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I wanted to make random text posts and reblog shit without bogging down my art blog!
So HERE WE ARE!!!
My pronouns page!
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My posts are tagged with "๐'s bumbling"!
I'm over 20, but I won't tell you my actual age cuz I don't like easily offering out free personal info~!
To the closeted transfem audience member, the Tranny stock character exists primarily to remind you of how you will be treated if you are ever to act on your desires, to teach you that you are right to be ashamed and to hide these feelings, and that if you ever were to act on them you would become an object of justified ridicule and the acceptable target of unlimited patriarchal violence. The idea that such characters constitute "representation" or that the widespread presence of the tranny caricature as a target of mockery and bile fascination in media constitutes evidence of some sort of privilege is a bizarrely cruel position that a lot of people who claim to care about trans women nevertheless seem to take.
No no, you've got a point
Yeah I'll kick the hornet's nest... Something about drag that I've always found obnoxious as a nonbinary person is that it plays into gender stereotypes. Yes, it's a performance, it's exaggerated, but it feels like shouting to the audience that THIS IS HOW YOU BE A WOMAN!!! THIS IS HOW YOU BE A MAN!!!
As a nonbinary person, I just get so tired so frequently. Honestly, one of the things that helped me realize I wasn't a trans woman was the absurd number of queer people, especially trans women, who wholly embraced queer stereotypes. I felt like an outsider! I tried to change myself to fit in! I went nya and uwu and owo and bought trans pride flag "programmer socks"!
THAT'S why it bothers me when drag is completely written off as a performance. It's all a performance. It felt like I had to either define myself with transfem stereotypes, or against them, and either way I wasn't allowed to feel like myself, because I'm just a human fucking being... Drag is just a glimpse back into the reality that, yeah, people struggle to define themselves, so they use stereotypes as a supplement to self identity rather than a guideline to figure out who you like being.
And because things like drag just perpetuate this idea of what queer people like that should be, it's really difficult to sit there and just go like... Yeah. It means a lot to you. You feel empowered. It's awful, those drag book clubs getting shut down, I agree that that's really harmful to the entire queer community. Black drag queens have done a lot for queer liberation, you are genuinely correct about that. And I just... can't... say... "but"... Because it means so much to so many people... And I feel like an asshole for kinda hating it...
Anyways. Uh. Stop queer stereotyping? If I hear one more queer person say all bisexual people like lemon bars and have curly hair I'm going to give them an education on how the Nazis used racist caricatures to dehumanize non-germans.
And at the end of the day, at least people choose to do drag... Astrology is a bigger problem, if you ask me. Why no, I do not want to hear my horoscope! Actually, the fact that you're trying to define me based on the circumstances of my birth is really fucked up of you, and you should feel genuine shame!
And when a six-foot tall Persian priestess with a fucking GOLD EYE speaks, you know you damn well listen to what she has to say.
LOOK WHO HAS SOMETHING DRAW. IT IS ME, MY GAY BITCHES.
Finally had a tiny break time.
Soโฆ. Anyone still up for golden eyed six foot tall priestess??
Please draw her more and color her.
My pentab going wonky so didnt get to color my janky ass sketch. but here is the sacrificial art to summon lesbian deityโs dead priestess. bonus: 6 foot high golden eye priestess looking down at all the smols.
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time to cancel Nitro if you have it
how things are currently progressing
this happening in october is crazy, theres no way this will happen again haha
right
I forgot to do this at the start of the year, but I've made a new years resolution! I'm gunna make a YouTube video, like the dork I am! I just need to work on it for 5 minutes a day, that's the minimum I'm setting for myself. If I do more, great! If not, that's fine :)
Has anyone on here posted about the 2026 Wฤhine Toa Firefighter Calendar full of buff firefighter women where all profits from sales go towards Breast Cancer Cure yet because, like, look at it
Initial stock has sold out but they're doing preorders for a second run that goes until November 10th (2025): https://www.breastcancercure.org.nz/calendar/wahine-toa-firefighter-calendar-2026
Ahh I just ahh is it very dry in this room or hh I am parched I am perishing I ahh
uh, source?
Source:
Alex Hirsch you will always be a legend to me
WHAT is even the point of mind controlling a hero if it doesn't feel good. if you can't make them like it. if they don't learn to want it.
like why even bother corrupting a hero if it's only temporary. at the very least when they ARE 'freed' by their teammates there should be a lingering sense of loss that culminates over time into them realizing they MISSED being at your command so they end up tracking you down, not to stop you but to beg you to enthrall them again so they can turn their brain off in a way that was blissful to them. just saying.
It's so crazy how "Don't feed the trolls" was like the Motto of the internet & in forum culture of the 00s and early 10s and now you log onto a certain website and it's just an endless sea of people pouring gruel into the troll trough day in day out and no one seems to realize or care that their internet experience being a constant deluge of misery and bad faith discussion might in fact be their own fault
the space race may be the funniest point in history period and i'll stand by that. the US is like "yes whoever gets into space first will prove once and for all that our economic model is superior and that we are, in general, the superior country of superior and smarter people." then the soviets just went and did it and the US freaked out and needed to cover their ass so were like "WE MEAN THE MOON, WE MEAN THE FIRST TO LAND ON THE MOON."
I wish you could agree with Roathe's assessment of the Indifference...
Like, truly, I think the Indifference probably fits the bill for "god" in its reality, but that doesn't make it special.
Entrati is a self-important egomaniac who was the first person to ever step foot into an alien reality. After millennia of living in a universe where the only life comes from Earth, he was hoping to find something, anything, other than what he actually saw...
Nothing. The friggin Void.
For someone like that to come face to face with his own insignificance, he was probably horrified! He couldn't believe this reality was empty! Meaningless! Insignificant!
So, you know, the guy who has been alive for multiple lifetimes had a lot of emotions, and conceptual embodiment created a monster from his existentialism. He wanted a reason for living. He wanted a purpose for the Void. Thus... The Indifference was born!
I dunno about everyone else, but if I were suddenly face-to-face with a limitless expanse of nothing, I'd find it honestly beautiful! It wouldn't make me go all "blehhh Earth is all that matters" or whatever, I just... I don't know! It's not even like the ocean, where you know something's in the dark below and above you. It's... nothing. Limitless possibility! I don't think someone like me would ever come face-to-face with something like the Indifference, because I genuinely adore the meaninglessness of reality.
It's the overview effect! Blah! I could just boil it down to Entrati not being able to deal with the overview effect.
When nothing matters, you get to make it matter by being a caring and empathetic person, not an indifferent nihilist.
Anyways, that's my soapbox. Don't ever let yourself die, because life is all that matters <3
But no, my Drifter thinks all that's impossible and Roathe is mocking me for falling for Orokin propaganda :(
it's true and you should say it.
coming out of the tags to say that some of us have been saying this for years and have been called all manner of degenerates, perverts, and pedophiles over it, and we really deserve an apology we will never receive
We DO deserve a fucking apology we'll never get, and not to soapbox, but lemme just throw out another fucking explanation of exactly why this shit keeps happening in the slim chance that it helps at least one person not fall for it: Fascism in ANY form will ALWAYS present itself as reasonable to YOUR sensibilities. It preys on a lot of things, your disgust reaction, your fear reaction, your own shame, your need for a tribe, your need to feel like you're part of something bigger than yourself, your need to protect your resources, your need to boost your own ego, your need to feel better than others, and in my opinion, the worst thing of all that it can prey on is your WANT TO DO GOOD. It turns that Want To Do Good against you, gives you "acceptable targets" and sets you loose, thinking that you're being a fucking super hero. Fascism will ALWAYS feel okay when you're doing it because you understand why you're doing it because you've been told why you should be doing it by someone who's fucked the narrative to make you feel good about hurting other people because they've convinced you that you are protecting people by doing it!! Fascism tells you: "The sort of people who value a sex scene in a movie are perverts, and perverts are dangerous, right? Oh god... What if they're a rapist and that's why they like that sort of stuff? Yeah, that trans girl that made that post about movies needing sex scenes... She pisses in a diaper, that's fucking disgusting right? And she likes weird fiction... And diapers are meant for kids... So... Yeah... Exactly, you got it! See you figured out what she was too! So you should trust your gut with these people, you're really good at spotting them! You know when someone is evil! And you DEFINITELY should not listen to a pervert explain themselves, because... Right, exactly, what's the point? They're just going to lie about it and probably say gross shit to you." Did you catch how that worked? It let YOU make the conclusion. It let YOU answer the questions and start setting shit in stone in your own mind. And the next thing you know, you're using fiction as proof, anything outside of your own comfort levels as evidence, you've become an emotionally reactionary fascist who genuinely believes you are making the world better, and safer, for the people you love, and who love you in return. Fascism doesn't begin with violence, it begins with a kind hand held out in your direction from someone else who believes they're helping. You might not even realize you've fucked up. Ever. That's how it works. That's how it thrives.
THIS!!!
i think what annoys me even more is when timmis LITERALLY explained everything to charly about their creators and whatever, charly didnt even change at all. like fuck, i'd even accept a "well genocide is still bad but what they did to you sounds fucking horrible", but nah. charly genuinely seemed to feel nothing over timmis saying "ya our creators tortured and enslaved us, explicitly after they realized we were fully sentient and autonomous"
like she really just doesnt care, at all. on some level i can make an excuse and say that charly is supposed to be the kind of person who never accepts an explanation for something she deemed as bad, but also. she just didnt even show a twitch of emotion towards it. she didn't even try to argue a point that genocide is still bad. she just throws a hissy fit at whatever with no nuance and in a show with a shocking amount of nuance coming from a seth mcfarlane show its really jarring. she literally shows no sympathy towards a race of people who were tortured and enslaved and its so wild
This is yet another good point about Charly lmao
The Kaylon are on the defensive after generational trauma! But they all show the capacity to grow past that!
But no, no empathy for the slave race, they bad the end :)
Just finished season 3 episode 9 of the Orville, and can I just say, thank fucking god that Charly died.
I feel like she was a terrible addition to the show. Her only contribution was xenophobic one liners, stealing screentime from the rest of the cast, and dying so she can't return in another season.
She's not really a character honestly... She's just this entity that everyone on the bridge crew has to tolerate so she can remind everyone that the Kaylon are bad.
She was an ENSIGN who CONSTANTLY talked out of line, CONSTANTLY mocked and insulted a SUICIDAL MEMBER OF THE CREW, and NOBODY called her out on it!!
I don't hate complicated characters, I would have loved someone who was traumatized by the Kaylon attack, but this show treated her like the second in command of the whole fucking ship! She took over command one episode, has archeological expertise, she's the only person in the universe capable of seeing in the chess dimension, she was one of the first Union members on Krill, and she made the MURDER KAYLON bomb! Why was she an ensign!? She was in front of KAYLON PRIMARY and making SNIDE REMARKS while the Union was trying to make peace with them! That is unacceptable for an ENSIGN to be doing! She should have either been a captain to justify her outbursts, given less responsibility, or just... transferred off the ONE SHIP with a Kaylon on it!
Like... I really don't think I can overstate that Isaac is SUICIDAL and Charly kept HARASSING him with zero repercussions! And maybe I don't remember the episode that well, but did Isaac personally do anything that bad?
Her character resolution is her deciding in the last 10 minutes of the episode to stop being a fucking bigot advocating for GENOCIDE and sacrifice herself so she gets to join her dead girlfriend.
I'm not going to pretend there aren't weird takes about her on the internet (because, you know, scifi nerds have a history of hating women...), but her character was genuinely awful.
(Enterprise spoilers ahead!!!) Star Trek Enterprise is the best series in Trek canon. When the Xindi took out millions of people during their attack on Florida, the entire Enterprise crew was out for blood. Over the course of the season, the Enterprise crew learned more and more about the Xindi, about their motivations, their ideologies, their history, who they are as a people... And towards the end, the Xindi join with the Enterprise crew to tackle a bigger threat. Even Tripp, the guy who had his sister murdered at the hands of the Xindi, lost his rage and gained an understanding of them. It wasn't easy, this wasn't a quick transition, the Enterprise crew and the Xindi themselves had to work towards mutual understanding... Peace takes work, but it's worth it, and even your enemies will become your friends in time. You know, the point of Star Trek, and kinda what the Orville was going for with the Kaylon plotline...
Charly spends 9 episodes refusing to grow or change, then dies. The end. Maybe if the show actually took the time to have gradual growth for the character I wouldn't be complaining, but they didn't, and that sucks! She had ONE moment in a previous episode of coming to understand the Kaylon, then went right back to harassing her suicidal crewmate.
I'm not criticizing anyone for liking her, obviously. Your opinions are your own! This was a pretty darn good season! It has some of the highest highs of the show... but, y'know, some of the lowest lows... Looking at YOU, Isaac becomes neurotypical episode... I know some people hearing me criticize a woman character might immediately go on the defensive, but I promise you, I'm not mad that she's a woman, I'm mad they gave her a poor character! I want women in media to be well written!
ALSO PEOPLE COMPARE HER TO WESLEY CRUSHER!? Wesley, was a child??? Charly is an ADULT???
Damn, @butterflykiddo, this is way too good of a point to hide in the tags!
I feel like this is 100% accurate, if Isaac had traditional emotions, she probably wouldn't be as outwardly and immediately cruel to him! This is exactly why I couldn't watch Star Trek TOS, people were just too comfortable being needlessly cruel to Spock...
But anyways, yeah. This always happens in scifi. They write an "emotionless" character, give them secret emotions, then have someone just treat them like shit because they know the emotionless character is a punching bag that won't fight back... But they always show the emotionless character being clearly affected by people's cruelty towards them! Isaac tried to kill himself! And Charly was happy! And then she was allowed to keep her job! What the fuck!
I feel like the writers are usually trying to make the person treating them terribly come across as a bad person, but looking at the Orville as an example, they rarely see repercussions for their cruelty. As someone whose neuro is divergent, seeing neurodivergent characters treated like shit without consequences makes me see red...
Spock... Data... Isaac... Bleh...
Anyways, yeah. If Isaac wasn't autism-coded, the show probably wouldn't have made Charly as openly an asshole to him as she is with him being emotionless.
And like... Genuinely, they could have had a really interesting character! Maybe his suicide makes her start finally seeing him as a person, and she tries her hardest to save him because she genuinely feels like a murderer! (Because she is.) She's still bigoted, but now she knows that there can be real consequences to her actions, and all of a sudden she has to see Isaac as a nuanced person! The season could have her building up a relationship with Isaac, and then she could sacrifice herself for him in the ending as a final redemption or something!
BLEH!!!
Still one of my favorite seasons of TV tho
The Orville is up there with Enterprise and Torchwood for me...
