Cat-People From Space!

Trans Men: hey we have this cool new term to describe how we have experienced oppression unique to our transness and our experiences. *Everyone in their fucking mother*: HOW DARE YOU SAY TRANS WOMEN AREN”T OPPRESSED

meanwhile people are literally describing trans men being killed at a *lesser rate* to trans women as “whimsical”.

Yall really just out here, misgendering us, calling our deaths whimsical, then going “but yall hate trans women” when that’s not at all the definition of the word, or the purpose of the conversation it was created to have.

Transandrophobia is literally the unique oppression of trans men. Trans women can’t really oppress us? They can just commit lateral aggression (assuming ofc all other factors are the same) lateral aggression is still aggression. *Its still harm done no matter who the lateral aggressor is*

Anyway I’m tired of being told my experience as a trans man doesn’t matter because I’m alive. 

I’m tired of the *aggression I’ve experienced for being a trans man is less valid because i’m breathing*

Do yall not realize how *fucked up that is* Because i do.

And as a disabled person, highkey it screams of people who tell me to stop *fighting for my rights to be seen and recognized because i’m not that bad off i’m not visibly crippled yet*

Transandrophobia comes from the same place as any other oppression on an axis. And I quite frankly find the Terms “tme/tma” not very useful when discussing two things. Because trans misogyny is *different* from transandrophobia.

Harm done by hypervisibility (which is what a lot of transmisogyny is) is harm done. But being invisible isn’t a fucking shield. Being invisible just means we’re killed more quietly and swept under the rug.

Cis men are afraid to report crimes because of fear of being emasculated. This statistic does carry over to trans men. Unreported crimes, are still fucking crimes. No one would dare say differently for any other group.

Stop dismissing us. We are part of the fucking conversation. We are here. We are queer. We’ve *been here* we’ve been quietly forced out and erased.

We deserve better. Trans people deserve better.

Also our invisibility is quickly going away, with people like Abigail Shrier focusing almost all of her attacks at trans men and being incredibly visible while doing so. A bunch of the laws trying to ban transition in the US include a focus on “protecting” trans men’s “fertility.” Yes, trying to force trans men to have children isn’t the same as killing us, but it’s still really serious and shouldn’t be downplayed, especially since forcibly detransitioning people or putting up barriers to transition contributes to suicides, and trans men do commit suicides at higher rates.

It’s not a competition, we shouldn’t have to try to prove we just it equally as bad to be allowed to be an equal part of the community.

“Trying to force [transmascs] to have children isn’t the same as killing us”

Uh… yes it is. It really is.

We need to stop downplaying the risks of pregnancy, including the risks of postpartum suicide, which is the leading cause of death in gestational parents. Forcing someone to carry a pregnancy is incredibly risky, changes their bodies forever, and is absolutely the same as killing us, because not all of us are going to make it out the other side alive.

Just because violence is medicalized and hiding under the guise of “protecting life” or “protecting transmasc fertility” or whatever doesn’t mean it isn’t physical violence directed at trans people because they are trans. It absolutely is.

Medical abuse is physical abuse and forced pregnancy kills people. Don’t qualify it.

First Alex Jones getting his shit fucked in court and now Trump getting raided by the FBI what a wonderful week this has been

There are many new friends on the archive, and many are young and have only known social media, which is why I wanted to say something!

Ao3 does not have an algorithm! It isn't a social media site, it's an archive.

Posting fics on Tumblr isn't the same as posting fics on Ao3

Ao3 is like a giant virtual bookshelf, and everyone is able to add their own stories to the bookshelf, all stored with different tags and different fandoms. Works are automatically sorted by newest to oldest, but filters, looking at bookmarks, and using the search function can change that.

Certain works are not pushed to the top like social media posts. More kudos and reads don't push a single work to more viewers by some algorithm. Unless otherwise filtered, works will be at the top of the page based on how recent it was posted.

Smaller fandoms get less views, less kudos, less bookmarks, and larger fandoms get more simply because of the number of people inside the fandom.

Ao3 is a giant virtual bookshelf- there is no algorithm, and there is no man behind the shelf pushing certain books forward.

Happy reading, and if you'd like to have more people notice a fic, why not share it with them! Send a dm to a fandom friend and it might turn into one of their favorite fics!

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One kitten wakes up and gives a high pitched “MEW!”

the off-screen voice: “Hiiii babies!”

This has now awoken the kitten pile; they are untangling from themselves and all mewing, loudly, for attention from the person holding the camera.

This person keeps repeating, “Hi babies!” and “what are you up to?” as they continue mewing and going towards her voice

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Press play, the audio is worth it.

Bruce: Dracula had it right, sleep all day, live alone in a castle, and explode into bats to get out of all social situations.

What a year this week has been.

It’s Monday.

It sure as hell is.

The earlier in the day Monday you reblog the funnier this gets

Eli (Stilinski-)Hale, you belong to us now.

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[video description: a pile of kittens are in their holding pen on a soft fleece blanket, napping. A high-pitched voice from the person holding the camera says, “Hiiii!”

One kitten wakes up and gives a high pitched “MEW!”

the off-screen voice: “Hiiii babies!”

This has now awoken the kitten pile; they are untangling from themselves and all mewing, loudly, for attention from the person holding the camera.

This person keeps repeating, “Hi babies!” and “what are you up to?” as they continue mewing and going towards her voice

/end video description]

oh yeah heres my collection of 2021 headlines that i forgot to post when the year ended

beckett: i sleep with a gun under my pillow.

castle: i sleep with a knife.

ryan: both of you are pathetic.

beckett: oh yeah? what do you sleep with?

ryan: esposito

Yosuke Amemiya

#i like the implication that dali just had that effect on things#just a surrealism field around him at all times

Come on founder/king of Athens, aren’t u gonna slay the Bull of Minos or not?

Huh...

Huh...

“Slay”, huh.

this isn’t the ship of Theseus I’m used to hearing about

Favourite BTVS relationships : Buffy and Xander’s friendship

“I’ve been through more battles with Buffy than you all can ever imagine. She’s stopped everything that’s ever come up against her. She’s laid down her life - literally - to protect the people around her. This girl has died *two* times, and she’s still standing. You’re scared? That’s smart. You’ve got questions? You should. But you doubt her motives, you think Buffy’s all about the kill, then you take the little bus to battle. I’ve seen her heart - and this time not literally - and I’m telling you right now, she cares more about your lives than you will ever know. You gotta trust her. She’s earned it.”