Latest Posts by nyxs-knight - Page 3
Do you ever just sit there and wonder how different your childhood would have been if you weren’t raised in a homophobic family?
I dunno man, I just think the constant harping about how trans men's bodies are ruined and infertile is, like, bad.
I'm less concerned about their ability to have babies than I am about them developing permanent disabilities, or being in constant pain, or becoming incontinent.
You don’t have to love your body. You don’t even have to like it. But you have to find ways to live with it, as well as you can, and be kind to it whenever possible.
Your body is not the outward expression of your soul. It is not a reflection or a representation of your worth or your True Self. It’s just inhabited meat. It’s a flesh machine with planned obsolescence, and you have to take care of it.
It’s good to love your body, if you can. It will enhance your timed experience of the world if you can appreciate it without too much resentment for the ways it fails or disappoints you. But if you cannot love it, strive at least for neutrality. Make truces with it, however uneasy, and treat it with the respect you would show to any other animal shape.
Saturn, rings and moons seen by the Cassini spacecraft wow!
Image credit: NASA/JPL (original video)
About femininity
Sometimes I think that I don’t fit in. I remember those girls in male-written fiction who are always feminine, humble, quiet, enigmatic etc etc, and I compare myself to them. In those moments, I feel shame for being myself. I think, why am I so loud? Why so straightforward? Why can’t I be more like them? Why is it so hard for me to be lady-like? I could be if I try hard enough!
But then, I think about real life women: my friends, my sisters, my mother. And I remember that they are all just like me. Some of them have short hair. Some of them are not afraid to fill the room with their laughter or burp out loud. Some of them don’t know what a concealer is. Most of them excel in typically “male” fields. Almost all of them never wear skirts. And even those who seem to be the epitome of femininity change make-up and restrictive clothes to comfy pyjamas at the end of the day.
Femininity is an act, it’s a perfomance. And none of us entirely fit in this box. Its only purpose is to divide and control us. So don’t fall for this “not like other girls” bullshit. If you feel dysphoric, talk about it with other women, compare expirience. It’s not any different from overcoming social anxiety, when you have to realise that everybody sometimes feel insecure. In this case, you just need to realise that every woman is a complex human being, just like yourself.
I firmly believe that how feminist a book is is better demonstrated by its background characters rather than its mains
hey it’s me we’ve got hat hair and a dirty mirror but we also have PROGRESS 💪
tanned and smizin :^) my sister did an impromptu photoshoot bc i came back from the barbers with the best haircut of my life so i’ll probably post a lot of these lmao
i hate how conservatives (and some „radfems”) frame detransition.
This girl used to be beautiful but now... she’s manly.. she’s strange, she does not fit in, what a tragedy!
i haaaate it.
On top of being incredibly mysoginystic, it does not adress other effects of transition, like health effects, and the things that actually pushed people to transitioning in the first place! It creates more problems than it tries to adress.
Who fucking cares how you look after being on T? I don’t. You have more body hair, a different fat distribution? Great! That’s not the reason people should be critical of transitioning!
i know this is a hard to swallow pill but patriarchy does not care why you perform femininity, who you perform it for, or how you feel about it
women wearing baggy clothes with their natural hair, bare face, sitting down comfortably while unapologetically taking up lots of space... with a big smile on... nothing is more beautiful... i want to be surrounded by that energy
A common theme I see amongst young feminists, who are starting to understand the depths of male violence against girls and women, is a feeling of such hopelessness that it concentrates into a feeling of bodily inferiority; a feeling of being weaker, being rapeable, being impregnatable. And sometimes even, in turn, hating oneself and ones female body.
I want every woman out there to know that the physical ability to commit violence upon another person is not a superior trait, despite what generations of men would like you to believe.
Men give violence and brute strength value. So let's talk about where we should be giving value to the female body.
First, the reason men are on average stronger than women is also their downfall. Testosterone is a hormone that gives the ability to build muscle and maintain little fat. To simplify how it works, it burns hard and fast to build. This means that it burns hard and fast through the body as well. Mens bodies breakdown quicker- hearts fail, muscles degenerate, etc. They die younger than women.
Essentially, female bodies are more flexible and have a better endurance. This is because our bodies and systems are built for longevity - not power. Mens bodies are built for power and quick burn.
Our uteruses (and other hormonal regulatory systems in our bodies!) love us dearly. Our bodies regulate hormones, limit testosterone, and ensure we don't burn out quick. We experience menopause and men don't. We've been taught this is a bad thing.. But our bodies slow down and stop the hormones that would burn us out, and mens bodies don't. Menopause elevates our lifespan and quality of life.
In fact, this reproductive/regulatory system is so important, we have fat deposits that protect these organs. This allows us to be healthier for longer, too!!
It also helps a ton that we have a boosted immune system, much better than our male peers. On top of that, we have higher pain tolerances! We are better equipped to fight off things that ail us, and persevere through things that would bring us harm.
So we know women live longer, and in better health - but why is that? Is it just testosterone? Is it just to get pregnant? No! Our bodies don't exist to sustain a baby (though they can, and the fact that all life on earth exists because of women is an astoundingly powerful truth) they exist to sustain us - because we were and are community leaders, healers, caretakers, providers - we are immensely valuable.
Why, evolutionarily, are we this way? Because older women bring more value to communities than older men. Look up the Grandmother Hypothesis in evolution studies; it says menopause evolved because it allows women to live longer, because women (specifically grandmothers!) are key to community survival and kin relationships. Older women are key to our species survival; not just for the lifes they may or may not create, but for the relationships, the community, the reasons we live.
Some other miscellaneous thoughts...Sexually, we are the sex that has an organ made entirely for pleasure. We are the sex capable of multiple orgasms, and stronger. That's worth some thought.
So how do men play into all of this? Men are a genetic mutation of us that exist to provide sperm, if we'd like. Men who had more testosterone became stronger than men with less (therefore better at hunting, building shelter), making them more desirable mates, meaning that the next generation of men was stronger as well. And there they placed the value in strength. Which translated to the value of violence.
So the next time you find yourself valuing the capacity for violence, instead look to value the capacity for creation.
Womanhood is made vulnerable by males who choose violence. And that's why our work as feminists is so important. But I promise you - your body was not designed to receive conflict, but to outlast it. You were designed to build something better.
butch/butch relationship moodboard 👩❤️💋👩
requested by anonymous
NGC 346 is an open cluster with associated nebula located in the Small Magellanic Cloud that appears in the constellation Tucana.
Image credit: NASA/Hubble
calamity jane in film:
calamity jane irl:
amelia earhart in film:
amelia earhart irl:
Abell 383: An Elusive Subject (NASA, Chandra, Hubble, 03/14/12) by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center
Men like to believe theyd be great in apocalypse scenarios but they dont even know how to sew
High-resolution images of Pluto taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft.
The plains on Pluto’s surface are composed of more than 98 percent nitrogen ice, with traces of methane and carbon monoxide. Nitrogen and carbon monoxide are most abundant on the anti-Charon face of Pluto (around 180° longitude, where Tombaugh Regio’s western lobe, Sputnik Planitia, is located), whereas methane is most abundant near 300° east. The mountains are made of water ice. Pluto’s surface is quite varied, with large differences in both brightness and color. Pluto is one of the most contrastive bodies in the Solar System, with as much contrast as Saturn’s moon Iapetus. The color varies from charcoal black, to dark orange and white. Pluto’s color is more similar to that of Io with slightly more orange and significantly less red than Mars. Notable geographical features include Tombaugh Regio, or the “Heart” (a large bright area on the side opposite Charon), Cthulhu Macula, or the “Whale” (a large dark area on the trailing hemisphere), and the “Brass Knuckles” (a series of equatorial dark areas on the leading hemisphere). Sputnik Planitia, the western lobe of the “Heart”, is a 1,000 km-wide basin of frozen nitrogen and carbon monoxide ices, divided into polygonal cells, which are interpreted as convection cells that carry floating blocks of water ice crust and sublimation pits towards their margins; there are obvious signs of glacial flows both into and out of the basin. It has no craters that were visible to New Horizons, indicating that its surface is less than 10 million years old.
source | images: NASA/JPL
little brain (freud): women have penis envy and we know this bc women r always sad they have no rights
big brain (me): men have pussy envy and we know this bc they made up religions w male creator gods out of insecurity
A woman traveling into the dark woods to an evil witch’s house to trade her firstborn child for selfish desires sounds a lot like a demonized version of a woman traveling to see a cunning woman to aid her with an unwanted pregnancy js
@forgetfulhippocampus and I had a photo shoot. Here’s some highlights.
Absolutely in LOVE with these pictures and this woman.
NGC 4622 The Backwards Galaxy
Standard theory holds that spiral galaxies generally have arms that trail behind the spin of the galaxy, rather like a Catherine wheel firework.
Then there is NGC 4622 which doesn’t, with arms that seem to lead rather than trail the spiral rotation.
Modelling suggests it’s most likely the outcome of an impact, but still remains a matter of conjecture and interest by astronomers.
The galaxy is located in the Southern Sky, in the constellation of Centauri and is 111 million light years from us.
A common theme I see amongst young feminists, who are starting to understand the depths of male violence against girls and women, is a feeling of such hopelessness that it concentrates into a feeling of bodily inferiority; a feeling of being weaker, being rapeable, being impregnatable. And sometimes even, in turn, hating oneself and ones female body.
I want every woman out there to know that the physical ability to commit violence upon another person is not a superior trait, despite what generations of men would like you to believe.
Men give violence and brute strength value. So let's talk about where we should be giving value to the female body.
First, the reason men are on average stronger than women is also their downfall. Testosterone is a hormone that gives the ability to build muscle and maintain little fat. To simplify how it works, it burns hard and fast to build. This means that it burns hard and fast through the body as well. Mens bodies breakdown quicker- hearts fail, muscles degenerate, etc. They die younger than women.
Essentially, female bodies are more flexible and have a better endurance. This is because our bodies and systems are built for longevity - not power. Mens bodies are built for power and quick burn.
Our uteruses (and other hormonal regulatory systems in our bodies!) love us dearly. Our bodies regulate hormones, limit testosterone, and ensure we don't burn out quick. We experience menopause and men don't. We've been taught this is a bad thing.. But our bodies slow down and stop the hormones that would burn us out, and mens bodies don't. Menopause elevates our lifespan and quality of life.
In fact, this reproductive/regulatory system is so important, we have fat deposits that protect these organs. This allows us to be healthier for longer, too!!
It also helps a ton that we have a boosted immune system, much better than our male peers. On top of that, we have higher pain tolerances! We are better equipped to fight off things that ail us, and persevere through things that would bring us harm.
So we know women live longer, and in better health - but why is that? Is it just testosterone? Is it just to get pregnant? No! Our bodies don't exist to sustain a baby (though they can, and the fact that all life on earth exists because of women is an astoundingly powerful truth) they exist to sustain us - because we were and are community leaders, healers, caretakers, providers - we are immensely valuable.
Why, evolutionarily, are we this way? Because older women bring more value to communities than older men. Look up the Grandmother Hypothesis in evolution studies; it says menopause evolved because it allows women to live longer, because women (specifically grandmothers!) are key to community survival and kin relationships. Older women are key to our species survival; not just for the lifes they may or may not create, but for the relationships, the community, the reasons we live.
Some other miscellaneous thoughts...Sexually, we are the sex that has an organ made entirely for pleasure. We are the sex capable of multiple orgasms, and stronger. That's worth some thought.
So how do men play into all of this? Men are a genetic mutation of us that exist to provide sperm, if we'd like. Men who had more testosterone became stronger than men with less (therefore better at hunting, building shelter), making them more desirable mates, meaning that the next generation of men was stronger as well. And there they placed the value in strength. Which translated to the value of violence.
So the next time you find yourself valuing the capacity for violence, instead look to value the capacity for creation.
Womanhood is made vulnerable by males who choose violence. And that's why our work as feminists is so important. But I promise you - your body was not designed to receive conflict, but to outlast it. You were designed to build something better.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!! 🎃 👻🦇🕸
This spooky interstellar scene lies within the dusty expanse of reflection nebula IC 2118 in the constellation Orion, the Hunter. IC 2118 is about 800 light-years from our neighborhood, close to the bright bluish star, Rigel, at Orion's foot. It is often identified as the Witch Head nebula for its appearance in a wider field of view. Rigel is the source of illumination for IC 2118, and it is just beyond this frame at the upper left. Image Credit & Copyright: Casey Good/Steve Timmons