Hi

here’s the closeted furries “hey man… can u bum me a cig” and “the one uncle nobody invites to the family reunion but SOMEONE keeps telling him where it is anyways”

if you want an idea of what john is like, imagine hau from pokemon sumo

ALSO the ppl who kept asking me for trans thomas art, HERE he’s trans in this au (; 

ft John:

HAVE A KARKALICIOUS 2025

Mewwy Chrimas may the gay people brain rot be upon u even more so next year

Hi guys some bad news.

Shahed will need to up her short term goal from 30k to 40k.

She will need to raise this amount by the end of this month.

This is due to the fact that what few gazan banks are left now after the destruction of the iof, they take full advantage of the dependence people of gaza have on them right now by demanding upto 30% in commission for the wire transfer of the money. @/fairuzfan has mentioned it before here in this post. Shahed only recently found out about this, and hadn't accounted for it before when she had originally set her goal.

This means that shahed will need upto $9k in addition to the actual fee she owes the travel coordinators (30k), as well as the 2.9% cut GFM takes for each transfer of funds.

I cannot put into words how much this has shaken me. Everyday i keep finding out new ways that the profiteers of this genocide have found to exploit and humiliate the kind and lovely people i have talked to here, and everyday i start to believe in the inherent good in people less and less. The depravity never seems to end

If you don't know her already, Shahed is a 21 year old who used to be a student at Al-azhar university before the genocide began. With both her parents having taken ill, she is the sole provider for her family right now, including her five siblings, youngest of whom is just a baby.

She currently trying to put together an evacuation fund for her younger sisters, who have hepatitis and are severely ill. They were recently removed from the clinic where they were getting treated for the same due to overcrowding and because there were more pressing cases to be attended to, likely because of the massacres that took place days ago and are still happening today.

Shahed is struggling to get them medicines, all while being sick and weak herself. Even after all this she still asks after me and if i am well since i told her i had recurring health issues, but she shouldn't have to be a nice person to fucking deserve help.

I don't know what to say that will convince you to take this seriously. Everyday i find out about some new atrocity the palestinian people are going through, Every single day they bleed in ways i never thought possible both literally and figuratively and the world still moves on like nothing is wrong.

All i see online is some new spectacle from the clowns that call themselves american politicians pervading every single conversation that happens here, and everyone seems to be so content to go along with the circus and let it overshadow all of the victims of the imperialism of america and its allies.

No i dont care which genocider comes to power there and no i domt care who you fucking vote for and no i domt care what corpo bullshit campaign line kamala fucking harris said today and how dunny it is to mock it i am sick of all of you letting that conversation take over what you should REALLY be focusing on and im TIRED of trying to present it to you as neatly and entertainingly as possible so that MAYBE you will find it in your heart to click the reblog button, if not actually donate.

But im still going to do it, because im scared you all will ignore my friend again when she needs your help so desperately.

Here is shahed's fundraiser:

gofundme.com

Donate to Help Shahd in Gaza!, organized by Shahed Muhammad

Have you ever experienced seeing your dream broken in front of your eyes and not being able to do … Shahed Muhammad needs your support for H

Currently it is at $22,000 / 80,000

She needs to raise 40k by the end of this month i.e a week

Here are some raffles you can partipate in to help her raise funds- check out @journalsforpalestine where you can enter for as low as $5, and this other raffle conducted by @thethief1996 and @quicksillver for digital commissions for $10

@feluka is taking emergency commissions and so is @tortiefrancis for $10 and $15 to help shahed raise funds if you are interested

Please keep sharing and donating.

Not only that, please take this to other platforms if you have the reach. please ask your friends and family to donate, post this in your whatsapp groups and discord servers i am requesting you to PLEASE exhaust every option at your disposal time is running out. There is only so much i can do.

If we fail shahed now, it is her sisters' and her family's lives at stake. Please take this seriously, that is all i ask.

Mithrun & Drives & Self-harm

Warning's in the title, let's rock and roll.

So there's a super-circulated extra about Mithrun's recovery after having been rescued from his conquered dungeon.

And I don't know how widely known it is that this image is cropped, or that it contains something I consider pretty essential to his character.

The top two thirds of the page are upsetting in a suggestive way. The final third is very explicit.

I understand the impulse to remove the explicit imagery of self harm from something you scatter around God's internet where it could upset literally anyone. At the same time, I think something's lost when you can't contrast 'He spent most of his days lying down, either sleeping or awake,' with the visceral imagery of him struggling to get out of that position, into which he has been strapped. It's less affecting if your initial impression (that he is totally passive) is not subverted.

Without this, it's too easy to assume that his aversion to things like mirrors and birds is due a vague Upset it might cause him, and that keeping sharp things and fire from him is due to an absence of self preservational drive.

But it's not like that. These are precautions undertaken because he has drives.

How much of that lying down is due to being passive, and how much is compulsory? How much time did he spend restrained, since this was a known problem? The restraints themselves harm him, which is kind of inevitable considering how determined he is to escape.

To me, this does point to him actually having agency and motivation. It's not motivation to do anything positive, but it's present.

And it makes sense, right, that he'd be motivated to self destruction when it turns out his quest has been (unbeknownst even to himself) to be completely consumed by the Demon?

Something that feels important about Mithrun, to me, is that he doesn't fucking like himself, and I don't think he ever did.

He's judgmental of his past self despite not ever confessing to being, you know, cruel to anyone. His issue is with his internality, which was an insecure and petty one. Externally, other characters did not perceive him that way. Milsiril doesn't dislike him because he's cruel or because she can tell he's only pretending to like people, she hated him because he was well-liked while she struggled to make any friends at all. I don't think he'd be so well-liked, or basically intimidate Milsiril with his bubbliness, if he was an outwardly nasty person.

It's important to me to point out Milsiril's perspective, because it confirms what's said in Kabru's truncated version of events: Mithrun was well-liked, and people's perception of him was positive. He was not behaving in a way that would drive others away.

He just can't be close to people, not genuinely. He's nice for the same reason he's always finding reasons to look down on others, for the same reasons he can't resist the Demon's offer, for the same reason he hurts himself. He does not like the person he is, whatever that person does, and he is convinced that no one else could truly like that person either.

I have another equally disjointed post in me about the parallels between the Demon and actual dynamics of abusive relationships, but key to this one is the fact that Mithrun's vulnerabilities - that he has learned love is conditional, that he cannot bring himself to interface with people genuinely, that he has been discarded by a family whose care for him was ultimately superficial, that he does not see himself as good or worthwhile - make his admission of having felt loved by the Demon super heartbreaking. Considering what it offered him, I suspect the hole left in his heart was exceptionally large.

It might feel easy to brush off Mithrun's behavior in the early days of his recuperation as simply erratic, but I see it as very purposeful and very much inkeeping with his character. He had a love that he could convince himself came without conditions, that promised an emotional security that he could allow himself to rely on, and it was withdrawn from him in a way that is undeniably violent and violating.

I don't look at the image of him hurting himself and see someone acting erratically because their mind has been magically broken. I see someone in an understandable, mundane kind of complete despair.

On that same note, I see his later dedication to returning to service as a simple redirection of the original self destructive drive. Mithrun doesn't even consciously understand this about himself, he labels this desire as anger and vengeance when it's really the exact same drive he's had all along: to either be loved or not be at all.

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happy holidays? i don't have a button for this.

Gender is entirely made-up and I don't understand why some people are so fixated on it being "true" in the sense of like...are trans women women? Of course they are, insofar as "a woman" can be said to exist in the first place. But people have gotten obsessed with proving objectively that a trans woman is a woman, when the actual core of trans liberation is that anyone forcing their preferred gender on you is fascist. It's missing the forest for the trees. When all you do is play the "I am [x] really truly deep down just like everyone else" game you're meeting the transphobes on their level and accepting their premise that "man" and "woman" are distinct, tangible things.

To be clear, it's not that you CAN'T feel gender is a kinna spiritual force within you, or something to that effect. I think we all do on at least some level. But my point is that trying to rip that spiritual force out of our bodies to dissect it and prove all the haters wrong because look it was here all along is just a waste of time and effort.

The truth of the matter is that the goal is not to get people to see trans women as women, it's to get them to stop feeling like clothes and pronouns and names and locker rooms should be dictated by what some asshole wrote down on your birth certificate.

I was inspired to do this ~ 🦈✨

Original comic by:  @mysillycomics