#it's about the misdirection

[openphrase123]

[starts to write an essay about the nature of the player being able to choose what siffrin's wish is instead of giving him a specific "canon" secondary wish before realizing that the reason you're able to do that is so that the player remembers their wish more than siffrin's true wish]

[fisheito]

He's a magician

[thatsbelievable]

[that-satireguy]

I feel like the erasure of trans men, who come from violently misogynistic cultures and countries needs to be studied. Like trans discourse is always white and us-centric, but this is a particular phenomenon i've noticed.

I think its because it doesn't fit in with the current theorisation of trans men's 'male privilege'. Because its really hard to claim that misogyny is not a force directed at trans men, that we are not part of the intended targets when looking at laws that allow- and even encourage- the treatment of us as property.

Trans men experience FGM.

Trans men can be child brides.

Trans men are beaten for showing skin.

Hijab is enforced on trans men.

Trans men do not have access to abortion.

Trans men do not have access to education.

Trans men are lower in priority in being given clean water and food.

Trans men are legally defined as the property of their fathers.

A trans man's word is equal to half of the word of a male (because of our inferior female brains.)

Do not look away.

Do not brush experiences like mine under the rug.

ANY form of trans or queer discourse that ignores us is misogynistic, dismissive and (usually) racist.

[sakuraluck]

when i said i wanted to understand whatever’s going on in ivan’s head, i didn’t mean like this 😭😭

[contamination-zone]

honestly I never thought your freshmare was romantic. I thought they were like. a qpr. and fresh was his weird lil cat and they snuggle a bunch

mostly lh HAHA; Have a doodle of them cudding :-]

[selemina]

Pvp!Parrot The Exiled!

[lordsovorn]

A few interesting details about Turbo Granny I've only noticed when they have been adapted into anime (some light spoilers, I guess):

Despite a minute later calling Aira's death not surprising and every effort to revive her useless - in a very blunt, cold manner at that - she is the one that brought it up in the first place as something more important than the ball. If it was so expected and now not worth the effort, you'd think it wouldn't distract her from "practical concerns" that much.

She does actually call an ambulance. With her little doll paws.

None of that is earth-shattering in any way, but it does flesh out the kind of person she is - someone who cares (we know she cares a lot), but can't express it sincerely at all. Who then talks rudely, pretends to be cool-headed and heartless, and dunks on others for caring.

And someone who is so profoundly scared of being useless and abandoned, of not doing or not being enough, she takes every opportunity to do whatever little things she can. She never actually stops helping them out despite the incessant grumbling and despite no one really expecting anything from her. And then she narrows her eyes and strikes a cool pose whenever she is helpful.

[silverview]

guys getting hurt dot com slash sad little perverts

[chocobosdungeon2]

this is hands down the worst thing ive ever made but their similarities (and differences) have been rattling around in my head

[pokemon-radical-red]

“Guys, come on, it’s not blatant radfem rhetoric. See! They didn’t say that they hate trans women. They said they hate trans men! So like it’s basically awesome now, because so many people don’t see you as actually transphobic if you take it out on any trans people who aren’t trans women!”

[eldest-of-katts]

okay because people have shown up in my dms talking smack I'm going to make one blanket statement on the 1000 year loli chilchuck thing.

yes, there has been a problem with young girls being put in suggestive positions in anime with the "uhmmm she's actually a bajillion years old" excuse. yes, other characters don't treat chilchuck like an adult. yes, he is short with big eyes.

However, chilchuck consistently acts like a grown man. he- in both the manga and the anime- straight up just is an adult. He looks like an adult when he is any other race during the swaps in the manga. When the other characters get turned into half-foots they look similar to chilchuck. He is explicitly stated to have more dungeon and general life experience than laios, and he acts like it.

The 1000 year loli trope explicitly functions as an excuse to prey on people who are inexperienced and unable to advocate for themselves. Chilchuck is a parent, is a union organizer, has explicit boundaries that he enforces rigidly, and he is treated as an adult man by everyone who doesn't have a fantasy racism-focused character arc/issue.

I can see how if you haven't read the manga and seen that he has an established life that he later reveals (and haven't paid attention to him in the anime lol) you could get a mistaken impression about him. Marcielle does too in the source material! It's part of her character at the start of her arc that she has issues with longevity!

The thing that irks me a little about this interpretation is that it leans into the child-coded discourse that was prominent a while ago (she's short!!!!! but has boob???? ILLEGAL!!1!) and it does a disservice to the themes of infantilization as a policy maneuver hurting the working class.

I saw chilchuck and his labor advocacy for half-foots both as a metaphor for racism (obvious take ik) and for ageism.

The working gen z as a cohort are being infantilized and pushed out of job markets due to infantilization, similar to half-foots in the show. gen z is being maliciously portrayed as too young to vote, enter office, know themselves, know their rights, and take advantage of their resources. Simultaneously, child labor protections and protections against workplace abuse are being rolled back in the US. In Japan, young people are being worked to the bone for nothing and are becoming disenfranchised as a generation while simultaneously expected to be the labor faction that supports the postwar generations in their old age.

Chilchuck's being treated poorly I saw as a clever commentary on the ways infantilization allows for protections to be stripped away under the guise that "oh it's just a job for teenagers- they don't need more than minimum wage" or "let the kids rescue the economy! they're always complaining about that job market!" while simultaneously stripping away rights under the guise of protection- "We can't have that on the internet! think of the children!" "to protect these young people we must raise the age of medical consent for hormones/reproductive health decisions!"

Kui's work with this series spoke to me on many levels, and specifically, the infantilization issue touched me in a way that few other pieces of media have. The struggle to be taken seriously in a stem field as someone young, as someone female, and as someone who had a high-pitched voice to the point I did years of voice training to be taken seriously, chilchuck's character resonated. I (kinda) understand your instinct to think "SHORT! CHILD! RALLY THE MASSES AND KILL THE PEDOS!!1!" but in this case, it's misdirected- mostly because the author was trying to use this misdirection to prove something to you, the reader.

Kui consistently makes cutting commentary on modern issues, the show's take on food neutrality as its headliner, but also the author's takes on cultural issues and the environment (with a focus on our place in the food web as animals). I feel that reducing chilchuck's very conscious position as a tradesman and an activist discounted due to his apparent age down to "1000 year loli ewwww let's send this random tumblr user suicide bait" just displays a lack of critical analysis of the show and a level of disrespect towards Kui and the work as a whole.

TL:DR- stop sending me kys messages I'm fucking that old man

[kinxrd]

"They wouldn't openly admit to major character storylines when the episodes haven't dropped" Have you considered that if queer Eddie was really going to happen Ryan would just...not say anything. You do realize that not saying, explicitly, "Eddie is a straight man" is very much what he could have done instead. Yet he chose to call it out specifically. Why do you think that is, quickly now.

[violent138]

In love with the (I believe canon) idea that all of Dick's neighbours know he's Nightwing (there have been multiple confirmed sighting and encounters) but because's he's such a sweetheart in and out of costume (Nightwing has comforted kids that were home alone, chased away robbers and helped someone get their groceries up when the lift was broken) that they all happily play dumb and protect him and the army of super friends and family entering and exiting that flat, all the while chiding Dick for his injuries, poor dating life and not eating well enough.

[katabay]

HE LOVES BETTER ROBIN HOOD THAN HE DOES EACH OF US

The text in the illustration is from Robin Hood and the Monk because I was reading a book on interpretations of medieval violence and went back to re read Robin Hood and the Monk, and oh boy. Little John and Robin Hood. they sure are a pair!!

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[clownowo]

Trying a new strategy to convince my friends Kazuma’s definitely dead (they don’t believe me) by indulging their jokes about him being secretly alive. You know they say a Japanese man’s katana is his soul so I guess he’s just wandering around soulless. Like he’s now an empty husk of himself. Haha that’d be crazy.