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the author's barely disguised longing for a kinder world

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the amount of Mother fans who don't engage with the political themes of the work is crazy. you mean you don't want politics in your game where you have to work a mindless factory job in real time to earn a living and incompetent cops beat you up for no reason and a fascist military force represented by pigs is directly opposed by nonbinary characters based on drag queens? are you reading the text or are you just letting funny nintendo colors slide off your brain like slop

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This video makes me sad for a number of reasons.

1. The transphobes come out in full force in the comments section

2. The video itself is sloppy and doesn't do nearly enough to paint the full picture of Nintendo's history with queer and trans representation. There's a lot of characters left off the video.

Most notably, Birdo, who was Nintendo's first (and most problematic) trans woman, who wasn't even so much as properly gendered in her original appearance. A few other noteworthy mentions are Juniper (Xenoblade 3) and Roc (Xenoblade 2), who are both nonbinary, and Tony (Earthbound/Mother 2), who is gay and has a crush on Jeff, a major party member of the game. And don't even get me started of the Magypsies from Mother 3.

Guess what I'm trying to say is that Nintendo has had a long and storied history of queer representation both good and bad. There was a real opportunity to do a huge video essay on the topic had GameXplain decided it was worth the effort. Needless to say, I'm saddened that they didn't think it was worth the effort.

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a little encouragement for you on this tuesday

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a thing I did in a paranoia attack in the announcement of PikminBloom (24/03/2021)

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We're all flesh and blood. We all bleed. We all have the same organs. We're all born through the same cells. You matter, be safe and keep your peers safe. We're rooting for you, all of us ❤

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In every generation there is a chosen one…

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theyre unlocking new types of guy over on reddit apparently

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Remember: the more difficult you make it for them to realize a report is false, the more useless you make the portal.

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LIKE TO CHARGE REBLOG TO CAST LET'S GET THIS FUCKER EXPLODEDED

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“A combined reboot of all the obscure 70s hanna-barbera characters no one remembers anymore” is just about the last place I expected ANY trans representation, let alone HALF THE FUCKING CAST, but like, wow, kudos to them I guess.

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Sharks are one of those animals like horses or eagles where they look beautiful and majestic until you look at their face at just the right angle and you're like "wait a minute, that's the goofiest looking animal I've ever seen"

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here’s a challenge for some of you: address your failures in upholding members of our community without immediately jumping to sexualizing them and fetishizing them

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The Day Book, Chicago, January 6, 1912

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