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Just for fun

@cobaltash / cobaltash.tumblr.com

Right now I'm having fun with Dragon Age, Hunter x Hunter and D&D but I'm flexible :)
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hadeantaiga

Here's the thing:

Cis people really do feel like the gender they were assigned at birth.

Cis women really do feel like women, and cis men really do feel like men. They experience what we would call gender euphoria related to dressing and expressing themselves as their gender, whether that's in a femme way or a butch way or any other way. They feel joy and connection with their gender, with their sexuality and how it relates to their gender. They wear clothes, participate in activities, and express themselves in ways that affirm their gender identity.

Gender critical radfems and terfs will try to convince you that "no woman feels like a woman". They do this for several reasons. Firstly, it's to try to convince trans men they aren't trans, they're just women with no connection to womanhood because "no woman feels a connection to womanhood". They also do it to try to discredit trans women, by saying "If you feel like a woman, then you're clearly not a woman, because "woman" isn't a feeling, it's biology".

A lot of gender critical terfs and radfems claim they are "dysphoric women", and will try to convince you this is a normal state of womanhood. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say no, that doesn't sound normal at all, actually. Most women do not secretly wish they could be men, or more androgynous, or have a penis. Most women don't define their lives through suffering - they love being women.

If womanhood - or manhood - is making you miserable... you might be trans, or you might be gender nonconforming. See if dressing a different way makes you feel a spark of joy and happiness - seek euphoria!

Gender should be joyous, not drudgery.

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cryptotheism

About a year ago I was sitting in a really shitty corporate cafe and reading a book about medieval astronomy. There was a passage about how when we look up at the sky, we see titanic balls of gas all whirling about according to physics, but when a medieval person looked up at the sky, they saw literal divine clockwork turned by uncountable invisible spirits.

I was sitting in a shitty cafe, and I had a moment of realization. I knew logically that's how people used to see the night sky, but something about that moment just clicked. I felt what I can only describe as intellectual vertigo, as I realized "holy shit the world is really different than it was 700 years ago."

I feel like y'all aren't getting this.

When medieval folks looked up at the sky, it wasn't with wonder or optimism. It was with the exact same boredom that we look at the sky with.

"yep. It's the sky. Stars are pretty."

The fact that they were seeing the divine clockwork of the universe was exactly as commonplace and uninteresting as it is to us. Sure there are some folks that really like the sky, some folks devote their lives to studying it, but to most folks it's just the sky.

It wasn't wonderous or enchanted, it was just the sky. Yeah the heavens are a great machine powered by innumerable spirits. This was exactly as normal as the sky being filled with impossibly large and distant fusion reactors. The heavens were full of living spirits that tended to their divinely appointed tasks, and nobody really gave that much of a shit.

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