#behold my eloquence

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Oh did @endreal tag "literally everyone with a face" for a selfie? I have a face! (it's even my face!)

Featuring the pretty new necklace I got for dancing in but like so much I've been wearing all the time.

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A silent ghost who's polite enough to say 👻🏃‍♀️ before chasing the children

Not sure why this park thought the first two sign language words they needed to teach to kids were “Ghost” and “Run”

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Ranma 1/2

A story of two teenagers, pushed together by their fathers, resistant to being forced to marry, but who actually care quite a lot about each other.

Set in a world where martial arts training can instill super-human abilities, and magic can curse people with radical transformations.

An examination of machismo, of performative masculinity; but also a subversion of it, as Ranma often finds escape from his rigid ideas of his gender by taking on his girl form.

A story with many suiters for our two protagonists, who rarely (if ever) actually give a shit about what the object of their affections want.

Their fathers do seem to care about these kids, but are so foolish that their care is bumbling, and their actions often do incredible harm.

At this point I might note that I'm only part-way through season 2. I've heard bits of what comes later, but most of my opinions so far are formed only from these earlier episodes.

Ranma prefers masculine he/him pronouns, but does sometimes accept or use feminine she/her pronouns in girl form, when it suits him/her.

Ranma 1/2 is not, at least so far, a story of a trans person; but it is very much a story examining themes of gender and body and transformation, so it inevitably appeals to trans people (of many sorts), and can be read as a trans story.

I personally hope to see more of Ranma accepting her girl-self, and ridding himself of his toxic masculine traits. I'm a trans woman; that's appealing to me.

I watched maybe about the first season of Ranma in my late teens, but I don't remember if I liked it or not. I was a deeply closeted trans girl at the time, so Ranma's curse was deeply appealing, but his machismo and insistence that he's a guy were repulsive.

I often feel that Akane and Ranma's resistance to their engagement is more about the forced engagement than about each other. They talk a lot about how they don't care for/about each other, but their actions demonstrate their care. But they're also ~16, so being told "here's your future spouse!" is obviously deeply uncomfortable.

I cling so hard to Akane and Ranma's initial interactions, before Ranma's secret is revealed; when Akane is happy to meet this girl, who had been threatened as a future husband to her or her sisters. She's frustrated by how easily Ranma defeats her, but also impressed and happy to make a friend. Ranma for her part seems to also enjoy becoming friends with Akane as a girl, even if we later learn how little respect he has for fighting girls; that doesn't come across in their first spar, rather she just seems to enjoy how skillful she is (she's incredible at dodging, to be fair).

It might be easy to lose sight of how skilled Akane is too, given the utterly ridiculous overpowered opponents the pair face. But against any normal opponent, Akane would wipe the floor with them. And she does, as demonstrated when she fights the hordes of guys at her school. While in his machismo Ranma often discounts Akane's skill, I think that skill is one of the things which impresses Ranma and keeps him interested in Akane.

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I always had mixed feelings about Mr. Tumnas (Narnia). I mean, I have mixed feelings about the whole series now that I've realized it's Christian allegory and I'm ex-Christian. But Mr. Tumnas was my favorite character ever.. for maybe 10 seconds before I realized this shirtless faun in a scarf was not, as I first assumed, a girl faun.

My expectations of debauchery were so much higher than what I got.

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I have been going trough your 🏳️‍⚧️ tag and sending posts to my friend whos not been getting any trans positivity from where he usually internets and i wanted to thank you for tagging them because it made my job of full frontal appreciation assault very easy!

Sorry for your notifs tho

I'm so happy you found it helpful!

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I was "un-schooled" so I was, in fact, expected to educate myself. Of course, I didn't write the books so the OP's point stands, but even skipping over that I got a shitty education.

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An egg who joins the military because of drill instructors calling recruits "ladies". Is this anything?

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Nemona is ace; she just wants to battle Pokemon. Invite her back to your room and she'll be like "but there's not enough room to battle there"

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I've got half an hour left in To Shape A Dragon's Breath, and it's so good y'all. I got it from my library, but I'm gonna have to buy a copy. (I just gotta find where best to buy it). It's definitely going into my re-read pile. Here, have a Q&A 👇

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Good time to check out what shows your library has to offer.

seeing people be like ‘I know it’s going to be hard to support the sag strike because movies and shows will stop coming out but-’ is so fucking funny like can I introduce you to a beautiful concept called the million billion movies and shows that already exist that you couldn’t even get through in a lifetime if you wanted. welcome to heaven <3

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I came out as a trans woman to my new job. (I work remotely as a software engineer, started a new job Tuesday last week). Reception is very welcoming; I think it's gonna be okay.

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Reflection of a Broken Heart

Mornings after school drop-off I've been going to the local lake for morning stretches, dancing, whatever movement I can get myself to do.

A few times now I've brought a trash bag and gloves and picked up trash for several minutes first.

Today while doing so, I found this. I ended up leaving it where it is (there was plenty of other trash to fill my bag 💔), but I'm tempted to go back for it and find someone who could make an artistic repair.

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Happy pride, tumblr!

Every one of these is queer. And yeah maybe #5 illustration is questionably queer but a) yes Miles is, and b)

Yeah the fuck it is.

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Video synopsis: dude in black (far right) imitates various sounds and the crowd goes wild!

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So it appears to me that the new photo/video viewer crap that's so frustrating, is only on my dashboard. If I go to anyone's blog, I get the old better one with a video pause control and double-tap to zoom on pictures.

So, there's a workaround for this crap, at least. At least for now.

@staff could you give us the option to disable this new crap on dashboard?

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I've conceived of an A Goofy Movie fanfiction with Max as an egg / trans girl. IDK if I can write it and I haven't checked if it exists yet but I guess I'll give it a try.