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Skimbly::21::He/Him::New Account Where I will never make a viral post again—edit: mission failed::

[skimbly-shanks]

It feels v awkward to set this boundary bc even when ppl in SALS spaces are like "you can have NOTPs" the expectation seems to be that you're still like. Totally fine with the NOTP and I just. I'm not.

I'm fine with other ppl liking it, I am fully aware it's a matter of personal emotions and preference, but I am v much not fine with having my shit tagged with my NOTP, especially when the shit getting tagged is actively meant to be geared toward ships I actually care about and like.

I am never making a tuggoff post. I will never make a tuggoff post. I have made such posts in the past, but at this point, it has become such a NOTP that I don't want to engage with it at all.

I cannot control how or what ppl reblog or tag. I don't want to; I'm not trying to. But I am probably going to block you if you tag my stuff as tuggoff. It's nothing personal, I don't think you're evil. It's just the course of action that keeps me calmest.

It feels like I just. Can't acknowledge when tugger and misto interact, bc if I do, it will get tagged as ship. And I can't complain about this anywhere bc I don't want to come across as shaming shippers, and also bc I don't wish to be misinterpreted as coming from the angle of "ew why do you have to ship all the guys can't dudes be friends"; I'm a gay trans man with other m/m ships who's sick of this particular one. I'm frustrated that when I make posts about other ships, they end up getting tagged as my notp.

And I'm frustrated that it's taken me this long to set a boundary bc it feels like I'm walking on eggshells acknowledging that I actively dislike a ship.

Anyway. Idk. I want to have this in writing to point to so I can say now that I have actually explicitly set this boundary. Idk how to communicate on individual posts; I don't expect ppl to trawl my blog before reblogging, but setting this boundary on posts feels so aggressive and mean in a way I really don't want to be.

Anyway idk. Moral of the story is yes, I believe u should ship what you want. No, I'm not fine with ppl taking my shit and making it about my NOTP, and I will block if/when it happens.

[skimbly-shanks]

Just like being trans, cosmetic surgery is misogynistic. you are completely braindead. hopefully one day the worms in your brain will bump into some neurons in a pattern that causes you to stop spewing the same old putrid takes you always do. until then, evaluate why you hate women so much

Your mom suck me good and hard though my Jorts

[skimbly-shanks]

Update

My mental health break absolutely achieved its purpose. It also sparked a new, more final revelation on my part.

I'm fucking done lmao

I still love CATS as a show. I still love the characters and my hcs and ships. I love the friends I've made.

I want to continue enjoying those things.

So I'm done with the tumblr fandom.

I'm done with being part of a friend group to be pointed at to start drama and spread rumors no matter what we do. I'm done with having to evaluate the chances of getting anons telling me how much I love child abuse whenever I want to post shippy things. I'm done with total strangers and even friends deciding that shipping means I'm an evil abhorrent pperson.

So, antis, you win. I'm out of tumblr fandom.

I'm not leaving the fandom as a whole, and I won't be leaving tumblr, but I am leaving the fandom space on this site. Because I actually like not being on edge every day that something new is going to happen.

I'll still be on discord; I have an ig, both will be my main ways of doing anything fandom related from here on out.

I'll be making a new tumblr, so I'm not completely leaving, but if I do anything at all with cats on that account, it will be strictly between myself and my friends

Bye.

[skimbly-shanks]

Re. Recently deleted post

I fucked up.

I saw someone's post, and instead of bringing it up privately, I publicly reblogged to push back.

That was immature and impulsive of me. And I regret it immensely.

Idk what else to say; I might delete the app for a bit soon, bc I just. Idk I don't like how I get sometimes on here and I don't want others to be collateral for my problems.

So consider this a mental health break

[chaoticnoisy]

making shitposts for a 25 year old show >>>>>

[junkyard-gifs]

success! Alonzo finally got Munkustrap to notice his leggie.

and he got a startled little skitter-hop out of it too 😌

Alexander Auler as Munkustrap and George Maniadis' foot. Vienna revival, March 2022.

[nyancrimew]

Bus! :3

[tonyalmeida]

[sefren-deactivated20140420]

[minestucks-deactivated20130513]

alternate title: young children gawk at flaming homosexuals

[yolocounty-skinwalkerpatrol-dea]

Another alternate title: the bailey school kids need to mind their own damn business

[marzipanandminutiae]

the covers with women are equally gay

so basically having these obnoxious kids pry into your personal life is mlm/wlw solidarity

[goth-princess-gwennie]

So am i the only one thinkinf the ghoul looks cute asf or

[peterjay-88]

Seriously…every cover is like this

[scumtrout]

you either die a bailey school kid or you live long enough to see yourself become the gay cryptid.

[scoobycool9]

Also in case anyone wants to know the best part of the books, it’s that whatever creature they are on the cover is 100% revealed to be a truth by the end.

[flagellant]

In other news is the camp counselor single? asking for a me

[thecollectibles]

Cats painting studies by Paul Rabaud

[weenie-kun]

[parkchanwoohoo]

The last panel contains more emotion than anything you could find in a museum

[readableporn]

I reblog this Everytime I see it because it just fills me with so many emotions

[skimbly-shanks]

While I'm on my tranny hot takes roll, we know it's harmful and victim blamey to take homophobes' obsession with gay men and say that homophobes are closeted gays, yeah? Don't fucking do that with GCs internalized hatred of women and womanhood and call them closeted trans men.

[firefox-official]

[sustainpedal]

Idk about this one boys, Cookie Monster always refers to Cookie Monster's self as "Cookie Monster".

[firefox-official]

no he doesn’t. he refers to himself as “me.” elmo’s the one that talks in third person. that’s the joke. elmo doesn’t use pronouns and cookie monster is blue. how dare you assume i made this post and didnt know my fucking sesame street history. christ

[drlivistoned]

I hate the cosmetic surgery industry for so many reasons I really do. But the line between cosmetic and medically necessary plastic surgeries is as a cloud, and we cannot sacrifice bodily autonomy for bans so. We need to dismantle white supremacy and the patriarchy in order to effectively tackle the issue. I should be able to get elective top surgery without medicalising my transness you get?

[femmeharlequin-deactivated20240]

I had a breast reduction when I was 16. I was so top heavy that my back had started spasming badly by the time I was 12, if I hadn’t been able to get my reduction, I would’ve been in more extreme pain for much longer. The relief was almost instant. Just one example of medically necessary plastic surgery, in case people aren’t sure what that looks like.

Medically necessary plastic surgery also includes removing excess skin when someone loses a lot of weight: skin folds can become infected. Burn victims’ skin grafts, those are plastic surgery too. The field covers a lot more than people think.

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Harold Gillies, now considered to be the father of modern plastic surgery, developed most of his techniques (many of which are still in use today) specifically to reconstruct the faces of men who'd been injured in WW1.

Advances in weaponry meant that, for the first time, men were coming home from war with literally half their faces blown off, on a regular basis. This was not only traumatic— there were cases of men cancelling engagements or being afraid to see their families, because of their disfigurements— but also caused problems with every day tasks like speaking and eating, in which your face plays a pretty key role.

Gillies arranged for a whole ward, and later a hospital, to be dedicated to the treatment of these men, and took steps to ensure that all soldiers who received these kinds of injuries on the battlefield would be sent to him directly. He developed methods for applying skin grafts so that larger portions of the face could be repaired.

He continued his work treating wounded soldiers throughout WW1 and WW2, and when both wars were ended— just in case he hadn't done enough to establish himself as a full on hero— he was then approached by a medical student named Michael Dillon, a trans man, and was able to use the same techniques he'd developed to reconstruct the penises of wounded soldiers to give him a phalloplasty. The first one ever performed on a trans man. He even diagnosed the guy with a condition to explain the frequent operations, so as to avoid outing him.

Dillon later wrote a book about trans-ness, which inspired Roberta Cowell, who became the first British transwoman to get a vaginoplasty, also performed by Gillies.

In both cases, the techniques he developed were still being used in similar operations decades later. Gillies himself stated that he wanted no publicity for performing these operations, saying that "If it gives real happiness, that is the most that any surgeon or medicine can give.”

[skimbly-shanks]

I genuinely do have a lot of mixed, largely negative feelings on cosmetic surgery. But at the same time I'm aware that it's intrinsically tied up with autonomy and specifically trans Healthcare. and listen. I don't think any trans person has to get surgery to be trans or anything. That's bullshit. But while it's absolutely that non-op trans ppl deserve protection and love and understanding...if I'm never going to be able to get a mastectomy, idk what I'll do, but it won't be good. I have dysphoria, and I have other mental illnesses. The current approach to barring trans Healthcare is to make it uncoverable by insurance and/or to disallow it if you have other MH problems. This includes access to surgical procedures.

I'm not a serious proponent of ""Choice Feminism"" or its iterations in other movements; I think it's overly optimistic and ignores that choices aren't made in a vacuum. That said. I think autonomy needs to be the norm, and I think that just as choice feminism ignores wider systems, the prohibitionist side ignores that for better or for worse, ppl have truly found comfort and self empowerment through certain things due to those wider systems. Makeup can create highly toxic consumerist circles, but it's wrong to deprive prisoners of its comforts to the point they make black markets and/or are sexually exploited by guards just to get some.

Today there's a disturbing tendency to make body types themselves into trends, and there are vocal surgeons grifting and preying on insecurities, but it's wrong to bar access to these procedures from people, bc how are you going to do that? Require medical cause and prescription for reconstructive surgeries? When doctors are probably going to do everything possible to avoid surgery? When pathologizing stuff is part of what's causing trans and reproductive Healthcare crises? Both of which are tied to autonomy? When trans Healthcare in particular already only covers surgeries on insurance if they're for diagnosed gender dysphoria? When bills have already tried to ban access to procedures related to trans Healthcare with the blowback effect on cancer patients?

[skimbly-shanks]

To be clear, tho, I absolutely despise the plastic surgeons on tiktok who go around describing procedures they'd do on ppl who Did Not Ask. Absolute Grifters and part of the problem ppl think they're addressing when decrying cosmetic surgery as a whole.

[skimbly-shanks]

Yall do NOT hop on a cosmetic surgery hate train during an ongoing campaign against trans Healthcare I am fucking begging