All the jokes about Ken and horses are good but I just wanna say it's such a good parallel to how actual young men get swept into misogyny and the patriarchy.
Like they're told to believe it means men get to be cool and manly and have this power but with that comes extremely rigid commands of what they can be as a man and a cycle of self hatred for never matching those gender roles perfectly. Patriarchy tells men that if they just do exactly what is expected of them, then they get all the "cool stuff" that comes with. That doesn't work though when there's only a small group that actually gets that power, but men will keep trying to fit into those roles in hopes that they can.
In the end there are no horses or the myth men are told, it's just endless cycles of self hatred and ingroup fighting.
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oh also one thing that i realized just now: qbagi’s initial suspicion over what’s happening to qphil being tied to the federation is technically not wrong
you know what drew qphil’s deities’ interest to him and quesadilla island? the birdcage. rose said in her earliest message ”I could sense the bleeding heart of the one I once knew, far, far away”. the deities noticed qphil had disappeared, and maybe they were curious to know what had happened, but the thing that drove them to find him was rose’s want to help him. and if she really was the one that freed him from the cage (and it’s heavily hinted she was), that birdcage undeniably was the thing that launched all of this into action.
how the enderking figured out that qphil had been weakened? we don’t know, maybe he sensed it, maybe he had already been observing him, maybe he noticed rose leaving to look for qphil, it doesn’t really matter. what does matter is that the trauma qphil got from being locked in that cage is what gave the enderking the perfect opportunity to strike. and is what led us to where we are now in the story. so even thought the federation isn’t ultimately the one tormenting qphil right now, it can still all be traced back to them and their continual abuses of power :)
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I'm very happy that Eddie in Deadloch is straight (so far, that we know). It seems that straight women can't be butch, it seems that it is the domain of lesbians and that no man would ever be attracted to a masculine straight woman.
And then, when a straight woman cuts her hair and wears jeans and shirts, people tell her things like "you look good with that lesbian hairstyle" or "your mom looks a bit like a lesbian".
It is impossible for a cis straight woman to be butch. It is not desireable, it is not conceivable. If they are cis and straight, why would they be butch?
Cis straight women can wear trousers, and have short hair, they can wear sports bra, but they should always keep it femme somehow, ideally by not wearing it all at the same time or by behaving in a feminine way. They should always look to please the straight men around her in whatever form they (the men) find desireable.
Straight men shouldn't like butch women, what are they? Sissies? Who will rule that house if the woman looks like that?
So I'm very happy that Eddie chose a masculine name for herself, that she chose a masculine self-expression and that she likes men. It's a rare representation. As such, people assume she is a lesbian (even the lesbians). And when it has been proven she's not, it is confusing, as Vanessa pointed out: "you are not anything".
Indeed, what is a butch straight woman?
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Look I'm back and now with Schneider this time! I might post some ocs but I'm loving all my Reverse 1999 portraits SCHNEIDER MY LOVEEEEEEEEE.
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Hi I got 84 in the last two weeks, starting to run out of food money. Absolutely no gas money to get anywhere but yknow. Maybe the temp agency I'm talking to will give me some tolerable job tomorrow and I can ask a bus driver to let me on for free. ("Not my fault if you get a ticket." has been a common response.)
venmo: @nora-esther-rose
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