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lovelyrotter · 26 days

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yknow i love transmasc/tboy dirk always and forever but the way some ppl treat transmascness vs transfemmeness in HS's narrative........kinda sucks. like the whole thing about how being transfeminine is a literal transient experience and lets the character in question (any character) truly escape the oppression of HS's narrative-as-a-character which is patriarchal and toxic (lord english, hussie-the-character to an extent. i guess. idk ive seen a lotta ppl lump SI-hussie in w/ this), which is great and does hold weight as an analytical lens esp with how hussie irl is nonbinary. but where does this leave transmasc characters. why are we treating (headcanoned) transfemme HS characters like this and then tbh gleefully dooming (headcanoned) transmasc characters to eternal narrative suffering brought by LE and then mocking them for being ''gross tboys'' full of ''icky testorerone'' so its their fault theyre in this perpetual torment really? because they ''''chose to be a man''''? dunno man its starting to feel bad. especially since some bnf's who are really into this fan theory do actually kinda treat the general idea of transmasculinity like somthing to hold with tongs at arms length away from them. as if its alien or infectous or something and then get really mad when equally dysphoric transmascs do the same with feminity. why are we dooming dirk strider to eternal toxic-masculine suffering and what does that say about how we treat real life transmasc folks both in and outside of the fandom

#my t #basically you arent more or less special or deserving of celebration or joy depending on what pronouns you use #and idk yall gender is such a personal thing and your trans experience def does colour the way you look at the world. it def does mine/ours #and i wish ppl on this site would be more honest about that cause holy hell do some of yall treat eachother like dogshit #PURELY on the basis of identity. you are no better than a TERF if you do this. you ARE a TERF if you do this #but like...........can we all at least TRY not to demonize '''the other side''' here #in quotations because theres no '''other side''' in the trans community we're all just trans in different ways #theres just like. yknow #theres a reason why so many tboys and transmasc folks identify with the striders and dirk especially #and theres a reason why *so many* transmascs felt so much joy abt tboy roxy #so many of our lives pre-transition looked and felt like roxy lalondes. so many of us legit forcefully feminized ourselves #bc the alternative was so fucking scary. as you can probably imagine regardless of what flavour of trans you are #theres also a reason why there are so many transmasc fictives named dirk and dave and idk what to tell these ppl abt that #i remember rlly clearly this affectionate joke like a literal decade ago on this site that was like #daves intro dropped and 1mil tboys named dave materialized into existence #dirks intro dropped and 1mil MORE tboys named dirk materialized into existence #i try rlly rlly hard not to get sour at wlw/nblw focused memes that are like #''i made pepsicola better!!! theyre she/theys now :)'' for example #but its getting increasingly harder to ignore when the same ppl who make these memes treat #fans who prefer m/m *bc they themselves are gay* like shit #or like enjoying m/m because theyre mlm is mysogynistic. which it isnt ffs #that shit gives i am uncomfortable when is not about me and i aint here for that #if i were like these ppl maybe id turn all their fave girls into tboys just to spite them #but it wont be just to spite them bc 1) i aint abt that actually. im too fuckin grown for it and 2)#i genuinely just enjoy exploring m/m and masculinity more because i am a trans mlm. its very simple math

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