The Catboy Oracle

Queer, goth, inclusive Pagan content... and cats! He/Him

[thecatboyoracle]

Welcome to my blog :3

I've got plenty of sunbeams and catnip to go around. Now, on to the introductory stuff:

-I am less active here these days due to invasive pop ups on the site and reducing my doom scrolling, but still here.

-My pronouns are located at the top of my profile. I do NOT use any pronouns other than he/him.

-This is a Pagan blog, first and foremost, so if you have a problem seeing that kind of content at all you're gonna have a bad time.

-This blog supports godspouses.

-I also post a lot about politics, transmasculine issues, trans, intersex, and LGBTQ+ issues as a whole. These things affect me and mine heavily on a day to day basis, which is why I speak out. Also, Paganism is never apolitical in a world which constantly treats Christianity or other Abrahamic religions as the only socially or legally acceptable faiths.

-It's not all heavy stuff. I also post cats, art, memes, and other goodness. Occasionally nsfw-ish

-This blog is strongly against AI as it is harmful to the environment, artists, writers, and humanity as a whole.

-Nazis and fascists have no place on my blog, in Paganism, or in any civil society.

-You may request a reading any time I have the ask button set for reading requests. I can give you a one card pull from my oracle deck, or a small-to-medium tarot reading (about 3-5 cards.) This will be free, but please be polite. I don't accept anon asks on account of trolls, but if you wish your question and reading to be private from being posted you may submit the request to my inbox. When I have the reading asks off, feel free to use my ask button to talk about the gods! I have many gods I work with or have interacted with before, and I love talking about them and my experiences with them.

*I will refuse the ask if not asked politely, if I am misgendered, or if I am addressed by pet names/TOE.

**if it's an ask I simply do not feel I can do I will let you know and see if I can answer a different question.

[dailycatsblog]

[thefairytaler]

So as an artist who has been known to play a few instruments, I've been thinking about this recent thing radfems are doing, where they’ve decided, seemingly out of nowhere, to just wildly shit on ukulele music. And not just the music, but to brand it as “cringe transmasc music.”

And look, even if that wasn’t deeply racist, it would still be stupid. And wrong. But the fact is…

it is deeply racist.

The ukulele is a Hawai'ian instrument, descended from the machete de braga, a small Portuguese guitar brought to Hawai‘i in the late 1800s by Portuguese immigrants from Madeira. Hawaiian luthiers adapted and reimagined it into what became the ukulele. It’s a cultural symbol with a history of colonization, cultural appropriation, and resilience, born from the blending of immigrant traditions with Native Hawaiian artistry.

When you reduce it to some internet stereotype, you’re not just making a dumb music take, although you are also doing that, more importantly you’re participating in the long tradition of white mainland culture flattening and mocking Indigenous Hawai'ian traditions for sport.

It’s also worth noting that the ukulele’s popularity didn’t explode because it’s “quirky” or “internet twee”, it’s because it’s approachable. The instrument is physically small, light, and low-tension compared to guitars or violins. You don’t need huge hand strength to fret it, the (usually) nylon strings are soft, and it can be tuned in a way that’s forgiving for beginners. That makes it accessible to disabled musicians, kids, elders, and anyone without the privilege of formal music education. You can teach yourself entirely off the internet or even practice alone if you're dedicated.

I say this as someone who used to play violin and piano but now plays ukulele and ocarina because those are instruments my bad back and hand tremor will actually allow me to enjoy.

My own ukulele was an investment, imported from Hawai‘i, made of mango wood, rosewood, and bull bone. It’s a gorgeous instrument, it’s one of the most expensive things I own (a very spicy $500), and I cherish it deeply.

But here’s the thing: you don’t need a $500 ukulele to make beautiful music. You can get a perfectly playable one for cheap, especially secondhand.

That means this is an instrument that’s accessible to poor and working-class people, including those from marginalized communities who often don’t get the same access to “prestigious” music education or expensive instruments or expensive equipment and programs to make music digitally.

So when I hear someone mocking “cringe transmasc ukulele music,” here’s what I know immediately:

They’re definitely not an artist making art with any real value

They’re transphobic toward trans men and likely nonbinary people too

They’re ableist

They’re racist

They’re classist

And if someone is happy being a mediocre artist who’s also multiple kinds of bigoted, that’s their prerogative, but I’m not going to respect their opinion on art, or trans people, or disabled people, or Indigenous people, or poor people.

I genuinely don’t have much more to say. That’s it.

You make fun of ukuleles like it’s an aesthetic crime instead of a living piece of Hawai'ian culture and a vitally accessible instrument for marginalized folks, you’ve told me exactly who you are.

And I believe you.

[thecatboyoracle]

Now I think I want to get a ukelele to piss off transandrophobes (and to honor my beloved god of stringed instruments, Apollo ☀️)

[thecatboyoracle]

I might have one picked out already. Apollo works fast XD

[genderqueerpositivity]

Minnesota’s Giant Rainbow and Leather Pride Flags

June 28, 1998. Both flags measured approximately 50 feet wide and 75 feet long.

[ryuutchi]

Friendly reminder that the leather flag predates almost every other flag. We owe this community to leather daddies and kinksters

[nightmarechamillian]

In the era of corporate sanitization never forget it was leather daddies and S&M folks who protected some of the earliest pride parades.

[thecatboyoracle]

This is your pride month reminder that kink not only belongs at Pride, it is an integral part of it.

What doesn't belong at Pride is cops. 🧱

[nothorses]

the trans male experience is being afraid that if you wash your hands in a public men's restroom you will be clocked

[actual-mothman]

one time I went in the men's room at a bar, got clocked and told I needed to leave so later I walked up to that dude at a table with some chick and announced to her that He Doesn't Wash His Hands After Handling His Dick and walked away

[nothorses]

you are quite literally braver than any U.S. marine

[transguyjusttrying]

I've seen a few people claiming that trans men talking about being forcibly impregnated is just a means to weaponize our anatomy against people who can't get pregnant. This framing is honestly vile.

They ignore the fact that not everyone with a fertile uterus and ovaries, regardless of gender, wants to get pregnant and give birth. They ignore the fact that a lot of us live in places where abortion is difficult, if not impossible, to access. They ignore the fact that pregnancy permanently alters a person's body, and that it can be lethal.

I've even seen some try to point out that some trans men/mascs intentionally get pregnant and give birth as some sort of "gotcha," but those guys are just as capable of making their own choices as the rest of us. The existence of men who choose to carry children does not invalidate those of us who are unwilling.

If you can't get pregnant even though you want to, that does genuinely suck. I can see how it would hurt and make you angry. But that doesn't even come close to being forced to sacrifice the wellbeing and autonomy of your body to incibate a fetus, and you really can't pretend that it's anywhere near the same situation. It doesn't give you the go-ahead to treat people like shit for their anatomy while you accuse them of weaponizing it for just talking about our thoughts and experiences.

[leighlew3]

ALL. OF. THIS.

[elevenspells]

As a cis/bi/man, feel free to tell me that I am talking out of school here. I will accept that my view is entirely my own. I want to say the following in support of my brothers. My brothers in this case being trans men. Trans men are men individually, just like I am as a cis man individually. Trans men are not (yet) seen as men collectively by society. As a class, trans men are not given cis male privilege. This is why I will accept them as men, as my individual conscience will tell me to always validate a person's gender identity, while they still will not have male privilege socially. Society does not follow the mores and ethics that I have, unfortunately.

I just don't understand how this is so difficult to grasp, and so easy to invalidate. Trans men are men. That is their individual truth. That has yet to be anything close to a societal truth, which is where privilege comes from.

[thecatboyoracle]

This guy gets it.

[catchymemes]

They supporting

[molartplusotherstuff]

if you think saying "trans men have gynecological body parts and are thus are affected by misogyny" is equal to saying "all trans men are actually women" then sweetheart you might be a bioessentialist

[theconcealedweapon]

[therapatical]

somebody apparently tried to get the Wikipedia page for discrimination against trans men deleted entirely because of the use of the word "transandrophobia". y'all are part of a fucking extremist hate group at this point. it's pride month and the government is killing us and you're actively trying to destroy documentation about trans people's discrimination? really? how fucking evil do you have to be to do this shit?

can we finally admit that these anti-transmasc people are part of a hate group? can we finally address this fucking problem and acknowledge it exists?

[theconcealedweapon]

[anarchistmemedistro]

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

sorry to be a broken record every month but christ menstruation is a stupid concept. oooooh excuse me for not getting pregnant, why the fuck is there goo falling out of me about it? grow the fuck up and reabsorb that shit for nutrients.

[cordycepti0n]

stigmata, original piece for pride month

[o3tofu]

Elliott