missing her gentle waves

if you don't already know my name, you can call me Os or Oscea! 29| they/them | black, autistic & queer | U.S. icon: @ponypyyy piccrew

[landlockedocean]

hey there! i'm os or oscea, if you don't already know my name. they/them pronouns (and fae/faer, if we're chill). i'm a black queer and autistic person based in the central us who is very tired all the time.

this is my personal blog for fun, fandom, and feels. i post a lot about baking, sewing, libraries, birds, and cats. i'm currently into rwby and sonic the hedgehog, and to a much lesser extent overwatch. i can talk for days about nora, tails, or symmetra! right now, i play pikmin, minecraft, apico, sun haven, palia, and a few other things. im on switch and steam. personal posts are tagged #os thinks.

i write fic but i don't share it on this blog for complicated reasons. most folks know my ao3 name. additionally, if you enjoy my writing and would like to drop a tip, you can find me on ko-fi by that name.

[duplicitous-nature]

[wardenmcpherson]

TRA here means "transracial adoptee" fyi, just in case you're used to seeing that in another context

[qqchurch]

[only-cat-memes]

[dualboot-dollbot]

[umactuallyshow]

👾TONIGHT! A new episode of Um, Actually launches on Dropout at 7PM ET / 4PM PT!

Featuring host Ify Nwadiwe, fact-checker Brian David Gilbert, and guests: Brennan Lee Mulligan, Erika Ishii, and Danielle Radford!

[transfemme-shelterdog]

As someone who isn't straight but is straight-passing (married to a trans man as a trans woman*), it feels a lot of the time like I don't have a place in the queer community.

The number of people I've had to witness talking to myself and others about how transhet people aren't valid, unsafe, how we're traitors to our queer peers, how we don't belong at pride, how we shouldn't have pride because "ew straights".

It's really fucking exhausting. And I'm not even straight! My husband is, and he feels the same way, so I know I'm not alone here. I've heard this from several people now. I hate it. I hate how I and others are seen as lesser just because we're attracted to, married to, or dating people of different genders than us.

You can't help that you're gay. Transhet people can't help that they're heterosexual. Why is this so fucking hard for people to understand? What the fuck do you think happens to the gays and lesbians who transition and are now straight trans women and trans men? You sure as fuck accepted them then, why not now?

And that's not even including aspec heterosexuals, but that's not my community so I won't speak on that.

I've said this a few times now, but I'll say it again: the trans community and wider queer community has a heterophobia problem.

Fix your fucking hearts. I'm tired of this shit.

[they-bite]

my toxic trait is that i don’t care how old a post i interact with is on any site ever

[they-bite]

i used to spend all my time on deviantart. which (at least at the time) was set up so that you could see an art piece from 2006 and an art piece from yesterday side by side in the search results. then when DA shit itself i moved to the site that’s still cycling “do you love the color of the sky” around. i don’t care that the timestamp is literally right there on sites like instagram and twitter and i think it’s weird to care if someone likes a tweet you made two months ago. the internet is my art gallery and i can and will slap heart stickers on your decade old mona lisas, i don’t know fast paced web culture etiquette and i’m not willing to learn

[orteil42]

Wait, you were actually born in the 1900's? Thats so cool

i am going to eat my own entire skin

[idabbleincrazy]

Reblog if you were born in the 1900's.

[avoiding-claws]

[this-is-trans-joy]

I (trans woman) have a really rough time with needles so probably won't ever do injections for my own hrt. But I always put effort into being there when my boyfriend (trans man) does his injections even if I'm hiding in the corner amd looking away I am there for him because it's amazing to be a part of his journey into being more himself.

He held my hand as I cried getting my blood drawn for getting my labs done too, I love him.

This is trans joy!!!

[dogpuppy]

[ndnbutch]

personally I am of the opinion that vegans who are like “the way our food system currently works under capitalism on a large scale is exceptionally cruel to all animals including humans and is not sustainable, so I’m doing what I can to make the most ethical choices available to me about what I eat and encourage others to do the same” are generally very reasonable people who I agree with in spades. but vegans who seem to think human beings are not themselves animals who are ultimately also part of the food chain but instead some kind of other paternalistic higher entity that can never engage in ethical and sustainable hunting practices (and especially the fringe I’ve seen who think other carnivorous animal predators are also evil and need to be eliminated) are people I regard as foolish at best if not actively anti-indigenous and racist

[ndnbutch]

hey can y’all maybe ask yourselves why when people of color say things like “this movement I generally agree with has a racism problem” your gut instinct is to downplay and dismiss and say it’s only a few bad apples and that we’re co-opting the larger conversation by talking about it? can y’all examine this instinct in yourselves for a second?

[herpsandbirds]

[bird-gifs-collection-agency]

While its eyes are not as big as its mummy's, this baby tawny frogmouth is still using its beady peepers to see the best it can

[psychotic-gerard]

sorry i will never understand cis grief. your daughter is living her best life and going around with friends and feeling like a human being. your son doesn’t feel like he needs to crawl out of his skin anymore and can actually smile. your children are happy and no longer see their existence as the worst thing in the world. why are you grieving this lmao. grow up.

[viviprotrudes]

"I will never swim again until and unless I get surgery."

"This is why I try so hard to protect my trans sister, she has to deal with so much of this all of the time."

"And this is why I will never learn how to swim"

"I never go swimming, unless it's an event that explicitely mention that Trans Women are welcome"

And other such tags I am vaguely paraphrasing are ones I have had the horror of reading on my post. The trans girls are not swimming. It feels like there is a hole in my body where my heart should be, through which all my blood is pouring. I can't.

[viviprotrudes]

This is just the tiniest fucking window into how transmisogyny affect people. This is about a space that was held by trans people and for trans people where the transphobia targeting a transfeminine person was prioritized over everything else.

[viviprotrudes]

If anyone doesn't believe how badly transfems want to swim and how badly they fucking don't get to, don't feel/aren't safe enough to do so, whatever the fuck else, just look at the comments and tags. I thought there were already too many for it to be random on a post with, at this time, about ten times the reach of this one hereabove.

And yet I have ten times as many tags and comments on this here post about trans women and transfems not swimming. Heartbroken doesn't fucking cover it. I am trying to stay sane in the face of this but I am seriously not doing a great job at it. Fucking hell.

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

i miss swimming.

[cartoon-fanaticism]

GLaDOS voice: "Would you like to see some artwork I generated? I've heard from other test subjects that AI-generated artwork produces an uncanny valley response in human viewers because they can't perceive it as fully real. They've told me that it looks absolutely hideous to them, that they can't imagine anything more disgusting than AI art. But, well I've been practicing and wanted your honest opinion. Feel free to let me know how ugly you find this by ranking it on a scale from 'vomit-inducing' to 'eye-bleeding'." A robotic arm lowers from the ceiling holding a hand mirror up to Chell's face

[wassuppeas]

[coldwind-shiningstars]

The Tube Post has been updated for 2026! Endless thanks to @andstuffsketches for the amazing art (!!!), @rowenabean for checking this over for me (all remaining mistakes are my own), @kelpforestdwellers for extra tips, and @appleyblam for an editing pass. Thank you all!

If you would like to download the zine for your own use, you can find it for free on itch.io.

[lifewithstripes]

awesome zine!!! important note: blended formulas can be much more risky with J or D tubes, especially J tubes, as the small intestine is worse at dealing with any possible bacteria that may be in it, and tends to be much worse at breaking things down, hence why J fed people often need peptide or even elemental formulas!