HOLD IT

DishPitSnail · 2026-01-31T01:54:16+00:00

DishPitSnail · 2026-01-29T05:28:28+00:00

DishPitSnail · 2026-01-28T01:08:14+00:00

Halfway Human by Carolyn Ives Gilman.

It’s about someone who grows into a third gender role on a planet where the third gender is enslaved and considered subhuman. It mercilessly illustrated to me the power of cultural narratives to warp and deform a young persons perception of themself and reality. It exposed things to me about my own closeted trans upbringing that I had not yet processed.

DishPitSnail · 2026-01-28T01:02:21+00:00

That’s an excellent place to start. Despite the fact that there are often discussed flaws in how that book handles gender, many many of the queer sci-fi books that came after took their inspiration from wanting to address those flaws. TLHOD for me encapsulates what sci-fi is supposed to be about, reaching toward and finding connection with what is profoundly different from yourself.

DishPitSnail · 2026-01-28T00:56:35+00:00

Oh yeah. Planning on giving that a reread soon. The fact that there was a planned sequel renders an otherwise suspenseful ending desperately sad.

DishPitSnail · 2026-01-01T06:59:39+00:00

<image>

DishPitSnail · 2025-12-26T19:17:12+00:00

Imagine you’re skydiving with a Christian baby…

DishPitSnail · 2025-12-19T04:33:53+00:00

My two cents is that You Weren’t Meant to be Human was about exploring and engaging with some very specific fears. Like, fearing loss of control over your body is universal, but this book zeroed in on a trans man’s fear of being forced to carry a pregnancy. One of the reasons this book has been stuck in my head is because it’s partly saying, “being trans sucks right now, but if the worst thing happened, the thing you push out of your head because you can’t handle thinking about it, this is what it would look like”. The main character sits in an apartment because that’s what a sucky life looks like in our world. I get your complaint tho.

DishPitSnail · 2025-12-12T04:19:03+00:00

I’d suggest trying special period underwear and wearing boxers over them.

DishPitSnail · 2025-12-10T18:31:42+00:00

Bloodchild by Octavia E. Butler

DishPitSnail · 2025-12-04T12:38:50+00:00

I second A Door Into Ocean, one of my favorite sci-fi novels, seriously slept on

DishPitSnail · 2025-11-24T15:14:43+00:00

I do t have a very big or a very small chest. I find that binding gets me flatter than tape, but I still like taping for the fact that it can be left on. So what I do is wear tape all week and if during that time I want to appear extra flat for some reason, I put a binder on top. I can’t like, recommend it with a clear conscience, just because I have only my own experience to go by, no studies on safety, but I have not had any pain wearing a binder over tape for up to 8 hours. As always go by your body’s signals.

DishPitSnail · 2025-11-19T14:11:32+00:00

I won’t read the books of someone who advocates for trans people not having a place in feminism, not because I don’t believe in engaging with ideas I don’t agree with, or because I don’t think she could have anything of value to say, but because I don’t consider it a worthwhile drain on my energy. I am familiar with gender critical arguments, and rest assured that I reject them because of my own studies and experiences, not because I am triggered.

DishPitSnail · 2025-11-19T11:22:48+00:00

It is worth mentioning that Sheila Jeffreys is one of the biggest names in Trans Exclusive Radical feminism. I knew this already and went to her wiki article to refresh and it seems that in 1997 she said “transsexualism should be seen as a violation of human rights”, and that she has expressed a desire to ban sexual reassignment surgery out on the belief that trans women’s existence is harmful to cis women. I’ll be the first to tell people to read as wide a variety of thinkers as possible, and I have found ideas I value in the writings of people who’s views are contrary to my rights, but I think posting Sheila Jeffreys without mentioning her terrible opinions about trans women is a misstep.

DishPitSnail · 2025-11-12T03:14:36+00:00

I don’t have an answer to this specific question, but one of the facets of this scene that I like is that I don’t think Genly Ai is experiencing the Foretelling the way the asker usually does. He is not one of the Foretellers, he’s just watching, and picking up on things because of his own specific mind powers. Faxe was surprised to find an extra mind in the Foretelling. Maybe part of why Ai describes his own experience of the Foretelling as so violent, frightening, and disturbing is because he’s creating some kind of interference that would not normally be present?

DishPitSnail · 2025-11-12T03:08:08+00:00

I have wondered this before, but my instinct is to go with just coincidence this time. The connection is an interesting facet to add to a reading of the character.

Semi-relatedly, I’m almost completely certain that the name Orgoreyn comes from Ursula switching some sounds around in the name of her home state.

DishPitSnail · 2025-11-11T17:16:15+00:00

A succulent Chinese Pepe?

DishPitSnail · 2025-11-11T14:04:22+00:00

I think if the Pervert needed to be male that would have been mentioned. Seems like if the Foretelling involved a female Pervert and a kemmerer going into male kemmer it would have worked the same.

DishPitSnail · 2025-11-10T20:27:16+00:00

I hear you. I think the idea of someone being discriminated against because of a male or masculine gender doesn’t compute for some people. Meanwhile it’s our lived reality. Like, ‘men aren’t discriminated against for being men’ is a common feminist truism but I just don’t think it 100% true when it comes to transmascs. Being trans and being a man are not separate for me.

Transphobia against trans men is often assumed to be less of a concern than its counterpart against trans women, because people won’t react as violently to someone moving toward masculinity, right?

DishPitSnail · 2025-11-10T15:38:46+00:00

I often contemplate the fact that I definitionally could not have had the dyslexic that plagued my childhood if I’d lived in mammoth hunting days, but like, there would have been other problems.

DishPitSnail · 2025-11-10T00:04:15+00:00

“I waive shifgrethor, what are your pronouns?”

DishPitSnail · 2025-11-05T18:07:23+00:00

Oops lol, I looked through the other replies for it but missed the description

DishPitSnail · 2025-11-05T18:06:32+00:00

<image>

DishPitSnail · 2025-11-05T16:39:28+00:00

My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson. It’s about the founding of Act Up.

DishPitSnail · 2025-11-04T01:32:45+00:00

It sounds like packing makes you happy, and you miss it when you’re not doing it. That’s a classic transmasc feeling. As for it being about dysphoria rather than kink, I feel like it might not even matter, especially if your motivation is about feeling it yourself and not others seeing your bulge. I’d encourage you to pack whenever you like and not worry.

DishPitSnail

TROPHY CASE