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mychemicalraymance · 1 year

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i started this post so short and made it into a full on tour outfit camp/fashion post accidentally

hope everyone knows that gerard’s skirt suit tie is like. literally a vintage “women’s” tie. when middle class women entered the workforce with gusto the fashion of professionalism and suits etc had an existential crisis about what to do with the ties...... like the ties of skirt/women’s suits are specifically bows and ribbons. i can’t give any sort of statement as to why, aside from the fact of arbitrarily and subtly keeping gendered difference while “copying” men’s standard dress and attempting to move away from 60′s professional dress, which was largely the same as women’s social and public dress. anyway. the fact of choosing this tie

and the fact that the tie reveals itself to be a scarf only after the jacket is removed is amazing... idk. it reveals the distinction between men’s and women’s dress and how gender is forcefully adapted into all ways of life, even in movements to remove it. the same goes for the kitten heels,

kitten heels are another perfect camp example of gender adaptation imo. heeled and uncomfortable, explicitly gendered but “professionalized”, largely considered frumpy to a certain degree and unsexual due to their low height. translating the professional uniform of men to women’s attire was a sort of a second wave assimilation approach to gender.

50s’/ 60′s workplace attire, which emphasized busts, hips, and waist.

and then the more 70′s / 80′s look of gerard’s tie and heels - boxy, “androgynous”, padded and square shoulders, adopting suit jackets and patterns

the tour (mostly the dresses and skirts, designed outfits) has been largely 70s to me, even with the explicitly 60′s and ww II looks.

they’re incredibly boxy and have a “boyish” silhouette, a hallmark of women’s fashion of the 70s, considering women’s lib and the gender revolution. it’s so cool to see because part of that was a move TOWARDS androgyny, and now even the pants looks are identifiably “women’s” or androgynous. even the sunglasses are “women’s”.

“women’s” sunglasses, “women��s” ties, and “women’s” specially adapted uniforms, be it nurse or office worker. all of these looks are seeded from the historical urge to de-gender and androgenize fashion, yet to our eyes it’s unmistakably “women’s”

camp by my definition in its purest form is the re-contextualization of needlessly gendered practices, society, and fashion, and the shifting context is used to satirize the notion that things are “naturally” gendered and dimorphic. camp, when effective, describes the constructed nature of gender and sexuality. women’s suits DESIGNED to be "more masculine” are by modern standards (well i mean. by modern feminist standards LOL) still obviously so far from the mark of “genderless”. it highlights the fact that gender is so insidiously woven into EVERYTHING, even social efforts to be more egalitarian, so to speak. it makes us see the gender we quietly perform as “natural” in modern life.

i’m not a fashion historian or anything else so if i’m wrong i’m sorry LOL. but i give such a huge fuck about gendered fashion in camp and also gerard way

#gerard way #my chemical romance #mcr #mcr return #long post

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cho-aaacho · 6 months

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(Flufftober 2023) Reading Together

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Tags : Fluff, Romantic Fluff, Fluff and Humor, Reading Together, Picnics, Flufftober 2023, Reader is genderless

(Flufftober Day 20)

The dappled trees gently caressed Ethan's face, their yellowing leaves creating a coolness in the good afternoon breeze. The ray of sunshine wrapped him in its warmth, coloring the entire scene with a vibrant, clear blue sky.

He tilted his head and narrowed his gaze. A sun-kissed glow is transforming into his best friend, at least this day. A good romantic picnic with you becomes his cute agenda for sharing his tender love with you.

A soft smile unfurled upon his lips as he observed your peaceful figure, nestled softly on his lap. He couldn't help but notice the beautiful view he had seen, and suddenly, with his fingertips, he traced the delicate contour of your nose with tenderness and a soft touch, trying to feel your warmth on his radar.

"Ethan," you mused with a playful tone. "Stop touching my face when I'm sleeping."

You let your eyelids slowly open, revealing your annoyance. "I don't like it!"

With a mischievous chuckle, he leaned closer to your face, capturing your face with his eyes. His lips brushed your nose tip, placing a slight yet sweet kiss on your eyelids as a final gesture.

He says it in a gentle tone. "Hmm, I have something evil inside my mind, and I must release whatever it is, sweetheart. That creature told me to touch your cute face because if I didn't do that, I would die!"

"Huh? Don't say something stupid, Ethan! That's why you should stop reading a horror novel!"

A romantic picnic with Ethan isn't that bad, and who couldn't resist his pleading gaze? And sharing his affection with you with those love-loving eyes?

How did you get away with all of this? No one could escape from this heaven.

You stir from his lap, playfully pinching his cheek in annoyance. But instead of irritation, Ethan tenderly cups your cheeks, his affection locking your eyes, and he seals a kiss on your sweet lips, placing a long yet tender kiss until you get overwhelmed with them.

A gentle breeze blows through your hair, weaving an ethereal connection between the two of you. As his final card, he plants another sweet kiss on your ear and whispers, "So what should I do to make your sleepiness come back again, my dear?"

"That's a tricky question. Because I know you are planning another stupid idea inside your head. I know what your head is thinking about me."

He giggled, shaking his head as he gently tapped the top of your head. "Hmm, how about if I read you a good novel?"

"Wait, what? Are you—"

"Come on! All you can do is just snuggle against my shoulder or chest and let my tender voice become your sweet lullaby. I know you'll love this!"

"Well, okay. If you said so, but what kind of book do you read for me?"

"Oh, you will know."

As the sands of time flowed gently, you found yourself nestled in the cozy cushion of his chest. Ethan's arm formed a protective circle around your waist, offering his affection in his embrace and comforting you with another touch from his fingertips.

In the stillness, his heartbeat became a romantic lullaby that surrounded you with his magic. His voice resonated like a harmony from the seventh heaven, making you drift into a blissful slumber, like a leaf in the autumn.

Note : Whoaaa I don't know if the prompt is correct. But thank you for reading. I'm still thinking about the next part. I'm having a hard time choosing between Jake and Piers. I try to get into the game (RE-6) and read their files to know their traits and personalities. Well, wish me luck!

#resident evil #resident evil ethan winters #resident evil ethan #ethan winters #ethan winters fluff #ethan winters x reader #ethan winters x you #resident evil fluff #flufftober2023 #flufftober

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lincolndjarin · 5 months

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a love letter about writing star wars fanfiction.

(aka a love letter to my eleven year old self, and to anyone who's read bks.)

this is extremely sappy, and gross, and personal.

tw : homophobia, internal & external

There is nothing I love as much as storytelling.

I wrote my first story when I was eleven. It was a story about an angel and a demon who fell in love with each other and I posted it on Wattpad with a cringey title while under the pseudonym of a young genderless author, and I thought I was so cool.

I wrote that story for some time. I remember being at my lola’s house (the only place I had access to a computer) and checking my page and seeing that I had over one hundred hits on it.

I also remember later that night when my father called my lola and asked her to put me on the phone. I was a child and I used my father’s email for everything because I didn’t have one of my own and I didn't know any better. He called and he told me to delete my account immediately because what I was writing was extremely inappropriate.

My story didn’t contain so much a kiss between its love interests.

I thought maybe he was upset because of a scene where one of the male characters changed shirts, or maybe it was because I was writing about the devil.

But my father wasn’t a religious man. He’s quite the opposite actually, I distinctly remember when I was eight, I would go to church with my lola, and that Christmas I played the Virgin Mary in our pageant.

And I looked out in the audience to find that he wasn’t there.

Lola told me he had a cold sore.

(My mom told me he just didn’t like church.)

When I told him I was sorry and I didn’t know what I did wrong he told me I should write a different kind of story because the one that I was writing was bad, he told me that it was disgusting.

The love interests in my story were both men. And at the ripe age of eleven I hated myself for what I had done.

Over the next ten years I found different ways to tell stories. I wrote songs, I performed in musicals and I played Dungeons and Dragons. Every once and a while I would try to write but it just never worked. I would sit and stare at the notebook or the screen and I could never get further than a chapter or two because I just couldn’t stop thinking about how inappropriate it was for someone like me to be telling a story.

I came out as queer my freshman year of highschool.

That morning a family member (who I have since reconciled with) told me that they didn’t love me anymore. Since that day they have come to terms with who I am and I love them endlessly but I will never really get over that. I just can’t stop wondering what kind of person would tell a fourteen year old girl that they don’t love them over something they couldn't help?

I came out as nonbinary when I was nineteen.

That was the thing that finally destroyed any ounce of a relationship I had left with my father.

I stopped singing, I stopped performing, and I stopped playing Dungeons and Dragons. And I just sort of hit a wall. Years of people telling me that I talk too much, that my identity was something that made me wrong, and years of people halfheartedly listening to me when I spoke finally wore me down to a point where I just wanted to be alone and silent.

I wanted no one to look at me and I wanted no one to speak to me because I had been told since I could talk that I was a chatterbox. So I shut up and I stayed in my room. I went to work, I went home, and once a week I would hang out with the only friend that I hadn’t pushed away. (Trust me I tried, and I’m grateful everyday for how hard he fought to stay.)

I did this for a long time, around three years.

A little over a year ago I started taking medication for my severe social anxiety and my depression. It helped me snap out of the funk I was in and I quickly realized that my routine was about to vastly change. Evan was moving away for college and I was going to be truly alone. Sure I’d made other friends by this point but I only ever really hung out with Evan.

So I needed something to fill that loneliness lest I succumb to it entirely.

So I wrote a story.

A vague story, where the characters had no names but they had big emotions. A story about a princess who fell in love with a knight but she never saw his face, and when he sacrificed himself for her he fought tooth and nail to get back to her, and thanks to his anonymity he actually managed to do it.

At the start of May this year I started to write in earnest, for the first time in a decade. And anyone who has followed Best Kept Secret for a long time knows just how quickly those chapters were coming out. I was posting nearly three chapters a week because a decades worth of words were rushing out of me, desperate to finally see the light of day.

When Evan went to college I wasn’t scared because I had something new to fill my time, a story. Since the day I posted that story, not a day has gone by where I haven’t written.

Yes it is a silly piece of Mandalorian fanfiction, yes it is basically just porn for quite a bit of it, and yes it is full of spelling and grammatical errors. But it’s mine. It’s my story and it doesn’t matter if it’s dorky or terrible or anything along those lines because for the first time in a long time I don’t feel bad anymore. I don’t feel guilt or shame for the things that I say or do because I have been able to grow past that and a large part of that is because of Star Wars fanfiction.

And I wish so badly that I could tell my eleven year old self that they are going to be okay and that she isn't wrong in any sense of the word. I wish that I could tell her that she doesn’t have to be a girl and that she can like whatever she wants to like and she can write whatever she wants to write.

I wrote Best Kept Secret for me, and I wrote it for her. Because she loved Star Wars so fucking much, and if she knew that we found our peace in a silly story about a princess on Naboo she might finally be happy because she loved Padme so so much.

I should probably be more sad that it’s ending but I’m really just proud of myself and I’m eternally grateful to anyone who’s reading this because if it weren’t for people reading what I was writing I don’t know if I would have carried on. I was so scared and nervous to write this story but when people liked it I was reminded of why I liked storytelling so much in the first place.

Because it makes other people happy.

This is already too long and too sappy but I can’t thank everyone who has supported me enough, because this silly little story of mine has unironically changed my life. I’m going to continue to write fanfiction because I love it but I’m also going to write a book. I’m going to write my first novel because this is what I love to do and I want to share it with anyone who cares, this is my favorite thing and thanks to this I have been reminded of that fact.

So thank you, to every single person who read this mess, and thank you to every single person who read the wonderful mess that is Best Kept Secret.

Tomorrow I am going to celebrate with my mother who I have to thank for all of this. She has supported me endlessly and she has pushed me to write and keep writing.

Tomorrow I am going to call my lola, who sadly now lives further away, and tell her that I finished writing the story she constantly asks about.

Thank you mom, thank you Lola, thank you Evan, Tori & Carli, thank you to every single person who has ever supported my writing.

Thank you eleven year old Ro, thank you for writing fanfiction about minecraft youtubers on your lola’s laptop.

here's a photo of the wonderful women of my family and of me writing bks in a coffee shop, curtesy of my friend tori, taking a point five.

#personal

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angelic-transsexual · 1 year

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its always "gender doesnt matter and gender is fake !" until a trans man is feminine or when a trans women is masculine. dont even get me started on these same people who also get upset when nonbinary people are not "genderless" or are not androgynous. stop creating more stereotypes and boxes to place people in. you want to be palatable for cisgender-heterosexual society. cissexism and cis-heteronormativity is not cool. if cisgender men can be feminine so can trans men. if cis women can be masculine so can trans women. stop acting like the gender police. im not a "faker" because im a feminine transgender man. being transgender is not about gender stereotypes. trans meds are stupid too. you know how many trans meds bullied me to the point of going back into the closet FOR A YEAR because i was told i was faking being trans because i was not masculine ? a lot. so many of you are not accepting. i used to be a trans med, trust me i know what its like to try and be the gender police. just stop it guys. its not going to change anything. you are just sitting here and getting mad at people for being themselves. its getting weird. i thought we were over the stupid transphobic, trans medicalist bullshit that people like kalvin garrah and blaire white has filled into the heads of trans people. stop trying to get picked by the cishets, its not going to happen.

#ftm #ftm mlm #trans man #transsexual #trans male #transgender #trans guy #anti transmed #lgbt #t4t gay #gay #queer #gender #transmedicalism #feminine man #fairy boy #lgbtqia

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thatvalvefanatic · 2 years

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Miss Pauling from Team Fortress 2 is confirmed to be a lesbian! A lot of people still don't believe it though so today I'm gonna show you guys all the information about it because I think it's cool :]

Cw: nudity (from Zhanna and Soldier in the TF2 comics, as well as Scout's mom in Meet the Spy (you'll see why that's important). Its not graphic but I thought to give a warning anyway just in case.)

The most direct acknowledgement of this is the fact Jay Pinkerton, a writer at Valve, said it in response to a comment on Pauling and Scout, saying Jay had a better idea for her, which was to make her a lesbian, but there were no female characters to ship her with yet.

Now you may ask "What about Scout? Didn't she date him?" After Expiration Date they may have gone on a "date" (date being Scout going on random jobs Miss Pauling has), but you can see in the comics that take place afterwards, they were never actually romantically involved.

It also comes off that way in Miss Pauling's voice lines towards Scout. (These are taken from the official TF2 wiki)

"Hey Scout. First, 'No' to whatever you're about to ask. I've got a job for you."

"Scout, Pauling here. Wrap up whatever you were bragging about and look at this."

"Scout, it's Pauling. Whatever stupid thing you're doing, stop it. I've got work."

"Scout, it's Pauling. I need something done quietly. Scout? Quietly."

"Engie, it's Pauling. Is Scout there? Cough if he's there. I've got a job for you. Not him."

Then there's the Teufort Reader, a page on the official TF2 website. It has ad listings from different characters. Both Pauling and Scout have listings for dates, but Scout enforces that the caller should be a woman while Pauling keeps who she is looking for genderless, meaning it doesn't necessarily have to be a man who calls. (I edited both listings onto an image, so that's why it's wonky looking lol.)

More examples (which is mostly my interpretation) of her possibly seeking future female partners (and ignoring male advances) is in her Tough Break voicelines. In some, she talks about going to many woman events which could be a hint at her sexuality, others she rejects male related stuff. Once again I copied these from the official TF2 wiki.

(whispering) "Hey, it's Pauling here. I'm at the Teufort Ladies Book Club and I'm the only one who hasn't actually read Belinda...so it's just about relationships, right? Guy meets girl, love stuff, happy ending? It's a good thing, right? I'm gonna tell everyone how it really, really brings the two as a couple."

[Scout: Oh, oh, and...(dice clatter)...not too shabby!] "Pauling here. I'm trying to teach Scout Gargoyles and Gravel. [Yeah!] Ugh, no Scout, there's no such thing as a Muscle Wizard." [Yeah whatever.] "No you can't beat an Orc by doing push-ups at it. Look, please, please put your shirt back on. Scout, stop flexing. Scout. Scout! Stop flexing."

"Hey did you know a gun show's a real thing? I'm at one with Heavy right now." [Heavy: Is perfect, this is gun.] Oh wow, what's the gauge on that? Yeah, Scout's been saying he's going to take me to one for years, but all he does is shove his stupid arms in my face. Anyway, I've got something for you."

"Hey's it's Pauling. Sorry for the noise, it's Ladies Night at the Cap Point, and I misunderstood what that meant." [Hey what's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?] "I'm trying to get someone killed for money. Can you give me a second? Sorry about that. Anyway, take a look."

"He-hey, sorry about the reception, I'm on a ladies safari in the middle of a forest. Listen, a contract came in..." [I'm being mauled to death by a tiger! Ahhh!] "Lady, would you please keep it down! I'm on the phone!"

Another small example, once again more of my interpretation, is on a TF2 blog post from the website where the Administrator starts reading one of Miss Pauling's gun themed woman magazines. The blog post says:

"I found the answer, in all places, in one of the insipid gun-themed women's magazines Miss Pauling leaves lying around, where I stumbled on an article about self-improvement."

You could tie this to a historical context because the 60s and 70s had a rise in LGBTQ oriented magazines, many lesbian ones created in 1971 and running through the 80s. It's quite possible that Pauling would read them as Team Fortress 2 takes place around 1968 to 1973.

The folder Miss Pauling has in the Gun Mettle update is labeled "Scout's mom" meaning she has the nsfw of Scout's mom that Spy lays out in Meet the Spy.

Next section goes more into the comics. There are many panels that could imply Pauling's growing liking towards her new teammate, Zhanna. In this first image I think it shows where the liking began, from Zhanna talking to Pauling, making her blush in the last frame (which too could be embarrassment, but someone pointed it out to me as a possibility, so I decided to add it).

Next is towards the end of the comics. Zhanna and Soldier fight naked, covered in honey as a fighting strategy, and Pauling and Scout have caught them doing so. Scout is disgusted and leaves, while Pauling is interested and decides to stay and catch up later. Note how Zhanna is closest to them. Panels are edited to be side by side and cropped a bit for image space.

Next is towards later on when Pauling is calling the Administrator and Zhanna wonders what she's doing. Pauling then confides in her with her problems, afterwards saying she sees Zhanna as part of the team now after Zhanna gives her advice. She's comfortable around Zhanna.

A few pages later, Pauling's disgusted by Soldier and him being naked, meaning he was not likely who she was looking at.

Another thing is that people think that Pauling could've developed a crush on the Administrator in their time together over the years Pauling worked for her. She made comments on how Helen (Administrator) was not so bad when you got to know her and we also learn Pauling had trusted her the whole mission without knowing what Helen's plan was. Pauling was blindly following and trying to stay loyal to what Helen wanted because she thought Helen would have a place for her at the end.

In Richter Overtime's video on the possible TF2 comic 7 leak from 2018, there was a scene where Pauling allegedly kisses the Administrator. This is in no way canon, but just in case it is revealed that something like that is in the final comic, I just think it would be good to note.

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Ashly Burch, Miss Pauling's voice actress, came out as pansexual in July 2022, noting that she has played many LGBTQ characters.

(Also she was a writer on Expiration Date. This means Pauling not liking Scout due to being lesbian could've totally been intentional! Along with her playing as LGBTQ characters, she's also written for them! Like Life is Strange and Mythic Quest.).

The Romana version of the official TF2 wiki has most of these points on Pauling being gay on it. I copied down the text from that section, but recently I found that Pauling's Romana page was removed from the wiki.

"According to a tweet by Jay Pinkerton, writer of TF Comics, Miss Pauling is gay.

This may be why she insists the Administrator is 'not so bad when you get to know her'.

Part of a voice line added in the Tough Break update has her discuss an interest in Ladies' Night while fending off a man: 'Sorry for the noise, it's Ladies Night at the Cap Point, and I misunderstood what that meant.' [Hey what's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?] 'I'm trying to get someone killed for money.'

Another voice line excerpt from Tough Break, when she's at the Ladies' Book Club: '...so it's just about relationships, right? Guy meets girl, love stuff, happy ending? It's a good thing, right?'

No other Valve employee has either confirmed nor denied this claim to date (The tweet was made June 19, 2015), leading many to believe that Mr. Pinkerton's tweet was just a way to inflame the community. However, since Mr. Pinkerton is a lead writer of the comics and his word is trustworthy, there is no reason not to accept this at face value.

The tweet was made in response to a fan asking if Scout and Miss Pauling would become canon, and was preceded with Mr. Pinkerton stating he had "better plans" for her. This could imply that she may meet a love interest in an upcoming installment."

And finally, I'm taking this from someone else's post, but you can color-pick the lesbian flag colors off of one of Pauling's post cards!! (And bonus, you can color-pick the genderfluid flag off of her Halloween design!)

And that's it! That's all the information I have so far, compiled for everyone's viewing and reference pleasure :]

Please let me know if I missed anything and I'll add it! Thank you for reading, if you made it this far, that's awesome. I'll be updating this post occasionally to fix formatting issues, so don't be confused if things change! I hope I can be of help with your Valve lore and information. And if you haven't seen it, I have a list compiling all of Valve's queer characters!

#miss pauling #tf2 #team fortress #team fortress 2 #ashly burch #lesbian #lgbtq #queer representation #queer rep #lesbian representation #lesbian rep #valve #valve games #miss pauling x zhanna #queer #sapphic #lesbian coded #zhanna tf2 #administrator tf2

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my-lonely-thoughts · 28 days

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I think I might be agender and I want to talk about it!

I can't really find my exact experience online anywhere (I could also just be searching wrong)

So I guess I'll share my thoughts here :))

Growing up I felt a HUGE disconnect with my sex/sex characteristics, and that only worsened with puberty.

I knew from a young age I wanted my chest flat and to have a larger Adams apple, more hair on my body/etc. but there were also parts i could appreciate and even still enjoy now (like my hips and more "feminine" face)

But my thoughts on gender have been so different.

I remember when I was first learning about gender as a wee little one I didn't understand it (and I guess I still don't?)

My earliest memories of this is that I didn't know there was a difference between boy and girl (or just genders in general) in elementary school. I would use both bathrooms and never really considered gender until a teacher had to try and explain it to me.

Again I never really cared for it but I was 'assigned' one because of my sex.

I had came out as trans and I knew I wanted to medically transition in most ways to the opposite *sex* but I still didn't fully feel comfortable using gendered terms (pronouns are fine tho, I don't mind if they're gendered or not because to me everything feels genderless? Or at least nonbinary? Idk how to explain it*)

*also on this note, i sort of see all words/clothing/pronouns/etc. as gender neutral/genderless as well (I understand that this is not the case for everyone though! and I make sure to ask what other people are comfortable with and don't project this onto others experiences)

But yeah! Since I've mainly reached all my medical transition goals, I've been more focused on other areas in my life since I'm not worried about dysphoria anymore!

But that's when I started to feel more nonbinary and then started questioning my gender again.

Which led me to the question of what even is gender??? And in the best way possible, it feels very creative and cool! But also sort of made up to me. I can appreciate other people's genders and identities and expressions, but it doesn't make sense for me. (Side note: I think everyone's gender/relationship with it/perspective of it is valid!! This is just my view on it :)))

I guess when I think of my own gender I just see this blank space? And nothing is really there?

And I really like being androgynous with more male/masculine leaning features, and also having a gender neutral name!

Its hard to put into words (at least at the moment)

But I've been really resonating with the term transexual more than transgender because I don't feel like I have a gender, but I have transitioned my sex characteristics to be in line with what feels comfortable and right to me.

I hope this makes some sort of sense lol

Thanks for reading if you made it this far!

((also I just read up on the term gender void and I think that makes more sense for me!))

#agender #nonbinary #lgtbqia+#lgbtq community #lgbtqia #lgbtq #lgbt #my lonely thoughts #gendervoid

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fecto-forgo · 6 months

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i really honestly feel like that a lot of the criticism towards susie isnt justified. the capitalism stuff, sure, but she gets waaayyy too much flak for the mecha knight thing.

TBH i kind of want someone else other than susie should try to turn meta knight into a robot. just to see if they'd get hated on for it.

imagine if magolor were to do it. would he get scrutinized for it? or would people try to go through hoops to say it's okay if he does it, it was only bad when susie did it?

i already do sense some double standards in the fandom tho.....

you see the issue is i cannot for the life of me understand this beyond "susies a girl, and because of that shes the devil for hurting the fan favorite guy", disliking her bc of the theme? sure! completely fair! believing she could have been better redeemed? i can see a point! misunderstanding her for a while due to SAs translation completely changing what her recent goals are implied to be? very understandable they fucked her updated character up there

but no, what people get irrationally angry about is she happened to pick meta knight and how DARE she do that to poor meta knight?!

but...thats where my confusion is, if ANY other character had done that to MK theyd not get backlash for it, itd be an angsty meta knight moment for fans theyd absolutely ADORE and theyd form opinions on whoever did it for the character they are (see:every dedede possession, barely see anyone even acknowledge who did it that much, its about dedede being affected w the culprit being disregarded), not for who they happened to use for the "puppet" role, susie.is not allowed this, shes the girl who hurt meta knight, multiple peoples entire opinions of her revolve around the fact she roboticized meta knight (remember btw.he was LITERALLY fine.theres nothing implying this was painful and he recovered extremely quickly) susie is not allowed to be anything but a massive bitch who hurt poor fan favorite meta knight

and dude i just.dont get it, i dont get why its so comically common for fandoms wide to be overly harsh forming opinions on the girls, giving them absolute hell for things theyd absolutely praise men for doing, id understand if it was implied to be awful for MK or if someone just doesnt like him being in bad situations, but no, if ANY male villain did that ppl would be going over the moon they got juicy meta knight angst and a cool other guy, is overly judging female characters so inherent in peoples brains this is subconscious?? its just.so fucking insane to me.i literally cannot understand this

heck everytime ive seen ppl talk abt the stuff w fecto forgo trying to possess meta knight its just as i said itd go (forgo is either genderless or non binary, for note.so rly further proof the issue is susies a girl) its abt the experience being bad for MK, not abt how the one who did it is an horrible being, its.so fucked up susie is not even allowed to be disliked because of her own character, its because she hurt a man so shes the actual devil for doing that

TL DR please hate susie at least because of her whole character and not because she happens to be a girl who hurt a man (basically ask yourself:if she were a guy or enby, would you still be this angry about that? if not, reconsider if youre not being subconsciously biased to see her as way worse because shes a woman.if yes lmao relax youre being normal and just dont like your favorite being hurt)

#god this got LONG but sorry subconscious bias bc a character is female is INSANE it makes me so mad #ask

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adobe-outdesign · 2 years

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Thoughts on milcery and its evo’s two million forms

Milcery is... fine; nothing special but certainly not bad. I think the best thing about it is actually its animation, which is probably one of my all-time favorites in the series; the single drop moves throughout each of the splash waves in a circular pattern, which looks super cool and appropriately fluid.

Other than that, compared to Alcremie, it doesn't really stand out that much; it's just a splash of cream with a face on it, though I do like the pupil-less eyes. I get what they were going for with it, as you have to mix (spin) whipping cream to form stiff peaks of whipped cream, but ultimately it feels like it exists solely for Alcremie's gimmick. I'll go into this more later, but I think my ideal situation would be to just drop Milcery and give Alcremie an evolution instead. As is, it's serviceable.

Side note: both the English and Japanese names of this line reference magic/alchemy for no real reason. I kind of wonder if the beta Milcery was supposed to be a cauldron or something, and Alcremie's pointy top was supposed to be a witch hat, kind like how Murkrow was more witchy originally. That's just speculation on my part though.

I do question if "vaguely human-shaped creature with dress" was the most interesting way to handle a pile of sentient cream, but regardless, Alcremie's pretty sweet (pun very much intended). Design-wise it's nice and simple; the sweet accents on the "hair" with a matching eye color and some swirls to show the shape of the cream. I think I would've liked it without any mouth (and maybe any arms), but it at least has a cute, somewhat oblivious expression instead of the standard smile that adds some personality.

The other noteworthy thing about Alcremie is the fact that it has 63(!) forms, 7 sweets to mix in and 9 different flavors. The forms are fun and add a lot to the design, though I don't know if I have any strong preferences towards any of them. For me personally, I'd rather have less forms but more distinction between them, like Vivillion, than 60+ forms that all look pretty similar.

My favorites out of the forms would be the ruby swirl with strawberries (similar to the standard art, but I like having the darker points on the body, as it helps break it up a bit), and the caramel swirl with flowers (the most delicious looking and one of my fav colors).

Least fav is probably any of the star-sweet ones just because their eyes look mildly possessed with the lighter color. Overall, however, none of them are really bad (aside from maybe the shiny. black cream just looks moldy).

Also, side note: why is Alcremie all-female? It's a sentient pile of cream, shouldn't it be genderless? I feel like Gamefreak's had a bad habit of taking anything vaguely "feminine" (read: dress) looking and making it all female. I guess you could argue milk only comes from female animals, but Alcremie is made of milk/cream, it's not the thing producing it in the first place. It's not a big deal, just head-scratching.

G-max Alcremie is interesting, because most g-maxes are just the same Pokemon but bigger, without really advancing their original theme. However, g-max Alcremie here actually does logically continue things, going from cream to an entire cake with cream frosting. This makes it a lot better than most g-maxes... almost too much better, in fact, because the line feels incomplete when the g-max gimmick is inevitably stripped away from it.

Going back to what I was saying earlier: what I would've liked to see is Milcery dropped entirely; you could instead have a "plain"-flavor Alcremie that you do a permanent form change with instead of deciding upon evolution. Then, have Alcremie evolve into a small cake that retains the flavor and sweets of the Alcremie, and have that evolution have this g-max, to tie everything together. That way, when the g-max is removed, the line still feels complete.

That aside, visually speaking, having the Alcremie serve as a cake-topped of sorts is cute, and I like how all the sweets are incorporated into it (I would've liked to see there be a g-max for each form obvs, but this is a good way to handle it if that wasn't on the table). It's hard to see here, but I also like the tweaks to Alcremie's design, such as the bow, the shape of the arms, and the swirly hair.

So overall: Milcery has a very fun animation but an otherwise plain design that doesn't really stand out. Alcremie is pretty solid, and the different forms are fun even if they're a bit too similar. The g-max is one of the best out there, and I would've liked to see an evolution to go with it so the concept isn't lost when the gimmick is. Overall, a fun (and tasty) little line.

#milcery #alcremie #pokemon #pokemon reviews #.gif

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lavendelhummel · 3 months

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I just posted a link to a fanfic that got inspired by this Art installation by Olivia Erlanger with a few more photos. What I did not put on there, because it deserves its own post, are these things she said, first on her website:

"Mermaids are a kind of pre-gender or genderless archetype, a representation of a chimeric existence that Olivia Erlanger feels we each take of as different environmental pressures affect transformations. When they are presented as female, mermaids bring up many questions of mobility, not only in a physical sense, abut also around agency.

Ariel from Hans Christian Andersen's "The little mermaid" (1837), for example, gave up her voice to walk on land. This kind of psychological voice loss mirrors Freud's patient Ida Bauer, whose diagnosis was the first recorded case of female hysteria. Hysteria is itself a fiction, and yet the trope of hysterical woman persists. (...)."

And second, this part of an interview she gave:

"The beautiful thing about a mermaid's tail is that it is almost a split phallus. I’m sure you know they are very important in terms of trans iconography, especially for young transfolks since there isn’t direct representation of non-binary genitalia. And similarly, the long sinewy tail splits. It is a “both/and'' rather than an “either/or'' shape. "

I have been accused of having a mermaid problem and fish fetish before, yes, I have always had a thing for mermaids because they were fun, but this is cool! I never knew that mermaids are a part of the trans-culture! Yes, there have been these questions of their presentation in fiction, the terminology alone, the question of agency as she says etc. which are interesting to explore but what she says here about gender makes sense (from my not very informed cisgender-perspective - if it does not actually please correct me), and that makes mermaids so much cooler even!

Mermaids are inherently (gender)queer! Who knew they could become even cooler?!

#just me shouting about new cool info #Olivia erlanger #queerness #art #gender #mermaid

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scatterpatter · 21 days

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What are your thoughts on the Axem Rangers?

*CRACKS KNUCKLES*

Fun fact it was the Axem Rangers that introduced me to SMRPG! I was super into SMBZ growing up and looking into the Axem Rangers X got me to check out SMRPG and- well- anyone who's been following me for more than a few months knows how that went

I adore them. Chaotic stupid fr. How many Axems does it take to screw in a lightbulb? TRICK QUESTION if you ask them to do that they'll come back to you with an electric fire.

In my Weapon Fam AU (god i never update this tag h e l p its all old art KJSBFKJSBGKJSDB) since they're all siblings in that one, I made them all quintuplets and yes it gets chaotic quickly. They spend an absurd amount of time just rehearsing their dramatic entrances, monologues, poses, etc

They definitely operate on a "shares a braincell" mindset, but if they need someone to speak for the whole group, they usually default to Red. He definitely has an ego because of this and the others usually have to serve him a slice of humble pie if he gets too cocky about his position as leader

Black actually has some slight vision problems that manifest in the form of sunlight sensitivity, hence why he's always wearing shades. Forever ago people thought he was trying to be cool, so he totally went with it and has been acting like some cool tough guy ever since

Y'know how Green can use Static E and attacks with more of a stabbing motion than by swinging the axe? (btw i adore that the remake gave his axe more of a spear-like tip to it because of this, its the little things <3). I always had the hc that he struggled with physical fighting like the others, but picked up magic use after watching Bowyer use spells like Static E so easily. Also has chronic vertigo, rip 😔

So Pink- my hc is that those from Smithy's dimension (i.e. all the Weapons) are completely genderless- they reproduce asexually, they're machines, etc. Most Weapons don't really align themselves with gender identities super strongly, and a lot will default to he/him pronouns just because their language mostly translates to that and people from other worlds will see their more masculine-presenting members and go "Oh you must be boys!". Pink's also in the boat where she doesn't really align with a gender, but she definitely prefers presenting more femininely and once she discovers how most of the other worlds handle gender expression, she immediately changes her pronouns to she/her and proudly proclaims herself as the girl of the group... well, proclaims herself the princess of the group, really. ... The other Axems will gladly use she/her but they draw the line at princess.

Yellow is by far the most grounded of the group, and usually steps in whenever Red gets overwhelmed trying to make all of the decisions. He's more of an endurance fighting than the rest of the Axems, preferring to stay back and tank hits to tire out the opponent while the other four go in on the offense. He's actually the smartest of the group, but most would never figure this out since he goes out of his way to play stupid. Part of playing stupid is to trick opponents into underestimating him... and the other part is the internal laughing he gets to do when people are so, so incredibly wrong about his intelligence.

They CONSTANTLY bicker with each other, but the SECOND anyone outside of the group tries to insult one of them? The other four will rain hell on you. Do NOT mess with the Axems.

... also did you know the Axems canonically have tongues? Horrifying. I'm cursed with this knowledge now so are you.

#headcanon dump #axem rangers #weapon fam au

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