Goddamnit. I just smoked my last cigarette.
Everything is about to become horrible.
Well, I mean, the state I’m already in is well beyond horrible already, but, you know, like… EXTRA horrible!
By the way, I think I totally need to draw a comic called Spiroman vs. Doctor Testostopus.
Anyway… I have some requests!
It seems people would like to know how someone writing a trans character in work of fiction can do so without totally fucking it up.
Well… [Read more…]
I’m kinda maybe possibly sorta running out of ideas of things to write about.
Or at least things I can write about with a highly limited time-frame and a brain that is rapidly losing its ability to function.
What is it with superpowers and the colour green, anyway? Green Lantern, Green Arrow, Green Hornet, Green Goblin, Jade, The Hulk, She-Hulk, The Riddler, Beast Boy, Martian Manhunter, The Scorpion, The Lizard, etc.
Like, I know is green is like, a totally sweet colour and all, but this is a little weird.
It’s sort of like the weird tendency for mutants to be blue.
Anyway…
There’s one interesting connection between the whole trans thing and the skeptic thing that I don’t think I ever quite took a chance to talk about, and that’s how being trans can teach a lot about intellectual humility. [Read more…]
This is the part of the evening where “thinking” sort of ceases being a viable possibility.
This is my Army Of Happy:
They help cheer me up during moments where I’m not feeling very strong. [Read more…]
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
Damn.
Actually nodded off there for a second. NOT a good sign. It’s way too early in the night to start accidentally falling asleep.
So…
One of the many, many frustrating questions us People of the Transitive Function are often asked is “but how did you KNOW?” [Read more…]
Yeah.
So… I am totally officially up past my bedtime. But still a long night of further blogathoning waits ahead.
This where it starts getting difficult.
So, to make things easier, I will be pulling from my requests something that hall-of-rage requested…
A post about cookies! [Read more…]
Arrrgh…
Exhaustion definitely setting in.
The rain has stopped. The clouds have parted. But now the sun is beginning to quietly nestle under the horizon.
I’ve taken my hormones and had a bit of chocolate. I may need some aspirin, though, if the headache returns.
On the plus side, though? 13 is totes one of my favourite numbers.
Here, have a flattering picture of me:
Okay!
Moving up into double digits!
I hope you all have been donating. You use the little button over there on the right, that also shows where we’re at in terms of getting to our goal. Remember today is the last day of SSA week, so it’s make it or break it time!
Also, I am still prepared to take requests. So you’ve donated, and there’s something you’d like to hear my thoughts on, don’t hesitate to let me know!
So long as we’re on the subject of words I totally, completely hate, like “junkie” and “prostituted women”, there’s one that never fails to totally creep me out: “panties”. [Read more…]
A little something worth knowing about…
Earlier this week, Cathy Brennan, the consistently irritating little embodiment of hate-mongering radical-feminism, outed a teenage trans kid to his high school in retaliation for what Brennan characterized as threatening remarks.
This is the e-mail she sent:
Good morning –
My name is Cathy Brennan, and I am a lesbian feminist activist in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. Recently, a student at your school, Rufus Ulrik (formerly Cara), has been emailing me and contacting me via social media. This student seems disturbed. I do not want any contact with this student., as she has made numerous disturbing comments about women and rape on Tumblr, a social media website. See [link removed] and [also removed]
Can you assist me please? I will be in the U.K. in July. You may also reach me at this email address. I am truly disturbed that someone this young would act this violently.
I am also reporting this user to Tumblr for abuse by copy of this email. They are user http://evenweirdosneedtoreblog.tumblr.com/
Thank you,
Cathy Brennan
There is absolutely no justification for. None. No “feminist” justifications, no “on his behalf” justifications, no “I felt threatened” justifications. Absolutely none.
This is shameless and monstrous. [Read more…]
So… Isis King has an American Apparel ad.
Isis King, if you’re not aware, is a particularly beautiful (under normative standards) trans woman who appeared as a contestant on Next Top Model.
American Apparel, for Pride Month (which is June in most US Cities, though July up here in Vancouver), have done a series of new ads demonstrating a supposedly pro-LGBT message. “Supposedly” because I’m not sure much effort has gone into the latter two letters. Isis King was recruited as a model, and appeared in the following images:
Okay. 3.5 cups of coffee have been consumed, along with a carrot-spice muffin, and I just got back from getting my 75 ml methadone (dissolved, as always, in a sickly bittersweet orange tang solution) and that should kick in shortly. Should be able to hunker down here for awhile.
Also, it seems my dream was somewhat prescient of today’s actual weather. Dreary, wet, drizzly, gray… absolutely nothing to compel me to wish I was outside instead of in here blogging. What luck.
I guess? [Read more…]
