Well i should probably make an into post finally so people who come across us actually know who's probably posting what (in case we forget to tag who's posting like we so frequently do).
You can address us collectively as LadyMoonblessed, Artemis, or Lunation (the word for a full cycle of the moon) if you dont want to address any individual members of our system. We're trans & plural. If you have issues with that, please just move on. None of us are interested in getting into any conflicts.
Since Moon's got no executive function and i'm up, I'll do the honors of introducing those of us who are likely to post here:
Moon|Jaina (She/her): primary host & the one behind basically all our fandom stuff. Author of the stuff under our pseud Artemis-Eclipsed over on AO3 (mostly traumafic) and co-author of the stuff under our main profile (Also LadyMoonblessed over on AO3) where we keep our lighter stuff. Really into deltarune at the moment; also enjoys Worm, Omori, D&D, Critical Role C4, and other things but listing them all out will take too much of this post.
Midnight|Jace (They/them/She/her): Myself! It's a pleasure to introduce myself to all of you. I'm probably less likely to post unless it's for important reasons (such as this). Chronically tired. Currently planning out a D&D setting inspired by The Navidson House, Coruscant, Duskmourn and Ravnica, amongst other things. Feel free to ask me about it.
Scarlet|Jess (She/Her): The Flirty one. If any of us are directly engaging with you outside a fandom context on here, presume it's her unless proven otherwise - most of the others are some of the biggest introverts you will ever meet, but she thrives off people.
Muse|Calliope (She/her): the other co-author of our AO3 account. Artsy. Currently planning both a sci-fi novel set at the end of a generation ship's voyage AND a graphic novel about plural magical girls who have powers based around storytelling. Somehow has even less confidence in her skills than Moon. Please don't be mean to her if she shares anything she draws/writes. Thinking about learning how to write music.
Ruby(She/Her): our main protector & former monster hunter (Though she insists she still is one). Fictive of a certain Scythe-wielder. Do not mention Jaune Arc around her unless you want to hear an angry rant.
All of us listed above are free and willing to post on here & willing to take asks addressed to any of us, but that isnt all of us in here. Also included in our system but either not wanting to use tumblr or not allowed are:
Melinoe (she/her) & Fae(fae/faer) (have no desire to post)
Neuro & Glinda (both she/her & fictives) (do not know this blog exists)
B (still figuring shit out & becoming a better person. Maybe later will be allowed posting privlidges)
Ashe, Lily, and Chloe(all she/her) (the kiddos who are too young to post on here)
And lastly our newest member Amy (she/her) (might earn the right to a sideblog if she stops bickering with Moon, but is not allowed to post to the main bc it would probably be a Victoria Dallon/Glory Girl/Antares fanblog by the end of the day. Thank the goddess her memories end at Leviathan).
DNI's feel a bit useless so i'll just say Terfs are blocked on sight otherwise just dont give me a reason to block you and i probably won't.
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What is your thoughts on how transfeminism and the TME/TMA argument opposes trans unity, or how it puts down trans men who are struggling in their own right?
why would identifying who is primarily vulnerable to transmisogyny oppose trans unity? shouldn't it strengthen our unity, as it allows our trans siblings to better understand the problems we face and ensure they don't participate in weaponizing transmisogyny against us?
are we putting down trans men and causing a rift in the community by asking to be respected and understood? is there no way to advocate for ourselves and name our unique struggles that will not be labeled difficult and divisive?
I think you can tell a lot about how rigorous and committed someone's belief in a human right is by how quickly they are able to name people who they think could or should have that right taken away.
It's wild to me that people in the notes are all arguing about rapists and murderers and people deserving to get their human rights taken away for doing Bad Things, and...
Yeah, sure, serial killers deserve human rights too, but isn't there a more obvious demographic you're sliding right by? Isn't there a demographic of people so thoroughly erased by human rights discourse that their rights aren't even debated, it's just taken for granted that human rights don't apply to these people?
(It's minors. I'm talking about minors. Also disabled/neurodivergent adults under institutionalization/guardianship who have been reduced to the legal status of minors.)
I literally do this as a first-day activity in my childhood studies courses.
I take a poll: "how many of you would agree that 'everyone deserves the right to privacy' is a pretty uncontroversial statement?"
when 95% of them have put their hands up, I say "now, what if I clarify that 'everyone' includes children?"
and as everyone lowers their hands slowly and gives me a confused look like a deer in headlights, I tell them "okay. this class is about what it means to not be part of 'everyone'."
All of them, if we're humoring the idea that your government has your best interests at heart and can be relied upon to do the right thing. Which, lol. Lmao, even.
What you seem to be hung up on is that any crime can be forgiven, which is absolutely insane to me.
*My* point is definitely NOT that any government can always be relied on to do the right thing. That is actually pretty clearly one of the cornerstones of why I think this rhetoric is dangerous. If the government can deny a person a basic human right (access to food, water, breathable air, autonomy over your medical choices) if that government convicts them of the correct crimes- that is OBVIOUSLY a system which is incredibly ripe for corruption and horrific state violence. (Insert the obvious argument against the death penalty here)
But also, this has nothing to do with *forgiveness*. I don't have to "forgive" a person for that person to be *a person.* I don't think that only good people are people. I don't think that your humanity is dependent on your innocence or moral purity, and I think it's actually really dangerous to literally dehumanize people, especially as a way to justify state violence against them.
So, the question for YOU becomes, do you think that there are NO human rights, or do you think that certain crimes make you *legally not human*?
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people like the idea that there is an identity they can claim that will absolve them of the responsibility to examine their beliefs and actions and adjust them accordingly to better align with their values and desired outcomes but there isn't, we all have to practice humility and do the work regardless
'minion' -too closely associated with those yellow things
'goon' -linguistic drift gave her a new meaning. i hope her new life is good for her. i miss her.
'henchman' -too gendered. can be shortened to 'hench' in a pinch, but lacks punch.
'servant' -too domestic to apply to all those who serve evil.
'underling, subordinate' -this one only works if they get off on being beneath you and/or you don't properly pay your workers.
'associate' -this one's good for grizzled mercenaries or lone agents but doesn't work good for broad swathes of an organization.
'slave' -same as underling but more intense. really fun for some of the group. unsavory for others in a way that limits the scope of the thing.
'thrall' -only really applies if you're brainwashing them and that's not something i've learned how to do en masse yet
'flunky, toady, stooge, lackey' -these are just insulting, and that isn't conducive to a healthy work environment. imagine going to work and your job title is 'stooge'.
'acolyte' -works for those that worship you, but again. lacks the scope.
'supporter, follower' -unspecific and vague
'assistant, helper, aide' -not sinister at all. just means you're doing things for me. swagless in this manner. could be good if used to describe someone who's so clearly more that as a way to emphasize their obedience via understatement, but that's only useful for a few members of the organization. and even then, 'associate' works better.
'cohort' -untested in the field. suggests an equal footing in the affair, ideal for post-structuralist evil organizations with a bottom-up power structure that's held in the hands of the evil workers themselves. perhaps we'll explore it together?
may I suggest: 'grunt' – time-tested by crime bosses with a variety of goals and organizational mandates. implies a subservient position with none of the innate baggage of lackey et al.
every time I have to put up with Queen being awful and cruel and bullying others to feel superior in fanon I think of how much she was VERY OBVIOUSLY annoyed by Berdly but still did everything in her power to avoid letting him know that and spare his feelings no matter how badly she did it
another Black trans woman was found murdered, louisiana this time, and the news is consistently misgendering her in all the reporting. her name was marlow trottie and she was only 35 and she was a woman. don’t let them erase her womanhood.
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Telling a girl in a queer bar to bark for you and watching her brain break in real time and having to steady her hand for her so she doesn't spill her drink on herself, which definitely doesn't help her recovery speed 😌😇
As a trans women, femboys feel like an grotesque parody of me.
Every aspect of the identity is appropriated from trans women but put in an easily digestible cisgender package.
The term started as a gooner term to degender trans women in hentai.
Transfem characters like Bridget are still referred to as femboys in porn circles, just real like trans women are called femboys or ladyboys in those circles.
Sissification hentai includes the growth of breasts while reimaging transition as a punishment for pathetic men abd still managing to reduce them to just men in women's lingerie.
A femboy on facebook, after being told Bridget is a trans woman, told me that trans is a slur made to insult femboys.
As a cultural artifact, a femboy is a trans woman robbed of anything that a cisgender audience would struggle to fetishize.
When I hear the word femboy, I hear a slur. When I think of femboys, I think of at best a tragically unrealized trans woman and at worse a malicious parody of my identity.
I will be called closed minded and something-phobic for having this opinion.
a large majority of TMEs haven't unlearned the patriarchal idea that womanhood is a bad thing, and they do not believe trans women actually seek and embrace womanhood. a lot of them seem to think we only want the surface level aesthetics of womanhood
You know, as much as it's clearly also to maintain the central mystery and its tension... Asgore did get a whole private off-the-cuff monologue about his motives for pursuing the secrets of Darkness, and none of them were about the missing girl, huh. It was exclusively about his personal vindication and getting his ex-wife back.
If he cared about her first-and-foremost at any point, he doesn't any longer. And that does sort of give I just wanted to protect everyone a certain... loaded quality, huh?
From what, Asgore? What did you do to protect everyone that's left everyone looking at you like this?
Asgore motivation to some extent has always been about himself and only himself.
If he really wanted the family to get back together because he was genuinely hurt at the distance that was growing he would have reached out to all his family members including Kris but he never did because he thought his relationship with Kris was fine. Why did he think that?
Because Kris is the only person not outwardly rejecting Asgore.
Asgore never tries to apologise for his god awful behaviour because from his point of view he doesn't have to do anything to earn Kris's affection because they aren't overly reacting to him negatively.
Meanwhile with Dess it's clear he's not trying to find Dess because he miss her but instead is using her as a scapegoat.
"Oh it's not my fault that my marriage fall apart. It's because you went missing that lead to things getting bad and my marriage fail but don't worry i am gonna fix this. I am gonna prove to everyone that I can do this."
Genuinely fuck him for that.
No I don't care if I sound harsh i can still call out his bad behaviour while also saying he's not evil. That's how characters work.
Honestly he's such a good parallel to Kris.
They both want their families to be together again but Kris actually genuinely cares about Dess to some extent because unlike Asgore they genuinely knew her as a person. They want their family back too but for Kris the more important thing is Dess. Finding her is their biggest motivation not their family and honestly I think Asgore is partially to blame for that.
Like imagine. Your dad is obsessed over your friend's disappearance not because he cares about her missing but because he could use her disappearance to blame for everything bad that happened to her and your family. Like. Honestly I'll be done with that shit too.
I have said this before and I'll say it again. Deltarune fandom gives that character too much grace. I am not calling him evil i am just saying his behaviour is not ok.
Not matter what anyone says I'll only be ok with Asgore going back into Kris's life if Kris themselves wants him in their life because honestly after what he has done to them (and is continuing to doing btw) that character deserves to have a say in the situation.
I don't care how many fans would hate it. I'll defend Kris's honour if they decide they don't want him in their lives. They deserve peace after he has done.
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Sick of the TME view of gender as a radical performance of nonconformity rather than the existence of nonconformity and gender being radical through external force declaring it such. Wanting to be taboo vs the natural state of existence being seen as taboo.
yes!!!! too many of them act like it's this game of fucking with the status quo and playing with taboo that trans women have some kind of advantage in, because to be hated more is to Win, and they are Losing because their expressions of gender are seen as more acceptable
if the thing you want out of gender is to be perceived as transgressive, then it's in your interests to continue to construct shock and awe around transgressive expressions of gender
rocky horror and much of mainstream drag serve this function. they cultivate and reproduce a sense of shock around gender nonconformity, gamifying the transgression of the boundaries of gender performance. but in order for that game to be played at all, those boundaries need to remain so they can be continually transgressed. trans women who are harmed by these boundaries and who want to truly do away with them, then, represent a threat to the game
I don't want to revel in the perpetual Challenging of the boundaries of gender performance. when I challenge the boundaries it's because I want them to go away. if the boundaries are challenged enough that they go away, and no more games can be constructed around Challenging them, then... good!!!!!!!!
