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i understand that for some people the combat rocket wheelchairs are the escapism they need and yknow i have nothing against that but i personally am just not interested in disabled characters in genre fiction who surpass their disability totally with magic handwaves. one of my favourite disabled fantasy characters ever is viviendre from cleveland quixotic who has a kickass magic staff that rips people in half but also she genuinely needs it to walk. that shit ruled and spoke to me more than 1 billion flawless magic prosthetics ever could

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there’s a thing I think about sometimes when I’m writing that I call ‘the rabies condition’

by which I mean: there are no contraindications to getting the rabies vaccine for post-exposure prophylaxis.

every other vaccine usually has a few contraindications like ‘don’t take this if you’re allergic to it’ or ‘if you’re pregnant discuss the risks and benefits with your doctor’ or ‘don’t give to children below age 6′ or something, but not the rabies vaccine. if you’ve been exposed to rabies, there is literally no medical reason that can justify not getting the rabies vaccine–you can be deadly allergic to literally every single ingredient and the correct decision is still to administer the vaccine, because if you don’t, you’re 100% guaranteed to die of rabies. even the life-threatening allergies are a step up in survival rate (especially since anaphylaxis is something that can be managed, even if there are risks associated with it)

which is to say, the rabies condition: if a character has been ‘exposed to rabies’, aka, in some impending absolute worst-case scenario, like the apocalypse or some death curse or the destruction of their entire city via demons or whatever, then that character has to take action and the consequences and risks no longer matter, because literally any other outcome would be better, and 1% chance of survival is still better than 0%. that doesn’t make those actions necessarily good, the same way that injecting yourself with something you know you’re deadly allergic not a good thing to do, but it’s still better than dying horrifically of rabies. desperate times and desperate measures etc

and then, after your character’s prevented some horrible thing by doing some almost equally bad thing, they should absolutely experience the consequences of those choices.

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hold me

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I still can't believe we let the broader LGBT sphere get away with "hating men means hating trans women" for so long

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I don't think the Trinity is that hard to understand or explain. o:

I usually think of it like this:

You have a friend; they have 3 jobs.

They have a job as a engineer, a cashier, and a janitor.

You wouldn't go to your friend in each job and ask "Are you the same guy I know????" - You know it's the exact same friend at each job, even though they're doing something different at each job.

Or think of it in gaming terms:

It's like someone with three different characters in a game. They switch between each character whenever needed, but you know it's the exact same person controlling each character, despite the different skills/class abilities.

Heck, even further think of someone who changes their hair color + style every day. You don't question or ask if they're the same person from when you first saw them. You know it's the same person, just different presentation.

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Thinking about the time some random English nationalist I met called me a "fucking celt" on the basis of my family being of irish descent. Very 19th century.

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idk nothing sets off my panic reflex more than widespread social policing and unspoken rules and expectations beyond "be nice, dont be a bigot, respect boundaries"; i struggle enough with the preexisting social rules of The Society I Largely Inhabit!

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in practice those rules actually translate to "if we don't like you, you're definitionally not nice." it's not fun.

idk nothing sets off my panic reflex more than widespread social policing and unspoken rules and expectations beyond "be nice, dont be a bigot, respect boundaries"; i struggle enough with the preexisting social rules of The Society I Largely Inhabit!

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too lenient. 2035!

i hope silksong gets delayed again

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"average magical girl has many grief seeds" factoid actualy just statistical error. average magical girl has 1 grief seed. Sakura Kyouko, who lives in Kazamino and has a hoard of 10,000, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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Some Queer discourses of the past couple years.

1. "Former TERF" Trans mascs create new theory of transmasculinity that just so happens to be foundationally oppositional to trans feminist theory. They resurrect an old slur and claim a secret cabal of mean transfems is poisoning the queer community.

2. "Trans Women reaching out to someone they perceive could be a closeted trans fem is bad actually. Why can't he just be a feminine cis guy?"

3. People wanting to redefine Trans Woman as a fundamentally separate gender from Women, and start calling Trans women who point out the transmisogynistic implications of this as "upholding gender roles" and/or "intersexist" (no they don't care how actual intersex Trans fems feel about it).

4. "This is my emotional support transmisogynistic caricature, and trans fems not letting me uncritically enjoy it is tearing this community apart."

5. "Hmm, trans women have created a term describing an isolation from the greater queer community. Clearly, this term is itself responsible for the separation, as there's no way anything has ever happened that has made trans fems isolated from the queer community. I need to harass any trans fem who uses this term."

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I’ll always hold that ascribing maleness to trans women is cruel, gaslighting, and misgendering in a blatant way. it doesn’t matter how progressive you make it sound, it will always be transmisogyny, which in itself is misogyny. Our experience with womanhood is not just identity, it is also our real lives.

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@snugglesquiggle

Lurantis

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before and after yep shes lo mein