HUGE itch.io/b/3364/poiso...

and how OLLLLD this obsession is and how integral and foundational it is to like, the basic structures of society all over the world

I think you cannot understand anything until you realise the scale of cis society's obsession with transfeminity and the lengths it goes to not only to quarantine and punish it, but construct social rituals to navigate its presence in everyday cis life.

but tbh if you'll allow me to editorialize a bit here, i see many more ppl ignoring the "what you are perceived as" piece than they should like, i'm sorry, but that part is Really Important to material/lived experience

Also no one actually wants to think about gender as something imposed on you, as something that constrains and marks you and designates what kinds of labor can/should be extracted from you. Doesn't help that reminding people about the hierarchy gender places you in is taken as oppressive.

“We are in the middle of a scandal of elites palling around with one of the most infamous child sex traffickers in the world, and this is our political press? No wonder Epstein got away with it all so long: many of the men tasked with being the watchdogs were almost as gross as he was with women.”

one thing abusers can take advantage of is the fact that their survivors often want to be more private, don't want things to be litigated publicly, just want to move on with their lives. so the abuser knows that the survivor hasn't posted receipts, hasn't called them out, so they can use forcibly >

> outing the survivor, posting (selective, taken out of context, and dishonestly twisted) screenshots of private communications, tagging all the survivor's friends, forcing the survivor to relive the abuse again and again just as they were beginning to move on with their life

it's the j*hnny d*pp "defamation" lawsuit method. it's a way of continuing and repeating the abuse through forcing the survivor's private life into the open, lying, DARVOing, humiliating, slandering. it's about never ever letting them escape unpunished.

fandom culture is what protects and runs cover for JKR, gaiman, and countless other monsters even as they enact brutal social and/or interpersonal violence on the oppressed. fandom must be destroyed. learn to love art without being IP-brained.

the personal is political, the political is personal, all art is political, all art is the product of collective labor and history and culture and context, all art is a speech act, and as a speech act all art has illocutionary and perlocutionary force, art says something about both artist & audience

no more building identity around which IPs you like. no more virulent hostility to social (esp. feminist, anti-racist, and youth-rights) critique of the thing you like. no more small nationalisms. no more "let people enjoy things," the only way to truly appreciate things is to think about them

niche but dead serious opinion: fandom culture must be destroyed for art to live.

every possible name behind the censorship fills me with delightful apprehension

Me trying to explain the Fate series to someone who's never engaged with it before: "So it's like if history nerd wizards had a Pokemon tournament with their waifus, which is the actual cool part, but then the narrative ignores all that to tell you a confusing story about Angry Mayo."

We've got so much plot for season 2, you have no idea.

The collab is going well

dabbling with trans comedy

mentioned trans women fighting with cis doctors about progesterone to my fiance when I shared this post with him. the sad truth of the matter 😔

all time trans masc discourse post holy shit

The allegations against Frankie is that he is a rapist and I doubt that Puck, given how upstanding he is, would have failed to inform Dead Domain of this. It's not merely preying on younger people. It is entirely an editorial choice to diminish the severity of the situation there.

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The video on Hendrix's bullshit really, actually says that the reason he ran to TERF circles in the first place, because he was catching heat for being friends with a sex pest, "isn't important". Saying that Hendrix was 'radicalized' hinges on ignoring this inciting incident, this vital context.

Now even the bloody MP who was elected as a Reform candidate is saying that Labor is basically enacting Reform policies LMAO

i challenge anyone to go and read, say, 10 randomly selected vaginoplasty recovery diaries and not conclude that trans women receive "women's health care"

This is a hell of a thing to say in a world where the New York Times published an article about cis women doing T so they can fuck more literally last month

The thing to understand is that there is a particular contingent within Labour who assess their own performance not based on the support they get from the right (which will always be, basically, none) but on how much they repulse the left. So they turn into Reform, without actually getting votes.

When you construct your entire political identity around opposing The Left™️ you end up enthusiastically smiling and nodding at Nazi policies, and then congratulate yourself on just how clever you are to have done so.

The full count as of today: YouTube suspended Twitch banned 3x Patreon suspended (temporary) Patreon 3x audio flags (one false posi) Ko-fi suspended (indefinite?) Buy Me a Coffee suspended Vice reporting censored Pornhub censored 3x times Fansly censored 1x

I can reassure the New York Times that networks of mutual protection, and misogynist retaliation efforts that benefit abusive men at the expense of the young women they prey upon, are very much still intact post-Me Too.

Thanks to everybody who supported the bundle! Now I'm actually going to sit down and write Chaingock Murdertits. Next bundle goal is Estro Junkies chapter 2!

just having a casual chat with Sarah Z and Halimede about my story, Ranked Competitive Breast Growth what even is my life

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Yes the new goal is a silly meme, no I will not apologize.

That's right, if the new goal is met, chapter 2 of Estro Junkies will be in the bundle!!

I'm overwhelmed with gratitude because so many people have bought the bundle that we've had to raise the goal yet again! We're almost at 500 sales! I'd like to announce that if we're able to meet our newest goal, I'll release Chapter 2 of 'Estro Junkies' for free, and even add it to the bundle :)

I have missed the ongoing RCBG soundtrack

we've never been this amount of back before

They’re dying to undo all the anti-harassment laws and go back to the 70s when women had to play the “is he handsy or a decent man” roulette to get a paycheck. Or get married—cons have never stopped complaining about the divorce rate, which only indicated that there were a lot of bad marriages.

There's a character in this who is (was?) (very) loosely (accidentally) inspired by me and I swear to god this breaking containment would mean I'd finally break down and read the damn thing.

If RCBG fully breaks containment it would objectively be the funniest thing of the year.

Plus that one ebook from a big publisher will probably contain zero (0) toxic yuri, whereas we have a least 1 TY per title, often more. (My 2 books of short stories have a count of at least 20 TY in total!) itch.io/b/3364/poiso...

seeing sarah z discover RCBG

MeToo was the only reason people started caring about Epstein, btw. Everything Epstein did was more or less public knowledge for decades prior, but only after the social consciousness of "rape by powerful men is bad actually" hit, did it get taken seriously, starting with Miami Herald's work.

MeToo did not go far enough. People were saying "MeToo has gone too far" when it had barely just picked up momentum. It was an attempt at reckoning with how institutionally misogynistic and sexually exploitative most institutions are and what women are constantly put through. So it was crushed.

Thinking about it, our bundle is pretty good value: for $15, big publishers will give you one (1) ebook. With ours, you get 24 titles.

Who knew the incoherent, maliciously motivated and practically unenforceable pseudolegal prattle couldn't actually stand up to scrutiny?

We've come up with a good number of terms to describe and market RCBG/Estro Junkies, but if I'm being honest for a moment what it mostly is, is a soap opera. This is kind of just what a soap opera looks like for transbians with polycule drama.

kinda reminds me of something i saw on mastodon the other day about how a lot of people who are obsessed with AI hype are simply unfamiliar with automation tools. they apparently think "human hackers" are limited by how fast your fingers can type & can't like. automate sending requests really easily