confusing comic about existing as a trans person during confusing times of trans visibility.

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confusing comic about existing as a trans person during confusing times of trans visibility.
o(ooh)de to a puppygirl
let me feel your whiskers, puppy.
let me stroke your darling fur, be it soft, coarse, silly, wiry, fine, dense... it's absolutely perfect. How well groomed you are!
your paws fit so nicely in my own, I love the prints you leave. Sometimes you jump on me and can be a little rough, but I don't mind-- you're still such a good girl.
more than anything, I want to know your every whimper, to understand each pleeful glance. Perhaps, if I'm lucky, we can make each other pant.
love me like you did, I’ll give you anything
WOW this hits nearly a decade later
Remember to eat healthy everyone 🍒🍐🍇🍑🍌
"I don't think I could have the relationship with you that you have with me," she said. She was very casual about it, and I was immediately on the defensive.
"What do you mean by that?" I asked.
She put the book she'd been reading down. "It's just, the way you've described it, and the vibe that I get, I don't think I could do it how you do it."
"I still don't know what that means," I said.
"You're always doing this like ... micro calculation thing," she said. "You weigh your words. You try to time things. You have never once called me up while I was at work, or asked me for something when it was inconvenient for me, and you check and double check that you're not being a nuisance."
"And ... that's bad?" I asked.
"No, I love that about you," she said. "It's very kind and considerate. I know that if I tell you I'm not in the mood to hang out, you'll apologize and not push it. If you suggest that we get pizza and I say I'd rather have Korean BBQ, you fold instantly and we get Korean BBQ. I like that. I get the things I want. But it seems like an exhausting way to deal with people."
"I want you to be happy," I said with a small voice.
"I am happy," she replied. "You're great. You remember when we first got together I was like 'hey, look, if you want pizza, we can get pizza, it's just not what I'm in the mood for', and you kept insisting that you didn't care, that you would rather have me follow my needs? And I just thought, 'you know, maybe I should just trust that's what they actually feel'. And it is, as far as I can tell. There's not some secret part of you that wants me to break your way."
"You think I'm ... a simpering coward?" I asked. Even as I said it, it felt too accusatory, the wrong thing to say in the situation.
"Whoa, no, not at all," she laughed. "I think you do all that stuff because ... I don't know, you want to? Because otherwise why would you do it? It's how you are with every aspect of your life, you're a tryhard. I mean you said to me that you wanted to reclaim the term. Your relationship with me is that you're a tryhard (affectionate)."
"And you're ... not?" I asked.
"I'm not that way with anyone," she replied. "You know why I hang out with you so much? It's 'cause I like you. Most days, I am very much in the mood for you, and if you ask for a meetup, I'll say yes, and if you don't ask for one, then I'll ask you first. And for you ..."
"What?" I asked.
"It's like ... you're keeping track," she said. "You want to make sure that you're not sending me more messages than I'm sending you. You're balancing social micro stuff that I don't pay attention to. You're consciously monitoring how much each of us has said and making sure it's the right number of words or whatever."
"It's really not about the number of words," I replied. "It's more ... making sure that social and emotional labor is equitable, that there's a good rhythm to the conversation. I don't think you'd get good results by tracking word count."
"But see, I don't do any of that," she said. "I talk because I feel like talking. I listen when you need to vent because I like you and it feels good to give you an outlet. I mean you are undoubtedly putting in a bunch of work, and for me, there's no work. That's all I meant, really."
"You've thought about it," I said.
"Oh, I'm just reading this book, and there are two characters like us in it, and I was like 'yes, exactly', and then 'that would not work for me'." She shrugged.
"And if I stopped 'putting in the work'?" I asked. "Would we still be ... friends?"
"See, I don't know," she said. "Because that's never who you've been. You're asking me if I would still be friends with you if you changed your personality and how we interact with each other. Maybe? Probably? Who knows? Maybe we'd be better friends somehow. Maybe we're just two basically compatible people, and every time you've ever worried about anything it would actually have been completely fine."
"Or maybe it's load-bearing," I said.
"Maybe!" she replied with a smile that slowly faded. "You okay?"
"I'm thinking," I said. I didn't know if I could verbalize what I was thinking in a way that would be palatable.
"Do you not like being this way with me?" she asked. "Because I have never asked you to. I've made my preferences known, but if you've been bending yourself into knots and feeling a burden, then ..."
"No," I said, because I knew it was what she wanted to hear. "No, I like the way things are between us."
"Good," she smiled. "I do too."
👺: What A Moth Is || moths, definitions, inconstancy, transformations, ????
A moth is what a moth is what a moth is for.
Moths confuse themselves for angels, winged things forever buzzing in circles, seeking the light, having mistaken flame for it.
Once gnashing their teeth as wriggling things that only eat and eat and eat until they can feel.
That change, the metamorphosis, the moth is a mouthless thing, voiceless, silent, no need to eat, for to eat is to live.
Hungering still, ever and ever, not for food not for life but to bite and to tear and to shred.
Is the cruelest joke of them all, perhaps, that none can ever know that they are?
Screaming, shouting, cursing life, thankful for existence, for its cessation, for that razor's edge of contradiction that it calls life, ever grateful for knowing.
Now there no real self to be found, the only truth acrostic, orthogonal to words, an axiom unspoken.
'cause there is no voice to speak it, and no ears that could understand it if they heard.
That what a moth is
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Forget me nots.
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Novae: Incredible Short Film About Supernovas Was Made With Colored Inks in Water
Thinking of getting some prints made…
We understand the lights above the Arby’s. We understand so much.
Motivation alien.
i want to leave