Aster

20 | they/he | art sideblog: @artsy-chocobo

[lurkingtman]

"Trans men aren't the focus" Yessss that extremely popular book every transphobic parent has specifically targetting trans men and mascs is actually not about trans men/mascs... so true bestie!

[eisenkrahe]

Yes!

[kaylmao]

Real Life Patch Notes:

Remaining Caffeine effect time now rolls over to next waking period

Updated friends' voice lines to more clearly indicate "Sarcasm" tone

"Little Treat" mood buff now lasts twice as long

It is now Good to pick at your skin all the time

Added ability to mute Annoying Coworker

Added 14 new species of frog

[what-even-is-thiss]

So apparently the Mac and cheese you can manufacture in your settlements in fallout 4 has no radiation and heals just as much as purified water for a fifth of the carry weight so anyways I’ve set up a pasta farm so I can run through the wasteland crunching down on uncooked Mac and cheese so fast that nothing can kill me

[estrogenpatchnotes]

My job? I’m the bat enemy in 2D games that flies at you from a diagonal angle you can’t shoot in, it’s an under appreciated role but really serves to test the player’s understanding of the mechanics leading up to harder challenges. I also receive an intense smug satisfaction when they can’t hit me.

[redstonedust]

yall ever lose interest in something so you stop seeking out content for it and your brain will be like. wow its so crazy that that thing used to be everywhere and then everyone stopped talking about it. so crazy that it fell off like that because nobody is talking about it on my personal curated social media and youtube algorithms. surely no other factors here.

[achillesinhighheels]

[arachnid-party]

something that really exhausts me in trans discourse is how people constantly try to apply cis discrimination dynamics into the one minority group it doesn’t apply to. we are so close to having a productive conversation but we keep missing each other here and it genuinely saddens me

[kvothes]

a good thread

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts 3 LGBTQ Pride Textures for Storm Flag mod (x)

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[pangur-and-grim]

[ex-bus]

Is that a pangur and grim reference

[pangur-and-grim]

wait you might be on to something

[imjunebitch]

if u call urself a misandrist I'm going to assume ur homophobic. I'm gonna assume that ur at the very least weird about trans women like me, that you're going to judge them based on how they pass, on how out they are, on what level of transition they are at. I'm gonna assume ur racist too. like. idk "misandry" very feels like the sorta "feminism" someone is really into when they're in high school and carefully making sure to never think about anything.

[han-the-human]

I'm so pissed off that the movement which villainizes and infantilizes trans men and erases nonbinary and intersex people is being called "transfeminism"

Because I think we do need a feminist movement that focuses on trans people!

All trans people!

And creating a system like TMA and TME is such a bullshit and unhelpful way to do that

Like "yes we will put everyone into two boxes, "good oppressed real trans woman" and "evil malfunctioning women who we all hate and deserve to be murdered with guns". This system is very progressive and feminist and accounts for all trans people. If you have any issues with it then you are an evil transphobic misogynist who clearly hates all trans women."

Wow great. This is what we are calling transfeminism?

[smorksthings]

I'm still not over the fact that people think that trans men detransitioning is a privilege. And I don't mean detransitioning because they figured out they aren't trans, but because they need to. Because it's safer, either to participate in sports or larger society.

This isn't a privilege, this is survival. Trans women can do the same, they can detransition too. This isn't a privilege when it's someone anyone can do.

[transmasc-theory]

I think it's very telling that when we discuss threats to transmasc lives- like forced pregnancy- it is seen as a refutation if someone can counter by pointing out the non-life-threatening issues the same would create for trans women. And yet the lack of life-threatening consequences is NEVER seen as proof of trans men being oppressed, let alone as badly as trans women.

For example: if a trans woman says that the alt-right wants trans women dead, and a trans man pipes up that the alt-right wants trans men detransitioned, the trans man is inevitably told that he is still privileged, because merely being detransitioned is better than being dead. The fact that he could live at all in this scenario is a privilege trans men have over trans women.

And yet, when trans men point out that abortion bans could kill them, as pregnancy is quite literally a life-threatening event, trans women can say "this affects us too- someone could babytrap us!" and that is seen as enough to prove that trans men aren't actually the ones suffering from abortion bans more. The fact that trans women do not face any threat to life after being babytrapped is NOT seen as a privilege. And if you do succeed in making them drop the babytrapping issue, they'll instead say that they could be forced to detransition on the grounds that a child, quote, "needs a mother and a father." And here, detransitioning while staying alive is suddenly, magically, not a form of privilege held over someone who could die.

Transandrophobes are playing a never-ending game of Calvinball.

[yaoigaysexaura]

you can't say "stop making everything about men" about a group of marginalised people who have been historically erased and never centered in any conversations that affect them. that is erasure. you are perpetuating the system that leads to these people being trafficked, raped, and killed without ever being remembered as more than a "tragic woman"