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for $1 name your favourite fictional lesbian. and no "straight female character popularly fanonized as a lesbian" or "this male character is a lesbian to me" allowed

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shopping trip!!!

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The Hundred Line community!

hihii i saw there was no community for discussing the game yet so i created one lol

it's labeled Mature since the game is Mature as well

let's discuss this weird cool game!!

https://www.tumblr.com/communities/line-that-is-hundred

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it’s kind of crazy how here on the so-called feminism website you literally can’t say something as simple as “dude is an inherently gendered term” without literally dozens upon dozens of people who consider themselves feminists showing up to say “idk i use it in a gender neutral way”. like idk how to tell you this but the fact that masculine words are considered default/neutral and feminine words are not is, in fact a reflection, of a patriarchal society.

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don't ever look up what your childhood friends are up to now!!!!!!!!!! like girl you're a nuclear safety engineer. i put on matching socks today. we played tag a thousand years ago.

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"it's all in your head" correct! unfortunately I am also in there

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you can pry starting sentences with 'and' or 'but' out of my cold, dead hands

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so my twitter feed pointed out something...interesting

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Can i keep the joker caterpillar from that last post as a pet 🐛

sure why not:) take him

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so. to get the Persona Diaries started

(please don't spoil the game in the comments or tags, this is me sharing my experience and theories bc I'm playing for the first time and know nothing lmao)

last night I got to the point where this weirdass hacker Alibaba is lowkey blackmailing us but also offering help. and I'm pretty sure it's Futaba (all i know about her is that she's a hacker, she'll be the Hermit confidant at some point and she's clearly related to Boss somehow - my guess is she's his daughter but he's divorced or wtv?)

like, it's kinda weird that if Alibaba is her, she'd tell us to steal her own heart, but idk her intentions at all maybe she's just testing us or maybe she hates herself idk

we shall see when i play more

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also i guess there's no reason for me not to so I'll start talking about my Persona 5 gameplay here (yeah lmao gonna start the persona journals here when I'm already 60h in)

I'll tag the posts as #kiri has a persona in case anyone wanna mute it not to get spoilers. or in the unlikely chance someone wanna see all those posts i guess

but yeah hooray lesgooo

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since my existence has to revolve around weird 2D people I'm also back to playing The Ssum and started Henri route this time. bc my best friend convinced me (they've been playing for a few months in his route)

this man is a psychiatrist who's also very mentally unwell. i love him already

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Homesick for a place I’ve never been

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i need a version of the block button that sends the recipient a gunshot noise at max volume and red flashing letters announcing i did it and what post i did it for

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men lose their masculinity (the social reward for correctly performed manhood) through advocating for, sympathizing with, or doing labor that is allocated to women.

(and I'm not talking about some innate, spiritual, or psychological masculinity. I mean social masculinity--being regarded by higher ranking men as masculine.)

you genuinely do lose your current standing if you meaningfully and consistently object to the economic, legal, and interpersonal status of women, especially in ways that implicate men around you.

many men believe that if they are willing to do this, occasionally, then they are owed a recuperation of their masculinity through some other means.

if they are sacrificing masculinity through advocating for women politically, then they expect to bolster their masculinity through receiving expressions of gratitude and adoration by women ("feminist men are so hot" "consent is sexy" "pro-choice men get laid more" etc.) or they expect to bolster their masculinity through emasculating other men by asserting the standards of masculinity they adhere to are the "real" masculinity ("real men support women" "sexists are immature boys, I'm a man" "I'm secure in my masculinity and they're insecure" etc.)

to dismantle patriarchy, you need to be able to advocate for women even when it means losing gendered status. other men mostly will not respect you, and many misogynist women will not respect you either. it might not get you laid or praised or validated. in fact, it will probably subject you to increased scrutiny and criticism (because feminized subjects are always subject to such, and if you lose social masculinity, you too will experience this to some degree).

will you still advocate for women even if there is no social benefit and only social cost? do you have principles, or do you just want the fantasy of being a benevolent ruler?