-A Pokemon Fanfiction

[This lovely fanart is by Large_Egg, posted on their account here. Go give them a comment if you like it.]

Also, here's some inside-book-cover reviews comments, if you want something other than just the author's word to recommend this.

Credit: @pet_foolery

I think I already reblogged this but im gonna do it again because this is a good reminder on how toxic gatekeeping it.

I’m reblogging this for the amount of thought that was put into figuring out the necessary configuration for a mertaur wheelchair.

MMMMM, the LAYERS to this. 

She’s technically a monster too. She might not look it at first glance and seems mostly human, but it isn’t deniable even despite her looks compared to the other monsters. 

But she realizes that she is still not like the rest of the monsters either and may not have entirely the same experiences as them, which is why she feels that she might not belong to or deserve to go to the support group. By sometimes passing as human, she feels she isn’t worthy of the space. 

The sad reality though is even though she’s mostly human in appearance, that tail she has undeniably would still cause her some struggle. Humans are still gonna look at that tail and think she’s a freak. There are probably still accommodations she needs because of the tail that she may still struggle to have access to. Even if it is just the tail, that tail is still enough to other her from humans and cause her problems and discrimination. 

She should get to belong in that support group even if she gets told she’s not monster “enough”. She still shares some of the same struggles as them that are caused by being a monster, and needs support. 

This is an excellent demonstration of the flaws in the concept of passing privilege. Bravo to the artist. 

NOW I will reblog this.

[Image ID]

A seven-panel comic that was digitally drawn by @/pet_foolery on Instagram.

Panel 1: A werewolf in a light blue shirt and jeans stands with a clipboard in hand, eyes looking off toward the side of the panel. Behind him in the background are three other monsters , a gargoyle, a Bigfoot-esque character, and a green lizard, all on a white background. The werewolf is commenting “Uh… I’m sorry, ma'am, but this is a support group for monsters only.”

Panel 2: The panel zooms back to show only the werewolf and the person he’s talking to, a light-skinned, blond-haired woman with a pink shirt and black pants with a typically “Karen” haircut. She looks like a regular human. The woman replies “Well, actually, I AM a monster.” The werewolf questions, “How?”

Panel 3: The panel has a close up of the woman’s face as she talks, a thought bubble over her head as she explains “Well, you see, my mother was a mermaid, and my father was a minotaur.” In the thought bubble is a mermaid in a tank, holding hands with a minotaur standing beside it as they gaze lovingly into each other’s eyes.

Panel 4: The panel has zoomed back out to show both the woman and the werewolf, the werewolf looking irritated. “Right.” He replies, the “i” stretched out sarcastically. “And let me guess: you got the human half from both of them.” The woman replies, “Exactly.” “Gotcha. Hardy har har.”

Panel 5: The panel zooms into another close up where only top top halves of the woman and werewolf are present, the werewolf leaning in and angrily pointing a finger at the woman. “Ya know, it’s insensitive mockery like this that makes us need these groups in the first place.” The woman looks bewildered at the statement, her hands up almost defensively as she reacts with “Huh?”

Panel 6: The panel draws back out to reveal the two full-bodied again, this time adding a third character standing behind the woman. “Listen, sir. I’m just here to drop off my brother and I’ll be in my way.” She gestures to the person mext to her. He’s a monster like the werewolf, with a mermaid tail and a bull torso/head. He wears a Chicago Bulls jersey with the number 23 on the front, perched on a specially-made wheelchair that helps him move around. He looks annoyed, asking “This guy buggin’ you, sis?” The werewolf is looking at the mino-mermaid in shock, silent.

Panel 7: The woman is walking off the left side of the panel. With her back showing, a bull tail can be visible that wasn’t seen with her front facing out toward the viewer. She glances back at her brother, commenting “I’ll be back to pick you up around seven.” The mino-mermaid glances back at her with a smile, “Sounds good, thanks.” The werewolf is still in his shocked silence, watching her walk off.

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I love you being trans I love you trans women i love you gender exploration I love you self discovery

[link to the Reddit post]

[ID: two screenshots of a reddit post on r/offmychest by user awaythrowjessie, titled "My girlfriend made me realize I'd be happier as a woman". it reads as follows:

I am 33, born male, and have had major self image issues my entire life. I hated seeing myself in mirrors, pictures, you name it. I honestly thought it was kinda normal so I just accepted it.

Now about 3 weeks ago I was at my girlfriends house, we have been dating a little over a year now, and have plans to move in together soon. Now recently she has shaved her head to support of her friends with cancer (side note thenl treatments for that friend are going very well). She had since bought some wigs to wear while her hair grows back out. We were joking around as I have male pattern baldness, and when she went to the bathroom I jokingly threw a wig on and waited. She came our, saw me we laughed for a bit and she said "you know I think you'd make a pretty girl" we laughed some more but those words triggered something in me.

Cut to a few night's ago she asked why I've been acting weird lately and I just told her how i was feeling. She said "alright let's do this " and when I asked what she told me she was going to give me a bit of a makeover and put me in one of her dresses and if i liked it then good. I was nervous and asked what if I did like it would she still be attracted to me. She just responded with "Baby you know I'm bi, guy or girl you're still mine." Her words reassured me honestly i love her so much.

Anyways she finished the make up, fitted a wig on me perfectly and got me in a dress and even helped me put a bra on and stuff in a little so i could see what breasts would kinda look like on me. Now I expected to see myself in the mirror, laugh this off and move on right, but I didn't. She did an unbelievable job, like I looked like I had been born a woman, and when I saw myself in the mirror for the first time in my entire life, I liked what I saw. I probably stared at myself for a good 10 minutes before she finally asked me something. She asked what I wanted to be called. After a few seconds I said Jessie, I always like the name Jessie. She whispered in my ear "well Jessie, you look beautiful." And that was it, I knew this was who i wanted to be.

I'm nervous now though, my friends will accept it but my family are, well let's just say not very progressive. But this is what I want.

end ID]

there’s an update!! 

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[ID: A screenshot of a Reddit post from r/offmychest by user awaythrowjessie, titled “I went out as Jessie for the first time and I was honestly surprised”. The screenshot reads: Hello everyone, this is an official follow up to my previous post that went viral and caught me off guard.

So me and my girlfriend, (Who has officially agreed to disclose her name lol) Emily, had gone shopping for me to get me outfits and the like. Earlier today i put on one of those outfits and officially faced the world as Jessie for the first time.

To say I was nervous would be an understatement. We went to our local mall and I was almost shaking, thankfully Emily calmed me down and said if anyone said anything mean to me she'd handle it, then playfully threw up her hands like a boxer lol. We stepped inside and started walking around going in stores and I noticed something, no one was staring. Like at all. I live in an area that still has issues with LGBTQ people so I was afraid of staring or aggressive people. But none of that happened. People greeted me, the store workers were kind and nobody looked at me like I was weird. I felt comfortable, and Emily even said she saw someone check me put, though i doubt that.

This was unbelievable to me and honestly I felt like myself. I feels nice that I can go out without worrying about Judging eyes.

To all the supporters of my previous post thank you, you have made me happy. Ill keep this account going to let you join me in my journey and once I'm confident enough I'll post up some pics of me and Emily too :) end ID]

I'd much rather people reblogged this version of the post than any other at this time btw

Honestly crying right now. Wherever Jessie and Emily are at this moment, I hope they're doing well.

This is so similar to my wife's story I'm smiling and crying at the same time. I love it every time someone realizes they can live as their authentic self.

man this is like the worst year for tech and websites

discord is forcing a username change that no one wants, twitch nearly banned sponsored streams, imgur is banning NSFW and removing old pics, reddit is restricting their API usage and killing off all mobile apps, apple introducing some shitty overpriced AR headset, the amount of fuckups twitter is doing i cant even count on my own two hands its all becoming too much i hate technology i hate you silicon valley

tumblr is trying to ruin their website too they’re just bad at it

tumblr is trying

to ruin their website too

they’re just bad at it

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

Deep in the article, there’s this nugget:

When people say “fuck u/spez,” this is Spez. I do not have the sort of imagination that can readily convert the way Reddit communities currently work to “businesses.”

This sounds like making Tumblr the new PDF

With the power of cryptocurrency, you too can invest in r/overwatchfeet

There is,,, a lobster. On the way

There is a lobster somewhere in the facility but we don’t know where

This is not a joke btw I was supposed to receive and acclimate a lobster today but I waited around in the lobby for an hour before finding out that the Lobster Deliverer went around back and gave the lobster to the aquarist and he went out on a diving trip without telling anyone where he put the lobster. There is literally a lobster here somewhere and we can’t find it. Lobster location unknown.

Update he put it in one of the lobster traps tied to the pier. Which is fine, that’s where it was gonna go anyway until we set up its display, but I would’ve preferred to acclimate it before plopping it into the ocean. But the hooligan has been contained. There will be no surprise lobster attacks today.

Update 2 here is Thee Lobster

NYC Data Stories: Allyship

For when people say they’re sick of seeing gay stuff everywhere. Suck it up. 4 years. 4 years. And that’s just on the books, it’s legal. It doesn’t stop shitty attitudes, actions, or straight up violence.

You can still be evicted in Arizona for being queer.

Love that they put “a sense of impending doom” as one of the symptoms of a heart attack, like girl, that’s just how it is to be alive these days, you’re gonna have to be more specific

This made me chuckle but after scrolling away I felt the need to come back to it.

Because as someone who has felt this I can not stress how different it actually is from anxiety. Which is saying a lot because I have a massive anxiety disorder.

I've only felt this twice in my life - once when I was going into kidney failure due to an infection and again when my body was going into shock due to dehydration and malnourishment due to GI issues - and I can not stress how much it saved my life. It's hard to even put it into words. It's not like a panic attack, or anxiety. It is a horrific gut turning feeling of absolute dread.

Especially if you have anxiety you'll know the difference honestly. It's so much worse. It's every cell in your body and your brain screaming that there's something horribly wrong in a way you've never felt. It's your brain screaming out that you are going to die in a way no panic attack has ever done before.

I can not stress how important it is to get yourself to the ER if you feel this way. Especially if your having other physical symptoms.

This is amazing and incredibly helpful, oh my god. Thank you.

Wait, which series does Miles Morales first appear in? All these different series are so confusing

Ultimate Spider-Man, in the universe of the Ultimate imprint. It was the best of the Ultimate series.

Cool 👍

man, what the fuck

This is the most accurate post about getting into comic books I have ever seen.

I was today years old when I learned that there are people who don’t know what a mole is or at the very least doesn’t know what they look like and apparently people who see them for the first time as an adult often think they look disgusting?

I always thought they were super adorable even though they’re aggressive little buggers who can’t stand to be around each other except one day a year for procreation. Even the starnosed moles just look like adorable little Lovecraft horrors to me ❤️

what you have to understand about kink at pride discourse and the reason people discuss it alongside discussions of transmisogyny and things like drag queen bans is that trans women are seen as sexually perverse, deviant, and engaging in fetish simply by existing as a woman in public, and your arguments of "no kink at pride because of the children" is the exact reasoning given behind banning public displays of transfemininity

btw reblog this

We first started trying to make Dungeons & Drag Queens happen in 2019, mere months after D20 premiered. 

4 years later, it all came together spontaneously and magically. 

HUGE thanks to our queens, as well as Brian and Aly at PEG, for going on this adventure with us. 

ten years of fighting and when shit hits the fan tumblr instantly has reddit's back. the greatest enemies to lovers story ever told.

you understand

my dad took some ancestry tests and eventually found out who his father was (and that he has 5+ siblings who are also finding all of this out) and honestly it's been pretty bizarre and emotional so far, naturally

but one of the biggest changes for me is no longer having to give the whole spiel of "oh i know i'm racially ambiguos but hey there's a whole story behind it because this that and here's my father's backstory"

like no i... i just have a grandpa from Nigeria now

...that's way less mysterious >:(

edit: my brother has made a tiktok on the whole situation

it’s psychological horror to YOU. to me it’s a romcom

it's a romcom to YOU. to me it's psychological horror

funniest thing about the “reddit migration” is that I haven’t seen a single post shitting on anyone coming from Reddit. when twitter started bleeding users everyone was firing rent-lowering posts but with redditors skittering about we’ve left the doors open and put out food bowls

Tags were too good to ignore.

[ID: a screenshot of a tweet by "Hay McGough":

The purpose of pride is to find safety in numbers and put pressure on social/political barriers wjrh visibility and protest. The reason it isn't "family friendly" is because you believed we did not belong in your families.

"Family-friendly" has become an anti-gay dog whistle. /end ID].