#mutilation mention

[pigeonstab]

Tail prosthetic time!!

I have this headcanon that Killer had his tail chopped off. He can live fine without it but it's a nasty reminder and makes it harder to balance without concentrating. Eventually he could get a prosthetic to help with that, also as a cosmetic thing, I think he likes to switch out his prosthetics for different colors and stuff. This is his knife attachement lol

^^^ his basic one

[mythawolf]

While I love the idea of Elita becoming unethical in the war against the cons, I have an alternative: Elita struggling to not commit warcrimes and genuinely trying to be merciful except she barely knows what 'mercy' is and it's played for comedy as well as seriousness.

*In a Decepticon ship that's going down.*

Elita: We need to abort!

Starscream *Is unconscious*

Optimus: What about Starscream?

Elita: What about him?

Optimus: Elita!

Elita: Fine! Fine!

. . .

Elita: *To Soundwave* You'd better tell us, or else I'll slice off your fingers a centimetre at a time!

Arcee: *Disturbed if a part of her is impressed* Primus, Elita!

Elita: What? It's better than the first threat I thought to give him!

Bumblebee: (Facepalms)

. . .

Elita: (In her most intimidating 'Superior officer' voice) Did you just spray me, Scout?

Bumblebee: (Sprays her again with a scolding beep)

Elita: Hey! Okay, okay! I'll be good! Yeesh!

. . .

Elita: (To a group of Decepticons over a megaphone) Surrender now, and we won't kill you! We'll probably- hang on. (Turning to Optimus) Is blasting their arms and legs off even if they do surrender ethical? I genuinely can't remember.

. . .

Elita: (Throwing a food tray at some prisoners) EAT OR STARVE, CON SCUM!!

Ratchet: (Forced to be the restraining element in the group while Optimus is away) Elita!

Elita: (Facepalming) Right. Right. (Trying to be polite) Uh, please eat, but there's no pressure!

*The Prisoners finish their bowls in seconds in utter terror of 'Polite Elita'*.

. . .

Elita: Optimus, is it a war crime to trap an enemy in a torture dimension where they can't die?

Optimus: (Very, VERY tired) Yes! Of course it is!

Elita: ...I'll go fix it.

. . .

Optimus: What did we learn?

Elita: Torture bad?

Optimus: Excellent! Want an energon cookie?

Elita: ...thanks.

. . .

[morgan-molliniere]

so Luna II gave me a very questionable brainrot, aka dainsleif's older brother vedrfolnir. i guess i've joined the club of making fan designs for him 🤔

(transcripts of the pictures with text in them found in the alt text of the pictures)

bonus:

[withered--s0uls]

Midnight thoughts :)

C: "Pinky swear."

AS: "[visible confusion] what?"

C: "[stern] Pinky swear that you won't let them be discarded or hurt."

AS: "I already promised you that."

C: "You promised not to discard me, now promise you won't let them be discarded either. Don't let them get hurt."

AS:"[eye roll] Fine. I promise."

C: "Pinky Swear."

AS: "I pinky swear."

[Pinky and Claw shake]

Pinky Promises/Swears originally indicated that the one breaking the promise must cut off their pinky finger.

[the-meme-monarch]

hey I’m sorry but they declawed your boyfriend. yeah no it’s not just the claws it’s really fucked up it’s like removing the tips of a person’s fingers at the knuckle. yeah no he’s gonna be in pain for the rest of his life. and easily irritable because he can’t climb or defend himself, yeah. sorry

[autoaxiology]

I don't think you understand how much I need this man to be mutilated

[llyfrenfys]

Diwrnod Coffa Rhyngryw / Intersex Day of Remembrance

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Diwrnod Coffa Rhyngryw / Intersex Day of Remembrance

Mae Diwrnod Coffa Rhyngryw yn ddiwrnod i gofio pobl ryngryw sy'n cael llawdriniaeth heb ganiatâd. Mae plant rhyngryw yn aml yn cael llawdriniaeth yn ifanc. Mae hwn yn broblem fawr sr gyfer y gymuned ryngryw ac mae llawer o bobl yn erbyn anffurfio organau cenhedlu rhyngryw.

Am fwy o wybodaeth a chefnogaeth, gweler Organisation Intersex International.

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Intersex Day of Remembrance is a day to remember intersex people who have undergone surgery without their consent. Intersex children frequently have surgeries performed on them at a young age. This is a big problem for the intersex community and many people are opposed to the practice of intersex genital mutilation.

For more information and support, see Organization Intersex International.

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

I might be misremembering but I think you said once that you enjoyed The Chemist by Stephenie Meyer? I read it recently(ish) but I still have mixed feelings about it and would love to know your take. Have you written a review?

I have enjoyed it, and I haven't reviewed it! Okay, so:

Overall, I really like The Chemist. The balance of humor and horror and cute dogs and action sequences and Kafkan nightmares is on point. Putting a graphic description of severed toes within five pages of an adorable dog-reunion scene requires a balancing act, but the book pulls it off.

There are also some great updated gender roles in The Chemist when compared to Twilight. Kate's a sex worker who is funny, agentic, and easy to like. Daniel's a manly athlete and also freely announces he "cried like a baby" while in pain. Alex schools Kevin about the problems faced by women in STEM and all the reasons it can help to be misgendered. Kevin panics at finding Daniel and Alex together because he has valid concerns about Daniel's ability to give full consent.

It's also the most political work Meyer's put out, and I think the commentary is biting and well-placed. Both Kevin and Alex are these smart, kind, well-meaning patriots who don't want to hurt people, and the whole story is about Uncle Sam repeatedly manipulating them into hurting people. Because it's urgent. Because there's a war on. Because there's a ticking time bomb. Because those are bad people, those are suspected terrorists, so really if you think about it Alex has a duty to torture them. Because Kevin loves his family and loves his country, and if he really loved them then he'd keep them safe by assassinating possible threats.

There are tons of books about stories-as-magic, not so many about stories-as-propaganda. But Alex and Kevin's weakness is they believe in stories. They believe in the story of the U.S. as the city on a hill, and people die as a result. They believe in heroes, and innocent people get hurt. Daniel mocking Kevin as "Batman" is so biting because Batman is a classic example of a man's man picking up where the law leaves off to punish all the people who (allegedly) need punishing. Kevin contrasting Alex to "Oleander" makes it clear that the idea of Oleander is almost as imaginary as Batman.

And that message also comes through in the deeply unsexy realism of the violence. The torture sequences are... gross. And off-putting. And not at all whumpy. And nothing like what we see on TV. Instead of the punch-question-punch stuff we get in 24 and Supernatural and Alias, we get Alex immediately cutting off her victim's thumbs with garden shears and then offering to put them on ice if he'll give up his employer. There's a horrifying amount of logic in that scene, compared to the usual "I'll never talk!" [gets punched some more] nonsense. And the torture produces fluids. So, so many fluids. There's also the utter certainty that no amount of love or honor or manliness prevents a person from acquiescing to their captor's demands, but also that torture is a completely ineffective interrogation tactic because all it does is motivate the victim to lie.

So while the book is also not my favorite of Meyer's — the pacing is awkward, and I'm inclined to agree with Kevin about the main romance — I think it has a lot going for it. And I do love the ending sequence, because sometimes a happy ending looks like trying to be decent to the people around you and not trying to be a hero.