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Look, I know a good number of you are from the US and things aren't amazing there either, but my country is literally on the brink of collapse. So I'd love it if we could talk about that for a minute.
If you can't do anything else, please just read and reblog.
hi guys! rb this one with petition links instead :)
Hate when TRAs are like “radfems suck because they dehumanise women by defining them by their vaginas”.
There is one criteria for being a woman, one box you have to check, and that is being biologically female. You can be literally anything else as long as you check that box, masculine or feminine, a Russian housewife or a Portuguese construction worker or British cottagecore lesbian or American cowherder.
That is…. so much more liberating than thinking womanhood is femininity, or lipstick, or shaving your legs, or wearing skirts, or conforming to misogynistic ideals, or somehow “feeling” like a woman.
So yeah. Woman have vaginas. They are also everything and anything else.
That is.... so much more liberating than thinking womanhood is femininity, or lipstick, or shaving your legs, or wearing skirts, or conforming to misogynistic ideals, or somehow “feeling” like a woman.
Honestly, I wish I could agree with this, but just on a personal level, I can’t.
I was well aware that, biologically, I was not male. I understand that my biology is specifically designed so that I can get impregnated, whether I wanted it or not, and potentially be forced to gestate and give birth to it.
I tried for so long not to transition because I figured I would just…snap out of it. That I was too stupid, or neurodivergent/autistic, to know what was best for me. That I’d somehow go back to being neutral or positive about being a woman.
There was nothing liberating about those years of forcing myself to be something I wasn’t. Of trying to seek help from radfems and being bullied, shunted aside, mocked, talked down to, and given useless (and sometimes downright dangerous) mental health and medical advice. Of feeling utterly trapped and helpless.
What is liberating about that?
What is liberating about telling yourself over and over and over again that you are something you know in your gut is wrong, that your body is designed for a function that you fundamentally know it should not be able to do, and that you can never change that?
Do you want to know what liberated me?
Accepting that I was transgender - that I am not cis, and that that’s okay. Starting hormone therapy that put a stop to self-destructive behaviors that have plagued me my whole life.
I am happy that you find pride in your biology. I do. I wish I could have, some days, too.
But claiming across the board that biology that many of us with dysphoria find distressing “liberating”?
It was not my experience.
the work of etherelle: https://t.co/dPhLw3xuRx (carrd)
happy belated st sebastian day. no idea how to tag this.
The eyes here really seal the deal, though the toothpick-arrow is also a nice touch.
Also reminds me of the story that was circulating around awhile ago, where the narrator had made some sort of jam-filled bread effigy of Jesus for Easter or somesuch.
T'was me with the Bread Jesus Story and the Bread Jesus Attempt One and Bread Jesus Attempt Two and I am SO GLAD THAT SOME OTHER PERSON IS MAKING TERRIBLE CARBY CATHOLIC EFFIGIES.
Always reblog Bread Jesus story
Concept Art for a Gamecube edition of the Nintendo Switch
Omg I would buy this so fucking hard you have no idea
For those who don't know: Ikumi Nakamura is the woman who was senior artist on Bayonetta, and designed the titular character along with Hideki Kamiya. Their greatest moment of bonding was over their insistence that Bayonetta keep her glasses on at all times. Nakamura cannot go to horny jail. She is the warden.
Happy pride month to her and her exclusively
she made a comic about the experience on twitter
The fucking Shiba judge.
Our queen! LOL.
your new gender is whatever you last ate (u r what u eat.)
2,121,566 people are not Amanda and counting!
We’ll find you Amanda.
this has almost 11 million notes what is this
last night like 4am I still couldn’t sleep so I wrote a song while tired as death. will probably take this down tomorrow when better judgement sets in.
WOW
If you projected more I would put this on my music library
please refer to mitski.bandcamp.com for songs where i am projecting more
im in love
oh! my face showed up on my dash
I’m losing it🤯🤯 The original A Burning Hill demo right here on tumblr. I feel like I’m looking at a delicate ancient scroll with sacred information or an original painting by a renaissance artist that must be preserved for all that time.
Tumblr has the gift of prophecy
world heritage post (affectionate)
i am LOSING IT
the sequel
His name is Dylan Marron, aka Carlos from Welcome to Nightvale
Just saw someone say that "Marsha would be disappointed" by people wearing "overly sexual" outfits at pride.
Marsha P Johnson is not a prop to pull out whenever you want to make a point. She was a real person who didn't exist to justify whatever politics you're favouring at this moment. Her story and legacy deserve care and love; they aren't weapons to attack other community members.
If you don’t go big in fifteen minutes you are legally allowed to go home
Bad-faith discourse about queer media can best be summed up by Steven Universe airing the first-ever queer wedding in children's programming and everyone still calling it "bad representation" because they put the butch in a dress and the femme in a tux.
(Never mind that it was done so that censors couldn't rework the butch character into a man during localization, as had been happening to the character previously.)
a few of my (least) favorite bad-faith discourse hits about lesbians in media:
1) korra/asami is a bad ship because it’s replicating heterosexual dynamics, unlike korra/mako
2) ruby/sapphire wedding was bad representation because of the way the principals dressed
3) beau/yasha is a bad ship because it’s a “heterosexual’s idea of a lesbian relationship,” unlike the TRUE gold standard of lesbian representation: beau/jester
oh god do not fucking remind me of the fucking hand-maiden and their lord bullshit. why would you do this to me?
i had finally forgotten. i was finally free.
Oh man oh boy we sure are breaking out the vintage discourse for this post
lotr would be more interesting if it had women and lesbians
If they’re really that horny there are some marvelous websites they can go to
Wow, it's almost like straight people can't imagine lesbians existing in a non-sexual way
You have queer in your url
Yeah because i'm queer lol. Go figure
You also have demon in your url, which is exactly what homosexuality is inspired by. Very interesting!
Look man idk what you think you're doing here but this is the wrong website to be homophobic on lmao. I just want lesbian representation in lotr, what does this have to do with my identity
Ur asking for lesbian representation in literature written by a devout Catholic man. I want you to think about that for a second.
im not asking
How 'bout stop being a "Never make, only take" Commie and make your own fucking book?
I believe Tolkien wrote something about... oh, how did it go again? "Something, something, evil can't create... Something, something it can only corrupt"?
sexual deviancy is cringe.
Oh man if you think being queer is cringe, wait’ll I tell you about the Catholics and Christians who continue to listen to the ramblings of institutions that shelter and protect child predators.
Anyway, off to write fanfic about Arwen railing her girlfriend Eowyn with a dildo crafted from the finest Elven artisans. Cope 💖
For I was buttered and you licked me clean. Stuck in a room and you opened the door. And you may answer Lord when have we seen you buttered and cleaned you? Stuck and opened the door? And the Lord will say inasmuch as you have done it unto Jorts, you have done it unto me
