all the "I'm just a girl" adjacent memes are pretty much complete dealbreakers for me friendship or relationship wise, and yeah in part it's because they're sexist but more than that I'm just not able to respect people who don't view themselves as agents in their own lives.
the worst part about ocd and ocd-like tendencies is that you think hyper-analyzing your thoughts and constantly psychoanalyzing yourself will fix you but that's actually part of the disorder. it's the disorder. disordering.
thinking about how much i surprisingly like F!EiTakuEi and what my personal interpretations of what a "cisswap" would mean for these characters... i might sketch some of these out sometime
(below: Eito, Takumi, Nozomi [and Karua], Yugamu, Tsubasa, Darumi, Hiruko - which are just the ones i felt like thinking about at the present moment)
F!Eito wears identical clothing to regular Eito (including pants), but has long hair and was cursed with the genetics for HUGE boobs (something she hates deeply). She keeps her hair pooled in her collar and clothes to reduce the chance it gets touched or tangled, and her bulky oversized jacket intentionally obscures her body shape. Makeup is viewed as an excuse to seal her skin from the outside world—although she doesn't use it heavily—and she is meticulous about her appearance, as the only normal-looking person in her world. Her disgust and hatred of humanity is intensified, being a victim of objectification. She is still as strong and as tall as her original counterpart, if not even more skilled in self-defense maneuvers (motivated by a stronger desire to fend off humans). Having spent her life masking socially and being a naturally stunningly beautiful young woman, she performs her roles immaculately and easily tricks Takumi in Route 0, switching between her kind persona and her true colors in other routes mid-conversation to maximally torment Takumi.
F!Takumi is similar to regular Takumi, but wears short shorts and has otherwise open legs besides the white leg band (looking a little bit like Tsubasa in vibes). Her hair is only the slightest bit longer and she has two hairclips on the side to hold a little bit of it back, as a conscious attempt to increase her own femininity. She strongly believes she is a normal girl and aspires to stereotypical heteronormative feminine ends, but is often too lazy to perform above the perceived bare minimum, such as doing simple skincare but not makeup, and totally lacks the natural beauty of girls like Eito. She has a flat chest, unfortunately uses 3-in-1 hair and body products (but washes very regularly), and retains the tendency for disordered eating and oversleeping. Her height is a little lower than her original version, dropping to a rather average 157cm (5'3"). She constantly says awful things like "It's fine because we're both girls."
M!Nozomi, unlike regular Nozomi, fails to pass as a "girl next door" character. He has a demeanor spawned from his background of attempting to please his father by submitting to experimentation, which has neutered his ability to pass as a purely stereotypically masculine young man; He remains a self-sacrificing mediator and someone who attempts to befriend and be kind to others, which makes him popular with women but be viewed as soft by his male peers. He has an equally poor understanding of affection due to receiving none from his father (and being societally more expected to receive none), and has a dull heart, feeling that something important is missing from his life. He is taller than his original counterpart, at a noticeable 177cm (5'10"). M!Karua, meanwhile, is an extremely stereotypical "confident young man with a good heart" in Takumi's memory. Often Takumi can't tell the difference. His hair is a little bit long for a boy, a bit like canonical Eito's. He wears simple monochromatic clothes not unlike a uniform and has fewer accessories.
F!Yugamu is probably the closest to the original. She flirts with the same gender at the same rates as her original counterpart (still bisexual). Her appearance is nearly identical, with the same flashy accessories, dark makeup, and undercut hairstyle, and remains rather uninterested in performing gender roles; Her clothes are exactly the same, regardless of them being traditionally men's clothing. Narratively, she is overlooked by her family (rather than a black sheep, it's as if she doesn't exist), which changes her relationship to her job. It's easier for her to leave the business, but if she does, then she truly abandons any connections to her family. Her height is unchanged and her chest is average.
M!Tsubasa, in a perhaps cruel twist of fate, is happier as a man than as his original version. His "overly" focused interest in machines is societally and socially acceptable if not actively encouraged. Although he still lacks friends his own age, he has friendships with older men who are fellow mechanics and engineers. His weak stomach and anxiety is mitigated because he was not pressured into unrelated social situations, and instead allowed to focus on engineering studies. However, he retains his stage fright and instead of failing a piano recital, failed a design presentation, giving him poor confidence even with his beloved machines in professional (rather than "nerdy") settings. His height has increased to a very average 175cm (5'9") and his hairstyle is the same (long hair in a ponytail).
M!Darumi is exactly the same in personality and interests to his original version, having identical traumas and self-identifying as a "class clown" for social survival. His makeup and flashy clothing are the same. M!Darumi's relationship to his gender is more complicated, as his counterculture leanings would make him receptive to crossdressing, if not being outright nonbinary (I don't think he'd feel strongly enough to be full-on transfem though). His height is unchanged, but his hair is short and choppy. Women and men alike find him perhaps even more repulsive due to his eroguro otaku hobbies and his nonconformity, which he makes up for by "trying to be more funny", making him just as tragic as his original.
M!Hiruko is just a stereotypical otome "I'm a cold, serious, heartless, and sadistic guy… but actually, I do care" male love interest. He shows even less emotion on average than regular Hiruko. Imagine Jumin Han (Mystic Messenger) and that's basically it. Frankly he is less interesting than regular Hiruko, because her personality type is already a traditionally masculine one. I probably would want to kill this guy during S.F. Route.
Y'all for real please do these. Even if you're certain your posture doesn't suck. One day you will wake up with impinged shoulder pain like I did and let me tell you it fucking HURTS. Do these exercises even just once a week and it will make such a difference. Especially my fellow creatives out there, stop shrimping over your work and go do these right now. RIGHT NOW.
lowkey a vent post but realized recently that despite having a perfectly good—frankly egotistical—self esteem and dodging basically every largely debilitating mental disorder, i meet the criteria for Avoidant Personality Disorder (avpd) and it turns out a lifelong allergic reaction to any amount of vulnerability and emotion that i thought was totally fine kinda wasn't normal and might have been sabotaging my relationships! lol!!
as a lesbian, i feel strangely far less critical of a furry man (fictional character) over a human man (fictional character), almost as if it's an entirely different gender. particularly if it's a bara furry. it's interesting and rather funny to me
No one did better than random chance, even though they only included people in the study who are experienced with astrology and stated that they expect themselves to do better than random chance
They gave every astrologer a set of 50 things about a person and 5 birth charts to choose from. They weren’t even coming up with the chart themselves!
After taking the test, most thought they nailed it. Zero out of 152 did better than 5 out of 12. None nailed it
Astrologers who rated themselves highly experienced (“world class experts”) did the same or worse as those who said they have limited experience. Both performed the same as random chance
I scroll past any long post analyzing the relationships and themes of dungeon meshi, not because I find them insufferable, but because I know my opinions and interpretations are already correct, so either a post is wrong and a waste of my time or it agrees with me and would be redundant.
Everyone who is wise has reached the same conclusions as me. Everyone who has reached different conclusions is hopeless. Stating them would be a waste of effort.
go to this random coordinates generator and say in the tags how you would fare if you were dropped where it generates without warning. i’ll go first i’d be dropped in the middle of the fucking south atlantic ocean and perish
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