赤鬼胜鸾

he/they 他, art tag is "my art", scarlet-lich on twitter, fan translator (CN/EN 中/英)

[scarletlich]

The 瘦金体 (slender gold script, invented by Zhao Ji the Huizong emperor of Song Dynasty almost a thousand years ago) grinding I’ve been doing is paying off, writing this was pretty smooth with only a few sus characters.

[catboybiologist]

After some years of HRT I've been left with this deep, low simmering rage. Because what do you mean it was always this easy to be happy

[catboybiologist]

I take a shot once a week, and even if that was too much, I could do it as pills, and so many of my problems just evaporated overnight.

And not one person thought to bring it up.

When I was talking about how horrifying puberty felt. When I was cutting myself. When I was in inpatient care. When I attempted suicide. When I talked for YEARS in therapy about how dissociated and trapped I felt in my body. When I felt like I never truly fixed something that was deeply wrong about me that started at puberty.

Not one person said it was a possibility. No one thought "hey, maybe this kid should go to someone trained to identify dysphoria". No one mentioned that trans people weren't some weird other group of people. It didn't have to be pressure. It didn't have to be "forcing" me. Just mentioning that trans people exist and it could be me. That it was possible and it was easy. No pushing, just laying the option out there.

HRT is treated like this last ditch option. This horrific, mutilating thing that I GUESS we can give to you if you have NO OTHER options. Because did you know it's permanent? Did you know you'll be on it for the rest of your life? Did you know the health risks? Did you know it'll make you infertile? Did you know that it's deviant? Did you know that it's an alternative lifestyle for other people?

No one said it was okay to WANT it to be permanent. Or noted that most people are reliant on the medical system in one way or the other anyways (and it's not even necessary for HRT). Or that the health risks are the normal parts of having that hormone, even in cis people of your gender. Or said it was okay to not want kids, or mention that you can just freeze gametes. Or acknowledged that the "deviant" people are just people, living their lives, that have been violently pushed out of "normal" society.

I grew up in an area that Republicans mock for being a kind of "woke central". And even then it's just. Not treated as an easy option. It was never on the table if you don't specifically already know you're going through gender stuff, and no one will help you get to that point. At which point, it's still treated like the last ditch option. Did you know you can be a feminine man? Did you know you can slap a "she/her" in your twitter bio and be done with it? Did you know that you're oh-so-valid without it? Did you know that you shouldn't take HRT? Maybe don't take HRT? Don't take HRT? Don't take HRT? Don't ta-

When you've been in it a while, HRT is the easiest, most casual thing in the world. Just pop a shot on a Saturday as part of your "everything shower" routine and you're done.

Anyways. Support trans kids always and forever.

[catboybiologist]

And if anyone comes swinging in here with "but Sierra you don't have to take HRT to be trans this is toxic" I'm going to fucking scream, because that is the status quo. "Just do this without doing this" has become a "give them an inch" refrain when making ourselves "acceptable" to the cis. Of COURSE you don't need to take HRT. I'm only reminded of it a dozen times a day.

[escuerzoresucitado]

[shopwitchvamp]

We need to learn from this. It's time for Beijing bikini summer.

[scarletlich]

Every time I see this I have to say whoever wrote that 膀爷 means exposing oneself like a grandfather does not actually know enough Chinese to be making these claims. It just means bare chested man, 爷 can mean grandfather but in this context it just is a term of address for a man, and in the Beijing context it’s a familiar colloquial way to address a man (see also 京爷).

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

do you have some crazy family lore

yes

no

no but i know someone else's crazy family lore

results

Voting ended onJun 3

[komsomolka]

my favorite homophobic lenin anecdote is him sympathetically telling chicherin to take a break to cure his homosexuality and chicherin happily agreed because who would reject a boss giving you a free vacation and then chicherin returned to work he was like 'sorry, it didn't work :(' and lenin was like 'ok then'.

[thattransotter]

As far as I can tell from minimal googling, this isn't real (if it's talking about Georgy Chicherin and Vladimir Lenin, at least), I can at least say Chicherin was gay tho. If someone can find more information, make sure to tell me.

[komsomolka]

it is true (according to chicherins cousin) that lenin made such proposition but the memory got the best of me when i wrote this post because in reality chicherin politely rejected the offer due to too much work nominally😅 but i don't regret this half a lie my scenario is definitely funnier.

[komsomolka]

happy pride to comrade chicherin who has been dead for 90 slutty slutty years

[angry-eevee]

when people defend the “Cis white guy is default” thing like “He’s meant to be an everyman we can all relate to and project on!” kindly remind them the largest ethnic group in the WORLD is Han Chinese and the highest gender percentage fluctuates so if you want an ACTUAL  “default” you want a 40 year old chinese person whose gender changes from year to year.  

[galren]

#give us the middle-aged gender fluid Chinese protagonist that we can all relate to and project on (via @mr-and-mr-pavus)

[computationalcalculator]

[say0ranarts]

i will decide the truth. 🐦‍⬛

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

The eastern foot of the Pamir Plateau, Kashgar Prefecture, traditional clothing and daily wear of Tajik people in China. (cr 歌莱诠，刘星球，CCCCEE是个秀导，FoodWine 中文版)

The Tajik people in China identify themselves as Plateau Tajiks. Some mistakenly believe their fondness for red is influenced by Central Plains culture (such as weddings and the Spring Festival), since Tajiks residing in Afghanistan and Tajikistan have no similar cultural tradition of this kind. Yet culture and languages of Plateau Tajiks differ greatly from the Tajik people from plain region in Afghanistan and Tajikistan. In fact, the Plateau Tajiks culture and the Central Plains culture developed a preference for red independently. The Tajik people's affection for red stems from their indigenous aesthetic tradition, originating from the ancient Eastern Iranian worship of sacred fire and the sun on the plateau. Many Tajiks are fluent multilingual speakers. Their native languages are Sarikoli and Wakhi (these two are mutually unintelligible). Besides, they can also speak Uyghur and Putonghua, so they have no trouble communicating with others at all.

[hanfugallery]

Chinese hanfu in the style of warring states period

[hanfugallery]

Recreation of Chinese hanfu for men in Ming dynasty by 卢敖，Z_DK

[themoonandmyman]

I haven’t said anything interesting in a long while. this will continue

[occidentalist]

I’ve been russiaposting a lot lately and it’s because sometimes you’ve spent the bulk of your life aware but low-key only tangentially of a certain prejudice(russophobia) existing, like by virtue of your general politic you have always been aware that the average yank is gripped with a strange derangement every time russia or the USSR are mentioned. But then you are forced to take a closer look and you’re like oh. This is actually literally identical to the orientalism I am subjected to. Like hey this is just regular racism is anyone hearing this shit. These people sound like nazis. And then you say that publicly. And then you get like 35 bonafide hitlers in your inbox in the span of 2 days giving you ample proof that you were literally right, it literally is indistinguishable from the dehumanisation you are all too familiar with, down to the tropes used, down to the language used. It isn’t like orientalist racism, it plainly is orientalist racism. And it’s so common. So many westerners who think of themselves as ‘progressive’ and ‘anti-racist’ sound like literal nazi race realists when they talk about Russians and they make no effort to mask that, and you know they sounded the same way when they talked about Arabs/muslims. And North Koreans. And Afghans. And Iranians. And it’s all the same revolving door of rendering enemies of the imperial core subhuman and ungrievable to justify violence against us. And you feel kind of insane that no one is pointing that out except its most immediate targets, and you’ve felt that way before. You’ve seen that movie before. You’ve kinda starred in that movie before, actually. And then it’s literally the only thing you can think of forever.

[leofwines-deactivated20250831]

this is how it feels to shoot metal balls at orange and blue and sometimes green and sometimes pink balls

[jayebat]

bioluminescent phytoplankton glowing off the southern coast of Australia

[aromantic-journal]

"everyone should get more aromantic" can appeal to tumblr's sensibilities but I genuinely think everyone should also get more asexual. I don't mean everyone stop having sex, what I mean is

Sex is not essential. You can live without it. Full stop.

Not having sex isn't shameful or a sign of failure. It also doesn't make anyone boring.

You are not entitled to having sex with anybody and nobody is entitled to having sex with you.

Sex is not what makes someone an adult.

Nobody's worth is defined by how much sex they have or don't have.

Sex is not equally important to everyone.

You can have fulfilling and happy relationships without sex.

You should only have sex on your own terms, not because you feel like you owe it to someone, or because you feel like you'd be incomplete without it.

Know your boundaries around sex and be firm about them. Know how to respect other people's boundaries.

The previous point also applies when it comes to discussing sex. If someone doesn't wanna talk about it or hear about it you have to back down.

Anything can be sexual but not everything has to be sexual.

[ravioliet]

"why can't they just be friends?" not in the homophobic sense, but in the "in your need to center romance in everything you are missing the whole point of the media in question" sense

[bepeu-deactivated20171202]

you know what they say …… ‘lol’