Beta Garchomp!!!

My favorite Pokémon is Garchomp. Arknights Friend Code: Garchomp#4107         Proun nouns:  she/her . Trans.

[day-colors]

[sharktunarts]

durrr

[rabbiteclair]

i was rereading the Southern Reach books before bed and then I suddenly got sick as hell, so I basically spent all night laying in bed feverishly hallucinating that the germs in my body were there to convey highly symbolic and rambling messages from some kind of higher lifeform

[potatoescanbesadtoo]

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[swordofliberation]

i like mudrock shes cool :)

[caffichai]

Amiya the overworked birthday girl!

[bluepicmi]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY ONE AND ONLY DAUGHTER WHO I LOVE SO MUCH

[teir3s]

Oh god, we need studydates, both Diakko and Charoix~

study dates are Good but consider:

three people all trying to explain the same thing to akko in different but equally unhelpful ways

[akakris10]

New tactic to get the director to leave the lab to sleep...

[frostops]

you know what, im done arguing with someone whos going to call me slurs and misgender me.

read the whole book or just read parts or dont read any of it. i dont care. im not breaking new ground when i post about how futanari and other things of a similar vein arent neatly separated from each other or from trans women. A japanese book from twenty years ago that got translated into english six years ago already said the same and much more.

"futa has nothing to do with trans women" is a false statement too often treated as a null hypothesis. its so obviously stupid i shouldnt need to disprove it, but it can be disproven quite easily.

[trash-panda-gorl]

Does this book not also unfortunately use quite a bit of intersexist language, though? Not to detract from your point, but I do think that shouldn’t go unremarked on.

[haxorus612]

the fact that it's intersexist only supports frostops' point - which is that bigots do not see a significant distinction between intersex people and trans women. the paper linked is transphobic, transmisogynistic, and intersexist, but none of those detract from its value as used.

if you notice the footnote in the screenshot, also pointed out by @brolfregius in the comments, the paper takes a wide swath of words which we understand as referring to queer people, and paint us all as ""Male" in terms of chromosomes, or "biologically male"". this is not just incorrect, intersexist, but also transmisogynistic. calling us 'biologically male' is just another way to misgender.

there is also no mention of 'transphobia' throughout all the pages i perused. all mention of bigotry is instead inelegantly sieved through the lens of 'homophobia' alone, as mentioned at the bottom of the first screenshot, and on page 150:

effectively: "this may resemble transvestism and transexuality, but i do not believe that those are real things that can affect someone's place in the world." since homophobia is the only framework used, it leaves massive blindspots like this.

is it any wonder that an author who can't conceive of someone finding themself through erotic manga also doesn't have a framework for intersex analysis?

what this source does excel at is its professional look at how this specific culture is seen and presents itself. by casting such a wide net on what we see as distinct, it's laid bare again that these tropes are not significantly distinct from each other - each and every one of them shares in debasing its subjects as consistent with transmisogyny.

frostops' point in sharing this article isn't to gift an unbiased, morally pure academic source for the perusal of all. it's necessary many times to take what you can from sources that have a mix of good and ill.

[shimizurakugaki]

Happy birthday Rhodes CEO!🎂🎉

[late-night-chai-latte]

Got Ho'olheyak for my Cutter squad a while ago, and she's been a great addition to Cutter's support crew! They truly compliment each other sooooo well :3

[neirozum]

[3showfish]

Raidian

[halcyon54]

[blukou]

Furnace’s Finale

[mixamachi]

Rice Shower I drew!

I love her! Please be nice to her