Projecting my illness onto my favorite character. Sorry Gustave

btw if youre young and scared of doing adult things without your parents ive learned that like 90% of the time you can just tell the doctors office or the dmv "haha sorry ive never done this without help before... can you show me how to do this?" the employee will not care. if that means anything to you

recently replayed de soooo heres some harry

Celebrating wiping the floor with Chronos by redoing my megthanzag keepsake drawing from 4 years ago! Still really wish Zag could gift Meg and Than some laurel keepsakes <3

It's been ages since I shared anything new. Have some forgotten warmups

And an extra panel because nothing is sacred

saw a radfem post about how there's no female version of emasculation. bestie yes there is

"masculinity is empowering and dominant and femininity is degrading and restrictive. there's no humiliating way of being stripped of chains" i want you to look women of color & disabled women in the eyes and tell them this. that there is no humiliating way to be stripped of your womanhood.

people are reblogging this again so I wanna add that on top of women of color and disabled women you can also just talk to trans men&mascs and nonbinary and intersex people raised female about this.

it's very funny to me whenever people who insist they are the final voice for Trve Feminism and have such an accurate understanding of misogyny, also completely ignore how much the cover-up of the violent policing of failed womanhood plays a role in patriarchy. babe stop believing everything the patriarchy says!!!!! IT IS LYING TO US CONSTANTLY!!!!!!!!

lots of good talk in the notes of different ways different groups are affected by this (lets call it unwomaning, but feel free to workshop lol). but! i want to prompt us to go a little deeper. clearly, this does happen, and it happens to a lot of different people. so how can people - and not just any people, but feminists - claim it doesn't? why does nearly everyone understand the concept of emasculation, but unwomaning is a non-topic?

ill talk about my own ideas later, but i wanna hear yall discuss this!

#important to add here that not just transmascs or trans people 'born women' are effected by this#trans women are too#constantly#and they also deserve to be in this conversation

yes! very true!

thats also part of why its important to talk about why this happens and what purpose it serves in feminism. all trans people (& intersex people for that matter) have unique relationships with different gender-spheres and are affected by the social processes of emasculation and dewomaning in different ways. exploring what role these social tools play in patriarchy connects us back to what role transphobia (in all its forms) plays as well, & why these forces exist.

#ooh im thinking about that last part and how it relates to transmisogyny#like most patriarchal oppression its always an endless feedback loop of imposed gender and being stripped of gender#obv so much of transmisogyny is about how 'men' need to fight for their manhood#and because transfems refuse to participate in that they are the shining example of a 'failed man'#but when they assert their womanhood... because it's transgressive there's no way for it to be natural and effortless!#trans women are unwomaned! obviously!#just like how trans men are emasculated! our manhood is transgressive and no amount of fighting for it will make it not be transgressive by @tr1ppykay

another really good observation. trans people Do Gender On Purpose but also in ways which fundamentally break the rules for who is allowed to do what gender. trans women's womanhood is always too purposeful, too self-aware, too thoughtful about what it means to be a woman instead of passively swallowing whatever lies the patriarchy spoons into people's mouths. it reminds people that womanhood is more than something seen but not heard, something that can self-directed and expansive. trans men are seen as the biological opposite of true manhood, and yet they insist on their manhood anyways, fully aware that the world doesn't believe they've "earned" it or that they ever can, and showing that men can simply refuse to play the game, that manhood can be something you just let yourself relax into instead of something you need to fight for every scrap of.

drew estinien

i really like estinien

i just finished heavensward

im not okay

i really like estinien and im trying to figure out how i wanna draw him

rip jean valjean you would have seriously benefitted from one of those apps where you pretend to take care of a plant by feeding yourself and drinking water

unfortunately no eclipse photography can ever outdo the waffle house one from 2017