#flatland women

[2d-dreams]

Little fun addition to the motor-circulatory system post: If you're subscribed to the idea of squiggly/bendy etc Lines you could imagine that, because they lack angles, blood passes directly through the bone into the skin for movement and that gives their bone less stiffness, hence why they be like that.

I personally would add that at the points of the Line (the tail with organs and beak, and the front end with the vocal organs and eye) are stiff unlike the rest of the stretchy and bendy body, to protect these focal parts and because there isn't much need of the muscle structure in there.

[reecey9o5]

Wild to see self proclaimed feminists start pulling the ‘we don’t have enough information’ card when it’s someone they like.

Also fun to see the ‘he’s a pillar of the community’ defence used in current year.

And the ‘this is a lie designed to undermine his political influence for x cause’ canard trotted out.

(Because, as we all know, no politically active man has ever sexually assaulted someone.)

The fact is, your refusal to outright condemn Gaiman (stop calling him Neil, he is not your friend) for this because of his political stances only serves to make trans rights activism look bad.

If you give a flying fuck about trans people and/or women, you should condemn him and hold him to the exact same ‘believe women’ standards that you would hold any other man facing the same allegations. Your perceived protection of him will only ever be interpreted as the classic political practice of hiding a prominent man’s crimes for a cause’s benefit.

The latter part of that last paragraph being the exact reason why a ‘terf’ reporting on it shouldn’t be treated as an excuse to disregard these allegations.

You are acting in the exact same way as Republicans do about men like Trump, Thomas and that guy who cried at his confirmation hearing.

EDIT: Hey, can we all agree to censure the rapist and his apologists without adding hateful comments about each other in the tags, please?

I’d very much like it if my post didn’t get used in an anti-terf/anti-tra exchange.

This post is about cis men and their ways of dodging responsibility for crimes against cis women, it’s not a forum for vitriolic attacks at each other.

Thank you.

[just-a-toast]

Book of Bill spoilers under cut!!

‼️BLOOD WARNING‼️

“Hi Mom, it’s Billy”

“Twisted out of shape after the kill. The ghosts of his family are haunting him still.”

[videogamelover99]

Broke: Euclydia functions differently from Flatland because everyone is a shape. Bespoke: Euclydia IS Flatland Bill's mom is just trans.

[dailybill-cipher]

I’m just asking, could you make bill gender swapped I think that will be cool!

[141] Bill as a line!

[kismetmoon]

The False Shepard, Here To Lead Our Lambs Astray

[ID: a digital drawing of an original, stylised Flatland character named Elizabeth.

Elizabeth is a vaguely humanoid character. She is depicted here with a seven-point star head with an eye in the centre, a clawed right hand and a left arm that is cut in half at the elbow - leading onto a white geometric hand. She has a broad chest that narrows into a thin torso. Her legs are cut out of frame - her body is only shown from the waist up.

She is stood in the centre with her arms held perpendicular to her body and the palms of her hands facing upwards. Over her right hand hovers a white crescent moon with a black earth shadow. Over her left hand hovers a black four-point star. She is smiling and staring slightly upwards. Her body is made up of black lines that get denser at the edges of her head, the bottom of her body and on her forearm.

The background is a stained glass window. There is a yellow and orange sun behind Elizabeth’s head with grey and pale blue glass around it, that fades to purple further down. Faint rays of light also shine out from the sun and into the corners of the canvas.

End ID.]

putting the background story and symbolism about this piece under the cut bc i feel like it really deserves an in-depth explanation

i can’t believe i’ve never properly discussed it before, but Liz’s main goal is to stop Chief turning out like his father.

after she tries and fails to kill their Chief Circle and instead kills his guard in Atlas’s defence (and i’ve decided that this is the incident where she loses her arm), she can’t risk taking any more blows like that. so instead of resorting to physical violence, she instead tries her hand at ‘positive manipulation’ to tear her problem from the root up.

she makes sure Chief has enough emotional ties to the lower classes (Atlas and Vance), irregulars (Ruth and Elijah) and lines (Liz, Ruth, Stella and Irene) for him to reconsider everything he’s been told about them. this is all to make sure that when Chief Sr. kicks the bucket they have a somewhat more progressive next-of-kin lined up to take his place. this works for her as Liz first meets Chief when he’s only about 15, so he’s still pretty young and an impressionable teenager.

but Chief Sr is still alive so boo. he has a strong grip on everything and has Chief Jr pinned under his thumb out of fear. while he doesn’t know about Stella, he does know that this ‘false shepard’ is up to something that involves his son. again, he still doesn’t know exactly who Liz is but he’s working on figuring it out.

so this image of Liz - a large, dark, looming, unnerving figure - is made to fit the circles’ depiction of her. how the next Chief Circle and his daughter are locked in her clawed grasp, and she smiles almost mockingly about it. her prosthetic is replaced by a white geometric hand and it sticks out like a sore thumb, as though it makes her ‘unhuman’ - but easily identifiable. her body is made up of a mass of lines, joined together in their force (danger !! women !!). the glass is only coloured around her head (the sun is the same as her colour palette when she’s not greyscale) and at her ‘feet’ (it’s more like the bottom of her torso but you know what i mean) which is mostly shaped with triangles - as if she’s breaking their world of grey out over the blood of the circles (again, i use purple as circle symbolism). the sun is rising in the sky, as the dawn of a new day and a new era begins.

essentially, she’s a revolutionary of the lower class, and a tyrant to the upper classes.

[rjalker]

The fact that Edwin Abbot Abbot specifically specified that Reactionary Women were recruited to help quell the civil rights movement by convincing them that the other oppressed people who were fighting for all their rights were more dangerous to them than the status quo that keeps them all oppressed....

Hey radfems, maybe stop what you're doing and think about the fact that people knew the path you're on is wrong and literally only helps the oppressors over a hundred and forty years ago.

[very-uncorrect]

One of my favourite parts of the Flatland film is when the line is eating herself in the Great Prison and when half of her body is gone text just appears saying "yes, women can do that"

[walks-the-ages]

its always incessant funny when media stans see a fandom critiquing the horrid racist, transphobic shit in a media or its creator and they react to this by making a blog "dedicated to celebrating x media or character" and then the entire blog is literally....... nothing but them complaining about people who critique their favorite media.

It was excruciatingly funny to see the one stan realize, in real time, exactly what they were doing when I pointed this out to them lol.

Like, do you really love that media, or do you just hate people who see the flaws in it and aren't afraid to talk about it?

If you have to make an entire sideblog dedicated to hating on people pointing out the bigotry in your media or media creator instead of actually celebrating what you genuinely like about that media..... what, exactly, are you doing?

You might wanna take a step back and actually see if what you're doing is actually something worthwhile.

Is your "[media]enjoyer" sideblog going to actually talk about what you personally find enjoyable in the film and celebrate the fandom, or are you just going to lie about and complain about people in the fandom talking about the creator's racism and transphobia?

[styllwaters]

(remembers that i have flatland ocs)

[2d-dreams]

WOMEN

[apostleofthreedimensions]

The honored girlbosses of Flatland!

@presidentcircles-assistant @kismetmoon @frau-line

[astro-b-o-y-d]

Shoutout to those of us who made Flatland shape OCs who are girls, before we realized that shapes are strictly the 'male' gender in the story while women are lines and deciding 'Guess she's trans now!'

[presidentcircles-assistant]

flatland doodles from class: now in (partial) colour

[rainbillcipher]

Bex: I realized I messed up my depiction of Chromatises by making him a hexagon instead of a pentagon. oops.

[cosmicpines]

I think a lot of people haven't actually read Flatland so you may not realize A. What Bill's eye mutation means and B. What precisely Bill did to destroy his homeworld.

Bill's home isn't completely the same as Edwin Abbott's Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (notably, women and men can be both polygons #feminism) but we can assume most of the mechanics are the same. The basic premise is that the world is 2D. Everyone perceives the world in a 1D way, along the plane. There's a part of Journal 3 that describes this pretty well.

Bill can see up to the stars because his eye is on the flat surface instead of on the side like everyone else, like this:

(He's also slightly 3D, as we can see in the show.)

But there's one more important Flatland detail. The denizens of Flatland (and therefore likely Euclydia) do still have organs "inside" their bodies. Since there is no depth, they're just on the inner radius of their bodies. The 2007 Ehlinger movie adaptation shows that:

If Bill wanted to "give his world a new perspective" and "show everyone what they were missing," he wanted to get everyone to look upward.

Meaning he probably tilted the entire world.

Meaning everyone not only slid off of the plane, but all of their organs spilled out and everyone died.

...Hence "so much blood."

(The only issue with this is that it doesn't account for the number of times Euclydia is referred to have been burned ("saw his own dimension burn / misses home and can't return", he only has ashes leftover), but I'm sure the act of turning an entire dimension upwards expends a lot of energy.)