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another history making marvel post I never see anyone talk about is “so is nobody helping blade kill all those vampires”

cykelops

found it

thelensart

this is doing numbers on bsky you people are dogs

ellarosavasori

They should be dogs too

thelensart

hmm

vita-min-bunniii

so ive been thinking again and it's not going great

mikudonald

koh9083 - 「或る日、躑躅の生垣にて」

artist's twitter

ishimarukiyotaka

hot take comments like "I hope I get cyclosporiasis I want to lose 10 lbs" are not only obvious fatphobia but also part of mass illness normalization that has been an ongoing effort since 2020 to minimize the dangers of disease and infections

They want to act like high levels of sickness whether it be airborne or foodborne are normal and not the responsibility of agencies like public health or food safety regulation so they can get away with dismantling them.

boombnuy

homoidiotic

"Twenty One Things You Don't Say To A Transsexual" written by Riki Anne Wilchins in TransSisters : The Journal Of Transsexual Feminism (Winter 1994)

most-sane-classicist

He knows what's up

goetic-justice

You guys are always like "being crushed by 10,000 tons of rock probably feels good as hell" or "being torn to pieces by hunting dogs would low key fix me" and I feel like those things would actually be unpleasant.

goetic-justice

How about "Drinking an ice cold strawberry milkshake probably feels good as hell". Do you guys like that one.

nightshademagia

Server-first nuclear reactor on the modded Minecraft server we set up, which means an automated monitoring system. I coded this in about two hours, it's set up to ping my real-life smartphone if some error condition occurs.

nightshademagia

I do love how in the immeasurable amount of traction this post gained, for reasons that still elude me, nobody pointed out that it was six in the morning when I finished the code.

uhuh100

agnes tachyon modded minecraft nuclear generator automated monitoring system coding project. of course it was 6 am when you finished that's the least surprising part of the whole thing

uhuh100

fork found in girl's mouth while she was using it to eat come on now

release-the-sheep

just witnessed something devastating

guy on the subway with one ear pierced, little gold hoop. other guy on the subway very quickly and subtly googling "which one is the gay ear". it is not the gay ear. visible disappointment on his face as he puts his phone away.

catgirl-kaiju

i find it very very telling that people immediately started going kiwifarms on gooseworx right after the final episode of tadc dropped on yt and the reveal that fan favorite character Jax has been a closeted trans woman this whole time, radically recontextualizing everything about her and her actions. everyone in the fandom has been completely fine with other queer representation in the show, even Zooble who is also trans representation, but i guess a complicated and flawed transfem is just a bridge too far.

i don't care about old social media posts that have coincidentally and mysteriously "resurfaced" following the outrage of transmisogynist fans. you clearly missed the part of this where Jax is reflective of Goose's past behavior of using edgy and harmful humor to play the bad guy and push people away in order to cover up the fact that she is a trans woman. you missed the part where Gooseworx has explicitly grown past that kind of behavior and Jax is an exercise in extending empathy to a past version of herself who was trying everything in her power to be uworthy of love and care. you fundamentally do not understand the art you are a fan of.

Gooseworx's ban by @staff is transparently due to harassment by transmisogynists attempting to turn her into a "controversial figure" for "ruining" their favorite edgy jokey rabbit "man" by revealing she's been an edgy jokey rabbit woman this whole time. i will block anyone attempting to justify this ban. i do not want those who would enable such an obvious transmisogynistic witch hunt to interact with me or my content. fuck off.

profesionalgodlicker

see I agree with this fully, however i also feel i should point out that im fucking stupid and when i saw this kind of stuff happening, i was very very confused becuase I could NOT pick up that Jax is trans like, at all

matt0044

I mean, the bow? Ribbit being ghosted…? :/

profesionalgodlicker

please my friends already yelled at me about this for like 2 hours i cant take any more TT wait how is ribbit being ghosted part of it wait nevermind i ive tried dating trans people , also important to note i am a tgirl myself

matt0044

Ribbit was ghosted when putting on that ribbon because Jax opened up about his mother antagonizing him for not being manly enough or being too feminine. Ribbit didn't know what she did but Jax felt outed and was way too closeted at the time.

alkimara

I will remain firm that there is nothing in the show canonizing Jax is transfem. Some interpret it as being transfem, some interpret it as Jax being non-binary-- hell, some interpret it as Jax being transmasc rather than transfem.

For myself, I fully interpreted the bow as being similar to a romantic gesture of someone taking their jacket or hat off and putting it on the person they're flirting with. I did not read the scene as gender-affirming at all. I was utterly surprised when I saw that being confirmed online, and went to ask my friends who separately watched the show, who also were confused about Jax being transfem.

You can't just say "this character is transfem" outside of the narrative and then pat yourself on the back for queer representation when that's not at all clear within the bounds of the narrative. Especially when you have such explicit queerness like Gangle and Zooble's very lesbian-coded relationship, and Zooble being non-binary. Goose also made a post saying Ragatha was "supposed to have repressed lesbian energy"-- of which I didn't pick up on that at all???

I still really enjoyed the show for what it was, but we can't sit here and say "the girlies who get it get it, and the girlies that don't have no media literacy" over Jax's """coming out""" when that's just Not the case for this show.

If we wanted Jax's transfem nature to be more explicit- we should've heard what it was Jax said to their mom, or had some other indication of transness being involved. Hell- my friend got "Jax is non-binary" confirmation from Jax's real-world self seemingly visiting real-Zooble's bar and dressing more androgynous. If Goose wanted us to get "transfem" out of it explicitly, maybe make real-Jax actually transfem? Or at least show they're leaning that way. There's plenty of posts on Tumblr about the myriad of ways Goose could've done this better.

Anyway, in closing, no one should feel "fucking stupid" about not picking up on writing that was too vague.

catgirl-kaiju

me when i'm simply being too vague and who can possibly say if my character is transfem or not

alkimara

Me when it's too much to ask for Goose to outright put transfem representation in her own media by outright having the character be a woman.

But instead we'll hide behind

Caine having the ability to manipulate people, as shown repeatedly, and the tail hinting towards Caine changing Jax's body without his permission

The entire maid outfit fiasco making Jax extremely uncomfortable, and I don't think forcing any man into a dress and them being upset at being sexualized is evidence for that man being secretly a trans egg

Jax calling himself an egg could reference how Pomni is trying so desperately to crack through his outer walls, and to figure out who the "real him" is

The bow, again, I think is more akin to someone flirting

There are so many problems with "Isn't She Lovely" that I'd rather not touch it, but I'll just touch on the easiest one: RACISM.

Jax lookin like an androgynous emo outta 2013 was not on my bingo card

And I will even extend an olive branch to you: All of these could be interpreted as transfem Jax. That's how the theory even started spinning up, after all. But my point is that all of these also can be interpreted as not that way. There are other interpretations of these medias-- to the point where, talking to my transfem friends after the finale, they were outright confused, baffled, and a little upset when I told them "Yeah Goose said Jax is transfem on social media".

But when Goose herself says "its up to interpretation" and then turns around and goes "also Jax is a trans woman, but you can interpret it however you want" suddenly anyone who didn't interpret Jax as a trans woman is "incorrect" or "stupid" because diehard Goose followers start attacking other people.

We don't know how long Jax was in the circus. Jax in the real world could've been a woman if Jax was meant to be transfem. Or maybe, just maybe, Leeroy in the real world thought at the time that they were a woman, put on the headset and made the copy, and later after some gender exploration at Zooble's bar decided they were actually non-binary or something else. We'll never know within the bounds of the narrative what actually happened to any of them.

catgirl-kaiju

Could Jax being sarcastically proud of her ears and tail, proclaiming them symbols of masculinity, and then Pomni pointing that Jax is missing one of those, prompting Jax to panic. This is especially meaningful within the context of Jax being terrified of being vulnerable or allowing anyone to see her as whe truly is. Pre-transition, many transfems who are in denial about being trans will cling to superficial signifiers of masculinity as a disguise to protect themselves. I myself did this by growing a beard, and i've known girls who did everything from getting super buff to keeping their hair in a tight crew cut.

When a transfem is pre-transition and in denial and/or scared of people finding out, she might get embarrassed and panicky about the thought of wearing women's clothing, especially around other people. She might also get scared of judgement from others, as wearing the clothes you like in a body that you don't can trigger dysphoria. I know there were times where I got very upset about presenting as feminine, even as a joke, because I thought I looked stupid and didn't want people to see me as a man in a dress. This is is also why i bring up how Jax repeatedly says she looks stupid throughout the series when looking in a mirror. And look at her body language during the scene, how she unconsciously takes on a feminine demeanor and only reverts to using masculine coded body language when trying to put her walls back up by making fun of Gangle.

The egg bit has multiple meanings in context, something that often happens in creative works. What Jax is trying to convey by saying that is what you've laid out in your comment, but it takes on an additional level of meaning when you understand that "egg" is slang in the trans community for a transfem who hasn't realized she's trans yet ("eggs" hatch into "chicks" after all) and Gooseworx, as a trans woman herself, would be very aware of this when writing the script. Interpreting art sometimes requires understanding the context under which it was made and the person who made it, something you delight in ignoring.

Do people typically flirt with you like this??? What are you talking about?? The only reason I would put an obvious symbol of femininity on a cisman i knew is if I thought they might be an egg. And if this is just flirting, what reason would Ribbit have for saying "Your secret's safe with me."? You are just either really bad at interpreting media or so uncomfortable with the idea that Jax is transfem that you feel the need to go into denial about it. Very possibly both.

Fellas, is it racist to embrace black music in your art? What, would you prefer white people only ever use white music in our work? Would you prefer someone in a group at the top of a racial hegemony only ever attribute meaning and worth to art from within that same in-group? If you looked at that scene and the ONLY thing you took away from it is it's "problematic" and "racist" because it uses a very popular and pop culturally important song by a black man, without considering if the creator of the work might be trying to communicate something VERY OBVIOUS through this choice of music, I think you might just really really hate the idea that Jax is a trans woman for some mysterious reason that guess we'll never know.

Do you know what a boymoder is???

I think you REALLY need to introspect on why the comcept of Jax being canonical transfem makes you so uncomfortable. Because, from where I'm standing, you really really seem like a transmisogynist. Fuck off.