Im Wasting Away.

I’m wasting away.

Tfw I draw myself with facial hair even tho i have like 2 actual hairs on my face to speak of.

Also I’m not changing artstyles lel just trying out a new thing.

Look, if you wanna use the word queer to describe yourself that's fine. Do whatever you want mate. I just don't like queer theory because it alienates me as a transsexual guy from cis het guys just because I'm trans. Being born like this doesn't make me part of any community or movement. I'm just someone with a male brain who was born with the wrong parts, I'm still just some guy.

And there is no "us". Funny how a lot of the ridicule and hate I've got from people was from queer people. Way more cis het guys have taken me seriously and made me feel welcomed than queer people. I know I sound privileged (though that's questionable considering there's a huge sum of cash I gotta pay just to have the correct body) but but I really don't get the us vs them mentality that you've got.

I'm not trying to invalidate you. If you feel correct as having a community and the word queer, good for you. But don't politicise being trans or that being trans inherently makes someone part of some sort of movement.

I can’t tell you how frustrating it is to have been in the queer movement for 20+ years, to have studied queer theory, to have contributed to you potentially enjoying the rights you have today because I was part of a groundswell of lobbying and direct action in the 1990s….

…to have a 15 year old who’s spent maybe 8 months being political and has never inquired about queer history anonymously message me, “EXCUSE ME QU**R IS A SLUR LMAO OMG EMBARRASSSING AN aCTUAL ADULT WHO THINKS IT’S OKAY TO USE QU**R!~!!!!”

Dude, we are a slur. Queer folks are a slur to conservative straight people. Everything we are will be used as a slur by everyone who hates us. Gay is a slur. Lesbian is a slur. People will try to use all of our words against us. Don’t fucking let them get into your head to the point at which you’re telling actual queer people not to use the words we’ve used to unite ourselves and empower ourselves for decades. 

🔥 opinion on the trans community?

Sorry for crap hand writing and late reply LOL.

THIS You know who else sees straight trans men as lesbians? Literal fucking terfs. Our maleness is real and for a lot of us it’s a biological brain sex thing, so don’t group as in with women. Stop trying to alienate us from cis men under the guise of wokeness. Why do they see me as so different from a cis guy just cause I have the wrong body?

This might be different for enbies, but binary transsexual and transgender men shouldn’t be put in the “queer afabs” camp because a) we are not the thing we were mistaken for at birth and b) not all of us are queer. If someone’s transmasc and feel like their experience of being afab is part of their identity thats fine, but people use that as an excuse to belittle and cause me dysphoria. Just group me in with cis men because that’s who I felt like I belonged to my whole life.

Also thing is not a tucute vs truscum thing that debate is fucking stupid and I am in neither group. Sorry this post is so salty but people are disrespecting and causing me dysphoria and I’m pissed.

Saying that transgender men can identify as lesbians but cis men cannot reinforces the idea that trans men aren’t really men. That they’re some sort of subcategory of a man and that they’ll never be man enough. It’s just fucking transphobic. They’re men. Straight men. Not lesbians.

🔥 -Redtail

Rebloging from yourself feels kinda illegal ngl

Tried to draw Spy in a more cartoony style, not sure if I succeeded.