Since I’m in an uncommonly good mood, I want to put a maybe-weird little offer on the table.
To the trans men, trans boys, and trans mascs of Tumblr: if you’re curious about the first-person experience of medical transition, my asks are always open to you.
I can speak from experience on testosterone HRT (cream and injection), top surgery (bilateral mastectomy), total hysterectomy, bottom surgery (phalloplasty with scrotoplasty), and all the paperwork and red tape it took to get them.
If you’d like a private response, please let me know in your ask.
AMA.
[ETA] Actually you know what, idc what your identity is. If you want to know, ask me! Writing a trans male character? Asking on behalf of a trans masc person in your life? Just curious? Fire away. I know a lot of people are understandably sensitive about getting invasive questions about medical transition, and that’s fine, but you can consider me an open book.
[ETA2] Someone alerted me to the fact that I had anonymous asks disabled, so I’ve fixed that. Whoops. 😅
I’m just gonna slide this on in here for anyone that is interested in preserving old games. They take it very seriously too, they want an archive of every single game. Like, they have lists of every game ever released for a system, and once that system gets old enough, they add it to their archive and start collecting. Their latest addition was the Xbox 360, they opened that vault up in September 2022, and proudly announced they’d finished their collection of games for it back in April.
Also, while their game archives are almost entirely complete, they’ve got another project of archiving the manuals that came with those games, and that is… considerably less well filled out. Their collection of Xbox 360 manuals is especially rough, they’ve only gotten manuals for three games. So if you’ve got some Xbox 360 games kicking around, and the manual’s still with them, please consider scanning them and submitting them to the site!
Game preservation is important, but people rarely consider preserving the manuals as well; I really respect Vimm’s Lair for being so thorough in their archival work.
Everyone else talked about outdoor cats, it’s time for me to talk about offleash dogs
Reasons not to have your dog offleash at a public park:
1) roads (this one is self-explanatory)
2) it makes the park inaccessible to like, entire swathes of the population. If you have experience with police dogs or guard dogs in your neighborhood, or you’re a new immigrant from somewhere with a large population of feral dogs, it sucks ass going to the park and having someone’s massive lab bound up to you!
3) If, for example, you are in a protected wetland area plastered with friendly signs asking you to please leash your dog to avoid causing an ecological impact, having your dog offleash might cause an ecological impact! “Oh no, my dog is well-behaved, they would never bother the wildlife” wrong! your dog is in the pond trying to eat the endangered Blandings’ turtles!
4) Non-zero chance of a jokerified park guide (me) just clipping your dog to a leash and stealing them
5) “Oh but my dog is friendly!” If your unleashed “friendly” dog runs up to my leashed UNFRIENDLY dog, and my dog bites yours, guess who’s getting the blame despite doing everything right?
6) Allergies. “Oh but my dog is friendly!” oh well that’s great I guess I can just put the epipen away because, yknow, he didn’t mean to induce anaphylactic shock, it was all in good fun, nothing to worry about!
7) Small children, the elderly and disabled people. “Oh but my dog is so friendly!” When your friendly dog slams into me/jumps on me/knocks me over I am just as injured.
8) Many of the places where it seems attractive to let a dog off the leash are home to wildlife! My local swamp park has a whole-ass coyote pack living in it. That is their house, and they will view your precious little sausage roll as a delivery dinner. I have legit seen a coyote come out of the bushes and take a small, off-leash dog. Leash your dogs.
A couple people reblogging with my addition have gone on to say that a well-trained dog can be off-leash and all these things only apply to badly-trained dogs (who presumably deserve to suffer? and who apparently also deserve the opportunity to harm and distress people who didn’t sign up for Bad Dog Encounters?). Leaving aside the fact that dogs are animals, will always be animals, and will thus always have the potential to act unpredictably, just like every other animal, including humans, who do you think is training the wildlife?
I have seen the incident I referenced above play out three times. All three times, the dog lost. In one of the instances, the dog was two feet from its owner. In one instance, the owner followed the coyote into the bushes, still lost the dog, and got bitten badly. The parks service killed half the swamp coyotes after that, which isn’t fair. Again, the swamp is their home. They live there. If you bring them DoorDash, they shouldn’t be punished for eating it.
Coyotes. Bears. Venomous snakes. Squirrels, either rabid or leading your dog into traffic. And feral cats who also shouldn’t be outside and uncontained, but don’t deserve to be ripped apart by dogs because people failed them. Your dog is not the only animal in the world.
Please. Do yourself, your dog, and my coyotes a favor. Leash your dog.
If your dog is well-trained and sticks close to your side, why not put a leash on them anyways?
I love dogs, but the number of times I’ve watched offleash dogs flush a poor migratory bird on their last caloric reserves after traveling thousands of miles or terrorize shorebirds parents trying to protect their eggs/chicks makes me dislike a lot of dog owners.
balancing my anticat discourse with some “hey, dogs aren’t innocent in this nonsense” material
You know what off-leash dogs often encounter in my state that is entirely a swamp–parks, neighborhoods, sidewalks and all? ✨🐊 Gators 🐊 ✨. Dogs will not put up a fight with an alligator because there is no chance for that fight to take place when a muscular half-ton of actual dinosaur hauls absolute ass out of the water at 11 miles per hour and 3,000 PSI of bite strength snaps into them like a fucking Slim Jim.
This commonly happens beside neighborhood retention ponds, and with disturbing regularity in front of children walking home from school with their families and pets. Cool thing to expose a kid to, right? Surely it won’t result in any lasting psychological damage to a child.
everyone always talks about the andean cock of the rock but what the hell is this
Hi benny. Im a month late to this post but did you know that almost 40% of the males of this bird species engage in homosexual behavior with an even smaller percent practicing it exclusively.
hi thats fucking awesome. birds are such wonderful creatures.
So I am treating myself to a day at Dashcon. Thing is I can only go one day and both Friday/Saturday have really cool things planned. Which day should I go? Please help me out.
Saturday has a ball pit and meet-ups soooooooo. ;D
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