#trans aesthetics

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Gender/Aesthetic Philosophy Problem bashes Utilitarianism (again) Thanks to Transformers Jokes

Got into a discord joke discussion that went along the lines of minicon are fairies (due to people collecting them in the Unicron Trilogy like assholes) and we replied with:

“be careful, they are fae

they will take your pronouns

and your name

you will wear a crown of cyber keys

and never be seen again on Earth.”

A trans friend suggested she would simply give the minicons fake pronouns and respond to something like "what are your pronouns?" with "same as yours pal."

So we of course had to make the Elita One joke of:

Leader-1: :0 but- but I think I want she pronouns... need to start taking some e for the front of my name...

And thus we have the utilitarian conundrum of would you give up a part of your gender assemblage to help someone else realize theirs? Going to name this the Exchange Actuation Problem.

Move over trolley problem? (No you’re good your were a criticism of utilitarianism thank you Philippa Foot)

Another friend likened it to ‘some form of reconstructive surgery with a donor, but for an intangible concept. On the other hand, in Transformers it's possible to steal a name... so yeah. (laughing emoji)’

Trans friend chimed in again with: “Clothes swaps are about this i think.” and what we think is key: “Just remember for every part of your identity you cast off there’s someone else out there ready and eager to pick that up and add it to themself. one persons trash and all.”

The takeaway here (that we knew) for us is that aesthetic iteration is a continuous process; but what we hadn’t considered is that when we pass things on- signifiers, expression, shape, and so forth- that’s something someone else can still look to and find context in. It is not just your present self that helps people find euphoria- but your past, and trying to imagine your future.

The individual and the community are both important parts of aesthetic experience- find your contentment, and celebrate that we don’t know our full selves, ever- that there is always more to contextualize and realize.

We are going to hold ourselves back from a full-on dive into aesthetics that’s what we write fanfic and orig fic for in part hahaha but there are papers on the subject of gender assemblage and gender as aesthetic out there! We lost access to our computer that had a lot of these files but we will try to dig real hard through the recovered drive stuff someday so we can just post names of articles to go read if you want

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Happy Pride Month

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Its so hot outside that means it’s sketchbook season again my iPad will give me third degree burns if I try to open procreate 😀

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The world is better with transsexuals in it

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🌿 🌹 🌱 🥬 ✨ // nasturtiums // gouache on hot press paper

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Outside the Rave

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mom got me this ridiculously cool jacket for my birthday thanks mom :D

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I was just told by a certain someone that y’all needed to see this pic 😅

Peer pressure 😜

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[oc] “ur like me!!”

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New York City Pride (1973)

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Have some nice pridecolored Plesiosaurs for pride month ^^

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Pride Pokeball Stickers made by Zquishi