chris your unhinged local trans guy orc-thing.

terfs, "feminists" who exclude trans people, homotransphobes, dni. officially in my mid 20's, finally moved out, they/he. I'm still very fucking tired. So, I'm gonna be blunt: I'm not a charity, I don't know charities, nor do I have the personality to fucking work in one. I do not have a personal income for me to donate. Once I'll have, I'll donate to Palestinian vetted and proven true crowdfunds. I'm here to be silly and shitpost with my mutuals.

[profeminist]

[web-wound]

Are you like me and you fucking hate HP Lovecraft? Well good news, I have now made a badge of honor (poorly edited userbox) to wear! If you too hate that racist piece of shit, feel free to steal it!

[chrisasiaheartman]

He became less racist as he went on, regretting a lot of his old fears and prejudices. He died early without having the possibility to redeem himself. You would know this if you read his letters, published by one of his best friends (HE was a majour pos tho).

In short: dont believe everything you see on the internet.

[dorkery]

Must-know for Japanese fandom: the meaning of "proship" and the concept of "proshippers" in Western f｜オレンジア｜note

[TN: This is a translation of this note by Maromi. If you are able, I encourage you to read the original article for yourself as translation

I have never read a more excellent article

[todayiwrotenothing]

[brightwanderer]

This is a great take and I would like to adopt “Feelings Yakuza” in English actually, I feel like it conveys the whole thing way more obviously than “anti” (not to mention the muddled meaning of “proshipper”).

[thebiscuiteternal]

To avoid harassment, EA and SEA artists have started pre-emptively blocking users with "proship DNI" or any variation thereof in their profiles as a result of this article and said feelings yakuza are getting pissed that their DNIs are being hard enforced by the other side. How very dare.

[septmilleneurones]

I’m screaming with laughter at the actual Japanese term, o-kimochi yakuza. The “o” is an honorific indicator to indicate how prissy and self-important these people are being.

[thorst]

I don't know if Maromi intended this to be the incredible takedown that it is, but I couldn't not share it:

[deadgenerations]

SPEW though is such an insane plot line in Harry Potter. actually shockingly regressive. if she wasn't an insane transmisogynist I think people would talk about it more because she really did spend two books on how wokescolds ruin slavery for the enslaved. Winky is literally a fucking Mammy

[lurker-den]

See, the moment I realized that HP discourse had changed forever was when I saw a post calling out the portrayal of house elves and everyone in the comments emphatically agreeing with it. My first thought was "oh, so we're acknowledging that now?"

People ignored this shit for so long. I don't remember very many people actually trying to defend it (the few that did failed miserably), but it was something you just didn't talk about. Even when Rowling started making cringe additions to the lore (god, remember when that was why she was controversial?) and it became fashionable to rag on her worldbuilding, it was still considered in poor taste to pry too harshly into the house elf thing. Or the goblin thing. Or the squib thing. Or any of the other things. Because everyone still liked Rowling back then, and so they excused it. Sure, if you thought about it it wasn't great, but it was hardly considered a fatal flaw with the series.

And then Rowling went off the deep end and everything changed overnight. People blew right past acknowledging the dodgy aspects of the series and started declaring them evidence that the books had always been trash and Rowling had always been evil. Suddenly, it was the good aspects of the series you'd get backlash for bringing up.

IDK what I'm trying to say here. It's not like the house elf thing and all the other things aren't major flaws with the books, and I'm certainly not saying you shouldn't boycott Harry Potter and anything else that funnels money to that ghoul. I guess I'm just really frustrated with this approach to literary criticism that bases its entire view of a work on its view of the creator. The view that excuses a book's flaws because it likes who wrote it right up until it doesn't. The view that judges a person's morality by that of the people who made the media they like. I just think that it's a really unhealthy way to interact with media and I really wish the community at large could criticize and boycott JK without engaging in it.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I agree that the way we criticise or give grace to aspects of a series shouldn't depend on whether it's fashionable to love or hate the creator. However, I did not experience this at all. I remember people criticising the house elf thing and the racism and the creepy rape culture stuff from the start. People were always pointing out how love potions and boys being preyed on by girls being written as a joke were creepy, and that the negative framing of SPEW and the house elves being oh-so-happy slaves was awful, and the antisemeticism of the goblins and that the wizard justice system sucked in ways that the series never acknowledged, and the whole framing of Slytherin House and indeed the personality-based house system itself was fucked, and a million other things, long before Rowling even started adding cringy (and frequently racist) new lore. Those discussions were popular from the start.

The main change that I noticed was the dropping of talking of positive aspects of the series. It was generally accepted that Rowling's world was terrible and her worldbuilding was shit, and full of any number of horrible implications, but her line-by-line and paragraph-by-paragraph writing was very good. The big change that I noticed was that writing advice bloggers (the ones in progressive circles, that is) used to use a lot of Harry Potter examples to make their points on skillful paragraph construction, forshadowing and information communication, and the more openly horrible she became, the more they started using other examples instead. The positive discussions disappeared, but the negative ones were there (and extremely popular and productive discussions) from the beginning, people didn't start talking about them after she became openly horrible.

[ashirisu]

Yeah I recall back when I was a really big HP girlie that even casual convos I’d have with other fans (in person! not online) would frequently mention AT LEAST the problematic “decide a kid’s value to society on their astrology signs” Sorting and the unfairness of how Squibs were treated, and even those of us that were young, white, and sheltered enough not to immediately recognize the antisemitism and slavery justification for what it was were still firmly in the camp of “Hermione is right, why is everyone being so weird and mean to her about it.”

I agree with Derin that the main difference I’ve seen is that there are no longer positive convos balancing out the criticism. I also think we’re probably seeing a lot of new voices that weren’t participating in those earlier discussions now piping up to say that they always knew she was a bad writer and a terrible person (which is bound to happen and isn’t necessarily exclusive to HP) and the combo of the two is making it seem like it’s all previously complacent fans trying to retroactively distance themselves from the series.

Which is also happening for sure! It’s just not the only thing happening.

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

You wake up one day and discover you've lost control over a random action or feeling!

Spin the wheel to find out what!

How bad is it?

Actually way better than before!

Its good

It's alright

It's annoying but I'll be fine

It's pretty bad

IM DEAD

worse than death

Nothing changes/results

Voting ended onAug 13

This idea was submitted by @dbnekonico!

(the constantly move ones would be like a tic)

[daftpatience]

[aberrantemotion]

I mean the funny part is that I overheat extremely easily, so this would he a boon for me?

[rillen-21]

I was thinking about this when I was fighting with Powers

[elierlick]

Yet another new study debunked the basis for the anti-trans sports bans. It was never about sports but for creating legal avenues for exclusion and abjection. This is one of the largest analyses ever conducted, involving 52 studies and 6,485 trans people. Read the study here.

[lilithseconddaughter]

post so nice had to reblog it twice and force it down everyone's throats

[fleshengine]

At minimum about 4.5 thousand people liked this without reblogging it.

We gotta fix that.

[dancinbutterfly]

Progress.

Onwards!

[onthedriftinthetardis]

I can't access the full paper, but their conclusion is right there in the abstract:

While transgender women exhibited higher lean mass than cisgender women, their physical fitness was comparable. Current evidence is mostly low certainty and has heterogenous quality but does not support theories of inherent athletic advantages for transgender women over cisgender.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

see i think when a Final Girl kills a Slasher she should automatically inherit his mantle

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[aromanticsky]

I cannot believe that in 2026 there are still people even within the trans community saying that nonbinary people are misogynistic for not being women/feminine and not wanting to be considered women/feminine. (There are plenty of nonbinary people who ARE women or femininely-gendered, whose identities are also never respected by the way because society wants everyone to be totally 100% always only one binary gender, and there are also plenty of us who are NOT, because being nonbinary is not one thing.) Someone saying “I’m nonbinary and was AMAB but that doesn’t mean I’m transfem, please stop assuming I am, I want my nonbinary identity to be recognized” is not transmisogynistically distancing themself from trans women and does not need you to correct them on their own identity. Someone saying “I was AFAB but that doesn’t mean I’m a woman; I’m nonbinary and I want that to be recognized” is not expressing internalized misogyny and does not need you to correct them on their own identity.

*Nonbinary people do not need binary people to correct us on our own identities.*

You are just exorsexist.

[galaxymermaid6]

So I'm seeing a lot of people talk about what they would wish for with a One Wish Willow and what the negative consequence would be.

I was thinking about my wish, and I decided that I would wish that I never had scoliosis.

What do you think the negative consequence of that would be?

[chrisasiaheartman]

I dont think youd have a negative effect because as the writer and director said you can have completely normal wishes from the one wish willow.

[galaxymermaid6]

So I'm seeing a lot of people talk about what they would wish for with a One Wish Willow and what the negative consequence would be.

I was thinking about my wish, and I decided that I would wish that I never had scoliosis.

What do you think the negative consequence of that would be?

[vorareromantic]

one thing that really pisses me off about the obsession debates is that its completely fucking irrelevant if nikki had feelings for bear or not. he took away her ability to make that decision for herself. the whole film is a rape metaphor. she couldve been head over heels in love with him and it still wouldve been wrong for him to do that to her because the point was that he took away her decisions and free will and forced her to go along with what HE wanted. "she liked him" "she didnt like him" IT. DOES. NOT. MATTER.

[chrisasiaheartman]

a headcanon that I have in Obsession is that Nikki is aromantic. Not Asexual, just aro. It makes the horror even more spicy in my opinion. An aromantic being forced to love romantically, that's--

that's fucked up.

[dailyflicks]

OBSESSION (2026) dir. Curry Barker

[acefuruya]

I genuinely appreciate how obsession doesn't try to frame bear as morally grey but just fully leans into how deplorable he is. a lesser movie would have tried to give him redeeming moments along the way but no, at every single crossroads bear makes the wrong choice. when the customer service rep asks him if he wants to cancel his wish, he says no, and asks to alter it. when nikki, the real one, begs him to kill her, he asks her "if it would be so bad to love him", and right at the end, backs out of killing himself and tries to throw the pills up. he is the villain, not another victim, not a confused, cowardly boy, the villain.

[chrisasiaheartman]

I mean, he IS a coward, but the way a villain is a coward. Absolutely foul.

[acefuruya]

I genuinely appreciate how obsession doesn't try to frame bear as morally grey but just fully leans into how deplorable he is. a lesser movie would have tried to give him redeeming moments along the way but no, at every single crossroads bear makes the wrong choice. when the customer service rep asks him if he wants to cancel his wish, he says no, and asks to alter it. when nikki, the real one, begs him to kill her, he asks her "if it would be so bad to love him", and right at the end, backs out of killing himself and tries to throw the pills up. he is the villain, not another victim, not a confused, cowardly boy, the villain.

[gimmielovemp3]

on my second viewing of obsession, i had the realization that nikki’s story at the party wasn’t the movie using incest as an easy shorthand for making the audience uncomfortable or creating a general “things are off” vibe but was another way the real nikki was crying out—a metaphor for the fact that nikki, like gretel, is being made to fuck her “little brother” (bear) under duress, at the behest of an external magic (the witch’s spell in her story; obviously, bear’s wish)