*shows up to ur fandom 5 years late with fanart*

I am going to spontaneously combust this is so cute

i honestly don't really understand why "some people prefer watching gameplay online rather than playing games themselves" is treated as such a taboo when being a spectator is considered a pretty mundane way to engage with most sports, game shows, reality tv or even just like. chess.

like the usual arguments are "not everyone can afford video games or have the software to pirate" or "you can be a fan of a game's story, but not it's gameplay" but also some people just have more fun watching other people be really good at starcraft or speedrun super mario 64, i don't think that's a particularly out of the box way to engage with the medium.

i know this argument is generally about story driven games rather than competitive multiplayer games, but alot of discourse is around how "gameplay is a fundamental part of video games as an artform" and i absolutely agree but i also don't think you need to hold a controller in order to appreciate a video game on a mechanical level in the same i don't think you need a driver's license in order to be a vehicle enthusiast, like it certainly helps but some people are just kind of autistic like that.

a weird trend in this discourse is people going "video games aren't like movies or tv shows you're supposed to play them not watch em" while also going "watch a playthrough of a video game is like reading a movie's wikipedia page" which like why are you claiming the mediums strength is interactivity while exclusively comparing them to non-interactive mediums instead of like. Sports. Or Books?

non-passing trans men still have privilege over trans women

i appreciate people jumping in on the post earlier saying they've been pretty much universally read as a man for years because young trans boys need to hear that. but also. it doesn't matter if you can't even transition you still have privileges over a woman from your same demographic that's just how that works.

everyone can misgender you daily and you can have "F" on every single legal document and yet who's the demographic most likely to be forced into sex work, murdered, and regularly sent to the more dangerous prison. trans men have privilege over trans women and there's no caveat.

average tumblr user reblogs this and says "lol I am a proud brick wall"

fun fact: no matter how much you support other trans people, if you don't respect trans women, you are a transphobe and a transmisogynist. no amount of "but look at all these TME trans people I support!" will ever change that

being trans yourself does not change this either. there is no substitute for respecting trans women and treating us right

get that through your skull or kindly remove yourself from trans spaces

hello instagram artist. your challenge is to do a portrait study of a woman but you’re not allowed to stylize them so their eyes are really big and more cat eyed than the reference photo. You’re also not allowed to make their noses more of a button nose or their lips full and pouty or their faces heart shaped with no double chin. Also you have to draw a fat woman. one thats actually fat and not just slightly curvier than the kpop demon hunters body type. good luck

tale as old as time: you can do whatever you want to women, but when we speak up about it, we're the ones ~tearing the family apart~

It's incredibly sad people have to resort to this, but it's a damn good resource. Use it. Spread awareness. Maybe one day people with physical disabilities won't need DIYs like this. But until then, reblog and share.

the online identity and gimmick-ifying of autism is so odd. I'm diagnosed with autism and yet I barely identify with any stuff I see about it anymore. It feels like autism is being rebranded as the Silly Guy Disorder that gives you smart and beautiful hyperspecific interests. it's not that I mind silly jokes or being lighthearted about being autistic- but when the entire social movement is based around marketing us this way, I just can't help but feel isolated from it. it feels like I'm not the right kind of autistic. I'm not marketable and digestible to common audiences, and therefore I am discarded by the movement in the name of progress and acceptance. it feels foul.

i forgot that it being pride month means performative-ass pride merch from h*zbin/h*lluva 🙃

oh of COURSE it’s 3 seconds after i post this that i see a (assumed) screenshot from some recent h*zbin episode of alastor looking genuinely hot. in a way i never though the show would do bc generally everything else is so Not My Type Of Shit. goddamn it fuck my stupid baka life

ok ive recovered enough from the initial emotional response to notice at least three things about the screenshot that are fucked up lol. his neck emerges from his torso from the center instead of from the back, so it looks like he has a massive hunchback… one arm is noticeably thicker than the other (though that’s true of his default character art too lmao, and it isn’t prominent enough to come across as intentional)…. either v*vz*epop herself or whoever refined alastor’s model sheet doesnt seem to know how shoulder pads work……

Trans men having male privilege doesn't mean trans men dont experience transphobia. It doesn't mean we don't experience oppression at all. it just means that we can leverage our position over trans women and get away with it. We can destroy their lives and face 0 repercussions. It means if it comes between a trans man's word and a trans woman's word, he is more likely to be believed. If you're a feminist this should anger you and you should work to make sure that you're aware of this and never do it. If this makes you defensive, you're probably already doing it. Fix your heart.

Trans men having male privilege doesn't mean trans men dont experience transphobia. It doesn't mean we don't experience oppression at all. it just means that we can leverage our position over trans women and get away with it. We can destroy their lives and face 0 repercussions. It means if it comes between a trans man's word and a trans woman's word, he is more likely to be believed. If you're a feminist this should anger you and you should work to make sure that you're aware of this and never do it. If this makes you defensive, you're probably already doing it. Fix your heart.