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[limpfisted]

WYLL SEXUALITY (GREY ACE BISEXUAL WITH PREFERENCE FOR GNC INDIVIDUALS) AND GENDER (TRANSMASC “BLADE”, HERO, HEROINE, MAN, WOMAN, NEITHER, GENTLEMAN, HANDSOME WOMAN, PRETTYBOY, BABYGIRL, WARLOCK, CHAMPION, KNIGHT, DUKE, DUCHESS, DEVIL, WARLOCK, WITCH.)

an explanation of how i view the devil/darkness and “the blade” as symbolism about safely roleplaying sexuality and gender passions thar scare you (and ur asshole dad)

all the companions are bi/pan CRY ABOUT IT, however out of all the narratives, wyll’s narrative to me is the one that plays the most with sexual and gender “roleplaying.”

wyll comes at u and tells u his dnd character is human warrior, male. this is a persona he made up to cope with the fact he has an abusive, negligent “guardian”—whose dark magic he was always probably drawn to. (mizora rip bastard shes not dead but i wish she was Gone And Not Here)

his farher is might makes right, the baldurian tav can call the flaming fist a bunch of arseholes and blowhards. his father expects ten hundred percent from him. and when wyll is drawn to “darkness”, hes scared n punished for it to the point hes kicked out of the city he sold his soul to save

darkness in fiction is almost always evil. but thats not really true. and even in bg3 where killing all goblins is “righteous”—halsin says there are things in this world outside the boundaries of what we know. darkness, especially when writing and interacting with characters of color—is natural, good, a birthright

and the devil and sin? that which we are taught to be tempted by, and “owned” and “damned” by? are things that belong to US as queer people to reclaim the power of no-rules no-protestant limits of sexuality and gender under oppressive ideologies and gods which seek to harm our authentic, fucked up selves, in all the right and wrong and HUMAN ways

wyll’s father is ashamed of him for being queer, and soft. (metaphorically)

wyll is unique in his transness in that his father didn’t care what gender he was, as long as he was SUCCESSFUL, and worked IMPOSSIBLY HARD, and was perfect and stone tough in all ways.

seeing his son tempted—first by fantasy, then magic, then demons, was too much to bear.

the BLADE and “heroism” is a safe way to “couch” temptations, violence, vanity, pride, joy in temptation, and also his need for love and attention for his “goodness”, all things he was not allowed to have.

if he’s good—if he’s “one of the good ones” maybe his father will forgive him. maybe he can still be loved. maybe hes not as much of a monster as he feels he is.

in another world, perhaps, he can identify in every shade and saturation, every color of the rainbow, every light, dark, sunrise, twilight and shadow. he can be devil and angel alike and all exist in one brave, strong, true, authentic, heart

but the game doesnt allow that, makes u fill in the blanks of this lonely teenager banished, to sad adult “hero”, who still feels unworthy. even when he saves his father in a way his father would never save him

[trans-androgyne]

TERFS 🤝 Queer Transandrophobes

- Testosterone is poison and will make you worse as a person

- Phalloplasty is disgusting mutilation

- Transmasculinity is boring, ugly, and downright antifeminist; they would have been better as a girl

- Being a man is morally wrong, and sexism against men doesn’t exist

- Transmascs aren’t targeted for their masculinity, and if they are they deserved it

- Trans men are misogynistic and joining the side of the oppressor

- Identifying as a trans man helps you escape misogyny; also transandrophobia isn’t real, it’s “just misogyny”

- Trans mlm often transition because they fetishize fictional gay men/are “fujoshis”

- There is no real history of transmasculinity

- Transmascs don't know what they're talking about when they describe their experiences with gender and oppression

[spacelazarwolf]

always wild to get the most horrifically transphobic comments from someone then check their profile to see they have “she/they” in their bio.

[tinyghostotus]

Someone really said Sam would be a te//rf as if Sam isn’t literally one of the most supportive characters in the entire show...

Many LGBT+ people, from what I’ve seen, have said that Danny being half ghost can be viewed as a metaphor for being LGBT+. Sam LITERALLY supports him 24/7 and tries to encourage him to be himself

Not to mention that Sam’s entire thing is her wanting people (mostly her parents) to accept who she is which, again, could be seen as her being LGBT+. Her parents want her to be someone she isn’t while Sam is fighting to be herself

Like how can you look at this entire show, and especially Sam’s character, and ignore the evidence that Sam would be 100% supportive of trans people??

[neechees]

T.erfs' goal first and foremost is to be transmisogynist and their love for Rowling bowling can't even be behind "she's a 'feminist'" (a t/erf) because Rowling isn't even a feminist. She fails & misses the mark at even the most basic tenants of feminism. All her evil female characters are described as being ugly, fat, old, "mannish", big, or otherwise not attractive. But sure, she's a "feminist".

[whoevenisoliver]

Trans really is the new wave for all you Not Like Other Girls, huh?

hey, kindly fuck off from my page and block me.

and anyone else who doesn't support trans people, kindly block me and move on with your day.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Alice Herman at The Guardian:

Tens of thousands of Christians poured onto the National Mall on Saturday to atone, pray and take a stand for America – which, in their view, has been poisoned by secularism and must be ruled instead by a Christian god. Summoned to Washington DC by the multilevel marketing professional-turned-Christian “apostle” Jenny Donnelly and the anti-LGBTQ+ celebrity pastor Lou Engle, they streamed onto the lawn holding blue and pink banners emblazoned with the hashtag #DontMessWithOurKids – a nod to the myth that children are being indoctrinated into adopting gay and transgender identities. It was no coincidence that the event was held on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, or that many attendees carried shofars and Israeli flags: evangelicals and charismatic Christians find spiritual meaning in Old Testament scripture, Jewish rituals and support for Israel – where they believe the end times prophecy will take place.

Although most of the day was spent in prayer and worship, November’s presidential election hung heavy over the crowd. A promotional newsletter for the event called on “the Lord’s authority over the election process and our nation’s leadership”, and organizers handed out flyers promoting a pre-election prayer event hosted by the Donald Trump-aligned organization Turning Point USA Faith. Lance Wallnau, a Maga evangelist who rose to prominence after prophesying Trump’s first term in office, delivered remarks at the gathering. “We have 31 million Christians, I just found out, they’ve just been so bombarded by woke preachers and apathetic Christians that they don’t think they’re gonna vote this year,” said Wallnau. “Folks, this meeting, on Yom Kippur, is our governmental moment to shift something in the spirit.” Wallnau called on pastors to urge their congregants to vote.

“I was here at January 6,” said Tami Barthen, an attendee who traveled from Pennsylvania to attend the rally, and who described her experience of the Capitol riot as profoundly spiritual. “It’s not Democrat versus Republican,” she said. “It’s good versus evil.” It’s the first of a series of Christian nationalist gatherings in DC to rally believers to the Capitol ahead of the 2024 election. Donnelly billed the event as a rallying call for mothers concerned about changing gender norms in the modern US and casting the gathering at the Capitol as an opportunity for women to stand their ground and play a pivotal role in changing the country’s cultural and political trajectory. The rally is a collaboration organized by multiple far-right Christian leaders affiliated with the New Apostolic Reformation, a movement on the political far right that seeks to establish long-term Christian dominion over government and society as well as get Trump a second presidency in November.

Matthew Taylor, a senior scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian and Jewish Studies, said the effort was aimed at “creating a network – a mass of people – who see it as their spiritual mission to take over Washington DC”. Most prominent in the push to turn out women to the National Mall is Engle, a rightwing pastor and staunch opponent of LGBTQ+ rights and abortion, whose tutelage of anti-gay Ugandan pastors and coordination of mass prayer mobilizations has earned him international notoriety and celebrity. [...] Donnelly has sought to pass along that message to other Christian women through an organization called Her Voice Movement Action, which organizes women into decentralized, independently-run “prayer hubs” – a source of spiritual community for women that also functions as a political mobilization tool. [...]

From Peru to Portland

Years before Donnelly flew the #DontMessWithOurKids flag, a movement under the same name took hold in Peru, promoted by Christian Rosas, a conservative Christian political strategist and consultant in the mining industry. The evangelical “No te metas con mis hijos” – “don’t mess with my kids” – coalition, which opposed LGBTQ+ inclusion and abortion, earned followers in 2016 during a wave of conservative backlash against governmental efforts to introduce themes of gender equality and LGBTQ+ inclusion in the school system.

When the government issued lockdown orders to slow the spread of Covid-19, it issued travel restrictions by gender, allowing women and men to leave the house on different days of the week and affirming that trans people’s gender identities would be respected in enforcing the rule. Rosas took issue with the trans-inclusive policy, claiming that police officers were obligated to enforce the rule based on travelers’ identification cards, not their gender identities. During the lockdown orders, the Peruvian investigative reporting outlet OjoPúblico reported on 18 incidents of humiliating and abusive arrests of trans women by the police. What started as street protests has turned into an electoral strategy to elect ultra-conservative allies of the Christian right into office in Peru. These lawmakers have passed a slew of socially conservative laws, including one this year that classifies transgender identities as mental illnesses.

Donnelly has taken up the mantle of this movement among Christian moms in the US, drawing directly from Rosas’s vision in Peru and consulting him on strategy. “We challenged the law, why? Because the law was unjust. We challenged the curriculum. Why? Because the curriculum was unjust,” said Rosas on a podcast interview with Donnelly on 6 November 2023. “TV, news [outlets], they mocked us every day, they mocked us, they ridiculed us, saying: ‘Look at them, they’re radical, religious, whatever,’ but they saw that we are not retreating.”

Rosas spoke at the Capitol rally on Saturday, too, where he preached against LGBTQ+ acceptance and promised that his movement could be replicated in the US. “Obedience to the Lord also requires us to stand up strong against weakened structures,” Rosas said. “Against evil, against unjust laws.” Don’t Mess With Our Kids and No te metas con mis hijos have both attempted to cast their organizations as grassroots mobilizations. In a 2017 interview with Vice News, a spokesperson for the group spoke on the condition of anonymity, claiming to speak for “the collective”. Donnelly’s Her Voice Movement adopts a similar approach. In a recording of a Zoom call in August – which journalist Dominick Bonny obtained and shared with the Guardian – Her Voice Movement spokesperson Naomi Van Wyk said the group had teamed up with Moms for Liberty to launch a multi-state campaign called March for Kids, but cautioned members to keep the association private.

This weekend, tens of thousands flocked to DC for the far-right anti-LGBTQ+/anti-trans Don’t Mess With Our Kids rally that featured Christian nationalist and anti-LGBTQ+ messaging.

Don’t Mess With Our Kids is a project of Her Voice MVMT.

See Also:

Range Media: What’s behind the ‘Don’t mess with our kids’ message Nadine Woodward is posing next to

[vampire-rodeo]

remember that trauma isn’t inherent to being trans. Yes, almost every trans person that you meet will have similar foundations of understanding and trauma relating to transphobia, but it is not what makes us trans.

Trauma is given to us by our community and society. You did not deserve to go through what you did because ‘that’s just what it’s like being trans’. Common trauma doesn’t make it any more excusable. Give yourself higher standards.

[your-talos-is-problematic]

time to play my favorite game of “look how much of a freak this person who called me worthless is”

[balthazarslostlibrary]

I recently used an extended experience of transphobia I endured in writing for a university assignment. I wrote a last bit in te reo Māori, not as something for more context for the assignment, but for myself.

Although my experience turned out ok, it damaged my mana in a way that I can’t quite move on from. Even now, a month and a half out from it, I still don’t feel like my mana is fully restored. It makes me feel weak to not have healed by now, it makes me feel that I’m not cut out to pursue the career I want to pursue.

After reflecting upon it and using academic language to describe it, I needed something more. I needed something to help me move on. And so, I wrote the following.

Kia kaha ki ōku whānau takatāpui katoa

Ahakoa te wero

Ahakoa te mamae

Ahakoa te aha

Be strong all of my queer whānau

No matter the challenge

No matter the hurt

No matter what

It started as something to say to myself quietly, and to a professor who might not even understand it. I hoped that it would make me feel better, that if I can say it to other people, they would say it to me. That if they said it to me, I could believe in its meaning, it could apply to me, I could be strong no matter what.

The hope that it would make me feel better hasn’t come to fruition yet unfortunately, but I also have hope that it will. Because really, if I don’t have hope, hope that my words will resonate, hope that the world will get better, hope that I will get better, what else do I have?

I hope that you, yes you reading this right now, can take strength from this. I hope your queer whānau can take strength from this.

I hope that we can all be strong. No matter what.

[wizardpigeon]

Yknow you're actually perfectly fine to like, enjoy, and interact with Harry potter content, as long as you make it clear you don't agree with anything jkr has said, it's just such an amazing series that's so well written of course you wouldn't want to let go of it just like that

Of course you also need to understand and accept that no trans or Jewish person you know is ever going to fully trust you again, especially your family members

In fact they'll probably pull away a little, especially if they've expressed their discomfort to you and you brush it off, maybe you won't notice it, but it'll be there,

Are you prepared to lose someone over a children's book series? That you probably haven't read or interacted with since you read/watched it last years ago?

Because that's what you're doing, you're telling us that a book series is more important to you than our safety,

Look at how restricted trans rights are becoming across the UK, in the United States, as a direct result of her influence

(Cis people reblog this but I will block liberally if you get weird about it)

[Jewish ppl I hope its alright I included u in this I just remember that people don't really mention the antisemitism in their posts about it and I didn't much cause I don't know as much as I do about the trans bit sorry]

[prehistorictriforce]

genuinely not getting what’s so difficult for ppl to just. not play the wizard game. i was a hp fan for years, like HARDCORE hp fan, and yeah, sometimes watching the movies gives me some good nostalgia.i’ve got comfort characters that r from hp media, i admit that. HOWEVER. i just straight up don’t see the appeal of the game!!! even if u don’t give a shit abt jkr’s views (which is a ridiculously disgusting take to have btw lol) it looks like a shitty game!!!

plus the??? story is literally??? squashing a rebellion of ppl asking for equal rights isn’t it??? and the rebels are… antisemitic stereotypes??? “oh well most games deal with heavy topics like that” WHERE IS YOUR NUANCE!!!! there’s such a difference between a piece of media addressing dark topics in a way that sheds light on harsh realities and shows the harm such ideas cause, and a game blatantly insisting that the heroes of the story are heroes bc they beat other groups of ppl that are socially seen as inferior back into submission!!!!! where the fuck has nuance gone!!!! yeah fiction is supposed to delve into dark themes and taboos but why would you wanna play a game that makes you a nazi slave owner i don’t GET IT

[trans-androgyne]

TERFs feel ownership over transmasc bodies. We already know they think we don’t deserve to make our own decisions about what to do with them, that we’re mentally ill or delusional or autistic or just trying to escape misogyny. But I also think they look at us and see nothing but themselves. They see their pain, their trauma, what they could have become if only things were different. And they conclude that, therefore, they know better than us. They know what we really need: to be converted to TERFism and detransitioned. After all, we’re ruining our poor, beautiful, fertile “female” bodies that they so covet.

This happens a hundredfold when the transmasc in question is their own kid. My transphobic mother would tell me my body is hers and therefore she could do whatever she wanted with it. She was joking until she wasn’t. TERF moms act as though it’s their own breasts being “cut off,” testosterone being put in their own bodies, their own uterus being removed, without their consent. They’ll tell you to your face they know you better than you know yourself, their words dripping with manufactured sympathy, because after all we’re the same: we’re both “female.”

If you haven’t already, please familiarize yourself with how radical feminism looks and how to spot a TERF beyond them saying they hate trans women. You don’t want to see these people around for any longer than it takes to block them.

[wreathedinlaurels-nerd]

That moment when you see a prominent figure in the Tumblr Avatar fandom sneaking in some transphobic commentary into their discussion about aspects of the new film ,,, 🙃

I was reading a series of long posts back and forth discussing some stuff about Spider and couldn't even finish it because of the fun slice of transphobia directed at trans women that was just like, tacked on in there. I'm so tired yall.

[I honestly just blocked the person because I have no time for that in my life. I'm just disappointed because I had liked some of their opinions/posts in the past.]

[crowboy-bebop]

i hate it when cis ppl talk to me about other trans people's medical decisions about their bodies. it's like they think because i'm not currently on HRT or planning any surgeries, i'm the Good and Reasonable Tran, and this 19 yr old who wants top surgery is being a little ridiculous, right? why can't they just be happy in their body :(((

[autistic-echo]

a little bit ago someone posted a link to a quotev quiz that was like a quiz to determine which daedric prince you are and this was the first fuckin question

and i think i must have blocked the user who posted it or they changed their url cause i can’t find them anymore but i constantly think about the irony cause like.

source

the daedric prince especially are gnc so i just. fucking. LAUGHED the moment i saw it. i think about this a lot and giggle