Out of Feathers, Out of Bones

Briar | She/her | Resident spite elemental. Medical & psych worker, alleged writer, and utter geek.

[kayla-denker]

I already have zero tolerance for the full-throated transmisogynists, but I somehow have even less tolerance for the UwU smol bean birthday boy transmisogynists. Like, its a negative tolerance for them.

You don't get to play the sensative victim while you're actively being a transmisogynist. Say that shit with your whole chest and just call me a fucking slur. The only thing worse than a bigot is a cowardly bigot.

[lemonsweet-moved]

Hc that snake and otacon can have full ass codec style conversations in their sleep

[lemonsweet-moved]

Snake eyes closed under the covers, putting his fingers to his ear: hrghh otacon... What are all these dogs doing here....?

Otacon shifting over, tapping his own face in a vague ajusting glasses motion: those aren't any normal dogs snake... They're high tech cyberdogs equipped with deadly lasers! Try to attack from behind snake! And be careful! Those lasers do a lot of damage!

Raiden, half asleep in their cot in the next room over trying to figure out if he's in a simulation rn:

[elftwink]

theres a phenomenon that happens on here i have been calling "normalize loving parents posting" which is when you spend a lot of time on tumblr and are exposed to a lot of one specific counter-cultural narrative day in and day out until you start to forget what the dominant ideas are for most of the human population and thus feel the need to "defend" things that are widely accepted and popular. it's called this because of the time a bunch of text posts about shitty dads were circulating and then people with good relationships with their dad didn't feel included enough and started making "uhmmm can we normalize loving parents? not everyone has a deadbeat dad, MY dad is great" type posts, seemingly forgetting that good relationship with dad is a cultural norm that is expected and encouraged. i think its good practice, especially when im annoyed, to stop before i hit the post button and ask myself if this is a real issue or if im normalize loving parents posting. because often im about to try to normalize loving parents

[elftwink]

common examples of normalize loving parents posting:

support women who shave their legs and wear makeup every day

let's hear it for masculine men

reminder that two people of the same gender can have a close platonic relationship!! not everything is gay!!

skinny shaming is hurtful too guys

does anyone else think [ironic kink du jour] is strange and freaky and gross?

saluting our bravest warriors who aren't afraid to stand up and advocate for the status quo

[monster-bugs]

[mousidy]

[hesperocyon-lesbian]

Btw people elsewhere reverse searched the image and confirmed it’s a stock image of a trans woman. This was a conscious decision to degender her and give her a masculine name

[daughter-of-sapph0]

everyone saying "what if Toby is just nonbinary" needs to think very deeply about this. Toby isn't real. its a stock image of a transgender woman, given a masculine name and referred to as "they/them". think long and hard about why the person who created this training program would do that.

this is why your lit teachers made you write about the books you read. you're supposed to think about the author's intentions.

[sexboobomb]

Also, they very explicitly described Emerson as a “transgender man”. As a paired adjective and noun. “Toby” is just “transgender” as an adjective with absolutely no further clarification. If “Toby” was meant to be nonbinary, do you think that the company wouldn’t have just said “Toby is nonbinary”? Plus the very obvious “male/female” juxtaposition that these sorts of trainings love to take. And while yes, that binary framed juxtaposition is exorsexist on its own merit, understanding the presence of that implicit exorsexism is part of what makes it the transmisogyny obvious.

And undoubtedly the bonus aspect of transmisogynoir in this particular case, but I am not black and am still working through my learning on the subject, so I’ll leave that part of the discussion to someone better qualified

[daughter-of-sapph0]

something i haven't seen anyone else point out:

since i switch jobs a lot, ive seen a lot of these discrimination training modules. this question is specifically one where the test taker is supposed to identify which scenario actually counts as discrimination, and which is "normal workplace behavior" that legally isn't harassment.

the green around Emerson is to indicate that that is the correct answer, according to the test, that it is actually discrimination based on gender, and that "Toby" isn't being discriminated against, according to the person who created the test.

its training the person who takes this test for an hr position to gloss over microaggressions. show of hands, girls, how many of you have been fired or reprimanded for a made up bullshit reason when you know for a fact the actual reason is because you're trans?

here's how it usually goes. Lisa, who is out to HR but isn't out to the company yet, files a report. she says that Leighton yelled at her for low sales, despite Mark having even lower sales. HR asks Leighton what happened. Leighton says "i had a critical discussion with Tony about their sales quota." HR remembers this moment from their training module, and since nothing obviously transphobic happened, HR decides to ignore it, or even yell at Lisa for a false report.

wanna know how i know this shit happens? because it happened to me! (fuck target btw)

shit like this makes it effectively legal to discriminate against trans women if you're subtle enough. this is why we get paid less. this is why less of us have stable income. this is why so many of us are homeless. transmisogyny is a systemic issue that festers its way into every facet of society, so much so that most people don't even realize its there. they can't even recognize it when its staring them in the face

that's why you have so many people confused about why the training module is transmisogynistic. to them... its not transmisogyny. its normal.

[kayla-denker]

So there was this group of guys that walked past me, and one of these dudes says....

Did you, the reader, imagine a single one of them was a woman? No, obviously you didnt. No one does, because these are not gender-neutral terms.

[woodsdyke]

im swimming at the lake and accidentally kicked a fish. this has never happened in my many years of swimming. sorry man

[woodsdyke]

can never predict which of my posts is going to get popular. now everyone on tumblr knows i kicked a fish

[bogleech]

When I ordered some new push pins I didnt realize they were heavy duty extra long and 'slanted for stability' which means if they drop on the floor they land like this

I'm just gonna throw them out. They're too frightening.

50 of them is 50 chances to have to go to the hospital

[theprimememeister]

The sound you make when you step on them

[free-and-to-none-accountable]

[natalieironside]

Hi, I'm your littlest sister, Badh

And I'm your middlest sister, Macha

And I'm your oldest sister, Nemain

And welcome to My Sister And My Sister Are Me, an advice show for the early medieval era

[natalieironside]

Feast squad

Haunted Gaul watch

Riddle Me Piss (this one's the same)

[mousidy]

i've made my own posts about this but i thought i'd share it here as well- as an intersex trans woman, i actually find TME/TMA to be FAR more useful terms than AFAB/AMAB, because they describe my relationship with a particular form of oppression instead of using language that doesn't fucking mean anything to me. I don't HAVE an AGAB. I wasn't assigned a gender at birth because i was born with a very ambiguous body- i was classified as "Undefined". AGAB language, then, is inherently exclusionary to me, and i hate it. But i lived as a "boy" and a "man" for most of my life. It was the easier option, for me to be my brother's brother. I lived in his hand-me-downs. My father wanted a son. The way i look is perceived as "masculine". I have body parts and hormones that make people doubt my womanhood. I still had to transition into being a woman.

It is FAR easier- and, in fact, far less invasive- for me to just say "i am affected by transmisogyny" or "i'm TMA" than to explain to people details about my body and experiences. I cannot stand the way people keep speaking for me and claiming that TME/TMA are exclusionary to intersex people like myself when they DIRECTLY BENEFIT US, so long as they are being used in a nuanced way that accommodates us. That's it. These people will argue all day about these terms hurting me when they don't while they continue to use the AGAB language that ACTUALLY hurts me. They believe in a system i never fit into in the first place while denying me the language to speak on my own oppression. It's maddening.

In any case. I'm so sorry you're dealing with these people. I came here mostly to let you know that as an intersex person i think you are dead right and i appreciate your posts. There are men in my community who wish to silence me- i appreciate those who do not fold to them.

♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

[innerchildabortionclinic]

[innerchildabortionclinic]

Everyone keep sending your attacks. She can't protect him forever

[r-si]

this bitch is literally crazy… she used to be a fitness influencer and scammed hundreds of women with alleged personalized fitness and diet coaching and she got sued by the state of texas and i believe settled for like 250,000 dollars. she then pivoted hard to conservative evangelical christian influencing. her husband is actually her second husband and he was fired from the kansas city police department for excessive use of force and when their family dog got hit by a car he whipped out his gun and shot it instead of taking it to a vet. they also forcibly exploited an unhoused man and sent him to a christian rehab… AND she holds religious retreats for roughly 700 dollars where her husband shows up despite the fact the events are described as being “women only spaces” and they baptize people in a horse trough…

[postillfastill]

[strawberrycinema]

Also for anyone that didn’t grow up in a fundamentalist Christian space, “husband is under spiritual attack” is usually code for having an affair/watching porn/is gay

[cdigoddess]

they just look like that

[cdigoddess]

terfblr finally found this

[sparklingbog]

[vexwerewolf]

What made you start the lancer text memes?

Its probably one of my favorite meme formats out there

Long post! For politeness, I'm gonna put a jump here. Join me after it.

Back in 2020, a reddit user named AlmWaffle made two memes, one about the Blackbeard, and one about the Pegasus.

Now, something you may not immediately notice about these memes is that their format is actually very restrictive. The only text that the Blackbeard and Pegasus memes use is text from that mech's section of the book. I think this actually makes these early memes much more impressive given that they're able to (re)assemble something mostly coherent out of a very limited text set.

I encountered these memes, and while I was bored during early 2021, I thought "wait, nobody's done one for the Raleigh." So following the exact same meme structure - using only text from the mech's section of the book, using the glaring red eye and the intense sexual humor - I did it myself.

I posted it on reddit to furious applause. I was initially hesitant at showing it to PilotNET because I worried it was too provocative and sexually explicit. However, I eventually did, and everyone loved it, so I made another one - this time, about my favourite mech.

This one was even better received than the first one, but I immediately started to hate it. I felt like I could've done better, and that I owed it to my favourite mech to do better.

My mood picked up a little with this one. I managed to throw in a lot of humour that was very specific to me (the bit about the Ao3 orbital laser), and the sexual element was so blatant that it no longer felt like creepy subtext because it had moved into absurdist text. I'm still proud of this meme. I still think it's funny.

The absolute nadir of my creativity with these memes was hit with the Minotaur.

This shit? Not funny. I hate this meme. This is the worst meme I've ever made. It's like more than 50% sexual humour by volume. The actual funny stuff - the mech delusionally obsessed with people not moving - gets tossed out in favour of ass jokes. Dogshit meme. I know some people liked it but I hate it and no longer consider it canon to my collection of Lancer memes. I will make a better Minotaur meme one day, I swear it.

My mood picked up significantly when I made the Monarch meme. It was the one where I liberated myself from the first mind prison I'd created for myself when I started making these memes: I just... stopped forcing sex jokes. To this day, I don't consciously try to avoid sex jokes, but I only put them in if they're the funniest possible thing I could say in a given sequence.

The Zheng meme represented liberation from the second mind prison: why was I forcing myself to use only text from the mech's section of the book? Whose rule was that? Who had imposed it upon me? Most importantly - who was going to judge me for abandoning it, and what right did they have to do so?

Freeing my mind this way let me make memes that were so much funnier and so much more creatively satisfying.

The Iskander meme is the first time I actually signed my meme and talked about what was going on with my life. I took a break from making memes for a while after this, because I wanted to lock in on In Golden Flame. That lasted until I got writer's blocked for a long while and got depressed about it, and then realized that actually, denying myself something I and other people enjoyed just because I had to have "work ethic" wasn't doing much for my work ethic.

What followed is what I would describe as the Golden Age of Vexposting. My memes started to get widespread recognition, and I was making at least one a month.

The Manticore meme is when I started consistently signing my work. All of the memes after that one had my signature on them. I assure you that it wasn't fully an ego thing - by this point, other people were making memes, and both their memes and the original two memes made by AlmWaffle were being falsely attributed to me, so I wanted to make sure that I was only getting credit for memes I'd actually made.

The Sunzi meme is special in that it has a co-writing credit - a guy called BRCR (who also helped playtest In Golden Flame) actually made a Sunzi meme so funny I asked him if I could make my own including some of its jokes because I couldn't think of ones that were funnier.

The Atlas and Calendula memes are notable as the point at which I stopped putting text on top of the images. I felt it was visually more appealing (and more easily readable) to have the text surrounding the mech instead of superimposed on top of it. I also signed memes with my Twitter handle for a while? Not sure why I did that.

The Balor meme isn't my finest work. You can see I kind of ran out of steam halfway through and decided to turn it into a tone poem. Might revisit the Balor at some point.

With the new widescreen format, I was on a tear for a while. And I started signing my memes with rearranged characters again, as Metat Aun intended.

I got to revisit one of my greatest shames and salvage all the good jokes from it, and repackage it into the new meme format!

I got to meme on God's Edgiest Boy.

I even made a meme for a completely different system, and the dndmemes subreddit didn't really give a shit!

After that, I was getting close to the release of my book, so I actually made a shitpost to advertise the Kickstarter:

After the successful Kickstarter, my output dropped off for a while as I started working on both making Act 1 ready for its promised release date, and on the beginnings of Act 2, the project that would consume my life for the next three years.

[nest-deactivated20181209]

TV show: This is a TV show called Shits&Farts. It is about shits, & farts. The main characters are two men named Shit, & Fart. They tell shit & fart jokes to each other for the whole twenty-minute runtime.

at least one person you follow on tumblr, instantly: omfg im WITHERING from last nights ep….. the dynamic between shit & fart is so fucking  tense and erotic……im still fucking sobbing i hate my sweet babies….. why do they treat each other like this im fucking BATHING IN ACID….. its so good…….. im EMBALMING MYSELF and then DESECRATING MY OWN CORPSE…..

[mousidy]

Apologies if you've been asked this before but what is your opinion on trans men using the terms transbian or trans lesbian?

I ask because my initial gut reaction when I started to see it was basically a mix of "oh no they're trying to push us further out of sapphic spaces with this aren't they?" and "good lord we cannot be allowed to have anything can we?" but I never want my initial gut reaction to be my entire opinion and I've come to trust your takes.

as far as I'm aware, the earliest known use of the term transbian was literally by someone who posited that lesbian trans women transition because of a sexual desire for women. fucking vile for a man to appropriate that

we are already heavily gatekept from lesbianism, it's kinda fucking nice to have our own terms lol. would be a shame if lesbian terms for women were stolen by men

[tofu-rebecca]

seeing "protect the action figures" as a response to "Protect the dolls" is maybe the most insulting thing I've ever seen, to both trans men and trans women.

[tofu-rebecca]

First of all, the term "protect them dolls" exists because trans women, and especially trans women of color, are killed disproportionally. you are literally "all lives matter"-ing this. Secondly, can we stop this stupid fucking trend of giving gay/trans men the worse version of something that already exists for women?