Disney is doing crazy things in the japanese mobile game sphere rn

at some point it became a very common talking point that science fiction and fantasy ought to Represent Trans People and that exploring Weird Gender Shit without also depicting characters who are legibly transgender in Normal Ways is passé. and honestlyyyy i don't care give me a hundred more male characters possessed by female ghosts or nonbinary robots or whatever. literally what is the point of the scifi fantasy genre if you cannot connect to the fantastical

if i wanted to read about people being transgender without a wizard being involved i would open my tumblr dash. Representation will kill the reader she needs a guy who accidentally downloaded the memories of a woman on the CyberLine and can't tell them apart from his own to live

reading a historical romance novel and reflecting on the way these stories often present woke nobility for the contemporary reader. a big thing is servants. you can’t not have servants in those times but many modern readers think “but I would never have servants. it would be so weird to have servants” and in order to make the protagonists of the story more relatable they are actually friends with the servants. but flip your perspective and think of it from the side of the servants. wouldn’t it be so awful if your boss was always trying to be friends with you. a really common thing you’ll see is the woke baronet having tea in the kitchen with the servants bc he’s not like other baronets. but what if your boss wanted to hang out and talk during your lunch break every day. not so charming when you think about it that way

No you don’t understand. This is my best friend I met because we’re both really into torture

not extremely into steve/eddie but i have to admit "guy who projects his hatred of heteronormative/neurotypical society onto a guy who he thinks is a microcosm of everything that has ever rejected him and despite his rejection of it is actually trapped in his own version of the high school hierarchy" x "guy who was really once that microcosm but in gaining a new support system has moved past the hyper-masculine desire for the american dream that was pushed onto him by everyone (including the first guy) and has created a happier, queer-er life for himself because of his chosen family" is an interesting dynamic