#‘non binary people also want to be people instead of objects’

[gendiebrainrotreceipts]

If you’re not a stereotype of femininity you’re non binary apparently

[married-to-google-translater]

"She", "her", "hers" and "herself" are female pronouns (no hate just trying to help you /positive) "he", "him", "his" and "himself" are male ones, for non-binary or not gender telling we have: "they", "them", "theirs" and "themself", though these are also used when speaking about multiple people (if you want to use a reflexive pronoun for multiple people it's "themselves" instead) Subjective Objective Possessive Reflexive

Sometimes when I write long texts at once, Google Translate automatically chooses the pronoun. Sometimes it's completely wrong when I need a pronoun but google translator doesn't care :D I always try to check the text before I publish it, but mistakes always happen :)

Also in Finland we only use they/them pronouns. That makes Google translater super confused

[velvetvexations]

I think it's interesting that the trans women who adamantly deny male socialization mostly talk about experiencing dysphoria, or not liking male expectations. Like it's fine that the word is poisoned for them and they dont want to engage with it but they are objectively just not engaging with what it means to be socialized. For me, female socialization was growing up and seeing my female family members be expected to cook/clean at family events, seeing my male relatives get straight up drunk and watch movies that my grandma asked them not to (she doesnt like hearing violent movies), and being judged for not helping with cleanup. Now I do help, mostly because I feel bad seeing my grandma struggle with it, but there's so much dysphoria that comes with it because I know that if I was a Man Raised Man or whatever the fuck I wouldnt have this expectation and it probably wouldnt even occur to me (my little brother doesnt lol). I think trans women actually do, even pre transition, have a more complicated relationship with these sorts of things than a cis man would but like, idk, how many trans women were as children raised to believe theyre terrible and evil for not wanting to clean up after their male relatives, and told that the best outcome they can expect from life is to do this labor for many kids and grandkids and when they die, they'll be remembered as "nice" and "a good mother". Now I'll be remembered as a bad child and fundamentally unnatural. And thats not to say trans women dont face gendered abuse as kids but I think it is different and a lot are viewed as like, freaks for maybe wanting to help in the kitchen instead of chillin with the Boys™. And many also wrestle with like, wanting to be perceived as a woman but not wanting to have to be the free maid service. I have to wrestle with not wanting to abandon all the work to my female relatives but also not wanting to be the maid and also knowing that the more I help the more I'm viewed as female. I guess this got rambley but I just want it to be clear that I do think transfems have interactions with socialization that are unique to them, as do transmascs, and individual cis people, etc, but its weird to insist that the closeted transfem experience is basically the cis girl experience plus being treated as an undesirable third gender, and that transmascs have a better childhood experience than cis women.

Soul-gender. Everyone recognizes someone is really a girl from birth but says they're a boy out of sheer meanness.

And yes, they very deliberately talk past what people are actually saying about socialization to take "trans women are generally expected to grow up as boys" to mean "and that means they've programmed to be Evil" because that's how TERFs use it. Meanwhile they fully accuse transmasc and non-binary people of having one single default experience during childhood that's made them all hate trans women to the point of needing to start a brand new separatist movement over it.

[kdinjenzen]

i know you probably want to put it all behind you but the fact that your last workplace kept misgendering you when you look Like That is, objectively, kind of hilarious. like my brother in christ do you also he/him all curvy redheads like mrs jessica rabbit? and the reason you give is because she is taller then her husband with a deeper voice? do you have nothing but a single lonely piece of salad for a brain? transphobia gives you brain worms via spontaneous generation i swear.

It’s frustrating, honestly. It shows that people, especially in professional industries, really still have no idea how to act around a trans person. And when they make a mistake they make it about THEM instead of just being self reflective about it or the company having some kind of “hey we should have a professional come talk to everyone about how to not be an asshole to trans people.”

There’s so many things companies CAN do to better help their cis and trans employees so that things like this don’t happen. Which will make cis people less “cis shame-ful” about everything, where they use so many excuses for wrongful treatment, and will help make trans people feel actually safe.

The BARE MINIMUM is that if someone says “these are my pronouns” you respect that. It’s that simple. It’s not even hard to do. And YET…

Urgh… yeah, I’m still very upset about it, and the way it was handled by HR was even WORSE.

Is it really that much to ask for a job that will let me, gasp, do my job properly without someone misgendering me and making the workplace hostile? I WANT TO WORK! I actually LIKE the feeling of working in groups and putting in effort to craft and creat with people. I like JOB. My brain feels happy when I have “JOB TO DO.” Work is, or can be, very fun and validating.

But if the workplace is hostile and you are constantly being lied to and mistreated, especially after you JUST joined the team, it’s very obvious that it can only get worse.

(Again, for everyone out there, physical presentation of “societal gender norms” don’t matter. Trans men can have boobs, non binary people don’t own androgyny, trans women can have facial hair, cis women can have very deep voices, cis men can have very high voices, etc etc etc. You don’t gotta look like anything to expect the smallest bit of respect from people. ESPECIALLY in the work place.)

[reasonandempathy]

how can you reblog a Zionist post criticizing people who support Palestine for allowing themselves to be harmed in an effort to support Palestine (https://www.tumblr.com/reasonandempathy/743584944850354176/politics-is-fucking-soul-churning-it-really-is) while also seeming to respect Aaron Bushnell, who made the ultimate sacrifice in an effort to support Palestine? is it so unthinkable that people would be willing to act against their own interest to stop a genocide?

TLDR; that post isn't denying people can self-sacrifice to stop a genocide. That post is about taking the broader context into perspective, and remembering that Trump Is Still So Much Worse, so you should vote against him.

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Was thinking about this one, actually.

Didn't know the person's broader political views until checking them out, and while it's important context for that person individually, but the post at large still, broadly, stands.

There is, undoubtedly, an aspect of political discourse that promotes people who would vote for Biden to stay home or vote for someone not Biden and not Trump, rooted in (to a much lesser extent than Bushnell, who was being compelled to be an active participant) not wanting to be complicit in that genocide.

What I took to be the main thrust of that post was to point out the unfortunately very, very real dynamic of not helping Biden win would, objectively, be worse for everyone including Palestinians if Trump wins. And in a truly, honestly Binary choice between D or R, there is a correct choice to make. It's Biden.

The first few paragraphs of that post are basic "don't be selective with your care." Which is true.

The rape of Israeli women, the Jewish Diaspora, The various tortures and war crimes inflicted by Hamas and the Houthis are not things to be forgotten nor supported. The world is fucking complicated and "Good Guys" are in incredibly short supply, but "Hooray Huthis" is what I'd call an incredibly fraught tightrope to walk.

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The main thrust of that post, though, is referring to people who know Trump is worse and have done extensive work broadcasting that Trump is, objectively, Worse for Palestinians. Worse for Women. Worse for the LGBTQ community. Worse for Non-Christians. Worse for BIPOC. It's pretty simple and reasonable to think that if Trump was in the White House he would find some way to be even worse right now than Biden is being.

But they still can't endorse or support Biden. Who is definitely horrible, but also objectively the better of the 2 options we have.

Which is why I said Politics is soul-churning. Because it is. Because, outside of any actual plan to get anyone else into the White House, it is objectively Better for the people I care about.

My fiance.

My friends.

My extended family.

My Neighbors.

My trade union (though I haven't been in it for a few years).

My city.

My values.

It is objectively Better for Biden to be in power than Trump, which, again, is the only realistic alternative to Trump. But it does mean voting for the guy. And, yeah, I'm in NY (not a secret). Maybe I could vote for the Justice Party or the Green Party or something else.

But I can't assume nobody else will do that, and ceding what small influence I have (.000008% of Biden's popular vote in 2020) to actually help people to instead assuage my personal beliefs is putting my comfort over that small, minuscule, but very Real influence in being able to help people.

I...have blood on my hands. (broadly) We all do. I just want to add less to it.

[anamericangirl]

‘If gender is entirely mental then you're saying gender isn't real.’

emotions are also mental so are you saying those aren’t real? Just because it’s mental doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist, just that you can’t see it (it being how they feel about their gender rather than their gender presentation if that makes sense, in the same way you can’t really ‘see’ an emotion). And if you think something doesn’t exist just because you can’t see it then maybe you should get your object permanence checked silly :)

Trans and NB people exist. You say people can’t choose their gender but people can, and they do, regardless of what you do or say

also I saw you answered a different anon where you said that if a teen was raped they should carry the pregnancy and give birth to the child rather than have an abortion. Notice that ‘teen’ encompasses the age range of 13 to 19 years old. So you’re saying that a 13 year old should be expected to give birth and have a child, and deal with the pain and complications that come with childbirth, even with the trauma of being raped. That’s HORRIFYING. Even if that’s not what you meant to say, or what you think you said, that is what you are implying either way. And if that’s not what you were saying, then tell me, what were you actually trying to say?

if a teenager gives birth, they can’t be expected to mother the baby. It may be separated from the mother if it lives. Both the teenager and the baby will have to grow up with the trauma of the rape, which will be psychologically harmful for everyone involved. But sure, that’s better than abortion.

That’s fucked up, and you don’t even seem to realise why, and that scares me. I’m so angry that you think you have any say in what other women do with their bodies as if you control them. I’m angry you think teenage rape victims should give birth instead of an abortion even though it will harm them physically and perhaps mentally and socially as well depending on their life circumstances. You wonder why people send you rude anon asks all the time, it’s because you say shit like this. Wake the fuck up

Notice I didn't say anything that is entirely mental isn't real, I said if gender is entirely mental then it isn't real. When you claim gender is entirely mental you equate it to an emotion, which means it's not a physical reality of your existence. Emotions come and go.

For example sad is an emotion and it is something anyone can feel because it is part of our human experience. If someone tells me they are sad I can't say to them no you're not because sadness is something that is entirely mental and anyone can feel that way at any time and it will different to each person. But an hour or two later they might not be sad anymore because mentalities change. Sadness isn't a physical reality. You can't be sadness. You can feel sad, but you cannot be sadness itself because sadness doesn't exist outside of our mind. But gender does. Gender is what you are, not how you feel.

Like can I identify as a black person if I want? If I tell you I feel like I'm black and I've decided that I am black, would than mean I am now black? Or is race something that can't be determined based on how I feel and it's just a reality about myself that I can't change?

I'm fully aware that trans and non-binary people exist, but that doesn't mean I have to take part in their delusion. They are not actually picking their gender, though. They are choosing what gender they want to present themselves as but that does not actually transform them into the gender they want to identify as. And people have the freedom to identify and live as whatever they want but they don't have the freedom to force me to believe that if a man says he's a woman and makes an effort to look and dress like a woman that he is actually a woman.

As for the abortion portion, I can tell you've never researched this issue before and I have. It's very sad to me that you have been duped into believing the lie that if someone is raped the only and best solution is to kill the baby if they get pregnant. I do not ever want a child to be pregnant. That is a terrible situation for a young girl to be in but the fact that you think the moral option there is to kill a baby is concerning to me.

In general, if a woman's body is capable of getting pregnant then their body is also capable of going through the entire pregnancy and birth process, even if they are young. And I don't know why you think childbirth is traumatic but the way you pro-aborts act like it's a horrendous ordeal on par with torture make it sound like you don't even know what pregnancy is.

And you think childbirth would be traumatic but abortion wouldn't? Abortion is a very invasive procedure that forces the body to "birth" a baby long before it's ready to and, more than that, it's forcing the birth of a dead baby. There are multiple sources out there that show abortion is much less safe than childbirth and I've posted them multiple times and so have other pro-lifers on this platform. I don't have them at hand right now so I'm not going to post them right here but you can definitely find them on my blog.

What a child who was raped and is now pregnant needs is thorough and continuous medical care, not an abortion. Abortion doesn't become safer just because the person going through it is a child or was raped.

No one is saying the child has to raise and mother the baby. Adoption is a completely acceptable option here. And I don't know why you think using the word "trauma" that you think the mother and baby will have to go through is a justification for killing the baby. I mean if we're using trauma as the reason here, why not just kill them both? If death is better than having any more experiences that could potentially be traumatic why don't we kill the 13 year old rape victim too? Why just kill the baby. I mean, I know why we shouldn't do that but your logic would translate to that being the moral thing to do. Nevermind that there is strong evidence showing that rape victims who chose not to kill their baby find giving birth far more healing than the rape victims who chose abortion.

Stop using children who have been raped as political props to advocate for abortion and send hateful messages to pro-lifers for supposedly being terrible monsters who don't care about rape victims when you don't care enough to even bother researching the issue.

[positivelybeastly]

How do you feel about X-Men '97 coming back?

"Quite the meritorious happenstance, don't you think? One might have thought our tale lost to the annals of history, a dusty page in a tome left up on a shelf to be only occasionally perused as a curiosity or in a pique of nostalgia . . .

But it is not to be so!"

"As Tennyson himself said, "Cannon to right of them, cannon to left of them, cannon in front of them, volleyed and thundered; stormed at with shot and shell, boldly they rode and well, the X-Men.'

. . . Paraphrasing, of course."

I am incredibly excited.

Now, that's not to say that there aren't issues already - this is very much a nostalgia driven series, aimed pretty much precisely at me and my generation, and if I'm objective about it, I would have preferred it if X-Men: Evolution had come back instead. In terms of long form storytelling and character development, it was just better than the 90s show.

There's also some iffiness going on with Sunspot, who's joined the main cast - I believe his skin tone is incorrect, which is a common problem with a lot of Latino and Afro-Brazilian characters in comic books to this day, and given that they've made the cool choice to make Morph non-binary, I would've figured they'd want to depict Sunspot as accurately as possible?

That being said.

It just looks fucking good, man. Ray Chase is doing an amazing job of channelling the original Cyclops actor, who is no longer with us; the animation still feels very much in keeping with the original show, while still looking a MILLION TIMES BETTER (I completed a rewatch of the show not long ago, and hoo boy does season 5 especially look really rough); and after so many years of Krakoa comics, there's something to be said for going back to basics.

Is it a reversion? Yeah, a little bit. But I like my X-Men to be warm, and a family, and friends, and to play baseball and basketball, and not to all fucking hate each other, so sue me, I'll accept a step back for the story if it means I get the characterisations I prefer back.

Besides, the comics still exist for people who want the Krakoan stuff, so a bit of more original flavour X-Men for those of us who don't want our mutants to be living in various kinds of dystopia won't hurt anybody.

This also gives the show runners an opportunity to fix some of the issues the original show had, like a much more weakly written Jean and Jubilee than they ever were in the comics, and a chance to adapt some storylines that have NEVER been adapted before, like Inferno. I'm optimistic!

And, selfishly? Between the Marvels, X-Men '97, and what's currently going on in X-Force, I'm just ready for Beast to be written well again. I'm really hoping that he gets some good dialogue, a fun fight scene, maybe even a focus episode this season, but so long as he isn't doing some abominable shit, then I'll happily take it.

Maybe that makes me fickle or easy to please? Guilty as charged, then. I'll happily be easily pleased, because it means I'm fucking happy with what I get. :P

I don't know if I'll have a '97 verse? I can already tell you it'd be verse: hated and feared, but there's not a lot that's substantially different about TAS Hank to how he was in the 90s. That being said, I'm DEFINITELY going to try and get my hands on as many caps as possible - as you can already see, the lad looks so handsome!

[trans-wojak]

I remember back when I first came to the terms that I was trans instead of identifying as a trans man I identify as non binary because everyone in my friend group were AFAB enbies, genderfluids, whatever (that all presented as women and cried when someone didn't magically know their pronouns, one of them also went by star/starself), I didn't want to be left out and they all hated men so I was scared to come out as a trans man, turns out all of those enby girls were toxic as hell and were super manipulative (were also the type of people to self diagnose ADHD, autism, bipolar, DID, depression, etc because of a tiktok video they saw) and after I cut them off I was just like "okay, no more pretending to be a fake quirky Tiktok/Tumblr gender just because all of the female enbies around you hate men"

I also remember one of them bit my thumb for no reason while hanging out 💀

That’s a really common experience these days I feel, I have seen trans men who are even the slightly little bit not traditionally masculine and enbies will start screaming IT MEANS YOU ARE NON BINARYYYYY REEEE. Like fuck off.

I used to live in a share house that was advertised as for LGBT people but majority were just female enbies who had a fetish for trans people (mainly trans women) and they constantly talked about sex in really objective ways but then they would start crying when men did that lmao

[pokenoire]

You mention that you have a lot of Anipoke fanfics ideas you never finished, can you tell a little about them? I'm just curious

Ok. This is going to be long, so as a cartoon from my childhood said, "Sit down because here comes a story."

The first time I wrote a FanFiction was in 2013-2014, it was basically an OC based on me and the people I knew, I even added the readers themselves to the story. It was a rewrite of XY, and took the early episodes from when Ash only had Froakie and Flechiling. I needed more characters for a revolution that would happen at least in a 2 story that would interrupt the Kalos League (funny that it was similar to the team flare arc) but with Lumiose's control I looked in practically 52 chapters and was close to Ramos gym, I changed some of Ash's Pokemon and included others keeping their Kalos mon at the same time as my Pokemon for them.

I also had an AU with Mirror Ash instead of an alternate character, a twin brother of Ash who was with his father, in fact this was before the Shudo novel was translated I didn't have much of an idea how Ash father is, the only thing i knew was "Ash will see his father for development" which i came across in the interviews looking for stuff about ash...As I had a cousin with an absent father similar to Ash and I witnessed similar situations with people close to me, I used this as a reference for Ash's father who ended up being very similar to Shudo. Less similar to Yuyama and Yajima UA (20 - 21 - 23 movie and Distant Blue Sky)

I started seeing a lot of real world stories without Pokemon so I decided to try something similar several times, always leaving Pikachu as some object, animal, plush, game or Ash's favorite thing in whole world.

Mirror Serena and Mirror Ash on their journey from leaving Kanto to arriving in Kalos

Mirror Ash autistic child non verbal, hiperfocous on Pokemon anime like it's your mirror version seeing your OG version if that makes sense lol Serena wasn't Mirror Serena, she was just normal Serena, so we can say it's Mirror Ash x Serena

The UA where Ash and Misty and Satoshi and Serena were a couple each with one was missing because I thought it would be fun to make a Pokeshipping fic BUT I COULDN'T PUT ANYONE with Serena other than Ash...so I reused it 💖😅

A whole journey, from Serena in Hoeen with a bit of Palleshipping and Rivalcrushshipping, with mention of the battle frontier and May's appearance.

A rewrite of Serena as Kalos Champion progress, while Ash was in Alola trying to practice all the things he learned from Ash after he failed in Hoeen due to the current chaotic state of the government on Pokemon world in 2017.

A story I've never written about Ashley X Serena, like Serena as sapphic Ash as bi, I think they's bi in pretty much 90% of my stories. Lesbian Serena only came to my mind for the first time because of the 2023 conflict, I admit, before for me they were both a Bi4Bi couple regardless of the universe I wrote, be it yaoi or not.

(Thanks to the Male Marinette and Fem Adrien Agreste versions - the concept of genderband as I only found out what non-binary was in 2019 to 2020 they were both cis)

Yaoi Amourshipping is the most recent of them all, I've simply been watching Serena's genderband for a long time but I've never been able to choose a correct name for it, so it was a bit "how do I can I write a character without a name?" so I was left without any idea updates and I stuck to that, just the desire in the back of my mind in 2015-2016 😭

- Crossovers -

A story based on a book I was reading, where Ash was an immortal and Serena was an incarnated soul that Ash would look for from time to time because in this story he loves her, but she doesn't know and has no idea who he is. I wanted to explore the concept of reverse crush UA but at the same time without going out of character, so it was a bit like Kanto- Diamond and Pearl - Advanced Generation and Kalos Ash mixed together in one character (a little bit of Dark Ash in the middle).

A crossover with Nisekoi, with the idea of recovering the two's memories of their camping days, taking advantage of the theory that Ash was the son of Giovanni and Serena by Lysandre for the first time. Just to give the same main idea of the anime I was basing it on.

A journey of May and Dawn as a crossover of DanMachi because a friend recommended this anime to me, I did something as if the gods were people with Pokémon powers like aura, electric, etc. Pokemon trainers were like the adventurers were like Pokemon trainers but I admit that Ash and Serena had a secondary role in 2016.

Many, many crossovers with Miraculous

A crossover where Ash was Chat Noir and Serena was Ladybug

A crossover where Adrien could go to school and wanted to be a Pokemon trainer and Marinette was there.

A crossover where Delia would work with Tom and Sabine, fleeing from Ash's abusive father in Japan (original Kanto) but they are in the Miraculous world itself. No appearance, no idea who he would be, keeping pretty much the anime, I didn't really involve his father outside of the sibling UA.

I picked up both ideas recently and now that I'm back writing, I thought about putting some of them together into one, but without a very definite spoiler.

I've already done a Bridgette and Felix journey too because they're my OTP in Miraculous but I admit I had a lot more ideas for them in the original universe of their own franchise.

[uncaught-coolfish]

ok ok imo there was defo some planning to the bees becoming canon and to deny that is kinda silly to me. that doesn’t mean that planning and eventual execution was good.

•Yang losing her arm is apparently a “sign of her love for Blake” because of that line Adam had in V3? …I thought y’all despised his ass, when did we start believing a word that came out of his mouth??

•On that note, paralleling the two, when the latter was literally the abuser of the former’s current gf, is…..😬

•Also on that note, the objective infantilizing of Blake. All she really does now is whimper and be meek around Yang until another “bee moment” or until the plot remembers to use her for something. Yes, because turning this once feisty character into this shy nervous little meow meow who can’t even fight on her own anymore after she’s revealed to have been an abuse victim is totally not gross.

•Yang prioritizes her new GF over her little sister who is clearly in a horrible headspace, and when she finally breaks down, instead of attempting to calm her down or console her she steps in front of a COWERING BLAKE and just says “Hey!”. YOU TWO ARE BOTH OLDER THAN HER WHY ARE YOU ACTING LIKE THIS

•The scene in which they finally confess was literally forced out of them by a storm. I…I thought we learned to not do this? Guys? Um…

•The 10 year queerbaiting smugly disguised as “planned from the start uwu” that Voltron Legendary Fucking Defender wishes it could have achieved. Does that mean it was always planned that you’d write your hatesink character to have been a branded child slave? Does that mean it was always planned that you’d write the confession of these two’s love for each other to have been forced out of them? Does that mean it was always planned that you’d confirm your main queer couple two episodes before said couple did nothing to save their 17 year old leader from taking her own life on screen?

•Saying the quiet part out loud when an employee tweeted that “The bee kiss alone hopefully green lights V10.”

•Also, the immediate merchandising of it. Ugh.

Before I go on, no I do not believe the bees were “forced diversity”. No I do not believe Adam was killed to push it (he was killed because the writers wanted a quick way for people to forget how abhorrently racist this show fucking got anyways). No I do not believe this is a bad pairing, and if you accuse me of being an [insert hetero Blake/Yang ship here], I ship fucking Monochrome and Thundercats, dude. But what about the rest of this show’s LGBT representation? Is it any b

No.

•Our first on screen rep is in the form of Ilia. I really like Ilia, genuinely, she’s honestly one of my favorite characters. But why did they write their first lesbian character in the “psycho lesbian” trope? Also, why did their first indigenous character start out as a villain who had to be redeemed by learning violent protest bad all lives matter and ANYWAYS—

•Coco leers at women and her allusion is a fucking Nazi. She sucks. •The wives from V6 (Terracotta-Arcs??) are fine. Probably the most decent rep we’ve got, even if they were just a one off thing. They’re cute and I’m happy for em. Slay.

•We’ve got a single gay man in the entire cast (Scarlet) and he’s confirmed in a book. A single gay dude in a show infamous for its character bloat. Obviously we know why but man.

•3 non-binary characters. 1 is in a spin-off, 2 are animals. In this latest volume in which the last two are present, one is revealed to be a villain, and the other goes out Green Mile style. Yaaaaaaaaaaaaay….

•And lastly, May. I also do like May! However, her character is not the problem.

What is the problem with all of this, no mater what, is the people, company, making this show.

Rooster Teeth is not your friend. Rooster Teeth does not care about you, or putting that loving care into representation.

Why are half of the villains disabled? Why are half of the villains in universe minorities? Why are half of the villains POC? Why are half of the villains a combination of two or all three of those traits?

Why is the only freedom fighting, minority rights organization terrorists? Why does their WOC leader die the scene we meet her? And why is her killer revealed to have been in fucking slavery the same episode he dies on screen in? And why is this organization taken as a serious threat, while two openly racist antagonists are portrayed as goofy and comical?

Why are any and all plus-sized characters portrayed as jokes? Why does the disabled-coded girl get her disability ripped away from her so she can “truly be human”? Why does another disabled character have him losing an arm to mean he’s lost his humanity? Why does this show portray so many misandristic tropes? Why does this show portray so many misogynistic tropes?

Why was this show’s first LGBT character a villain? Why was the next based off a Nazi? Why are two out of their three non-binary characters animals, and why have those two either been “killed” or turned into villains? Why is there only one gay man in this huge cast?

And why is it so many just let it slide that, while before and during the production of the volumes featuring the show’s first transgender character, Rooster Teeth treated and abused that character’s VA like absolute garbage?

Are the lives of those real people less important than those sweet, sweet “bee moments”?

In conclusion, the bees were not forced. I am glad they are canon. But I am not glad that it has nearly managed to conceal all the deplorable shit the racist, homophobic and awful company behind it has done.

[giggly-moon]

INTRODUCING YET ANOTHER EPIC OC!! this one is named Enne! unfortunately i don’t have a character playlist for them just yet </3 also i will be adding the tickling related info later, as i’m not very good at coming up with tickle headcanons on the spot dhfndjdn

i couldn’t decide whether i wanted to make Enne male or female so i decided to make them non-binary instead! also the pronunciation of their name keeps switching between “enn-uh”, “enn-ay” and “enn-ee” in my head so therefore all three are correct. they’re confusing like that

another demigod baby! this time they’re a child of Hermes, so of course they’re gonna be a huge trickster and troublemaker. they honestly don’t resemble Hermes a whole lot, other than inheriting the ankle wings. though theirs are smaller with brown feathers, and they have an extra pair on their wrists.

Enne’s primary ability is that they’re a shapeshifter! they have the ability to transform into any animal/creature they want, and possibly transform into people too but that’s a bit trickier for them to pull off, and perfectly mimic the sounds they make.

even if their normal and more “human” looking form, they still have quite a few animalistic features like antlers, a long tail, cat-like eyes, fangs, claws, in-human ears and paw-like hands and feet. they also have dark brown fur on their tail, ears, arms starting right below their elbows and legs starting right below their knees. they also have shorter fur on their forehead going down to the bridge of their nose.

they didn’t inherit their dad’s ability to fly (unless they transform into something that can fly), but they are very agile and sneaky and can move very quietly, and because of their animal features they can jump very high and are very good at climbing.

they don’t really ever officially join the crew, but they’ve been secretly tagging along for quite a while now. they use their shapeshifting powers to hide somewhere on the ship just to watch the crew and all the shenanigans they get up to, cause they think these guys are hilarious.

although Melia has known about them the whole time, not just because of her own powers but because the two of them are cousins and they’re pretty close as well, so Enne isn’t too worried about hiding themselves from her. they know Mel won’t tell anybody else about them.

in terms of personality, they’re very very mischievous and playful, they’re just here to have fun and they love messing with people. they don’t really take things very seriously, but they’re still pretty nice and sweet considering their trickster ways. probably fascinated with shiny objects (the biggest inspirations for the way they act are cats and crows)

for someone who is a child of Hermes of all people, Enne is surprisingly pretty quiet and not much of a talker. they can talk but only do it sparingly, they let their actions and mannerisms do most of the talking

after their presence is made known to the rest of the crew, they’ll show up randomly fairly often just to hang out and see what everyone’s up to and join in on some of the hijinks. whenever they’re not around on the ship they’re either messing with some other random poor souls or they’re with the group of forest nymphs that raised them

[crispycreambacon]

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My name is Chris Pycream Bacon, but most just call me Crispy. In here, you will find pretty much everything such as my own work, my interests and rambles from others. If you wanna see just my art, you can head over to @crispyfriedartchive instead!

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As you can see, I'm an artist and a writer. Particularly, I love doing silly doodles, illustrations, comics and fanfiction, and I hope to become an animator or a comic artist one day. However, I'm open to any art or writing career that welcomes me along the way!

My other hobbies include singing, voice acting, listening to whatever music catches my brain worms and yelling about my current interests. I also have two cats, Sashimi and Takoyaki, a corgi named Miso, and a t-rex plush named Dinosara whom I love very much :3

I'm Filipino! Unfortunately, I can't speak Tagalog (yet), but I try to stay in touch with my culture. I can also speak a decent amount of Indonesian after having lived there for over a decade. Filipino-Indonesian solidarity for the win!!

I'm hella non-binary, and I will hit every character that I love and/or create with the rainbow stick. I'm also aroace, bisexual and in a queerplatonic relationship (hello darling if you're reading this!)

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[toy-capsule]

barbie movie rewrite because it was okay but i know how it couldve been better

ya so i've only watched the movie once and actively as i was watching it i was thinking of ways to rework the plot.. and i wrote none of it down after i saw it. but i like this website and i should post here more so here's my nonsense thoughts :)

so couple of main changes need to take place for this movie to work as a proper feminist movie in my opinion. making it perfect or overly nuanced isn't my idea of fixing it; I would much rather improve the fundamental message and conclusion so it isn't a specifically flawed intro to feminism because that is a really valuable thing for movie's in this climate to be.

change 1: alan deserved better!

one of the biggest philosophy's of feminism i believe in is intersectionality. alan is in a very interesting spot in the barbie world which i believe makes him uniquely suited for the movie's core conflict- an opportunity that the writers squandered (number one pathetic character apologist here). anyways, from what ive seen in the commentary and reactions this movie has, is that like weird barbie, alan is seen as a bit of a queer icon. but instead of his typical pre-movie interpretation of him just being a gay man, ive witnessed many also head canon them as non-binary as well (I'll stick to he/they pronouns for them here!) because of how much he chooses to associate with the barbies over the kens more often than not. i cannot believe that this wasn't explored more in the conclusion.

this leads me into my main argument for alan- instead of simply inspiring the resolution they should've been a much more important key player. how this might happen starts with the dance off in the third act. i think that pitting the kens against each other here was a pretty low blow narratively, it really establishes a pretty unfortunate theme for the ending which is just division between the two groups. (the barbie movie is really just misogyny but in reverse and doesn't attempt to fix any of the problems it acknowledges.) instead of infantilizing the kens -which was fine at the beginning of the movie for shits and giggles but became less funny and more frustrating as the movie went on- i think a much more productive start to the beach dance-off scene could've been alan trying to talk sense into the kens (like gloria does for the brainwashed barbies.) it would have needed to fail at this point for the sake of conflict but it would have brought in an easy applicable solution for our real life equivalent of misogyny into the narrative - men (and those apart of their sphere socially) talking to and checking their fellow peers when they are doing sexist shit

after the barbies take over the supreme court and do their thing we have a bit of tension to resolve still. even though gosling's stereotypical ken (sken) has discovered that he is kenough, that can't be said for the rest of the ken's. liu's ken #2 (real character name) should probably be the one to try to enforce the patriarchy just because of the preestablished tension. i think it would be a wonderful moment to see sken stand up to him properly here and really acknowledge alan's message here of respecting the other Barbie's as people and friends (shout out ace stereotypical barbie!) rather than objects. additionally they ask for respect in turn (equal representation on the supreme court because that ending was so foul wtf) also maybe some hand holding action because i am nothing if not a poly sken/alan/ken2 shipper- this is still a tumblr analysis what did you expect)

change 2: ruth shouldn't have been god, barbie should've

barbie becoming human at the end was weird and gross. who would actually want to be human? i'm sorry but if i lived as an inspirational concept to little girls around the world i think i would've taken that power a bit more seriously.

i'm so glad ruth was included in this movie and she should still play a key part in barbie's crisis and development. but.. instead of being god i think she should've acted more as a guiding spirit to barbie or a silly (possibly vengeful - literally just for fun i have no basis for this) ghost haunting mattel. after all, all of barbie's power comes from being an idea that can persevere throughout generations, and ruth is well... dead. i think instead of asking to become human when she got agency the conversation shouldve gone a bit more like this : ruth: what do you want barbie? barbie: honestly i don't know, is that normal? ruth: yes honey, (big dramatic monolouge about not rushing to find purpose.. etc) barbie: after everything that's happened i still dont feel like i belong ruth : that's okay too. you have all the time in the universe to decide what you want to be, youre in control of your own destiny barbie: the universe sounds nice actually, but there is one thing i need to do before i go *she fucking obliterates mattel's ceo and thats how she debuts as god*

not the best but better than her going to the fucking gyno as an ending

minor changes!

I think gloria and sasha should have gotten more development, making them mirror ruth and barbie wouldve been a nice touch. maybe an ending or after credits scene depicting the two of them having a similar conversation to the one i just described would have been silly. (also please take sasha more seriously that girl is right about everything and is listened to only a third of the time she actually gets lines. she could've been an excellent dead-pan comedic foil to the more absurdist jokes of the film, under utilized fave) big opportunity to make that conversation absolutely unhinged too:

gloria: you can be whatever you want in life kid sasha: *actively pinning up pictures of warner bros ceo david zaslav on a bulletin board with a big red x and looks directly into the camera* I know mom <3

mattel's depiction was barely passable. i have had enough of major companies being posed as villains but keeping them silly and unthreatening- its unfaithful and disrespectful to real life. start them off as silly and shitty, thats fine. it matches the tone of the movie- but as parallels between real life and the movie converge in the third act, mattel should start acting like the predatory company they actually are.

their investment in reinstating barbie as supreme leader over ken despite him making more money in the name of "feminism" would have never in a star death ever happen. literally the entire board only being men was a joke they really fucking made and still had them supporting women- it ruins the entire thesis of the movie and makes the message muddy. fix that, keep them forcefully trying to pair up barbie and ken but change it so its true life: nothing more than an effort to make more of a profit and bring patriarchy to barbieland. this would've brough the climax to an apex and match the stakes to my barbie god conclusion.

anyways yeah i loved the artistic direction of this movie and the casting but not much else! let me know if i missed anything and thx for reading

[softpawsxd]

Hey folks! My name's Noelia Reyes Bello (you can call me by the codename "Fluffy Sparkles" if you want! ^^) and welcome to my blog! For you see i'm a web-cartoonist besides an artist, Animator and concept designer who loves being Multifandom geek and eating Chicken Nuggies with Oreo Frapuccinos (which Frapuccinos tastes so great just like the milkshakes)! X3

About me:

Austistic 18-year-old animation fangirl, Cuz i LOVE cartoony fandoms so much UwU...

Non-Binary gal (who uses She/her/He/Him pronouns!)

🇨🇱Chilean lady!🇨🇱

Loves to roleplay (Almost sometimes actually LOL...)

You can also follow me on:

Instagram: DatOnePopTartWolfy

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Twitter: PopTartWolfy05

DerpiBooru: SteakFlavoredNuggets/WolfPuppyGal

Hyperfixations/Fandoms i'm in:

Object Shows in general (Mostly Inanimate Insanity 2 and Modern Objects)

Furry Community

JewelPet

The Henry Stickmin Colllection

Doggyworld

Monica'S Gang

Doraemon

Xavier Riddle And The Secret Museum

Untitled Goose Game (That game is funny, Heh!)

Littlest Pet Shop (2012 version most of all)

Pucca

LazyTown

Breadwinners (Sorry…)

OddBalls

Diary Of A Wimpy Kid

The Mitchells VS The Machines

Funko Pop (although it doesn't count as an actual fandom, I love it so much!)

Ben And Holly's Little Kingdom

Aggretsuko

Unikitty/The LEGO Movie

Animaniacs (Sometimes)

Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi

Disney's Tsum Tsum series

Space Jam (Both the 90's one and its sequel)

Animal Crossing

The Emoji Movie (Sorry again…)

Blue Sky Studios (Mainly Ice Age and Rio)

Elinor Wonders Why

Bluey

Mickey Mouse (Paul Rudish version)

Monster High

And so much more!

Type of requests/art trades that I accept or do:

Digital/tradicional art and/or comics

Animation memes and/or animatics

Easy OC's for me to draw

Any kind of headcanons

Fanfictions (Maybe?)

Type of fanfics that i write:

Normal

Creepypasta-esque/Indie horror

Comfort/Self-ship

Fluff

Crossover fandoms

Werewolf TF

And many more!

DNI/Do NOT interact:

Yucky/Disgusting people

Vore artists

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P3d0ph1l3s and/or z00ph1l3s

Users who traces people's art (🤬Including mine🤬)

Anti-Furry users

Homphobic and Transphobic/Anti-LGBTQ+ people

NSFW users/artists

Racist users (Mostly the ones who says the N word!)

Zionists (You know, The ones whosupport Israel instead of Palestine...)

And much worse...

Art/animatic/animation status:

Art trades: OPEN

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Thanks you so much for reading, Have a nice day!

[genderdisaster]

Who am I? A meditation on identity, gender, presentation, and bad cooking metaphors.

"Who are you?"

It's a long story. Frankly, I don't know. And that's ok. "Who am I?" is the question that I have asked myself more than ever in the past six months. After the initial euphoria, triumph, anxiety, and elation of starting HRT, I began to reexamine myself and my identity. I was crafting a new version of myself based on what felt the most authentic for me, and I needed to understand what felt most real. I was starving, and that first dose of Estrogen felt like sitting down at a massive banquet. I only needed to decide what to try first.

"Hey, what's good here?"

I've always had some problem with identity. Most of my life, with some small exceptions, I've made an effort to blend in and appear as unobtrusive as possible. Masculine enough to not draw attention or be singled out, but also neutral enough to remain non-threatening. At the core, I didn't have a clear sense of identity that felt in-line with how I really resonated deep inside. To some degree, I still don’t. Instead, I had a sense that I needed to portray quiet competence and self-assuredness in relation to the rigid structures of masculinity--as if any sign of compensation or questioning would betray just how clueless and out of place I really was. An impostor. I based my identity on interests or passions, never on a simple state of being. A male identity? No more than the thing I'd study to fit in when shared interests couldn't bridge the conversational gap. No more than another hobby, and one I didn't particularly even enjoy. But now I stumbled onto something new, and with it a new sense of self; where would I begin to develop this new, embodied, genuine identity?

"Everything is good here. Just try something and see if you like it!"

That didn't feel right. A lifetime of all-or-nothing thinking meant that I was seeking an objective "truth" about what identity should look like. I had made it over thirty years into life, dammit. I should know this by now!

Little did I know, I started to become embroiled in a full-blown identity crisis. I was shifting from a repressed, quietly desperate life of self-loathing and feeling deeply uncomfortable in the body I was born into, into a slowly changing body that every day grew more aligned with my inner state. More like home. But what kind of home?

"I'll have what she's having, then."

I've been fortunate to find myself in several different trans and gender-diverse groups of wonderful people throughout my life. Many friends, loved ones, trained professionals, and kind strangers helped to take this ignorant and denial-ridden egg and gently pry the first pieces of shell away from my tough outer-exterior. Still, I found myself looking at all of the new possibilities in front of me with a sense of overwhelm.

Am I a trans woman? I certainly don't prefer masculinity. But do I identify with binary femininity? Not totally that either. Demasculinization remained my primary goal for early transition, and every small sign of dropping Testosterone was a tiny victory over the weird guy who used to inhabit this body. I still cared for and loved him, but he never wanted to be in running things in the first place; now he didn't have to. We 86'd masculinity, Estrogen was on expo, but who was keeping it all in line?

"Take what you want, leave what you don't. Here's your salad fork."

I soon began to struggle with the ongoing need to remind myself of some basic concepts on a constant basis. Things like "It's ok to try things out and see if you like them or not!" and "You don't need to have it all figured out yet! The right people will accept you regardless!" became regular mantras that I repeated throughout the day. Like it or not, I started to re-live my awkward teenage years of trying out aspects of identity and personality to see what felt right, but in a less-traumatized, more mindful, and (most importantly) more self-compassionate mental state. I'm still doing that, and will be for some time to come. I "figured out" the recipe for masculinity by adulthood, more or less by following an easily repeatable formula that was bland, yet filling, and sticking to it at the expense of my own humanity. This new, undetermined third thing that I am creeping towards? That recipe is yet to be written, and it's all up to me. Each ingredient represents an aspect, a quality, another little piece of presentation and joy that feels right when seeing the person staring back at me in the mirror, or feeling myself living my life in my body. I relish the thought of working on the "me" that will be totally present and there for myself and others--all the while, folding in enough feminine energy to build a strong base, and allowing a sprinkle of masculinity as garnish in his own special way. A delicate balance with no flavor overpowering the other.

Luckily, I'm a damn good cook. At least I hope I am.

[delusion-of-negation]

i think there's a lot to be said, on both sides, for "this thing is the mostest popularest thing in The Real World but is not seen as an actually valid thing in online/lefty spheres", because i know there tends to be that inclination to go "literally just step outside", as a response to "let's normalise/appreciate [normalised outside of a small portion of online spaces thing]", but i think that misses the mark a tiny bit. what you're saying there is "go to a place with an overall toxic view of this thing, and enjoy it in that context", when maybe the person was actually saying "i feel like the spheres i've aligned with politically don't have a healthy view of this either, so where am i supposed to go?" and that's not always the case, it is definitely obviously often said disingenuously or whatever, but it probably is best to still respond with more care in those cases, if there's a chance doing so may even disarm the initial statement.

express "yes, obviously having a left wing environment that sees things in a less toxic way than the outside world would be better, therefore if a thing can be done in a non-toxic way, we should be entirely willing to normalise doing so". i'll give an example, i have mentioned this before, i tend to prefer skinny people [lefties feel completely free to gasp in horror] in dating, it's not a "those just inherently objectively are hotter", that's nonsense, i don't think it makes someone objectively hot if i find them hot, or not if i don't either, and i have found some larger people hot, it's just a trend i found in who i tend to like. i have introspected, it's not bigoted (i probably won't go into kink/s too much rn, but kneecaps sexy), i really also don't think it is healthy to overanalyse your every little thought for Signs Of Bad. obviously, outside of lefty spaces, the norms are "skinny, but not too skinny = hot", but you may see an enormous difference between that and what i said. i said "idk it's literally just a personal preference that doesn't mean anything in objective terms" and society says "no this person is objectively a hotter person than that one", and when somebody says that they found lefty spaces immediately assumed they meant the latter if what they meant was the former, and responded to it with some variation of "only dogs like bones", that's a problem with that one lefty space, that's simply reversing society's negative behaviour. saying "just go outside" is saying "go live in the fatphobia world".

no it doesn't happen that much, it's something i've mainly found happens in moderately toxic discord servers with a few newbies, who's politics have barely evolved past "society bad", but yes, it's actually essential that lefty spaces don't jump to conclusions, to demonise and assume the worst of people, and disallow them to pursue a thing in the context of a healthier environment. but i do wanna note there's better examples than this, it's only one i have personal experience of seeing happen, that feeds into another i'll sometimes see, where anorexia is seen as a personal failing we'd better shame and insult, rather than a mental illness and way we sometimes exist that deserves as much acceptance as others in reality, one that is not as accepted and adored in society as folks who's body positivity activism begins and ends at "world hate all fatness, therefore world like all smallness, therefore smallness is actually bad" think, which is an overly simplified binary (as better expressed in a post somebody made about how the world really doesn't want lesbians to be bi or bi people to be lesbians, it's just hating both, but experiencing life as one or the other may cause people to feel that the world likes the other). and i think being an informative, non-judgemental sphere that can recognise such a nuanced situation, and allow people a non-toxic space to have a particular emotion or experience, instead of saying "no, go have those things in a space with a toxic outlook", is more mature tbh.

"normalise masuline men" is sometimes a shitty conservative, in disingenuous attempt to weaponise lefty language against trans people or gnc people, and sometimes some lib gay masc4masc, who's tired of being told he should try femboys, by a toxic friend circle that doesn't understand that's not how it works. yeah, this purportedly left space should accept any gendered expression, i think. i think him seeing masculinity in a positive light, and being supported in his tastes by his friends, is better than them saying "literally just go outside [where all the toxic masculinity is, and i'll additionally add, where being gay at all isn't accepted, even that masc4masc guy, if anything he'd be seen as defying a gendered stereotype himself because both 'wear the pants']". if you cannot surpass your urge to shrug somebody off, and see complexity in statements like this, you're really not a very good lefty advocate. (additionally, more femboy for me, masc4mascs are a blessing).