Still better than whatever the hell 4tran is.

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    How people see me: a weird nerd

    What I really am: well, I just wish people called me a weird nerd girl, sometimes, because that’s what I am

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    If you don’t want headpats I can offer a cookie recipe, or a recipe for a cream-cashew sauce for pasta

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    i functionally look the same as i did 10 years ago when i started hrt and its actually okay because i feel heaps better, i just rarely look in the mirror

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    Approximately how I feel as a cis bi (trans inclusive) dude in trans fem spaces:

    (Apparently credit to Susan Sanford on redbubble, didn’t even know that was a website)

    ((Also that’s a crook, not a scythe))

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      Pretty sure red bubble just steals 90% of their art with bots to resell with out permission. Another 5% is people stealing art and reselling it on red bubble. There is a 5% rounding error

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        I would say basically the same, though also sometimes its closer to befuddled, but also sometimes amused.

        I landed on this piece of art because I think the cubist style applied most prominently to the primary figure conveys that… the face is abstract, and basically at least myself as the viewer can see multiple different expressions basically depending on how you squint.

        The crook, the implement of imposition of order… its there. But it isn’t actually being employed. Is it needed? … maybe?

        But the cats are all just there, being fine, doin’ their thing. And they’re less ‘odd’ looking, less heavily stylized. The main figure is the stand out, the odd one.

        The juxtaposition is thus somewhat absurd, but not overwhelmingly so. Everyone is ultimately just lollygagging, standing around.

        If I could actually tweak the image, I’d want to make the primary figure less primary, less large. I’d found another image that was… apparently just a real picture of a pretty average dude just sitting down, calm, looking contemplatively off into the distance, in a field of many other real cats, similarly all just doing their thing, less prominent size difference.

        But this image is basically funnier, lol.

        Err, excuse me, not lol, :3

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          The picture a reference to the idiom “herding cats” (which is why the guy is holding a shepherd’s crook), not just a guy standing around in the presence of a bunch of cats. I assume you just didn’t realize that, and weren’t trying to convey a futile attempt to control the trans people.

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            The way I see it is basically -> I thought I might need the crook, but it appears I don’t, and thus I’m the idiot standing around with a crook for no reason.

            So thus it conveys yes, a bit of my own latent foolishness, but it also displays that that is foolishness.

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    Headpats are as important as hugs.😤
    🫂🤗(っ´ω`)ノ(˵•́ ᴗ •̀˵)

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      The vast majority of trans online spaces are dominated by cat/dog/whatever girls. It feels almost cult like. If you’re not into the whole pet play & “skirt go spinny” schtick it’s downright alienating. While it’s annoying to me as someone who’s butch, it’s very dysphoric for trans mascs.

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        The whole cat/dog girl thing is also just generally concerning and tends to create extremely unsafe spaces and has lots of unhealthy fetishism.

        Its just a general problem. It can be fine, but it just rarely is. It reminds me of early bdsm forums full of inexperienced people. Who haven’t learned proper etiquette or care yet.

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        thank you for the explanation, I didn’t find it obvious by looking at the image&title alone. I love how you’re helping to increase the visibility of those parts of transfems, keep going!

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    You feel like you’re about to plow your way unrelentingly through a roomful of eager cuties?

    Cause that’s what happens…