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turns out one of my old classmates is apparently into dimension20, because she follows all the intrepid heroes on ig

all... except beardsley

this is a red flag i fear

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trans men. oh my god. trans men i am so gay for you

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You know your blorbo's been mistreated when the text on the back cover of the pocket copy you bought for 4€ at the supermarket is more accurate than all of his adaptations thus far.

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Poll

This idea came to me five minutes ago. I am on a hunt to find the most common trans guy name. Even if you don’t have a common name, please submit if you are comfortable! (i’m looking for middle names and might take inspiration lmao)

And, of course, all responses are completely anonymous!

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Unfortunately, Murph will never live this down

Watch the full episode here

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Mustarjil is an Arabic term meaning “becoming [a] man.” Although it can be used derogatorily to refer to women who are perceived as having a masculine appearance and/or mannerisms, in Iraq’s marshes, it existed as a gender identity. Within the context of the Ahwari community, Mustarjil was a common gender identity, where people assigned female at birth decide to live as a man after puberty, and this decision was generally accepted in the community. The Mustarjils were one of many similar third gender categories around the world, such as the Hijras in South Asia. [...] “One afternoon, some days after leaving Dibin, we arrived at a village on the mainland. The sheikh was away looking at his cultivations, but we were shown to his mudhif by a boy wearing a head-rope and cloak, with a dagger at his waist. He looked about fifteen and his beautiful face was made even more striking by two long braids of hair on either side. ln the past all the Madan (Ahwari) wore their hair like that, as the Bedu still did. After the boy had made us coffee and withdrawn, Amara asked, ‘Did you realize that was a mustarjil?’ I had vaguely heard of them, but had not met one before. ‘A mustarjil is born a woman’. ‘She cannot help that; but she has the heart of a man, so she lives like a man.’ ‘Do men accept her?’ ‘Certainly. We eat with her and she may sit in the mudhif. When she dies, we fire off our rifles to honour her. We never do that for a woman. In Majid’s village there is one who fought bravely in the war against Haji Sulaiman.’ ‘Do they always wear their hair plaited?’ ‘Usually they shave it off like men.’ ‘Do mustarjils ever marry?’ ‘No, they sleep with women as we do.’” Thesiger continues to narrate several other accounts of mustarjils within the same community, as well that of a “stout middle-aged woman” who wanted to remove her male organ in order to “turn into a proper woman.” Thesiger later mentions: “Afterwards I often noticed the same [person] washing dishes on the river bank with the women. Accepted by them, [she] seemed quite at home. These people were kinder to [her] than we would have been in our society.” Around that time, Britain was still living under the shadow of Victorian norms, and gender non-normative people were still stigmatized and shunned. Communities such as the Ahwaris, presented an alternative model that created space for communities like the mustarjils, despite the dominant gender binary. 

— Recovering Arab Trans History: Masoud El Amaratly, the Folk Music Icon from Iraq’s Marshes by Marwan Kaabour

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boggy the froggy boggy the froggy boggy the froggy boggy the froggy boggy the froggy boggy the froggy boggy the froggy boggy the froggy

with a little backpack on

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I think maybe the reason I've imprinted so hard on small male characters lately (halflings, gnomes, goblins, chilchuck dunmeshi in particular) is that as an early-stage transition trans guy, I really relate to the infantilization that you can explore through the concept of small-sized humanoid races.

(Just had a thought about recording nsfw audio and thought to myself oh, I'd probably have to tag it something like "disclaimer: adult trans man", and then I realized that's just a paraphrase of something I saw an artist put in the description of their Orym fanart.)

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pov you're about to get verbally eviscerated in the funniest way possible by your future class president while the coolest guy in school and the caffeine-addicted goblin cutie who's in all your extracurriculars watch

image of all time

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He is so trans

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“If a society puts half its children into short skirts and warns them not to move in ways that reveal their panties, while putting the other half into jeans and overalls and encouraging them to climb trees, play ball, and participate in other vigorous outdoor games; if later, during adolescence, the children who have been wearing trousers are urged to “eat like growing boys,” while the children in skirts are warned to watch their weight and not get fat; if the half in jeans runs around in sneakers or boots, while the half in skirts totters about on spike heels, then these two groups of people will be biologically as well as socially different. Their muscles will be different, as will their reflexes, posture, arms, legs and feet, hand-eye coordination, and so on. Similarly, people who spend eight hours a day in an office working at a typewriter or a visual display terminal will be biologically different from those who work on construction jobs. There is no way to sort the biological and social components that produce these differences. We cannot sort nature from nurture when we confront group differences in societies in which people from different races, classes, and sexes do not have equal access to resources and power, and therefore live in different environments. Sex-typed generalizations, such as that men are heavier, taller, or stronger than women, obscure the diversity among women and among men and the extensive overlaps between them… Most women and men fall within the same range of heights, weights, and strengths, three variables that depend a great deal on how we have grown up and live. We all know that first-generation Americans, on average, are taller than their immigrant parents and that men who do physical labor, on average, are stronger than male college professors. But we forget to look for the obvious reasons for differences when confronted with assertions like ‘Men are stronger than women.’ We should be asking: ‘Which men?’ and ‘What do they do?’ There may be biologically based average differences between women and men, but these are interwoven with a host of social differences from which we cannot disentangle them.”

— Ruth Hubbard, “The Political Nature of ‘Human Nature’“ (via gothhabiba)

Yes.

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god i wish there were a gay bar where i lived. queer event at local bar once every two months is NOT enough

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man. the first 150 pages of Gender Trouble were so easy but the last 50 have been akin to grinding my head against an oversized cheese grater

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its honestly been great to see tumblr embracing marcille dungeonmeshi as a wet cat pathetic little man character even tho she's a pretty blonde woman. we r growing and evolving

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someone come take my breasts off for me they're so heavy and uncomfortable but i can't find the zipper

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okay but gilear getting a weird confidence boost because sandra lynn expressed a modicum of attraction towards him... too real man

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[rings the dimension 20 live show church bells]

LAPIN IS GAY IN LONDON, GAY LAPIN IN LONDON