Constantly accusing trans women of grooming is particularly heinous because you can use any genuine attempt to help and support others as 'evidence'

Sharing resources is grooming. Supporting each other is grooming. Warning others of transmisogynists is grooming. Making friends is grooming. Wanting a better future is grooming. Openly existing as a trans woman is grooming

"trying to draw other people close to you in any way is nefarious and suspicious, because you are nefarious and suspicious"

convincing someone to stop obsessing over and harassing you is grooming, we all remember that one right? where they started preordering being groomed into not harassing trans women?

back on my old trans-mom blog, I was accused of grooming on a near daily basis simply for my efforts of telling 16 year old trans kids to not kill themselves. I was accused of grooming for helping adults older than me step by step how to get hrt through their local doctors offices or planned parenthood. I was accused of grooming for helping an adult trans woman escape an abusive relationship. I was called a pedophile for being friends with someone who was also in her 20s.

Anyway shoutout to John Williams, amazing composer and probably the one who made the other 50% of "holy shit amazing" soundtracks (Jurassic Park, Star Wars, Superman, and incidentally the original Harry Potter theme and score) who famously worked closely with the first openly transgender woman to be nominated for an Academy Award, Angela Morley. He respected her, and so far as I can see, has never made transphobic remarks.

After 13 years of this, it's still funny to me that detailing a full mental breakdown on tumblr is standard fare, but posting a nice selfie is a fraught decision.

this is the correct way around and every other social media site is wrong

remember to bury the dead with a phone, everyone. these days the ferry terminal at the river styx wants you to download a fucking app

One of those fandom things that I love is when there’s new characters around and, with the unwavering confidence of an old farmer appraising cattle, fanfic authors take one good look at them, tilt their imaginary hat, and go “Aye. Praise kink, that one. Mighty case of praise kink if I ever saw one.” And everyone else just “aye.”

@cynaram

ah ok gooseworx's tumblr account got banned

extract celebrated culture from transfem and then drop them like a brick

i tried pointing this out about Lord of the Rings a while back and people acted like i’d told them the sky is green

The only contrasting argument I can make is that nearly every woman in LOTR is some kind of god-princess better than every man around them. But holy shit LOTR is misogynistic.

the closer a character is to godhood, the further they are from personhood.