a xenoform

wwyd if you came back to da blr after years as a completely different gal only to discover that the people you cared about on here left years ago and will never be back and youre the only one reminiscing about the past;; twenty three. she/xe

[mousidy]

being a transgender woman is cool or whatever but let me be entirely honest with you it most often feels like a senselessly cruel cosmic joke

[tpwrtrmnky]

"Just fucking transition already" in all its forms is necessary counterculture to the endless fucking eggslop that litters the trans internet. "When you wish you were a—" No. You are one. Transition about it. Quit romanticising the closet.

[missnyan64]

An addendum for those who cannot safely transition now: you're fine, you can make sure you're in a good position beforehand. Love to you all.

[tpwrtrmnky]

Working on getting to a situation where you can safely socially/medically transition counts as part of transition tbh

[d-7th]

Taking risks is also part of transition. Flat out. We can’t do this “but it’s safe in the closet” shit.

You can’t sit around fantasizing about, as an example, leaving Texas (which is too expensive to ever happen) and WAIT for someone who will never come save you to come and save you. So many trans people are endlessly waiting and not DOING. Stop it!!! Seize the reins of your fucking life already! Do it bad and do it scared

[jellyfish-confetti]

I'm trying to get back into the groove of things. I am currently diving headfirst into one of my oldest hyper fixations. I finished this a few days ago after taking too long to work on it, but well....

[irinviolet]

A Wip of a big ass oil painting I impulsively started a month ago but haven’t had time to work on 😔

(I hope i finish it…)

[expertpedestrian]

I don’t know about anyone else, but I, as a trans woman, do not know what it is to be a man. I know what it’s like to be surrounded by men, to be picked apart by them, to have masculinity enforced on me and to have my femininity degraded. I know what it’s like to be targeted for punishment, physically and sexually, for my femininity, for a girlhood the boys and men could see in me, to be queerbashed, to have my head slammed into hard surfaces, to have my genitals fondled, to be injured in all kinds of small and repetitive ways with things like pens, compasses, and so on.

I know what it’s like to be assumed to be a man, and to be abused because I am not. I know what it’s like to be separated from my female friends as a young child because my status as a ‘boy’ meant that I needed to be placed with the other boys, the ones who degraded me and hurt me. I know what it’s like to be beaten and burned. I know what it’s like to have teachers make an example of me because I cannot conform. I know what it’s like to be made afraid of being around other people, because people means abuse.

But I don’t know what it is to be a man. Even after everything they tried, I wasn’t one.

[taliabhattwrites]

Thinking about how the boys at school developed a "fun" "game" where they'd sit behind me and try to shove a pencil into my butt without the teachers noticing.

Trans women tend to have lifelong experiences of being cajoled, bullied, brutalized, and beaten due to our perceived inadequacies and 'failure' to embody manhood. We are violated because we do not fall in line, and then, when we do finally articulate our identities and consciously refuse the manhood a cisexist society tried to impose on us and punished us for not adequately performing, we are told that we were always men, always sat atop the gendered hierarchy, and have no idea what it's like to experience gendered violence.

Transmisogyny: the patriarchy's funniest punchline.

[quasixenoform]

dont know who needs to hear this, but as someone who used to find expressing any form of genuine affection difficult and cringe, professing love in every other interaction is much better. tell someone you love that you love them. tell someone you like them. tell someone you enjoy spending time with them, tell someone you enjoy their presence, that you like their company. being sad or mad about the state of the world shouldnt stop you from finding beauty in the mundane, from falling in love with the smaller things in life. the time we have is short, spread some love, make someone smile, itll make you happy. do what makes you happy.

[quasixenoform]

i am so back (in pain)

[radiofreederry]

Hey this is why you stop fucking buying her shit btw

[rowshark]

By Tiina Menzel

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[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Ok this wikipedia article is pissing me off so much 

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

yeah i’m gonna re-write this fucker

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

goddamn. there is so much bias in the first paragraph alone:

this is an EXCELLENT example of the way word choice and tone can be used to create bias and transform the truth to suit the writer’s purposes.

Here’s my re-write: 

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i got rid of the passive tone (which distances Profumo from his actions), and changed the photo. notice how the original writer chose a photo taken before the scandal, portraying Profumo in a respected position of power, a powerful man seated at a desk.

I chose a photo taken in the aftermath. Which would you say more accurately reflects the context? here are some other changes:

“denied impropriety” like he’s some maiden aunt clutching at pearls. No, what he actually did was:

oh, and he wasn’t

he was, in fact

after lying through his teeth. now here’s my favorite bit:

what does that MEAN? what the hell does that MEAN??? oh boo hoo hooey the Prime Minister’s self-confidence was damaged, how dreadful for the poor dear. the poor sweet man…

fuck that. in fact, Profumo’s actions

of the government, and rightly so.

oh, and I looked it up: the young woman in question was a model, not a “would-be” model. But ultimately her profession has no relevance here–what is relevant is that a middle-aged man in a position of power slept with a 19-year-old. I wonder what motive the original author could have had, to choose to emphasize her career over the fact she was still a teenager…

Words can be used to bend anything. Pay attention to tone. Pay attention to authorial intent. Question everything. But especially question the language used to describe historical and current events. Everyone has an agenda–look for it.

ko-fi.

[antique-scarecrow]

#this is not a commissioned post (it’s a ‘fuck you you bastard’ post) but i wish it was #SOMEONE GIMME 4 BUCKS I SPENT A SPITE-FUELLED 80 MINUTES WRITING THIS

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