🍉Mayu/Yuki

You WILL be racist. You WILL do racist things. You have ALREADY done both. Learn and move on. There's no ideological purity you can hold on to, i promise. Proving you can take the criticism without making it a big deal and practice what you preach is better than any clean slate.

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We need more of this. Public shaming in front of their families. The nerve of the war-criminal: please don't tell my children I played a huge role in the mass-murder of children.

RETROSPECTION AU

[ Ace & ITrapped ]

"you've lived a million years. you'll make it through the day."

RETROSPECTION AU

[ Ace & ITrapped ]

"you've lived a million years. you'll make it through the day."

1. Do not do age verification.

Oh no I dropped my link, what a horrible thing! Sure hope this doesn't get reblogged until it reaches users from the UK and Brazil!

I have been... uh... alive!!

Semi-recently I did go down a spiral but I've been better after getting some help. Well, kinda. There still are some days where I wake up and I think “fuuuuuuuuuuck I'm still alive goddammit” but hey, ups and downs!

too many people completely separate disability from themselves in their mind. it's something that happens to other people. other sad people i don't want to think about. are they really even people, it's too much to bear thinking about that happening to a person... those background characters over there. it would never be me, i can't cope with thinking about that possibility.

this mass denialism of the fragility of the human body (YOUR human body) has created a whole category separate from the disabled - the "elderly." since anyone can join it if they live long enough.. no they can't be disabled. that's scary, and worse it's political. so they are just "old." so what they lost their hearing, their mobility, their heart function? that's just how it goes for old people. as if that's not a person as real as you. as if you wouldn't be devastated if that happened to you today (and it can btw). as if you won't be when it's your turn to be old, and disabled.

My grandparents lived to 98 and 103. Read that again— 98 and 103. My grandmother died 5 months ago and was born in 1923.

She was extremely wealthy. My grandfather left her millions. She paid about 13,000 a month for her care.

And her nurses abused her. She could do nothing. She could not speak for herself, feed herself, clothe herself, and the humiliation they made her endure was disgusting. When she tried to express discomfort, they gave her drugs to “keep her calm” (keep their shift easy). We fought like HELL to hold that fucking place accountable. The only reason we were aware is because we hired a private nurse on her behalf, too.

The elderly are a massive, extremely vulnerable, and disabled group. You cannot leave them out of your advocacy, you cannot leave them out of the conversation. “They’re loud, they smell, they’re opinionated, they’re rude, they make me uncomfortable”. I don’t care. I don’t care! They need your advocacy too! I want you to think, if my grandmother— who was in the best retirement home she could afford, with a personally hired third-party nurse to step in where the other carers failed, had such abhorrent care… what about everyone else? What about all the elderly who don’t have a support system?

We shouldn't be pressed about what gender a person presents as, and we honestly shouldn't care about whether or not a person that considers themselves masculine wears feminine clothing, especially when it comes to characters.

An afab genderqueer character shouldn't be labeled as fetishized or stereotyped if they present feminine in some ways, so long as they aren't treated as if they are weak for being feminine or seen as an object only there for sex appeal.

If you think that I am wrong for saying that, riddle me this: Why are only pressed when it's genderqueer people being presented as feminine?

The problem isn't about the way a character presents itself, its about how society and the patriarchy have turned femininity as a concept into a thing that automatically makes you weak and fragile, and therefore sexually appealing in the eyes of society.

The problem was never how a character presented themselves or acted, it was always poor writing and frequent fetishization of queer people by babyifying them that was the problem. And what do you know, most of the infantilization comes from the fact that the beauty standard for what makes woman sexy is for them to act like children or rely on a man.

It's not like a person is only wearing "feminine" things all the time, but why do we care so much if they are? "feminine" clothing is fun to wear, all genders find it pretty. What's so wrong about being pretty? Why do we have to keep men from being pretty?

My proposal to fix this: Stop acting like what a person is wearing automatically means they act a specific way, and that a genderqueer person with feminine features isn't fetishization.

Like realistically, as a transmasc myself I will NEVER get bottom surgery. It's too risky.

You have a 50/50 chance of complications during surgery, infections will rage on for YEARS, urethrea will close, sometimes even kidney failure. I could NEVER for the sake of my own saftey.

People are like "trans men in media should have bottom surgery aswell! Because otherwise is a fetish!" Like, a lot of us just don't want it. Maybe a uterus removal would be okay, but I could never get a willy.

Small "Twink" like trans men aren't fetish, it's just representing that not all transmascs look the same, same with enbies.

People prefer their own styles and choices, doesn't mean it's an automatically a fetish.

I swear, if it's a tomboy, she's cool and swag and fun to hangout with. But the second it's a femboy, it's a fetish.

If it's a cis guy, he's fine. If he's trans, he's a fetish. It's so. Fucking. Dumb.

Me choosing to wear a dress as a joke sometimes isn't something to beat yourself to, me getting top surgery isn't a fetish, and me getting testosterone SHOULDN'T BE SEEN AS A FETISH.

A majority of my male characters/enbies are transmasc, and all don't have bottom surgery because I feel comfort in characters I can relate to being transmasc (Two Time, 1x1x1x1, 007n7, my persona, etc.)

I'm not fetishizing them for not having bottom surgery, it's just an obvious statistic that trans men prefer top surgery over bottom surgery because top surgery is just the removal of milk glands, fat, and soft tissue, then sealed off. Complications almost never happen unless you cut too deep. Bottom surgery is 100 times riskier, and has resulted in trans guys loosing kidneys. It's a preference.

1. actually know that they're systems (this is rare. being online makes resources on figuring it out WAY more accessible) 2. happen to exist in the same online space as you, the tumblr user reading this 3. are, as a result, usually younger and/or autistic and/or queer, which are all factors that can influence individual alters' identities.

so of COURSE you think we're all like this. you're looking at one damn tree instead of the whole forest!!! there are systems who are 60 years old and never had the resources to figure out what was going on. there are systems who are 30 and barely use social media for personal reasons. there are systems who are 20 and don't tell anyone because of the cruelty they've faced every time they try. there are systems who are 15 and are SO relieved to have answers to why everything felt weird and wrong their whole life, so they shout it from the rooftops. your limited interactions with systems in specific online spaces does not represent the majority of systems on earth.