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ok i promised @bornetoblood so here is the web!agnes headcanon
this takes a bit of explaination so ill go into how it would work and then ill talk about why i like it
(also obviously this is just based on my interpretation of agnes and her story, if u have a different interpretation of her thats fine!! i just love my funny messiah woman and want to see her happy)
this became very long so the essay is under the cut
being on the internet
….. Yep :P
It’s been a long time since I last made an ‘illustrative piece’, so I’m pretty happy with how it turned out :) My reaction to the latest episode was basically “aww, oh dear….”
as above (hairy pits), so below (full bush)
at least there are pansies and fairies and faggots and dykes and transsexuals on this earth. thank god.
Continue Escalating
you all have got to stop talking about all transfem identities that aren't just 'woman' as if they're some transitory state towards womanhood and not real identities in themselves.
bigweld
you guys reblog this every wednesday every wednesday i wake up and wonder what day it is and i see bigweld in my tumblr notifications and im like ah its wednesday again bigweld wednesday just like last wednesday its wednesday its bigweld wednesday
guess how i found out today is wednesday
it literally HAS to be okay to choose to be fat in order for fat liberation to mean anything at all tbh
i literally wrote this as simple and straightforward as possible and still most of the notifications i get on this post are "yeah, some people have the Fat Curse, cursed by fat, and theres nothing they can do abt it. its not your fault uwu" which is wild, bc why did you write all that nonsense when you clearly refused to read?
how are liberals responding to seeing all the fundraising for palestine. like does it cross their minds that perhaps a system where you need other people to spare you some points of some arbitrary abstract stuff called Money in order to Not Be Murdered is perhaps not the best system we could have. we have the food and water, the telecom companies already have their mobile network infrastructure, the land on the other side of the rafah crossing already exists. but palestinians have to rely on random strangers caring enough to give up some of their Arbitrary Points so that the palestinians have enough Arbitrary Points in order to Not Be Denied Access to these resources. like. i'm not crazy am i. the people can just be allowed to cross the border, the people can just be allowed access to mobile networks, the food and water can just be given to them (obviously). like this is all so obvious maybe everyone else is on the same page and is just not saying it bc it's too obvious but like. what an insane evil pointlessly cruel system
The threead continues:
All people have a tendency to be unconsciously biased toward seeing trans women as untrustworthy, unsafe, lacking vulnerability, the problem to be solved rather than a person to be taken care of. And this is not less true in trans and queer and feminist communities. It’s just more unconscious, and more propped up with social justice, feminism, queer lib, leftist, and anti-oppression beliefs. This book is talking about this in context to a physical public situation of harassment, but this is true of social conflicts too, including on social media, in friend groups, in all kinds of situations. The unconscious bias also gets taken advantage of by people who know what they’re doing and hide behind that bias to make their mistreatment of transfems seem reasonable—again, often supported with social justice and anti-oppression rhetoric. TERFs aren’t the only people who do this! It felt so incredible to see this spelled out in print, plain as day, an actual book calling out a real thing I’ve experience more times than I can count, that all transfems I know go through, and that I still feel crazy for seeing because there’s so much gaslighting about it. You know how when you KNOW something is real, but you feel defensive about that knowledge, like you have to be ready to hold onto it, and then you see something confirming that knowledge for you in no uncertain terms and it feels like “wow maybe I wasn’t crazy all this time!” That’s how I felt seeing this.
The book linked is free to read and download. See the link above.
if you’re a transfem you should read this, and if you’re not you should reblog it for your transfem friends & followers, the advice in here is extremely good and the grips breaks are not hard to practice!!
Remember when "we live in a patriarchal society so men have to work on actively unlearning the the cultural misogyny that they're raised to buy into and benefit from" was actually like a commonly accepted belief on this website. Like ten years ago that was just something that most people understood as a baseline.
And now when you try and say that a bunch of people who never actually learned how to do anything but parrot whatever talking points are in vogue say "oh you think men and maleness, categories I'm rhetorically including trans women in, are ontologically evil? Gotcha" and somehow think they're cooking
#doesn’t help that a lot of feminist conversations here were lead by sex workers that were kicked out by the porn ban #black women who deal with misogynoir from all sides but especially the fandom contingent #and trans women being thrown under the bus constantly for trying to articulate their experiences without centering men #(and all these groups have heavy overlap) #now this shithole’s ~queering~ mra talking
Hit the nail right on the head here thank you!
i love her
surely abuse just comes from Evil Individuals polluting the Sanctity of the Family and not anything related to the family structure
If you want context, I am very sorry but there is none.
This is still my favorite fanart i've ever drawn i think because
1. Drawing hot old women is something i think people should do more because i think in some way women would be less afraid of aging if we would glorify wrinkles and aging in women the same way we do with "silver fox" men. We should all strive to become old and wrinkly and fabulous. And also it's really rare to see fanart of older characters in general, usually because they're small side characters
2. But i'm objectifying Oldbag of all people and you have to look at that and wrestle with the fact that i made Oldbag hot and there's nothing you can do about it. And i think thats deeply funny and it will never get old (haha)
capitalists want you to forget that there was a time when one penny was enough to afford someone elses entire thought
