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Reblogged certifiedsexed
people have invented so many different ways of rephrasing "don't transition" to sound plausibly progressive enough to bystanders that they'll think trans people are over-dramatic for reacting negatively to it.
- medical transition is permanent so you should really consider it thoroughly and put off trying it unless you know for sure. yes, just keep second guessing yourself. 6 months, 3 years, 20 years...
- you might not like how you look. other people might not like how you look. you might not look cis. don't you want to be desirable? do you want to risk feeling worse and more insecure? you look so good now! we think you're so hot right now, and you wouldn't want to change your body and make it not hot to us, right?
- you are so valid if you don't transition. you don't need to transition. no one needs to transition. it's just cosmetic, it's just aesthetic, it's all optional and means nothing at all. (no, of course this is unrelated to arguments used for insurance not covering transition, or doctors denying care.)
- why do you even want to transition? are you trying to look cis? are you trying to adhere to beauty standards? are you doing this to look hot? that's regressive and outdated and assimilationist. (if you want us to take your politics seriously, you shouldn't transition)
- it's a waste of resources/privileged/bourgeois to transition. it's kind of morally suspect that you would transition and still ask for help ever in your life. why should we support someone who's transitioning if they're obviously not oppressed anyway.
- DIY HRT is too dangerous. you could hurt your body. you could get arrested. your life will probably end if you take HRT. if you can't access HRT legally, you just shouldn't take it. not for transphobic reasons!! just for your own sake <3
like when will it end
in case anyone has internalized any of this stuff, here's some reminders
- Regular puberty is "permanent" in the same way as HRT is. You are not deciding between doing nothing and transition, you are deciding between continuing to live as you are for the rest of your life and never ever experiencing the relief of more grounded embodiment, or making changes that help you feel good. that's the decision you're making.
- Liking how you look has much more to do with your own self esteem and social environment than it does with your actual physical body. Beauty standards are culturally and economically constructed and in constant fluctuation. If you feel better in your body and intentionally seek out trans-positive (& fat positive, & disability positive, & Black positive, & so on) social spaces, you will love how you look no matter what you look like. People who hold desirability politics over you to make you feel like you're choosing between your bodily comfort/relief and interpersonal love are objectifying you. They have no right over your body, and their opinion of your body should not be the standard for when transition is right for you.
- The right to transition is about bodily autonomy. It is true that there are trans people who genuinely don't want to medically transition, in the same way it is true that there are pregnant people who don't want to get an abortion. The fact that someone else doesn't want a medical procedure has literally no bearing on whether or not that medical procedure is important and necessary for you, and your survival and well being. Further, anyone who constantly holds up those who don't want transition care as a way to imply you shouldn't need it is suggesting that no one needs it, which leads to the belief that this care should not be provided. And of course, if someone is holding up trans people who literally do need this care and just cannot access it in this way, please view it with the same level of cynicism as you would someone holding up stories of pregnant people who couldn't access abortion and survived as inspirational instead of deeply traumatizing. Trans people should be able to access the medical care we need. No one should be forced into procedures they don't want, and no one should be forced to go without procedures they desire and need. That's bodily autonomy.
- Listen. Medical transition is one of the most demonized, gate-kept, surveilled, criminalized, denigrated, and socially punished gendered actions one can undertake. Please be so serious right now. Pay attention to how structures of gendered oppression function before you start trying to argue that transition is somehow regressive or assimilation. No one wants trans people to transition, they want us to detransition and recloset ourselves or die.
- The idea that medical care is a "waste of resources" is ableist. The idea that being trans and accessing transition is privileged or "bourgeois decadence" is absolute reactionary nonsense. So many trans people have to crowdfund or do sex work or remain in medical debt and poverty to access medical care. There are incarcerated trans women trying to give themselves transition care with no medical training or supplies because they are being denied care. Transition is pursued by extremely marginalized trans people, because it is needed care, and people who cannot access it often die trying to. Transition is not a luxury.
- Taking drugs has risks, especially when they're illegal drugs. That's why harm reduction practices exist. If you are talking about DIY HRT, it is very transparent when you are talking from a harm reduction perspective (e.g. how to do it safely, explaining how it works, reducing risk of arrest, etc.) and when you are talking about it like a cop (if anyone offers you a drug they want to kill you, you'll ruin your health forever if you take drugs, cops are everywhere and know everything so you should never ever break the law, etc.).
Reblogged stayathome-ts
nothing funnier to me than when AI does math wrong. like I get why it happens, it's a language model that's treating the numbers you feed it as words rather than integers and then giving you an answer based on how those words typically appear in a block of text instead of actually performing a calculation. but the one thing computers are genuinely incredible at. you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did, look at it it's got hallucinations
Reblogged stayathome-ts
oh are you friends? or just dating.
Reblogged evilneo
"What made you follow your mutual" I don't know. I don't remember anything. In my mind we were mutuals at birth. Since the dawn of time. The start of the earth's spin
Reblogged egberts
Being an evil doppelganger has to be so fucked up like imagine meeting a better version of yourself. Some chain of events going differently that led to "you" being a better person in a way you can never achieve. Personally I'd have no other option but to try and kill them
It's always "oh no my evil clone or twin or whatever is trying to kill me" and never How is my evil clone? Says a lot about society
Me, crashing the fuck out: you think you're better than me? You think you're fucking better than me???
My good clone, dodging a glass: I mean like objectively yeah
Reblogged needsmoreexplosions
okay it’s come to my attention that absolutely NONE OF YOU know ANYTHING about how cutie marks work. let me say this simply. a cutie mark isn’t a job being assigned, it’s a special TALENT OR SKILL that the pony enjoys. Most of the time it has a directly transferable job for that skill, like if you enjoy baking and are super good at it WOW! baker. If you are really good at writing and telling stories, author. However, there are some cutie marks that could go multiple ways.
twilight sparkle has exceptional magic ability, so she became a scholar, but she could really do anything that required a good magic skill. same with rainbow dash, her weather controlling job isn’t directly linked to her cutie mark, but it does fit the bill for the job.
i was posed the question of what would a murderer pony’s cutie mark be and wouldn’t everyone know. NO. if somehow murder were to be a special skill, the cutie mark might be something like a knife or a shovel. other ponies might just assume you’re good a cooking or gardening. now with cutie marks like apple jacks, their family has a ‘green thumb’ kind of deal so obviously the cutie mark would be hereditary.
so, the reason i made this post. walter white pony’s cutie mark would NOT be blue crystals. it would be a CHEMISTRY FLASK.
Reblogged hopefullyababe
menacevessel-deactivated2020083
Crop top that says "met god," with singe marks around the bottom edge implying it used to be a full t shirt with additional text
Reblogged meoware
Hating specific ships as a multishipper is so funny. It's like: "I'm cool with most ships. Except that one. It knows what it did."
Reblogged hopefullyababe
voice acting as a profession is so funny because you'll see someone being like "voice actors need to be paid better! like [obscure person you've never heard of]" and you're like "oh I wonder who that person is, maybe I've heard them voice a character" and you look it up and it turns out they voice 137 characters in Futurama and 94 characters in The Simpsons and 96 characters in Adventure Time and every one of the My Little Ponies and 27 characters in Arcane and 96 characters in Kim Possible and 4 characters in Phineas and Ferb and 296 characters in Dexter's Laboratory and all of the main cast of Fairly Odd Parents and at least 6 characters in every Pixar movie and almost every animated depiction of Superman and 473 SpongeBob characters and they've been in every installment of Mass Effect and Halo and The Elder Scrolls and Fallout and Call of Duty and they were in Star Trek and Law & Order and they were 12 characters in the MCU and they also invented t-shirts and the colour green and they got paid a sum total of $3.27 and a mothball for all of it combined. then you go burn down David Zaslav's house with him inside
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SIDE SEEING - QUOTEV (SHE/THEY)
- is secretly a super powerful vampire demon princess with a past she doesn't recall...
- equal parts normie and edgy
- has never even heard of cringe culture
QUOTEV IS A MINOR.
DESIGNED BY AJ (@/applejuiceyjuice-art).
:-)