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[lowrescryptid]

i must not stir the pot. stirring the pot is the notifications-killer. participation in the discourse is the little-death that brings total activity obliteration. i will face the bad opinions on the internet. i will permit them to pass over me and through me. and when they have gone past, i will turn the block button onto their source. where the discourse has come from there will be nothing. only i will remain.

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Something I always find bizarre is when people mention something along the lines of "You always act like your opinions are correct and everyone else is wrong" as like. A moral or personal flaw. Because like. I'm pretty sure that's just how opinions work.

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Thank you!

Moon Moth + Two Day Hat

Yoke O'Clock

Cryptid Cowl + Two Day Hat

Just Beachy

Mountain Musings

Peacock's Pride Shawl

Lindisfarne

Villiviini

Projects over the last year or two

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do you weep

often

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Projects over the last year or two

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I love you fat transmascs who can't pass because of our curves and boobs. I love you fat gnc transmascs. I love you fat transmascs for whom passing won't make you happy. I love you fat closeted transmascs. I love you fat transmascs with PCOS. I love you fat transmascs with sensory issues who don't want to or can't grow facial hair. I love you fat transmascs who can't get gender affirming surgeries because of archaic BMI limitations. I love you fat transmascs who don't want to lose weight. I love you fat transmascs who've tried everything and cant lose weight. I love you fat and disabled transmascs. I love you fat transmascs who don't want hrt or surgery. I love you fat balding transmascs. I love you fat hairy transmascs. I love you fat transmascs who gained weight because of hrt. I love you fat transmascs on birth control. I love you fat transmascs.

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if your family was dying bc of hunger and the only think you could eat was meat, would you??

if you were not dying of hunger, lived on a planet with seven billion people, had access to unlimited fresh fruits, vegetables, grains, legumes, beans, nuts, seeds and other healthy foods, and knew animals suffer and die horrible deaths just so you can exploit them, would you continue to eat them?

stop asking me hypothetical questions and ask yourself a real one xx

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Vegans being annoying isn’t an argument against veganism. Believe it or not activism doesn’t have to be personally palatable to everyone.

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it’s hard for me to express how heartbreaking it is to see gay people, especially–but not exclusively–gay women, buying into this idea that the closet is an idyllic place to grow up as a trans woman. that we’re socialized–without complications–in the way that men are socialized, that we reap every benefit cisgender boys, teenagers, or men reap because of their gender.

like. gay women, do you remember growing up being told you were meant to find a husband, carry the children you have with him, support them and him first, maybe to the point of effacing yourself? and gay men, do you remember growing up being told you were meant to find a wife, get a good job, father children, and carry on the family name and everything that goes with it?

do you remember realizing that you could never be this? and that, at the end of the day, the thought of being it repulsed you? that you were fundamentally different–flawed, even–fundamentally wrong and that everything you needed in your life was immoral and unnatural, or at least a disappointment? do you remember that choice you made? between rejecting everything you’d been told was in your future trying to make something of that pain–and sacrificing a fundamental part of yourself trying to be something you weren’t?

do you think straight people go through that? do you think that, being told all the same things, they know what it’s like to feel that panic and alienation?

i don’t understand why they can’t see that our closets are like this too. that we didn’t grow up internalizing everything society prescribes for a man or woman–that we grew up full of dread, and horror, and constant questioning of what was wrong with us and how we could possibly exist in the world. that, even if we tried to fulfill those prescriptions, we did so at the cost of our bodies and personhoods. that, as women, we were reckoning with the confines and disenfranchisement of womanhood on top of this.

that denial of empathy and willful blindness is so painful, especially coming from people who share so much of our childhood traumas. like, that people are so inclined to see us as Other that they’ll look straight past their own experiences is so impossibly heartbreaking and demoralizing.

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“Suffering is suffering. It is always ugly. It is always unwelcome. It always needs to be stopped. There are no exceptions. A person with the capacity but not the inclination to cease suffering is morally incomplete.”

— Mirko Bagaric

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If you’ve been stuck trying to please a mom who became abusive/toxic because of generational trauma, realize you won’t save her. You might be the subject of your mom’s rage, paranoia, obsession etc - but you are not the cause of it. And if you didn’t change her after all those years of begging her, bargaining with her, self-harming, isolating, defending yourself, etc, you are not going to change her now. When they say “you can only save someone who wants to be saved”, that applies here. When they say “the only person who you can control is yourself” that applies here. Please let go of this guilt that you carry for something that’s entirely out of your hands. These ideas are pertinent to creating your path to freedom.

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the world would literally be a better place if cis people could just get trans surgeries "by mistake" rather than forcing trans people to jump through ten million hoops to get it.

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ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to be a stressed adult male protagonist splashing water on his face in the bathroom

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Don't be scared of getting older. Every year I'm reborn as the most me I've ever been.