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Catch “Drabbles” my new EP on your streaming service of choice!
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Sir Edward Burne-Jones, School For Dragon Babies, 1884, pencil on paper
i can’t believe you posted this without posting the sequel!
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don't use "ftm" it's outdated and offensive. it implies that the trans person was their agab, which we never were. i was always a boy, never a girl who became a boy.
- i’m 35 years old. i’ve been IDing as trans or something similar to trans for nearly 20 years. i was probably calling myself FTM while you were playing tag during recess, anon.
- i WAS a girl. i IDed as a girl early in my life. i recognized myself as a girl, called myself a girl, lived as a girl, and was a girl. who then IDed as a man. hence, F t M.
- spend more time worrying about yourself instead of strangers on the internet, anon.
sorry not sorry if this comes off as needlessly hostile, but i’ve been getting a lot of shit from a lot of teenage trans kids about the language i use to describe my own goddamn experience, and i’m growing real fuckin weary of it.
i have elder trans friends who call themselves transsexuals and transvestites and trannies. are you going to seriously go to a 60-year-old trans person who survived the reagan years and tell her she’s not allowed to use certain language to describe herself because it might offend the delicate sensibilities of some teenager on the internet?
do yourself a favor and log off, find some real-life trans people who are over the age of 20 or 25, and spend time talking to them instead of getting all holier-than-thou at random strangers on tumblr.
It may be weird to encounter because it’s not the trans narrative that the media sells to us as ‘the only valid way to be trans’, but the 'I always knew I was x’ is not all-encompassing.
Anon there are more people than you think who were girls who grew up into men, or boys who grew up into women, or girls or boys who grew up to be nonbinary. There is a rather obscure theory that girl and boy are distinct genders from man and woman and while the most common trajectory is that boys grow into men and girls grow into women it’s not the rule.
Let people define themselves.
also if you think genderfluid people are real and you’re not just humoring us, you by definition have to allow that gender can change over time. I was a girl once. I am not a girl now.
Chiming in with solidarity to OP.
I feel very protective of my former identity BECAUSE there’s so little room in the Mainstream Trans Narrative ™️ for allowing gender to change.
I was a girl. Now I’m genderqueer. Maybe later I will find different words for myself.
There has to be room for all of us in the trans community or there’s no point to any of this.
Ive been here long enough to see words like ftm/mtf, afab/amab, transmale/female, trans man/woman all go through the cycle of ppl telling you to “Dont use X word its out dated. Now use this Y word”. Only for a year or two pass and suddenly “Y word is outdated. Now use Z word” like yall this is exhausting. Just because a word is old doesn’t automatically make it a slur or offensive.
They’re pulling high school clique bullshit out and just replacing 'uncool’ with 'problematic’ and pretending it’s activism somehow. We’re trying to get work done here not everybody is going to keep up with the ever-rotating lexicon of words.
I used to be a member of the commentariat where I learned the phrase
THERE IS NO QUEER REVIEW BOARD
Which has kinda helped me be a bit better at being decent
Anonymous left a question.
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I’m a sad person not because anything is wrong. but because as a child I saw an alligator gar at the aquarium and experienced a joy so profound it permanently blew out my dopamine receptors and I’ve been incapable of happiness since
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The phrase “millennials weren’t on Tumblr” is genuinely one of the funniest fucking things I’ve heard. Some could even say we’re still wandering those desolate halls to this day! (Because most other social media is so garbage this is one of the only habitable zones)
Also apparently there’s an argument on whether Superwholock is a millennial or gen z thing? Like that was, what, 2010-2013-ish era Tumblr? So like maybe some of the older zoomers, but that’s sadly millennials sin to bear.
Gen Z is getting BOLD as they age tbh. Im already seeing posts saying “Gen Alpha wont be able to make fun of Gen Z because we’re actually not cringe like millennials”
Like EVERY generation goes through this cycle
Trust me, your cool will be the next generation’s cringe precisely BECAUSE it’s your cool.
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Female Trouble (1974) // dir. John WatersWhy did people even bother trying to keep writing dialog after this
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Death of the author: Treating the author’s stated interpretation of their own work as merely one opinion among many, rather than the authoritative Word of God.
Disappearance of the author: Treating the context and circumstances of the work’s authorship as entirely irrelevant with respect to its interpretation, as though the work had popped into existence fully formed just moments ago.
Taxidermy of the author: Working backwards from a particular interpretation of the work to draw conclusions about what the context and circumstances of its authorship must have been.
Undeath of the author: Holding the author personally responsible for every possible reading of their work, even ones they could not reasonably have anticipated at the time of its authorship.
Frankenstein’s Monster of the author: Drawing conclusions about authorial intent based on elements that are present only in subsequent adaptations by other authors.
Weekend at Bernie’s of the author: Insisting that the author would personally endorse your interpretation of the work if they happened to be present.
I thought this was going to be a joke, but these are all very real things you see people do.
I’m never more serious than when I’m joking.
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I see a lot of ‘cis’ women say they wish they were androgynous in the way men were or they wish they were pretty in the way men were. This is your sign to go try to do that. You may find you enjoy being an androgynous woman. You may find you no longer identify as a woman. You may find you don’t like androgyny. You will not know until you try. Cut your hair if you’ve always wanted to but have been afraid to. Shop in the men’s section if you’ve been too nervous to. Wear clothing with an androgynous  silhouette. Experiment with binding, take baby steps with compression bras if you want. Wear unisex scents. Live life. Try things you want to try. A lot of cis women do not understand the joys of mens pants and mens deodorant. I think everyone should try both of those things.
(via @monimolimnion)
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#much more comfortable being a woman when I realised it literally doesn’t have to mean anything
#unlock cis+ it’s good for you]Trans people don’t own gender. We stole it the way Prometheus stole fire, so it would be available to everyone.
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To this day the fact that there’s people out there who think masturbating is a form of cheating is one of the craziest things I’ve ever heard
this is one of the ways fundamentalist christian heterosexuality is actually really kinky because theyre literally like you need to save all your cum to breed me auuughhh. except theyre dead serious about it
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shit the western media won’t show you
We were all taught in school that if something like this happens within our lifetimes, it is of the utmost importance that we call it out and don’t just go along with it or look away
now theyre like “oops, we didnt mean it”
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Posting this iconic piece of media that I just NEVER found online isolated except in an archived reddit thread
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Te lo has buscado Flunfis
this is, fundamentally, what a greek tragedy is
The best part of this is that the other string is clearly re-tied after breaking, so this furry nitwit didn’t learn a single thing from his previous attempt.
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I hope he sues for libel.
“No adult should be telling children that they’re safe, it is creepy as hell.”
Transphobes act like they’re “protecting kids” and then say shit like this completely unprompted and unironically.
Tennant?
TENNANT?
She’s coming for David Tennant??
OK BUT REBLOGGING BECAUSE OF THIS:
The pin reads “You are safe with me.”
So if anyone out there STILL wants to hang on to that H@rry-P*tter-adjacent username
GO FUCK YOURSELF
Why did she change her name from Kellie-Jay Keen to Posie Parker? Is she trying to confuse people into thinking she’s actress Parker Posey?
Anyone who supports ether kellie-jay keen otherwise know as poise Parker and JK Rowling needs to get off my dash and stop fallowing me.
It doesn’t even refer to children in any way! It’s from the Gayprideshop.co.uk and it looks like this.
What a stupid fucking maneuver. Graham Lineham lost his agent, his marriage, and his career after making the same accusations against Tennant for wearing a “Leave Trans Kids Alone” t-shirt and this random transphobe thinks she can make a swing based on literally nothing at all? Good fucking luck.
i would like to also point out that this is exactly why people are being told to stop supporting jk rowling financially, and to stop supporting her work entirely. jk rowling has some actual powerful influence, both politically and monetarily. if she can pay for legal fees of other people when they get sued for libel for claiming LGBT+ allies are all pedophiles*, then this is an example of how she can be a very real threat to LGBT+ and trans people especially.
*not saying this is what actually happened as i don’t know what those legal fees they mentioned she paid were actually for, but it still demonstrates her financial power.
People occasionally suggest separating art from artist, but that really only applies if the author doesn’t profit off their works anymore. Like, Lovecraft was a racist bastard, but he’s dead and so can’t use the money from his books to further a racist agenda. Rowling is alive and uses her money for shit like this. And so I think the solution is simple. People can be Harry Potter fans again when Rowling is dead.
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I have heard fisher cats’ vocalizations being described as screams or cries of kids or children… but I never understood exactly how uncanny their actual sounds are!
These cats are powering up
They literally do sound like children pretending to be animals. That’s wild.
damn
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“Boycott fatigue” what do you mean a boycott is literally where you DONT do something like how get fatigued from not buying mcdonalds
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Anyways. Y'all keep forgetting that Cuddy hired and repeatedly refused to fire malpractice Georg entirely on purpose. In order to keep her hospital on the map. In order to secure better funding and more research opportunities. She lies under oath, she threatens employees, (not just House!) she fucking. Schemes. She’s nuts! She sees a complete disaster of a guy who cannot be trusted to care for himself much less vulnerable patients, who absolutely no one else will hire, and she goes. Yeah I think I can keep him under control. I think I can harness that for my benefit. And she mostly succeeds!!! House, who’s never met an authority figure he didn’t hate. She keeps him complacent with regular doses of petty arguments so he thinks he’s fighting the man, but literally he is exactly where she wants him most of the time. Yeah House might be a feral animal, but that makes Cuddy the kind of person who keeps wild animals as pets. She’s like oh yeah this is my pet tiger. When he’s feeling grumpy I distract him with raw steak that I throw across the room. He thinks it’s a game. Sometimes he tries to bite me lol.
I don’t even go here, but by referring to House as “malpractice Georg” OP has opened my eyes to a whole new realm of pithy insult possibilities.
*Malpractice Greg
