#or like. who is Actually Gay And Different

[sarunohadaki]

A Tiktok video of jamesismiling.

Transcript: Message from other trans girls that are like, “Hey I love what you’re saying but I just wish you would put in some effort and like put on some makeup so you don’t make the rest of us look bad” And I think that’s really fucked up

In a way I get why it would piss you off because when you’re sitting there putting on a full face of makeup everyday so you don’t get clocked, so you do pass, and then here’s this other tranny yapping to half a million people being like, “Haha I don’t care that I didn’t shave today,” I’d be like, what gives?

And what gives is my fucks. I don’t have them anymore!

My transition has been about setting myself free, not about finding another set of gender norms to adhere to.

Passability is not gonna save us, devotion to white supremacist beauty standards is not gonna save us.

Remember the like “Acceptable gay” movement from like the AIDS crisis almost through Obergefell about like, “These gays are just normal people and let them into society, they’re just like us.” At the beginning it was helpful in opening people’s minds but it ultimately sanitized queerness to the point where folks are still homophobic and they haven’t interrogated it. If we can’t look at clocky dolls, it we can’t look at bricky girls, if we can’t look at girls who haven’t shaved and still love them as women we will never set ourselves free. We won’t.

If you find yourself adhering to gender norms and subscribing to beauty standards it’s probably worth interrogating: Why? What are you getting out of this?

Back to the original point, I’m not making you look bad. I’m just a different kind of girl than you are. And that actually speaks to how much our community has grown and evolved. And I think that’s a good thing.

Three twitter screenshots.

Nikki Clark: As a cis woman with PCOS who grows and shaves her own facial hair. It’s really refreshing to see another woman with a 5 o’clock shadow look so good! Gunna skip shaving today f the norms!

Disdainjayne: It sort of feels misogynistic. Telling you how you should be. Tons of cis women have visual facial hair.

Jesse James Rose (creator) replies: And I love them all!!!!

Common Jay: The way people are offended when I, trans masc, don’t try to act more masculine, or when I decide to wear makeup present fem, as if it affects their gender identity…

Jesse James Rose (creator) replies: Sometimes ur just being a lil femme gay boy and ppl need to let you do your thing!!!!

OP's pronouns are she/they.

[supremefloof]

HEY GANG. EPISODE 4. SPOILERS BELOW

I LIED. I APPARENTLY DID IN FACT HAVE TIME JUST A LITTLE LATER.

WHJAT THE FUCK???

WHAT THE FUCK

okok im gonna lock in now.

there's probably a gazillion easter eggs here, esp the posters with X and some random woman we don't recognize that have been seen multiple times now

LMFAO they do in fact know that X is colonel sanders. who was that person on here who said X is like a mascot? it's looking pretty likely now

Enlighter. Blanketer. LIN LING. EVERYONE IN THIS SHOW IS SO FINE. LOOK AT MY BOY

trust value seems really really weird. it ricocheted super super fast for Lin Ling.

explicit confirmation now though - only your fans can influence you. presumably what the general wider public thinks is different.

fight scene was super fun !! it was super goofy with Lin Ling just kind of flopping around and going ass up punch down (dawg even regular people don't punch like that hate to break it to you) but I think that was a neat way to show how far removed he is from Nice's perfection.

UGHH it was too good to be true. MOON. LI HAOLING WHYYYYY.

IS WRECK ACTUALLY DEAD????????????????????? that's actually insane. PUT THE GAYS BACK ABOVE GROUND. no need to bury more of them 😭😭😭

E SOUL?????????????????????????????

im gonna miss nice tho :C liked his character design. I like Lin Ling's design too!!!

we do have pvs where Nice is seen with other heroes. is nice going to return in some way, or does that imply everything is from previous years?

hey... call me delusional but... the outro didn't play and no sign of X so far.... that means something but I really can't figure it out.

the style changing works for everything apparently not just Nice. Enlighter did it too. super super interesting stuff that I can't theory craft about rn because my brain is exploded

[tagedeszorns]

SPOILERS for "Fulgrim - The Perfect Son"

You were warned - Spoilers ahaed!

Okay, so it finally has happened. Pigs are flying, dogs are walking backwards and I am admitting that I'd rather read a Fulgrim-novel written by Graham McNeill than this one.

But to get to this point ... let me take the long route!

First - imagine a novel about a Primarch. Let's say Guilliman, because the Ultramarines are the example for everything. Let's say he returns. (Bear with me, I am not talking about how it actually happened for him!) And it is not explained at all, why he's back. What's his motivation. How? Don't ask stupid questions! Anyways. He's back. Now, what about his Legion? What about Calgar? Sicarius? His Librarius? Well, never mind, they don't matter, because (galaxy brain moment here!) - they don't exist! Instead they are replaced with a cast of new characters you never heard of before, but you are supposed to take as "have always been his favourites". And those characters are as generic as they come. Absolutely bland. Plus, Guilliman isn't even there most of the time. Also, apparently the Emperor is no longer a factor for anything.

That's the setting Jude Reid throws at the reader, just with Emperor's Children.

Okay. Okay. I can live with new characters. But maybe at least tie them with the rich history of the third? With all its glory and trauma? Harmony? Canticle City? The Phoenix Conclave? Anything? No?

Well. Then give them a gratious amount of Sex, Drugs and Rock'nRoll, because that's what they do in 40k? No? A bit? So Noise Marines aren't Slaanesh's sledgehammers any longer? Maybe remember how cool Eidolon and his Kakophonii screamed that White Scars ship to rubble or how Ramos tore down the Medean Gate on Luna? No? And the drugs are just some kind of better stims now? Like the stuff Lance Armstrong takes on a daily basis?

Well. Okay. No History, none of the cool guys ... maybe some Dark Prince-fuckery? No? Oh. The word "Slaanesh" is two times in the whole book and it's with sorcery, not normal EC or Fulgrim? And Dark Prince or She Who Thrirsts ... ah, nevermind. So, no Youngest God at all.

Well, Fulgrim is the mightiest servant of Slaanesh and he's the title character of the novel, so it's okay. Enough slaaneshi shenanigans for everyone! No? Fulgrim is there for about 5% of the novel and we never get his POV? Oh. Okay. Well.

Yes, I am disappointed. After Marc Collins gave us the great new Eidolon novel, I had high hopes Games Workshop wanting to bring out the coolness in the third Legion again.

But instead we got the most generic Chaos (not really) stuff ever. You could replace everybody with Red Corsairs and Fulgrim with the Tyrant and nobody would notice any difference.

And now I am back to the beginning. Why McNeill's EC may be horrible but way better than Reid's.

Because they are over the top. Because they are the superlative of extra. Because they are divas. Because they are trying to be cool AF. Because they are mean fuckers.

Reid's EC are what I always thought I wanted (my Midas-moment, if you will): Swordsmen. Duelists. But it turns out, that it is possible to fall to Slaanesh and hate excess (yes, Tamaris, the main char, is very offended by excess). Damn, girl! Take a page out of Ian StMartin's book and look up what excessive swordsmanship does for Lucius!

So, taking everything slaaneshi from the EC didn't do them any good. Apparently they are now Chaos Undivided, swear by "Gods" instead of their chosen patron God and such. Much generic. Wow. Sacrificing like they are the Word Bearers we have at home.

The ideal solution would be a mix of both: McNeill's extra queerness (because Reid's chars are giving off the most cis-het vibes I ever got from anything Warhammer! Even the Chaos Sorcerer reminiscing fucking Fulgrim is as sterilised as possible. I bet Reddit-Warhammer loves this book, because none of them pesky gays and their sexytimes!) and excessiveness and Reid letting them keep their beauty and dignity. It's very telling that the most erotic moment of the book is the main character kissing the guy he just killed.

Because that's the GREAT plus of this book. Finally! Beautiful Emperor's Children! Beautiful Fulgrim! Plaese, give me more of this! And they are (mostly) honourable! Awww, yiss! Yes, Reid is falling back into the way too familiar "uglyness and betrayal"-trope soon enough, but an effort was made.

But that's not enough to work as saving grace.

The novel is very clearly what @paniwarhamauser called "saturday morning cartoons to sell toys", because every buyable unit is mentioned and described very clearly.

But what this book is lacking, is a soul. An understanding for the EC's (and Fulgrim's - but the Phoenician barely features in the novel, so I will leave him out on this) unique tragedy, drama, history and power.

I am glad we got the great "Auric Hammer"-book (please let Marc Collins write more for EC! He gets them! Raging Eidolon gives me life!). And we still have Josh Reynold's superb Fulgrim-novel. But this new one is not for me.

I mean, we EC-fans have a lot of great novels and stories, compared to other Legions (poor Raven Guard for example). So I really shouldn't complain.

Well, rant over, I am calm and collected again and will continue reading the pleasant Alpha Legion-stuff I have left for the Fulgrim novel (may contain traces of Fulgrim). 😁

[princess-charlie-of-hell]

"People only ship Charlastor because it's a straight ship!"

I ship Charlastor because they have amazing chemistry and i love how they interact with each other

I ship Charlastor because they have a similar humor and both enjoy pineapple on pizza

I ship Charlastor because it fits the narrative of the show how people can change

I ship Charlastor because i like how they look together

I ship Charlastor because after it turns out that Alastor is alive she is the first one to pull him in a hug

I ship Charlastor because after 5 minutes knowing each other they were already comfortable enough to dance with each other close like this

I ship Charlastor because Alastor is awfully touchy with her and Charlie doesn't have a problem with it

I ship Charlastor because he looks at her like that

I ship Charlastor because almost everyone who meets them thinks they're dating even Charlie's father

I ship Charlastor because the idea of Alastor,a cruel and sadistic Overlord, falling for the soft hearted and sweet princess of hell is hilarious

I ship Charlastor because I love the Heroine x villain/anti hero trope

I ship Charlastor because they remind me of my favorite Disney pairing, Rapunzel and Eugene

I ship Charlastor because he hates modern technology more than anything but he personally filmed the commercial for Charlie's hotel

I ship Charlastor because Alastor calls her charming demon belle and Mimzy called Charlie his little princess

I ship Charlastor because Alastor gave Charlie his cane despite him never putting it aside before

I ship Charlastor because Alastor defended her hotel and Charlie defended him against her father because he's doing it for her

I ship Charlastor because she was the reason he joined the hotel in the first place

I ship Charlastor because Charlie defended Alastor against her own father and girlfriend

I ship Charlastor because it's fun

There are many different reasons people ship them and not just because they are a "straight" ship. People should be able to enjoy ships whatever they are m/f m/m f/f NB/f. Just let us have fun

Just because you can't handle seeing a woman and men getting romantically involved doesn't mean everyone else isn't allowed to ship two people of the different gender

People are too obsessed whether a ship is gay or not honestly,i don't understand why so many are like " i would ship it if it were two men instead"

Charlastor in my opinion is one fanon ship which makes a lot of sense but for that people actually need to look in their relationship and not just reduce it to a simple father daughter relationship

[physalian]

Said this before but I had to beta read a terrible book set at some point in Ancient Greece and there was this really dramatic moment where the flaky male love interest, when confronted with his horny girlfriend thinking he has commitment issues, wailed and went “I’m just asexual!!!”

I think I busted out laughing. I did not give a professional beta read at all that manuscript was hot garbage and an insult to asexuality to boot.

But as somebody who writes non-contemporary, queernormative fantasy, that isn’t set on earth as we know it… it’s really, really not hard to just not use those terms.

I’ve cornered myself a little bit because I’m really light on cursing and profanity, so there are some layers of heavy implication where I could be more explicit, but I have yet to see anyone complaining or confused that I don’t clearly stamp characters’ sexualities on their foreheads. I did have someone confused and annoyed by my autistic character… but that just means I did my job correctly.

Especially in a queernormative setting (and we should have more of these anyway) all these terms wouldn’t exist anyway. There is no word for ‘gay’ if ‘gay’ isn’t seen as any different than ‘straight’ without stigma or prejudice. Even if you did have a character want to specify “yeah I only court men” you can either make up a label or just have them state their preferences.

But also.

Consider that you have a setting where characters have no idea what their sexuality is anyway. Especially if they’re like my asespec characters in an allonormative world. Even in this world, sexuality is hard to pin down and that’s why there’s a million labels. It’s okay for your characters to not know, or to have a general idea but get stuck on conditions where their preferences might change, or just doubt themselves for whatever reason.

Also also, forcing the writer to have the character explain their sexuality without naming it will show right away whether this is a Diversity Checklist inclusion or someone who actually understands what they’re writing and is writing a person who happens to have a given sexuality and not “the gay character”.

Cause that manuscript? Awful. He was ace only because the straight writer said so. Show don't tell right here. Prime example.

The queer experience is as much being able to proudly state who you are as it is going “fuck I don’t know, I just know I’m not this.”

I dislike the inclusion of a lot of modern Queer Rep Terminology in spec fic (fantasy more than sci fi) on basically aesthetic grounds. But also on to be slightly more principled about it, I feel like forcing the writers to actually describe their characters' identities and sexualities without recourse to a labelled bucket they can just slap and say 'yknow, this!' would be very artistically fruitful.

[mesetacadre]

(Different anon to the one who asked the original question)

Can you elaborate on this part of your post or give reading recs?

"The student, housing, queer, etc. movements will have varying importance depending on time and place, will be more or less permeable to communist positions, and it'll be more or less useful to participate in them. But the worker's movement, whose mobilizations always have a direct relation with the mode of production and capitalism's prime contradiction, should at all times be the focus of any pretension of revolutionary work."

I've been interested in this for a while, but I don't have enough knowledge to have a fully-fledged opinion. I just know I dislike the common "we shouldn't get involved with feminism/trans rights/[insert 'controversial' issue of the time] because it distracts from the worker's movement" or alternative "divides the working class" I hear on social media. I do not think the party needs to be involved in every space, and that sometimes we can even build alliances without dedicating our few and precious resources to work in certain movements, but I think the party lines do need to be defined and its members as well versed as possible in dialectical materialism to reach the appropriate conclusions. The issue is, knowing where to intervene and where to remain on the sideline seems a very complicated decision that some parties seem to base purely on "what are people talking about right now" and that also seems like an error, though I struggle to define how.

I'm not saying that those issues are distracting or unimportant, I'm describing the workers shift. The worker's movement must be a priority and the spine of a CP's work, because it's the closeness that it achieves with the working class at the whirlwind of class struggle that allows a party to actually exert a vanguard role. It's the recognition of the proletariat as the revolutionary class, the class that capitalism itself places as the bourgeoisie's undertaker because of its position in the capitalist mode of production.

Having said this, there are many more ways, or fronts, in which capitalism keeps the working class subjugated, and yes, divided. However saying that those other fronts divide the working class does not mean that they should be ignored, waved away as unimportant, on the contrary. It necessarily concludes that, if your goal is the unity of the working class in a single party, then the work in those fronts should be focused in that sense. Not abandon them, but also participate in these fronts just like a CP can participate in a worker-aristocratic union, to promote through the consistent allyship that only a consistent class position can bring the view of these structural oppressions through a class lens. Talk and fight for the struggle of gay, trans, migrant, women workers, because it is only by eliminating the infiltration of bourgeois demands in these movements that they can ever achieve liberation. If bourgeoisie feminism divides the working class across gender, then the only way to mend that division is to make feminist movements be hegemonically proletarian in class content through the intervention of the CP, not to completely abandon the fight against structural mysogyny.

So while I do agree with you that these phrases (divide the working class, it's a distraction, less important, etc) are generally said by reactionary workerists, I think they're taking a kernel of truth to form a lazy excuse for their prejudice. Marxism understands capitalism in its totality, starting from the abstract to work towards the most concrete, that is, complete, understanding of the mechanisms and relations of capitalism. Recognizing that these movements don't directly deal with the core of the mode of production should not mean disregarding them, it should mean engaging with them with the purview that the structures of oppression they fight are still important for capitalism's continued existence, and that therefore, can only really be removed by destroying the mode of production itself.

So I'd say that the criteria for a party's engagement with these questions should be to aspire to work for the proletariat's hegemony in all of them, and working towards that through prioritization without ever losing sight of the workers shift, because that's what gives the engagement in those other fronts any purpose. Looking at Europe, which what the text you quoted is dealing with, and also the context I know best, I think the priority fronts are migrant workers, working women, and trans workers, because the first two's oppression has a direct relevance to the current form of production in Europe, and because all three form the main avenues of attack against our class that reactionaries take.

The entire 9th issue of the International Communist Review deals with placing workers at the center of communist organizing (though I can't vow for what every participating party says or implies about these other fronts), and I've also talked more about how rejecting the centrality of work has come about in the historical CPs.

[frankiejay03]

KONOHA IS NOT A SMALL VILLAGE

Someone else touched up on this but I don’t tag my reblogs so I’ll never find it but like it befuddles me that we cycle through the same ten characters and ten side characters when Konoha is a huge village like just looking at the number of shapeless Shinobi in the war arc like that population has to come from somewhere right?

Like you’re absolutely joking me if absolute max of 50 of this horde of Shinobi are from Konoha (because at the end of the day, there aren’t that many named Konoha Shinobi alive at any given time, not when compared to this picture I mean for real each block here is probably fucking 100 people wide by idk 500 people long)

(The issue here is not the “lack” of named characters cause there are certainly MANY but rather the lack of unnamed characters or the lack of space in canon for unnamed characters you know what I mean? No way Kakashi and co are the only jounins in village. No way Kakashi only had like two teammates in ANBU when really there should be an abundance of people to run missions with and ANBU isn’t genin teams, so long as the job gets done it doesn’t matter if the team members have met before or even know of each other)

And yeah part of what makes KakaObi (and SasuNaru) so devastating is their shared history but imagine KakaObi rivalry as ADULTS, whatever the opposite of meet-cute is, as Shinobi of the same village who haven’t met each other before because do you really know every single person your age in your hometown? A village THAT big, a NINJA village, does not have only one (1) ninja school (imagine living in the bottom left corner of this image, the walk to school must be so long! Idc if you ninja run, what child has the mental capacity to hop over rooftops at 7am??? Certainly not Ino-Shika-Cho!) ((clearly Kishimoto never played simulation games like Cities Skylines or Oxygen Not Included because come on! The population does not meet canon requirements and for it to do so it has to outgrow having only one school for its children!! Also it just needs more children!!!))

The math just doesn’t math

So

Someone please give me bratty genius Kakashi, unchallenged until he meets “genius of hard work” Obito all the way up as a jounin or ANBU, years his senior and determined to maintain his reign of superiority and probably failing spectacularly with added affliction of gay UST to boot

Gay propaganda aside, just imagine the world-building implications. Isolated Uchiha clan further isolated by a school being built near their clan compound, act of malice or not, their kids aren’t welcome around the others anymore. Poor Shinobi children/orphans who live in the same district going to the same school versus rich clan kids going to a different school together. Remember in your hometown when you “graduated” to middle school, kids who didn’t go to your elementary school were icky or annoying or weird or lame? (The correct term here is new or maybe different but children aren’t usually so kind at that age) But ninja elementary school! No canon middle school or higher education of any kind unfortunately but what if they pair kids from different schools into genin teams? Maybe that’s how Kakashi’s team 7 comes to be (Uchiha massacre or not, doesn’t make a difference if the Uchiha have been super isolated what with the police force and their own academy), maybe Neji is somehow worse cause he’s never actually interacted with a non-Hyuga/non-clan kid before. This can apply to Minato’s team 7 as well, prodigy clan heir from fancy clan academy Kakashi paired with the runt of the Uchiha from insular Uchiha academy and idk Rin from whichever school is closest to her civilian house. Like Konoha doesn’t have cars or buses or trains (at this time and I’ve never seen/read boruto no thank you) and there’s not much room for beasts of burden so these children are WALKING EVERYWHERE thank you very much.

Idk rant over, there was someone who explained this conundrum much better than I did but I cannot find their post :P

[unforth]

ngl I've been increasingly struggling with the use of feminizing language and "but make them women" stuff in my main fandoms, all of which are about queer Asian men. It's always bothered me but I feel like it's bothering me even more now, and I'm not sure if that's because it's become more prevalent or if I'm getting more sensitive to it. I just can't help but want to point out, like...

1. If yall want women and lesbians... you know there are fandoms... with women and lesbians... right? Women and lesbians are great! I'm begging you to go read stories that actually are about them.

2. Like seriously if you want stories about women why are you in the gay guy bl fandom

3. White fans please unpack why you think that lithe Asian gay man needs to be a woman, needs to be pregnant, why you are calling him breedable, or babygirl, or malewife. Like I am begging people who do this to spend five minutes considering why they do, why you think it's okay, why it's maybe different than saying even the same things about white people, like yall just collectively forgetting decades of racist feminizing language weaponized against Asian men.

I'm not saying anything I haven't said before but it's just been really A Lot recently if I have to see one more post about any MXTX character needing to be a breedable malewife maid I'm going to scream.

Note: this is NOT about trans head canons or trans stuff. I love trans masc and trans fem stuff. Don't stop.

(Disclaimer: I am also white.)

Also note like... this isn't about any specific fan having a preference. People like mpreg. People like gender swaps. That's great! I support an individual's preferences! But just because behavior is okay on an individual level, that doesn't mean it doesn't start to get a little awkward at a collective fandom level. And idk, it's hard to divorce my personal discomfort with some of these things from an assessment of if it's actually ~a problem~ so maybe I'm just not recognizing my own issues here, but... yeah. I keep starting to write more then deleting it so I guess I'll shut up now.

[insufferablewhore]

Well, thank you for answering that all the same. I’m not one of your moots (I just found your blog interesting) and I think I will move on now that I understand your views on the matter.

Gender isn’t a concept created by humans, it is what God has created and everything he makes is holy. I can understand why you would think this, tho.

The kind of love that you are talking about isn’t true love. It isn’t the love of Jesus. When ppl say “love is love”, Im sorry to say that it isn’t.

Now, I can see why you would be upset with me ‘talking like I know God’, so to speak, and I don’t know everything, but I do have a very personal relationship with God. In the end, I only know what he has told me, what I have learned from the bible and by studying the amazing things He has created. Saying that he has ‘wars and climate’ to worry about is actually kind of what I thought originally. Maybe you think “God doesn’t have time for a singular person like me?” Because maybe you think he has bigger things to worry about. But, the truth is that he is omnipresent and he does care about all of us. This version of “love” that people have created is completely different from the love of Jesus, real love. The love we as humans created is so that we have ‘loop holes’ to allow for sin to enter.

Anyway, like I said before, you can delete these asks if you want. I will be moving on and won’t bother you again. Thanks for your time <3

-Sad Anon

kay you seem really sweet but RAHHH

“isnt true love” my ass 💀💀 who are you to say what we feel isn’t true?? that’s just plain stupid. how dare you hide your bigotry behind your false idea of love? he would be ashamed tbh

and i also do my fair share of connecting with god (and other deities) and he’s told me that gay and trans people are cool so i guess we’ll never know

maybe we should stop letting and ancient book dictate people’s lives 🤷‍♀️

[humanradiojmp]

Even before the making Jesus gay part, the description of what the series is about also raised some red flags. How it’s based on the “unofficial gospels” (like, what is that? Why not use just the original, officially recognized gospels that have been preserved and carefully translated multiple times? Why use anything else?). It makes me think of those conspiracies of how there’s other texts that should be part of the biblical canon and have been purposefully taken out, as if the Nicaea Council means nothing. But then one could make the argument that the Bible is inherently fallible and could be wrong on some points and it’s a lot more open to interpretation than you’d think and you could say Jesus was gay or not actually God or whatever you want to say.

Which, respectfully, no.

Then it goes on to say Jesus as a political figure. Y’all, he was not a political figure. He wasn’t conservative or liberal or whatever modern term that would be anachronistic to use to describe first century times. Of a different country. Some of his followers tried to start an uprising and make him king and he refused because that’s not what he was on earth for. Making him another radical political figure negates who he is and what his death was about and what it was for.

Not to mention with it being about Judas (and now knowing the gay part) it almost makes it out to be Iike all those remakes and rewrites of different characters and franchises where the villain wasn’t really that bad and they were just misunderstood and it’s ok if they wanted to skin puppies alive for their fur or cursed a baby for petty reasons because it’s hashtag relatable. Granted, Judas did come to regret betraying Jesus and took his life. And I wouldn’t say he’s a villain. But he still did make the conscious decision to betray Jesus. He was one of the twelve and likely (PLATONICALLY) loved Jesus, but he loved money more and sold Jesus over to the religious leaders. If it focused on Judas perspective on him being tempted by Satan giving into it and then realizing with horror what he did, it could make for a compelling tragedy. But it doesn’t seem to be the case here.

(And this is a completely personal nitpick, but something about them being animals doesn’t sit well with me. I’m not opposed to using antimorphic characters for storytelling in most cases; we have VeggieTales so why not animals as well. I think it’s just the choice of animals maybe? IDK, it doesn’t seem right to me is all)

it's honestly a bit disappointing because the animation looks good (I'm a sucker for bright contrasting colors used in visual media) and it could be another example of well-made Christian media, but it isn't. I had a feeling from the little bit of the trailer I saw that it wasn't actually going to be accurate, and this post just confirms it. Honestly to a degree, I'm not that surprised. we're seeing a rise in well-made God-honoring film media, but in turn, we're also seeing the opposite come about, where media is coming out that's slandering God and Jesus and who they are and what Christ did (the remake of Chronicles of Narnia being a prime example). I just hope it doesn't discourage anyone from making good Christian films, and maybe being inspired to do better and more accurately (turn to the side to see myself in the mirror)

like theology? like animation? i do, and i am currently LOSING MY MIND over the judas iscariot film on kickstarter!!

Judas Iscariot is an animated retelling of The New Testament of the Holy Bible, featuring details from the Apocrypha (The "Unofficial" Gospels) with a fresh stylized reinterpretation of the story's core figures. The goal of this project is to illuminate this text for both a religious and non-religious audience, placing it back into the historical context of Jesus’s role as a political figure during the Roman occupation of Judea.

the film is over 50% funded, with a month left on kickstarter! i just donated $10 myself, and am looking to spread the word--because seriously, look, this is incredible!!

[xanadufoyerwaterwheeljr]

⭐LAST OF US RANTING ⭐

Mostly about people being mad about Pedro Pascal dying and being superficial and annoying and weird

I feel like the people (that didn't play the games) seemed to only watch Last of Us because they're attracted to Pedro Pascal. They only cared about him during the whole first season. Which makes sense the story kind of does that to you? But I have seen so many people say now that Pedro Pascal is gone they won't watch. Joel would never have been that interesting to play as if he never had Ellie! If he just lost his daughter and then he was every other person whos lost someone in the apocalypse. So in turn the show is the same. Joel becomes an interesting character AFTER he has Ellie as a parallel to his other shit. And to ONLY watch something because you're attracted to someone and not even care AT ALL ABOUT THE REST OF THE STORY is crazy. I admit I've watched shows because I'm attracted to the stars, or if I see even a HINT of gay, but I don't stick around to things if im not actually interested? Last of Us has an insane story with crazy points and very real characters and relationships. Yet people are only watching because of PEDRO??

People simultaneously are NOT attracted to Bella Ramsey and don't like them and have preconceived ideas about them. (The amount of fucking potato emojis are crazy. It does have a lot to do with Bella talking about their autism diagnosis, but Bella looks so normal i don't understand it. Like they look TOO normal. Just a normal guy.) People aren't even hating on Abby now cuz Katilyn Dever is also conveniently hot. Abby was never HOT to the vast majority. (Dont get me started im a loverthey and Abby is my GIRLRRRRRLLL) she was too strong and "manly" to the gamer gooners. But I've barely seen any hate except that she DOESNT look like that. Make up your minds fr. She has a different strong vibe to her that's easy to read on her groups faces. No one is calling her ugly now or making fun of her manliness or being unrealistic, no one is as mad about her killing Joel they're all mad about her killing PEDRO. I love Pedro too PROTECT THE DOLLS !! YES MA'AM

But I'm not watching for him. I never played the game for Joel. I played because Ellie was a likable and interesting character. And the way she made Joel more of an interesting character. Their relationship and the exploration of trauma and being faced with that with head on. Joel has to face the loss of his daughter and move on by being forced to protect Ellie. And then being traumatized by losing his FIRST daughter made him think he needed to do everything he could to not lose his second daughter. Including killing other people and not giving his daughter free will or autonomy. (I do understand the perspective of him saving ellie it does make sense to save someone you love I would probably do the same thing) I loved the show making Joel just shut up and listen.

He seemed to be once again forced to face his trauma head on. Abby telling him what he did, how many people he killed, WHO he killed, the real lives that he took. You could tell he knew he deserved it. The show is such a great way to expand these characters flesh them out and make them REAL ASF.

I feel like if I was watching this story without ever having played the games I would be ON THE EDGE OF MY SEAT. WHATS GONNA HAPPEN. JOEL DIES!!! The last episode of season one really shows that Joel had no care, he didn't reason with anyone, he didn't give anyone a chance. He just killed them all and left with Ellie. Him killing Marlene was so insane to me. He was ruthless. Overtaken by his own grief and trauma. I think if I had watched that without the game I still would've understood Abby and WHY Joel dies and what that will do to the story. Knowing Joel lies to Ellie and you know Eillie knows he's not telling her everything. That really puts it into perspective. Ellie is the main character, the circle or trauma. The domino effect your trauma can have on other people.

This STORY MAN !!!!

[seeingteacupsindragons]

Do you have some more Stanxeno headcanons to share?

Sure, let's do another grab bag.

Stan tried out a whole bunch of lipstick colors in high school before settling on liking purple best. He probably had a couple colors floating around as an adult, but only purple got remade in the immediate term because it was his favorite. There was a lot of black.

You can date pictures of Stan if he's wearing a particularly unfortunate color, because he only tried orange for that one October in sophomore year, etc.

I mentioned the thing about Stan helping design and place the castle for military purposes, but I stand by that.

I don't know if this fully extends into headcanon territory, but it's really funny to me that Xeno's like half the age of most of his coworkers, so they probably tried to set him up not believing the boyfriend in Canada on deployment story and/or didn't want him settling down with a man, and tried to set him up with a woman that looked like Stan because that's his type, right? Anyway, he and this random lesbian spent a night drinking at a gay bar and commiserating about being queer in Texas.

Well, that didn't work out, what about a group date to get burgers and see that sci-fi movie he mentioned. This girl shows up in her Southern Belle best and he's wearing eyeliner and a black coat and dog collars with a shirtless picture of his boyfriend on his phone lock screen because this can't possibly be a date, they just wanted him to make friends, and she has honestly no idea what to do with any of this.

They continue trying this even to the point of some family BBQ for NASA employees and Xeno brings Stan and Drama Ensues.

The way in which Stan gets Xeno to shut up about whatever science he's rambling about without Xeno getting upset is incredibly cute to me and also makes me wonder if they set up some kind of code as kids for Stan to let Xeno know he's losing people/upsetting people so Xeno can pivot.

These two overdressed assholes have the most crowded bathroom counter known to man but also refuse to get a pair sink because jabbing elbows in each other's side when they're fighting over mirror space in the morning and grabbing for eyeliner and hair mousse is an integral part of their flirting. Everyone else in the American colony keeps offering to build them a bigger bathroom sink and they keep refusing.

One of them grabs the wrong eyeliner and gets complaints about how that's unhygenic and the response comes in the form of a raised eyebrow and like. We share spit. And other. Fluids. I think the eyeliner will be fine.

The cheeseburgers and burritos thing just makes me realize they spent far too much time at awful, cheap fast food places as teenagers. Which, I mean. In middle school a friend and I would ride our bikes to the library and stop at BK on the way home, so, y'know. I get it.

The shared tobacco company thing also sort of confirms my opinion that Xeno doesn't actually mind the smoking that much. It's just an easy thing to pick at and who would they be if they didn't do that.

Xeno would absolutely refuse to have a lowkey wedding or elopement or courthouse shindig. This man lives for spectacle. Please. Everyone they know would be invited and he would be ordering them both custom suits. I want Stan's squad to come to this wedding and do a double take when they see him in lipstick and mascara. And do another when Xeno appears wearing eyeliner and silver acrylics because ??? I thought Stan said he was marrying a NASA nerd? There would be articles in the paper about it.

Stan comes home from every deployment to like three different guns Xeno has been working on with all his extra free time.

Stop putting Xeno in sweater vests. Viva la black t-shirts and skinny bondage cargo pants and Vans. Much more practical for weapons testing, more in line with his aesthetic choices, and lots of pockets. Also I spent way too much time in this exact uniform growing up.

Xeno has to do all the car maintenance because he's a rocket engineer I think he can change some brake pads on a Prius. Stan gets asked if he works on theirs car because they're modded to hell and back and Stan's just like, Hell No, that's the Husband's job. A big strong knight is not required to change car oil and they're both so gender fucky it's important to me not to recreate gender roles here.

[nullcoast]

Hmm it's almost like gender is a construct so getting into minutia arguments about microlabels is a complete fucking waste of time and an expression of extreme ignorance. almost like the million different ways queerness has been expressed all contradicting eachother for hundreds of years is for a reason and they all equally have important things to say about HUMAN EXPRESSION

[inkskinned]

before you know about women, you hear that you do not need to love the man, just that you need to love him through his manhood. which is to say you have seen the future painted in lamb's blood over your eyes - how your mother shoots you a look about your father's inability to cook right. how your aunt holds her wineglass and says i'm gonna kill em. men, right! how your best friend bickers with her boyfriend, how she says i can't help it. i come back to him.

you learn: men are gonna cheat. men aren't going to listen when you're talking, because you're nagging. men think emotions are stupid. they think your life is vapid and your hobbies are embarrassing. men will slam things, but that's because men are allowed to be angry. if you get loud, you're hysterical. if a man gets loud - well, men are animals, men are dogs, men can't control their hands or their eyes or their bodies. they're going to make a snide comment about you in the locker room, about your body, about how you're so fucking annoying. you're going to give him kids, and he will give you the money for the kids, and you're going to be running the house 24/7 - but he gets to relax after a long day, because his job is stressful. the man is on stage, and is a comedian, and says "women!"

and you are supposed to love that. you are supposed to love men through how horrible they are to you - because that's what women do. that's what good women do. wife material. your father even told you once - it'll make sense when you're older. it was like staring down a very lonely tunnel.

it feels like something's caught in your throat, but it's all you know, so. it's okay that you see sex as a necessary tool, a sort of okay-enough ritual to keep him happy, even though he doesn't seem to care about happiness as-applied-to you. it is relationship upkeep. it is kissing him and smiling even though he didn't brush his teeth. it is getting on your knees and looking up and holding back a sigh because he barely holds you as you panic through the night. it's not like the sex is bad and you do like feeling wanted. and besides! he's a man! like... they're another species. you'll never be able to actually communicate, right. he isn't listening.

you just don't get it. you don't feel that sense of i'm gonna climb him like a tree. mostly it just feels fucking exhausting. you play the part perfectly. you smile and nod and are "effortlessly" charming. and it's fine! it's alright! you even love him, if you're looking. you could have good life, and a good family, and perfectly happy.

in the late night you google: am i broken. you google i'm not attracted to my husband. you google i get turned on by books but not by him. you google how to get better in bed.

the first time he yells at you, it almost feels like blankness. like - of course this is happening. this is always how it was going to end up. men get angry, and they yell, and you sit there in silence.

you mention it to your friend - just the once - while you're drunk. she shrugs and says it's like that with me too, i just try to forget and move on. men are always gonna hear what they want to. pick your battles and say sorry even though he's in the wrong. you play solitaire online for a month. you go to your therapist appointment and preach about how you're both so in love.

after all, you have a future to want. nobody lied about it - how many instagram posts say marriage is hard. say real love takes work. say we fight like cats and dogs but the best part is that we always make up. how many of your friends say happy anniversary to the best and worst thing to ever happen to me. if you really loved him - loved yourself too - you'd accept that men are just different from you.

the first time she kisses you, it's on a dare at a party. something large and terrifying whips through your body. you wake up sweating from dreams where her mouth is encrusted with pearls and you pick them off one by one with your teeth. fuck. you sit at the computer and your almost-finished game of sim city. you think about your potential perfect life and your potential future family. you google am i gay quiz with your little hands shaking.

you delete each letter slowly. you don't need to love him. you just need to keep going.

[lotus-pear]

VERLAINEEEE as promised

[sossegato]

"In many ways I would consider myself a radical feminist."

Would that be exclusively in your mind? 'Cause you know we can just see your blog, and not only is it not even remotely rad-aligned, it's hardly feminist-aligned. There's about zero posts about women's issues or anything else you're accusing us of ignoring (PLENTY of posts accepting at face-value of trans identities, though, would you look at that).

You just added this little caveat to deflect from the fact you don't read radfems and know fuck all about it or what we habitually discuss, just like every single other post of this kind that's been poppping up.

"Women around the world are being raped, murdered, mutilated, and trafficked"

By who? Like, how does that happen? Are they all just tripping and falling into murder and assault? Who's doing that to them? Who does every statistic database ever indicate are the perpetrators of these crimes? What does it say on the "sex" box?

"and all you talk about is whether a group of people (who experience misogyny, btw) get to be considered women?"

Oh, you do know who.

"Go donate to an organization helping little girls get an education or something."

Women's organizations? You mean anti-trans hate groups? Careful with that, bigot.

"It's so disingenuous and I truly think it's a distractor from much bigger issues."

So, it's disingenuous to discuss how women have lost the right to self-congregate, at the risk of being taken to court on a Human Rights violation charge, like in Australia?

It's disingenuous to discuss how trans activists have so far managed to defund two rape shelters for women? From Canada to Tokyo? And how the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Center had to apologize to survivors refusing them the service they alleged to provide?

That female athletes have suffered life-altering injuries competing with males? That female athletes have lost countless and counting spots to males which easily beat their scores with their own male-average ones? That female athletes have lost countless and counting awards, sponsors and their entire careers by merely pointing out the well-documented differences between the sexes in sport performance, or that they should just get to have their own leagues 'cause it should be their right to (a right trans activists simultaneously insist they absolutely have and shouldn't have anyway).

That children and minors are being unnecessarily medicalised and subjected to elective surgery which will impact their development permanently? That it's been proven, by admission of gender clinicians themselves, that these interventions can prevent them from normal sexual development, depriving them of the capacity to orgasm when adults? That'll cause them a variety of endocrine and reproductive dysfunctions, increased risk of cardiovascular disease, premature osteoporosis?

That trans activists have adopted conversion therapy rhetoric verbatim to refer to the gay community? That the mere definition of our sexual orientation has been deemed transphobic? That this is all again publicly accepted?

It's disingenuous to bring up males in female prisons and consequential sexual assaults? It's just no fucking biggie?

All of this is just distracting from what you think actually matters, which is... the same issues, except only if it doesn't mention when and how trans people are involved.

I see.

My problem with TERFs is not the radical feminism part. In many ways I would consider myself a radical feminist. My problem is that TERFs focus their activism on being anti trans women when they're not even 1% of the world's population. Women around the world are being raped, murdered, mutilated, and trafficked, and all you talk about is whether a group of people (who experience misogyny, btw) get to be considered women? Go donate to an organization helping little girls get an education or something. It's so disingenuous and I truly think it's a distractor from much bigger issues.