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FTM, genderfluid, tired old man, magical pixie dream grandma, guydyke I'm like figuring out who I want to be. This year my gender is Fag. - mack, 2024

q&a:

How long have you been on T? I came out at 12 years old, started HRT at 18, and had top surgery at 25.

What is your icon from? cropped screenshot of the fractal composited desktop background from Fedora 14's then-new KDE.

Where is your header from? snow sculpture I made in college and decided to use because I happened to have the photo at hand

How do I refer to you? I am a trans man who enjoys gender non conformity and cross-dressing, for sure, but I'm also a little more nonbinary than I thought. I take my grammar in the following order: he/him always applies, they/them generally applies, especially if people are weird about me in a dress (i'm a fantastic chameleon). I will use she/her only in very specific contexts. Basically during a forcefem scene in sex it is ok. Which means that very rarely does someone get that privilege.

Are you Bi or Gay? Yes. And so are you if you like me! I prefer the terms bisexual or queer. I don't know what kind of types I have beyond... kind of softboi in both masculine and feminine variants, but not exclusively limited to that.

What style are you wearing/where do you get your clothes? I've been getting clothes from thrift shops more but I've also been getting kind of into boho fashion. And I also make some of my clothes.

Can we be friends/Can I DM you? Sure, but i like never check anything so if I don't respond it's probably because I haven't seen it. But right now (spring '24) i'm in a making friends mood

Do you have a DNI? sometimes i block people but i don't have a specific DNI beyond like... i don't really care to engage with white nationalists, transphobes/queerphobes or other types of really far right / far gone people. I might be an adult but I don't think it's useful to segregate people based on age alone. I remember getting a lot of good advice from adults in the early age of the internet, and they helped me realize and navigate situations where it was a little out of my league. I think the best way to deal with people can be abusive is with a community that can help someone realize what's happening and support that person as they exit the situation, not isolate and then the abusive people are the only ones who will engage.

homunculus-argument

The Odyssey but retold as a low-stakes modern adventure of one guy out with his girlfriend leaving the bar with his buddies to do just one (1) simple thing real quick, it'll take like 15 minutes tops, he'll be right back, but then some bullshit happens and the trip keeps getting more complicated as more bullshit keeps happening while he just tries to get back to the bar because he promised his girlfriend that he'd get back and he knows that she's still there because she told him she'd wait there.

And by the time he finally gets back it's almost 3 am and the bar is about to close while she's sitting there stone cold sober, surrounded by 5 drunk guys unsuccessfully trying to convince her to give up on waiting for him and go home with one of them instead. And the guy shows up to proceed to beat the shit out of them before explaining himself to her like hey sorry bullshit kept happening, my phone fell into a storm drain and my wallet got stolen when I was trying to find someone who'd borrow me a phone so I could call and

thekijs

His girlfriend had been fending off the 5 drunk guys for most of the evening by explaining that even if she was going to ditch her boyfriend, she can't possibly leave without finishing her beer, which she is keeping perpetually full via careful sleight of hand where she's just pouring it back and forth into and out of the pitcher.

However the drunk guys are also drinking, and eventually she can't afford to buy another pitcher for the table so she can't keep up the ever-full beer glass trick. At this point she has to resort to setting up the pool trick shot that she's never seen anyone but her boyfriend pull off, and says she'll leave with whoever manages the shot first.

That buys her another hour or so and then, finally, her boyfriend makes it back. He looks like shit, hair down and just a mess, he's wearing an entirely different jacket that he got from an alley, and barely recognizable—especially to 5 guys who've been drunk for hours now. He lurks for a minute, finds out what's going on, and proceeds to pull off the trick shot first try. Throws the jacket off, fixes his hair with a hair tie his girlfriend lends him, finally looks like himself again, and THEN beats the shit out of them with the pool cue.

weaselle

yuh i was there, that's how it happened

angiepants

This is a man loving blog btw. I know this is the man hating site and increasingly the trans man hating site but that shit stops at my borders

heronfem

Hi guys. If it's not raining, it's pouring, and boy do I need a new umbrella.

My best friend and their partner are facing eviction. It's been a very rough living situation from the start and the kind of money that at one point was barely possible and now simply isn't. With one unemployed and the other badly underpaid, the money simply wasn't possible this month. The slumlord who owns their place has pounced on an opportunity to force them out, which is a real hoot since the building is so unsafe it doesn't actually have a certificate of occupancy now. My own household just moved, is exhausted, and is strapped for cash but trying to come up with more ways to help, so here I am. Again. Hoping for kindness from strangers.

I'd like to get anything possible together to help them cure the rent, which will buy us a little time to figure out some ways to get them into somewhere that's got an actual certificate of occupancy and isn't wildly overpriced per tiny square footage. They also have a cat! The cat would also like this to not be happening, or he would if he could think with more than his single brain cell..

Rent cure is 1200, the other 300 is for getting a start on application fees. Thank you for even just reading this, and I'd appreciate if people can share it around. I'd like the very fast tigers to stop chasing me.

Cat tax for reading so far:

To donate:

Venmo: @Vinndication

PayPal: here

Ko-fi: here

0028/1500

violaceum-vitellina-viridis

hi I'm the best friend ✌️ I am actively applying for various forms of state assistance but we don't qualify for the emergency relief fun until there's a court and judge and possibly cops involved, apparently, which is cool and fun and definitely not existentially horrific,

prior to right now we've been coasting by on a mix of late payments, charity, and my father's charity specifically, and I'll be real: my father was a not insignificant reason why I moved out here, because the money he can give me occasionally is great but everything else about him is questionable at absolute best

which is to say a year ago I left a state that was killing me to get away from an abusive family, an abusive and failing marriage, and I really just want to be able to settle here and live.

the cat is Black Magic the Inconvenience Demon, and if you search that tag on my Tumblr (and Tumblr is cooperating) you should find more random bits about him, but he's a bastard and the love of my life, have some more cat tax:

(that last one ft. Ray, my partner and roommate, in the process of stealing Magic's toes (clipping his claws) which as you can clearly see is a federal crime)

radicalurbanista

you can’t support autistic people and support the police. No amount of paint jobs or sensitivity training can stop police from killing with impunity

anarchopuppy

And fuck the jigsaw puzzle imagery advanced by the eugenicists at Autism Speaks. We’re not a “puzzle” to be “solved“

Half of all people killed by cops have a disability, because cops aren’t trained to recognize or deal with people with disabilities and very few places have people who are trained for those situations easily accessible during emergencies. So the cops come in and do what they’re paid to do - murder anyone who’s inconvenient to the state

genderkoolaid

Kayden Clarke was an autistic trans man who also had PTSD, who was shot and killed by Arizona police after having the cops called on him for being suicidal. His friend believes he was having a panic attack caused by the PTSD flashbacks he’d been having all week.

During the interaction, one cop left to get a “less than lethal” device “such as a beanbag shotgun,” which are weapons and can permanently disable and kill people. As the ACLU pointed out, they could have left the building when they felt unsafe due to Kayden having a knife; instead, they shot him in the stomach.

He was misgendered repeatedly by his mother, the police, and the news (& had apparently been denied testosterone by a doctor “until his disease [autism] was cured” which contributed to his poor mental health).

Do not call the cops on autistic people if it is at all possible and definitely do not fucking call them on suicidal autistic people (or suicidal people in general).

queenofnots

Supposedly progressive and left leaning people thinking art preservation and space exploration and just research and history in general are useless endeavors sound so republican to me.

kane-turu

Saw this on Twitter and I obligatory need to share it

crazy-pages

So she actually said that she does not see the appeal in Senshi at all and that the panty shots weren't intended to be horny - she just has a neighbor who looks kind of like him and does laundry in his underwear. Which she finds kind of weird and offputting, and put into his character to be funny.

But that's the thing. She doesn't exaggerate or grotesqueify or alter people's bodies to fit some standard. (Except insofar as she draws different species differently, and those are exquisitely practiced to ensure they have the same diversity of appearances that humans do.) She just presents people exactly as they are, complexities and oddities and all.

It just so happens that when you present people exactly as they are, what you present will be beautiful and alluring to many. Even the things you yourself might find weird and offputting. Honestly I think it's a touching example of how you don't have to see the beauty in everyone for the beauty to be there, simple honesty is enough to let the wonder of people's humanity shine through.

saxifraga-x-urbium

#i think we should put this post next to the interview where she said she doesn't want to eat the food in the series cuz she's a picky eater#and file them both under 'you don't know an artist from their work'#and maybe you don't need to!#maybe all you need to know is that ryoko kui is Good At What She Does#idk I don't like the implication that artists (and women especially?) can only create from personal life and feelings#some people have imagination and craft#kind of a tangent but. there you go.

no but you're very correct

kane-turu

Saw this on Twitter and I obligatory need to share it

crazy-pages

So she actually said that she does not see the appeal in Senshi at all and that the panty shots weren't intended to be horny - she just has a neighbor who looks kind of like him and does laundry in his underwear. Which she finds kind of weird and offputting, and put into his character to be funny.

But that's the thing. She doesn't exaggerate or grotesqueify or alter people's bodies to fit some standard. (Except insofar as she draws different species differently, and those are exquisitely practiced to ensure they have the same diversity of appearances that humans do.) She just presents people exactly as they are, complexities and oddities and all.

It just so happens that when you present people exactly as they are, what you present will be beautiful and alluring to many. Even the things you yourself might find weird and offputting. Honestly I think it's a touching example of how you don't have to see the beauty in everyone for the beauty to be there, simple honesty is enough to let the wonder of people's humanity shine through.

saxifraga-x-urbium

#i think we should put this post next to the interview where she said she doesn't want to eat the food in the series cuz she's a picky eater#and file them both under 'you don't know an artist from their work'#and maybe you don't need to!#maybe all you need to know is that ryoko kui is Good At What She Does#idk I don't like the implication that artists (and women especially?) can only create from personal life and feelings#some people have imagination and craft#kind of a tangent but. there you go.

no but you're very correct

i-enact-postvore

You ever think about many peices of media have zero women and thats just perfectly normal but if a peice of media has an all female cast people get... like that? Women should be allowed to kill over this btw

loveshoplifter

same but it's black people

i-enact-postvore

That's right

cantotallyeven

prismatic-bell

Same but it's disabled characters.

Also same but it's Jewish people.

Also same but it's queer people.

Also same but it's any intersection of the above.

catboybiologist

Can someone find me a screenshot of that tweet that's like "one of the little joys of the internet is watching shy depressed nerdy introvert boys become self obsessed hot girls" bc it's really hard to search for properly and I've found nothing so I'm using your collective saved memes as my database

Thanks in advance

mystery-incorporated-whore

THE MELODRAMATIC HOT GIRL SHITPOSTER TWEET

I love this tweet so much I stole part of it for my blog header. This request was written for ME

catboybiologist

Fucking THANK YOU SO MUCH THIS IS EXACTLY IT

fuckyeahchinesefashion

How to make traditional Chinese portable lighter huozhezi (cr 扇子有画)

atlaculture

I imagine this might be a tool that less skilled firebenders might use in very cold climates like the poles.

jakegyllenhaalsteeth

whole lipstick on a pig is bogus to me because we put lipstick on a pig and this is what happened

prismatic-bell

You say, posting a series of images where she's wearing zero lipstick.

necromancelena

What do you mean i have to make food myself to stop being hungry. Im literally hungry i don't want to have to make food until I've eaten. Someone bring me my bird and make it boil the water. the stove switch is too far. My arms are too short they don't reach.

necromancelena

Well. Okay my arms don't reach because I'm on the couch complaining but still.

necromancelena

Im complaining like this about making box macaroni. When does being 14 stop it's embarrassing

houseboatmac

honestly this is still the energy some days when you're 34 too. the trick is to always have leftovers or protein bars so that you don't have to make food if you aren't up to it. the 34 year olds successfully pretending they are no longer 14 are keeping up with the snacks buffer is all

gregoryabode

Happy pride month to the most doomed closeted gay couple out there 🏳️‍🌈

houseboatmac

for those who are unfamiliar, by this point these two had been roommates multiple times and their dating had caused wilson (the one saying 'why not date you') to divorce multiple times since his wife would inevitably figure out that wilson is in love with and dating house (scruff). they (wilson's exes) might once be open to sharing if it weren't for that scruff is a very mean person with a vicodin problem that happened because he has chronic pain from (his perspective) medical abuse, which cemented his trust issues. wilson though is a covertly manipulative bitch and once people figure out who wilson is the two absolutely deserve each other. except. wilson finally figures this thought out during Yet Another Crisis in House's Life and he Cannot Deal With This Right Now and also this show ran on Fox in the early 00s and while the term bromance was invented to describe the whatever was going on between them on this very show, the chances they were actually going to get together on screen were slim.

#house md #pride #gay pride