#and i cannot draw skeletons... except for sans but we don't speak of that-

[androgynousblackbox]

anti-culture has made my friends who are trans guys like me, scared that making any trans headcanons or smut is obviously objectification and fetishization and it makes me so sad. Like goddamnit let us see ourselves in characters?!! It's looped around from 'be aware of stereotypes' to 'there's only one good trans representation' to 'yes even just drawing trans nsfw is fetishization, even if you're trans/nonbinary!' and it's almost looped back to 'just don't draw icky trans characters'

Oh, don’t you doubt for a single second that a very decent portion of that group are nothing more than transphobes dressing up their disgust of trans bodies as progressive and being good allies. Either that or truscum who litterally cannot conceive gnc trans guy being a thing and still share those “true trans vs transtrender” shitty comics. And those are kinda worse because people latch onto them to say “SEE? TRANS PEOPLE AGREE THOSE ARE BAD!” and just completely ignore the trans people who do not agree with those fuckers. Just remember that post going around shitting on headcanoning a femenine m|m as trans was “heternormative” because apparently femenine trans guys are good women lite, I guess. And god forbid you dare to ship that femenine guy with a big masc guy because that is just shameful, that has never happened in reality and is just bad somehow. Can you make art that is fetishizing for a group? Yes, that is in fact possible. But this hypervigilancy nonsense that is so popular on tumblr miss the mark so many times and is like they don’t CARE what are the implications of any of the things they are saying. Like if the result of your of your bullshit is that there are LESS trans/queer art out there, LESS queer creator expressing themselves, then you are doing some fucked up job and probably being used by people who hate that content entirely and don’t give an actual crap about fetishization. If I could suggest something would be... don’t call them trans directly. Just make a guy with literally whatever genitalia you want, whatever traits you want and never use the word trans for them. If they can be non human, that is better. Just make an alien that is literally undistinguishable from human (maybe with just an antennae, purple skin, whatever) and is trans on everything you want except the name, and then it will less easy to catch for fuckers. If they still do it, just insist that they are YOUR alien species or just block them. They could be an android too or a living toy. Whatever you want. It’s a lot fucking easier say that something is not transphobic when it doesn’t explicitely involve trans people. With already made characters, you just make an AU version of them with whatever changes you want.  On the Undertale fandom there was this AU about Sans gaining boobs. Like I don’t think it was ever explained why he had boobs, he just suddenly has and most of the art made A LOT of emphasis on such boobs, either how they are so big that is uncomfortable for Sans or how everyone is super attracted to them or how he had to remind humans that he was still a guy, just a guy with boobs. There was no short amount of NSFW art of that AU, like there was a moment where everyone was super into giving the skeleton brother boobs, even discussions about how the boobs of each alternative skeleton brother would look like. Do you think people would have let that fly if the artist established that Sans had boobs because he was a trans man? Fuck no. But he was still a guy with boobs, which could feel representation for other guys (trans or not) with boobs. Me, personally? I have just A TON of characters with unconventional bodies who are either aliens (Mortaion Morty is forever my favourite) or changed their anatomy through whacky science bullshit. I don’t call any of them trans, they just happen to be like that. But it’s still useful for me. Is this all bullshit that shouldn’t have to happen because, god damn it, trans people SHOULD be able to speak openly about their fiction and the character they make/relate to without fearing repercussions? Of course. But that is difficult on the reality we live right now so at least you could take measures to somewhat protect yourself. That is a safer way to express and project and express all you want.