Birth Of The Mermaid

A film poster for Alien reimagined to navigate communist and post soviet Polish censorship’s.

Poster being displayed as part of a polish film festival exhibition https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/mar/06/give-it-a-polish-classic-film-posters-with-a-twist-in-pictures

the Guardian

Give it a Polish! Classic film posters with a twist – in pictures

A new exhibition shows how artists from the Polish school of posters reimagined films such as Vertigo and Alien while navigating communist c

inside me there are two lungs. and one liver. one stomach. a few meters of intestine. there's a lot inside me actually

“i’m straight” the straight:

I really need to stop being a fucking bitch and start the medical transition I’ve been salivating at the thought of for 7 years

The fearmongering around medical transition for transmascs will never not be upsetting to me.

“you’re gonna look ugly as a man” “but you’re such a pretty girl, don’t change that” Wrong. You will look different after T, but you will look happy. You will probably grow hair and gain weight and look pretty different, and none of that is bad or makes you less desirable. You are going to look like you and that’s all that matters.

“T makes you angry” “you’re gonna be a scary man i won’t feel safe around you” Wrong. Testosterone does not “make” you angry. Messing with your hormones will mess with your emotions for sure, but you will not immediately become some scary predator when you start T. Being a man/masculine does not make you a threat, a predator, or inherently angry. That’s radfem shit.

“bottom growth is gross” “no one will want you with bottom growth” Wrong. Bottom growth is cool and a LOT of guys end up loving theirs a lot more than they thought they would. For a lot of people it is a desirable trait, there are people who find bottom growth hot and attractive. And! If you’re sure you don’t want it there’s things you can do to work around that, just talk to your provider.

“bottom surgery is super painful and not worth it” First off, call it phalloplasty, because that’s what you’re talking about. Second, yes it’s painful, it’s surgery. There are risks to it and complications can happen, but that’s true of any surgery. Phallo might not be for you, but it is life saving care for other folks. It is beautiful and should be talked about as life saving care and not as some afterthought thing that no one actually does.

Being transmasculine is a beautiful thing. Transitioning medically is not something every trans person wants, but if you notice yourself holding back for the reasons i’ve listed above (or similar) maybe reconsider.

Every single time I write Hugh Dancy I misspell it as Dancey and then imagine Hugh Danc(e)y having a little jig.

I’m being so fucking serious this happens at least once a week. He gets a lot of dancing done.

The perfect daughter

Including five for five here where your donation will go specifically to transfems !

hey! donate to uk trans charities today because it’s gonna be a rough one

Hunger Games didn’t really eat holes in my brain the way that it did for some other people but god the opening lines. The opening lines. Katniss wakes up in bed and immediately, instinctively reaches beside her, only to find the bed empty and cold. Before we even know her name – before we know literally anything about her or this world or her place in that world – we know that she loves someone. We know that she is reaching for where Prim should be, sleeping safe and warm beside her, but Prim is not there. She is not there, and her half of the bed is cold and empty. People talk about characters being “doomed by the narrative” when most of the time the character was literally just a well-foreshadowed death, but Prim WAS doomed by the narrative. It’s the very first thing we learned. It’s the most key, integral, important piece of information we’re given about everything that is about to happen: Every single choice Katniss makes is to protect her little sister, and it isn’t enough. In the end, Prim still dies. Prim was dead before the story even started. Katniss, reaching. Prim’s side of the bed was cold and empty. There is no version of this story where Prim could have been saved. Katniss, reaching. The very first thing she does in the series. She wakes, and she reaches, but Prim is already gone. THAT is how you do Doomed By The Narrative. Edit: Also it is key that there was literally nothing Katniss could have done differently. If she had not acted to save Prim, Prim would not have survived the Hunger Games. But by acting to save Prim, Katniss accidentally kicked off an entire rebellion and ultimately massively increased the amount of danger Prim was actually in. The key is that this is irrelevant. If Katniss had done literally anything differently, Prim still would have died. If Katniss had faltered or changed course at any point, Prim still would have died. There was never a point where Katniss could have changed Prim’s fate. There’s no version of this story where Prim lives to see the end of it. She’s dead before the story begins. That’s doomed by the narrative.

there’s absolutely nothing better than reading a 100k word fanfic, that is until you remember you have a body that is starving, thirsty and incredibly sleep deprived and hasn’t used the bathroom since the sun set 8 hours ago

Thinking about how Lena really wanted them all to eat the office food & drink on site,

there are multiple cases/archive reports related to growing/‘blooming’ and food,

We know protocol is All About Alchemy

FOOD AND PLANTS ARE INHERENTLY ALCHEMICAL

They keep complaining about the food and drinks tasting bad and how the doughnut holes have been around for ages

‘Alchemical preserved food never tastes exactly the same as fresh food’ (-worldanvil.com)

When Lena leaves everything goes Very Bad very not good very quickly.

WHAT WAS GOING ON WITH THE FOOD LENA