siliconereptilian

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tabletop rpg obsessed, particularly lancer, icon, cain, the treacherous turn, eclipse phase, and pathfinder 2e. also a fan of the elder scrolls and star wars, an avid gamer and reader of webcomics, and when my brain cooperates, a hobbyist writer.

 

the urge to share my creations versus the horrifying ordeal of being perceived. fight of the millennium. anyway posts about my ocs are tagged with "mal's ocs" (minus the quotes). posts about or containing my writing are tagged with "mal's writing" (again, sans quotes). posts about my sci-fi setting specifically are tagged "the eating of names". i'd pin the latter two if they were actually among my top 15 most used tags lol. fair warning, my writing tends to be quite dark and deal with some heavy themes.

 

avatar is a much more humanoid depiction of my OC Arwen Tachht than is strictly accurate, made in this Picrew. (I have humanoidsonas for my non-humanoid OCs because I cannot draw them myself and must rely on dollmakers and such, hooray chronic pain)



princess-icky
@princess-icky

This post perfectly articulates something I am so frequently frustrated by, and it feels especially poignant as a trans person of color. I want to articulate transness with as much inclusivity and variance as possible, it sucks feeling like people dont see your transess because it doesn't function like theirs, or because they masculinize or feminize people with your skin color.


lys
@lys

trans monoculture posts are always doing this kind of hegemony. it's a form of play and identity-making, things every immature person needs the time and space to do, but they happen in public fora at scales when it's no longer just their problem anymore. i sincerely hope that stripey-socks programmer-types have space to experiment with definitions and labels with their friends; once their play happens in public it becomes, however harmless their intentions, propaganda of race and class. it is world-narrowing in a fun way for the participants, and world-narrowing in a cruel way for literally everyone else. no white girl with a blahaj should try to suggest, even laughingly, the supremacy of the way she is; that's just white supremacy.


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in reply to @princess-icky's post:

The post is not about the literal definition of transgender but about the social definition of what a trans person is for some people. Like the idea that all transwomen have a blahaj, play Fallout New Vegas, and drink Monster energy drinks is a social definition of transwomen that comes out of very specific groups of people but is often applied as a blanket statement.

in reply to @lys's post:

Gosh, yeah. Incredibly well put! I always worry that talking about this makes me sound like an asshole, like I'm being bitter and spiteful, but its so hard to deal with constantly. And I never say it to try to close off any possibility of sisterhood, I say it because I wish things felt more open for me to connect with others.

This is why I really dislike the "Transgender Shitposting" group on redacted-book, a lot of the memes are very white-centric, and some of the memes are literally stolen and uncredited fanart with Impact-font captions slapped on top (sometimes even being labeled "OC" or watermarked, ie. plagiarism), as if Japanese-made fanart is little more than public domain assets for anyone to use - never mind that many Japanaese artists have a "no unauthorized redistribution" clause.

I'm glad I'm not alone in feeling this way about white queer culture because I've wanted to say this but fear I'll be thrown off the Golden Gate Bridge by the Silicon Valley queer community

yeah the way people treat japanese art specifically is so weird like it's nice to be able to search so much relatively well tagged art on just gelbooru or whatever and i lowkey wish that was a thing for more western art outside of specific niches but it's weird that people have a double standard...

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