when I was in 6th grade, my history teacher told us to be careful today because “gullible is written on the ceiling” and while many of my classmates looked up, I didn’t because I have auditory processing issues and didn’t understand what the teacher said.
I had a friend who was homeless because his lack of a permanent address meant he couldn’t get paid. He couldn’t get a permanent address because he needed to renew his ID. He couldn’t renew his ID because he didn’t have a permanent address.
People really can’t seem to grasp the simple concept that a majority of people are homeless not because of unemployment but because housing is unaffordable and often requires meeting absurd conditions like good credit scores and making 3x the cost of rent.
yesterday I took an uber and my driver was this redneck dude and he was telling me all about shooting hogs, how we have a wild hog situation in san antonio, and how a wild hog will eat you if you’re defenseless. But he gendered me correctly the entire time so he got 5 stars.
probably my most misunderstood comic 😵
People took it to mean I’m trans because i felt ugly, but the truth was that I wasn’t interested in fitting to the female beauty standard in the first place. Being a good looking guy spoke to me much more.
insane how transphobia has taken so many so-called feminists from “women are just as strong as men and can do everything men can” to “women and men could not be more different. women are small and weak and men are big and strong and there is no in between”
HAPPY
#PrideMonth
!!!
I’m gonna be serving up little trans comics all month long🏳️⚧️
Here is a common experience with cis/hetnormativity in my boyhood.
even in coloring. Got asked to test for a western style comic and was told they asked me bc I have a different coloring style from the mainstream comic style.
Then I got rejected because my style was too different from the mainstream coloring style 🧍🏻
I tried to be nerdy, I tried to be butch, I tried to be fem. I tried fashions like lovecore, grunge, 50s, 60s, 90s. I even tried....twee...
Nothing ever worked to help me feel like ME.
Until I tried...✨TESTOSTERONE✨
Happy
#TransDayOfVisibility
#TDOV2023
🏳️⚧️
Later that morning my crush handed me a note (we were too shy to speak to each other much) where he said “remember, gullable is not in the dictionary” and I thought “he probably can’t find it because he spelled it wrong”
im pleading to anyone who learned the term male/female gaze from tiktok/the internet to erase that info from your mind, look up Linda Nochlin, and learn what these terms ACTUALLY MEAN
Then at lunch he came round with a pack of oreos and offered me some. I said no thanks because I don’t like oreos. He insisted I try one and I said “no, like, I HATE oreos” and he left disappointed. Turns out he had replaced the cream with toothpaste as a prank.
i’m not in contact w my mom but today i was thinking about how she used to say “i wish i had been born a guy. I would’ve had long hair still and played guitar in a glam rock band” and i’m like “hm. that’s exactly how i feel about my gender but I would’ve done grunge”
i know people mean well when they try to defend the existence of immigrants by saying how much we contribute to the economy or whatever, but actually our worth as people is not on how much capital we produce but because we are human beings
“Extremely Cishet Thoughts I Had Growing Up” pt.3
Continuing my series for
#Pride2021
. I can’t believe deep down I always knew my ideal gender presentation was “beautiful man who makes everyone question everything”
My top surgery fund is at 3,130/8500
I really want to try and get halfway to my goal ($4250) before the end of the month, so any donations, even $1, or shares are super helpful!!
sorry guys. we don’t have money to reduce student debt, to pay for universal healthcare, and no more pandemic relief (even though the pandemic is still ongoing).
We have to fund genocide 🇺🇸🦅 AMERICA FIRST!!!🇺🇸🦅
BREAKING: 🇺🇸 US House Republicans will this week consider a bill for $14 billion in emergency military assistance to Israel as a standalone bill, splitting it from assistance to Ukraine.
If your partner doesn’t want you to transition but you want to: LEAVE.
No “it’s not still good because they love me” no they don’t, obviously. Loving you means loving EVERY aspect of you.
“Extremely Cishet Thoughts I Had Growing Up” pt.2
Continuing this series through all of
#pride
!
I didn’t accept I was bi till I turned 24, so it’s funny to think back on younger me ignoring all the signs.
hate to be the one to say this but they are unfortunately not indigenous and using pan-indian “hijos de aztlan” type stuff that has nothing to do with the real, and very much living Indigenous people of Mexico.
me: living in texas isn’t like the stereotypes. We don’t all have cowboy hats or ride horses everywhere
the feral hogs of san antonio ready to have a word with me:
@PretentiousChik
the little blurb about him was “great conversationalist” and i, an anti-conversationalist, was like “we’ll see about that” but i ended up richer in hog knowledge. Always be open to opportunity.
omg i’m so chatty today but this is what i mean when i say that refusing to engage with art because it looks “not like art” or what have you robs you of so much.
It makes me so happy when people take time to understand a work and gain a new appreciation
whenever a gender conforming cis person tries to “talk” me out of being trans by saying masculine women exist it takes all my willpower to not go “ok YOU go be a masculine girl then and kindly shut the fuck up”
Tips for speech bubble placement!
These are things I have struggled with in the past that I see lots of people who are new to drawing comics make.
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posting the same artwork on 4 different platforms with the same caption like “ice cream so good. ice cream so good. ice cream so good. ice cream so good.”
“let strong women be feminine and pretty!!” “masculine men who wear eyeliner are so hot”
you guys are BORING AND TIRED.
Where are the true strong masculine women and feminine soft men without a drop of masculinity enjoyers?
@JaYunnaMonae
We’ve removed the item out of respect for our community and want to clarify we never got the artist’s permission to use the art which was not meant for commercial use.
I’m glad this outrage is also bringing to light that Disney tried to patent Día de Muertos and Hakuna Matata. Maybe white Disney stans will care now that they’re going after Norse culture.
Just so ya'll know, Disney sent a bunch of take down notices to every shop on etsy that has the words "Thor, Loki, Odin, Heimdall, or Frigga" in the listing title, tags, or description. They're literally trying to copyright Norse Gods, incase you didn't know how evil they were.
I understand that sometimes you want to talk to a creator you think you’d vibe with or whatever. But DMing them the word “hello” and nothing else over and over is really not how these things happen.
P'urhépecha Miku dressed in the attire of my abuelita's pueblo, Santa Fe de la Laguna, singing pireukuas!
And then my own Mikusona for
#mikusonamonday
#mikumonday
#mikusona
abolish in your mind the idea that art must be pain and perfection. IMO, it should feel fun, genuine, and curious. Whether it’s “good” is secondary, or even totally unimportant.
even if you don't take it "seriously" i think more people ought to afford themselves the luxury of drawing or coloring as a form of leisure. IMO we're so tuned to treat "bad" art as the domain of children that people are afraid to touch the craft once they hit a certain age.
according to TERFs, the weakest cis male would easily outcompete the strongest cis woman, and trans women are just weak men trying to find any way to win at sports.
Implying cis women can’t outcompete cis men seems pretty antifeminist to me but what do I know!
It doesn’t escape me that racism against Black people is way more severe than racism other POC face.
Like I did not get a single hate comment on my P’urhépecha Miku in spite of how much attention she got. But Alex immediately got harassed for his Black Hello Kitty Miku.
This situation happened back around 2015/2016 and AFAIK my friend is doing better now. IIRC the way he solved it was thru asking his previous employer for his last paystub which had his old address and he basically had to lie and say he still lived there.