#even in trans spaces

[ghostcrows]

i for sure have male privilege as a trans guy in spaces where i am not stealth, like in trans safe spaces and at home with family members and at work. the way women are treated is atrocious

The thing I have consistently run into is the part where my stealth fails and I become the ugly woman again, like the stealth was already a tightrope I was tripping over myself on and having to omit any details of my own personal life (not something anyone should be required to do) and then somehow some way it comes out to people and it's like you can just sense the shift. Not everyone I'll give them some credit, some people have been great.

But it's like yeah it just doesn't....it's built on such a slippery foundation and to me personally I don't feel that it's ever gotten me taken much more seriously than before, because people still infantilise me, they treat me like a little boy at 25 bc of the way I look. I still get "mansplained" everything but this time in a weirdly paternal way

Like whatever amount of macho posturing or natural masculine rizz you need to make privilege work for you is something I mostly lack. Not to say I don't get any benefits at all, but many things just don't feel like they really changed from before. It's ways in which being a woman either didn't apply to me because I lacked the femininity for it or ways where being a man didn't apply to me because I lacked the masculinity

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

historical drama/sitcom where two gay best friends (woman and man) get lavender married--and proceed to spend the Fancy European Honeymoon their parents paid for acting as each other's wingman

[novelconcepts]

I Saw the TV Glow is such a uniquely, devastatingly queer story. Two queer kids trapped in suburbia. Both of them sensing something isn’t quite right with their lives. Both of them knowing that wrongness could kill them. One of them getting out, trying on new names, new places, new ways of being. Trying to claw her way to fully understanding herself, trying to grasp the true reality of her existence. Succeeding. Going back to help the other, to try so desperately to rescue an old friend, to show the path forward. Being called crazy. Because, to someone who hasn’t gotten out, even trying seems crazy. Feels crazy. Looks, on the surface, like dying.

And to have that other queer kid be so terrified of the internal revolution that is accepting himself that he inadvertently stays buried. Stays in a situation that will suffocate him. Choke the life out of him. Choke the joy out of him. Have him so terrified of possibly being crazy that he, instead, lives with a repression so extreme, it quite literally is killing him. And still, still, he apologizes for it. Apologizes over and over and over, to people who don’t see him. Who never have. Who never will. Because it’s better than being crazy. Because it’s safer than digging his way out. Killing the image everyone sees to rise again as something free and true and authentic. My god. My god, this movie. It shattered me.

[astro-go-ghost]

Best part of when the power grid goes out

BONUS: Do you like it? <:'3c

[lastoneout]

Ngl the fact that the guidelines for shinigami eyes say that theyfab is not an anti-trans slur and thus not enough to mark someone as anti-trans and equates transmedicalist as being just as harmful as "tenderqueer" despite it claiming to support nonbinary people is uh. Yeah starting to kinda think this extension has overall been a net negative for the trans and queer communities and was always going to end up like this.

[teh-inggris]

My name is Brutus

[proxythe]

i havent posted in a thousand years but ive been so annoyed recently bc i feel like i keep seeing things in fandom about trans hcs where people will just complain about any and all trans hcs bc “but its literally not canon?” “theres no proof/evidence of this??” “why do u hc this character as trans it doesnt make any sense?”

who cares? idk when we got to the point where hcs have to make sense at all lmao. most of my trans hcs will have come from something about the character within canon, but i make trans hcs simply for fun as well. i obviously have no problem when people do either one, and i have no idea why people even care.

& on top of that, when people do begrudgingly accept a trans hc, they have such strict guidelines on how your trans character must look/act & what theyre allowed to do. why do we always forget not every trans person will look the same? or feel the same way about themselves or their body? youre genuinely not allowed to do anything in fandom anymore lmfao and especially not with trans hcs its so fucking frustrating omfg

[kingsillysmilez]

Happy Trans Day of Visibility <3

[notoriousmasc]

the reason people say that having A Straight Guy is a good sign of a Kweer Space is because antimasculinity and anti-amab sentiment is an actual thing that happens in spaces like this it's not saying that straight guys are automatically a sign that a queer space is good and inclusive jesus christ you guys piss me off

[spitblaze]

Transfems are not 'privileged' for being forced to live in hostile panopticons and transmascs are not 'privileged' for being forced to live at the bottom of isolated wells and any 'benefits' that either incidentally incurs are canceled out if not outweighed by the drawbacks. Are we done here. Can we all please just go home

[phoenixcatch7]

Petition: Sephiroth doesn't have a father.

Half of his dna? Lucrecia

The other half? Jenova

None of this Hojo vs Vincent argument I humbly propose we get far more symbolic mileage out of a corrupted version of an immaculate conception via Jenova as the 'angelic' presence.

Mad science IVF, essentially.

This lasted about ten seconds as a crack theory but now I think I'm actually going to add that to my belief system

Like Jenova is generally given female pronouns and called 'mother' but we do need to remember it's an alien megafauna virus (often referred to with 'it' pronouns in multiple translations of the original game, including the original Japanese). Its cells do not work like human animal cells. It's entirely feasible that it was used in place of a father donor, and would explain why sephiroth has such strong Jenova characteristics (white hair, slit eyes) where Angeal and Genesis don't (and also just. The rest of him. Where you'd put the genes for halos I don't know).

Sephiroth does have huge issues, just, in general, but his real weak point was his mummy issues where he'd been primed by hojo and that was where Jenova squarely hit. And it's generally agreed no matter which side of the 'sephiroth is in control/a puppet' spectrum you fall on that she was preying on him in nibelheim.

And also, just in final fantasy in general, there is a LOT of religious symbolism and icons (as is fairly typical of rpg games of that type. Just look at the Persona or Shin megami tensei series!). The summons, the church, etc. Sephiroth, aka the paths of sephiroth, is taken from what Wikipedia calls 'esoteric Jewish mysticism' and describes, I quote, 'channels of divine creative life force or consciousness through which the unknowable divine essence is revealed to mankind' or 'the ten structural forces of nature'. No guesses for how that tied into Project S' original intent to re-establish the extinct cetra and lead shinra to the promised land of infinite totally-not-afterlife-compost mako.

And I'm sure there's been plenty of essays done on the meanings and themes in ff7 (not that I can find them under all the sephiroth character analysis) but sephiroth very clearly went the demi urge route where he should have been a saviour and guide so why not throw in some immaculate conception as well?

Disclaimer: this tumblr user does not think of IVF as corrupted mad science nor do they think children born of it are any less human, we're talking about Hojo's experiments with Jenova on an unborn child here.

This would also mean that any 'Jenova is not your mother!' dramatic reveal could be followed up with 'she's your dad!' which is hilarious and we know Sephiroth's opinions on father figures.

[juney-blues]

i think at this point it's beyond clear to anyone with eyes that trans women are an underclass in queer and trans spaces. If you're denying that at this point i don't think you're genuinely ignorant, you're actively malicious.

[triptychgardener]

See I don't really believe there are any broader like. Schema of gender in Homestuck in that makes sense. Including Callie's OG gendering of classes but most others don't have a solid "reason" to them. Breath players tend to lean towards transfeminine to me but that doesn't feel like it's because of Breath and so on and so forth.

Basically the only two principles of gender determination in Homestuck I actually abide by are:

Trans characters can be partially determined in certain cases by examine their relationships to other close characters, forming something like a binary (or more) system. Transmasculine Dirk v. Transfeminine Roxy, Femme Transfeminine Gay Jake English v. Butch Transmasc Lesbian Jane Crocker, my Davepeta+ Gender Chart etc. Characters in Homestuck often model themselves in relation to their friends as we do irl.

Space is nigh-exclusively a transfeminine aspect in Homestuck itself. The job of a Space player is to seize and create their own means of creation and species-level reproduction, usually after being deprived of traditional means of womanhood, motherhood, and reproduction.

[deimosatellite]

was losing my mind abt being a trans guy and how absolutely erased we are by fandom spaces when it comes to anything mlm being "fujobait" and "for fujos" but then calmed down a second and realized idc. i am the yaoi they detest and they love. i am god

[seraphimfall]

too many people theorizing about intersex people, and not enough people genuinely listening to intersex people discuss their experiences and/or how to support them.

like, seriously.