#but im thinkin. very hard

[fernsnailz]

hey what if i made a sonic fan comic. would you guys be interested in that

[wizardnuke]

important aspect of shadowgast To Me is that caleb thinks it's cute when essek's being a bitch and visa versa

[northern-passage]

Genuine thought as a fellow trans dude, I’ve seen a lot of (obviously non-serious) questions on other blogs about characters’ genitals such as “how does it look like?” and similar, and I think we all know & understand that such questions are extremely inappropriate to ask and (I hope) no one would actually go around asking these questions irl. Idk, I think we should treat trans characters just like cis ones, without any special “precautions”, so to normalise them and not make cis people treat them like fragile boxes, a thing which happens to a lot of us irl. Hope this doesn’t come off as an attack or anything lol.

no worries, i didn't take this as an attack at all. i actually agree with you, that's why i mentioned feeling conflicted about it and also mentioned that i've changed my stance on how i felt about handling Noel and Clementine in game and in explicit intimate scenes.

however, for me the problem comes from the fact that people... don't ask these kinds of questions about cis characters? i suppose people do get cheeky "who is the biggest 🤪" asks but i would hardly compare the two. to be a bit crude, no one is going to be asking if a cis character has a dick or not, or "what does it look like". of course it's natural for people to be curious, and i honestly encourage the open discussion and am happy to see trans bodies being talked about more in a positive way, but not everyone is going to be comfortable with it due to the inescapable transphobia online and in the community. sending me that kind of ask is like sending out an invitation for a debate or a discussion that i don't necessarily want to have. i also just don't think people should default to asking a random IF author on tumblr dot com to describe what bottom growth looks like.

and with most of these asks typically coming from someone who is anonymous, i have no way of truly knowing what the tone is, what their intentions are or why this is being asked - is it another trans person? or maybe someone who is just genuinely curious? or, more likely in my experience, is it someone who is going to immediately follow up this message with something transphobic after i answer? do i want to roll the dice and find out?

so while i agree with what you're saying, it's important to consider the context and the reality we live in. the IF community is not kind to trans people or trans characters. and as a trans person, my first priority is protecting myself and my mental health. so what i mean when i say "precautions," is that those precautions are for me, because i've had to deal with transphobic harassment here for years now, and i try to mitigate it as much as i can. it's also for my personal comfort - again, to be blunt, i'm simply just not comfortable discussing a trans character's genitals with anonymous strangers on the internet. it makes me feel vulnerable.

also i do want to say i didn't mean for any of that to come across as a dig at other authors - if you're comfortable answering those kinds of questions, that's really only something you can decide for yourself. like i said, this is just coming from my own experiences in IF and for my own personal comfort - i have previously talked a lot about trans stuff and gender and sexuality here, when i'm feeling up to it, but it is something that is very draining for me and can also be very upsetting.

basically: i do agree that it's important not to other trans characters or treat them any differently than cis characters, but i also think there are ways to do it that don't require me answering invasive questions or questions that i don't feel comfortable with as a real life trans person, you know what i mean?

[spotsupstuff]

staring at "slave of caper of euros' houses" from the comic dialogue. have i missed some Fun Worldbuilding (fun as in "oh god this sucks for everyone involved" i mean)

hmm... only maybe some subtle bg one! i haven't really talked about it specifically- but basically the lower circles are... if they are within facilities of some Iterator they essentially belong to the Houses. it's supposed to be the same relationship like between a citizen and the politicians of country, but the thing is that the lower circles have no say in what happens in the higher circles including voting and other important decision making

they are an afterthought in that kind of stuff. they are talked about like a piece of machinery- something the Houses control and own. a matter of course. "of course the lower circles are going to be there and meet our demands of resources! they have no other choice! this is where they belong." all the while they have to bear the rain and depending on the Iterator colony's Houses, they might get very little funding for equipment, towns upkeep n so on. they can't really Get out of it, because these facilities are where the civilization is and the world out there is a dangerous one. "what if my mask breaks and i will die out there repeatedly? i don't want to be a prey. i want to live. i want to have a purpose. that's *here.*"

it's like... a very subtle slavery, maybe. a kind of "dancing on the edge of laws and moral obligations" case. not Every place is that bad, including Ales, but at some point in her original life Sparrows breaks out of her self-inflicted vision of "what i went through as a child was okay" because she just won't be able to hold on to that lie anymore (faced with the comfort and safety as Euros' citizen every day) and she gets very angry about it and starts defining the lower circle life as slavery

[miscreantahead]

I can't stop thinking about how often I'll go "oh look a fandom I would like to make this my online identity" and then not care about that thing at all outside of the time that I am actively consuming it (doesn't mean I don't enjoy it ofc) and then other times I'm like "oh look a fun silly little thing to kill time" and THAT becomes my online identity like I literally do not think it's EVER been the other way around.

[themagical1sa]

"i like you and i blame you for making me feel this way" he said

i still think about it

[aria0fgold]

OCs in the brain again, actually it's just Alec and Ray in the brain again. Just thinking bout their friendship and suddenly I wanna chew on the sun.

[strwbrymlkshake]

Why can't I be satisfied with everything? It needs to be perfect to me and I can't accept anything otherwise :(

[todayisafridaynight]

I genuinely can never thank you enough for the past year. I can't express how much it's meant to me to be understood and have my energy reciprocated with someone on the same wavelength. Although I've been in the fandom for quite a bit longer than most people writing in, and longer than you, even, I can't remember the last time I felt this welcome and motivated. A TRULY embarrassing amount of my work's just been fueled by "oh Snap's gonna wanna see that," and of course that circle's expanded since then, but it probably wouldn't have had I not met stream chat through you, aaaaaand if I'm honest you're still up there... lol...

It's always, always a highlight of my day to see your your work, your posts, and your responses, whether they're to me or to others, and it's always a highlight of my week to be able to make it to streams! You're a huge inspiration for me, particularly in terms of your work ethic across the board. I always come out of streams energized and feeling like I can actually finish things, and usually this is hubris, but it's gotta count for something.

Not to be dramatic, but you kinda changed my life, no exaggeration. I still really can't see myself the way I was two or three years ago not just calling it quits after some of my Gaiden experiences... lol... but I'm still around, and like always, I wanna be able to write in and interact as much as I used to sometime soon. Thanks for everything! I hope RGGS continues to deliver so we can stay in touch :3

i cant thank YOOOOU enough for the past Xsome months or so. feelins ABSOLUTELY mutual in that i wasnt sure anyone else would really be into talkin bout rgg as you and i have (or would be willing to read my. miles-long scrolls of bullshit LMAO) so it's been real fun gettin to know you an everyone and chattin !!

most bafflin thin to ever to think i have good work ethic, i feel like ive been behind everyone for the past couple weeks and even with the things i do make it's really not up to snuff. it's always nice to hear that's not supposedly exactly the case :) I Suppose :^)

rgg community (like any community lbr) can be. An Experience, esp for someone with a position like yours. so im glad i can make it worth to hang around somewhat LOL

regardless, i always look forward to you next ask or the next time you leave tags on a post i make. if i ever bother making a post again ☠️☠️

[arnold-layne]

merry christmas to all of u who celebrate and a calm, peaceful night to those who don't <3

[victim9d]

shaking cassie violently

[snoopyisbisexual]

NGL my only friend at college is a rly bad friend and also has some unbearable flaws that I can't even address w her. but she is funny sometimes + I have nobody else

[katagawajr]

extremely unwell abt timkat again. goodnight… 🫶

[gurorori]

bein a lifestyle lolita is such an ultimate goal 4 me but no1 rly talks how mostly unattainable n expensive it is

[carbonateddelusion]

how do I even make a self-insert for that. wouldn't that just be me but like. in Japan. and also maybe a psychic

[chompmon]

I think what i really love about proseka is like. The people that are Not Doing Great are doin so in a more. Grounded way? Like usually depressed characters in stories have really horrible things that happened to them like domestic abuse kidnapping or some form of "my entire family got murdered", the whole assortment of tragic backstory one can have u know.

They re not Unrealistic (they can and do happen to people irl unfortunately), but i feel like many stories use em as a shortcut to makin a pityable character (so not always written the most.. respectfully). It s also comforting to have someone like mafuyu be depressed cuz even tho she doesnt have "heavy" trauma her feelings are still valid and she still needs and deserves help and love from people around her. What she s going through is also bad, she doesnt need to be "worse" or have been beaten or somethin to "deserve" being helped or "deserve" feeling like she does. Am i makin sense lol