Gender Fluidity Is Likely The Norm.

Ah, well shit. This is gonna hit me in the face aint it?

okay i just read an INCREDIBLE apocalyptic/supernatural/religious horror novel with a trans gay male protagonist and incredible portrayals of religious trauma, body horror, and reclamation of your identity being seen as like, screwed up and disgusting. i know this isn’t the kind of thing you usually post about but it’s such a good damn book i had to recommend it. it’s called Hell Followed With Us by andrew joseph white. it made me sob at so many parts and it depicts found family queerness so well and has a canon autistic character and AUUUUHHHHHH it’s so good. if anyone wants to read it there’s a copy up on OceanOfPdf !!

That sounds awesome!!!

Here's the description from the author's website:

Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him—the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world’s population. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can’t get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with. But when cornered by monsters born from the destruction, Benji is rescued by a group of teens from the local Acheson LGBTQ+ Center, affectionately known as the ALC. The ALC’s leader, Nick, is gorgeous, autistic, and a deadly shot, and he knows Benji’s darkest secret: the cult’s bioweapon is mutating him into a monster deadly enough to wipe humanity from the earth once and for all. Still, Nick offers Benji shelter among his ragtag group of queer teens, as long as Benji can control the monster and use its power to defend the ALC. Eager to belong, Benji accepts Nick’s terms…until he discovers the ALC’s mysterious leader has a hidden agenda, and more than a few secrets of his own.

Also look at this gorgeous cover:

Tube Sun

#HNOC #the mechanisms

the lights at costco are bright enough to replace the sun. we no longer need our own sun.

What would villainous be like if it was on adult swim?

Lots of swears! Especially from Demencia and even Black Hat. Blood, cannibalism, lots of murder… Just horrible things. Part of me wishes it was actually on adult swim, but Alan seems to want the challenge of putting such a potentially scary and dark show on kid’s TV. 

Adding to this from the other side (FTM).

Befrending the boys around you and being so desperate to be one of them. Being seen as a woman nonetheless. The abuse that opens you up to. The jokes about how you want to sleep with all of them. The jokes about sucking cock and how you're such a "good girl" for practicing on fucking popsicles. The inherent misogyny you learn.

I don’t know about anyone else, but I, as a trans woman, do not know what it is to be a man. I know what it’s like to be surrounded by men, to be picked apart by them, to have masculinity enforced on me and to have my femininity degraded. I know what it’s like to be targeted for punishment, physically and sexually, for my femininity, for a girlhood the boys and men could see in me, to be queerbashed, to have my head slammed into hard surfaces, to have my genitals fondled, to be injured in all kinds of small and repetitive ways with things like pens, compasses, and so on.

I know what it’s like to be assumed to be a man, and to be abused because I am not. I know what it’s like to be separated from my female friends as a young child because my status as a ‘boy’ meant that I needed to be placed with the other boys, the ones who degraded me and hurt me. I know what it’s like to be beaten and burned. I know what it’s like to have teachers make an example of me because I cannot conform. I know what it’s like to be made afraid of being around other people, because people means abuse.

But I don’t know what it is to be a man. Even after everything they tried, I wasn’t one.

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i worry we are losing touch with the True Meaning Of Halloween (avoiding the fairies)

This is getting annoying as hell, yall. Stop going after my trans sisters, you know it's happening, Tumblr.

Just adding some calm to the noise of this hellscape rn.

Come sit here for a bit, take a break from the wilds.

Center, breathe, you are you.

Whens the last time you had food or water?

Do you need to put the glowing box down?

No matter what happens, we are still here. We will make it through this.

Yeah, people who have a deterministic outlook or believe that things can't change tend to use that as an excuse for their shitty behavior rather than actually engage with the concept of everything being pointless or futile.

Hello Mr Sims! On a scale of 1-10 how much do you believe in free will? 1 being everything is entirely determined and 10 being everything is free will

I do not believe the future is determined in any external way. I do believe that if every single neuron of someone's brain were fully and completely understood and mapped out down to the moment a decision is made, and every single micro- and macroscopic factor affecting that decision was also understood, then it would be possible to completely predict a person's course of action. Now, obviously, we will never have anything close to the ability to do that, and even if we did that knowing itself alter the equation. Our minds and realities are so infinitely complex that such a thing is impossible, so for all practical purposes we have free will.

What would that be... a 5?

#space #vast

NGC 2841, Stardust Galaxy

yes

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