every day i wake up, i log onto this website to remind people that trans men, FTMs, trans fags, drag kings, butches, testosterone dykes & transmasculine people have always been a huge part of our liberation, communities & history and have struggled to give us that, and that we have so much to thank and appreciate transmasculine people for while listening to and validating our unique struggles and appreciating transfeminine & other trans folk at the same time. it’s honest work
It’s true Terves are a vocal minority, but what keeps giving them space is decidedly anti-ter/f folks occasionally dabbling in ra/df/em talking points.
A frightening amount of people who are like “terves dni, fuck terves obviously” then turn around and agree with essentialism. Or their feminism refuses to separate from White Feminism. Or their feminism never grew past equating patriarchy the system with men the class. Or they cannot stop equating masculinity with toxic masculinity. Or they center misogyny as the only measure of oppression worth discussing and imply or outright state that all other forms of oppression are just misogyny+ instead of their own fully-formed types of oppression that can and do intersect with misogyny, as any other types of oppression can intersect with one another.
The R and the F MEAN something in T-E-RF, please look into *how* the ideology becomes trans exclusionary BECAUSE of the brand of feminism that fuels it, and check to make sure you are not repeating what they say and giving a platform to those who mean to use this theory to BE trans-exclusive.
this is probably targeted toward transmasc people but i have a feeling this could apply to potentially every variety of trans person on the planet and thats incredible
Your blog is public, your posts are public. There is actually a setting to change this if you want to; otherwise literally anyone can and will interact. Stop advertising your age (and mental illnesses, etc) and block adults yourself if you want to.
If you wouldn’t walk through a crowd of strangers wearing your personal info on a billboard or expecting nobody over 18 to so much as glance at you, don’t do it online.
no offense to anyone personally but I think we are way too used to and comfortable with weekly releases and if that wasn’t already bad enough, it seems like most of you aren’t even patient enough to wait for the official release date my point is this industry moves way too quickly
The way that people treat with the medium of manga is interesting and sad because a lot of mangaka are disabled and becoming disabled because of the intense workload. The grace extended to legendary author-artists like Togashi should be how all these artists are treated, and more. Your favorite artists are destroying themselves to create the pages you consume and make judgments on and they deserve to take the time their bodies need to recover from these efforts. The weekly release schedule is literally hurting artists.
there’s something deeply gutting about being a writer right now. watching studio execs brag about starving people like you out of your very house just to not pay you anything above the pennies you currently make. watching some people cheer over AO3 being targeted for a DDOS attack. the complete lack of profitability of writing commissions or writing in general in transformative spaces, especially in contrast to fanart. the pivot of so many social media platforms to be video and image based near-exclusively.
I don’t know. it just makes me sad to know that the hobby that kept me alive while growing up homeschooled with dial-up internet and local antenna TV… is only ever gonna be a side job with minimal engagement. I know this site is good about supporting libraries and the concept of books but, do me a favor? Reach out to a writer friend you know. Leave a comment on your last five read stories on your favorite website.
Tell us you care.
and like. this isn’t a guilt trip on an individual level, I don’t want anyone to read this and feel like they’re not doing their part. it’s not you. it’s just the slow crush of watching capitalism crush one of the oldest art forms we’ve got as a species, deliberately and gleefully, when no one else really cared about it in the first place.
writing is by nature a slow, solitary work. I can’t livestream my writing process, I can’t make a time lapse video of me writing my novel. our faces aren’t on the covers of our books hardly any amount of time. I see one read-more to a fanfic or AO3 link for every hundred pieces of fanart and twice as many memes. and parasocial relationships are so, so, so incredibly important in our society (not inherently evil, either) and it just.
Hurts. To already be small, and get stepped on anyway.
thinking about Nimona’s face in this scene because she already knows how this plays out, she’s lived this already and while Bal has the hope that she once had in his eyes, she KNOWS what happening before the sword is even raised. She’s NOT SURPRISED she’s NOT SHOCKED she’s only DISAPPOINTED that Ambrosius can turn on the man he loves because she’s already played this out with Gloreth
semicolons are not only for formal essays and anyone who tells you otherwise wants to deprive you of the second most satisfying punctuation mark; do NOT believe them. i promise they get no bitches
the first most satisfying punctuation mark is—fyi—the em dash
compulsory abledness also (partially) explains why disability aids are forced onto some people and denied from others
prosthetic limbs are forced onto amputees whether they want them or not because the goal is to make disabled people look as abled as possible. whereas, all sorts of people who would benefit from mobility aids are often denied them until it’s a “last resort” because! you guessed it! the goal is to make us look as abled as possible
neither person in this situation is privileged. it’s just that the same harmful phenomenon impacts different groups in different ways
hey, could someone explain the term compulsory abledness to me? search results aren’t yielding anything i can currently digest/understand, and while i think i can get it from the context i want to make sure, as I’m trying to be more involved in theory and community.
Thanks, sorry
sure!
compulsory abledness functions similarly to compulsory heterosexuality, if you’re familiar with that concept. it’s the societal assumption that everyone is abled and everyone is able to complete tasks to the same standard and in the same way
in the example in this post, compulsory abledness is displayed in the expectation that everyone will try to look as abled as possible, and that disabled people should try to hide our disabilities. rather than allowing disabled people to make decisions based on what works best for ourselves, we are often forced to make decisions based on what makes us seem abled
I hope that makes sense! I’ve made a couple other posts on this topic, but I also recommend the book Feminist Queer Crip by Alison Kafer if you want to know more!
We find it extremely funny how apparently the way Transformers writers solved the weird discrepancy between how many male and female Cybertronians there are was to just go. “Hey, they’re an asexual species anyways. What if they’re all born with masc-leaning presentation, but once they came in contact with aliens that have sexual dimorphism, some of them were like ‘Yoooooo girl is an option?????’ and started going by she.” So every femformer is canonically a trans girl now.
new robot genders just dropped: default, and Having Fun With It
Fandom blog posting Megamind, AtLA, Undertale, The Locked Tomb, Steven Universe, Gravity Falls, and several others. Multishipper, fandom old. "gnd" stands for "gloom and doom" and is what I tag stuff that's anxiety-inducing.
Been here way too long and technically never left, tho I do go silent for long periods.
