Cuttlefish can change color to fade into the background. It can do it amazingly fast.
really not sure when it happened or why but personally I'm pissed that the queer community at large seems to have given up ground on the "people with penises/vulvas/testes/ovaries" language to sex & gender essentialists in exchange for the much less precise, much more demeaning "AGAB" language.
is it because you're scared of the word vulva? of acknowledging out loud that some people have penises? of recognising that many many people, including but certainly not limited to trans people, have mixed sex characteristics that cannot be accurately summarised by "afab/amab" as shorthand for "female/male"?
"in [GENITAL RELATED] situation AFABs will need to do X and AMABs will need to do Y" there are "afabs" with penises and "amabs" with vulvas. Saying this shit makes you look so unserious & honestly transphobic (given the ongoing erasure of post-op trans people within broader community). Intersex people and GRS have both existed for long enough (fucking forever and, decades, respectively) that we should well past making this basic fucking mistake.
quit referring to people by a vague & often violent event that happened at their birth as though it defines ANYTHING about how they & their body currently operate, and start using precise language so you at least look like you know what you're fucking talking about.
The Onion continues to never miss
hi can i have a couple (or more) tentacled snakes please?
Tentacled Snake (Erpeton tentaculatum), family Homalopsidae, found in SE Asia
Aquatic and piscivorous
Rear-fanged, mildly venomous
The tentacles have a mechanosensory function, able to detect small movements in the water.
Photographs by Dick Bartlett
Photograph by Tommy Hui
photographs by Jonathan Hagström
I feel like the thing thats really different about the polish trans experience is that because the language is heavily gendered and asking about a persons gender is very much not normalized, now that my body looks mostly androgynous people started referring to me with grammatical forms that have never been uttered by human tongue before. Last week a woman couldn’t decide what gender I was so after trying several she settled on speaking to me in plural and infinitive
And they were roommates...
My grandma’s on and off again boyfriend that she cheated on grandpa with died today.
where is any higher quality version of this image
AAAAOUUUGH Thee WE(EVIL) attack !!!!