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"We transition into being double queer" (previous tags) ♡

Trans men don't transition out of queerness, by the way.

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Trans men don't transition out of queerness, by the way.

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Some episodes of Kin of Drag are out on revery.com right now ♡

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In the spirit of encouraging people to comment on fanfics while also making it easier to do so, I feel obliged to share a browser extension for ao3 that has quite literally revolutionized the comment game for me.

I present to you: the floating ao3 comment box!

From what I've seen, a big problem for many people is that once you reach the comments at the bottom of a fic, your memory of it miraculously disappears. Anything you wanted to say is stuck ten paragraphs ago, and you barely remember what you thought while reading. This fixes that!

I'll give a little explanation on the features and how it works, but if you want to skip all that, here's the link.

Edit: Yes, this also works on mobile!

The extension is visible as a small blue box in the upper left corner.

(Side note: The green colouring is not from the extension, that's me.)

If you click on it, you open a comment box window at the bottom of your screen but not at the bottom of the fic. I opened my own fic for demonstrative purposes.

The website also gives explanations on how exactly it functions, but I'll summarize regardless.

insert selection -> if you highlight a sentence in the fic it will be added in italics to the comment box

add to comment box -> once you're done writing your comment, you click this button and the entire thing will automatically copied to the ao3 comment box

delete -> self explanatory

on mulitchapter fics, you will be given the option to either add the comment to just the current chapter or the entire fic

The best part? You can simply close the window the same way you opened it and your progress will automatically be saved. So you can open it, comment on a paragraph, and then close it and keep reading without having the box in your face.

Comments are what keep writers going, and as both a writer and a reader, I think it's such an easy way of showing support and enthusiasm.

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It's just hitting me how big yesterday was for me

Last year, I stood in front of 2000 people in my town and proudly told them how much I appreciate them for allowing me to live, and making me feel safe in my own skin

That's still true. It's wonderful to be in a place where I can be me safely. I never worry about walking out with my dress and my deep voice. It's wonderful

This year? I walked at the head of a parade with an estimated 100,000 people, next to the mayor of Oslo and the prime minister!

"Årets pridemarkering i Oslo er den største markeringen noensinne. Flere titalls tusen skal delta, og Støre skal gå foran i toget sammen med lederen av Oslo Pride og ordfører Anne Lindboe." -tv2

Største NOENSINNE??????? You're gonna sit here and tell me I walked at the head of the biggest Oslo Pride parade EVER????

Holy mackerel, yall! Norway is cool as hell.

And sweet lord are the people here wonderful. Gorgeous. DIVERSE!!!!!!!!

Yes! It's fucking diverse here. Oh never let me forget that white supremacists love to scream about Norway as a place that's only as good as it is because the people are a certain skin color. That's some bullshit and I'm not gonna let this post go out into the world without squashing that shit once and for all

The prime minister didn't just stand with me for one picture. He walked with me. He walked ALONE with me at the head of the parade MORE THAN ONCE and for several minutes. The mayor of Oslo walked damn near the WHOLE PARADE next to me, a black trans woman, alongside an African woman and we had FUN.

Norway is a DIVERSE country, and we're proud of that. Like we're proud of so much more of what the country continues to accomplish every day, month, and year

And I'm so damn proud to live here. Yall are stuck with me! 😜 I fucking love yall so much and I'm so happy to have been a part of this. Pride is wonderful, Norway is wonderful, and queer people of every stripe, all over the world: I love you

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Why do you use It/Its pronouns...

i got tagged in elementary school and never recovered

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What I don't think white people realize is that when you're not white you've been taking -1hp from poison damage your whole life & probably didn't even realize it until you were an adult. On like an interpersonal level, people who happen to be white just hate you for no discernible reason. And you start believing them cause you think like surely ALL OF THEM for as long as you can remember can't be wrong, right? So I'm the problem? I was born with something fundamentally wrong with me? & then you're like Wait. The racism.

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"To change patriarchal 'traditions' we must end patriarchy, in part by envisoning alternative ways of thinking about maleness, not only boyhood."

The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks

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part of the reason I think it’s so sad that we collectively write so few stories about unrequited love is bc I feel like there’s very little public acknowledgment of how much it sucks to be the one somebody is in unrequited love with??? and not in a way of like, oh they’re crossing boundaries or putting expectations on me or whatever. becoming close friends with someone and then finding out they’re in love with you and you don’t love them back the same way is heartbreaking, bc a) someone you love is in pain and there is literally nothing you can do about it, and b) it usually means that whether you like it or not there’s going to be distance in your friendship that wasn’t there before as they try to get over you. idk man I just feel like we’ve all discussed the tragedy of loving someone who doesn’t love you back quite a lot and very rarely discuss the tragedy of finding out the way that you love someone just isn’t enough.

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it would be so cool if i could make a post about being aromantic without people bringing up asexuality. as if that's at all relevant to my experiences. even though i'm not asexual, nor have i ever implied that i am. all i said was that i'm aro. you added the ace part yourself. in your mind. and then assumed it to be reality.

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"i was a transtrender" no you werent. you were just questioning your identity and then you decided that wasn't for you. that's a fucking healthy thing to do. fuck off lmao

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Trans men are not treated systematically as (cis) men. We are not systematically* men.

*We are not patriarchal men. Some of us may don the toxic masculinity outfit of the patriarchy but we largely do not fit the patriarchy definition of Man, which bars almost all of us from the male privilege that people love to decide we have when we are still being disenfranchised by the patriarchy because we are trans men.

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"You'll change your mind when you're older. You never know what might happen. You'll feel differently one day. As if we teenagers knew so little about ourselves that we could wake up one day a completely different person. As if the person we are right now doesn't matter at all." -Loveless by Alice Oseman

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ok so i have the word blacklisted bc people refuse to tag their bullshit properly but if i dont say something i'll keep stewing

ive watched in real time the transandrophobia/transmisandry discourse go from 'trans mascs dont experience any unique oppression, therefore they dont need a word for their situation' (untrue, if you listened to transmascs you'd learn otherwise) to 'transmascs don't experience oppression' (also categorically untrue, and if you talked to anyone outside your bubble you'd hear how insane that sounds)

anyway when the discourse ultimately goes from its current 'it is transmisogynistic to talk about trans men's oppression' to 'it is transmisogynistic to talk about trans men' and 'trans men do not belong in the trans community', y'all owe me money. this ain't my first fucking rodeo, i remember the aphobic discourse back in 2016.

there's also the bit where this shit popped up just as the trans unity movement was taking off, but i highly doubt anyone involved in this wants to confront that timing. when it turns out we've once again been psyopped into attacking each other, don't fucking talk to me. i called this shit, i told some of y'all, y'all ignored me.

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It's Juneteenth, so I'd like to once again remind everyone that the enforcement of "nonmen loving nonmen" onto the entirety of the lesbian community and conversely the enforcement of "nonwomen loving nonwomen" on the veldian community is antiblack.

Those terms had been used to describe the degendering of Black people. And while personally defining yourself with those terms is fine, enforcing it on an entire community was so racist. Black lesbians & gays opposed this initially for that very reason. So, while exclusionists love to throw in the word "white" and assume everyone's race, Black mspec lesbians and Black lesboys exist and you can't force them to conform to a definition that's enforcement is racist