Vessel

Hello! We are Vessel. We recently discovered that we're a plural system. We're here to blog about figuring our shit out, more or less. 26 year old werewolf woman.

[found-in-vessel]

dryad gf and gargoyle bf

[found-in-vessel]

cum that turns you into a woman when it goes into your ass

[pacificnorthwestcore]

Did you see the news about National Parks removing signage and information about the mistreatment of Native Americans by settlers, as well as about climate change and environmental protection? Read the article by Reuters for more information.

This is clear Native Erasure. We have a survey open to collect your observations:

https://forms.gle/SLoyCjLH4BBvx1rT6

Share photos, locations, and comments about signage you see that includes information about Native Americans and Tribal ancestral lands, or signs that do not. Documenting good examples is also a good idea as signs may be potentially removed. We continue to invite your observations that also highlight where signage is lacking this information on public lands. This info can be shared by the Tribe with staff from National Parks, National Forests, and other public land managers.

The Snoqualmie Tribe Ancestral Lands Movement promotes education and awareness regarding the integration of land acknowledgment and respect for the Snoqualmie Tribe within recreational activities. Our initiative also emphasizes the importance of acknowledging the ancestral lands of other Tribes when visiting public spaces.

Do you know whose ancestral lands you are visiting?

(Source: Snoqualmie Tribe Ancestral Lands Movement facebook page)

[bedupolker]

Velvet ant (Dasymutilla vestita)

Hemilepistus (crenulatus, aphganicus, reaumurii)

Coral Pink Sand Dunes Tiger Beetle (Cicindela albissima)

I think the velvet ant is my favorite, and the only one painted from life. Maybe I should've driven up to utah for the tiger beetles, next time!

All for sale on my Kofi! A little pricier than normal due to the material also if they don't sell they go well with my interior decor.

[bedupolker]

It's hard being a single mom of four to eight kids (she's bad at math)

Also self imposed design challenge to design an infant rodent that doesn't look like eraserhead baby

[mopdog8]

zizi and waleria big post

[found-in-vessel]

cursed weed ur friend gives you that make your boobs grow oh nooooo what ever willl you do?

[yagithegoat]

Village dog

[found-in-vessel]

holy shit you know what I'm starting to fucking hate? the fact that i'm into urban planning and infrastructure. Like I'm really fucking into that shit. I love it, but it's like a stereotype that's breached containment and it's become a thing people use to try and signal safety to trans women and flirt with us lowkey now?

I haaaate it. I may be wrong and my transphobia hyper-vigilance neurosis are making me overact. Like it's honestly a kinda flattering stereotype in some ways, right? It seems to assume the transfem is intelligent and cares about the well being of other people.

But I can't help that whenever I hear people use that stereotype I feel like I'm suddenly reading a Halimede article. Like it brings me out of the room. It doesn't help that I've seen that stereotype used before in pretty sinister and uncomfortable ways at least as often as I've seen it used in ways that're curious or respectful.

I guess at worst it feels kinda tokenizing in a way that makes me want to hide that interest to avoid looking stereotypical. I guess at best it's someone trying to signal familiarity and safety with trans women, which seems like a good thing.

But I do think fair's fair, and whenever someone brings up the transfemenine inclination towards public infrastructure, I'll be taking it as permission to infodump without remorse about whatever construction practices and project I'm currently interested in.

[hemipenal-system]

it is kind of surreal to watch someone who is not transfem be like “well because they were raised as men, trans women did get the chance to learn to take up space and the like” and then every trans woman you talk to is a broken beaten shell of a thing who’s too traumatized to raise her voice or sit with her legs apart, i will say

[found-in-vessel]

my csa flashbacks made me gag irl soooooooo cooool my brain is unlocking more powers i wish it would stop this we worked very hard on removing it from this body.

[siphonharapeco]

aniamtion

[found-in-vessel]

i love being a social animal who smooshes the body against our boyfriend's body

[hesperocyon-lesbian]

I’m certainly not the first transfem to bring this up but there really is something to be said about how tmes arguing with trans women will suddenly and irrelevantly bring up their own personal trauma as a way to shut down any disagreement. I.e. once the trauma has been laid out any further disagreement with their initial argument can be framed as diminishing or even celebrating their trauma. I’ve seen this happen too many times not to notice a pattern

[doyoulovethewayzeylily]

true + this also happens a lot in discussions regarding child abuse. people treat "I am a CSA survivor" as a thought-terminating cliche, as though "I am too" isn't a possible response. what's truly maddening is that it's often paired with some variation of "you're just trying to shut down the conversation/ignore inconvenient truths/etc".

there's just no way to get it through to them that no, I'm not doing that, you are

[found-in-vessel]

the contradiction disappears when you realize that in their minds some bodies are worth being protected from trauma and some aren't.

[pocket-deer-belly]

im not an "amab enby" i am transfem

[found-in-vessel]

when someone calls me 'amab' i assume they want me to kill myself

[katlovesshrimps]

I love your art of Clifford and Blue. I keep envisioning this with the two of them lol.

I spent too much time trying to recreate this at least somewhat close to the original

[mousidy]

they gotta put all their eggs in the "male socialization" basket cause some trans women don't even have the body parts they fearmonger about but they still want to control them

[mousidy]

like at this point in the like... 10+ years trans women have been a go-to wedge issue, everyone knows how chromosomes don't necessarily determine phenotype, everyone knows bottom surgery exists, everyone knows intersex people exist, everyone knows some people don't even produce gametes at all, everyone knows we don't stop calling cis women women after a hysterectomy or sterilization

the well of bioessentialist arguments is starting to run dry cause everyone knows the facts that disprove them. so they've had to greatly exaggerate how socialization works and how immutable it is cause what the hell else are they gonna do, lol