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You love harvey specter because you see him as the peak of successful masculinity, with his extravagant lifestyle, lack of emotion, car obsession, and player attitude. I love harvey specter because I see him as an emotionally constipated man who has never really acknowledged his bisexuality until he accidentally fell in love with his associate who can't even legally practice law. We are not the same.

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All of that, but also. Canon isn't real, but the source material is, and I feel that's a very important distinction.

the "canon isn't real we make our own rules" to "i am begging you people to revisit the source material" pipeline

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Reading the work now, it appears that we're actually looking at intradiluvian adventures, as the flood is still present.

Antediluvian is absolutely a sick af word, I'm with you.

It's great to see people in other media getting into writing indie RPGs, and also very entertaining to some of the resulting design choices. They'll be like "hey, I'm making a tabletop RPG adaptation of my VN about cute witches with big dicks", and I'm like cool, and then they're like "it's a full-conversion Lancer mod", and I'm like: huh.

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My read of that is that while the world is now postdiluvian, the characters and many of their foes are antediluvian. Not having read the work itself, though, I'm not sure if I'm correct or if I'm justifying someone just wanting to use the word antediluvian because it's a cool word.

It's great to see people in other media getting into writing indie RPGs, and also very entertaining to some of the resulting design choices. They'll be like "hey, I'm making a tabletop RPG adaptation of my VN about cute witches with big dicks", and I'm like cool, and then they're like "it's a full-conversion Lancer mod", and I'm like: huh.

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Duh, it's clearly just a straw for owners of this mechanical for service droid to consume high protein smoothies through, built particularly robust so we to prevent damage.

Roboticist who has very clearly built a robot with a penis insisting with increasingly desperate exasperation that the appendage in question has a perfectly legitimate non-sexual function and everyone who thinks it looks like a penis has a filthy mind.

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I've been getting so angry about this lately.

The only medical reasons to give puberty blockers are precocious puberty (and there's a bit of medical debate about that one) and "because the youth in question actively would prefer that right now, because they want to think carefully about their decisions". Aside from that, it's a compromise we are forced to accept (the alternative being diy) by an at best skittish and at worst transphobic medical and legal establishment. And given things going on right now, even that compromise is being taken away in the US and parts of Canada. None of us should have ever been as chill as we have been about that compromise; heck, when it finally twigged for me that there wasn't any compelling medical reason for them in situations where the youth is certain, I was angry that I myself was ever chill about it at all.

When things start to march back our way, don't idly accept the compromise. Don't swat it away, but don't consider it a won battle.

And for goodness sake, look into how to support people safely doing DIY.

i hate how so many trans adults treat minors' access to hrt as trivial. it is incredibly fucking isolating for a teenager to be stuck in a prepubescent state. not to mention it marks them as visibly trans if they are clearly the only 17 year old who has not been through puberty, so they can't go stealth (regardless of your opinions on that it should be an option for obvious reasons, especially given the kind of social environment of secondary/high schools).

either force all children to be on puberty blockers till theyre 16/18, or if you accept that 9-12 year olds are old enough to consent to undergo a puberty from their endogenous hormones then they are also old enough to consent to undergo a puberty from exogenous hormones. the source of the hormones doesnt change the capacity to consent to the effects, and there is very real harm done to children by denying them the right to go through puberty.

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musk is going to die in a Tesla explosion in 6 months after sticking his nose where it doesn't belong and we will never get a conclusive answer on whether it was a CIA car bomb or just a normal Tesla malfunction

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I want you to remember:

The fascists hate you too and they just will pretend otherwise until after they've killed the rest of us, before they turn on you.

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if you're subscribed to Microsoft word, you probably received an email recently saying they're upping their prices. Like, a lot. ($9.99/month instead of $6.99)

guess what though? you can log into your account, click Cancel Subscription, and get the option to continue your subscription at the same price WITHOUT their bullshit AI.

That's right, the new, higher price is actually a different subscription that includes AI that everyone is being opted into by force! What a cool and fun product that clearly everyone wants.

you can also choose to buy Word 2024 without AI for a single lump sum that will be yours in perpetuity, with no updates, for one computer.

Check your subscription if you need Word for work! Don't get duped into paying for something you might not even want

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Friend I promise you there is nothing truly settled about this. It is currently out of fashion among communities of trans women (and trans folk more generally) to compound the words, because it is in fashion for transphobes (and particularly terfs) to compound them. It has been in fashion for communities of trans folks before, and there are still a few regional communities where it's in fashion, and I imagine it'll fall out of fashion for transphobes eventually. There are absolutely some transphobes who use the version with the space to imply that we're fundamentally different under whatever justification that doesn't matter, just like the justifications about compounding the words don't actually matter.

The big thing that matters is that we shouldn't jump on each other about whatever's in or out of fashion as if there's anything inherent about words besides how they get used. I'm gonna continue advising people not to use the compounded version because of how it's used by transphobes, but like there's some trans folk who have their own cultural reasons for using the compounded version (including "I'm not letting transphobes take shit from me") and I don't think it's good to get on their ass about it.

it’s crazy how often people refuse to acknowledge that saying “transwomen” without a space is transmisogynistic & a terf dogwhistle. like first of all it would be pretty obviously horrendously offensive & othering to call people “Blackwomen” or “Fatwomen” just as a starter, but even literally the Wikipedia page acknowledges the connection between terfs and the phrase “transwomen”. If wikipedia can, so can you.

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I LITERALLY WAS JUST THINKING THIS

As someone who is both intersex and trans like it's fucking clear as day to me that we need a model, I don't care what is called, that accounts for both cleanly without simply folding one into other. Neither is a subset of the other but they are both subsets of the same set!!!

my very radical opinion is that intersex activism that insists on being a separate issue from transgender liberation is fake as fuck and useless garbage. the thing is that the forces that impose structural violence on trans people for daring to go against their assigned sex (and the concept of biological sex in general) are the literal exact same forces that forcibly perform surgeries on intersex babies and force intersex children onto HRT etc etc. literally the same. abolishing sex will solve both problems in fact. i think any attempt to separate intersexism as some inherently Different force from transphobia and transmisogyny is just like. immaterial. and useless. ask me about how intersex children being forced on hormones is the exact same thing as trans children being forced off of them

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"Epistemicide" is a term you should become very familiar with in all discussions regarding trans oppression.

It sounds fancier than it is. The term is related to the concept of epistemic injustice. In essence, trans people have historically been subject to a form of epistemicide: our stories, histories, testimonials, ways of life, all erased and buried to maintain the patriarchal myth of dichotomous, naturalized, immutable sex.

We are then further marginalized through epistemic injustice, prevented from participating in the processes of knowledge-production, our testimonies devalued, our voices suppressed and our identities defined for us, not by us. The perception of us shaped by others, instead of ourselves. The conversation about us dominated by the voices of those who'd rather stamp us out, shouting over us constantly.

If you're not accounting for this as a central mechanism animating transphobia, you're missing a lot of the picture.

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“a penis is Ontologically Evil because it’s technically capable of perpetrating sexual violence” damn, wait till you hear about hands!

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i don’t know about you guys but the main reason i am still on tumblr in 2024 is BECAUSE it is the most cloutless least influential social media app out there and that is the experience i am after. absolutely none of this will ever translate into significant attention or real success in my life and that is so beautiful.

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jane fonda got arrested the third week in a row at climate change protests. this time with ted danson

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something interesting occurs also, as i discovered in conversation with my girlfriend, around the “binary trans woman” as rhetorical device. the thing is that in conversation with transfems i have never encountered her. not once. because women (in my experience) do not call themselves binary, they call themselves women. following the thought, we do not ordinarily identify cisgender woman as binary cisgender women. in this contrast we see then that the discursive positioning of “binary” is such that it is invoked by those who are outside of the identity being framed (is an exonym- alarm bells should already be ringing) and finds its specific employ as an exonym for the purpose of rhetorical marking and dismissal of the transmisogynised. at the moment of its use it reproduces exactly the gendered abjection that it proposes to exclude the target from. diabolical stuff!