#and im very afraid of everyone here

[91divoc]

uhh based on @/crinkly-spinkly one post bc i think about it alot

[dearmyloveleys]

as much as I enjoy reading discourse on why this person and that person did that in mdzs, sometimes I feel like we think too much on them and it really is just… the characters are just… human… (referencing people in the main cast) They do things whatever they think is right and wrong, because of their own histories, upbringing and personalities. It’s inevitable that they clash with others, which escalates emotions and events. Their very superficial society doesn’t help at all. With everything coming together in a shitshow, this makes all their stories so damn painful and tragic.

This doesn’t mean that I excuse characters who inflict more harm on others. I acknowledge and don't want to take away whatever any character experienced. Being human doesn't excuse shitty behaviour. But still, I feel for them that they had to resort to/end up in their respective ways to make it through their loveless world. I want to focus on the greyness of humanity behind everything that happens in the story. One of the many thematic concerns that resonate with me is how much of us as humans are black and white (as such, we debate on the characters’ place on this spectrum, because of their actions). 不说黑白, Never black or white. Even if it nears the blackened end, it still never goes pitch black.

I say 人就是人，人就是这样 — People are people, people are simply like this. We all can be kind, we all curse out. We are all insecure about something. We laugh, we cry. We write love songs as much as easily as we write hateful messages. One day our loved ones and friends are around, and the next day, they aren’t anymore. There are times in our past that we can never return to and we can do nothing but move on with our own ways of coping, for what we think will be a better life for us. For better or worse.

Amidst all the viciousness and pettiness of the jianghu, mdzs touches on our tragedies and fallacies as people just trying to make sense of an unfeeling world, with unjust consequences and impartiality. Many of the mdzs characters try, and they fail. Isn’t this how our own reality is? How many of us have the privilege of a denouement to our own stories?

We can all have our personal opinions on the characters and their actions, but do not deny them their humanity or whatever shred of it is left.

[harvestmoth]

okay last one. au where nothing goes wrong at all ever (a lie) and melia venam gay moment

[musubiki]

how was playing hsr? was there anything that you liked in the game and the story?

ITS BEEN AMAZING AS EXPECTED!!!!!!!!! i actually havent played genshin in a while since starting it, i have no motivation to do the filler event while a perfectly good star rail is sitting there waiting to be played :')

but for mechanics, i love they have auto battle so you dont have to nessecarily sit there and invest in every little battle you gotta do....and i love that the resin (resin??) system is a lot more forgiving with a higher cap, lower cost, and allow for overflow...thats nice...i also love that the mc and starter units are very useful. im so emotionally attatched to the star rail crew so im glad they never have to leave my team !!!!

storywise im LOVING IT SO FAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i started playing it at the beginning of spring break 2 weeks ago and im almost all caught up!!! i went through belabog and penacony and now im just doing those leftover intermission main quests which im only now realizing i shouldve done before going to penacony LMAO

and of course.....danmarch....im so soft for them......and also i love sampo i cant wait to see what they do with him

[spikeyjo]

also uh im kind of not thinking about it much because its insane. but if everything goes right (and i mean a considerable amount of things that probably wont go as planned) but if they DO... i will have a major surgery in like two weeks

[ratatatastic]

canada. my households worst enemy.

[sludgeguzzler]

i try to remember when i first started having a deeply negative opinion of myself and then i think of when i was like a 7 year old and told my parents i didnt deserve to get ungrounded bc "there [was] no coming back from this, dad" (i hadnt cleaned my room)

[theworlds-stage]

Tbh I wish they had explained the reasons why King was willing to go on that arranged match in the series, though I'm guessing they are using it as a more powerful angst tool and according to my theory on the number of episodes it's going to be explained in episode 8. I'm pretty sure that at that point in the novel, King was already vocal about his main reasons, and it was simply Uea being filial that stopped him from understanding that King meant what he was saying.

Anyways spoilers in the tags if anyone is interested, because I need to talk about it 🤷‍��️

[shidoukanae]

"A dragon is born to be relentless. They do not know the meaning of giving up. If they give their heart to you it's a sign of undying loyalty: and of a trust that will kill them if you break it."

[thatoneweirdo14]

joined a yoi discord server today and told everyone I'm 2 days old to the show

[widevibratobitch]

well shit

[cherrydott]

Not wealthy enough for the Mid Life Crisis and also life is unpredictable so I will be having an ongoing crisis

[waywardsalt]

thinking abt linebeck’s coat. something very alluring about it for some reason. so im just gonna ramble about it here instead of in the tags for once

you can probably start a fight between the people who think it’s a coat and people who think it’s a jacket but i think it’s a coat moving on

the character designs are interesting to look at due to the proportions and art style so it is hard to imagine how long his coat would be but i think it would go down to a bit above ankles because i think that’s good. it’s a bit more dramatic a bit more impressive(?) that way and would probably lead to problems tbh

based on some of the official art i imagine that the stripe at the bottom might’ve been a late addition since it’s missing in the bit of official art most used to represent linebeck. tbh linebeck is inconsistent in very tiny ways in the official art but that’s mostly if you’re gonna be nit-picky or bored enough to notice

his coat is so good it’s simple but very recognizable and stands out among the other character designs in ph and its just. yknow good character design

its also surprisingly good for headcanons and stuff and because i mostly take a lot of canon as suggestion i have a good handful of headcanons tagged specifically onto his coat (one of which is the length of it ig)

i like to imagine that he made it himself. i’ve seen stuff where people write linebeck as being able to fix link’s tunic when it gets torn and i feel like the logical extreme of that is that he made his own coat. i think that adds a layer of. importance to it? it’s unique it’s solely linebeck’s it’s tied to him because he made it with his own hands and maybe it can represent something about him that way?

i like to imagine that in addition to the normal pockets one the outside he’s got a whole lot of little pockets on the inside of the coat, like so many pockets that he hides little trinkets or tools or things he steals in either to keep or to take back to his ship for whatever reason. some of the pockets have little flaps of whatever they’re called that can be secured in place with a small button to keep stuff in

he’s got like pencils and a compass and little notes and tiny figurines and cool rocks and feathers and all kinds of little things he thought was worth keeping around and due to that his coat is uncomfortable sometimes but if he knows for certain he’s going to be busy doing stuff he’ll empty out all of the pockets and only leave the important stuff so that it’s lighter and less uncomfortable. link finds his coat lying around at some point and is caught so badly off-guard by how surprisingly heavy it is with all of the bullshit he keeps in all of his pockets

i also imagine he values it a lot, maybe to the point of being really possessive and protective of it, not letting link touch it and if it gets torn or stained he shuts down and has to fix it before he can move on to anything else, and if he can’t fix it at the time it leave him kind of overwhelmed or upset until he can fix it. he has a lot stocked-up materials specifically for his coat to avoid a situation where he has to go for while with his coat damaged

backing away from headcanon territory, his coat is just a cool bit of character design and has just been lodged in my mind for a while. its cool and never brought up within the game (obviously) and i guess a last little closing thought is that in the cutscene where oshus teleports link above linebeck it kinda looks like his coat moves when he tries to catch link and i think that’s cool

[pepprs]

beaver gnawing on wood noises

[blearyfaced]

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[cericertain]

I'm going to be really honest with you. I don't know who you are but you got recommended to me, and I write this in good faith.

As a trans woman. It's appropriative as hell to call yourself a trans woman or transfem if you're afab. Doing so dilutes the usefulness of the term for actual trans women + transfems. We have to claw and bite and scratch to gain our femininity, fighting against the constant societal pressure to either curl up and die or revert to masculinity. Afab folks, regardless of their gender identity, don't. The Trans in Transgender vs the Cis in Cisgender is about change versus continuation.

Afab folks are pushed towards femininity by society, and being feminine is a continuation of that.

Frankly, I don't know if you're just a rage bait account, or if you just don't give a shit about actual trans women and trans femmes. If you do though. Find a different word. Make up your own, I don't care. Because if you do; one last thing.

Genuinely ask yourself, why do you feel the need to use this term? You have countless people asking you not to, because it is part of a long-standing culture of people who have had to form tight-knit communities of folks like each other because no one else was truly safe, and saying "actually anyone can use this as long as they're feminine and trans" robs our signifiers of effectiveness. It's appropriation 101. You are entering a space that isn't yours to enter and are taking something that isn't yours to take.

Don't take our linguistic tools of identification from us under the guise of gender liberation.

it doesnt dilute shit, you just wanna bend the term to fit a very small portion of people, guess what? gender is too fuckery to put such big things into tiny exclusionary boxes

also very gross you define transness by suffering and/or "changing". you obviously have a very narrow minded view. additonally. you cannot claim to know anyone else's experience.

there will always be diversity in being trans. no matter what, you cannot claim because someone doesnt experience the exact same thing as you words that fit them suddenly are "not allowed". trans femininity and trans womanhood can look like many things, and those labels shouldn't make you assume jack about someones life experiences because they do not give that much information. honeybees+etc ACKNOWLEDGE there are other trans experiences out there, and we do not claim to experience them. we do not speak over them. me personally, i listen to and uplift other trans folk and maybe you should too.

and i just have to mention, being AFAB doesn't except you from everything you just described. not for me specifically, but you have a very perinornative view and i in good faith wanna mention that to you.

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about the "rage bait" section, bestie, ask yourself honestly: is it my pre conceived biases that i don't like this term or is it actually harmful?

this is the same thing y'all said about hesbians/theysbians/enby lesbians, same shit yall say about bi lesbians, again and again you wanna seperate people who don't fit into your finite view on what things can look like.

and fyi, there is a term. a term to show "hey, our experience may be diff from the average assumed experience of this group". its honeybees. but y'all attack people who make up new words anyways so whats the point lmao

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why do i feel the need to use this term?

its a term that fits me and so i will use it.

you have had countless people ask you not to

i have had two people be transphobic to me and tell me to kms and harass me for it. yea, they do that to "odd" trans identities.

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being transfem is not a *culture*. maybe theres cultures formed BY transfems, of course, but to say you cannot use a term that fits your experience because "well XYZ people use it this way" , guess what! ive met many trans people from all walks of life who support this stuff! almost as if every group will have exclusionary folk and that is isn't a reason to be like "yea no ur not real"

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it doesnt rob shit of its "effective"ness, you are just mad that identities such as this point out the big flaw in a lot of people online's regressive takes. no, trans femininity is not some monolith. no, trans fem / trans masc is not the new gender binary. it is just as effective, you are just upset it includes more people than you want it to. its almost as if queer identities always spill over the tiny boxes people try and place on them

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entered a space that isn't mine? oh i'm sorry i didn't know you were the recently elected president of transfems, so sorry your highness i will tell all the other trans people i know they now have to conform to exclusionary ideas of what gender can look like and how words around gender should be used /s

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nobody took shit, you just got used to using transfem/trans woman to mean the same type of experience so now that experiences still exist outside of that there is a cognitive dissonance. like yea no sorry queer identities don't conform to small boxes, no matter how many new types of exclusion you make