Never forget about Max Raabe

Idk how people send me asks like “tumblr discourse has made me into a transmisogynist and the guilt makes me want to kill myself” and expect me to not just respond with “yeah you should”. Like I don’t feel bad for you if you have developed genuine feelings of hatred towards an extremely vulnerable minority because a couple of bad apples were mean to you on socials

if you're a trans woman it is very important that you're friends with people who are interested in living and living well. Find gym rats, painters, academics, devoted gardeners, gourmands, cinephiles, audiophiles, wine snobs, fashionistas... anyone who is deeply devoted to something in life, that fascinates them, brings them peace, and compels them to live. Learn from them, ask them to show you what's so good about ____. Imagine yourself as one of those anime slice of life characters who've learned that they can be satisfied (fulfilled even) with life as long as they pursue their love of __. The world is full of so much misery for us, and so many of us let that misery and hatred eat away at us until we're depressed, angry shells of people. Refuse that, choose life, choose learning how to live well. Choose enriching your senses by training them.

Fear mongering trans men into believing that they won’t pass with dyed hair, piercings or an alternative style is transandrophobia but I don’t think people are ready for that conversation

I don't understand what about tiktok made people so willing to say the stupidest shit ever conceived by a human brain and put their entire face behind it

it was annoying at the time, but in abstract it's really funny to look back on the kinds of lore questions people would ask about elden ring immediately after playing two hours of it and skipping as much dialogue as possible just so they could get in on a popular topic

ok but why did they do that. Just for eating dung?

“Art is happening everywhere all of the time” but an awful lot of it seems to only ever happen in New York and London, doesn’t it?

hell I’m someone who’s seen a LOT of theatre shows. we have a local theatre that does performances a few times a year and occasionally I’m able to get tickets when there’s a tour (even the closest location is like at least a two hours drive) and like. even if I’m actually fucking able to go to them the amount of times the Only Space with wheelchair access LITERALLY CAN’T see the fucking stage is wild. the last performance I went to I was seated somewhere where I wasn’t able to see anything except peoples feet unless the performers were on the far left of the stage. i was AT the live art and I wasn’t able to see it bc accessibility at theatres is That Dogshit. like even if somehow the geography and financial issues are somehow fine (they’re not) I think it’s Interesting how James completely ignored the disability part Justin mentioned. “art is happening everywhere” but no one cares to let people like me see it even if we’re fucking there and paid money for it.

allonormativity is so pervasive. “A computer can never be horny and thus can never make good art” I have never been horny in my life, is my art fundamentally bad? Is horniness the only emotion that can fuel good art? Is everything I put into my writing and drawing and painting negated by the lack of horniness? I am a person and I am an artist and I am a writer and I am not horny. Piss off.

brooding men who cannot communicate their feelings if their life depended on it are only hot when they're fictional. if i have to deal with one in real life i will curse him and pray for his downfall every night before i go to bed

It's because the writer communicates their feelings for them. If people wanna pull that off in real life they need to hire a guy to walk around behind them narrating.