i just. really wish people would realize it's possible to reblog a post about platonic relationships and expressing an appreciation for them or defending their legitimacy and capacity for depth and complexity and intimacy etc without feeling the need to talk in the tags about how much they love romance also or how much they also think 'a secret third thing' is great. like. you don't need to do that. in fact, please DON'T do that.
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Considering that there’s another post going around that lands on this conclusion, I think it deserves its own succinct post:
When transmascs share instances of positivity to remind each other that the way we are treated isn’t all bad, it’s then used as proof of the whole of transmasc experiences being this way, and that transmascs are not oppressed as a whole.
When transmascs share instances of harm done to transmascs to raise awareness that transmascs are harmed directly within our societies, it’s used as proof that we are taking up too much room in conversations because the harm we face “isn’t bad enough”.
When transmascs share instances of outright murder of members of our community to show that no, transmasc issues are not somehow “lesser” because “we aren’t dying” because we are dying, it’s used as proof that we are trauma dumping and trying to make other people feel sorry for us—look at these AFABs being whiny and hysterical and trying to portray themselves as victims. Or that it isn’t specific enough to us so we should shut up and let other people speak for us.
Transmascs cannot speak about our experiences without being touted as an example of why transmascs as a whole should shut up.
This is erasure.
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How do you not get flooded with pictures of the sky and all of its colours
Everyone should send you pictures of the sky
oooh I agree tbh and thank you!! those are such lovely pictures of the sky!!! it truly is beautiful
in fact, here’s one of my pictures of the sky because holy fucking shit this was a marvelous sunset
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Saw a weird amount of people saying negative things about Signalis today. While I agree that I can’t tell most of the replika types apart because of their similar appearances, I think it’s extremely unfair to call them out as bad robot designs, because they’re not supposed to be good robot designs. The replikas are androids, they’re supposed to look human and in fact they’re supposed to look almost exactly like the specific humans they’re each based on. That’s like one of the major plot points of the whole game, and its themes about the connection and dissonance between a replika and the person who they were based on wouldn’t work if the replikas were completely inhuman robots
It feels weird to use them as the opposing example for a “if you saw the robots I want to fuck you’d hurl” type joke because they’re like barely robots. Maybe there are people saying it and I just don’t know it, but I personally haven’t seen a single person call the replikas peak sexy robot girl designs or anything.
now the corrupted storch on the other hand
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