[blue--folder]

Saturn Devouring His Son, Me, BALLOONS, 2021

[maxz-b]

okay but i do think if jacob trouba had done his full hockey gear lathered up in paint run at a canvas thing in the nineteen seventies that man couldve retired and spent all his time sitting around in new york somewhere and writing a manifesto. and i wouldve eaten that shit up in my modern art lecture

[maxz-b]

youre gonna tell me you dont like jacob trouba big red? you dont find jacob trouba leap of faith as interesting as it is beautiful in its contrast? thats what youre going to come in here and say to me?

[renthony]

It's wild to watch the phrase "tumblr sexyman" morph into "man that tumblr thinks is sexy," because when I first saw the phrase come into use, I always saw it used in reference to the phenomenon of "when presented with a wide array of fictional characters, tumblr will always pick the skinny white man to obsess over, and if the fan-favorite character has no canonical human appearance, the fandom will inevitably create a popular fanon of the character as as a skinny white man."

When I hear "tumblr sexyman," I think of Cecil Night Vale being constantly depicted as a skinny white man instead of literally anything else. I think of the background character white men who get elevated over protagonists that are women, people of color, or otherwise not the white man power fantasy.

"Tumblr sexyman" is, like. An insult. I DON'T want any of my blorbos to win a "tumblr sexyman" poll. "Tumblr sexyman" is the exact opposite of what I want my own OCs to be. If any of my characters ever get called "tumblr sexyman," I will have to immediately re-evaluate myself and the art I'm making.

[renthony]

Things I think of when I hear "tumblr sexyman":

Cecil Night Vale, as previously mentioned.

Oncelercest, because if there aren't two skinny white men to ship, tumblr fandom will start shipping the skinny white man with himself.

Bill Cipher inexplicably being fanon'd as a white twink despite being a fucking triangle.

Everyone fawning over Marvel Loki while shoving every woman and Black person in the MCU aside.

The way nearly every single character in Hazbin Hotel has the same "tall and skinny" body type, along with all the criticisms Black audience members have made about the issues with Alastor's design.

The way tumblr got obsessed with the white man villain in Sinners.

[aheathenconceivably]

thinking about when i mentioned tom and jerry by title alone to my 65 year old father and his only response was to laugh REALLY hard and say "him and that fucking mouse.." while staring into the distance. and then the conversation was over

[tepkunset]

I feel like simply calling JK Rowling a transphobe isn't strong enough anymore. Like. This is not your grandpa calling you by your deadname at a restaurant kind of transphobic. This is her wanting to eradicate all trans people (with an extra special hatred towards trans women specifically). This is her trying just that by personally funding transphobic hate groups with millions to push around laws in the UK. It is not hyperbolic to call her a dangerous, genocidal maniac.

It's not about cancelling a problematic writer. It's about literally trying to save lives by denying her as much money and power as possible.

[razorbladeromantics]

I MISS MY CAAATTTTT T-T

[elisecairo]

[teex]

Z with the game-winning snipe! | ANA vs BOS 03.01.22

[moveslikekeithrichards]

tbh i think no matter how much people try to optimize intentionally-produced stim toys nothing will ever top Some Piece Of Crap You Found At A Yard Sale 15 Years Ago or perhaps Garbage

[kaylmao]

shh don’t worry catholics aren’t real

thank god. i mean thank something else

[mchi22]

i fuckin hate games where u furnish/decorate a house because it reminds me i truly have no fucking idea what youre supposed to have in a room

[mchi22]

[onlyfangz]

if a trans man needs to hide the fact that he's trans in order to access any form of male privilege, i simply do not believe that is real privilege. i will, and never will, accept that the closet is a privilege. any queer person can go into the closet to access "privilege," and it's dumb when you all try to argue that bs too. are you not tired of making the exact same arguments about recycled queer groups every 5-10 years? nothing is ever new except the New Queer Enemy really IS privileged and evil this time, we promise!

[pastimperfection]

Speaking of recycled arguments, you are recycling a TERF argument here: TERFs insist that trans women don't really experience misogyny, only the stigma that attaches to gender nonconforming (trans) people. According to them, there is no such thing as a trans man or trans woman, only male and female and obedient and disobedient.

[onlyfangz]

are you stupid? where the fuck did i mention trans women??

[onlyfangz]

you people act like trans male erasure isnt that big of a deal and then you say shit like this. sorry that my post about trans men didn't cover the fact that i also think trans women are victims of misogyny and the idea that they can re-closet to access privilege is stupid too, for you see, i was talking about trans men.

[thevoidiliketoshoutinto]

I love episodes of Game Changer where the only way to win is by learning & the only way to learn is by playing. With some episodes, like Don't Wake Standards & Practices, the overall flow of the game becomes pretty apparent pretty quickly, & also there's some surprises along the way. But then there's episodes like Count the Rice, Deja Vu, or Bingo, where the basic conceit of what the game even is is an ongoing mystery. I love that stuff.

[likepeaches]

wait wtf is cream soda

[nvtxl]

cause when we're creaming and popping...

[likepeaches]

we’re cropping?

[nvtxl]

we're peaming

[amvs]

there’s not a star in heaven that we can’t reach

[carriesthewind]

This the report that JK Rowing doesn't want you to see. This report scares her so much that she is trying to destroy Amnesty International, a human rights organization, to stop you reading it:

Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net)

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their fundin

(Amnesty already pulled the report because of JKR's threats. Of course that didn't and won't stop her - capitulating to fascists and bigots is never the answer. Alejandra captured the report and posted it, so you can read what JKR doesn't want you to know.)

[sanguinarysanguinity]

Bluesky thread is a lot of screenshots (which I find impossible to cope with), but if you scroll far enough down, there's a link to the full pdf:

[batrachised]

love the phrase "but I digress." yes I temporarily got lost in the moors I wander in my mind but don't worry I'm self-aware about it

[no-sharks-on-the-sun]

if i could give one piece of advice to newly transitioning trans men, it's that it's 100% possible to find a community of people (including women!) who don't treat you as a threat, and the people trying to convince you otherwise are not your friends

[sawthatmountainburn]

famously, being treated like this has always worked out for trans girls perfectly and they've always come out of it better people :)

I Am A Transwoman. I Am In The Closet. I Am Not Coming Out.

NOTE: Wow, I wrote this piece anonymously and privately and did not intend for anyone else to actually read it. It was a way for me to vent…

[self-winding]

You wouldn't think "don't treat people like shit because of their gender/sex, don't lump people into a hivemind because of their gender/sex and make generalizations about them" would be such hard pills to swallow in trans communities.