#Being trans doesn't take away from that

[astralpenguin]

how this transphobic mf scrolled enough on my blog to rb a few things and then followed me all while missing the fact that i am trans myself is a total mystery to me

#what is it about the 'they/them or any neopronouns' in my bio told her this was a safe space for transphobia lmfao #her blog is focused on her being detransitioned - which is completely fair and i'm genuinely happy for her that she figured herself out!! #but it doesn't take much scrolling AT ALL to see that the majority of her posts are rb'd from straight up terfs and transphobes #just because you turned out not to be trans doesn't mean trans people don't exist #and it doesn't mean that trans people are at fault for you not realising you were cis sooner #if you can't comprehend other people existing and having different life experiences to you then get the fuck away from me #el talks

[thelunastusco]

Also, while we’re here tonight, the term “sysmed”--

 “Sysmed” is short for system medicalist, meaning someone who believes the only way to be a system is if it formed through trauma— or, possibly even stricter, only if you& are trauma-formed with DID/OSDD. The extremism varies.

It does not mean “pro endogenic” or “supporting non-traumagenic systems”. It’s the exact opposite, and we don’t understand how that got confused.

Yes, it's similar to “transmed” and caught on for similar reasons. Why? Because it is the same damn argument, and it’s just as ignorant and harmful. No, it’s not “transphobic”. Medicalism isn’t an idea that exclusive to the trans community. Medicalism can be found anywhere in the LGBTQIA community, in the disabled community, mental health circles... because all it means is finding something inherently medical or pathological, and demanding that standard for anyone using a label.

You do not have to have DID/OSDD to be plural. You shouldn’t claim to have DID/OSDD if you don’t. of course, but you CAN say you’re plural. You CAN say you’re a system. Neither “plural” nor “system” are exclusive to DID/OSDD. (And “plural” is, in fact, inherently inclusive.)

Systems who didn’t form via trauma have been welcome in the online community since AT LEAST the early 90s. They’ve been around since forever. This isn’t new.

All being a system means is being plural. All being plural requires is being more than one.  This doesn’t require trauma. Period. Not even the DSM dx criteria for DID/OSDD requires a system to be formed by trauma.

Systems not formed by trauma aren’t hurting anyone . Being a sysmed IS harmful.  It hurts systems who might not realize they have trauma, systems who were formed through negative experiences but don’t consider it trauma, and also systems who GENUINELY ARE SYSTEMS but just WERE NOT formed by trauma. Like wtaf, leave them the hell alone?

There’s zero scientific evidence that plurality is only ever caused by trauma. End of. There’s nothing. No study, no empirical evidence. It’s not “against science” to be inclusive because there IS NO SCIENCE to prove anything. Also science is rife with ableism, racism, and other bigotry so is that seriously the route you wanna go?

Tldr sysmeds are hateful, ignorant tools who hide behind imaginary science, and arguments that make no social sense. Thanks for coming to our talk.

PS: By “social sense”, we mean arguments like blaming community members for the bigotry of oppressors, saying a party is “stealing” resources that aren’t finite, and “spreading misinfo” just by advocating coexistence or providing info that doesn’t fit an exclusionist narrative.

#syscourse cw #mod post #information #syscourse #terminology #please stop with the 'sysmed is transphobic' crap #it doesn't take anything away from the trans community to recognize that medicalism is gross and bad #and exists in other communities #and the reason the comparison is apt to begin with is BECAUSE transmeds shriek about how being trans #which is a subjective internal experience #much like plurality is #is inherently pathological or disordered #it's the same can of soup with a different logo on the front #being trans used to be seen as inherently a disorder and that's where transmeds come from #that internalized need for outside confirmation and fear that if people don't see it as medical then people will keep being bigots #except that never saves you because people will be bigots anyways #regardless of whether they think you think it's a choice or some medical thing inflicted on you #and that's why it is comparable to the plural community #'don't hurt me i didn't choose this it's a medical condition go hurt those other people instead' will never save you #it will just isolate you from the people who WOULD have helped you

[dykekakashi]

girl from date yesterday told me she got more of a friend vibe, which is fine, i'm still just like having that bad 'it's because you don't fit in with queer people' feelings lol. doesn't help that we went to a queer bookstore and i honestly just felt so out of place.

#saying this also because she seemed like. annoyed/taken aback/whatever my fav authors are classic lit guys #she kept mentioning my taste in classics throughout the date like. ok!!!!!! #i'm sorry i don't read more feminist contemporary authors i don't have time in between reading 34979 books #on religion and political economy and my fav books are books i've had to read for classes usually #same feeling at queer bookstore like i'm looking through all of these books just feeling like #man i'm not. in any of these #like even when there's like oh cool a latina lesbian character it's just. it feels so like catering #i don't want to feel identified with some char because they share a few labels with me #i can get that from a government form #i read literature to feel smthn and it doesn't HAVE to be tied to being queer #imo gombrowicz' trans atlantyk is the book that best reps my own queer experience #and i don't think the fact he was a bi man or polish takes anything away from that #idk ugh sorry i'm in my weird i'll never be actual part of the lgbt community thing again

[medb-like-grave]

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#so im away for a few days without parents #and my mother wants me to take a year out and i agree tbh #and she thinks it'll cure my transgender #but away from her its like. wow. i can actually do what i like and i don't have to listen to her being openly disgusted by me being trans #and disguising it as being concerned or factual #like. wow. she doesn't matter to me in the big wide world #im gonna be more transgender by the end of this year #god she's gonna be pissed at me this time next year #but like come on!! #i'll be 19 and so fucking transgender #what are you gonna do to me??

[jackgoodfellow]

I feel like I am a man in the same way my headcanon for Dave Lister from Red Dwarf is a man.

Like, "Are you a guy?", "Yeh."

"Are you a girl?", "Na."

"Are you a man?", [A long thoughtful pause as a large mouthful of curry is consumed, followed by a non-committal hand gesture] (mouth still full) "Eh. If ya like, I suppose."

#red dwarf #i don't eat a ton of curry but idk if lister has ever been shown eating a food that is not curry #he once accidentally causes a world war bc they ran out of curry #dave lister #trans dave lister #now that's what i call gender #like if u take away lister's toxically masculine traits i feel like that is a guy who doesn't care that much about being a MAN #which is me #tho i feel i am probably more fluid than he is. just equally comfortable and secure in it. i probably tend more femme than him some days. #and on those days i have the same gender as jonathan van ness. or a butch lesbian or any other number of things. #one character springs to mind whom i do feel i match exactly and that is Puck from Midsummer Night's Dream #my friend Evy pointed it out to me and it was just one of the nicest things anyone ever said to me and #well. #the username speaks for itself if ur a fuckin NERD #not art #about me #but anyway he is trans he told me so himself #see jack talk

[awordwasthebeginning]

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#i'm just going to say it otherwise i will explode #if your way of overcoming the gender binary #leads to you creating the categories '(cis) men' and 'other' #that's not overcoming the gender binary that's creating a new one #and one that takes away from both women and genderqueer/nb/agender people at that #and also like. i'm a cis woman but i doubt trans men and nonbinary people are happy about being lumped into the broader category of #'women and other/women +/women*/anyway not MEN at any rate' #is it a language thing? because i don't think i've seen it in english but all the more in german #often in a context where it's not precise at all #like free hygiene products or catcalling #...you do know that not all people who aren't cis men have uteri or get yelled at with 'OI NICE TITS' yeah? #and at the end of the day it boils down to 'cis men are oppressors in general and anyone else is automatically a victim' #and doesn't that sound familiar #phew i have Thoughts on this #if you do too (in agreement or not) send me a chat message if you feel like it? #tdl #probably #loquor

[xing-hua]

sometimes i feel like some variant of selkie, a monster dressed in a woman's skin.

you fall in love with the woman. you steal "her" skin so "she" goes home with you. and it likes you well enough, so it acquiesces. it doesn't know what it needs, then. but in the end, the monster is still a monster. it withers beneath your gaze, because you see only the woman; but it knows what it is, it longs to be seen. not a monster, only that by others' definition.

you know what's under that skin, but still, you see only the woman.

#if i stay here i will never be able to be fully seen; never be able to transition #i hung out with a bunch of trans friends and it was so different #semi rant i guess #the loneliness of being loved by someone who doesn't know how to see you #i'm slightly tipsy so idek if this makes sense #i think someone should take tumblr away from me in this state #sol has thoughts #if u wanna mute

[jucomx]

The way how some of y'all see being banned from the site as equivalent to death is like my sibling in Christ: 👉🌱

#obviously this doesn't take away from the pharticlematcelerator being a piece of trash for using the power available to him #to target trans women in this online space #and i do realuse some people rely on this site for crowdfunding #but also addictions are addictions so if you genuinely can't imagine a world without access to this site #go get help

[neverendingford]

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#tag talk #if I can make it through the next two weeks I'll be alright. but damn if it isn't gonna be rough #court date next week and dr appointment the week after. but then I'll be back on track with changing my name and then getting hrt #big changes. but changes I need. changes I tried to start back in February. #I try to have yearly goals. big overarching themes and shit. 2022 was just getting away from my patents and accepting being trans #and then it ended up being a year for processing old trauma. which uhh. really culminated in the February attempt to end all that shit #but February was the start of the new year for me. the start of getting all that personal work externalized. being out and unapologetic #the move this summer has thrown things a little out of shape but I'm working to get it back on the rails #if I can get things sorted by the end of this year then next year is the start of forever for me. #it really will be a “first day of the rest of our lives” vibe. new name. finally getting the meds I need. idk exactly how hrt will go though #I need to do independent research to see if I need to go through health provider or if I can find a clinic independently #been meaning to do that for a hot while but I have been so overwhelmed with other stuff I haven't had the energy. #but like. looking back it hasn't been bad. I was afraid I would lose this year to the move. but that's adhd time blindness speaking #even if it takes four months to move and mentally recover that leaves eight still. that's still a lot of time. I have time to work with #every day I'm still alive is a day I have available to get done the things I want to in order to live happily. #sure I'm damaged as fuck. but that doesn't mean I can't get some good work done. I can make friends and have fun and help people #idk. I'm still in a melancholy state from the heavy dissociation I experienced on edibles. I think I might not do that again #losing control of my head isn't great because my default is suicidal and depressed which isn't super pogchamp of me #I'm gonna do it again once more just to have a second experience because a single data point isn't good data so I want two. #but I don't expect to want to do it anymore. I wonder if the high amounts of stress and anticipation I'm experiencing right now affect it #of course it would. prior mental state of going to affect the trip. that's kinda obvious I guess. maybe I try it again in two weeks #anyway. life keeps going and there is no expectation to fall behind on. falling behind means there's an acceptable pace. which is false #well. that's not true. capitalism and all that. there's a minimum pace for somebody. but that's where community comes in to help I guess #I'm rambling now. bye I'm gonna go take a shower and be really sad about having a dick and balls #it's tragic cause they're really nice dick and balls too. Just not for me. I wanna be a cool guy without even a single ball to his name #is that too much to ask? I just wanna be a man who's a woman who's a man but in a different way than the first time he was. #also. I'm tired of straight guys on dating apps hitting me up. like bro I know you're just gonna want to view me as a woman. no deal #bro is gonna have to be at least a little gay. cause I am not gonna swing like that. better be at least a little bi #some dude's bio was like “let me love the woman inside of you” and like. no thanks please go obsess over femininity somewhere else #straight guys who include nonbinary in their profile because they really just see it as woman 2: gender boogaloo ☠️

[rainbowtvz]

rip bu/mbleby blog i followed. you no longer exist in my mind

#why yes i do unfollow if you start rbing or posting shit about how b/ls aren't queerphobic and are good faith identities #or start rbing from people who have said shit like that like v*spider #maybe even block if i feel particularly hoodwinked by people being stealth #i'm not discoursing over this btw i've seen all the arguments in support of it and the so called history they keep sharing #its funny how they only ever have like max 3 sources and one of them is ALWAYS the la/vender women poem. #hrrrm. #i do not have the spoons to list out in length why the language/labels used are harmful but i do have a carrd /w linked sources #it's not that their experiences don't exist i just think they have some internalized queerphobia to get over #bi and lesbian aren't dirty words and nb people are included in every sexuality already #trans women are women and conflating trans people with terfs bc we say lesbians aren't men or can't be attracted #to men is uh... sure something alright (transmisogynist) #having a pref for women/similar genders doesn't make u not bi #and comphet isn't genuine attraction its comphet #also i am genuinely so tired of people saying that the only reason bi people were shoved out of lesbian spaces is because of terfs #like i am genuinely so tired #our movements for our rights and to be seen as a whole valid identity was a natural progression of the bisexual community #you are taking away our history and autonomy #i wrote up a post about my extended stance but left it in the drafts actually but these tags are sort of a tl;dr about that so

[zoestorm]

The manga: a college guy meets his childhood friend, who was formerly a boy but is now a woman, and has run away from home after an unspecified disagreement with her family which has left her with a significant amount of trauma; it's implied she was bullied heavily in the time since they've last seen each other.

But don't worry, she's not trans! She just got an illness which turned her into a woman!

The manga: a high school boy with an interest in make-up uses his gloomy, depressed (male) childhood friend as a model to improve his skills. This causes said friend to have an "awakening" and start dressing as a woman, and to overall be a much happier, brighter, outgoing person.

But don't worry, the friend is not trans! He's just a boy who crossdresses because his childhood friend likes him better that way!

The manga: a high school boy joins a club where the members can turn into magical girls, which in his case involves physically transforming into a girl. When in girlmode, he's much happier and enjoys his life much more, and overall prefers staying in girl mode; when the ability to transform is temporarily taken away from him, he sinks into a deep depressive episode.

But don't worry, he's not trans! He's just a boy who enjoys being a girl!

The manga: a college student loses a bet and has to crossdress for a night out on the town, and meets and hooks up with a butch girl; they fall in love and start dating. The boy always crossdressed when they meet, and starts enjoying being "treated like a girl" in the relationship and starts crossdressing even when he doesn't have to meet his girlfriend and enjoys activities such as clothes shopping and make-up and putting on nail polish.

But don't worry, he's not trans! He's just a boy who crossdresses to please his butch girlfriend!

The manga: a guy is magically turned into a girl as a result of saving his best friend, the crown prince, from an assassination attempt. The prince decides that he has to take responsibility, and asks the new girl to marry him; despite being smitten she refuses, wanting to date first. She is later offered a way to go back to being a man, but when she does turn back she's disgusted by her own appearance and depressed all the time, ultimately deciding to stay a girl.

But don't worry, she's not trans! She's just a boy who's been magically turned into a woman! And decides not to turn back when she can! Because she's not trans! Somehow!

"But we can't write trans women in manga! It's just not something that you do!"

[Image description: A one-comic panel. Gengar is glaring at a crowd of faceless characters; from the crowd, a speech balloon emerges, saying "You could if you weren't a fucking coward". End ID.]

#manga #gender manga #trans manga #I am so mad about this #I woke up and chose violence #fuck everything about this #transgender

[genderqueerdykes]

the reason intersex people need to be visible and at the forefront of every queer's activism is because we are completely devoid of autonomy when it comes to identifying ourselves. no matter how hard we try to speak up on how we are treated, how we are dehumanized, how we are refused our right to say who we are, it falls through the cracks because of how many people continue to diminish our issues, and espouse intersexist beliefs.

when i speak up about being transfemme, and a trans girl, it's not because i'm trying to step on people's toes or speak about something i don't understand. i speak up about it because this is the life i've lived. it doesn't matter if strangers see me this way or not, this is how i've been my entire life. whether or not someone knows i was technically born AMAB and then had my gender "corrected" shouldn't matter.

trans people do not only come in binary sexes- just like gender, physical sex is also not a binary. i am an intersex trans girl , even if my agab didn't stay AMAB forever. I would be an intersex trans girl regardless of whether or not they assigned me male at birth, because my experience with womanhood and femininity is that they've always been held away from me, way farther than it would ever be possible for me to reach.

i've had to take estrogen & progesterone HRT in the past in order to "correct" my masculine features in order to look like and be a girl "correctly". the subject of my body and my gender has never been something i've been able to control. my whole live i've just been told that i'm a girl wrong, and that i need to "Fix" it.

boyhood or manhood weren't options either, that was held away from me with a 10 foot pole as well. i've had to transition into gender, itself, because i was forbidden to be a boy or a girl. i was always too sensitive or soft to be a real boy. gender as a concept has been a source of control and degredation for me. i had to transition into both manhood and womanhood in order to have control over how i identify. even now when i talk about manhood and being a man, people tell me that i'm not a trans man because of how i look. i'm routinely denied manhood, I "have" to be a trans woman only to some.

due to my intersex condition, i'm a trans man and a trans woman, transfemme and transmasc, but people struggle to accept this. there's no reason for people to give me hell about these parts of myself, and yet people still do. intersex awareness matters because we fight to be seen as the people we are. we struggle to have our identities be addressed correctly. we are in the same fight as trans individuals, and we owe it to intersex trans men, women, and people to help people understand that trans folks come in all different types of bodies, and that biological sex is not a binary, either.

we have to fight for each other's autonomy. for all of us. together we are stronger, louder, and braver.

#intersex #lgbtqia #lgbtq #lgbt #queer #transfemme #transfeminine #transfem #trans girl #trans woman #trans lady #nonbinary #trans #transgender #enby #genderqueer #about us #transmasculine #ftm #trans man #our writing

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

AITA for choosing my cat over my trans friend?

Some background about my cat first.

I (25F) have a pet cat named Max (not real name. It would be too identifiable if I used his real name). Max is a rescue. He had been abandoned by his previous owner because he would meow too loudly. This had happened several times, so he has been in and out of the shelter a lot. None of the previous owners had tried to figure out why he always meows so loudly, so I took him to a vet. It turns out that Max is deaf, so I don't blame him for meowing so loudly. He can't hear himself! He is scared of strangers and tends to hide, so I don't try to force him to come out if he doesn't want to. I also don't usually take pictures of him because the cameras and phones scare him. I just do what I can to respect his boundaries. Max isn't just a cat to me. He is my treasured family who brings a smile to my face everyday. I can't imagine life without him.

My friend, Amelia (22F) is trans. Her folks are transphobic and were not accepting of her when they found out. However, they had not kicked her out of her home right away. They had given her a week to pack her things and find a place to stay. I'm not sure what they were trying to do with that but another friend, Nina (24F) thinks that they did that as a manipulation tactic to get Amelia to retransition and Amelia thinks so too.

But the week had passed and Amelia couldn't find a place to stay. Nina had said she would have offered, but she lives in a small apartment that hardly had enough room for two people. So Amelia had asked out friend Ted (26M) who had also said he couldn't because he was housing his younger siblings since their parents had passed and he was struggling financially.

So that left me. But Amelia said she wouldn't be able to stay unless I got rid of Max. Why? Amelia is highly allergic to cats. Whenever she had come over to my place in the past, she had to take allergy medicine to keep from having severe allergies around Max. The allergies are bad enough that they could trigger an asthmatic attack. I told her that I refuse to get rid of Max because of his past with being abandoned. I do not want to become one of the people he distrusts, not after it took so long to get him to feel comfortable around me.

Amelia is upset with me for this and says that she doesn't want to have to always take allergy medicine. She said that I should get rid of Max because he is just a cat and his needs are not as important as hers when she could become homeless soon. I argued that he wasn't just a cat and was part of my family. Max would be staying no matter what. Amelia ended up renting a motel room, but she couldn't afford to stay for more than 4 nights. Nina ended up taking her in, but that has made her own living situation harder.

Amelia and Nina are calling me an asshole for choosing Max over giving Amelia shelter. They are saying that I am being a horrible ally and friend by valuing an animal over a human life. I don't think I made the wrong choice by choosing Max, but it doesn't feel great that they are starting to tell some other friends that I am being transphobic for not choosing Amelia. A part of me is saying that I should have chosen Amelia, but that same part is also saying I would fee guilty for being one of the people to also abandon Max if I chose to do that. Amelia and Nina barely talk to me aside from saying that I am being a transphobic asshole for "choosing an animal over a trans person's livelihood." I am thinking about just cutting them off now, but I'm afraid that would just lead to more backlash.

AITA for choosing my cat over my trans friend?

What are these acronyms?

#aita #am i the asshole

[think-queer]

It is exhausting how many people seem to refuse to give unaligned non-binary people the same level of compassion as they do masc or fem aligned trans people. So many people seem to completely understand how much constant misgendering can affect a person, that many trans people are forced to stay closeted and that being closeted is not a privilege even if it reduces the risk of being targeted by bigots, that many trans people can't transition due to lack of access/support/health issues... But the same people that understand that for trans men and women will forget all of that when it comes to non-binary people, especially those of us unaligned with concepts of feminity or masculinity. Suddenly people will act like every non-binary person who "looks cis" is making a conscious choice to do so, and that they are fully comfortable and happy with that choice. People will go from treating misgendering as a serious issue to acting like nb people should just brush it off. People who understand that infighting and comparing who has it worse within the queer community distracts from real progress will start talking about nb people as if we have no real problems and just want to feel oppressed. Leftists will start to sound like alt-right incels complaining about "special snowflakes" and "safe spaces" when they talk about non-binary people.

It's utterly exhausting and it's infuriating how many people seem to not even notice this.

Non-binary people face a huge amount of invisibility and infantilisation. Non-binary people spending their lives being misgendered and hiding away in the closet are not privileged for that. Non-binary people face the same obstacles in medical transition as any other trans person. Non-binary people discussing our own struggles on our own posts or in our own spaces doesn't take away from other trans people. Non-binary people have a right to take up space and participate in the wider queer community without be treated like we're intruders.

Stop treating non-binary people like we're "basically cis" or "trans-lite," stop acting like trans issues don't affect non-binary people. Treat non-binary people with some compassion or just leave us alone.

#untqgged #tqlk #I'm tired and this might not be worded super well #but i just needed to get this out

[ghelgheli]

Afab people can also develop a gendered subjectivity in response to transmisogyny, whether they've been victims of it or not, just as amab people can develop it as a result of misogyny. So, if transfemininity is also defined by this characteristic, afab transfem also fit into it. Your objection to this fact is just a bias based, at best, on ignorance.

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It's is a bioessentialist prescription because you're adopting a conception of transfemininity that dictates that to be transfeminine, you have to fulfil to expectation of being male assignment at birth. this is no different from someone who uses the bioessentialist conception of womanhood which require female assignement at birth. Both are form bioessentialism that we should not perpetuate at our level, but rather we should re-thinking these gender categories in a way that doesn't align with bioessetialist conceptions

whoops! you caught me out aha. I forgot that afab trans people have subjectivities shaped by transmisogyny. I also forgot that cis womanhood is defined in large part thru transmisogyny: the fear of being clocky, constant affirmation by distancing from the tranny-object except when it's hot to have a bit of a jawline now, palatability as opposition to the monstrosity of being the shemale. I guess cis women are transfeminine too!

let's remember, while we're at it, that transmisogyny is the spectre that haunts the subject of the cis man. the gendered border policing lest one take a step too close to sissification, the prohibition on behaviour that could threaten to make him a girl—oh! cis men are transfeminine too!

in fact, we're all transfeminine! transmisogyny, as the recognition and attempted correction of the tranny-glitch that undoes the threads of gender, asserts itself against all of us. it is impossible to be a gendered subject without having contours shaped by the domineering pressures of transmisogyny, because that is what demands we all fall in line to the gendered nightmare. oops! all transfem!

but wait. a certain group, deprived now of unique identification, has just lost the ability to describe its gendered situation. it has been swallowed up by the seas of inclusive thinking or whatever. I guess that's okay :) I guess we'll drop our complaints :) we were a nuisance in the first place, weren't we? sorry. so sorry for existing this way.

listen to me. listen to me not as your fucking ephemeral gender oracle telling you what you want to hear before being thrown away, not as your bullshit mouthpiece granting you entrance to this mystical domain you want to claim for yourself, but as a god damn person for once—an impossible thing to ask of the transmisogynistic tranny wannabe, I know, but try!

you cannot escape hegemonic gender and its violent devices with flaccid platitudes about "re-thinking these gender categories" as though by changing the names of things you can change the things themselves. transmisogyny is the bioessentialism, and transmisogyny is why I am a failed man—the faggot embodied—something less than both man and woman—a gender traitor specifically against my assignment itself. and if you cannot recognize the unique ways that transmisogyny is deployed unrelentingly and irrevocably against the ones who will never be able to resort to birth assignment as a defense—against the ones who cannot throw their hands up and say, "I was never supposed to be a man in the first place!"—you have not understood the first thing about the root source of transmisogyny, and it is no surprise to me that you have no sense of transfemininity as a political category, a(n un)gendered class.

#ask answer #what is it with the tranny wannabes stuffing their heads so far up their own asses they become fucking klein bottles #no more patience for this nonsense #but to my moots who are girlies dolls transfems tma whatever i love u all

[maythearo]

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" Your eyes don't deceive you. He really is real. And an actual monster too, not just a 'weird looking dog', as those funny human legends say... "

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Messy design notes:

I have mixed feelings over his design. On one hand, the outfit itself looks cool... and on the other hand it turned out to be nothing like what I had envisioned in the beggining 😭 I wanted to stick with muted colors, in the vibes of that pic next to howleen's I guess, but it's like Ruggie's design had a mind of its own, and would always lean to more punk-looking no matter how hard I tried to avoid it, which don't get me wrong- punk style does fit him well, the problem is that I had it reserved for another character already, and I wanted to repeat themes as little as possible between entries of this project.. that just may be my perfectionist side speaking though, and there is no reason why I shouldn't post this version here for the time being! If I don't get tired of working on this series by the time I finish all the main cast's designs, then I suppose I could try to make an alternative version of Ruggie with a slightly different theme! I'd do the same with Jamil's entry since he is yet another character I have mixed feelings about the design lol

Aaaanyway, the mood for chupacabra Ruggie is grunge/thrifted fashion with diy details he would add to make his looks feel unique to him I think? The spikes on his skin, although he can partially control (?) them, still get stuck on cloth every now and then. Nearly all items of his closet are a bit torn from it, but he doesn't mind all that much. I got no particular designs for the pins and badges he wears, maybe except for the brazilian flag and the trans pin which I rlly wanted to include somewhere on his clothes whsdbdshewbdi

The chupacabra's appearance vary from place to place, but for this, I based his looks on how I personally grew up hearing and imagining this creature to be like! Baisically a fucked up looking dog, sometimes with spikes and scales on its body? Yeah 👍

And he remains the same personality-wise in the AU, pretty much! At the moment I can't think of many fun facts or character quirks for him, aside from how impossible it is to take a selfie with him, much to Cater's dismay. He swears he doesn't do it on purpose! The moment the camera clicks his body moves on its own to be out of frame. Ruggie's entire instagram (or whatever the monster high equivalent of that may be) account are either pictures of a moving blur or a vaguely distinguishable sillouette of him, taken from far away and zoomed in 10x

I think that's all I remembered to say? Here's a Ruggie core meme I found on reels as extra content lol

#.the ghostly gossip #ruggie bucchi #twst #twisted wonderland #my art #twst fanart #monster high #twst au #monster high fanart #savanaclaw #I'm so sleepy i hope I was at least a bit coherent on this post ejrh3jrej ⚰️⚰️