Lilto

what do we think about the casting for ganondorf for the zelda movie?

octoball derby is serious business 🔥🔥 [pose reference]

The whole time, I'm waiting for it. These girls are Jewish. These girls are Jewish. There is no way they're not. And I wait and wait and wait and then there is one single line about someone's memory being a blessing. That's it.

The producer of this run of Thirteenth Doctor stories is an Israeli ex-pat named Noga Flaishon. When she was announced as producer, people found her social media posts grieving 10/7 and advocating for the return of the hostages and immediately called for a boycott of the series.

another thing i tend to think about with this. i also just think in chapter 5 there's a theme of care and dependency. the flowers have extreme guilt over being taken care of by asgore. flowery conceptualizes himself as weak and useless. in the dark world, his fantasy, he tries to return the care given to him to asgore to "make up for" asgore taking care of him when he should've died decades ago. it's an extreme example, but i also resonate with his feeling.

when your body or mind puts you in a situation where your reliance on other people becomes really explicit, you're trained by the world to see that as shameful or to see yourself as deficient. your efforts to ignore your needs just to avoid "being a burden," will leave you worse off. you punish yourself because of deeply internalized ableism.

regardless, even by virtue of being a living thing on this planet, you are already designed to need others. you have to listen to your body's needs even against a society that teaches you you shouldn't. you have to be okay with the fact that you have needs. sometimes your needs are different or are greater than the person next to you, and all you can do is listen to your body and turn to others when you need them. you're still a person when you need people.

when toby says this:

it's interesting to me how much he uses the language of deltarune to express this feeling. your hopes and dreams slipping away, and bitterness growing is literally the explanation we get for shadow crystals (and so wept the fallen star, making rivers with its tears. then, slowly, from the bitter water, something grew. it looked like glass). this is also the crushing feeling when you lose a sense of control when you're in pain, when you can't do things the way you want, the way you used to. but when you find yourself still able to fly, you do so because you've adapted. you've listened to your body. you've learned that listening to your body means changing the pace, letting yourself be cared for, letting yourself be helped.

Was subjected to something annoying and interesting recently.

Yeah, it's weird how I don't talk about transmasculine people's oppression at all---

Oh that's inconvenent. But maybe it's true that I'm constantly pitting transmasculine and transfeminine oppression against each other---

Darn, it's almost like people lie about me without reading a damn word of anything I've written.

But what about "trans women being recognised legally in India"? Oh, you mean the recent amendment to the Trans Act, which defines trans women as either child groomers or self-mutilators? That legal recognition? That's what you're calling a privilege?

You know, if only someone had written about how the "legal recognition" of "third genders" outside the West was actually erasure, transmisogyny, and violence. Then maybe you wouldn't be caught with your head all the way up your ass and know a single fucking thing about the material conditions of trans people from the third world, fancy that.

On a final note:

That'd be cool, wouldn't it? If you actually paid attention to the plight of trans people in the third world, instead of instrumentalising us as a rhetorical tool to bludgeon each other with?

Because actually caring about people from the third world isn't the point, is it? The point is to win arguments with other white people. So you'll pretend to care and be aware of issues third world trans people face, and lie about what trans people from the third world actually believe, all to serve your agenda of winning fights on Tumblr Dot Shit.

Also important to remember the context of the author writing it:

One of her primary things is riffing on and expanding on older-school forcefem/"tg"/otherwise adjacent plots by deconstructing them from a properly transfem perspective rather than one that objectifies transfemininity

This isn't her first time going "the UK is fucking evil" in her work! The main idea of Glow Worm is that the UK upper class might as well be a buncha heartless vampires! And (where it left off) there's some indication that that awful status quo of an immortal class of rich fucks might actualy change!

Kinosaki needs to realize the things shes trying to teach to gero about valuing himself and his own wants and needs also apply to her and her wants and needs

Gerosaki is endgame