JaimiOfAllTrades

(She/Her) That ginger who talks a lot, an amateur polymath.

[jaimiofalltrades]

About

Hi. I'm Jaimi (she/her)

I'm an amateur polymath - I draw, write, compose, perform, cosplay, and some more. And yet, I am mediocre at all of it. I also GM and homebrew stuff for Pathfinder 2e.

I have another blog dedicated to my Pathfinder setting, although I keep a great deal of my PF2 homebrew in the JaimiOfAllTrades Homebrew Collection. Some are good, and some are... Really, really bad. Also, I have some unfinished projects in there that I should probably just restart or actually finish.

🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵 🖤🤍💜🩶 ❤️🧡🤍🩷💜

[daughter-of-sapph0]

i'd rather every single person on earth have free, reliable, easily accessible, and judgment free access to hrt, even if they regret taking it later, than have one single trans person kill themselves because they can't access or afford or are prevented from taking hrt!!!! i'll forcefem a thousands cismen before i let one trans girl die!!!!

[keijakku]

heroin

[epicpebble]

Anybody who tries to make the “isn’t she lovely” scene about funnybunny and not transfem Jax or just the finale as a whole mostly about funnybunny. I am killing you with my mind powers

[demilypyro]

most forcefemmable male ace attorney characters tierlist (1-3)

[mousidy]

a lot of my disillusionment with the trans "community" comes down to the fact that too many of you take "gender is different from sex" and go "ah ok, so instead of saying women are fragile and men are strong, I should say afabs are fragile and amabs are strong. to be Inclusive"

then you just treat gender like a surface level aesthetic draped over what someone "actually" is. really is indistinguishable from terf rhetoric

[mousidy]

you all need to unpack your bioessentialism, but we also need a better theory of gender than "it's just dressup." I will pick my words carefully here, but the word "gender" itself refers to so many different phenomena that have been lumped together, and we need to un-lump them

[mousidy]

in a feminist context, "gender" has historically referred to externally imposed categorization and the internalization and performance of said categories. in a paper I wrote on this subject, I called this sense of the word "extrinsic gender"

"intrinsic gender," on the other hand, is what I used to refer to the sense of the word "gender" that a lot of trans people are talking about when they discuss social gender dysphoria and euphoria. it's the internal sense of category that's resistant to external impositions

but then we also use the word "gender" to refer to subconscious sex, which is the term Julia Serano coins in Whipping Girl to name the phenomenon we're talking about when we talk about bodily dysphoria. it is the "gender" being "affirmed" by gender affirming healthcare like HRT and bottom surgery

so, "gender" is: a social classing system, a performance, and at least two internal phenomena as well. and I really don't know if it's doing us a service to conflate all of these things!

[mousidy]

a lot of people lately seem to be going heavy on the "performance" use of the word, ignoring (intentionally or otherwise) social classing, intrinsic gender, and subconscious sex. this seems to have led to a lot of "progressive" people treating trans women like men "amabs" who wear womanhood as a costume, and nobody understands why that's wrong because they also think gender is just a performance

[mousidy]

see also "why can't you just be a femboy/feminine man/etc"

[mousidy]

furthermore, some trans people experience social dysphoria but not bodily dysphoria, and vice versa. but bodily dysphoria in particular has gained some stigma in the last few years

because we use the word "gender" to discuss both "intrinsic gender" as I termed it above, and subconscious sex, there's been a certain strain of argument from some trans people that says that medical transition reaffirms societal gender norms about bodies, and that bodily dysphoria must only result from externally imposed norms about what kind of body corresponds to what gender, and thus it would just go away if the gendered associations were unlearned

I'm strongly of the opinion, though, that our bodies are not like clothes! gender dysphoria related to clothing would generally have to do with one's intrinsic gender clashing with the gendered norms of their culture surrounding clothes, but I believe "gender" dysphoria related to the body itself is really, in large part, subconscious sex dysphoria, and this component cannot be alleviated by changing norms or associations. I strongly believe I would still seek HRT and bottom surgery if I lived my whole life in a cultureless vacuum

you cannot sidestep my dysphoria by regendering parts of my body I'm trying to change, and frankly it causes me a lot of strife that fellow trans people who flirt with me think they can talk about my body however they like as long as they gender it correctly. the word "girlcock" is not a magic dysphoria repellent, because the dysphoria doesn't just come from the gendering

[mousidy]

For transfem voices project - tw SA

Before I transitioned, I was already very feminine and was out as gay (later realized i was a lesbian, as one does) I had came out as nonbinary earlier but was bullied back into the closet & shoved the desire to not be a man deep down for years.

My boyfriend in middle/high school not only coerced me into having sex with him but also would grope me in public without my consent. He was older than me, stronger & bigger than me & felt trapped. I ended up indirectly losing friends over what he did to me. I waited to break up with him until he graduated. I realized later that I was in many ways already being treated as transfeminized by him and others around me.

I don't rly get taken seriously by my family members, and I've been harassed at work multiple times for being transfem, including a lady telling at me to "prove" i was a woman. I don't really go out often enough to get harassed outside of work because I've become very anxious.

I struggle to make friends, and often find that people's interest in me starts and stops at hooking up. I know that I *am* attractive & that's been reinforced to me over and over by being treated more like an object of desire than anything else. I'd trade a hundred hookups for one clpse friend any day.

I'm lucky to have my amazing partners though, I've been healing a lot and my gf has been getting me out and into the world. I realized as hopeless as things feel there are ppl out there who love me, enjoy my presence, and see who I really am. Things do get better and there's light even in the face of misery.

💖

[demilypyro]

ugh i have many Things and Analysis to say about the tadc finale but i guess i gotta keep it on spoilers lockup for now

[demilypyro]

ugh. ugh. i have so many things to say. ugh. i want to take screenshots and point things out but I can't yet. ugh

[jaimiofalltrades]

I really wanna screenshot and part on-screen that shows that it's in St. Louis.

It's such a nothingburger spoiler that it's the only thing I have posted publicly about it so far, and only have with this post, but I kinda love it as just... a random tidbit.

Like. Yeah. The Illinois side of St. Louis is run down enough I would expect an abandoned tech firm to have a laptop left on and running an AI program on Java and Windows 96 while connected to the neighbor's public wifi.

This means nothing for the story, but is just... really fun.

[supercharged78]

rather expectedly, my graduation cap consists of the one i strive to be like

I got transphobic relatives but they’ll never spot all the trans flags i’ve hidden in there

[jaimiofalltrades]

I'm proud of you, kiddo.

Good luck

(I wish there was, like, a headscratch/noogie emoticon I could do)

[biblicallyaccuratemoth]

Imagine a story where a transfemme egg makes a wish on a star (as a lot of us did) to be a girl for a day, 'just to know what it's like,' and that wish is granted.

But it's just for a day. 24 hours.

She has 24 hours to live that experience that she was always craving, but never understood the depths of. How do you do it? How do you live a lifetime in a day? What does she do when the day ends, and the magic fades?

[jaimiofalltrades]

Imagining it either as a comic or a book

Honestly.

Each chapter/issue name being the hour. And going from 11 AM (early for a depressed woman) to midnight, when the protagonist turns back.

Having emphasis on each task within the hour, showing how much time is being spent on things we normally don't think much of - transport, eating, even using the bathroom - the entire human condition broken down into the drawl be usually take for granted?

Not just the trans experience being explored, but the the human condition as well by someone who finally feels alive for the first time in possibly forever?

Imagining her doing things like skipping meals in fear of losing precious time, only to waste more in the long run because she finds herself miserable finding herself wasting time by checking how much she has left, anxious of when that timer reaches zero.

The following chapters after midnight snap cut through days, as she loses time between thinking back to the best day of her life. Nights wishing for that day back. For that body back. For it to be permanent.

Ending, perhaps, on her learning that she can get it back, forever, as long as she takes the time to transition about it and do it herself.

[demilypyro]

best case scenario Digital Circus gets remembered in a similar way as Steven Universe: a show that was Really Fucking Good and had nuanced characters and interesting things to say, but the audience wasn't quite ready for it and it imploded into a discourse ball. four years from now I expect to see lesbians drawing Jax like she's a renaissance muse the same way people still draw Pearl or Lapis

[knitmeapony]

[cartoon-fanaticism]

GLaDOS voice: "Would you like to see some artwork I generated? I've heard from other test subjects that AI-generated artwork produces an uncanny valley response in human viewers because they can't perceive it as fully real. They've told me that it looks absolutely hideous to them, that they can't imagine anything more disgusting than AI art. But, well I've been practicing and wanted your honest opinion. Feel free to let me know how ugly you find this by ranking it on a scale from 'vomit-inducing' to 'eye-bleeding'." A robotic arm lowers from the ceiling holding a hand mirror up to Chell's face

[ubeng-ubas]

Kaufmo lowkey would’ve been a great “haunting the narrative” kind of character now that I think of it. Usually I see people call Ribbit that but they don’t really haunt the narrative, more so they haunt Jax’s.

Kaufmo is never expanded on beyond his abstraction and the little hints like Ragatha and Gangle fake laughing at his jokes and the implication that he was also an artist like Gangle because the artstyle of the drawing Gangle was hiding in Kaufmo’s funeral had a very different style to her more anime-inspired one. <- also the fact that Gangle has a drawing with her and Kaufmo, implying they were friends that got along with drawing? 

I assume Zooble and Gangle weren’t always that close, I think they only really started to get close in the show somewhere like episode 4 onwards. We also know Gangle had a strained friendship with Ragatha. Perhaps through all this, she might have found a genuine friendship with Kaufmo? Especially someone who understands her hobby?

I can imagine Kaufmo being a bit more laid back, his jokes are corny but he tells them anyways because he wants to make people laugh.

His laidback nature could clash with Ragatha ‘trying too hard’, maybe she just doesn’t know how to interact with him but wants to get along with him -> leading her to fake laugh at his jokes, Kaufmo catches this and doesn’t vibe with it. The general vibe between them is awkward.

Jax and Kaufmo probably don’t talk. Whatever it is that led to Ribbit’s abstraction caused them to drift apart, mostly because Ribbit was probably the glue that held their trio together. Jax is snarky with him, much like the rest of the humans.

Zooble probably doesn’t have an all too strong opinion on him, the most I can imagine is them thinking his jokes are corny, but still appreciating his relaxed nature and efforts, if that makes sense.

I actually think he’d vibe with Kinger. Kinger is not all there most of the time but he’d genuinely laugh at Kaufmo’s jokes and I wonder if even Kaufmo himself would be surprised because ??? You find ts funny lmao?????? Type of vibe.

Now these ^ are just ideas, obviously!!! But it would’ve been cool to see how they dealt with the grief of losing their friend. 

TLDR: I kinda wanna draw Gangle and Kaufmo being buddies

[jaimiofalltrades]

Last Act Spoilers

There's a callback to episode 1 where Pomni looks in a mirror

A blink-and-you-miss-it clip on the monitor implies that Kinger's name is Grant!?

There's a torture scene that reflects the insults the characters fling at Caine

Kinger kills Caine!?

[hthrrloooo]

Catastrophize Benedictine

[jursapphic-park]

Dissociation Pizza

[jadeazora]

Pokemon GO's new log-in screen for Forever Forward is a throwback to one of its oldest ones!

[storyweavingspider]

I’m not sure which one came first but I’m happy for their transition!

[storyweavingspider]

Good for her and for the family and for pedestrian safety :)