Yyyyyyyo!

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH EVERYBODY*

here's the lgbtq tag trending as it does regularly due to multiple porn bots catfishing using the same stolen pictures of the same trans woman on the same page

remember the year in review? this was one of the featured tags. note that despite neither the image nor video in the posts in this screenshot being marked as mature content, this screenshot of them is going to mark this post as mature content as soon as I post it

here's some of the lovely messages of positivity you can expect to get if you're a transfem on this platform! I cropped the real-life gore images out of the first one, the person in the second one has made multiple posts like this + pedojacketed me and still has that same account and does that same shit, and the the person in the third took weeks for tumblr to do anything about, because:

here's tumblr staff stating that making explicit death threats towards transfems is not a violation of the ToS or user guidelines!

and here they are stating it again! and while we're on the subject of who the user guidelines apply to:

here's SPECIFICALLY AND EXCLUSIVELY MY CONTENTLESS REBLOG of a year-old post with 15,000 notes being flagged as sexually explicit (over 100 times in case you thought it was maybe a fluke) despite the image in the post not actually showing anything, SPECIFICALLY AND EXCLUSIVELY MY CONTENTLESS REBLOG of a heated rivalry gifset showing two fully nude dudes fucking center frame getting flagged as sexually explicit, which it is according to tumblr's definition, but despite that it has tens of thousands of notes and in fact is so popular and shared that if you look over to the third image you can see that same gif as one of the trending tag thumbnails! and on that note:

here's an episode of an anime available on youtube with a TV-14 age rating that I posted a screenshot of that got flagged as sexually explicit, had the appeal denied twice, got fully nuked off the site, and then got my entire blog marked as mature for posting!

and here's that same already-marked-as-mature blog curiously being marked as mature a second time out of the blue 15 minutes before they dropped the age verification update that would hide mature content!

and here's my first blog of 13 years getting a SPECIAL type of mature flag that marks all of my posts as mature content individually and separately from the actual mature content label!

you don't get to appeal these terminations btw! they automatically and instantly deny your appeal and send you the rejection before you even get the email telling you they got the appeal and will carefully review it

not that appealing will do anything anyways! here's tumblr staff terminating me for explicit content when I appealed the explicit flag on a post that they accepted the appeal on after terminating me for it,

and here's tumblr staff denying my appeal on that termination, lying about why i was terminated, terminating my already-and-still-terminated blog a second time to change the termination reason to one i can't appeal, which they then upgraded from an account deactivation into a postmortem full account nuke! isn't that wild?

here's them doing it to me a second time

and here's tumblr staff terminating me FIVE TIMES in multiple weeks it took them to do anything about a burner blog and a post pedojacketing me and encouraging people to harass me forever over completely fabricated claims that everyone spreading it around admitted were false on the post itself by the way! note also how only the burner blog got deleted - but the main account? just a post removal. after weeks of it being reported and spread around. the fastest of my terminations during this period was three hours after making the account by the way!

which isn't an isolated occurrence, either! they'll pass over multiple open, avowed nazis posting swastikas and slur-filled nazi race science shit about how they think black people are biologically inferior subhumans for months on end to nuke some random transfem off the site in as little as 10 minutes after account creation, then take MULTIPLE MONTHS to respond to your report of someone sending you harassment messages to tell you that the content you reported has already been removed (because it's an ask in the inbox of an account they already terminated along with four others in the time it took them to respond)!

And to really send a clear message about where they stand, they've REALLY ramped up the termination of transfems since the start of pride! And everybody will act like you deserve it and are a subhuman unworthy of life if you don't openly support the multiple ongoing harassment campaigns against transfems, all enabled and quietly endorsed by tumblr staff and moderation!

My stepmother did NOT like the way her Libertarian Viking Neighbor framed pregnancy as the fetus "attacking the woman". She incredulously told him this was extremely disrespectful to expectant mothers to portray pregnancy as so violent and negative.

Libertarian Viking Neighbor's response was that people consensually hurt each other all the time, and "there's like a whole community about that, with the acronym the one that starts with a B" And his reasoning was that if the mother was consenting to bring attacked by the baby, it in fact wasn't violent and negative because there was consent.

One of the things I've kind of silently noted about Inoue's writing is that he seems really interested in how gender roles get constructed both through internal behavior and through external expectations. He's also a guy who loves playing with tropes like toys, and I think he's doing a lot of both in Faiz. Takumi really seems to be build around the idea of, "What would it look like for a Kamen Rider to exhibit the opposite of many the classic male hero traits?" Mari berates Takumi for not liking hot foot, which makes him wimpy, and in this episode specifically Keitaro makes a comment about how his dad tied a man's worth to his ability to iron a shirt. Later, Takumi gets berated for being a failure of a man for not protecting Mari (when she's lying about trying to break into the car).

But! Takumi is still Kamen Rider Faiz. He's the hero. Why? We're slowly cracking that open, both in terms of diegetic worldbuilding and reveals of Takumi's personality. He's of this brooding hero archetype, but lacks the toughness or skill usually associated with that kind of role.

I like that Takumi is exploring non-typical hero space different than Shouichi in Agito (who had a lot of feminine qualities that the show directly called out as feminine), Akira in Changerion, and Wataru in Kiva. It really shows a range of character writing and a strong understanding of the genre/trope space he's working in.

And Mari! This episode literally has Takumi accuse her of trying to play up this "tragic heroine" role. And it is a role, specifically! Mari is our bait in episode one; her red scarf puts her in the role of Kamen Rider...but she isn't. She's headstrong and stubborn and doesn't hesitate to play up that tragic role when it's convenient for her. She wants to be a beautician, but these first chunks of episodes keep throwing her into masculine-coded roles. I do also appreciate that she has the most important character trait a woman can have: annoying.

Inoue is also playing with the Kamen Rider trope space with the Orphenochs too. Toda, the squid guy, tells Yuji and Yuka that they have to kill humans to make more Orphenochs. That they themselves aren't even human. Just...very explicitly saying, "You are now monsters of the week and you must attack humans!" And Yuji is just like, "What. No. I am absolutely not that. You're weird for saying that." It's so cool to be watching that happen so bluntly! Because Ep6 ends with Takumi fighting the new Orphenoch and Yuji running in to rescue his new friend and that puts him in dramatic opposition to the hero of the show! Thus, replicating the Rider/MotW dynamic! And so now I'm immediately invested in Yuji's fate. Will he succumb to his metatextual role as a monster of the week? Or will he defy the expectations put upon him by the very genre space he inhabits? That's interesting!

There's also so much with Keitaro and Yuka that is Inoue showing his adoration for romance tropes. I love how much dramatic irony there is with them. Bumping into each other but not knowing because they only email date, Keitaro picking up Yuka's dropped phone but then not having the moment where he emails again and he learns. Instead he gives the phone back to Yuka via a second serendipitous meeting and he still doesn't know!

Some Yuji stuff also has dramatic irony, and it's so great to see that played with re: Takumi too. I liked how Inoue navigated secret identities in Agito a lot, and this is playing in similar space.

crazy ooc probably

youraislopbores.me interraction that made me cry lmao.

The intention behind the message was that according to Google Emily was the name most common for the type of person who I'm guessing would use the website, so I was trying to freak someone out by knowing their name (very slim chance but hey).