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any pronouns ○ 26 ● intersex butch ○ disabled autistic system ● deer therian ○ probably won’t post much ● minors dni

[thecryptidcalls]

GREETINGS TRAVELERS

My name is Cryptid and I shall be your guide to this twisted blog

There are a few things you need to know before your journey:

🌱this blog will have 18+ content minors dni

🌿I am a 26 year old intersex butch

🌱any pronouns

🌿aro mspec dyke

🌱taken by the most wonderful creature @fish-arent-real

🌿autistic physically disabled system with many other fun disorders

🌱cervidae cladotherian and selkie

🌿proship, if that makes you uncomfortable please just block and move on

🌱I think DNI lists are stupid, I can just block you like an adult

Now, enjoy the call of the mountains!

[dollzcomix]

making the hostage situation very awkward by enthusiastically asking for the gun to be in my mouth during the ransom video

[thecryptidcalls]

@shit-hdb-would-say

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

i really appreciate seeing all the posts on my dash recently to the effect of "shutting down conversations about race/gender/minorities in fandom spaces because 'fandom is meant to be fun' is just an excuse to not think critically about the bigoted behaviors you are exhibiting". i hope that this energy carries over into the gaming sphere next pleaaseee

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

pokemon is a series about building Your own team and going on Your own adventure with creatures that You collect and befriend, and is designed from the ground up to be personal and immersive. i have never been able to look like myself in a pokemon game. if i bought pokemon z a today and booted it up and tried to customize myself, i would not be able to look like myself. just fuck me i guess.

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

ok yay

[fish-arent-real]

Gotta say, I am getting increasingly frustrated at the lack space for trans folks who do not fit into the transmasuline v transfeminine dictotomy that's been created. Not every trans person is transfeminine or transmasculine and forcing all trans people to align their experiences with one or the other (to the point of forcibly assigning trans strangers to these categories) is extremely regressive!

[trans-dwightschrute]

Happy Trans Day of Visibility to Intersex Transgender people!!!

Happy TDOV to coffeebean transmascs

Happy TDOV to honeybee tranfems

Happy TDOV to teabag transneutrals

Happy TDOV to mint chocolate transneutrals

Happy TDOV to AGAB-less trans people

Happy TDOV to ultergender people

Happy TDOV to tris and cistrans people

Happy TDOV to AGAB non-conforming trans people

Happy TDOV to afab transfems and amab transmascs

Happy TDOV to transmascfems

Happy TDOV to gender questioning intersex people

Happy TDOV to intersex trans people with labels that are seen as contradictory

Happy TDOV to XtM, XtF, FtX, MtX, FtMtF and MtFtM trans people

You are trans and you are seen 🏳️‍⚧️💛💜

[thehalfricanhoodpoet-deactivate]

I hope Black girls with anxiety have a good day today.

[antiblackness-archive]

I hope Black girls with depression have a good day today.

[beeorchids-moved-deactivated201]

I hope black girls with PTSD have a good day

[freshest-tittymilk]

I hope black girls with body dysmorphia have a good day

[thereluctantwife]

I hope black girls with verbally abusive parents gave a good day

[dittohasadhd]

I hope autistic black girls and black girls with ADHD have a good day

[midnight-soulless-system]

I hope black girls with schizospec and/or personality disoders have a good day today

[peanut-jelly]

i hope all mentally ill and or disabled black girls have a good day

[fish-arent-real]

[wildspringday]

[thecryptidcalls]

@shit-hdb-would-say

[thewarmvoid]

There is a new documentary / film coming out soon that has been executive produced by Harper Steele (Will Ferrell’s Bestie, prolific writer for SNL, recently out trans woman) about transmasculine people, a documentary in which the makers invite us to consider: “Why is the transmasculine community particularly vulnerable to living briefly and dying quietly?”

What Will I Become (2026)

Is a story where the directors Lexie Bean (they/he) and Logan Rozos (he/him) explore unique transmasculine vulnerabilities, diving into their own personal experiences while intertwining the stories of two young trans men who died by suicide, Homecoming king Blake Brockington and poet Kyler Prescott.

[Blake pictured on the left - Kyler on the right ]

Here’s something Harper Steele had to say in a recent interview that really moved me and made me weep and immediately fly to this app to share this news with all of you.

Im floored. This is what it’s all the fuck about. Harper admits she’s been focused fairly singularly on transfem perspectives as she’s transitioned — but then she hears from the creators of this documentary, watches it and is floored by what she sees. So floored she puts her material resources behind making sure this message gets heard. She was involved in the editing process heavily as she felt very passionate about making sure that the audience would connect with the substance of the film as intensely as she did. Not just that but she talks about how she has learned the ways in which the concept of “building a new masculinity” can be such a massive pressure on transmasculine people, and she wants that highlighted in the film, too. Im just. Emotional. Tbh. Please everyone hang in there. Please. Please please please. Support the heck out of this documentary once it officially gets a wide release. And whatever you do

— do not fucking give up.

[fish-arent-real]

God Bless America, Land of the free*

*extensive terms and conditions apply

This was a game for control. As folks return to TikTok, remember, YOU ARE BEING CENSORED.

[thecryptidcalls]

This is so fucking cool

[fish-arent-real]

In light of the lack of accountability for these motherfuckers I wanted to bring attention to the fact that

Police Chief Scott Mcelree put a HIGH SCHOOL GIRL in a chokehold during a student-led ICE protest in Bucks County, PA.

Students at Quakertown School District in Pennsylvania held a walkout in protest of ICE yesterday. Eyewitnesses stated that police were responsible for rapidly escalating, resulting in several students ranging from ages 14 to 18 being physically assaulted and arrested. One of the responsible officers was Police chief Scott Mcelree, who was caught on video forcibly grabbing and placing one of the students in a chokehold. He was wearing civilian clothing at the time. The student remains in custody.

Of course, the police are claiming they only stepped in because the students were “blocking traffic, damaging property, and throwing snowballs at police”. There is no evidence to support this and the police have not released any footage.

This motherfucker deserves to be held accountable, this is absolutely DISGUSTING and I am beyond enraged. There is NO reasons these children should have been subjected to this.

[antitech]

(me flirting) are you thinking of hurting yourself or others?

[thecryptidcalls]

@shit-hdb-would-say

[sugareimon-deactivated20260217]

You know what? Transfem appreciation post!

I love you, transfems who are loud and aren’t afraid to take up space.

I love you, transfems who are shy and anxious.

I love you, transfems who are medically transitioning.

I love you, transfems who aren’t.

I love you, transfems of color.

I love you, disabled transfems.

I love you, transfem lesbians.

I love you, transfem butches.

I love you, gay transfems.

I love you, intersex transfems.

I love you, transfems experiencing homelessness and poverty.

I love you, schizospec transfems.

I love you, autistic transfems.

I love you, transfem artists.

I love you, transfem writers.

I love you, transfem poets.

I love you, masculine transfems.

I love you, nonbinary transfems.

I love you, plural transfems.

I love you, transfem survivors.

I love you, nerdy transfems.

I love you, weird transfems.

I love you, transfem therians.

I love you, Jewish transfems.

I love you, Muslim transfems.

I love you, transfems of other beliefs.

I love you, traumatized transfems.

I love you, transfem minors.

I love you, transfems who use neopronouns.

I love you, mentally ill transfems.

I love you, fat transfems.

I love you, transfems who don’t identify as a woman or use she/her.

I love you, transfems who feel unlovable.

I love you, no matter what you look like or who you are. The world is a more beautiful place with you in it— you are valuable, and you deserve to have your voices heard and respected. You deserve to be loved.

[sonofnjobu]

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[cantbaretoknowinnocence]

You know how long I've been looking for something like this!?

[kny111]

To any sketch artist out there too.

[solarishashernoseinabook]

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[dragonwolfcrane]

the other day i was trying to find reference images of black people for art things but all i was finding were black-and-white images of white people! love this!!

[sonofnjobu]

Also! They accept submissions. If you’re a photographer and want to contribute, the button is on the bottom left of the webpage. 

[comingupwurlsisnotmything]

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Nappy.co

[millionsknives]

gun to your head what are your top 3 albums of all time. no honorable mentions, no ties for third place i want to know your TOP 3 ONLY.

[marschive]

denial is a harrier

[doberbutts]

"men don't need to be afraid walking around at night"

Unless they're black

"men make more than women in jobs"

Black men make less than white women on average

"men don't get followed around by people who mean them harm"

Black men are heavily policed and regularly jumped and killed for just walking down the street

"no one tells a man what he can and cannot do with his own body"

Black men are repeatedly assaulted and have their hair forcibly shaved or cut for wearing their hair natural and in culturally important styles. Black men who choose body modifications like tattoos or piercings are branded as thugs. Black men who have children and black men who don't have children are both regarded as players, hounddogs, absent fathers, and baby daddies, as if the logical answer is that no one's first choice of partner and father of their children would ever be a black man.

"no one judges a man's worth based on his clothes"/"a man isn't ever in danger no matter what he wears"

Black men are required to look presentable and professional according to eurocentric standards, push themselves into clothes not made for their bodies, and be highly uncomfortable in their daily lives or else risk 'fitting the profile' or 'matching the description' and getting detained by police AT BEST for the crime of existing in public. Black men wearing comfortable clothes are seen as sloppy, thugs, gangsters, street rats, hood and ghetto.

"no man fears rape"

The rape and sexual assault of black men ties directly to black buck stereotypes and black fetishization to the point where liking a black person or having your dating pool be open to black people is treated like a sexuality much like being gay. People are both threatened by and aroused by our bodies and that leads them to perform extreme acts of violence on us, including rape, SA, coercion, trafficking, and more. Much like how "tranny" and "lesbian" is a porn category, so is Big Black Cock. Sometimes with us featured as the rapist. Sometimes with us featured as the victim. Almost never with us featured as intimate, passionate, loving, tender. Black men are either to be feared and reviled, or to be broken and forced to submit. Direct ties to slavery with white people still getting off to our suffering.

Just say you don't care as much about black people's suffering and go, jesus.

I have privilege because I sometimes pass as a man? Try walking in my shoes for a while. Turns out being a black man vs being a black woman isn't always so different.

[doberbutts]

I do think it's really interesting that I have a lot of black butches and trans mascs on this post verifying in their tags that yes they've lived both as 'black woman' and as 'black man' and 'black man' is really not the improvement it's advertised to be and in the mean time I have also a bunch of nonblack people and especially white europeans saying this post is stupid and no one who agrees knows anything about what it's like to be a black woman and I'm just wondering out of the two options who do you think is more knowledgeable about what black people go through? 🤔

[doberbutts]

My nephew was 6 years old when his mother sat him down and explained to him very plainly what happens to black boys and black men who are out at night.

Both of my parents worked in education. My white (passing) mother was a special ed teacher in a middle school. My father was her district's administrator. She was paid more than him. Significantly. They both have Master's Degrees.

My nephew was 13 when Trayvon Martin was killed. His mother asked him to please make sure he came home before the streetlights came on, and if he couldn't make it to not wear a hoodie and certainly don't wear it up. No matter how cold.

My nephew and my father were both pinned down and had their afros shaved/ruined by teachers, people they should have been able to trust. My nephew, my cousins, and more than one of my uncles have had the same happen to their locs. When my mother became pregnant very early in my parents' marriage, no one believed that she actually *wanted* to marry my dad but that she'd accidentally become pregnant and married him to not be ashamed. When my parents adopted my sister who is much darker skinned than my other sister or myself, the assumption was that she was a child from one of dad's previous marriages (he's only ever been married to one woman: my mom) and that my sister was only there because of a custody battle. The first time my dad came to pick me up from school, the office refused to let him in the building and called the police on him for trying to abduct me, because everyone knew my mom was white and the logical conclusion of a black man picking up his black/mixed kid from school was that he was a kidnapper and not that he was my fucking father.

My father arrived home late one night after flying in from Japan and was understandably in comfortable clothes after being exclusively in suits in Japan in the middle of summer for 6 months. Our neighbor saw him pull into the driveway, let himself in the back door... and called the police saying a black man in a hoodie was breaking into our house. We'd lived there at that point for more than a decade. My nephew and I have been followed around in stores for wearing beaters and basketball shorts in the middle of summer. My cousin was harassed by cops while sitting at the bus stop because he had his hood up and was listening to music on his ipod. My uncle was cornered by airport security and ended up missing his flight because someone gave a 'tip' that he 'looked suspicious' in his jeans and a t-shirt.

Every single one of my older black relatives, male and female, have been raped. Every single one. Some of the younger ones too.

This is not a 'what if' post. This is not a 'higher discussion of systemic violence' post. This is a 'stop erasing the experiences of black men because you think there is no way on earth a black man can suffer outside of [just racism]' post.

[doberbutts]

two years ago I posted this and two years later this still rings true, but I want to draw attention to something:

This is the post that netted me my "reputation" for saying that black women have it better than black men or that black women caused these problems.

This post was made in specifically because of radfem talking points, in direct response to a radfem post I saw and was mad about. Two years later I am seeing white radfems say the same about F1nn5ter. My response is still the same. A: trans women aren't men, B: that's not even true of cis men because marginalized cis men experience all of these things on a regular basis.

No where in this post does this blame black women for anything or say that black women don't experience this- in fact I specifically mention black butches in multiple reblogs and in other posts discussing this exact topic. Black women are frequently forcibly degendered and masculinized, and God forbid a black woman actually be GNC and masculine or transgender because then her risk of violence to be enacted upon her is at an absurd height.

This is a critique of white, radical feminism and how it actively perpetuates racism. Don't get it twisted.

[doberbutts]

Anyway when I bring up these points with this post, this is the sort of attitude I'm talking about. ALL of these are from a recent post where I am talking about my specific experience as a black trans man and ALL of these are nonblack people taking it upon themselves to give lip service to acknowledging black people are oppressed and then IMMEDIATELY following up with not including black men in their idea of what counts as oppressed.

When I say white radical feminism leaves racially marginalized men out of discussions of their own oppression, this is what I'm talking about.

This was from a post where I said people talk over me frequently and tell me my voice as a black person doesn't matter and I was taught not to tolerate it as a girl and I'm certainly not going to start tolerating it as a man. That people have regarded my presence as a black person as a threat just existing in an area my entire life and I didn't think it was a good thing when I was a black girl and I still don't think it's a good thing as a black man. This was a post about antiblack racism and how it affects me, an entire ass black trans man.

And nonblack people STILL sought to completely erase my perspective off my own post.

Does it hurt, when I point out your racism? Is it uncomfortable to realize that you're not innocent in spreading and perpetuating the same racism that's caused black people to die to violence at astronomical rates? Is it a hard pill to swallow?

Good. Choke.

[doberbutts]

Since I'm getting a collection of dumbass replies on this again by nonblack people I figured I should remind everyone: THIS IS A POST ABOUT WHITE RADICAL FEMINISM AND HOW IT LEAVES OUT THE EXPERIENCE OF PEOPLE OF COLOR. If you find yourself getting mad because I pointed out that this doesn't work for anyone who isn't white, maybe think about why you're mad instead of putting some bullshit in my notes.