Borrowed Time

Queer autistic trans man. 35. "We're not pure of heart, but we're sure of aim, and our hearts are full of love, and blood, and whiskey." - The Mechanisms

[dick-hardboiled]

There is absolutely a platonic explanation for that

[dick-hardboiled]

But I will also entertain the non platonic for my own edification do u understand

[goldensunset]

[witchsteria]

i do think what gets ignored about carrie as a character is that she’s an incredibly easy target to bully; she’s a chubby, sheltered acne ridden teenage girl who wears frumpy grandma clothes and regurgitates the jesus freak shit her violently abusive mother tells her. she has violent thoughts about her classmates and is uncomfortable to be around. she’s far more interesting being a victim that’s somewhat uncomfortable to be in the head of than a tragic waif. she’s not a martyr, she’s a child and a child who’s been victimised her whole life shouldn’t have to be kind and angelic to be recognised as a victim. suffering teenage girls shouldn’t just be presented on screen as toned down glamorous thin ophelias, suffering teenage girls can be fat and poor and think violently. i do think we need to examine why culturally we need teenage girls to be beautiful and kind to valorise their suffering and treat it as bad

[jamjarblues]

so basically got confirmation that i cant safely piss in public toilets anymore!! in the past week ive been confronted in both mens and womens toilets. not gonna go into detail, im safe and both situations were resolved without any incident, but im gonna buy a radar key so i can be in public for longer than a few hours at a time. and the EHRC has ruled that these incidents are not discrimination because i am a trans man.

i dont even know how to describe the levels of anxiety and distress this has caused me. i already struggle to feel safe in public due to my paranoia. i dont know how i am going to handle going out. i desperately hope this changes. i am grateful to my friends and partner for sticking up for me both times and holding me while i cried.

if you have ever told a trans man that he looks ‘scary’ or that you would scream if you saw him in a womans toilet, know that you are a fucking dangerous person. you cause harm. you directly endanger transgender people both physically and psychologically. fuck you.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[depsidase]

[thevoidspeakz]

jon gets a lot of shit for being rude to statement givers but like. im gonna be so honest rn.

you make your way to this institute. BY CHOICE. you walk into MY office. you laugh about MY tape recorder. you make it very clear that you think we're a bunch of incompetent morons and are incredibly petty about the institute's reputation — which, YES, is BAD for GOOD REASON but your BITCHASS is still here SITTING IN MY OFFICE and MAKING IT MY PROBLEM.

man FUCK you AND your statement. i'd be telling people to eat shit so often Jonah would have to figure out how to fire my ass. GO TALK TO A GODDAMN SHRINK

[timeforfingchaos]

"OMG PPL ARE HEADCANONING (insert fictional masc woman) AS TRANS MASC!!" Well y'all have been headcanoning actual real life trans men as masculine women since the beginning of time so I think you can cope

[checkyourasianbias]

next challenge for white people when reblogging a person of color's post about being one do NOT leave "as a white person" in the tags

[number1mongrel]

"You hear that? They're saying The Odyssey doesn't even have nobody!"

"They've got nobody in the Odyssey?"

"No I'm saying they don't got nobody."

"Nobody's there?"

"Nobody's not there!"

"So everyone's there?"

"Everybody but nobody!"

[noirineverysense]

so so crazy how people love talking about how they love to break white male characters and how hurt/comfort can be one of the biggest ao3 categories and then when you say you want that same energy for female characters or characters of colour you get people being like do you want poc to be tortured? Do you want women to die?? It has to be played up obtuseness. Its completely on purpose.

[genderkoolaid]

#whump is among other things #about exploring the characters experience of pain #like digging into how it feels how it affects them and its about catharsis and acknowledging hurt #pain as a private and interior experience that can't fully be understood from the outside #it makes sense that people would enjoy seeing characters who are like them whumped

whump also suggests an interest in a character's subjectivity, their specific relationships and experiences and what would hurt them the most and what would provide the most comfort to them in particular, and overall an intimate engagement with the character. and so when people are never interested in engaging deeply with characters who aren't thin white guys..... it is perhaps suggestive of a bias or two!!

[terracotta7]

As if Joanne couldn't get any shittier, she misgendered and insulted a woman who called for support, all because the woman had PCOS/PMOS and "didn't sound feminine enough."

Fuck her.

Your shitty children's series isn't more important than people's lives.

[c0njidraws]

Found @/jacksrighthand's fic Nothing Beside Remains after doing my yearly old ship tag check on ao3. An absolute delight to read, and got me revisiting rhack again! (The drawings are unrelated to the fic's story)

3rd pic : In the New tftbl, there's a scene where two Tediore soldiers hold Rhys at gunpoint at the entrance of his office. Instead of using offense or defense, Rhys charms his way out of it by inviting them for a drink and a new job offer. It got me going: Yep, he totally would try to use his youth and looks to get out of desperate situations, if needed. (All the other CEOs are at least two decades older than him)

[effervescent-fool]

ive never been able to take "climb him like a tree" as a sexual innuendo seriously because i picture climbing a tree in my mind and then i picture a tall man in my mind and when i put those two things together im not seeing anything sexual. im seeing like. circus tricks.

[lemon69lol]

[1whistles-5x]

Idk if the way I'm phrasing this makes sense, but this wave of people i see online saying that trans men are all eager to "misgender themselves" whatever the hell that means, just goes to show that cisperisex experiences with manhood are still seen as the default standard to the point where acknowledging that some men do not share those experiences must be dismissing their manhood in someway.

[balconeko]

person who posted the uterus tattoo blocked me for having this take

i thought this take would be so lukewarm but i guess not

[rock-kandyshark]

Yeah I'll kick the hornets nest: you should not be making egg jokes about strangers, especially to their face. These kinds of jokes are potentially damaging to closeted trans people, because you don't know someone's situation. Maybe they already know they're trans, but are in an unsafe situation. Maybe they just aren't ready to address it. Maybe they'll start doubting if they actually want to transition or they only think they want to because a bunch of people told them they do. And it's especially bad if, say, you're making a transfem egg joke to a trans man who isn't open about his transness, which could lead to serious dysphoria (and vice versa for trans women). Not to mention how terrible it is to do this to nonbinary people. Do not joke about a nonbinary person being a binary trans egg, it's extremely disrespectful and transphobic to do so. And it's hard not to notice how implying someone is an egg only extends towards binary genders. Imagine someone is doubting their gender, and everyone is telling them they're obviously a trans man egg. They might end up forcing themself into that binary because they think that's what everyone wants.

All of this isn't to say you can't kindly and respectfully say "the things you've been saying sound very similar to the trans experience, I think it's possible you may be trans, but ofc it's up to you to decide whether or not to look into it". I very much encourage that, especially if the person is your friend and seems to be struggling. The thing that's really bad is making jokes at the possible closeted trans person's expense, or thinking of "cracking an egg" as something to brag about and not something to help someone through because you care about them