#trish talks

Dump your Puppygirl is one of the worst articles I've ever read and the 3 follow-ups do not mitigate that fact, more writing isn't gonna fix the self hatred death spiral that Ms. Knight's writing has sent me and countless other women through over the past 2 days, the fact someone could supposedly have experienced what trans women tend to experience, especially in our capitalist misogynistic society which hates and kills girls, and come out of it with a take as callous as "disabled hurt women just need to try harder because their best isn't enough and their attempts at survival in a world that hates them are the same as a douchebag boyfriend in Atlanta or Jeff bezos stealing labor just wearing the costume of womanhood" is just a moment of cruelty and vitriol I didn't expect to see in my lifetime, especially not from one of the few spaces I've found to generally have healthy attitudes and uplifting messages for trans women. This post started as a jokey sardonic jab at everything going on, but I can't in good conscience make that post without it becoming this one.

But I hate to have the takeaway of this post be a simple "fuck you" so instead I'll say this, don't read Tara Knight's work, but do go support actual transfeminists like Fleshengine, Sailatina, Storyweavingspider, and Misstrogen

Just a few reminders for those people that feel so entitled:

Fanfiction writers on Tumblr post for free. We take time out of our days, sometimes working several days in just one fic, to create something that we share here in the hopes that people will enjoy reading them or hopefully even cheer them up on bad days, but we don’t get paid for it. Remember that.

Respect boundaries. We have rules for a reason, and that’s why it’s so important that you read them before requesting and why we insist so much on it. Whether it may be that a writer isn’t comfortable writing x thing or for x character or whatever it is, you need to respect that!

Writers don’t owe anyone anything. The audacity of people being jerks because some writers don’t post every day, or asking them to drop everything and write when we don’t spend every living second working on fanfiction... If you really want something written so bad, why not try writing it yourself? That way you’d see how difficult writing actually is.

We accept requests, not demands. I have personally experienced this myself, and I’ve had to put it in my rules, asking for people to be polite when requesting from me. If you drop a request, just like that, with no ‘please’, ‘thank you’ or even a ‘hello’, we feel like writing machines, and that’s not cool.

Writing is hard. Inspiration comes and goes, and we need to take breaks to avoid burnout. Even if that weren’t the case, we might have stuff going on in our lives that keeps us from writing, or a myriad of different reasons why we don’t post consistently. And you need to respect that too.

I feel like I’m repeating myself now, or echoing what my mutuals have been saying for the longest time, but I just needed to vent for a little, because this situation is making me so angry.

Also will that ever have a part 3?

Hi! Thanks for reading 💕 here's all my Florence x Harry x Reader fics. Sorry for not updating my masterlist for like 6 months 😅

In the Middle

Three's Company Part 1

Three's Company Part 2