🌲Life is short, Johnny is fat🌲

| 23, he/him/his | Metal Gear, mostly. Sundowner guy. Future North Carolinian state bird. Average Southern Male 💪🏻

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[docbot113]

Neo defeats the Sentinels with the power of music y'all

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Would any kind souls like to send me an ao3 invite so I can start my account over (too sentimental to delete my old fics on my og account)

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Sundowner moodboard

[cbrxix]

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I'm like Sundowner but if instead of being fanatical and stupid about going to war he was fanatical and stupid about prescribed burns

[cbrxix]

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Do yall think Platinum Games had any reasoning for making Sundowner be from Alabama specifically or did they just get together and argue over what part of the South was most likely to spawn the world's worst hick

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The correct answer is South Carolina btw

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Nearly every trans guy I know had an awkward alt or soft boy phase (myself included) in his younger years while figuring himself out. Now did anyone else have a long stint as the big chungus world war two REEEEEEEEE keanu reeves Sabaton trench coat slav meme compilation fedora kid in middle and high school or did I just suck

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AND I CAN STILL HIT THAT DAMN KAZOTSKY KICK

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Despite everything, it's still you and the character that made you smile as a teenager.

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"I love how you cropped the picture but it's still obvious you've got yourself an Ocelot on your arm" - my bf, redacted for his privacy

[serpientesolida]

he looks so pathetic

[princessdollknight]

mercy was never an option

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Gonna come back and recreate this with my grandpa's shotgun once I start T. Together we will give Congress gender dysphoria

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Haven't posted in over a month because I've been busy traveling the South, restoring battlefields, and becoming the first Sundowner fan to get chainsaw certified. I'm back ish now. In between sidequests

(Also hiked the Shenandoah Mountains with a Desperado Enforcement patch on my backpack)

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Just remembered the time I got an Army recruiter to stop texting me by deploying Sundowner

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Logging back in after even MORE hell has broken out with the US Government to tell all my American oomfs that IN THESE TRYING TIMES. IT IS YOUR CIVIC DUTY TO FUCK WITH MILITARY RECRUITERS. SEND SUNDOWNER TO YOUR LOCAL STAFF SERGEANT

[alchemillaatnight]

actually as a woman I still think misandry makes you an unpleasant person and if you’re just out there saying shit like “all men should die” or “men’s mental health doesn’t matter” then you’re the type of person I want nothing to do with. also this is not what feminism is about btw, you’re not being a strong girl boss with this ideology, you’re just a bully

[zombiemollusk]

remember:

-the idea that women are less capable of abuse than men is an extension of the idea that women are weaker than men.

-the refusal to acknowledge men's mental health and emotions as valid things worthy of support comes from the idea that emotions are inherently feminine in nature and having them is, again, a sign of weakness.

-the treatment of men as generic and expendable and women as special contributes to the idea that women should have less representation because we already "have enough" and "don't need more" and we gotta "even the playing field" or some dumb shit, so any need or want for more attention, regardless of reason, is attributed to "pointless attention-seeking".

-all of this puts trans men in an even more uncomfortable position, because either they're made an exception (because they ~aren't really men~ you see) or they're viewed as self-hating misogynists because why else would you "choose" to be the Trash Gender (tm)?

all of these seemingly pro-women anti-men sentiments stem from beliefs produced and enforced by toxic masculinity; as such, misandry is often really just misogyny in disguise.

[zombiemollusk]

adding more onto this:

-the idea that men are inherently terrible only serves to excuse men for being terrible. because, hey, they can't help it, so why bother trying, right? part of holding men accountable for their awful actions is believing they can in fact be better.

-the reason "not all men" is so frustrating to hear is because it's often used in poor faith to derail much needed conversations about toxic masculinity and how it manifests, not because the phrase itself is untrue.

-continuing from the trans men thing, misandry can and does make it harder for trans men to come out, for fear of the aforementioned responses.

-yes, misandry can stem from trauma at the hands of a man. that's understandable, but trauma can reinforce a lot of prejudices, and we all have a responsibility to understand how we come to believe things and mind ourselves accordingly. that doesn't mean you need to hang around men all the time, nor does it mean you're wrong to feel the way you do about what men did to you - it just means recognizing the objective line between fact and feelings, and recognizing that you don't need to conflate the two to validate your feelings. "i am uncomfortable around men because of past experiences shared by a lot of women" is different from "men are all horrible irredeemable pieces of shit and need to die".

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Does there exist a method of flagging oneself as a trans man in LGBT spaces. I need a tried and true method of explicitly broadcasting to all queers who encounter me that I am NOT a butch, because apparently introducing myself as John, being by and large very gender-conforming, talking about my plans to start T, and mentioning my boyfriend still ain't enough to clue people in.

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Despite everything, it's still you and the character that made you smile as a teenager.