Gender Machine Broke

Finn. 27. They/them. Easily startled by loud noises. Easily delighted by aquariums.

[littlestpersimmon]

Oarfish

[lixdoesntknow]

IS THIS A MERMAID WITH TOP SURGERY SCARS???? crying

[iliothermia]

[ID: an illustration of a trans merman swimming, arms and black coily hair flowing behind him. Barnacles and coral sparsely decorate up his tail, back, shoulders, and hair. His top surgery scars are olive laurels. END ID]

[petitemelusine]

A day in the life of a trans merman ★ (3/4)

[skyloftwing]

Trans Bluehead Wrasse merman!

[sketchrobinart]

[unspuncreature]

trans merman doodle inspired by vintage american traditional tattoo flash 🧜‍♂️🏳️‍⚧️

[gatesofminrathous]

there will never be anything as funny as the mutual disbelief between long form and short form fic writers about each other's style.

short form writers look at people writing 100k+ fics as though this is some sort of talent given as part of a fae bargain, that the commitment required shows some sort of ungodly mental fortitude.

meanwhile long form writers look at people writing 1000 word one shots like god I would cut off my left nipple to be able to say anything concisely. i would love to play with multiple ideas. free me from the shackles of this child I have birthed. i love them but I now must take them to t-ball and doctor's appointments and they're going to destroy everything I own.

[ao3commentoftheday]

[phantomrose96]

I want to play in the sun!!!!!! Instead they’ve got me writing Teams Message!!!!!!!

[phantomrose96]

“I want to circle back on the open questions” I want to…! Circle the BLOCK! Where there are 🌲🌲🌲🌳🌳🌳 trrrees

[phantomrose96]

“I want to touch base” I want to touch 🫳🫳🫳🫳🫳🫳🍀🍀🍀🍀 theeeeeee grass

[phantomrose96]

“We really need a dev plan write-up ASAP. Can you join this lunch time meeting?”

🐿️🐿️🐿️🐿️🐿️🐿️👈👈👈👈 dodent is outside

[gremlininho]

[crustystherat]

Random thing for people to consider is that since Laika is the saint of one way trips should Felicette be known as the saint of safe landings since she did make it back to the ground safely

[somefishycat]

tu LANCES félicette ? tu lances son corps comme la fusée ? oh ! oh ! prison pour les scientifiques ! prison pour les scientifiques pendant Un Mille Ans !

[bug-yogurt]

You can understand the French perfectly fine with only context but the English translation I got still had me floored

[catchymemes]

[bardly-working]

and a good afternoon to these comments

[treasuredplanet]

I think that when you're overstimulated you should appear kind of grayed out and no one should be able to interact with you like a locked character in a video game

[dorothylarouge]

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

I love thinking I'm a hater and then meeting a real hater and going wow that does not look fun actually. Going back to my lukewarm hater ways. Performative haterdom. I couldn't name five hater bands.

[04k96]

[lilstinky]

its cool how every language has wordplay.... we created language like ok step 1) convey info so we can stay alive 2) get silly with it

[sadhoc]

when I say autistic people can write poetry, I mean autistic people with higher support needs. I mean people whose poetry is written via symbol based AAC, who are putting cards with pictures and sight words on them in order to make something that has meaning to them, even if it doesn’t make sense to a neurotypical.

when I say autistic people can play baseball, I’m not talking about “this pro pitcher has a special interest” I’m talking about how the local little league team should take a chance on a nonspeaking kid with a care aide who comes with them to practice, so they get the experience of hanging out with friends and doing a group activity too.

when I say autistic people can date, I’m not talking about people who say they have “a touch of the ‘tism” on their hinge profile. I’m talking about the rights of adults in day programs to hold hands. The rights of institutionalized people to have sex. The rights of queer teens in life skills classes to get sex ed that applies to them.

you need to presume potential. You need to start from a place of “can.” You need to give autistic people the right to try.