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[silly-alien-prince]

"I've got blood on my hands. It's my blood, but I'm willing to put yours there too."

- A raw ass line from my 37 year old Mother talking about being radicalized by System of a Down around the time she got her first period.

[femlich2233]

reddit's reaction to the finale has me super depressed

Spoilers for episode 9!!!

Jax was explicitly confirmed as transgender, and anybody who argues otherwise is at best ignorant and at worst actively transphobic. It makes me so angry how much everybody denies the obvious truth. I mean, there's literally a long ass montage of all her moments with the song "Isn't she lovely?" and it's focused solely on Jax. She literally comes out to Ribbit in the flashback too.

It makes me so fucking sad and angry how little cis people will even try to understand anything. It's not open-ended. It's not ambiguous. It's blatantly obvious, and if you argue otherwise you are just a transmisogynist. agg it makes me so upset; I'm literally crying rn. I wish gooseworx had just had Jax say, "I want to be a girl" flat out.

Jax's whole fucking arc is a cautionary tale against repression. Its message is to live as yourself and to be honest about who you are. The episode ends with Jax not being able to live as herself. She could have been beautiful and wonderful and lovely, but she wasn't and never will be now, because she was too scared to be herself. That's the fucking message of the character, and yet, even after ALL THAT, people are still denying it and rejecting it and mocking it.

A transgender woman made a series with a self-insert character. A bunny who gets a little girl's room with the colors of the trans flag, who struggles with masculinity, whose backstory is about how she admitted something personal and vulnerable to her mom and was mocked for it, who was given a cute feminine bow and told "your secret is safe with me," whose final moments are set to a song celebrating and mourning the girl she could have been. And still, it's denied.

I used to cynically think that people only see who a person truly is when they die. But reddit has shown me it's so much worse. Sometimes, even after you die. people will still refuse to see you for who you are.

[seankurwisean]

I am not immune to behemoth Adrian propaganda

[teaboot]

Can I be honest with yall I don't want to hear SHIT against cishets at pride this year

[teaboot]

"But it's not FOR them!!!" The biggest military power in the world belongs to a christofascist nation overseen by a felon found guilty of 34 federal crimes and has greenlit a gestapo with more direct funding than the entire military of Canada for the purpose of ethnic cleansing. Let Hetero Jessica throw some biodegradable glitter at a municipal parade

[teaboot]

At this point if anyone is trying to exclude anyone benignly pro-queer from a pro-queer space I'm just going to assume you're a fed or something idk like something something destabilize the movement from within or whatever

[findingfeather]

I am making a VERY big point of the Ally flag in all my pride stuff at work.

Feel awkward about people maybe thinking you’re queer but still want to clearly signal “queers are okay with me”? SURE. LOVE IT. HERE’S YOUR WEIRD FLAG.

Don’t fucking at me about allies right now, they are ALSO actually getting fucking killed over us. Take your puri-gay shitty tent somewhere else mine is great with people’s cishet friends and relatives showing up to have our backs.

(“but what if they -“ shitty behavior is shitty behavior I don’t care if you INVENTED queer sex, if you’re acting like a douche i’ll kick you out. wanna act decent and accept the premises of queer coexistence and freedom, cool, i’m not judging you for feeling ok with the gender title they gave you in the delivery room or being attracted to people with the other standard issue title, grab a pop).

[vaspider]

yep yep yep yep

If you're with us, you're welcome. Sure, sometimes you have to wear the costume before it becomes the clothes, but also, some of the best people at Pride are the slightly confused moms, dads, and siblings who show up whether or not they understand. "Love is love" also means "I don't need to get it to show up for you."

[transmasc-theory]

I think it's very telling that when we discuss threats to transmasc lives- like forced pregnancy- it is seen as a refutation if someone can counter by pointing out the non-life-threatening issues the same would create for trans women. And yet the lack of life-threatening consequences is NEVER seen as proof of trans men being oppressed, let alone as badly as trans women.

For example: if a trans woman says that the alt-right wants trans women dead, and a trans man pipes up that the alt-right wants trans men detransitioned, the trans man is inevitably told that he is still privileged, because merely being detransitioned is better than being dead. The fact that he could live at all in this scenario is a privilege trans men have over trans women.

And yet, when trans men point out that abortion bans could kill them, as pregnancy is quite literally a life-threatening event, trans women can say "this affects us too- someone could babytrap us!" and that is seen as enough to prove that trans men aren't actually the ones suffering from abortion bans more. The fact that trans women do not face any threat to life after being babytrapped is NOT seen as a privilege. And if you do succeed in making them drop the babytrapping issue, they'll instead say that they could be forced to detransition on the grounds that a child, quote, "needs a mother and a father." And here, detransitioning while staying alive is suddenly, magically, not a form of privilege held over someone who could die.

Transandrophobes are playing a never-ending game of Calvinball.

[bisonwares]

Showing off the Arapaima I made! (Pattern also made by me)

This was the test of the new pattern and I love her. 🎏💕

[worcestershirecheshirecat]

Oh my goodness, this is so beautiful. Everything about this is perfect.

[omensofatimelord]

Now that pornhub released statistics showing that a significant number of cis women seek out porn of trans men under pretty fetishistic and transphobic names, can we finally admit that the rise in the amount of explicit gay fanfic/fan art/head cannons where the bottom is depicted as a trans man is fetishistic?

[mochiiknight]

Stop asking me for vending machines on my beaches!!!!! This is not design by committee!!!!!!!!

[transmasc-theory]

I reject the premise that trans women are the "main" targets of transphobia. I reject the premise that trans women are victimized more, worse, or more intentionally by transphobia than trans men. I reject the premise that trans men are only accidental or secondary targets of transphobia. I reject the premise that trans men are merely splash damage casualties in attacks against trans women. I reject the premise that trans men are only accidentally harmed by transphobia.

I should not have to post about transmasc issues with a disclaimer that "of course" trans women are hurt worse by this. I should not have to apologize for posting about transmasc issues instead of transfemme issues.

There is nothing accidental about transphobia. Every facet of it is intentional. Trans men are not bystanders in the genocide against all trans people. Trans men aren't accidental targets of trans genocide.

[golongbyjoannanewsom]

obsessed w this person in the replies

[sm64mario]

Hey! Mario was just wondering. Could you'a put a vending machine here? In the middle of this crowded intersection?

[ducktracy-deactivated20260315]

[fandomfishbish]

i foand my boit suttufuhcut an’ it says oim fouah

[bedpsyching]

Things I hate: fan made pokemon gender differences

[butterbeanchu]

YO THESE ARE FUCKING HALARIOUS

Like fan made stuff goes all out but in reality Pokemon gender differences are the most mundane shit

Only goes gen 1-4 tho

[eternal-fractal]

Yea thats how animals work

[bacony-cakes]

they fuckin gave charizard nidoqueen tits

[pokemonheritageposts]

Pokemon Heritage Post

[biocrafthero]

tshirt that says "I HURT PEOPLE FOR FUN AND ON PURPOSE"

[marcy-the-martian]

Police uniform

[elise-the-blind]

Ive seen the idea of swapping the scenarios theyre in, so instead i swapped their vibes. Simon having the best time in that blood ocean, making friends with mutant fish that can speak telepathically, while Grace is fighting for his life against an alien rock that generates hazardous atmosphere.

idk if anyone else has done this and given a name to it. i googled what the opposite of a 'bloody mary' drink is and it came up with a 'bloody caesar'. i dont know about that one chief. Iron hail? please tell me someone else has thought this through

im gonna get back to my jnd comic now, so close to skyheed finally showing up thank god, i just needed to make this last thing

[overclockedopossum]

If you tell neurodivergent people they need to "get comfortable with being uncomfortable" I am putting gravel in your shoes. No you can't take the gravel out. You have to deal with it. Dealing with it makes you a better person. What do you mean "pointless suffering".

[jemariel]

Except, at some point in your life, you are going to get gravel in your shoes. And maybe you'll have to deal with it for a while until you can stop and take your shoe off and rub your foot. And if you can recognize this as a natural consequence of wanting to go on a hike and that not every trail can or should be perfectly smooth and gravel-free or have a bench exactly where you happen to need it, then there will be more trails open to you and you will hike farther on them.

Because you'll learn to kick the rock into the side of your shoe so you're not stepping right on it. Or wear different shoes that will keep rocks out better, or let you remove them more easily. Or sit down on a log or a stump or a (bigger) rock to take your shoe off sooner instead of waiting for a bench.

Ok I think I've tortured the metaphor enough. The point is, building distress tolerance is not about pointless suffering or building "character." It's about recognizing that your own life and relationships will be measurably improved by learning to - sometimes, within reason - adapt to your surroundings rather than demanding that they adapt to you. You are always capable of taking responsibility for yourself. Nobody can take that away from you. Build that strength. Own yourself.

Signed, your ADHD Auntie Jem

[pnglove]

Mate, you’ve got a chubby lizard on your dashboard

[markscherz]

Graced by Geckolepis typica from Madagascar. I love that they’re quite round creatures and then they have these dainty little toes. Also, their scales are full bone and both scale and skin come off when they get grabbed, which is…unpleasant. Consequently, catching these geckos for research without damaging them requires special techniques. 19th century researchers used bundles of cotton wool, but I imagine this wasn’t very effective, because cotton still has a lot of friction and the friction would pull the skin and scales off. In my (quite extensive) experience, the best technique is to carefully and quickly flick the geckos from their tree trunk or branch into an open dry plastic bag using a finger or stick.