#double issue

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Dazzler, comic, Marvel, 21 Nov 1982

[so-i-did-this-thing]

I just wanted to say I really admire how effortlessly masculine you are but how you also love so many traditionally "feminine" things. I am working on coming out as a trans man and dread people telling me I'm not allowed to knit and stuff anymore

One of the annoying aspects of transition is you become this walking litmus test for weird gender essentialism - even in progressive folks - and you're gonna learn just how much people deprive themselves of personal joy because of it.

I cannot tell you how many well-meaning people ended up shitting on my hobbies out of a desire to give me "man lessons" that I never asked for in the first place.

All I can say is, stick to your guns. Sure, knitting has also historically been a masculine activity, but to acknowledge such feels like giving credence to the argument that you have to drop "unmanly" interests. Knit because you like to knit, not because you are "allowed to" based on some gendered technicality.

Don't feel like you need to sacrifice parts of yourself in order to transition. If the best version of you is a man who knits, or a man who likes pink, or a man who enjoys wearing makeup, resist the urge to destroy these pieces of yourself.

Detractors will attempt to weaponize everything about you in an attempt to de-legitimize who you are. The most radical thing you can do is show them how your passions only make you stronger.

The dread is real, but it gets easier to assert yourself over time. You might even find yourself becoming an ambassador to other men wrt your hobbies. Good luck!

[wizard0rb]

cowboys and aliens

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Turtle hunt gone wrong.

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[k1tty5]

the simplest words

[this-is-krikkit]

therapist: so, what is dazai to you? chuuya: the reason i wake up every morning therapist: ... that’s adorable. dazai earlier that morning, barging into chuuya′s room while smacking pans together: WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP!!!!

[professorjirt]

I’ve discovered my favorite genre of Bagginshield art is where Thorin is a lovesick idiot who is Losing It and Bilbo is unbothered or oblivious to Thorin’s suffering LMAO

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RUINS, pt. 6

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[iristial]

Imagine spending eighteen years wondering why your mother got eaten/abducted in front of you by a monster, with only a drawing you made at the time as reference, and turns out it's because she loved you and it made her happy, therefore she was the perfect ingredient for said monsters' evil snack production

[stars-and-branches]

Dick canonically watches Sailor Moon

[bee-ina-boat]

Ok but I think we're all sleeping on the concept of pyramid steve being STANS muse

But like. Instead of forcing Stan to make him a portal and ending up like Bill and Ford, they're just scamming people and being silly goofy together. Dumbass x Dumbass dynamic fr

Listen I just think Stan also deserves a triangle situationship ok?

[doctor-doodleman]

I spent three hours on this and I do not regret it

[rockethorse]

That pink soup post is well-intentioned but loudly wrong. fwiw

[dekarios]

i’m looking at steam reviews for the new planet coaster and reading comments on them and the amount of people saying things near identical to this are insane

since when is a 1.0 full release expected to have bugs and issues ?? since when do we accept this ?? a full release is meant to have zero bugs and issues, actually. it’s not a beta, it’s not early access, it should be Finished, polished, cleaned up of all that stuff, ready to receive updates with new content if the devs choose. i’m just gobsmacked that decades of games being busted on launch has just led us to people finding it so normal it’s expected.

you shouldn’t expect games to be fully functional…. you should expect to buy them at full price and then wait weeks or more for the problems to be ironed out…. apparently. according to these people

what happened to demanding better man. what the fuck happened. why y’all complacent now

[ink-the-artist]

truly not trying to detract from the very russian art of the generational trauma wolves, and i know the colors are from the ussr + russia flags, but it also spoke to me as a hispanic person. especially w respect to misogyny and how machismo tears families apart, and how trauma that comes from outside the family units gets repeated/expressed within the family unit. idk.

absolutely it applies to more than just russians, im glad it speaks to other ppl :)

[apollos-boyfriend]

unkindly if you ever unironically say “fuck them kids” or anything of the sort in reference to real life children there is something wrong with you