u/cloacasmell

i love my hair and you should love yours too. i was constantly told to cut it, and that its too long, and this and that and xyz.

have long hair, love yourself.

everyone else is doing trans fem parker, i figured i would. i think much like how the Scarlet Spider and even now Spider-Noir named themselves after Uncle Ben, i think if Parker transitioned she'd name herself after Aunt May. so this is May Parker.

when i was a kid, i used to pretend i woke up in a different reality where my family hated me. thinking, praying, that one day soon, i'd wake up in the right dimension where they loved me, properly loved me.

it took me a while, but i got there. a lot of things about where i am now are so similar to my old life, but better. different but the same. i feel at home, but i actually feel loved, i actually AM loved. and i have a life worth living.

crystal was my first pokemon game, and it was this way that i'd play it.
it was the probably the first time i played as a girl in a video game. i didnt put any thought into it. i didnt consider why. i just did it.

one time everyone came home early and i scrambled to shut everything down before i was caught. i was in the clear, but noticeably out of breath from having just been running around as to not be caught.

successor to this

called an "it" for being trans and queer, called an "it" for being disabled. no matter what we do, we'll always be creepy and scary and gross to people who lack any form of decency or kindness.

and you know what? good. they SHOULD be afraid. part of my intent behind using it/its for myself IS reclamation. people who would call us "it" out of anger or fear deserve to have that (and all) power over us stripped away.

its not just the pronouns for me either, it's the imagery. they want to think of me as something to be feared? ok, i'll fuckin be one! whatever i like halloween bullshit anyway. this just gives me an excuse to indulge in a creepy aesthetic more.

additionally, YOUR comfort does not dictate what pronouns OTHER PEOPLE can use. I've been called he and they in derogatory ways, but you sure as shit don't see me telling others they can't use those pronouns. it/it's isn't any different.

at the time of drawing this comic, its one day after i saw the digital circus movie in theaters. (not pictured is my family who saw it with me)

and like. summin about something so culturally recognizable, something with a sea of merchandise and a restaurant and a fan base of all ages and backgrounds, something so loved by so many, not only is it indie, but made by a trans woman and with such blatant and real trans feminine representation IN MOVIE THEATERS AS A CULTURAL PHENOMENON in a time where trans people are public enemy #1.

a trans woman who posts her art on tumblr got here. im also a trans woman who posts her art on tumblr. maybe i could get there too.
and knowing how many kids were in the audience, i hope and pray the trans kids who dont know it or are scared see themselves represented too, and i hope this movie helps them realize its ok to be you, its ok to be trans.

additionally, i like dressin up a lil when i go out with my family to a movie. i dressed with a pomni inspired look. and before i got my crutch, i didnt think anything of it. but walking into the theater with my crutch, i worried people would be like "i dont get it, are you disabled pomni?", but then pomni had to use a crutch in the movie. not only seeing myself represented behind the scenes for this film, but seeing myself represented in the film itself in a number of ways.

TL;DR it all just made me really happy. and i think this once in a lifetime movie event is incredibly historically important not just for indie animation as a whole, but for the transgender representation it showcases in a number of ways.

YOU CAN TOO!!!! TAKE ESTROGEN!!! BE A GIRL!!! BE SOFT!!!!!

video here

hi OT thanks OT and double thanks OT for helping it really set in that my art matters and people like it

"WHY DON’T YOU JUST GO BY THEY/THEM? SENDING LOVE"

real questions that were asked btw, verbatim.

i didnt claw my way out of the dirt for nothing.

>be a REDDIT MOD

>see a womans post thats criticizing men

>tell her "we're not serving these today"

>silence womans complaints

"trans" is a descriptor, a modifier, like "tall" or "fat". a woman who is trans. saying "transwoman" is othering, it implies she is different than a woman, not a woman but a "transwoman".

and dont do some hyphen bullshit either.