mosscub: tokyo drift

the subtle differences between sister (trans girl i am speaking to), sister (strong family-type bond), and sister (i want to have sex with you)

people are always so surprised when i tell them my plumage changing from vibrant hues to grayish browns wasn't done surgically. cis people need to get more educated on the effects of HRT immediately

"yeah I'm mocking you for not measuring up to feminine beauty standards... b-but you're not ~really~ a woman by my standards, so I'm not being misogynistic! no no I'm a feminist I swear!"

Funny part is that if you do manage to measure up to feminine beauty standards, their rhetoric switches to "you shouldn't wear so much makeup," "why is your hair so long," "you look like a 1950s housewife" (someone actually said that to me two days ago 🙄). You're either not feminine enough, or you are and then you're *too* feminine.

can't believe the only options are 30 minutes early or 10 minutes late. if only there were some other way. but what can you do

the state does not need to assign you a sex, nor does it need to keep inalterable record of it btw

a very interesting terf objection to this one boils down to "but how would the state know who to protect?" because it speaks to the incredible privilege of being in a class the state actually ever remotely wants to protect. most oppressed groups do not want the state to have a registry of them, lol

the patriarchy has done a great job convincing white cisgender women that it's in their best interests to maintain it

Oh and this is also part of the broader centrist "every material claim the far right makes is true, I just disagree with their tone and think we should be nice" tendency. Like what I'm outlining here is a worldview where the anti-trans notion that trans people Do Not Exist is taken for granted.

every time one of my TME mutuals or friends is like “ya people are being so transmisogynist about amazing digital circus, i haven’t watched it how hard is it to be normal about transfem characters & transfem art? Anyway i ain’t watching that shit” and like idk how to tell you 1. that you should watch it cause it’s good and, 2. obviously you don’t have to watch it but maybe you should still be less glib about how you think you’re too good for it? comes off as a little sexist imo

good morning to the beaten and the damned only

the thing about being "good with kids" is all it takes is literally just not trying to control and mould them with every interaction. it's just being a normal person and engaging with them through normal interactions like having conversations and playing games. it's just being genuine and friendly and not perceiving them as lumps of wet clay you are there to shape. "oh you're so good with kids" thanks it's because I think they are people

i was talking about this on my server earlier but i really think "cozy" is one of the worst genre labels out there in the gaming space. like people dunk on the terms "metroidvania" and "first person shooter" a lot for being uncreative or limiting but at least those are like... falsifiable descriptors. you can look at a game and go "yeah this game's mechanics and core gameplay loop generally operate like metroid/castlevania" or "yeah this game primarily uses a first person camera paired with some sort of projectile weapon" so i don't think they're completely useless. but "cozy" is just nonsense. fully subjective. i see a lot of games popularly labeled as "cozy" that share almost zero mechanical features between them and don't even always match in tone or aesthetic. hearing a game described as "cozy" doesn't tell you anything about what to expect as a player beyond maybe giving you a sort of forewarning about the fanbase and their discomfort tolerance. "cozy" is not a quantifiable metric. like imagine if someone offered to buy you takeout and asked you what kind of food you'd like and you told them fully unironically, and with no further elaboration, "i want to get yummy food." that's what hearing "cozy games" sounds like to me

i think people are starting to confuse class analysis with bioessentialism. like... no not all men do this, but Men as a constructed social class do do this. that's still okay to say. that is regular material analysis of the world around us.

I will be honest if someone posted "I'm a tutor and everyday I watch zoomers try to double tap on books to open them" thousands of you would reblog it and tag "😱 it's so scary that this is what all kids today are really like they're so helpless and stupid omg!!! those damn kids need to get off their phones!!!!"

i think telling trans men they're not men in a way that counts is heinously transphobic actually. all these people are obviously transmisogynists as well but atp i'm marking them red for their good old fashioned transphobia too

i've fought cis people who were dear to me for saying shit like this, why should i tolerate it from shitty dudes who, adding insult to injury, aren't just saying it because they're parroting the transphobic background noise of the world rn but to actively deny they benefit from transmisogyny??? fuck all the way off. i'm so tired of people on my asks telling me i should give more grace to ""my community"". these people are not my community and if i could i'd spit on every one of their faces until i died from dehydration