#this whole thing smacks of gender

[theabigailthorn]

Bigshot Industry Guy: Sorry, I’m running late, can we push back our meeting until later?

Me: No, I have another appointment immediately after

Bigshot: Sorry, I’m with another client :(

Me: So tell him to fuck off?

[thelightofthingshopedfor]

Well—I’m actually in the waiting room now for my bilateral salpingectomy. Feels weird.

My brain’s been going overdrive the last few days trying to make sure I’m not going to regret it, but I’m like 99% sure that’s just a mix of completely reasonable nerves about surgery and my normal issues with indecisiveness and Wait No My Options because like…I’m a lot more concerned about the abstract idea of “what if I regret making this decision I can’t reverse” than I am about the actual concrete “what if I want to grow another person inside me later” that’s actually relevant to the specific situation at hand

Because. I still don’t want to do that. Realistically I can’t think of a situation in which I’d want to do that. I especially find it hard to believe that anything would genuinely override my years-long desire to not do that. Plus it’s…kind of a gender-affirming thing, in that I don’t really like having a pregnancy-capable body for reasons that are somewhat gender-related. and nerves might be…a little bit more at the forefront right now Because Surgery, but that doesn’t change the fact that I’ve wanted to do this for literal years.

[serizawasgamecube]

IT IS FINISHED. welcome to my nb transfem serizawa agenda. serirei, 13k words, rated e ( mind the tags!), not beta read bc its 3am and ive been working on this since like may and frankly i would just like to post it. please enjoy, to the best of your ability

[toolusingmammalgirl]

Thinking about the mirror image of Softboy Misogyny, where people get so into mocking its aesthetics that they’re indistinguishable from people mad about Beta Cuck Soyboys

[monsterpotion]

HER NAME IS MARIO MARIO

[the-seas-incarnadine]

do you ever think about how almost all of the sprite fused characters in homestuck are explicitly of mixed gender - dave and a female bird and nepeta, jade and bec, rose and jasper...

(with two very minor exceptions: erisolsprite, two boys who are miserable and hate their combined existence, and fefetasprite, two girls who are the most universally and emphatically beloved character in the story...)

and one major exception, Lord English, the all-male villain who rejected and killed his "girl half" and who is practically an avatar of toxic masculinity.

[mino2aur]

why is chip so addicted to elderly crossdressing

[clonerightsagenda]

I am going to get this out of my system and accept the premise the adaptation is handing me (I say, gritting my teeth) but I will not be 100% appeased unless the show adds a non-book-canon dramatic swoon for one of the boys too. It can be any of them I'm not picky. It's equality.

[bluebluebluewoods]

of snakes and cicadas and similar creatures

[escapeaddict]

I just want to look like men in a dress and women in a suit

[ervona]

I'm shockingly popular with sorcerous women...

[thelightofthingshopedfor]

(I promise I am not deliberately ignoring anyone here, I apparently just only have the brain capacity for Twitter most of the time now, which is...not good, I know)

it took a long damn time, partly because insurance stuff and partly because ADHD and also hating the phone, and as usual with major things I kinda don’t want to talk about it as if that’ll jinx it somehow, but I now have an official date for a bilateral salpingectomy (what they actually do now instead of tubal ligation) and I’m…excited? like that's definitely the thing I'm feeling. I'm sure I'll be at least a little nervous as I get closer but right now I'm just kinda excited. partly it’s just relief to be getting this done because it’s, you know, one thing I can control in an increasingly uncertain, fucked-up world--I have no idea just how bad the future might get in however many ways (fascism! climate collapse! an even worse pandemic! who knows!) and realistically there's not a whole lot I can actually fix or prevent in advance, but I can take one thing off the table and that's something.

but also. I think it’s partly a Gender or Gender-adjacent thing because I just don’t LIKE having a pregnancy-capable body, you know? like even beyond all the practical reasons I very much want to avoid that, it just feels wrong that I came equipped with a built-in organic 3D printer I didn’t ask for, so I’m pulling the fucking plug on it.

also it’s exciting because actual surgery means I can take several days off without feeling guilty about it at all, which is...a different problem entirely, yes.

[noisytenant]

i played the demo for coffin of andy and leyley. i actually like the worldbuilding and think the story is well-scoped/the nature of the characters being quarantined makes it so that the sometimes annoying RPG trope of "only interactables get flavor text" feels more emblematic of the constriction of their circumstances. i generally like those kinds of light-puzzle-fetch-quest games too, as long as the environment isnt a pain to traverse, which it isnt.

i know im really not the target audience for the central relationship; incest themes do absolutely nothing for me and the character designs are legally classifiable as a type of grain. but i am interested in learning more about how their toxic dynamic formed, and in better grasping their interiority (or willful ignorance of it).

i think in general the core elements were interesting but the writing style is just very alien from the kind of thing i'm into. it seems aware of its own obviousness, but hasn't yet pushed on cartoonishness nor swerved into realism enough to satisfy my sensibilities. i dont know of or relate to people who talk like the characters do, though i know they exist, LOL.

i liked the overworld style. the artist would benefit from learning how to draw anything other than conventionally attractive 20somethings.

i think based on the demo it's really kind of a toss-up if it ends up being anything interesting or if it's just a novelty; i think most likely it's going to be enjoyable with some surprisingly good moments, but mostly just capital C Competent. all the same, i'm curious to play past the demo + see other endings, so that's something.

[toolusingmammalgirl]

I don't have any particular yearning to have been AFAB, because it would be God's exact sense of humor to make me trans all over again, but I do think I'd still nail that shit regardless

[corallapis]

this retelling of an unearthly child from the cabinet of light strikes me as very fall of the pythias & intuitive revelation..... 👁️

[synthaphone]

god. i still have muscle memory where i automatically start typing ‘mon’ into the address bar, because i did that for almost a decade to read Monster Pulse updates 3 times a week. that comic has been over for at least a year now