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you know, i used to see a lot of girls doing tgirl tummy tuesday, and then the guys who can't stand for women to have anything started dogpiling to turn it into trans tummy tuesday, and when transfems pointed this out we got called a bunch of mean shrill overly serious harpylike killjoys, and wouldn't you know it? now that the girls have stopped doing it i don't see anyone else still doing it either. almost as if the motivating factor wasn't an innocent desire to "just join in" and how dare you be so mean as to say otherwise, but rather that some of you fucking assholes can't stand to see trans women have anything for ourselves. every single thing that is ours has to either be broadened to be for All trans people or All queer people, or otherwise it has to be condemned as problematic and gross and shunned for the sake of The Community. because the indescribable fragility of the misogynist contingent amongst trans people means there is nothing too small and too frivolous that it is not worth prying out of the girls' hands. make her share, teacher, i want THAT toy. make her give it

Languages tend to peak at their word for butterfly. Never seen 2 that are the same, either. Papillon. Mariposa. Borboleta. Fluture. Vlinder. Schmetterling. Pillangó. Babochka. Farfalla. Sommerfugl. Perhonen. Farasha. Titali. Chōchō. Nabi. Húdié. Buom buom. Great job guys, i really mean it.

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I think she can sticking to smooth surfaces

I love licensed Super Nintendo games because they'll do genuinely jaw-dropping stuff from the level of pure technical craft – just straight making that hardware architecture do things it fundamentally was not meant to do, and doing it elegantly to boot – in service to the most tedious dogshit gameplay imaginable.

if you are a queer earring maker at a queer friendly event you should have clipons and ADVERTISE THEM you will make SO MUCH FUCKING MONEY there are SO MANY CUTE TRANS GIRLS who want to try your earrings but don't have pierced ears!!!!!! I repeat YOU WILL MAKE SO MUCH MONEY IF YOU DO THIS

genuinely I have sold a couple runs of earrings now and I can provide solid evidence that advertising that clipons even exist as an option literally tripled my sales

And please if you have the options, get traditional screw backs without a hinged clip. Everything with a clip works by squeezing your ear as hard as it can. Screw backs let you manually tighten it enough that they won’t slip off, but no further, and are much more comfortable for longer periods of time. They seem to be dying out, though, and increasingly hard to get.

the best piece of writing advice I got was from my creative nonfiction professor when I turned in Kill Yourself (a transgender metaphor, one of my favorites) which amounted to saying I'm not committing hard enough. The piece was somewhat gory and kinda painful but I wanted it to be visceral and he was literally the only one to see that. Every other person and professor would have said to make minor changes here and there but he was the one seeing I was holding back for the sake of the assignment. So, he told me to stop being scared and just write exactly what I wanted to say, to commit as hard as possible to the idea instead of testing the waters to see if im even allowed to. So I did, and he was right. The original lacked the conviction required to make the idea work, and the revision brought it to the level that truly let it shine

to those of you who need to hear this: there are absolutely surgeries that give you both a penis and vagina at the same time, they're called salmacian surgeries! look them up!

I told someone these existed and they told me that was exactly what they wanted, but they'd been afraid to look it up for fear of how devastating it would be to find out there's no such thing. well there is! which means we need to start handing out flyers and running ads

there's also nullification surgery if you want Nothing