queer people love breaking the binary until a multigender person says their genders are as legitimate as monogender people's & then its "well ik you're a boygirl... but we all know you're really a BOY boygirl yk?"

me as a child: this "$4.99" sales stuff is idiotic, anyone can instantly round this up to $5 in their mind, no one is falling for this

me as an adult: oh wow only $4 (with some additional numbers behind it), that's great because if it was a single dollar more that would have been the last straw for me in my miserable life

I think trans people (specifically transfems) should be allowed to be horny in peace, and that people need to leave them alone when they are.

People need to learn what derivative art means.

What it doesn’t mean: copying something but changing it slightly.

What it means: copying something but changing it slightly without understanding it.

A lot of anime about “girl life and girl problems” written by men are extremely derivative. It’s obvious they have no idea what it’s like to be a young girl but they like the genre and just copies what they’ve seen in other stories like that, resulting in girls who feel more like passive puppets.

Most of Studio Ghibli’s girls aren’t derivative. They react like real little girls to situations. Say someone is attacking them, they don’t respond with with extreme passiveness or immediate aggression but by trying to get away, trying to stop the aggressor in their tracks or hiding, only turning to aggression when all else fails. Normal girl stuff. They show anger and sadness in appropriate situations and don’t come off as weird mystical creatures with no rime or reason. That’s a huge part of why a lot of anime girls feel unfair and moody. The creator has no idea how girls respond to things so they make a guess based on other works.

Someone making a magical girl story isn’t automatically being derivative. They might like magical girl stories but get ideas based on their own life and experiences. A black girl making a magical black girl isn’t being derivative. She just couldn’t help but imagine what it would be like for a black girl to go through that.

I can’t say it enough. Taking inspiration from stuff isn’t copying or being derivative. I often see fanart that has so little in common with the original work that it might as well be the fanartist’s own character and my immediate thought is always “Just make it your own character. You’ve put so much of yourself into this it’s no longer the original character and it would be so much more interesting if you allowed yourself to go all in on this idea, and trust me, people will like it way more. Yes you can make them a pirate too. Pirate stories are a whole genre”

Anyone who accuse other people of being derivative is a 100% guilty of exactly the same thing they consider derivative when other people do it. Show me any character or story and I can say “Oh it’s [insert story idea or character] like [insert story idea or character]” The only thing new about any story is our own take on it.

I hope black girls with depression have a good day today.

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'you still listen to music from 10 years ago 🤨?' bitch if prehistoric humans had audio recording technology id be sat up here listening to grog and unga bunga's greatest hits don't play with me

Katherine Mansfield, in a letter to Dorothy Brett, dated 14 August 1918

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Im reading my newest mad mag (which is just a rerun of old editions) and i got thrown so back to this which is one of my favorite panels ever

the world is a better place with trans women in it

The person I reblogged this from deserves happiness and love

this isn't a real feature but imagine if it was though