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[patt-is-cool]

merlin on a horse

[leatherhoffy45]

various pics of afraid of monsters i’ve collected from around the internet

[inutaffy]

i hate him

remember those derp memes back in like 2017. O-O <- thats him

[gubbly]

my dollies

[camakkuma]

hi im from that post where you ask for ship reqs mumscarian or emberfrost maybe? (ember frost is tangoxscott)

Never heard of Emberfrost but that such a good ship name Emberfrost ftw

[knifecatss]

(Sort of) old Fanart of none other than Barnaby B. Beagle!! This is when I was new to Markers so sorry if it’s a Little crappy :[

[sabels-bats-sys]

:33< “yeah i feel much better compared to how i felt yesterday!” (a different alter was fronting and im fronting more often now bcuz im a mood booster)

[mavlotov]

c♡mm for bakooljaja on twt!

check out my vgen if you’d like to c♡mmission me!

[kazumahashimoto]

drawing some of my favorite scenes from just a little rough around the edges <3

ourple eyed zack versions 👍

[pspwiki]

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[patt-is-cool]

based off a post by elytrians lol 

[pepcono]

Accidentally got lost in the sauce while writing a reply and ended up with a shoddy essay. So I've polished it up a bit and packaged it in more proper essay format.

Special thanks to @\Undeaddream for always reminding me that sometimes the people you disagree with most are those you respect most.

Consider the "egg"

Consider the "cis men" who state things like "I really want to be a woman, but I'm not trans"

Consider those who wish they were trans so that they could escape the torture of their body but believe that it's something that happens to other people.

Consider those who are suffering, but are unable to accept the possibility they're trans.

In other words, the egg.

Some would believe that what harm is caused by classifying and naming this person is inexcusable, "it makes people uncomfortable," "it enforces gender norms," they argue.

Their thoughts dwell on those who believe themselves miscategorised, or those insulted by the insinuation that some of their characteristics could be seen as trans.

But do they stop and consider the egg?

Do they consider how people mobilise the position "you shouldn't tell someone they could be trans"?

The anti-egg position, although often coming from well meaning thought process, could very well do more harm than good.

Speaking anecdotally, I saw a yt comment thread where someone said: "Idk wtf is wrong with me. I really relate to this [a song about hating masculine features of ones body and wanting to be a girl] but I'm not a cis woman nor a trans woman, I am 100% sure I am not trans! Idk, am I just a freak or what?" Now maybe you dear reader see that and take them at their word, but I see someone who's in the same position as I was. Wanting desperately to be feminine, to escape my "male" puberty but due to internalised misogyny and transphobia is unable to admit why, unable to accept the solution.

Maybe what they need to hear is "it is ok to be a woman", "its ok to be trans", "you're not a freak for wanting this"

Maybe what they need to hear is "you don't need to suffer"

Some people did point this out in the replies, but each was met with similar statements of "you should insinuate they're a trans woman, that's rude" Maybe you, the reader, agree with that statement, maybe you're even right. But I know how I would've interpreted it. I would have seen it as a statement that I shouldn't consider the possibility, it would further cement the idea that "real trans people just know, because here's all these trans people sneering at that idea I could be trans"

But honestly, I'll be the first to admit "egg" is not the best term for this (But that's a whole other thing). But I instead bring this up to highlight that anti-egg discourse doesn't really stack up to the hype. It kinda reinforces that "just knowing" misconception.

In some people's haste to protect gnc men from the travesty of being compared to trans women (or worse, mistaken for trans women!), they don't stop to consider the egg.

But maybe you dear reader, don't see that, maybe you don't see your own denial and self hatred in "cis men", maybe you don't see someone reflecting internalised transphobia and misogyny that you yourself had to overcome.

And that's ok, not everyone has had the same experiences, some (probably) never even had dysphoria, a lucky few might have even never had to deal with internalised transphobia.

But bloody hell if you can't even acknowledge that not all eggs are even GNC in your post critiquing the term. You might want to reevaluate how complete your understanding is.

(also as an aside, egg can apply to "cis women" but the OP I was replying to didn't acknowledge it and as I repeatedly state, what's key "egg" is relating one's own experiences to them, something I do better with "cis men" eggs than "cis women" eggs)

[sodafrog13]

swans stick together their whole lives and what have u

[bumblingbabooshka]

St Voyager Memes : One More Again

[aphroditenyan]

hello shooting star👩‍🚀🌠

[askfleurkase]

Among a feild of flowers, whats your favorite ?

[upon asking that question, he remembered something]

Ah..

The ones.. the ones on my face