illusionsofchange

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celebrating my 5 year top surgery anniversary today, so I wanted to draw something that reflects the bliss of feeling your chest for the first time. happy pride 🏳️‍⚧️⚧️💙🩷🤍

Ocean :D

Notes for Biology definitely not an excuse to doodle 🧍

If Harper Lee sold alcohol I think it’d be branded “Tequilla Mockingbird”

I would really like this trend of donation scammers sending anons to stop. I block them yet they still send anons. It's very annoying.

I did a quick Galaxy drawing, I don’t usually do digital art but I think this ended up alright :D

Preach.

why you need to use a trans person's name / pronouns

send this to whoever needs to hear it.

for transgender people, hearing their birth name or the wrong pronouns hurts. they just want to be perceived as whom they really are - regardless of whether that's how you've always known them or not. it's not some sort of privilege that you can revoke when you're upset with them, it's not an option (no matter how close you are with them, even if you think they wouldn't mind), it's not them being forceful. trans people would not generally get upset with you for messing up towards the beginning of their transition. they get upset with you when it feels like you aren't trying. so:

you are not the one who is suffering by a trans person in your life asking you to try harder to use their correct name/pronouns.

Spider ::::D

IM CRYING WHAT

sooooo can yall help me determine if this is a fireable offense

Ace 👌

Reblog if you genuinely support asexuals

It terrifies me that there’s so much raging passion in the lgbt+ community that insist on marginalizing asexuals and implying that asexuals don’t deserve to have safe spaces. There’s still so much acephobia so I just wanna know which blogs are genuinely supportive and a safe space for asexuals

Weird fun conversation with my cousin led to this drawing

Pirate ship I made :D

It makes me so irrationally upset that there are people in this country that assume that I have uprooted my entire legal, social, and medical standing in some insane long con to rape women. To think that strangers think I did this to myself just to exist in a constant state of sexual excitement at the thought of using a public toilet, to prey upon children, or trick lesbians, makes me so fucking sad. I just wanted to be happy, and ran out of options.

Since I began my transition, I have lost several jobs, my home, my friends, and my girlfriend. I have been raped. I have been forced into sex work. I have slept on the street. I have been threatened with violence. I have been physically assaulted. I have been spat at, harassed, and robbed. I have been made to undress in front of male police officers. And yet, after all of that, after all the world has done to me with impunity and without consequence, still they think I am a threat to them?

After all i have suffered, all I have endured and put up with and accepted, still I am perceived as a threat to these people. Nobody stood up for me. Nobody fought my corner. Nobody fought for my place in this world except me.

Oh, and who sexually abused me as a child? A cisgender woman. And yet still, I am the threat here somehow.

Because they see us as subhuman. I have seen the way they talk about us. They call us paedophiles and rapists, genetically programmed for explicitly sexual evil. My very existence is seen as a fetish, something I do to get off in public. They think I would endure all of this just for the sexual excitement of a cubicle in a public toilet. I keep my headphones in, my eyes down, I do my business as quickly as possible, I wash my hands, and I leave. I speak to no-one. I look at no-one. And I leave. Sounds real fucking hot.

But even that's not good enough. Nothing I do is good enough. Despite being a victim, despite my track record of being constantly abused by this world, despite never hurting anyone in my fucking life, still I am a threat somehow. My very existence is perceived as fundamentally wrong. Just simply being makes me a rapist, apparently.

So what do I do? Go back to the mens room? The last time I used a mens toilet was at the very start of my transition. A man spat in my face as i washed my hands, and I vowed to never be exposed to such cruelty again. But they see that as the just price for my existence. They think I'm a paedophile, and should be a public pariah.

My entire life, I have known I am a woman on some level. It never went away. I have known this since I could conceive of men and women as being different. Not accepting that has made me miserable. Growing up in a religious theocracy stole from me an awareness about my person that i will never get back. It has led to self harm and a constant depression and several suicide attempts, and if I didn't embrace what I am, it would have continued until I finally got good at it and ended things. And they think that is the just price for existence, and a risk that must be taken because, you know, what if I strip off my three pairs of underwear and a tuck so tight its vacuum sealed in order to flash the slowest woman in the world?

They are obsessed with our genitals. They think penises are seemingly magnetically attracted to vaginas. When I was made homeless, I was told i couldn't be housed with other women because "well, you haven't had surgery yet, have you?" I asked her where I had to go for my genital inspection, and she called me disgusting and hung up. After asking about my genitals. And despite the fact that my HRT crushed my sex drive and my ability to be spontaneous, despite the fact that I am rigorously pursuing my option to remove my ability to have children and to turn my penis into a vagina, still I am perceived as a paedophile. Because what if?

I just lost my human rights on the basis of "what if?"

I don't know what I'm supposed to do now. I really don't. My life and who I am is legally at an end. If a GRC isn't good enough, if i have no legal pathway to obtain my rights as a woman, then trans rights in this country are done. We are now a lower class of human. As a brave woman said at a protest i attended yesterday, this is now an apartheid state.

I am told that this was done because I am a threat to women. I am told that this was done for womens rights. These people tell me I couldn't possibly ever imagine the suffering that womanhood brings, and I am a misogynistic rapist if I think I can ever even approximate it. In the last few years, I have endured more than most women will in a lifetime, and yet still it is not enough. I have found joy in my womanhood, and refuse to see it as some badge of suffering, and yet still it is not enough. It will never be enough.

No amount of reasoning with these people will change them. They are fascists. There's no two ways about it. They think they can put a nice neat little box around womanhood and say everyone outside the box doesn't count. Personally, I think that anyone who puts a box around womanhood – where inside the box is fertility and white standards of beauty, and outside is everyone that doesn't live up to that standard – is a fucking fascist, but that's just me I guess. They stand shoulder to shoulder with nazis, and scream slurs and threats of systemic eradication alongside them. They gladly let nazis attend their rallies, gladly offer them a platform. What's the old adage? If you have a bar with one nazi in it and nobody kicks him out, you have a nazi bar? These people are fascists.

And now every woman who isn't traditionally feminine, every woman who doesn't live up to white standards of beauty, every woman with a vulva that bulges slightly, has a strong jawline, or a deep voice, or PCOS that causes facial hair, or a thin hairline, or long legs or broad shoulders, every single one will now have to prove she was born "biologically female" just to use a toilet in peace. Even if they were right, and that I am a threat to women, isn't a world where every single woman is constantly transvestigated and scrutinised and expected to live up to a certain beauty standard in order to use the toilet in peace a worse world to live in than the one we currently inhabit? Is this what they want?

I just wanted to be happy.

Ode to Congestion art piece

I just burnt my ramen noodles because I forgot to add water before microwaving

Send help (love/thoughts/prayers/more noodles)

I am not feeling lit

RIP my charcoal noodles 😭🪦💐

I made a pirate ship :D

Your average tumblr experience

(For @fivemillionrats )

Bro wait if the problem with dealing with Medusa is that you can’t look in her eyes just send an autism to get her like we already suck at looking in non-gorgons eyes we’ll be fine.

Walking into the cave of doom like “dang there’s a ton of statues here” and some creature slithers up like “FOOLISH MORTAL” and you’re like “oh shit hi your scales are pretty” literally looking everywhere *except* your eyes right now.

“You can’t ignore me forever” mfs when I block and delete them

Minecraft is fun 🕺🏻

Gimme gimme gimme gimme

Bruh we should get Master Oogway, Uncle Iroh, and Yoda to have a tea party together I think they’d get along pretty well

Everyone safe here as long as you’re kind :D

Reblog is this is a safe space for the identities theses flags represent pls follow too

Hehehe I’m a demiboy <3

I don’t usually paint lol but have a blue person :D

Don’t mind the white bit in the corner I just wanted to hide my name

You guys want to deport legal immigrants?

Okay *ships a bunch of white people from ‘Merica back to Europe*

Okay so we have this huge problem with forgetting about everything that’s happened by the time the next election rolls around so I’d like to keep a running list of things as they’re happening to help remind us when the 2026 midterms roll around. And please add to this if I’ve missed anything.

January 2025:

Donald Trump pardoned 1500 people who participated in the insurrection of January 6th, including those who violently assaulted and nearly killed police officers.

Donald Trump has declared that trans and non-binary people don’t exist.

Donald Trump is working towards firing everyone in the government who isn’t loyal to him.

Donald Trump has effectively fired everyone who he claims is an “illegal DEI hire” …whatever that means

Donald Trump pulled out of the Paris Climate Agreenent and the World Health Organization

Congress are trying to pass the Laken Riley Act to, effectively, round up every immigrant in the country, including LEGAL immigrants

Donald Trump removed caps on prescription drug prices.

Donald Trump wants to withhold federal aid to help combat the LA wildfires and help the thousands of people who have been displaced and lost their homes.

The Department of Justice has put a hold on all civil rights cases.

Donald Trump has cut off aid to Ukraine.

Laken Riley Act has been passed by Congress and is awaiting being signed into law by the President. Here’s the breakdown of the votes: House Senate

Donald Trump purged a dozen inspectors general from the federal government and intends to replace them all with people loyal to him.

Pete Hegseth has been confirmed as Secretary of Defense. Here’s the breakdown of how the Senate voted. Note, it was a 50-50 tie that JD Vance had to break.

Donald Trump imposed a 25% tariff on Columbia after the Columbian government turned away two airplanes carrying migrants. Columbia has retaliated by imposing a 25% tariff of its own on US goods.

Donald Trump has also issued a travel ban for Columbian citizens and revoked visas from Columbian migrants coming to the US.

Donald Trump has now backed off the tariffs and other threats against Columbia. Note for future reference: this comes just hours after Trump made the threat in the first place and he and the Columbian president got into a big fight on social media.

Nearly 1,000 migrants were arrested mostly in Chicago on January 26th by ICE and ICE has been told to meet a quota of 75 migrant arrests every day.

Donald Trump rescinded an anti-discrimination executive order from Lyndon B. Johnson

I’ll keep adding to this list as new things come up and, again, please feel free to add anything I’ve missed. I know that in this world of constant news it’s easy to forget, so let’s give our future selves a little help!

Spread this shit, it’s terrifying and not everybody knows how bad it really is, this is fucked up and it’s also real, all of us need to know and have a right to know, they are already trying to make things seem “not as bad” as they are and make him seem like a “good guy” and a “savior” don’t fall for any of his bullshit. He wants to be a dictator and doesn’t care about who he hurts in the process.

elon musk did a nazi salute twice at the inauguration, and republicans are defending him.

trump revoked executive order 11246, which prohibited discrimination.

trump put all dei employees on leave to be fired.

trump banned all lgbtq+ flags from being hung in government buildings.

trump rolled back biden’s executive order to lower prescription drug costs for people using medicare and medicaid.

trump rescinded the $35 cap on insulin, and prices are expected to rise to $1500 a month.

trump ordered the national institutes of health to cancel their review panels on cancer research.

when sean hannity asked trump about the economy, he said “i don’t care”, after campaigning with the economy as his main talking point.

trump has withdrawn the us from the world health organization.

trump is ordering health agencies to stop reporting on bird flu and halt publications of scientific reports.

trump has pardoned over 1500 people who stormed the capitol on january 6th.

trump changed mount denali back to mount mckinley.

trump signed an executive order to rename the gulf of mexico to gulf of america.

trump shut down cbp one, an app which granted legal entry to 1 million+ immigrants.

trump is allowing ice raids at churches and elementary schools.

trump announced plans to declare a national emergency at the us-mexico border.

trump signed an executive order to expand the use of the death penalty.

trump withdrew from the paris climate act.

trump revoked all protections for transgender troops in the us military.

trump rescinded executive orders made by biden that benefited and protected women, lgbtq+ people, black americans, hispanic americans, asian americans, native hawaiians, and pacific islanders.

trump is attempting to make it legal to refuse to hire or fire pregnant women.

trump pardoned 23 individuals convicted under the freedom of access to clinic entrances (FACE) act for their anti-abortion activism, including oftentimes violent protests at abortion clinics.

trump announced that the us government will from here on out only recognize male and female as sexes. intersex is not legally recognized anymore.

andy ogles drafted a constitutional amendment to allow trump to be president for a third term.

georgia republican congressman mike collins called for the deportation of new jersey born mariann budde, the bishop who urged trump to “have mercy” on the lgbtq+ community and immigrants during a service at the national cathedral.

amazon revoked protections for lgbtq+ and black employees.

every single republican told us we were overreacting. trump swore he had nothing to do with project 2025 yet continues implementing details outlined in it. not a single person has the right to tell us we’re being dramatic anymore.

hope the possibility of cheaper eggs and gas was worth it.