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its funny to me how the script on drag is that its challenging and confrontational. idk maybe your local show is, but mainstream drag has found a comfortable place in the liberal norm, a little sectioned off corner where men can wear dresses and take it off when theyre done.

its convenient tp pretend that the only Bigots are loud vocal zero tolerance assholes, but theres a nice subtle kind of transmisogynist thats perfectly comfortable sitting next to a "man in a dress", lauds us as objects of queerness, but ultimately sees us as delusional men, a performance being put on thats less real than cis womanhood. maybe they still think its sexual! who knows.

and drag is perfect for those people. if you think transfeminity is a fake performance, drag doesn't challenge that. if you think transfems are sexual, silly, weird, fundamentally separate from you, then drag does not challenge that.

y'know what is challenging to these people? being asked to see trans women as actual women, with authority on womanhood and misogyny. to meet a transfem who does not pass, does not put effort into feminity, and to see and understand her womanhood. to hear someone insinuate that someone else might be transfem and not to take it as an insult. its so challenging that plenty of queer people, queer people who can love and support drag shows, refuse to do this.

and i'm not sayimg drag is Evil Adn Bad, although im sure once this post gets more than 100 notes there'll be people in the comments pretending thats exactly what i said. i have little interest in it but its whatever. what i'm actually saying is to listen to transfeminism and maybe consider what's actually challenging to you.

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Nothing doing, Nguan

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Nothing doing, Nguan

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Course works

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My friend's OC Nelly

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Quick OC painting

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just keep on walking

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Harry du Bois but in rain

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dino dawg :P artfight attack!

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tomorrowland : joan smalls for vogue us april 2016

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Illustration of Mario, Luigi and Yoshi from a 1993 issue of the Japanese Shogaku Ichinensei magazine.

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i love when horses are newly born and have such long legs . what do you plan to do with those!!!!

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le sigh today i become brave enough to share these here (date back to april/may)

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Piggyback on the hydreggies if i remember correctly one of them has high power Frustration:(

yeah, the bw2 hydreigon haaates ghetsis :( while the "premature evolution" isn't something i personally read much into, as it's been an established game mechanic since i believe gen 2, allowing the main character to battle strong trainers and fully evolved pokemon while maintaining the level gradient of the gameplay, the very unusual choice to have it run max power frustration is definitely a meaningful one. that dragon is Not having a good time. contrast that with antagonists in previous games who had crobat, a pokemon that evolves through friendship, hinting at their softer side. and then also keep in mind the way ghetsis's bw hydreigon has a moveset that allows it to deal massive super effective damage to all the pokemon on N's final team! lots of intentional details here.

by the way, it's been established in later pokedex entries that hydreigon really aren't vicious angry creatures by nature, they just get a bad reputation, and unfortunately tend to lash out due to that prejudice and mistreatment. they're not easy to raise, especially with how energetic and bitey deino and zweilous can be, but supposedly hydreigon mellow out a lot and are naturally just playful and curious. love their happy wiggles in 3d games :)