he/him | 18 | genderqueer boydyke/girlfag tboy
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it is so disappointing the amount of queer people, especially those i know irl, who claim they are the biggest advocate for other queer folks in the community and yet "agree to disagree" with me when i talk about my experience as an mspec lesboy. do you know how rich the history is of trans men and multigender folks in the lesbian community? do not create an entirely new binary in a space where there was not supposed to be one. queer spaces have already collectively agreed enough that gender is extremely flexible and its easy to blur the lines of. can we please do the same with sexuality? they interconnect and intertwine so constantly, there are infinite experiences one may have in any community or any label they feel best fits them. fuck you if you dont let people be who they are. "it's transphobic and lesbianphobic!" no, it isn't. what's really transphobic and lesbianphobic is the shit that you just pulled out of your ass about some "non men loving non men". anyway happy masc lesbian week fuck yeah we love you lesboys ❤️🧡🤍🩷💜
i'm regularly astounded by the cognitive dissonance some of yall have to accept that gender is a social construct with infinite possibilities with the capacity to be deeply personal and individual but still think there's a list of like 4 acceptable sexual orientations and if you go outside of that list or mix entries on that list or relate to them in a non-traditional way not only are you Breaking The Rules you're personally directly harming people who follow them
people need to realize that dissolving the lines between gender also means dissolving the lines between sexuality. you cannot say gender is fake and then say sexuality is strict and rigid.
there are multigender/genderfluid people who are lesbians and gay men at the same time. there are mspec lesbians/gays/straights who have a complex relationship with gender and their sexuality. there are gay men who are women and lesbians who are men because male isn't the opposite of female.
"conflicting" labels are a part of many people's queer experience, because the human experience isnt simple enough to be put into neat perfect categories. if you truly support trans/genderqueer people, you need to accept the fact that gender and sexuality is complex and there will be people whose identities you don't understand
"Transmascs can spend a lot of time in lesbian spaces pre-transition, and thus when they do transition some may not want to leave that community and shouldn't have to," AND "Transfems can be lesbians no matter what," are two statements that can and HAVE TO coexist.
These sentiments are not opposites. One does not cancel out the other. Transmascs aren't inherently more included in lesbianism because of their "female" experience, AND transfems have always had a place in the lesbian community and always will.
I understand there are some transphobes out there who view transmascs as "female" and thus they can be lesbians, while "male" transfems can't be, but; a transmasc still identifying with lesbianism, or hell even their AGAB, will NEVER inherently cancel out the transfem lesbian experience.
And for fuck's sake, stop pitting us up against eachother. WE ARE NOT OPPOSITES.
i do love that you can name pets pretty much anything. with children you have to be reasonable but with pets you can just do anything. you can name your tortoise panopticon
I learned a lot today from Obviously Queer’s video essay “FEMME: Lesbian History, Identity, Politics and Invisibility” and femmebis’ “The “Lesbian-Only Term” Myth: A Comprehensive Historical Essay on ‘Butch’ and ‘Femme’ ”.
The queer community really normalized the words for fluidity and multigenderism but not the experiences at all.
I'm not the first to make this type of post, but I'm gonna go beyond just what the original said (and I'll edit this to include a link when I find the original again on my dash because it usually shows up once a week): we've normalize words like boygirl but most people haven't normalized actually being a boy and a girl, or a man and a woman, at the same time, and for fluidity they don't normalize actually being a boy or man and being a girl or woman at different times. Instead "boygirl" is just used like a label for androgyny or worse neutrality (nothing wrong with being neutral but being a boy and a girl is NOT that). We normalize the words bigender and genderfluid but never recognize them as actually having multiple genders. Bigender people are treated like half and half, and together androgynous or neutral instead of both of their genders at once, and genderfluid people are just seen like nonbinary people who use different pronouns and different times. We normalize the words but we don't normalize being sapphic and achillean, veldian and lesbian, a lesbian man or a veldian woman, straight and lesbian or straight and veldian. The things that are experienced by multigender people. We normalize the words but we don't allow bigender people to identify with anything other than "bigender" and we don't allow genderfluid people to identify with anything other than "genderfluid." If they want to label their orientations their options are mspec, trixic, toric, and enbian, and anything else is wrong. They're never allowed to say they're straight, and if they are allowed to be veldian/achillean or lesbian/sapphic (and they only get to pick one), they must degender themselves and pretend they don't experience womanhood or manhood.
Similarly, we normalize the word abrosexual but many don't allow abrosexuals to identify as anything but abro. They're not allowed to identify as any of the orientations they experience, even with some regularity. They might be allowed an mspec term - but they're never allowed to say they're veldians, or lesbians, and god forbid they identify as both. Even when they're experiencing being one of those things, it's not "allowed" for them to use the terms because the community deemed fluidity as not *really* the things they experienced because it's not permanent.
If we are gonna normalize the labels of multigender, genderfluid, and abrosexual can we actually get it in our heads that some people are multiple full genders at once, and if they're a man, a woman, and nonbinary, they are AS MUCH of a man as any monogender man, AS MUCH of a woman as any monogender woman, and JUST AS NONBINARY as any monogender enby? Can we get it though our heads that some people experience multiple full genders at different times, and they are AS MUCH of a man as any statically gendered man when they experience manhood, AS MUCH of a woman as any statically gendered woman when they experience womanhood, and JUST AS NONBINARY as any statically gendered enby when they experience enbanhood? Can we get it through our heads that some people experience multiple orientations at different times, and they are AS MUCH of a lesbian when they experience lesbianism, AS MUCH of a veldian when they experience veldianism, JUST AS STRAIGHT as any other straight person when they feel themselves straight, and JUST AS MSPEC when they experience attraction to multiple genders?
(there's also people who experience multiple orientations at once, statically, but we haven't even been normalized yet so. Yeah.)
Lesboy Lore Explained!!
People worry too much about how others identify. I promise it will NOT kill you if someone identifies as a lesboy. If you genuinely feel invalidated by them then thats something you should work on. Now im not saying you cant have your own opinion, but let’s be open minded here and lets respect them rather than hating on them. 🤷
From a proud lesboy to you, you are all valid! 💜🩷🧡🤍💜💙
The way some people don't even TRY to think about sexualities or genders more deeper then just "cis and trans people" is insane like they'll only think about binary trans women and men and binary women and men but like y'know what type of binary I mean, right? Everyone completely forgets multigender people exist or abrosexual/fluid sexuality, nonbinary people in general and it pisses me off! Some people will even act like they support multigender people and nonbinary people, maybe also abrosexual people and try to be "inclusive" but when there's a complex identity, they think like a caveman!
"women are non men and never men! And men? Same thing! Nonbinary people? Don't exist right now cause I'm caveman brain right now, and cis? Nope no one else can be cis except 100% binary cishet people and multigender? What's that?? And identifying with your gender at birth? Only cis people do that! And cis people can't EVER be trans!" LIKE OMG SHUT UP!
like I swear someone on fuckin TikTok or Pinterest could hear something like...I don't know a flag for people who identify with their gender at birth but are also trans and immediately forget nonbinary people and multigender people exist!!
"wait but how can that work ?" instead of asking how their queer identity works, and how can it be valid, maybe ask them their experiences. ask how it feels to themself being a mspec mono, or lesboy, or turigirl, or whatever. instead of getting angry at queer identities which dont fit your standard, just perhaps let it go and ask them as a person what their identity means to them. stop policing identities and open up your mind a little.
life can't be that bad when there's still cat and other assorted creatures
happy pride!!!! I made these paintings for us!!!! PLEASE use them!! as long as it's for personal use only 💖 i have a print shop and kofi if you want to throw any money at me, love u 💖
[ID in alt text] this is part 2/2!!! other part here stickers or prints of this series here
ok bye have a great pride month!!!! BE QUEER KICK ASS!!!!!
I made some solarpunk soda tab jewelry!! Again. And I'm making more. (Image ID at the bottom of he post)
A choker, a pair of earrings, a belt/waist chain and some bracelets using 100% thrifted/recycled materials! The choker and the bracelets have two layers so that the sharp aluminum edges on the back of the tabs aren't making contact with skin, you can kinda see it in the pictures. Here are more pictures:
[Image ID: 8 images. The first one shows a choker made out of soda tabs, with black cord weaved through it forming x shapes. There's a silver spike charm hanging from every other tab about an inch apart from each other. Im in the picture wearing the choker, my face is not in frame but my pale as fuck neck is visible and so is my dark brown hair.
The second image shows a pair of clip-on earrings laying on a sage green background. Each earring is made of 6 soda tabs weaved into a flower shape with green yarn, and three dangles hanging from the bottom. The dangles are made of a wire link with a black bead on in and a silver spike charm hanging from that. The same spike charms I used for the choker.
The third image shows a 2 ft 7 inch long belt chain made of the soda tab flowers from the earring image. Each flower is made of six tabs weaved together with the same green yarn but they yarn fades to yellow towards the end of the chain. 16 soda tab flowers are linked together with large jump rings and there are large silver clasps on each end to attach to a belt.
The forth image is my hand wearing a black compression brace and two soda tab bracelets. They are weaved together the same way as the choker, with the cord forming x shapes, but the cord is orange and not black. The bracelets are the same size, 8 inches long when laying flat including the clasp. There are two layers of soda tabs which makes the bracelet a little thicker.
The next 2 images shows a dress form wearing the belt chain from two different angles. It had a black skirt with a soda tab belt, with various spikey chains hanging from it. There's a black strip of grommet tape hanging on the right side of the belt and my soda tab flower belt chain hanging on the left side.
The next image shows one of the bracelets at and angle so the double layers are visible, and the last image shows the bracelets, the choker, and an unfinished soda tab choker with green ribbon weaved through it all laying flat on a sage green background. End ID]
made some more progress!! it’s taking fucking forever but it looks so good. i love the patches i made, and i might add a few more rips on the right side?? idk
“I can never find good clothes at the thrift store”
MAKE IT!!!! I CAN NOT EXPRESS THIS ENOUGH!!
Take a boring/ugly piece of clothing and do some diy on it!
Cut it
Dye it
Put patches on it
Put safety pins on it
Sew pop tabs on it
Hell sew random stuff on it
Do tie dye
Bleach dye a design on it
Layers and accessories also go a long way
Let your creative flow baby!! Possibilities are endless!!
Pro goblin tip:
Add a little-guy-holding-a-shiny-thing patch to an item of clothing. You will not regret this. Bonus points if the little guy has a whole nest of shinies.
I whipped out a rough digital design. I wanted it to be scene inspired and feature the Junji Ito x Hatsune Miku painting by ceydajeevas.
I traced the outlines by scaling the painting to desired size, taping white fabric to my monitor and tracing the black parts with black paint and then added my desired colours by watering down acrylic paint and dabbing the excess off of the dry black paint with a tissue.
Since I knew I was gonna sew a lot and didn't want to deal with handsewing right on the stretchy T-shirt I used a denim scrap as the backing for the graphic. I started by arranging squares of pink denim stenciled with slightly darker pink paint and a spiderweb stencil for texture and zebra print velvet. I glue these down with a bit of Hi-Tack glue so that it doesn't move while I machine sew it with a zigzag stitch
All the precise lettering is done using stencils, I've made many tutorials on those so I'll be brief, but essentially you drawa design on paper, cover it in a layer of masking tape from either side, cut it out with an exacto knife, tape it to the fabric with more tape and dab thin layers of acrylic paint with a makeup sponge. The "I drink wet cement" and "liberty" patches were hand painted cause I was lazy. On both of theseI later painted a darker pink gradient with watered down fabric paint for more texture and readability.
I then layer the rest of my elements, firstly sewing down what I have on the lowest layers of the design. I give everything a good ironing (with a pressing cloth over the paint so it doesn't ruin my iron) so it all lays flat.
The bluescraps due to the kind of fabric they are made of fraying like hell were burned on the edges in purpousefully wobly shapes. If you have a problem with the fabric buckling after this try ironing it.
I didn't really like all patches being machine sewed so then I covered the miku patch in a border of blue embroidery floss and blue patches in a border of pink, as well as added a stitch extending every peak of the zig-zag stitching on the cement heart and messy stitching around the borders of the black patches.
Lastly, I used the technique of couching to add a border to the pink triangle liberty patch (reclaiming of the pink trangle gay people were marked with during the holokaust). I firstly did three long stitches of embroidery floss, one per each side, and then sewed over it with white thread.
I then cut out the graphic out of the denim backing and handsew it to my thrifted T-shirt.
And just like that it's done! It's washing machine safe since nothing holds on with just glue and all paint is heat-secured. Make sure to turn your garments inside out and use the "handwashing" setting and no fabric softener when washing painted clothes.
I've also made a red-pink scene tank top before (there is a tutorial somewhere on my blog) that is much busier and has rhinestones on it as it is a drag costume, and while I love it I don't wear it casually, so I wanted something busy but less flashy. I've been obsessed with bubblegum pink and zebra print combo lately so this is my addition to that wardrobe of mine.
Making a top for Berlin Pride tomorrow
The nail fabric I got from a friends fashion school scrap pile, the patches I stenciled myself with silver paint. I'm about to handsew all this on.
Folk punk fans r the most annoying to make fun of ur like folk punk is genuinely bad music they're like lol yeah totally i love my tuneless dogshit music
Goth genre stamps. Show off your favorite goth genres with these stamps + can be an aesthetic stamp since i put some fancy pixel graphics
Ethereal and coldwave was difficult to me to think what i associate of, so i just slap some pixel "waves" or some abstract but ethereal background. Coldwave is just black and white since most of coldwave albums i see is minimal.
Goth genres:
Gothic Post punk (i.e. The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Bauhaus, Joy Division)
Anarcho-Goth - not really a genre but there are actually goth bands that also have anarchist tendencies (like Anarcho-Punk but well.. goth). Anarcho goth usually have a deathrock sound (especially with modern deathrock bands). Examples: Horror Vacui, Rudimentary Peni, Christ vs Warhol
Goth rock (i.e. Sisters of Mercy, Fields of the Nephelim, The Merry Thoughts)
Coldwave (i.e. Molchat Doma, Opera de Nuit, Asylum Party)
Darkwave (i.e. Clan of Xymox, London After Midnight, Switchblade Symphony, Twin Tribes, She Past Away)
Deathrock (i.e. Christian Death, 45 Grave, Scarlet's Remains, Nox Novacula). Modern deathrock bands may also call themselves "dark punk"
Ethereal Wave (i.e. Dead Can Dance, This Mortal Coil, Cocteau Twins)
feel free to use it to your personal page, carrd, neocities, strawpage, toyhouse, sheezy, deviantart, etc. No need to credit when using the stamps (like putting html embeds and stuff) but linking any of my pages is appreciated when reposted, reblog, or reupload on different places.