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Update me once you’ve watched episode 7…

whitepine has me fucked up im writing a oneshot's worth of me dissecting why bormethius sucks SOB

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TW!!!

– Nudity (It's the bath scene but dw nothing is like out-out)

– Bruises and Blood (it's episode 7, spoilers.)

– Implied Eating Disorder (Ivory has her ribs protruding)

I hope something awful happens to that detective.

I'm hesitant to post this I'm ngl whenever I post potentially/very triggering stuff Im worried I'll miss a tag and get someone triggered

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Shhhhh he’s watching us

KILL HIM ,KILL HIM NOWWWWWW

(in "that fucking bird that I hate" voice)

that detective that I hate, that detective that I hate,THAT DETECTIVE I HATE

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whitepine 7 spoilers for a very small nothingburger idea i had. its a writing snippet.

"Something else is reflected in the harsh sun- shiny, like the whites of the eyes staring at her, shiny like the sharp kitchenware she probably has to clean when she gets home. Right, home. The word is warm, it has a positive connotation to it, it can allow Ivory's mind to drift off and focus on something else, other than..." if this interests you,,,,read on if you would like ^^

thanks for reading on!! here's the idea. borm actually murders ivory that's it that's the idea. i have thoughts about this but i'm gonna let them stir some more

The sun is bright and harsh on her, nearly blinding her, the one thing possibly blocking out that light growing ever brighter being the figure utop her. His face is shadowed, sure, and maybe that's a good thing, because she can't bear to look at him and focus on the details of his expression. The most she can make out, facing it head-on as shaky arms try to shield her face, is a gnarled grimace, entirely focused on-

Ivory realizes about halfway through the introduction of that newfound sensation of pain that Borm had stopped aiming for her face. Relieving, on a surface level, but her head already feels light and faintly there's something liquid running down the side of her face. It hurts, dimly, like a bad migraine that won't seem to end, but whatever he's doing is worse. Her arms end up collapsing before she can actually will them to falter and rest and *maybe,* if she's lucky, protect what's happening to her stomach.

Something else is reflected in the harsh sun- shiny, like the whites of the eyes staring at her, shiny like the sharp kitchenware she probably has to clean when she gets home. Right, *home.* The word is warm, it has a positive connotation to it, it can allow Ivory's mind to drift off and focus on something else, other than pain she can't fight back from. She would, maybe, but her head is light. Her body feels light, the light overhead is brighter, brighter than ever, and...

Borm finally stands up and wipes the blood off of his knife between his fingers. If Ivory could, she'd note his expression, and she can see it painfully clearly, but it's much too hard to focus on just about anything right now. Her jaw moves, as if to say something, yet Borm interjects with something louder- bad enough that there's a ringing in her ears, worse so now that it's accompanied by...

Maybe this is what was done to Mysticat. What *she* had done to Mysticat, blocked out of her subconscious, painfully reminded to her. She wants to debate if it's right to thank the detective, but it hurts too much to even...

The ringing dulls, and she...

The light shines, and she...

Her hand twitches faintly, and she...

*Ivory,* she yells at herself, *Ivory, get up. Ivory, please get up. Ivory. Ivory, come on,* and maybe, she's finally processing the detective's words.

Does he regret? Her head hurts too much to question it.

The ringing dulls, the light shines, her hand twitches faintly, or at least she wanted it to.

Maybe, it's best for her to lie down for a while.

thank you for reading ^^ have a sufficiently evil day

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Some whitepine sketches I’ve done over the past couple of days!

Not entirely sure if I like the last one, but how else will I progress other than making art I’m not fond of every now and again

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Well. That took almost no time at all.

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You cannot try to divorce the idea of Male privelege from cis and perisex privelege without being a transphobe and intersexist. Full stop.

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It's funny how everyone on r/traa2 and r/trans right now is acting like "I love my trans brothers uwu uwu uwu they're so heccin valid and handsome how dare you exclude them evil moderators we ALL love and accept them so much!" (I almost puked typing this because it was so cringey) but then all of them still think transphobic conservatives "don't know" we exist, that legislation never targets us and the worst thing we face by far is just being infantilized, and when I tried to correct somebody when they spread this misinformation, somebody started tone policing me and calling me aggressive and hostile when I was literally just talking normally. You think if non-trans men loved us as much as they claim to, they would actually listen to us on anything we face instead of accepting the lies inside their echo-chamber of non-trans men as fact because, well, if it was wrong, wouldn't they hear differently? They do, they just forget about it the next day because they never see trans mens problems unless they go out of their way to look for it, so who cares? It's not like they never get in trouble for it. Lying about trans mens experiences is rewarded, after all!

Something non-trans men don't get is that the blatant mask-off transphobia on r/trans may be bad, but if you've been paying attention to the way we've been treated for the past entire fucking decade and especially the past 2 years or so, it wouldn't be nearly as surprising or shocking. The trans community and especially r/trans have always notoriously had a problem with excluding trans men and if this is what it takes for you to realize it, then, honestly, I think you're a part of the problem. I sorted by top posts of all time on r/trans, and, with zero exaggeration, 98% of all the posts were trans women oriented. It puts a lot into perspective about what happened when the situation was cultivated in a place that very, very clearly had a bias towards trans women since the beginning. I can't describe it in any other way than it just feels performative. People that were never there for us before suddenly acting like they always had our backs the moment someone does something particularly horrible to us and feeling like they're such good people for it, when this is probably the first time in months they've even acknowledged our existences.

It's not like this is gonna change anything anyway. All the people on r/traa2 and egg_irl or whatever other bullshit are gonna go right back to business in a week, keep spreading the lie that we have no problems, forgetting the fact they also have to share their spaces with us, never showing any support for us beyond saying "I love my trans brothers uwu" one time every month, and most importantly, denying the fact this exclusion ever happens at all when criticized for it. The trans community isn't a community if you're a trans man.

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So here's what happened on Reddit:

A transmasc posted about how transmascs and trans men are often invisible, how our issues are dismissed, and how resources, especially medical ones, are almost always written with non transmascs in mind. They posted this both to r/Trans and r/lgbt.

A moderator of r/Trans responded by telling them to “stop bitching.” That’s the word they used. That’s the level of respect trans men get. Transandrophobic by the way, don't call trans men bitches.

The comment was deleted, quietly, after backlash. Then the entire post was removed. When asked why, a mod responded that the post was “playing oppression olympics,” and took the time to go through and dismiss each of the original poster’s points, including saying that trans men being sexually assaulted isn’t “unique to transmascs” and therefore not an issue, and claiming that access to testosterone isn’t any more restricted than access to estrogen, which is a straight-up lie, because T is a tightly controlled substance in most places and E is not.

The original poster was banned for three days.

Then a separate mod made a post saying, “nobody asked us our side of the story,” which is wild because people absolutely did, publicly and repeatedly. Users also started reporting that they’d had supportive comments removed or had been banned after disagreeing with the mods, some of those claims are still unconfirmed, but given the general behavior, it wouldn’t be surprising.

Then r/Trans locked down entirely. No new posts. The conversation was forcibly ended.

Some people posted about it on r/FTM, many of those posts were mass-reported, automatically removed by Reddit’s automod, or quietly buried. Meanwhile, r/lgbt also removed the original post, with no explanation.

One of the r/Trans mods eventually posted an “apology,” which was really just a soft-scrubbed PR post full of noncommittal language and distancing. They said they didn’t mean to call a trans man “a bitch,” they just used it synonymously with “complaining,” and they didn’t think about the implications until later even though the first post was about microaggressions just like the mod committed. They did not apologize for anything else, not for wrongfully banning people, not for accusing a transmasc venting like any other user of playing oppression olympics, nothing at all. They said they’re on break and can’t do anything about it. They said, and I quote, “please don’t be mad at the rest of the team.” even though the rest of the team are just as culpable for not stopping their behavior.

They also added that trans men are “a welcome part of the community” and tried to point at moderation history as proof. Because apparently we should be grateful that people occasionally get banned, every so often, for implying trans men aren't oppressed at all, wow, thanks, that is like below the bare minimum, cool.

The current state of things is: r/Trans has over 600,000 members, and trans men and transmascs were silenced, banned, and told to shut up for bringing up their own oppression. And the subreddit is locked down. There’s a mass exodus happening to the new sub, r/trans4every1, but let’s be real, the damage has already been done.

Now let’s talk about what this actually means.

This is not “just more Tumblr discourse.” This isn’t some random blog saying they don’t like transmascs. This isn’t a Twitter reply guy. This isn’t a niche zine or a spicy personal take. This is a massive trans-focused subreddit with over half a million users. It's easily one of the largest public facing trans community online, maybe even the largest, I've certainly never found a bigger one myself. And the moderation team made it crystal clear: they do not want transmascs to feel safe or welcome there.

This is what transandrophobia looks like on a slightly larger internet scale. When it’s in the hands of people who get to decide who gets heard and who gets deleted.

And for anyone who’s still stuck on “well they apologized” listen: trans men are told all the time that we’re being too loud, too angry, too entitled, too manly, too feminine, too confusing, too “binary,” too "Nonbinary", too much. We’re told that we’re “oppression olympics-ing” just for talking about our lives. And now we're getting banned and locked out of the spaces that claim to represent a huge portion of online trans people.

This isn't just online drama. This is a bellwether. And if it isn’t setting off alarms in your head, it should be.

The way transandrophobia manifests in online spaces absolutely bleeds into real life, into medical gatekeeping, into poor data collection, into the erasure of sexual violence against transmascs, into advocacy groups that write us out of the picture, into educational materials that treat us like footnotes, if they include us at all.

And if you’re sitting there thinking, “well it’s not that deep,” you’re part of the problem.

We need to start being more honest about this: Transandrophobia is real, it is widespread, and it is growing. We need to stop giving people the benefit of the doubt when they’ve shown us they don’t want us in the room.

And frankly?

We need to start making TRFs [Trans Radfems & transmasc-exclusionary feminists alike] deeply uncomfortable being open about their beliefs. We need to make them afraid to be TRFs, the way they’re trying to make us afraid to exist.

The same way we don’t coddle fascists. The same way we don’t tolerate TERFs. We need to stop tiptoeing around transandrophobia.

Because this growing wave of transandrophobia is going to kill people. Full stop.

Protect trans men. Protect transmascs. Protect your siblings; all of them!

Edit because I forgot to add it:

Another thing worth noting is that not only was r/trans deleting and banning any users and posts talking about the situation, they were deleting any posts talking about transmasc issues or transmasc positivity full stop.

Even when those posts had nothing to do with the current issue. They were being silenced. They were being actively erased, in a trans space.

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"... You're what??"

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I'm crying. I'm watching a film called Kpop Demon Hunters and I'm crying

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guess who just started boy gel!!!

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Wait guys i realised the actresses were ginger my bad

I mean i already wasn't gonna watch Sunrise on the Reaping in theatres because Snow's actor is a JK Rowling defender but...

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEY CAST A WHITE BLUE-EYED GIRL AS LOUELLA????

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I mean i already wasn't gonna watch Sunrise on the Reaping in theatres because Snow's actor is a JK Rowling defender but...

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEY CAST A WHITE BLUE-EYED GIRL AS LOUELLA????