HQM

It's refreshing to see people aren't taking this at face value. I was losing my mind when random people - all over social media - kept bringing it up, without seeing any problems with the original post. In fact, they made it worse by spouting bio-essentialist bullshit and blaming trans women.

18.07.2025 15:33 — 👍 49    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Summary from Tumblr User sexhaver linking to the trans man OP of a post on r/trans that got removed, and which has triggered an absolutely shitstorm on trans Reddit: in the interest of full transparency, here's a repost of the original post that started this shitshow from the original OP. to summarize: he opens by explicitly saying that he wants to discuss the "unique issues" trans men face, and that he isn't trying to have this "be some oppression olympics thing". "It's not that trans men face less oppression than trans women; it's that trans men are talked about and cared about so little that many people don't actually know the shit we go through." his next point immediately claims that trans men are raped more than trans women based on three studies. one of these studies bases its results on responses from a grand total of 87 binary trans people, and the other two studies are different analyses of the EXACT SAME SURVEYMONKEY POLL (which also happens to have 4x as many trans men respondents as trans women, hm)

his next point is just him getting angry that all the discourse on bathroom bills is centered around the trans women they explicitly target, instead of men like himself. he manages to find two (2) articles supporting his claim that trans men are primarily affected by these bills before giving up and opining that "I'm sure there are more but unfortunately any discrimination trans men face is largely not reported in the media as the news likes to pretend trans women are the only type of trans people there are." mhmm. his next point finally actually addresses an experience unique to trans men, like he claimed he was going to do at the beginning, instead of just rehashing MRA talking points about how men statistically have it worse than women, like he was doing up until this point! he mentions that testoterone is a controlled substance in the US and that he refuses to DIY it for unspecified reasons. this concludes the only section of the post where he actually does what he promised in the intro. also OP's only post on r/trans before this post was complaining about the "nobody talks about how the bathroom bills affect US" thing, it's extremely obvious what angle he was shooting here. in summary: this is bog-standard bad faith tMRA shit and the only argument against the mods removing it is that doing so drew more attention to it and made this dumbass antifeminist a martyr figure

Found the source of that Reddit meltdown.

Reddit Link: www.reddit.com/r/AnarchyChe...

Tumblr Link: www.tumblr.com/sexhaver/789...

18.07.2025 09:26 — 👍 535    🔁 53    💬 27    📌 16

Digital sketch of the Doctor from Placeholder by HQM, a creative work of meta fiction derived from the web serial Worm. She is wearing glasses, a lab coat with the sleeves rolled up, a black turtleneck sweater, light trousers, and office shoes. Her left hand is buried in her hair.

The Doctor from "Placeholder" by @hqm.me.

#wormfanfic #digitalart #parahumans #wormfanart

18.07.2025 03:45 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Tattletale (left) looks unimpressed while conversing with her future self in plainsclothes. The latter wears glasses and is trying to convince Tattletale of how good she looks. Sketched in black and white. Lifted from Chapter 25 of Placeholder by HQM.

Tattletale Squared - Lisa and her doppelganger, inspired by Chapter 25 of Placeholder, an amazing metafictional Worm fanfic by @hqm.me

#parahumans #tattletale #wormfanfic

09.01.2025 03:12 — 👍 12    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

A big misconception is that you need to be motivated to get rolling. You don't. Research: Motivation often FOLLOWS action, not the other way around. In Practice: You don't need to feel good to get going; you need to get going to give yourself a chance at feeling good.

This is the single most important advice any creative person needs to hear.

There are of course factors such as financial insecurity or mental and physical impediments (spoons ≠ motivation even though people will tell you they are the same) but when you can, do, whether you feel inspired or not.

04.01.2025 22:03 — 👍 2970    🔁 1114    💬 17    📌 37

i got suspended on twitter its over

06.10.2023 20:21 — 👍 8732    🔁 655    💬 593    📌 41

Finding everyone I want to follow again is going to be a pain.

07.09.2023 20:33 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0