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according to transformers fans in my discord server

Wrong he's goaded by the actual space pope who thinks he's space Jesus into forcibly bringing freedom to earth. He's called space messiah sarcastically multiple times in text. And mind you this is in a continuity where every prime before him was an imperialist bastard, Megatron is an allegory for communism, and Cybertronian history is full of religiously motivated oppression based on alt-mode.

dc comic headquarters trying to run now that they don’t have rco and can’t remember what happened in their own comics

I've gotten into the idw transformers comics, comics that literally can't be purchased digitally anymore! Loosing RCO has hurt.

Valid fear!! But my first thought was "Are they trying to make him like Jack the Ripper?" Not that anyone knows what Jack the Ripper actually looks like, but didn't he live in England in the time of top hats? And hook = ripping? Maybe?

That didn't occur to me at all. Honestly it feels like it would be kind of redundant when we already have Sky-Byte. I just checked, and what Lockdown has is a bit short for an 1880s top hat, but I'm not expecting decade accurate Victorian fashion as a visual signifier in my transformers show. I just got a laugh at you calling the 19th century "the time of top hats".

need to bring back the distinction between minimalist/genderless androgyny/gender neutrality vs maximalist/genderful androgyny, because i am very tired of people talking about androgyny being encouraged or valued when it is very clear they mean the kind of androgyny that relies on the minimization of gendered traits (allowing one to be associated with pre-pubsecence, female virginity, angels, the kind of androgyny that has been, to varying degrees throughout time and place, ideologically permitted in the christian world) and is also profoundly white and thin. when androgyny is undeniably adult and is defined by not a lack of gendered traits and a quiet excusal from gender, but rather actively possessing "opposing" gendered traits, it tends to be treated differently.

It became apparent that my brand of gender-nonconformity was somehow more attractive to men than Alok and Jacob’s, and as the night wore on, I found myself sincerely befuddled. The looks I gave in my pictures were just as funky as theirs, with my partly-shaved head and my geometric bodysuit plus oversize platform heels, or a close-up of me sans makeup that showed off my strong brow and flat chin in all their androgynous glory. I wondered aloud why Alok and Jacob weren’t getting matches, if there was some algorithmic mystery at play—whether guys were racist against Indians, in Alok’s case, or if they found Jacob’s bright makeup too intimidating. “Meredith,” Alok finally blurted out, interrupting me in a tone replete with tolerance. “You look cis.” With those words, Alok exposed the key difference between me and them. Though I’ve come into my own gender-nonbinary identity, to many, my body reads as cisgender because I’m short and don’t have body hair. I’ve also taken hormones and had reassignment surgery, because I went through a period when I thought I was a binary trans woman, before figuring out I wasn’t comfortable with that identity either. What I didn’t quite grasp until Alok pointed it out was that now, regardless of how GNC I tried to present, cis people still predominantly read me as a cis woman. If I told a stranger I was trans, it’s likely they might think I’m an early-transitioning trans guy more than anything else. So on Tinder, I can still get dates, since there are plenty of guys who like the androgynous female look. On the other hand, Alok and Jacob’s features haven’t been softened by hormones, and they have visible body hair that marks them as more obviously trans, so they have a much harder time. Nonbinary femmes like them are too masc for the straights, too femme for the gays, and too out for nearly everyone else.

The wizards said the orangutan would be able to lead them back to the dungeon in a couple days.

YOUR FRIEND HAS MANY IDEAS ABOUT THE ARCHITECTURE OF BACON, Death said.

Friend: dude could I have some of your fries

Reading James Roberts be like:

I determined which TMUK story this came from. It is surprisingly, not written by James Roberts, but instead a Matt Dallas and Andy Dornan called "Trial and Error".

In the archetypes [of how people react to a GNC person] sketched above, the misguided altruist, the oblivious genderer, and the hostile enforcer, we can see a conflict in recognition of gender non-conforming persons’ humanity as underwriting the reactions, whether they contain reactive attitudes or not. All of the orientations, even the altruist, rest on a kind of judgment or perception that the gender non-conforming person is a kind of failure at being a human being, because human beings are intelligible only as men or women. The failure to conform to the ways of enacting humanity is what is so befuddling or enraging. Gender non-conforming persons, I think, are met with such attitudes because they are perceived as occupying a space of contradiction: human and not intelligibly human. Their bodies and self-presentation do not fit within the schema of intelligible humanity. Normative notions of humanity carry with them the gender binary. One is never simply a human. They are a kind of human, a man, a woman, a member of a racial group, and so on. [...] But, unlike those drawing on misogynist ideology to punish women for “stepping out of line”—for aspiring beyond their place, as it were—the hostile enforcer of gender conformity relies on the ideology of gender binarism to insist that the gender non-conforming person is entitled to no space, no place, no existential entitlement. There is no place for the gender non-conforming person to retreat and exist as such. Retreat—conformity to the gender binary—entails annihilation, non-existence. Misogyny’s logic doesn’t entail the annihilation of women, as a category, even if many forms of its practice target some women for annihilation. Women are permitted to exist, so long as they stay in their place. None of this is to suggest that women’s existential choice set—adopt compliant femininity or face penalties—serves their interests or represents a superior position to the gender non-conformity person’s choice set—adopt a gender or fail to have a social existence. Both choice sets are manifestly unjust

I work with kids and sometimes we have to do safety lessons with them about like, not telling strangers on the internet your home address or something. And sometimes the kids wont understand why, so you have to impart upon them that, well, some adults want to hurt children. And thats kind of difficult to do, because you have to beat around the bush, both because you dont want to scare them (while still making them understand how serious it is) and because you might lose your job if you explain it too straight forward.