"New Year New Me"

21 | she/her | MDNI | Sorry if I'm awkward I'm trying my best.

[therapymandatedblog]

Just learned that unsolicited dms are rude?!?! I feel like a complete asshole!

[therapymandatedblog]

Also yes. I know I'm probably overreacting because like, I feel nauseous over an honest mistake, and that's dumb. I just feel really really bad whenever I'm annoying or rude.

[therapymandatedblog]

Just learned that unsolicited dms are rude?!?! I feel like a complete asshole!

[lost-and-kinda-dumb]

got pissed off and made this

[biblicallyaccuratemoth]

If you are a cis white woman who considers yourself an ally of the trans community, your job is to go on every news program, podcast, anything and sob your eyes out over the horrific treatment of trans women and especially trans women of color because your tears are the only ones the patriarchy even pretends to care about

[thisisexorsexism]

"90% of non binary people are just cis white women wanting to be special and oppressed"

"It's good that non binary people are lumped in with women or the general trans community because then they're forced to decide if they're really trans or just attention seeking"

"People who don't go on hormones and/or have surgeries aren't trans, even if they do other things like bind"

And the kicker-

"We should normalise physically bullying people who use they/them"

All lines spoken by my binary trans friend to me (closeted, afab) at a *pride event*

this is exorsexism

[radicalgator]

I had a vision

[biblicallyaccuratemoth]

Transfemme eggs are still absorbing all the toxic and oppressive propaganda about how women are ‘supposed’ to be even before their self-realization, the major difference between them and their cis counterparts being that they are almost unilaterally incapable of living up to even the bare minimum of those expectations and usually have their self-worth shredded to pieces as a result

[sararasx3]

Oh so THAT'S why I felt that I looked awful, daaaamn. Finally I figured out what they meant by transmisogyny hurting trans women even before they figure it out!!

[biblicallyaccuratemoth]

This sort of thing is the tip of the iceberg. Once you know to look for it, you see it rearing its ugly head in so many places

[luka6x]

[football-in-tuxedos]

We talk a lot about how like, fandom in general has extremely piss poor reading comprehension, but I'm not gonna lie, the case I've seen in Amazing Digital Circus is frankly fascinating.

Like, I'm not the biggest fan of TADC, I thought it was fine, but it wasn't what I would call subtle about its themes. TADC exists very firmly in the Millennial Adult Animated series subtype, which means it looks like a kids show, while being about adult emotions, and also states its ideas extremely clearly. There's a bunch of these (BoJack Horseman and Rick & Morty are the big ones in my estimations). They are extremely direct and very blunt, which is in my mind just a neutral statement. Directness is neither positive nor negative

So here comes this show, which spends a huge chunk of its runtime explaining how basically all of the characters are damaged and need to accept themselves to heal, and then spends a MASSIVE chunk of its double length final episode detailing how its biggest piece of shit character became the way she is via a mix of self loathing and fear of her own identity, culminating with her begging the main character not to love her, literally indicating that she believes her own actions have made her irredeemable, AND THEN the whole show emotionally climaxes with said main character embracing her, choosing to love her anyway...

And a bunch of y'all seem to be champing at the bit to find new ways to punish her. Honestly y'all fascinate me.

[cholerascum]

incredibly telling that i saw nothing but praise for the amazing digital circus until the audience got tricked into caring about a trans woman.

[therapymandatedblog]

It's been relentlessly picked apart by internet vultures. Like yeah there IS stuff to critique. But damn did people get shitty about it after the reveal. And with stupid excuses to?

Jax is a terrible person, I can't stand her! As if theres never been characters who are realistically terrible people that the writing is praised for!

Ooh favoritism self insert blah blah blah. As if making a character based on your experiences is somehow bad writing now?

They're just brain scans? Now the story isn't real it's all meaningless! As if the point of the whole show isn't about supporting one another through a small meaningless crushing existence!

[lost-and-kinda-dumb]

i'd make a comic abt this but it's been said so many times that i cba, BUT it is kinda funny how trans people can't have any orientation without it being invalidated.

alr, this is easily to explain with examples.

so take me, a trans guy for instance:

if i'm straight, then i'm "a lesbian with internalised homophobia"

if i'm gay, then i'm "a straight girl fetishising gay men"

if i'm aro/ace, then i must be "sexually traumatised"

if i'm bi, then i'm all of the above

any other orientation? "you just made that up for attention"

you can never meet these people's standards of a 'model trans person™️' because they think we're inherently deviants. there is no point in pandering to them. you will never be 'one of the good ones'.

[closetedcrisis]

A special announcement!

I should definitely be back to making comics next month. In the meantime I'm still going to be drawing but mostly art fight stuff. Appreciate you all for sticking with me!

[cholerascum]

this was supposed to be a small, low effort funny gag but im actually pretty proud of it.

[captainstarburst]

anyone who uses the r slur at this point needs to just be recognized as a hateful bigot and we cant be quiet about it anymore. genuinely. get mad at people for this. point it out and be annoying about it. no you cant reclaim it you just want an excuse to be bigoted

[catboy-tdick]

too many people have the idea that racism is a nothingburger thing. like. people die from that. it’s not “cancel culture” to call out racism. and if you’re white and you say anything close to that you have some serious self-reflecting to do. idc if you’re a content creator. idc if “it could happen to you.” having a platform on the internet and saying stupid bullshit doesn’t make you more oppressed than the marginalized groups you’re criticizing for being upset

[biblicallyaccuratemoth]

hey btw if you’re a trans woman who was relentlessly bullied during school even if it was years before realizing you were trans the reason you were targeted was literally misogyny

Thanks for coming to my TED talk

[calamity-corner]

you can tell trans women are women because we're not allowed to be sexual but also everything we do has sexuality imposed upon it

[calamity-corner]

you can tell trans women are women because we're not allowed to be angry