Just trying to get by

🏳️‍⚧️trans guy🏳️‍⚧️ biology undergrad

[charoitenigma]

I LOVE YOU BLACK TRANSMASCS

I LOVE YOU BLACK TRANSFEMS

I LOVE YOU BLACK INTERSEX PEOPLE

I LOVE YOU BLACK NON-BINARY PEOPLE

I LOVE YOU BLACK DISABLED PEOPLE

I LOVE YOU BLACK PEOPLE OF THE LGBTQIA+ COMMUNITY

PLEASE SURVIVE

even if it’s hard even if there are many racist fucks trying to prevent it

PLEASE THRIVE

even when the whites are trying to silence you

YOU MATTER

so get fucking mad at those who believe you don’t

[this-is-positivity]

this is positivity!

[PT: I love you Black transmascs

I love you Black transfems

I love you Black intersex people

I love you Black non-binary people

I love you Black disabled people

I love you Black people of the LGBTQ+ community

Please Survive

even if it's hard even if there are many racist fucks trying to prevent it

Please Thrive

even when the whites are trying to silence you

You Matter

so get fucking mad at those who beleive you don't

/end PT].

[tboy-cock]

"ugh couples who baby talk each other are so immature and annoying 🙄" you fear the thought of giving into your natural urges and showing your underbelly to the person that you claim to want to spend your life with because that trust and vunerability that you deep down want to show to someone for once in your life will leave you with a taste of the freedom that you crave so badly but are too afraid to pursue for yourself. you are a bird in a cage with the door unlocked and opened glaring at flocks soaring the skies together because you are too afraid of the sun to join them. if you cant be cringe with the person you claim to trust most then who can you truly be yourself around

[that-1-frenchfry]

I love TADC and I liked the ending. It had such beautiful powerful messages about changing as a person, accepting life, and different kinds of people and how they are/cope.

I was surprised to hear so many ppl didn't like it, so for the most part I just minded my business and continued to enjoy it. I was feeling adventurous so I started watching an hour long video about some plot holes. I was expecting to change my mind about the ending because that's definitely happened in the past with me.

To me, only every 5th point made I agreed with. So many points were, "we didn't explore other characters as much", "this wasn't a psychological horror like the pilot presented", or "*saying something straight up wrong to make a point*"

Also, I'm gonna say it: other than the first episode, the dialogue was fine. "X character is so dramatic, ppl aren't like that", but I am, or maybe something I used to know IS. I've noticed the show dialogue mirrored more neurodivergent styles of speaking that feel "bad" or "confusing".

Does 1 critique video sum up all critique? NOOOOO. I will say, ppl in the comment section mentioned it was well thought out. I have spoken to some ppl in real life who have critiques and some things were kind of fair. Many were like, "other characters weren't as developed as Jax, he had too much time and I didn't care about him" and I pointed out, "so you know the creator literally said Jax was supposed to be the other mc right?" Like, my brother in Christ the show is SUPPOSED to have that emphasis on him. That was planned.

[that-1-frenchfry]

Me

[ninanation]

Come to think of it, it really is insane that my entire country is burning alive and literally no one in the rest of the world cares. Thousands of Indians are dying every day from the heat, it's 45+ degrees in multiple areas, the government couldn't give two fucks, we're getting severe warnings and red alerts, and not a soul outside of South Asia is speaking about it because why would you ever care about brown people

[ninanation]

please keep talking about how Becky from Maryland doesn't like the rising gas prices. It's clearly the more pressing issue.

[creacher-art]

USA folks, that is a consistent temperature range hitting 113°. Death Valley temperatures. In Banda, it hovered between 116°-118° (47°-48° C) for a week straight.

This has been happening all month with little to no international media attention. Here are a few organizations you can check out for resources or to support:

ActionAid India

SEEDS India

GlobalGiving

Raise India (Project Tapan)

[zk-j]

If you tell tell a black transmasc that they have it easy because they're black I'm going to kill you with hammers. Non-negotiable.

[fist-full-of-feathers]

What really gets me about a lot of the transandrophobia on this website is the fact that people love to ignore that tons of trans men are also barred from sports, except for us its silently, theres almost no fight about it and no support for us.

Do any of you know who he is?

This is Mack Beggs, a southern trans man. Mack is a wrestler who was forced to fight in the girls state championship which he had to fight tooth and nail to be included in at all. Even now when Mack fights on a mens team he engages in activism for mental health of trans youth and for other trans athletes and yet people have the audacity to come on here and say that transmasculine people contribute nothing to the movement. Have you ever heard of him? Or was it such a quiet modest celebration that you didn’t even know he existed.

And thats how it is with trans men. It is not better to be publicly shamed and harassed but being voiceless comes with its own struggles. When we’re allowed to compete in women's sports, something we shouldn’t be forced to do in the first place, it’s almost always under the condition that we are not taking testosterone. When we are competing in mens sports, if we’re not turned away at the gate for being a “woman” we face the physical danger of assault, sexual or otherwise, in the locker room. How can you call that privilege?

This post comes with no intention to invalidate anyone else’s experiences, only to uplift those of transmascs.

[medievalthymes]

how it feels to read 85 pages of a book in one sitting

[tiktoks-i-enjoyed]

"But can you feel it?" Post-phalloplasty sensation explained.

By @ kashcolegrove, Kai Asher Colegrove (he/him).

[summergoodwife]

At risk of TMI, I wanna contribute that his description of how and where he could feel things on his penis, apart from lack of temperature (which is changing, as he said), is more or less identical to how mine felt before I went on estrogen.

So, put any concerns about "artificiality" where you think they belong, with that in mind. I'd go with the trash.

[nostalgicmermaaiid]

Black indie animated projects that you should check out!

I thought I’d share the ones i’ve seen and link the channels in light of recent events. beating myself up for not having done this sooner tbh

Wheels and Roses - roller derby & magical girls!

The Three Tomes - a vampire love story

DizzyCat - slice of life adventures of 2 cat siblings

Crocodile Dance - a thriller combining myth and Afrofuturism

Furious and Fat Cat - comedy about 2 childhood friends who reunite as roommates

The Ebony Witch - disney/don bluth inspired fantasy series

I Don’t Want To Be A Magical Girl - yall probably know this one but I’m putting it here anyway

Please reblog with any that I missed!

[the-bitter-ocean]

Waves - 2D animated short film directed by Jason Raymond. Really sweet coming of age story about a young black boy who learns to love himself and his culture, instead of erasing it/ hiding it from others or being ashamed of who he is.

Hair Love - 2D animated short by Matthew A. Cherry. Heartwarming story about a black father learning to do his daughter’s hair and bonding with one another.

[tboy-cock]

i think theres some kind of commentary to be made that while people assume that all trans men bottom with their front hole until told otherwise, people also assume that trans men who want/have penises must want to top. like the only reason a trans man would want a penis is to top and not because he otherwise has bottom dysphoria. i just think its weird that trans people with penises are expected to top and trans people with vaginas are expected to bottom. like guys..... we're literally trans, we should be past this

[transfemme-shelterdog]

Transhet transfems, I'm sorry for how you're treated.

I'm sorry that so much of the online transfem community is so transbian centered and dominated.

I'm sorry that you often feel like there's no place for you to talk about your crushes, your love lives, your interest in men, your struggles, because it's so hard to find others like you who can relate to your experiences.

I'm sorry that so many spaces online don't want to hear about how you actually support and adore the masculinity in your partners - even more so if you're T4T and you actually find joy in the changes your partner is going through.

I'm sorry that it feels like there's no space for you to be yourselves, and need to suppress your attraction to who you find attractive, just so you can fit in with other transfems and have some semblance of a support system.

I'm sorry that people so often think that your heterosexuality makes you "less queer" and less deserving of love and respect.

You're all wonderful. You're loved. You should be proud of who you are, and who you love. There's nothing wrong with being transhet, and I'm sorry that people make you feel like there is. I hope one day that things will change, and you'll be as accepted with open arms as transbians are.

[that-1-frenchfry]

I just finished you weren't meant to be human and...

I love it.

I hate Levi (of course), but I also hate Crane. I thought I would relate to him because of our similarities, but there was a key element to his character that continued to frustrate me.

He's a coward, in every possible scenario he's a coward and I am not.

I'm working on my own horror passion project based off of going stealth at a conservative school senior year. It's interesting how Crane is so similar in demographic but opposite in character from William (my character).

Andrew Joseph White, this is the first work of yours I've ever interacted with and as much as I am drawn to read your other works, I am exhausted from this one, want to make my own story, and I will get to them later in life. AJW is a fucking beast and I am both enticed and repulsed by this, thank you.

[firelikestars]

while i do think continuing to stan michael sheen is a more nuanced choice than, say, neil gaiman, we remember the allegations, right? like that happened. recently. let’s not forget about michael sheen’s abuse allegations please

[wilyserpentofeden-archive]

I've only seen one other person say this so far, which bothers me, so I guess there is some value in me also saying it. While you are allowed to have your own opinions about the Good Omens finale, it does bother me that people seem to be getting more upset about the ending, or upset at the people who didn't like the ending, than they did about the news that Neil Gaiman sexually assaulted real women. I have also seen people treat this fictional ending as immutable and as serious as a death, and the real life news of the women Gaiman assaulted was speculated on to no end because people did not want to believe it.

Like idk maybe I'm oversimplifying what I've seen but people having a much stronger reaction to fiction than reality is upsetting and disappointing to me. You can re-write a work of fiction yourself if it means a lot to you and you did not like the ending. You can re-imagine it to be exactly what you always wanted, because it is fiction. You cannot re-write or re-imagine what happened to these women, no matter how much Gaiman wants you to. You are certainly allowed to be upset about the ending, I don't need to tell you that. You're allowed to like it too, but if you let it become so serious to you in either direction that it overshadows what he has actually done, he will try to work his way back into the spotlight once he thinks people have forgotten.

[dustinyschild]

Daily reminder

[rome-theeempire]

Black transmen & transmascs: I just wish I was a fluffy haired boy

My nigga....

YOU ARE!

YOU HAVE A CLOUD ON YOUR SCALP!!!