Owls & Oaths

writer, builder, Titan. he/they. Destiny 2, Lego, Fallen London, Pacific Rim, Doctor Who, XCOM, Mass Effect, and much more.

[segamascott]

[wizard-council-bureaucrat]

Sometimes you find yourself standing still for a brief moment in your hectic life, and you smell the smell of being six years old and playing outside with your childhood best friend, the grass, their mom’s laundry detergent and something totally unidentifiable, and when you do, please call potion control, there has been a catastrophic leak and it IS fatal

[cykelops]

I have had a lot of evil people say to me that nothing taste as good as skinny feels and every time im like no im pretty sure food tastes really super good actually

[horsemotifs]

joining the war on pigeons on the side of pigeons

[wowwforever]

The Weeping Angels are really scary until you realize if any organism sees them they are fucked so they get hard countered by geckos, who don't blink and can see in the dark. If the Doctor strapped like two geckos onto him he'd be fine.

[mattpresents]

How do you know you're not Asexual? Maybe you just haven't met the right nobody.

[thecryptkeeper]

happy pride month

[ip2lb]

Person filming (1): Hey Macklemore- Macklemore!

Person pretending to be Macklemore, in a fur coat, turning around (2): What up?

2: Can I get a photo, man?

1: Not unless you're gay, man.

2: What?

1: Not unless you're gay, man.

[Camera person chuckles]

[datadegroove-deactivated2026042]

pretending?

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[cutecipher]

my cat is morally grey

[rickybabyboy]

im oange actually

[worldscoolest]

[only-cat-memes]

[darkestbrook]

[dacuala]

Artificial Intelligence (AI) was a fringe application of linear algebra used to create videos of domestic animals at doorsteps. [1] [2]

[plaidos]

by the way i havent said this before because its cringe to talk about steven universe these days but. steven universe is transfeminine right. like we all saw steven universe future. steven is a trans girl. right. right. ri

[plaidos]

trust me: rewatch this show apply the lens of Steven as an egg unwilling to investigate his feelings about gender because he’s afraid that it’ll prove he isn’t his own person and is just a reflection of his mother. watch as he experiences gender euphoria from fusing with Connie (eventually even suggesting staying permanently fused), as he magically represses his own puberty for years. Watch Greg explicitly tell Steven that he can be a girl if he wants after he comes to him worried about who he’s destined to be. watch him continually and often intentionally repress and shape himself into what he thinks he should be for everybody else. this is literally what the show is about.

[plaidos]

tell me you dont see it.

[maehkon]

this:

[plaidos]

parts of Steven’s narrative are absolutely allegorically transmasc — but the reading i’m talking about is a watsonian one, not doylist. Sugar’s experiences with coercive female assignment are obviously very present in Steven’s storyline with anybody with the eyes to see it, but at the end of the day, in-fiction, Steven was canonically assigned male at birth & struggles frequently with misshaping himself into an ideal masculine figure (Coach Steven, Too Many Birthdays, Everything’s Fine). i think there’s room for parts of Steven’s struggle to be allegorically transmasc whilst (s)he could still be literally transfeminine, much in the same way that Rose’s narrative draws from both transmasculine and transfeminine inspirations (Rose is both running away from and towards female identity, shirking daughterhood but asserting herself as a mother & even giving herself a womb).

also, just for point of reference, way back before i came out as a woman, i first struggled with being misgendered the other way around. many trans girls growing up being called girls for being little faggots growing up, so idk, i think it could really go both ways

[plaidos]

i regret to inform you that this actually happens in the original show and you just missed it. Steven spends the entirety of Lion 4: Alternate Ending trying to find hints from Rose about what he’s supposed to do with his life, what he is supposed to be for. Eventually, when he finds the Nora tape he takes it to Greg who tells him that as far as he knew, Steven isn’t necessarily supposed to have a magical destiny, his entire purpose to be something that doesn’t have a purpose, to be something that is supposed to grow and change and be different one moment to the next —

"Because you're going to become something extraordinary. You're going to be a human being. *giggles* That's my favorite part. A human being. A human is an action. I wonder who, how you'll be, what you'll think, what you'll want. Oh, I'm so happy for everyone who's going to know you.

Steven even asks his dad the exact question that so many trans youth before him struggling with their identity asked: Would you have preferred me if I were a girl? Was I supposed to be a girl? These are questions that haunt kids working out that they’re trans, as if everything wrong with Steven’s life would be explained by how he was supposed to be a girl. I relate to this a lot. But the part that really sends it home to me is how Greg responds:

Steven, she just wanted you to be you. When you have a kid, you have no idea who they're gonna be. Even Garnet couldn't predict it. That's what was so exciting to your mom, that life is full of so many possibilities, and you would get to explore them for yourself. I mean, you could be Steven or Nora or anyone else. And you can always change your name. Hey, I did.

i genuinely don’t know how to analyse this other than as Greg saying “me and your mother wanted you to be your own person, whatever that means to you. if you would be happier as Nora or as anybody else, i will support you through that. i would be a pretty big hypocrite if i didn’t”. as far as i can tell, there is no way to interpret “I mean you, could be Steven or Nora or anyone else. And you can always change your name” than Greg explicitly telling Steven he’s allowed to be trans

[monsterpotion]

"You can now sort your likes from oldest to newest on web and iOS. Do you remember what your first liked post was?"

oh dear

[monsterpotion]

oh its bad back there.

[mevil]

[bogleech]