i deleted my gender to make space for video game lore

Athena/Phoenix - they/them/fae/faer - enby/agender - Kingdom Hearts, Twisted Wonderland, and (TG)AA brainrot - soriku endgame actually - multimedia artist - SPOILERS FOR JP TWST! (all will be tagged with #twst jp spoilers) certified Aqua, Silver, Sebek, Kazuma, and Barok simp - EPIC, ID, FoB, MT, GA & Halsey fan - icon by @sorikufeels

[verathena14]

Alright it's time I do a real intro here aslfjekfl

I'm Athena or Phoenix, but you can also call me Ver

I am nonbinary/agender and use they/them/fae/faer pronouns, but honestly I don't care, just use whatever's funniest. I am also pan and aspec

I'm neurodivergent (follow me long enough and youll figure it out)

beloved mutuals and followers. if tumblr ever crashes and burns, feel free to friend me on discord (same username as here)

My main fandoms: - KH - TWEWY - Twisted Wonderland; i do have vague knowledge of JP server events; any posts regarding these will be tagged with #twst jp spoilers if you want to avoid them - Ace Attorney (ive played all except aa6 and vs) my aa liveblogging is all tagged #athena plays aa (the liveblog includes untagged spoilers for all of the aai duology, aa4, and aa5, proceed with care!) - Saving Throw (the hit dnd podcast by savedatateam on youtube) there's like maybe 10 of us here but goddamn if we're not havin a good time

I do: art/animation, video editing (specifically gmvs), fanfics, the very occasional big-brain meta analysis

sooo im big into shipping here but like. im not gonna be a dick about it if we dont ship the same things or if u interpret one of my favorite ships as platonic. We're All Havin Fun Here

KH ships: soriku, leaisa, xehaqus, rokunamixi, vanplinami, roxner, kailette, aquarella, and like. maybe zemyx. and sometimes terraqua. for my kh ships. (i also ship my OC Delanimex/Athena with terra and aqua) TWEWY ships: beatneku (or nekubeat or skullphones or whatever we've decided the ship name is), erishiki, frindoka, cocogumi, and hishiba TWST ships: i don't have a strong opinion on most of em, but i would die for silbek, i like adeuce and i think jamikali is hyper-toxic, even-more-codependent soriku and i love them for that. also poly first-years is very cute! oh and floyrid and any combination of trey/cater/riddle :) also i ship my yuusona (athena) with both silver and sebek AA ships: narumitsu, franmaya, lanamiego, any combo of ryuuasobaro, ginasusarei, homumiko, klapollo, gantfred, junithena, and langworth is worming its way into my heart somehow (ive read a few fics that have convinced me of langwrightworth)

im the president of the t4t soriku club <3

i wouldn't say im in any music fandoms but i do brainrot over: Imagine Dragons, Halsey, Billie Eilish, Glass Animals, Marianas Trench, and Fall Out Boy

hey i have a lot of ocs and i like my ocs check out my ocs #myocs

sometimes i draw kh characters as cats! those guys are tagged with #(cat)dom hearts and they're all free to use with credit (please tag me i love seeing kh cats)

i also have aa characters as cats (#cats attorney au)

i have a couple of au tags: twst/kh au, kh/descendants au (generation ※), twst/aa au (turnabout twisted), kh:com roleswap au (the tale that never was), tgaa/kpdh au, and tgaa/twst au! feel free to check em out if you have the time :3

[pixeljade]

see I am extremely pro-sex-scenes in whatever, I think its good and fun and important because its literally just an aspect of life being portrayed, its fine. But my problem is that a lot of the time, characterizations change drastically within sex scenes and I find that jarring. This is especially true of eroge, VNs and such.

[pixeljade]

Like, I feel like there's a switch that gets flipped that once the sex happens its "porno mode" and the writing is meant to be more hot than work towards any other cause. Which is fine, but some people seem to take it to the point of just sucking the character out of them to make them porno stand-ins. Like, if theres a clumsy character, I want them being clumsy in the bedroom too. If there's a goofy character, I want them cracking dumb jokes while they fuck. If someone isn't particularly forward outside of sex, why would they be initiating within the sexual scenes? Things like that drive me bonkers!!! And I feel like it would probably be ten times as hot if you get to see an actual character who got built up like that in the bedroom, you know???

[queerautism]

Hey so as the economy continues to get worse in the next few years, gambling companies are going to go extra hardcore predatory as people become more desperate. Yes, even more than they already are. You have to promise me right now you're not going to fall for it. No gambling, okay?

This is going to be especially bad with prediction markets and sports gambling, and it's already really fucking bad. But it also goes for loot boxes, blind box collectables, trading card games, and ESPECIALLY gacha games.

[animentality]

[donutdrawsthings]

my most sick and twisted fantasy

[gummi-ships]

herc has had enough

[callmeizukunotdeku]

I was a kid with a Hunger Games hyperfixation and, from time to time, I'll get reminded of the books. With Trump's inauguration and the TikTok ban and unban, I can't stop thinking about a political tactic called panem et circenses, or bread and circuses.

In Mockingjay, Collins writes "'It’s a saying from thousands of years ago, written in a language called Latin about a place called Rome,' he explains. 'Panem et Circenses translates into "Bread and Circuses." The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and therefore their power.'"

In Collins' world, the Hunger Games was the entertainment. In ours, it's social media. Twitter, Meta, TikTok, are all controlled by political powers. Musk, Zuckerberg. TikTok is owned by Yiming and Rubo, but with the ban and unban, the content it shows in America is filtered to fit Trump's political agenda.

It's entertainment at the cost of information.

[verathena14]

I HATCHED A SHINY TOGEPI ON POKEMON GO AND DIDNT EVEN FUCKING NOTICE IT WAS SHINY UNTIL I WAS GOING THRU MY POKEMON TODAY AND WAS LIKE "huh that looks like the shiny symbol" 😭😭😭

[prokopetz]

Level 1: Asylums are scary because there's crazy people there.

Level 2: We shouldn't treat mental health facilities as objects of horror because it stigmatises mental illness.

Level 3: Asylums are scary because there's psychiatrists there.

[howdomaddie]

hi kingdom hearts fandom, are you excited about kh4, but need to brush up on the mobile game lore? do you have a hard time watching the compilations on youtube from damo?

i have made a powerpoint that goes over the broadest strokes of the story of KHUX! i initially made this for myself because i just couldnt wrap my head around it all, but i made a version for everyone! i have done my best to make sure it's accurate, but if there are any issues on the lore, please let me know so i can update it! (just. dont look at the slide count.)

[felikatze]

i LOVE the diversity of fanart going on with the xehanort umbrella scene. is xehanort offering sora comfort? is he mocking? righteous? uneasy? well-intentioned or not?

there is SO MUCH that could be going on here and i love seeing people explore the different possibilities

[theylov3evie]

Vali...

[petrabraveheart]

Reunion

[maimonideznuts]

Seriously this shit needs to be illegal yesterday.

[bigscaryd]

"giving yourself psychosis with a mirror and the wrong kind of meditation was hard, so we made an app to completely eradicate your senses of both yourself and reality, you're welcome."

[maimonideznuts]

Literally like a cursed mirror from a cautionary tale about self obsession where the character wastes away talking to the evil being sealed within the mirror

[stxrfiish]

my proposed alternative for ‘there’s no platonic explanation for this’ is ‘there’s no normal explanation for this’. there are a number of different ways they might love each other but however they do they’re crazy as fuck about it

[tpwrtrmnky]

Like. Look. Listen. I have taught introductory quantum physics at a university level, and I need you all to incorporate this into your trans advocacy: There are situations where you need to make a decision to prioritize being comprehensible to your target audience above being The Most Unassailably Correct.

[peppermintquartz]

You can try to teach a toddler about germ theory or you can get them to wash their hands because "yucky"

[tpwrtrmnky]

Teaching a toddler to wash hands because yucky when the Ethics Understander crashes through the roof. "STOP RIGHT THERE," the Ethics Understander shouts at me. "The disgust response is not a legitimate substitute for a considered value judgment, and in fact, weaponizing disgust instead of grounding those judgments in a more rigorous framework is fundamental to reactionary rhetoric!"

The toddler looks at me. "You are a fascist, auntie. I have seen the light and will now go eat chewing gum from the pavement, unless you can educate me on a rigorous framework on the microbiology of pavement chewing gum this very instant."

[tpwrtrmnky]

This is a hyperbolic example but here's a more real one:

You are trying to explain the trajectory of research on trans issues, and how the informed consent model came about as a wildly successful alternative to the gatekeeping model because time and again, people with clinical experience who actually cared about their patients found that just letting trans people transition was easier and the fear that it would lead to something bad was unfounded.

The Principle Understander is shouting at you that the medicalization of trans people is inherently unjust, and even the informed consent provider is still a gatekeeper, just a more lenient one.

You are already aware of this.

You are talking to someone who, as a first priority, needs to know what the worse gatekeeping model looks like.

The person you're talking to is asking "but isn't it good to give patients more time to think before making irreversible changes?" because they didn't hear the part where you explained that asking patients about their masturbation habits has nothing to do with anyone's safety. They missed it because the Principle Understander was on a tangent about the necessity of abolishing capitalism because paying for medication is bad, which again, yes but this is really not the time or place for that.

[wyf-of-bathe]

This has the funniest name btw.

[jewishtransdyke]

There's an Emily Dickinson poem about this:

Tell all the truth but tell it slant— Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind—

[prismatic-bell]

This can also be understood as "speaking their language" or "meeting them where they are." And not to sound like I'm shitposting, but you want to know one of the best examples of this that's ever been posted on tumblr.com?

"What the fuck do you think freedom MEANS, Earl?"

Earl could have gotten an earful about gendered clothing colors being a social construct or how the queer community has its own clothing subculture, and he wouldn't have heard or internalized a word of it. But for the kind of redneck who goes to tractor-pulls? Yeah, "what the fuck do you think freedom means" really only touches the most superficial layer of Mister Pink John Deere Hat, but Earl heard that. And maybe next time he sees a guy dressed like Daisy Duke chilling at a tractor-pull he'll remember it and think "isn't it great to live in a free country" and mind his business. Maybe he'll even ask where the guy got his pink hat and learn something more.

[skodasforge]

“It’s photoshopped” honestly in the age of AI that has a homey sort of nostalgia to it. Remember when people used to put effort into faking things?

[kaosuqi]

photoshop fakers are like the villain with moral standards now