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[noshamehustle]

[formerglory25]

reblog if you too are bi and confused or support others’ right to be bi and confused

[terraswallows]

So proud of them!!!

[voltaspistol]

[kaelor0409]

Just gonna leave these right here...

The Boss Designs of Bloodborne

[aura1817]

the grotesque femininity of Bloodborne

how Bloodborne represents womanhood and the female experience

[voltaspistol]

Ok, because this is the "how dare you piss on the poor" site, this must be said: No matter your gender, your experience playing Bloodborne is valid. Yes even if you disregarded the story entirely and just hunted things. This post isn't an attack on you. Your experience playing Bloodborne? Totally Valid. Whatever you got from it? Valid. Whatever you chose to not engage with? Valid. Just.... I imagine it must feel a tiny bit different if you've never stared down the double-barrelled shotgun of pregnancy yourself. Not the threat of child support. The actual terror of childbirth. Because yes, Bloodborne was written by a man, but it was written by a man wracked with guilt and anxiety over his wife's difficult pregnancy and childbirth. It is ultimately a story about childbirth. Anyone can engage with this concept, it's not exactly alien to anyone on earth of breeding age. If it hasn't happened to you then surely it's ALMOST happened to you (pregnancy scares). It's a love letter to how terrifying pregnancy is and how helpless we still are regarding what feels like the whims of a higher power of who gets to live and who has to die. Unless you have personally experienced pregnancy or the threat of pregnancy happening TO YOU PERSONALLY, I think you need to sit down for a hot second and actually listen to the voices of people for whom it was a transformative experience. You don't need to EXCLUSIVELY listen to female voices on this topic, but you are kneecapping your potential insight when you insist that female voices are in the minority and thus unimportant. There is still plenty of room in the fandom for male voices, for transfemme voices, for many different voices of many different backgrounds. In fact, the vast majority of the fandom will have no interest in these themes.... And that's ok! It's a big game with lots of facets! Go engage with them!! Cosmic horror! Lycanthropy! Vampires! Early surgical methods!! There's so much meat on this bone to gnaw!!! Just.... Don't tell women who have struggled with the threat of being reduced to a walking womb their entire lives , and women who have experienced the reality of being treated like a wrapper for the candy, that their experience is "bioessentialist" just because they have experienced something you haven't, and identify with parts of the game you didn't feel drawn to, or maybe don't quite understand but feel compelled by. It's ok to not have a uterus and feel compelled by the themes of motherhood-- Again, your experience playing the game? It's valid! But we need to acknowledge that the theme of motherhood's ultimate sacrifice is going to be more deeply felt by, well.... The people with the parts that give birth. Nevermind that a large portion of trans men probably have some VERY interesting opinions on the whole situation but we'll never hear those opinions if you're all too terrified to even engage with how 1/2 the human population would feel about a game where the most difficult boss is literally a fetus beating the protagonist to death with it's own placenta over the corpse of its mother. It's not exactly subtle.

[my-flying-sister]

I love rebloging. It’s the adult equivalent of showing everyone the cool rock I just found.

[the-dandy-liar]

[gorbling]

Im enjoying the longevity of tumblrs recontextualization style of humor. a seemingly innocuous post followed by like "posts that a gnome would make" or like "are you a phone"

[gorbling]

[hapalopus]

[hapalopus]

More from the notes:

[vexwerewolf]

I love this post

[karifaevt]

The horse thinks as it scratches an itch

[voltaspistol]

[kaelor0409]

Just gonna leave these right here...

The Boss Designs of Bloodborne

[aura1817]

the grotesque femininity of Bloodborne

how Bloodborne represents womanhood and the female experience

[yakomachaco]

might i add

[ristay]

Sorry if it’s a little cramped- had to make this all fit in ten photos. Hope you guys like it….. and again…. sorry Andrew

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[ruby-white-rabbit]

The window visual did me in I’m wheezing

[floralpopie]

NO

[greatmountainfloofsquatch]

WELP

[doctor-seamonster]

I haven’t seen this in years and yet it is burned into my memory forever.

[anotherdayforchaosfay]

This is on the short list of Eternal Reblog because it’s fucking legendary.

[magrowette]

An honourable candidate for the @hellsite-hall-of-fame

[gloomydude-deactivated20150419]

[son-of-rap-bear]

It doesn’t end there:

[funimationentertainment]

another addition

[cs-inactive1-deactivated2020060]

do you ever just like. feel unbelievably proud of someone you’d never even heard of previously

[eroscestlavie]

oh my god

[animentality]

[huh-enheim]

The real antagonist of Fullmetal Alchemist is the nameless Xerxian alchemist who bought a teenage boy to sweep his floors and then was like "hey, I'm going to take your blood to try to play god, you can't legally say no because I own you. If this, say, backfires horrifically in 20 years time, then I guess it's you and your descendants' problem since it's your blood lmao"

[huh-enheim]

a tag left by @paragonrobits on this post ages ago is still the most insightful comment on FMA's plot I've ever read

[systlin]

Every time I see bullshit about women never EVER being able to beat men in any sport, I think about how in martial arts classes I, a cis woman, 5' 8" and 145 pounds, regularly beat the tar out of 6' 2" 230 pound cis dude weightlifters. One guy ragequit class. He came in cocky as hell and talking the standard bs line about how a woman simply never could beat a man in a fight because they're physically weaker and our instructor was like. Okay. Put the pads on you're sparring her. Yes, her, the one 4" shorter and 100 pounds lighter than you.

It wasn't close I beat the pants off that man, and others like him. I did it more than once. Some guys got humble and stayed. One guy got angry and stormed out.

And I think about that every fuck damn time I hear that bullshit, which seems to be all the fuck over the place these days. Oh, women are just fragile little soft delicate flower creatures who can't do ANYTHING and could NEVER compete with big strong manly muscular strong MEN.

I think about driving that dude into the mats and seeing the brutal reality of this big dude's misogany meet the realization that a woman was beating his ass literally that second, that none of his strength could stop the fact that I'd just hip thrown him facefirst into the mats and that had I actually connected with the axe kick to his neck I would have crushed a bunch of important shit and he could not stop me, and his whole psyche collapsing like a dying star in that moment.

Anyway, don't ever fall for it, ladies, and there's absolutely no goddamn reason to get your knickers in a twist about trans people in sports.

[systlin]

Yes. This. Correct.

The reason you hear so much about how women COULD NOT POSSIBLY EVER DEFEND THEMSELVES OR GO AGAINST MEN IN SPORT is twofold.

Socializes women to THINK that this is impossible and to keep them from developing self-assurance in their own physical abilities.

To make shitty dudes feel better about themselves.

It's all bullshit, the current trans panic is horseshit, a 17 year old girl named Jackie Mitchell struck out both Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig and dudes threw a tantrum over it, don't ever buy a fucking word of any of this horse shit.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

"The trannies should be able to piss in whatever toilet they want and change their bodies however they want. Why is it my business if some chick has a dick or a guy has a pie? I'm not a trannie or a fag so I don't care, just give 'em the medicine they need."

"This is an LGBT safe space. Of COURSE I fully support individuals who identify as transgender and their right to self-determination! I just think that transitioning is a very serious choice and should be heavily regulated. And there could be a lot of harm in exposing cis children to such topics, so we should be really careful about when it is appropriate to mention trans issues or have too much trans visibility."

One of the above statements is Problematic and the other is slightly annoying. If we disagree on which is which then working together for a better future is going to get really fucking difficult.

[june-egbert-official]

Someone who says they don't care if dudes wear dresses and makeup is a better ally than someone who says they're a safe space for women and non-binary people. I am not joking.

[redrook]

yeah I went to a gay bar recently with my husband tumblr user beemovieerotica, and a VERY confused capital S Southerner straight man in cargo shorts and a trucker hat showed up

apparently he (who through my drunken memory I remember only as Earl) liked some woman, and she told him that he wasn't cultured enough and needed to attend his first drag show (she also flaked on him)

Now I'm reasonably androgynous and was wearing makeup, a short leather skirt, and black heeled boots, but still when this guy came up to me when I was standing off alone and asked "So. Do you come here often?" with a very earnest expression, I thought. Surely not. This guy doesn't think I'm a straight woman does he????

Anyway I start talking with this guy and he has no idea what the fuck is going on but he is just a very kind and earnest dude and asked a lot of questions (while asking if it was alright if he asked those questions). I track down my husband and friends and I'm like y'all. We need to make sure that Earl has a Good Fucking Time tonight.

Man was completely out of his depth. At one point they put on a puppy auction to raise money for Pride, that started with a 6 ft drag queen in all her glory leading a leather pup out on a leash to the tune of that damned RSPCA "in the arms of the angels" song

We look at Earl. Nervous. He squints, laughs, and then goes "I was wondering why people were dressed like that!" He turned to me and asked "So they're like dogs?" And I said yeah pretty much. And he just chuckled and went "Yeah I thought so with the tails! Never seen this before!"

When the first drag king came out, Earl looked at me wide eyed and went "There's a dude version too?!" And I said yeah they're called drag kings. And he said, low, "Drag kings."

During one of the queens performances, he frowned, shook his head and told me, "Your legs are better than hers." in a tone that implied he thought there was some travesty taking place and I should also be getting paid

When he found out I was there with my husband (and that I am not a woman) he profusely apologized and said "I'm so sorry, it's dark in here and I thought you were a hot chick! I wouldn't have said nothing if I knew you had a husband, I'm so sorry about that."

When beemovie invited me to the dance floor with him later and I still had a drink in my hand, Earl said "Oh don't worry about that I can hold your drink, you get on out there and shake your ass with your husband!" Then before we left, Earl bought me drinks for "Putting up with me all night and answering everything. Y'all helped me have a great time tonight."

like. You gotta recognize there's going to people who have never had interacted outside of their of their own community. This includes you. And just because your community is familiar with all the right vocabulary and how to correctly say something, it doesn't mean they're actually going to support you. If someone like Earl shows up, confused and out of their depth but kind and curious and earnest, you gotta have patience and truck through the small things, so when he goes back to his friends and his coworkers and they snicker asking how the drag show was, he can genuinely talk about how included we tried to make him feel and that he had a great time

The person matters more than the language

[cloevr]

literally we are not free until all women can go topless the same as dudes

[cloevr]

i hope you witness 1000 breasts

[aeonlamb]

[kingscrown666]

This belovéd weirdo

[futureevilscientist]

Unironically, this is why society would crumble without diversity

[jumpscart]

Sometimes you will be a lesbian to your parents and a straight man to your partners parents and a gay man to your partner and a woman to your grandparents and out to your friends and stealth to your classmates and a nice young lady to the cashier at the coffee shop and then people on your computer will ask you to choose which of these identities you ACTUALLY are and which you are Appropriating The Oppression Of because don’t you know they contract each other. You can only be one thing solidly forever

[prokopetz]

Whenever someone on here is like "no actual queer person would have an opinion that bad, so they must be a straight troll", I'm reminded that when I was a kid, the prevailing opinion in many queer communities is that most bisexual men were cishet dudes faking it for clout. People even wrote songs about it.

[hilarioushumorfromouterspace]

[rakdos-dogdyke]

Puts the product on tumblr for all to share it

[firebirdeternal]

My what a guy, that Gaston.