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the folly of @hellsitegenetics askers

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one of my favorite things about hellsitegenetics has to be when a gimmick-gimmick blog (think gimmick-thief, gimmickchanger, etc) tries to steal the BLAST bit and just goes "nevermind i have no fucking idea how this even works"

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so, this is something i've noticed in fandom spaces and want to see how people ~generally~ feel regarding genderbends & genderswaps, especially if they are transgender themselves!

if there's a reason for why you like/dislike genderbends please share in the tags, this is something that genuinely interests me

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you're not the only one, my friend once got a bug that changed every sinner to seven yi sang so he actually could not select anyone else

excuse me the wHAT CREPPYPASTA?????????????

I can't really remember if I talked about this before (on tumblr) so here I go again, get ready for the long story lol.

in the early days of limbus... (I feel old and it was like a year ago lmfao) the game was full of bugs and the servers were shit.

I started playing and immediately fell for Heathcliff, insane crazy love and obsession for Heathcliff, so naturally I wanted him on the window in the main page! easy, right?

No. the next time I opened the game Yi Sang Blade Lineage was there, not even base Yi Sang, it was always blade lineage. And it happened every single time, I changed to Heathcliff, Yi Sang came back. I started calling him "the yandere" as a joke.

It was obviously a game bug, so I kept trying and trying to keep my beloved Heathcliff in the main screen... UNTIL

The next time I opened the game Yi Sang changed blade lineage for seven, giving me a certain message:

And that's when I got scared and closed the game. It sounds stupid but it was 100% like those game creepypastas from the early 2000s lol.

I opened the game again and it was back to normal (aka blade lineage), I tried to change him to Heathcliff again and the game didn't let me. Not only the game didn't let me change to anyone but also Yi Sang stopped talking.

The game got fixed some updates later but oh boy, it was such an event for me lol

I started liking Yi Sang after canto 4 and I ended up falling for him, leaving Heathcliff behind, so now blade lineage lives in my main screen. Happy ending for him I guess?

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part 9 (part 8)

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part 8 (part 7)

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hook office hong lu wearing his mask all the time except for when he successfully evades an attack, at which point he pulls down the mask just to do this gay little smirk

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YESSS THATS WHAT I MEAN!!!!

exploring a character's in-universe relationship to gender, and ESPECIALLY their in-universe relationship to queerness is a really great exercise imo!!

hi!! im the op of the genderswap poll and your tags made me so happy bc i thought i was the only person who liked mtf to ftm genderswaps!! i think they're so cool and have a lot of room for character exploration!!

YEEES I'm so happy that YOU'RE happy!!!

It feels so reductive to boil it down to strictly "big action man" to "big booby lady with no muscle". while that certainly happens a lot, it's excluding a lot of different cool ways to explore gender and sex!!! like, I'll use my character Jack as just an example

Jack is someone who, as the oldest male sibling outta their family, grew up with a LOT of toxic masculinity drilled into their brain. they felt like they had to be the big strong protector, never show anything other than anger and happiness, and that if they relaxed even slightly, everybody around them would get hurt. but when they're older and have a partner, they suddenly feel way more stable and socially transition to nb! they can wear lipstick, earrings, etc.- stuff they would've been terrified to touch beforehand. and it's freeing! but just because they have more freedom doesn't mean that that toxic masculinity they were soaked in leaves completely; he's still very scared of becoming an abuser and losing himself.

and then I LOVE Jill, who is the genderswapped version of him, because the societal pressures change and that changes how they grow as a character! Jill is butch- instead of feeling like they have to prove themself to be a "real man", they feel like they have to prove that they're as STRONG as a cis man. this also intertwines with their bisexuality; because Jill is visibly gnc off the bat, they accept it way sooner because they're already getting heat for being gnc. and that's just scratching the surface :]

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part 6 (part 5)

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part 7 (part 6)

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girl what the fuck

gguys help me convince my gf to watch hfjone with me /j

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part 5 (part 4)

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canto vi has given SO much more depth to rabbit heathcliff now. killing heathcliffs not just for training but out of self loathing. screaming "YOU DESERVE THIS" as he smashes a clone's skull to splinters.