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i wish evette was real

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pj harvey down by the water is a carol dallon song but we all know that already

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in the world where worm is disproportionately popular and has the most stereotypical type of tumblr fandom one of the most popular alec ships is regent/kid win. there's an entire genre of fanfiction about alec being allowed to take the hoverboard, which incites some sort of wacky chain of events wherein alec and kid win meet each other repeatedly and establish a Yaoi Rapport. alec is casted as the flirtatious bisexual who initiates shitty YA banter, leading kid win (whose personality now contains 50% more ADHD per oz) to become haunted by regular memories of the Stupid Cute Smarmy Villain. i was going to write a sentence about how aisha would be treated in this dynamic but thinking about it made me too mad so my vision of this world ends now

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they put carol dallon fursona in undertale?

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“He had a lot of reasons to stay, Sylvester. But staying got very, very hard. All of the details and knowledge made for a big burden.”

“It got very hard to stay. He stayed longer than he might have otherwise. It was time to pass the baton.”

ohhh my little jamie :'(

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certainly not the only way to read furcate’s power but given how every single other trans woman in a wildbow book is written i don’t have much good faith to extend to him here

“trans girl who kills herself every day to reach a point where cis people will deign to treat her like a girl” really is something isn’t it

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“trans girl who kills herself every day to reach a point where cis people will deign to treat her like a girl” really is something isn’t it

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The worm trio as heathers woaa

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correct 👍 and she's presented as the nice reasonable one for being patient with bigotry while tristan is the bad guy for being upset his teammate hates gay and trans people

like twig all but explicitly states that jessie is only trans because her penis was removed as a child, so when characters ask her about her gender prior to her transition, im very convinced that the narrative intent is to foreshadow that she's "allowed" to be a girl because she would make a "convincing" one (because she doesn't have a penis). it's very similar to how wildbow portrays "gender agnosticism" in seek--parents who raise their child gender neutrally are portrayed as working to hide their infant's gender (which is used synonymously with genitals) rather than simply not gendering the genitals that are there. the underlying political view at play in wildbow novels is that gender is biologically real, and it is what's in your pants, and accepting trans people is about merely entertaining the most cis-passing transitions, rather than dismantling the idea that gender binary is real/innate

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and sveta can be trans because she doesn't have a penis or remember ever having one

like twig all but explicitly states that jessie is only trans because her penis was removed as a child, so when characters ask her about her gender prior to her transition, im very convinced that the narrative intent is to foreshadow that she's "allowed" to be a girl because she would make a "convincing" one (because she doesn't have a penis). it's very similar to how wildbow portrays "gender agnosticism" in seek--parents who raise their child gender neutrally are portrayed as working to hide their infant's gender (which is used synonymously with genitals) rather than simply not gendering the genitals that are there. the underlying political view at play in wildbow novels is that gender is biologically real, and it is what's in your pants, and accepting trans people is about merely entertaining the most cis-passing transitions, rather than dismantling the idea that gender binary is real/innate

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just found out in medieval france, having a lion on your coat of arms was so prevalent that there was literally a colloquial proverb to clown on knights for being basic and not having a real coat of arms. the hate game was so strong back then. imagine medieval hate anons

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mama mathers has a trump ability because her presence nullifies victoria's thinker 1 (doesn't want to fly over a battlefield with her on it)

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this is like asking if getting trapped in a locker could've saved taylor

sure testosterone but also b-ball could have saved him

literally the exact opposite of this is true. b-ball is what doomed him

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sure testosterone but also b-ball could have saved him

literally the exact opposite of this is true. b-ball is what doomed him

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like I can't stress enough that the need to vilify amy above all else is the poison that warps every other theme ward tries to have—about morality, about trauma, about agency, about justice—to the point of incoherence. it's not a sacrifice that gains the book anything. it's what keeps it from being a good book

there's a sentiment I see pretty often that's like—ward is a bad sequel, it's not congruent with amy's characterization in worm, but that was a necessary trade-off to tell a compelling story about trauma and abuse. and I just don't get it because if anything, reframing their dynamic to make amy more straightforwardly bad and victoria more straightforwardly good is a profoundly anti-victim approach to a recovery narrative; it takes for granted that if you did anything wrong before you were hurt, and the person who hurt you has any complexity beyond being a raving monster, you don't have the right to be traumatized by your experiences or to be forgiven for your own mistakes. and that's what the vast majority of real world abuse situations look like!

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there's a sentiment I see pretty often that's like—ward is a bad sequel, it's not congruent with amy's characterization in worm, but that was a necessary trade-off to tell a compelling story about trauma and abuse. and I just don't get it because if anything, reframing their dynamic to make amy more straightforwardly bad and victoria more straightforwardly good is a profoundly anti-victim approach to a recovery narrative; it takes for granted that if you did anything wrong before you were hurt, and the person who hurt you has any complexity beyond being a raving monster, you don't have the right to be traumatized by your experiences or to be forgiven for your own mistakes. and that's what the vast majority of real world abuse situations look like!