It’s amazing how people went from “Let men wear dresses! Clothes don’t have a gender!” to “If a man wants to wear a dress, clearly a feminine article of clothing, then I know for a fact that man is actually a closeted transwoman.”

Can clothes help people better understand their thoughts on their gender identity? Yes. Should others merrily shove others into boxes based on conservative gender norms? Absolutely not.

Sometimes, a guy wants to wear colorful nail polish and pretty dresses. Sometimes, that person looks in the mirror and realizes that their choice in appearance clarifies some things regarding their gender, and sometimes, those choices in personal appearance are steps along a path. Hell, sometimes a transman wants to wear dresses and nail polish. It doesn’t mean that they’re lying about their gender identity: it just means he wants to wear pretty nail polish and a dress. It’s different for everyone.

Can we please stop going so “woke” that we circle right back to strict conservatism? A person’s choice of appearance should be based on their personal expression. It shouldn’t be used as a tool to shove people into carefully defined, rigid boxes.

My younger sister is playing the base p5

I give you a silly scenario for your troubles <3

I love this SOOOOO much.

"you cant vote fascism away" We Are Not At That Point Yet And I Personally Would Appreciate If We Kept It That Way By Not Voting It In Thanks

an underrated funny bit from a christmas carol is when the ghost of christmas future is taking scrooge around to see everyone's reactions to the death of this unnamed guy (later revealed to be himself ofc), and it turns out that pretty much no one cares. scrooge, increasingly distressed, is like, "can you please show me someone who feels any emotion about this person dying?"

so the spirit takes him to the home of this family. the husband walks up to his wife like, "babe. youre never gonna believe this. that old asshole who we owed an insane of money to just died" and theyre both like YAAAAAAY THIS IS GREAT!!! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

this bit is like. darkly funny but also so poignant:

[...] and it was a happier house for this man's death! The only emotion that the Ghost could show him, caused by the event, was one of pleasure.

choked up in my room rn bc i was sat in the car with my mum completely lost in thought and she out of nowhere went 'are you okay?' and i was like 'yeah? why?' bc i was totally fine i was literally just thinking and she let it go and then five entire minutes later she goes 'are you sure? have i done something?' and she sounded so genuinely anxious and i could tell she'd been thinking about it the entire 5 minutes while id been completely oblivious and i spent so many years as a child letting everything bottle up until it all burst out in a messy and ugly breakdown that took her down with me and despite that she never hated me she only ever blamed herself for not seeing the signs and she's never been able to see my signs because i keep everything to myself and it terrifies her that she might miss something and she handles things poorly when she's scared and she gets too angry but fundamentally she's trying her absolute hardest to be a good mother and it wasn't always enough and i know i have to hold her at least partially accountable but also she's my mum and im her daughter and she always just wants to know if im okay and most of the time im not and somehow that feels like ive betrayed her

since we're all gonna die i have something to share with you all. i did not care for the mandela catalogue

ellie figuring out unique ways to deadlift in jackson so she can get strong enough to give tommy piggyback rides >>>

Ok so rex obviously 💖💖 but I was also thinking a bit about Data again 🥺👉👈

I think that type of extremely graphic fetish and gore and pedo manga and anime has been normalized to such an extent in east asia that many of their brains are fucking rotted just mush and maggots in the brain. i just saw MULTIPLE comments with tens of thousands of likes under a weibo post about the situation that say "theres nothing wrong with that manga lol what did that manga ever do to u" and "everyone knows u can leave ur morals at the door when u consume mangas but i guess he shouldn't recommend this one to his fans who are children" i feel fucking insane i hope these ppl all die im not kidding. the absolute insanity of every chinese kpop fan dragging karina through the mud for recommending a manga that one point had pro japanese imperialism connotations the spectacle and public humiliation and think pieces that came out of that for WEEKS vs not even a PEEP about several male idols from the most popular groups literally consuming gory fetish child p*rn. its fucking disgusting. quite a significant portion of east asian anime consumers think this is normal and that u can separate the "art" from the "artists" (saw comments that knew the author is a confirmed p*dophile and think it doesnt affect his work) and separate the content's morals and messaging from their own morals like in what world does looking at cp not make u a fucking p*dophile. Which is what all these commenters And the kpop idols listed are. By the way. and also what fucking useless censorship laws china has u cant even say the words death or sex but all of this is lazily edited to censor the "worst" of it and accessible in china as well. u cant see grown consenting adults make out on tv but u can just find casual cp online. kill yourselves kill yourselves kill yourselves kill ur whole family too. i hope every single person involved in this gets their brains blown out

I dont care if she's somewhat evil and possibly turns out to be even more evil

i want her 🫠🫠

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(spoilers for recent manga chapters)Thought:

While ShigAFO is bearing down on Bakugou again, wanting to get rid of BK before his control over Tenko slips again (and assuming he does so even after the Big 3's interruption and amajiki's current play)

We have Bakugou clearly seeing him in that one panel of 361(and he is still sparking)

We get Bakugou's perspective once again. He flashes back to the very first time he'd ever met Izuku with his mom and Inko. The two moms introduce and want their kids to play together. Izuku is of course smaller and much more sensitive than Katsuki, Mitsuki brings this up and tells Katsuki,

"Hey, watch out for Inko's kid, okay? Protect him!" Or something to that effect.

And little Katsuki looks over at this tiny, nervous, freckled boy with enormous green eyes, who's being encouraged out of his initial shyness by Inko, looks back at his mom with a huffy little "Fine..."

Of course, as we all know, Katsuki doesn't live up to this much beyond this point, but that's kind of how they're introduced. Izuku quickly slips into "kacchan sugoi" mode and continues to live there for eternity, meanwhile Kacchan takes this as his first inclination, one of the formative notes of him being special, that "YEAH, I'm the powerful one. I'm the HERO and IZUKU is the one who needs protecting." and so it shapes their relationship. Until Izuku starts showing HIS heroic side that Kacchan takes as a threat to HIS OWN power and heroics and resorts to his bully tactics for the rest of their childhood--- thus their entire relationship from there on out getting fucked up.

Flash back to Katsuki in the battle, recalling all this, and remembering his original, very distant promise of protecting Izuku, looking out for him.

And it has just been sinking in about how AFO just told him in so many words that HE was going to be brutally killed and shown to Izuku as a means to HURT Izuku.

And that being the final motivation he needs to get up and start moving again.

Because even though it was just such a little thing that his mom said to him when he was just a tiny, Quirkless little kid, he knows he made a promise and he should have kept it all these years...But he didn't. But he's going to keep living and KEEPING that promise. Like hell is AFO going to hurt Izuku while he's around. He knows now that Izuku is more than capable of protecting and saving, but he also knows, intimately well, that Izuku NEVER PROTECTS HIMSELF.

Thus his Quirk evolves, Izuku shows back up and we get a team up we've been waiting for, etc etc

(once again I state I just really want to see how exactly these two first met)

Seeing your own trans body and identity as your masterpiece is so important

i hate being called male terms or even receiving masculine compliments sometimes (i especially hate the word handsome...) but for some reason getting called boyfriend makes me 😳

It really strikes me that people treat fanfic authors as if they don't know anything about writing, which is weird because even before I wrote fic I cowrote a stage play I got an award for back in high school, poetry my teachers would frequently compliment, and my own original ideas in novel format- which structurally you learn in high school it's not some fucking Devine Knowledge no one knows about? If you didn't learn what an inciting incident is and the basic structure of a novel and tropes like The Heroes Journey by eleventh grade then fine but don't project that onto a format of writing you have some weird vendetta against. After that I went to uni and wrote dozens of academic essays for my degree, some of them quite extensive in length and obviously there's technical skill involved in that writing.

Besides that after I stopped writing fic I learned how to write screenplays and wrote like 3 episodes of TV shows in film school- which by the way used other showrunners ideas because writing an episode of an existing show is how you build a portfolio. That's right fanfic hating assholes, if you want a tv writing job pull out ur fuckin fanfic out so your ability to capture the voice of another show can be judged. I also wrote a movie script in school and I highly doubt I'm some Special Snowflake among fic authors, so where the hell does this idea that fic authors are all 13 year old yaoi obsessed morons who've never even seen a book their whole life and never learned even the most basics of writing like what an adjective is come from?

I know people who hold this idea don't seem to think they're misogynists but they treat fic identical to how people treat romance and erotica outside of Fic World and I highly doubt two areas in which women are the ones doing most of the writing would get targeted with the exact same rhetoric of "that's not real writing" for completely different reasons if the arguments against the fiction are basically the same. Because obviously Real Literature doesn't have romance, sex, or women writing it.

Regardless, it's utterly asinine to assume fic authors have no idea how to write because they're writing fic- like actually no, technically speaking I'm qualified to write all kinds of shit as far as what I know, so I don't much appreciate that my writing a single form of writing somehow means I have no skills or training just because Ive written that particular format according to some people. It's deeply insulting and I really do wonder if people think people who write as a hobby should even be allowed to have that hobby if theyre this obsessed with publish or don't ever even LOOK at a word. Like not only is it insulting to suggest that my hobby is somehow some particularly god awful drivel, but apparently those people don't know what a hobby is given that zero other hobbies get treated like this. No one walks around telling people if they aren't playing professional sports they can't play them at all- we just know that normal dudes playing football probably aren't Tom Brady and aren't looking to be either.