#isa babble

[uncultureddoubloon]

Excuse me while I go scream into a pillow. Ekaterin just proposed to Miles in the Council of Counts.

[corporalmaledict]

It's almost 4am and I just finished rereading Monstrous Regiment. I am crying very happy tears and felt seen. Gender is a goddamn mess. I don't want to have to deal with it, and the gender fuckery that goes on in MR is like a 2nd home for me, and has been since I first picked up the book back in probably junior high.

I just want to be me, and being seen as a female feels like a hindrance. Just give me some coffee and let me do my job, gender be damned

[multimask]

I think one of my favorite parts about watching Campaign 3 is when characters from the previous campaigns appear or get mentioned and the cast dunk on their own past characters

[bigbluewreckingball]

"he didn't see [him] die because he already had"

*sorry WHAT*

[notafraidtobequeer]

I’m reading through this week’s reading for my Intro to Gender Studies class, and I might just cry I’m so happy. This week is “Learning Gender” and specifically addressing that the predominant western m/f binary only is goddamn bullshit and telling you why

AND it’s also addressing trans/queer/lgbt identities, as well as cultures that don’t have that binary to start with

AND AND it discusses the colonial worldview issue that stems from the strict binary and a very Eurowestern glossary of definitions for 3rd genders/any genders outside of the m/f binary. And just that the modern, western, colonial binary is dangerous, esp when trying to classify gender identities in relation to said binary where the other cultures don’t have that binary to start with.

AND AND AND it discusses pronouns, and that yes good! ask for pronouns if you’re not sure! but also know that it can be dangerous for some people to risk outing themselves if they assert their actual pronouns (vs assumed, depending on situation who’s around, etc etc etc)

AND AND AND AND it talks about how it’s your job to respect use the person’s pronouns and not expect them to educate you & they have absolutely no obligation to educate

[uncultureddoubloon]

Started reading Memory today and got hit in the face with the thought that I don't know if I've read a book where the protagonist has to deal with seizures before, especially not anything sci fi or fantasy that i can recall. (I finished Mirror Dance yesterday, but don't count that among books with protagonists dealing with seizures since it was really a Mark book even if that is where Miles picked up the seizures.)

For the opening of Memory, when Miles describing how he felt, that headache and "this feels like recovering from a stunner blast but how'd he get stunned through his armor" pinged me to recovering from some of my own seizures before consciously remembering MD or him asking what happened. And oh my god is "dammit he thought that medicine/dose worked" such a mood when breakthroughs happen

Alright Miles, how are you going to work through this medical mess of yours

[uncultureddoubloon]

I just binged all of the Wayne Family Adventures webtoon and have been struck with an intense need to be reading comic books from the library again

[uncultureddoubloon]

Miles' forensic drain experience as a running silly but also hilariously useful little bit throughout the series is delightful