*shakes my bag of angst like cat treats* who wants a VERY self indulgent au because its Lukanette flavored and I threw chekov's gun at someone's head
au where Marinette is outed about lying to her friends and Adrien about Hawkmoth/Gabriel/literally all of that, and in a fit of grief and rage, Chat Noir tries to destroy his own memories - his friends interfere, with many of them getting hurt, and Marinette accidentally ends up taking the blow.
Luka takes the chance to snatch up the one that got away. It's fine. Marinette is happier this way, and he makes a better Ladybug. (...right?)
rat. rat i need answers why is he so hot i love him and need to put him in a pear wriggler
he already got put in the pear wriggler. its called trying to stop Adrien from using his Destruction ability to destroy his own memories in a fit of grief and rage and accidentally getting the shit clawed out of his face.
he got the light end of the accident, really. Marinette was in much worse condition.
As a reminder, most members of SBK & co are making these their final statements on the matter and will not be speaking of the situation or Avid and Marm going forward. Please do not bring up the situation to them again after today. Let everybody move on and heal.
I don't want to talk about Avid and Marm, they're getting enough attention already. But can we just acknowledge how well the community is handling this situation? Like, this is probably the best and most mature reaction possible to what's been going on, and that's lowkey saved my faith in the mcyt community as a whole. (This got way longer than I intended, read more below)
On the CC's side, it seems like they all got together to figure out the truth and then handled everything privately before ever letting us know things were going down. Then when they did come out with statements and stories, they took the time to gather their thoughts and say everything the way it needed said. They've also been really good about getting permission to share screenshots and names before bringing things up as evidence. Despite all the distrust that's apparently been sown between them the last few months, they still had each others backs and presented a united front on the issue. That's a big deal actually. It's also nice to see how everyone has teamed up to raise support for their friends that lost their jobs from this whole mess. Every stream I was in today had people yelling not to sub to them, but support Musithical, Peeporp,and Box instead. Immediate action, no nonsense.
Everyone's also been very clear about how they want this situation handled going forward. Every statement I've heard/read has started with some variation of "Don't spread hate or harassment" and "I'll talk about this once and never again". The goal is to let people know what's happening, not start discourse. As Cleo said, "living without them is our reward". The problem has been handled, now it's best for everyone to put it behind and move on. They've also been extremely clear about how disrespecting people's identities is never an appropriate response and spreading hate isn't helpful to anyone. They could have turned the tables and started a smear campaign, kept digging this up for weeks to profit off the drama, but they aren't and I honestly respect that so much.
And not to give certain people too much (or any) credit, but at least they didn't double down and start trying to sway the viewers. I could speculate why, but whatever the reason, they totally could have turned this into an "I said, they said" back and forth drama to try and keep some of their fans, and I think we can at least appreciate that didn't happen. We've seen that before, especially in mcyt communities. Accusations are made, people get angry and defensive, lies and misinformation spread until no one knows which side is in the wrong. I'm just really glad we skipped that this time around.
I've also seen so many posts, both from fellow fans and CCs about not blaming ourselves for not knowing. There's been so much reassurance that none of us were bad people for liking and supporting past projects, or still caring about those stories. Everyone was lied to, that's not our fault. And everyone is making sure the blame is pointed at the right people. Not at fans for supporting them, not at friends who were lied to and manipulated, but at the people really at fault. Alternatively, something I haven't seen is people condemning other fans for not immediately deleting works or posts mentioning these people. Some people have been doing that, but i haven't seen many people saying that you should be doing that or you're a bad person, which I've seen before over far less. You're not a bad person for having loved something without knowing better. You're not doing anything wrong by still caring about something you've put time and effort into.
I've honestly just been so impressed by how well this has been handled. When I first heard about yet another scandal where a notable streamer gets kicked from a server, my gut reaction was to leave the community altogether, or at least avoid it entirely for a few months while the drama died down. (I can handle disappointment when a streamer turns out to be less than ideal, but there's only so many times I can trust someone to mean well only for them to turn around and be an utterly horrible person). I stuck around for the day just to hear the story and make my own judgement of the situation, and the conclusion? I think I actually love the community more. Legundo said on stream something like "this is the good ending to an awful situation" and... well I think he's right actually. The fallout could have been terrible and destroyed the community everyone's worked so hard to build. Instead, it looks like everyone's come together to try and heal, to grow stronger together moving forward. It sucks, but after everything the future looks optimistic, and that's the best possible outcome we could've gotten here.
Transgender Life and Persecution under the Nazi State: Gutachten on the Vollbrecht Case - Volume 56 Issue 4
Resources on the history and lived experiences of queer people in Nazi Germany.
The Pink Triangle Legacies Project is a grassroots initiative dedicated to researching the experiences of queer and trans people in the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany.
This series features conversations about the Nazis’ persecution of LGBTQI+ people, how this legacy reverberates in our contemporary society,
A YouTube playlist of lectures from the Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center and Queensborough Community College.
Abstract. Weimar Berlin is considered a past haven of queer possibility, but for trans people its permissiveness had clear limits. A close r
Only in the past few years have the stories and experiences of trans people in Nazi Germany come to light.
On the Institute for Sexual Research
The Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin would be a century old if it hadn’t fallen victim to Nazi ideology
The institute was initially occupied by The German Student Union, who were a collective of Nazi-supporting youth. Several days later, on 10
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https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1wf4dmd.8
The Hirschfeld Archives: Violence, Death, and Modern Queer Culture
Forever recommending How Sex Changed as a nonfiction reference book, which goes over Hirschfeld, Lili Elbe, Harry Benjamin, Christine Jorgenson, Lou Sullivan, WPATH, and more:
'How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States' by Joanne Meyerowitz
Also important context to the services Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexual Science provided: testosterone was first isolated as a compound in 1927, and first synthesized in 1935. The looting and shutdown of the institute happened in 1933.
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