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[d-7th]

Alternate crop of a previous drawing <3

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[d-7th]

My job absolutely isn’t worth it, but sometimes a trans girl sees me at work and hears my voice and we both kind of dance around the fact that it’s probably the safest she’s felt around a stranger all day & the safest I’ve felt around a customer all month

and then we part ways and have to go back to being in Texas

[renthony]

It's wild to watch the phrase "tumblr sexyman" morph into "man that tumblr thinks is sexy," because when I first saw the phrase come into use, I always saw it used in reference to the phenomenon of "when presented with a wide array of fictional characters, tumblr will always pick the skinny white man to obsess over, and if the fan-favorite character has no canonical human appearance, the fandom will inevitably create a popular fanon of the character as as a skinny white man."

When I hear "tumblr sexyman," I think of Cecil Night Vale being constantly depicted as a skinny white man instead of literally anything else. I think of the background character white men who get elevated over protagonists that are women, people of color, or otherwise not the white man power fantasy.

"Tumblr sexyman" is, like. An insult. I DON'T want any of my blorbos to win a "tumblr sexyman" poll. "Tumblr sexyman" is the exact opposite of what I want my own OCs to be. If any of my characters ever get called "tumblr sexyman," I will have to immediately re-evaluate myself and the art I'm making.

[d-7th]

so I’ve had my only source of income taken away (again) due to being transgender (also again) I think I’m going to kill myself tomorrow morning

[modmad]

TPoH: Update!

Read the new TPoH Update here!

Read this free freaky comic called TPoH from the start here.

a massive thank you and introduction to @gwinver-art who is going to be helping me with backgrounds for the next section! You'll be seeing their work for the next couple of chapters and I'm super grateful for their assistance- why not go give them a follow!

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support me on patreon for little extras! Even one or two dollars a month makes a big difference to me :D

[fihas]

what people don’t realize about tumblr sexymen is a character being called one is a [bad] thing. the label was originally applied to characters that were lusted over by straight women who refused to engage with any other character who wasn’t a white twink. that’s why oncest exists. that’s why those bill cipher and wheatley gijinkas exist.

sans was a special case because people preferred his original design (short and not conventionally attractive) however the “refusal to engage with any other character” was very much still there like look at all of the AUs that were made specifically because of him.

the amount of mischaracterisation a character has to go through in order to truly count as a sexyman (and there’s about 20 sexymen proper) would cause most people to have a brain aneurysm like it sucks so bad.

times have drastically changed since the onceler, and the range of characters people hype up is far more diverse than it once was. the time period in which a character was most popular (between 2012 - 2018) is the most fundamental part in making them a sexyman.

this is why any sexyman poll made after the one that killed queen lizzy is completely null to me. 90% of the characters in them are just regular fan favourites like get this common real life dude out of there. if you could talk about liking a character with a coworker and not get viciously made fun of by them then that character is not a sexyman like that’s the full truth of the matter.

(this is also why anime boys like reigen and komaeda often count. hate for anything anime-based outside of the internet was especially egregious before 2020)

also. there is a huge distinction between “sexy man” and sexyman. this is why senshi does not count. Because he is genuinely sexy. My final message. Goodbye

[d-7th]

just $4,000 left until my hospital bill from FOUR YEARS AGO is finally paid off and I don’t have to watch my exceedingly small freelance paychecks disappear into the ether any more. I still won’t be earning barely anything but at least it won’t be functionally nothing

[d-7th]

give a character sleepy eyes and a shit-eating grin and I instantly become an idiot

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give them interesting teeth and I just start frothing at the mouth

[d-7th]

give a character sleepy eyes and a shit-eating grin and I instantly become an idiot

[d-7th]

How hard is it to make a picrew with my own art? I want to play a little game with all of you

[d-7th]

driving over plot holes so fast you damage your suspension of disbelief

[maidthings]

when you post about a study that only applies to the us could you include 'in the US' in the post please. thanks

if you're talking about the trans wage gap, there's a study out of Canada that shows similar. Admittedly Canada is pretty similar to the US socioeconomically, and those two obviously aren't representative of the whole planet, so I'd be willing to accept that this pattern doesn't hold true for everywhere on earth.

This Survey out of PKU doesn't give any specific numbers sadly for income, but does state "In terms of ability to find employment, levels of acceptance at the workplace, and freedom for gender expression, analysis of this survey determined that, on average, transgender women face the most challenges at all stages of employment", and does show other indicators of worse treatment across across the board (higher dropout rates, high rates of rejection by loved ones, higher rates of self-harm/suicidality etc.)

(There's a more recent survey from 2021 though, though they don't talk about income at all, only about improving conditions for trans people across the board and the need for further improvement still)

This is a generally understudied topic, and I am limited to English, so if anyone knows of similar studies, please tell me. Given what existing data shows, and what "transmisogyny" as a social theory suggests, we don't have a reason to expect that the pattern of trans women getting paid the least out of any gender demographic would be the case at least most of the time.

You can't assert that something "doesn't apply outside of the US", and immediately discount the data, you'd need a specific why trans women are being treated worse in the US (AND Canada and China) that wouldn't apply elsewhere to dismiss it.

[magicalastronomies]

damn that's crazy anon good thing trans women and sociology of the transfeminized only exists in the usa

Cumbia, copeteo y l?grimas

"Cumbia, copeteo y l?grimas", es uno de los emblem?ticos libros de Lohana Berkins que registra la situaci?n de travestis, transexuales y tra

[annierosaart]

Anon needs to go fuck themselves lol

This is from Brazil

[podcastlesbian]

There's this 2019 study for the EU (Intersections - Diving into the FRA LGBTI II Survey Data), which does not feature wage, but does examine differences in employment discrimination.

Survey respondents were asked about their current employment status; trans and non-binary respondents were less likely to be in paid work (39.11% compared to 49.06% of all LGBTI respondents), more likely to be unemployed (8.34% compared to 4.78% of all LGBTI respondents), and more likely to be unable to work due to long-term health problems (5.88% compared to 2.35% of all LGBTI respondents). These differences were exacerbated to certain groups of trans and non-binary people: trans women were much more likely to be unemployed (11.67%) or unable to work due to long-term health problems (7.32%), and less likely to be students (16.19%, compared to 27.36% of trans and non-binary people and 27.92% of all LGBTI respondents).

The survey asked respondents if they felt discriminated against when looking for work and when at work. The share of trans and non-binary respondents that felt discriminated against when looking for a job is 31.79% (compared to 10.17% of all LGBTI respondents). This share is much higher for trans and non-binary people with disabilities (44.73%) and trans women (43.03%). At work, trans and non-binary people were also more likely to experience discrimination (34.42% compared to 20.83% of all LGBTI respondents), with even higher rates for trans people from an ethnic minority (including migrant background) (41.08%), trans and non-binary people with disabilities (44.95%) and trans women (36.35%).

And another one about trans people and poverty from 2021.

The FRA LGBTI Survey II found that almost half (46%) of trans respondents had difficulty making ends meet. 54% of trans women reported difficulties – the highest rate among all trans subgroups.

[d-7th]

I feel like showing me art that you think my art will look like "when it gets better" is a very backhanded compliment that also sets expectations I don't plan to meet

[d-7th]

where do you get your 3d models?

I make them

[d-7th]

I changed the brusk I ink with and also stopped caring about my inks being clean and I am free

[tpwrtrmnky]

Waiting for "Uber drivers are petit bourgeoisie because they own the means of production (car they might not even own)" to be a real take that people have, as opposed to any real analysis of the ownership of like. Uber. The app.

[tpwrtrmnky]

btw the whole "you are actually an independent contractor and not an employee" thing is THE ENTIRE GIG ECONOMY GRIFT. It's the mechanism by which workers are being deprived of rights. It's the most transparent way to dress up exploitation in a thin veneer of privilege imaginable, how the fuck can this website— oh. Right. Of course.

[d-7th]

Part of the problem is that discussing this requires people to understand anything deeper than the most surface level.

A lot of people look at an offer like this and go “okay, you get $3 per delivery, so just do more of them and stop complaining!” without factoring in the fact that this is $3 for an hour of labor (because 39 minutes is the driving time ONLY) and nearly 23 miles (which doesn’t even factor in the cost of returning to your start point, going home, etc.)

In a car that gets 25 miles per gallon, in a city where gas costs $4.37 per gallon, this trip is literally going to cost money to complete. There is also no guarantee of a tip & to make things even worse many people will put a tip on the order up front and then delete it after getting the food, so we’re often baited into working for free (or worse, paying to work) and everyone just shrugs.

The most I have ever earned after the cost of gas running Uber Eats was $4 an hour. It usually averaged $0 to $2 during the week.

People also seem to think that Uber Eats drivers are all privileged enough to “just go get a real job” but if you actually DO this for a living you’ll see that all the drivers waiting around you have some barrier to “real” employment like not speaking any English, being disabled, being transgender, etc.

I have a condition that makes it impossible for me to have a job where someone else sets my schedule due to an illness that fucking nobody understands, so this is quite literally the only option I have and I am in very real danger of not surviving to the age of 35 because $2 an hour doesn’t even cover keeping the lights on.

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Selections from goofing around.