The Radical Factotum

I'm Sasha. Pronouns are left as an exercise for the reader. 27-year-old faithless, hedonistic, transgressive commie; that is to say, atheist, bi, transhumanist, and a nonsectarian leftist. History dork too. No minors please.

[milquetoaast]

source

[beautifully-said]

[zoctopode]

full lesbian robot comic

thats it! all 8 pages! i had a lot of fun drawing this, thank you for everybodys kind words on the preview post.

if you wanna be SUPER COOL you can throw me a few bucks on my patreon B)

[drdaanvondutch]

[crustacean-menace]

Homework lady: "My dog is barking! 🙂"

The dog:

[bug4932]

doing some modeling as a favor for parian. idk.

[zoesupreme]

absolute funniest thing that can happen now is Mitch shows up to work just fine on monday

[pog-mo-bhlog]

So many "I was born too late" takes are actually "I was born poor" like I'm sure you WOULD have loved whatever historical quirk you're talking about, but sadly you would not have been allowed to do that. You would have died in a coal mine aged 13.

[strangestcase]

Good news! This story exists, it’s called The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

[dostoyevsky-official]

what's worrisome is that everyone has more or less the same primordial version of history these days when you look into mainstream discourses, just like putin. ukrainians say they're actually the real inheritors of kievan rus, the russians are asiatic barbarians. israelis say they have a 2,000-year-old biblical claim to the land. azeris and armenians go back and forth over who has lived in the caucasus since time immemorial. china says taiwan was always chinese and pulls out 17th century fishing maps for the south china sea. and so on, and so forth, none of this broaches the fact that the real problem here is that people are getting bombed, tortured, and raped in the name of these pathetic fantasies, not the veracity of the claims

[tboy-trash]

thing is, i hate "you don't have to medically transition! you're #valid!" as much as the next person with an aversion to poorly disguised transphobia, sure, but a lot of you people seem really keen on taking this up with the people who are not medically transitioning at the moment (from whom you assume internalized transphobic belief and not. you know. that they might be experiencing significant structural barriers!!!)

[tboy-trash]

it's similar to the damn femboy discourse every month. people will correctly identify a common transphobic line "why can't you just be a femboy?" and take it up with the femboy and not with the people saying it?!?!?!?!?!

[tboy-trash]

[wearily tapping the sign again]

[tboy-trash]

if i may steal her words for a minute:

it is very silly to observe that "trans person not currently medically transitioning" is considered a comparatively palatable (in an EXTREMELY limited sense. you think people treat non medically transitioning transfeminized people in any sort of preferential way?!?!?!) when interacting with a transphobic culture and then take this up with the goddamn trans people who aren't currently medically transitioning!!!!!!!!!!!!

[memecucker]

anyway remember when the US government commissioned a study on dangers of pornography and when the commission returned with a report saying it doesn’t pose a danger and recommending removing restrictions the US government denounced its own study

[self-loving-vampire]

i swear to god saying that sexgender classing of human beings is a flawed and stupid way to classify an entire species will have the most bigoted people crawling out of the woodwork to tell you that women are actually the weakest creatures alive and predisposed to be raped and they don't see anything wrong with saying that ughhh and then they'll call themselves gender abolitionists 🫩

When TERFs call themselves gender abolitionists I see that as being the same as when christofascists call themselves freethinkers and free speech activists.

Their words are hollow when their actions and policy positions are so loud and clear on where they actually stand.

[st-just]

🔥 do you have and opinion on trans-humanism

Look I don't have a whole tag of 'hubris is a coward's word' for nothing.

Anyway 99% of humanity's evolutionary and civilization success comes down to using tools and prostheses for things most animals need to rely on natural attributes to accomplish at all. There's a spectrum that starts with clothing and cooking fires and ends with disembodied brains and remote-controlled drone bodies, and any bright line you draw on it about where 'human' stops is going to be more or less arbitrary.

Also anyone who uses 'natural' as an unambiguously positive quality is welcome to go consider historical infant mortality rates.

[st-just]

I love it when reactionaries write your propaganda for you.

[triviallytrue]

transhumanism is based on its own but the groups it pisses off really elevate it to the next level

[comfyplant]

Who unironically says shit like this?

[triviallytrue]

see what i mean

[self-loving-vampire]

The backlash against transhumanism always felt very strange to me since it seems to me like transhumanism is the logical end conclusion of medicine in general.

I agree completely, especially with regards to life extension but not limited to that.

I have even seen some posts that are like "transhumanism is evil what you actually want is access to healthcare and trans rights" and they are so close to getting it only to miss the point right at the end.

There isn't a neat separation between these things in the first place. Realistically a lot of life extension is going to involve solving or preventing the same diseases that are already ongoing projects in medicine, like dementia and heart disease.

Fighting disease and promoting health does not stop being a good thing when you're 100 years old. Bodily autonomy does not stop being a good thing when you want a big tail to go with your boobs.

Feels like they're making it a question of aesthetics or revealing fundamentally bioconservative worldviews they hold when they start trying to separate the two.

And just like how radical life extension and body modification are a logical conclusion for medicine, the logical conclusion of a consistent opposition to that is "It is morally imperative for everyone to get sick and die." Fiction writers are always coming up with ways to whitewash that sentiment to sound less sinister.

[birdplushie]

fiction can be really dangerous there might be a deeply tragic woman in there who starts living in your head forever