Tori (they/them) @Skellyboy@tech.lgbt

I don’t think it was intentional but the scene where howl’s hair stuff gets mixed up and turns the wrong color and he is so bummed he turns into an immobile slime creature is one of the best depictions of dysphoria I’ve seen in any movie

Fun fact: There are enough bones inside of your body to create a skeleton!

Recently been realizing just how much healing I have left to do from being subjected to a particularly nasty and vehement strain of purity culture and sex-shaming in my formative years.

My own inner turmoil around expressing and acting on attraction is palpable to the very people I most wish to share it with, and it's heartbreaking.

I've run across a few odds and ends to help with this sort of thing over the years, but if anyone happens to know any decent resources - especially queer-affirming and/or trauma-informed ones - I'd deeply appreciate suggestions.

(Boosts welcome)

Academia is a scam to sell more academia. << this part isn't really very controversial IMO.

Here's an edgy take:

The gap between academic and non-academic thought and philosophy is damaging to the social psyche, enforces classist understandings of intelligence and denigrates the knowledge and experience of anyone outside of academia.

What does a holistic study of a subject look like? How can it be rooted in the experience of the world and not gate-kept.

I just recently realised, that proprietary social networks are not social networks but entertainment networks. That's why at least my friends have a hard time switching to mastodon or pixelfed. People expect to be highly entertained the first second they enter the network and kept that way all the time. Being confronted with a network that is stripped from all these addictive tools is a massive cultural clash.

Okay. So. Let's talk relationships and what we can unlearn, meaning, the things we do in relationships that are (sort-of) abusive and/or self-destructive and that we vow to try to not do again.

(football coach voice) alright team, listen up! this is a made up sport and it doesn't matter at all! don't get yourself hurt for no reason! run away from the ball if you want to, I don't give a shit! sit down if you get tired! remember to drink lots of water! okay now get out there and put in the minimal possible effort!!