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she/they

[666ftunderthestars]

Can't believe they gave my girl Homura the nightcore thumbnail treatment in the new trailer

[aroacesafeplaceforall]

I 👏 am 👏 non 👏 partnering 👏

Stop expecting me to be in any sort of relationship. I will never be in one and I love that about me

[joyokosuka]

"what if kinosaki was a girl all along" is a deceptive sentence because it's either a nice headcanon or a sign of lack of reading comprehension depending on who is saying it

[666ftunderthestars]

I gotta vent about the “kinosaki is actually a cis woman” conspiracy i keep seeing from marriagetoxin “fans” bc i saw another person claim it today and nearly went off on them in a reblog before realizing that a lot of my thoughts should be addressed broadly so im sparing them and making my own post.

The way people can look at a blatantly queer series that explicitly portrays many elements of tradition and legacy in a toxic light, and especially emphasizes how the desire for an “heir to your bloodline” has an inherent misogyny baked in that in many cases is used to reduce women to nothing more than a vessel to make children to carry on your family (remember, akari was not the second option to inherit the clan, she was explicitly a spare piece they can marry off to give them children with poison clan lineage if gero continued to refuse marriage, and the manga further emphasizes that while gero cares about the female love interests as people and wants to form a connection, the people currently running the clan just want him to bring them in to ensure their legacy continues another generation, the doll user part especially showing that he doesn’t really see the girls as anything other than a baby factory, which is why his master plan is for gero to marry all 6 to have the maximum amount of children)

Also incredibly tone deaf to argue (like i’ve seen from some people) that the canonical male love interest actually secretly being a woman who marries gero and has his kids doesn’t compromise every element of the subversive nature of the series. (could you write a series where a protagonist is pressured to have kids and the happy ending involves that while maintaining subversive commentary? maybe. could you successfully write that as the ending to marriagetoxin specifically while maintaining its themes? almost certainly not)

At the end of the day, the whole “kinosaki is secretly a cis woman playing 5d chess with gero about his gender and the ending is gonna have them happily married in an idyllic traditional nuclear family and this definitely doesn’t compromise the themes of the work” is cope from homophobic anime fans who don’t want to admit that they are enjoying a series that not only has queer themes, but puts those themes front and center while portraying the way queer identity inherently deconstructs many of the toxic values of traditionalism present in our society. marriagetoxin is queer, deal with it

(also it’s not even remotely based on textual evidence. i’ve yet to meet one person who thinks kinosaki is a cis woman who’s been able to explain the scene in LITERALLY EPISODE 1 where he drops his towel in front of gero in the hotel room and flashes him. why the hell would he risk that if he’s secretly a cis woman gaslighting gero and pretending to be a man? now, trans woman or at least somewhat transfem kinosaki, while not something i think will be canon, is a read that could both be reasonably supported by the text and narratively satisfying within its themes)

[thesituation]

my stance on the trans athlete debate is always and forever going to be that sports should be completely desegregated because humans have one of the smallest levels of sexual dimorphism in the animal kingdom and the disparity we see between male and female performance is entirely caused by social factors rather than anything biological. “should trans women compete against cis women” i think cis men and cis women could compete fairly but that’s apparently a little too spicy for people to wrap their minds around bc they’ve been told their whole lives women are biologically inferior & never thought to question that. or wonder if it’s maybe a self fulfilling prophecy of some kind. are women biologically inferior or do they appear so because patriarchy demands that of us?

[666ftunderthestars]

been rereading marriagetoxin since the anime got me hyped about the series again, and I think I've found one of my favorite panels in ch 127, by virtue of what I'm fairly certain is a careless bit of translation

I don't have the original japanese for this so I can't say anything for certain, but this right panel probably uses either the native japanese 婚約者 or the loanword フィアンセ, both of which are gender-neutral ways to refer to a person to whom you are engaged. I'd guess it's the latter, because that's a direct transliteration of the english word fiancé, but what the translators may have failed to consider is that in english, fiancé is very much a gendered word, used to refer to a man you are engaged to. For a woman, like the poison clan is actually expecting of Gero, it should be fiancée, with the extra e. This does create the hilarious image of his grandmother being like, "We need an heir Hikaru. Anyway, you found a boyfriend yet? When can we meet him?" especially with the followup of "You're not engaged to Mei, right?" Definitely not worth reading into this specific panel as foreshadowing Gerosaki (though it's in the midst of some all-timer gerosaki moments), but I will be forever thinking about Woke Grandma Gero who has clocked all her grandkids as queer and is just waiting for them to realize.

[itspneu]

loved the marriagetoxin anime! my favorite scene is when john marriage uses his running toxin to chase the car on the bridge

[venusvhs]

rest in peace gideon nav you would have loved putting hot sauce on everything despite having no spice tolerance

[undatedtrouble]

"i simply cannot love you the way you want me to" the aro/ace mood </3

[xbuggyxboyx]

they need to invent a staying up late that doesn't make you get less sleep

[peach-paradox]

the crushing weight of one manageable task

[mimilove2003]

Uhhh...

[vamplire]

ur fangs & unhinged demeanour have bewitched me

[psi-hate]

these are my dialogue options when you talk to me btw

[winewaythaka]

her petty ass<33

[666ftunderthestars]

not to get all emo about it, but i do wonder how much of her automatic denial that anyone could be better than her is pride versus her feeling like she absolutely *has* to be the best, to justify the 200 children sacrificed for her to be born. bc when she talks about the 200 dead children, she clearly hates every aspect of the idea, but she also says that while she thinks it should never have been done, she would do it again, because their deaths made her, in her own words, “the perfect necromancer”, the only necromancer with the power and position to open the tomb and pass through all the wards. in harrow’s mind in these moments, she’s taking pride in her necromantic abilities sure, but it also feels like there may be an undertone that if any other necromancer in her generation could prove themselves her equal, without having made the sacrifices her parents did, then what was the point of killing off an entire generation?

[petz5]

another win for rankane yuri fans everywhere

[petz5]

btw they blush in this scene but the palette is SO pale i had to edit it darker to make it obvious 💀

[timelordsandkittens]

you might wonder what they do if they run out of baseballs during a baseball game. the truth is, this is impossible. all teams have one guy whose job it is to lay the baseballs like eggs, and he's constantly producing them. this position is called the designated sitter

[666ftunderthestars]

actually tho fun fact i played baseball in high school, and we only had so many baseballs and many of them weren’t in good enough condition to be used in games so running out was a legit concern for us, so of course the solution my coaches figured out is that whenever we had a home game and were thus responsible for providing the balls, every time a ball went out of play (foul, home run, missed throw, etc) someone who was sitting on the bench got sent out to track it down and grab it from the parking lot or fish it out of the woods or whatever. suffice it to say, literally everyone hated that job.