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Hello! I'm an animal/creature artist kinda-sorta returning to Tumblr! I've been here for a while now, but mostly on my FR/petsim sideblog @hyddeplays

To see my stuff, use #hydde draws For few and far between text posts, use #hydde rattles Everything else will be reblogs of stuff I adore & cherish ♥

#my art #artists on tumblr #furry #anthro #illustration #digital art #hydde draws #hydde rattles

worldssmallestlizard

small writeup for pride month

kind of a continuation of this post from last year

fleebites

#junicorn

day 03

‘heal’

#the clasp on their hoof... aww...

mousidy

a lot of my disillusionment with the trans "community" comes down to the fact that too many of you take "gender is different from sex" and go "ah ok, so instead of saying women are fragile and men are strong, I should say afabs are fragile and amabs are strong. to be Inclusive"

then you just treat gender like a surface level aesthetic draped over what someone "actually" is. really is indistinguishable from terf rhetoric

mousidy

you all need to unpack your bioessentialism, but we also need a better theory of gender than "it's just dressup." I will pick my words carefully here, but the word "gender" itself refers to so many different phenomena that have been lumped together, and we need to un-lump them

mousidy

in a feminist context, "gender" has historically referred to externally imposed categorization and the internalization and performance of said categories. in a paper I wrote on this subject, I called this sense of the word "extrinsic gender"

"intrinsic gender," on the other hand, is what I used to refer to the sense of the word "gender" that a lot of trans people are talking about when they discuss social gender dysphoria and euphoria. it's the internal sense of category that's resistant to external impositions

but then we also use the word "gender" to refer to subconscious sex, which is the term Julia Serano coins in Whipping Girl to name the phenomenon we're talking about when we talk about bodily dysphoria. it is the "gender" being "affirmed" by gender affirming healthcare like HRT and bottom surgery

so, "gender" is: a social classing system, a performance, and at least two internal phenomena as well. and I really don't know if it's doing us a service to conflate all of these things!

mousidy

a lot of people lately seem to be going heavy on the "performance" use of the word, ignoring (intentionally or otherwise) social classing, intrinsic gender, and subconscious sex. this seems to have led to a lot of "progressive" people treating trans women like men "amabs" who wear womanhood as a costume, and nobody understands why that's wrong because they also think gender is just a performance

mousidy

see also "why can't you just be a femboy/feminine man/etc"

mousidy

furthermore, some trans people experience social dysphoria but not bodily dysphoria, and vice versa. but bodily dysphoria in particular has gained some stigma in the last few years

because we use the word "gender" to discuss both "intrinsic gender" as I termed it above, and subconscious sex, there's been a certain strain of argument from some trans people that says that medical transition reaffirms societal gender norms about bodies, and that bodily dysphoria must only result from externally imposed norms about what kind of body corresponds to what gender, and thus it would just go away if the gendered associations were unlearned

I'm strongly of the opinion, though, that our bodies are not like clothes! gender dysphoria related to clothing would generally have to do with one's intrinsic gender clashing with the gendered norms of their culture surrounding clothes, but I believe "gender" dysphoria related to the body itself is really, in large part, subconscious sex dysphoria, and this component cannot be alleviated by changing norms or associations. I strongly believe I would still seek HRT and bottom surgery if I lived my whole life in a cultureless vacuum

you cannot sidestep my dysphoria by regendering parts of my body I'm trying to change, and frankly it causes me a lot of strife that fellow trans people who flirt with me think they can talk about my body however they like as long as they gender it correctly. the word "girlcock" is not a magic dysphoria repellent, because the dysphoria doesn't just come from the gendering

My hot take is that even if you are transmasculine so you can experience less misogyny it's not a sin or betrayal of any kind

polkadotmotmot

Jessica Vollrath - Atlas, 2025 - Oil on linen

fruitblush

I shit you not I had a dream about a "good" ending for the Digital Circus and in it Jax makes amends by giving every character a piece of silver jewelry that fits them and then she transitions.

And then by the end she's shown to become made of silver, with some body parts becoming jewelry-like too.

#I'm not really a fan of the show but I did watch it #kind of caught me off guard because i rarely have dreams #hydde rattles #the amazing digital circus

I can't believe what just happened.

A while back I thrifted this brooch for 10 bucks. It was sterling silver, and I fell in love with the vague animal shape resembling a petroglyph or a cave painting. Two weeks ago I lost it. The clasp was loose, so I knew it was gonna happen eventually, but I loved it too much not to wear it. Today, I found it again. In the parking lot of my home, probably run over a couple of times. Battle-torn, I felt like she returned from the war. Ironically, because she was run over, her clasp was now locked shut. You could not open or close it. Problem solved. There's probably a lesson in there somewhere about trauma and growth, but I can't find it. Anyway, I gave her a soda bath, bent her horns back in shape, and even managed to brute force the clasp back open with a seam ripper. Now it's a bit tight, so she'll never fall off ever again.

#hydde rattles