putting my blorbos in the salad spinner since 2014

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[diablo-sera-tops]

intro post or smth

Hi! My name is Blaze, but you can also call me Diablo! My main interests are DST, Little Nightmares, Hollow Knight and Silksong, Pokemon, art, dragons, dinosaurs, and many others! I'm nonbinary, over 18, and I use they/it pronouns!

I take commissions now! Check out the post here!

I'm working on a series of posts where I found a strange creature in a box of fruit snacks! Check out the #fruit snack creature tag to see it! (Blanket warning for unreality!)

My main account (which I will not disclose) was terminated without warning about 8 months ago, so I’ll be using this one until further notice.

DNI (elaborated on in this post):

People who are racist

People who are homophobic/transphobic

People who are antisemetic

People who are ableist

People who are sexist

People who are right-wing

People who are pro-life

People who romanticize self-harm

People who are pro/comship

People who are (pro)endo or (pro)willo

[thisisexorsexism]

People in fandoms gotta accept that that character is non binary, like thank you for knowing that immediately viewing an androgynous non binary character as a man is misogyny but can you not immediately view them as a woman to "combat" it

this is exorsexism

[nonbinary-reminder]

Or prescribe them as transfem or transmasc!

[serpercival]

So for the record because I've seen sooooo many phm posts going around using slurs. Yes, people in the intersex community are aware that hermaphrodite is used in biological contexts to mean "animal that produces both male and female gametes." Yes, it's still a slur in that context, and was adopted in biological circles from its usage as a slur. The word has been used as a slur against intersex people since at least the 14th century. It came into use in biological contexts in the 18th century. This is a word that spent 400 years being used as a slur before it was used to mean an animal that produces two types of gametes.

Yes, Eridians only have one sex. I obviously don't speak for the entire intersex community, but the terms that intersex advocates suggest using alternatively are "cosexual" or "monoecious." Both of these terms describe organisms with male and female reproductive organs, or which produce both male and female gametes. If you're in the camp where you think Eridians only produce one type of gamete, an appropriate term would be "isogamistic."

We don't use the r-slur to refer to people with intellectual disabilities, despite the fact this was the commonly accepted medical term for many, many years. It was used in medical contexts. It was used in American federal law until 2009. The language has changed. Please be kind to your fellow fandom members and use a term to refer to Eridians that does not have a history as an intersexist slur.

[luxiomahariel]

anyway. amab does not mean that someone has or has ever had a penis and testes.

afab does not mean that someone has or has ever had a vulva and a uterus.

stop using an event that happened at birth where doctors put a letter on a birth certificate as indicative of someones genitalia.

[luxiomahariel]

THIS ALSO APPLIES TO PERISEX PEOPLE

DOCTORS FUCK UP ALL THE TIME

A COMPLETELY CIS AND PERISEX MAN COULD HAVE BEEN ASSIGNED FEMALE AT BIRTH DUE TO A DOCTORS FUCK UP

A COMPLETELY CIS AND PERISEX WOMAN COULD HAVE BEEN ASSIGNED MALE AT BIRTH DUE TO A DOCTORS FUCK UP

STOP TREATING GENDER ASSIGNMENT AS REPRESENTATIVE OF GENITALIA

[hk-soulblood-au]

It's Phantom Phriday Saturday!

I missed Phantom Phriday, so it's starting today instead! Send in your Phantom asks! They can be silly, serious, or just whatever comes to mind first!

[strictlyquadrilateral]

i read an anecdote ages and ages ago from a gay person who grew up with gay parents, and struggled to find any kind of belonging in the gay community because everyone else there was bonding over having homophobic parents. everyone else was defining themselves by their suffering and oppression rather than by their sexuality, leaving this gay person to feel like they weren't really gay because they didn't have the right experiences. they wondered whether more gay people would feel this way as more children grew up with gay parents, if the gay community would leave them behind for not having suffered enough. i think about that anecdote a lot.

a lot of the current rhetoric around gender reminds me of that anecdote. a lot of people are willing to go "transgender people are oppressed for their gender presentation, therefore if you're not oppressed for your gender presentation, you're not trans." but i don't think we should be defining ourselves by our suffering and oppression. what will we do, in a few years, in a few decades, as there start to be, say, adults who were supported in their transition as children? what will we do when a stereotypical trans person can genuinely say they didn't suffer hardship for being trans?

i'm afraid i know the answer. i'm afraid that people are going to close ranks as they've already started closing ranks against intersex people, against nonbinary people, against double binary people, against closeted people. as some people have started closing ranks against people who transitioned in the opposite direction from them. as many people have closed ranks against people with edge case gender experiences. "i don't consider you to be oppressed, therefore you are not welcome to share in this community you might otherwise belong in."

i wish people would understand that we shouldn't do this. i wish people would understand that we benefit from a broader, more inclusive community more than we benefit from whatever purity testing oppression olympics it is that i keep running into.

[gloopqueen]

chuck fast thinklenuts

[arlydarkfire]

[jam-chimera]

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[mawofthemagnetar]

The problem with being low support needs is that people mentally autocorrect that to “no support needs” and then proceed to give you absolutely nothing and then get surprised when you implode after six months.

[neverending-symphonia]

if i see another person basically go "but what if this character who is explicitly neutral nonbinary is actually just a binary trans egg because nonbinary people arent REALLY as trans as binary trans people im so woke actually" i will start killing people

[lazer-exe]

I'm gonna say it, I do think that even the laziest person imaginable should have a roof over their head, food in their stomach, and access to healthcare

[decompose1]

i dislike the weird jump to blame suicide victims for their suicides and call them selfish. suicide is very frequently in some way a social murder. i think instead of blaming someone who was in such a dark place that they saw no other way out we should maybe be blaming the people who threw gas on the fire, such as those with a lot of power to make that person's life that bad or those who abused them into it. is that really that unreasonable

[hk-soulblood-au]

It's Phantom Phriday Saturday!

I missed Phantom Phriday, so it's starting today instead! Send in your Phantom asks! They can be silly, serious, or just whatever comes to mind first!

[hk-soulblood-au]

It's Phantom Phriday Saturday!

I missed Phantom Phriday, so it's starting today instead! Send in your Phantom asks! They can be silly, serious, or just whatever comes to mind first!

[bereft-of-form]

I sometimes see people who complain about the general trend of defaulting to they/them pronouns when you don't know what the person uses yet on the basis of "it enables those who degender trans people and gives them plausible deniability". What I'm curious about in those cases is, what would the alternative solutions be?

Should we roll back years of activism, throw nonbinary people, trans people who can't or don't want to pass, gnc people under the bus, and go back to assuming pronouns based on superficial presentation, something I genuinely saw being suggested? This only serves to make life harder for the more vulnerable members of the community, while doing nothing to fix the underlying issue - transphobia. Only a minority of gender-conforming, perfectly passing and usually stealth binary trans people benefits from this in any way.

Bigots who refuse to acknowledge trans people's actual pronouns will do so either way. If it's not "they/them"-ing people who don't go by that set of pronouns, it's refusing to use any pronouns at all, or misgendering them using any other pronouns, or awkwardly refusing to address them completely and pretending the trans person doesn't exist as far as they are concerned.

[donniehaspronouns]

respect non-binary people not because this is “a step to realizing they’re really a trans man/trans woman” but because non-binary people are deserving of respect in their identity. because being non-binary is not “just a stepping stone” for many people and they still deserve their identity to be respected.

being non-binary is being trans, and we respect our trans siblings in this house. full stop.

[hk-soulblood-au]

It's Phantom Phriday Saturday!

I missed Phantom Phriday, so it's starting today instead! Send in your Phantom asks! They can be silly, serious, or just whatever comes to mind first!

[ohwhatagloomyshow]

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