phrike

20 | he/they | artist & lorewriter |

[phrike-xo]

rem is the best character in re:zero, her smile and everything about her is just so adorable :)

[phrike-xo]

I finished s1 of Fire Force... and arrow is my favorite character and I,,, want to be best friends with her

[phrike-xo]

“the wisdom of a one thousand year old person sure is something~” michiru and shirou are both amazing

[phrike-xo]

they have completely opposite personalities,,, it’s such a cute vibe

[phrike-xo]

michiru and nazuna are amazing and I can only think to ship them together

[phrike-xo]

michiru is so wholesome, this show is amazing

[insertdisc5]

y'ever have FEELINGS? y'ever have EMOTIONS?

[powerfulwizard]

You cannot define a sexuality around non-binary people in the same way that you can define a sexuality around men and women. It’s not a third gender. It exists outside the binary. Non-binary is an umbrella term, not an actual gender in of itself. Most non-binary people do not identify as the same gender in the same way men and women do. Some non-binary people describe their gender with the term non-binary and that is their own gender, but not everyone who calls themselves non-binary as a term for their gender identity thinks of themselves as the same gender in the same way men and women do. So I’m just saying, the many attempts people have made to define a new sexuality around non-binary people are futile and unnecessary.

Some non-binary people are comfortable dating people who identify as straight, gay, or lesbian, and some are not. That just depends from individual to individual. You don’t need to change the term for your entire sexuality just because you want to date a non-binary person. You don’t need to identify as pansexual or polysexual or whatever to date a non-binary person. If you’re a lesbian and you’re dating a non-binary person, that doesn’t mean you’re misgendering that person with your sexuality. If you’re only attracted to women and you’re dating a non-binary person, that does not mean you see them as a woman. You just can’t define a sexuality around your attraction to that person, and that’s ok, you don’t need to.

[powerfulwizard]

Another thing, non-binary people can be any sexuality. Non-binary people don’t have to identify as pansexual. There are non-binary people who are lesbians, there are non-binary people who are gay, there are non-binary people are bisexual. To say you must identify as pansexual to date a non-binary person is especially disrespectful to non-binary people who do not identify as such. Non-binary people can’t be defined under a sexuality and non-binary people don’t all have the same sexuality.

[hustlerose]

[katra]

[memeuplift]

[goaliemagics]

me: stutters out fifteen sentence fragments that no-one can make sense of not even me me: you know?

[kasindrarules-deactivated201812]

that one friend who knows you better than you: yeah

[sideraclara]

do u ever feel like ur pulling an academic icarus flying too close to your deadlines on wings of deeply flawed time management

[bombing]

[tries to crowd surf at a TED talk]

[asieybarbie]

[phrike-xo]

hi

who else just wants to be a gem in su b/c a mini version of obsidian would be great, also hips would be nice

[pheonixfidelity]

I haven’t seen it said, so I’ll say it.

If you look at it from a certain perspective, Diamond Days (and in a way–all of SU) is a metaphor for transphobia and dead naming.

Steven has spent his life being compared to Rose. Rose is gone. It’s Steven now. Everyone remembers and misses Rose, but his family loves Steven.

When Blue speaks to Yellow, she says, “She prefers to go by Steven now.” And all of the diamonds refer to him as “she/her/Pink.”

When White (substitute a trans/homophobic grandma if you will) demands him to Look like Pink again, he snaps. “SHE’S GONE!”

White tells him that he’s deceived himself and that Pink is still in there. She’s not. When Steven sees that it is–in fact–HIM inside of his gem, he is so overjoyed.

Idk. Just like all of the misgendering and deadnaming in this season got to me. It made me understand the trans community in a way that I’ve tried and failed to do myself.

However, as Steven himself sang,

“I don’t need you to respect me, I respect me. I don’t need you to love me, I love me. I just need you to know-You could know me if you changed your mind.”

[itkeepsusmoving]

Yes! I’ve been shouting into the void about this so I’m glad to see a post about this gaining popularity.

Because this episode was fucking raw and emotion for me as a NB trans person.

It’s not a simple one-for-one metaphor for trans experience, but there’s a lot of parallels and it’s VERY resonant.

The part that really gets me is how White points out Steven’s gemstone as evidence that he’s actually still Pink Diamond (I personally saw it as a parallel for when transphobes fixate on our genitals, as if a specific body part forever dictates your gender)…. But we see that Steven’s gem is now STEVEN; it used to take form as Pink Diamond and then Rose, but Pink and Rose are GONE. They “died” and were reborn into Steven, who shares some of those memories but is a new person.

Gender transition is a “rebirth” for a lot of people (such as myself) because in many ways you’re becoming an entirely new person; your pre-transition self is like a past life. And you retain some personality traits, memories (that you might repress), and so on,,, but you’re also changing and growing and becoming more true to yourself.

[trashcatlesbian]

everything thats traditionally supposed to be for men is always 100000x better on women like… buzzcuts.. jawlines.. dating other women.. girls just do it better