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someone posts a blurry photo of batman with robin captioned 'lets fight crime with mama' and bruce has to pretend it didnt make him cry

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This may be a niche topic but.

Other queer afab people of color, I want to know what your experiences have been like with white afab people / white wlw.

I moved countries last year, and since then all the interactions ive had with afab white queer people has been either:

Fetishization from white wlw,

Or white transmascs forcibly masculinizing my ethnic features and its genuinely making me tweak.

I didnt realise just how MUCH racism was in the queer community in white countries and my self esteem took a massive hit.

Id like to hear other's experiences on it

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Superman desperately scanning the street during a fight to find the most morally acceptable car to throw at his opponent, knowing that not everybody has insurance, and loss of transportation can ruin a life -

A wave of incredible relief washes over him as he spots the hard geometric lines and silver paintless sheen of a Cybertruck.

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brainrotting over two old robots

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Hero of Cybertron

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Enough of the trope where memory loss undoes the damage or the corruption or whatever. More content where removing memories just removes the context.

The tragedy of needing to grieve and not knowing what or who you lost or why. The angst of having trauma and being denied the awareness that it's trauma. The suspense of being different somehow and left to wonder how and when. The tension of knowing that something is off and you can't find where it hurts. The Adventure Zone gets it. Kingdom Hearts gets it.

There is an aching inside you and you don't know how it got there.

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a real saint

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Found some old wips art from my KH obsession

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If we don’t get kh4 news soon I’m gonna start drawing fanart of the trailers that play inside my mind

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Personal MCD Aph design 🫦

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Back with my House of Mouse redesigns! Mostly Pete, though😔

I think they should kiss

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Now why did Guardians 3 have to go and come out right when I also happened to be hyperfixating on X-Men?

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All the guardians love each other and are a family.  That is a fact.  But, I love that Rocket has three besties.  He has Groot, obviously.  He has Peter, by Peter’s own admission, he’s his best friend.  And he has Nebula.  They spent 5 years together during the snap.  She got him a Christmas present.  He gave her upgrades.  

And I love that two of those people, Groot and Peter, were there when Rocket woke up from his coma and the first thing he did, was ask for the third, Nebula.  Rocket deserves so much love.  

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GOTG Vol. 3 Thought (spoilers)

The High Evolutionary was obsessed/never understood what he thought was the enigma of 89P13 because he didn’t understand what love was, especially through the eyes of a child.

He didn’t understand that Rocket wanted love from him when he desperately tried to earn it through fixing the transformation pods, answering complex math problems, etc, as that was what he thought would get it - intellect and being a perfect specimen.

He didn’t understand that Rocket was grieving the loss of love from the horrific end of Lylla - you see it in him mocking the cries Rocket makes over her body, and the blatant disregard for Batch 89 and the love they nurtured Rocket with.

He didn’t understand why Rocket became who he his now (and subsequently why he ripped his face off) because of the love he received from his two found-families, and just how fiercely he would protect it.

The High Evolutionary was never even close to making a perfect race, because he was never going to understand the most vital component to life-what it takes to truly live.

Love.

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GOTG 3 SPOILERS

Do you think Rocket purposefully speaks the way he does now as a form of rebellion because the High Evolutionary would always correct his improper English? Do you think he uses language as a form of control now? Language was the only good tool the High Evolutionary gave him to use and by using “improper grammar” Rocket feels he has control and freedom over how he chooses to speak? DO YOU THINK-

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I’ve been thinking about the significance of names in GotG 3, and how it plays into the movie’s themes of intelligence and a being’s intrinsic worth.

Each of the test subjects’ names shows a different level of abstract thought:

Floor, seemingly capable of only very basic associations, named herself based on where she was while picking the name

Teefs named himself after a distinctive personal feature, and didn’t quite get the grammar right

Lylla picked a “real” name that she decided fit for her

And Rocket named himself aspirationally, using his name as a metaphor for the kind of person he wants to be

And the great thing is that all of these names were enthusiastically accepted by the group of friends, regardless of the complexity of thought that went into them. Because unlike the High Evolutionary, who places all living things on a spectrum from least to most evolved with only the most developed and “pure” being judged worthy of life, Rocket and his friends loved and valued each other for the beings they were.

This theme is then carried over to another naming scene at the movie’s climax: when Rocket declares himself to the High Evolutionary as “Rocket Raccoon”.

Throughout the series Rocket has taken offense to being referred to as a racoon, not wanting to be seen as “just an animal”. But in the climax he looks at a cage of baby raccoons and sees himself, not as the intelligent creation of the High Evolutionary but as the baby animal he once was, who never deserved what was done to him. And he looks at the other animals (the camera lingers in particular on a rabbit) and sees his friends, who were never as intelligent or “developed” as him but were no less valuable and important in his eyes.

And so he accepts the moniker of “Raccoon” alongside his personal name of “Rocket”, and insists that every creature on the ship be saved, not just the “higher lifeforms” as the other Guardians said. Because the truth he comes to realize is that there is no such thing as a “higher life form”: every living being has value, regardless of how intelligent, “developed”, or “evolved” they are.

While we don’t have sentient raccoons in our world, this is still a message that is so important, and so relevant to issues we face. It has takeaways for environmental stewardship and animal welfare (not as much separates us from the rest of the animal kingdom as we like to think, and it’s important to treat all living things with respect and care), as well as for issues of fascism, eugenics and disability rights (there are no types of people who are inherently superior to others; a person’s intelligence and/or level of functioning has no bearing on their status as a human being deserving of dignity, respect and self-determination).

It’s a lesson I hope we all can learn someday. Bless Guardians of the Galaxy 3 for portraying it in such a clear and meaningful way.