The Hind End of Space

Pro-top for fanfic writers: cissexism and transphobia are neither funny nor sexy

eshusplayground:

Here’s a quick way to find out if your fic is cissexist and/or transphobic.

• If the punchline is “she has a dick!”…
• If the Huge Plot Twist is “she has a dick!”…
• If you’re copying futanari bullshit from hentai…
• If you’re reducing gender to genitalia…

…it’s more than likely you’re doing something cissexist, and/or transphobic, which is gross and dehumanizing.

Now, this does not mean you should never write about trans* people. We need more fic about trans* people. But we don’t need more shit that dehumanizes them by reducing them to their genitals and treating them like freakshow exhibits.

ETA: Before anyone asks, no, I’m not linking to examples because I don’t need to subject people to that ugly shit just to satisfy idle curiosity.

Dear everyone working on Otakon stuff right now:

buttpilgrim:

mohawkdandy:

Please don’t stress yourself out.

I know better then most people how easy it is to be so caught up in finishing a costume that you start sacrificing your mental or even physical health for it. But remember this:

Cosplay is a hobby. A hobby is supposed to be fun.

Yes, there are exceptions to this, for people doing commissions or who make their money at conventions. But the vast majority of cosplayers do it as a hobby. Now, this isn’t saying you shouldn’t cosplay if it stresses you out even a bit, but the week before a convention isn’tsupposed to feel like it’s going to kill you. No one should have their health effected by a hobby.

If you’re losing sleep from working 24/7, if you have a panic attack thinking about what you need to get done, if you getsickfrom working so hard?

Stop. Take a step back. Relax.

No costume is worth your health. It’s alright to back out of a costume if you find out you can’t do it. Yes, it sucks to have to drop out of a group or tell someone you aren’t doing a costume, butyour health is more important thencosplay.

preach it

ellarcy:

When something comes out that I don’t want spoiler’d, I just avoid social networking sites until I’ve either seen what’s so important or I stop caring about being spoiler’d.

It never occurred to me to get actively angry at the people who are enjoying their love of said important thing on the social networking sites I voluntarily go on that no one but myself is forcing me to look at, and making them feel bad for enjoying it openly, y’know, the thing social networks were made to do.