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he/any trans | sapphic | aroace the only thing I respect about Grant Morrison is their pronouns

[amazoogle]

the enemy drank water today. did you?

[calamity-corner]

no afab baby you don't have a "transfem headmate" words mean things

[shehellonmyspawntilisister]

counterpoint this does happen with fictives quite frequently

[calamity-corner]

counterpoint: still not what transfem means

[shehellonmyspawntilisister]

yeah lets not do pluralphobia in our transfeminism

[calamity-corner]

i'm plural, dumbass, i just know what words mean! being "bodily transfem" is the only way to be transfem because we all exist in a body! if a member of a system is a girl and the body they all share was afab then she's cis! because that's what the words mean. i don't care about vibes i care about material realities and there isn't one in which a headmate in an afab body has the lived experience of being transfem, and vice versa.

if she's not speaking "as a transfem", and she's not "bodily transfem", then what the fuck are we even doing here. "trans woman" isn't a different gender from "cis woman", they're both just women. you are very clearly misunderstanding that and that's transmisogyny my friend. there is no gotcha you can catch me in here, you're just wrong. it's okay to be wrong it's just an opportunity to learn. or you can dig your heels in and keep doing transmisogyny, your choice.

[shehellonmyspawntilisister]

you know being an asshole to someone is not a great way to get them to listen to you.

[calamity-corner]

lol. lmao even. tone police her after not listening the first two times, that tracks

[shehellonmyspawntilisister]

shit like this is why i hesitate to fully commit to transfeminism. some of yall are so assholish about such petty things that do not matter. were literally being systematically killed by a surveillance state but no lets go after headmates who have a different experience with something as complicated and nuanced as plurality.

i generally agree with the movement but jesus christ learn when to just leave it be.

[melodies-stereo]

whatever u say, transmisogynist

[dragongirlsnout]

notice how quick the "afab transfem" is to distance themself from transfeminism at the slightest sign of criticism; to them, transfeminism and transfemininity are just social hats to be put on and removed at will as the mood suites them.

[bloodyhandprint]

did you know avoidance only makes all of your problems worse. no one has ever discovered this before

[transcyberism]

I've suspected this for a long time but I usually try not to think about it

[sexualencountersatwalmart]

it's awesome that we have dudes writing think pieces about how they assume being bombarded with hateful caricatures from the moment you're born must make it easier for transfems to crack their eggs and come out, and how they wistfully wish they could've been bombarded with hateful caricatures of people like themselves so that they could've had that kind of wonderful, enviable privilege!

[bioniclechicken]

My stupid contribution to Petra Parker

[pealeii]

❌ “friends don’t look at friends like that” devalues friendship/platonic forms of love, pushes amatonormativity

❌ “historians will call them friends” devalues historians and forces complex relationships into modern simplicities, also devalues friendship/platonic forms of love

✅ “do they know its legal now” suggests the characters are stupid, poorly suggests that this is the only barrier to their relationship—both of which are funny as hell

[wound-tree]

Just got suggested a post that had a whiff of TMRA about it so I scrolled through the blog before blocking off the cuff. And yea I was right. But also this was clearly a very newly out trans man who only a month or so ago was making lighthearted and kind posts about being trans and speaking normally about his trans sisters. but in the past couple weeks has fully fallen down the MRA rabbit hole and now all his posts are about the vicious nasty transfeminists who don’t even believe trans men experience transphobia, those heartless bitches!!!

when we call this shit a hate movement, this is why. you are actively turning baby trans men trying to find community into rabid transmisogynists. it’s the spike pit for you I fear

[laurasimonsdaughter]

Perhaps they ought not to have eaten the dragon. There had been people objecting to it at the time. Surely such meat was poisonous. Perhaps it was even an affront, an insult to some intangible order of nature they ought to honour.

But the city was starving, the siege had gone on too long, and the king's troops were still a week's march away. The scorched earth would be fertile again in time, but right now it was barren. Right now there were mouths to feed. So they changed their crossbows for butcher knives and got to work.

None of the royal commanders asked any questions that could not be answered. After all, their aid had come shamefully late. The dragon's horned skull made a noble gift, a fitting tribute from a triumphant city to its humbled king. Who would have thought to question them?

And none of the townsfolk spoke up, when the first golden-eyed babes were born. Children who grew up barefoot and fearless, clambering over the city's patched and rebuilt roofs like they had no notion of falling, with a strange glitter to their skin when the sunlight hit it just so. No one breathed a word about dragons.

Because soon enough there were deft, young hands taking loaves straight out of the oven, heedlessly lifting iron from the forge, plunging into boiling laundry water. And some of them more wondrous still, wild, warm-skinned youths, with inexplicable knowledge and peculiar remedies.

A blessing, their families said proudly. A blessing after so much hardship. Which it was, in its way. This city would never fear dragon fire again.

[lierdumoa]

[inbabylontheywept]

i am going to use this post to proselytize my troll lore.

[thomtrebond]

something something each season of The Magnus Archives ends as an iteration of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, with Jon and Martin's importance to one another (and their parallels to Orpheus and Eurydice) increasing in each instance.

[icaseybaybee]

[lettuce-from-the-salad-bar]

[cucurb]

hey guysss so unfortunately the rumors are true and im leaving the narrative. Buttt the good news is my absence will create such a gaping hole in your lives that it will become a sort of presence itself, and so in a way it will kind of be like i never left! But i am. Leaving just to be clear.

[theoriginalmeep]

[holy-leapin-splits-batman]

[originaldouble]

Meeting uncle rock

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

I don't think people who come from wattpad after the purge and now want ao3 to have its own official app understand that one of the main reasons behind the recent wattpad purge that drove them to ao3 was due to pressure from appstore demanding wattpad to be more strict and follow appstore's policy. wattpad complied in order for its app to be able to remain on appstore. thus the wattpad purge.

ao3 doesn't have an app because for it to have an app, appstore will have to approve it first. and if, hypothetically, ao3 needs appstore to approve it, it will also have to abide by appstore's pro-censorship stance and start banning dark and taboo fics, which is against its own core principle of being completely against censorship.

ao3 doesn't need an app. it works more than fine without an app. the reason ao3 can allow dark and taboo fics, the reason it can allow the most disgusting and shockingly vile fics, and be completely against censorship is because it doesn't need appstore's approval. it stands on its own as a non-profit organization with functioning site and a team of lawyers protecting its platform, its users, and every single fanwork on its platform.

everybody say thank you ao3

here's the list of things you need to know about ao3 if you're new to the platform

[daysleftofsecondterm]

AO3 does not, will not, has NEVER had an app. If you think that you found “the ao3 app,” that’s not the ao3 app

[furryprovocateur]

[jooliadoodles]

genuinly tho i love to think about the human mannerisms rocky must have picked up while alone with grace for years. do you think he returned with an accent? completely different body language? sayings and idioms that make no sense when translated? it's so dear to me.

[myjetpack]

My latest cartoon for New Scientist

[voroxpete]

To be clear, this isn't a bit. This is what they actually did. "Its too late" is the new "Climate change isn't real"... And its still a lie!

Every serious climate scientist agrees that there is no such as thing as too late, just as there is no such thing as too early. We should have done a lot more than we have to fight climate change, and the world will suffer for our inaction, but there is no point of no return. We can always work to reduce the amount of suffering that occurs, and eventually turn things around to the point where our planet is healing once again. Do not believe anyone who says it's "too late".