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Crawling - Linkin Park (2001)

“they were flirting with you” and how was i supposed to know such a thing when everyone speaks in codes and puzzles

little doodle for the au that I am slowly building. I realize that I am incapable of drawing characters without making them extra creature. but hey, shadow deserves to be a little weird and alien, and who's gonna stop me from mutating sonic with my mind!

How is bnha anime of the decade...... they aren’t even anime of the hour of the minute of the second

So who is ready to crash a streaming site through sheer numbers this october 18 watching The Edge of Sleep? WE ARE.

Does anyone else measure the cost of things in fursuits

This is your sign to personalize your piglin ocs, this is your sign to take inspiration from different kinds of pigs when you draw piglins, and by god this is your sign to draw PIGlins with FAT AND MUSCLE. You hear me? FAT. MUSCLE. FAT. OKAY? Give that piglin a double chin at least rn or so help me

i don’t even know what to say anymore

I stumbled upon a website that allows you to blend any colors evenly no matter how opposite on the spectrum they are.

sharing the knowledge

very helpful art resource

People should probably learn the difference between “plot holes” and “things I didn’t like” or “things the franchise plans to explain in the future” or “things film makers didn’t think they needed to explicitly explain because they thought you had critical thinking skills”

load bearing

Halloween bun boy🐇🏳️‍⚧️

(he/him) 🔪

Day 2: sharp objects

Witchy kitty

Minecraft witch but it’s the witch’s cat >:3 

i clicked on the original tweet just to see if anyone else felt as weird about it as i did because at this point i’m just tired of seeing people going on and on about trans men dating cishet men who try to convince them not to transition as if it’s a funny joke about a trans man doing something silly and not a manipulative and generally very unhealthy relationship dynamic that can hurt the trans man involved really deeply (as forcing someone back into the closet tends to do.)

did i find anyone else feeling that way? no. there were a few people pointing out that it was weird in general, and plenty saying it’s a weird thing to say about a cis woman, but nothing expressing any sort of concern about the tired stereotype it’s perpetuating.

but you know what i did find? replies like the one in the second screenshot, using the tweet as their chance to tell the world how much they hate trans men and how repulsive they find the idea of ever being compared to us. and replies like the third one, shaming trans men in relationships like that as if the fact that they’ve found themselves in an unhealthy relationship makes them deserving of public shaming, as if their relationship is hurting anyone other than them.

stereotypes like this just feel like yet another way of indirectly calling us stupid little girls who don’t know what’s good for us, and the fact that a picture of a woman is being used (even jokingly!) as an example of what trans men “like that” look like should make the implications of rhetoric like this all the more obvious.

it’s relationships like these that keep us miserable in the closet for so long and drive up our sexual assault rates even more. they’re not funny and if anyone is going to be making jokes about them, it certainly shouldn’t be people who have never been in that situation. if you actually cared about us you’d be looking for ways to support the trans men you know who are in relationships like that instead of hopping on twitter to joke about how stupid they must be.

i don’t care if it’s a joke. if it victim blames trans men for the transphobia we face in our personal relationships, adds to the common idea that we can’t be trusted to make decisions about our own lives, and invites even more blatant transphobia against us by people who unabashedly admit they see all trans men as “disgusting and phony”, it’s not fucking funny.

(i also want to note that the people making these jokes never like to mention that this also happens to trans men in relationships with queer women. they also hate those trans men, of course, and are happy to express that when they get into fights about trans men who date lesbians, but they’ll never talk about it in the context of this particular stereotype. it’s always a man being manipulative in a relationship and pressuring trans men to not transition, as if a woman would never be capable of such a thing.

they also like to conveniently ignore the existence of older trans men who transitioned after already being in a committed relationship with a cishet man and were able to make that relationship work despite their transition, because acknowledging that would require recognizing that trans men can be in seemingly contradictory relationships and genuinely be happy with their partner. who needs nuance when you can simply choose to judge all trans men for our relationships regardless of what they’re actually like?)

do you think they also would call me “a trans man being purposefully misgendered” with this kind of vitriol because i’m still living with parents who don’t recognize my gender instead of moving out before i’m ready to be financially independent? at this point, i’m starting to feel like they might, with the way every decision a trans man ever makes is the subject of a public debate and people have decided that trans men are secretly using being misgendered as a weapon to somehow hurt other trans people.

as a general rule, i’d say the only people who should be making “X looks like a trans man” jokes about literally anyone/anything are trans men, and posts like this show exactly why those jokes being made by anyone else (even by other trans people) just isn’t a good idea.

i watched it :) however i have the worst memory

BUT

i do enjoy reading ur analyzisis and posts on dw

i shouldn't have deleted those posts about the dynamic between dr who and clara oswald because someone commented on it saying i was glorifying a "young woman in a one sided relationship with an old man who holds all the power" which is such a funny and poor read of those characters I've been turning it over in my head for the past two weeks. but now i can never respond and potentially get some insight into that persons mind

a lesson everyone has to learn is that if you haven't lived a certain experience, you should not comment on it as though you have and can discern whether or not that person "has it easier" than you do

i keep seeing the argument that masculine girls are "completely accepted" or "not demonized" or "not treated as poorly as feminine boys" time and time again.

this is not true: in our efforts to have conversations about various groups of queer people, we must NOT tear others down to lift ourselves up. we must not raise our voices to drown out someone else's.

i'm tired of people spreading the myth that masculine girls, women, intersex people and people assigned female at birth don't face severe struggles due to their masculinity. this is such a lie and a falsehood and perpetuating that myth only continues to hurt and silence the girls and people who are affected by this behavior.

"tomboys" aren't accepted with open arms, i'm not sure why people believe this. masculine girls are literally harassed constantly because they aren't "pretty" or "feminine" enough. butch girls and women are constantly harassed for the same reasons, and are threatened with rape and sexual assault to "make them realized they're confused". trans men are abused verbally, mentally, emotionally, physically and sexually for the same reasons as above, and dealt even worse punishments at times. trans men are threatened with death and ARE killed by cishet people. transphobes despise trans men primarily because they "ruined a pretty woman by pretending to be a man."

trans men and mascs, AFAB enbies and masculine women do not have it easy. they do not have male privilege. when people say "oh well it's okay for women to wear jeans now so people don't police AFAB bodies anymore lol" it's such a backwards, narrow and reductive view on the AFAB, woman and female experience. yes these people are allowed to wear pants but that doesn't mean there aren't other forms of body policing going on

AFAB, non binary, close to AFAB intersex people and women are generally expected to and/or forced to wear makeup. AFAB people are constantly having their weight and muscle mass policed. AFAB, feminine non binary people people and women are EXPECTED to and forced to wear bras by most people. AFAB people and women aren't allowed to wear actual men's clothing- there are more neutral and masc "women's" clothing but once one of these people crosses into the line of wearing actual men's clothing, that's when the prejudice and violence really rear their ugly head. reminder that these people get sexually harassed and assaulted constantly because people "want to prove to them that they are women". masculine women and trans men face trans panic violence and deaths.

trans men and mascs face push back at every single opportunity when it comes to the people around them. people feel entitled to a "woman's" body to the point where people will harass trans men for "getting rid of their pretty hair", "ruining their pretty face", "ruining their pretty body", "ruining their pretty voice," and "destroying their beautiful daughter/sister/etc." people focus so much on a trans man, masc and/or butch's appearance and nothing else. our bodies are the only thing that matter to most people and they are possessive to the point of trying to force us out of medical transition

it's okay to admit if one does not have personal experience with a specific community. the speculation that goes on in the transmasculine and masculine woman experience is absolutely off the rails. of course transmascs, masc enbies and masculine women face tons of pushback. why would it ever be easy for an AFAB person to transition into manhood? why would it ever be easy for a woman to be as masculine as possible?

when people find out someone is AFAB they become bitter and critical. they become possessive. they become judgmental. i need people to hear and understand this: most AFAB people are not coddled. most AFAB people are not given much wiggle room and freedom when it comes to their presentation and identity. people are critical of both AMAB and AFAB trans people for a variety of reasons- it's an equal struggle that they both face, it just presents its ugly head in different ways

AFAB, close to AFAB intersex people and women of all kinds face constant threats of sexual violence. constantly, especially when they deviate from what white cisheteronormative patriarchy tells us a woman "should" look like. no matter what, may it be that that woman is trans, genderqueer, transmasculine, fat, disabled, a woman of color, or whatever else, that woman is also extremely likely to face sexual violence due to the entitlement people have over AFAB bodies

people take it extremely personally when an AFAB person transitions, or starts presenting hyper masculine. they view it as a loss of some type of property to themselves. they become desperate and angry at times. AFAB transition is also very difficult and deserves to be discussed. there is a lot of pushback, to the point of death. it's okay to be enraged about the struggles one faces without downplaying the struggles other folks go through

accepting that a different group of people suffers greatly just like you do is an important step in learning where to direct one's anger- AFAB and AMAB trans people have so many chances to bond over the extreme demonization and pushback they receive from everyone around them. there are so many similar but different struggles, so many issues that are faced by both due to misogyny and antimasculism. of course most AFAB trans people will never understand what an AMAB trans person goes through and that's okay

nobody knows what an AFAB or close to AFAB intersex trans person goes through unless they are one. and it's not okay to just guess what it's like

speculating on an AMAB upbringing as an AFAB person will never work. speculating on an AFAB upbringing as an AMAB person will never work. one simply just doesn't know an experience they haven't lived. it doesn't work to look at what happens to someone on the outside, especially while in public or around like minded people, to guess what struggles they've gone through in life

it's time to stop punching down on AFAB, close to AFAB and intersex trans people. there's no reason to behave like this, it helps no one. we all lose whenever this behavior takes place.

i'm not sure why people fail to see the absolutely off the charts amount of misogyny and inter/sexism at play, here. this stems from how people view AFAB people as unreliable narrators, stupid, incapable of relaying their own experiences, inferior, emotionally unstable, hysterical, dramatic, and so on. you do realize this, right there is so much bioessentialism at play here.

do not silence someone else in order to make your voice louder. instead, work together with people who are just as scarred and hurt by the society we live under to create a union that is stronger than sparse and scattered sub communities. we are stronger together in sharing the injustices we face. we can hold each other up without speaking over one another or minimizing the issues someone else faces. it will never be okay to downplay another trans person's experiences, we are here to lift each other up.