It isn't ever delicate to live

i actually do think you should draw clocky trans people. no i don’t think they’re a stereotype or caricature. i think that’s a horrible thing to say about real people who exist. i think that’s a horrible thing to say about my friends and my family. i want to see your art of a trans boy with curves and long hair and baby face because that’s me. i want to see your art of a tall trans girl with broad shoulders and facial hair because that’s my friend. stop being scared to draw the people you know.

“I’m not going to draw a clocky trans woman because that’s how TERFs draw them” i don’t think my friends should be forced to only see themselves in artwork made my TERFs and transphobes. They should get to see themselves lovingly drawn by other trans people.

Solarpunk to me doesn't mean green and bright everywhere. Instead, it's working with the available environment and harmonizing with it. Living in deserts and learning practical methods of water-finding, homes in the bases of mountains. Protecting existing dark forests, cultivating ones where deforestation once took over the land. And cultural preservation. The architecture of different cultures being preserved, native wildlife sewn into the foundations. It wouldn't all be those images that pop up when you first type 'solarpunk'. It would be extremely varied, a celebration of both biome diversity and human cultural diversity.

Deep sigh. You want me to ~be compassionate~ here's the compassionate answer: your trauma will tell you you're a helpless child forever and you need to Not Think This Way for yourself (living under the assumption you're still in danger whether you actually are or not) and everyone else who has to tiptoe around your Sensitivity. That's how you break the cycle and you can only do this by accepting responsibility for your actions. And it seems like a small semantic thing but imo step one is calling yourself a survivor instead of a victim. Self identifying with your victimhood helps No One. You lived, now get up

treating your own characters badly is problematic? back in my day if we were mildly inconvenienced on the way to work we'd vivisect them for the stress relief