I feel like some people oversimplify fans' relationship to the pjo show and think you either have to be a "book purist who hates it because it is not exactly like the books" or "show fan who loves it and thinks it's better than the books and the new canon" and that's just incredibly stupid.
From what I've seen, many "old" book readers fall into "love the show, but recognize it as a separate entity from the books and both are good and valid as canon".
That's how I feel about it too. I like the show and think many of the changes are nice and interesting, and I don't really get angry at them because if I want something to be book-accurate, I'll just get my fix from the books because they're both amazing pieces of media that stand alone on their own and I can like both for different reasons.
As someone in their late 20s who grew up with the books as her favorite series, I feel like I'm too old to fixate on changes and inaccuracies. The actors are doing an amazing job and the show is a great tv series with some really standout moments of great writing. Yes, some of my favorite moments in the books are gone or changed, but I can just read those whenever I want. The show is like reading high-quality fanfiction that I take as alternate canon to me and I'm eating it up.
Iguazu and Crimson 1 are more or less the same guy. They're both malding and on that hater grindset, willing to throw anything and everything away just for the chance to take one last shot at you. The big difference between them is that while Crimson 1 was top dog before you came along Iguazu was already a fucking loser. Project wingman is the story of Crimson 1's fall from grace while Armored Core 6 is the story of Iguazu at rock bottom getting a shovel and starting to dig.
people who hate frank langdon for struggling with addiction and getting a second chance and recovering and “allowed” back to his job should really find out about bobby nash lmao they’d explode
i truly believe that the phrase "tumblr sexyman" is highly overused in modern times. no not every thin attractive man in a piece of fiction that people thirst over is a tumblr sexyman.
true tumblr sexymanhood requires some level of absurdity and escalation. Selfcest, countless AUs, twinkified redesigns a fandom culture dedicated soley to the sexymans, fanon, not just thirst
Didn't expect to be discussing this this month, but thanks to jkr, apparently we need to.
If you don't know, an Australian inquiry on still-births asked whether or not trans women should be included. JKR lashed out, stating it was ridiculous that the teans movement was robbing women of their sex-specific trauma. A lot of people agreed with her.
As a trans guy, I've got a ton to say.
Should trans women be included in conversations about still-births?
Short answer: no.
Long answer: yes.
Let's get into it.
Let me start off with the short answer, which is no. They shouldn't be.
The trauma of a stillbirth lies predominantly with cisgender women. The other percentage is made up of trans men, non binary people and intersex people with wombs. We are the ones who carry the feotus. We are the ones who have to go through the process of giving birth to a baby which dies part way through, or the process of giving birth to a corpse which died inside of us.
That is a trauma which is ours, and ours alone. People who do not carry the feotus do not get to share in that trauma, or take up that space for us.
And now for the long answer, which is yes, trans women, AMAB nonbinary people, cisgender men and intersex people with penises but who are without a womb should be included in conversations about stillbirths. Because even though they are not the ones carrying the foetus, they are the ones who got us pregnant. They stayed by our sides and were excited to become parents. They went through this with us. They held our hair. They held our hands every step of the way. So when he give birth to their baby and it dies part way through, or when we give birth to their baby's corpse after it died inside of us, they are allowed to greive, too. They are human. This was their baby, too. They helped build cots which will now stay empty. They helped decorate nurseries which will now be silent. They helped pick out names which will never be used. They helped create this life inside of us which has now died. And to leave them out in the cold with no support or acknowledgement of how painful their grief is, as they process not getting to meet the little one growing inside of us, who they helped to create? To imply they feel nothing? That's inhumane.
There needs to be nuance, when it comes to conversations and inquiries to stillbirths, and miscarriages, and abortions. Not for wokeness. Not for political correctness. Not to placate a trend. But because, while it is a uniquely AFAB experience to physically carry the foetus and to feel it die inside of us when we miscarry or abort it, and to give birth to a corpse... it is inhumane to pretend our partners do not grieve their baby, too.
