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Greetings Stranger! I am Tenabii, Lover of all Rattata and Team Magma. I am an avid fan of Pokemon, Yugioh and Keys to the Kingdom, plus a bunch of other stuff.
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Anyway I love Jason Todd and also I love holding him accountable for being a pos

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theforceisstronginthegirl

U know…. Dick is actually what Richard is shortened too. Like it’s not actually that weird and people are still called that today. So all this crap in batman fanfics where it’s like “my parents couldn’t speak English well and didn’t know” can shove it for being a lot of kinda fucked up things

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faelynny

no but really, like 

i know that some folks love telling creative people that “you should be doing it for fun because you love it not for the compliments” but creative people thrive on feedback whether it’s critical or just complimentary

so when i write fanfiction and don’t get any actual feedback i feel like i spent all that time and energy doing it for nothing because i’m not getting feedback from the people i wrote it for 

doing something you’re proud of and then presenting it to the sound of utter silence is like the worst feeling on earth 

I know the feeling of this.

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thebestpersonherelovesbucky

i like to think: what if you were in a play and you spend all that time learning your lines and your cues and going to rehearsal for hours and hours and being bone tired and then getting up on stage opening night and giving it your all only to be met with silence from the audience at the final curtain call. No one would question why that upset them.

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redshoesnblueskies

An art instructor in my childhood said something to me I’ve never forgotten - that a work of art isn’t complete until it has been experienced - seen, heard, etc.  That this wasn’t just some abstract concept, but a visceral truth for the artist - that the work wasn’t DONE until the end result had been witnessed, appreciated, critiqued - whatever, it didn’t have to be positive negative knowledgable, it just had to happen as the concluding event, the final brush stroke.

Some folks who don’t get it go about thinking we make art or write fic because we crave praise or attention or fans, or even that some writers/artists thrive on negativity and drama (and to be sure, all of these things are true some times!).  But that’s too narrow an understanding of why we art. I think my art teacher was telling a fundamental truth about the psychology of creativity - that art is a communal experience, that until we share our creative work and see how people respond, we do not have closure on that work.  

Art is communication - and communication shouted into the void is frighteningly isolating. We need our readers our viewers our audience. We need to hear what you think. We need to converse in comments, answer your counter thoughts or thoughtful critique, we need the conversation - that’s what art is :)

Never feel bad for desiring feedback - it’s not some extra frill that exists outside of the creative process. It is a critical part of the creative process - and if you cannot find your audience in one venue, don’t give up.  Keep putting your art out there until your audience finds you :)

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stormsbourne

look sometimes we just gotta own that there are entire dimensions of romance straight people don’t understand, and it is my duty to help illuminate that truth

#Pushing daisies
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… and here is a gift for all of us.

Saving this for later.

#Resources#books
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Sampson is a service dog for a researcher who works in a lab. He has his own lab coat and safety goggles

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He’s practicing lab safety

He has little booties!!!!!!

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this is the most Pokemon Professor-looking person I’ve ever seen in real life

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Statistically, the pattern of violence in trans women more closely resembles male patterns of violence- meaning, it is extremely more likely for a trans woman to be violent compared to women. Statistically, trans women are the victims of violence at about the same rate as other males, while violence against females is astronomically more prevalent.

Statistically, the pattern of violence in trans men more closely resembles female patterns of violence than male ones- meaning, it is extremely less likely for a trans man to be violent compared to men. Statistically, trans men are the victims of violence at about the same rate as other females.

And by statistically, I mean that per capita, trans women commit roughly the same amount of violence/are subjected to violence at the same rate as other men, while trans men commit roughly the same amount of violence/are subjected to violence at the same rate as other women. Violence against trans women/men and trans men/women will increase or decrease proportionately based on other factors such as race, sexuality, class and access to resources, but there is never a case where women/trans men are privileged over men/trans women for their gender. There is never a case where trans women will experience or commit different rates of violence than men of the same race, sexuality and class. There is never a case where trans men will experience or commit different rates of violence than women of the same race, sexuality and class. In most cases, being visibly gender nonconforming- not an invisible “gender identitity” was the cause of hate crimes against trans identified people. It’s important to recognize that according to trans politics, gender nonconformity does not mean that one is trans. A GNC person could be considered “cisgender”- so what does that mean for stats on violence against trans people? I’m inclined to say that most trans hate crimes are actually misogynist and homophobic hate crimes. But I digress.

Let’s isolate and compare statistics only within trans identified people. Trans men are still more likely than trans women to be the victims of a violent crime- in fact, according to that study, trans men, female nonbinary people and “cis” women are all more likely to be assaulted than trans women or male nonbinary people (i.e., “transfemmes”). Unfortunately there have not been any studies on trans intracommunal violence which explicitly names both the perpetrator and the victim; however, simply going off of aforementioned statistics with regards to trans women’s rate of violence versus trans men’s, I would venture to say that trans women are more likely to commit violence against trans men (rather than vice versa). Even isolated within trans spaces, trans women follow male patterns of violence while trans men experience female patterns of victimization. The reality of this is obscured through studies that either conflate the experiences of trans women and trans men, or that neglect to inspect patterns of violence between the two.

I have tried to be as clear and concise in all of this thus far, because no one told me these things when I was trans identified. I wish someone had. None of this is hate speech. None of this is cherry picking. These are the statistics that have been backed up time and again. I have not misgendered anyone- however, I would pose a question at the end of all of this that some would consider hateful. If trans men, female nonbinary people and women share an axis of oppression- being female- then wouldn’t it be more helpful to articulate our experiences in common terms? Not in dehumanizing or inaccessible jargon (i.e., “people with cervixes”), not in terms that strip us of our ability to name our own bodies (“frontal holes”), but as women. Women who experience the material reality of our biology in vastly different ways, women who have varied and unique feelings toward our bodies and how we are treated for them, women who dress and act in myriad of ways. Women who are women, not because of how we feel, act, dress, or live, but because we are adult human females. I would also pose another question: is it helpful to call a male a woman who behaves like a male, is treated as a male and who oppresses women like all other males? If you hate read this whole post, I’d encourage you to really consider this before blocking me or replying with the calming mantra “Trans women are women”: who benefits from allowing men to call themselves something they are not? Who benefits from allowing men to redefine the words that describe women’s lived experiences; our reality?

#Trans info#important to argue against all the ppl who try to shut down afab trans ppl talking about their experiences
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"If defending female autonomy means being 'anti-trans' to you, then you've just clarified that your 'pro-trans' objective is the subjugation of females...[T]his applies even if you think of yourself as a feminist. Lose the idea that female boundaries are up for debate."
-Cherry Austin
#Feminism
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