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When I was a kid watching tv was idiot coded and nerds read books, but now scrolling shortform videos is considered braindead behavior and watching tv means you're some kinda intellectual. You might think this shifting assessment of media's consumers might make readers into absolute super geniuses, but no. Only perverts read now.
logs on twitter, posts "are mormons queer for engaging in polygamy?", logs off and watches a war unfold as I smile like the grinch
we are the daughters of the landmines your grandpa didn't step on
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why r callouts always like "please dont harass this person and dont go after them. anyway heres every single detail of their life gathered by stalking and their private profiles for all to see"
"please don't go after this person! now let me post this document for every single one of my followers and list every single one of their usernames"
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doxxing myself. I’m on a boat in the middle of the big blue sea near some islands and dolphins and other random nonsense
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op disabled reblogs but I think the point still stands
downloading my pdfs and epubs so i can always never read them
Genuinely if you're 25 and don't have a fursona yet what the hell are you doing
Someone asked me a while ago if I still had a photo of the worst sink I had ever seen while apartment hunting in Los Angeles. I assumed I deleted it so I didn't answer the ask and now it's gone, but as it turns out, yes, I do still have a photo of it.
The Ones Who Walk Into Omelas With Kevlar Vests And Samurai Swords And Desert Eagles And Stare Down All Those Wicked Unrighteous Sinners In Their Droves And Proceed To Totally Fucking Waste Them All In A High Octane Action Sequence That Kicks Insane Amounts Of Ass Think The Raid If It Was Directed By John Woo But When They Finally Get To The Door Of The Basement Where They Keep The Kid Oh Shit It's The Fucking King Of Omelas And He's Wielding The Cursed Obsidian Blade Of The Underworld And They Gotta Waste Him Too But He's Incredibly Fast And Strong Thanks To All The Power He's Getting From The Kid And He Kills Almost All Of Them Until The Leader Draws Him Out With A Double Feint That Leaves Him Wide Open And Cuts His Fucking Head Clean Off With A Single Perfect Stroke And Then They Finally Open The Door To The Basement And Free The Kid
t his is what most people want queer/trans rep to be
considering how rhps is considered a classic even among cis people, and how we saw a years long freak out over bridget in strive, i think its long overdue we all stop treating the idea that feminine trans woman characters are safe and unchallenging to cis people as a truism. frankly the idea of a feminine trans woman characters seem to be very challenging to a lot of trans people.
similarly, i often see people lament how not all trans rep needs to be like bridget, and i do have to wonder what they are talking about. most characters inspired or influenced by bridget are in line with how she was portrayed pre strive, and none of them have followed suit with being actually acknowledged as trans. in that regard, their are very few characters like bridget other than bridget, and likely wont be very many.
i feel like people want to make the point that, barring the history of the character before hand, bridget's story in strive is mostly an okay depiction of transness, and feel the need to justify that by saying dumb shit that isnt true. without context, both the celebration of and backlash against bridget in strive seem like overreactions, but art doesnt exist without context.
I really can’t under stress how for TWENTY YEARS transmisogynistic Bridget jokes were inescapable. You would come across jokes about Bridget being a trap before you even knew what guilty gear was. The problem with that was NOT that people who didn’t play GG were “fans of Bridget. “Tourism” in that sense is not a real fucking issue, and no one cared about it then. The problem was the inescapable transmisogyny. But due there not having been as many gg games for a while and Bridget not showing up in the ones that were there, she fell out of popularity a bit, and mother characters like Astolfo took her place as THE character for shitty transmisogynistic jokes.
And of course with characters like Astolfo and gwyndolyn and chihiro and the like, peoppe started to find more progressive sounding ways of being transmisogynistic about them. It’s actually transphobic to recognize the transmisogyny of them, you see. Really it makes more sense to read them as transmasc, don’t you know. They “identify as men.” The people who say this shit then go back to jerking it to porn of the character that plays on the “ypu though this was a girl but HE has a penis” shit.
So before Bridget was added to strive, I was hoping it didn’t happen. I didn’t want to see all that shit happen again. But she was added to strive, and none of that happened because she was written to be explicitly trans. The pretense was actually dropped. The thing which never happens with these kinds of characters actually happened. Sure there were some people trying to deny it, but they were laughed out. It seemed like people, even tme people who would normally be partaking in all the transmisogynistic bullshit were happy she was explicitly trans. And then they remembered they hate trans women.
See some young trans girls saw an explicitly trans character in a popular game who was well liked and not designed like a caricature. Some of them even tried out the game. And with fighting games there have always kind of been two fan bases, peoppe who play competitively and people who play the single player story. There’s overlap, but a distinction between people who think the story mode is just a way to sell the game to people who can’t play well and people who love story modes but cant do a quarter circle does exist. But some were even learning the game seriously, because like I said, there is overlap. And slowly ypu saw more and more complaints about them. A lot of the usual being too sexual or too cringe that’s aimed at trans women in any community. That’s unfortunately normal. Plenty of fighting game scenes love to say they are welcoming to trans women, but what that usually means is they are cool with the few established players who transitioned after already being good at the game.
And since accusations of “tourism” is the big thing now, especially with anime and anime adjacent things, that stared up too. The accusation is always stupid. It started with chuds complaining about their being progressive fans, and then those progressive fans decided to throw the accusation back as of who the “real” fans of a cartoon is matters. So obviously all the new Bridget fans are “tourists” a real issues that matters. It doesn’t matter that Bridget has always been popular outside of dedicated gg fans, especially with the “are traps gay” crowd, or how that crowd had always accused the people who saw Bridget as trans in the past of being fake fans too.
And ke they twist themselves into pretzels so that anything Bridget is bad. She gets merch? She gets 80% of the merch! (No one will actually count) She’s going to be in dual rulers? Why isn’t an actually important character going to get in! (Character importance is an innate quality and not the result of writing decisions) And then of course while dual rulers was airing everybody like her actual role in the narrative, because since strive she’s actually been a good character. And she gets jobbed so she’s not even in the final climactic fight as if to appeal to loreheads and powerscalers. And then barely a month passes, a we’re back to “it should have been an important character instead”. The fact that Bridget isnt important in the grand scheme of gg’s story actually made her a more thematically appropriate choice, given Nerville’s claimed motivation of caring about less powerful people who can’t defend themselves from gears, and Unika believing him. That it’s someone who isn’t one of the most powerful and important people in the world that starts to get through to Unika is kind of important. And if your complaint is that Unika should have met a gear who helped her unlearn the hatred of gears Nerville taught her, I would ask if you watched the show because that’s Sin, the other titular dual ruler.
JJK season 3 is airing now, and Kirara is pretty popular right now. You’ve got some people being transphobic, but they are not the inescapable majority. I don’t think, fwiw, that this will turn out the same way as post strive Bridget, because I’ve read the JJK manga, and I already know that Kirara will never get enough focus for people to be angry. She has already done anything important she will do in the story. The trans woman will never be important enough for it to be a problem. Trans women are not allowed to be important. That’s bad. That’s not allowed. It will make real trans women feel like they’re important and matter. And that is not allowed.
Driving is really really scary though. Like everyone is garunteed to get into at least one car accident in their life. Isn't it kinda fucked to base your transportation system on something so dangerous that everyone is practically destined to either die or almost die from it?
