[spice-ghouls]

Hi, I'm Silas:

I'm a communist, I'm white, TME, and usamerican, I'm bi and trans, and I'm a graphic designer and illustrator with strong opinions about typography

I block transmisogynists and zionists

You can do whatever you want with my art, IP law is a plague 👍 All of my original art (specified under my '#ghoul's art tag' tag) is released into the public domain under the CC0 1.0 Universal license

I've been on this website since I was 14. As such, old posts in this blog's archive may not reflect my current beliefs

I have a letterboxd, a storygraph, an art IG, and a bluesky. Mutuals, feel free to ask for my discord

All of my organizational tags can be found on this post for easy search.

[doomhope]

[id: Two photos of two strawberry leaves growing facing each other. In one photo they’re facing up with vivid green tones; in the other they face down with deeper green hues. End id.]

[tgirl-gaming-thoughts]

DIYHRT.market is back as valerie.vg

[heartoflife]

nabokov’s letters to véra

[spice-ghouls]

[ID: Text reads, "I won't hide it: I'm so unused to being - well, understood, perhaps - so unused to it, that in the very first minutes of our meeting I thought: this is a joke, a masquerade trick... but then... And there are things that are hard to talk about - you'll rub off their marvellous pollen at the touch of a word... They write me from home about mysterious flowers. You are lovely..." End ID]

[stillnaomi]

let's be clear about why Tucker Carlson and co are speaking out against Israel's genocide of the Palestinians. the genocide is massively unpopular and these rightwing propagandists are trying to capture people's outrage and funnel it into America First nationalism. they're trying to keep everyone's political consciousness low by directing all that anger and frustration into criticism of Israel, instead of criticism of the wider US led imperialist system that Israel is part of. if they didn't, the only people explaining why the genocide is happening would be us pesky communists, who'll link it to the people being impoverished in Cuba by the US blockade, to the people being bombed in Iran, and to all the other people in the world who are being violently oppressed due to capitalist imperialism

[taylornprice]

chrysanthemums

[accessible-art]

[ID: a pen and marker illustration of chrysanthemums in a jar. the chrysanthemums are yellow and orange with many long thin petals, their stems thick and colors bright. the petals curl up, stick out and hang down from their flowers. text at the bottom of the page reads, "chrysanthemums 01/13/2026" /End ID]

[byjove]

A large part of the reason families were bigger in the past was because marital rape was not considered rape and birth control/abortion methods were ineffective, dangerous and/or illegal. We can dance around this and act like our great great great grandmothers just loveddddd being mamas so much that they decided out of their own free will to have 11 children. We can pretend that they DECIDED to have big families because it was a financially advantageous decision so they could have more labor around the farm. But a lot of children in the past were fundamentally unwanted and not conceived out of love, children were not a choice women got to make. We need to admit that and stop pretending historical women were inherently more maternal because they were impregnated at the age of 15 and kept having babies until they were 40. That did not make them loving mothers, it did not make them ‘the divine feminine’ and it sure did not make them happy.

[monstrous-femme]

as a regular donor to Gaza Soup Kitchen I get their email updates, and they said today that while they've continued to be able to expand, donations are slowing down as Gaza gets less coverage. If you have a few dollars to spare, I encourage you to send them here to continue the amazing work that Hani and his team are doing.

[petewentzisblack1312]

we do have to contend with the fact that the reason there is this like perpetual conflation funnel that turns aave and other black dialects into 'gen z slang' and memes and the reason non black performers keep putting on blaccents and the reason pictures of black people just existing gets turned into memes is the same and its because its all minstrelsy.

[sunbathe]

@yeda.fr

[sudsyy]

[ID: a row of 3 large, leafy plants in front of a foggy window. end ID]

[parkchanwoohoo]

You read Wretched of the Earth and how the colonizer has PTSD from torturing the colonized and the former has a panic attack upon seeing a former victim while the latter desperately tries to kill himself to avoid recapture and I think it's right to ask: Am I really supposed to pity the former?

[Speaking slowly, gently, as though trying not to scare a startled horse] Now. Consider. The US military

[parkchanwoohoo]

To be clear I am not saying Fanon is attempting to elicit sympathy for the colonizer. I mean "Am I supposed to feel sorry for them" in an aghast way because the colonizer, who is suffering, feels he deserves sympathy. You see it again and again, all throughout history, and even now people complain about how traumatized they are from murdering civilians. How even in the end, in their eyes, the true victim is the perpetrator who lives rather than the dead person who is "at peace." As though any number of extenuating personal circumstances is supposed to make your guilt weigh more than the actual harms other people have experienced at your hands. As though people overseas wouldn't also like to go to college, would like to afford a house, would like to escape poverty. It's infuriating!

[weltenwellen]

Ocean Vuong, from “Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong”, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

[spice-ghouls]

[ID: Text reads, "The most beautiful part of your body is where it's headed. & remember, loneliness is still time spent with the world." End ID]

[ghelgheli]

i think that if you have access to the vast epistemic resources of the first world and your reaction this world cup is to post in full view about how you didn't even know about x or y country until their game yesterday, you must be demonstrating a disinterest in world affairs disproportionate to your country's outsized impact on it. and that's embarrassing, not funny.

[dayeadomingo]

[doomhope]

[ID: A lamb's ear plant in the sun. Two bright red ladybugs sit on separate leaves. End ID]

[strawberry-crocodile]

i dont remember who first pointed it out but there's a post that's essentially that... the goal of transmisogyny is not always just an eradication of the transfem, but to give tme people access to the transfem as a fundamentally helpless person. the threat is not the life of an individual transfem- although that can be discarded on a whim- but the transfem community. the threat is trans women finding each other, creating a science to describe and share the ways we are mistreated, supporting each other and finding support in sympathetic and educated tmes. the goal is to have the transfeminized person- the lost confused vulnerable "boy"- isolated and desperate. for her to be a well of labor; artistic, emotional, organizational, domestic, or sexual. for her to be a well of this labor until you are done with her and she can be safely and cleanly discarded with no guilt and no loss of social standing.

and once you see it, so much starts to make sense. the attempt to erode language like tme/tma, which allows transfems to discuss their oppressors, or language like trans women, which allows transfems to unify and understand themselves as victims of misogyny. the proliferation of the femboy- an alternative identity for the young transfeminized person, one that is centered around looking skinny and pretty and being sexually available. and attempts to target and remove trans women from their community- to destroy the transfem community on tumblr, to isolate and punish trans women from their irl support groups. even the public mockery of transfemininity, the jokes on television, the insults boys fling at each other to assert that to be transfeminized is to be less than worthless.

this is the arc of transmisogyny. this is what is expected of us, the status quo that all this violence is committed to enforce.

[strawberry-crocodile]

It happened like a few weeks ago now but the way that hbomberguy pulled out the classic transmisogyny of pedojacketing and callouts to condemn and punish Patricia Taxxon when she so much as alluded to the way he underpayed and took advantage of her to score his big, popular, successful videos is just, like, a textbook example of this. A young woman- a teenager!- is used for artistic labor, but because she's transfem, autistic, furry, the people using her can rally a mob to chase her out of public life, censor her, and people will comply. People openly acknowledged that, yes, she was underpaid, but they find that justifiable in the face of her being a disgusting degenerate dangerous sexual deviant! a community of alleged "leftists" gathered to defend a labor rights violation when the victim is a tranny. this is what transmisogyny is for.

[teganorsara]

Mama's Broke — Count the Wicked

While my body cannot feel at home In my head I'll never be alone With them hungry little voices from an evil's done They hum, telling lies till I'm back to sleep

[yourbigsisnissi]

A part of being an adult is living with regret and not allowing it to consume you. The older you get, the more mistakes you’ve made, opportunities you’ve missed, people you’ve disappointed. And every day you have to remind yourself to be kind and forgiving of yourself. You accept and love the you from the past and understand that it’s all a part of the process. Then you move on and live your best life, knowing now as old as you feel today, you’ll never be this young again.