I’m gonna start a new aesthetic, it’s called “badpunk”. It’s an alternate retro sci-fi look except all the technology is terrible and looks bad. Somebody add pictures, I need examples.
to cis artists, yr allowed to draw trans characters to be clockable, in fact i encourage it. it’s not politically incorrect or offensive to depict trans people as being obviously trans, especially if you’re drawing cartoons. its not a stereotype a lot of us just look like that
i mean, i know a lot of trans people disagree, but eventually every ally has gotta bite the bullet & use their judgement to decide what’s best for the group they’re allied with. literally just give her stubble, it’s quick, it’s easy and it’s free.
coding is neutral, it’s just aesthetic, framing is what actually matters. no one’s out here calling ms frizzle an antisemetic caricature. its not racist that u can tell the one car in Cars that sells gas is black. when cartoons show a man in a dress & treat the contrast between makeup and body hair as being self evidently funny, that’s transphobia. but that doesnt mean its bad to have a big hairy man wear makeup in your illustrated works, thats just normal hot guy behavior
my opinion as always is that there are two important things we’ll regularly leave out of the conversation- everybody fixates on the simple look of a character (ie curves on a trans guy), but what is actually important is variety and characterisation. so, you might think “ugh another show about gay people where their arc is the bigotry they face”, the issue isn’t “depicting what we often really experience is bad”, as some people frame it, the issue is the lack generally of variety. when a character wears a dress as a joke, it’s framed as a simple aesthetic issue of the show, but it’s really the inadequate characterisation to show this is a guy who likes to be dressing in a gender non-comforming way, and whether or not it results in judgement from others- heck, in school guys often did wear dresses as a joke on non-uniform days (I’m not american, it normally is a thing in my country that schools have uniforms), so having a guy wear one as a joke is possible, the world just needs variety in reasons and characters that carry those reasons in the shows, where you can tell the intent isn’t to mock trans/gnc folk. going back to op’s example, we need trans characters who don’t actually pass, but we need variety and characters that work with however they look- guys with curves who aren’t being made the simple butt of the joke, but rather are just a guy with curves, and both trans and cis guys like that (I know cis guys with hourglass figures pretty much). like op said, the aesthetics aren’t bad, they simply are badly executed a lot of the time. I’m a hairy person in makeup, and it has been a relief meeting people in hospital who actually don’t treat that as weird and funny, but just “dude, your eyeshadow is so well blended” and that’s it, and it’d be nice if we could see that energy in tv shows more. sorry to ramble btw op.
OP, I’m a trans woman and seeing clockable trans women in media gives me dysphoria
This is not a joke, I’m not exaggerating, I literally turn off what I’m watching
What now?
I’m sorry but your dysphoria isn’t anyone else’s problem. if someone else “gives you dysphoria” thats your cross to bear & not on them.
hi :3 the goal of trans liberation is not & will never be getting every trans person to pass. i’m autistic, i had a good ass chance to figure out that i was trans early in life considering my older sibling was trans & i had ample opportunity to learn what that meant, its just that i have a hard time identifying my emotions in the best of circumstances & don’t put much stake in how i’m perceived anyways. i take hormones to feel internally in balance with myself, but i didn’t voice train, i don’t wear women’s clothes, i don’t feel the need to shave regularly, i haven’t been gendered correctly by a stranger yet & that’s fine. i no longer feel like i went through the wrong puberty, so to speak, i’m just having a 2nd one now. we’ll always exist, representation isn’t just for you. we’re not just fighting for trans youth, we’re fighting for trans adults too.
and like, cis people are allowed to draw what literally exists in reality & always will. like yea they should consult a sensitivity reader but like, if your sensitivity reader tells you to make a character less visibly trans on the basis that its offensive to trans people who want to be invisible then i will veto that sensitivity reader lol
i’m a trans woman and i love clocky women as long as she’s like. respected by the narrative as a woman.
trans man here 👋
same as above, honestly. i love clocky men, give him voice cracks from being on T for months but not fully had the drop yet, give him curves and visible binders under his clothes (I swear those things stick out intentionally under t-shirts, it’s an experience all those who bind go through I swear), give him peach fuzz, give him boobs on days he doesn’t want to go through the effort of a binder, give him periods and the fight of having to wear ‘womens’ underwear because pads are what he uses, and you can’t put them effectively in boxers (I’ve tried). have him make jokes that are even funnier with the context of his being trans (I sure do, the amount of 'suck my dick’ jokes I make is astronomical, being pre-everything).
I cannot put into words how much I Fucking Loathe the fact that when you search something on youtube now it will randomly intersperse blocks of “people also watched” and “for you” into the results. That’s not what I searched for, youtube. I typed in a search query because I wanted to see search results, not random unrelated garbage you have placed in my way apparently to either inconvenience me or force me to scroll further for actual results. I despise your wretched little games and every time I see it I can only instantly close the tab as I am overcome with the urge to burn something down.
“I despise your wretched little games” perfectly conveys how I feel about the entire algorithm/attention economy
They also refuse to actually show the parameters you searched for. If you sort by “upload date,” the first few videos might be more recent ones by upload date, but anything past that you’ll find a video that was uploaded five years ago, then five months ago, then three years ago, etc, which—NO! That’s NOT WHAT I ASKED FOR!! PUT THEM IN ORDER!!!
Also sometimes the “people also watched” bullcrap will not only be entirely unrelated, it will also be videos with violent, sometimes outright triggering thumbnails. I’ve gotten some AWFUL unrelated video thumbnails just when searching for video game music videos.
I don’t get it, man. why. why do we have to homogenize everything. why does every product have to look and behave and feel the exact same way. why can’t tumblr maintain its individuality? why can’t it lean into the things that make it a unique and refreshing offering instead of scrambling to make it a carbon copy of twitter? sucks, man. sucks.
it’s just like. this broadcasts loud and clear that the people behind the curtain have no pride or faith in this site at all. that tumblr, as a whole, has no worth or merit unless it’s somehow tricking the larger internet community into thinking it’s actually another site. and the users are supposed to celebrate this? where’s the dignity? where’s the self-respect? where’s the joy? it’s disheartening and embarrassing to be forced to conform. smh.
The ultracatholics on this website aren’t actually trying to “debate” you. They think they are trying to save you.
What is actually happening, is they’re saying inflammatory things that get strong negative reactions from readers. People yell at them in response. This generates a feeling of being attacked, so they can continue to see themselves as an underdog.
This entire dynamic can be shortcutted by simply blocking them and moving on with your life.
hey the op of that crab day post is a transphobe and pro life and shit so on top of it already being a stupid idea its By A Bigot so i am praying people stop reblogging or reposting it
The original tweet is the corniest thing I’ve ever fucking seen
A. They’re not gonna tip you, periodt. So already the $10mil is looking better.
B. They’re not gonna talk to you, so any “business advice” you thought was gonna be worth more than $10mil, that’s null and void, aint happening.
C. Here’s the real secret of their “success”; they’re all bad people. That’s literally it. They’re willing to lie, steal, cheat, bully, oppress, rape, etc to get what they want, and their appetites are never sated, so they never stop lying, cheating, etc. You don’t get that kind of money through hard honest work. If you’re willing to be a big enough piece of shit, you could easily be one of these guys.
So yeah, if someone’s offering that choice, get it in writing and stay the hell away from these creeps.
But if you’re serving them you can poison the food
