Aurora

She/Her Literally just a girl

[fertilefloor]

i wish everyone would reblog my posts with an appended post rather than tags. i wish everyone was my girlfriend

[lesbian-sweeney-todd]

sometimes i wish everyone was my girlfriend too…

[greatergirlfriend]

i believe in a world where we can all be girlfriends...

[lesbian-sweeney-todd]

top 5 sentences that make me kick my feet and giggle

[hungwy]

letting family members sit in for dead senators is just monarchy logic im appalled that this has even happened before

[sugoiney-weaver]

Each state gets to decide how their state is represented in Congress

This has been a common method for a long time in some states

The idea is that a Senator's sibling/spouse/parent/child knows their intentions and policies better than a political rival or a random person would. It's a pretty good way to prevent political assassinations tbh

[prizedpesto]

An unelected individual getting grandfathered into a real political position due to their blood or legal relationship with a deceased elected official is not pretty good actually

[transmascvoiceproject]

I hate to break kayfabe, but I am unfortunately allergic to people misunderstanding my intentions and I wanted to talk about why I think transmascvoicesproject posts the way she does and why I made this satire blog.

To do that, first I need to apologize. I feel like some of my posts, especially the submissions, did cross the line from satire into just mocking survivors. I've gotten a few anons about it, and yeah, it's not sitting right with me. I want to be more careful with how I'm satirizing transmascvoicesproject because I think at a glance, especially if you only know of her blog in passing, this blog seems much more mean spirited than intended, and I'm sorry about that.

Despite what some have said, I didn’t make this blog to ridicule rape survivors. I started this blog because I used to give transmascvoicesproject the benefit of the doubt. I tried to be charitable, and I tried to assume the best...but after a certain point, I was so frustrated with her posts and unwillingness to look inward or admit any wrongdoing whatsoever, that I needed to vent that frustration. And judging by the amount of followers and level of engagement this blog has gotten, I know I'm not alone in that frustration.

If you want to be uncharitable you could say that I didn’t make this blog to mock rape survivors, just to mock one specific rape survivor. But I never want to mock her for what she’s been through. My problem is how she is—intentionally or not—using her trauma as justification for a hate campaign. If she had made an actual transmasc counterpart to mousidy’s TVP, I would’ve felt it was shitty and in poor taste, but I wouldn’t have made this blog.

The resounding perspective seems to be that she is a troll or crypto terf. Which, you know, makes sense since pretty much everything about her blog seems custom made to stir up a reaction. But based on what she's posted about herself, I think she's genuine. She’s around 21, spent a good chunk of her formative years online, is traumatized, and has some unconscious biases that she hasn’t dealt with as a result of all that. She says she's anti-terf and pro-kink but then immediately contradicts that with her posts. I don't think this is proof of her being a troll, just proof that she hasn't fully interrogated or introspected on her beliefs. Anyone can say that they disagree with terfs, but it takes work to actually unpack those beliefs. You can't just talk the talk, you need to walk the walk. At the risk of being reductive, she very much posts like a teenager.

And not to psychoanalyze but its also clear that she's internalized this idea that her trauma experience is universal. Speaking directly to you now transmascvoicesproject: I'm sorry that you felt shunned and isolated when you disclosed your abuse, but that is very much not what happens to the vast majority of people. There is no grand conspiracy to silence dissenters of this supposed "transfem supremacy" within the queer community. People criticizing you or making fun of you is not the same as being silenced. And whether you realize it or not, you're using people's submissions—their trauma!—as a way to deflect these facts. No one is hating/harassing you for giving these survivors a voice, they're doing it because in between actual submissions you are calling trans women rapists, refusing to listen to other survivors, and accidentally promoting ideology you claim to disagree with.

You've built herself into an infinite feedback loop of: wanting to help survivors but then being transmisogynystic, getting push back for it, then seeing that push back as proof that there's an effort to silence you for "platforming survivors." Functionally, you are trapped in a thought terminating cliche, your blog serving as a cult of one. Any criticism becomes proof that there's a concerted effort to sweep transfem abuse under the rug. Please, if you want to be anti-terf, if you actually want to be an ally to your sisters, take some time to think about what you actually believe and why. Do your actions support those beliefs or go against them? I hope one day far in the future you look back at all this and cringe. I do want the best for you.

This whole process is being sped up by the crypto-terfs in transmascvoicesproject's inbox: they've realized what I mentioned earlier, even though she says she's not a terf, she hasn't actually unpacked her biases. "All transfems are rapists" will get a resounding "no!" from her because that's clear terf bullshit, but if an anon says that "lots of transfems behind closed doors call transmascs 'rapefabs'" she'll take that at face value. You know how the average conservative will agree with leftist policy as long as the person talking isn't using those scary "woke" words? That's exactly what's going on here but in reverse. Whether intentional or not, she wants this transfem supremacy thing to be true and so she will ignore any fucking red flags if it affirms her belief.

I worry that some of the backlash she's received (gore, death threats, etc.) may only be serving to reinforce her unconscious beliefs. I'm not saying stop criticizing her or making fun of her posts, but I do think we need to be careful about how we're doing that. Terfs deserve ridicule and harassment because their mind is made up already. There's no use in wasting energy finding the perfect riverdale gif to take down the administration, you know? The only option is punching back. But if I'm right and she's not a troll, at a certain point we're just treating her like lolcow and that fucking sucks at best, and at worst pushes her towards becoming a mask off terf.

Look, I don't want to stop posting here. Maybe I'm full of myself and making excuses but I do hope that this blog and its exaggeration of her beliefs has helped at least a few people realize whats actually going on under the surface of her blog.

Oh, and if you've made it this far transmascvoicesproject, no I am not mousidy lmao. You are like, unhealthily obsessed with her. You know there are other people on this website, right?

Anyways, serious post over. I could be talking out of my ass, who knows! But thanks for reading. Appreciate y'all 🫶

Wait shit, no, I mean uhhh, transfem bad, secret rot, etc., etc.

[neovagi]

I don't take it as a gimme that a supposedly pro-trans environment is transfeminist. I go for months in a deep south red state getting she/her'd and ma'am'd by strangers, but in "woke" contexts I've been extensively they/them'd/degendered and spoken over due to being "an amab".

Obviously the average conservative would be far more dangerous to my person if clocked than any amount of microaggressing Portlanders, so I don't consider it the absolute worst thing to deal with. But it's of note to me that I am less likely to be seen as a woman by so-called allies.

[kikmessenger]

sits on my own blog like it’s the edge of a lake wistfully

[kikmessenger]

skips a stone over a few posts

[ferrettaur]

So like an hour ago I just lear🪨︵︵ned that— what the fuck was that. Someone just skipped a rock across my post did you see that

[elf-hollow]

I'm tired of pretending it's not literally fucking fine to read a character as transfem because they are feminine. why are transfem headcanons the only ones that require a burden of proof to you? don't worry, you don't have to tell me. I already know why.

[jjjjjjjjoey]

When ur mutuals w/ some cool ass people rb if u agree

[ilovecats4ever]

welcome to the future

[ilovecats4ever]

[makingtrouble]

It's my cat's birthday (anniversary of me getting him) so I told him the story of his life while petting him real good

Highlights include:

For your first two years (when you were small) you lived in a foster home with people who raised you into a very polite young man. Two is like you plus me, that's what two is.

Some people adopted you before me and they called you Timmy (which is a stupid name) and they returned your ass almost immediately because you were so annoying at that age.

Like think about how annoying you are right now at seven years old, but way worse.

I'm better than them though, I don't call you Timmy and I wore earplugs to bed for three years because you love to scream at bedtime. Earplugs are like when I roll over and go back to sleep even when you are yelling so so so loud.

I got you at a time in my life when I was really sick (being sick is like when I'm up late because I'm throwing up and you are a very handsome good boy who sits with me) and they had to put me asleep for a procedure. A procedure is like what happened to you when they put you asleep and took your balls away.

Now you've lived with me for five years. Five is like the number of toe beans on one of your feet. When I clip your nails five is when we're halfway done. But we're hopefully not even halfway done with how long we get to be together. I'm gonna have to figure out new ways to help you count.

[makingtrouble]

Actually I've decided this is a poem

[makingtrouble]

This is getting notes so let me just say

Himb 💞💝💘💖💞💝

[1percentcharge]

i have a random issue with a handful of pre-srar fall out boy songs where I LOVE the the start of the song or just generally everything but the chorus, but the chorus itself i find kind of underwhelming (eg: ilalwtwiattgyo, ttotbo, igatrimeanomf, cfmrfrpfmsr, gblogbd(dyptstsasgts)

[geeko-sapiens]

poor thing...walked straight into the electric fence

[ikimaru]

misc outfits for the version without hair I started before the other one was revealed :') (I'll be drawing either version!)

[shroomgluggler]

in the future humans will have something called "sinus button " and pressing it will immediately drain your sinuses of all fluid so that it can be filled with other things like rocks, webs, paint, tar, freef (new fluid that will be so important in that time) and also dr papper

[noelle-ism]

#hope #hopepunk #positivity #utopia #dreamworld

[aropride]

shirt that says "you get "road rage"? TAKE THE FUCKING BUS!!!!!"

[aropride]

everyone saying "this with a bumper sticker" is objectively improving the joke and adding thematic cohesion and idk why i didnt think of that but i'm sticking by this version just because bumper stickers go on "cars" and i don't support glorifying "car" "ownership." and also i'm stubborn

[juniper776]

if you tell a trans woman she is "enforcing passing culture" by wanting to pass and expressing it i honestly hope nothing good happens in your life ever after that

[foxxxighost]

Crazy that once I'm passing and starting to feel good about myself, fake allies are trying to tell me that being bricked tf out is actually the best.

[kayla-denker]

This is why I'll never shut up about the part of Whipping Girl where Serano says we gotta stop calling it "passing." It pretty directly accuses us of 'hiding' or 'fooling people into thinking we're women.' We aren't "passing as women," we are women, we're being correctly gendered as women. When people deride us for "passing", they're blatantly saying that they don't think we're women. Afterall, nobody says cis women "pass as women" when they're correctly gendered as women.

[taraxippos]

I think this is the single funniest artfight rule. Like....I guess?

[taraxippos]

[withhopecrossedonourhearts]

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