#this genuinely really resonated with me

[podcastwizard]

me: look i'm clearly neurodivergent in some way but everyone's a little anxious or depressed and it's not, like, debilitating and i've never been formally diagnosed so there's no need to look in to anything specific-

all of the tags on every single one of my personal posts:

me: huh. well this could mean anything

[sidesteppostinghours]

ok. question.

ortega ended up hallucinating sidestep after they "died", but sidestep doesnt know about that. they know it got bad, but never the full extent of how their death affected them. so if your sidestep Did learn, if they found out ortega looked for them in every little piece they could, would that change anything for your sidesteps? would their relationship with ortega be any different?

[iinryer]

"don't you just want to have fun" is so true about 911 fans...so many people just hate so many characters and so many things about the show...why are you watching!!

yeah 😭 at a certain point it’s just like, idk man. everything in real life sucks so monumentally why can’t we just watch tv together and have fun

[steel-nageyari]

a collection of speed doodles from @crebbyhermit's fic on ao3 [here].............

"tsubaki notices it right away when they step into valla - lady sakura has a new retainer."

it is a beautiful 5k+ words character study of my retainer swap au subaki. i may have unironically shed a tear or two, if you like deranged freak subaki (affectionate) please consider giving it a read!!!!! im serious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[zundely]

Hot take but I think that queer people can disagree on what is meaningful, well done representation in media and we can have discussion about it without trying to invalidate someone queernes because their opinions don't line up with your own.

Like I see the "Only cis straight people like that" , or "This is only hated on by cis het men" or the one that came like absolute stab to the gut in one trans guy's review of VG "If this is personally relatable to you, you might want to get yourself checked because you are probably not actually trans".

I think it's really valuable, good even that we have such variety of opinions on if the game had good rep or not- it's definitely better than when whole community almost unanimously agrees this shit was bad. Like we can work with this, we can learn from this.

But you cannot pull shit like I mentioned above and then get mad when people don't want to engage with you in good faith argument. No matter your stance or if I agree with you when you try to use an opinion on a videogame as a way to invalidate other people indentity, it poisons the whole discussion from me. And if you do not want an honest conversation about this don't turn around and pretend like there is any other reason for why people treat you like an asshole, when you are in fact acting like an asshole.

[firenati0n]

i think about your fics often. your words have had a positive impact on me and i would like you to know that

this is so sweet omg i fear i did start to cry immediately. thank you so much 💛💛💛💛💛 this means a lot!!!

[hellsite-detective]

do you have any fav trans egg yuri (I know this isn't really part of ur duties but saw you talking about yuri stories & couldn't resist, we're always on the lookout for more)

no need to worry! i'm always happy to answer questions unrelated to my duties, ESPECIALLY when it comes to things like yuri!

so like i mentioned in the tags of my previous yuri recommendations post, i haven't read a TON of yuri. but that being said! i do actually have an answer to this one!!

me and Madame Curator recently finished reading the light novel series I'm in Love with the Villainess. and while the main yuri couple of Rae and Claire are both cis, there is a SECONDARY yuri couple that actually features a trans character! i know this isn't quite what you were looking for probably, but i do highly recommend the series in general!

SPOILERS FOR VOLUME 2 OF THE LIGHT NOVELS BELOW THE BREAK

so, basically! in volume 2, it's revealed that Prince Yu Bauer isn't a prince at all. in fact, she's actually a princess! Rae's best friend, Misha Jur has had a crush on Yu for a while, so when she finds this out, she tells Rae that she doesn't care what gender Yu is and that she'll love her just the same. Misha, Rae, and Claire work with Yu to allow her to not only come out, but also transition successfully!

additionally, volume 4 features another trans character who also is able to successfully transition! i won't go too in depth with that one, since she's not part of a yuri plot line, but it's worth noting!

[ducktracy]

a podcast just dropped reviewing The Day the Earth Blew up!! spoiler warning for plot details of course. posting to get more eyes on it and also because some things stood out to me that i just wanted to archive, UGHHHH i need to see this movie! spoilers under the cut

he describes it as a "Porky Pig movie" which I AM SO HAPPY FOR. i've been saying for awhile now that i so so so so so hope this movie puts Porky back in the public conscious

"you know, whenever doing a Looney Tunes project, Bugs Bunny's the main character, and i realize, actually, Porky Pig is much more perfect for that."

"that's why it's a Porky Pig movie, it's mainly his character development"

evidently Daffy is responsible for Porky's stutter by dropping a bowling ball on his head:

"[as babies] Porky is reading a book, and he's reading with this very eloquent diction, and then Daffy by accident pushes a bowling ball on his head and Porky starts to stutter, and Daffy is like 'ooo' and just moves away"

praises for its usage of Powerhouse, used in tandem with a "psychedelic sequence"

"i really love that part of the story is how Porky learns to appreciate Daffy for being daffy"

compares Daffy to his persona in A Pest in the House, sort of talking about how he causes problems but doesn't have any sort of ill will, he's just out of his gourd and doesn't know he's causing issues

no other LT characters except Daffy, Porky, and Petunia, as well as about "2 other cameos" [one of them being Beans]

there's a bit in the trailer where Porky and Daffy strike The Pose, and it is indeed confirmed that this starts up a mini-LT short of sorts where they try various odd jobs to get the money to fix their house. was speculating that this is the case AND I AM SO HAPPY IT IS.

WHOLE THING IS WORTH LISTENING TO, there's more but these are some of the things that caught my eye the most. i need this movie

[cloudbends]

Ok more articulate thoughts on heartcatch's midpoint in the tags

[icharchivist]

Go off queen

It's your blog and you should be able to talk about whatever you want after all

aww thank you 🥺 i appreciate it <33

i do really not like spreading negativity esp when it's on a topic i have strong feelings about, and let's say the D.A fandom especially tends to be. extreme about the way it reacts to people disagreeing with them.

And look. I'm not immune to it because sometimes i get caught up by the genuinely rancid vibe in the fandom as well, and i think those games are designed for us to have strong feelings to start with.

but it also means i don't want to go too deep into controversial thoughts because i genuinely don't want to get to a point where i'll see someone screenshot my posts to dunk on it and say i'm the reason media literacy is dead and why the fandom is so toxic (citing things i've actually seen on said blog, for instance though not directed at me but at takes i've seen taken out of context. except i knew the context so knew this was a bad faith argument.).

Like can't even dislike shits in peace in here.

[electricpurrs]

i need to be a cute boy and wear cute clothing i need to have strangers talk to me and say "btw i love your outfit!" i neeeeeeed to feel pretty and enjoy my presentation in fun ways. or ill DIE

[stardustdiiving]

Everytime I tell people who know me pretty well I LOVED Pearl from Steven Universe as a child it’s so humiliating bc they’re always like oh of COURSE you did . I bet you loved her thing with rose quartz didn’t you and I have to admit Rosepearl was an integral part me building an understanding of queerness and they’re like that makes SO much sense. I cannot keep doing this

[byanyan]

so anyway, thanks for reading my little dissertations on byan's gender. sorry for not writing again today, i'm just. i'm fuckin goin through it rn man

[weekdaysend]

I got back into Maplestory a few days ago only to discover they removed the Monad questline so fucking heartbroken that was my favorite one AND I NEVER EVEN FINISHED IT! HELL WORLD!

[bluesidedown]

So any of y'all got love song recommendations? Because ok I uh. I need to start taking my emotions actually seriously and hilariously my chosen method for practicing that is to listen to love songs and allow myself to actually feel things and relate instead of being like. Hmm that's a lil dramatic sweetie. And my difficulty is that all of the very few love songs I actually like and listen to are of the 'been married for 20 years' variety and not the 'falling in love rn' variety.

[commsroom]

Hi I just want to say I occasionally scroll through your blog to see the Wolf 359 art you reblog and your takes and one that has always stuck with me is the Hera is the most trans woman ever and yeah you’re so right 13/10 good job. You hit the nail on the head. Just wanted to drop by and say that. One trans woman to another about a very trans character. Lmao. Have a nice day!

aw, that makes me happy, thank you! 💙 she's so important to me. like, the fact that hera cares about her gender, and that the way she navigates the world is highly gendered, both in how she's recognized as a woman and how she isn't. the type of isolation and alienation she experiences, particularly in her physical disconnect and the whole concept of (dis)embodiment, resonates with me in a very personal way... there's something in her arc about... getting out of her own head, taking steps to externalize a cultivated internal self-image, to see that recognized in the perception others have of her + how her part of am i alone now? reads in a metaphorical context of, like... how she wants to communicate these things that are so innate to her perception and experience to people without the same framework to understand them. that ultimately the 'right' words kind of matter less than openness and care. you know. hera is a trans woman.