patron saint of free will and gender fuckery
do you know the quote that kinda goes like being trans is like making bread out of wheat and wine out of fruit, it's taking part in the joy of creation? yeah that never really left me (╥ᆺ╥)
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Y'know, there's something I've noticed while looking at my own top scars, something missing in my own art.
It's the fact that, well, these scars don't always end so neatly just before the armpit. In my case, they cross nearly half of my torso:
I know this isn't a great quality photo, but do you see that little dot scar under my top scar? That's where a surgical drain was put in. Being holes left in your body for a week after surgery, they're bound to scar up and create two little dots at your sides (also those drains can be a foot long wrapping around from there to your chest).
There's another thing I don't see covered in art, the usually dreaded "dog ear". Sometimes the end of a top scar doesn't heal nice and close to the body, especially if you have any sort of fat roll in that spot like I do.
It's a part in the skin that sticks out, and not much can really be done about it. It's another imperfection in the surgery seldom seen in art, and part of that reason is people are usually embarrassed and upset to have it after a surgery they feel should have been perfect.
I had those same feelings, but honestly now? Trading two heavy breasts for a bump on my side? Worth it 100%.
My point with this post was kinda to show some top scar stuff I don't see in art? Even in my own which I'll definitely be aiming to change.
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Eric's one of my best character designs and I think that's funny 'cause he's literally just me with longer hair and heterochromia.
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Content Warning: Talk of chest surgery, close up pictures involving surgical tape/stitches/healing wounds, post op chest scars
Wanted to make a post for my chest cause I'm going to be hitting my 4 months mark on the 26th !
I had a bilateral mastectomy due to fiberdenomas. So not exactly top surgery but close enough lol
I reeeeally like how my chest has healed. Especially compared to the like fresh healing stage and it's honestly made me really happy and much more confident ^^
This was around the like 4 days-1 week mark
Compared to now at almost 4 months !
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I'm starting to feel about artistic depictions of trans scars the same way I feel about artistic depictions of blindness: they suck.
At first the art of all the jagged lined scars I saw for trans characters seemed neat. But then I started to remember that I have those scars and they don't look like that. At all. And it's kinda shitty to draw all these trans men and nbs in such a way that they look like someone took an axe to their chests. Mastectomy/top surgery scars don't look like that at all! Even when you have a slash and dash quick surgery like I did, the results are much nicer and most trans guys you can't even tell.
This is like drawing people with white/pale, unfocused eyes as a shorthand for blindness. It's a shitty stereotype and I think in the long run it causes more harm than good. Just like with real trans folks you may have to just say out loud that your guy is trans instead of giving him a design that's kinda shitty to the bros out there who went through some shit to look really good.
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here's to transmasculine bodies this tdov
[image description:
image 1: a charcoal drawing of a transmasculine person's bust. they are standing with their arms up folded behind their head. they have top surgery scars and a chubby stomach hanging from above the belt of their underwear. they have hair under their armpits, all over their chest, in a thick line down to their belly button, and all over the lower part of their stomach.
image 2: a double page of a sketchbook with two different pencil renditions of boticelli's birth of venus. on the left page, venus is standing in her scallop shell, with one hand hiding part of her chest and the other holding her long her in front of herself to hide her genitalia, like in the original painting. on the right page, venus has top surgery scars, a beard, and hair all over their legs, thighs and stomach. / end ID]
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