my aunt keeps telling me about every single trans person she even kinda knows (including deadnaming them in the process) and i feel like i’m gonna lose my mind
even going so far as to say stuff like “you should meet *insert random trans person* they’re my coworker’s nephew!”
ok????
I know plenty of trans ppl, I really don’t need to meet this random one.
I know she’s well meaning but jesus christ it’s getting on my nerves
she also keeps bringing up male clothes and being like “i bet this is more your style 😉” like…. ok…. (it really isn’t but whatever)
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ffxiv garlemald discourse is so funny because people will go "ugh people just cant stand it when things aren't black and white" and then you look at how the empire are portrayed in stormblood and shadowbringers and its like hm. that seems like a pretty intense and accurate display of violent imperialism to me! Wow I wonder why people in this day and age may find it hard to feel sympathy for them or even hate them on principal. god its such a mystery.
the games like 50/50 to me on how it tackles these themes because I actually like the garlemald arc in EW, I think it has a lot of horrific and powerful scenes depicting how self destructive fascist propaganda and beliefs are, but I also think it doesn't go far enough on some fronts. the garleans' xenophobia is most notably and obstacle to getting them to accept the contingent's help, which is what they're there to do,
but there's never an admission of harm from any garleans on the uuuuuuuuh massive amount of war crimes the nations around them are still suffering from they're just kind of like "we misjudged you...but you actually wanted to help us all along" like yeah thats great now can we get you all some deprogramming because you keep talking about returning to your prime and glory days and I think we need to unpack some stuff you really SHOULDNT return to. im not even really talking about EW proper but the patches where things are a bit more chilled out and people are recovering.
It feels like they wanted to have their critique of imperialism and also have things end with the beauty of human connection and reaching out and these things just don't mesh well because hey a lot of your modern day audience is not gonna like having to treat people yelling xenophobic things at the cast and your character with kid gloves after you showed them hours and hours of the awful things these people's beliefs have done. especially in the present day hoo boy.
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there's more to do, and i still want to live
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was listening to the bg3 soundtrack and the chorus of I Want To Live gives me such durge feels and got me thinking about how miserable these few seconds were for Rain, standing there thinking of the little dreams he'd dared to have that he might have a happy ending after all this, thinking he should have known better than to hope
also i like to pretend bhaal had held the companions back with some sort of magic bc otherwise i'd hope they wouldn't just fucken stand there like they do in the game jsklfdngsf
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little update — I fucking love my new job ♡ I'm in a small flare up, just cause my body is adjusting. I do work IRL the next couple days, but I work evenings! so with the exclusion of thursday due to the holiday, I'll be here during the morning/midday to catch up! ♡
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lmao this quote is killing me. hardcore sucks in regards to gender because women are embedded in these scenes and employing strategies to maintain their own sanity and/or are reaching for (and failing) to be taken seriously on their own terms. it is their fault punk is oblivious to gender and feminism. get ooovvveerr yourself. conscious raising should be taking the initiative to open up these musicians to a new possibility but of course they are going to be hostile if you are out the gate calling them delusion and unfeminist- these are your peers!! or they are the woman who were there before you!!!
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i plan on writing at college after my class today cause that place just makes me focused on productive as fuck and also has an endless coffee and snack supply
on another note, i have had yet another fic idea and if i keep going like this i will be busy writing for the next like two years at least especially because silhouettes will be fuck knows how long at this point. i know exactly how it will end but how long it will take us to get there is between me and god and i am not praying
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