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hateusandseeifwemind-deactivate

All "takes" on this blog reflect real policy that will come to pass in the dark era of my rule

kermitgasm

Doechii performs Catfish during NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert. (2024)

#godddd #music

sleepy-salami

i need more creative custom item ideas

#cryingblood

cobaltspartan

fascinated by jeff the killer tbh. everyone in that creepypasta has generic white usamerican names (jeff, keith, barbara, billy, etc.) except for jeff the killer's doe eyed little brother liu. why is he liu. is liu chinese? it's okay if he's chinese. is jeff also chinese? has jeff the killer been chinese this whole time? am I a bad person?

adhdo5

The thing is deciding whether to situate characters that aren't explicitly trans in discourses about transfemininity, transmasculinity, and/or nonbinarity is literally more complicated than it first appears, especially in the context of narratives about the female or male "impersonator"

adhdo5

Like OK take Mizu because they're a really good encompassing example of specifically what I'm talking abt and also I don't talk much abt Blue Eye Samurai so there's not the same kind/amount of contextual baggage abt it

The pure literal text we get is that Mizu was ~originally female and sometimes lives as male; in this a transmasculine reading presents itself from the literal stated circumstances if we assume that the framing of his initial gender assignment as diegetic is functionally "Mizu was AFAB", but interpreting it only slightly more allegorically a transfeminine reading presents itself

More specifically: Mizu was raised as a boy for safety reasons and continuing to present male into adulthood. He benefits from the assumption of his maleness, but this benefit is at best fraught and conditional; it is unavoidably complicated by that maleness existing in the context of her original femaleness. In his past, he tried to live by that femaleness, and managed actually to find a real happiness in that femaleness, but the fact of her femaleness was complicated too; the misogynist attitudes and actions of her husband served to prove that despite her happiness in a female role, she would be violently rejected from normative femaleness

Obviously here a nonbinary understanding also presents itself – Mizu cannot reject or uncomplicatedly accept either femaleness or maleness and both are meaningfully part of his identity. I would argue this understanding is actually essential given like everything abt Mizu as a character and the way her duality of identity in gender is inextricable from his duality of identity in ethnic positioning and in morality and that duality is Very Much What The Show Is About. But while a rejection of a transmasculine or transfeminine framing in favor of this is possible and meaningful, nonbinarity is not exclusive of transmasculine or transfeminine discourses, and it's entirely possible to situate Mizu in either or both while keeping this nonbinary understanding in mind

Idk I kind of lost the thread of my greater pt while making this argument but like. Ygwim

#blue eye samurai

lioncourtz

SAM REID as Lestat de Lioncourt

An Inside Look at 'The Vampire Lestat' x

#its like a vampire lestat in here #iwtv

henshengs

something I’m interested in is how both JGY and the fandom view LXC as a shining moral paragon, and he is, but he’s only able to be that because of JGY doing the bad things for him, over and over again. He never has to do anything societally forbidden or yucky to preserve his own life or wealth or status, because JGY wins Sunshot for him and then makes the Jin clan into a dominant power that can fund and preserve the Lans, and keep the peace for thirteen years. LXC’s power and security and lifestyle are all supported by JGY’s atrocities.

I think LXC knows that to some degree, though, and he knows he can’t say for certainty that he wouldn’t make the same choices JGY did, if he was in that position, and that’s why he’s hesitant to judge him.

#im happy and smiling #mdzs/cql

hallowedhaunting

Cover her face;

Mine eyes dazzle;

She died young.

#tvc

souryam

that one line in TVL abt nicki helping lestat to prepare for his roles

#coughing feebly and staggering into the wall #tvc

souryam

go after your blonde twink girl

#tvc

universxall

🫠🫠

#iwtv

loumandaniel

jesse reeves & the vampire maharet | the queen of the damned

gabriellelestat

Carmilla, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

#adapt THIS amc .please #tvc

randomanimaloftheday

Day 285#: Blunt-Headed Tree Snake

Today's animal of the day is the Blunt-Headed Tree Snake (Imantodes cenchoa)!

Photo credit: Geoff Gallice

Also known as the fiddle-string snake, this species of arboreal snake can be found in the tropical rainforests of Mexico as well as both Central and South America. They can reach a maximum size of 4 ft 11 in long and are known for their long, slender bodies with comically large heads. Their eyes are also incredibly large compared to the rest of their bodies, and take up nearly 26% of their total head space. While this might look really goofy, it actually helps improve their vision significantly compared to other species of snakes, which are known for having very poor eyesight. Most other snakes rely mostly on their sense of smell as well as vibrations to detect predators and prey, but since the blunt-headed tree snake needs to be able to clearly see the branches of the trees it's climbing, they need to have better vision than the average snake. The slitted shape of its pupil even allows it to look down without moving its entire head, which most snakes are unable to do.

Photo credit: Max Hofmann

Blund-headed tree snakes are active mostly at night, which is another reason they need good eyesight, and will forage through the vegetation in search of prey. Their diet consists mostly of lizards, but they'll also often go after frogs and have been known to eat eggs when the opportunity presents itself. Females tend to be larger than males, meaning that they can take on larger prey. Size isn't the only difference between the sexes. In fact, the populations in the north and south actually seem to exhibit two very different types of sexual dimorphism. Northern males tend to have longer tails than southern males and both types of females, while southern females tend to have much larger heads.

Photo credit: Laurent Hesemans

These snakes are members of the Colubrid family, which also includes hognoses, garters, kingsnakes, and many other species of snakes. Like many of its cousins, the blunt-headed tree snake is technically venomous, but they are rear-fanged venomous instead of front-fanged. This is a useful adaptation when a good portion of your diet consists of frogs and toads, but it isn't really well-suited for injecting venom into humans, since it would require letting the snake chew on you for a good while before it could envenomate you. Luckily, even if you did let one chew on you, their venom is pretty mild, and they're not considered dangerous to humans.

#zoology