#head wrap styles

[mahoganydreamzz]

I’m just a girl🌱✨

[kkoct-ik]

some vaguely on model doodles as i try to work out what is wrong with them (what they look like)

[sheabutterrosesandeucalyptuspls]

Findingpaola

📸 by lorenzo.marez

[fleshengine]

unironically, dealing with like... casual transmisogyny is the most exhausting thing. I see a post on instagram, the first slide says "trans erotica" and I think "awesome, I wonder what's in it?" As I go through the slides I notice... huh these first couple are all transmasc erotica, well maybe the last few will be transfem. So I keep scrolling, and while it doesn't specify if the books have transmasc or transfem characters, there are tags for the relationships and they're all fucking Ms. "MM relationship" "MMM polycule" and I get to the end and there's not a single one that has a transfem character. I go to leave a comment like "hey please put 'transmasc' instead of 'trans' so people know what you're talking about. But I check the description first because that's polite. They've already added a section in the description (at the very bottom) saying next time they'll be clearer. "Title slide should definitely say transMASC erotica! I will makes this more clear in future versions, as trans women and femmes are too often neglected in discussions of trans literature [double heart emoji] (added 7/8/2024)"

Remake the post? I'm not kidding. If other transfems see this post, get excited and then scroll through the whole thing and then go to the comments, enough that the poster was made aware of the mix up, then it's going to push this post in the algorithm. This person is benefitting from misleading people, and they are aware of it. But fixing it is just too much work. And like... okay fine I get that it's a little exhausting to re-edit the image and then takedown and reupload the post. But when I went to their account to take a poke around I saw they made a part II to their trans erotica post.

I thought "oh cool they didn't change the first image, maybe they've included transfem erotica now!" Second sentence of the first paragraph of description: "Offering up transmasc erotica collection PART TWO bc I've been staying fed recently [trans flag][black heart][bow][smiling devil face]" Which at least personally I found really frustrating to read. They used the exact same graphic for the first slide as they used in part I, again implying that there would be trans people in general. I went through the books, there's two amab enbies, both of which are side characters it seems one of which is the devil So yeah, horray, you included tranfems. But the focus is still clearly on transmasc characters. But to be fair, it was posted before the edit to part I's description was added. But also even though part II was posted before that edit, it doesn't have an edit of it's own. Probably because there's plausible deniability in the form of the amab enby characters, so they can claim that all trans people are included. Despite it being two characters in ten books, neither of which are a trans woman. It's the sort of fake, tokenizing inclusion that really starts to get under my skin and pour sand in my joints.

I went through all the posts they've made since part II, I'd go through all the ones since part I but I don't have that kind of time and frankly this is fucking exhausting. Every book they talk about, sans the two featuring amab enbies mentioned earlier, is about transmasc characters. In both erotica and other genres, that's all this person offers. It's also really telling when they make a post about "trans enby & gender queer book accounts of follow", where I would assume that they might shout out a transfem account that focuses on that side of erotica, and from what I can tell every single account of the nine they shout out is transmasc.

People in real life: "hey dude what's up?"

Yeah yeah reality check whatever. Okay so is this account in and of itself a problem? No, a 800 follower instagram account that talks about books does not a cause for alarm make. Is this indicative of a wider spread issue in the queer community? Yeah actually, the exclusion (intentional or not) of transfem stories and creators from the community starts with what individual people are engaging with. If all you read is transmasc books, and all you talk to are transmasc people then you're going to have issues when trans people aren't that. I'm not trying to attack this account, I didn't include their username very intentionally. I'm just using them as an instance of a specific brand of transmisogyny that I see a lot and find fucking exhausting, that being extremely trans positive accounts that only ever talk about transmascs. I don't know where I'm going with this. I didn't really have a plan.

There's an aversion to trans women. For a variety of reasons society hates us. People who have an easier time integrating with society at large tend to overlook that, and instead often adopt some of those aversions subconsciously. They're not going to mistreat you in public, or do anything obvious, they've got manners, but they're not gonna read books about you, or shout you out. It sucks because I feel like a crazy person pointing it out. I didn't talk about it for years because I thought people would think I'm weird, but discussions of transmisogyny on tumblr have opened my eyes to the fact that I'm not alone, that other people also see this, and that it's an actual problem.

Thanks sisters. It sucks on this boat, but at least it's crewed.

[toyastales]

Liu Wen for Marie Claire China

[penncilkid]

Was once again possessed by the urge to sketch so, presenting the reason Vincent "Why are your shoes on the bed?" Solaire broke covert years ago: Ayl [he/she] (aka "Lovely")

This design was a long time coming and I'm honestly in love with how he came out. She's Vincent's overly curious boyfriend and I adore her for it.

[Quick Stats]

-Mixed Afro-Carribean (Turkish + Bahamian)

-6'1" to Vincent's 5'10"

-Bigender as well as Intersex (Enjoys "contradictory" descriptions like "He's Vincent's girlfriend")

-Dropped the 2nd a in his name when he began transitioning as a way to give new meaning to it while remaining connected

-Prior to everything, she worked house management/as an usher for venues (Late hours + Comfortable w/ strangers = Stumbling across Vincent that fateful night)

[koshercosplay]

remembering how genuinely so often in college people would assume that I just... hated muslim people?? because I'm jewish?? and meanwhile me and every single muslim student I met would immediately just vibe and start bitching together about modesty and hair coverings and the difficulties in finding food we could eat

it's just wild how I guess the media portrays the relationship between jews and muslims because truly I had so much more in common with the muslim college students than Mr. WhiteGuy McCatholic

anyway shoutout to the hijabi girl I sat next to in my near eastern archaeology class who I partnered with on every project and then never saw again after that semester. gihad if you're out there I'm thinking about you bestie

[braincloggedwithcats]

When you look up the differences between platonic and romantic love, one of the . The things. Is "imagining romantic situations with them" and just. The. H!???1??! I DONT KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS!!!

[fictionadventurer]

Trollope telling us "the character found out Dickens wrote a novel about their situation" might be one of the funniest plot points I've come across in classic literature.

[mollusken]

Popular Girlzzzzz 🔥🔥 The show of all time

[mahoganydreamzz]

Black on black 🖤✨

[smile-files]

a much better ponysona!! a flutter pony (and/or changeling)... her name is happy-go-lucky or something silly like that :)

[sheabutterrosesandeucalyptuspls]

Findingpaola wearing fanmdjanm

[puppyeared]

for like 3 weeks i was wondering why i was sleeping so much and felt listless. and just now I managed to email 3 people and responded to a month old message in the span of an hour because I got back to TAKING MY FUCKIN MEDS..........

[toyastales]

Alex Consani

[fluffle-writes]

I HC that fem Leona would wear her hair short to mirror how lionesses don't have manes - it's a common trend amongst lion beastfolk (particularly those in more traditional families) that girls would have short hair and boys would grow their hair long