#and my mind is wandering

[lostandfem]

the thing is trans activism and the protection of gnc people arent compatible. ive seen trans people point out how gnc people being viewed as their sex despite being nonconforming is a sign of inequality for trans people, because they cannot dress how they want and be viewed as the sex that they want. that dynamic has been handled in two ways, depending on the individual:

Option 1: gender should be visible via gender roles. ie if someones dressing in something considered feminine, they should be seen as a woman. if someone is masculine, then they should be considered a man

Option 2: Gender roles should be abolished and you cannot tell someone’s gender by looking at them, you simply have to take their word for it.

option 1 identifies gnc people as an opponent to their philosophy. option 2 supports gnc people but at the expense of well. youve all seen the current issues with “take my word for it” self-id

the weird thing is that both of these options seem to exist at the same time in trans politics. they dont appear to in-fight or debate each other. they seem to co-exist within the same person. and the result has been “you cannot tell someone’s gender just by looking at them, so you should take their word that theyre trans even when they dont seem to be; but if you are gender nonconforming well assume youre trans or nonbinary in some way”.

the former has been mostly something used regarding trans-identified males. its something they opt into. if he chooses to wear a dress, you should see him as a woman. if he simply tells you hes a woman, you should see him as a woman. while the latter is mostly applied to women and girls. if she has short hair and comfortable clothes, she is bombarded with questions about her pronouns or assumed to be an egg in denial. transness is forced upon them, like yet another gender role they have to adhere to. what was once her choice to opt out of female gender roles is restricted by the trans label. so transness offers males freedoms while once again limiting females.

i dont have a grand point to make here, ive just been thinking about some things ive been observing.

[positively--speculative]

Idk if anyone watched As Told By Ginger...but I cannot help but think about the episode where Dodie was going to expose those who failed their lice examinations to the entire school through the intercom. When Ginger stopped her, she tried to say that the "students had a right to know," and Ginger straight up called out that bullshit. She was humiliating people in order to feel powerful and move up the social ladder.

Why was Ginger even friends with her?

[ered]

Here’s my take on the whole audio books vs. reading:

Oral tradition of storytelling predates written ones by millennias, and honestly, which one you like is just a personal preference.

The actual difference is

when listening, you have no idea how to write characters’ names

when reading, you have no idea how to pronounce characters’ names

hope this helps!

[lucabyte]

i feel like people are sleeping on the occam's razor situation of how buckwild it is to outright accuse a guy of being a clone of your friend even if you DO have a lot of circumstantial evidence. there's other options is what im saying. they could just be like. a guy. that's a sensible deduction. you should explore that deduction. ignore my shirt that reads I <3 RED HERRINGS.

i still think odile has the correct theory on lock but she's smart enough to know it needs like... a real smoking gun to be able to bring it up without sounding insane.

anyway. (mirabelle voice) i know its rude to speculate but has anyone else noticed the grieving? they seem to be grieving. does anyone have any thoughts on the grieving? i have some thoughts on the grieving.

[bh-l]

the puppet, kabukimono, scaramouche: several times now he has risen and fallen, [...] wanderer: [...] and now he lives only for himself.

[velsatelier]

giving in

[rubikor]

would you hold my face softly and tell me it will be alright?

[churomo]

SCARA RERUN SOON!!… pls be nicer to me this time around sir

[ariaste]

swear to god if I read another motherfucking fic where these vampires pause to get the lube I am going to have a fucking mental breakdown and chew holes in the walls. i have had it up to here. this is an intervention. this is a come-to-jesus moment. what are you doing. are you thinking about your choices. why are you making them have sex like they're humans instead of weird fucked-up vampire sex. look into my eyes. can you please consider your worldbuilding choices and make ones that are less excruciatingly boring. look at me. you're being the softest beigest pillow if you make them use human lube. i'm serious. i will die on this hill.

fight me in the comments if you disagree or you feel huffy about this, i don't care. come at me, bro, i own the night.

[xialumee]

two heroes in parallel worlds

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Bonus 7: Time moves sideways

[First] Prev <–-> Next

[phonification]

ive been thinking about taco and balloon forming a little alliance post s1/ pre s2 where they'd (begrudgingly) work together planning on how to break into hotel OJ to steal stuff to take back to their makeshift camp like food, blankets, pillows, etc,,, anything that could be useful to them

[willowser]

you and bakugou getting paired up on one of those intense survival-y gameshows and he gets so mad at himself for thinking about you in some ooey-gooey way when he's supposed to be there to WIN

[bookishwithathought]

Lucien, SIR 😩

Asking SJM to bring our sassy fox back

Release the sassiness 😭

[starry-bi-sky]

yall ever think Shen Yuan went through like, internet withdrawal after being transmigrated into Shen Qingqiu? Like, he's canonically a NEET shut-in who did nothing but spend his time online, you can't tell me that for the first week or first few weeks of being SQQ he wasn't twitchy.

Like, reaching instinctively to his pockets for a phone that wasn't there, having an obsessive itch in the back of his mind that he should check and see if X or Y novel or webcomic has updated -- only to realize he can't anymore and being irritated by it. Wanting to go and see if there's new posts about this or that, but again realizing that he can't.

When he's bored or uncomfortable or just feels like wanting to escape he tries to go for his phone to distract himself, but oops! Not there anymore, and now he has to find a new and different way to distract himself from his feelings. And going through system notifications, quests, etc only does so much.

And there's that Tetris Effect too. SQQ makes a mistake while writing and instinctively goes to backspace on it except hey-ho that's not a keyboard and now he just dipped his pinkie into a bottle of ink or on a still-drying letter.

With him scrambling to fix his reputation and learn how to be a peak lord, I think his abrupt cold-turkey from all things internet would just be another straw on the camel's back that he promptly Ignores until it goes away on its own after he acclimates to his new surroundings.

[2aceofspades]

*explodes into a sad puddle*

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