The Loudest Boom This Side'a Salvo

Duncan. 28. he/him they/them. "I'm here to pour a little petrol on the situation.”

[ashoss]

id like to introduce some people to my good friend the Keep Reading button

[lyraeon]

If you were ever taught not to bother anyone unless it's really, really important, you might now struggle with the idea that no really, your friends would love to hear from you just because and not only when one of you is in crisis

[dreamycastaway]

The original pride flag and the sewing machine it was sewn on

[iwriterobots]

[wowhead]

its gay asf for a man to be a paladin....who are you laying hands on? other men?

[tboy-cock]

hey so we can talk about trans men. we can make art featuring trans men. we can headcanons characters as trans men. we can discuss the politics and oppression surrounding being a trans man. we can talk about loving trans men. and this does not take away from trans women, we can talk about trans men. its ok

[roaches-inthecereal]

[uwuinhell]

[userautumn]

some of you are not cis and the thing is that you don't even have to do anything about it. you can just be like "damn that's crazy" and move on with your life. you don't have to change your name. you don't have to change your pronouns. you don't have to choose which flavor of not-cis you are. you don't have to change your wardrobe. you don't have to come out or cut your hair or reinvent yourself. you can just be like "huh neato!" and let that be that. you don't owe anyone a performance of your queerness. not even other queer people. ok that's all thank you and goodbye

[mutagenesys]

"You don't owe anyone a performance of your queermess."

[lunarhaze]

[soranatus]

ARES By comic artist, Joel Ojeda

[naga-noia]

Is it actually internalized misogyny or is it just a resentment/aversion born from a lifetime of being forced into a suffocating box of femininity and womanhood. Or hell is it literally just someone saying “I’m not sure if I like being a girl very much”

next time you want to snark at a transmasc/trans man please ask yourself this question, because those things are not one and the same, and need to stop being treated as if they are

[depsidase]

[annalise-austenne]

Ryoko Kui please return my calls

[the-seelie-court-official]

"that doesn't sound sincere- it sounds rehearsed" is one of the most devastating and fucked-up statements you can make to anyone in the neurodivergent/ADHD/Autistic/Schizophrenic/Disordered Personality sphere. yeah bitch it's rehearsed. because i wanted to get it right when i said it

[pangur-and-grim]

I think some of the loneliness of autism is that you feel like you hurt people just by Interacting Wrong, but you don’t know how to Interact Right, and the more effort you put into it, the more exhausted you are and the more artificial it comes across (with the end result of people still being upset with you). and it’s not anyone’s fault for not liking Being Interacted With Wrong, and it’s not your fault for doing it so wrong, but it is very, very lonely.

[pangur-and-grim]

anyway, every single book I write ever is going to secretly be about autism

[flunitazene]

its baffling to me the amount of people who seemingly cannot understand why devaluing manhood and masculinity isnt subversive in the slightest when you do it to the group of men who face constant societal pressure to not be masculine

is my ex-friend who said testosterone would ruin my beauty and make me violent a feminist now? was it woke of my mom to start crying when i came out to her because she wanted a daughter and not a son? i mean ffs, you people cant recognize even the most common transphobic statements against trans men

[sistertaxon]

actual criticisms of academia:

cost of education acting as class barrier

exploitation of graduate workers

colonialist past and present

ties to military industrial complex

danger of power structure entrenching and justifying orthodox views on social issues

criticisms of academia that get made:

those damn ivory tower academics are wasting money learning about things

[ivyroseiris]

I thought the queer community understood that having to hide a part of yourself is not a privilege, but a lot of people seem to forget that when it comes to trans men

Trans men, trans women, and nonbinary people (who are constantly erased in the conversation btw) all experience oppression in similar but different ways and yall keep just wanting to play oppression olympics while tearing the community apart with what might very well be a psyop