#“they've heard it all before”

[trans-androgyne]

Yes, trans men and mascs have historically been subjected to less public violence and ridicule than trans women and fems. Is having privilege really the only reason you can think of for that? Have you considered that they had less ability to be publicly visible in the first place? Please remember that the lack of autonomy women have historically been granted also applies to transmascs. They would have been considered the property of men. Spousal rape wasn't illegal everywhere in my country until 1993. How easy do you think it would be for forcibly impregnated transmascs to transition? For abused transmascs in general? Do you think they were all even allowed out of the house often without a man? There are so many stories of transmascs being forcibly institutionalized for being trans. Is that situation and otherwise being quietly abused and erased really so much better than hypervisibility?

[twinterrors29]

star wars OC idea: university social science department chair who has to keep spending their whole budget to hire bounty hunters to drag their faculty out of the field to fulfil their teaching responsibilities

[hooved]

realizing i don't need to have smart shit to say about music is so freeing. i can just like all the music i like and i don't have to try to explain why it's good. it just sounds good to me. my level of eloquence or technical knowledge on the subject doesn't matter because music is for everyone and not just people who can go on for hours about the composition of a specific piece. i don't know what a 13/8 time signature is dude. it just sounds good

[poisonousquinzel]

thinking about just how likely it is that Batman was the only person Harley told about having suicidal thoughts whilst in Arkham in Detective Comics #831

"I was seriously considering hanging sheets from the light in my cell and doing the maximum checkout when I heard this voice..."

Detective Comics #831

and how he knew when she strapped that bomb to herself in Batman (2016) #100 that he had to go after her because she was going let herself die in an attempt to end Joker's rampage for good but that she refused to physically do it because he didn't want to her Kill him and he told her that so she's found a middle ground

"We don't need to end it this way. He needs to be locked back up."

that she'd rather die than keep living with his presence in the world haunting her, haunting Them.

That if he did choose Joker, she wasn't going to disarm the bomb herself.

"Honey. You're talking to the wrong girl if you think he's not dangerous locked up in Arkham. It's like I said. That's not good enough for me. Not anymore."

the way he yells for her as she leaves.

"You're only going to get to one of us in time, Bats. Who's it going to be?"

"Harley!"

the way the two men stare at each other in the way they have so many times before, in those moments when Joker stayed or prioritized their fight over her. the way he knew Joker loved the thrill of it all and thought it was funny, thought there was No way Batman would leave him and that this game had to end as according to the rules. And that Batman would do so, he would follow the rules and save him. The way he immediately assumed Batman would choose him, choose his life and choose to stay and disarm the bomb.

And how Batman didn't do that. How Batman walked away from him, leaving him to die or escape or whatever, because He was choosing Harley and her safety and prioritizing her life over him.

The way he stared him in the eyes before choosing the woman Joker had always left to die over him. The way that it was always Him, it was never a question if he would choose Batman over her, but when faced with that type of scenario, Joker is the one that gets left behind to die.

The way she literally woke up in the hospital instead of them having a scene just outside after he removed it. because she didn't intend to live in one of the two options. the way the bomb probably did go off to some capacity because you don't just end up in the hospital knocked out for a week.

Him saying that he's glad she's okay, after everything they've been through, this war and Everything else. and the way he didn't brush off her concern

"I'm glad you're okay."

"Are you?"

"I had to bury my father again today. I did it with my family."

i just, i can't,,,,, i cant

[shikai-the-storyteller]

[angeart]

My brain keeps going back to the hhau rambles and Grian asking Scar about taking his wings off and just...how incredibly short-sighted that "fix" would be. Because like, even if he lost one/both his wings and lived through it....he'd still have his instincts. He'd still chirp...he'd still wanna be high up in nests but he'd have to climb now. He'd never be able to wrap himself in wings again... depending on when that earring of Scar's might be the last of his feathers... and oh gosh post rescue? The hermits seeing him without wings and all the questions and looks of pity. Some well meaning hermit maybe brings him an elytra which he's never needed before and oh that could cause a spiral

-🎀

oh gosh. oh okay. i see you're bringing angst to my doorstep.

grian definitely wasn't thinking clearly in that moment. he simply reached a point where he can't see any other solution. so much of his anguish is tied to his wings. he's in pain and scared and he desperately wants it to stop.

he's learned to despise his wings. they cause him so much turmoil and everything that was ever good about them—everything he loved—has been meticulously erased. they're not pretty. they are dirty and grimy and itchy. heavy, unwieldy, muscles locked up, clumsy and aching from disuse. they no longer feel like a proper part of him. he's not using them, he's just constantly fighting to tuck them away. to make the world believe they're not there.

well then... wouldn't it be easier? if that was the reality?

to him, it sounds like a long-term solution to an otherwise never-ending problem.

his wings are a beacon, and wouldn't him and scar be so much safer without them? if he didn't have them, there'd be no reason for people to madly hunt him. maybe then they could stop running and catch their breath. maybe then scar wouldn't be in constant danger just from being near him. maybe then the fear lodged into grian's spine and the endless string of triggered panic attacks would finally go away.

yes, he'd still have his instincts. but he's already grounded. he's already not using his wings for any sort of comfort at this point, and flight is not an option. he's craving nests and high places, but that doesn't mean he can get them, wings or no wings, and— he was fine without that on hermitcraft! surely if the pain and fear stop, his instincts will calm down? surely, he can get at least a semblance of control back?

and you need to realise. there was no thought spared to the hermits. at this point, scar and grian have given up and no longer expect or even hope to ever be rescued. in their minds, there's no one coming to save them. there's no home to go back to. it's just this.

it will always be this.

and this is painful, and grian is clawing at ideas of making it better somehow—anyhow—no matter how drastic or gruesome that option might seem.

that all being said... man. that big what if. what if he really lost them? what if, one way or another, he managed to get rid of his wings? what if that happened and he survived?

your point about how scar's earring would be the last of grian's feathers is so heartrending. that'd be so tragic and sad.

and then post-rescue, the hermits would have even more proof of the damage. even more questions, too. even more helplessness as how to help, when the damage done is long since unfixable </3

grian, having to wrangle with having a safe environment to fly again, but having no wings to fly with... especially if that was his own choice. if it was preventable. ouch.

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

TG: do you think former president ronald reagan smacks rats

EB: sssmacks…rats?

TG: yah do you reckon he smacks rats

EB: oh yeah he TOTALLY smacks rodents—what in GOD’S NAME are we talking about

[instantpansies]

oughhhhhghg thinking about falsettos (proshot, by chance) again

the little detail of how jason helps push the two sides of The Cube apart while marvin and trina are talking at him in My Father's a Homo (after "i don't lead the life of a normal child"). they're pulling it apart but he's providing the final push and ough. i know it's just a bit of staging, it's probably necessary, but i will read into it anyway. marvin and trina are trying to pull him in both directions but he's pushing both of them apart and away from him. chooses neither. jumps out of The Cube before he can get pulled to either side.

also! i never noticed before somehow, but mendel pulling out trina's handkerchief in Marvin at the Psychiatrist is hilarious. of course he would. in front of marvin, no less.

and of course. Marvin Hits Trina i will never get you out of my head aughaugauh - i think it's interesting how in the proshot, trina and whizzer have different reactions to "how could you ever deny what we had" (from "we had fights and games..."). trina sounds almost venomous. that was all they had, fights and games and name-calling. (she's justified. marvin sucks.) her tone is harsh. but whizzer seems remorseful. the fights and games were part of the thrill. i mean, he says it in Thrill of First Love, right? "of all the lesser passions, we like fighting most". whizzer craves the fight - maybe because that's all he knows and that's the version of marvin he cared for at one point. i don't know. but whizzer's character is constantly talking of fighting in a more positive light, especially in act 1. trina describes "her boys" as fighting all the time, uses it as a negative epithet. trina despises the fighting.

and for both of them, that's all there really was. how could they ever deny what they had? fights and games, marvin calling them funny names, marvin playing the clown. that's all. no wonder trina left. no wonder she spends the rest of the play describing those around her in those terms, no wonder she's so tired of the childish, selfish, oblivious men surrounding her. and no wonder whizzer left. no wonder all he knows is to play games, to make no waves, to leave when asked. no wonder he doesn't flinch when marvin hits trina.

no wonder he's the one who claps to make the sound just outside the spotlight.

augh

[albonium]

wild to me that it takes hours for people in the usa to vote. it's never taken me more than 10 minutes and that's including the inevitable chit chat with the people there because they're either my parents' neighbours or the parents of people i went to school with.

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

Sorry to my inbox, I know I have messages to respond to, unfortunately my state is currently under water and I have family and friends and neighbors I'm trying to locate and help atm. If you see me on here it's not because I'm here, it's because I'm trying to get five fucking minutes where my head isn't just airraid sirens

Much love to all, we are all just doing our best to survive ❤️💚

[pocketgalaxies]

the whole cast: what were the names of the two titans who were buried in domunas?

matt: *looking for it in his notes*

me: uhm ok fake fans??? it's obviously rau'shan and ka'mort, we have their names power in a name i can do this i know you can????

[girlcalledwhatsername]

Love polls that are like

"Which one did you do/have as a kid?

Option 1: American Thing #1

Option 2: American Thing #2

Option 3: Other secret thing (wtf 😂 what does that even mean what is that? Lol weirdo)"

[dream-sans-mogai]

This will probably get looks from performative and ultimately harmful non-transfems despite my being transfem but-

Some y'alls only interaction with feminist history and theories, radical feminism regardless of its intersectionality and really any feminism deeper and louder and meaner than blatant choice feminism like the barbie movie and whatever TF taylor swift thinks shes got going on is through your occasional and short interactions with terfs and it shows. You call vagina art terfy and it fucking isnt. Its feminist art. Your brainrot is making you a fucking mra. The fact y'all think talking about the man vs bear situation is about/started/ran by terfs (and encouraged some really questionable other transfems shitting on it despite it clearly just being about women's safety and yes all men, not transphobia.), everything from questioning wether certain groups belong in our community to thinking a word is a slur or having a lesbian icon (I have sources don't test me) or not to not liking a certain band has been called "terf rhetoric". I'm all for us Transmascs talking about how terfs affect us cause they absolutely do and their harm to the transmasc community can not be understated but like.... Y'all are not allowed to call Jack shit terf rhetoric anymore. Like nothing. You don't know what it means, you litterally call transmedicalism and sysmedicalism terf rhetoric. Do you mean exclusionist? Say exclusionist. Terfs are not the end all be all hate group. They have a very specific complex mindset that affects so many people in specific ways. Someone hating Neopronouns is not fucking terf rhetoric. It's nbphobia. Holy fuck. Learn what words mean.

(intersectional trans radfems exist, radical feminism isn't terfs and swerfs and historical radfems would laugh in their faces for their idiocy)

[solradguy]

Hi mr badguy, I’m trying to get my mom to buy me one of those new guilty gear plushies as a bribe for me to get good grades in college do you which is the legit website for the preorder? I’m terrified of ripping her off she’s already been ripped off other times online

Good Smile US is the site to use if you're in the USA. It DOES look like they can ship most products internationally from this store though, according to their support FAQ: https://www.goodsmileus.com/

Good Smile Shop is their "main" shop but they only ship within Japan: https://goodsmileshop.com/ja/

If it would make sense for where you live to buy from the Japan site but they won't ship to you, you can use a proxy service. I use Japan Rabbit because their service has been fantastic each time, but they're a little on the pricier end as far as proxies go... On the bright side, they aren't USA exclusive so you can use Japan Rabbit to ship anywhere from Japan: https://japanrabbit.com/

Good Smile has a partner shop directory for stores that carry their products too, though I'm not 100% sure if you'd be able to preorder something from all of them. If you generally have difficulty getting something shipped to your country then this directory might be helpful: https://partner.goodsmile.info/support/eng/partnershops/

In short, the Good Smile websites and the official Arc System Works store (https://www.arcshopus.com/) are the two main "legit" stores for GG merch right now. The ASW store ships to USA, Canada, and Mexico. Outside those countries you'll likely have to use a proxy service with the JP site (which has different stuff than the US one?!) https://www.arcsystemworks.jp/portal/shop/

Hope this helps!! Good luck with college!!

[diluc33rpm]

the romance/relationship system in bg3 is genuinely some of the worst designed shit i've ever seen in any game with that feature but at least the memes we get out of it are funny. once saw someone comment something along the lines of 'patch note: waving at gale will no longer cause him to buy a house for the two of you to retire in' and i've never recovered since

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

While I was reading the later chapters of Phantom of the Opera a friend of mind reminded me it was a serialization, and suddenly I had a moment of clarity in which I thought "Oh so that's why it's written like that"