“homophobes and transphobes think lgbtq identities are exclusively about sex, so kinky or sexual lgbtq people shouldn’t be allowed to be visible because that reinforces that association in peoples’ minds” is no different from “lets shame feminine, flamboyant queens because they’re playing into harmful stereotypes”
if I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times: oppression does not run on logic. whatever justification someone has in their brain for oppressing someone is a lie. we know this because the excuse can change at any time to suit the oppressor’s needs, but the oppression stays the same. misogyny is misogyny regardless of whether you think women cursed the world by eating the apple in the garden of eden or that their hormones make it harder for them to understand math. it is an excuse, not an actual reason, because there is no actual reason. it’s illogic all the way down.
oppressors don’t oppress you for something you do, they oppress you for something you are. trying to alter your behavior to appease them is always going to be pointless. it is a game where the goalposts are made up and the points don’t matter because at the end of the day, homophobes don’t hate you because you’re too queer or the wrong kind of queer, they hate you if you’re queer at all.
Prehistoric Planet episode 1 has released, and I decided to make a drawing based off the one shot of that one baby pterosaur being snatched just above the waves. I originally wasn’t gonna post this due to spoilers, but since that shot I based this off was in the trailer, and I already see enough shots from the actual episode being shared, I guess it was fine to share this thing with the world.
seriously I had some little TikTok teenybopper burst out laughing on my tour because I said that a historical figure was “most likely what we’d now call gay”
like
listen
you’re free to take a ouija board out to the cemetery and try to explain the dizzying array of current queer terms and get a solid answer as to how he identifies within that framework but
until then, I’m going to continue NOT definitively assigning someone identity terms they didn’t self-identify with, and might not have even known, when I’m responsible for representing them faithfully and they’re not here to correct me. even more so when they’re part of my own community
I mean, you know, as long as that’s okay with you. Bestie.
man this piece has really been through the ringer! i’ve painted and repainted pretty much every part of it. process images incoming for my $5+ patrons!
[Image description: a woman with two fish tails where her legs should be rises up from the water, producing a silver sword, Excalibur. The hilt shines brightly, casting light in a circle around the melusine. Her tails are obscured by kelp underwater, and her head is framed by the trees behind her on the shoreline.]
