so long gay bowser

formerly the lair of one Matt, who has since moved on to another blog as of October 3, 2014 Tags of note

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a message from your friendly neighborhood Matt

hey folks

I decided: I'm packing up on this blog and keeping it as an archive just in case, but I'm moving to a new account and URL

so if you still wanna follow me then send an ask and I'll respond, and I'll be refollowing a bunch of people in a bit

also I'll queue this up to reblog every so often for a day or so, so I'm sure people see it

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I'm laughing so hard rn because liein promo'd me while I'm in the middle of considering abandoning ship

Liein is gr8 though, we knew each other when we were small childs (like, 1st and 2nd grade, when we were living in Japan) and she's very sweet and funny and passionate about animation which is really cool

so consider this a counter-promo. TAKE THAT

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aaaanyway I'm probably gonna hold off on. actually posting much stuff on here for the day, outside of maybe chatting with people, while I figure out once again if I want to go through with shelving this blog and moving to a new one or if I'm gonna stay put. no point in stuffing more posts on a blog that I'm not sure I really want to keep right now

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tigts replied to your post:times like these make me consider just ditching...

elementnumber47

silver is a hack, nobody cares about silver

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times like these make me consider just ditching this account - either deleting it wholly or abandoning it as an 'archive' of sorts - and remaking my blog

this would help with fixing my organization of posts, decluttering my followers and followed blogs in one instant, and just generally make me feel better about having gotten rid of 3+ years of junk

but also I'm a horrible packrat and can't bring myself to let go of things even when I know I don't actually use or want them, up until it builds up and hits a breaking point

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this isn't getting into the fucked up things I had internalized regarding... basically any marginalized groups, but especially trans people, and the anti-SJ stuff I bought into because I honestly didn't understand any of the discourse going on and just assumed people were being jerks

but if I tried to hunt down and uproot all of that off my blog I think I would lose it

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being a Touhou fan meant meeting, and eventually befriending, quite a few cool people but also I don't think I can ever get into Touhou again because of what i was like back then

I think I threw myself into it so deeply because I saw maintaining an interest in it as an obligation and that led to a lot of the creepier stuff linked to that. how did any of you people STAND me back then

plus I haven't touched the games in forever (and I was bad at them already) and the comics don't interest me terribly so what does that even leave

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zezephry replied to your post:further blog reorganization/tag decluttering wow...

Really?

cringeworthy parroting of otaku mannerisms and terms, vaguely creepy fawning over pictures of anime/touhou characters, and at least once I actually used the term #rape face

destroy past me at all costs tbh

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further blog reorganization/tag decluttering

wow I was a complete trashboy circa 3 years ago and I am in a constant state of cringing about this

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like, if you’re attracted to cis women but not attracted to trans women, i definitely urge you to ask yourself why

trans women are a really really broad class and i can’t see any meaningful way that someone being part of that class necessarily tells you much about our bodies. is the difference something which is actually there (and there is not much there) or something which patriarchy has constructed?

because i think it’s an awfully huge coincidence if the entire class of people who you just happen to categorically not be attracted to are also an entire class of people who patriarchy just happens to take every opportunity to construct as disgusting and unfuckable

like that oppressive socialisation probably has something to do with that preference, and if you interrogate it you might find that the only reason you weren’t open to intimacy w trans women was because of it

if you do so then congratulations, you’ve successfully beaten up the little patriarchal cop in your head!

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Hello dear friends! Would you mind circulating this post again? Literally only transmisogynists are doing that now, passing it around with godawful commentary on it and smugly tagging it #rape culture and if i get called a rapist one more time by a smug BDSM blogger i’m going to flip my shit, thank u all <3

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yeah I'm feeling much better now after laying down a bit and waiting for the painkillers to do their thing

now I need to find something productive to do today

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haha the ibuprofen isn't kicking in yet and I'm feeling worse so I'm gonna go lay down for 20-30 minutes so I can stop feeling like I'm a few steps away from throwing up if I move my head to much

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oh no little floofins

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floofins

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I kinda like this.

[superhappyisdead-deactivated202]

allright gunwild, you seem like a nice kid and I like cassiopeia jones and all. So please excuse me if I come off as a bit rough and hardassed as I explain to you why this comic is completely fucking idiotic.

Point #1: DEMANDS! COMPLAINS! These are words known as “weasel words” and they are used for the specific purpose of turning you against the person whose opinions do not match those of the author. Do not get fooled by this.

Point #2: Try to remember that Vivian is, in fact, a fictional character. I admit I am not 100% sure if this particular comic was drawn by a man, but I am 90% sure. Whatever the case, I do know this is a character created by men to spout primarily male opinions on sexism in gaming, and that’s just as bad as when South Park used its fictional black mouthpiece to tell us how bad hate crimes were. ABSOLUTELY do not get fooled by this.

Point #3: “Vivian makes her own games” Uh yeah, because games are something that can be created overnight by a single person typing at their computer. This is even worse than people who say “do you think comics suck, then create your OWN comics!!!” because at least comics CAN be done in a relatively short amount of time with a small amount of personnel.  Videogames cannot.

Point #4: Despite the fact that Occulass is supposed to be the perpetually mistaken Goofus… and Vivan is supposed to be the virtuous and inspiring Gallant, Vivian looks so sad and empty. Why is that? Perhaps a slight bit of self-awareness on the part of whatever 4channer drew this comic?

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I would add that these “guides” for What You Are Supposed To Do as a Female Gamer are completely disingenuous and will not save you from catching shit from pissbaby 4chan dudes

the first segment of this comic suggests that female players should only play games they are 100% okay with and shut up about the rest. this overlooks that any player might enjoy or dislike various elements of the same game. enjoyment isn’t all or nothing. telling women “just play the games you have zero objections to at all” is a tactic to shut them out of conversations about MOST GAMES.

it’s hypocritical, too. if you unconditionally like every game you’ve ever played, and never speak up when you run into something you didn’t enjoy, you’re a goddamn consumer zombie

the second segment of this comic suggests that female gamers should make their own games, OH WAIT THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT ZOE QUINN DOES AND SHE HAS FACED AN ETERNAL SHITSTORM FOR IT

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continues vibrating with smash bros hype for a week because my preordered copy won't arrive until next Wednesday to Friday

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this new mario rpg has pretty cool graphics