disturbing fiction enjoyer

being a horror fan will have you saying sentences such as “i liked it a lot, super gross and sad”

Also true crime

no thats a different and worse thing i am not associated with you

“I don’t put politics in my stories” is the literary equivalent of a cishet guy going “I don’t have pronouns”

crazy how quickly dust accumulates. i should be allowed to put my trinkets on a shelf and not touch them and they remain in perfect condition forever. dont even get me STARTED on the inside of a computer. why do i have to brush your teeth. youre technology.

remember the like tiny sliver of time when there was a real push to just say "people who have a uterus" or "people with testicles" or whatever when that was what you meant, and then faux-progressives who were willing to cave to terfism to avoid saying icky anatomy words ruined it with "AFAB-bodied"

literally just say dick when you mean dick. feeling uncomfortable with body parts and getting all euphemistic about it is conservatism by default.

Through the magic of specifying, for instance, "if you have a cock and balls then you may sometimes struggle with accidentally squeezing them in painful ways when sitting down" you also account for someone who got rid of her cock and balls surgically. Because get this. She No Longer Has That Anatomy. She is now outside the group defined as "people with cocks and balls".

On the other hand, instead of trying to contrive some anatomical grouping when what you really want to say is "trans women and cis men" without owning up to how awkward it is that you're making that particular grouping of identities, through the magic of introspection, you can think about why you're so desperate to do that!

If you’re transgender I want you to go out there and make the worst, shittiest, most twee or cringe or weird or kitsch or gross or all-around unappealing art you possibly can. The idea that all art, especially stuff made by oppressed minorities, has to be Serious and Cool or even GOOD is a prison. Art is first and foremost about self-expression, not being Cool or Good At Art. Make whatever you want. There's no rules and anyone telling you otherwise is a liar