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bunnywand-archive

i’m your biggest fan i’ll follow you until you love me tama tamagotchi..

WHISPER OF THE HEART (1995) dir. Yoshifumi Kondou

doctorguilty

Not to sound like an old fart here but my philosophy about video games is like. A kid living out in the middle of bumfuck nowhere with no internet access for miles should be able to purchase a game from walmart, take that game home, put it in their console, and play the whole game with all of its features and the only thing lack of internet affects is the inability to play online with others. Nothing else. They shouldn’t be missing entire chunks of the game becuase they can’t download a patch. The game shouldn’t be borderline empty or unplayable without a patch.

madonna-madness

videogameads

THREADS OF FATE Squaresoft Playstation 2000

woundthatswallows

one of the many reasons that i love fiona apple is the consistent theme of i have myself, i will save myself, i will protect myself, that i don't see that much in music. "better that i break the window, than him, or her, or me. especially me." that line perfectly captures that essence that is present in so many of her songs. yes she has songs like daredevil asking for someone to watch out for her, but it comes after the strong sense of self preservation. i really love that both narratives exist in her music and that they don't cancel each other out. they coexist. i have myself and i will save myself, but i also want you to watch out for me. it's all in the also.

rarts

The Flower Girl Aerith Gainsborough (Aeris) portrait: Final Fantasy VII game drawing [Artist: Yury Flics]

grogusdads

this tik tok has me in fucking tears

visit-ba-sing-se

just so you know, if you are in any way comparing being unvaccinated to the persecution of Jews in Nazi-Germany (or just straight up the Holocaust) I am not only disgusted but also ready to fight you in a parking lot of your choice any time

visit-ba-sing-se

stop unfollowing me and name a time and place instead, cowards

visit-ba-sing-se

Alright, disclaimer ahead, this is not me explaining the vaccine. that is a topic on it’s own. this is just an elaboration of the statement above.

> Why you are wrong

1.) You have a choice. You are choosing remain unvaccinated. you are making clear choice (which by the way endangers you and the people around you) , and there are consequences tied to the choice, like there a consequences tied to nearly all choices we all are making every day. you know what jews did in Nazi Germany? Being born.

2.) You are not being categorized as inferior or less of a human because of who you are. None of these regulations are tied to who you are. they are accounting for the fact that vaccinated people are less likely to catch covid and, in case of an infection, are less likely to infect others and becoming seriously ill (x, x , x ). And if you get covid, you will still get treatment like everyone else. doctors will fight to save your life like the one of a vaccinated person. Jews in Nazi Germany, however, were not only robbed of their status as citizens, but in the end, were not even regarded as humans and no value was prescribed to their life.

3.) You are facing an inconvenience. Jews were literally murdered. You can’t go to the restaurant you like. No one is forcing you out of your home, no one is stealing your belongings, no one is deporting to a concentration camp, no one is sending you to a gas chamber. these vaccines are the part of global effort to combat a pandemic (x). what you are comparing them to a genocide. I honestly do not know how to make this difference any clearer.

> And why what you are doing is disgusting (in case it is not clear now)

1.) You are diminishing the significance of the holocaust by comparing it to your inconvenience and by that playing into holocaust denial which again also fuels antisemitism.

2.) You are abusing the memory of the victims, disrespecting them and their families just to fuel your rhetoric. Those are actual human people who suffered more than any of us can imagine. They deserve better than to be instrumentalized, whatever the cause.

3.) You are freely spreading symbols that are clearly linked to Nazi-Germany and the holocaust. This not only does normalise them to a degree in the mainstream, it is also a punch in the face of those against who actual crimes were and are committed under these symptoms.

> How and when we can fight Ready when you. Name a place and time. No weapons, fists only.

towardsmorning

the thing about the “why can’t we say pregnant WOMEN instead of pregnant PEOPLE, PC gone mad!” discussion going on right now is that even the “cis ally” side is kind of not understanding why, exactly, “official” stuff about pregnancy needs to use gender neutral language.

the use of gendered language, whether in law or in company guidelines, has been used as an excuse to exclude trans people from various kinds of reproductive healthcare. there have been stories of abortion providers pointing to the use of “pregnant women” in all clinic literature to justify not giving trans men assistance. there are issues where “women’s health clinics” will refuse to accept referrals for anyone who doesn’t have “F” on their records, which of course includes many trans women. there are in turn stories of trans women being unable to access “male” prostrate cancer screening.

language in this sort of capacity needs to be as factual and neutral and carefully constructed to avoid loopholes as possible. at this stage in my life, as a non-woman capable of pregnancy, i don’t really CARE anymore if you talk casually about pregnancy as something that happens to women. but i DO care if the medical system writes out some guidelines that, in only acknowledging pregnant women as a possibility, open me up to the possibility of being denied care by transphobes who can claim they’re just following the rules.

this is a real issue for us, the gendering of health care leading to single-sex guidelines which are actively used by assholes to say “no, we only treat [gender] here”. it’s not a matter of nitpicking over everyday language; it’s about ensuring we are safe from loopholes that can be used to exploit us.

terphobic

I know a trans guy who had his gender marker changed after top surgery, and later was refused coverage for a pelvic exam because he was marked as male. he had to fight tooth and nail and in the end they had to change his marker in the insurance system back to female just so he could get one. and the kicker is, they suddenly stopped covering his testosterone once he was no longer marked as male.

it’s for reasons like this that some people don’t get their gender markers changed, but that in itself creates dangerous situations when their marker doesn’t match their presented gender - I’ve heard horror stories of people getting arrested after being pulled over by a cop who thought they were lying about their identity.

So changing gender marker = no coverage for necessary healthcare, not changing gender marker = potentially dangerous situations. This system is literally endangering trans people’s lives. THAT’S why it needs to change.