The Lunar Cycle

i love being a girl

reblog if you love being a girl !!

The United States government is literally disappearing people to a gulag with no due process and yet it's the stock market crash that has finally pissed conservatives off.

the other 25% shouldn't be in mega-prison either, btw

"trans women are pressured to undergo surgery to get anything close to the same amount of respect as their cisgender counterparts (already not much)" and "trans women deserve to feel comfortable in their bodies and this often includes surgery" are two things that coexist. they are both true things. you do not need to demonize surgery while making a point

That one trans girl that draft dodged the IOF because she was radicalized by marxist theory is a million times braver than every single Israeli

people going "omg is she stupid?" every time a cis woman in sports does some dumb self-insulting shit in response to a trans opponent has never been anything other than obnoxious. no xyz does not legit think shes less capable shes making the very profitable decision to become a right wing grifter. the decision she has made is towards this possible goal being offered up to her by the number of media outlets focusing efforts on hoping to stop us existing in public.

Video games have this fascinating middle ground between "not as good as you remember" and "exactly as good as you remember" that lives roughly in the vicinity of "its ideas are as good as you remember, but their actual game-mechanical implementation sucks ass".

(The corollary, of course, is that all the inevitable "spiritual successors" and "inspired bys" and what have you that crop up twenty years later have a reason to exist beyond pure nostalgia bait, namely "hey, what if that thing you love, except the gameplay didn't suck" – and occasionally they even succeed!)

Funniest fandoms are where the fans are like, "I'm obsessed with this. I don't recommend it even slightly."

I would love to see a fantasy novel where the lore that the reader / protagonist learns at first is not true

e.g. they're told that this kind of creature has some kind of psychic or pheromone-based "mate bond" that cannot be broken; but it turns out that's a popular myth that has never been scientifically substantiated, and is basically used to keep people in bad relationships (basically the equivalent of "human women are biologically submissive")

shadow the hedgehog is cool. gunblades are cool. vampires are cool. scythes are cool. white hair is cool. we need to stop lying about what is not cool