Continuously excited about everything

it's funny because my job involves a lot of using a box cutter, so you'd think that's the thing I'd accidentally hurt myself with the most

but nooo no no no. the box cutter is my colleague, my ally, my friend. you know what is truly bloodthirsty in a print & signage shop? literally Anything Else that's able to cut but not supposed to. cardboard, sheets of plastic, the humble paper of course, corrugated polypropylene, aluminum composite sheets - i nicked myself on a sheet of magnetic material today?? it bled. kinda profusely.

basically:

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ellen bass and laura davis, the courage to heal, harper collins, 1988

["Emotionally, for me, and I'm not defending this, letting go of the damage would mean abandoning that eleven-year-old girl who's still alive in me, who nobody was there for, who wasn't listened to. If I get better, if the bruise heals, then there's going to be no sign of it, and it'll be as if she never got heard. And that would be an incredible disloyalty, a betrayal of that little girl.

So I'm trying to get myself healed and over the symptoms of that damage without denying that it happened. This is the intellectual "me" talking. This is not the eleven-year-old girl. She doesn't want to let go. It's an emotional feeling. And emotions are very powerful. You can have all the right intellectual thoughts and emotionally you can be very childlike. And the fearful child in me doesn't want to be forgotten. So I have to reassure her that my getting better doesn't mean I'm abandoning her or denying her pain."]

victor j. seidler, from unreasonable men: masculinity and social theory, 1994

["It can be difficult for men to empathise with the situations of others, if they are constantly reassuring themselves that they would never get into the situation in the first place or if they are constantly focussed on giving solutions because they assume that this is what is expected of them. It can be hard to listen, even to our partners for instance, without feeling that we are somehow being accused or being held responsible for the miserable day they have had. It might be that they just want to be listened to so that they can feel that their experience is being validated. But as man it can be hard to recognise this, thinking that they must want to get rid of those feelings, so that they must really want some solution to their plight from us."]

Nina Simone and Nicky by Carol Friedman 1993

lol i litereally stopped reading right before one of his most important quotes. including it with a lot of added context because i always see that quote on its own without the rest of the conversation which is really fascinating.

Iceland - Heimaey Island (2) (3) (4) by Mike Fitzpatrick

Via Flickr:

fatphobia is so wild. the fact that gaining weight on HRT is always framed as a "negative potential side effect" when it's like a genuinely desirable effect. I feel like half the shit people say about HRT is like "uh oh, you might experience everything you want and get hotter" like heaven forbid, lmao

When it was Possible to Concentrate, The World Felt like A Perpetually Unfolding Miracle

Transvestitenschein (transvestite pass). Courtesy of the Magnus-Hirschfeld-Gesellschaft. Following advice from Hirschfeld, Berlin police officials issued this Transvestitenschein (transvestite pass) to Eva Katter (who called himself Gert and was a carpenter) on 6 December 1928. The card reads: “The worker Eva Katter, born on 14 March 1910, and residing in Britz at Muthesisushof 8, is known here as someone who wears male clothing. Strewe, Police Commissioner.” Katter was a patient at the Institute for Sexual Science and was occasionally presented to visitors as a “demonstration case” (medical specimen). While living in the former German Democratic Republic, he was one of the few institute patients to establish contact with the Magnus Hirschfeld Society. In donating his records, Katter reclaimed his history and made it part of the institute’s archive. He died in 1995.

From Others of My Kind (2020)

Hungarian swords, 14th century, at the Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul. The middle sword is 8ft long

*Puts brief case down on the table and takes off glasses very seriously* “So about that AU we discussed that one time.”

Hi stephanie,

I hope this email finds you, as the search and rescue team is otherwise completely out of ideas

I was going to say that the treecreeper is looking for its keys, but birds don't have possessions. They only own their beings, and unknowingly, our love.

Reykjavík

Jan 2025