hello everyone i am doing commissions. ill basically draw whatever if you pay me for it. hit me up PLEASE
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people said i should post it so heres some of the other stuff for my fake fly girl game. possible merchant character, protag drafts, dialog portraits and some early background ideas
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Now that the election is over, let's not just roll over and fall asleep! The situation on the ground in Gaza remains terribly difficult.
Even a small donation to the Alanqar family, as little as €5-€10, can add up and be a tremendous help. With prices there being what they are, Dina tells me it can cost up to $700 just to get basic needs met for their family in a given week.
Currently at €75,768. Only €4258 away to €80,000. Lets keep pushing!
vetted on @/el-shab-hussein and @/nabulsi fundraiser list (#264)
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People born when trump was first elected are now old enough to drive
Not to drive very well. but still
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Information on DIY HRT, in case anyone needs it.
woah
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useless ray of goddamn sunshine
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Please read this story from Vox. It’s always made me deeply uncomfortable whenever people look at queer representation that they find dissatisfactory for whatever reason and say, “A cishet person obviously wrote this” or “This is written for straight people” or “No queer people were involved here.”
Because like. You can’t know that. And saying that can be very damagng when you’re wrong.
The article is here and you should read it, but the SparkNotes version is:
- we’re all familiar with the attack helicopter meme; reddit fuckheads saying “i identify as an attack helicopter” to mock trans people
- trans people then proceed to reclaim the meme and undercut it by making a joke of it themselves
- some time later, an author, Isabel Fall, (who is a trans woman) decides to pen a sci-fi short story about a person who does identify as an attack helicopter, in order to explore different facets of gender; internal, external, how it’s used by the public, its place in society, etc.
- her story gets several reads and is nominated for an award, and then gets a massive backlash - often from people who didn’t bother to read it beyond the title
- and en masse, it gets comments assuming the story was written to mock trans people and was written by a cis person
- specifically, a cis man
- so this trans woman who drew from her own experiences to write this story, was bombarded with angry comments and messages accusing her of being a cisgender transphobic man
- she suffered a lot of gender dysphoria and had to check herself into a hospital because of it, and completely shut down her online presence and has said she’s given up on ever living or writing as Isabel Fall
Like. It wasn’t enough to force Becky Albertalli to out herself before she was ready because clearly, no queer person could’ve written Love, Simon? Now we’re just skipping to wrecking people’s lives?
You cannot be sure if someone is queer or not without forcing them to out themselves. You just cannot be sure, and it’s rude and dangerous to assume you can.
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authors nk jemisin and neon yang were involved in the bullying and harassment of isabel fall. right now neon yang is set to be featured in neon hemlock, a publishing org for “publishing zines, queer writing and speculative fiction”. their new anthology that will feature neon yang is an anthology of queer mecha stories—“an anthology of power, queerness, and giant robots.” aka exactly what isabel fall’s story explored.
neon yang released a shitty non-apology about fall (that of course now i can’t find) without once mentioning isabel’s name. neon yang continues to be platformed by neon hemlock, which released this cowardly statement about the situation.
this situation shows how rampant transmisogyny is even in queer, progressive communities. isabel fall was bullied out of the industry and into detransitioning because her story, partially about her gender dysphoria as a trans woman, made TME (transmisogyny exempt, as opposed to TMA, transmisogyny affected) LGBT speculative fiction authors uncomfortable, and that discomfort was apparently all the justification they needed to lash out at isabel fall and ruin her life.
neon yang, neon hemlock, and the other people involved in this community want us to forget about what they’ve done, but we can’t. their argument that isabel fall was overstating the harm done to her in order to gain sympathy is blatant transmisogyny. neon yang participating in this project that is the exact subject of fall’s story that they so reviled is transmisogyny. the backlash to fall’s story was purely rooted in transmisogyny from TME trans, nonbinary, queer, and/or lgbt people.
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Anya
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I tried to "just log off" to avoid transmisogyny discourse and there were bigots on the news talking about "biological males in women's spaces" pushing to have people like me barred from using public toilets in the material offline world, did I log off into the wrong real life or something?
wip in progress
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i dont think there is a single political issue for which you could say harris is meaningfully the "lesser evil" except in brutal mathematical terms (if you pull this lever, you will kill 100 people, if you dont, you will kill 106 people). you can name any political issue and harris has either spoken next to nothing on it or is actually towing the far-right position on it. israel, immigration, policing, trans people, you name it
and even if we accept the brutal mathematical approach (or "hitler vs mega-hitler" approach), you have to weigh that against the damage caused by the only functionally legal 'left'-wing opposition party undergoing a sharp right-ward drift. harris won't be as bad on trans people as trump will be but the end product of a harris administration will most likely be a bipartisan agreement that trans people either don't matter or should be reduced in population by means of genocide. whereas trump will be horrible on trans people but at least that would give some impetus for the mainstream liberal opposition to mobilize against it
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I don’t know about anyone else, but I, as a trans woman, do not know what it is to be a man. I know what it’s like to be surrounded by men, to be picked apart by them, to have masculinity enforced on me and to have my femininity degraded. I know what it’s like to be targeted for punishment, physically and sexually, for my femininity, for a girlhood the boys and men could see in me, to be queerbashed, to have my head slammed into hard surfaces, to have my genitals fondled, to be injured in all kinds of small and repetitive ways with things like pens, compasses, and so on.
I know what it’s like to be assumed to be a man, and to be abused because I am not. I know what it’s like to be separated from my female friends as a young child because my status as a ‘boy’ meant that I needed to be placed with the other boys, the ones who degraded me and hurt me. I know what it’s like to be beaten and burned. I know what it’s like to have teachers make an example of me because I cannot conform. I know what it’s like to be made afraid of being around other people, because people means abuse.
But I don’t know what it is to be a man. Even after everything they tried, I wasn’t one.
The fact that socialization is a specious argument became obvious to me during an exchange I had with a trans-woman-exclusionist who insisted that my being raised male was the sole reason in her mind for me to be disqualified from entering women-only spaces. So I asked her if she was open to allowing trans women who are anatomically male but who have been socialized female—something that’s not all that uncommon for MTF children these days. She admitted to having concerns about their attending. Then, I asked how she would feel about a person who was born female yet raised male against her will, and who, after a lifetime of pretending to be male in order to survive, finally reclaimed her female identity upon reaching adulthood. After being confronted with this scenario, the woman conceded that she would be inclined to let this person enter women-only space, thus demonstrating that her argument about male socialization was really an argument about biology after all. In fact, after being pressed a bit further, she admitted that the scenario of a young girl who was forced against her will into boyhood made her realize how traumatic and dehumanizing male socialization could be for someone who was female-identified. This, of course, is exactly how many trans women experience their own childhoods.
--- Julia Serano, Whipping Girl
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Lab Grown Angel
PLEASE MAKE MORE OF THIS ITS SO PRETTY
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- Smile, captain! 💊