Maolong

I swear I'll post something original eventually.

[girlknots]

Some utility pole hashira with my Ash @giveherswords ❤️

[puapka]

[tachyon-makesy]

Correct Agnes Tachyon characterization

[puapka]

Apple Seed by Ashirah

Circle of life, circles of life

please please play apple seed, its so important and special, such textured and real piece, i keep returning to the scene of Parvin and Rashanak listening to music on the floor and… it will change you, let the art change you

[luna-azzurra]

Some writing advice I will never give up:

Your characters are allowed to be bad people. Your story is allowed to have no moral lesson.yyour ending is allowed to be sad. The villain can win. The good person can do something unforgivable. The lovers can destroy each other. You are allowed to write the thing that no one asked for and everything that everyone told you doesn’t work and you are allowed to not explain yourself.

It’s your story. Burn it down if you want to.

[luna-azzurra]

What helped me write trauma better is remembering that the nervous system learns predictions. If danger used to come after quiet, calm can feel threatening. If kindness used to come with a price, kindness can feel suspicious. So healing is not just “they know they’re safe now.” Healing is the slow, annoying, deeply unfair process of teaching the body that the old prediction is not always the present truth.

[hobbular]

Friend of mine was submitting a job application and discovered that they REQUIRED a photo:

We’re trying to decide which of these is a better option:

or

[nowlander]

[upsettingandunfortunateclasshate]

My son's tattoo hurt me deeply

When Tess Morgan's son came home with a tattoo, she was griefstricken. She knew her reaction was OTT (he's 21) but it signalled a change in their relationship

This is gold this, absolute gold, the most over the top melodramatic hysterical ridiculous thing I’ve ever read

[brawlcloud]

This is actually so interesting to read- it’s from 2012 but its full of the same anxieties, even some of the same phrasing that many of the guardian’s later pieces on transness use. really hammers home how much of the terfism that emerged in the late 10s was middle class mothers angry at a loss of control over their adult children- whether that be their bodies or their friends or their opinions- and making that everyone’s problem because they have the power to do so

[monkey-cat-vivi]

He says, “I’m still the same person.”

I look at him, sitting there, my 21-year-old son. I feel I’m being interviewed for a job I don’t even want. I say, “But you’re not. You’re different. I will never look at you in the same way again. It’s a visceral feeling. Maybe because I’m your mother. All those years of looking after your body – taking you to the dentist and making you drink milk and worrying about green leafy vegetables and sunscreen and cancer from mobile phones. And then you let some stranger inject ink under your skin. To me, it seems like self-mutilation. If you’d lost your arm in a car accident, I would have understood. I would have done everything to make you feel better. But this – this is desecration. And I hate it.”

[quasi-normalcy]

Also just the classism of her associating tattoos with “vest tops, dogs on chains, broken beer glasses”; like, just say you hate poor people

[maykitz]

did you know that up to 45% of heart attacks are so-called 'silent' heart attacks that produce little to no symptoms but are no less dangerous? look up "drunk college boy gets impregnated like a girl video" to find out more

[ipacialsection]

i made a visual novel

gainsboro by petExpers

cease!

[folly-of-alexandria]

J.K. Rowling posting Upskirt shots of trans women makes clear what we've always known.

Rowling believes that she has a right to commit sexual violence against women she believes don't deserve rights or safety.

Her response to receiving criticism on posting said upskirt was to essentially argue that the trans woman had it coming and as was basically asking for it because of what she was wearing.

There is no daylight between Rowling and the average shitheel rapist.

[ddal84]

[specialagentartemis]

Intelligent alien species based on bugs but specifically those moths that don’t have mouths and only live for a week after they pupate. This species’ whole conscious life is actually in the larval phase; larvae are the ones considered people, larvae are the ones with conscious and complex brains who build society, and each instar of the larva is treated as a different phase of life. Larvae become emotionally and socially and cognitively mature without ever becoming sexually mature. When they pupate, they metamorphose into something different and strange and close to mindless, with no mouth and no digestive system, whose only instincts are to mate and then quickly die. Metamorphosis is treated, functionally, like a person’s death, and the imago phase is a kind of proto-afterlife of majestic flight and the continuation of the species. Birth and death inextricably intertwined. Sex is not something people do during their lives, it’s a thing that is done as an imago after you’ve passed on from your life but before you return to the soil in death. Resultant eggs are collected by family members to raise. I think this would be fun.

[flowersatopadecayingcorpse2]

A fun jax thing is that her digital circus body just, isn’t very gendered. A lot of them aren’t, but jax’s body in the circus is gender neutral. That’s why the “my ears and tail are the pinnacle of masculinity” is a joke, because they clearly aren’t. They aren’t the pinnacle of anything, they have very little gender attached to them, and jax’s attempts to assign that is a desperate attempt to maintain masculinity when it is given naturally. It’s interesting and helps display how jax tries to keep himself in the closet. He is given a genderless body, but not being a man is “bad” to him, so he genders himself to try to gain that masculinity back, that way no one thinks he could possibly be a girl, and idea he only associates with bad reactions from the people close to him. The bow he’s given is also interesting. Ribbit wears it as a bowtie, something masculine, but when jax wears it, it’s feminine. The piece of clothing changes depending on the context and the intent, and for jax it is feminine, just like how her tail and ears are gender neutral but “masculine” because she tries to make them like that.

[triprobellant-deactivated201709]

baby elephant seal names:

Stump, Florp, Grime, Sludge, Slorp, Smear, Stink, Hop, Lorp, Winch.

adult elephant seal names:

Roll, Mash, Crush, Wallop, Hollop, Dug, Fuck, Greel, Steel, Killer, Boss.

[kit-cosmic]

Would a baby elephant seal named Florp not grow up to be an adult elephant seal named Florp? Was Fuck not called Fuck prior to reaching adulthood?? I mean I’m no expert on elephant seal society but,,,,

[foreveriallyzombified]

Yeah.

You’re no expert.

[chiaroxoscuro]

The Hunt

The smell of burning steel has Gamma2 drooling behind her mask. It’s the olfactory equivalent of a dinner bell, and it’s ringing louder than

@gingerbeercosplay had an idea that inspired me to do some writing. I'm now obsessed and won't be able to come back.

[gingerbeercosplay]

Y’all need to read this, it’s so good!!!~

[maidslime]

The thing about the "trans women are capable of harm" type posts and blogs like transmascvoicesproject is that on a daily basis trans women are told that we are predators, that we are violent, that we have the rape organ, that we solely exist for fetishistic reasons and that makes us dangerous to be around. Society never lets us forget this. Cinema never lets us forget this. Terfs never let us forget this. Political parties on either side of the spectrum never let us forget this. These people post like they live in a world where trans women/transfeminine people are shielded from the consequences of our actions by our identities, but that's a fantasy. We are not only held accountable for our actions, but responses to our mistakes and transgressions are often extremely worse than that of other people. Not to mention, a lot of trans women are lied about, marked rapist/pedophile/abusive by an abusive, transphobic ex, and then isolated and removed from friends groups for the crime of coming out as trans. This is so, so, so common.

We do not need you to remind us we are capable of harm, trust me when I say we fucking know.

[fleshengine]

Every trans girl I know is too afraid of being seen as a predator to allow herself to be intimate with someone else. It takes years of understanding ourselves as something outside of the common archetype for us to get over that.

But go ahead. Tell me again that I'm capable of harm.