Deermeiner

"if Jax is a trans woman she's still an abuser so she's bad representation so the show is transphobic" you're an idiot. you want your blorbos to be perfect ideal angels, I want my blorbos to be realistic, nuanced, flawed human beings, we are not the same. I LIKE that she's messy and fucked up and problematic, I think it's a realistic depiction of how a lot of repressed and traumatized trans women are. I think the show goes to great lengths to explore how and why she is the way she is, and to evoke sympathy for this kind of person. it doesn't excuse her actions but it does make them understandable. and I think the fact women like that deserve sympathy is an idea worth stating and worth shouting. yes she's a bully and she hurt everyone around her and that may never change. she still deserves sympathy.

so... whats the deal with the one and only photo of karpov and fischer together?? karpov had mentioned in his memoir that it was sold to france-presse, but i've been digging through old french newspapers archives for a couple of days and still found nothing :'(

while i wasn't able to find the photo itself, i accidentally stumbled upon a whole ass yandex disk archive with all the issues of the "64" chess magazine from 1925 to 2024 (excluding the period from 1929 to 1967 for some reason) and a bunch of other chess-related things i will post a bit later (what concerns the archive, i'll leave the link to it here because there is wayyy too much to be posted, but idk whether it is possible to use yandex disk outside of russia and belarus)