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So it turns out I actually have to build the life I want to live

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found this cool branch in the woods. i want to mount it but i need to make sure it's clean before i nail it anywhere.

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"what's the worst thing you can do as an artist" is not "shade with black" or "not use references" or whatever the worst thing you can do as an artist is hate yourself. and that includes the person you used to be

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It is genuinely fascinating how many feminist cis women, including those who are on paper openly supportive of trans people, struggle to actually think about trans men as a concept.

A few months ago I ended up having a very long talk with a friend of a friend. She told me that she'd never really spoken to a trans man before, the only trans people she knew were trans women. There was a point, after the third time I reminded her that I was a man, that she just sorta of slotted me into her mental box of "man", and I could tell that happened because after that point she started trying to explain things to me as if I was a cis man.

I categorically do not "pass" and likely never will. I'm very short, my hips are prominent because I'm fat, I keep my hair long, charitably I could be said to have a baby face, I have D-cups and cannot bind due to spinal problems. To the majority of cis people I do not "look like a man".

But for the rest of the conversation I had with this friend of a friend I had to keep reminding her of how other people are going to view me, because there was no room in her mental idea of "man" for a man who is not treated as one. This was not malicious on her part, she was very nice to me, and I believe her when she says she wants to support trans people. I do not think she was lying when she told me how horrified she was to learn about how her trans woman friends were treated.

She said she was envious of me going out alone and how I need to understand that's a facet of male privilege and I asked her to look at me and explain why I'd be any safer. She was shocked to learn that I've been catcalled, been assaulted, that I regularly get spoken down to by cis men, shocked to learn I don't have a single transmasc friend who hasn't. She couldn't understand that I'm going to be treated the same by misogynists as any fat cis woman who doesn't wear makeup. There was no room in her feminism for trans men, because there was no room in her understanding of gender for men who are not cis.

We ended up talking about politics. She told me she was terrified of abortion being banned, and that this would never be a threat if men could get pregnant.

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my collection

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💔🇵🇸 My Daughter Was Born Under Bombs — I'm Just Trying to Keep Her Alive

My name is Abdulmajid.

I got married one month before the war. Those were beautiful days — full of hope, love, and simple dreams. I dreamed of a small home, a quiet family, and a baby girl I could hold without fear.

But the war came… Suddenly. Brutally.

My mother was killed. My brother was killed. Children in my family were taken by the bombs. My home was destroyed. And my work stopped completely.

Then… in the middle of this nightmare, my baby girl was born. A tiny soul, innocent, unaware of the war. She cries from hunger, from cold, from the sounds of bombs shaking what’s left of our walls.

Today, I’m a father with almost nothing… Fighting every day to find flour, milk, or even a small meal to feed my child.

Prices are sky-high — a single 25kg bag of flour can cost $800. There is no work. No income. No safety. No stability.

I write this from under siege, hoping my heart will reach yours.

Even $1 can make a difference. It can feed a child, buy milk, or bring a moment of peace. Be the heart that reaches Gaza. Be the hand that saves.

📌 Please share this post. Let our voices be heard — not buried under rubble.

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the rest of em!

art fight attacks so far !! i drew literally all of these within the last 28 hours idk how i did that either

individual owners' usernames are in each drawing :]

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save a bike..

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V. FRANKENSTEIN & THE MODERN PROMETHEUS: as stitched together by @frankingsteinery & @dykensteinery.

Title page of Frankenstein (1818), Vol. 1, first edition; the Torture of Prometheus by Giovachinno Assereto; Prometheus by Theodor Rombouts; Prometheus Bound by Peter Paul Rubens; Prometheus by Franz Kafka; Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; Speeches for Dr. Frankenstein by Margaret Atwood; unknown image source; Frankenstein manuscripts from the Shelley-Godwin Archive / Bodleian Library; Leonardo da Vinci’s sketch of an outcrop; Prometheus by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus.

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leo's got some real suspicious wcnuggets--

inspiration/templates under the cut!

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When you draw for someone and they set it as their profile picture

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[gripping the sink] perfectionism does not help me avoid embarrassment or shame. perfectionism is in itself a form of shame. when i struggle with perfectionism i struggle with shame. when i struggle with perfectionism i struggle with shame. when i struggle with perfectionism i struggle with shame

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Like father, like son <3

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companies make billions from you thinking you're ugly btw. only ugly thing is their bottom line. log out of tiktok right now.

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hellooooo chance nation

vaguely inspired by this post because it got me thinking of chance in matthew mercers various hairstyles as per google images

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WE'RE BACK, tumblr gets this first hehe

join me in a very indulgent comic about sebastian and maru and how i wish they could've made up somehow. idk if it's completely in character or if sebastian would even let her join lmao, but THERE'S AN EXTRA SEAT AT THE TABLE FOR A REASON (not just for the farmer).