Rest in Peace Preshy

vivi, lillie, and others | 28 | she/it | white ace trans lesbian | marxist-leninist tankie | read pinned

[molsno]

Rest in Peace Preshy (2009-2024)

hi! we're a transfem plural system that uses this as our shared personal blog. vivi is the most prominent poster on this blog, but you're also likely to see julie, molly, phoebe, and dawn here as well. we each tag the posts we write with our names, and we'd appreciate it if you'd check the tags on a post to see who wrote it before addressing us! she/her pronouns work for all of us, as well. with that out of the way, here are some things to know about us:

we support the people's republic of china and other state socialist projects as a means toward the end of global communism.

we believe that settler colonies such as the united states of america and israel must be dismantled immediately by any means necessary, and that control of territories these entities claim must be returned to their indigenous peoples.

we believe that voting in bourgeois elections is meaningless and only serves to legitimize governments that serve bourgeois class interests.

we are staunch transfeminist baeddels, and as a result, we are deeply distrustful of all transmisogyny-exempt people by default, but especially men.

we don't care about the sex lives of other people or what kind of fiction they jerk off to, it's none of our business.

we know we're attractive, but our system is asexual. we have no interest in having sex. please do not flirt with us, as it makes us all deeply uncomfortable!

if you're interested in learning more about transmisogyny, we've compiled a list of readings we've found useful here. likewise, we've written a post about why transandrophobia isn't real.

we block very freely in order to avoid negative attention. we're very selective about who follows us, so we're likely to soft block you if you try to follow us. nothing personal!

we're all himejoshi, so naturally we love yuri and see it in everything. expect to see a lot of it on this blog. beyond that, we all have our own interests!

we're monogamous and married to @flufflesamy! 🩷

lastly, we like monkeys. they are silly and cute :3

here are some links to tags on my blog that you might find useful:

my writing - all of our serious writings, typically on transmisogyny.

transmisogyny - posts about transmisogyny, including those written by others.

txt - our text post tag. we post whatever comes to mind so a lot of these aren't very serious.

1k - posts of ours that have reached 1000 notes.

really me - pictures of us.

fave - our favorite posts.

system member tags:

vivi

julie

molly

phoebe (@hangingwisp)

lillie

willow (@lakesidewillow)

violet

dawn

[molsno]

look at this:

[parakeet]

just saw a 'comments' tab on someones blog you know where the following and likes tabs would be if enabled and it was just showing all the replies theyve made on peoples posts. this is fascinating when did this feature come out

[parakeet]

EMERGENCY - ITS AUTO ENABLED!

if you've made replies on posts there is now a tab on your blog showing every post youve replied to and your reply.

if this is not what you want, either go to your blog and click comments and disable it from there or just go to your individual blogs setting pages. just change it from blue to grey if you dont want everyone to see your replies AND the post you're replying to

PLEASE BE ADVISED that it is set to disabled for blogs that have not made any replies but it will turn ON if you reply with that blog in the future.! i just tested it with my main, which was greyed out but it turned on the moment i left a test reply

figured i'd get the word out bc i have not seen a single mention of this and i'm sure there are plenty of people who maybe comment on things they don't want on display for everyone to see on their blog lol. you can still look at your replies with it toggled off just no one else can, like locking the following and likes list

[parakeet]

so for some reason this feature was actually announced on the tumblr engineering blog. interesting choice not to reblog it to the staff or tumblr blog, esp considering they asked for user input on how to implement it, but i suppose considering the response to the last update maybe the replies would be too overwhelming...

so couple of clarifications. comments are disabled as default for primary blogs that have their likes disabled. they are seemingly enabled for all other blogs that have replied to posts

posts you comment on may show on your followers 'for you' page if you leave your replies publically available. they may, in the future, show in on your followers dashboard if your follower goes to their dash settings and enables this. apparently, if your likes are enabled, your followers can already see those on the dash if they've gone into preferences and selected to do so, which I was unaware of, and that seems to be disabled at default, but it's possible i disabled it previously and forgot about it ig

[molsno]

every spellcheck algorithm when you type a non-english name: uh oh! that's a typo! let me go ahead and fix that for you

[molsno]

does anyone else remember when google's facial recognition algorithm tagged a photo of black people as gorillas? racism is so often built into the technology we use every day and it's absolutely disgusting. and it doesn't have to be this way! it would be so easily avoidable! but the tech industry doesn't care. the tools built by the tech industry reflect all of the biases of the people who develop them, and they are most often built by people who don't consider non-white people with non-english names important enough to spend any additional development time to account for them

[molsno]

and y'know on top of that, these decisions reflect US cultural hegemony! just earlier, I tried implementing spellchecking in my program, and no matter what I tried, I could not get it to stop flagging the vast majority of non-english names as "errors". here's the readme for the library I tried to use:

it makes such a big deal about how inclusive they want this list to be. so, where did they get the majority of these names?

US census data

the tech industry by and large does not consider anyone living outside of the united states to be people. I even checked, and the difference between the final list and the file us-census.txt is only a few hundred names. and sure, this is just one spelling library, but it's one with over a million weekly downloads on npm and over 27,000 dependents on github. I guarantee that several of the websites and programs you use every day depend on this library for spellchecking, and whoever wrote this library decided that a list of names of people living in the united states is "good enough". it's maddening!

[dreadwedge]

As a transsexual woman 👩 who has had multiple experiences ‼️ I have found 🔎 that the biggest block of cheese 🧀 is usually the one ☝️ that has the largest size 📈

[dreadwedge]

mature content

[estro-boi]

rule 1 of nonbinary club: there is no right or wrong way to be nonbinary :)

rule 2 of nonbinary club: if u mention that half of us get seen as quirky and the other half get seen as rapists then u will be hunted for sport

[monidoll]

anon instant win 2koma where in panel 1 shes annoying and smug and in panel 2 she wins

[fishing-princess]

I Defeated the Demon Lord but it Turns Out the Demon Army was Largely Unaffected and I Fell Victim to a Flawed Belief in Great Man Theory

[molsno]

it's so awesome how any time you sign up for an online account you get spammed with marketing emails every single day. they always have a checkbox on sign up to opt out but it never does anything because they don't actually respect your decision. I'm really glad we've built the internet this way

[dark-spirit-tamamoland]

they're still terming random transfems as i type this i see which does make quite a statement doing this today specifically

[puppetstuffing]

watched three girls who reblogged its new blog mutual aidpost (made literally 15 minutes ago) already disappear from its notifs. transfems are not included in their pride :/

[puppetedlove]

:)

[puppetvictim]

:)

[tamamowand]

QUITE the statement to be nuking transfems at the current accelerated pace right at the start of pride month like this, isn't it

[sexualencountersatwalmart]

i have multiple nominally transfeminist trans women on here blocked because they just can't stop spreading the incredibly easily debunked lie that "(C)AMAB/(C)AFAB" terminology was appropriated from intersex activism. literally even fucking wiktionary acknowledges that this is a "folk etymology" originating on tumblr. it is explicitly an intentional transphobic lie intended to rob trans people of terms that allow them to describe their positionality. COINing is not fucking real. the people who originally pushed this canard want you to say you were "born male" or are "biologically male" instead of "camab" because they support a cissexist, naturalized view of coercively assigned gender as biological fact. they are not good faith intersex activists, they are terfs and other trans exterminationists. STOP SPREADING THEIR PROPAGANDA FOR THEM!

[sailatina3]

[ot3]

i think a new rule of engagement we should have for discourse is that any time someone says "the lesbian community" "the trans community" "the queer community" or something of that ilk you just dead stop the conversation in its tracks until they have successfully explained what group of people they're trying to refer to with this. because there is no such thing as a 'community' that every lesbian, or every trans person, or every queer person automatically belongs to/participates in, and acting like there is, or that we are all otherwise on the same page about which people these 'communities' actually consist of, lets people do a whole lot of lazy generalization that doesn't hold up to the slightest bit of scrutiny.

[witnotwitchcraft]

...we call the queer community a community because we are choosing to band together for safety and support. it is not woke to say "actually its every man for himself! i have nothing in common with the rest of you freaks!"

[ot3]

ok. well is "we" in this instance Every Single Queer Person on the planet, or are you perhaps doing a bit of generalization that won't stand up to being scrutinized. dont you think there could be some benefit to attempting to establish which people have made that choice you're referring to, and whose safety they are prioritizing. because if you have to make the choice to do this, then it categorically doesn't include everyone. and if it categorically doesn't include everyone, then conversation only stands to benefit by clarifying who it does include.

[witnotwitchcraft]

literally no one is able to speak for "every X person on the planet", that gotcha expired three years ago.

"we" refers to anyone who is fighting beside me. self inclusion and self exclusion are copacetic concepts.

i understand the danger of generalizations but if you lean too far in the other direction you get people trying to establish a literal gay card and set of criteria that is Queer Enough.

do you have a specific example of this generalizing language being utilized in a harmful way? it largely seems that language is being used by people being people and speaking in general terms about broad subjects

[ot3]

when did i say anyone was or wasn't queer enough? this isn't about deciding who does or doesn't actually count as queer this is saying that people are not automatically in community with each other by sharing an orientation label.

here's some examples of how these phrases are used that i don't like:

"the queer community needs to remember our history!" which history? in practice, on tumblr at least, almost always the american lgbt movement. i think its wrong to imply that american queer history Is queer history, and not just the history of queerness in one corner of the world. i think expecting any and everyone to both know and be deferential to the history of the american lgbt movement just because they are queer and speak english, regardless of whether or not thats actually their history, is weird nationalist behavior.

"the trans community has too much infighting" this is a statement that serves to imply that trans people are not allowed to have or capable of having legitimate ideological conflict with each other. it's frequently used to paint trans women specifically as instigators of meaningless internet drama, and completely discredit the critiques they have of the way they're treated by people who are supposedly 'in community' with them

i think pretty much every time "the lesbian community" with no further qualifiers is rhetorically used in a discussion it's been at best meaningless but often actually harmful, because understanding of lesbian identity has long been pretty heavily split between people who are using bioessentialist ideas about who actually Counts as a lesbian and people who aren't. i am not in community with twerfs and never will be, and i think trying to understand or portray lesbianism as a "community" without factoring in these peoples' presence just throws trans women under the bus.

"we refers to anyone who is fighting beside me" is literally a meaningless statement to make to a stranger. i dont know who you are. i don't know what you're fighting for. i dont know what someone has to do to qualify as being beside you. that clarifies nothing. the problem isn't broadness of the category, it is the complete lack of specificity regarding the criteria used to categorize. i'm not trying to gatekeep or police anyone, i'm just saying if you're trying to have a conversation about groups of people, you need to make sure whoever you're addressing can understand who is being rhetorically included in that group.

[stillnaomi]

denying trans kids hrt when they're sure of which puberty they want to go through is also an act of oppression. even if puberty blockers are available, we're not protecting kids by denying them the opportunity to go through puberty at the same time as their peers

"what if they go through physical changes that they later regret?" we allow cis kids to take that risk. in fact, most of them are never even given a choice and told they might regret it. just educate trans kids about what hrt will and won't do for them, then let them decide

[sergal]

everyone shut da fuck up this is the only thing that matters

[txttletale]

hdg is the perfect collaborative internet fiction project for anyone who's ever wished their mind control rape pornography had a hays code

[txttletale]

hdg is Lancer for sex

[sivavakkiyar]