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[genderkoolaid]

hey everyone. if you haven't seen it, ansel @transfaguette posted a queued post on his blog, stating that he is likely deceased now after taking his own life. there is a chance he is alive and simply hasn't been able to access his blog, but he stated he was confident in his means, and that his attempt would've been about a week ago. if he is alive, i hope he sees this and knows how much he means to me and many others.

i am deeply saddened by the loss of him to our community. i wish i had been able to know him better personally. i admired him a great deal. i am thankful he was here. i am glad we were both around on this earth for enough time to know each other. he made the world a richer and better place by having been here at all. i can't thank him enough.

suicide is an immensely personal and final choice. he was unhoused, disabled, and without options for a life that felt meaningfully survivable. it was his right to choose to end his life, he expressed this himself. as painful a choice as that choice is, i am glad he felt able to make it with an appreciation for life and a genuine belief in our ability to fight for a world where disabled trans people never have to make this decision out of desperation again. i am glad he went with a sense of peace and love for himself and the world.

His final words on his last post are: "Keep fighting comrades, and never lose your compassion for yourself and others."

if anyone needs it, Trans Lifeline is a suicide support hotline for trans people which will not call 911 on you without consent, and Project LETS has a collection of non-carceral resources. take care of your grief however it needs, take care of yourselves, and each other. he is gone but not forgotten.

[genderkoolaid]

its been about a month.

i feel like its important to share some of ansel's posts from April and May, to provide context in his own words:

i'm sharing this because i myself am a disabled trans person. i have family support, but have also dealt with neglect, being blamed for being a "moocher," and struggling to access official resources and do things the "right way." i've feared how little the people in my life seem to understand how precarious everything feels for me being disabled and trans. how easily i could end up homeless and unemployable. every time i saw him posting about this i thought, that could be me.

please think about disabled trans people. please care about us. please fight for us.

happy pride, ansel.

[genderkoolaid]

Update: Ansel has been confirmed deceased, having been found in Chittenango Falls State Park on July 2.

I really loved this reblog by @selenethevampirequeen and how she commemorates him. He truly left an impact on so many people and will be profoundly missed by all of us. I wish everyone affected by his death the best. Send some kind words to his sister.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

Yeah I've seen people talk about how shaving is not a choice for some people because of safety, which is a valid criticism of the anti-shaving movement, but that shouldn't be a factor at all, no one should be unsafe for not shaving a part of their body. I guess saying that doesn't really change that there's still many ways our bodies are not our own

"the anti-shaving movement"

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

do you think maybe the fact that some people (predominantly women and people perceived as such) are pressured to shave is actually not grounds for criticizing the so-called anti-shaving movement but proof that they are, in fact, making a pretty good point?

it's kind of like going "well some people HAVE to work 20 hours a day, which is a valid criticism of the labor rights movement" like. is it? or is the labor rights movement in fact trying to secure better pay for people without necessitating 20 hour days?

[moon-meerkat]

never related to authors being like "childhood is such a blessed innocent time", catch me with that jane eyre shit like "such dread as children only can feel" and "I then sat with my doll on my knee til the fire got low, glancing round occasionally to make sure nothing worse than myself haunted the shadowy room"

[fangtastic-bastard]

"Adults can change their circumstances; children cannot. Children are powerless, and in difficult situations they are the victims of every sorrow and mischance and rage around them, for children feel all of these things but without any of the ability that adults have to change them. Whatever can take a child beyond such circumstances, therefore, is an alleviation and a blessing."

I find this passage from the Mary Oliver essay "Staying Alive" very poignant and true.

[elexuscal]

The Good Place is an excellent show for many reasons, but one that doesn't really get talked about enough, probably because of how the season 1 twist obscures it, is that the 'No Exit'-esque "Hell is Other People" scenario for an afterlife of eternal torture is an avante garde experiment from an Auteur demon who's trying to convince the other demons of his Vision while they're like "idk man flaying genitals works really good"

[razortouched]

Making this a seperate post since the misinformation is spreading fast.

On July 22nd the Center for American Progress released an article titled, "Ending the Backlash on LGBTQI+ Issues".

I won't go into the problems with the article here, as there are many, but in essence it suggests capitulating on issues such as trans people in sports and youth medical transition, in an effort to reduce reactionary backlash against the LGBTQI+ community and our issues.

And people, predictably, are finding a way to blame "TME" trans people and trans men for this.

They are pinning the blame solely on Caleb Smith, a trans person who uses any pronouns. As far as I can tell, there is no public information on Caleb's specific gender identity, but people are of course, jumping to assume that they are "TME", I presume based solely on her appearance. Which is, basic transphobia and exorsexism.

They are also ignoring the fact, that the co-author of the article is Winnie Stachelberg, an out trans woman. This is despite the fact that she is listed right at the top of the article alongside Caleb.

Winnie Stachelberg has a history in politics, being appointed by President Joe Biden as Senior Advisor at the US Department of Interior.

Being someone with many years of experience in high level politics, I am keen to presume that much of the content of the article was influenced by Winnie's perspective. I mean, she is one of the authors, after all! And she has the most experience of direct interaction with political systems.

To blame "TME" trans people and trans men for this article when one of the authors of the article is a trans woman with high level political experience, is frankly transmisogynistic. People are intentionally ignoring her contribution because she is a trans woman, as its not convienent to their narrative. So the work of a woman gets ignored in favor of blaming a demographic that the other author may not even be a part of, and sure as hell doesn't represent even if he is!

[kazieka]

was outside earlier and a bird Came Up, squatted down, fluttered it’s wings at me and opened its mouth like a hatchling begging for food (it was a grown female) so I went and checked the seed cube in the feeder and the thing was completely covered in mold. this is one of the weirdest things that’s ever happened to me. how did she know im the one in charge of the birdseed. How Did She Know To Pantomime Hunger At Me. Hello.

[kazieka]

i have spent my afternoon confusedly getting dressed, driving to the store, purchasing a new seed block, driving home, washing the cage, and getting the feeder set back up. i don’t take this much care for my Own nutrition. ive been bullied into a grocery store run by a tufted titmouse. i feel so loved

[bebs-art-gallery]

Albert Square, Manchester (1910) by Adolphe Valette | Contemporary Art (2015) by Emily Allchurch

[bread-making-vikings]

the top is an original, from 1910, the bottom is a new version painted in 2015

[spacedouterri]

THE BOTTOM IS A PAINTING????

[patheticdogdyke]

its hard to get into angel/demon stuff bc i cant accept a reality where christianity or ontological good/evil is real

[leshermes]

Jasmine Vine, lead programmer of Hollow Knight & Silksong just transitioned!! I'm so happy for her!❤️🏳️‍⚧️

[c-rowlesdraws]

her bluesky header & icon are so cute too 🥰

[charl0ttan]

[sophie-frm-mars]

How Should Trans People Organise?

Hi everyone, at time of writing (22/05/2026) the British government just received new government from the TERF-captured EHRC that will drastically restrict trans people's ability to exist in public life. Trans people have to organise agains this fascistically anti-trans politics and we need to focus firstly on saving as many trans lives as possible and secondly on building power towards trans liberation.

To achieve this I have laid out a strategy for organising around harm reduction structures and trans public assemblies. Please watch this video, share it, and take action on the suggestions in it as a matter of urgency. I know of three groups across two other countries besides the UK who have taken my suggestions seriously and started organising and I want to see more trans people do it, especially here.

I have also released a version of the same basic assembly organising writing on my substack for those who prefer reading to watching a video. I write there about ideas around organising quite a lot so there's more for the curious there.

Together we are strong. Together we can not only survive this but beat it. We just have to organise

[qqchurch]

the Ice War on Europa...

[qqchurch]

[deep-state-partisan]

[somestrangeangels]

[c-53]

I have a bisexual guppy and its funny as hell to watch because it seems like he’s only bi out of desperation. Like all of the female guppies are unimpressed by him, and dont accept his mating displays, and every time he fails, he goes over to a SPECIFIC male guppy (the prettiest male guppy in the tank) like PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE and that male guppy always lets him????

[domnika-deactivated20250923]

i would read that fanfic ngl

[c-53]

About my fish??

[graceful-not]

HELP?????

[everyfandom-girl]

YEAH THIS IS SCIENTIFICALLY RECORDED

WOMEN LOVE GAYBOY

[tea-and-hockey]

FUJOSHI FISH????

[memories]

I don’t know much about the world, but it seems like if you take #misinformation and add it to #truths, you end up with #misinformation.

[friend-crow]

You can tell we're getting into the desperate months of zucchini excess by the way the New York times just sent out a list of 107 zucchini recipes.

[friend-crow]

#I must locate the list of 107 zucchini recipes#I'm not even growing zucchini this year I just like it lol YOU ARE IN LUCK (assuming you're able to read these)!

Best Zucchini Recipes

Zucchini is summer's gift. Embrace it with simple grilled zucchini, crunchy fried zucchini, ever-popular zucchini bread and all the options

Apparently this is just the best zucchini recipes. They aren't even including their bad and mediocre options.

[headspace-hotel]

Oh thank god

[innerchildabortionclinic]

awareness of "the abused can become the abuser" is useless without the knowledge that abuse is a choice anyone makes that is made for self-benefit. recently I watched an interview on the psychology of domestic abuse and the woman who interviewed those who inflicted the abuse always made sure to ask "why didn't you take it further?" because the answer would always show the abuser hadn't simply lost control. for example one man said he pushed over his girlfriend but didn't kick her once she was down because he didn't want any noticeable bruising that caused suspicion. human psychology is much less poetic than you think. too many psychology enjoyers only enjoy the poetic

[innerchildabortionclinic]

average "dark psychology" enjoyer discovering the perpetrator literally just hated women and minorities

[chemiosmotic]

[Image description: gif from Breaking Bad of Walter with a shocked expression.]

[riseofthecommonwoodpile]

a lot of people don’t tell you this when you’re starting to remodel your own home but occasionally under the floorboards you’ll find the entrance to an unimaginably sprawling and vast complex of underground lakes connected to each other through intricate networks of tunnels where suburbanite mermaids have set up mermaid strip malls with mermaid verizon, mermaid driving school, the mermaid liquor store, and so on. and many people will think this is a plumbing issue, but it’s actually a zoning problem

[teaboot]

Being Transmasc is wild because first you’re a girl and you’re weak whiny emotional irrational annoying and uppity and “on your period” and you’d be prettier if you smiled and stopped making everything about feminism all the damn time

and then all of a sudden you’re a man and you’re ‘the problem’ and you just want to oppress girls and talk over women to validate yourself and make it all about you because all men ever do is take over the conversation and be abusive and use their toxic masculinity to bludgeon everyone around them and like

The whole time you’ve always just been you

[deafmangoes]

Hate to tell you this teaboot but it's the same in reverse for us trans femmes

Solidarity in always "doing it wrong", eh?

[teaboot]

Masc spectrum 🤝 Femme spectrum

Being reduced to the worst gender stereotypes when we just want to be human people

[teaboot]

It’s not that a prison can’t be nice sometimes, it’s just that you can’t leave