Ruby Quail

30ish Designer, I don't really use this except art/fandom and talking about crushes but please hit me up on tw or ig at @RubyQuailDesign

[michaeldeforge]

bicycling

[muzzlesbian]

you have to love the tgirl but you have to let her love you back too

[muzzlesbian]

transfem affection and attraction is painted as inherently predatory to a degree that drives us to be constantly on edge. it makes us fucking paranoid. do you know how awful it is to worry if it’s safe to lean your head on your close friend’s shoulder? to be openly desired and even flirted with but never flirt back for fear of being labeled a creep? to be unable to cuddle up with your date because you’re terrified of how they might respond? do you know how much that fucks a person up?

you have to let the tgirl love you back. you have to.

[akimojo]

ff13 au where everything is the same except it's an all-female party

[felathea]

No comment on Snow or Sazh, but I will absolutely die on the hill that Hope is a closeted trans girl and square knows it.

[hyenaswine]

i think people are starting to confuse class analysis with bioessentialism. like... no not all men do this, but Men as a constructed social class do do this. that's still okay to say. that is regular material analysis of the world around us.

[hyenaswine]

yeah so none of these experiences you're describing as "a unique axis of oppression that trans men face" are unique to trans men. trans women experience literally everything you're describing. everything you wrote about trans men being rejected from masculinity & not being treated as "real" men - just replace "women" & "femininity" in all those sentences & you're describing what trans women experience. what you're describing is transphobia, NOT something that trans men uniquely experience. nobody is seriously saying trans men don't experience transphobia & that transphobia isn't a valid form of oppression. they're saying that for transandrophobia to be legitimate as a sociological & structural axis of oppression, there has to be a form of oppression called androphobia or misandry that this transphobia is intersecting with, & there isn't. those cis men (the dominant group) don't hate trans men because they're men - they're not oppressing them for being men. they're not excluding them from manhood for being men. they're doing that because of transphobia. that's how it works. you're doing the exact same thing i'm talking about by saying that it's wrong to say trans men have male privilege - they do have a privilege that trans women don't have, which is the privilege of not being women. YES there's nuance but the baseline you have to understand is that not everything is one to one & it's not fucking personal. these are societal constructs. privilege doesn't care about your nuance. nobody is saying your dumb little life isn't hard. but we can't get anywhere if you obsess over how YOU personally are wronged & refuse to see the big picture from a class standpoint.

[saintfelina]

women in GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums)

[moved-please-leave-me-alone]

Alright your Discord avatar and tumblr avatar are locked in a closet for 7 minutes ala 7 Minutes In Heaven. What happens

[moonlitvesper]

happy pride to them

[liquidroots]

happy pride from the trans flag on the floor in deep space nine

[foone]

I always say: Star Trek: Deep Space 9 started in 1993 and ran until 1999, and the trans pride flag was designed (by Monica Helms) in 1999.

The carpets on Deep Space Nine aren't Trans Pride flag colored: the trans pride flag is Deep Space Nine carpet colored.

[minovskyy]

smiles serenely

[w0nderland42]

i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is “international” pride month just because something happened in the united states.

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1986. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

anyway, happy pride, americans. i’m truly sorry that most of you don’t see the negative impact your nation’s culture has on the rest of the world. and to the rest of the world reading this, try searching for your own country and culture’s queer history, don’t accept the american narratives as your own. we deserve our own histories divorced from the cultural hegemony of the USA.

[plain-flavoured-english]

As a Greek, in response to the current controversy about Matt Damon being cast as Odysseus, I'd just like to share that one of the moments that changed my brain chemistry as a kid was reading a novelized version of the Odyssey and coming across the following description of Odysseus when Circe sees him for the first time and thinks he's hot: "his hair curled like a clematis and his eyes were very brown".

So may I present my own casting choice for Odysseus:

[plain-flavoured-english]

Excuse me???

[ruffboi-mags]

you are right and you should say it.

[instantduckninja]

Is this the face of a man who would put his own infant in front of a plow to avoid going to war?

Absolutely not

You know who would try that shit?

Is this the face of a man who would defy the very gods to get home to his wife?

You know who would defy the gods just to show he could get away with it?

[foone]

now that twilight princess has been ported to the pc with mods, someone should take the female!link mod and make it so that when you're in Wolf Form, you're just female!link with a puppy ears headband running around on all fours

THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: TWILIGHT PUPPYGIRL

[bisexuel]

[xalatath]

How it feels lately

[worthless-unit]

ohhhh can hiddden

[merpinglilac]

[scramratz]

I think people would be less suicidal if they were allowed to talk about being suicidal without risk of being sent to the Torture Dungeon

[stjohnstarling]

People on the internet love to criticize work by Some Guy putting stuff up online for free like it's made by Disney Studios, and talk about Disney movies like they're made by their personal friend Amy, who is just trying her best,