Crossposting from the river thread, too lazy to quote Because I think, manipulation is like lubricant. It makes things work, and, depending on the material also superficially adhere Honesty, in comparison, is like magnets. You can also move shit around, and some stuff gets repelled, but if it sticks, it sticks And lies are sort of glibbery and when they explode they make a mess all over the place and no one is ok
To the tune of Marina and the Diamonds - Savages Underneath it all, we're just cabbages Hidden behind firs, mice, and radishes How can we expect anything at all? We're just lettuce monsters, learning how to brawl Nightblogging because that came up last night while I was trying to fall asleep and I just remembered it.
It’s not technically night but I’m about to sleep, and all I can think is, why didn’t Ariel just write her name for Prince Eric? It’s not like she doesn’t know how, she wrote it on Ursula’s contract. I guess you could argue that sea dwellers don’t actually use the same language despite movie conventions, but then how do she and all her acquatic friends understand human talking so easily?
Fact: There are the two standard run-of-the mill sexes, and there's intersex Fact: Triple X, Single X (those have proper names but I can't be assed to look them up rn), and Androgen shenaniganry exists Theory: Transgender happens when the androgen shenaniganry hits either brain or body, but not the other one. Maybe there's not enough androgen to go around either way, or there's actually two switches and one didn't flip. Or flipped but shouldn't have.
my pet theory has always been that trans people are chimeras and different cell populations in the brain as opposed to elsewhere cause the body/self-perception mismatch
Spoiler: Are we Trans Theorizing I always believed that hormone disturbances in the womb caused the body to develop in a way where the “map” of your body is (in the case of a trans man) masculinized and kind of Booted to react to testosterone and expect different body parts which is why a significant percentage of trans ppl experience phantom limbs and dysphoria etc Like accidentally installing windows on a macbook The theory that the mind has a mental map of the body that can be fuckened in the womb also validates the existance of people with BIID by suggesting that their limbs werent properly “indexed” by the map in the womb and are therefore perceived as foregein by the mind while still not being self cannibalised/being an actual foregein body I’m sorry I’m rlly sleepy i just find Trans Biology facinating Oooop thats probably a confusing explanation i promise ive read studies n done thought into this my words are just wording badly rn
Shit. I meant to post this in Random Stuff That Makes You Laugh. I guess that's ironically appropriate?
It's getting on towards 2:00 am. Am I still dancing to electronic music involving trumpets in spite of the sleep meds or because of them? Maybe the night before New Year's Eve wasn't the best time to try to get to bed at a more normal hour.
That stupid tide pods forbidden fruit meme has me imagining adam and eve chunching down on some of those things, only to learn what laundry is and therefore clothes and their lack of said articles.
Mr. Sandman is lowkey playing in my head and I suddenly have questions. Of all the mythical beings you could ask for help with your love life, why would you ask the Sandman? Surely there must be better options.
See, now I want to write a thing where the Sandman is both the most logical and safest option for help. All the entities are dicks or have crazy costs/require you to sign up for their religion/whatever and maybe meeting in dreams is safer because family/political climate, or there's a distance that can't entirely be bridged by communications technology- infrastructure has gone to shit and you need to know they're ok, even in a dream. I haven't slept in two days it makes sense to me
