it's fun to look for immigration-related playlists on Spotify in German because you keep finding "Ausländer Raus" sets with L'amour Toujours and other dogwhistles.
sorry did I say "fun"? I meant the other thing
browsing r/actualLesbians and a young girl is asking how to get arms like Vi's. now that I'm finally watching Arcane I am underwhelmed by Vi's character, but I have to say, this character really advanced the idea of muscles in women being attractive—as a subject not just object. fitness videos are full of comments of women chasing after that Vi bod.
for the uninitiated, many women still avoid strength exercises at all, because they're afraid of accidentally getting muscular and less feminine. (because cis people have gender dysphoria too they just don't call it that.)
I wonder what it is about Vi specifically that struck a chord with so many women.
I don't feel like most cis people have realised what it feels like to be a trans person in the current conjuncture. Same for most citizens about being an immigrant.
TIL: the popular versions of Rumi that are often quoted are translations by a Coleman Barks, who didn't really know Persian and was kind of loosely riffing on it and making up his own stuff.
I've been since looking for the original of "The Great Wagon" or a scholarly translation to compare, without success
what a time to be alive. I've never kissed girls more urgently. I've never did pushups and knife drills with a bigger sense that I'll need them soon. Nothing feels certain anymore except that upheavals are coming, everybody is on edge, I call the bluff on every fascist and harasser, just waiting for the next one who isn't bluffing. I'm dating more people than ever before and I will live free or die fighting. It's the end of the world and I feel fine~
