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25shadesoffebruary · 7 months
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This alone.
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colgreatsushii · 7 months
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designed this trans fursona on stream today it was fun hanging out with peeps hope y'all can catch the next one c:
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uncanny-tranny · 4 months
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I think what might actually help the families of trans loved ones is to actually engage with where the trans person is at - especially if the family isn't quite understanding yet. When I came out, I was completely alone in figuring out my manhood. I had peers and I had exposed myself to so many trans people who explored gender, and while it was amazing, it isn't quite the same at times. I grieve quietly, sometimes, about all the missed opportunities that might have just made it easier for my family to have seen how utterly happy I was. It took them a very long time to actually notice that I was happy, especially once I got on testosterone. I'm lucky that they saw that happiness eventually, and slowly accepted it. My manhood is completely detached from their influence, both to my relief and chagrin. It's sad to me that I learned to shave from a kind online stranger, somebody who didn't even have a father and yet, I do. I have a father. I grieve at the loss of a potential shared experience. I grieve about the pain I went through when I was in that stage of transition, especially because it was raw and vulnerable. I grieve that many trans people today are traversing the path I had to, because it's sometimes lonely (even when you do have other forms of support).
It's hard to know that I will never have gotten my sense of being from my family. In many ways, it has severed a lot of connection with them because there were so many times that I was begging them to see happiness when they were focused on the idea that I was almost in a state of purgatory - flesh which felt warm but held no familiarity to them. I don't harbor ill-will toward them, I hope I don't leave the impression that I despise them. I understand what they felt, even if I can't conceptualize it myself. However, it's a raw wound in my heart, and I don't want to leave anybody else feeling that way, either.
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archrries · 19 days
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Me and my friend's texts as Radioapple quotes pt.5 (qpr)
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socialjusticebard · 2 years
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You're not being a good a trans ally if you're constantly leaving trans people who can get pregnant out when you're talking about abortion rights. Not all women can get pregnant and not everyone who can get pregnant is a woman and when you call abortion rights "women's rights", you're showing your willingness to let trans people continue to experience discrimination in the areas of reproductive rights, as well as continuing to uphold the idea that the ability to be pregnant is a universal experience for women. If you're an ally doing this, please change your language and educate yourself.
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My Exit Note (for now) - and A Letter to Taylor
I’m so very sorry to the lovely people on here who will be saddened to read this, but this will be my last post for a while. I re-joined tumblr in June last year to re-reconnect to this lovely community, and it genuinely seemed so much safer to do than back in 2017. I thought the fandom had gained some perspective as a whole. But after only 7 months, the fandom (and by that I mean swifties) has once again become a battle ground for us, fuelled by none other than Taylor herself, and I’m no longer willing to gloss over that. I’m choosing my own peace.
It may seem like a very fickle move after only 7 months in this space, when the good people on here are genuinely some of the kindest and most intelligent people I’ve ever met online, but let me explain why I need to take a break. I don’t intend to leave Taylor Swift and her art behind and never look back. In fact, I have Eras tour tickets for the summer and I want to give myself a chance to actually be excited about that by the time June comes around. But it’s all too familiar, pretty much exactly the same reason I left tumblr the first time in 2017. I’m here to discuss and analyse Taylor’s art with likeminded (queer) people and I can’t respect the artist of that very art when she continually gives her toxic ‘fans’ ammunition to come into our safe space and harass us and then watches as we scramble to keep ourselves safe amidst abuse and threats. They are doing this in HER name. Members of a marginalised community she claims to be an ‘ally’ to are being doxxed and harassed in HER name and she’s doing nothing. If anything she’s fanning the flames while it burns. Whatever it is that she’s doing with her brand right now, her silence when her own crazy fans are sending DEATH THREATS to people for simply interpreting her art, means that I cannot be part of that right now. I thought the fandom had changed, that Taylor had grown more confident defending what she stands for, but clearly, I was wrong.
The tipping point back in 2017 for me, was when she told those kids from the rep secret sessions that the album was all about her darling bf and gave them permission to go after anyone who said otherwise. And boy, did they take that seriously. They came after us in our little corner for gushing over how beautifully gay those songs were, fuelled by words straight from the horse’s mouth. SHE sent those people after us. Because she wrote the gayest album in history and she couldn’t deal with the noise getting too loud. And I lost all respect for her. It was only in 2019 when she was suddenly draped in rainbows that I carefully looked at gaylor spaces online again, because it seemed like she was finally actually committing to it. But we all know how that ended… So, to see one of those very rep secret session kids on my YouTube feed yesterday picking apart this beautiful NY Times article with lies and inaccuracies in the name of Taylor’s straightness, just reminded me whose side she decides to put herself on. She invited those people to her house. She caters to them, not us. She made them think they were her friends and then sent them after us. With HER OWN WORDS. And I can’t be in the trenches for someone who hands my bullies a gun and points at the target.
I will leave my blog active this time, so my content will be here for people to engage with if they want. But I won’t be on here to receive your messages or dm’s. I’m sorry that I’m leaving you guys at a time where we need to stick together, but I’m getting more anger and hurt out of this than joy atm and that’s always the time for me to put myself first and step away. I hope that we will come together again when the tide changes, I’m still somewhat convinced that the clock is ticking towards a better time for us, but I need Taylor to come through for us (and herself) before I can look at her again. And I promise if that happens, I won’t hold a grudge.
And lastly, here’s something I’ve never done because I’m not crazy enough to think that Taylor sees us on here, but I don’t have any other social media and I had to get this off my chest. (If you have twitter/instagram, maybe do something similar, you never know, she might actually see it and I think she needs to know how much hurt she’s causing with this)
Dear Taylor, @taylorswift
What are you doing, love? I wish I could actually ask you that. In fact, I’ve wished it many times throughout the decade that I’ve been a fan of your music. I’ve wished that I could tell you what your music meant to me when I was heartbroken, and how much joy it brought me when I was young and felt invincible. You changed my life when you proudly held a girl’s hand in public with a smile that showed me that love is there for people like me to find, after all. And when the world was hard on you, I wished I could ask you if you were ok. But today, I just want to ask you this: what have I done to deserve you sending the worst kind of people after me? Time and time again. And you can’t tell me you didn’t know that would happen, I know you’re smart. I know you know the kind of people I’m talking about, the ones that worship you like a God, that will stop at nothing to defend the version of you they have in their heads. The ones you built your empire on. Good on you, but when did you stop caring for the people that actually see you and read the words you put out into the world for us? Was that not what you wanted? I can’t claim to understand how you live the life you’ve chosen, but at least your art was always there to bring joy to my life and community when I needed it. I didn’t need you to be a hero, but now you’ve become part of the problem.
So, here’s the thing: choose a side. Commit to us, or let us go. This line that you’re walking has reached the end. You want to be an ally? Fine. Let me help you with that: Don’t claim to be a safe space for queer people and then throw a grenade into our community and watch it burn. That’s not what an ally does. Don’t appropriate our culture by using our pride flag colours or the colour lavender and then deny the cultural and historic significance of those colours, effectively erasing their meaning. That’s not what an ally does. And most importantly, don’t let people be slaughtered, gaslit and harassed on the internet, or mainstream news, for interpreting your music as queer. A young queer woman, who is an incredible journalist, got called ‘inappropriate’ and a liar on national news yesterday, because she picked up what you’re putting down in your music and wrote an article about it. An incredible article by the way, one that made us all feel seen and validated. And then you’re letting old white men on national television call that inappropriate and invasive. You may not have said those words, but you let them stand there uncommented, let your cultish fans think that their hero is offended by being presumed to be gay. You guessed it, that’s also not what an ally does. A marginalised group of your fans got DEATH THREATS in your name in the last 24 hours because we pick up on queer flagging in your art. And you did nothing. You handed our bullies weapons and left us to fend for ourselves. That is not a safe space for LGBTQ people. And for that reason, you’re losing me.
Because I have nothing to believe. Unless you actually choose me (and yourself for that matter). Just once.
Until then,
J
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papertowness · 1 month
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everyone in the show being angry at WILSON during the tritter plotline is lowkey fucking insane
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liyazaki · 5 months
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this Saturgay! 🚨 let’s go lesbians, LET’S GO 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩
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imaginethathaikyuu · 3 months
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it actually makes me sick to see people share the BDS boycott list but continue to support companies on the list lmao
one of my mutuals just made 3 tweets in a row about getting mcdonalds when a month ago they were making a thread of helpful information, posting the bds list, and tweeting the watermelon emoji
like do you actually give a fuck about whats happening or are you only virtue signaling for retweets? this shit is so fucking mind numbing like im so pissed off and i know im directing my anger at something small retrospectively but how are you going to be a hypocrite in this situation how are you going to pretend to care how are you going to ignore the simple things we’ve been asked to do i want to just scream
when the bare minimum is not supporting corrupt brands, and self proclaimed leftists can’t even do that, how is anything going to change. am i going to be angry for the rest of my life
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charlieisacastle · 4 months
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all i can think about since the hbomberguys video came out is how many queer people would have needed the money james stole. the 170k/yearly from his supporters and the 63k raised for his film studio.
its insane to think of all the queer people i know, including myself, that have to struggle through life. ive almost gone homeless three times this year alone. and yes im also a queer published writer. i know people who can't always afford hrt, or surgeries they need for gender affirmation.
its mind-boggling to me that someone in our own community felt so comfortable stealing from us while the rest of us have to rely on gofundmes, working insane hours every week, and starving to survive.
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25shadesoffebruary · 5 months
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Boeing being...well, Boeing
Bonus:
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colgreatsushii · 7 months
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commission for person on twitter🤍
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uncanny-tranny · 8 months
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Over the years, I've gotten a lot of cis people messaging me about how they should go about dating or courting somebody who's trans, and I always felt like my responses would almost... disappoint them because there isn't this magic secret to dating us.
Cis people, if you want to date us, just date us. We're human beings, we're not wild animals to tame! I promise you can have a healthy relationship with a trans person without needing to feel like the world will end if you mess up.
Trans people who date cis people often want to feel secure in your acceptance of them. You don't have to talk about our transness for hours on end to prove that you accept your loved one. You don't have to put on a display and cabaret about how Much You Accept Us. Just be a person around us, and let us be people, too!
I almost want to disappoint cis people by reminding them of this. Some of the best relationships I've had with cis people have been ones where my transness is acknowledged, sure, but it's acknowledged in the same way that my left-handedness is. It's not a joke to them, it isn't something to be horrified about, but it's also something that they don't objectify me for.
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blewitbalatron · 5 months
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I hate to throw sand in the eyes of people who love this show, I do too for the most part, and to the people who I barely know personally/ have only read or heard about the bad stuff they've done online (im sure that all of you would help me see who she truly is though), but let's talk about Viv for a second.
After re-watching some of her work for nostalgia, I've realized a pattern that I honestly hate to see get thrown in a lot in shows that usually don't do this on the daily basis because its human nature, but: do you guys think that she is making representation part of her series to cash in on people who are disabled, a person of color, part of the lqbtqa+ family, and just have a kink for these things like an abusive relationship and degrading to name a few.
In shows I've watched growing up, there was no kind of representation, but when the randomly had a geuess star who was a person of color with a noticeable difference in body type and had mobility aids the fans went wild and the writers of the show instantly capitalized on it. The show has since been pulled off of everything that I know of, and I'm getting flashbacks to that sometimes as I keep watching Helluva Boss. It hurts to see this in media that is slowly starting to change some for the better while some for the worst.
Even her merch kinda give off that vibe. I wanted to get a human Verosika and Sallie May pin for a friend on their birthday, but she was literally three different skin colors, and as for Sallie May it felt way too sexualized because she's trans as most people online say, which also happens alot because in this world: if it is or was alive, it's sexualized. That might just be my demisexual side peeping through, but I'm tired of this.. but if the voice of Sallie May is body positive of all trans body on their own choice, then its completely fine and needs to be shared more. We're humans too, not just leverage for people to capitalize on. I know that it's Hell and whatever, but is that the only excuse for this is it. It shouldn't be, at least.
I also wanted to mention how she falls into people's favors sometimes like with Huskerdust (or Smoking Angel as I like to call it), she's been liking post online about it then decided to make it cannon without any form of building up to it well if you dont count the Voxtgram that was shut down.
I can feel it in my bones that one day Vivziepop will comment or make a post about this like:
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positively-bi · 6 months
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Friendly reminder to trans allies that telling trans people about the transphobia you witnessed when we weren't around isn't actually helpful, even if you're doing it in "I would never" kind of way or telling us about how you stood up for trans rights. Trans people are intimately aware of the state of transphobia in the world today and we don't need to be reminded of it by our friends and allies.
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spudplaysbass · 6 months
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Here’s a fun little question:
If you like, explain in the reblogs why or why not 👀
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