Icon from a picrew by grgikau. Call me Tir or Julian. 37. He/They. Queer. Twitter: @tirlaeyn. ao3: tirlaeyn. 18+ Only. Star Trek. Sandman. IwtV. OMFD. Definitionless in this Strict Atmosphere.
back at it again in the Emballonuridae family, with another small, three-species genus of bat, Coleura, containing:
african sheath-tailed bat (C. afra)
seychelles sheath-tailed bat (C. seychellensis)
and the more recently proposed Madagascar sheath-tailed bat (C. kibomalandy)…
…who doesn’t photograph quite as well as his taxonomic neighbors.
afra is distributed across central Africa and is listed as ‘least concern’, while seychellensis is found only in the Seychelles archipelago and is considered critically endangered. kibomalandy is localized to madagascar and was named a separate species from afra in 2012.
there are several things i like about this genus: afra, kibomalandy, and seychelles all occur in a very charming grey color with bright red phalanges that set them apart from other Emballonuridae species. further, all species in this genus have, if i may say, very handsome pointy little faces. as you can see, afra is a small species, no larger than a field mouse, which is adorable. look how little it is in that person’s hand. i want to be held like that. i’ll also slightly boost their rating based on seychellensis’s endangered status and because of the presence of a species from madagascar, because i have a friend from madagascar who’ll be mad if i don’t.
I am neurodivergent. I experience everything through the lens of my neurodivergence–emotions, relationships, social interactions, touch and sight, sound, taste and smell, my ability to learn, how I process information, my values and beliefs. I exist in, interact with, and perceive my own body as neurodivergent person.
I’ve experienced gendered socialization as a neurodivergent person. I’ve experienced gender dysphoria and euphoria–social and physical–as a neurodivergent person. And I’ve experienced gender affirming hormone therapy as a neurodivergent person.
I draw parallels between my experiences as a neurodivergent person and as a trans person all the time; it just seems so natural and obvious to me to do so.
My transness and neurodivergence are connected and inseparable.
My transness is neurodivergence.
I feel like this isn’t a popular statement to make, and it’s not something that I see discussed frequently. It think that is an inevitable part of the push against transness being defined as a mental illness.
We want to talk about transness in the terms of identity rather than of medicine. We protest when anti-trans people weaponize the research that connects transness and autism (or other forms of neurodivergence) in order to suggest that our transness is disordered.
I get this. I understand it. And I am not arguing for medicalization of transness or neurodivergence here, in fact I am against that.
What I want is for it not to be weird that I name my gender dysphoria as a neurodivergence. I want more people to see and understand the connections between transphobia and ableism, especially as it impacts transmasculine people and trans men. I definitely want people to stop mocking the language that neurodivergent trans people have created to use to talk about how we experience gender.
I want everyone to understand that you can’t truly be pro-neurodiversity without being anti-transphobia. Your autistic advocacy must be pro-trans. Your trans advocacy must be anti-ableist.
I believe the connection here must be accepted. I believe that neurodiversity activism and trans rights activism can and should inform and impact each other, and only through honoring this can we get closer to liberation.
I just ran across another gif of Jaskier in the second season without his shirt and I’m not gonna lie. I love Jaskier and Joey but I’m also actually pretty pissed. Joey looks fine even with the small fraction of pudge he had they absolutely did not need to make him get toned for that single fucking scene. I would have appreciated the shirtless scene far more had he been allowed to look his natural self I don’t need to see another damn actor who has to dehydrate themselves and be unnaturally toned and unhealthy. I am actually really livid to be honest and I couldn’t really bring myself to actually care about the scene at all like I know they intended the audience to. I don’t want jaskier buff even by the smallest fraction. He was already kind of at a smaller frame the first season and Joey isn’t fat by any means (Though even if he was who the fuck cares) but they had to go that step further and make him work out and tone up and probably very likely go off water to get the muscle definition right just for one damn shirtless scene and I’m truthfully just not into it. Jaskier being thin because he travels a lot and works to make money for food and likely doesn’t eat as often as he should is one thing but. Look I’m just irritated because we know why TV shows and movie producers do things like that and isn’t for the realism it’s for the eye candy they think the audience will like and I for one am tired of it and want actors to stop being forced to do things to get into unrealistic “shape” just so when they are shirtless or naked on screen they’re more “palatable” let Joey be his normal slightly pudgy self I like that look more!
You can debate who was the best Batman or the best Joker and keep things sort of civilised - but if you want to see blood, try starting an argument about who was the best Catwoman.
I don’t even go here at all but Eartha Kitt was the best Catwoman
I know garak is omni (in Robinsons words) not bi but having read a stitch in time I’ve come to the conclusion he’s the exact inverse of those “being bi is being attracted to every woman and like 3 men” posts
