(please consider voting for him, I worked very hard on this drawing)
Some reasons to vote for Tenna:
He made a huge cultural impact online, spawning many AU's, fanfiction, fanart, ASMR Videos, a dating sim fangame and much more! People are feral for this TV!
He's middle aged, past his prime and terrified of becoming obsolete (so we must show him that he's loved!)
He's bad with modern technology and doesn't even know what an e-mail is
He is a deeply flawed, relatable comfort character for many
He'd be the FIRST object head to win the contest!
He is canonically queer
He canonically whines when he's asking for a walk
He introduced a lot of people to wireplay and contributed a lot to the entire robo smut genre (a lot of new tags exist solely because of him)
He is around 15 feet tall and can shrink to the size of an ant ("Tall enough to be a giant, handsome, apron- wearing older husband, and small enough so he can be like a glooby, cute pet that can be kept in a cage.")
He was originally supposed to look more like an Ant and had four arms in his early concept drawings
He'd do ANYTHING to entertain you and is desperate for validation
He has abandonment issues and deeply misses his ex who also happens to be a tumblr sexyman
He's emotionally unstable and has rapid moodswings
He would definetly cry and be depressed for weeks if he lost the contest
He's a single dad who loves his daughter
He is traumatized and just wants to be loved
Vote for Tenna here if you love TV!
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Tenna art by @9Aaaalt29 on twt
by disagreeing with me on this topic, you're aligning yourself with everyone else who disagrees with me, which includes the Chaos Death Cult, and they chaos kill people so....
he deeply cares about the ecosystem and the life in it and you'll probably learn some more about it along with some cooking techniques after talking to him
he's fat but also strong which as a fat person myself i appreciate because it goes against the stereotype of fat people being physically weak/lazy, aka he's a hot hairy bear and fatphobia is dead (it isn't but let me dream)
i will go into minimal detail for those who haven't seen dungeon meshi but minor spoilers he nearly starved in a highly traumatic experience when he was young and his trauma inspired him to make sure that the youngins' in his life are well fed and never have to go through what he went through
he can be eccentric, goofy and loveable but he is also serious and genuine (and sexy) which i think can be seen in the contrast of how he looks with his helmet on vs off
i also think his habit of wearing hawaiian shirts in modern au art is really cute, he's weirdly stylish
Anyway shoutout to John Williams, amazing composer and probably the one who made the other 50% of "holy shit amazing" soundtracks (Jurassic Park, Star Wars, Superman, and incidentally the original Harry Potter theme and score) who famously worked closely with the first openly transgender woman to be nominated for an Academy Award, Angela Morley. He respected her, and so far as I can see, has never made transphobic remarks.
Trans activist Jamison Green's passport photos before and after HRT. Left he's age 32 (1980) Right age 41 (1989) after being on testosterone for one year (x)
updated the link to his autobiography because it was broken! here's some more pictures of him (first is mid 90s, second 2013 and last 2024)
there's an interview with him from 2017 along with some information about his life and activism. and he was interviewed on a podcast here. he's not super well known but has been a really important trans activist for decades
IDK I think if cis men are being told that being fat will lower their testosterone and make them Insufficiently Masculine, and cis women are being told that being fat will raise their testosterone and make them Excessively Masculine, and fat trans people are being denied the right to medically transition if they're fat, and thin trans people are warned against HRT because it will make them fat (and this is said about both testosterone and estrogen HRT), and androgynous-presenting people are told that only thin people count as androgynous...
Then maybe...
Maybe...
Maybe the weight loss industry is just using Gender to enforce fatphobia.