#but we aren't that far yet

[orchidvk]

Hello there! ^^

I just needed some advice and thought you could help me out.

I wanna work on the next part of my series and now I'm thinking about introducing two OC of mine.

But then I thought, maybe that wouldn't fit the series (the oc's got mentioned but never appeared)

So if you have a second please tell me your thoughts.

Thank you <3

Summery of the Series: Rooster and the daggers look at old tapes recorded by Carole and the class of 86. Capturing Holidays, Birthdays and even small things like a time on the beach.

[tinystepsforward]

ngl it makes me want to die a little bit that it's so often trans people who feel that sex is mutable but oppression is always-forever based on asab in ways that allow them to demand that information from other trans people. like it feels fucking bad. it feels bad when it's people holding up someone who posts a lot of selfies as transition goals to a degree they have to clarify what they have or haven't done or what "direction" they're going in, it feels worse when people are out there like "caster semenya is not tma" or whatever the fuck. i am, as always, not a trans woman, but here's a sentiment echoed by many of the trans women around me who log the fuck off, quoted directly from one: "people who draw a clear line where they say that semenya or khelif are tme and then call me tma are just calling me male at this point".

like i get it. i really do. we seek community and shared experiences, and we feel betrayed when people have less in common with us than we thought they did. [*more on this later.] but that's not those people's faults and my god in the case i'm seeing play out on twitter rn this poor person did absolutely nothing to intentionally mislead people, just posted pictures of their actual kid self. who looks a lot like i did, because shockingly enough "we can always tell" doesn't fucking work for trans people either!

on the one hand i move in intersex circles which are unapologetically welcoming in cis "dyadic" people with pcos, because it serves nobody to draw a clear line where mutilation or genetics or some ineffable childhood suffering are what make somebody intersex, especially when most of us (esp in places like nz) have never been karyotyped and are being treated for symptoms without a pinned-down cause anyway. the more of us there are the stronger we are, the more pressure we can exert on a medical profession which doesn't like to consider how common outliers are, how uneasy sex is at all. and then on the other hand there's dyadic trans people on the internet who've yelled me out of spaces because a couple of traumatised incarcerated trans women i worked with as a prison abolitionist assumed i was also a trans woman and i didn't immediately tell them my entire csa-involved history of being sexed in varying ways as an infant and child and/or exactly how big my phallus was at birth or where in my junk config my urethra lives so they could decide i was tme or whatever.

returning to the * for a related but not identical thought: i think presuming shared experiences leads to some fucked shit in general! "oh we all had a radfem phase" or "oh we all were channers" no we fucking weren't and it's particularly obnoxious when me & mine are trying to build trans community locally to organise and resist the growing wave of far-right backlash against our existence, and there's just white people in there on a spectrum from "straight up being antisemitic and trying to get the n-word pass" through "handwringing about how they need to make space for people who aren't politically correct" to "handwringing about how brown people are right to be mad at them but doing shit fuckall". and then the other fucking brown people in the space are on some identity politics shit where they're like "trans joy inherently excludes those of us who could get deported" or "big city white queers are killing us by being visible instead of going stealth bc it stirs up the discourse" or whatever the fuck i've heard pulled out this year. there's a bunch of reasons i primarily organise outside of trans spaces and that's one of them. i've never felt more alone in spaces where people claim we're all the same than being left as the brownest moderator or organiser in a space full of people to whom "this is a safe trans space" apparently means they get to abdicate all other responsibilities not to lapse into presumed shared patterns that are fucking racist or otherwise alienating. i've never felt more alone than surrounded by exclusively trans people who sort people into boxes and assume everyone in those boxes has the transition goals they have. like i was on cypro until it disagreed with me to the point of endocrine crisis and now i'm on t and at both those points people were so fucking presumptive or entitled to my reasons or journey or personal relationship w my body

literally just submitted on (and was invited to consult on) the nz law commission's review of the human rights act and like. it's straight up fucked how many nz trans people fully do not comprehend that any "sex assigned at birth" type definitions fundamentally exclude migrants who have no way of proving it and many intersex people who happen to have been reassigned later or many times or never assigned at all as a baby. we can't make law with this shit and that's why we have to have symmetrical protections for all genders/sexes/expressions/presentations, bc naming and defining a protected class here often leaves the people who already are left out from those shared experiences of marginalisation out in the cold when they face violence

[indigosabyss]

another random observation rant from 1⃣ apologizer anon (it got quite long, I'm sorry 🥲)

sometimes futamata uses scientific concepts for togabito powers

most obvious example would be musashi and his battle against ikkaku when he was able to convert electrical energy from attacks into thermal energy and adsorb it without damage (which is cool af btw)

most confusing for me was (and still is) elf? what is he exactly? if I understood correctly, he doesn't have physical body yet somehow he can have presence when there ppl infected with him

so let me introduce you concept of clonally transmissible cancer! yay

a transmissible cancer is a cancer cell or cluster of cancer cells that can be transferred between individuals, these cells are basically parasites, that mutated from regular cancer cells in very specific conditions, it's super rare even in animals

most documented is CTVT founded in dogs and other canines

so imagine there was a dog a long long time ago, that dog got cancer and then that cancer cells mutated

these cells act like separate organism and can be transmitted to other dogs but still are identifiable as that poor first dog even after many many years, a parasite that technically is immortal dog

this is very similar to how i imagine elf power to work

he was an actual person before but now exist as cells with some sort of hive mind that reside in different hosts are able to replicate inside and ultimately take over their host

HELP THAT'S ACTUALLY SO COOL.

No notes. This is just genuinely very interesting. Wikipedia article on CTVT, if anyone's interested.

[winryrockbellwannabe]

... the european elections results are making me lose hope in the future of europe. how tf did we get like this?

[writereleaserepeat]

tfw you wanted to write a fun whumpee for a prompt but you're overly invested in the career opportunities of the throwaway caretaker.

[infriga]

My friend and I started watching Bodies cause we were curious about it and had just finished House of Usher so we were the mood for something else to watch, and we clocked the 1890's detective as gay so fast it's kinda hilarious. Sir you did not need to eye fuck the journalist like that.

[rutadales]

I voted, famb! May I pls ask for something with with c!BBH and c!Dream, since they won't be winning their poll bracket and I want to spread the propaganda for them far and wide? Maybe Bad caring for Dream during or after prison, or even something from my vampire AU, if you want something a bit different (reference for their designs can be found in my “XI arts” tag).

do ur vampires snuggle...? sorry i just rlly liked their designs AND wanted comfort 🫣🫣

BUT THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING THE CAUSE!!

VOTE DROOLISH EVERYONE!! send proof and I'll draw you anything ur heart desires !!

[giantkillerjack]

The cool thing about a horror movie that takes place in a mental hospital and, shockingly, actually turns out to be on the side of mentally ill people is that it avoids all the common disgusting pitfalls of mocking, demonizing, and infantilizing mentally ill people.

The downside is

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

[It's much scarier.]

[martialgodz]

i posted my and my bfs age on a tiktok talking about age gaps (im 23 hes 29) and am now being told im a victim. be sooooo for real we met when we were both very much adults (22 and 28) we both have jobs and ambitions we both had our own apartments and also i think the most important factor of the equation here WE WERE BOTH ADULTS. not even like "oh im 18 im an adult", i had fully lived out of my house for 4 years and had moved across the entire country. i haven't touched a miniature carton of chocolate milk in 5 years. but yes im the victim for dating another adult. tiktok.... c'mon

[midnight-scrivener]

Me, calling to a crowd: What Are We Doing?

The crowd: NANOWRIMO!!!

Me: And How Are We Doing It?

The crowd: 10K BEHIND SCHEDULE!!!

Me, wiping away tears that are ambiguously representative of pride or pain, depending on literary interpretation: You're goddamn Right we are

[mantisgodsdomain]

If you ever find yourself wondering why we are being particularly low on showing projects that aren't simply us editing old things right now: we are not doing great at the moment, and getting things done keeps running into the crushing wall of unimaginable stress that is preventing us from doing anything at all. Thank you for understanding!

[kumakuma-circus]

just randomly remembered that during my like 10+ attempts at the shadow yukiko fight i more or less consistently ran out of revival beads so yosuke was just dead (well unconscious but whatever) on the ground for like half the fight gfhfjvhfhfhd-

[transingthoseformers]

The way I want to give the Cybertron night sky at least one constellation that we have (even if it looks kinda different from their POV) just so that on earth they can stare up at the sky, recognize some stars, and hell maybe even point out their own.

That fucking feeling of "there. That's home, sitting a little to the left of [star]" is amazing in fiction actually

[attractthecrows]

retconning stroud out of the deep roads so i can shove laure amell and the hawke siblings and varric and anders all into the same little camp. they would all have such a bad time

[danthediamondminecart]

Sometimes you just go

"What if I revamped my TMA AU completely but with a Hunt focus instead of the Eye"

And don't wait for an answer

[down-thedrain]

"this world will live on...!" girl no it wont im sorry