cis people love to make up arbitrary rules off the top of their heads about how trans people are allowed to live and interact with society with absolutely no experiential basis, and then immediately follow it up with "that's how it is, I don't make the rules"

maybe one of the weirdest things cis people do on the regular is "I believe i am cool with trans people and I am fully aware that being trans means you have or have had certain body parts but I'll misgender you for the rest of my life if you ever let me perceive them"

The Phoenix fountain pen made in support of Wajima's recovery — long overdue, but finally finished and shipped — reached its new owner today. They are delighted with it, and I can breathe again. The phoenix rises from the ashes. There could be no better symbol for Wajima.

:wishbone the dog dressed completely in black robes with a sick dog muzzle at a writing desk in a palace: Memory oppresses me. Having been reared among the torturers, I have never known my father or my mother. No more did my brother apprentices know theirs. From time to time....

If you want to avoid using trans people's pronouns the simplest way to do so is to befriend us in which case we will be speaking in the second person

Would you like to all hear the most absurd and bizarre and possibly ridiculous health update? So. For almost two years now I have been developing a reaction to all but a couple foods. One spot in the back of my mouth itched like CRAZY, and sometimes it would cause a spasm.

It is the year 2026 and there is no longer a social consensus on how high or low the waist of your pants is supposed to be in either extreme, go hog wild

Stumptown Sparkling Citrus Americano: this tastes like straight white claw vomit, it's good though

Amazing things are happening in China, including used truck sales

I grew up around a very specific group of readers who if they begin to feel a text is holding their hand it makes them want to throw the book out the fucking window and this is maybe why I have such a small audience today

Babe wake up, new industrial band five-album discography just dropped

Wacom recently asked me to talk about why I make queer comics, and given there are multiple bills right now floating around in congress that are effectively "we will kill your livelihood if we get a sniff of queer" I had some pretty strong, simply feelings to relay.

all of the energy that makes up the atoms in my apartment is vintage

trying to explain that you see friendships between straight men as gay content in movies because the experience of watching the film simulates the experience of being an outsider to the homosocial experience of heterosexual friendship

Pigweed Up in the garden came a little shoot – “Pigweed!” Mom shouted, Like an old friend she thought was dead – (1/3) #gardening #poetry www.patreon.com/posts/162111...

the positive material impact of trans visibility is that I can straight up tell a doctor I'm trans when I walk into the emergency room and they'll congratulate me instead of letting me bleed out

- habitually avoids positions of authority because power corrupts - creates a power vacuum that is immediately filled by someone who doesn't give a fuck about that - oh shit

used to have to constantly put up with people treating me like I was a captain planet villain for wanting the AC on when I was fainting and throwing up from the heat

One of the great things about the whole Knicks thing is the number people who've taken the ubiquity of basketball gear as their chance to wear space jam jerseys

Apparently falling-asleep-Brian thought this notion was funny enough to save in my notes app: "I need to cutt stuff to rangdom lengths, wheres my inexacto knife" Sorry dude, I don't think it's a winner.

Graphic design is my passion.

Whoa, settle down Grandma

you ever notice that the algorithm doesn't try to radicalize you in any particular way because you don't have enough political power for it to matter

The Agami Herons are back at Agami Island. They are a little later than last year because of the drier weather, but nesting season is very busy right now with herons flying everywhere around us. #CostaRica #herons #birds

Gravity The ocean wells up toward the moon. Overhead, she lifts us – We are all a little lighter. I raise my arms to be lifted: Closer to her gravitational well, the higher I am raised, The greater her pull on me. (1/2) www.patreon.com/posts/161564... #poetry

Breakfast of champions

I asked my wife how long she gives a book to get interesting before she stops reading, and she said, "I do not stop. I refuse to let the book win. I read to the end. I kill it." Pretty much what I've come to expect from her, to be honest.

I'm not sure if younger people know this but a lot of millennials didn't get the vaccine when it first came out because our parents were afraid we would take the prevention of cervical cancer as permission to have promiscuous sex with everyone and didn't let us get it

delivery guy (drops package, ominous thud): omg it's broken, i have to take it back me: it's ok, it's beans

well this thing I made like two years ago is fucked codepen.io/mwissig/full...

the appeal of starting a colony on Mars is that they're completely dependent on you for basic survival necessities so you can rule them tyrannically

it is 1am and I am excited to have falafel but not hungry to eat it

I like the idea that a demigod has to be a regular dude because he is living outside his jurisdiction

seeing people complain that they can't have a herb garden because they're too addicted to social media to start one is wild because my problem is chronic spider mites

trying to turn your personal experiences into a universal theory that applies to others is rotting your brain and you should just talk about the specific thing that happened to you yes I know I just did the thing

people with political power are anti queer because they see traditional gender and sexuality entirely as systems for managing property and inheritance and queerness decouples lineage from blood

*talks shit about people who consume things and values only creation then wonders why no one consumes what I create*

I am never leaving this town.

if I had to define where I'm from based on a point of origin I'd have to choose the car or the womb. I became a real new yorker the day I put on a pair of shoes without checking them for spiders.

Narbles (2004-circa 2008): Round, colorful fruit-flavored candy with a chewy center and crunchy candy shell coating. The name was supposed to be a portmanteau of "Gnarly" and "Marbles", and was explicitly marketed to teens and children. The story with these is way more involved than you'd think! A 🧵

Arnold: "Ms. Frizzle, please just let this be a normal field trip!" Ms. Frizzle, holding up a mirror: "But Arnold, you are Ms. Frizzle!"

Death and Loans: On grief, debt, knives, and refusing the call when it's coming from inside the house open.substack.com/pub/mwissig/...

Okay I made a regular sized one

I had a scale diagram of this 18th century dildo but my printer wasn't working so I decided to work from the measurements, which were translated from Polish, and somehow created a gigantic plush penis

I've always assumed that if a method of self-help/psychology/philosophy/spirituality invariably produces awful or insufferable people that the method must be total horseshit but later have come to suspect that they all work somewhat and all these people were worse before

New idea

This tea tastes like shampoo from a good hotel