#I am better

[katanaski]

Baby boy's 3rd surgery is today, everyone send me good vibes 🫶

#i miss you all so much #my silly brain keeps telling me I'm not good enough to come back here yet #maybe it's just my trauma #I'm trying #i am better

[guardedbylibrarylions]

Help - I can’t stop drawing Homelander

#homelander #the boys fanart #the boys series #the boys #the boys art #antony starr #i am better #eric kripke

[allo-frouto]

I want to lick you for hours

I am not ice cream!

#<3 #I am better #and yes #I said it #hihihi

[serotoninlesslesbian]

“I can fix him” and I can make him give in to his murderous and cannibalistic desires  

#hannibal #i am better

[wizardsandketamine]

I like to chew on plastic straws to assert my dominance on turtles

#fuck the turtles #I am better #gonna stomp a turt #you can’t just say perchance

[spade-riddles]

Lol I just love this.

BTW How are you SR? Hope you are recovering fast.

#those drawings are so cute! #I am better #thank you

[a-single-grain-of-brain]

if god is all around us that means technically i’ve nutted on his face firmly planting me as his superior.

#brain dead #shower thoughts #i am better #religious #food for thought

[amostdelectablescribbler]

Me and my dad now collect cowboy boots. It is an expensive hobby, but suddenly i look and feel like the shit because i am the shit because i have cowboy boots and you do not. It makes me better. Go get some cowboy boots, like really you will feel the testosterone boost.

#cowboy boots #cowboy #i am better

[shacklda]

hi

#back from some dbd with the buddies #i am Better #c: #;sir this is my emotional support cringefail gacha game protagonist. (ooc)

[strangeswift]

''Okay whatever spider haters.''

Vecna core

There's a reason I made this post. And apparently all u bitches who reblogged it were lying bc apparently I'm the only one who is friends with spiders >:(

#/lh #i am aware of my henry coding #but i am not a murderer so #i am better #asks

[yukisraven]

Sometimes winning is seeing Ur sibling get up from the table late at night before u do

#i win #i am better #soft shittalks

[spyglassrealms]

had a fucking hilarious dream that tumblr replaced the "block" function with the far funnier "glock" function, which did the exact same thing except whenever anyone blocked you a random bullet hole, like a png of a bullet hole, would appear on your blog. discourse blogs were unreadable bc you'd go to the page and the sheer amount of bullet hole pngs stacked over the blogs obscured everything. I woke myself up laughing

#normally I don't chronicle my dreams here but fucking hell that one was funny #I think this would genuinely make tumblr better tbh #@ staff do this cowards #spy has thoughts #my life is a sitcom and i am my own laugh track #functional website #spy's smash hits #Glock function #edit for everyone in the notes saying 'everyone clapped' #I know I can't prove to you that it happened for real you're just gonna have to trust me on this #but I swear on my goddamn life I'm not making this up #I make so many conscious puns that sometimes my subconscious cooks up a real good one

[midnight-coffee94]

No single line has ever wrecked me as hard as this one from the Good Place and I think about it constantly

#the good place #i'm binge watching it again and it just takes me out so hard #i get lost in the sauce thinking about this quote #the idea that those who hurt you are capable of being better people and then seeing them change and grow just hits me right between the rib #who am i kidding it stabs me like the senators stabbed Caesar #anyway #icy does a tag ramble

[endusviolence]

Rowling isn't denying holocaust. She just pointed out that burning of transgender health books is a lie as that form of cosmetic surgery didn't exist. But of course you knew that already, didn't you?

I was thinking I'd probably see one of you! You're wrong :) Let's review the history a bit, shall we?

In this case, what we're talking about is the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, or in English, The Institute of Sexology. This Institute was founded and headed by a gay Jewish sexologist named Magnus Hirschfeld. It was founded in July of 1919 as the first sexology research clinic in the world, and was run as a private, non-profit clinic. Hirschfeld and the researchers who worked there would give out consultations, medical advice, and even treatments for free to their poorer clientele, as well as give thousands of lectures and build a unique library full of books on gender, sexuality, and eroticism. Of course, being a gay man, Hirschfeld focused a lot on the gay community and proving that homosexuality was natural and could not be "cured".

Hirschfeld was unique in his time because he believed that nobody's gender was either one or the other. Rather, he contended that everyone is a mixture of both male and female, with every individual having their own unique mix of traits.

This leads into the Institute's work with transgender patients. Hirschfeld was actually the one to coin the term "transsexual" in 1923, though this word didn't become popular phrasing until 30 years later when Harry Benjamin began expanding his research (I'll just be shortening it to trans for this brief overview.) For the Institute, their revolutionary work with gay men eventually began to attract other members of the LGBTA+, including of course trans people.

Contrary to what Anon says, sex reassignment surgery was first tested in 1912. It'd already being used on humans throughout Europe during the 1920's by the time a doctor at the Institute named Ludwig Levy-Lenz began performing it on patients in 1931. Hirschfeld was at first opposed, but he came around quickly because it lowered the rate of suicide among their trans patients. Not only was reassignment performed at the Institute, but both facial feminization and facial masculization surgery were also done.

The Institute employed some of these patients, gave them therapy to help with other issues, even gave some of the mentioned surgeries for free to this who could not afford it! They spoke out on their behalf to the public, even getting Berlin police to help them create "transvestite passes" to allow people to dress however they wanted without the threat of being arrested. They worked together to fight the law, including trying to strike down Paragraph 175, which made it illegal to be homosexual. The picture below is from their holiday party, Magnus Hirschfeld being the gentleman on the right with the fabulous mustache. Many of the other people in this photo are transgender.

[Image ID: A black and white photo of a group of people. Some are smiling at the camera, others have serious expressions. Either way, they all seem to be happy. On the right side, an older gentleman in glasses- Magnus Hirschfeld- is sitting. He has short hair and a bushy mustache. He is resting one hand on the shoulder of the person in front of him. His other hand is being held by a person to his left. Another person to his right is holding his shoulder.]

There was always push back against the Institute, especially from conservatives who saw all of this as a bad thing. But conservatism can't stop progress without destroying it. They weren't willing to go that far for a good while. It all ended in March of 1933, when a new Chancellor was elected. The Nazis did not like homosexuals for several reasons. Chief among them, we break the boundaries of "normal" society. Shortly after the election, on May 6th, the book burnings began. The Jewish, gay, and obviously liberal Magnus Hirschfeld and his library of boundary-breaking literature was one of the very first targets. Thankfully, Hirschfeld was spared by virtue of being in Paris at the time (he would die in 1935, before the Nazis were able to invade France). His library wasn't so lucky.

This famous picture of the book burnings was taken after the Institute of Sexology had been raided. That's their books. Literature on so much about sexuality, eroticism, and gender, yes including their new work on trans people. This is the trans community's Alexandria. We're incredibly lucky that enough of it survived for Harry Benjamin and everyone who came after him was able to build on the Institute's work.

[Image ID: A black and white photo of the May Nazi book burning of the Institute of Sexology's library. A soldier, back facing the camera, is throwing a stack of books into the fire. In the background of the right side, a crowd is watching.]

As the Holocaust went on, the homosexuals of Germany became a targeted group. This did include transgender people, no matter what you say. To deny this reality is Holocaust denial. JK Rowling and everyone else who tries to pretend like this isn't reality is participating in that evil. You're agreeing with the Nazis.

But of course, you knew that already, didn't you?

Edit: Added image IDs. I apologize to those using screen readers for forgetting them. Please reblog this version instead.

#transgender #trans history #transsexual #transphobia #Magnus Hirschfeld #holocaust #holocaust denial #book burning #j.k. rowling #jk rowling #just in case you missed what i mean by all this: go fuck yourself anon :) #trans people have always existed #and we will always exist #if you really wanna pick a fight with me over well-documented history then you better bring in some sources to back your shit #queer history #queer #lgbt+ #lgbta+ #lgbt #lgbt history #edit: i finally got around to those damn image IDs. i am so very sorry for totally forgetting that's my bimbo moment of the month #also real quick i thought about adding an image of the actual building but the only one i can find has a Nazi parade in front of it #it was taken the day of the book burning raid and honestly if i were to include it then i'd add it to the first few paragraphs #and i think the story's better told when you uphold the hope Magnus Hirschfeld and all the researchers he worked with had #also keeps being brought up: yes Hirschfeld was a eugenicist. it was a popular belief set that was only discredited after WW2 #Hirschfeld died in 1935. he literally didn't live long enough to see science turn against those beliefs and practices #considering how he changed his mind on transitions i like to think he would've changed his mind on eugenics too if he'd lived

[lgbtlunaverse]

Nothing will dispell the "the curtains were just blue" myth faster than writing something yourself, because the amount of pretentious symbolism i am putting in my silly little fanfics is ridiculous. I mean SO much with these words, literally every single one of them. This fic has twenty five typos and zero correct uses of punctuation but if there's curtains you bet your ass I put thought into what colour they were.

#writing #fic writing #like this is stuff i'm doing for fun with my perfectionism meter turned down as far as i can get it #and i am still thinking about it A LOT #talk to me about how in red string fic jgy perceives the memory block both as syrup and as mud but nmj thinks it feels like blood #it's just a thing in their heads that mentally feels kind of thick and sticky but they both made something different of it #it's about issues with cleanliness / lies as a way to craft an illusion of a better lopking world vs the constant violence nmj lives in

[letsgetkazzy]

honestly fuck it. I'm in a shitty mood today and none of yall will ever see this.

Fuck you.

I never fucking deserved to be treated the way yall treated me. I was a fucking kid. I never did anything to fucking hurt you. Oh no, I was a cringe, annoying teenager. Some of you were adults when I was 17. Grow up.

Especially fucking Oz. You fucking abused me, you giant piece of shit. You isolated me and continuously told me no one but you cared. You treated me like a emotional punching bag and the moment I reacted in anyway that wasn't a groveling apology it just got worse.

You took away every support system I had by making it seem like I was some horrible, awful person who deserved to be treated terribly.

You confessed to the horrible things you did not out of 'guilt' but to hurt me more. 'look at all the things we said and did behind your back' only to show me you had even more power behind the scenes when you told me you just a lonely outcast like me. You forced me to apologize to MY EX after you got with her after like 2 weeks. You forced me to apologize when I was uncomfortable. When I was sad. When I expressed my hurt.

You make me fucking sick.

I am disgusted to think back on how low I felt with myself. How badly I saw myself that I believed you pieces of shit were the only people who would EVER tolerate me. Your apologizes were half assed, only one of you fucking meant it. Fuck you. I have people who love me now. Even some of the friendships I DESTROYED while getting ready to kill myself, I am still friends with. I made it. I'm writing books. I'm talking to agents and publishers. I'm still making art, and I'm so damn good at it.

I fucking survived you. I will continue to survive.

I hope none of you find peace. I hope you all think about the terrible things you did and said to me, to my face and behind my back. Oz never kept your fucking secret about your lil chat room where you talked shit. Oz has been and always will be a fucking snake.

I do hope yall have learned and grown and NEVER do this shit again.

#and if you DO still this #fuck you #you never deserved me #you never will #I am better #I will be better #I am going to grown and learn for the rest of my life #the journey is never over