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She/Her - 31 - Virgo - A small trans gorl in Texas - I like taking pictures and I sing in a band!

[gaytanic-panic]

[willgrahamscock]

you must reject societal norms and be a vessel for the grotesque and the horrible

[https-graces]

Gay Denial (2009) 

Pencil on Paper

[https-graces]

March 6th, 2009

Dear Journal,

I found out what lesbian means today, Ella told me at recess. It’s unfair because girls are so much prettier than guys. It’s like comparing a flower to an old shoe. But I’m not a lesbian, almost 99% of my friends are guys.

[warmhappycat]

Shakespeare could only aspire to this level of dramatic irony.

[micro-usb-deactivated20230625]

Same shit different decade

[socialistexan]

Guess who rearranged all the furniture in her room last night in a hypomanic fit! (It was me, I did)

[maidenofmadness]

Happy tuesday, y'all 💋

[socialistexan]

*walks out in a cowboy hat and assless chaps* Y'know, they say only steers and queers come from Texas, and brother, I ain't no cattle.

[warningsine]

[postoctobrist]

I think lesbian chasers are kinda hot, I've had some mindblowing sex with girls who were absolutely fetishizing me, dunno if I should feel good about that or not

Been right there with you. And honestly? I salute them

[postoctobrist]

FEMALE CHASER: you’re like the perfect form. a beautiful blend of man and woman. I used to fantasise about people like you existing. you’re so brave and perfect and you’re my good girl and everything’s going to be okay forever I promise

MALE CHASER: will you dress like my daughter

[marxistprincess]

[visual-volume]

Or, consider this, learn an actual skill that is needed and valued in society and you'll be paid muuuch more. If you work at Wendy's and it only took you 3 days of training to learn your job, you should be living with roommates, cooking at home, not getting pregnant, routinely setting money aside/investing, and establishing the self discipline to not touch it (as I've done all throughout my 20s living in expensive ass Los Angeles). The only people who post regressive comics like this are people who refuse to better themselves and refuse to save their money. The fact that the artist drew grown ass adults with suits n ties, and not one single 20yr old with multiple nose & lip rings is beyond comical. You're not going to be able to rent your own 1 bedroom apt as a Starbucks barista, and guillotine comics don't put you on the "moral" side of the debate.

[project-butch]

I'm an EMT. I'm in training to be a paramedic. I currently can't afford to live by myself even if I wanted to in the locality I work in. Not much will change when I get my ACLS card. I can't leave this city, all of my roots are here. I will stay and organize with my union for better conditions and compensation for my labor. All people deserve not just bread, but roses too. If you think otherwise, pick yourself up by your bootstraps since you consider yourself more worthy than the people who serve the public, and forgo any sanitation, dining, healthcare, and manufacturing services. Without the working class, you would not have any pearls to clutch, you sheltered ingrate. You're not more equal than anyone else, swine.

[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

To address this further:

-We need people to work in less desirable/unskilled jobs.

-We need people to have kids- ask Japan about how their rapidly ageing population is working out for them.

-There are an awful lot of adults in the UK(and I’m sure elsewhere) with what people would consider “proper” jobs, or indeed essential jobs, including but not limited to fire service/teachers/nurses/doctors etc, who are saying levels of pay are rapidly becoming too low to live on.

-Salaries that were viable or indeed good 10 years ago have not risen to match inflation. That’s why, btw, the comic shows office workers.

-But also, not everyone can work in a highly skilled niche field. They still deserve the chance to live a good, comfortable life.

-And again, we need people working in these jobs for society to function.

-No doubt you’ll say “if you don’t like it, leave to find somewhere with better working conditions” (I mean, withdrawing your labour permanently is actually a super leftist thing to do, but whatever) BUT here’s the thing, people are already doing that. People are leaving these jobs, and then staffing levels become low and the job becomes even harder and more stressful for the same money (or less in real terms).

-If we keep following this philosophy, I know in the UK we’ll end up with no teachers, no doctors, no nurses, no vets and so on.... I’m sure in other countries you will end up with no-one working in essential jobs too. So how will you cope then? At some point, your salary won’t stretch to paying everyone privately.

Honestly, I’m not that interested in someone’s idea of morality, these are just facts.

[supercomplicatedperson]

Not to mention that when you say "go and find a real job". Who do you expect should work at the Wendy's and Starbucks? Do you expect that only students should work there? Who do you think should operate them in weekday school hours? You NEED coffee shops, fast food restaurants, janitorial staff, and all those menial jobs that no one respects but we all need. And it's honestly either ignorant or cruel to not expect that they can make a living off of it.

[bruhdismembermnttt]

[sleepover-queen]

I love that MCR song

[jphcrk-deactivated20251128]

[sawasawako-archived]

the funny thing is tone has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not people contribute to mutual aid bc yall weren’t giving much of anything in the first place. it’s racist to expect poor poc to be ‘nice’ and consistently courteous about asking for donations when they’re treated like shit on this website regardless, but ESPECIALLY when they ask for money - like, an actual material solution to something. god forbid. stop acting like the issue is the way people ask for help or support and not the fact that those who are very much able to help in these situations would much rather fund the next million-dollar scam than donate to people in need. if you think people who ask for mutual aid without kowtowing to a bunch of strangers online are pathetic and undeserving then just say that instead of whatever respectability politics bullshit you can conjure up to justify the fact that you hate being made to feel responsible for anything

[abracadaze]

i feel so bad for nikola tesla like imagine spending years beefing with a guy who has conned the public into believing he's some sort of supergenius when in reality it's his overworked employees developing all of his world-changing inventions and you end up dying broke and starving and alone and then 200 years later another guy cons the public into believing he's some sort of supergenius when in reality it's his overworked employees developing all of his world-changing inventions and he's doing it all IN YOUR NAME. he must be rolling in his grave like a fucking rotisserie chicken

[anderswasrightt]

don't use "ftm" it's outdated and offensive. it implies that the trans person was their agab, which we never were. i was always a boy, never a girl who became a boy.

i'm 35 years old. i've been IDing as trans or something similar to trans for nearly 20 years. i was probably calling myself FTM while you were playing tag during recess, anon.

i WAS a girl. i IDed as a girl early in my life. i recognized myself as a girl, called myself a girl, lived as a girl, and was a girl. who then IDed as a man. hence, F t M.

spend more time worrying about yourself instead of strangers on the internet, anon.

sorry not sorry if this comes off as needlessly hostile, but i've been getting a lot of shit from a lot of teenage trans kids about the language i use to describe my own goddamn experience, and i'm growing real fuckin weary of it.

i have elder trans friends who call themselves transsexuals and transvestites and trannies. are you going to seriously go to a 60-year-old trans person who survived the reagan years and tell her she's not allowed to use certain language to describe herself because it might offend the delicate sensibilities of some teenager on the internet?

do yourself a favor and log off, find some real-life trans people who are over the age of 20 or 25, and spend time talking to them instead of getting all holier-than-thou at random strangers on tumblr.

[femmefurina-deactivated20240814]

It may be weird to encounter because it's not the trans narrative that the media sells to us as 'the only valid way to be trans', but the 'I always knew I was x' is not all-encompassing.

Anon there are more people than you think who were girls who grew up into men, or boys who grew up into women, or girls or boys who grew up to be nonbinary. There is a rather obscure theory that girl and boy are distinct genders from man and woman and while the most common trajectory is that boys grow into men and girls grow into women it's not the rule.

Let people define themselves.

[phoenixtawnyflower]

also if you think genderfluid people are real and you're not just humoring us, you by definition have to allow that gender can change over time. I was a girl once. I am not a girl now.

[theleakypen]

Chiming in with solidarity to OP.

I feel very protective of my former identity BECAUSE there's so little room in the Mainstream Trans Narrative ™️ for allowing gender to change.

I was a girl. Now I'm genderqueer. Maybe later I will find different words for myself.

There has to be room for all of us in the trans community or there's no point to any of this.

[greelin]

the way this video never ceases to make me genuinely lose my mind for some reason

[wizardhecker]

I fucking hate game apps. I wanted to play tetris the otherday so I figured there must be a simple tetris app out there its the most basic game. But every app is like heres your daily log in bonus of 10 gold! You get 5 free plays a day. Here's an ad. To replay a level costs 1 diamond. You can eart gold by earning points in levels. 1000 points = 1 gold. You can exchange 550 gold for one diamond but we have a sale right now that they only cost 500 gold. Heres an ad. You can buy a loot crate of diamonds for 5.99$! You leveled up! Heres 1 free diamond. Youve run out of free replays for today, would you like to buy some more diamonds? Heres your daily tasks, make sure to log in every day this month for a free reward chest. its free! Heres an ad. Would you like to sign up for this credit card to recieve 10 free diamonds? Invite a friend and you can earn points! Ding! Youve leveled up. Heres an ad. This is our special bonus play weekend, you get one free replay and a pack of diamonds only costs 4.99$. You can use your gold to purchase new skins for the tetris blocks. This ones shaped like cats! It costs 100 diamonds. You need to collect them all. Free to play, may be some in-app purchases.

[lucyvaleheart]

I agree with literally everything op is saying and I don't want to detract from their point but this website here, specifically for mobile games (though they intend to eventually branch out to other types) is creating a database that flags those exact types of predatory things. It also flags games as safe, so if you want to look for safe mobile games this is an invaluable resource.

https://www.darkpattern.games/

It also has definitions, explanations, and examples of all the different types of psychological manipulations games pull on the website so if anyone ever tries to give you "just don't spend money, it's easy" you can send them this