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TRIED DRAWING SIFFRIN FOR THE FIRST TIME!!! FINDING MY STYLE FOR FUTURE ISAT FANART BLAH BLAH!!! NEED TO PRACTISE DRAWING SIF. SIF IS INEVITABLE
#isat#in stars and time#siffrin#artsy lynne things#BRUH this is a binary/pixel-y artwork but it just smoothes out when viewed from afar... Sad#i really wanted to include one where sif is crying... sorry sif...#70% of the time i was like “hmm this sif looks wrong” and the fix was to make their hat bigger unironically#i still dont think ive made the hats big enough tbh#it's so hard to fuse my artstyle with insertdisc5's artstyle... but i know i'm not the only one...#i'm glad ISAT is monochrome. i really struggle with color comprehension so this just means i can pump out more ISAT fanart theoretically...#...without it sticking out too much#or the opposite#without my hypothetical future fanart getting drowned out by mere color competition#i finally started ISAT after playing SASASA;AP 3 years ago... and promptly bingeplayed it within like a week#Not surprising. Just like it's not surprising that I can't stop thinking about ISAT... and Sif...#i wanna do an ISAT animation... ...big words for someone who has little animation experience and like. 0 proper programs for it either#WE BALL!!!!!!!!!!#congratulations ISAT for being the first fanart i draw and finish and post in. months? a year?#ISAT gives you 3 traumas and heals 5#PS: i have no idea why but i one-layer'd this whole thing? which seems unspectacular but#it was really bothersome when doing the shading bits or details#but at that point i was too committed to WE BALL so i just kept it this way throughout
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My wildest theory for now is that Mel will make a pact with a demon in the Noxus show.
The eye on this sword tells me that it's either possessed by a Darkin or a demon, and either can bind with a host.

Why do think this? Well in Blood Sweat and Tears it's apparent Mel is connected with the Kindred, but the Kindred is strange here. I don't mean something like, "Oh the Lamb is black and gold and red all over". I mean the Lamb's arm seems to be permanently red here.


The only person with an arm like that , completely and fully red, is Swain, who was included in the Wolf's afterlife. Swain's arm is only like that because the demon Raum replaced it using his power.
There's also many similarities to the Lamb and Mel which I discussed in another post. If we treat the Lamb as a stand in for Mel, the reason Ambessa rejects a relatively peaceful death, for a life of ruthless ambition to protect her children (as referenced in Ambessa's bio), the connection becomes clearer and the implications become further reaching.
#arcane#league of legends#welcome to noxus#mel medarda#swain#jeeicho seain#kindred lol#ambessa medarda#some might say that Noxus' Kindred doesn't look like the mv version in the skin line but Riot publically stated#that they didn't try to include the mv design because they didn't think it would translate well into the game#so the mv version is still canon#anyway could mel really make a pact with a demon... idk#but it's something to think about#the Lamb's red arm is consistent with both design versions as well#so what's up with that? i feel like there wasn't a lot of speculation for something that was begging for it#also yes i know Swain's demon arm is on the opposite side of the lamb's#and yes i kniw Mel is considered the wolf but the kindred just the duality of death#they were the same person at the start and kind of still all#binaries are dumb#noxus#arcane meta
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potentially hot take but there is literally no such thing as an “opposite gender/sex” and literally no one has a gender that is the ~opposite~ of theirs.
#sky speaks#trans#transgender#nonbinary#genderqueer#seriously. men and women are not opposites and the idea that they are sets the trans and feminist movement back#im both a man and a woman and also everything in between#the mere concept of opposite genders enforces the binary!!!#inclusionist#pathetic I even need to tag that. it should be common sense even for exclus#but alas!!#lgbt#queer
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The "robot/alien learns how to love" trope is just aphobia btw.
#i could write a whole essay#i mean i did talk about this in my pinned essay but it's not the main thesis#but fundamentally if this was any other orientation. if this was a gay non human who learnt how to love the opposite binary gender-#you would all understand intuitively#but aromanticism and asexuality aren't viewed as real orientations so people don't care#like if someone uses the labels you go “oh alright i'm a queer/an ally i gotta respect that” but this is fake acceptance#bc if someone shows a lack of interest without using those labels the default response is “there's something wrong with you”#“you're lying” “you just haven't met the right person who will fix you” “you're repressed”#and this attitude makes it into fiction where they make fantasies of fixing the poor non human aroace so they can be a real person#aro#ace#aromantic#asexual#aroace#aphobia#foenixed.txt
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anyways i love you people that are both gay and straight, in whatever way that presents. being nonbinary often can mean a complicated relationship to sexuality and how one perceives it within the societal restrictions of homo and heterosexual, and i think bridging those definitions and having "contradictory" labels like lesboy or whatever is really cool. i support and stan he/him lesbians or butch lesbians or she/her gay men or femme gays or she/he pronoun users and whatever else, be it cis or trans or both. if you feel like youre both cis and trans that also rocks. dont let people force you back into a binary within the queer community, stay strong!
#queer#nonbinary#genderqueer#cis / trans as opposites is a false dichotomy and only harms nonbinary people.#same with straight/gay. these things can and will overlap if one for example feels like both a man and a woman#and of course beyond self identification alone#the way society treats you will also influence that#anyways op is a binary trans man. im very much a hundert precent a man and dont want people blurring the lines there. but that doesnt apply#for everyone! what makes me hapyp will be misery for someone else. so the reverse applies too.#peace and love on planet earth#fuck up with that gender everyone#gender nonconforming#bigender#im not vaguing the person i responded to btw im just gonna state my support again while its on my mind#multigender
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definitely not a girl, too pumped up on transitioning to a hairy man like creature to be considered enby, too soft to be a binary man, too purple to be human. this mortal coil is only a vessel for my sick pleasures in life
#I only need a headscarf and a homemade skirt to be misgendered#I'm also not attracted to either binary gender tbh so you cannot even say I'm just a freaky gay man or a butch lesbian#if I was a fictional character fans would be shipping me with my sworn enemy who's the polar opposite of me
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Sametri for the soul
Demetri: ‘You disgust me on every fundamental level.’
Sam: ‘Bagels and loxs are one of the most beloved ways to eat a bagel! Stop being so dramatic!’
Demetri: ‘I’ll concede when you stop brutalizing the best way to eat breakfast.’
Sam: ‘Spare me. You’re so basic. Bacon, egg, and cheese? Really re-inventing the wheel over there!’
Eli: ‘Remind me to never get breakfast with you two ever again.’
#don’t question it#this is peak character interaction#Sam and Demetri and def foodies but on opposite ends of the spectrum#so they argue constantly#poor Eli#man just wants to eat#cobra kai#demetri alexopoulos#demetri cobra kai#eli hawk moskowitz#eli moskowitz#hawk cobra kai#eli cobra kai#binary boyfriends#elimetri#hawkmetri#hawkmeat#samantha cobra kai#samantha larusso#sam larusso#sam cobra kai#sam and demetri#demetri and sam#sametri#cobra Kai drabble#cobra kai headcanons
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they need to put me into cryogenic sleep and wake me up when society reaches an era beyond post-gender. they need to wake me up when being non-binary is no longer understood by defining the binary first; they need to put me into a world where male and female are as extinct as dinosaurs, where people try to construct an image of them with bits and pieces of history but can't reach a sure conclusion because of how unfitting they are to the modern world. like damn i'm tired
#anyway. puts on a pretty dress bc i'm a slave to my nature and whatever approval succession at conformation gives me#nonbinary#like. at this point in time this approach to being non binary is necessary yes#the whole point is placing our existence in opposition to the binary#but like damn i'm waiting for the victory
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This is not related to anything sexual but I did find it interesting while we were talking about Mythal and Elgar'nan as parents figures to the elvhen. I find it interesting that when Solas could have had a chance between picking a more female body (mirroring Mythal) or a more male one (mirror Elgar'nan) that he chose to go with Elgar'nan given how close Solas was to Mythal. It is more to do with how Solas felt in a body (and how he eventually came to regret it) but I do find the choice an interesting one
unprompted but always accepting | existential edition
honest to god i've been thinking about this too. i think he probably chose to go male because he saw it as a complement to Mythal. I don't think it was in a 'im usurping Elgar'nan' kind of way, because as much as he grows to hate Elgar'nan he never wanted to be 'the Father' of the People or Mythal's lover/husband/toxic counterpart lol. I also don't think he hated Elgar'nan enough and was proud enough to be so petty as to be like 'well I'm taking a better male body so fuck him.' At most, he thought Elgar'nan lacked wisdom, but that was supposed to be Solas' job anyway. He didn't begrudge him that (at that point). The hatred festered the longer they were in bodies. If he'd taken a body after he became Pride, that would be a very different story lol.
Solas was always Mythal's "companion spirit", and he loved it. Together, they formed an effective and loving whole. They both brought different gifts and expertise to the table that worked so well together. In his mind, at least, they were two sides of the same coin. So to him, since Mythal took an unequivocally female body, he would take an unequivocally male body as a good counterpoint to her. That way, he can bring a different perspective that fits into how he viewed their relationship. In sum, to him they form a more complete picture if he's a complement rather than a 'copy', if that makes sense.
adding to this what @loredrinker articulated so beautifully: Without it having to be gender or binary, there is the spiritual aspects of masculine and feminine. They are companion spirits and would reflect opposites in order to be complementary as a whole. Ying and yang.
#mercysought#i hope this makes sense bc it does in my mind#not that gender is in any way binary but in solas' mind he wanted to do the exact opposite of her so they were a matching set#ive been thinking about this so much skells thank you#i need to write about the evolution of his hatred for elgar'nan bc it was absolutely NOT always like that#he was never elgarnan's number 1 fan but the hatred developed over time#headcanons (some have wisdom for those willing to listen.)#PRIMORDIAL |
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I've always disliked the spirit origin theory and I finally know why
To put it briefly: it's the cornerstone of the Thedosian brand of gnostic pessimism ingrained in the worldbuilding around both Fade spirits and elves, that subtly condemns their existence among the living no matter how hard the writing tries to compensate in the other direction (and to be fair, it hardly ever does).
I have already mentioned in several analyses that the worldbuilding in Dragon Age is trying to impose some objective moral order through the system of virtues embodied by Fade spirits and the speculated position of the Maker, illustrated through the visual allegory of The Gaze. Every place where the Gaze does not fall is identified as the Void - the realm of the Blight, demonic whisperings, evil in mortals' souls, oblivion and erasure.
This moral compass ingrained in Thedosian worldbuilding is outlined in the Canticle of Threnodies. I have always posited that we can read the Canticle's "Maker" as a purely formal locus meant to hook up some form of prisca theologia that would be partially true regardless of whom we put in the Maker's seat.
For example: the Canticle claims that when "The Maker" created the physical world from a portion of the Fade itself, then Their firstborn, Fade spirits, turned away from their perfect resonance with the Maker. They envied what they were not, and for this poisoning of the heavenly "song" with discordant (so, evil) intentions, the Maker castigated them, declared them the first demons, and made humans Their "chosen" race -- presumably, this time building them of both Earth and Spirit so that they would not envy partaking in either.
After multiple hints left in DAI Trespasser, that sparked speculation about the spirit origin theory as the dominating fan theory years ago, DATV confirmed that the "firstborn elvhen" were Fade spirits that manifested physically. They used lyrium, the blood of the Earth's Titans, to build themselves physical bodies. The Stone retaliated, and the first elvhen waged a war with it, eventually devising a way to sunder the spirit essence/ dreams from all Titans. It is heavily implied that this choice to carry out their existence on Earth as war and conquest has twisted whatever the "virtuous" spiritual nature was left in the Evanuris, and that after the end of that war, Elgar'nan simply could not stop.
Why would they do it though? While some concept art from the artbook shows spirits observing primordial dwarves dwarfing, in the end, the Regret mural that shows Mythal inviting Solas into the world explicitly tells us he had no desire to live "as HUMANS" (and the story fails to bridge that lore drop with the known lore about humans allegedly arriving to Thedas from across the seas, and only being able to thrive after the Veil).
So, despite disproving the story about the Chantry's Maker creating the Veil, the writing confirms the Chant's initial overtly anthropocentric orientation. Humans were always special and spirits were always meant to backup and store their ethically charged concepts. But the important accomplishment here is that spirits/ elvhen are doomed with an inherent moral error that snowballs into inevitable strife, destruction and error!
But wait, there's more! Because now that we have the anthropocentrism as our implied position towards the Thedosian races, the history of the elvhen race looks even more like some bizzare form of "karmic" reckoning that completely misses the point of a reckoning, to replace it with unwarranted generational punishment. First, as a result of the Great Betrayal, the elvhen are sundered from their connection to the spirit essence, and thus subjected to the Quickening, which I guess is supposed to be a way of the world giving the elvhen a taste of their own medicine and saying "Be careful what you wish for". Then, once they are finally effectively like humans in every metaphysical respect (unbeknownst to everyone except the remaining ancient elvhen), the moral corruption of the Evanuris gets passed on as the Tevinters learn to glorify blood sacrifice at the behest of their Old Gods (who are really Evanuris speaking through their Archdemons, at any capacity they still have left). This gets used to further humiliate the remainders of ancient Arlathan. What happened to the elvhen now gives Solas reason to hate the mortal physical existence of elves twofold.
The fact that elves keep being punished by the narrative is a direct result of BioWare implementing the spirit origin theory the way they did, because it was devised as a scenario of original sin that necessitates conflict and moral downfall, and ends up snowballing into dooming elves through and through.
But more than that, as I have mentioned in another post, on the metaphysical level, "pure" spirits should be occupied solely with their respective defining abstracts. Spirits should know no desire. Desire is the "unquenchable flame" that defines humans. As far as DAO, we would read that the more benevolent spirits prefer to sit back in the Fade and not interfere with the mortals, and the ones with the greatest drive to join the living are predatory demons.
And the reason for all of this is "the Maker" being bored of perfection in the Golden City, and wanting some change. That the world requires change and opposition to let its best aspects shine is not an controversial idea. However, in the Dragon Age worldbuilding, this necessity for change is not introduced under a milder Hermetic assumption that, even after being cast down into a darker realm of the incarnate, one can successfully control their mundane passions and heal their soul from corrupting influences whilst existing physically... Not on the grand scale, at least.
Once spirits decided to enter the physical world, they started acting like they were trapped and forced to fight for their lives (despite them being the trespassers). The vast majority of them got spiritually corrupted (if they didn't represent vices like Tyranny from the get-go), they dragged their hesitant kin down with them through manipulation. The elvhen race fell into tyranny as their "First" were actually the worst, yet people looked up to them for survival. One particularly inventive specimen devised two catastrophic tools -- one, to deflect onto the Titans whatever should have happened to the first elvhen in order to sunder what has been wrongly joined; the other, to sunder the tyrannical Evanuris from the rest of the elvhen and spirits and stop their corrupting influence. Yet, because the world changes, the collateral of one such tool introduced a wholly new type of rampant evil, and the collateral of the other made the whole elvhen race spiral down... even further into their entrapment in physicality!
The way they built up the spirit origin theory, it draws a full circle: first, the Southern Chantry and the Dalish demonize Fade spirits - one for dogmatic reasons, because it sees the marriage of spirit and flesh as something that is evil even in humans, the other because they can't be denied that healthy cackle of metaphysical irony even if they try their hardest. Then, with DAI Solas and Cole, we're acquainted with a more sympathetic understanding of Fade spirits as being that are fundamentally different but operate on a logic that doesn't automatically lead to a shitshow of a moral downfall. But then, we learn that a group of spirits doomed the entire world to millennia of strife because they felt curiosity for the Other and because the choice to cross the great threshold almost automatically made them forget the virtues they supposedly embodied and spiral down into the "lower" survival instincts.
Personally, I believe that spirits & elvhen could be built on a fundamental existential difference in a way that would have made their excursions into each other's realm temporary. I believe that the spirit origin theory, even if upheld, could have been taken in a direction that didn't imply instant rampant and thoughtless colonialism on the elvhen part. I believe that such choices would have enforced worldbuilding that didn't need to condemn the spirits/ elvhen with that weird version the original sin that receives completely unsympathetic treatment as the time goes by.
#dragon age meta#da meta#metaphysics of thedas#datv#dragon age the veilguard#da the veilguard#veilguard critical#dragon age critical#bioware critical#spirit origin theory#I think the second reason is the spirit theory itself being based on binary oppositions#as soon as we heard about the Wisdom/Pride duality I sensed that it would sideline more pluralistic interpretations of Solas#because spirits largely aren't given flexibility in their transition from concept to concept#so if he's an extension of that then the can be easily portrayed as inflexible and thus... not as humanized?#but that's another story#featured#text
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it's weird how many trans people seem to genuinely forget that transition is a thing that happens, is possible, and more common than anyone knows. like it's crazy how much people forget this is a thing & attempt to define transness by the state of not transitioning
#like that one post i saw yesterday which is like 'transmeds say u can't be trans if u don't bind' etc.. all predicated on a state of never#transitioning. never passing. never actually living as and being perceived as the 'opposite' binary gender to ur birth assignment
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The next person who uses "opposite sex" is getting stabbed like Caesar
(/nsrs bec I'm not literally going to stab someone but SHEESH why are people like this)
STOP. PROMOTING. A SEX. BINARY. IT. DOESN'T. EXIST!
#intersex#intersexism#abolish the sex binary#(yes im perisex but maybe if people for some reason listen to a perisex person then MAYBE THEY'LL FINALLY LISTEN TO THE INTERSEX COMMUNITY!)#fucking hell#“opposite sex” hitting you#“afab/amab” smacking you#“assigned female sex/male sex” punching you#“two sexes” killing you
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the weird thing about botw sheikah is that I really do think they have some knowledge of magic, they're just subtler about it use. magic is sacred, magic is holy, magic should only be used in these specific ways so it remains unseen. magic should only be used for little things that couldn't harm. magic is steeped in tradition. magic is closed off, and only for the people who can use it appropriately
and while the yiga clan are the opposite of that-- they are much flashier and more open about their magic usage-- they still ultimately use the same framework, while openly loathing and rebelling against it. magic is something ripped from the mouths of gods (but in this world, magic is still sacred.) magic should be used openly (because they wanted to keep it hidden.) magic is used to distort (because they rejected its true power.) magic must be expanded on from its tradition (because they tried to stop us.) magic is less closed off, but only those who can handle its power should use it, and that means us, because we have that power.
#something something in order to deny a binary its power you have to reject it entirely not try to enforce its opposite#but the world does not allow you to escape that binary#they make my brain blast#idk how does it feel being a shadow of a shadow to be a reaction#glider rambles#i lvoe them both so much#this is all just headcanon and totally made up ones with very little basis i just like the idea of the yiga clan being a dark opposite#while still an independent culture it still heavily relies on being The Opposite of something
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something that I've realized recently is that you can, in fact, assume the specifics of nonbinary peoples' genders, and that it is, in fact, really weird to do so
#ramblings with major#'i know you're boy adjacent right' You Know I Go By They/Them And That's It. Hello.#or comparing two people's genders like 'you guys are kind of on opposites of the enby scale' like first of all. what.#and secondly You Don't Know Us. Also You Are Wrong.#but yeah I'd never really thought too much about Assuming enby folks' genders As nonbinary people#rather than good old fashioned assuming a binary one and misgendering#ive always known yknow. i dont Need to get specifics especially if i dont know the person. i just need to know how to refer to them#so ive never really Thought about assuming the specifics about random people. there is simply too much going on usually to bother#but yeah. weird to experience
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The left-hand path and Lucifer symbolism speak to the ultimate rebellion against authority. About embracing the beauty in darkness, death, the taboo. This completes the wholeness of being. The worldview in Satanism, specifically, is not a binary one. It is not dark versus light. It is the recognition that all things contain both. The above reflects the below, the dark exists because of and balances the light, and between the two are infinite shades and hues.
#occult art#pagan art#traditional art#witchblr#left hand path#inktober day 3#inktober2023#fuck binary oppositional thinking and hail lucifer
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I'm not at all an expert on gender studies but if you're interested in it at all I HIGHLY recommend you look into oppositional sexism as an issue because I feel like I can see into the fourth dimension of queer discourse now
#spitblaze says things#we SAY that gender is a spectrum and not a binary! and it IS a spectrum!#but too many people still view it as a binary on a social level#like yes your *gender* can be literally anything but what about your *experiences* and *privileges*? those get shoved into 'men' and 'women'#and a lot of people are under the impression that these experiences are Entirely Separate and Cannot Be Compared#which just isnt true!#i feel like we're sort of seeing a weird assertion rn that masculinity in and of itself grants privilege#as in. butch women have some sort of nebulous privilege over femme women#which is uh. not true but DOES come back to oppositional sexism. masculinity makes your experiences inherently different somehow#but it DOESNT
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