i'm willow aka mousegard aka AMX004_Qubeley and i mainly write giant stories about edelgard von fireemblem these days! 30+, she/her, icon by @mousegirlheart
As the Black Eagle Strike Force continues to search for a way home, their presence draws a new enemy into the maelstrom of the Frontier Incident—the Bavarian Illuminati!
But the Count of Saint-Germain and her fellow immortals are far from the greatest threat Edelgard von Hresvelg and her comrades face in 21st-century Tokyo—for their meddling has resurrected an ancient threat from the darkest depths of Fodlan's prehistory.
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SYMPHOGEAR SfZ Episode List:
Episode 1: Words Without a Rhyme
Byleth regains the memories and knowledge of her past lives. She does not take it very well.
Episode 2: Dancers at the End of Time
When Byleth's identity crisis leads to her clashing blades with Edelgard, Hibiki goes nuclear to stop them.
Episode 3: Mirror Darkly
An unfortunate discovery about Gungnir leaves Hibiki listless—and vulnerable to Those Who Slither in the Dark.
Episode 4: Something Stupid
When Miku accidentally confesses her feelings to Hibiki, she must turn to the gayest people she knows for help.
Episode 5: Operation Lost Ark, Part 1
The Black Eagles agree to assist in transporting a relic that could bring them home. But the Bavarian Illuminati has its eye on them—and is ready to make its move.
Episode 6: Operation Lost Ark, Part 2
On the way to a secure vault for dangerous relics, Edelgard comes face-to-face with a terrifying threat at the bottom of the sea—and her deepest fears.
Episode 7: Operation Lost Ark, Part 3
A showdown on the shoreline between Section Two, the Bavarian Illuminati, and Those Who Slither in the Dark awakens a terrifying power.
Episode 8: Intermezzo
In the aftermath of Operation Lost Ark, Maria prepares for her day in court. Chris takes in a stray. A wounded Suttungr finds herself in the care of an unlikely ally.
Episode 9: Ordinary
While Millaarc helps Section Two search for Elsa, Epimenides makes his debut with an offer for the Black Eagles.
Episode 10: Village of the Howling Dog
The search for Elsa brings the Black Eagles to a haunted village. Meanwhile, an imprisoned Ver gathers new allies.
Episode 11: Ver's Eleven
With team of monsters at his side, Ver attempts to escape the Illuminati's clutches—without falling into the Black Eagles'.
Episode 12: Reach For My Hand
With Elsa still missing, Hibiki helps Millaarc pull off a daring—and dangerous—rescue.
Episode 13: A Mere Four Vessels
Ver heads to Frontier to pull off his plan—and Section Two has no choice but to follow, with or without government authorization.
Episode 14: Children of a False God
When four Autoscorers accidentally become vessels of Sothis, Byleth sees a side of her old friend she has never seen before.
Episode 15: SfZ
While the vessels of Sothis wreak havoc across Frontier, Ver stands at the apex of the world and declares the beginning of a new golden age for humanity.
Episode 16: Farewell, My Sister
Can Maria save the world? Can Hibiki make one more new friend? Can Edelgard and Chris part ways on amicable terms?
Look I love unconditional devotion love stories as much as the next person, but there's really something so deliciously raw about conditional devotion.
I have served you and I have loved you for decades, but I will not give up my principles for you. You cut out part of my heart and took it with you down that path that you insist on walking, but you walk it alone. Even when the bleeding, gaping hole you left in my chest kills me, I will not follow you.
ah yes, the false binary of everyone who is a trans woman, and everyone else who is not a trans woman.
just like the evil oppressive binary of gingers vs non gingers. or left handed people vs everyone else. or people from Baltimore vs people who aren't from Baltimore. or Ryan Gosling vs every single other human being on the planet.
you people lost the plot on why the gender binary is bad. you think that its oppressive because there's just two categories. not that its oppressive because its a symptom of the patriarchy to abuse women, promote misogyny, and punish nonconformaty.
you hate the number two, instead of hating oppositional sexism. you have no understanding of basic gender theory, and are identical to the common transmisogynist.
so of course you loose your fucking minds when you are presented with a short hand that means "people primarily affected by transmisogyny, which includes trans women, transfems, nonbinary people, intersex people, genderqueer people, both who have and haven't fully come out yet. VS. cis men. trans men. cis women. nonbinary people. intersex people. genderqueer people. closeted and otherwise. of all orientations. and literally every other person who wasn't identified in the first category"
this is a different version of cisgender people who get mad that the word "cisgender" exists and gets applied to them. yes, there is potential for ambiguity between being cisgender and transgender, but that's not why cisgender people are angry about being labeled "cisgender". they're angry that marginalized people have language to describe oppressive structures, because having language for oppressive structures is the first step to dismantling them.
like yeah, there might be room for ambiguity between being tme and tma, specifically because there exists ambiguity between being cisgender and transgender. a person who is truly actually in an ambiguous place between being a cisgender man and being an nb transfem might be able to truthfully say "it's complicated" as to how they are or are not affected by transmisogyny. but that's not why you're mad at "transmisogyny" as a concept. and it's not the reason you're mad that transfeminists have language to describe who is or who isn't in the crosshairs for it.
A brief timeline of JK Rowling’s descent into TERFdom
As I’ve seen some misinformation floating around here, i thought i would provide a short timeline for JK Rowling’s terf arc. Not only is this a key resource against bad faith arguments, but can also provide an example as one of the most well-documented instances of TERF radicalization.
21 March, 2018: JK Rowling likes a tweet calling trans women “men in dresses.” A representative for Rowling calls it a “middle aged moment.” (Source: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/jk-rolwing-transphobic-tweet_uk_5ab77230e4b054d118e3b789)
25 June, 2019: Rowling follows notorious transmisogynist Magdalen Berns on twitter (source: https://www.thepinknews.com/2019/06/25/jk-rowling-under-fire-following-transphobe-twitter/). Rowling later calls Berns “immensely brave young feminist and lesbian.”
20 December 2019: JK Rowling tweets in defense of Maya Forstater, whose employment contract was not renewed for deliberately misgendering her colleagues. (Source: https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/20/uk/jk-rowling-transgender-tweets-scli-intl-gbr/index.html)
22 May, 2020: Rowling likes another tweet by transmisogynist gay activist Fred Sergeant that attacks and deliberately misgenders trans woman Alex Drummond. (Source: https://www.nydailynews.com/2020/05/19/jk-rowling-likes-another-anti-transgender-tweet/)
6 June, 2020: Rowling tweets in response to an article with a headline that contains the phrase “people who menstruate,” suggesting that this phrasing is erasing women. This is the earliest example that could plausibly be seen as an attack on trans men.
10 June, 2020: JK Rowling publishes the TERF Wars essay on her website.
The modus operandi of TERFism is to attack and demonize trans women. Their “concerns” over trans men are there to provide rhetorical cover, a shallow justification after the fact.
“If you give children a vocabulary that’s large enough and complex enough to express their emotions and their ideas, you give them access to complex feelings and emotions in themselves. So that if you talk to a teenager and all they can say about how they feel is BAD, and they haven’t got, you know, a larger vocabulary for lonely, abused, insecure, frightened…I mean there’s this huge panoply which…I remember when my daughter was just telling me that she just felt bad, I bought her a thesaurus. I said, “Look up, is it sort of over lonely, or is it insecure…and look up under lonely, you’ll find two hundred words for lonely. Which one?” But what that does is that it makes you feel that there’s this huge complexity of emotions and there are words for all of them. If you want children to feel less frustrated and less disenfranchised and less unable to even feel comfortable with their own emotions, you’ll have to give them a vocabulary that’s as complicated as their inner lives. And one of the things we see in children is this incredibly reduced capacity for reporting their inner lives to the exterior world. One of the things is just teaching them poems, just teaching them to memorize poems in school, they don’t have to interpret them, if they just internalize the language of the poem, the complexity of the emotion in the poems…”
-Jorie Graham, in a conversation
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