Hero With A Heart of Gold

Alucard - Thirties - They/Them - Nature, Video Games, Art and occasional TV Shows. "You can sell your house, but a home is where people love you. Don’t forget that." Gamertag: TacZoomies PSN name: TacticalZoomies Steam: TacticalZoomies

[ciricearts]

finally finished this wip!!

[tinylilemrys]

The writer's barely disguised longing for a soft life shared with someone who loves them

[nether--prince]

full furry emmet

to go with ingo, full furry emmet! giratina got a little confused when picking which pointy dark type that got a new form in hisui. emmet's hair tie is hanging on for dear life

[gaymolegaming]

I feel like a lot of people dont pick up on that: when youre texting with someone and they ask you a question theyre probably very much aware that they can simply google it. The reason theyre asking you instead is because they like talking with you and want you to explain it instead

[svenskkaktus]

Time for a hot walk in the desert.

[sandmandaddy69]

[oarfjsh]

they probably cant love me back in a human or even mammalian sense, but my goldfish with their smooth pea-sized brain have learned to trust that i will make them better when they are sick. i feel like crying about this often

[cantabilechaos]

Maybe Princess the tarantula never had anything resembling what we as humans know as emotions, but she still came out of her burrow and up to the glass when we’d talk to her and used to stare at the drawing I’d tape to her terrarium. Maybe she couldn’t even comprehend what we were, but she knew we were there to take care of her. And even if she never showed that sort of curiosity or trust we’d still love her.

[gay-jesus-probably]

Idk if Munchie the praying mantis felt love for me, but I do know he trusted me enough to climb onto my hand when offered and was comfortable with allowing me to carry him places despite me being absolutely massive in comparison to him. So that's close enough in my book.

[anarchistmemedistro]

[mushropm-but-dc]

Thinking about Roy after Lian died and its consequences again.

Is this the arm he also. Loses. Yeah but i was like halfway through when i remembered sorry.

[velinxi]

She

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

graffiti discourse is so stupid why the hell would I give a shit if people spraypaint their names or do some cool paintings under a bridge

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

sorry didn't realize the bridge has to be plain beige concrete. that was a load bearing plain beige concrete if anyone tags it the whole bridge collapses

[x-ray-diation]

It's 85 in my fucking houseeeeeee. They can't get anyone out until Monday. It's supposed to be 110. Kill me

[reisrain]

deity-hood

jason ascended into godhood after he dead, that's it. i just want to draw a cosmic entity-like jason lol

[oifaaa]

Stupid joke that isnt funny but made me smile so

[yasyart]

Doomed siblings in every universe

[j-likes-to-draw]

Decided to do an alt version of my last Renoir pic after all. Real Renoir with the Chromatic Creation this time, both versions side by side

[oddarette]

Lightbulbasaur 💡

[this-is-trans-joy]

I saw a post about the new Lord Of The Flies adaptation and the creator (who also made Adolescence) was talking about the difficulties of being raised as a boy, and how masculinity can be a prison for those forced into it, and the comments were so predictable. No one bothered to think deeply into it at all, and just went straight to “It’s not hard being a boy at all, this man is just whining about his privilege” and I think this is a pretty good example of the lack of intersectionality in feminism these days, because the creator wasn’t saying that “men have it worse” he was specifically talking about how the patriarchy forces toxic masculinity onto young boys to the point of severely hurting their development and mental health, and how men aren’t allowed to talk about this.

Bell Hooks already wrote about this years ago. Black feminist authors have been speaking about this longer than half of these people have been alive, and trans women have also been talking about the horrors of having patriarchal masculinity forced onto them at young ages and how this manifests into transmisogyny that kills trans women and girls.

This is such a vital conversation in feminist circles and is one of the pillars of patriarchy that needs to be dismantled, and yet we’re not making space for that conversation to be had because “men don’t belong in feminism,” despite the fact that men are not the only people affected by this; this enforced masculinity roots itself into those viewed as young boys by society and grows more and more fatal if those young “boys” deviate from it either through gender or sexuality, or if those boys are POC.

I don’t know much about Jack Thorne, but Adolescence was specifically made as a damning criticism of incel culture and how dangerous incels can be towards women, but the other side of this criticism is acknowledging how young boys are groomed into this culture in the first place. Unpacking why young boys are vulnerable to this grooming is just as important in actually deconstructing incel spaces altogether, but people only want to do half of the work.

Yes, it is up to cis men to create these spaces for themselves to discuss the ways in which patriarchy hurts them, and it’s not women’s responsibility to teach them this. However, at the very least, we can’t fight back at the very idea of cis men being included in feminism, because closing your eyes and sticking your fingers in your ears over certain aspects of patriarchy’s harm is never going to help dismantle it. Especially when some of those issues facing cis men can intersect into issues that affect those who aren’t cis men, but experience those issues in even more dangerous ways.

I’m genuinely starting to think that people define “intersectionality” as just having a diverse group of women in their feminist groups, and don’t realise that “intersectionality” means different parts of a person’s identity intersecting in different ways, and how all of those intersections and different manifestations of oppression need space in feminist discussions, because leaving out one part of someone’s identity leaves the rest of them out entirely.

[junorsky]

You have to let go

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