Musings & Morsels

It's bug time.

Some invertebrates found in Ditovo.

1. Serot fly (a) and its larvae (b). The adult form are always upright like that.

2. Emerald braid-tail. A small carnivore.

3. Cirek small-beast. Named after its striped back.

4. Xivorea. A much smaller relative of the much larger and much more feared Ongvorea and Hexvorman, this species is exclusively a carrion eater not a predator. It's larvae (b) has a more translucent shell.

5. Red worm. Also a small scavenger that resides in the ground and emerges at the scent of spilled blood.

6. Pygb. Armored bug that eats decaying plant material.

7. Witch coin. It has great mobility and can move swiftly in any direction on the ground.

8. Imse. A domesticated invertebrate, it was originally kept as pest control but has become popular as a docile household pet that comes in many different shapes and colors.

9. Common pleasant fly. It feeds on nectar and creates nests from material it will bring carrying with its middle set of legs.

and once you see it, so much starts to make sense. the attempt to erode language like tme/tma, which allows transfems to discuss their oppressors, or language like trans women, which allows transfems to unify and understand themselves as victims of misogyny. the proliferation of the femboy- an alternative identity for the young transfeminized person, one that is centered around looking skinny and pretty and being sexually available. and attempts to target and remove trans women from their community- to destroy the transfem community on tumblr, to isolate and punish trans women from their irl support groups. even the public mockery of transfemininity, the jokes on television, the insults boys fling at each other to assert that to be transfeminized is to be less than worthless.

yes, India made legal gender change impossible but my friends have always gendered me correctly and stick to it even when it confuses other people and my friend's little sibling calls me older brother in Kannada yes, India made legal gender change impossible but my dog learned my new name quicker than the humans and she runs to give me a kiss when she's told to without being confused about who's being referred to

yes, India made legal gender change impossible but I can feel the Adam's apple growing in my throat and my muscles getting stronger, and my smile more real and I'm growing a beard, and I talk more freely

Like holy fuck that was such a Moment. Yes the world is going to shit but she's right. It's a wonder. I'm becoming more happy, more myself, and I'm able to.

My coworkers: man, youre a real red-card commie, aren't you? You gonna start telling us to vote NDP and that healtcare isnt a scam too? Jesus christ go give someone else your goddamn revolution pamphlets, lenin.

Me on tumblr: while i appreciate the animosity towards billionaires, i dont think literally dragging a guillotine into the streets and beheading people as a public spectacle is going to actually solve the problems inherent in the system considering the french already tried that and it didnt work out well for them. Also i dont think anybody has the right to decide who lives and who dies, im pretty anti death penalt-