briefly locking a drug buyer in the car with me (who had initially entered totally voluntarily) for 30 seconds while we argued angrily about the price of a dimebag of cocaine. I’m not guilty of robbery, premeditated kidnapping and ‘wrongful imprisonment’” is not a perfectly true story you’re allowed to tell anyone.
And we’re strongly pressured not to show any sympathy or fair-mindedness to these people because they were unashamed scofflaws who knowingly broke laws, and because they’ve probably (but not provably) committed a few other minor crimes. But I do! I do have sympathy for them! I don’t think it’s fair or reasonable for people who committed fifty-buck crimes to get five grand worth of punishment. And I don’t think it’s ever acceptable to nudge my uncertain estimation of someone in the direction of ‘guilty’ because there are stereotypes or demographics that indicate they’re statistically more likely than me or other comfortable relatively-privileged people to have committed other crimes.
For one just because in and of itself it’s disproportionate. But also because almost everyone has committed fifty-buck crimes in their life if you were to laser focus on every single moment of their life and interpret every thing they’ve ever done in the absolute least charitable light possible. Almost everyone has committed rudeness/roughness you could call assault & battery; or ‘forgotten’ to make payments for something in a way you could call financial fraud; or briefly possessed and given to friends just barely enough of a drug you could call it drug trafficking. Only an unlucky handful of people get caught for the trivial crimes we all commit, but they’re very often treated firstly as if they committed a much more serious offense, and secondly painted as if they were a habitual or career criminal rather than an incidental and possibly even unintentional one.
And the poorer you are, the browner you are, the less-prestigious-sounding your name and accent are, the poorer the area you come from—the worse the chances that your unintentional incidental actions will be treated with even the slightest bit of reasonableness, rather than purposely and cruelly interpreted in the absolute harshest possible light.
