Show me those pretty white jaws

self made man | 20s | we adore trans men here

[killuallukalluto]

I think a lot of queer people have been sold this idea that community is insular, that you are only safe with people like you and can only relate to people like you and conversely, insidiously, only people like you can ever understand.

Don't you see how dangerous and isolating that is? How much it flattens the human experience and primes you to dehumanize the other? To completely blow past the biphobia and aphobia and transphobia that these attitudes create- don't you see that a heterosexual cisgender man is capable of understanding you? Once you understand that all these boogeymen within the community disappear

[killuallukalluto]

I am not saying every cishet man WILL understand you, or that you will always be safe with them. I am saying that you are dehumanizing the other if you think that it is impossible for them to get it. And that it does not matter if you are "punching up", it is still reactionary and isolating for you to believe.

The truth is that you would be hard pressed to find a single experience somehow restricted to one subgroup of people. The reality of the human experience is messy and overlapping and that should not be an ideological danger to you. Common ground is *good* and it should not stop you from talking about your experience with it. If anything the richer the tapestry the more we will understand ourselves *and* others *and* what that common ground means. Because of this, people outside of your group will always be capable of getting it. As you are capable of understanding them. But this is only possible if both sides see eachother as people instead of flattening them into the other.

Even if someone else has not experienced something similar to you: people are capable of empathy or sympathy or understanding regardless. To say that someone isn't is to fail to hold them to a reasonable standard, and this includes cishet men. To not believe they are capable of understanding is to let them slide. Everyone is capable of extending you humanity.

The moment you internalize this, you are safer because you are less isolated. You will be less easily swindled by conmen and predators within your ingroup looking to further isolate you. You will be a better person because it will better prime you to extend humanity and understanding to other minority groups regardless of how much common ground you have. And many of these fears within the community of these "secretly privileged interlopers who don't deserve to be here and could never understand us" will melt away

[razzledax]

Bun

[jayvikted]

[existencebringsonlypain]

im glad they finally got to have sex

[gloomysnail]

Had to draw them to cope with the last act

[princessaxolotlcandy]

Thank you, Digital Circus.

[polka-dot-pond]

Tadc 9 without context

[nots27]

First of all, NO movie spoilers in the comments ❌ even if I already saw it, I will be deleting spoiler comments until the final ep is out on YouTube!

Anyways, I made this piece to celebrate the finale of this amazing series that has done irreversible damage in my head, and nothing makes me happier than enjoying the journey until the very end (please don't let it flop, lineart took forever 😭)

[doctorforks]

inappropriate timing

[spooky-pop]

Some art of the gang ahead of the finale dropping in theaters tomorrow. I can't believe this is the last time we are all waiting for a new episode together, I feel quite sentimental. What a ride it's been. If you're seeing it tomorrow, godspeed. And remember, be good to yourself and be good to others <3

[captain-price-returns]

[redstonedust]

i do find the rules around clothes fascinating because of how made up it all is. we invented the idea of covering our bodies from the elements because we lack fur like other mammals and then made up all these rules around it and now people will unironically tell you "men cant wear skirts its unnatural" girl none of this is natural. we are born naked and made up the rest as we went along. hope this helps.

[innerchildabortionclinic]

PARENT: I got "rubber duck" for my child's "bath" and she loves it.

AUTISM RESPONSE: Rubber ducks and other rubber bath toys can accumulate mold on the inside because of small holes underneath where moisture becomes trapped. The mold often goes unnoticed because it's not visible from the outside.

CORRECT RESPONSE(?): That's nice, I am unaware of how mold could impact this situation.

[charl0ttan]

dog i gotta move like yesterday

[desolationlesbian]

sometimes I think too hard about like. how the ability to record audio fundamentally changed how humans interact with music. can you imagine if the only time you ever heard music in your whole life was when you or another human being in your actual physical presence decided to create it. and 99.99% of the time that person was not a professional but just like your wife or your dad or your co-worker or church choir singing or playing whatever they happened to know. i honestly don't think we can fathom it

[desolationlesbian]

Everyone on this post making nonsense "WAH it must have been BETTER back then" comments is ridiculous. I have 24/7 instant high-quality access to Carly Rae Jepsen's entire catalog. Go listen to Cut To The Feeling and appreciate that miracle or get off my post.

[dogpuppy]

[anistarrose]

if you are a parent, or may become one, or you are otherwise likely to arrive in the situation of caring for a child while they eat, promise me this: if a child doesn't like a certain food or food group, you will ask them WHY. and specifically, you will pay attention to either confirming or ruling out "it makes my mouth itch" or "it makes my stomach hurt," both of which are medically important info that children may not provide unprompted. which i know because this PSA has been brought to you by "i spent my entire childhood and much of my early teens eating peas and lentils while wondering why everyone else liked the Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation so much, like were they a bunch of legume masochists or something, before i finally realized that Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation was in fact a sinister demon appearing only to me, and her true demonic name was: Legume Allergy"

[brainrockets]

Do not let your child suffer from spicy bananas!