"the Gabe and Sally dynamic in the show is abusive" and "the way they've portrayed Gabe in the show is distinctly different from his book counterpart and fans can criticize that" are two discussions that can coexist

Let me make this very clear:

When it comes to Hellenic Polytheism, there is no human religious authority, especially not one that stands before or speaks for the gods.

It does not matter what someone tells you. It does not matter if they claim to be a priestess/priest of X deity or a messenger for Y deity. It does not matter what their supposed past life was like. It does not matter if they claim to be the literal fucking Oracle of Apollo.

No one has the right to tell you how to worship the gods. No one has the right to assert their authority over your religion.

And most of all, remember that people can and do lie.

'I flirted with the idea that instead of being trans that I was just a cross-dresser (a quirk, I thought, that could be quietly folded into an otherwise average life) and that my dysphoria was sexual in nature, and sexual only. And if my feelings were only sexual, then, I wondered, perhaps I wasn’t actually trans.

I had read about a book called The Man Who Would Be Queen, by a Northwestern University professor who believed that transwomen who were attracted to women were really confused fetishists, they wanted to be women to satisfy an autogynephilia. And though I first read about this book in the context of its debunkment and disparagement, I thought about the electricity of slipping on those tights, zipping up those boots, and a stream of guilt followed. Maybe this professor was right, and maybe I was only a fetishist. Not trans, just a misguided boy.

About a year later, on the Internet, I come across a transwoman who added a unique message to the crowd refuting this professor. Oh, I wish I remember who this woman was, and I wish even more that I could do better than paraphrase her, but I remember her saying something like this: “Well, of course I feel sexy putting on women’s clothing and having a woman’s body. If you feel comfortable in your body for the first time, won’t that probably mean it’ll be the first time you feel comfortable, too, with delighting in your body as a sexual thing?”'

-Casey Plett, Consciousness

‘Smouldering coals’ my ass, you clearly adore Kuriza. Emotionally repressed man who cannot comprehend that he loves his child unconditionally because his own father was awful my beloved and detested.

My father was a rat of a man, but that’s hardly relevant. I never said I didn’t care for my child.

And to think… here I was, being so vulnerable with my feelings. Shame on you, and shame on me for trying.

saying "if aroace people can date, then can lesbians date men?" is absolutely aphobic narrative btw!

was rewatching the pilot again yesterday for fic reasons and thinking again about the sherlock-style screen annotations they had when barry was doing CSI work that they literally only did in the first ep and then never revisited again, presumably because they realized it'd be far too much effort to work out the details on such a precise level

and thinking about like. that barry allen with the hyper-precise exact measurements that he did by eye (with joe shaking his head in awe so you know that he's a CSI supergenius) vs. the leonard snart who timed his heists to the exact nanosecond (which again, presuming they ditched because it's a logistical nightmare to write dialogue that nitpicky and obsessive, and would be such a fucking pain to do on a week-to-week basis). like. yet another reason they are soulmates tbh. is audhd4autistic a thing the same way t4t is a thing? if it isn't then i'm making it a thing

The bad thing about chasers isn't that they desire trans people. That is not a bad thing - in fact, I think it's pretty weird if your only criticism of chasers is that they want to be with trans people. Desiring trans people is fine, and in fact, is normal.

However, what's wrong with chasers is when they objectify trans people - when they do not respect that we are people, that some of us transition/don't, or that some of us don't want to be with them. The desire isn't wrong, but the objectification is. You can desire trans people without dehumanizing us, you know? Like, there's a difference between "I like you and your transness" and "I solely desire you for your transness, and I do not think you are an equal to me"

What better way to celebrate the mad scientist's day (Jan 2nd) than to show off one of his most deranged paths! -whoops, bodyhorror, kekeke.

Mad Paradox!!! The unfortunate one who just could not let go of his past. In the end, time has been both eating away at his body and mind.

Extra MP Studies!~

When im in the mood i tend to elevate the way i draw a certain thing by....making doodle pages!! these sorta act more like ref sheets since they don't contain any complex lighting. I'm in love how these turned out. Keep in mind, It's all the same character. Don't you just love the trope of a cute gremlin who can erupt and become a devastating beast? I do...

Men can have vaginas. Women can have penises. Being a lesbian is not about "only liking pussy". Being gay is not about "only liking dick". Those are transphobic and intersex exclusive statements.

The "sex" in "sexuality" is not referring to assigned sex at birth or the most common presentations of assigned sex genitalia. It refers to sexual attraction. Queer sexual attraction is gender and/or shared queer experience based. Gender is not the same as assigned sex at birth or genitalia. If your personal sexual attraction is based on assigned sex at birth and specific genitalia and you use a queer sexuality label you are appropriating that label and participating not only in transphobia and intersex exclusion from queer communities but also in homophobia.

Stop appropriating queer sexualities and then trying to kick out people who actually belong under that label because you want to make a little exclusion based bigot club for yourselves.

I think it's really likely phee and jin happened bc they were both rebounding from non and maybe they caught feelings maybe they didn't maybe phee is feeling guilty for that but like to ME regardless of how bad they feel abt it they're fucking on non's dead body and I'm petty enough to put away critical thinking and appreciating the nuances of media to wish them a very die

I'VE COME TO MAKE AN ANNOUNCEMENT!

-Eggman

one of these days i'm going to write up all that i've changed from azzarello's bullshit era and the one (1) piece i've kept from milligan (and also changed) and the only thing currently stopping me is that it is going to be so, so inside-baseball incomprehensible. and i almost never want to go reading/screencapping azzarello and milligan to add references but i Want to add references.

canon is goop, just know that we continue to ride the bus down "hellblazer ended at #250 and looks like swiss cheese before that" street.

Always think its so funny how as a transmasc, to terfs, I am a lost lesbian, until they find out I like men in which case I am a straight fujo trying to r-word cis homosexual men, until they find out my boyfriend is also trans, in which case we are suddenly lesbians again, even tho we are literally both bisexual lol and by funny i mean bullshit

To me, it's just unnerving to see how people go from "compassion", which is "I can manipulate this person into being 'cured' through convincing them they're simply a lesbian" to pure vitriolic scorn because there is no way a man could ever be able to enthusiastically consent to a trans person, so it must be coercion.

It's, at the end of the day, just poorly-disguised manipulation and you cannot win against it. To any trans person reading this: transphobes in general (and especially TERFs) are not compassionate towards transmasc people. They don't want to compassionately "save" us from ourselves. Forced detransition is a violence no matter how it is done - by "compassionate" manipulation or not.

I've had years' worth of experience as a trans man to tell you all this, like I have seen the worst of the worst from them. Anon, you are right, it's bullshit mind games specifically designed to take away as much agency from you and your partner(s), so the best strategy is not to play that game with them, because you are made to lose them. You are made to feel powerless and as though your mere existence means you cannot love or be loved by. It is gruesome, grotesque behaviour. There is no win condition for trans people under those circumstances.

And to the trans person reading this who, like I have been before, feels unlovable for their transness: you aren't. Full-stop, you are not unlovable for your transness. There are times where it seems that way, but I promise that these transphobes don't represent the average person. You can find friends, lovers, family not in spite of your transness, but because of how beautiful you and your transness are. Transness isn't a curse. You are so lovable, no matter where in transition you are, no matter what your sexuality is, no matter what. Please, if you take anything away from this post, take this away.