My Tokugawa Smile and My Garbage Smile

Luci/염라. Early 30s. (She/her). Traditional Marxist. Korean working abroad. East Asian history (esp LGBT+ and religions), analysis of animanga, esp robot/Mahō Shōjo. 日本語を話す。한국말 합니다.

[screenshotsofdespair]

[wearepaladin]

[apocryphon-of-eden]

i’ve said it before but anglo lesbians are so so racist about yuri it’s actually absurd how bad it is

[apocryphon-of-eden]

feel the need to mention that this post was inspired by a bechdel-wannabe comic artist making a strip about how all yuri is incestuous and dirty art lmfao

[cryptotheism]

Adam: Your older brother. Abel. He's dead.

Adams third child, Seth: What is that?

Adam: I don't know. This is new for me too.

[cryptotheism]

Eve: I think "dead" is what happens to dinnerbeasts.

Seth:

Eve: We might have to dinner him.

[parkchanwoohoo]

It is so fucking funny to me how easily scandalized some people are wym callout post for a cannibalism kink. Grow up. This is the nothingburger leagues and you're throwing up in the stands

[anomalocaris-in-da-clurb]

It’s actually the peopleburger leagues

[parkchanwoohoo]

Blocking for being funnier than me

[winged-void]

the transmisogynized boy-prince will be understood as the panel one princess of the future. and also the panel two princess of the much nearer future

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[fishing-lesbian-princess]

If I was Tao I’d fold instantly

The way she very explicitly affirms that Tao is a girl by saying she’s only into girls and then calling her princess. That into the reveal that she, as a cis lesbian, brought condoms with her specifically for Tao. Miki may be a scumbag lesbian and arguably a bit of a chaser, but this would 100% work on me. Tao is stronger than I could ever be

[fishing-lesbian-princess]

What Miki is saying is extremely fascinating to me. She’s trying to make it sound like she’s a horribly possessive person, locking the trans woman she’s in love with in a cage so she can never escape. But in reality what she’s actually done is created a space where said trans woman can be herself and will be comfortable so she will never want to leave. Regardless of how sinister and possessive her intentions were, and no matter how much she thinks of herself as a villain trapping poor Tao so she can’t escape, the reality of the situation is that the “cage” she built is actually just a space where Tao can be herself safely and comfortably. I’m so fucking sad this manga got canceled, I badly need more of them

[theirisianprincess]

[maidthings]

explaining to my cat that its really clocky for her to be left pawed but she just sort of looked at me and then went back to batting at her food bowl with. well you know which one

[mousidy]

the state does not need to assign you a sex, nor does it need to keep inalterable record of it btw

[mousidy]

a very interesting terf objection to this one boils down to "but how would the state know who to protect?" because it speaks to the incredible privilege of being in a class the state actually ever remotely wants to protect. most oppressed groups do not want the state to have a registry of them, lol

[mousidy]

the patriarchy has done a great job convincing white cisgender women that it's in their best interests to maintain it

[vacuously-true]

Researchers can do studies that track disparate impacts across genders just fine without the government storing your assigned sex as part of your legal identity. They do this with race and orientation and disability and so on just fine.

A census can understand population level trends just fine without storing your assigned sex as part of your legal identity. They can ask for this information in the census. The census tracking population level data is not the same as your assigned sex being permanently part of your legal identity. (At least, the way my country does a census.)

Your doctor can know your anatomy by you communicating it to them if/when it is relevant. There is never a time when they might need to know something that could only be conveyed by your assigned sex being officially relayed to them via government documentation. You can just use your words. The same way you tell your doctor any other part of your medical history.

People respond to "the government doesn't need to store your assigned sex as part of your legal identity" as if they are hearing "no one should ever acknowledge gender or sex at all" but that's not what's being said.

Your birth certificate conveys important legal information about you. Your name, as a designation. Your parents, as they have a legal obligation to you. Your place of birth, as that place has a legal obligation to you. Date and time of birth, since age is important for application of some laws.

And sex. That's on there too. But what is the legal relevance? What laws is the government going to apply to you differently based on what sex is on your birth certificate? I can only think of one thing my government really uses that for, and that is to determine who has to sign up for the draft. And guess what, fuck that shit anyway. The government also used to use this to decide who is allowed to marry who. They don't do that anymore. For now.

There is literally no reason my assigned sex needs to be part of my legal identity. My government is not using that for anything (important). It doesn't matter. If the gender markers on everyone's IDs vanished tomorrow nothing (except maybe the draft) would be significantly negatively affected. Data collection for research could continue as usual since researchers usually have people self report these characteristics rather than checking their government IDs. My doctors would still know which organs I have and if they forgot, I could tell them. I don't want anything to be part of my legal identity that doesn't have to be.

[rui-cifer]

If I Had Legs I’d Kick You by Mary Bronstein remains the best movie of 2025 from the West

[sapphling]

i do think you can draw a lot of parallels between trans mras who pretend transition doesn't exist in order to wallow in self pity and those cis guy incels who wax poetic about how a half centimeter of bone is what separates them from chad while literally just looking normal and repelling women entirely off the power of their personality

[sapphling]

you really don't even need abigails shrier or any other cis transphobe to go around telling trans men that they'll never be men and that transition is just them mutilating their bodies because for some reason if the trans guys get transmisogynistic enough they'll just start doing it themselves

[magicalastronomies]

strapping my mechsplo cousin in front of the tv and forcing it to watch top gun and going "this is you, you're tom cruise"

[rui-cifer]

maybe watching a child's head get 360 noscoped by a beam bazooka in the 2nd Ideon movie's climax in order for Tomino to discuss the themes of civilian victims of imperialist wars of all ages has warped me since v young age but is shocking art so bad and meaningless or were you never taught to look past the shock and look for the meanings like you would with anything else?

[spicyhoneybear-deactivated20230]

*sexting* I love talking to you

[femboy-c-cups]

No one ever talks about a serbian film as much as ppl defensive about only watching media appropriate for children. It's always "ughhh sorry I watched icarly in middle school instead of a serbian film" because they know if they said the matrix or superbad they would look a little bit lame.