#trans life line

[redgoldsparks]

If you are queer, trans, or nonbinary and need someone to talk to about the horrible news this week, here are a ton of crisis lines you can call. I got this list from @/ queeeerchameleon on instagram. Below the cut are numbers for the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Belgium, Ireland, India, New Zealand, France, Germany, and Japan.

US: Trevor project (866) 488-7386 thetrevorproject.org LGBT National Youth Talkline (800) 246-7743 lgbthotline.org Trans lifeline (877) 565-8860 translifeline.org Canada: Trans Lifeline 877-330-6366 http://www.translifeline.org/ UK: Switchboard 0800 0119 100 Switchboard.lgbt LGBT Foundation 0345 3 30 30 30 lgbt.foundation Galop 020-7704-2040 http://www.galop.org.uk/ Mermaids (0208)-123-4819 http://www.mermaidsuk.org.uk/ Australia: Q Life 1800 184 527 qlife.org.au Belgium: Holebifoon 0800-99-533 cavaria.be/holebifoon National Crisis Line 02-649-95-55 yourlifecounts.org/need-help/crisis-lines Ireland: Gay Switchboard 01-872-1055 gayswitchboard.ie/ Out West West Ireland: 094-937-2479 National: 1890-929-539 outwest.ie/ LGBT Helpline 1800-929-539 BeLonGTo (Youth) 01-670-622 belongto.org India: Sneha India 91-44-2464-0050 snehaindia.org NZ: OutlineNZ 0800-688-5463 Outline.org.nz/ France: SOS Homophobia 01-48-06-42-41 sos-homophobie.org/ Germany: Lesbenberatung 030-215-20-00 Lesbenberatung-berlin.de/ TRIQ 030-6167-529-15 Transinterqueer.org/ Japan: Occur 03-3380-2269 Occur.or.jp/ Stonewall Japan Stonewall.ajet.net/about/

[the-trans-advice-blog]

Hey it's max again!! I just wanted to say thank you for reblog font the trans life line- I called it today and talked abt some stuff I've never actually talked abt before and it rly helped.

although I did cry, I think it felt good. I jsut wanna say thank you :)

Of course, Max! It makes me so so happy to hear that. Feel free to come check in any time I love hearing from you :)

[satelliteduster]

oh my god i forgot to post my absolute favorite strip from gay comix (issue #2, 1981)

[annabelle--cane]

granted I haven't seen this too much yet but it irks me every time I see someone say that they're waiting for tmagp to get queer or it's not queer enough yet. did you miss the transgender woman protagonist who has had major relevance and focus in every episode so far.

[obsob]

a redraw of ‘lament for icarus’ by herbert james draper ✷

[stormikitty]

Cosmic Love prompt:

Danny and Damian have been engaged since they were babies. The Fentons wanted access to Lazarus water, and they made a deal with the league of assassins to get it. Danny is trans. Danny and Damian haven't seen each other since Damian was 10 (I imagine Danny is anywhere from a few months to a year younger, so Danny was either 9 or 10 at the time). They had been seeing each other twice a year the last time they saw each other. They used to have more time scheduled to spend together before Damian started training to be an assassin. They weren't getting along when they last saw each other. Danny was upset/angry that his life had been planned out for him and that he was going to be in an arranged marriage. Damian was kind of a jerk at the time (because of trauma but he was still a jerk), and he thought Danny was being a jerk too because having his whole life planned for him was all Damian knew and it didn't make sense to him to get upset about it because that's his reality that he just had to accept. Damian does care about Danny, and cares about what he wants too. But they were kids. They were upset about their situation and frustrated and angry with each other and their families. They haven't had contact with each other at all since Damian came to Gotham.

Skip forward a few years and Damian has fallen in love with his best friend, Jon. He tells his family and Jon about the arranged marriage even though it's likely not going to be a thing anymore since he has cut ties with the league.

Damian and Jon start dating.

Danny is 16 and on the run from his parents and the GIW. He only managed to escape after he had already been captured and vivisected. He goes to Gotham because it'll be harder for his parents and the GIW to find him there. He runs into Damian and Jon at a park while he's at a point in his life where he's got nothing left an he's just sad, scared, angry, lonely, and he'd just about sell what's left of his life for a hug.

[medievalwife]

as cringe as this site is, i feel like we’ve done such a good job at eradicating the harry potter adults ✌️

[huecycles]

oh hey :) thanks for the kind comments and tags left under the last post!

it's so wild how body hair in art & media in general is seen as something "disgusting" or "weird", at first i thought that maybe the way i drew it made it look confusing but no way in hell you couldn't zoom in or just... think logically to know that is natural hair? some people are hairy like that! the way i draw it is more fluffy yes because i love floof and i dont give a shit tbh lol

i knew about the "issue" of jevil being fat so the body hair one threw me for a loop like wow. idk why jevil specifically gets this type of treatment, maybe other fat characters in utdr do too but i always see toriel, asgore, alphys, lancer, king, catti, sans who is a skeleton (and i really can't see him any other way, the fandom is doing a great job in keeping him chubby-like i love that) drawn with mostly correct proportions to in game/official art, yet jevil seems to get this mixed reaction. idk why i still see skinny jevil, or why some people insist his clown clothes are just "baggy". the jester is circular, look at his torso please for the love of god. sorry but i just want more fat rep as a fat person myself. i want jevil to remain short (his sprite is shorter than kris and slightly taller than spamton) and fat like he is in game!

drawing him helped me understand a lot about plus size anatomy, and honestly i couldn't be more happy about that because i'm also dealing a lot better with my body image issues and finally bringing more diversity to my art. him being hairy too is yet another thing that makes me happy as someone with pcos, and portraying him as a fat, hairy trans man as someone who is nonbinary and for months has been wanting to experiment with different pronouns/wondering how it would be like to transition is something really special. it's messy and silly but spamton and jevil are the ultimate comfort characters/ship to me, their stories and how they were written speak volumes and resonate with me a lot + headcanoning them as t4t has been beyond freeing and making me get a lot of gender euphoria/dysphoria/envy all at the same time lmfao what the fuck.

i'm honestly glad for these characters because they're what helped me articulate my recent feelings about my gender to my mother, who has grown a lot and is making an effort to understand all of this. the reaction i sometimes get from people who talk to me, come into my inbox or just pour their feelings out in the tags about how they love my portrayal of spamton and jevil's gender identity + their relationship and how important it is to them is so so cool. yeah :)

speaking of chest hair, here's how spamton looks without the shirt. the left side of his chest has a panel for his heart (a smaller version of neo's) and of course top surgery scars, a different type. he's also hairy! not that much since he's a puppet but he still has the addison floof, it's cute

[thee-radio-host-is-a-kookaburra]

anyone know how to make it look like you have stubble with makeup?

[inkbotkowalski]

HEY I DID (start) MY MEDICAL TRANSITION THIS YEAR HOW AWESOME IS THAT.

I NO LONGER SUFFER THE CURSE OF BIG BAZOOBAS. VISIBLE SIDEBURNS ARE WITHIN MY REACH. MY VOICE IS DROPPING.

(now what the hell am I going to do with my life in 2024?)

(whatever the fuck I want.)

[storytellering]

Love your art and I'm generally curious as to what the appeal of Dante/Vergil is to you? Do you have any hc that you're drawing from or is it just personal preference? I struggle to imagine the right conditions for them to be involved in that way and would like to know what inspires you.

I will premise this by saying, that I’m actually not a MASSIVE fan of just DV for its own sake, if Nero isn’t also included (or like, with the assumption he will, 100%, be included once he’s in the picture). To me it’s kind of a baseline pairing?

As in, I don’t even have to think about it. Of course they’re in love, of course they’re together, of course they’re fucking. It’s almost an afterthought to me, the way the married parent couple of the protagonist in a story inherently are. It doesn’t necessarily interest me by itself, that fact, it’s just a certainty, it just is. I guess, for me, the interest in DV specifically comes more out of what other people make of it, because for me I’m almost always approaching first from the perspective of Nero being there also, haha.

There’s also the fact that I have a lot of hc about just like, the way demons function as a species, I guess. I took a lot of things dmc canon gave me and went like, “alright, time to project this into the most self indulgent, non-human society but humanoid looking species I can think up in my brainhead”. To me a lot of the appeal comes from it being not necessarily a predestined thing as much as like, a biological inevitability - (going to speak in definitives about my own hc from here on, so not making any statement about canon dmc lol) demons mate with their kin, and with whoever deems worthy - and twins from the same litter would inevitably end up being the other’s first partner, their first choice, their other half. In a sense, to me, they’re soulmates - though honestly I prefer to think of it more as two halves of the same soul, following the implications in 3 and the 3 manga that them being twins comes from the spawn of Sparda being too powerful to just be born in one body. That might sound like I’m just saying they’re soulmates in a different way, but not really - to me, if I had to go the soulmate route, Nero would be both of their soulmate - because the two of them make one single soul, and the match to that would be Nero’s.

I kind of just go off of the assumption that they are in love and have been since they were in the womb, you know?

That colors the way I see their every interaction. To me, in their fighting, their squabbles and their feuds, there’s always love at the source. Familial, yes, but romantic and sexual as well - and to me, when I think about them, it’s all one and the same. To love each other like family is to be intwined, is to be mated, is to be a pack and is to be one.

That’s the more deep thoughts I have about it, I have more shallow/surface thoughts (and specifically ship dynamic thoughts about like, what appeals to me about them sexually lol) but if I had to quickly sum it up that’s what I would say, I think. 

[orzaika]

My friend got me hooked on @exilethegame and I’ve played it so many times just to keep playing my Phoenix commander Emil Ryder :) he is so fucked up and broken and my whole experience has been “how can i make it evident that this poor man has been emptied out and broken beyond repair” and then the author ENABLES ME it’s the best thing i’ve ever encountered

[matoitech]

id say im sorry 2 the ppl who got harassed off the site for the 'what if aaron bushnell was trans..' posts but at the time you made a goddamn aaron bushnell transvestigation post where you were misgendering and theorizing about a real life dead person because you couldnt just wonder things to yourself in your own brain. completely inappropriate thing to say publically it doesnt matter if youre trans. what did you THINK was going to happen

[aurosoulart]

decided to make a reel of my augmented reality artworks done over the past few months and MAN, it’s.......... suddenly hitting me just how absolutely nuts all of this is

six years ago, virtual reality was still firmly in the realm of science fiction. but now? not only is it real - but it’s possible to have a career working completely inside a virtual world where you have godlike controls over creation. (editing physics, light, gravity - and spawning things into existence on a whim? mind-mindbogglingly, this is somehow just my average workday)

I regularly spend so much time in-headset that it’s started re-wiring my brain; I think of landscapes and buildings as potential canvases for 3D digital artworks, and I sometimes struggle to differentiate virtual objects from reality. (I’ve tried to place real objects on virtual tables, and I instinctively step over/around virtual objects because of how REAL they appear and behave.)

our brains work by building a picture of reality via our sensory input, but what happens when that input is completely virtual? virtual reality is showing us that not only are our brains easily tricked, but that this is already happening even with the technology in its infancy. people using avatars with full-body tracking report ‘phantom sense’ sensations to virtual touch, heat, and cold - and haptic gloves & suits are in development that blur the lines between realities even further.

what will a world look like where we interact with cyperspace as if it was real? where you can meet with anyone, anywhere, in a virtual world you can both touch, hear, and (probably someday) smell or even taste? where job training, 3d design, therapy, education, etc. are all revolutionized by XR in the same way personal computers revolutionized them already?

what does a future look like where we don’t interact with digital media through a screen?

I don’t have the answers, but I think change is encroaching rapidly upon us all - and I think it’s gonna hit us faster than any of us can realize.

[dkettchen]

me, transmasc, femme, frustrated: men’s fashion sucks why have you cursed me with this bs

kpop/jpop/etc: *puts its lads into glorious outfits w shiny shit and skin showing and leather and princey-looking nonsense*

me: thank you, I owe u my life <3

[7roaches]

the sludge