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[eli-zab3th]

I'm a verbal processor who doesn't like using their voice

[aparticularbandit]

Hey, I understand you wanting to have a trans Kathryn character, but Eve’s entire story is about her becoming comfortable in her own womanhood. Let’s not take away from or change that.

Her character is extremely important for cis women, as we very rarely get to see middle aged women characters getting to discover who they are within their own womanhood later in life, and becoming comfortable with what it can mean to be a cis woman when free from being under the thumb of patriarchal heteronormative gender roles.

Nonnie, I disagree on her story being about becoming comfortable in her womanhood. Eve's story is about exploring and becoming comfortable with her sexuality. That she is a middle class older aged white woman does play into that and the way she explores her sexuality (it would have less impact if she were a man exploring these things later in life, and a lot of who Eve is very much is tied into her being a woman).

However.

Eve's exploration of her sexuality can lead to an exploration of gender, especially given her friendship with Margo and learning about her experiences as a trans woman. (This is even more dealt with in the book; the show drops one of the subplots dealing with Margo, and while I don't think it really suffers for it, I do regret that it wasn't there because it affected more than just Margo.)

I can maybe get elements of moving out from under patriarchal heteronormative roles in terms of changing her name back, but outside of that (and maybe trying to dom once), I don't really see it.

If I wrote Eve as trans - which isn't likely because I don't particularly read her that way (somewhere in the genderfluid or nonbinary umbrella, maybe, which, yes, I understand is technically under the trans umbrella, but given I would identify as somewhere under that umbrella but not under the trans one (neither cis nor trans but a secret third thing), I wouldn't call Eve that either) - it would be as an outgrowth of those explorations at an older age. I think it's likely, even after exploring, that she would settle as either a woman or femme-presenting, and those explorations wouldn't take away from her womanhood or from the narrative of the original story.

...actually, oh, I should get the book and go through it again because there is definitely a point where Eve was discussing gender with Barry (in her class with Margo) where he refuses to even remotely consider ever potentially wanting to be a woman (he's 100% male! which is not a direct quote, obviously I do not have the book handy, but it's a similar idea to what the book presents), as opposed to Eve, who has. implied to have thought about what it might be like to be a man.

I really should check out the book again so I can snapshot it for you. Not as a aha! I'm right! but because there's so much in the book that didn't get translated to the show.

Anyway.

I apologize if my theoretical brainstorming is offensive to you and your interpretation. I don't really see Eve as trans; I'm just enjoying looking at what it might be like for her to explore in that direction. (Eve in my head is very much blegh about the idea of herself as masculine anything, to be honest.)

But also, this is how fandom functions. People will interpret characters how they want, regardless of whether you like it or not. Sometimes in ways that you think are entirely 100% incorrect with your reading of the text (I have run into this. It sucks). But telling people how to write or not write a character - how to interpret or not interpret a character - so that it aligns with what you want....

It's very rarely, if ever, going to go anywhere.

If you don't like an interpretation, don't interact with it. Don't read it. Don't follow the writer/content creator/etc. That's the best option here.

[mayhemchicken-artblog]

in the hour or so it took me to draw this op turned reblogs off

EDIT: reblogs are STAYING OFF. op was right and correct and i have never regretted making a post as much as this one. if you want to reblog my art you can reblog something else from my blog. or commission me, lord knows i deserve financial compensation for the nightmare this post has put me through

[retquits]

1.6 is coming—see you march 19th!!! 🥹🌱

[mynnthia]

was talking with a friend about how some of dunmeshi fаndom misunderstands kabru's initial feelings towards laios.

to sum up kabru's situation via a self-contained modernized metaphor:

kabru is like a guy who lost his entire family in a highly traumatic car accident. years later he joins a discord server and takes note of laios, another server member who seems interesting, so they start chatting. then laios reveals his special interest and favorite movie of all time is David Cronenberg's Crash (1996), and invites kabru to go watch a demolition derby with him

[dragonomatopoeia]

i'm always a bit unsettled by disdain for intellectual or creative labor in leftist spaces. there's this commonly held belief that academics are a bunch of rich old white men, rather than a wide variety of people who are barely getting by. most lecturers in universities are adjuncts living paycheck to paycheck. authors make very little money as a general rule. most researchers are overworked and underpaid. and yet there's still this idea that academics are overcompensated to sit around and smoke cigars together while making shit up

[mamawasatesttube]

BTW... PSA.... even if we arent mutuals if youre in my notes regularly theres a Very high chance i am still fond of you. yes im vaguing someones tags on the compliment the person u rbed this from post. but like. positive vaguing? THE POINT IS im weird abt following ppl but IM STILL SENDING U FOND VIBES...

[allo-frouto]

Would you like for my tongue to start singing for your sweet honey, and for me to drink the wine of desire and drink from the rosy reservoir of your secrets?

If you had gone for Nectar of the Gods, it would be more appealing.

[rubydubydoo122]

I saw someone say a while ago that Jason attacking Tim at Titans Tower was just Tim hallucinating bc he was feeling guilty about being Robin even though Jason's not dead. Which is great, amazing, I think the whole Titans Tower thing is Bonkers, but I think it would be so much funnier if Jason tried to Gaslight Tim into believing the Titans Tower incident never happened, not because he's like evil, he's just super embarassed about it. like Or Tim did actually hallucinate Jason at TT but thinks it was real, so when he tells Jason about it, Jason's so fucking confused, and Tim thinks Jason's Gaslighting him

Tim: Remember that time when you broke into Titans Tower and beat me half to death while wearing a Robin costume from party city

Jason: What? Tim, I know i'm crazy, but I'm not...Insane.

Tim, pulling down his collar: I literally have the scar to prove it

Jason: Bruce told me that was from Clayface pretending to be me, which, might I just say rude. Tim... are you ok? Did you hallucinate me attacking you? like, I know I've done that before, but...

Tim, frowning: I don't think I hallucinating. I was benched for a while after because I had to recover-

Jason: well, you were benched around the time I was dropping hints that I knew who Bruce was outside of Batman, he probably just benched you to keep you safe. You probably were working too many cases with too little sleep and your imagination started to run wild.

Tim: Are you gaslighting me?

Jason: Are you gaslighting me?

[akanemnon]

Shouldn't there be a minotaur in the labyrinth? Who put this goat here? This is not accurate to the mythology! /j

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[frogfacey]

swinging a bat at a hornets nest and all that but I can't believe some ppl will see a character who, when you look them for more than two seconds, was in the text assigned male at birth and because of this spends the entire narrative being miserable as a man and feels failed by and is accused of failing at the expectations of masculinity and is trapped in a set of unspoken societal rules that he feels he has no hope of escaping and their first thought is "I think he's transmasc!"

[verflares]

ah! the sillies :)

[remxedmoon]

y’know what? fuck you. *UNGRAYSCALES YOUR ISATS*

no wait come back there’s greyscale versions under the cut :(

[necrytalkie1]

hu ming paintings

shooting practice (2004)

enemy coming and... (2005)

enemy invassion alarm (2006)

big ant (2006)

today, I took a rest (2007)

[tapeworrmart]

Crush my ribs

[haunted-xander]

I made this AAAAGES ago and forgot to post it and now I'm annoyed by how it's rotting away on my phone so here. Bratty teen Thancred being a menace to Fourchenault (and a bad influence on Urianger lol)