#but ultimately inconsequential

[tinygameroom]

Have we even talked about the trans implications of being a god of change...

Editing to add my tags and context

When I say 'incidental' at the beginning I'm saying it feels incidental and artificial and then go on to partially deconstruct the idea that it actually is incidental and give examples of why it's not. This is not a full analysis which is why the concept is not explored with the clarity and structure that that would imply, but I'm not actually calling gender irrelevant to the game because it's clearly an ongoing part of the text. I didn't intend this to get reblogged at all much less with responses to my tags, so any issues you have with my rambles are due to lack of clarity and finished thought, due to them being rambles, not a correct understanding of my actual point.

Anyway I think there's tons of interesting analysis to be done about how the game approaches gender, and I don't have the energy or interest to actually analyze about it right now which is why I was more just spitballing about it. What's most interesting to me tho is that contradiction where the Princess being perceived as a woman seemingly has nothing to do with anything, yet is ever present as a commentary on agency and perception, and how people who have experienced misogyny will connect with that. I am also fascinated by the Genderlessness/Genderfulness of the Shifting Mound as an entity of change, how she appears so very feminine but her entire philosophy rejects the idea of simple classification, etc.

As a transmasc nonbinary person the ideas of being perceived as female/feminine (and therefore feeble, innocent, alien, small, stupid, etc etc) and the idea of having a feminine role that doesn't quite or always fit me assumed by others despite that are ideas that resonate a lot. I have lots of thoughts and they're unorganized!

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

Listen, there is no honour quite like someone trusting you enough to be a little hater. I hear you. I support you. However, I’m starting to think some people who love “being a little hater” really just want a cutesy way to reinvent bullying

[spectordameron]

seeing people genuinely complain about the deaths in the acolyte and throwing around words like cruel and sadistic just once again has me thinking people need to actually sit and ponder on where a story is going and if it's something they can handle watching. nothing about the acolyte has implied it's anything besides a murder mystery, and features an entirely new cast of characters — something that, the last time we saw this in live action, ended in them all dying. just because something belongs to a franchise you love, doesn't mean you have to watch it, or that it has to be your cup of tea. It also doesn't make it bad storytelling if it's too brutal for your liking. The internet gives you every opportunity to make an informed opinion on what you consume, ultimately it's your responsibility, not the show's, to cater to what you can handle.

[toxifoxx]

How does it make you feel that M Preg is a canonical thing in FNAF?

i mean i kind of have mixed feelings it's obviously used as a tool of horror and is supposed to be gross and shocking, and it's always used as a shocking thing in the fandom too. not that it's unexpected but you can tell people think of a man being pregnant as something hilarious and outlandish/impossible, it's either something to laugh at or be disgusted by. and as a trans man myself it's just kind of like hmm. Hmmmm

[spacedustmantis]

spontaniously getting my hair dyed a colour i've never tried before is the best and doesn't make me freak out at all

[mimikyufriend]

one of the weirdest things that's happened to me on this site is that I unknowingly reblogged a pro-shipper's art of a minecraft bee and they like got so upsetties and @/ed me about it

[jackredfieldwasmyjacob]

my number one weirdest talent has to be knowing by heart all abbreviations of spanish public universities

[gallopinggallifreyans]

not to be that bitch but i genuinely hate when people post quizzes about (specifically) greek mythology and go "percy jackson fans unite" like. i hate that fandom first of all for reasons unrelated, and second of all if i hear one more person go "it's heracles not hercules" and in the same breath say "narcissus" i'm going to eat my marbles

[vounoura]

thematically kind of weird imo that it's the crow bg that gets the extra potion slot and the veil jumpers that get weakpoint dmg, I'd expect those to be switched

[lickthatbattery]

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[fruitscones]

I think of all the words I wish we never started using it’s Himbo

[clownprince]

as a nursing student w a psych hyperfixation i wouldn't be able to get through five pages of any comic if i wasn't able to suspend the hell out of disbelief but every time i read these lines in particular it makes my eye twitch. me when i spend time training with monks who teach me their secret monk magic powers that somehow change my body's physiology so i'm immune to every paralytic toxin ever... like what type of gary stu overpowered self insert fanfic bullshit is this. actually scratch that comparing this to fanfic is insulting to every fic writer ever. i would pay money to personally fistfight scott lobdell

[hey-scully-itsme]

My husband and I are watching X-Files again and are debating and I wanna know your opinion. Is Skinner romantically in love with Mulder and Scully or does he loves them like a father/a general sort of love.

please know that this ask absolutely made my day. i would've answered it sooner except that real-world things unfortunately prevented me from doing my very favorite thing: giving my opinion, at length. thank you for asking me to weigh in on your marital debate.

So, when it comes to interpreting ambiguous relationships or events in any canon i don't usually settle on any one interpretation. this is because i like to be able to argue either side,* a habit with which i was cursed after my parents, unaware of the monster they were creating, signed me up for a high school debate club. that said, here's my take:

I love the reading that skinner is romantically in love with mulder and scully. unspoken ambiguous love is basically the show's whole deal so throwing skinner into the acts-of-service soup that creates adds spice to the whole thing.

i hadn't put a lot of direct thought into skinner's character before this ask but i do think he provides a fun contrast to both mulder and scully. they devote themselves to causes and people, wholeheartedly and with only a few reservations, whereas skinner, for most of his career, has been trying to walk the line and play both sides, as he says in S.R. 819. we know, though, that he used to be the same kind of passionate, active person that mulder and scully are, given what he says about his choice to volunteer for vietnam in One Breath.

i think mulder reminds him of who he used to be and scully is in some ways the ideal skinner strives for. plenty there for respect and admiration to grow into something else! his protectiveness of both of them can also lend itself to a romantic interpretation.

while their relationship stays very professional ('yes sir' and 'agents' and all that) over the course of the series those formalities start to feel similar to the way mulder and scully still address each other by their surnames, habit-as-affection/familiarity.

additionally, if we accept the reading (which i've occasionally seen elsewhere) that skinner is in love with, or at the very least interested in, scully, we can extrapolate from that that he's unlikely to openly pursue a relationship with either. he doesn't seem the type to make his feelings other people's problems and he also seems to keep very much to himself, emotionally speaking, which really piles on the ambiguity. he absolutely could care about them in an entirely platonic way and it would look more or less the same from the outside, i suspect.

all that to say, i very much think that within the text of the show it could go either way, which is very fun and also does not answer your question! hope this helps!

TL;DR: yes.

[legend-of-cupcake]

Ahh this does make me laugh. Gale and Wyll are distracted by the plot, while my Durge and Minthara are just like "??? Who let Gale be the main character???"

[essence-flux-primed]

ezreal would be a ken in the barbie movie if he was real. not the ken, but definitely a ken.

[normalwars]

I'm sorry idiots aren't respectful of the rules you've set from the start and I hope they didn't upset you too much

If people want to exclude harmful material from their poll, I don't understand how others allow themselves to ignore their wishes and are bitchy about it

I mean I would support you excluding characters you don't like for no reason because it's YOUR poll so characters from a franchise supporting transphobia and including antisemitism in its material...

Take care of yourself. For every TERF out there, there's someone -someones, I believe- willing to slap them in the face with/for you

tis the nature of the internet, some people will never be able to comprehend the idea that you aren't directly insulting them when you say something they don't like concerning their favorite characters.

thank you for the support! we are running off into the sunset together, to a future where TERFs are nothing but a distant memory.