#a lot of passionate men

[transmascissues]

let trans men&mascs romanticize testosterone.

keep your “you’re not going to look like an anime boy or whatever, you’re just going to look like your dad” to yourself.

keep your “but what about the balding and the acne and the anger problems and the gross hair everywhere and the horrible painful bottom growth and and and” to yourself.

keep your “once you look like a man you will scare people and you can never stop thinking about that” to yourself.

keep your “testosterone is poison and don’t you dare even suggest that saying that might hurt you” to yourself.

we are not obligated to take on your fears and traumas around testosterone as our own, nor are we obligated to let them influence our relationship with it.

we are not obligated to sit here in a world that heavily restricts and constantly threatens our access to it and listen silently as you contribute to stigma around it.

we’re already tired of watching cis society as a whole try to rip it away from us; we don’t need fellow trans people and supposed allies giving credence to their cause.

for many of us testosterone is life-saving medicine, it’s liquid gold, it’s the nectar and ambrosia of the fucking gods.

is it so hard to just let us have that? to let us believe that and say it and celebrate it without being given a million reasons to question it? is that really too much to ask?

if you can find it in your heart to let other trans people romanticize their transitions, i promise you can let us do it to.

testosterone is a beautiful thing. it makes people hotter and even more importantly it makes them happier and anyone who wants it should be able to have it because it’s so life-changing and magical and wonderful and incredibly important to so many people who deserve the happiness it offers.

#got some screenshots from a post talking about the whole ‘testosterone is poison’ thing #and it just 100% confirmed to me that it’s so much more than the ‘just venting’ people try to play it off as #and im just thinking a lot about how all these things are tied together now #how so many people including people in our own community are committed to making us feel bad about wanting/needing t #i’ll probably post those screenshots at some point but for now here’s this #posts about t always seem to get people Passionate so uh. wish me luck #love when the stuff i need to live a happy life is also like. one of the most controversial and hated substances ever apparently #transandrophobia #transandromisia #transmisandry #virilmisia #virilphobia #anti transmasculinity #trans men #transmascs

[dirk-menace]

so emesis blue right

click for quality

#team fortress 2 #emesis blue #tf2 soldier #tf2 demoman #boots and bombs #i think?? obviously can be perceived as platonic #but i dont wanna n i love em #I don't like how emotions aren't the clearest the soldier aint afraid didn't mean it like that #just byyy his buddy #also i am not in the fandom the gay men game will not consume me I AM STRONG #i just watched emesis blue and liked it like a whole lot and then it turns out ppl think these two should kiss passionately #outside the movie #and i cant disagree wuth that #anyway yeah yayyy thank youu

[lesbiancolumbo]

being a woman in any film space, be it filmmaking, cinephilia, film festivals, film school, any and all of it, and like not getting frustrated and leaving that world altogether? you are god's strongest fucking soldier and i love you so much.

#like every day i see the most casual sexism and it's all rot. literally it's damned if you do damned if you don't #if you're competent and successful and good at what you do you're a shill if you're a little more inconsistent in quality you're a hack #if you're passionate about film and watch a bunch of movies you're a fake but if you just tow the canon line again you're a shill #if you take up space on tee cee em you're taking the space of a man who deserved it more than you and you're a shill. #if your curated series is creative and unique it's BAD and ANNOYING! but if you show old standards.... again. HACK! SHILL! #i see a lot of people i consider friends perpetrate this btw. you guys get real weird when a woman is involved and don't extend that to men #typical nuance enjoyer when it comes to a film a woman made: time to say the most out of pocket misogynist shit! do u still think i'm cool

[skitskatdacat63]

I've been stalking Javier Bardem's filmography, and I'm just dying at the fact that his typecast in the 90s seemed to be hunky male whore, I mean, well deserved but 😭

#i love two things: #a lot of european actors always seem to have some gay movie they starred in before they got big #<- i.e ewan mcgregor in velvet goldmine. daniel brühl in love in thoughts etc etc #2. so many european actors go from being typecast as sexy romantic leads to being cast as villains in English/American films #i mean think abt Mads Mikkelsen. iconic ass villain in american/british stuff like james bond and hannibal and harry p*tter #but in danish films i feel like hes often a quite sympathetic character????? #and then javier bardem. literally the same case #silva in Skyfall and I literally just watched him in his renowned villain rule in no country for old men last night #but then in these films i found 😭😭 sexy seducer!!!!!!! #this post is sponsored by the fact that i was trying to find gifs of him as stilgar in dune #and came across gifsets of: 1. just his crotch in tight underwear(😭) 2. very passionate kissing scene w another man #....my interest is peaked 👀 #catie.rambling.txt

[transfagfemme]

Can people in the fandom please stop freaking out about Renee x Jean as if it hasn't been a confirmed part of canon for ages now. They see Nora tag something as #jeanee and are like "PLATONIC RIGHT???" No. Romantic. Because they dated and this is a fact. Jean is a bisexual man (meaning he is into women 😵) and he dated Renee briefly. This was mentioned / implied in canon, confirmed in the extra content, and confirmed by Nora on Twitter recently. GET OVER IT???? You guys are unbelievably annoying. If I was Nora I would tell you all to Shut up and DIE

#*jean is confirmed bisexual* everyone: YAY!!! *jean dates a woman in the past* everyone: NOOOOOO!!! #I hate this fandom with a Passion #I know a lot of ppl headcanon Renee as a lesbian but she's obviously attracted to men in canon so ☠️ ??? #ur headcanon has always been nothing more than a HEADCANON stop throwing a fit when it's not canon #anyway Renee bisexual <3 #aftg #jean moreau #renee walker #🐈

[melrosing]

What music do you think modern jaime would listen to? :)

if you asked him he’d say ‘whatever sounds good’ but the truth is he listens to a lot of hans zimmer soundtracks

#ask #it’s what gets him going at the gym #this is actually one of my weirdly specific headcanons that Jaime would be quite passionate about the interstellar soundtrack #there are a lot of men who are like it’s a personality trait

[alexanderoftirragen]

i just find the idea of nealan of queenscove experiencing the fact that Women Are Horny Sometimes so delightful. he would not know what to do with it it does not fit within the constraints of courtly love! the first time he and yuki are kissing and she puts her hand up his shirt hes like woah woah babe what about our honor or something and shes like well im not tortallan but if you need to wait thats fine with me. which is flabbergasting to him. that HE would need to wait. but he is 100% the delicate little princess in that particular relationship

#he may a lioness trained knight but yuki is approx 200% more dangerous than him #he recounts this to kel and she is like well yes neal women want to have sex. and hes like do YOU want to have sex????? #and shes like ? yes? hes like BUT YOUVE NEVER SAID ANYTHING shes like not everyone is as hopeless as you anyway when we were training #together i still thought i liked men so there wasnt a lot of passion going on. neal says yeah i would not describe you as passionate #about anything during page training other than smashing your fist into jorens face. kels like 👍🏻 #later neal is thinking about this conversation and hes like. #💡kel knows women want to have sex because KEL HAS SEX WITH WOMEN (note that he has not really processed the simultaneous fact that kel is a #woman who wants to have sex. but he’ll get there) #yuki: maybe you would be more comfortable talking about yamani culture around sex with shinkokami? or kel? #neal (spluttering): TALK ABOUT SEX TO THE PRINCESS??????????? #character meta

[13flowersandfoxes]

It’s strange to me that people think the issue with not enough women in STEM is societal pressure to be feminine. I know it’s just my experience but I didn’t really face that issue, in fact I felt overwhelming pressure to do something like become an engineer. My dad and sister are both engineers, and my family just tends to be good with science. I was good at math and science and just didn’t see it as something I wanted to do long term.

Now that I’m back in school and doing STEM, I realize that part of my issue was all my options for STEM I was presented in high school seemed really dull. Like being in a lab or in front of a computer constantly. I don’t mind doing those things, but I like a mix of lab and field work. I know ecology isn’t the only job field that does field work, so I wish that aspect had been more evident earlier on.

#also having passion for something is a big aspect for me #there’s a lot of women in ecology but there is the issue of a smaller proportion of women who get grad degrees compared to men #and compared to the proportions for bachelors #hana talks

[specialagentartemis]

love to log onto tumblr and immediately see neopagan revivalist polytheists defend their religion by spouting a whole load of nonsense about the ancient world when a simpler defense is Right There if they actually knew anything about Ancient Greece

#‘Why worship Zeus?’ like if you’re gonna defend worshipping Zeus you can point to his attributes as King; as All-Father; as Storm-Bringer #as the patron and upholder of hospitality and divine justice #And say that as king he was seen as having leeway and sometimes having understandably uncontrollable temper and desires #Like the thunderstorms do #And the myths where he raped random women weren’t seen as necessarily wrong because he was kind of taking them for a bride #With the power and passion of a god #There’s definitely a dichotomy in ancient sources where those who were sworn virgins it was seen as Awful to try to rape them #Whereas if you’re making them a bride that’s basically normal #Zeus As King contained many aspects and that was part of the worship #As well as—I will give this person credit—a lot of the myths were tales that exemplify the gods’ personalities but not taken as Literal #However. All of that is different from ‘well Zeus didn’t ACTUALLY do any of those bad things. And anyway in Ancient Greece women were seen #as objects for men’s pleasure and not people so the misogynistic men who wrote those Zeus rape myths were just writing their sick fantasies #Like Come The Fuck On #rape tw #rape cw

[fortyfive-forty]

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#it feels weird to get involved in the discourse as a fellow #but i spent enough time as a female sports fan and fuck that shit is no joke #female sports fans try to have critical conversations and suddenly all the misogyny jumps out #from men women everybody #my two opinions are and always will be #1) always keep a distance from famous people/athletes #they are ALWAYS flawed because they are human #and a lot of them are straight up pieces of shit #you can enjoy the sport and enjoy their skill without being disillusioned to their faults #2) if you really love something #you will be critical of it vocally #if you really love something you want it to be better #silence about faults or flaws or controversy is not love or passion or respect #it’s purposeful ignorance

[the-acid-pear]

Some headcanons <33

Edit: i want to formally apologize for calling Pablito cis, i was wrong.

#luly talks #im not as equally passionate for all of these except for Ruby that one im extremely passionate for #like all the others is like bit of self indulgence (esp kelly lol) n oh i just think it fits but for ruby i will die and kill on this hill #bi ash too but that's just canon yall heard the puppet he sexually harassed both men and women and he was ash so #canon ash real #anyway i do actually find it kinda funny how pablo is the only cis boy but what can i say!! i just dont see a lot of tboy swag in him :/ #evil dead #ash vs evil dead #ash williams #ruby knowby #kelly maxwell #pablo simon bolivar #also not included bc I'm not too passionate but i think trans brandy would be based too bc 1) daughter and father being trans is silly/cute #2) when i told blood she might have to cut off her hand he was like ''at least she doesnt have to cut off her dick :('' #which is a great enough reason for me to believe in her having a dick KSHDJFHDB 😁

[steevejr]

it’s very interesting being an adult (28) working with teens (16-20) and having moments when you can feel this teen, in interacting with you, just learned about how to behave appropriately in a situation they’ve never once encountered before. it’s palpable.

#had a convo with a teen who told me he hated wasps with a passion and in return I said I like them a lot (1st time he’s obviously #encountered someone who liked wasp—realization 1) #and because this kid has never been in a convo with an adult who disageees with him his follow up was telling me about how he knew someone #who would violently go out of his way to douse wasps in wasp spray. and unlike every other human he’s talked to I said #‘that’s not an ok thing to do and I would rather not hear about violence towards animals that I like.’ and let me tell you the befuddlement #and horror…. I think this was the first time he had realized he committed a major social faux pax #you could cut his discomfort with a fucking knife. and good thing he learned this lesson from me and not a 16 year old girl he might’ve #been chatting with who would just awkwardly laugh without saying anything and ghost him forever. #the amount of people who don’t learn this lesson in social etiquette is astounding. let me tell you the amount of men I’ve had to execute #becuade id mention how I like deer and they’d need to explicitly describe every deer they’ve ever hit… the social etiquette critical miss…. #a day in the life of steeve