Seryph

Seryph, 17 days ago

Epilator bought, feeling very excited to see how it compares to shaving. Worst case scenario the one I bought can double as an electric razor too. I’m so ready for smooth leg heaven without needing to do it quite as often.

Seryph, 17 days ago

Of course, I actually have worse dysphoria for my arm hair than my legs so this was the bigger reason for my buying it

Seryph, 23 days ago

My funniest 100% cis thought was a recurring fantasy/daydream wherein I had a daughter who kills me, but the fantasy is always from her perspective and never mine and her name was my real name. I somehow didn’t even make the connection between it and my being trans until a few months after my egg cracked when I realised that I stopped having it.

Seryph, 23 days ago

I’ve been tempted to write a short story based on it sometime cuz it did, indeed, go hard.

Seryph, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

Blade of Arcana, an untranslated japanese game with a tarot card gimmick. From my understanding it’s a mostly standard d20 only game but I’m really curious how they managed to incorporate the cards into its gameplay. Unfortunately I don’t speak Japanese so I can’t read it.

Seryph, 8 months ago

They’re a man or woman now

This is why, this statement means that you don’t view trans people who haven’t “finished transitioning” as their actual gender. This is a transphobic and pretty reductive understanding of how transition works (albeit one that some trans people hold themselves, usually transmeds). I won’t write an entire essay on why but here’s just a small bit to chew on: consider that a “finished transition” is very different from person to person and some people might never consider it finished. Some people only want to socially transition, others have to medicate for their entire lives, both could consider reaching their ideal state “finished” or they could consider it a continual work in progress.

Also,

This isn’t defense, this behavior actively makes things worse for trans people.

The idea that pointing out someone’s transphobia will somehow support the transphobes is laughable. If being called out is seriously enough to make someone stop supporting trans people then their support was conditional and only surface-level.

Staying civil, as you suggest, is what actually helps conservatives since it allows their views to go unchallenged when their views are bad and should be challenged. Part of this includes challenging people who may think they are supportive but harbour transphobic beliefs that they haven’t analysed fully. And these wrong beliefs can have actual harm. As a simple example, there are a lot of “allies” who say that trans people are their gender but not their sex, which is a belief that can harm trans people when brought into a medical context where our bodies are (if on HRT) closer to those of our actual gender than to our AGAB.