Bico's Place

-someone with a "typical" Afab body?

-someone with a "typical" Amab body?

I’m not sure if there is a better way to phrase this but I hope this is fine 😭

Except that's not how it works, is it. People only "care" as long as you're useful to them. As long as you're more positive than negative. People care about me as long as I'm funny and insightful and inspiring, but the second I'm more trouble than I'm worth, I get booted. That's just how it works. I can't even find it in me to be resentful about it anymore... It's just my fault for not being more useful.

The thing is, humans are often primed by their early experiences to expect certain universals out of others. You can see that here with Jax. Because of how she grew up, being abandoned by her father and resented by her mother for being a reminder of him, she accepted being screamed at when she revealed her “personal secret” and then was terrified when that switched to a loving gesture. That couldn’t be real, it had to be a set up. And maybe it was, that could have been how this mother operated and doled out emotional abuse.

That’s why she could never accept Ribbit’s acceptance. That’s why she had to push her away. That’s why in this scene she shows her distrust of Ragatha… mostly because Ragatha offered comfort when she didn’t feel she deserved it. That was what she saw as manipulation, when we know from our perspective that Ragatha—while also operating this way out of her own trauma—was sincere in her care for Jax.

queer-inclusive but still misogynist

don't have to be from the US, do have to act like you are

ostensibly welcoming to everybody, mysteriously white as hell

terrified of the idea that sex could be enjoyable for anyone

absolutely incapable of structural critique, everything is individual moral choices

enforcement through public humiliation and isolation accountability :)

fear of infiltration by a corrupting outside influence - asserting a right to privacy or failing to publicly demonstrate moral in-group status is treated as a confession

Golp: a roundel purpure.

Roundels are circles in heraldry. They are named according to their color, which also has its own lingo. Let’s meet them!

Bezant: roundel or (gold) 🟡

Plate: roundel argent (silver) ⚪️

Torteau: roundel gules (red) 🔴

Pomme: roundel vert (green) 🟢

Hurt: roundel azure (blue) 🔵

Golp: roundel purpure (purple) 🟣

Pellet: roundel sable (black) ⚫️

So some fanartist drew a “sexy” (read: booby) version of a (cartoon) character who is traditionally very non-sexualised. Fans of the character got mad about it because it’s kind of groundbreaking how that character is written and portrayed and this art totally ignores the entire point of the character. They demanded the art be deleted. In response to that other people said, well what the fanartist did may be distateful but they have every right to draw what they’re into. The two sides fight for days and each starts a harassment campaign and even report their “opponents’” accounts.

So far so typical. But things eventually come to a head and they decide that this will be settled by votes - not through a poll. Through donations to a children’s education charity via each side’s portal. Whoever can get the highest amount of donation wins.

The way I've seen it, there's two readings of the finale, and it's on whether or not the abstractions can be fixed.

First reading is the optimistic one: Pomni was getting through to Jax, she only got kicked out because of the flashbang. Now that they're not just sticking the abstractions in a cellar, now that they have Jax in a comfortable and enclosed space to calm down and figure things out, it's not impossible she will pull through once she realizes she is deserving of love. And also when she drinks enough respecting women juice to realize that she is a woman and thus she has to respect herself