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I hope all my new followers know that this is politics and sisterfucker hell and not just hahafunnygirlland

I write fanfiction a bit and might share eventually... but that's kinda scary, so.

Also I'm a marxist.

dogpuppy

#not if hes a man

princessdraconic

oh im not the evil queen of darkness. im her sister. im looking after her castle while she's out for a couple of days. you look like a nice young lady. is that gothic lolita you're wearing? can you tell me about your coord? why is your stuffed animal saying you should attack me

kimpining

this bit. immense. more vast than the sea.

ceaselessims

KIM KITSURAGI — "I do not like women, Harry."

RHETORIC [Easy: Failure] — Kim Kitsuragi is a misogynist.

pumpkinspicebluntwrap

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xv-mobageshiki

should out to my partner for having a cat named William

yaoi-vodka

I honestly think Chainsmoker Cat is poised to have significant cultural potency.

On its face, it's a crude comedy anime about, well, an anime cat girl with a crippling nicotine addiction. However, under the slapstick, it's got undercurrents which point towards other matters of social commentary.

It not-so subtly shows how drug addiction is a coping mechanism but also fucking ruins your life and makes you a seemingly inconsiderate asshole towards those around you.

But also: it much more subtly points to how these coping mechanisms are more likely to be used within communities that are already under higher degrees of societal pressure with very few avenues for social advancement.

Because it would appear that cat girls are in fact a great allegorical representation of the experience of societal marginalization, while not directly representing any individual real world group.

The anime cat girls are not specifically trans women, or immigrants, or a racial minority, or anything else- they're cat girls.

But they ARE shown on screen to all have low income apartments. They are shown to be offered worse jobs and menial labor positions. They are called specific terms that sound a lot like slurs. The police treat them differently. The neighborhoods they dominate appear to have negative stigma attached to them. The girls that are socially respected by non-cat girls are the ones who seem to play the most to respectability politics, and even then they just get patronizingly regarded as "one of the *good ones*."

But on top of how they are broadly disadvantaged and disparaged, they are also simultaneously fetishized.

All of which very straightforwardly tracks onto the experience of marginalization and represents many of the typical tools employed against Black women, trans women, immigrants, and others. Anyone of any marginalized background or anyone with any experience with personal or familial addiction can find something to relate to when watching the anime cat girls.

miidsch

The fourth Newtonian law is that the brattier they are in battle the more submissive they become in be-

contextfreepatentart

winged-void

no really why is annoying shitheel bird so common of an alter like. half the systems i know have one. i have one. both of my girlfriends have one. and they all suck and no one likes them but we just keep going. what's it all for. follow the money.

winged-void

oh fuck where

#no one likes them...? :'[

late-night-chai-latte

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persephoneme

you can't say "hey has anyone noticed that M/M fic outnumbers F/F like 100:1” or “it feels racist that only 3/202 characters on the ao3 top 100 ships list are Black and two of them are Alastor HazbinHotel” bc some ppl will start going like “oh so you think we should FORCE people to write about things they DON’T CARE ABOUT for WOKE????” and you’ll be like “no, i’m pointing out that the conditions that created this disparity are informed by racism & misogyny” and ppl will say “it’s not BIGOTED to only care about WHITE MEN” and then the gargoyle king appears