The Archives

An offshoot of the magnificent Archives of Metru Nui, here you shall find a plethora of fandoms, people, and art. All continuously cataloged by the Chief Archivist. (Apologies for the mess, as he is quite lazy) Genderfluid (use They/Them unless told otherwise), 25

[midnights-dragon]

when people complain about “too much gender-fluid/non-binary/trans rep is with shape shifters” I counter with: every gender-fluid/non-binary/trans person WANTS TO BE A SHAPE SHIFTER

[cosmicpaladintaka]

being a shapeshifter honestly would solve all of my gender problems. want a fat ass for a day? bingo bongo I got it. Want to be able to snap the rock into a slim jim like macho man? ya got it. want to be some kind of ultrahot dragon lady who can bench press a car? you got it. I think I’d lose all conventional sense of gender and just decide “today is a gawr gura day.” and look like ryan gosling in blade runner 2049 the next.

[guardiantoa]

The absolute best description for it I've seen comes from Nimona, where she describes not shifting as this itchy scratching feeling that gets worse and worse until she shifts.

And like, YEAH, THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT IT'S LIKE.

So yeah, at least for my fluid self and friends, we LOVE being depicted almost purely by shapeshifters. Because it's all our deepest desire, to have a power that would instantly not just alleviate dysphoria, but generate immense euphoria. Even if the shifting was painful, excruciating, it would be worth it.

Cosmetics and surgery and presentation can only go so far for us Fluids, as our entire identity has its foundation in not being a concrete thing. Often times we have to settle for some form of androgyny as a baseline for when we don't have the time or effort to put into making expression/appearance match the "gender of the day".

I can't speak for every fluid person, let alone every trans/nonbinary person, but I myself at least absolutely love being depicted as a shapeshifter in media. Not only do I want to be like that, it's also a great way to help explain to cis people what it feels like to be us. My cis best friend practically broke down my figurative digital door when Ninona came out, shoving the scene I mentioned above in my face to excitedly ask if this was how I felt all the time.

So yes, gimme all the shapeshifters, I'll love and treasure them forever!

[the-big-mood]

Walter White in Mario Kart Wii

https://m.youtube.com/c/TheChiptuner

[transhuman-priestess]

game designers: stop putting rusty airplanes in your games airplanes do not rust

[transhuman-priestess]

[thecrispier0nion]

haven't seen these news in destiel form yet

[me----irl]

Reblog if you think the person you reblogged this from deserves to be happy.

[aghostsdestiny]

[influentcomic4]

10 years of my life, and I don't regret a second of it.

Thank you, Bungie.

[influentcomic4]

Given the news, I figured this is a good time for me to come back to this app to reblog this.

Thank you bungie for the 12 years now, I still don’t regret a second of it.

While this tale is ending, the memories I made will stick with me, and this game will forever hold a special place in my heart.

Eyes up, guardians

[thadeeliv]

your honor i'm obsessed with her

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

the worst part about cardio is the laundry

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

“ancient Greeks exercised naked for spiritual or sexual reasons” no they exercised naked because they didn’t own automatic washing machines

[dorothylarouge]

[eiramew]

Oh Destiny 2 my love. Per Audacia Ad Astra...

[haunteddollsgeorg]

As a society we have benefited so much from successful public health measures that we now have the privilege of declaring that we must not need them anymore

Bitch before enriched flour, neural tube defects like spina bifida were far more common. Even now, spina bifida clinicians and researchers are begging to have salt and maize fortified to reach groups that don’t use as much flour. Before iodized salt, the United States had a fucking GOITER BELT. Eleven years after the introduction of fluoridated water, a city in Michigan found the rate of dental caries among school children dropped a staggering 60%— in an era where tooth decay regularly fucking killed people

I’m literally not even going to start on vaccines, which are among the most successful and robustly studied public health measures in world history

You might say “oh well today we all have access to vitamins and toothpastes and dentists so we don’t need those things in our food supplies” and boy do white people on social media loooove to fucking say that. But here’s the thing: no, people don’t all have easy access to those things. That’s privilege talking yet again

[odinsblog]

This is their logic:

[linddzz]

gotta be a term that isn't the dunning Krueger effect but is a kind of similar idea where the more deep scientists get into their topic and the more exhausted they get, the more likely they are to find stupid ways to describe things

[linddzz]

this post brought to you by a bunch of coral specialists at the end of a workshop voting to define coral, a complex animal, as "a rock with problems"

[ospreyonthemoon]

This post brought to you by the ping pong tree sponge,

[devinellekurtz]

My very first tiger drawing and my latest

[formaldehydedoesstuff]

Your skill level is unquestionable but listen.

I love him.

[cozierflyer6509]

Not entirely sure how to word this, but I’ve always loved the entire concept of Ghosts as a way to justify a revive/respawn mechanic.

In pretty much every game I’ve ever played that has a revive/respawn mechanic, it’s never explained as to how it works. Which isn’t really that big of a deal to me; it’s a game mechanic that allows you to keep playing the game, case closed.

And then you have Destiny. Get gunned down by a Cabal turret? Your Ghost will have you up in a hot second. Did another Guardian fire a rocket a bit to close to themselves? Go interact with their Ghost to rez them. Did you finally kill that bastard camping an ammo spawn in Trials? Better make sure their teammates can’t get to their Ghost, or they’ll be back up doming you from halfway across the map in seconds.

Except your Ghost is more than just a flying respawn machine. He can hack stuff, mark things on your tracker/radar thingy, oh and he’s an entire character with a personality who reflects the personality of your Guardian, who barely speaks.

The nonverbal communication and interactions in cutscenes between the two are fuckin immaculate. The way Ghost tilts the parts of his shell to express emotions - annoyance, shock, excitement, curiosity… and your Guardian reacts to him usually with a glance or a look, like… idk they just kinda get each other.

But while he is your Ghost, he’s not YOUR Ghost. By which I mean, Ghost is his own, independent character. He’s not a reflection of you or anyone else, and that’s made clear when his opinions and thoughts don’t align with the actions of you as the Guardian. In a lore thing from Forsaken I believe? there is a list of things he wishes he could say to you. One of those things is how he sees that you’re going on a rampage through the Tangled Shore, and justified by the death of Cayde-6 as it may be, he doesn’t like it; it scares him. But he still loves you - that’s also on the list, and even during Beyond Light we see this when he continues to stay by our side even as we start wielding the Darkness in the form of Stasis.

That’s not to say he can’t be vengeful himself. In the lead up to the final boss battle with Savathun during the Witch Queen campaign, Savathun taunts you and your Ghost. This isn’t anything new - bosses taunt you before and during boss fights all the time in Destiny campaigns - and usually you react by wiping the floor with them, without a word in response. Except this time, Ghost is PISSED, essentially says “how fucking dare you, you killed my friends”, lists a bunch of shit the Hive have done to humanity (most of which you personally have been affected by as a combatant against the Hive), and ends off by telling her that he would rather die than serve the Hive.

Speaking of the Witch Queen, we also get to see that Ghost isn’t perfect; he absolutely despises other Ghosts who joined the Hive, and makes that abundantly clear. He’s also extremely suspicious of Fynch, the Hive Ghost who helps you out in the Throne World. Ghost is kind of an ass to Fynch, because to him, the Ghosts who joined the Hive under Savathun betrayed the Traveller and humanity. But when he realizes that most of the Hive Ghosts like Fynch were coerced into helping the Hive in their search for their Guardians, he outright APOLOGIZES to Fynch. It’s actually a pretty cool moment in the story, and it shows like… yeah, he’s capable of making mistakes, but he’s also capable of at least trying to fix them.

Also he was really funny that one time when the Drifter didn’t show up to run tactical for you in Beyond Light, so he did an impression of him instead lmao

[thetruenightzedge]

Ghost but he's in a cowboy hat with a second, smaller Golden Gun

[tacit-r0nin]

[forgotten-by-the-stars]

dont you hide

[json-derulo]

I'm not gonna articulate this well, but there's this phenomenon I keep seeing on the left that I'll call "bean soup rhetoric," wherein someone fails to understand that they are not the target audience for a particular message, or just can't conceptualize why a speaker would craft their message differently to resonate with a target audience that doesn't already completely agree with them.

"The 'God Made Trans People' billboard is stupid! God didn't make me! I'm an atheist!" Okay. The billboard sits along a major highway in Kansas. We can deduce that the target audience is not you—it's the centrist evangelical Christians driving along that road who could probably be persuaded to become allies as long as we choose our words carefully and don't make them feel attacked for not already knowing everything about trans rights issues. Another one I see a lot is, "We shouldn't be talking about how right-wing legislation catches [privileged in-group] in the crossfire when [marginalized out-group] suffers far more!" I know. I agree with you. Which is why you and I are not the intended audience of this argument!

The entire point of rhetoric is to win over someone who doesn't already fully agree with you. In this case, let's say that someone is Jennifer, the moderate center-right mom in your neighborhood who doesn't really know or care about transgender issues but would be absolutely horrified by the idea of her teenage daughter having to submit to an invasive inspection of her body just to be allowed to play soccer. Tell her, "Banning trans students from sports will inevitably subject all student athletes to invasive gender-policing," or "Legal restrictions on gender-affirming care will make it harder for you to access the hormone replacement therapy you take to treat menopause symptoms," and she is more likely to question her existing beliefs and listen to the rest of what you have to say than if you lead with leftist talking points that she already has a calcified opinion about or which she thinks do not personally affect her.

Tailoring the argument to the things she already cares about does not mean we're forgetting that she has more privilege than most—entirely the opposite, in fact. A privileged ally can be extremely valuable. Jennifer votes in every election. And so do all the other ladies at her book club, and church, and in the PTA, and those folks listen to Jennifer. There's a reason both parties were courting suburban women so hard in the last election cycle! If we can find common ground with her on this, if we can get her calling her representatives and talking to her friends and phone-banking and door-knocking and making a stink, that's how the needle starts to move. If I can convince her to take her support away from the candidates who are actively restricting my rights and throw it toward those who want to restore and expand those rights...then I'm sorry, but Jennifer is a more valuable ally to me than the people who agree that the legal boundaries of gender ought to be abolished altogether but refuse to actually do anything except complain online about how both sides are equally bad because the right is trying to force everyone to drink the cyanide kool-aid while the left keeps serving bean soup and they don't like bean soup