heal yourselves

21. Simon. he/him

[shadyglitterbeliever]

[joepelling]

red guy: i have to go home. i can never go home. i will always be home. i need to get out of here.

yellow guy: i have charged batteries for who knows how long and i’m desperately trying to make sense of this world putting together information in a way a past version of me has already done countless times but i have no memory of

duck:

[zk-j]

my message to white queers.

[spudsaaa]

*aborted Bobby Sugarbones voice* I would have loved to be three years old today

[graveyarrdshift]

women's thighs. you agree. reblog.

[specialagentartemis]

my petty gripe about anachronism in historical/fantasy/spec-fic worlds is attraction language.

We’ve all heard the “should you use modern queer labels or not” argument but honestly even when people go “true, they wouldn’t use the labels ‘aromantic’ or ‘asexual,’” so often the characters describe their experiences as “I never felt romantic attraction” or “I don’t feel attracted to anyone” in ways that makes me go. You are stilllllll thinking about this in an extraordinarily modern online way. That 19th century steampunk detective man will NOT be angsting about having never felt romantic attraction, he would be angsting about being unable to feel moved by the beauty or charm of a woman, or something. And I do think that “attractiveness” language is different from the identity-level idea of experiencing attraction—Sherlock Holmes does not talk about not experiencing attraction, but when Watson says “What a very attractive woman!” Holmes responds “Is she? I did not observe.” (And then Watson calls him an inhuman automaton and calculating-machine and Holmes calls Watson’s judgement biased). Never swayed by the attractiveness of a man or woman, never desirous of marriage, never charmed by the delights of love, all of these feel like some of the variety of ways that someone in this milieu might describe an ace- or aro-spectrum identity more than “never felt attraction” does. Mostly because, like the terms for aromantic and asexual themselves, nailing down an exclusively attraction-based definition of a-spec identities is a relatively new and extremely post-AVEN thing. And yet in fiction everybody knows to articulate their experience as feeling sexual/romantic attraction. And I always want to go nooo how would THIS character think about it?? Not how you think this character SHOULD think about it, how would THIS person in THIS context articulate their feelings?

[minovskyy]

becoming homophobic because when two characters in a scene have the same pronouns you have to say their names one william times

[minovskyy]

finally some good advice on this post

[greenbloods]

we are never going to be free until it literally doesnt matter whether a person is ugly or not

[greenbloods]

we are never going to be free until it literally doesnt matter whether a person is ugly or not

[wandersthroughfog]

We are never going to be free until it literally doesn't matter weather a person is ugly or not.

[contemptible-scoundrel]

pull up

[contemptible-scoundrel]

"impenetrably armored" knights when you pull out the pot of boiling oil

[kmftm]

the difference between reproductive abuse between amab and afab trans folks is sending me up the wall a little. Yes, I don’t think people assigned male at birth should be forcibly sterilised or forced to donate biological material in order to receive gender affirming care. However, there is a vast difference between that and being forced to give birth. The rates of corrective rape and impregnation as a form of detransitioning that trans people assigned female at birth face is horrific and insane. Have you ever see a video of someone giving birth? Have you seen the changes their body undergoes physically? Have you seen the sheer amount of painkillers (sometimes denied for various reasons!) that people who give birth are recommended??

have you ever actually watched anything around pregnancy and giving birth??? Like, even so much as a 5 second audio from the process. The amount of physical trauma it carries out on the body and leaves is genuinely the subject of several horror movies. You’ll notice I haven’t even gone into specifics with this post because I’m half-convinced tumblr would ban me.

anyway I’m making this post because with the state of discourse on this site, I’m firmly convinced that if it were the other way around, and the current group of transgender and loudly transandrophobic shitheads were the ones facing the prospect of giving birth, and all the complications that come with it, and all the insanely high risk of fucking dying, and all the political climate that designates anyone with a functioning womb as a fucking incubator, and just the sheer pain and trauma of it alone, we’d never hear the end of it.

again, I cannot restate my point enough that it’s awful that people are forcibly sterilised or put through other forms of reproductive abuse that does not involve pregnancy or giving birth. This should not happen, and should be a part of the conversation around reproductive autonomy within the trans community.

However I’m going to need you to get incredibly fucking real with me for a moment about the disparity between the sides of the conversation here.

[scramratz]

Why does every queer event either have to be SuperLoudDragBarDrugFest 2026 or Baby’s First Pride Parade (No swearing allowed!) can’t we go bowling or something?

[keyara-nyasha]

[deltaomicronfive]

Most people on this website are literally this image

[guerrillatech]

[lacicapatrera]

Via @rajaeen1 in Instagram

if this isn't a great example I don't know what is

[hyperlexichypatia]

I've heard so many people lament the fortunes of unhoused people's dogs because "the dog didn't choose that" (and the humans did???).

[elierlick]

Now THIS is art. 😍

[lady-sanctum]

“When I first saw the original painting, I began to do some research on that little boy. I could find everything I wanted about every other detail in the painting, but there was nothing about him. No history. And so I wanted to find a way to imagine a life for this young man that the historical painting had never made space for in the composition: his desires, dreams, family, thoughts, hopes. Those things were never subjects that the original artist wanted the viewer to contemplate. In order to reframe the discussion, I decided to physically take action to quiet [and crumple] the side of the painting that we’ve been talking about for a very long time and turn up the volume on this kid’s story. And that’s the reason why I started that painting.” Via Artnet News 2019/03/27

[elierlick]

Yet another new study debunked the basis for the anti-trans sports bans. It was never about sports but for creating legal avenues for exclusion and abjection. This is one of the largest analyses ever conducted, involving 52 studies and 6,485 trans people. Read the study here.

[lucieslucidity]

post so nice had to reblog it twice and force it down everyone's throats

[fleshengine]

At minimum about 4.5 thousand people liked this without reblogging it.

We gotta fix that.