I think The Unwanted Guest dropped by now you guys

I don't have the energy to tag consistently, including for triggers; follow at your own risk she/her, trans woman, early-mid 20s, aspiring butch

[revvethasmythh]

it's a shame for many reasons that jack's role in me3 is so limited, but honestly i wish we got to see more fall out of what appears to have been a fraught breakup that happened between her and shepard when shepard turned themselves into the alliance. when you meet up at grissom academy, it is made pretty clear that she has spent the last six months living on mad at you island. considering her past experience and relative insecurity around relationships, her anger at shepard for walking away, regardless of the context, makes a lot sense, but there's also just something super interesting about her refrain of "you could have stayed" and her questioning if going to the alliance actually helped at all (it didn't), and her bitterness that "the reapers are your one true love." we have such little time with her in this game, we don't really get to see a meaningful resolution to that anger (or, frankly, much of her emotional state regarding cerberus' attack on the academy and overall role in the war, which i cannot imagine is good) but i love the fact that she is angry. and even when she's living on mad at you island she still goes and gets a tattoo for shepard. it's really fun relationship complexity to chew on

[cuppydogshane]

the unstoppable force is tonguing the immovable object and it seems to be enjoying the experience

[circusheart]

I do think the post that's like "when they torture you to insanity and then torture you for being insane 😂🤣" is one of the most succinct and foundational analyses of interpersonal violence and conflict that had ever been written

[genderkoolaid]

one simply must not underestimate the amount of intense transandrophobia that comes from self-identified TMEs & other trans men. & one must not underestimate the amount of people that would be considered "TMA" and trans women who get treated like shit for calling out anti-transmasculinity.

[genderkoolaid]

this is why the problem of anti-transmasculinity in trans spaces is not as simple as "non-transmascs need to stop talking over transmascs on transmasc experiences" because while yes that is true! the real problem is anti-transmasculinity as something we all internalize. our goal should be collective healing through unlearning anti-transmasculinity, so we can treat each other better and be more effective in resisting oppression, not treating different trans groups as warring factions.

(additionally there are people who don't identify as transmasculine who are still affected by anti-transmasculinity, or who otherwise contribute in valuable ways to the discussion on it; "talking over" does not mean "talking at all.")

[revvethasmythh]

re: jack's lock-in scene in me3, i think it's actually pretty notable that she was vocally willing to walk away from the work she was doing with her biotic students if they hadn't been so effective/needed a teacher on hand to function. much of her growth is tied to how deeply she cares about those kids, as people, as family, who are getting far better and kinder training that what she was given. she was willing to walk away from them. that's pretty significant. and much as she offers "no strings" while the war is ongoing and she and shepard and separated, the hanging thread of "but if we make it out of this alive..." certainly implies that she wants strings. in fact, i don't even think she can hold herself to the idea of a "no strings" arrangement, given her scenes in the citadel dlc. how she talks about the relationship is not always in line with the way she behaves, or what she actually wants, which feels very apparent when she shows up on shepard's doorstep to tattoo a representation of herself on them. it's "no strings" but it's also "if you're ever hurt, barely breathing, lying under a pile of rubble at the ass end of this war, you're going to have something that tells the galaxy that you belong to me"

[cheaphalloweencostume]

“be gay do crime! but sex is yucky and crime is wrong!” ass website

[cheaphalloweencostume]

okay, we managed to get through the “you can be gay and not have sex” part, and im feeling charitable and i wanna talk about the “do crime” part

so many responses of “its nice that you’re privileged enough to be able to steal from Target willy nilly!” and that’s not at all what this is about. like, yeah, shoplifting and loitering and graffiti and breaking the rules is, obviously, part of “do crime”. but they’re not parts you have to do.

would you help someone get an abortion where it was illegal?

would you help a trans friend get healthcare that had been criminalized?

would you shelter someone fleeing persecution, even if the law said not to?

would you help a gay couple stay together when the state decided their relationship was unlawful?

instead, would you report someone else for breaking the law? will you snitch on your hungry neighbors for stealing food? on your homeless neighbors for sleeping where they’re able?

would you break laws to protect someone you love? a community you love? yourself?

[evilvillain123456789]

step one: replace entire personality with open, festering wound

step two: contort absolutely all stimuli in my environment to relate to the my wound in some manner, ideally one which justifies random acts of unbridled aggression and vengeance

step three: marry a girl with generational wealth

[this-is-trans-joy]

so if phm is set in 2032 and ryland grace is supposedly 29 when the hail mary launches, that means he is firmly within gen Z… he knows about undertale AUs and watched Fred on YouTube at like 9 years old. He had a tumblr blog. this genuinely explains everything

[this-is-trans-joy]

poor guy was around during the ace discourse days. i hope he was lethal with the block button

[this-is-trans-joy]

i want someone to make a roleplay blog but it’s literally just ryland grace’s actual blog and then the last post is like “guys oh my godddd never become important at work i’m so serious you’ll never fucking guess where they’re sending me #and during pride month???”

[this-is-trans-joy]

“what the fuck there’s some guy on my ship who the fuck— IS THAT MARKIPLIER????”

[hunybody]

u guys omfg can we try feminism again. can we breathe life back into feminism's wounded and perishing body like OMFG she's dying...

[lakemojave]

People are unfazed if you hate women but if you dislike dogs they assume you're a bad person

[theocseason4]

[longscorsese]

king

[puertohurraco]

King

[vortigone]

[occidentalist]

“Pack it up boys we’ve made a social blunder” is the funniest sentence I’ve ever read 😭😭😭😭😭

[noknowshame]

resurrected dead wife watching her own montage: wow I looked so hot in that

[dragoncarrion]

Anytime i see a bunch of pride flags i have to restrain myself from saying "where mexico" bc i doubt anyone will know I'm referencing this

[tortol]

picture i got at pride last week; here mexico

[ellie-insertsurnamehere]

This is very dumb but hey

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[hypokeimena]

#'this is present in the text' is often a good first step #but those second and third ones (naming it; describing its function) are vital (via @elucubrare)

[rabioheab-deactivated20200416]

earlier this year 2 boys got expelled from my school for going on a teachers email and sending another teacher an email that says “you’re a disgusting little man” and i laugh about it all the time because imagine opening an email from your coworker and thinking it’s important and then it says that

[doyoulovethewayzeylily]

you'll feel like a total dipshit train wreck and no matter what some girl is gonna see you and think "role model". you can't kill yourself you have to go be clocky in the gas station so a 14 year old can have the trajectory of her life altered forever

[sailermoon]

this is how new yorkers @ mamdani

[sailermoon]