#idk. i don't hold it against her

[apollos-boyfriend]

i really do hate how "inclusive language" has just looped back around to gender essentialism in so many cases. i had my women in art professor say the words "there are things that men-identifying individuals will never understand in the way women do." and it's clear she wanted to say cis (het, white, upper class, neurotypical, able bodied, etc) men (which is another conversation entirely), but in her attempts to be inclusive she's fully missed the point. there are plenty of male-identifying individuals that understand, be it trans men or multigender people or nonbinary individuals or what have you. using gender inclusive terms does nothing when all you do is further alienate and erase people's experiences/identities

[5bi5]

Wish we could have seen a Kendra-Faith discussion on their philosophies toward slaying because like yes they're opposites in some ways but they've also both fully accepted their slayerhood as a core part of their identities in a way that takes Buffy a long time

[hivepixels]

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[piplupod]

so there's a trans woman who goes to the centre and everyone calls her by her birthname which she is like... fine with but only because she has no choice but to be fine about it. anyways I've known her for a while through a trans group before the centre so I asked her today if she'd rather I call her by her birthname or her chosen name and she said she prefers her chosen name but I can call her by her birthname if I want and oh my god I was about to cry for her bc god I really feel that whole situation fjdkdl, I just told her "no I WANT to call you by the name you prefer, that's why I'm asking, I want to make sure it's safe for you if I call you [preferred name]" and she seemed so grateful and I'm just :') eeurrgghh i hate how we have to be grateful with crumbs !!!

its just absolutely wild to me that she's presenting femininely and wears skirts and dresses and everything and uses her preferred name when she writes her name down on stuff and yet everyone at the centre calls her by her birthname and he/him pronouns. like. how are people so fucking rude and oblivious ??? she's even worn a she/her pronoun pin to the centre like.... people are so fucking stupid about trans people I stg.

idk I'm just hoping to make her feel a bit more comfortable and maybe if I start calling her by the right name and pronouns then everyone else will too eventually because I know she doesnt feel safe correcting people. I'm not going to make a big thing of it obviously bc I don't want to put her in danger but I will be using the correct name and pronouns now that I've double-checked with her about it, and if I start feeling like it's making things worse for her then I'll check in with her again at that point. I've honestly been stumbling trying to use he/him for her when I mention her to other ppl because she is just... she/her in my brain. it's what I know she wants to use so it feel fucking awful to use anything else !!!

[transmascutena]

What are you thoughts about Chigusa from the utena game? She's not much talked about and tbh I feel like he's kinda underrated.

She offers a pretty interesting way to view the prince/princess dynamic. Realizing that she's a witch who can't fall in love with her prince, and thus resenting princesses.... Even outright embracing becoming a witch (well an evil queen but it's the same)

One of the phrases that most stuck about her is when she was confrontation the main character on the final day and saying something along the line of:

"This time it's the queen's turn to win, in the name of all queens and old witches who always lost to princess who trade in tears and misery.... I'll win!"

if i'm being honest i think the way her character is used to explore/engage with the show's themes is a little shallow. i think her whole evil queen thing is a bit too on the nose and also weirdly both in and outside the princess/witch dichotomy in a way i don't think is very coherent (at least from what i remember of the game, i'll need to replay it to really get my thoughts together.) and the thing about knowing she's a witch and resenting princesses is already present in a lot of the show's characters. it's kind of what most of the black rose conflicts are based on. only difference is that chigusa is a little more self-aware about the narrative roles, which could have been interesting but i don't think the execution of it entirely worked

[acewizardinspace]

Random concept that just came to me but, sith! jedi. Not sith the organization, but the species.

Things were going bad, their people were at war with themselves, so some loving parents hide their child in carbonite so she wouldn't recruited for sith/darksider/war training. Then like a thousand+ years later some jedi archeologists find the carbonite and are like "wow intact artifacts! Wait- oh shit- is she alive???" She is. (The logic on how carbonite let anyone live this long is irreverent, shhhh.)

Now the jedi accept everyone and don't discriminate, so of course they take the youngling in! But there are problems with this too. Like she is the last of her species, what vaccines does she need? What does she eat? They have to dig through old records on sith purebloods to find this information but past jedi apparently didn't see it fit to record stuff like 'is it normal for sith children to lose their teeth or is she dying?'

I imagine she is just old enough to kind of remember her parents, her friends, etc. and has to deal with the fact that they are all gone, and have been for a very long time. She has to deal with the fact that she is the last of her kind. But she has a new family that loves her and helps her mourn and make peace with the past.

The jedi always try to raise their children with pieces of their native culture, but that is kind of hard in her case. A lot of what they know of the original sith culture is uhh not great, and the rest was mostly lost to history. But they try! Historians pour through documents to find stuff they can hare with a small child. "Apparently this style of jacket was popular (we think) so we made one for you!"

[keoke03]

Speaking of the devil, the hag herself:

💬 + Courtney Kagari

{ @admin-courtneys-corner }

ASK GAME

💬 - She doesn't know what she's talking about. She doesn't. She doesn't know me. We are nothing alike... Courtney isn't even my real name. I don't even look close to what she looks like! I'm. I'm so much hotter than that! I mean.... I... You know what! I'll show her. I'll show her how "cutesy" I am when I rip that plastic spine outta that petite, porcelain body of hers and watch her rot and lay in melancholia as she wastes her life away. Mark my words.

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

normal things to say about the society you used to rule over and were beloved by and who are immediately afterwards revealed to be overwhelmingly normal ass people whose only crime is not wanting to be Trapped In The Ground anymore

[titansarmy]

bianca di angelo really projected HER fatal flaw on her brother and we all just accepted it. 

[ofavernus]

part of me that wants to know so bad how characters like karlach (and wyll, to a degree) who have been like. super affected by zariel's Horrors. would react to her redemption. or meeting her post-redemption.

[multi-lefaiye]

but yeah something something like... i definitely support including content warnings as much as possible, even ones that might be particularly unusual, but it's equally important to consider the impact of listing certain things as warnings.

like that meme of "can you trigger tag lesbians" i've seen before. like... i don't mean this at all in an insulting way, but if any group of people simply existing causes you so much discomfort that you ask people to provide content warnings for their existence, whether in fiction or otherwise.... that's something you really need to unpack and work through. because that very *very* easily steers rapidly into outright bigotry, intentional or otherwise, and working through that discomfort is the first step to unlearning that sort of thing.

[lesbians-all-the-way-down]

Cryptic pregnancy with complications. Send tweet.

[thotsfortherapy]

i used to be really nervous about going back to my hometown because ‘what if i run into someone i don’t like‘ but like. the few times that has happened the people who have done be dirty have just 100% ignored me/run away from me. even despite me trying to be like heyyy. lol. which i guess means im a lot more confrontational than other ppl....

[gibbearish]

also is the thing with the box ever. explained?

[deathdxnces]

every time irelia thinks of how much her family would be disappointed and how much they'd hate who she is i cry actually

[death-rebirth-senshi]

Actually a funny comment I saw claimed that Ranni has left earth open to being attacked by things like Astel again and uh. WE do that when we kill Radahn actually

(I guess??? Everyone's a lore expert when it's time to character bash and it's just kind of funny how people are about this game lol)