Josie and I get to go swimming this weekend!! I know that doesn’t seem like much, but for a couple of trans women this is a big deal, and I AM SO EXCITED
here are some tips for surviving very hot weather from a person who is from a place that gets very hot and also doesn’t react to heat well:
don’t move
if you don’t have to, don’t go anywhere. don’t do anything.
just find a relatively cool place and lay there. drink a tasty bev too.
the pool/beach might seem tempting but it’s actually miserable in the searing heat
laying on the floor helps if it’s really hot and you’ve got no AC
be lazy I’m serious
only go out to exercise/enjoy the weather after the sun has started to set or early in the morning before it heats up
you’d think all of this is very rational but then my neighbor decides to mow his lawn AT 2 PM. DURING SIESTA TIME. GO TO SLEEP ON THE COUCH. HAVE A GLASS OF TEA.
[ID: a screenshot of a comment from reddit, with no username visible. The commend reads: This doesn’t make a ton of sense to me either. Setting aside the question of whether gender/sex is assigned or observed at birth, the gender I was assigned at birth was ‘boy.’ The gender I have now is ‘man’. Boys and men have different gender roles, and few adults identify as boys anymore. From this standpoint, every adult has a different gender than the one they had at birth. End ID]
Framing “girl” and “boy” as separate genders from “woman” and “man” is such an amazing take. it’s a framework that accommodates and explains so many trans experiences. Some trans people never were their AGAB. Some feel like they were their AGAB, but that that changed (usually when puberty hits, which is when you start “becoming a man/woman”. The accepted societal path is that girls grow up to into women, and boys grow up into men. But some girls grow up into men, and some boys grow up into women. This guy was a boy who grew up into a man, which generally works out pretty well for people. Some boys and girls grow up into people who aren’t men or women, even! It’s like this random cis guy skipped right over transgender 101, 102, 201, etc. and stumbled directly into Transgender Nirvana.
i think when people who are phobic about bugs follow bug blogs on purpose to desensitize themselves that is one of the coolest and bravest things a person can do and they deserve recognition and praise
Okay fuck so for like the entire first part I thought this person was like… Using one of those 3d pens to replace lace in this curtain somehow
Then the next couple I was like “wait are they just like painting the curtains a different color? Were the lace threads just black or something on that other one?”
Then finally it clicked and I freaked the fuck out
