#daniel mallory ortberg

[catrocketship]

“As my friend Julian puts it, only half winkingly: “God blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason God made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine, so that humanity might share in the act of creation.”  ― Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Something That May Shock and Discredit You

hand lettering by me

#art #artists on tumblr #illustration #my art #quotes #Daniel mallory ortberg #something that may shock and discredit you #transgender #trans #trans pride #trans joy #trans women #transfem #lgbtqia #lgbtq community #lgbtqiia+ #queer community #nonbinary #queer artist #nonbinary artists #hand lettering #lettering #typography #graphic art

[arthropoda-artistry]

“And I’m not going to ask anyone. It’s not that I don’t trust them. It’s that I don’t know if trust is a reasonable expectation to have of another person.”

Something That May Shock and Discredit You

Daniel Mallory Ortberg

#something that may shock and discredit you #Daniel Mallory Ortberg #on Wednesdays we mean girls wear pink #trans literature

[joontora]

WHY I WILL FIGHT GOD

WHY I WILL FIGHT GOD: OKAY • THEOLOGY: I AM GOD’S WORST DAUGHTER AND I WILL FIGHT HIM UNTIL HE LOVES ME

•IF THERE ISN’T A GOD I WILL FIGHT ISN’T-GOD UNTIL IT BECOMES GOD AND LOVES ME TOO

•THERE MAYBE ISN’T A GOD BECAUSE HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN A CAVE AND SEEN HOW MUCH TIME IS IN THERE, AND TIME DOESN’T HAVE YOUR BEST INTERESTS AT HEART

•THERE MIGHT BE THOUGH

•PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS LIFTING THEIR HANDS UP IN CHURCH LIKE HOW BABIES DO WHEN THEY WANT YOU TO PICK THEM UP WHICH MEANS GOD NEEDS TO START PICKING AN AWFUL LOT OF PEOPLE UP AND IN MY OPINION GOD SHOULD HAVE STARTED A WHILE AGO AND SHOULD PROBABLY HURRY UP

•PEOPLE DIP THEMSELVES IN WATER JUST TO GET GOD TO PAY ATTENTION TO THEM AND I THINK GOD OUGHT TO PAY THEM AT LEAST A LOT OF ATTENTION BECAUSE THEY’RE GOING THROUGH A LOT AND THEY WENT TO ALL THE TROUBLE OF GETTING DIPPED IN WATER JUST IN CASE GOD NOTICED

•I ONCE MISTOOK THE FEELING OF SAFETY FOR THE CONDITION OF SAFETY AND I’VE WANTED SOMEONE TO BLAME EVER SINCE

•THIS WILL ALSO SERVE AS A REMINDER TO GOD THAT I DO NOT PLAN ON EXPERIENCING SUFFERING OR DEATH AND WOULD APPRECIATE THE SAME TREATMENT FOR MY LOVED ONES

•IT WOULD BE GREAT IF THIS COULD WORK FOR EVERYONE BUT IF IT ONLY PANS OUT FOR ME AND MINE THAT’S OKAY WITH ME

•I JUST “FEEL READY” TO GET IN THE MIX

•I’VE NEVER BEEN IN A FIGHT BEFORE BUT I THINK THAT MIGHT WORK TO MY ADVANTAGE BECAUSE A I DON’T HAVE ANY BAD FIGHT HABITS TO UNLEARN AND B I’VE BEEN SAVING UP ALL MY FIGHT ENERGY FOR THIS ONE

•I FEEL LIKE GOD IS GOING TO RESPECT MY SCRAPPY ENERGY AND GUMPTION EVEN IF I DON’T MAKE IT TOO FAR INTO THE FIGHT

- Daniel Mallory Ortberg, the Toast (28 March 2016)

#words #daniel mallory ortberg #daniel ortberg #poetry #why i will fight god

[st7arlight]

Maybe the only thing I have ever wanted is to be a very beautiful, very dead, gentle boy that everyone gathers around and looks at

-Daniel Mallory Ortberg

#quotes #tboy swag #transmasc #daniel mallory ortberg #something that may shock and discredit you #quote tag #mine

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

@countrymusichijabi replied to your post “Title: The Instructions Author: Daniel Mallory Ortberg Rating: 2/5 stars I'll start by acknowledging that I have been on the...”

what was the callout post about frank?? does it have any bearing on your future book reviews?

In the callout post: "Daniel Mallory Ortberg wrote a weird, depressing book."

Frank thinks the book is so sad and so sad and so sadd so sad so sad.

#daniel mallory ortberg

[transmascsnearyou]

So I finally got 'Something that may shock and discredit you' and????

It's so good? Like I only started reading it about an hour ago and I'm only at chapter 5 but?!?!

Also I just feel this book so much. Some of the thoughts about transition that he mentions I have said to my friend word for word.

Sooo... this book is going to be my whole personality for the next few weeks.

#something that may shock and discredit you #daniel mallory ortberg #trans #book #it's funny #it's incredibly personal #i love this

[instantkrazy]

Texts From Lord Byron

By Daniel Mallory Ortberg

uuuuuuuughhh

nothing’s any good

what’s the matter

EVERYTHING

do you realize i’m never going to be able to have sex with the rain

i didn’t know you wanted to have sex with the rain

of course i want to have sex with the rain

how can you even say that

i feel like you don’t even know me

maybe

you should focus

on all the things that you can have sex with

yeah

maybe

i just want to live

right

i want to have a threesome with the moon and jealousy

right yeah

and i want to do it with the rain but i can’t

uuuuuuuughhhh

i should just go die in Greece

what?

nothing

#the toast #texts from lord byron #Daniel Mallory Ortberg

[hindahoney]

Hashem made converts for the same reason he made wheat and not bread and fruit but not wine: so that humanity may share in the process of creation

#the original quote is about transitioning and i think thats really beautiful #and i felt like converts also feel this way #i love this quote #it is by daniel mallory ortberg #jumblr #judaism #jewish #frumblr #i love judaism #jewish convert #jewish conversion

[catrocketship]

We are some of the most creative people 💅🏼

#tdov #trans day of visibility #art #artists on tumblr #drawing #my art #hand lettering #lettering #transgender #trans pride #transisbeautiful #genderqueer #nonbinary #NB #Daniel Mallory ortberg

[vividrogue]

"As my friend Julian puts it, only half winkingly: "God blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason God made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine, so that humanity might share in the act of creation."

– Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Something That May Shock and Discredit You

#my art #vivid rogue #artists on tumblr #illustration #traditional art #transmasc #trans #transgender #trans man #pre op ftm #ftm #trans positivity #gouache painting #gouache #body hair #red #pomegranate #Dysphoria inducing

[antisocialxconstruct]

Everyone I have ever touched has walked away with scars

Two Sonnets for the Left Ventricle of the Heart, Rick Bursky / chronicles of a self-fulfilling prophecy, @judas-redeemed / Ghismonda with the heart of Guiscardo (Detail), Bernardino Mei / photo by Tony Webster / How To Respond To Criticism, Daniel Mallory Ortberg / This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone / Jenny Holzer / Stardust, IAMX / @danielcalmdown / Everyone You've Loved, Susannah Irene / Foei Graphics

#web weave #web weaving #on destructive love #on obsession #I had a few of these in mind and wanted to see if I could make a whole post like this using only quotes I sourced myself 🤔 #anyway. -posts emo cringe at 9pm-

[milfglupshitto]

Is there anything gayer than refusing to ask someone out, then holding them personally responsible for the silent, ever-increasing intensity of your feelings until they tell you casually they're going on a date with someone who asked them out, then exploding with despair? Almost certainly, but no one will tell me what it is.

"I would've died for you" is a complete non sequitur of a response to the sentence "I am going on a date with a boy named Blane," but it's also the only honest thing one can say in response.

Something that May Shock and Discredit You, Daniel Mallory Ortberg (Lavery)

#something that may shock and discredit you #finished this book a month ago but think about I would have died for you every fucking day #he does not miss

[ecoamerica]

Watch the American Climate Leadership Awards 2024 now: https://youtu.be/bWiW4Rp8vF0?feature=shared

The American Climate Leadership Awards 2024 broadcast recording is now available on ecoAmerica's YouTube channel for viewers to be inspired by active climate leaders. Watch to find out which finalist received the $50,000 grand prize! Hosted by Vanessa Hauc and featuring Bill McKibben and Katharine Hayhoe!

#ACLA24 #ACLA24Leaders #youtube #youtube video #climate leaders #climate solutions #climate action #climate and environment #climate #climate change #climate and health #climate blog #climate justice #climate news #weather and climate #environmental news #environment #environmental awareness #environment and health #environmental #environmental issues #environmental justice #environment protection #environmental health #Youtube

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

Okay so since there’s soooo much fucking transphobia rampant, here’s a post for those of you who either are Christian and/or surrounded by Christian queerphobes. Here’s a list of rebuttals to when they start talking about how being trans is ungodly.

Most of these rebuttals are religious as that is the base they will be arguing from; however I did include  bit of a science to make their heads spin.

“Genesis also says that God made morning and evening. Are morning and evening strictly binary? Is there nothing inbetween? Can you define 'morning'? How about the binary of darkness and light?”

“So if we're born the gender we are, what are intersex people?” [when they inevitably say there's just "so few of them"] “There are more intersex people than there are redheads. 1.7% of the population are Intersex, while roughly 1.5% are redheads. Does that mean that redheads do not 'count' when discussing hair color?”

[to “God doesn't make mistakes”] “Yes, of course. They just do impossible things. After all, if God could put a baby into a virgin, or could bring life to the dead, why could they not put a boy's soul into a girl's body, or vice versa?”

Feel free to also say “God literally made such a mistake with all humanity that they flooded the planet.”

This line is from a Jewish source, Something That May Shock and Discredit You by Daniel Mallory Ortberg: “As my friend Julian puts it, only half winkingly: 'God blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason God made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine, so that humanity might share in the act of creation.'”

Galatians 3:28: “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.“

If they're using the Deuteronomy verse (22:5, about not crossdressing or w/e), know that line is mistranslated. Quoting https://hoperemainsonline.com/index.php/transgender/, “A more literal translation from Hebrew reads 'The weapon of a warrior shall not be on a woman, nor shall a warrior put on the robe of a woman, for all who do these things are a hateful thing to the LORD thy God.' The word “robe” is translated from the Hebrew word simlah, which was a garment worn by both sexes. Clearly, this cannot be referring to cross-dressing. What could it be referring to then? A much more likely answer to that question is that it is about ritual purity and the mixing of blood. Both warrior’s swords and women’s garments would get blood on them, one from battle and the other from menstruation. To have a man wear the robe of a woman, or vice versa, would mix blood, which was considered an abomination under the law.”

Similar mistranslations result in the homophobic verses they spew as well. just browse through hoperemains for some inspo

This last one is long, but it talks about how all humans, including women, were created in God's image; therefore, God is both male and female. If it's wrong for humans to be, why is God enby themself? 

From The Africana Bible, edited by Hugh R Page Jr:

“The term occasionally translated as 'human beings' in the NRSV and generally as "man" in most other English versions is  'adam or ha'adam. Now this is clearly not a personal name (that is, Adam) as the KJV ill-advisedly begins to indicate at about Gen. 2:19. A better translation of this term, however, would be “the earthling” since the term is derived from the term ‘adamah, meaning “land” or “earth.” Such a translation clarifies better than “man” or even “human being” that the original intent of the author is to emphasize that God made “earthlings” as a whole, not just males, in God’s image[...]”

[...]“Such a translation takes into consideration that the term ‘adam is meant to function as a collective term referring to both the male and the female. Thus, we should note that ‘adam here is not a name or an ascription of gender but a collective term for “earthlings” in general; this is emphasized by the author’s choice of the plural pronoun ‘otham, and the use of the plural verbs veyirddu and urdu, meaning in 1:26 and 1:28, 'let THEM have dominion,' further reiterates the inclusive nature of the term ‘adam. [...] In Genesis 1 and 2, both genders were created with equal expressions of God’s image, equal authority over the earth, and equal value as human beings.”

#transphobia / #transphobia m / #christianity #christian #mine

[idololivine]

"Eiden and Quincy were far from the only trans people in the clan, but they were the only ones who had felt the need to get this specific surgery". i think the entire clan can be trans. As a treat. yakumo was a snake, the way he portrays himself can be seen as a choice. edmond's family is extremely wealthy so he got bougie gender affirming care from an early age. olivine's decent with magic which he could use to change his appearance + there's potential for some neat religious imagery of being reborn a new and/or further religious guilt. altho from what we know abt the church of klein tbh i want to believe there's no religiously motivated transphobia in klein

ANYWAY

kuya has canonically been shown to use illusions to portray himself as other people and even as a woman. garu and karu are like yakumo too, they were a wolf but transformed. blade doesnt know what gender is, but he can swap out his dick for a pussy module if he wants to. dante got free top surgery and hrt from the fire spirits. rei makes unethical diy hrt in his meth lab. They can all be transgender.... (smokes a fat blunt)

THEY CAN ALL BE TRANSGENDER... YOU UNDERSTAND ME...

I generally stick to the idea that there's no transphobia in Klein, religiously motivated or otherwise, same way there's no homophobia. I think it's in line with the setting and it's also just plain wish fulfillment tbh. my personal Oli hc is that he's non op and on fantasy testosterone, big naturals and cute little tdick. I also really like him in relation to the following quote

“As my friend Julian puts it, only half winkingly: “God blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason God made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine, so that humanity might share in the act of creation.” ― Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Something That May Shock and Discredit You

which I think is less official doctrine and more how he personally approaches gender and faith. if I were angling for angst maybe the church isn't overtly transphobic but there's a little bit of "be grateful for the body god gave you"... but I also like plain uncomplicated trans joy. but headcanon doesn't have to be consistent so I can have both depending on the mood.

I'm a believer of Kuya's ability to have whatever bits he pleases at whatever time. pussy, cock, whatever, magic lets him do anything. "if magic is so good why does surgery exist" you may ask. because gender affirming surgery is cool and sexy. and most people aren't ancient yokai with access to powerful magicks. and Quincy refused to be in Kuya's debt. anyway, Kuya does whatever he wants because gender is meaningless to a magic fox.

Blade hc is that he was born a ken doll, had a dick made for him in Saia because the sexbot investor guy demanded it (see: Rusted Nation), and asked Rei to make him a pussy module because the vagina-havers of the clan looked like they were having so much fun and he got curious. so he swaps them in and out as he pleases, depending on what the mood is that day.

Rei making his own diy hrt is extremely true and real. he also has the most insane homemade straps.

#asks #my posts #Anonymous #nu carnival

[calamitydaze]

i love you like i love being hungry. it feels good to want things.

or: c!quackity, on starvation

the blind assassin, margaret atwood // nobody, mitski // abbey, mitski // stay soft, mitski // quackity’s tvtropes page // fish in exile, vi khi nao // moderation, florence + the machine // the complete short stories of ernest hemingway // unknown // unknown // i will tell this story to the sun until you remember that you are the sun, erin slaughter // crush, richard siken // children stories made horrific, daniel mallory ortberg // war of the foxes, richard siken // if my body could speak, blythe baird // euripides, medea // andy-deer // paper doll, flower face

#c!quackity #dream smp #dsmp web weaving #my web weaves #i’ve never made a short ww in my life truly…. #anyway ik this is messier than my usual but i randomly got inspired last night and threw this together. hope u like #three m.itski lyrics back to back to back oh my god i need to be stopped #blood tw #cannibalism tw #hall of fame