I Prefer Drawing People Who Aren’t Smiling.. I Wonder Why.

lil teasers for the characters of my new comic Overworld, which i should be releasing at the end of the month :))

time taken: 2hr 26min

drew my oc alex !!

time taken: 6h

The brain does not magically mature at 25. Actual neuroscientists note some 8-year-olds even have a greater "maturation index" than 25-year-olds. The myth misunderstands basic neuroscience but is still used for anti-trans policymaking like the Cass Report. https://slate.com/technology/2022/11/brain-development-25-year-old-mature-myth.html

I see the president was sworn in yesterday and has already done a bunch of shit. He declared that the only genders recognized are male and female and I very much assume requires people to remain in their biological sex.

I as a transmasc person am both intrigued and terrified for the next 4 years. I have yet to come out to anybody who isn’t a close/also trans friend and had been previously planning on coming out this year to my family + school. While I very much assume my family will accept me even if it takes them some time to wrap their heads around it, I think it’ll be interesting to see how my liberal-leaning private school (that has trans students and a trans teacher) goes abt it since its basically illegal in my state to be trans at school now starting a few months ago. The uncertainty of all this though is really scary bc even if I can’t get medical care for a few years thats not going to be the end of my world I could be facing much more than that.

I think over the next 4 years the best thing I or anyone can do is just continue moving on. Trans and queer people have always been around and we have always pushed through. I think that as long as we stay together and focus on our communities and making sure everyone can get through this it might just be okay. We all need to stand strong and watch for the light at the end of the tunnel.

many trans people have deadnames but some also have ghostnames. names you used during a temporary part of your journey and then left behind when they had served their purpose, or names you secretly wanted to be called at some point in your life but hesitated to make your own, or names that somehow felt familiar to you every time you heard them but just never became yours. names that linger around you in limbo.