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squids, wizards, and more redd || all pronouns

[depsidase]

[busket]

you cant hope to do ANY good progressive work as a feminist if you think that body shaming is a valid tool at your disposal. yes, even against men. any trait you can insult a man's body for there exists a woman with that trait who knows you arent in her corner. there are women who are fat and women who are hairy, women who are balding. women with penises and testes. women with acne and neckbeards. these traits are not exclusive to the misogynistic creep cishet men who you are trying to insult.

[oldwindowsicons]

Plants vs. Zombies (2009)

[littlestpersimmon]

Free Ornamentation IV. This work is dedicated to the public domain 🐌

[4nimal]

I turned them into individual transparent pngs if anyone wants those premade!

(Op lmk if you want me to take this down, I'd totally understand—on the other hand, I'd love to do it for the other public domain pieces you've done if that's ok!)

[estro-boi]

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

[estro-boi]

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent

[macleod]

How to Use Torrents (with Pictures) - wikiHow

An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over

always use qbittorrent, do not use bitorrent or utorrent.

[devilmaycry3dantesawakening]

that one bit of art nomura drew of aya with a gun and her boobs out covered by a cool jacket is maybe the effortlessly hottest thing that's ever come out of the entirety of square enix's lineage.

[devilmaycry3dantesawakening]

images that give me a heart attack

[devilmaycry3dantesawakening]

these ones where she's almost showing pits are good too. like christ nomura how did you draw something so dyke-y.

[tieflingkisser]

[lesbianslimefriend]

here's where to find it on windows 10

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[mousidy]

i'm sure there are people much smarter than me who've worded this more succinctly but the ""male socialization"" rhetoric really feels like it goes hand in hand with the way that racism works to "adultify" black children and paint them as being inherently more aggressive. the fact that transness in itself will make people ignore the sexual & gendered violence a young girl goes through or treat it as "inevitable"... this quintessential cisgender "girlhood" that people treat as being necessary to understand womanhood feels a lot like the "i'm just a girl suffering in my girlroom, girlhood is insanity, cottagecore coquette" branding that white women treat as being exclusive to themselves. so witnessing other tme people who call themselves left-leaning/anti-racist parroting the male socialization rhetoric is so ????/?/??? because what's the point in putting "i will tread on you" stickers all over your shit if you're going to spend your time on tumblr filling out white supremacy mad libs in trans womens' inboxes 😭

- universal statement about "female socialization"

- look inside

- it's white

[mousidy]

Sexual violence against trans women needs to end

I'd like to start a small project raising awareness of sexual assault, coercion, harassment, and other similar behaviors toward trans women and others TMA (transmisogyny affected) by people TME (transmisogyny exempt)

I find that our experiences are far too often ignored, belittled, or even used against us, and I'd like to see a future where we can speak up about what we've been through and actually be met with the support and resources we need to heal from or escape sexually coercive situations

I want to invite trans women and others TMA who feel comfortable doing so to discuss their experiences in my askbox, anonymously or not, and I will post them (unless asked not to in the body of the ask) under the tag "#transfem voices project"

Additional important info:

Risks: There is always the possibility of the tag being used to find transfems to harass, and this is something you may be vulnerable to if you choose to submit non-anonymously

Deletion info: If you submit anonymously, please note that neither you or I have any way of verifying who actually sent the ask once it's up, and as such, I have no way of verifying who you are if you reach out and ask that I delete it. As I want to ensure that no bad faith actors can silence our stories, I err on the side of not deleting them once they're up, so please do keep this in mind! Additionally, please be aware that independent archiving efforts may exist, so it would be difficult to have your submission truly removed from the internet

If you do want to be able to delete later: You can send the text of your ask in my DMs before putting it in my askbox. Then, wait to send it into my askbox until I reply to your DM. This will allow me to verify later that the post is yours if you want to have it deleted. I will not reveal your identity to anyone, but even so, please feel free to use a throwaway sideblog for additional privacy if you like

Reblogging info: I will leave posts rebloggable unless asked not to by the asker, so anyone who wants to spread awareness should feel free to reblog

Those who may find these posts triggering should feel free to block the tag

I will mark all posts mature to adhere to Tumblr's guidelines

I will sometimes add additional content warning tags to some posts where they become relevant

This project has no planned end date. I intend to keep taking submissions as long as I'm physically able, so hopefully no one feels rushed to contribute! You're free to take your time 💖

Some reasons a submission may not be posted:

I cannot post an anonymous submission if it includes some kind of clear identifier attempting to attribute it to a specific person, unless you DM me to verify that it's you. I have had a few submissions with the username of a transfem who has been widely harassed added to the end like this: "-(username)", and I do not post them because they could be an attempt to further harass her

I try to queue roughly half of all submissions, while the other half I post when I see them. This is to space out submissions so that hopefully nobody's gets buried. If I'm posting others but yours isn't up yet, it may just be in the queue!

Thank you 💖

[archiveofcanvas]

Anonymous painter (circle of Gerolamo Tessari), Saint Anthony Preaching to the Fish (detail), 1518, Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua

[baradragon]

christianity being a real facet of peoples lives instead of something you grow out of is killing me what do you mean youre 19 and still believe that mission trips are a positive force in the world

[neetzone]

[havingapoemwithyou]

The lushness of it by Mary Szybist

[tlirsgender]

I prommy I'm not gonna get transmeddy on my Sex Change shit and honestly like. I'm speaking from my nonbinary ass genderfluid 2spirit intersex perspective lol. The assumption that medical transition is only/primarily for binary trans people is so ............. chuckles darkly. There's a lot to unpack there

[tlirsgender]

If medical transition was a binary thing then how would every increment between the two cisperisex ideals ... exist. Like

[tlirsgender]

That's the wholeeeeee idea, baby. That is thee whole point of all of this

[tlirsgender]

[ID: a reply from @butch-king-frankenstein : "how would every increment between the two cisperisex ideals ... exist" that's the neat part! they don't (in these people's minds) /end ID]

Ohhhh right right right. Sex is binary that's why you get The Surgery that does everything at once. It's the only way. Anything in between isn't a real body but some sort of flesh homunculus how silly of me to forget

[ryebreadgf]

[meltingpotofinterests]

[mousidy]

"mtf" and "amab" voted worst acronyms of all time

[mousidy]

we don't need "leftist" ways of calling trans women male actually

[mousidy]

you can say trans woman. you can just say trans woman

[mousidy]

people will criticize tme/tma calling it "the new gender binary" and then go around calling people amab and afab as if they just ran a find and replace in their vocabulary for "male" and "female"

[mousidy]

"sex is what's in your chromosomes" is not a neutral statement. that's one of the main reductive oversimplifications that the right have been pushing about sex for years. sex is a combination of physical characteristics, many of which can be changed or removed in the process of medical transition. I cannot wrap my head around why other trans people are so happy to uphold regressive binaristic thinking like this

[mousidy]

[silyaspider]

The weird thing about "sex is chromosomes" (apart from being reductive, binaristic, and generally not true) is that this isn't how it has ever worked operationally. We don't check someone's chromosomes in order to assign either sex or gender. It's wrong as biology and it's wrong as sociology. That is not how our culture does it.

I don't know what chromosomes I have. Haven't seen 'em. So far as I know, neither has anyone else.

[nepharim-tree]

The "sex is chromosomes!!!" argument, in my mind, has parallels to the "God of the gaps" pattern in Christianity. Where the more we learn and are able to disprove one argument, the more the goalposts shift and retreat to a thinner definition.

"Sex is your body type" -> physique is massively variable and humans have very low sexual dimorphism. also societal factors massively influence body type.

"Sex is what genitals you were born with" -> intersex people with ambiguous genitalia + SRS being feasible both deconstruct this argument for immutable sex

"Sex is your hormones" -> HRT

And now we're at "sex is your chromosomes." First of all, again, most people don't know their chromosomes or anyone else's. We assume most people have XX or XY because that's what high-school level biology teaches, but again, the mere existence of intersex people blows this binary out of the water. It's a bad model.

But also, like... we've shown that all other sex characteristics are mutable with sufficient scientific advancement. We can change hormones, we can change general physiques, we can change genitals. Why should chromosomes be any different? People have been working on gene editing for years. What's to say that in the future we won't have some ability to give someone whatever chromosomes they want?

"Immutable sex" is a god of the gaps. it just doesn't hold up so it retreats into whatever it can

[jessie-elle]

Also (speaking as an English teacher here for a minute, I know my shit here), "male" is the adjective related to "man" and "female" the adjective related to "woman", in the same way that "maternal" is the adjective of "mother", "solar" is the adjective of "sun", etc. If you're a woman you're female, if you're female you're a woman, end of. One literally implies the other. The trans man calling himself "female" is misgendering himself, anyone calling a trans woman "male" is misgendering her (and most of the time doing it on purpose).

Aside from the whole idea of "biologically" male/female being bunk (see above), the whole notion that "male/female" without context/specifying refer to that is extremely recent and something TERFs have actively pushed into public discourse. That's simply not what those terms were understood to mean for most of my life and I'm not even that old. Anyone who uses "male/female" to refer to agab, congratulations: you're a rube and you don't know English.