#like huh?????? this shit is not real

[feddy-34]

ngl i still cant believe we drafted brock wtf

[pinbones]

There's two types of people who use transandrophobia to decribe transmascs' and trans mens' experiences:

- Simply specificity, language used to hone in on a specific way being trans affects people who just happen to be men

- As both the above and as a springboard to discuss how societal misogyny, radical feminism, gender stereotypes, and bioessentalism affect all people who can be pecieved as men or masculine by others, and how bigotries compound in meaningful ways with stereotypes and bigotry surrounding maleness and manhood

Like. Half of you are saying "maleness is a hollow experience which is standard, and exists in opposition to gendered oppression, and transandrophobia is therefore when dudes experience misogyny and transphobia"

and half of you are saying "Being percieved and/or transitioning towards male uniquely affects how I am treated, because, for example, how people perceive my blackness or mental illness or kinkiness or femininity is compounded with my manhood in ways that don't usually happen to gender conforming cisperi women"

Which are two fundamentally different approaches to transandrophobia as a concept. One suggests that maleness is a simple downy layer of privilege that coats a person through their male life, and the other acknowledges that a man (or somebody perceived as masculine/male) can experience oppression in ways that those NOT perceived male may not.

Only one of these interpretations is intersectional. Black individuals who are policed more hashly when interpreted as masc know they are risking dangerous experiences when transitioning to male, as has been discussed before on here (to no avail). Male or percieved male people with personality disorders are treated as more dangerous than women with similar symptoms, and are sometiems diagnosed with different disorders entirely based on percieved gender differences. This affects transmascs too, especially considering the already dire state of queerness in psychiatric institutions. Being a male birthing parent is a whole shitshow of transphobia because men are not supposed to give birth, and transmascs are lucky to access related healthcare at all, let alone access it without being ceaselessly misgendered and treated as a stigmatised 'other' to deleterious affects on parent and baby. These are just a few examples, there are many more ways maleness can screw a person over. And that's not to say that female privilege is a thing instead of male privilege, but rather to emphasise that men are not supposed to be minorities. Men are not supposed to be assaulted, men are not supposed to be outliers, men are absolutely not supposed to be trans.

When a man is autistic, he's not just autistic, he's an autistic male, and that makes him more likely to be killed by cops (especially if black). When someone says "you claim you're not ableist but you're scared of the homeless x on a bus talking to xself", they always say the person is a man, because that sounds more significant (and cops think so too). Consider when a person's rape/abuse is considered to not be all that serious due to the victim being male, or when a man's attraction is considered to be more exploitative than a woman's, or when a fat man is considered more creepy/sexist than a thin man or a fat woman. Consider why so many caricatures of evil and creepiness are men with deformities. Consider the fact that men's bathrooms don't have baby changing tables, and that a man may get less support from others after their child's death than the mother might. Maleness can negatively compound with things like minority status, vulnerability, aggression, sexuality, etc. in ways that screw that person over, both in social spaces (such as queer communities that dislike/distrust maleness and masculinity, or how isolation affects men harder), and in more tangible ways, like their rates of suicide and being murdered.

There are tangible ways in which transitioning to male can negatively affect a person's life even if you remove (hypothetically, not really possible) the transphobia element, and these also constitute as worthwhile topics of discussion. If you think maleness is the lack of gendered oppression, then you're not intersectional in your feminism at all. If your life as a male is genuinely sunshine and rainbows (apart from the transphobia if trans), then good for you, genuinely that's great, but not everyone lives in a radfem fantasy world.

Being unable to tell the difference between men talking about mens issues/liberation, and right wingers talking about oppressing women more, isn't feminist. It's ignorant and antifeminist. (MRAs don't care about actual mens lib, and are actively worsening it because they are sexist and opposed to gender lib. You guys know that, right? That male and female liberation aren't oppositional or binary, but the same gender liberation that is entirely oppositional to patriarchy?)

These men and mascs talking about issues facing men aren't ignorant womanhaters who deny misogyny and want ultraprivileged men to be coddled, they are good faith members of your community with experiences just as varied and valid as yours. Treat them like it.

[twentytwoarts]

[post game au] where's your humanity

[lizzybeeee]

Blessed in that I have only one hyperfixation...cursed because that fixation is Dragon Age.

[thanatologie]

honestly, and this is just my $0.02 so take it with a grain of salt, but the neve hate has some real heteronomativity cattiness bullshit tagged on to it, because i'm assuming (lurking in the tags as i do and chewing on bad takes - eventually they'll enrage me enough that i'll start pulling screencaps with dialogue and put together a here is why you're fucking dumb post - it will not be the first or last time i do that and i won't apologize) a lot of people - especially in the general fandom who don't create in the sense that rpers and fanfic authors do, project themselves heavily on their rooks, and there's a legit spark of jealousy when a companion romanced in a previous playthrough romances someone else (ie neve and lucanis).

and like. i get that's a thing and generally can be fine - i think it would be fun to do a playthrough with decisions i would make but i'd also be a mostly purple rook and that's...not a lot different than what i'm doing now anyway but. again. there's a cattiness to it and it's just like please go touch grass for a little while.

[arsenicflame]

absolutely delicious flavour of edizzy is where theyre Actually Married but neither of them know it, while also being acutely aware of everything-

they celebrated 25 years of their matelotage. they are having sex on the regular. both of them think the other thinks their contract is purely for financial reasons and the sex is just fun + convenience.

[darklight-owl]

Me, looking through youtube to find background noise to draw: oh sweet. A tier list of the bad endings of Mystic Messenger, a game I've never played and know nothing about. Sure, this should work.

Me 50 minutes later: What the fuck happens in Mystic Messenger.

[helmbarte]

Babygirl I’m praying for you

[crows-of-buckets]

The fact that canonically the end of origins and act one of da2 are only a year apart is so funny to me. From what I could find, both take place in 9:31 dragon. So this means Awakening took place in maybe like. Four five months. So Anders leaves Amaranthine, trying to escape warden life, and then immediately falls in with ANOTHER weirdo with a hero complex. And then the guy can drag him BACK to the deeproads which he hates and thought he wouldn't have to do any for a long long time. No wonder Anders and Justice struggle so much they didn't even have a whole year after merging before they went to the Worst Place Possible. Like for all the places for a possessed apostate to go, Kirkwall is probably THE worst choice possible

[constantvariations]

Same train of thought is why in the fuck does Blake start out deradicalized?

The White Fang had been committing at minimum targeted property damage, grand larceny, and assassinations since Blake was twelve. Being radicalized at that young an age, she wouldn't just be lost in the sauce, Blake would be mixing kool-aid in Jonestown!

Something pretty major must have happened in order for her beliefs - which at this point would be intrinsically tied to her identity - to be shaken badly enough that she'd eventually leave the only family she'd known for the last five years. And even after leaving, there's still the unlearning of those beliefs and all the missteps that accompany that journey

Yet she gets introduced as being uncomfortable with the direction of things as if they haven't been going on for half a decade, as if she's not on what seems like a routine mission, as if there's not a damn good reason they're doing the things they're doing

ShawLuna kinda wrote Blake like she was born yesterday and is just now learning what sin is rather than a young woman having a moral crisis

[springtrappd]

FINALLY SOMEONE ELSE WHO HATES GGY WOOO!!!

But like, the story doesn’t add anything to gregory if it was even cannon. Many ppl are using it to do “gregory was always evil!!!” thing for why he broke the animatronics and like. If animatronics were trying to kill you wouldn’t you do the same???

Like to add on how it feels like a cop out thing: at least with the mimic it can provide an actual conflict between him and cassie. even if he never destroyed the elevator how would cassie fully believe him, what if hes saying that to save his own hide? But with the ggy virus its like. ohhh he didn’t mean to be evil!!!

EXACTLYYYYYYYYY. evilitis kills all tension because it means all conflict resolves with one conversation ("hey that wasn't me i swear, i had the woke mind virus") -- and, subsequently, encourages idiot plots where nobody ever tells each other things precisely so that conversation never happens. because it happening means there's no longer any conflict!!

i think the whole "is gregory evil?" argument is exactly why his fans latched onto it so hard -- because it provides an easy defence for his behaviour. but what that misses is that not only is gregory's behaviour completely normal -- he's a young kid trapped in a building with dozens of machines that want to kill him! -- but even if it wasn't... well, it doesn't have to be. characters require flaws to create conflict that pushes the narrative forward; it is a story, not real life. we are not actually judging a real preteen, we're judging a character who was constructed the way he was for a reason.

sb received a lot of criticism for not having any way to "save" the other glamrocks, but this is -- for once -- a critique i don't think it deserves. you do not save the glamrocks because this is not a story about saving them (in that sense) -- it is gregory's story, and his story is one of survival. he is not an empathetic person and he does not have to be (which is why the game/freddy does not treat him as evil for it) (because he is a child and his survival should be his #1 priority). the cycle ends when he cares, but him caring is something that develops over the course of sb's (hodgepodge, barely coherent) story -- something that happens because of freddy. he starts off kinda mean and rude but freddy's support brings out the caring kid beneath, while gregory's fight for survival makes freddy finally let loose (outright encouraging him to fuck up monty, going after vanny in multiple endings, burning down the pizzaplex, telling gregory to kill vanny on his deathbed, etc). you cannot reach an arc without the push necessary to get there, and this kind of thing is the force behind it. you can't turn gears without teeth to catch each other's ridges.

and... well, from a meta standpoint, 'curing' the glamrocks means removing them as potential future antagonists. we wouldn't have ruin if sb hadn't left their stories open to continue, the same way we wouldn't have pizzasim if sl hadn't left the door open. it is an ongoing series -- and a fucking tragedy at that. the story about adults with delusions of grandeur sacrificing dozens of children on the altar of their self-esteem is always gonna be bitter-sweet, and expecting otherwise is genuinely baffling. freeing the missing kids doesn't make them any less dead, and i wish i could circle that word in red pen, because! reminder! the happy ending of fnaf has always been letting go!

if freddy had've prioritised his friend's safety over gregory's, he would be dead. if gregory had've prioritised the glamrock's safety over his own, we'd have both a less interesting protagonist and he would probably be dead. and him having recovered from the woke mind virus evilitis would have changed absolutely none of that.

[mudlarkspur]

me, holding raph up by the back of his neck like hes a kitten and im his mama: this turtle is dyslexic and thats most of why he cant spell for shit

[allastoredeer]

When will Just Kiss Already return from war...

Me and Anon waiting for Just Kiss Already to return from the war

LOL in all seriousness, hopefully it will be soon. I switch creative outlets frequently. If I write a lot, my brain gets tired and switches to drawing. If I draw a lot, my brain gets tired and switches to writing.

Which is why I've been posting so much art lately XD

But I've been replenishing the writing juices and I feel them building back up, especially since I'm working on writing commissions now.

To those who've been traumatized by abandoned fics before, rest assured that Just Kiss Already IS NOT abandoned.

[cockringvarric]

"somehow, solas must have cured the blight from meredith's sword to create his dagger" ultimate "somehow, palpatine returned" moment in dragon age for me personally

[hermitcraftx]

just got a dm abt one of my posts and y'all please don't try and show the hermits (or any minecraft youtuber or content creator for that matter) my posts, i'm uncomfortable with it and don't want any of my posts shown to a cc. if they stumble upon it naturally that's unfortunate but i can live with it since i do maintag a lot (something i REALLY need to stop doing tbh i already know i need to make a tagging system just for my blog that wont clog results) but going out of ur way to show a cc is entirely different and something i am not comfortable with.

no hate to the person at all but even if i wasn't a little silly and weird with it sometimes i wouldn't be comfortable with it, i want my blog to be a purely fandom only space with none of the creators involved <3 please respect this

[autumnalfallingleaves]

Holy shit I'm done with college

Yeah it's just hitting me now. What