Ad Venenum Bibere

A gentle smile, white hair, you had us falling.

Every word left us defenseless, and we loved you. We love you.

You though, despite your grace and elegance, you were a walking disaster and you could only have one of us.

You chose me, and in the process you started a war, ended a friendship, but now you’re gone.

You left us, once again, instead choosing the vengeance in your head, over the lovers who wait beside your bed.

Faekin who wear floral shirts and put way too much sugar in their coffee

Demonkin who take long walks in the city at night and wear off-color dark clothing

Ghostkin who admire tattoo shops and listen to weird horror music constantly

Vampirekin who refill their roomate’s old water bottles with blood and place them in the freezer for a midnight snack

Spacekin who visit planetariums and wear sparkly fingerless gloves, ‘because aesthetic’

Zombiekin who only ever blog because that’s what you do when you can hardly ever sleep and are charming af

Shadowkin who drink cold coffee and sit under trees and old buildings

this is a limited perspective from young, non or only partially-passing trans men, probably who live in urban areas.

I’m never mistaken for a girl in boys clothing. I am “mistaken” for a man. I have been slapped (not too big a deal), jumped and BADLY beaten by a group of men (way bigger deal), and seriously threatened with rape (one of the more terrifying moments of my life) to prove to me that I can’t “pretend to be a man” and “lie to people” and “get away with it”.

I have seen more than one post (and there’s one going around right now) promoting this idea that trans men are comparatively safe.  

are we safer than trans women? Usually. But we are by no means safe. Trans women are in IMMENSE danger, the fact that we’re in less danger than them does NOT make our real risk invalid or not as important to talk about. 

Here’s a radical idea: stop telling other trans men how at risk they are or aren’t. Your experience is NOT everyone’s experience and I am exhausted with the implication that trans men are safe. Safer, when we pass, but the same is true of trans women who pass, they are comparatively safer than trans women who don’t pass. That doesn’t make them SAFE. 

Regardless, this isn’t a “who’s in more danger” race, y’all. Trans people are at risk. Trans women can talk about being at risk without implying that trans men aren’t. And trans men can talk about being at risk without somehow detracting from the risk trans women experience. 

Eating is going to be hard too:

Do not let us die again, we where left once before because of a part of ourselves we can’t control.

http://www.newstalk.com/Russian-region-reportedly-opens-concentration-camps-for-gay-men-

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2017/04/10/chechnya-has-opened-concentration-camps-for-gay-men/

http://metro.co.uk/2017/04/10/reports-of-concentration-camps-and-torture-for-gay-men-in-russia-6565025/

“daddy’s calling”

“(softly) oh shit”

“southern mother fucking democratic republicans”

“i’m sorry what”

Aesthtic for a modern day John Laurens