#t4t and peace on earth

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[memefever]

this is not a meme, i just needed to share with someone

[gooopy]

People need to give scout more body hair. She deserves it hashtag feminism

[ileaveclawmarks]

[blooscreen]

wwomen . girls . 🥺💖 . starting to think i may be . more than just a faggot . at times

[corpseroadking]

making trans girl designs of the raven boys is really just an excuse to draw girls kissing

[lovejewel]

i love autistic love

[binders-and-beanies]

If you fetishize every trans guy you meet, just know that the trans guys in question are fucking each other and making fun of you together

[misscammiedawn]

Thinking about We Know The Devil and Heaven Will Be Mine today. A duology. WKTD the tells the story of accepting you're queer, framed as a horror story of 3 repressed teenagers at a christian summer camp fighting off their inherent queerness and HWBM tells the story of how one accepts their place in society after embracing their queerness.

WKTD uses magical girl tropes in a fairly grounded Midwestern teen experience.

Magical girl stories often involve the struggle of the forces of Good and Evil. Purity and Impurity. Corruption often being a core theme of any girl squad facing down the nightmarish forces. This can be seen from Madoka's approach to the concept which is often referred to as a deconstruction. The Pink Opaque from I Saw The TV Glow overtly uses these themes in the exact same allegory as WKTD with the evil forces attempting to suppress the queerness of the protagonists.

HWBM uses mech anime tropes in an allegorical wonderland where the setting fades away to have the audience engage with the ideas at play rather than the lore. Mech anime often uses the giant robot duels as a method of visualizing ideological struggles. Too often in these shows beam sabers will cross as the pilots yell at one another to embrace ideas of how the concepts of war and prejudice can be battled out of existence.

In HWBM the "war" in play is humans versus space... or more accurately humans versus those who are not of Earth. Versus those who are alien. Versus those who are not human.

The dominant culture versus queer culture.

WKTD frames its tropes via the dating sim mechanics popular within its visual novel medium. But rather than choosing which of the 3 girls the player wishes to romance you must choose which of the 3 you wish to exclude. The idea being to scapegoat one's struggle with queerness by attacking outward, blaming the other, by shaming others into the closet to keep yourself in there.

Lashing outward to prevent reflecting inward.

The only good ending of the game is to accept a polycule dynamic where everyone is seen, accepted and embraced for who they are unconditionally. God's love, in this world, is conditional and one must always be excluded. The devil has room for three.

There is no room in normal society for a polycule. It is inherently queer. The dominant culture is binary and there's no version of a polycule where only a 0 and a 1 are represented. The binary is incompatible.

I recently told a friend that the duology tells the journey of a thousand miles and how it begins with a single step. WKTD is the story of that first and all too important step acceptance.

HWBM is the story of what comes after acceptance. After that first step.

It tells the story of the thousand mile journey.

The ideologies at play are the concepts of assimilation, activism and separationism. In the allegory Earth/Humanity represents the dominant "straight" society and the three characters represent each of these ideologies. Assimilation is to return to Earth, to integrate into the dominant culture and lose some of the inherent joy and "otherness" that being queer brings. It's no coincidence that the character representing this path is a trans woman who is known for defecting from her faction and crossing over to every other side while repeating the mantra "I've never betrayed anyone in my life", it is a coincidence however that her faction's war efforts are lead in part by God's Strongest Chaser herself (as far as I'm aware the Halimede Twitter Account is not affiliated with the game, but I find it funny that the assimilation path is represented by someone who a character whose gimmick account argues "t4t is incest"). It is a life of peace. But it is a life of compromise. Of giving up humanity's dream of the stars. To be grounded and tethered to Earth forever.

The Activism Path represents the idea of staying in Earth's orbit but never surrendering even an ounce of the queer identity for the sake of acceptance. Forcing the dominant culture to argue with us on our terms. Accept us on our terms. It is a life of constant battle but in that battle we will save those on Earth, invite them into the stars, embrace them with acceptance and love. Let them join us or remain where they are. This is a life of constant war, knowing that until all are loved and accepted, no one is and so we continue fighting. Letting people change sides. Nothing changes but maybe it's better that way.

Separation is the idea of abandoning Earth entirely. To become so incompatible with the dominant culture that we are no longer "human" to those who remain tethered. We are unapproachable. Separate. Unique. Other. Queer above anything else and incapable of creating a rational dialogue with the dominant culture. It is picking up your toys and walking away. Going far enough away from the culture war that it will never be able to reach you.

The author of the Halimede account once wrote, while in character, that this is the saddest ending of them all because it's unsustainable and that it does not address the inherent intersectional fighting between communities, allowing wars to simply break out further away from our blue marble in the distant stars. It is a life of abandoning war without embracing peace. To live separate in bubbles apart.

The ending of the game forces you to pick. There is no existing outside of these options. Maybe one day we'll find other ways to be but within the view of this game they are all we have. Embrace Earth, declare war on Earth or abandon Earth.

Choose.

I admit. Since the pandemic and coming out as trans, I've favored Saturn's ideology more than others. Completely giving up on "humanity" and only working within circles of those whose acceptance of queer culture is baked in. I fought so hard to accept who I was and "know the devil", so to speak, that I pulled back and withdrew.

Both games have a lot of themes about the demons ones must face within queer culture and outside of it. The way we hurt ourselves, hurt our allies and how the world outside societal, structural and individual will force us to compromise, to cut away parts of ourselves.

These games are masterpieces.

I wish I found them earlier in my life. I want everyone able to read these words to find them now.

[toastybugguy]

with every sciles lover, nature heals a little bit more ..

tenderly holding hands and skipping in a circle and looking loving into the eyes of every new person to enter my enclosure (blog) and sift through my scilesposting

[twinsfawn]

🎉 2024 IS THE YEAR OF NASTY GAY T4T SEX FOREVER AND EVER AMEN PEACE AND LOVE ON PLANET EARTH 🎉

[rosemaryyuri]

happy rosemary day i have nothing actual #awesome but have this thing i made yesterday i still draw sometimes i promise . t4t rosemary . peace and love on the planet earth

[glittercritter64]

t4t skwistok for the soul… headcannons and artistic nudity beneath cut. the anatomy is shit because i use no references and cried while making this in a car on my phone

skwisgaar is a transfem agender person, seeking to exist beyond mortal gender. She uses she/he, but specifically wishes to be addressed with he/him in the way christians refer to god and she/her in the way we refer to mother earth. she seeks to encompass both physical sexes but also neither but also everything at once, much like most deities did. skwisgaar wants to be a girl with a deep voice and a man with boobs. a dude prettier than any girl and a lady handsomer than any man. a secret third thing. everything at once. nothing. all simultaneously in a peaceful pool of god-like expression.

toki is a transmasculine man. he has a connection to femininity, only allowing those that he is close with to refer to him as she/her especially when regressed. he has always been a boy, but he still feels a connection to the little girl he was who didnt know “what was wrong with her” and seeks to give her a childhood she never got. even when regressed, toki is never really a “girl”, just something that isnt quite a man. toki, like skwisgaar, exists beyond gender. but instead of in a god like way, its a way to heal his inner child and himself into a comfort with who he is. a comfort with himself that he didnt get for the most formative, impactful years of his life.

also Nudity version. its just boobs

[noeysnowy]

T4t steddie but loving both transmasc eddie and steve aND transmasc eddie and transfem steph peace ans love on planet earth

[toytle]

my friend drew my middle aged t4t versions of halbarry, is there any greater peace on earth

[solcorvidae]

We need more big masculine men with “undesirable” traits in t4t relationships. It would fix this fandom. It would fix ME.

Peace and love on planet earth or whatever—make him trans. Do it right now. That guy you’re thinking of? Yeah, that one. He’s trans now. Why? Because I said so.

Trans his gender. Do it, you won’t.