#nb!step

[celestialrealms]

Fun fact: In Barbatos's intimacy storyline in Nightbringer he ends up living with Solomon and MC at Cocytus Hall temporarily. Here's a highlight from his 40 intimacy call:

The way he makes Solomon sit in the corner. 😭 You cannot convince me he didn't raise this man.

[deadandphilgames]

life update o_0

[ninjasmudge]

[puts my hand on your shoulder] bro the 'is the lamb amab or afab' question is so stupid dude, canonically the answer is neither. in that world, anyone can have kids with anyone, these characters very clearly arent from a species with two sexes, there is no male or female in here, gender is entirely separate from biology in this world dude. this is not an either/or situation, all the followers are both bro, theyre hermaphroditic, can you hear me?

[mylove-thresher]

Men better step up their game

[thethiefandtheairbender]

media literacy (or a lack thereof) has become a buzzword, but what it generally means is "am i taking every part of this text, even the ones i don't personally like and/or am not totally sold on, and willing to engage with it in good faith?" if you have to ignore a plethora of canon scenes with clear, surface level indications of what the takeaway is supposed to be to bend over backwards to validate your take(s), you're probably not engaging in good media literacy. this is not to say that more critical reads of "this thing didn't work for me" or "we should think critically of who made this piece" is moot, those things are worth interrogating. but often at the expense of, and to the extent of, "this canon [insert thing here] was really poorly crafted (because it doesn't align with my particular singular worldview) and therefore no one on the project's alternative viewpoints are worthwhile at all" that so many people seem to take it as.

if you're going to go radically against the text, you have to first have a good understanding of what the text actually is (often times in good faith), and so many people completely and/or wilfully miss that step, tbh

[ourladyoftheflytrap]

I can't even cook hamburger helper correctly ffs

[nikatyler]

Cool older cousin Mars 🌠

[jennrypan]

The fact that G3 CAN make black character deisgns..

And then made Clawdeen the most white washed version of herself is fucking evil actually.

You're telling me..Venus looks GOOD and actually looks black coded but the ONE(1) black character we had.

Is light skin, mixed, her personality is softer and more watered down and her original style is washed out??

Fuck you. Tf.

Clawdeen should've gotten the same treatment, but noooo let's make her mixed despite. Already have two latina(? Corrent term??) characters (Lagoona and Skellita) so..why couldn't Clawdeen be kept BLACK? Why did she need to be mixed for her to be the main character?? It's fucking gross and weird.

[rokkzalm]

Book Spirit Crim

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[x-raykinks]

We're at a Leather bar. You decide to buy me a few drinks, just to loosen me up, but you don't know my plans.

You know I plan on hitting you, warming you up with my flogger first, then comes canes and paddles and DIY toys. You fall into subspace so easily, and I love making darker and darker marks on your skin, welding and bringing blood to the surface. People pass by and stare, and we create a small crowd outside by the St Andrew's cross.

I check in quickly before disconnecting you. You think we are finished, but I tell you I have one more thing. I guide you to the floor, laying flat on your back, and stand over your chest. Lifting up my skirt and moving my underwear to the side, I stand over you and let go of my filled bladder. I laugh, and enjoy how beautiful you look being degraded like this, covered in my piss.

[falloutelephant]

saw someone suggest that men are willing to: transition to become women, compete in women’s sports, win, and then detransition and live life as a man again. and like. are you??? brain dead???? who the fuck would *choose* to be oppressed like that for a fuckin con?? i literally don’t understand the logic there are way simpler cons to run without pushing yourself to be an athlete man just do a slip and fall if you’re that desperate and slimy. no one would go through that much fucking work to make some money. they would in fact LOSE money transitioning and detransitioning.

and this whole conversation is so like embarrassing to witness. ppl are really saying khelif must be a male because she’s so good at hitting a white woman and making her cry (and hitting ppl is her JOB and if her opponent cries bc she lost that’s on her (i would also cry but not like that)). god if the roles were switched around just a little bit this would NOT be an issue. could you imagine a white woman doing that to a black woman and then getting accused of being trans?? no! it wouldn’t have happened! white ppl are so scared of POC and it’s so embarassinggggggg

[gurorori]

i don't know, people can be trans in whatever way they wish and feel comfortable with, i just wish the people on the lower end of Actually Putting Work and Visible Effort Into It and Actually Experiencing Transphobia/Transmisogyny didn't feel like they automatically get a free pass to claim the same things we go through. if you do not share the experience of the vast majority of trans people, maybe you do not get to talk about it, or reclaim any part of it 😐

[goraturtle]

U know w how much more common it is these days for ppl to use they/them pronouns and proudly declare as nonbinary without worrying about trying to appear androgynous or gender nonconforming I rlly hoped that we'd be experiencing more of a breakdown of gender roles in general as ppl realize what an arbitrary and varied concept gender is, even within supposedly cisgender groups, and that we should treat everyone as an individual bc gender becomes sort of obsolete on the micro scale but instead it feels like ppl r trying to turn this shit into a trinary between male/female/nonbinary and that makes me *loud farting noise*

[tariah23]

Isn’t there like a new movie or show out featuring a white samurai or some bullshit

[therubyjailcell]

no bc i could see wei wuxian being transmasc, w the yiling laozu being afab, and mo xuanyu being amab, bc hear me out

wei wuxian, throughout his entire (first) life, pushes a lot of hypermasc concepts in his behavior and stuffs, and like, ye ye, ik, historical period and world situation, whatever, not what i'm talking abt, but like, you can take it as that point in some transmasc's life where you push into toxic masculinity as a way to combat your own dysphoria, or as a way to prove to society that you're a man a real one (shush, i'm transmasc, no i never have been gendered properly ever, but some of my friends did go through that, and i did to even tho it was much more in my brain and not outwardly, it can still be a thing you go through, whatever)

and then, when he is in his second life, aside from mxy being like. all make up faced when he takes over and a known gay man, wwx is like. much more chill abt his hypermasc tendencies? he plays into the damsel in distress tropes a lot more, and just lets himself be a chiller person overall, not trying to prove he's the strongest man ever

idk, i just think that it would still fit the overall arc, overall story, if you decide part of it is also stemming from a transmasc dude being brought back in a man body and proceeding to go "oh, i don't need to force my masculinity to be perceived as a man, cool, let me now play the defenseless maiden, as i always ought to be"

[aceteling]

nothing like explaining to my (well-meaning but ultimately uneducated in that field) mum the usefuleness of gender deconstruction and overall gender as a concept at 9 am in the morning