Bluesky. Noterook. GitHub. My blog. NSFW tumblr sideblog.
On gender manga
The most up to date list of gender-y manga recommendations is here. [Mirror 1] [Mirror 2] I will update this link to point to the reblog that contains the latest update.
On the Magical Translators scanlation group
The new releases are announced in the "magical translators releases" tag, and also on the Discord server of the group. You can also use a RSS feed reader for keeping up with releases, by pointing it to this address:
https://mahoushoujobu.com/read/other/rss/all
You can read the manga either on MangaDex or on the group's website. Prefer to avoid other websites than the two listed for reasons of quality.
I also frequently collaborate with ElPsyKongroo and Danke fürs Lesen, so check these groups out.
Tag guide (incomplete)
art reblog - self explanatory
dystopian society - annoyances, tragedies and negative aspects of the 21st century real world
capitalist hellhole - same but direct consequences of capitalism
force fem / forced feminization - posts pertaining to the forced feminization kink, all posts are tagged as both
magical translators - for announcements related to the scanlation group
magical translators releases - subset of the tag above: new chapter releases only
usamerica / ju-key / poland - posts relevant to USA, UK or Poland respectively
linguistics - language matters
trans lore - past signs of me being trans
trans lore of other people - same but of other people than me
mangaposting - pasting manga pages or crops for memetic purposes (usually trans related)
transfem headcanon - headcanons of fictional characters as trans women
autism - autism related posts
redoing memes with better typesetting - me taking an existing meme with an obvious edit and redoing it by finding the original font and making it consistent, or replacing questionable typesetting choices
not available in my area - collecting occurrence of every hot sale/freely distributed media I see here that happens to be geoblocked in Poland
correction for an earlier post - errata for stuff that I reblogged earlier but was misinformation or just straight up wrong
lol / funny / hilarious - funny posts, rated on the degree to how much I laughed.
demand drm-free media - DRM sucks and will eventually result in you losing your collection.
if you can't write essays you're stupid and bad. if you have trouble reading you're stupid and bad. if you have trouble understanding classes you're stupid and bad. identify these themes for me. you can't even order food over the phone. you can't even look people in the eye. i'm not explaining this to you, if you don't understand you shouldn't be here. if you don't understand you're stupid and bad. The Key To Heaven is an IQ Test. you wouldn't get it. you're too stupid.
seeing news about the fallout remaster announcement feels like cruel irony to me
microsoft games are a bds boycott target, and because both bethesda + obsidian are owned by microsoft, this includes the games published by them.
microsoft is gonna further profit from a new virtual playground of ~post-apocalyptic bombed out towns in the desert~ while contributing to creating bombed out apocalyptic conditions in gazan towns, by collaborating with israel on so many fronts that bds calls microsoft the most complicit company in palestinian genocide.
and nostalgia-baited fans will still buy it bc playing pretend in a virtual world thats a knockoff of what real life people are currently facing – a virtual world funded by that very suffering of those real life people – is more important to them than simply playing a different game
for the record im not technially 100% anti-AI, in the sense that its a broad category of tech being lumped under one umbrella term so it feels over-zealous to say i hate all of it all the time forever. but i also think trying to discuss what it actually IS good for is difficult right now when i cant take one step without something trying to convince me to use chatgpt to summarize my life and speed up my hobbies and turn my friends into chatbots and optimize my life into oblivion. i am certain there is nuance to the topic but can we stop cramming the square peg into the round hole before you start trying to sell me on the legitimate benefits of the square peg. please.
here's my super-quick, easy-to-digest summary that i use when i can't spend more than like 15 seconds on it but need someone to know the basic distinctions:
generative AI - bad evil AI. chatbots, LLMs, image generators, etc. this the one that steals shit.
analytical AI - helpful medical AI. this the one that helps detect cancer early.
game "AI" - fake AI. 100% human created and dictated. this the one that determines game mob behavior n stuff.
losing the battle with my own self-control so will briefly comment and say that categorizing certain types of ai as straightforwardly good and other types as "bad evil," even for the sake of summary, doesn't really hold water. just to give two counterexamples to the distinctions drawn above, large language models ("evil") are being used by human rights groups to parse huge datasets about police abuse while analytical ai ("helpful") is also the kind of ai that animates facial recognition software and the increasingly ubiquitous searchable license plate databases that police are using to stalk people. the goodness or badness of a given ai tool has less to do with its type and more to do with things like scale and scope, transparency, ownership, and contextual application.
notice as well a refusal to mention any kind of "bad" ai other than the kind that "steals shit". putting aside even what was said here about ai ethics being much more about context than the actual literal computing a particular ai does, the "bad ai" isnt the facial recognition software currently helping drive an attempted genocide in the US, it's the ai that doesn't respect copyright law. it's kind of hilariously grim how much bourgeoisie class interests have suddenly become the uniting "progressive" opinion.
every month or so I see another post about how windows is injecting spyware or massively slowing people's computers down, with complicated instructions on how to stop it from doing that. meanwhile I don't have to deal with any of that bullshit on linux lawl
Earthquake? That is THE ground move. The ground quakes beneath you.
Surf? A giant wave of water that your pokemon can ride. A thunderous tide. Invokes the ocean.
Thunderbolt? Arcing flashes of electricity zap you.
Flamethrower? Fire breath, fire throwing, an arc of propelled flame is classic.
Ice beam? It's a beam. Of ice. Could've been a gust of frigid wind, or a frost incursion, or being entombed in a glacial slab, but noooooo it's a beam. Of ice.
something incredibly funny about dnd trying to get in on the cute animal of the week trend with a popular raccoon and, because this is how dnd works with regards to animals, doing so by releasing a statblock so you can fight and kill it
putting "don't you dare" in the XP count but still explaining how one would go about fighting jimothy the raccoon, a random animal with a spinal condition, is killing me
For thousands of years humanity has selectively bred chickens to have larger breasts and to have to lay eggs constantly. We did it to get more meat and per chicken, but from the perspective of the domesticated chickens they’re sorta living in a very specific fetish scenario
there's no point in arguing with trans men about their gender politics for the same reason that there's no point in arguing with cis men about feminism, or a member of the bourgeoisie about communism. they don't hold their beliefs because they haven't been convinced, they hold them because it benefits their class interests. come on.
