#completely disconnected from the world

[junotter]

All the jokes about Ken and horses are good but I just wanna say it's such a good parallel to how actual young men get swept into misogyny and the patriarchy.

Like they're told to believe it means men get to be cool and manly and have this power but with that comes extremely rigid commands of what they can be as a man and a cycle of self hatred for never matching those gender roles perfectly. Patriarchy tells men that if they just do exactly what is expected of them, then they get all the "cool stuff" that comes with. That doesn't work though when there's only a small group that actually gets that power, but men will keep trying to fit into those roles in hopes that they can.

In the end there are no horses or the myth men are told, it's just endless cycles of self hatred and ingroup fighting.

[lights-at-night]

i might be shot but tbh i think fiction podcasts have an issue with racial representation

[philosophiums]

truly i have been eating all of the theories/ideas lately about itfs cursing each other in some way shape or form at the end of the manga. i love twisted love stories i love a bittersweet ending i love living through the tragedy by enacting violence upon yourself and your loved ones OUGH it's so good

megumi whose main goals this entire series have been centered around yuuji. yuuji who is possibly already acting under the (beginning?) effects of a curse that megumi put on him ("start by saving me" - could also argue that "you've got it from here" isn't helping either kjsdbvjkdfb). megumi who watched yuuji die once and who refuses to see it happen again. yuuji who has witnessed up close everyone dear to him die and cannot lose megumi too....

just... the fighting and clawing and tearing at themselves and each other - desperate to stay together no matter what, even if it leaves them scarred and broken on the other side. because wounds can heal and they can fight to realign themselves with each other and the world, but none of it means anything if they're not alive and together

[velvetvexations]

Re/tw: Casual t slur usage

I can't even begin to count the amount of times I've had a trans woman use it to refer to herself as if it is in opposition to what I am, or with the implication she is The Real Trans and I am simply a Fake, just GNC (and not both, which would be my case), my expierence not as progressive since I'm "siding w the oppressor" n all that.

It feels that they believe I cannot possibly understand the horrors of being one, so I cannot be hurt by hearing it, especially since they didn't call me it. I honestly sort of mentally flinch whenever I see any slur (/hear from afar), particularly ones that have been used against me, simply bc my brain sees(/hears) it before context (calling oneself it) and it can start to bring up the memories of other times I've heard it (for clarity, excluding when it's labeled prior w some sort of warning). Even in person during a covo I'm in it's still kinda a jolt. It's like using the r slur to me, but also different bc of the histories of them, moreso "hearing a word that's harmed me" off out of context. But ya know maybe I just haven't reclaimed/healed enough, internalized hate or whatever they say

This wasn't said to me but the last line showcases what I mean in the first paragraph, "wannabe". However, this is just straight up using it in her own post (idk two points being made, the fake/not trutrans aspect + it being in ppls mentions/comments [excluding ppl you personally know are ok w it])

it is literally just that they want a gated slur they can use like the n-word is used in AAVE, that is the noble goal for which they willfully deny the trauma of their queer siblings and accuse you of lying when dozens of "TMEs" point out that they've been called it by multiple transphobes who were fully aware of your AGAB

also the person in that screenshot is trying really really hard to make a transfem version of the Magical Negro/Native concept happen right, like, they're just totally pulling that entirely out of their ass right, have transfems ever been popularly treated that way, what the fuck

[the-jam-to-the-unicorn]

It just gets worse with every new video

[letsjam-art]

silly idea time

idk how this idea even started but the outfit i had in mind was way back from a doodle in 2021 or 2022, basically my 'what if' for temperance ending only instead of being wildly ooc and wearing a collared button up johnny becomes a cowboy. and because i was listening to vagrant song from wtwtlw (that whole ost really, and hardspace shipbreaker) i had the bright idea that johnny would finally become what his class in the ttrpg was an homage to and wander around collecting stories n telling them n kind of being a dead man walking/ghost story/witness/helper-bard r smthn but having been extremely tempered by the experience of v choosing to die for him, being shocked enough into actually thinking about his beleifs n what have you, humbled enough now to want to listen to others hed choose this path of wandering the continent of na, maybe for the first time in a long time actually taking in life around him yadda yadda. in my little scenario i also had it that even if/when the next corpo war broke out or the nusa annexed more free states, he wouldnt get involved like he used to, cause i think its interesting to muse on how a profound experience would greatly change someone so stuck in their ways like johnny. i think hed still be motivated by guilt and avoidance at first, but it would evolve into something more like a calling/altruism as he takes more seriously and uses more intentionally the time he was given as a dead man walking

also i realize how much of this 'outfit' is just putting v in a hat and calling them johnny like its some perry the platypus thing (also idk how to draw hats)

[cottoncandywhispers]

your mom was right, put the damn phone down

[morethanwonderful]

[Image description: the epic handshake meme. The left arm is labeled "Xi Shiyong." The right arm is labeled "John Egbert." Their handshake is labeled "Becoming the godlike living embodiment of freedom and ending his story alone and mourning the one person he couldn't save despite all his endless power." End description].

I was going to make a much longer post about this, but my feelings about both characters are frankly Too Big to be concise in any format other than memes.

Anyway, I sure do love a protagonist from a normal happy home that unintentionally fumbles his way into becoming the Unbound God of Perfect Freedom and compartmentalizes all his feelings about being no longer human so hard he doesn't even realize he's having them. Love a guy that rewrites his very universe through a cheat code power that only he has and feels incredibly alone in the happy ending he creates. Love a story about grief. Love a guy that never lets anyone in because playing the lighthearted jokester is all he's ever known and he simply cannot stop doing so.

Though only Shiyong is actually good at pranks.

[lnquisition]

I finally finished Veilguard

[aromanticasterisms]

i don't really have any strong feelings about luka but oh my god. yanqing in this event. my son

[threadsun]

If you don't mind me asking what's pro shipping??? If possible can you give me an example?

IDK MAN?? I think originally it was like "are you okay with other people shipping incest?" and was about like... idk those adopted brother gods from Marvel or the brothers from Supernatural or something.

But then it became "do you align with my personal morals? (but I won't tell you what those morals are)" which meant anything from like... "do you ship heroes with villains?" to "do you ship this actual child with their adult parent?" to "do you ship these unrelated adults who I personally headcanon as long lost siblings?" to "do you ship abusive/toxic/unhealthy relationships?"

Which is... a broad range of meanings, and no one can agree on which one it is. But specifically the idea of being antiship (or an anti) is that you believe other people shouldn't be allowed to make fiction/fanfiction that don't align with what you believe is "morally correct." Which inherently makes you pro-censorship. Which inherently puts you too close to fascist ideas for my comfort.

[kissingwookiees]

[sipcup]

my bpd ass is sometimes a bit upset when i see other wolg/raha shippers but im normal and just distance myself instead of exploding about it. if you care

[apollotronica]

how it feels rememberinf u love talking to people and having friends and being social

[heliianth]

thoughts on the update so far from reading posts and watching streams, etc, is that a majority of the difficulty is pretty artificial and lots of the game is unpolished. dont get me wrong its extremely admirable for sonic team to provide this update for free (and apparently its optional? or do new save files have "another story" as default once arriving at ouranous?) but it is very obvious that it was made in less than a year. regardless i think its impressive at least (though i know nothing abt game development so almost anything is impressive to me lol) and its encouraging that this happened at all

[potatochip-oc-dump]

I'm working on ref sheets for all the characters I don't draw too often :] Here's Rosie!!