Food for thought

please, call me genius, geniuslyclever was my dads name world's smallest 6ft transman artist DNI if proship. fiction affects reality because it affects the people who make and consume it links TBA

[geniuslyclever]

Freely reblogging ep 9 TADC content under my "tadc" and "fandom" tags now since the finale dropped for free. Please go watch it! It fucking rocks!

[genderrat]

the racism from trfs is insane what do you mean theyre saying transmascs and enbies commenting about their opression is the same as saying "All Lives Matter" white baby I need you to shut up

[nikkiaart]

Redrew and updated my “the gang goes to New York” picture

[geniuslyclever]

Ok talking about EP 9 of TADC and I can't stop thinking about Caine and the Moon because like.. If he never programmed her to say she loves him, what DID he program her to say? Did he just program her to be nice and care about people, and act soothing/calm to make "nighttime" feel soothing and calm? That would kind of logically explain why the Sun is the way she is, since conceptually a sun and a moon are considered opposites or otherwise opposing forces, and she could've originally been High energy and rowdy to energize people during the day. If we consider them BOTH to have been milder versions of those features and concepts that got more intense over time, then it makes sense why the sun threatened him in episode 2 and why she's ridiculously hyperaggressive and kind of cartoonishly self-involved. Overall the sun and moon are very interesting for kind of being the only NPCs "at the circus." Since he can't confuse them for humans, we see that he doesn't get rid of them or manage them the same way he does other NPCs of his post-adventures.

Im ngl it's cute as fuck to me that an ai he probably just intended to be nice, got genuinely attached to him. Given Caine's personality we see he clearly respects and admires kindness and selflessness. Something something self fulfilling prophecies his own accidental sense of attachment to her gave her the capacity to feel bonds too and she wanted to make him feel as loved and special as he made her feel.

I almost wonder if the Moon being nice to Caine is WHY the Sun is so aggressive to anyone and everything INCLUDING Caine, due to him taking the Moon's intended kindness programming to heart. The sun's incoherence and minimal logic or compassion could be partly due to him holding the Moon in high regard as patient, logical, and thoughtful.

Sidenote in a way, I'm realizing that this implied ramping up/"caricature-ization" of the Sun and Moon could be thought to mirror the way that AI models trained on AI or mistakes will exaggerate mistakes more and more and more. AI models IRL aren't capable of noticing their 'mistakes' and I think it's strongly implied that Caine struggles to notice his own too, especially since he's canonically the 'shelved' first build of this AI model type. Because he's an AI that's ABLE to think and feel, his personal thoughts and feelings on things might actually be a "mistake" of his own that caused both the problems with his work AND resulted in his sentience (esp since we see nothing to prove or imply that the blue ai is anywhere near his level of sapience or articulating itself via sapience.)

So in some respects, we could consider their unconditional appreciation for eachother to have literally been what brought her to life and thats beautiful i think

[rogerrrroger]

starry eyed

[rubixx]

Random mlp doodles

[antisquare]

Hey scratch

[holideye]

rarity best pony fr

[sapphire-shores]

minty 🍀

[knightbrunnhilde]

Being a trans woman myself, I find it hard to understand trans women who are capable of saying things like "I hate men." And believing it. I spent the first 16 years of my life as a man, and have tended towards friendships and communities with men. There is no true dividing line between me and a man that allows me the cognitive dissonance to otherise them as non-people. That is not me misgendering myself, it is just a statement of reality. I'm butch. I don't pass. I am treated as a man in most of my interactions with strangers. In many ways I would consider myself to have male privilege.

The ways I see other trans women rationalise a material disconnect between us and cis men in our brains, mentalities, formative experiences, largely fall into two categories: literal magical thinking, that such a thing exists as a male and a female soul and that trans women are female souls born in AMAB bodies, or a discussion of upbringing and socialisation.

Now, 'Socialised male' is an ugly talking point I associate with TERFs trying to downplay the existence of transmisogyny. Of course most trans women do not experience male privilege simply because of certain aspects of their childhood and upbringing. However, I cannot help but acknowledge certain qualities I had as a teen and young adult I have had to contend with. I was absolutely a misogynist as a teen, and engaged in behaviour that today would be called incel-ish.

In spite of this I would say that most of my childhood was otherisation in a way I look back on in retrospect as degendering. My life was a contradiction, since my biology had me forcibly grouped in with boys, but my external characteristics had me continually bullied as effeminate. I was outcast by either group. I did not know what I was, as no one could tell me.

Now this is certainly a classic story that I'm sure most trans women relate to, but I don't believe it is one unique to us. One that we have a monopoly on. I knew disabled or autistic boys who went through everything I did but worse. Other boys who would grow up to find they were some form of queer. Non-white boys. Poor boys (Not that any of us were rich, but some were certainly poorer than others.) Simply any boy who broke the norm in some way. I will never hate men because men are not a monolith. There is no trait universally shared by men besides the arbitrarily applied social label of "Man", which I myself share in many aspects. I would certainly say there is a particular type of man I dislike, but it is one difficult to define beyond saying "Misogynistic and otherwise privileged."

I do not hate men and neither should you.

[averinna]

Look at his dramatic ass, experimenting NOT controlling a game

[blacksnapdragon]

What if I cried

[dogpuppy]

[gralily]

I only recently discovered that Jax changed her name to Lily! We’re twinning :00

[zk-j]

my message to white queers.

[8rgan]

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[nooodledude]

consequences of someone else’s actions..

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