I just got on the elevator with Maggie and some other guy I've never seen before in my entire life. None of us said anything getting on but he hit my floor button and then his. He just knew what floor we were going to. With such confidence. Said not a word.
I've been unable to work for nearly two entire years due to illness, and my savings are depleted and I'm in quite a bit of debt. I'm trying to pay my power bill this month, which was unexpectedly high. If you have a couple dollars, it'd really help! Thanks
if Near Extinction (my worldbuilding project, name tbd) had a book or other kind of series, i'd imagine this is somewhat close to the image used for it. it's missing a lot of the characters since i haven't modelled them (yet!!) but i'm suuuper proud of how this came out!!
a large majority of TMEs haven't unlearned the patriarchal idea that womanhood is a bad thing, and they do not believe trans women actually seek and embrace womanhood. a lot of them seem to think we only want (and experience) the surface level aesthetics of womanhood
I don't know a single trans woman who didn't know she would face a stark increase in misogyny when she started transition. I don't know a single trans woman who's ever seemed to think "I didn't know I would face misogyny too!" I've never met a trans woman who thought she should be exempt from misogyny because of her transness
and yet far far too many TMEs seem to think we are naive to the challenges of womanhood, that we are taken aback by them and regret opening ourselves up to them. the trans women I know embrace womanhood fully, difficulties and all. transfeminism is a movement of women planting our flags within womanhood and fighting misogyny. we are not keeping one foot in some exit door in case the going gets too tough. we are taking an active role in combatting the forces that oppress us as women
(and, by the way, there is no exit door the way a lot of people seem to think there is. there is no coming back from being a tranny in the eyes of the patriarchy. our womanhood is no more a removable costume than anyone else's)
Like if you say stuff like this you have to know that you're both full of shit and being a transmisogniystic prick right. Like you dont actually know what you're talking about from any experience you just have this ironclad conviction that trans women are sex predators because you're stupid and an asshole. You know that you're just making shit up, right?
The inclusion of mecha really does expose how vapid the accusation of pedophilia is with these people. If you squint and blow your brains out with a shotgun, you could see how they can twist "awawawawa" and doll posting into accusations of pedophilia, but battle mech shit is so far on the opposite side of the spectrum in terms of tone and content that the only reason they would argue that one would have "2 terabytes of cp" for mech posting is to just ruin a trans woman's life.
They are not even trying to argue that it's about "protecting children" or even the image of one, literally just seeing something that trans women like and saying they're pedophiles for liking it because "pedophile = thing i don't like and can use against trans women" in their heads.
specifically calling out mecha as opposed to just saying “robots” or something is also a neat little bit of racism, but the “(foreign art) is only enjoyed by (degenerates)” rhetoric that people use regarding anime is already so normalized that they probably didn’t even think about it
real talk real quick: it's rly silly when someone gets sent a callout on me and that person literally could care less or actively tells those weirdos to piss off
it heals the Tumblr ecosystem a lil bit to tell bad faith weirdos to go away