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by Resonant

I haven’t read this essay in… twelve years? I think? But someone (ETA: that someone was @whetherwoman who deserves the credit) linked it today and rereading it was a) a treat and b) honestly really helpful. If you, like me, want to write smut but often find it difficult, this essay may help a LOT.

leupagus

Reblogging this as I periodically do because it’s still relevant (especially with so many new writers coming into fandom spaces who are SO ENTHUSIASTIC but maybe need some pointers?) and because I myself need the reminder. Wherever you are, Res, I hope you’re doing great.

wolfythewitch

Sketched out this hc to show a friend

raven-reconciling

Watching these bloopers from the 1940s is surreal. Like I guess logically I had to know on some level that they made mistakes? But seeing it is something else 😂

Humans really have always been people.

scramratz

“If men could get pregnant, abortion would be free” men CAN get pregnant and they’re treated worse than women who can get pregnant

siren-whispers

To be clear, acknowledging that trans men can become pregnant doesn't invalidate the point being made. The original statement is a critique of how society has historically treated women's reproductive healthcare and bodily autonomy. Trans people who can become pregnant often face their own unique barriers and discrimination, but those experiences don't erase or replace the realities that women have faced.

These conversations overlap, but they are not identical. Recognizing one issue shouldn't require us to flatten or dismiss the other.

Related doesn't mean interchangeable.

aromanticbastards

the intent behind the statement is absolutely clear. what is critiqued here is *how* that statement is being made: by erasing the fact that some trans and intersex men can get pregnant. the original statement is simply untrue because there are men who can cet pregnant, and who do not get treated any better than women who can get pregnant. noone here is advocating for erasing women's realities, people are advocating against erasing trans and intersex mens' realities. the statement being critiqued here could very easily be made true by adding "perisex cis" in front of "men". as it is presented, it is simply a lie (unless, of course, you don't consider trans men and intersex men to be actually men, but that would be outright bigotry and thus not at all better).

(also: what you call "women's reproductive healthcare and bodily autonomy" here has never been *only* women's reproductive healthcare and bodily autonomy, considering how these issues impact everyone with the relevant reproductive organs. it has simply been called that while implicitly misgendering those that are affected but not women)

allthingswhumpyandangsty

therapy can be expensive. archive of our own and toxic old man yaoi are forever free

avrilgrady

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tragbarerpanzrabwehrkomplexfagot

caspercryptid

I feel like not enough people realize that people under enormous strain act really really fucking Weird

thetryhardartist

PLAYBOY: "Do any of the rest of you have any plans to settle down?"

PAUL: "I haven't got any."

GEORGE: "Ringo and I are getting married."

RINGO: "Oh? To whom?"

GEORGE: "To each other. But that's a thing you'd better keep a secret."

RINGO: "You better not tell anybody."

GEORGE: I mean, if we said something like that, people's probably think we're queers. After all, that's not the sort of thing you can put in a reputable magazine like PLAYBOY. And anyway, we don't want to start the rumor going."

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PLAYBOY: "Followed closely by Beatle Dolls. Have you seen them?"

GEORGE: They're actually life size, you know."

PLAYBOY: "The ones we've seen are only about five inches high."

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PLAYBOY: "How does it make you feel to have millions of effigies of yourselves decorating bedsides all over the world? Don't you feel honored to have been immortalized in plastic? After all, there's no such thing as a Frank Sinatra doll, or an Elvis Presley doll."

GEORGE: "Who'd want an ugly old crap doll like that?"

PLAYBOY: "Would you prefer a George doll, George?"

GEORGE: "No, but I've got a Ringo doll at home."

(Beatles Interview w/ Jean Shepherd, Playboy Magazine, Feb. 1965).

#Always wanted to doodle this interview.