What Do I Do With All The Gold On My Fingers

#furry art #my art

polarity-disturbed

"We know it looks like a butt plug, just drink the water, it's hot outside"

Seriously though he's right, stay hydrated

cryoverkiltmilk

"Fill up," he says.

juney-blues

other trans women can put it better than me but there's this, tension, between "radical genderpunk you can be whatever you want forever-ness" and "trans woman as politicised identity"

one views any engagement with your assigned gender at birth as like, being trapped in a prison of your own making,? as using the tools of the enemy or whatever. and the other is "yes my assigned gender is a prison, it is a prison the outside world is constantly enforcing on me and i would like to be able to talk about that a little thanks"

so you get this tension, where one side (made up of predominantly people who aren't trans women) says "the ideal world is one in which you can be whatever the fuck you want forever! so call yourself anything you want as long as it makes you happy, you can be an afab trans woman if you want it's all made up :)" and the other side says "hey hi yes i broadly agree with you on the whole ultimate gender liberation front, but we do not live in an ideal world and transfemininity is uniquely demonized even as far as trans identities in general go, so i would appreciate it if maybe you didn't act like our identity and oppression was something made up that you could just put on and take off whenever you like? we sure as fuck can't do that."

and then the other side goes "hey all these trans women are invalidating us! why are they gatekeeping and being so exclusive! assigned gender at birth shouldn't matter so why are you acting like it does!?"

and they say this while we live in a society where your assigned gender at birth very much does matter, and if you're a trans woman it is borderline impossible to escape that.

it's like an is-ought problem where since we're not acting like we already live in a gender utopia where one's relationship with assigned sex and gender is completely arbitrary, we're treated like the enforcers of the gender binary.

this is where you get stupid bullshit like people calling trans women radfems

anarchautistic

Somewhat tangential but I've found that if you're transfem and nonbinary and want to be a radical genderpunk people take it as an excuse to masculinize you. You say something like "I want to be seen equally sometimes as male, sometimes as female, sometimes as neither" you quickly find that it doesn't actually happen. Everyone hears that and defaults to seeing you as "failed male faggot." If you ask for she/they/he pronouns you get 90% he. Even if you ask for she/her you still get 10% he 40% they. When you give TME people the option to gender you in masculine terms even slightly they just start to do it all the time and completely reject the validity of your womanhood. You learn pretty quick that from the transmisogynist gaze, it's easier to accept you as some nebulously degendered oddity than to accept a trans woman as having a legitimate claim to womanhood.

Vivian - Sailor of the isles, on a house bobbing the waves. A diet of mostly salt grilled fish does a body good. Vivian lives a life quietly ungrounded from the small island town, spending most of his time fishing and ferrying people between islands for a small amount of cash.

Jelle - God knows we need more fat bisexual electricians in this world. Jelle is the darling handyman in town, flirtatious and romantic and above all his services reasonably affordable. Not many are brave enough to cruise on the job so thank the heaven's stars he stepped up!

Frederic - A small town baker, some days are overwhelming and some days are far too quiet. Rent hangs over his head like a knife and he stumbles over his words, his head is in the clouds and he's too stubborn to give up on the bakery. Inbetween all the free samples he'll make it somehow.

Eka - known for taking "pretty" pictures that are easy to sell, and the natural area of the island has plenty of that to offer: historical buildings, natural areas, beautiful views. He does weddings and birthdays and whatever else to get by. This career doesn't get a lot of business and also he hates this job artistically. Eka is embarrassed of his true passions and freezes up at the prospect of making a change. There's too much. There's just too much.

Umar - Dress warm, the nights get cold. There's a clearing beyond the woods, just far enough from town where you can hear the ocean and there's no lights. It's the best place in the country for amateur astronomy and nobody comes to this bumfuck nowhere town. You'll bring a thermos can with tea to keep warm. I'll bring my binoculars. I'll tell you where Andromeda is.

Gaëlle - The graceful glaciologist treks across the isles, taking rock and ice samples in the fridgid northern glaciers. The graceful glamorous Gaëlle is somewhat of a fashion model back home, sporting signature simple elegance.

Launo - Late night sessions grinding boss fights till the thumb starts to cramp, then order a couple pizzas. Smoke weed to make them go down easy. Forego a shirt when you answer the door. Listen to some spacey electronic music or watch an indie art film. Get high and think about rothko. Pass out on the couch and get backpain in the morning, but it's okay. He's still sexy.

Senna - Fashionista, local seamstress & designer of the isles. Antique singer sewing machine, knitting machine, knitting needles of every size, a collection of crochet needles and a collection of silk ribbons and blouses that would make Marie Antoinette blush. Dresses, skirts, the tiniest of shorts and bikinis, long gowns and drapery, casual or crazy, anything goes in the name of art. Just by god do not put them in heels!

acegender

explain your gender in 10 words or less without using boring words like “male”, “female”, “nonbinary”, “masculine”, “feminine” or “androgynous”.

go!

#fat as fuck deer

pickle-asylum

Some recent art of my fursona!!!!!

calling yourself TMA/TME discloses nothing about genitalia. Kind of a weird take.

Like, these terms are not analogous to amab/afab. Cis guys are TME, cis women are TME, trans guys are TME and trans women are TMA regardless of what genitalia they may have. All it really discloses is wether or not you’re transfeminine.

At most the term TMA discloses wether the person is amab. Which, is relevant to the transmisogyny they experience, as its the whole reason they experience transmisogyny.

Note that the terms amab and afab also, lets be real, don’t actually disclose what genitals someone has

#i think responder forgot about intersex trans women #no. tma doesn't tell you any genital situation #it tells you a person was coercively assigned male at birth and that they no longer agree with that assignment #and experience transmisogyny because of it

To be completely clear here i am defending the words TME and TMA and think they’re useful for discussing transmisogyny in part because of these reasons. I’m getting some responses that feel like they’re fully misinterpreting this and i don’t know how to respond to that

washipink

I feel like it’s a little…

I don’t want to say willfully ignorant? More like… wishful thinking. To say labels like TMA and AMAB reveal NO genital or birth gender information about your average trans woman. Even if one does not CURRENTLY have a penis (or were born without one and AMAB regardless of that) there’s a clear intent behind discussing someone’s assigned gender.

In the replies of this you talk about how being a “TME man” reveals zero information. But I need you to think about the flipside of that. “TMA woman” is exactly one group of people: trans women. It tells you a LOT of information on average.

I think it’s really less useful to talk about INDIVIDUALS being “affected” or “exempt” from transmisogyny than it is to talk about the actual effects themselves and the way they seep into every corner of our society. Even the language we are using to have this discussion puts me as a trans woman on my back foot because it centers how I’m “different” from other women.

nyxisnotafictive

Well, yes, here is the difference being highlighted: trans women are the targets of transmisogyny, and cis women are not. If that difference being highlighted makes you uncomfortable, then like... idk, step out of the conversation? Because any other version of the conversation you have is going to do the same thing one way or another.

On a similar note: many women have differences. "Blonde women" highlights their difference from brunette women. "Tall women" highlights their difference from short women. And "TMA women" highlights their difference from TME women. Again, you're allowed to not want to engage with that I suppose, but it's going to leave you having a lot of trouble discussing transmisogyny at all.

Also, the point of bringing up "TME man"s ambiguity is to highlight "TME"s ambiguity; there are constant complaints that this is a redux of amab/afab when, in actuality, TME isn't specific to any AGAB. And they also acknowledged explicitly that TMA aligns with being AMAB, because it is an essential part of the discussion.

I think looking at how transmisogyny affects the individual is incredibly important. It's nice and all to say "we need to eradicate transmisogyny because it's seeped into our society", but in the meantime while it's still stained into USAmerica's metaphorical carpet, it's important to be helping the people who need it most- that is, TMA folk.

Not to mention that discussion of perpetrator/privileged group and victim/marginalized group is always important to any discussion of bigotry, and doing away with bigotry necessitates deconstruction and understanding of what exactly is going on, who benefits, and who suffers.

not to shen egg discourse but the anger at egg jokes towards internet celebrities is always projection. people are using this post from his patreon as proof the jokes are evil,

shen doesnt say it harms him in anyway, but people are still using this as proof its wrong. "afaik" means he is not even discounting the possibility of his understanding of himself changing.

and i do genuinely hope the therapist he is seeing is one who is actually willing to help trans patients and this isnt some exploratory therapy shit. You dont go to therapy for gender stuff if you arent questioning gender stuff, but plenty of therapists will keep you questioning as long as possible because they do not want you to come to the answer that you want to transition. thats bad even if shen is cis.

id rather a thousand cis men be subject to egg jokes than a single trans woman be subject to exploratory therapy.

not to shen egg discourse but the anger at egg jokes towards internet celebrities is always projection. people are using this post from his patreon as proof the jokes are evil,

shen doesnt say it harms him in anyway, but people are still using this as proof its wrong. "afaik" means he is not even discounting the possibility of his understanding of himself changing.

#seeing some fans pin him as a cis ally is really fucking painful #yall did that to me.

id rather a thousand cis men be subject to egg jokes than a single trans woman be subject to exploratory therapy.

one thing about being a rhythm heaven girl is that you're much more likely to be around monkey

red-mercer

And possibly wrestler