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ash | queer | she/he/they | silly goose | stede coded, babygirl ed teach believer

you have to be able to defend people who are receiving unjust treatment even if they annoy you even if you personally find them extremely annoying you still have to be able to stand up and say "well thats fucked up"

the moral willpower required for "i hate their guts but my personal ethical standard is no xyz and i cannot set the precedent of making an exception for them" is imennse but important work

reblogging this again to add that the opposite is also true. You shouldn't be willing to back up the unethical actions of people that you do like. Most ethical dilemmas aren't one-on-one, so this is less common, but when your dear friend says, "[fucked up thing], am I right?" you should be able and willing to say, "I don't think that's right, no."

"you don't owe anyone anything" You are a tar pit. Speak for yourself. I personally owe the cafe employees my dishes put away and my friends a listening ear and small scared insects a cup and a gentle trip outside. Hyperindividualism is a rancid infection borne of capitalism and willfully misinterpreted therapyspeak and I will defy it by continuing to be kind regardless of whether or not it benefits me personally

“you couldn’t make this movie today” not because of cancel culture but because big studios aren’t willing to take risks on cool fun new ideas instead of adaptation number 7,000

This is the end result of anti-trans propaganda: more harassment of girls and women, more policing of gender roles, more gender McCarthyism.

i hate the part of depression that’s like all the things that bring me joy are empty and i can’t do anything. like come on bitch i know you love book can you just be happy about book :/

Anonymous asked:

How do you know when you're done with figuring out your queerness/sexuality/gender/etc? Like, you know you're a man. So at what point did you figure out, that's it, I'm a man, that's what I truly am inside and I'll be this way for the rest of my life? Or is there no such point? I'm scared of deciding on a label and just rejecting it again and again. I fear impermanence.

Oh, huge mood, fearing impermanence.

Some people just /know/ who they are with a certainty, and I admire that even as it bewilders me.

I realized a while ago that I’m probably never going to find “the right words” to describe myself to others. If you wanted to get technical about the nitty gritty aspects of my identity, I could give you a whole list of words other than “binary trans man” whose definitions I fit into.

So what I did instead was set the words on a shelf for a bit and examined my ~experience~ as a person. What did I want to look like? Sound like? Dress like? What did I want people to call me? In an ideal world where I did not have a rational fear of rejection or harmful repercussions, How Would I Gender?

And that’s when I realized that no matter what I called myself or which words I used to let other people know how to relate to me, what I’ve wanted out of my body has never changed. It’s always been static. I want top surgery, a hysterectomy, a low voice. I want to dress like this, be perceived like that. Love this way, be loved that way, grow in this direction.

Everything else is just....trimmings. My words are what I use to give other people a sense of what I am. It’s not entirely accurate, but I’ve given up on being Fully Understood by other people. I’m not even fully understood by myself.

Do I like every change being on testosterone is going to do to me? Or the potential visual top surgery will leave me with? No. But I can live happier this way. I will have fewer regrets than if I did nothing. I will love and be loved by more people if I accept what I’m feeling in this moment as true than if I let the fear that I might identify differently in the future keep me from pursuing relationships.

At some point, I think you’ve just gotta decide what you’re willing to live with. It’s perfectly okay to be questioning your whole life, and to fear the impermanence of the self. But if you’re uncomfortable now, or if doing something different would bring you joy now, and the way you feel now is that you’d have fewer regrets in the overarching arc of your life if you do something about it, then I say run with it as far as it will take you.

Being something else in the future doesn’t invalidate how you feel at this moment, and you can always do things differently when you get there.

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favorite part of the smug 😏😏😏 face ed makes when stede calls him his boyfriend is u know he’s like “that’s right bitches i’m Stede Bonnet’s Boyfriend” but literally he is the only person in that room and maybe even in the entire world of ofmd who thinks that’s a flex

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