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Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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sevens-evan

idk man i think that if you can read dozens and dozens of trans men talking about how their support systems abandoned them when they started getting too masculine on T or had top surgery or whatever, and queer spaces started treating them like threats or potential predators, and you find these stories going back to the 90s or even earlier, and you read all of that and come away thinking that there’s nothing wrong with how progressive communities treat men, you are just fundamentally beyond help dude. you don’t see us as people

sevens-evan

a lot of people are somehow misinterpreting this post as saying that trans women Don't experience alienation or ostracization from queer, feminist, and/or progressive communities, to which i say: i am not responsible for your belief that trans men and trans women have to have entirely separate and opposite experiences. if you think that trans men experiencing something implies that trans women can't experience it, that's on you! you might want to sit and have a think about how you see the world and whether or not you're buying into the (deeply patriarchal!) idea that men and women are entirely separate from each other. you might learn something.

spacelazarwolf

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seravph

I think that in real life…. Relationships r like . Your partner WILL ‘trauma dump’ on you. You will have to perform ‘emotional labor’ for your partner. Your partner will make mistakes. You will also do all of these things. The very nature of love is irrational and problematic and difficult …. To expect a relationship to be free of these things is strange to me…. The point is that your relationship to that person is ultimately worth it, and worth growing with them, helping each other, seeing the worst parts of another person and being able to love them anyway

punkitt-is-here

Anonymous asked:

please explain how a guilty gear xrd song made you transgender

punkitt-is-here answered:

Well okay. You’re a 19 year old dude in College who recently drew himself in a skirt for the first time and had a startling emotional reaction to it. you flirt with being a demiboy for a bit but you’re afraid of committing to the idea of being a full-on girl. What if you don’t like it? What if folks reject you? Suddenly, one night, you’re doing homework in the lobby of your dorm and this song comes on.

oh shit oh fuck. of course, it’s full of lyrics that make absolutely zero sense, narratively and grammatically, as this is a japanese man writing in a language that is not his first. this doesn’t matter though, because the singer believes so strongly that you must follow your heart and stand with pride and fight against a world that beats you down. goddamn. this changes everything. you ponder on this.

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weeks later, you embark on the traditional three and a half hour drive from your college to the middle of bumfuck nowhere. it’s tumultuous weather, but it’s also beautiful in its chaos. You are going 70 miles per hour and surrounded by gorgeous open fields and dense, snowy mountains. suddenly, Big Blast Sonic comes on again. Oh fuck yeah. You’ve been listening to this for weeks. You’ve memorized the lyrics. And the best thing you just recently discovered about metal? You don’t even have to be a good singer to belt along to the lyrics. In an environment that’s just you and the open road, no one to hear your cry, just the spectacular visage of chaotic nature around you, you belt out the broken English lyrics to a song from a game you’ve never played

Get down to rock!
Get up to burn!
Stand with your pride!
Never fear your des
ire!

and you think to yourself, hey, man, i really CAN pull off this transgender thing. let’s fuckin do it.

So that’s a rough approximation about how Guilty Gear Xrd turned me trans. It wasn’t like, the whole reason, but it did play a significant part in my acceptance of the idea and embracing The True Self TM. Guilty Gear fucking rocks and I got into Strive a couple years later because of the music alone. Get down to rock, folks!!!!!!!!!!

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keplercryptids

"the barbie movie critiques capitalism!" i need y'all to understand and internalize that you can enjoy things even if they're not ideologically pure

keplercryptids

yes insisting that matel's glorified toy ad movie is anticapitalist is a wild assertion. but it's also fine to enjoy the dressing-up-in-pink movie without ritualistic self-admonishment and shame. like, you can enjoy a thing and also be aware that the thing is not going to liberate us from the shackles of capitalism. both things can be true.