#t4t and peace on earth

[wineanddineloseyourmind]

someone messaged me on the t4t app and i immediately noticed that she was the same girl i had just been talking to on Taimi. like what are the fucking odds lmao

[memefever]

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

[8millionscorpions]

we are allowed to need help. struggling is not a moral failure, and it is not a noble endeavor. it doesn't make us failures, and it doesn't make us better than others. if you're having a hard time... whether it be needing food, toiletries, bills paid, transportation, emotional support, reminders you're loved... please reach out to those around you, those who support you, and look online for resources. ask around for them, even!

maybe your neighbor knows a better building nearby to do laundry. maybe your grandma knows a food pantry that isn't on online lists. maybe your best friend can give you a lift to your job that day. maybe your coworker actually knows what it's like

if you get rejected the first few times, keep trying. you deserve to receive the help you need, inherently. you don't have to earn it, suffer xyz amount for it to be "bad enough", and you don't have to have or do something in return then and there, or even soon after, to deserve help

we can do this, together. you will get better. and it might get worse before it gets better. like when you clean your room, and everything is everywhere. it's only because you're removing things to put them in a better space

the sky is at its darkest, the air coldest, the heaviness thickest, right before dawn breaks through, and the sun brightens the sky and warms us, and lightens the heaviness

it'll be okay in the end. if it's not okay, it's not the end. stay safe, you deserve to. others love you

☮💗🌍

[dreamsy990]

when the tags are a hit

[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

[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

[in-rainb0w5]

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

[vampireghostlawyer]

t4t bi4bi daarin = peace and love on earth

[ashthewaterghoul]

Dewdrop & Sunshine but they’re in a QPR.

Dew is allosexual demiromantic. Sunshine is aspec and still questioning. Ik it’s not a requirement for QPRs but let me hc in peace >.<

Also t4t stuff at the bottom bc trans Ghouls>>>

They’re like a pair of excitable little cats the way their Fire fuels them both and each other.

They share a nest most nights and cuddle the whole night away. The others sometimes can’t cuddle the whole night with either of them because of how warm they run, but with each other? It’s like a living-breathing heated blanket and neither can get enough.

They seriously cannot get enough of physical touch and love cuddles and holding hands. If they’re hands are busy then it’s guaranteed their tails are twisted up together.

(The rest is below the cut bc I yapped. Who is surprised? No one.)

They often harmlessly bite each other - as Ghouls do - and pepper their faces in little kisses. Also they like to nuzzle along each other’s throats and scent glands for the closeness and comfort.

“Velcro Ghouls” as Aether calls them.

It also means they know when the other is struggling because they won’t be as affectionate.

But it’s beyond just being snuggle buddies or familial, they just complete each other to an insane degree that the rest of the pack almost don’t comprehend.

The amount of inside jokes they have cannot be counted and it’s gotten to the point where the rest of the pack have given up on asking for any elaboration.

They love going out on little dates and day trips with each other - especially in the summer when the days are longer and the sun’s out - and the wall behind their bed is filled with pictures of them.

They have tattoos for each other. Dew has a sun on his inner bicep with some clouds and flowers for her Air and Earth affinities. Sunshine has flames in an inverted triangle for his Fire and Water nature, and it’s on her upper arm.

They have their own rooms too for when they want some alone time or have their own guests for the night, but there’s usually something of the other with them so that they can still smell each other.

Dew smells like cinnamon and burnt driftwood. Sunshine smells like tea and campfires.

They both balance each other out and they surprisingly love doing all the domestic and mundane shit together.

If they’re paired for cleaning duties, neither will complain and they’ll sing and dance around, using the brooms and mops as props.

They have 2 cats together and are exclusively referred to as their children.

They are also each other’s emergency contacts because they have a practically encyclopaedic knowledge of each other and their histories.

When Dew was away on tour and Sunshine stayed behind, they were messaging constantly and calling every day, at least so they could say “Good night, I love you.”

Also, do not fucking wrong one of them, because the other will make your life hell.

They often refer to each other as soulmates and if Ghoul-mating bonds didn’t require a certain thing from either of them that neither wanted to/could give, they would absolutely do it.

✨t4t edition✨

Sunshine who gets all of Dew’s old skirts and dresses that just make him dysphoric now. Sunshine also gives Dew her old wardrobe that’s more “masculine”.

And of course they share everything for whenever they feel like trying something different.

As Sunny’s hair grows out, Dew teaches her how to take care of it and let’s her practice on his own. He also teaches her how to do her make-up, and little “tricks” about womanhood.

Sunshine who helps Dew pack and bind, and reminds him to take binder breaks. She also makes sure that Dew has plenty of oversized T-shirts clean for when he can’t wear his binder.

As Dew experiences more changes from his testosterone, she teaches him how to shave his face.

Sunshine helped Dew recover from his top surgery and practically doted on him like a Victorian maid.

They both turn to each other when they have bad dysphoria days and often are the only ones each other trust with it.

They serve as each other’s reminders to take their hormones and Dew helps give Sunny her oestrogen shot when her nerves get the best of her and she can’t do it herself.

Yeah, just ✨them✨

[toytle]

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