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this is an ugly little pinned post. I pretend this is an aesthetic blog but really it's just where I live and have always lived.
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this is an ugly little pinned post. I pretend this is an aesthetic blog but really it's just where I live and have always lived.
Israel is now bombing 1.7 million civilians trapped in Rafah, threatening an imminent invasion of the last “safe place” in Gaza.
Israel is committing the worst crimes in modern history, and Western regimes are calling it “self-defense”.
Never forget. Never forgive.
When you love your ocs so much they become something greater 🥹🥹
buckle magazine no. 1, 2005
for several weeks now this tweet has been causing wars on twitter
Playing a tzimizce made me realize that there is not enough content about the specific horrors of being a tzim and rather about encountering one.
You are tied to people, places and objects and it doesn't matter what happens to this place or who these people are. Friends or abusers. You cannot leave. If you do it feels like you're dying. And you can't have them leave so you need to make yourself as appealing to them as possible.
This is your land, even if it hates you. Even if the people who live in it discriminate you. Even if the woods in which you live get smaller and smaller and you cannot go out anymore wearing the form you are comfortable in. You can not stay in your ideal body, you need to make yourself small and human so that they won't kill you. No matter if there's war or flood or radioactivity, you don't want to leave.
It is your object. Even if it is cursed or poisonous. Even if it hurts you.
After sunset...
🦇 Murder on the Santa Monica Pier 🦇
Stole this from Blue Sky! Hit me up on what you think I am!
One of my favorite things about this comic is how perfectly the title translates: Meowmaids
chapel charnel in evora, portugal in memento mori: the dead among us - paul koudounaris (2015)
is it just me or is the "trans guys are just some boring guys and they make lame music and trans women are cool and interesting and make loud music" jokes almost like. an excuse for why theres not that many trans guys who are popular content creators or musicians or actors or authors or what have you. like blaming the invisibility of trans men on being "boring" and therefore not doing anything rather than oppression.
not to mention the example of music being that people have heard of one singular trans guy who works in a genre they dont like [people really love to act like cavetown is like specifically bad or cringe but thats just what most indie pop/rock/folk sounds like] and theyve heard of a handful of trans women who make hyperpop that they already like [and laura jane grace of course] and its really telling on themselves. theres trans guys making hyperpop and trans women making ""lame ukulele music"" and both of them and nonbinary people making music of tons of other genres. like. cmon. it reminds me of xkcd 385.
also i dont think these jokes are intentionally malicious or anything [most of the time] but it also feels sort of weird to be joking about how boring a group of marginalized people are. im not going to act like its the biggest deal in the world but its sort of low level bullying, innit? and i imagine having this weird expectation to be "cool and interesting" isnt fun for trans women either. its nice to get to be lame sometimes.
Yeah it's super weird, especially because it's repeated over and over, that part is the suspicious part. I even saw it on reddit a few days ago in one of the ftm subs. I do think it's like blaming the lack of trans men artists on trans men being "boring" instead of, you know the bigotry, the erasure, the inequality I think it's also a weird expectation that we all HAVE to live up to what other people think of as "cool" like if we're all not making hardcore metal and being as "SICK" as humanly possible, we are failing at transgender music and therefore are the reason trans men aren't represented as artists enough, which is ummm. okay.
why can't we make soft love songs about being bugs, or whatever. What happens to trans women who don't live up to the metal hardcore aesthetic? Look at Dylan Mulvaney. She made a dumb cutsie girlypop song and everyone acted like she is the founder of misogyny herself. So not only are we ridiculed for the music we make, we're trapped in transphobic expectations of what music we can or should make.
If you expect all trans women to make metal, you'll only see trans women who make metal, if you expect all trans men to make soft music, that's all you'll find! because that's all you looked for! Another thing is like, Oh all trans women music is cool and hardcore rock and roll, but trans men music is dumb and cutsie ukulele music? I wonder what gender those genres are normally associate with? Uhoh we're doing a sexism maybe the person making the joke doesn't have malicious intent, but the joke itself sure does.
i know some of it must be willful ignorance because the actual musicians are doing collaborations "across the aisle" as it were.
Dorian Electra is somehow a musician that never enters the conversation when it comes to transmasc music despite the fact that they:
make harsh electronic music
have entire albums dedicated to deconstructing machismo and online misogyny
have collaborated with 100 gecs
are extremely inspired by drag
But I get the sense that people aware of them outside of transmasc circles devalue their art as simply memetic, ironic, or absurd. there is an unwillingness to see it as something with purposefully crafted meaning and depth.
hm, wonder why?
If you take one thing from this post it's please check out Dorian Electra
skinamarink (2022) directed by kyle edward bell
"Can we watch something happy now?"
[oc] Father
Another fevered dream and I find it hard to sleep again.