Hi, I'm A [they/them or any neopronouns], I'm a queer nonbinary angled aroace Jewish omnialterous lesbian.
I rarely post original stuff. I reblog a lot of stuff about transphobia and antisemitism, and I don't really tag things, so be warned.
Main fandoms: tlt
Harassers and TERFs will be blocked on sight.
I'm ship... neutral? It's complicated.
Also before you start anything I'm an actual human. There's a person on the other side of your screen. Keep that in mind.
also if you followed for tlt content, friendly reminder that:
harrow canonically has schizophrenia
kiriona is depressed and traumatized
is there soul magic shenanigans going on? probably!
are soul magic shenanigans the sole reason they're mentally ill? abso-fucking-lutely not
If you read interviews with homicide cops, two things very quickly become clear
It is really not all that hard to get away with murder. A basic amount of foresight and prep will get rid of enough evidence that the police either won't find the killer or will be unable to make the charge stick.
Despite this, most murders do get solved, because someone who decides that murder is the solution to their problems is probably not the kind of person to be levelheaded and careful enough.
I think something very similar is true of sockpuppet accounts. It's not that hard to make a convincing sockpuppet. However, people almost always make sockpuppets as a way of defending their egos, of making it look like they have more support than they actually do. And this passionate defense of someone the sockpuppet ostensibly doesn't know and has no reason to care about is a dead giveaway. So if you want to validate a sockpuppet you have to lose an argument to it. You have to get owned. Once it makes you look like an idiot, basically no one will ever suspect it again.
Unfortunately, by posting this, I've burned my only chance to actually do it. From now on, whenever you see me getting dunked on, you'll assume it's staged sockpuppet validation. and you'd be right. i have never lost an argument on this website. every single one was staged. i did not get owned. i did not get owned.
this post brought to you by my ex employer claiming that they can't have done disability discrimination against me because there's no proof I had PTSD in January 2025, although they do admit I had it both four months before and six months after that
so i know that harrow as adopted child of the abimagnus family is basically its own au fic genre but harrow canonically looks as young as or even younger than fourteen year old jeannemary. im guessing jeannes taller than harrow too. their sibling dynamic would be insane. harrow would kill her fr this time
i understand (on paper) why companies are anti-piracy but its funny when random individuals are also strongly anti-piracy. like how does it negatively affect your life if someone you know downloads a cracked torrent of sims 4. you dont work for EA. EA isnt gonna pay you for this. you lose nothing. its fine. chill out.
Okay, real talk now. People love to tag male characters in posts about women, but this post is gonna take this seriously. Is there actually a canonically male character you believe is a trans woman? Or at least has made into a trans woman for a fanart or a fanfic? Excluding the ones canonically implied.
Sound off in the tags! Link to the fanart or fic if available. Do it. Give me the girls. Make more women.
I have a chart for this ("estrogen would fix him" is the stuff that qualifies here. I could write a short blurb about all of these but I'm too tired to do that right now so y'all get the chart).
(Description below the readmore rather than in alt text since it's long.)
A venn diagram with three circles, labeled "estrogen would fix him," "estrogen would make him worse," and "estrogen could not save him (but it'd be really funny)."
In the "estrogen would fix him" section are:
Kirito from Sword Art Online.
Mister Priest from Make the Exorcist Fall in Love.
Cloud from Final Fantasy 7.
Don Quixote.
In the overlap between "estrogen would fix him" and "estrogen would make him worse" are:
Enciodes Silverash from Arknights.
Denji from Chainsaw Man
In the "estrogen would make him worse" section are:
Light Yagami from Death Note.
Izuku Midoriya from My Hero Academia.
In the overlap between "estrogen would fix him" and "estrogen could not save him" are:
Seto Kaiba from Yu-Gi-Oh.
Sanji from One Piece.
In the "estrogen could not save him" section are:
Shinji from Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Char Aznable from Gundam.
Quatro Bajeena from Gundam.
In the overlap between "estrogen would make him worse" and "estrogen could not save him" are:
Zenos from Final Fantasy 14.
Laios Touden from Dungeon Meshi.
Lazurite Roy from Arknights.
And finally, in the dead center of the venn diagram, are Shirou Emiya from Fate/Stay Night and Kim Dokja from Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint.
In a far corner of the image, away from the venn diagram, is Saber from Fate/Stay Night, labeled with her name and overlaid on a circular trans flag.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
fic only available to people with ao3 accounts because i don't want it scraped, but i am currently writing a war of the spark fix-it fic in which gideon jura survives, gets physically transformed as per the parameters of liliana's curse (read: conventionally attractive woman), and then spends 20+ chapters trying to convince herself that "not wanting the transformation reversed and feeling more like a person than she ever has" is, in fact, completely cisgender behavior
Okay, real talk now. People love to tag male characters in posts about women, but this post is gonna take this seriously. Is there actually a canonically male character you believe is a trans woman? Or at least has made into a trans woman for a fanart or a fanfic? Excluding the ones canonically implied.
Sound off in the tags! Link to the fanart or fic if available. Do it. Give me the girls. Make more women.
I have a chart for this ("estrogen would fix him" is the stuff that qualifies here. I could write a short blurb about all of these but I'm too tired to do that right now so y'all get the chart).
(Description below the readmore rather than in alt text since it's long.)
A venn diagram with three circles, labeled "estrogen would fix him," "estrogen would make him worse," and "estrogen could not save him (but it'd be really funny)."
In the "estrogen would fix him" section are:
Kirito from Sword Art Online.
Mister Priest from Make the Exorcist Fall in Love.
Cloud from Final Fantasy 7.
Don Quixote.
In the overlap between "estrogen would fix him" and "estrogen would make him worse" are:
Enciodes Silverash from Arknights.
Denji from Chainsaw Man
In the "estrogen would make him worse" section are:
Light Yagami from Death Note.
Izuku Midoriya from My Hero Academia.
In the overlap between "estrogen would fix him" and "estrogen could not save him" are:
Seto Kaiba from Yu-Gi-Oh.
Sanji from One Piece.
In the "estrogen could not save him" section are:
Shinji from Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Char Aznable from Gundam.
Quatro Bajeena from Gundam.
In the overlap between "estrogen would make him worse" and "estrogen could not save him" are:
Zenos from Final Fantasy 14.
Laios Touden from Dungeon Meshi.
Lazurite Roy from Arknights.
And finally, in the dead center of the venn diagram, are Shirou Emiya from Fate/Stay Night and Kim Dokja from Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint.
In a far corner of the image, away from the venn diagram, is Saber from Fate/Stay Night, labeled with her name and overlaid on a circular trans flag.
Hi Mark. Iām wondering if WOTC has heard some of the criticisms of the Phyrexia arc from trans and disabled fans. I honestly donāt know how prevalent the critique is but Iām surprised there hasnāt been at least a comment from WOTC staff about it. I have always loved how open WOTC seems to be to discussions of representation so I was very surprised when I felt two minority communities I am a part of never even got a āwe werenāt thinking about itā or āwe were aware but made these creative choices anyway.ā Things as small as Kayaās natural hairstyle rightly get while articles, but this gets nothing, and Iām wondering if you can tell us why.
Ableism is often treated as the odd one out of the oppressions, as an afterthought. Did that happen here, or is there a rationale I missed? As someone with a surgically modified body of my own I was looking forward to my Xantcha to see myself in.
I haven't heard the criticisms. Can you spell them out for me, as I do very much want to hear them?
I left several comments on the post which I think encapsulate many of my thoughts:
I also have some scattered other thoughts about the arc, though, that aren't quite as relevant to the discussions in the comments so I'm posting them here.
Overarching idea: Fantasy Racism (or: what D&D tried to avoid)
Compleation is unique from many other fictional body mod depictions because it not only changes your body, it changes your species, what fantasy often calls "race", to another type of sapient person. Phyrexians are people who can either be compleated into the ranks, or born that way. Many do not choose their membership in this group, whether through birth or forced compleation. They have unique traits and are united by a common biological characteristic. They are a fantasy "race."
Lately, D&D has tried stepping away from the fantasy racism and biological essentialism that drove a lot of its history, removing alignment from player races and changing the language around creatures like goblins and kobolds to be less cruel and demeaning. That's because those creature types have been established as reasoning sapient beings, as people, and it's not a great storytelling move to then reduce them to one-dimensional villains or laughingstocks. That should apply to Phyrexians, too, right? ...Right?
Now, fantasy (and real!) racism very much can (and perhaps should) be portrayed in works of fiction, but with a critical eye. This is not present in the Phyrexian arc. Protagonists and heroes consistently denigrate Phyrexians, claim them to be less than people, and justify their killing as a moral necessity. This is applauded by the narrative. We are expected to side with these shining heroes, who eliminate twisted, unsightly bodies to purify their world.
More under the cut.
Diseases and Cleansing
Needless to say, describing an entire category of person as a "disease," a "plague," or any variation thereof is a deeply questionable sentiment that stands to be criticized. This is everywhere in the characterization of Phyrexians, as well as the protagonists' response to them.
The opposite of New Phyrexia is Mirrodin Pure. Heroes beat back Phyrexia not only to prevent colonization, but to cleanse the Multiverse of their existence entirely. Phyrexians are disintegrated in beams of holy light, triumphant heroes standing over their remains and wreathed in the imagery of goodness. The goal is not only to defend one's home from conquerors, it is to eliminate Phyrexian life, which is treated as not only a noble goal but a moral and practical necessity. One drop of Phyrexian oil could mean the resurgence of an empire, so surely, the only way to be safe is complete obliteration... because this sapient group of people will inevitably become villains and colonizers, right?
Never mind that Phyrexians actively aided the resistance and allowed Norn's defeat. It was Urabrask, a Phyrexian rebel, who provided intel to the Mirrans and supplied them with Halo (for which he risked his life). It was Eight/Realmbreaker, a Phyrexian child, who pushed back against Norn and reclaimed his body from her to bring back Zhalfir and halt the invasion. The protagonists are well aware of these things, but decide that Phyrexians nonetheless deserve to be destroyed. Their capacity for goodness, for moral responsibility, is completely discarded in favor of viewing them as a contamination to be purged.
And I can't help but wonder. Why is the one-drop plot point a thing? Why does the narrative itself attempt to justify the wholesale slaughter of a race that is established to be sapient?
This isn't even to start on the idea of "contagion" that is so pushed in Phyrexian story. The idea of contagious body modification is... a bit of a tasteless thing to write uncritically given the circumstances.
"Everyone Except You"
Consistently, Phyrexians are the exception to heroic characters' dedication to treating others with kindness and fairness.
Karn gives up his pacifism in order to defeat them, stating wholeheartedly that "Phyrexians aren't people." This sentiment is never challenged or called into question.
Elspeth is a champion of the weak, and of heroes who battle their overbearingly evil rulers, unless they are Phyrexian.
Vraska, whose entire story began with getting unfairly characterized as a monster for her species, and showing compassion for the downtrodden and villainized, turns a blind eye to the legions of rebel and exploited Phyrexians in favor of the Sylex plan to destroy them.
Jace, who loathes using his immense power for destruction, who strains to be gentle and kind, still believes that the mass slaughter of Phyrexians via the Sylex is the only way to save the Multiverse, and to "cleanse" it. The only reason this goal is seen as erroneous is its potential to destroy other planes and "real people"--Phyrexians were never part of the moral equation.
We are supposed to love these characters, laugh and cry with these characters, feel warm inside as they learn to love and to heal. Their exclusion of Phyrexians is not a flaw, it is a given, which is not shown to complicate their moral development in any way. We are supposed to sympathize with their feelings of grief and anguish for their failure to successfully eliminate Phyrexians.
These thoughts may not directly pertain to the issue of villainizing bodily modification that trans and disabled fans have brought up, but I think they are deeply connected, because it is the modification that makes you this exception, that justifies your slaughter, that makes your life itself a danger and a scourge. Your "twisted," "mutilated" body is what flags you as a wretch beyond saving, a person no longer. Even those who are forcibly compleated get folded into this category against their will, lost causes that protagonists must sadly mercy-kill. Remember Tamiyo?
