#destroy your identity

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Your beats make me sick

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[lily-s-world]

Per the last episode of BWFA, it is funny to think of a scenario where the Justice League found out about the Batkids because they showed up one day to the batcave to discuss something with Batman. In the middle of the meeting, there was shouting and loud noises coming from above. The heroes went on alert and ran towards the main floor, ignoring Batman's protest, only to find a living room in complete chaos and a bunch of teenagers fighting with each other. Between the chaos, a butler walks towards Batman and just says, "Maybe giving them Monopoly to keep them occupied wasn't the wisest choice."

[kagoutiss]

the shadow gathers you unto itself

[yourfriendlyneighborhoodenby]

*slaps side of cybersix cartoon* this show can fit so many trans experiences in it

like, the genderfluidity of it all? you're is presenting as a man here with this identity and as a woman here with this identity but is always still you. one of the things the story says over and over about our protagonist's love interest is that, in whatever way, he cares so so much about our protagonist in Both of their identities. The story is not just about one it's about both.

a transmasc experience? The coat that's a bit too big for you but makes your shoulders look wider, the shirt that's big enough to hide in, your voice doesn't really pass and you're just hoping it'll be overlooked, you get hurt and you don't want to go to a hospital because they would see through the disguise, you don't want to give your name to someone who might realize it's not official. If they see through the disguise you're in danger. you've finally reached a part of your life where you can make connections freely as a person but there's always this doubt of is this real? do i deserve this? what if they knew? and they can't know because that would implicate them in the same danger. i cannot be this and live this all the time because of how i was created, because of the dangers around me. and at the end of the day, when it comes to the final hour, I'll have to give this up, won't I? you put the glasses down. but you survive anyway, and you can get them back, if you want.

but just. the more I watched of this show the more it's just absolutely hit me in the feels with a transfem narrative? like in the way galaxy the prettiest star has a 'you're in disguise as a man to keep yourself and those around you safe' transfem narrative and like specifically a partially closeted/sometimes in guymode transfem narrative. your childhood photo that you keep with you is ambiguous enough on your gender to not give anything away. you go to work in mens clothes that don't quite fit right with a man's name and you hope no one sees through that facade because if they do you would be in danger. You go home and at night you change your hair, you put on your makeup and nails and heels and you go back out as yourself. and you are incredibly strong and you are in incredible danger but deep in your heart you feel alive. and at the same time there is a voice in your head that says you are not real, you are not a real person. you are not the right kind of person. you are not the right kind of woman. you don't deserve the things that real people deserve. you'll try to turn away someone who loves you because of that but because he loves you for yourself he doesn't care. You face danger and you survive anyway and you're loved. It just. it hits me right in the feels. I love her.

so much trans. very gender.

[corvidaedream]

im literally going to go insane holding up helly r and harrier du bois up like paint swatches next to each other just looking at them

[ulteri0rm0tives]

:) Just thinking about this song...

[aiscapades]

girl i had huge crush on in school who was a very good friend to me she's so smart and wonderful and kind just told me she's proud of me for inquiring about a breast reduction i literally started crying what the absolute fuck I'm so gay and so deprived of love in my daily life what the fuck kck .?? HELLO??

[golmorehotgirl]

Oh, Weapon of Light..

old gposes of EW Tavs I wanna reshoot someday!!

[dissonancedart]

I have…. A lot to say. A lot of feelings. A lot of hurt. I thought I had made friends in a community. I thought I was being encouraged to heal. And someone in it used me and villainized me.

I watched as others wanted to make people villains for doing what they loved. I was afraid of saying anything. Afraid people I didn’t know would turn against me and call me things I am not. Would end a dream I had before it began.

You know who you are. I want nothing to do with you. I’m tired of being made the villain. Im tired of the same pointless fights from people. I’m tired of trusting people with a few insecurities and getting responses that make me feel like I’m a god awful person for even DARING to show one.

I’m not coming back. I’m removing the previous art I posted here. I won’t rejoin the tumblr community. Congrats you for ruining tumblr for me forever. I’ll keep this account for one reason- a reason you don’t get to know.

Don’t reach out to me through any channel. You’ll get no response from me. The time for words is long passed. I tried my best and instead was gaslit and told I was “misunderstanding everything”. I’m done here. The only thing I have left for tumblr is this:

You don’t get to destroy and take away something I LOVE. A PASSION. All because you wanted to use me for my looks! So take this last picture and know this- that’s the last fuck I’m giving you.

[zlobonessa]

hm. i feel like I'm not unhinged enough for the past few days. here's my old-but-reworked omegaverse headcanon tier list.

[forgetfulmachineart]

Ngl I can't focus on any of the feminist messaging when Lou Li is doing some heinous property damage

[balkanlila]

fighting the urge not to make this post. tags it is.

[vampirecatprince]

There is something genuinely so annoying when a high art piece will go viral on TikTok and you'll have a bunch of people who are not willing to understand the context interacting with it bc it's "trendy".

Like- I am all for high art being more common and more people engaging with it, but I swear when something goes viral people's brains just turn off and even if they would have been willing to grow and learn something in the process, because it's just a funny internet thing now they just stop caring.

[dr-demi-bee]

I'm a firm believer in unconditional positive regard and giving people the benefit of the doubt.

But I also believe in accepting when something is too much and too far. Just because you can accept someone enough to be kind to them, doesn't mean you have to turn the other cheek for their every misdeed or for boundary pushing.

I should have been done after the first couple strikes - using ai to replicate someone else's work, defending an abuser, toxic interpretations of objectively bad behavior in the name of religious ideology...

I overlooked some of these things because I wanted to believe in seeing the goodness underneath and giving back kindness that was given to me.

But I draw the line at cruelty.

I will not be complicit in, nor endorsing of, any form of cruelty.

We don't get to say what should and should not be a part of someone's identity. And not *personally* wanting to have the same kind of lifestyle as someone else is not justification for a) shaming, b) insulting, c) harming, or d) denying rights or voice to others.

And it is okay to deny someone access to your self or your works if it protects you from further harm. Blocking is not cruel.

Happy pride.

[kaxtwenty]

Something that frustrates me is the way that video game remakes are treated—both by the industry and by players—as basically the same game as before or at least a “superior” substitute when they fundamentally aren’t. Imagine if people treated film remakes the same way. Would you say that watching the 2024 Nosferatu remake is the same experience as watching the original film? Or that there’s no reason to check out the original 1954 Godzilla now that we have Shin Godzilla?

I don’t mind it if people choose to play a remake over its original counterpart, play what you want, but it frustrates me to no end when they treat it as playing the same thing and that there’s “no reason” to go play the original version even when it’s readily available. While I’ve yet to properly dip my toes into the Metroid series, anyone who’s played both Metroid 2 and Samus Returns will tell you that they’re completely different games despite following roughly the same story. They’re both still 2D Metroid, but clearly made by different teams with different ideas for 2D Metroid. Even remakes that do their damndest to be faithful to the originals, such as the Live A Live remake, still end up featuring so many “modern” overhauls that they end up becoming a different experience, even if only slightly. My point is, treating remakes like they’re exact same thing as their predecessors is kind of a mistake. Even in the cases where they try to be as faithful as possible, there’s still bound to be a million little differences that set them apart. Which isn’t to say that I think there aren’t valid reasons for going for a remake instead, but treating them as 1-1 experiences that’ll be basically the exact same in every way is pretty demeaning to older games in my opinion.

Is this just the ranting of a DMC fan who’s sick and tired of people demanding a DMC1 remake because apparently a PS2 game from 2001 is “too old” for them to wrap their heads around? Yeah, but I think that’s just one example of the heavily flawed mindset that we approach remakes and older games with as a whole. There’s like five versions of the original Castlevania out there, but most still suggest starting with the first version because it’s the one that laid the foundation for everything else, every Castlevania follows in the footsteps of that one and if you wanna see how the series evolves with each entry, playing the later editions with gameplay, artwork and scripts inspired by said later entries won’t quite cut it. The reason people struggle to pick which version of Final Fantasy I to play is because there’s a million versions and they’ve all got differences that lead to there being no real “definitive” version. A remake of DMC1 made in the 2020s would have more in common with DMC5 than 1 and that’s not gonna be anywhere close to the same experience as playing the 2001 original. And I don’t want that hypothetical version of the game to inevitably become more popular because DMC1 is still one of the greats and I think anyone who loves action games owes it to themselves to check it out.

I guess my point is, don’t use remakes as an excuse for not playing an older game. You can just say you don’t wanna play it. If you actually wanted to play it, you’d try it with or without a remake.

Now game remasters and ports are a separate and more nuanced topic imo, but I just what you to know I’m not talking about that.