#theyre truly so alike arent they

[crustyfloor]

Ivan and Till both writing songs centered around the unconditional and painful love that they have for their crushes while both not have the songs' meaning be realized by said crushes

[old-stoneface]

my ship chart for the five main characters of camlann 😁 notes on the categories: best friends and romantic are self explanatory. for 'complicated' i just mean that they arent 100% sure how they feel abt each other, whether their current feelings are leaning towards positive or negative, thats just a blanket category for complex feelings. 'self recognition through the other' is about how the characters interact with each other; for example, morgan and gwen's conversation abt their trust in each other in episode 8, or perry and gwen both being obviously dedicated to keeping people safe in a very physical way. in the case of gwaine and gwen, their conversation in episode 9 makes me think that they have a lot to talk about when it comes to trust, because gwen doesnt trust other people enough to show her true feelings, and gwaine doesnt trust other people enough to form meaningful relationships, but they each have a tendency to be very clear about when theyre unhappy with how something is being handled. for gwaine and perry, this element goes hand-in-hand with how similar they are to their namesakes. perry is very honest and self righteous, always doing whats right as a matter of moral imperative, and while they do have a temper, its because they are angry at themself for being selfish or unfair. they put a lot of thought into being a good and fair person, very selfless, and because of that they build relationships with other people really easily. gwaine, on the other hand, comes across as very self centered and selfish. it is not easy for him to open up and rely on other people. he seems very isolated and always puts himself first, trying to build relationships with other people in order to gain security (making the feast and bringing all that food as an apology without actually saying sorry), only figuring out how to be selfless at the very end of season one. but their similarities are interesting too: the high temper, the self reliance, the protectiveness of their loved ones, etc, not to mention their shared affection for dai... i havent tried to put this all into words before but i think im phrasing this in an understandable way dfkghafh anyway the last category i should explain is the 'story connection' one. thats just to refer to the fact that their namesakes and the stories thereof draw them together and make them bounce off each other like magnets. the closeness and complexity of relationship is influenced by who they are named after - thus, the slight knightly rivalry of gwaine and perry, the complicated and intense familial love between morgan and dai, the messy connection and strong similarities from gwen to morgan and how morgan, as a magical figure, has so much more freedom than a queen would, no matter how much alike they truly are.. i have more thoughts on all of this, but this is already really long, and i didnt plan on writing this all out hfgsalkdhfskj hope u enjoy my light analysis! special mention to how much i love the romantic undertones between dai and perry in their friendship and how bad i want gwaine and perry to attack each other in a gay way

[1eos]

i would still argue that idea and criminal sound nothing alike it's still very taemin but at the same time i really get the everything sounds like sth else in recent sm releases and artists lacking an established sound and identity the company goes with what sells so it's not really surprising but disappointing bc all these releases are so forgettable. also this trend of picking a very hard hitting 'loud' tt and then have the rest of the album sound nothing like it turns away so many people from listening to the rest of the album i will give it a chance but still i blame nct and aespa the company sees what sells and just goes with it i hope they move past this trend

you know? i totally forgot abt criminal lol yeah that was a song that actually had character. im on the fence abt idea but im biased against it bc i hate that song 😭😭😭😭 but that's neither here nor there. its definitely nct's fault tho. sm started giving them messier and messier songs and nctzens kept buying albums full of songs they didnt even like and sm said oh okay so we don't need to make good title tracks just spectacles! and it works. and while some albums have truly good bsides other times the bsides arent even good theyre just not bad and bc the bar's so low that's enough to be praised. like i be BEGGING ppl to stop describing songs as simply 'better than the shitty title track' bitch is it good on its own merits or not? like? you'd never hear me describe the closer as a song that's simply better than an older song it's smooth rnb fusion with crazy layered vocals a booming catchy chorus and shitty rapping but that's ok bc leo was having a boys ii men moment at the end!!!!

[kraviolis]

who would win in a fight james randal or doctor coomer

ok so even while james randal is surprisingly sturdy and spry for his age and is very skilled at evading, dr coomer was a professional boxer and has a far higher kill count than him. so in a one on one it would for sure go to dr coomer

however, if you allow them to bring their clones into the equation, i think james randal would win even if we only base it on the fact that he and his clones have far better coordination + teamwork skills and they have a close knit relationship that benefits them greatly in fights while dr coomer has a high level of contempt for his clones and has never coordinated a successful attack with them.

and if we want to get into even more detail as to why this is, it’s because james’s clones come from a diagnosed medical condition call multiple jamesesis. it’s explained as more of a quantum mechanics situation, where james is simply just existing in multiple places at once. that there isn’t really an “original” james because there is no difference between them— they are all exactly alike in speed, size, and strength because they are just a single person.

there was actually a trial at one point where someone tried to press charges against two of the james randals for assault and robbery but since they couldnt tell which ones did the crime, they just charged all of them

anyways, coomer’s clones aren’t a natural condition like james’s. they’re created artificially by removing an unspecified amount dr coomer’s power/aura/soul/essence and turning it into what’s basically a flesh puppet. these clones arent really people, theyre just fragments of what was once a whole. all of them are substantially weaker than their ortet and dr coomer is made weaker with every clone created.

but just going back to the original question, i honestly, truly think the most likely scenario that would happen if they met face to face is that they would end up getting trapped in a feedback loop for all of eternity

[calumhoodgoss]

there's always people who don't fucking use their brains when it comes to B + A comparison.

yes A was a narcissict and stole money from her family's trust and cheated on the guy before luke, and on luke with blackbear. and whatever the fuck else, we're not talking about every little thing because yes, of course they're different people.

99% of the time we're talking about the things that literally are the same about them: dating a band member, their online activity, their appearances too being both latina ("you look alike" isn't that deep, they're both pretty and like botox and tbh have the same boobs lol), the huge want to be instagram famous but not having the drive or depth to back it up. doing shitty things to people irl and online. and then crying when they got called out on their bullshit. when a fandom collectively says "we don't like the way you've interacted with us" and they don't think they've done a thing wrong? not saying fans are saints of course, it's the gfs not understanding how they came across, their first impressions...

I'm proper reminiscing and dude... every time a new partner comes along, I PRAY they're good and nice. 10 years later, I'm still being disappointed.

hmmm i see what youre saying. the only thing is, you cant compare someone to an abuser without implying the abusive characteristics unless you explicitly say otherwise

abuse is a very heavy and serious accusation and to be so frivolous with a comparison can truly be damaging to someone. i know youre not saying that brandy is abusive or a cheater but when you broadly compare someone who is to her then those characteristics are inherently implied.

dont get me wrong, you can definitely compare the two and their attitudes towards the fandom; all im saying is that its a nuanced topic that needs to be handled with caution. if youre going to compare them then you need to be explicit about what youre comparing because its not fair to pit an abusive individual against someone who isnt without the fair warning

it fooled me! i didnt know much about arzs history and i definitely didnt know that anons were assuming i knew that they weren't talking about her abuse/cheating characteristics

alsooo to say 'we're not talking about every little thing' as if her cheating and abuse history are 'little things' is rather dismissive. those arent little things, theyre the first things that come to mind when considering arzs wrongdoings. so no, its not like we're comparing 'every little thing'; these are the most blatant obvious things you cant overlook when talking about her character

to assume that someone else knows that youre not making the comparison to those characteristics is ultimately naive and dangerous. no one else knows the context you are writing in unless you express it. no one else can read your mind. readers WILL interpret your writing differently to how you intend it unless you are very intentional and specific

i dont think its the reader not 'using their fucking brain', i think its actually the writer not understanding how their words come across objectively. its the writers inability to consider their writing without their own subjective views and context clouding their judgement. if the reader doesnt understand or misinterprets your point, 9 times out of 10 thats because you havent explained it properly, not because the reader is dumb lol

note: im using you/your/youre in a general way, not referring to a specific anon/person

[teecupangel]

Tags from @crispybureau

#*heart eyes all over this* #hmmmmm am thinking about how the family thinks des is crushing on ezio #but then they see how much des wants to TAKE CARE OF ezio and they all independently have a little ''oh'' moment #that maybe it isnt a romantic crush so much as some sort of emotional transference #which they arent entirely WRONG about #BUT back to des being desmond: #tasty ideas!! love them!! #giovani encouraging ''caterina'' to change her name just in case and des going ''wait i can do that'' and going full hog like #''can i pretend to be a man too'' and giovani is like ''sure ig???'' but then realises down the line that it isnt really pretending anymore #then of course it can go two ways #of A) giovani never telling the fam who or what desmond was before arriving and the gay panic happening #or B) the family DOES know but also come to accept des isnt just faking it. so fed or ezio goin along thinkin theyre straight #and then they realise des is a MAN and suddenly have to confront their feelings for des in an entirely different way than expected #im super curious about your thoughts on how you think the italian brotherhood is taking giovani's mystery apprentice #we already know the florentine auditore are pretty separate from them at this time for being too close to the medicci #how does the rest of the brotherhood feel about giovani taking on an apprentice before hes even started training ezio? #that it's a stranger? #whoops is this another one where people think giovani has a bastard child lmao #teecupangel #other people's writing #cj rambles #desmond #ezio #giovani auditore #and then also what lengths will giovani go to protect desmond or would he encourage him to return to the duke? #giovani (and the time period) place such a heavy importance on family and filial piety.....

We can absolutely go for the idea that @thedragonqueen1998 had

Ooo, the gay crisis could be so sweet and angsty. Maybe finally the love interest and Desmond start getting physical and when Desmond reveals he is technically a woman, our loverboy could be like "Oh! I am not gay and we can be as openly involved as possible because your a woman!" and just crush Desmond's heart. Leading to the typical "lovers split" part in any romance story. XD Then the brother could be the one to knock some sense into our interest Because didn't they love Desmond when they thought he was a man and does his gender matter? Cue loverboy trying to win back Desmond. ^^

I personally lean towards Ezio(truly, my OTP XD), but Fedes is cute too. ^^

Oh man, that would be such sweet sweet angst, I love it. Just Ezio (or Federico) not understanding why Desmond is heartbroken by his words and having to go through an entire ‘journey’ just to understand what he’s going through while Desmond isn’t sure if he wants to tell his love interest everything or just… he doesn’t truly know… break up with him? Accept that he thinks Desmond is a woman when Desmond is a man?

Enter Leonardo Da Vinci who is more open than a usual person in this time and place listening to Desmond once and understanding what he’s going through and becoming their bridge.

As for the Italian Brotherhood, they would think Desmond is some street urchin that Giovanni took as his apprentice mainly because they don’t look alike. Giovanni would also act a bit awkward around Desmond and people would assume it’s because they don’t necessary know each other (it’s really because Giovanni is surprised of how easy it was for Caterina to ‘pretend’ to be a boy named Desmond)

Giovanni would try to remind Desmond that he should still talk to his father, even if it’s to say goodbye. Desmond writes a letter that says “I’m fine. Stop looking for me. I’m not coming home. My ex-husband deserved it.” and Giovanni just sighs because that’s a confession if he ever heard one.

Desmond just shrugs. Unlike Giovanni, Desmond only remembers Duke Sforza as being an absent father too preoccupied with his responsibilities as a duke.

Or maybe his memories are clouded by his memories of William Miles.

Any time Giovanni tries to push Desmond to Duke Sforza, Desmond just asks if he has reconciled with Mario?

Giovanni would stress there was nothing to reconcile, they were fine and Desmond just hums.

New reincarnation idea: Desmond is reborn as Caterina! I have no other details. Just thought it was a interesting idea.

I’m thinking of a way we can keep Desmond from just running away as soon as he can and trying to find Ezio or the Auditores XD

Like, sure, we can make him stay put at the age of 10 when he’ll get married to the then pope’s nephew but there’s no way in hell he’s going to stay and consummate that marriage at the age of 14.

Especially considering that his husband would be around 30 years old when they got married.

To be completely honest, Desmond would definitely assassinate his husband at the earliest convenience for him.

Especially once he remembered that his husband is a Templar.

If he does end up killing his husband (which he probably will), he’d either run away and be known as his husband’s killer or he stays put and pin the kill to a close ally of his husband or a fellow Templar. And take over his husband’s titles.

Or…

Because they have never consummated their marriage, Desmond would be returned to Duke Galeazzo Maria Sforza.

He’d be worried that his dear father would marry him off again but the duke just let him stay by his side and even start to teach him.

Desmond wasn’t sure what the duke thought but there were already rumors that it was ��Caterina Sforza’ that killed his own husband and Desmond was wondering if that was the reason why the duke wasn’t planning to marry him off again.

Because of this…

Desmond was there when the Templars try to kill his father.

And he comes face to face with Giovanni Auditore.

[qyu-inactive]

MY THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS ABOUT OUTTAKES 16-18.5 BECAUSE I HAVE SO MANY

We have been blessed with 3.5 glorious new parts to the wonderful Losty Aone/ Mountain Man Series by the wonderful, amazing, awe-inspiring @shhhlikeme and i am emotional and have many many feelings about it all.

Outtake 16 

I love that we got to see this from the reeader’s point of view, it was nice to see our losty y/n and see how their feeling. It was a nice break from feeling sad about Aone’s broken heart.

This part made me laugh ahaha

After dating and breaking up with him, Aone had females constantly approaching him. A/N: Not constantly but it felt that way for you ofc lol

the jealously😂, the Author’s note too like “it wasnt like that at all” 😂 this emotional person (y/n) is just  blowing up the situation. 

and then this:

In other words: They want what you had. 

i mean of course they would, Aone is the sweetest boy but only to someone he loves. Aone’s heart is too strong to let waver to someone knew so quick

This whole outtake all i could think about was that Y/n really needs to get back with her mountain man, first they want to break up so Aone finds someone new but then doesnt want him to find someone new. Like cleary y/n is not being honest with herself or Aone. 

When they went to the library, ahhh y/n really just imagining the worst scnenarios in their head😂

“Oh,” your stomach flipped. “He looks so cute.” You put on a 🥺 face when you noticed how utterly adorable a standing Takanobu looked

🥺🥺🥺 Aone is always such a cutie, and y/n really broke this man’s heart😭 I know it was insecurites but still. These two are so in love but just wont get back together. 

The outfit y/n is wearing😍 you always pick these really cute and sexy outfits and I appreciate y/ns confidence and style but it is not me 😂😂 but Aone thirsting over his girl tho, i would dress up like that if it meant getting looked by Aone like that 😂

I love Aone’s plan, like he is such a sweetheart and he’s making me all soft at all his effort to win his girl back🥺🥺

This outtake really gave up all the feels y/n is feeling with breaking up with Aone and I am enjoing it 😂. At the same time though I just want these to love birds to get back together ahhhhh. 

One of the things I really love about this story is how strong the friendship is and how we see the outside characters really show how much they care. A lot of stories (like shojou, oh man you dont know how much shoujo manga ive read haha) just sideline their friends after the start talking to their love interest or they dont even have friends at all in the whole story. I really enjoyed seeing Katana be a voice of reason in our losty’s life. And of course the K_nji’s being our boy Aone’s best friends. 

Outtake 17

okay we starting with the real friends the K_nji’s warning our boy Aone about the situation. I love them and how much they care 😂. They can be dumbasses but still, I appreciate their effort. 

The University—our University— sent her a uniform that’s a size or two too small.

Does this mean they’re going to the same university? or am I reading too much into it? It might have been mentioned before but I cant remember off the top of my head. Also Aone really living his best life and his worst life rn 😂😂  like he gets to see his girl in a super tight cheer leading uniform and spend one on one time with her but he cant do anything about his desires. His confidence tho haha  “I’ve seen Y/N in a cheerleading uniform before” not like this you havent😏 

Aone Takanobu can truly say—if he could speak—that he will never even question Futakuchi again.

Again I just really love their friendship, parts like this really get me 😂😂😂

When y/n took out Aone’s jacket automatically🥺🥺 my hearttttt, and how long Aone’s jacket is on them🥺🥺 this whole part made me so softtt. Like imagine wearing his jacket🥺🥺 it would be so comfy and warm. 

There are so many golden lines I loved from this part, but Aone’s spank bank is just a phrase I wasnt expectng to read but it is gold. Im sure his bank is full and loaded😂

Then some random gross guy comes up to y/n, like the audacity of this guy.

He had such a disgusting grin on his face

🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮 this guy can back offfff. 

I really love when Aone comes in to protect the reader🥺🥺 he’s not the iron wall for nothing too. 

Your knight has arrived. Your ex-knight. ☹️

and then you go and hurt me again😭😭

I really wanted Aone to just kick a dude in the chest, like step the fuck off 😂😂. 

“Take one more step toward her.” Aone growled in the smoothest voice.

“I dare you.” Aone added, for good measure.

Im absolutely swooning, Aoneeeeee🥺🥺🥺. And the fact that he wanted the reader to come with him so she wouldnt get anyone bothering her😭😭 he’s such a gentlemen. No one bothers Aone’s girl whose not his girl at the moment, especially guys who arent wanted

now onto the fun part of this outtake😏 I wasn’t expecting to see texts but it was definitely a nice addtion!! Our poor Aone soo horny and sweet, I dont know if the dead squirrels worked hahaha. 

but he couldn’t help but wonder how he was going to edit all of this together in the time frame he promised he would with only one hand.

this went over my head when i read it the first time omg😂😂😂 Im sure Aone can do it, he’s a very capable man. This whole section had me laughing but also feeling slightly bad for Aone, again his poor horny heart right now is conflicted but very much fed. Im glad he was able to get a break, I dont think his length could wait (im not used to using subtle language hahaha) anyway this whole part was fun to read. 

Aone bit his juicy bottom lip,

I legit bit my lip just before reading this part😂

Outtake 18 & 18.5

Now we’re hitting the climax!! (after Aone just hit his climax and is about to hit again😗)

—who imo really should return to their own homes now but would rather not—

I mean do these two even have their own homes anymore😂, theyre basically apart of the Aone family now. Family who also understand when to leave their horny pal alone for time being. 

OKAY ONTO THE IMPORTANT PART!!! AHHHHHHHH. 

“Aone-senpai, do you even have snapchat?!”

“Obviously not.” Kenji answered for his friend, being snappy.

“WELL HE SHOULD GET IT BECAUSE I SAW—“

Did Kanji see Y/N and Takeru?????? I also cant believe I learnt Takeru was a third year from this series, I always thought he was a second year for some reason. I think cos he was ennoshita’s rival. not important rn lmao

“—because Aone-senpai is jacking off again. It makes you feel lighter, and happier—so that’s why,”

this boy, there are some things you just shouldnt say out loud. Some things can be left unsaid (not like im blunt with my friends sometimes haha but still) 

When Kenji had found out about why y/n dumped Aone😭😭😭😭 I’m glad he found out earlier then Aone, I wouldnt have wanted him to yell at the reader again.

Anyone that can do that, be so selfless—is good enough for his best friend.

🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

“I can tell its her because that’s your sweater she’s wearing. Right? It says Takanobu on the back, and I remember seeing Y/N steal it out of your bag after practice once.”

🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺these parts really just made me soft. like the fact that y/n still had the jacket and wanted to wear it out. and the absolute coincedence that they were in the same cinema as Aone. 

“Y/N.—Sh-She-She is wearing my attire. What does that mean?”

Yeah, big guy.

Yeah, you have a chance.

Y/N still has a little….tiny bit of feelings for you

YES YES YES FINALLY , I wanted to cry here😭😭 AND THEN KENJI CONFIRMED IT ALL AND AONE THE MAN WENT AND TRIED TO GET HIS GIRL. THIS REALLY IS THE DRAMATIC PART IN THE MOVIE. AND THEN THIS [redacted] TAKERU CAME AND AHHHHH 

(Aone would know that face, he only saw it everyday he’s looked in the mirror for the past 3 years)

Absolutely dead. All hope—gone.

You make me happy and then just rip out my heart like 2 minutes later. I was going from crying happy tears to sad tears in like a heartbeat. 

ALSO YOU DONT KNOW HOW UPSET I WAS WHEN I GOT TO THE END OF PART 18 I DIDNT REALISE THERE WAS 18.5 AND WAS AFRAID THAT THIS WAS IT AHHHHHH. I THOUGHT YOU WERE GOING TO PLAY WITH MY FEELINGS THEN JUST LEAVE. 

“I’m worried about you.” She finished, looking more serious than you’ve ever seen her.

y/n really has some good friends with her🥺

uhhh then Takeru comes in, I dont really hate him but no one stands in between our losties love, they deserve each other and no one can stand between them. 

“But, tonight, if you need a shoulder to cry on, I’m just one theatre over… Okay? I have a pretty comfortable shoulder, so just text me.”

Okay this was pretty nice of Takeru, like cheesy but at least he cares and isnt staring at y/n like a peace of meat he wants to devour...

You sent it. Received a response within seconds saying he was on his way.

This boy, hes got a good heart but this isn’t your story bud, im sorry.

There! Kenji-san and Koganagewa-san, two males who were looking at you and Takeru as if you two were the villains in the movie that just popped out of the screen.

if this doesnt go well these two seem like they’re going to fight y/n outside the cinema😭😂 I couldnt imagine getting death stares from the K_njis especially after hurting Aone basically twice now.

Finding HIM was all that mattered.

OKAY THIS WHOLE PART, LIKE YES GO GET YOUR MAN PLEASE. LIKE Y/N CANT JUST LEAVE THIS RIGHT HERE LIKE THIS. 

white hair visible only because his head was down, forehead kissing the steering wheel, his shoulders vibrating slightly because he is crying. It’s him.

I cant take anymore sad Aone😭😭 He needs the biggest hug and his girl to be his girl again. He has gone through so much.

“Kenji-san, please leave me—““Not Justin Bieber look-alike!”

I cant with the Justin Bieber look-alike. 😂😂

Im just going to talk about my feelings for this part, but the whole confesson. I felt like crying, i feel like crying now reading it😭 it was just so beautiful. Like y/n explaing everything and saying Aone is the only man she’ll ever love. Throughout the series we really go to understand Aone’s feelings so deeply and how passionate he is but we didnt really get to see how y/n felt as much so reading this made me happy for Aone for the fact that his girl loves him as much as he loves her. They really were lost for each other, lost with out each other, but together they were 

Found.

okay maybe im tearing up now😭😭

One more marathon to go and our happy couple can live happily. The fact that this story is nearly over is a little sad but I’m happy our losties found each other. Im thinking since the next parts will be the last I’ll talk about overall themes I liked and my favourite moments as well. 

[thedeadflag]

G!P characters aren't necessarily trans, it seems pretty offensive that just because they share the same genital configuration as trans people (sometimes temporarily) do, that they should be deemed trans. There is so much more to being a trans person, especially the identity struggle that is just not in these characters.

You’re literally thisclose to understanding. 

There is absolutely more to being trans than our typical genital configuration at birth. You don’t need to tell me that, I’m a trans woman, I know this intrinsically.

When it comes to the g!p trope, he’s some major points of what we know:

It became a known, if rare trope as trans porn started taking off in the late 80s and early 90s. As trans porn became more popular, it also became more prevalent in wlw fandom, solidifying its presence in the late 90s/early 00s, making a bit of a jump in popularity when the a/b/o trope took off during the height of the Supernatural fandom.

As a trope, its sexual content heavily mirrors the core elements of trans porn. It doesn’t deviate from that framework. 

The g!p characters overwhelmingly possess the major aspects of transmisogynistic stigmas that get passed off as erotic taboo elements for people who aren’t us. The same things that amplify the cis gaze’s taboo fantasy gets us abused, exploited, hurt, isolated, and killed.  

I could go on for a few hours on everything that makes g!p function as a trope, but I’ll limit myself and leave you those to chew on. You can look through my archived posts for some more detail on the nuances and specifics if you want.

But here’s what we also know:

Trans women are the overwhelming majority of women with penises. We’re virtually the only women with penises that cis people and trans people alike have come across in any form of media content. 

This means that we are the framework worked off of when people think of women with penises, and we are the ones affected by media representation of women with penises.

When people create media including women with penises, the penis generally exists in that content as a vehicle for a variety of desires. When a marginalized person is desired for various physical aspects of themselves, with the substance of their character, their lived experiences, their diversity all tossed away? That is called fetishization.

Your argument breaks down to be essentially that because people fetishize trans women’s bodies and create media content through that fetishized lens, that those g!p characters aren’t necessarily trans, because there’s more to being trans than those fetishized parts of us. It’s an argument that fetishized caricatures of marginalized people aren’t necessarily those marginalized peoples.

It’s a very cart-before-the-horse surface level perspective. Think of all the harmful media stereotypes out there and ask yourself if people shouldn’t be upset about them because they clearly don’t reflect the reality and complexity of the people they’re negatively representing.

Let’s take the well known character of Jame Gumb/Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs. Hannibal Lecter, at one point, remarks that Jame isn’t a trans woman. But every frame of Buffalo Bill’s existence in that film works to play on transmisogynistic stereotypes. Every single scene with that character sends the message that trans women are delusional, dangerous sexual predators. But since an authoritative character claims Buffalo Bill isn’t trans, am I supposed to declare the film free of transmisogynistic representation? 

What about Rocky Horror Picture Show? Again, the main villain is an amalgamation of all the common transmisogynistic stigmas at that period in time, fused into a single murderous, rapist, alien entity. We also know the creator of RHPS considers (in the nicest light it can be stated) trans women to be cross dressing ‘third sex’ individuals, not actual women, and doesn’t believe anyone assigned one binary gender can actually be the other binary gender. But apparently, since it doesn’t explicitly say Frank N Furter is a trans woman, it’s not a problem? It’s not transmisogynistic representation?

No. Media literacy has taught us enough to know that there’s tremendous transmisogyny afoot in those two cases. 

So there’s parallels with g!p, obviously. You get a lot of folks literally removing part of a trans woman’s experience and playing around with it and experimenting with it through people who aren’t explicitly trans women. They’re treating trans women as a collection of ideas and kink potential to be picked apart like a berry patch instead of real human beings. Even if they say it’s not a trans woman, the result of their effort is a character that is all the fetishized trans woman elements, often a fair bit of the stigmatized elements, minus all the meaningful experiences. If I carve a pumpkin and empty all the insides out of it, and put a candle in there, it’s still a pumpkin. A Jack o Lantern, sure, but still a 100% pumpkin.

And that’s bound to happen. It’s inescapable.

I mean, when 99% of cis folks don’t understand how trans women tend to be sexually intimate… when they don’t understand what dysphoria is and how it works and how it can affect us physically and emotionally…when they don’t understand almost any of our lived experiences…then they’re not going to be able to accurately portray us even if they wanted to.

And I’ve read enough G!P fics where authors wrote those as a means of trying to add trans rep. but because they didn’t understand us at all, it wasn’t remotely representative, and it was entirely fetishistic.

So while the g!p trope was built on the foundation of trans women’s fetishization, and all such characters are inherently and implicitly trans women if not explicitly, they absolutely don’t reflect our realities, whether because of a lack of understanding, or an overriding fetish, or a cissexist & fetishistic mix-and-match approach, or what have you.

It is trans fetishization, it is transmisogyny, and they are erasing us through these works by overwhelmingly flooding the market with misinformation and messaging that ultimately does come back to bite us in the form of sexual violence, community exclusion, enhanced cissexism, .

Because it’s late and I’m exhausted after working and commuting, I’ll cut things a bit short and I’ll quote trans guy user SynthDicks here on his take on Mpreg a ways back, which was very on point and relevant to this discussion

like… you cant write about pregnant men in a way thats divorced from trans men. writing about one way in which bodies adjacent to trans manhood are sexy or fun or desirable, while writing some complicated world in which the rest of the ways trans male bodies are characterised are done away with is creepy and transphobic. all it means is that both bits of the revulsion/fetishisation complex that trans bodies are placed under happens at the same time …

and using trans manhood purely for a pregnancy arc- erasing all the experiences that come from being a trans man- for the purpose of focusing on that one aspect of trans bodies is dehumanising and fetishising. its a fetishisation of trans bodies and a revulsion at trans experiences. these arent opposing statements. theyre the same statements

I really, truly hope you’re a little closer to understanding how this all works after all this rambling. If I had the energy to make a properly structured and cohesive post, I would, but alas. 

[mythgirlimagines]

What about Talent!Swap between Ouma and Saihara? It would be pretty funny tho

This is the talentswap I always see on this site. I hope I do it justice!

Ultimate Supreme Leader Shuichi

First and foremost, Shuichi excels at lying. He’s had to lie a lot to get to where he was, though his talent is truthful and those in his organization always get the truth out of him easily. He finds it better to hide some details from his classmates, though.

His organization is his whole life. He truly loves those it in like they’re his family, and will do anything to protect him. They value his leadership and will always be there for him, just as he will always be there for them. So what if they make some mischief sometimes? They aren’t hurting anyone.

Along with some mischief with his organization, he likes pranking his classmates from time to time. When they first met him, they thought he was more serious and innocent than anything. But no, that was just a face-value lie to catch them off guard with his first prank.

In all seriousness, he loves his classmates as much as he love those in his organization, though he tends to hide this a bit from them. They don’t like all of his lies, even if they’re told with good intentions, and he doesn’t want to hurt them in any way. He doesn’t want to let himself get attached.

He does have a few good friends in his class, though, and he knows how to get people’s attention to hear out his ideas, though sometimes he’ll have one of his friends say them so they aren’t rejected right off the bat by some of his more judgmental classmates.

Ultimate Detective Kokichi

Kokichi was always a master at seeing through lies, and that’s what helped him solve a case once. He was at the police station for a school trip and saw some of the paperwork lying around. By the time the officials noticed he’d been reading through it, he had the case figured out to the last detail, including discrepancies in witness testimony.

He really does have an eye for detail and planning. He believes he can “get into the mind” of the culprit, and goes from there, thinking about the most likely actions they would take and the most likely paths they would go down to throw the police and detectives off of their scent.

On a regular basis, his classmates will occasionally ask him for help in solving little cases of their own. He’s more than happy to help them out, of course; he loves helping out those he considers his friends.

He finds Shuichi, the Ultimate Supreme Leader, to be interesting in that he lies nearly as often as he breaths. Most of the lies are harmless, too, things like “no I haven’t seen your pencil” when it was sitting on the person’s desk the whole time. It just strikes him as odd that someone would lie for so often with no apparent reason.

He likes detective work because of how interesting it is. No two cases are alike, no matter what kind they are, just like how no two people are inherently alike either, no matter how much they have in common. There will always be something new to find, something new to piece together. That’s what he loves about it.

[cosmicscraps]

Although I thought that stranger/spiral were the same, they'd actually be an interesting combination for an avatar. It's not unknown for beings (like vampires) to be an amalgamation of entities.

Theyre rather alike in some ways; the uncanny of the stranger with the gaslighting of the spiral. Perhaps that's why theyre so at odds-- they overlap so much its a power struggle.. yet different enough. The stranger relies on knowing something isnt right and being unable to identify it. The spiral relies on being incomprehensible to the point of madness. Stranger kinda lies between Eye and Spiral.

A stranger/spiral combo would be someone who fits in, like a warped puzzle piece. Not wrongly; but something is off. They arent distant, but they arent always around. A random memory of them is responded with " oh yeah! them! " Charismatic yet also cold. A sweet face with dead eyes... smiles are wide but never truly seem to reach the eyes no matter how appled the cheeks get. They always seem hazed in their gaze like theyre disconnected but it's hard to tell until theyre looking directly at you. A person that feels malicious but if you try to tell anyone about it, no one believes you. Always up for anything, but does nothing spectacular. A chameleon of a person. They seem impossible to track down on social media and when you finally find pictures of them (on other peoples' profiles), theyre always slightly blurred as if they moved when the picture was taken, and you can never find their name listed among the black names with no profile to link to.

Me and Mr Wolf is a good song for a Hunt / Stranger avatar fit. To hunt after something that can never truly be obtained; to be wanted and yet unobtainable in nature.... hot shit.