The Last Letter

They/He | 25 | Cosplayer, Writer, Podcaster | Trans-Non-binary | Check out my podcast Mid-Evil Midwest

[specialagentartemis]

why does it take SO much energy to keep your house only sort of clean

[pleuvoire]

one time this japanese fujoshi i follow on twitter posted "the bottom should have a bigger dick so that you can watch it bounce while they get fucked and the top should have a smaller dick so that it can go in easier. uke dicks should be big and decorative and seme dicks should be average size and functional" and honestly her mind

[pleuvoire]

ok fine reblogs are back on go wild

[thememedaddy]

[anwarism]

Arcane portraits, here comes Mel ☺️

[volrachnun]

mel medarda is the gta 6 cover girl

[dollhair]

Something about the bastardization of the story time and time again proves that nobody in power really cares about the people who would resonate with King’s Carrie White. A girl so ugly and repulsive she’s been removed from her own story. The societal need for women and girls to be constantly perceived as attractive is what fuels a fair amount of her torment in the book, but that person isn’t even allowed to exist on the screen. We cannot empathize with her; it isn’t allowed. It’s fascinating to me.

[maykitz]

when people who want to be vaguely progressive say 'nature' all secular style but it's painfully obvious they mean 'god' while thinking they don't mean god

[maykitz]

"natural behaviour" "the natural body" "nature intended" "nature created" no da fuck it didn't

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

“Culture tends to argue that it forbids only that which is unnatural. But from a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition also natural. A truly unnatural behaviour, one that goes against the laws of nature, simply cannot exist, so it would need no prohibition.” - Yuval Noah Harari

[theburialofstrawberries]

awesome awesome interview with Emily Wilson

[sforzzz]

it's ultimately harmless, i know, but your desire to headcanon characters as queer or read every story as an allegory for queerness feels less like a progressive lens to take to art and more like an inability to relate and empathize with characters or stories that don't directly reflect you

[sforzzz]

it hurts no one at the end of the day and it's usually not that serious but whenever i see it happen as "legit analysis" i just don't get it. "oh this character is trans actually" and it's scott pilgrim or cloud strife. are you just trans and like him as a character? "but he said he was in lesbians" or "but he wore a dress that one time" like cmon

[sforzzz]

this will sound mean but i find this to be more common among white ppl who have just discovered their own queerness and as such just acquired some marginalized identity, and it feels like they're not comfortable realizing that a lot of these stories have characters and protagonists that no longer share all their labels. instead of just empathizing with a character or narrative on a more personal and human level they start with these "headcanons" or "analyses" (read: wishful thinking) to make it easier to relate to whichever character or narrative. idk as a black person i've been empathizing with characters and stories that, on their face, have nothing to do with me. i share few, if any, labels with Heather from Silent Hill, but i still empathize with her character and story. it feels like these analyses really come down to the logic of "i like character/story so therefore character/story is similar to me." which is not true. it reeks of narcissism. and wrapping it in language of "representation" feels insincere.

and again, must emphasize, it's ultimately harmless for a person to look at all their favorite characters and go "well they're bisexual, actually" (they have a same-sex friendship) or "they're so autism coded" (they're kinda awkward in social situations) or "this story is a trans allegory" (a superhero has an alias) but it feels shortsighted. in that you can't look past your own nose.

[gallusrostromegalus]

A cat is a machine that turns proteins into violence.

[starathsbunker]

#Helios was declawed by his former owners so he doesn't just slap things he dislikes like most cats#he really only feels confident in hissing at them#Especially because a lot of the thing he doesn't like are bugs and those are sharp sometimes :(#Selene has figured this out and now when she hears him hiss she sprints over the kill the fuck out of the bug#Helios has learned she will do this so he'll hiss at stuff louder and louder until she hears him#A nervous old man and his emotional support homicidal maniac tags by @gallusrostromegalus

I couldn't reblog without the tags because the context is hilarious

[gallusrostromegalus]

A Nervous Old Man (right) and his Emotional Support Violence Machine (Left)

Yes, he is more than twice her size. Yes, he is five times her age. Yes, he cries like a big baby until she kills Unacceptable Scary Things (earwigs) for him.

[creatingblackcharacters]

The way that 5000 Trump supporters and Klan members got drowned out during a really bad storm when they were gonna march in DC... and they had to seek shelter in the- wait for it-

The African American Smithsonian.

The writing hasn't been this good and pro-Black since Charlie got Kirked 🤣 But seriously, like... Imagine! Imagine marching in your hatred and fearmongering, having to seek shelter bc even nature rebuked your presence, AND you had to seek aid in a place where the people you hate... STILL gave you shelter. It couldn't be more obvious.

[casual-haterism]

being a trans guy is great because you get all the negative effects of being a woman in a patriarchial society and all the negative effects of being a man in a patriarchal society

[centwithlove]

The Following is intended to be commiseration with our shared suffering and not derailing.

being a trans gal is great because you get all the negative effects of being a woman in a patriarchal society and all the negative effects of being a man in a patriarchal society

[proudfreakmetarusonikku]

also absolutely not intended to derail and just to be like “fuck this shit sucks and I hate that u guys have to deal with it too”

being nonbinaryis great because you get all the negative effects of being a woman in a patriarchal society and all the negative effects of being a man in a patriarchal society

[liquidstar]

If my mom sees a significant amount of blood she gets lightheaded, and has fainted on some occasions. Once it happened when we were kids, I wasn't there to witness it but I heard the story from my dad. Basically my brothers, around 7 or 8 at the time, were playing outside while my mom was making their lunch, and she accidentally cut her finger. It wasn't anything serious, but it drew a fair bit of blood and she passed out. My dad saw this and rushed over, but he didn't really know what to do so he just sort of started slapping her to wake her up (not recommended, but he had no idea and panicked)

At that exact moment my brothers both came in from playing, and all they saw was our mom unconscious on the floor and our dad slapping her. So, like, without even saying a word to each other they both just INSTANTLY start whaling on him, like, full blown attack mode to defend our mom. Which obviously didn't help the situation, but she did wake up and everything was fine.

Now our dad says that he's actually really glad they attacked him over what they thought was going on, because it means he raised good boys. And I still think that's true, they're very good boys.

[liquidstar]

Same guys btw. So they did turn out good yeah

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[loveletters2myself]

this is how july will be spent

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

"Dogwhistles" are called that based on real "dog whistles", many of which are pitched too high to be audible to most humans, but are still perfectly audible to dogs.

Rhetorical dogwhistles are things that most people would not be able to identify as bigoted because they're INTENDED to have plausible deniability.

The wording changes are meant to be subtle enough that people really can mix them up accidentally when they don't have much information!

So when the gender critical movement calls trans women "transwomen", they're hoping for 2 things.

this usage will spread enough among people who don't know any better, to give transphobes the plausible deniability of not LOOKING like a frothing bigot constantly.

the usage grammatically places trans women in a different category than other women; it's changing "trans" from an adjective to part of a noun to make this distinction.

The more we can avoid this usage, the less deniability have transmisogynists have when using it, and the less rhetorical ground we cede to the degendering and misgendering of trans women.

I don't actually think ceding this ground is LESS divisive than pointing it out politely.

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