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i don't really want to weight in on the "using big words in your writing is ableist" discourse happening on tiktok because i'm like 90% certain it's an anti-intellectual psyop to stir up drama in online circles to promote the use of ai to summarize literally everything and thus feeding the LLMs and lowering the populace's mistrust of such tools but i also have to say: dictionaries and thesauruses are the most accessible they've ever been. if you use an e-reader of any kind you can look up a word without leaving the page. there's a plethora of online dictionaries and if you just type a word + "meaning" into google it'll usually give you a definition. we used to have pocket dictionaries we used when reading in class. i have two on my shelf right now that i used in high school. stop letting the fascists purposefully misuse anti-ableism rhetoric to trick you into never thinking again.

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There are people dying in India from this Heat

Which is to say, no. This is not just Brits being big babies about the Sun.

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as a regular donor to Gaza Soup Kitchen I get their email updates, and they said today that while they've continued to be able to expand, donations are slowing down as Gaza gets less coverage. If you have a few dollars to spare, I encourage you to send them here to continue the amazing work that Hani and his team are doing.

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You if bugs didn't exist

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Rottweiler with Vitiligo

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Insane Clown Posse

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Insane clown pupy

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Rooftop Squad Stuff

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Rooftop Squad Stuff

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Digital Circus glazers: “You just want Jax to turn to the camera and say “I’m Trans””

Me who just got done listening to The Magnus Protocol episode where a trans character voiced by an actual trans woman said out loud as part of natural dialogue “I’m openly trans” and reading Kill Six Billion Demons where a character has a whole arc about being trans and transitions on page despite never using the word trans: Yes actually, you can make your character trans in the narrative without making it infuriatingly vague, based in gender essentialist stereotypes, and appropriating a song about a black man’s love for his daughter by having it be covered by a self admitted racist.

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I honestly appreciate the concept and idea of what Jax is meant to represent (the extremely messy trans people who've had to repress themselves and it comes out negatively). I like that a bunch of people I know who are trans women or feminine completely resonate with Jax and it makes me appreciate that.

But I honestly feel a bit stunned that people are fine with the hints of the transness being subtle when the hints that are subtle could genuinely be easily mistaken or brushed off not as transness. Hell, I'm a trans dude and I honestly buy many headcanons of characters being trans and I actively headcanon a few of my favs the same way, but when I watched the finale, everything that indicated to Jax being a trans woman could easily be mistaken for the likes of mere toxic masculinity, Ribbit just being a good friend and comforting Jax or even misinterpreting it as Jax being a trans man if anything. For the longest time, a great portion of the TADC fanbase thought the trans coding that was there was indicating to trans man Jax and that only changed by the time we got around to episode 8

As a comment under the OG post put it, we already have pieces of transgender media and characters that are much more explicitly trans without nessecarily having the character say straight to the screen "Hey I'm trans".

Even Undertale and Deltarune are much more explicit with their transgender characters, and nobody explicitly turns to the screen and says they are transgender. Toby Fox didn't need to say that these characters are trans, but by god, he put a lot of work into making it known that they are trans and that it shouldn't be mistaken for ANYTHING ELSE when it came to that. Mettaton and his quest for a body he always wanted, Mad Mew Mew integrating into a body she never expected, Napstablook being content with not being in a corporeal form, Kris being explicitly never stated as feminine or masculine but things go awry when you try and force Kris into a more typically gendered role in the weird route, Frisk being a seperate entity from Chara and the player and still being explicitly referred to as 'them', Chara being their own entity and never put into any box, the lion in Undertale who's a fan of Mettaton and wants to wear Mettaton's dress and enjoys it, and in Deltarune we see that same lion and she's now a lioness and working in a diner.

I think what's even worse about the Jax representation to me is that it wasn't like Goose was being censored or heavily watched by a big network willing to shut her work down at the first sight of any character that is queer or trans. She had full creative control over her own work. She even made Zooble explicitly non binary. You don't need to be told Zooble is transgender, but the fact that they are referred to with they/them throughout the show and much of their arc is about being uncomfortable in their own skin and finding peace with it is enough for people to get the impression it is about transness and gender identity. Goose didn't even need a character, much less Zooble themselves to turn to the screen and say "I'm non binary" for most of the audience to understand that fact.

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Digital Circus glazers: “You just want Jax to turn to the camera and say “I’m Trans””

Me who just got done listening to The Magnus Protocol episode where a trans character voiced by an actual trans woman said out loud as part of natural dialogue “I’m openly trans” and reading Kill Six Billion Demons where a character has a whole arc about being trans and transitions on page despite never using the word trans: Yes actually, you can make your character trans in the narrative without making it infuriatingly vague, based in gender essentialist stereotypes, and appropriating a song about a black man’s love for his daughter by having it be covered by a self admitted racist.

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I remember years ago, long enough ago that I was still using either Tiktok or Instagram regularly, because that's where I saw this, long enough ago that unfortunately I do not remember the username, I saw an older trans woman responding to a comment asking "how come we see trans women from your generation, but never trans men?" And her response was simple. "Unfortunately, it's because most of them are dead." Between lack of safe and legal abortions (which, hey, look what's an issue again), the HIV/AIDs crisis (which still is lacking in approved treatments for trans men, and they're still likely to be denied PrEP/PEP even when they should be eligible as sexually active queer men), and how many of them chose to take their own lives after being forced into marriages and other women's roles, a lot of the trans men that should be elderly right now did not make it.

And now, when I find myself making the mistake of going on Instagram, I get to see trans men themselves talking about how historically, trans men didn't do anything for the community, and so we need to step up now. Which, first of all, that isn't true, but second of all, if trans men's contributions are lesser, that makes a lot of sense if we listen to that trans woman talking about the trans men she was in community with back in the day. It's very hard to advance the trans cause if you're not alive.

Anyway. It's a really chilling answer. "Where are all the elderly trans men?" "They're dead." And I just wish more people saw that tiktok and listened to it and really took it to heart, now that we're in the age of "well obviously trans men have it so much easier."