#idk i want trans kids to know it doesn't have to be scary

[lazylittledragon]

i might actually write this i'm not even joking

[juannaflippa]

random total drama reboot sexuality headcanons (made these while listening to laufey)

priya is pan, she just kinda knew she loved any and all genders. demiromantic, falls in love at first sight but always thinks twice about if its a crush or not (it never is). uses she/they. scared to tell her parents

millie gives lesbian tbh, never felt attraction to a guy. had crushes on girls and always brushed them off until she was like wait. holy darn i'm gay what the flip okay. also demiromantic, just like, never has crushes but knows she can

julia's bi. idk she just like, likes girls. she's never dated a girl but she lowk wants to, never told anyone

hear me out. mk, aromantic. always joked about how she was too busy with her tech to be into romance, then she realized she wasn't joking. also lesbian and nonbinary

nichelle is THE closet lesbian my god, straight on air but lesbian off set. got caught on a date with a girl once and literally had to make a whole 10 page insta slide explanation (everyone skimmed it, no one even cared, literally everyone still thought she was still straight UNTIL she made the post.)

axel is just so lesbian to me idk. her and ripper get together in season two tho so idk but i still live by the lesbian hc tbh

scary girl is just. scary. idk man she's not a girl or boy they are just an essence. unlabeled, asexual, probably uses any pronouns because as long as you're scared she don't care

emma is so transfem to me she is just a trans girl trust me. she's also bisexual and uses she/they. chill about telling people she's bi, but doesn't really bring up that she's trans unless she trusts you

raj is obviously gay. felt more free when he realized. lowk forced himself to have crushes on girls to fit in, like just thought you could choose someone and be like "yup ur my crush now"

wayne is either the BIGGEST straight ally ever or aroace. idk he just gives aroace vibes to me, also faked crushes. raj and wayne would LOWK be jealous of eachother for actually having crushes on girls ☠️

bowies gay of course. always just kinda knew, very very open about it. get's bullied for it sometimes but he doesn't care (the other person always get BODIED by his insults if bowie feels like it)

damien is transmasc and bi, pretty open about it. he doesn't mind telling people cause he doesn't care if they hate him for it. always shocks people when he comes out, he finds it funny

chase is so transmasc oh my god he has literally never told anyone and he is scared to. also the HARDEST bisexual closet case my god

zee idkk like maybe genderfluid bisexual asexual and uses any pronouns.

ripper is an on the low bisexual. wants to held by a MAN

anddd caleb idk probably straight ally

non sexuality related but

emma listens to laufey!

emma and chase havent come out to eachother about being trans. emma told chase about being bisexual and chase just kind of ghosted her for a few days

raj is autistic and wayne has adhd

damien listens to tyler, the creator

axel is def hispanic, she got that puerto rican blood in her i swear

damien got snake bite piercings

chase still payed for all of emmas subscriptions after they broke up ☠️

chase was buying tampons for emma and deadass asked her "babe what size yo pussy". she blocked and ghosted him for a good week

emma is an avid minecraft player, lowk got chase into it (they had a hardcore world for THREE YEARS and chase got them killed by a creeper when they were making a bakery for emma because he SWORE emma was paranoid for wanting to wear armor)

bowie used to be a track kid

emma tried to go vegan for like a week before she quit

damien is probably autistic

chase used to work at one of those kiosks at the mall that sell shitty overpriced sunglasses

priya has watched total drama more times than she can count. her parents didn't let her watch any other shows until she could memorize all the lines to island, action, and world tour if she was LUCKY

chase is a kpop stan

that's it. that's the post. same time next week guys???

[yaytimetheft]

My boss's boss asked my pronouns yesterday. I am like very cis looking at work so I was a little thrown at first but then she goes on about her 18 year old and how his friends are trans and she's trying to start asking people their pronouns. I told her not to worry about mine. Default response bc the last job I had, my boss was married to a trans woman so I thought it would be a safe place to be out at work. It super was not. Went very badly. Basically now I'm convinced that unless my coworker base is majority queer, I'm never going to be able to be out at work. And a job like that doesn't exist here so I've just settled for finding a job where I have to work with as few people as possible. No more customer service. I spend a lot of time alone at a computer now. I get misgendered a lot but not deadnamed at least. Idk, I count by blessings bc I use to work for grocery stores for 6 years and that was so much worse. My current job is cushy enough for now. But anyway, my current boss isn't transphobic so that's nice to know. Will make communicating with her easier. I said don't worry about my pronouns and she's like "No no, I want to cuz it's important. Do you prefer they?" And I was like "yeah I do but I'm not really out at work bc there's a lot of transphobic people around here and it's not really safe." And she's like "I get that. I'll still keep trying though. I want to have it down. For my kids friends. For everyone."

It was actually really sweet. I'm 27, and I don't make an effort to explain my identity to anyone. It's exhausting, and in workplace settings it can be unsafe for me. I think it's sweet that teenagers are talking about though. And making such an impact on their parents too. It look 2 years and me threatening not to see her again to get my mom to even try using they/them. I worry for the youth, because I know when I was younger I was confident enough to say whatever I was thinking without regard for context. And I just don't want teenagers having to debate with scary transphobes, a lot of whom are within their own families. On the flip side, teens being bold enough to take up space and talk about their identities and get their parents to come around, is actually changing public opinion.

It just blows my mind bc I'm a baby millennial and based off the past I've been taught and the present that I've seen, I never thought i would see the day when trans people are just a known and accepted part of society. But this experience opened my eyes a bit. Kids really have so much influence over their parents and with each generation embracing queerness more and more, they're changing the social attitudes of their families as well. I live in a rural area with a HUGE right wing population. My boss asking me my pronouns was the last thing I ever expected to happen yesterday.

I don't know what my point is here exactly. I'm just loving what the kids are doing these days and I sometimes worry for their safety but thank god for their boldness and numbers.

[dirkification]

I posted 789 times in 2022

That's 473 more posts than 2021!

72 posts created (9%)

717 posts reblogged (91%)

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I tagged 140 of my posts in 2022

#jax yacks - 88 posts

#hstwt 2019 - 10 posts

#homestuck discourse - 9 posts

#ask jax - 6 posts

#egbert discourse - 5 posts

#ask meme - 5 posts

#stridercest - 5 posts

#june discourse - 4 posts

#anon - 4 posts

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#and rose was an obvious like idk parallel or whatever of vriska im the way kanaya was attracted to dangerous people

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Someone once said something about how scary and isolating it must have been for bro to be a gay kid in the 80s and I am Thinking

Like what if the isolation was the point

What if sburb made sure the guardians turned out certain ways so they would make the kids ready in specific ways

What if bro is that weird because he was a gay kid in the 80s and the universe was literally conspiring against him making close connections so he could raise the knight of time as is wanted him to be raised

10 notes - Posted July 5, 2022

#4

Would you be comfortable explaining your dislike of June here? I don't like the retcon people treat it as that John no longer exists and that calling him John in any context is now suddenly transphobic, but idk I might be blessed that my corner of the hs fandom doesn't really have maniacs like that in it?

The farther we get away from 2019 hstwt the more blessed y'all will be with not knowing (positive) lol

(and yes unfortunately I am ready to word dump about this at the drop of a hat lol)

But basically being trans masc on Twitter when June was first popularized then "made canon" was the worst. No one was allowed to have John anymore or we were transphobic. We were laughed at for having trans masc John hcs. Servers were raided. People were harassed. I, personally, was humiliated on a popular podcast because I expressed some dislike of the way June became canon and everyone's reaction to it. Friendships were ended over it. People were afraid to post anything about John for fear of retaliation. If you had a voice project that included John and put anyone besides a trans fem as the Egbert voice, your project was called out.

This lasted through 2020 and I saw people talking about John server raids still happening last year, even though I don't pay attention to hstwt nearly as much.

I honestly wish I could enjoy June. I think trans fem Egbert has a lot of potential! But from my experience, June was no longer a goofy kid who liked pranks and was kinda dumb (positive), and instead Vriska Lite with all the girlfriends (which I think that's another thing is Egbert liking boys (Dave and Karkat and Nic Cage etc) is extremely important to their character to me, but "obviously" June could only be a lesbian)

Tl;dr

Homestuck Twitter in 2019 and 2020 was a toxic pile of shit and if you didn't fall in line to the right opinions you got harassed either to agreeing or put of the community. ESPECIALLY if you were trans masc and/or "a boy liker." And I was personally traumatized by it, primarily because I expressed I wasn't super jazzed about June being "canon"

Does that make sense? Lmk if I need to clarify anything

15 notes - Posted April 26, 2022

#3

Look at my boyssss

18 notes - Posted December 7, 2022

#2

y'all remember

after the epilogues came out

so many people were like "actually you're right dirk IS trans masc which is why he's transphobic about Roxy, breaks up the lesbians, and is generally just all around shitty. Classic shitty trans masc!"

And like we weren't allowed to say shit against it lmao

27 notes - Posted June 16, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Reminder i have a uquiz to assign you a dirk!

44 notes - Posted June 13, 2022

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[haleigh-sloth]

I really hate to talk about this on this blog that is pretty much only a fandom blog, that I use for fun and stupid ridiculous anime bullshit, but there really isn't anything that bothers me more than misinformation being spread for truly scary topics. So I'm going to get very serious here for a second and then not talk about it on here again because I don't use tumblr for this stuff.

So before I go on this spiel, just in case people don’t know:

Now.

Greg Abbott enacted a law yesterday (2-22-2022) that now considers a number of, and I quote, "sex change procedures", child abuse.

Said procedures are listed in the letter I am about to link to.

He sent a letter to the Department of Family and Protective Services telling them that they are to investigate any reports they receive about children suspected of undergoing these types of procedures.

The law also requires professionals who work with children (which I am one) to report any children suspected of undergoing these procedures to Child Protective Services.

Now, I came across a very alarming post saying things like "All trans kids are at risk of being removed from their parents and placed in state custody" and "Any mandated reporter who does not report a child believed to be transgender is subject to face prosecution"-and I'm wondering "Am I really going to have to report to CPS every time a kid wants to change their pronouns or says they are trans? Like, really?"

And, well, after doing a bit of research, as well as talking to an old coworker who still works for CPS (guess where I used to work guys) I am here to say that, the post I'm referring to is spreading some seriously alarming information. The law is legit. Unfortunately. It's real.

HOWEVER, saying stuff like "any kid suspected of being trans is at risk of being removed from their parents and put into state custody!!!!" is a VERY. ALARMING. STATEMENT. And it is NOT fucking true. And by saying such a thing you are TERRIFYING kids on the internet who may identify as trans but have not taken any steps into transitioning. Those kids do not fall into the criteria of the people this awful law is targeting.

So, first of all. That's not what the law fucking says. It specifies "sex change procedures". Meaning, medical procedures, hormones, surgeries, etc., I'll link to the DFPS letter again where all of these are specified. Second, stop trying to tell people that if they just identify as trans, they are going to get taken from their parents. Trans does NOT MEAN ACTIVELY TRANSITIONING. Third, idk if any of y'all know how CPS works, but it is not as simple as you seem to think. Guess how many parents go before a judge who physically beat their kids but still go home with their children in their custody anyway--like. Please.

I know this is terrible and I hate Greg Abbott and Texas and these right wing fucking nut jobs that infest the legislature, but please stop trying to scare people more than they already are. People don't need that. They need the information as it is. It doesn't need to be embellished to make it worse than it already is.

Telling parents with trans children to flee the state because they will lose custody their children just because they identify as trans is just--it's not having the effect you think it does. Trans does not equal transitioning, which I feel is something people need to be very aware of. Either fix the wording, or make sure you understand this law that was just enacted.

And honestly the only reason I'm making this post is because people seem to think that the law says "being trans is illegal and punishable by prosecution", when that is literally not what it says. As a mandated reporter myself, I had to do some serious research after seeing such an alarming post, as it affects my daily life at work. And I have to say I'm more than a little irritated at the information going around. Yes, this place is awful, I hate it here, why do you think I talk about wanting to leave constantly blah blah blah, but holy fuck the last thing we need is people being terrified for their lives when they don't need to be.

There are people who should be scared, and I honestly hope something changes, because the system fails as it is now and this is going to make it worse. But freaking more people out than necessary is the opposite of helpful. Fuck.

[kestralwitchblog]

it’s gotten to the point where every time i hear my dad so much as mention his day at school i worry instantly that he’s got something rude to say about Dave. even though he has a billion complaints that are other things. i just worry. 

[poeticandors]

Pt.1 I'm the anon who asked about how you felt about the trans community, and I wanted to say thank you for that. I asked, because lately I have been feeling like a could possibly be trans. It's really fucking scary, and I'm so confused. I just don't have anybody I can really talk to about it. I know my family doesn't support it at all, and I don't want to tell my friends only to find out that I'm not and basically be the girl who cried wolf.

Pt.2 Idk. Recently I've just been having a lot of weird intrusive thoughts. I started working out, mostly weight training, and I love it. But then I realized, when I envision my end self, I have more of a male body. I've also always been very tom-boyish, and non-gender conforming. The biggest thing I just thought of was that I HATE talking about my period, it makes me EXTREMELY uncomfortable even thinking about it. I never knew why. What if it's because of this? But then again

Pt. 3 I've always wanted kids and wanted them to be from me, wanted to be the pregnant one. I'm just extremely confused right now. I'm sorry for unloading all of this onto you. I'm not expecting advice or for you to tell me what to do or what the answer is, I just didn't have anyone to talk to and I REALLY needed to get it off my chest. Thank you for being that person. I'm sorry if it was a lot/ overwhelming.

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First off anon do not apologize for venting to me. I’m grateful that you can feel the need to get something, let alone this off of your chest. I know it must have been hard for you. I am so sorry that you feel you don’t have anyone else to talk to, especially not your family or friends. It always sucks feeling like you can’t talk to anyone.

i wish I could tell you what to do... I wish there was more I could do to help. The only advice I can give you is maybe trying to find and talk to someone who has felt or feels the same as you if you are comfortable with that. Maybe even try looking more into the transgender community or reaching out.

Again, I wish there was more advice I could give you. And I hope you do feel at least a little bit of relief knowing you were able to talk to me and pour all of this out and that I was willing to listen. Just know that there are people who love and support you no matter what, and if you feel like you can talk with anyone else about it I would say to do that. It’s hard keeping something like this to yourself especially when you don’t know what to do... I hope that at least letting this all out to me helped you feel a little better. Maybe it could be a step into talking about it to others if you ever feel comfortable with that. Love you friend 💜