Mina, the Mutt

29, Nonbinary. --I enjoy Chao Gardens, Wobbledogs, BeamNG, Webfishing, Tiny Aquarium..-- pfp is my OC, Ealain Brant; Art by Luneshiki

[minaentwine]

I am personally a fan of the chao garden from the Sonic Adventure games and so i've compiled all the links you will likely want or need to play Sonic Adventure 2 on PC. most mods are just to make the game feel slightly smoother or make the story make more sense in english.

the biggest actual overhauls are two mods for the chao garden which greatly expand upon it. there are obviously more mods that one could install, but i tried to keep it to essentials.

[SA2 MOD LIST]

--This is the Mod Manager itself. For booting the game with mods. it says it's for Sonic Adventure DX, but it is for BOTH Sonic Adventure games--

https://gamebanana.com/tools/15436

--Render fixes, for the fact that these games were very poorly ported to PC--

https://gamebanana.com/mods/452445

--Controller Input Smoothing (you want this)--

https://gamebanana.com/mods/515637

--SDL mod; pairs with Input Smoothing--

https://gamebanana.com/mods/615843

--Volume Controller--

https://gamebanana.com/mods/381193

--Story Retranslation (use japanese voices + english subtitles on; the subtitles will now give you an accurate telling of the story. the official english translation is awkward and makes less sense)--

https://gamebanana.com/mods/437858

--Hint Retranslations, for treasure-hunt levels--

https://gamebanana.com/mods/350607

--Level Bugs and Oddity Fixes--

https://gamebanana.com/mods/48894

--Chao World Extended (currently V9.6) WORTH READING THE MOD PAGE IN ITS ENTIRETY--

https://gamebanana.com/mods/48840

--Enhanced Chao World (less frequently updated but can operate alongside Chao World Extended) ALSO WORTH READING MOD PAGE--

https://gamebanana.com/mods/48915

--Chao Eye Fix (their eyes are kinda messed up sometimes lol)--

https://gamebanana.com/mods/9114

[testosterone-tuesday]

There are many, many people whose only understanding of manhood is through defining it by its association with power.

Whether that be through a feminist lens regarding manhood or masculinity only through the analysis of cis patriarchal hierarchy, and/or an uncritical repetition of gendered norms produced by such a system.

So what ends up happening when a transgender man explains he is disempowered, and disempowered specifically in relationship to being a man and how the ideas (just like this) attached to it effect him, the only conclusion they can come to is that he must be implying he isn't a man, that he is misgendering himself or undermining his identity, or that he is weak and failing to live up to it- or that he is lying.

The complicated marginalization of trans manhood as manhood is so radically contradictory to the patriarchal values of power which men are expected to fulfill, and so contradictory to the intensely cis-normative approach to feminism and gendered oppression, that his experiences end up in a placeless void of compounded invalidation. Although coming from the very same place.

Enough that to even have acknowledgment for his experience of gendered oppression, his identity as a man must be severed from the very context of its existence. Just transgender, just a generic, unspecific transphobia. Denying the specific modality which produced the reality of his transgender existence. Cutting his social experience into pieces, either cutting out the manhood, or cutting out the weakness.

This continues on his invisibility, furthering the doubt of the validity of his own reality. Feeding into the inevitability that his struggle will go unnoticed and uncared for, and will not receive the attention needed to help him, or to change these things.

Ironically and integrally, all of this enabling his marginalization specifically because- well because he is a man.

Because of the expectations of what it means to be a man, and how we cannot imagine his experience of a specifically marginalized manhood.

[tatdritt]

”I hate trans men for being men, not for being trans!”

>pre transition, he was widely considered a woman

>if he remained “cis” he would be a woman

>trans men are men because they are trans

>trans men are trans because they are men

>if trans man was not trans, he would not be man

>if trans man was not man, he would not be trans

so yes, you do hate him for being trans actually. Because being trans is what made him a man. How is this hard to understand

[redhairandpronouns]

i am once again reminding y'all that agab is literally just a letter a doctor wrote down on a fancy piece of paper when you were 2 seconds old. it does not dictate your gender or hormones or gender or physical appearance or chromosomes or anything. it is a Letter On A Paper. there is no such thing as "an afab" or "an amab". there is no such thing as "afab genitals" or "amab genitals". Stop it.

[thisisexorsexism]

Got informed I can't be nonbinary because I'm intersex and AMAB, and nonbinary is "when women don't feel fully like women". I don't know where to even start.

this is exorsexism and intersexism

[immehesays]

"afab oppression" well yes people afab are oppressed by society, nice observation.

"trans men identify with their sex too much" and it's just a trans man having a tattoo of an organ he has.

"this is literally the same as having a nazi swastika tattooed on you" what. what are you even talking about.

"trans men are so fucking whiny and bitchy about everything like oh my god shut up!" you're a misogynist. lmao.

"this tattoo of a uterus on a trans man is making me, a trans woman, uncomfortable" that's because you're projecting your dysphoria onto him for some fucking reason. you'd be seething if a trans man said the same thing to you about a tattoo of your anatomy, so stop acting so entitled to another person's body.

[intermascfem]

This site’s new wave of transmedicalism isn’t less harmful or serious than the last, it’s now evolved from “trans people who dont have dysphoria are fakers” to “trans people who aren’t binary or perisex are fakers” and both try to scrutinise and police trans peoples experiences on a medical and social axis. A “you must suffer this much to be trans” the sequel, featuring lenin for some reason.

[everlastingrandom]

This morning there was a nation-wide text spam campaign targeting Black Americans (largely students) telling them that they’ve been selected to pick cotton and will be picked up to be sent to a plantation after Trump’s inauguration.

People online are making jokes about it, but it’s genuinely a disturbing sign. Someone was emboldened enough to intentionally run a background on thousands of young Black people and send them racist messages the day after a very exhausting and stressful election.

Racist messages telling people that they were selected to pick cotton for a plantation group have been received across the country -- includ

Racist text messages spam Black Americans across nation

Black students around the country are receiving racist text messages ordering them to report to plantations.

Black students at Alabama colleges get racist texts about cotton, plantations after Trump win

Local law enforcement is looking into the messages.

Multiple Georgia residents contacted FOX 5 Atlanta after receiving an alarming text message or being informed about a potential threat from

[catboykatebush]

Imagine if nonbinary, androgynous, genderfucky, etc people started saying this exact type of thing, but about constantly being assumed to be a binary gender based on appearance.

Oh but of course that would be totally completely different and somehow unacceptable compared to this, because exorsexism isn’t actually as bad as other types of transphobia (or even real at all!), and plus we all know nonbinary dysphoria just isn’t real and only Real Binary Transsexuals can experience the suffering that is gender dysphoria (/sarcasm)

Seriously though, I’m almost certain people who think like this have never stopped to consider that the type of presentation they may find joy in would be absolutely miserable for another flavor of trans person, even though clearly they’ve considered the reverse. These people are so self centered it’s unreal

[thisisexorsexism]

this is like a combination of exorsexism and racism i believe

my partner uses they/them pronouns and is black. everyone i know has automatically assumed they were white, feminine and slim, but the moment these people found out my partner is black? theyre suddenly masculine, suddenly they use masculine pronouns, suddenly they arent slim, suddenly theyre tough and scary.

no matter what, theyre pushed into some sort of binary instead of just being gender neutral, and it seems whenever theyre assumed to be feminine, that assumption comes with the idea that they are white.

this is exorsexism and racism

[self-loving-vampire]

Trans women are just strictly superior at everything I guess.

Truly speechless at this. "Cis women are so dainty and fragile that moving chess pieces for too long exhausts them."

Please acquire some self-respect (and maybe learn statistics). I am taking psychic damage over here.

So much of transphobia is just exaggerated sexism (or reheated homophobia).

[vintage-vermin]

This one is always on my mind. And always relevant.

[thesuncantreachyouhere]

this website loves to do powerscaling but with oppression points

[thisisexorsexism]

it baffles me how many binary trans folks think that transfem and transmasc are the only types of trans people and either belittle or straight up don't know about transneutral, transandrogynous, transxenine, transnull, and sosososo much more!! even worse these terms were made by the nonbinary community and had loose definitions on purpose, only to become a synonym for trans man and trans woman 😭

this is exorsexism

[whatthehellisthis-world]

I talk a great deal about perisex binary trans people being transphobic towards other trans people, but when I see that some of the most gender essentialist bullshit comes from other non binary people it's incredibly disheartening.

It's like they should know better than to repeat stupid statements about amab afab tma tme uncritically. It's more disappointment than rage really.

[imaginarylands4000]

[mayaninternet]

Worth noting that cities are already shifting to a different company, called Axon, rather than getting rid of license plate readers altogether.

@free-and-to-none-accountable

@anarchistmemedistro

Cities Are Ditching Flock, Immediately Replacing It With Axon License Plate Readers

Rather than get rid of ALPR cameras entirely, many cities and towns are switching to Axon, whose cameras can be mounted to an existing stree

[thisisexorsexism]

this one pissed me off really bad

this is exorsexism

[t4t-enthusiast]

"You can't call it misogyny, because you're not a woman.

You can't call it transmisogyny, because you're not transfem.

You can't call it transmisandry, because misandry isn't real.

You can't call it transandrophobia/transandromisia, because you're not oppressed for being a man (alternatively: because Saint coined the term).

You can't call yourself a tranny, because that's used against transfems.

You can't call yourself a femboy, because that's used against transfems.

You can't call yourself a faggot, because that's used against transfems.

You can't describe your relationship as t4t, because that's for transfems."

Silencing transmasc people and talking over them, not acknowledging their experiences and pretending that their oppression does not exist, is bigotry. And it causes harm.

Disclaimer: Transmisogyny exists, it is awful, and should not be condoned. Support your sisters. We're in this together.