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@smedium
One of my funniest interactions with medical personnel was when I went for an ADHD assessment around 3 years on HRT, and the specialist said "Gender incongruence? So you want to be a man?"
Medical pros keep asking me if I'm pregnant.... and I'm like.... pretty sure I'm not, no
portal turrets were so ahead of their time actually because they’re autistic lil robogirlies who are ever so slightly chuuni and they’re adorable and polite and even though they could kill you in 10 seconds they’re incredible instant-lossbait and they go ahahaha >:3c and aaaa-auuu D: and awawawawa @_@ and other such noises
to everyone tagging this with stuff like “gender” or “THIS IS SO ME” or “i want to be a portal turret so bad”: you’re cutes
In hindsight I did get an immense joy toying with them, letting them shoot me like once before hiding behind the corner. Something about how panicked and confused they get was always a rush to me. Then when you pick them up they made cute little noises and you could toss them around and do whatever you want to them.
I probably did the turret hallways for hoyrs just to think of new ways to hurt them or scare them.
what did we do to deserve portal 2. that shit was so good and for what
we got to have this! we got to have a valve game set in the half life universe, and its an enemies-to-lovers-to-enemies-again sci fi comedy story about a homicidal ai created to run tests forever and the test subject she catches feelings for!! how is this game real!!!
happy birthday to the only video game ever
people still clown in the notes of this post so reminder that glados was gonna take you on a date and accuse you of cheating. shes not chells mom
guilty gear is so funny imagine you hear about some ruthless bounty hunter coming after you and then it’s some cute girl in a dysphoria hoodie doing yoyo tricks, holding a teddy bear and constantly stimming by bouncing around and humming to herself.
and then she knocks one of your teeth out with her yoyo, which is giant and made of stainless steel and has .357 hollowpoint loaded into its side for some goddamn reason, and her teddy bear suddenly grows to 3x its size and glomps you before bodyslamming you with the force of a semi truck, while the girl rides on its back and shouts “rooooock the baby! :3”
the teddy bear then shrinks to normal teddy bear size and she gives it a cheerful double high five while she prepares to drag your unconscious ass to the Post-War Administration Bureau for bounty collection
i made this post as sort of a joke but like… genuinely it is really something i love love LOVE about guilty gear and bridget. like. there’s all these badass masculine anime men doing their things, and then there’s just bridget being her weird lil girlself, being uncompromisingly queer, not being treated as an other or an existential threat, just vibing without judgment. she’s making her own way, and not only is she holding her own, not only is she successful—she’s straight up fucking THRIVING in this weird, weird world.
a world where we can exist freely without men abusing us is very possible. men and trans women can coexist without being existential threats to one another. unless the entire social institution of masculinity and the transmisogyny upholding it is torn down and completely rethought, this will never become the rule instead of the exception, but that world isn’t unfathomable. it’s not unthinkable. we’re not inherently repulsive, or threatening, or unlovable. we’re just girls. so never get it in your head that the state of things is natural. that this is how things have to be. your heart is a muscle the size of your fist
yaoi between two beautiful knights who keep ending up fighting each other but it turns out both of them are pretending to be men in order to be knights so its actually secret beautiful butch yuri. picture this
one is the handsome gentlemanly princely type with long hair riding on a white horse that all the ladies fawn over, the other is the badass grim bulky type with scars and a scowl and a big ass broadsword who always aura farms in the corner of the tavern alone
yep exactly
clowngirl getting an orchiectomy and the surgeon just keeps removing ball after ball after ball after ball after
clown nurse standing by solemnly adding each successive ball to the ones she's already juggling
cool. another black child died in a hate crime
A South Carolina jury on Monday found a store owner not guilty of murder in the 2023 shooting of a Black 14-year-old.
apparently the murder happened in 2023 after doing some research but the murderer has been found not guilty.
black children get murdered and become victims of hate crimes every fucking day. this is ridiculous
im posting this here despite the website being extremely white centered, I want people to understand how in this country it's basically ok to murder and victimize black people, especially women and children in the name of "self defense" and white America will reward you for your antiblackness.
sorry, but you were socialized christian. I just can't trust you in a trans space
they literally taught you that trans people were subhuman and that you were better than them. I don't know if you can be trusted around other trans people
they scapegoated and abused you for showing signs of transness? uh... no? christianity is the most privileged religion there is. stop whining
gotta say I was not expecting people to go to bat for my strawman
me: "lol wouldn't it be crazy if trans communities treated ex-christian trans people who survived religious abuse the same way they treat trans women who they call 'male socialized'"
some of you, for some reason: "wait hold on that's a great idea"
lotta people on this post going "ok well male socialization is fake and gay but christian socialization is Real and we should discriminate based on it" and I just think it's interesting how badly some people want to exclude others from queer community based on background
a lot of you clearly still believe socialization is an immutably tainting force, and you wanna be able to punish people for things you imagine they'll do because of it. can you at least wait for our hypothetical traumatized ex-christian to do something worthy of the punishment you're eager to inflict? can we wait for them to express a harmful belief instead of assuming they hold them? no? we just gotta bar them entirely? ok
I actually don't believe you're normal to trans women if you believe there's such a thing as being eternally tainted by one's upbringing
Pokemon GO's new log-in screen for Forever Forward is a throwback to one of its oldest ones!
I’m not sure which one came first but I’m happy for their transition!
Good for her and for the family and for pedestrian safety :)
Nigerian Pride 🏳️🌈🇳🇬
I meant to have this out yesterday. Happy belated pride. :)
[image ID: 10 cute and joyful drawings of black people in Nigerian clothing, representing different aspects of gay pride. They are each dressed in the colours of a different pride flag.
Details: a lesbian couple hold hands and laugh. A gay couple have their hands over each others shoulders. 2 trans people dance together, bumping hips. A non binary person stands confidently holding a cane. 2 asexuals sit on the ground together, one has vitiligo. 2 bisexuals dance funkily together. 2 pansexuals are having fun, 1 has climbed up on the others shoulders. They are holding two drinks and they are spilling both of them. Lastly, an older lady poses alone with rainbow fabric draped over her.
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You won't be able to defang pedojacketing as a tool of transmisogynystic and racist opression without making being a pedo or lolicon or map or whatever else something that doesnt warrant punishment btw
As long as there exists an accusation that isn't based on real harm but a percieved sexual perversion that accusation will be levied for obvious reasons. You can't protect yourself without having to accept that you will also protect people that you might feel are nasty perverts.
Then you have 2 choices. Accept that or become a transmisogynist in months or years from now.
I'm not saying that we should be proud pedo advocates or whatever. I'm saying that if you want to make the world safer for trans women, it takes the first step of deciding that if you see a girl doing wierd nasty shit you have to not care. It takes the first step of not complaining about the pedophiles hiding in your community. It takes the first step of accepting that if you "hunt pedos" you will hunt trans girls. Not because trans girls are pedos but because being a pedo is a trivial accusation to send to people that everyone is already primed to see as sex perverts.
How are you doing buddy?
Also excuse me if I ask you this, but when you began to hc Jaune as Jeanne?
Doing okay. Work and life got me a bit off the keyboard for the last months. But as soon as I can, I'll retake the asks.
On Jaune and Jeanne.
I think it all started with "I don't want to be the damsel in distress! I want to be the hero!". I know that, in the context of the scene and arc, it was more about Jaune feeling inadequate as a Huntsman and left behind by his friends.
But it's not too hard to relate that framing to a gendered one. At the ver least using a gendered role like "damsel in distress" in dichotomy to being a hero. Specially when at the end of that same arc, we have Jaune himself admitting his macho know-nothing-know-it-all act from the first two volumes was an act he thought he needed to hold. So, it's not that much of a step ahead to see Jaune's relationship with gender as something filtered through roles and expectations.
Which is an overarching theme in Jaune's development through the series. Both roles and expectations haunt Jaune through the narrative, but also identity. Specially by Vol 9, when he's given the role of "the hero", and it tragically makes everything worse for Jaune.
Because Jaune tries too hard. That's kind of the core of the character.
A lot of what Jaune is and does early on is performing what he thinks a hero is supposed to be. What a Huntsman is supposed to be. What a man is supposed to be. The confidence, the bravado, trying to carry everything alone, trying to embody this image of the ideal hero.
And the narrative keeps punishing him for it. Not because Jaune is weak, but because the role itself does not fit 'him'.
Meanwhile, Jaune's genuinely heroic moments almost always happen when that performance drops. Specially saving Weiss at Haven. That it happens right after the attempt to be the hero by trying to kill Cinder to avenge Pyrrha adds up to that.
Which is about where the transfem reading clicked for me so hard.
Because suddenly Jeanne's arc stopped being about an insecure boy failing to become the ideal hero, and started being about someone exhausting herself trying to perform an assigned identity that never really fit.
And once I started looking at the character through that lens, more things started to make sense.
Jeanne constantly treats her existence as something she has to earn. She needs to prove herself useful, dependable, strong, heroic enough to justify existing in the spaces she occupies. And when she fails at that, her immediate instinct is to double down. Try harder. Carry more. Sacrifice more of herself.
"They're the ones that matter".
Trying to perform the identity and role she was assigned is inherently self-destructive. Which was already on display on Vol 1 when rejecting Pyrrha's help, was taken the to the extreme in Vol 4 with her suicidal charge against Cinder, and lingered by Vol 9 through the Rusted Knight.
The tragedy of the Rusted Knight is that Jeanne got exactly what she thought she was supposed to be, and there's barely a person left underneath the armor anymore.
Which is why I don't really read Jeanne as a character whose narrative is about becoming stronger, or manlier, or more traditionally heroic over time.
Instead, I read it as someone slowly learning that fulfilling a role will never make her happy. That performing usefulness is not the same thing as having an identity. That she cannot build a self out of expectations.
And that's where the gender aspect really settles in for me.
Because Jeanne wanting to be recognized as a woman does not contradict her discomfort with gendered expectations. If anything, it reinforces the point. Her entire narrative is about struggling under roles she thinks she has to embody in order to deserve love, respect or acknowledgement.
So, I want to make a point abundantly clear; the idea of Jeanne transitioning isn't about replacing the character of Jaune Arc with Jeanne Arc, but just reading the former as the later.
I'm not saying Jaune is (or has to be) queer. Just pointing some adjacency going on. It's perfectly okay to be a het-cis dude, and I actually like how Jaune's first arc was "stop being a toxic macho and accept help from others".
But because it's a positive gender arc, it doesn't call for much tweaking to make it about gender too. Jaune as a trans man still learning to define what his chosen gender is for himself, or as a trans woman understanding what she still has to de-learn from her raising as AMAB, or enby Jaune just shedding off gender expectations altogether.
In the end, Jeanne as a reading isn't about "fixing" the character, or pretending it secretly explains every single thing in canon, but because there are themes of identity, roles and expectations with Jaune that I could see being built from.
The fear of failing at the role you've been given, and the slow realization that maybe the role itself was the problem. Jeanne, to me, is simply taking those ideas to their natural conclusion; someone who spent years trying to become the person she thought she was supposed to be, only to finally ask herself who she actually wants to be instead.
But as you said in the ask, it's mainly a headcanon. A reading I have.
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P.D.: Also, making trans headcanons is a thing I like to do. Shinji Ikari, Tim Drake, Izuku Midoriya…
Per @spoonstrek
All of this, and :
One of the reasons I found it hard to get away from #MyComfortingPain is because not talking shit to yourself is so EASY. Like all you have to do is literally just... not. Just say positive stuff. And the effect it has is almost IMMEDIATE. It doesn't cure everything overnight, by any means, but you START feeling better immediately.
But that's the problem - it was always that easy, and that means that you've been sabotaging yourself for years now. That means you could have done this at any time and all that pain and darkness and self-hatred you've let drag you down over the years has been basically your fault and all you had to do was think the happy thoughts and say the nice words and half of your self-esteem problems vanish...
... and the thought that you're your own worst enemy and you've done this all to yourself is too much to bear. The darkness HAS to be too powerful to overcome, that's the only reason you haven't done it yet. The war HAS to be unwinnable, that's why you haven't won yet.
So, you talk positive about yourself, and it feels good, there's a part of your brain that goes, "Wait. No. That's.... that's not right. This war looks winnable. This can't be the solution to the unwinnable war. Stop doing that. Come back to the darkness, or we'll have to rethink everything we think is real. I'm not ready for a paradigm shift this big."
children of the zariman
my 2026 tennocon art showcase submission! excited to see everyones work in person 💃
my wizardgirl keeps mage regressing during the big boss fight, throwing out level 1 Ice Bolt and giggling like we're supposed to find it cute. I know this bitch can do a level 12 modified Frosthammer Vortex. It's not even hard for her. But the Wyvern Queen, who we're supposed to be killing, keeps going "Wow, that was a really big spell for you! good job giving me -1 speed! You're soooo powerful!" and my fuckass mage is beaming at her with those big wet eyes. I don't care if you get "level dysphoria" from your gigantic big-girl mana pool I'm about to die out here
It's actually a bit surprising to me that we haven't seen contemporary meta brainfuck indie games do more than they have with 1990s point and click adventure games' penchant for developer-intended softlocks. That feels like something you could very easily spin as Saying Something.
Honestly, having grown up with this bullshit is probably a big part of the reason I'm fascinated with player-hostile game design. Giving a puzzle three different solutions with fully voiced and animated reactions to each, except two of those solutions render the game unwinnable in ways that won't become apparent until hours later is a level of "fuck you" that most modern games with pretensions of player-hostility can only dream of!
@lunchm34t replied:
what adventure games softlock you like that?
I'm usually loathe to suggest TV Tropes as a resource, but given that only a person who's entirely unacquainted with the genre would be asking that question, a primer is probably warranted. Check out the Unwinnable By Design article and read the preamble for context on the types of softlocks we're discussing, then hit either the "Sierra" or "Infocom" links (yes, those two publishers each have their own dedicated sections!), pop open the "Cruel" tab, and get ready to read some stuff that makes you mad.
I'm not sure why, but the first idea that hit me was a game using softlocks as a metaphor for lines of thought the protagonist simply refuses to follow to their conclusion, so it takes multiple runs and some character development before some of those locks can be overcome
It's actually a bit surprising to me that we haven't seen contemporary meta brainfuck indie games do more than they have with 1990s point and click adventure games' penchant for developer-intended softlocks. That feels like something you could very easily spin as Saying Something.
Honestly, having grown up with this bullshit is probably a big part of the reason I'm fascinated with player-hostile game design. Giving a puzzle three different solutions with fully voiced and animated reactions to each, except two of those solutions render the game unwinnable in ways that won't become apparent until hours later is a level of "fuck you" that most modern games with pretensions of player-hostility can only dream of!
@lunchm34t replied:
what adventure games softlock you like that?
I'm usually loathe to suggest TV Tropes as a resource, but given that only a person who's entirely unacquainted with the genre would be asking that question, a primer is probably warranted. Check out the Unwinnable By Design article and read the preamble for context on the types of softlocks we're discussing, then hit either the "Sierra" or "Infocom" links (yes, those two publishers each have their own dedicated sections!), pop open the "Cruel" tab, and get ready to read some stuff that makes you mad.
There really is only one correct way to play some of these games huh.
A critical piece of context that a lot of modern gamers completely miss is that Douglas Adams' adventure games are works of parody not only in terms of their narratives, but also in the sense that they're rather vicious parodies of adventure games as a genre. Each of their absurdly obtuse puzzles is lampooning some puzzle design trope or set of tropes that was legitimately commonplace at the time they were made, and many of the really nasty bits are crafted specifically to piss off experienced adventure game fans who otherwise wouldn't get caught out by that sort of thing. They're outliers in the genre only in the sense that they're putting forth extra effort to be annoying about it – most games of the type pull the exact same shit entirely without remark!
