Murder Most Foul and Unnatural

Necro, 30, writer, anthropologist. ro3k side blog: romance-of-three-memes.tumblr.com

[necromancy-enthusiast]

One of the funniest things about being bi for me is having double standards when it comes to the kinds of characters I'm attracted to (this doesn't apply to real people). Traits that are immediate turn offs, like 'uggghh you couldn't PAY ME to pretend I find him even remotely attractive 😒' material in male characters sometimes suddenly become appealing when applied to female characters. Someone put forward the idea of genderbent Jecht from ffx and like.

Listen. Jecht would be just as much of a pathetic loser either way, and that wouldn't make him any more palatable to me as a human being or make me any more inclined to overlook his shittiness, but if he was a woman he would just happen to be an oddly attractive pathetic loser. You know? This is of course assuming a non-cowardly take on genderbending where all his crassness egotism etc are intact, and he still largely looks the same with the scars and being buff and all.

I cannot think of any traits that work like that the other way around, though. I don't have any general preferences, that's just how it is.

Side note, but HOLY FUCK, a lot of men who play ffx and don't have much of a problem with Jecht as is would absolutely fucking despise him if he was a woman and mostly unchanged, which, honestly, also kind of helps out for me?...

[necromancy-enthusiast]

Male character: *is a crass, egotistical jerk with the emotional availability of a rock*

Me: 😒😒😒😒😒😒

Female character: *is a crass, egotistical jerk with the emotional availability of a rock*

Me: *twirling my hair around one of my fingers* eeheehee.... hiiiiiiiiii...

[necromancy-enthusiast]

I fucking. Told all of this to one of my best friends who knows almost nothing about ffx but occasionally listens to me cry scream and throw up about how much I love it. And I sent a picture, specifically this one from one of Final Fantasy Dissidia games and said 'he'd be so attractive if he was a woman and mostly looked the same'.

And my friend's response was. 'That would be a he/him lesbian if I've ever seen one'. I would've gone nuts if I'd just kept that to myself, so there you go.

[riggedbones-moving]

im a blorbo apologist but also they did every bad thing they did and i will get mad if u ignore that. complexities

[alltheoutsinfreeeee]

[stellerfly]

something about people who defend east asian games that have no skin diversity whatsoever by saying "oh well it's an east asian company they are just making east asian characters!" Is that east asian people aren't all paper white either. do you think they know that. do you think they've seen an east asian person in real life. Without a beauty filter on. do you think they know.

[stellerfly]

also i'm no expert but like. pale being the beauty standard isn't not racist when it's in east asia right. Like it's still racist. they haven't been untouched by racism. colorist more specifically like. Uhm.

[wizardshark]

Listen I get it but you CANNOT use "sensory nightmare" as an excuse to avoid essential things. You HAVE to find a way to make it work, such as finding effective alternatives. But you can't just avoid it.

You need to eat some vegetables in your diet or you will become a lich.

You have to wear a life jacket or you will literally drown and die.

You need to be able to exist in public spaces with children.

You have to find a way.

[wizardshark]

good LORD the piss is flying all over the place in that comment section! If you're poor do NOT leave your house you're definitely gonna get caught in the crossfire.

[removeoffthecraudestoppers]

How dare you say poor people shouldn't exist in public

[wizardshark]

Sprints at you fast as fuck

[tawashi-san]

[nepenthean-sleep]

straight white people making a romance movie: haha what if it was illegal to have sex? wait what's lawrence v texas. wait what's mclaughlin v florida. wait what's loving v virginia

[dykecinema]

Women covered in blood. Reblog if you agree.

[visenyaism]

Marylanders don’t say hi hello how are you my name is they just try to kill you with their car. which is of course a great honor in their culture

[clingyduoapologist]

Your friend’s unpublished fic idea is kind of a dead wife

[dazzling-galaxy]

i also want to read this guy’s dead wife

[hartesa]

Day 9: Alfred (Fire Emblem Engage)

[xebhamorph]

Okay party, I've called this meeting because I want to make sure there's a contingency plan for if the Evil Sorceress tempts me and I betray you. I'm just noticing that we have a witch, magus, and cleric in this party while I am spec'd heavily into anti-magic, on account of the Evil Sorceress situation, so I really don't like our odds if I'm the one that gets seduced. Just something to take into account before we enter this fortress with a purple-pink color motif and abundant rose bushes. I'm not saying it WILL happen, I just know myself well enough to admit that my Sacred Oath as a crusader won't hold up for a second if I'm offered so much as a crumb of villainess pussy.

[destikey]

Favorite tweets from tonight’s hype

[kh-heritage-posts]

Heritage Post

02/10/2018

[lustcannibalism]

ok I endured it. now what!!!!!!!!!

[bsideheart]

more characters with psychic powers who get migraines and seizures after they use them. i wanna see someone kill a bunch of ppl with their mind and then lay in a dark room vomiting for two days

[animate-mush]

Like Psyduck?

[prokopetz]

In my experience, one of the reasons the idea of "brain gender" is such a persistent gremlin even in ostensibly progressive spaces is that a lot of folks haven't really abandoned the bioessentialist framework of gender, they've just modified it to include trans people, and trans-inclusive bioessentialism falls apart if brain gender isn't real.

[thecoolcatstuff]

Imagine struggling to accept your abusive parent was a good person because of a lifetime of empirical evidence

Then because your girlfriend kept pushing this idea in your head for months you finally admit maybe you were wrong and the abuser as actually a good guy all along

And then right after that your girlfriend goes "hum akshually your dad was a piece of shit after all, dont ask me why. We're done btw."

And then you find out everyone around you is lying. The abuser was indeed an absolute piece of shit of a degree you havent even imagined, and people still decided to lie to your face. Your friends, your guardian, your family all knew and just kept going along in this gaslighting feast because they though you were too weak to handle something you had already accepted. And that your now ex is the one that orchestrated it all.

Someone get this boy out of Paris asap

[smoke-in-the-winds]

It can be useful to bring how different cultures produce different gendered norms to resist any kind of “naturalistic” arguments, but also sometimes I wanna shake my fellow leftists by the shoulders and tell them that “normalized homosexuality only via widespread pederasty” or “third genders only allowed to exist as cultic prostitutes” are just as reactionary as “Western Homophobia”, they’re just operating under a different system.