#and if you're transphobic and reading Underline

[not-poignant]

Okay! Didn't want to have to say this but I'm going to say it!

Don't send me transphobic nonsense in your anon asks to me. Don't send your TERF thoughts to me and end your anon message with 'no hate' when you've just been hateful and invalidating. You might not be aware of this, but I'm a trans person, and this space on Tumblr and on my AO3 isn't a democracy and TERFs will not get their voices heard here. Good luck, keep trying, I love blocking bigots.

If you're transphobic and you read Underline the Black and I realise you're transphobic, I'm just going to start blocking you outright, deleting your comments. In this day and age, transphobic, hateful nonsense is everywhere, but it doesn't get to be here.

You don't have a right to have a voice here, you don't have a right to have your anonymous transphobic asks answered here, and you don't have a right to expect your comments to stay on my AO3 stories when they happen. And if, if by some chance, you have no idea you're a complete transphobe and you find your comment on Underline has been deleted? The only person you need to be angry at is yourself.

I'm trans, and I have too many trans followers to give any kind of airtime to transphobes.

Antis I will happily take on when I have something productive to add to the conversation.

There is nothing productive for me personally about giving space to transphobic views on my blog.

(And for everyone else, no this isn't currently a huge problem, but I've had about two borderline transphobic comments on Underline the Black and I've now gotten a transparently transphobic anonymous ask about it. I'm dealing with it now, and also making my stance clear. TERFs are banned in the Discord, you can expect that I maintain this view everywhere, including here and on my AO3.)

[capegloam]

not all of the asks are from the same person btw

funny how you didn't address this one, that points out your transphobia towards transmasculine people

how you don't see us as actual men

I get that you're non-binary, but there are ways to make yourself comfortable in your body without being a transphobe and a fetishizer

That ask came into my inbox chronologically after the other four, which made it obvious to me that it wasn't from the one person I wanted to address. I thought I made it pretty clear that I don't have an interest in justifying myself to strangers with whom I don't have any kind of prior relationship. I deleted it because people who only want to make the worst of me aren't worth my time. I don't expect I'd ever be able to convince you if you've never been in my heart.

I'm only addressing you now because its a new day and I feel like playing ball with a stranger.

The read that my top scar tattoos were intended to emasculate me is a binary one. That take comes from an explicitly binary perspective—that top scars somehow make you less of a man. I am literally nonbinary—that means I believe there are a thousand ways you can be a "man", and no matter how you look, how you're shaped, how you sound—no matter what, if you say you're a man, I consider you to be a man.

my tattoos don't emasculate me, they underline me. they highlight me. Top scars don't make someone "less than"— they mark a metamorphosis. Thats literally it.

If you paid attention to my previous post, you should know i'm girlboy boygirl transgirl transboy both simultaneously. I am not limited to one box or the other, or a secret Third box, i Am the boxes. I wanted the tattoo because I wanted to feel like I transformed, too. Because I have! I've been putting so much work into loving myself and my body even though its not the right between-ness, and I'm proud of myself!

Y'all also need to relax on the buzz words, because its clear you don't understand what they mean. Trans fetishization is harmful because it dehumanizes, it objectifies. It enables people to justify hurting trans people, because it says they're not even people. My scar tattoos have always humanized me. They shone a light onto MY specific, unique human experience. These tattoos aren't about other trans people, they're about ME!!! I have never felt more seen and understood before in my life!!! I feel like more people than ever are seeing me for who I am inside and it makes me so fucking happy!!! to feel seen!!! If you think they're a fetish thing, its because you've failed to consider my human soul inside my body. And why would you consider it? you've never even met me.

Every person attacking me for the tattoos tries justifying their opinions by making it about themselves, saying THEY felt disgusted, THEY felt disrespected—but the tattoos aren't about THEM. they don't know me, they don't understand me, they don't love me! THAT'S what transphobia looks like—when you don't know or understand a trans person's unique experience and try to say what they can or cannot do to love themselves and their body.

My friend, YOU are the person who is attacking a trans person—who is CELEBRATING!!! I am celebrating myself and my transformation and my LOVE!! and i want every other person on this planet to love themselves the same way I've come to love myself.

Trans joy is eternal and it is BEAUTIFUL. have a lovely day.

[rjalker]

ID: A collection of slides that have been put together to form a silent video, of mostly black text on a white background.

The text reads:

My pronouns are it/its.

This means you refer to me as 'it' rather than 'he' 'she' 'they' or other pronouns.

ex: 'It just realized it coudl make animations by making things in MS Paint and then screen-record flicking through the files!!'

hell yeah. This is gonna be fun. I'm going to have so much fun with this.

'it' is going to be even more hilarious than normal now. imagine the Scherzo jokes.

Anyways. back to the animation…

My pronouns are not optional".

The screen still reads, "my pronouns are not optional", but now with the word not underlined. The word not then proceeds to grow larger and turns bright red for emhpasis.

The text then continues,

"Calling me 'they' is misgendering.

misgendering is always bad. this is not up for debate.

misgendering people who use it/its is still also bad.

it does not matter how 'uncomfortable' you are. You are not insulting me by using the pronouns I am asking you to use for me.

if you think it's okay to misgender people who use it/its pronouns, you are in fact a transphobe.

yes, even if you are trans. yes, even if you are nonbinary.

If someone's pronouns are it/its, use its pronouns.

It's literally not difficult.

Just do it.

Do not infantilize us by pretending you know better than we do about what's good for us.

we are not asking you to insult us. we are asking you to respect us.

use the pronouns people ask you to use.

If you think misgendering people is okay, you're a transphobe. No ifs, ands, or buts about it.

My pronouns are it/its

Deal with it. (This line is placed diagonally across the screen in red font over top of the last slide).

or else. (This is sized even larger and placed diagonally the other way over the last two screens, in bright red font.)

At the bottom of the screen, a black and white drawing of a grinning werewolf has been added, saying, "This is a threat".

End ID.]