jaydude1992

[jaydude1992]

i love you trans women. please stop apologizing for existing.

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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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if you can't reblog, comment!

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credits: i found this on Pinterest ❤️

edit: hey guys, i was just reading through the comments and some people think this is a 'reblog or else' chain, please do not feel that way, i have no intention of meaning it that way, if you dont want to reblog or comment, but still would be ok, i dont mind, it was just something that i was on pintrest and thought looked cool. i have no intention of hurting anyone either

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I generally like to highlight positive things with my comics, so unless anything new happens with Harry Potter/JK Rowling down the road I’m anticipating this being the last time I want to have a comic on the subject.

There was another idea that folks were putting out there in comment threads last week that I thought was a little silly, so I’d like to quickly address it in non-comic form: folks saying that anything we consume has some kind of morally dubious strings attached.

To that point, I absolutely agree!  Everything we consume, especially in more affluent nations, has some amount of exploitation involved. 

Where I break away from this concept, however, is that folks were listing things like gasoline, electronics, food, clothing, etc.

What, exactly, is the caloric value of Harry Potter? 

When parents come back from work and put food on the table, are they serving up a hot tray of Weasley sibling plushies? 

How did they earn the money to provide that plentiful bounty if not by using fossil fuels and telecommunication devices in a society that compels their use?

Equating a book series to necessities like food/clothing/etc is an intellectually dishonest argument. 

Saying “don’t consume Harry Potter” is literally offering self-proposed allies a simple, insanely easy layup.

The fact that doing something that requires zero effort, nor is asking any life sacrifice to be made, is still too much of an ask for some people tells you what you probably already know:

Those folks were never allies to begin with.

One more thing that I want to touch on regarding responses from last week.  I’ve been making comics for fifteen years; for the most part, I wouldn’t respond to negative comments, but one thing I would never respond to was cruel comments. 

There was a comment that, for me anyway, fit the bill of “cruel”.  The person in question accused me of not being transgender, and that I’m a bad actor MAGA trying to stir up strife.  I couldn’t see the whole of the comment as it was deleted before I woke up the next day, but in my notifications on mobile I was able to see the commenter’s name and the first bit of what they wrote. 

For the first time in my life, I responded to a cruel comment.  Here’s what I wrote:

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Hey!

Wanted to reach out to you regarding a comment you made to me that appears to have been deleted.  I first saw it on mobile and was only able to see part of the comment, but of what I did see, it read:

               “Hi!  Just wanted you to know that I am an ally to trans people, but not you, because you don’t deserve allies.  I honestly don’t even think you are actually a real trans person.  You’re more than likely a right-wing MAGA who just wants to pick fights and cause trouble for the LGBTQ…”

               -your comment

I’m sure to a degree you knew that this was wrong to say, as it appears as though you’ve deleted the comment. 

What I’m not sure about is why you came to the conclusion that you did, and I’d like to understand. 

My comic is available online and I don’t hide anything about myself, at least not anymore since I came out.  As a quick rundown of my journey to this point, I was questioning my gender starting around twelve/thirteen, knew I was trans at twenty, didn’t speak a word of it until I was twenty-nine when I came out to a few people, then didn’t do anything about it again until I was thirty-five and decided that I wanted to transition.  I then publicly came out at thirty-six (I’m currently thirty-seven).

It took a long time to get to a point where I could overcome the shame I had for how I felt, and an even longer time to finally start talking about this part of myself that I was compelled to hide.

It’s an awful thing for someone to waltz into a situation multiple decades in the making and then declare that a journey they had no part in or knowledge of to be untrue.

Even the smallest amount of double checking would have revealed that I’m being genuine, it’s a shame you decided to say such a hurtful thing with no due diligence.

I’ve strolled through your comment history to better understand where you’re coming from.  I appreciate that you are someone with strong convictions and that you’re open to communicating them.  However, a lot of what you’re saying doesn’t appear to be productive. 

For one, having strong convictions mean nothing when you’re voting third party.  I understand that you voted blue in 2024, but it looks like Libertarian is your party most of the time.  There is no such thing as neutral on a moving train.  You either push the train forward, or try to stop it.  Neutrality only helps the people pushing the train forward.

While my comic certainly is accusatory of a specific behavior, I’m not looking to pick a fight.  Your comments, however, are calling people losers, telling people to “stay mad”, telling people they’re worthless, and gloating about all the sex you’re having.

That’s what trying to pick a fight looks like, why are you doing it?

I’m not going to pretend to understand the story of your life, or tell you that your experiences aren’t true.  But what I can say is that I have an understanding of what it’s like to be angry at things in life and not always have the most elegant words to communicate those feelings.

Whatever it was in life sparked so much anger in you that you decided to invalidate my identity so casually and callously, I’m sorry that happened and I hope things improve for you.

Best,

Alex

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I guess that’s all I’ve got to say today. 

Last week was weird.

[jaydude1992]

Iroh is the uncle we all needed and deserved

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Look, I love Azula. Y'all know this. I probably have more thoughts, opinions, headcanons, and plot bunnies/fic ideas about her than any other character in the series.

But I have been seeing a lot of posts lately trying to reframe the entire series around her. And I need y'all to understand that Azula is not the main character. She is a side character who exists for the purposes of serving the story.

Whatever problems you have with how the narrative frames her (and I have plenty of my own), this was never going to be a story centered around Azula.

That's what fanfic is for.

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PSA: AO3 HAS BEEN INFECTED WITH AI BOT COMMENTS.

Have you seen one of these dipshits? If you post regularly on ao3, chances are YES, but more likely you didn't notice nor suspect it was a bot. Sometimes they start off nice, or even praise you before getting nasty out of nowhere, like so:

But much like Grok, their newest obsession is nazism.

I don't know where they come from, or what purpose this could possibly serve other than suicidebaiting random people in the internet, I guess; but apparently they've started parroting names from real users to send these comments and shifting their general length to go by undetected. Maybe those are scrappers trying to train 'reviewbots' to be sold as part of some scam service promising to give feedback for newbie writers, who the fuck knows.

Here are more examples of the tone and backhanded compliments you can find in these:

If you regularly post on AO3 or interact with writers in it, please pass this along so they don't feel insane receiving bombs in their inbox. This is ridiculous.

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PSA

EVERYONE BE CAREFUL. ARCHIVE OF OUR OWN PHISHING SITE (first link)

(the link is purple bc i clicked on it to get the link w/o special characters to report to various phising page report places).

the page leads to what appears to be the normal archive page, w/ the popup about the privacy policy & everything, with the url https://xn--iao3-lw4b.ws/media DO NOT LOG IN. THEY ARE HERE TO STEAL YOUR LOGIN CREDENTIALS. LOOK AT URLS BEFORE ENTERING ANY PERSONAL INFO.

STAY SAFE ON THE INTERNET GUYS!!

please reblog to spread this warning!!

[jaydude1992]

We are still learning about what happened yesterday. However, each passing day one thing gets clearer and clearer : anti-trans grifters have blood on their hands.

[jaydude1992]

We are still learning about what happened yesterday. However, each passing day one thing gets clearer and clearer : anti-trans grifters have blood on their hands.

[jaydude1992]

Zutara shippers: Stop demoralizing women who ship Zutara because they self-inserted onto Katara and had crushes on Zuko! There’s nothing wrong with wish fulfilment when it comes to shipping!

Also Zutara shippers: Women who grew up seeing themselves in Katara and crushed on Aang instead of Zuko are literally attracted to incels. They’re pick-me’s and anti-feminists. Women who grew up seeing themselves in Mai instead of Katara and crushed on Zuko are toxic, emotionally constipated mean girls. They are also pick-me’s and anti-feminists.

[jaydude1992]

i always really liked the clone wars episode "The Box" (part of the Rako Hardeen arc) for reasons that I couldn't full articulate at the time. I've come to realize that it was because, despite being in disguise as a hardened bounty hunter (and being quite good at maintaining said disguise), Obi-Wan could not help but be kind.

yeah, i know. we all know the quote from the Kenobi show by now. "The Jedi cannot help who they are. Their compassion leaves a trail. The Jedi Code is like an itch. He cannot help it" right? well, that hadn't happened yet when little kid me first watched The Box. So I didn't have the words for how it entranced me.

Now, I can say that it's because it was fascinating, seeing so clearly without being told, jsut seeing, what the Jedi are. Obi-Wan was in a dangerous situation filled with people who would've seen him dead in a heartbeat if t got them a single credit, the fate of the republic laid on his shoulders and the soundness of his disguise, and yet he went out of his way to save their lives, endangering himself and the republic with his actions. because he just could not help it.

this doesn't make him weak. if you remember that arc at all, weak is the very last thing you could call Obi-Wan.

i just think it's such a good silent portrayal of who the Jedi are and what they stand for.

here is a man being forced to fight in a galaxy-wide war, who has been though every cruelty imaginable, who is cut off from all his loved ones who think he's dead, who is disguised as a cruel bounty hunter and in a fucking BOX with people who would gladly help him trip off a cliff, and yet he risks his neck for them, because he would rather risk the stability of the republic than do away with his own morals.

when Qui-Gon said that Obi-Wan had trouble looking at the smaller picture, that he, like the Council, were too concerned with the galaxy at large whilst losing sight of the individuals that occupied it, he was wrong.

Obi-Wan cares. He just doesn't show it as openly.

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"What the fuck did [Aang] do to justify this level of vitriol?"

Got together with Katara? Kissed her at an inopportune time (which I'm not really inclined to begrudge him for, btw)? That's all I can think of.

“Aang is to blame for his people’s death!!”

Uhhh no?? the fire nation is..?

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so here's what I've now done to make the internet usable as a person living in the UK without handing my ID and/or facial scans over to random third parties:

signed up for a ProtonVPN account

set up a tunnel from my router to a ProtonVPN server in Sweden

written a python script to query DNS servers for social media domains every 15 minutes and collate the results into a list of IP address ranges

created routing and firewall policies to block connections to those IP ranges on my normal connection and send them through the VPN tunnel instead

set up a second, personal VPN so I can make my mobile devices connect to the internet through my home network even when I'm not at home

now it's time to open source this whole thing so others can enjoy using the internet the same way they did three weeks ago

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“Aang is to blame for his people’s death!!”

This is such an insane take to have. It's not like Aang chose to be born at a time when there was a genocidal Fire Lord with manifest destiny on the brain around.

(Gonna tag in @dukeofdelirium)

“Aang is to blame for his people’s death!!”

Uhhh no?? the fire nation is..?