[stoneswave]

｡⁠*⁠♡✧⁠*⁠。Nico / Seth

｡⁠*⁠♡✧⁠*⁠。hym/it/pup/bats

｡⁠*⁠♡✧⁠*⁠。bodily 20s (hearth.sys)

｡⁠*⁠♡✧⁠*⁠。gayace polyam alt trans bat boy

｡⁠*⁠♡✧⁠*⁠。currently listening to: La Dispute, Sophie Hunter, Mother Mother, Proper.

｡⁠*⁠♡✧⁠*⁠。partner tags: 🐕/💜/🚀/🪐/🐈

[mynqzo]

small statement maybe more for myself but probably extends to others. artists dont like when you compare their fanart or oc art to other characters, its disheartening. you have every right to do that out of artist-eye/ear-shot but artists read their tags, their replies etc and its baffling some people dont realize that! they see everything you reply or tag! i know most people dont think about it when they do it but its not something an artist who worked very hard on an original work of a character wants to hear, imo!!

[couriers-mile]

I hope it's not annoying to reblog this but hard agree!

Over the years I've gotten a bit more inured to it because... people just do that a lot, but it is kind of a thoughtless thing to do.

Part of me understands the impulse and knows it's not malicious and that it's just a consequence of human brains being pattern recognizing machines: if something makes a familiar neuron fire we feel compelled to shout out the connection we just made. And that is so understandable and normal!

But when you're looking at and commenting upon someone's art in a space where you know they can hear you (so, the notes on their tumblr post) it is good form to engage with the art in front of you on its own merits, rather than attempting to turn it into content for your fandoms.

If the only way you can engage with it is by blurting out something else it reminds you of, even though you feel like you're just being excited and participatory, what you're telling the artist is that the art they made is not interesting enough for you to engage with it as it is and to think about what's in front of you; that it is only interesting to you insofar as it reminds you of something else you already like.

It tends to just feel like people refusing to turn off their Fandom Brains to engage with new/original art on its own terms, and instead they need to make it into fandom-adjacent content in order for them to be interested enough to reblog or talk about it.

[transfaguette]

Someone: transmascs can’t say tranny because [insert some random shit about how transmascs are immune from transphobia etc etc] so basically transphobia and slurs are never directed at them blah blah

some transphobe upon hearing someone on t speak: nice tranny voice faggot

[thewarmvoid]

on “transmascs can’t say tranny” via Kate Bornstein, 2009

Transmascs have always been and will always be included when someone says tranny. Don’t let anyone convince you otherwise. They’re doing historical revisionism and our ancestors are ashamed of them.

[bovid-beauty]

Major 'DIY' hormone hub shuts down as the anti-trans brigade targets more sites

One of the biggest DIY HRT hubs in the UK appears to have permanently shut down just days after being targeted by right-wing outlets.

HRT Cafe, a grassroots database of tutorials, resources, and information on hormone replacement therapy (HRT), closed its doors earlier this week.

The website, which was maintained by a small, anonymous group of developers, was considered one of the biggest resources for ‘DIY’ HRT in the UK.

It is not illegal to possess non-controlled hormones for personal use without a prescription in the UK.

Developers shuttered the site unexpectedly earlier this week. No official statement has been published, only that its developers were no longer accepting donations.

Its closure came just days after a number of right-wing news outlets, including The Daily Signal, published articles on ‘DIY’ vendors citing HRT Cafe and other resource sites.

[trans4trans]

HRTCafe.net, formerly DIYHRT.Cafe, is a website created to provide information for how to safely obtain DIY HRT for trans people who cannot

GitHub - addidotlol/hrtcafe-mirror: mirror for hrt.cafe

mirror for hrt.cafe. Contribute to addidotlol/hrtcafe-mirror development by creating an account on GitHub.

web archive of hrt cafe and a github mirror for those who need it. the link below is an archive of various diy sites including hrt cafe as well.

GitHub - soapingtime/diyhrt: Automatically archiving DIYHRT resources

Automatically archiving DIYHRT resources. Contribute to soapingtime/diyhrt development by creating an account on GitHub.

[dailycatsblog]

[yellow-cat]

birth and eating habits of a splinterling

[prescription-cactus]

what is your eye color. what is your favorite color. what is the color that appears most frequently in your wardrobe. what color is your favorite blanket. what color is your water bottle.

[wolveswolves]

Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis) by Will Burrard-Lucas

[butchfagminotaur]

it’s nice seeing other people starting to open their eyes to what i’ve been saying for a while in that the current use and proliferation of the term “gooning” is an outright tool of fascism

[butchfagminotaur]

the second “gooning” stopped referring to a specific sexual practice and started to be used as a replacement for “masturbation” we needed to kill it immediately and sadly we didn’t

[butchfagminotaur]

if you call someone a “masturbator” in a derisive way you sound like a fucking mormon but suddenly you switch to calling them a “gooner” and you’ve created a way to express the same puritanical beliefs around masturbation that is not only palatable to the average person but the attached underlying implications of the term make people way more susceptible to adopting those beliefs themselves

leftists need to fucking stop using the term “gooner” right fucking now

[butchfagminotaur]

demonizing human sexuality and treating masturbation and sexual activity as deviant and disgusting are straight up fascist tools and it’s startling how successful this aspect of it has been the last few years

[jmfenner91]

[stoneswave]

first rendition of a fursona for my sibling ! design isn't settled yet but they're an androgyne fallow deer 🦌

[xanaxfarts]

[hemipenal-system]

brutalism kink. concrete.

[hemipenal-system]

ecobrutalism kink. tree.

[francesderwent]

reblog this and tag with a food you no longer have access to (closed restaurant, state you moved away from, ex’s mom’s cooking, etc) that will haunt you until your dying day, mine are the spicy chicken sandwich on the employee menu at the fine dining restaurant I was a prep cook at, and the onion bagel from the kosher place down the street from my house when I lived in the city

[germanpostwarmodern]

Adventkerk (1958) in Aerdenhout, the Netherlands, by Karel Sijmons

[nuclearfaggot]

oh man. oh jeez

[thewarmvoid]

happy Valentine’s Day to all my single folks, to all my fellow aroace queer people, to all of those in queerplatonic relationships, to aroallo folks, to those in dynamics too complex to name, to everyone who cares about love. Happy Saturday to those who do not care about this holiday at all. I care about you and I hope you feel it today and always.