Overly Angry 1950s Pianist

it's a long process, yes. it can be arduous, and sometimes reading about these things hurts the soul because it details what's happened as a result of others not sharing these beliefs. take care of yourself. do not blind yourself, though. you need to bear through discomfort to grow.

involve your friends in your journey - it always makes things easier. start a book club, or have a dedicated space for talking about learning these things together. maybe both. share with each other quotes, discoveries, things you need help digesting. be open and honest. challenge yourself, challenge your friends. learn together. its like if school was kind and self-paced

i cannot recommend this enough, not just because genuine political awareness is extremely important to keeping yourself and others safe, and keeping/making yourself a safe person, but because, like. actually taking the time to listen to the words of leftists for real will do a lot for your mental health.

a huge issue a lot of people have is they do not ground themselves often enough and work off reflex, or just bounce off whatever happens around them. it's not a crime, happens to the best of us, but it does lead a lot of people to have very disorganized thoughts and feelings and moral codes, you know? happened to me something fierce! but ever since i started actually reading books on this stuff, and learning more about how the world really works, its helped a lot. i know a lot more clearly what i think is right and wrong, who i can trust and why, and i am able to be much more confident in my assessment of these things. and i am a lot less worried about getting in trouble, because i know and can trust in my heart that if i do, either it's something i can work out with my peers, or they will stand by me in the stance that i should not be in trouble and people are being meanies

opened the comments to see somebody (transmasculine) commenting about how transfems get all the attention and how they wish more people would talk about transmasculine people

I reply to explain that trans women are (and should be) centered in conversations about transphobia because they are treated worse and have worse sociopolitical outcomes. as politely as I am able while still conveying the relevant information

within the span of an hour this person and a separate transmasculine person reply to this comment to argue this. the creator of the video, who is also transmasculine btw, likes the comment I was disagreeing with and deletes mine.

kris: textually they/them transfeminine nonbinary. seems dissatisfied with this state of affairs anyways and wears the same dysphoria sweater (handed down from their brother) every day. every male character paralleling kris (spamton, tenna) is miserable and every female character paralleling them (aqua, pink) is, while not uncomplicatedly, happy. I think they would be happier as an it/she girlthing kinda deal.

susie: I liked to read her as a trans girl before but in light of how thoroughly and deliberately chapter 5 characterizes kris and ralsei as tma, I don't think this is the case anymore. she is consistently shown as the most confident in her gender of the main characters, with literally only a singular moment of gender uncertainty in five chapters, compared to every other protagonist's double digits. most things I had previously seen as both trans- and Black-coding for susie work just as well as just Black-coding, so I can confidently conclude that susie is cis.

ralsei: textually a closeted transfem. not much more to be said tbh. currently uses they/them, but enthusiastically enjoys femininity. remains to be seen whether the they/them is transitional or here to stay. personally I imagine them as a she/they nonbinary trans woman, but ingame there isn't much indication as to what specific flavor of transfemininity they'll wind up with.

noelle: I personally never really understood transfem noelle as a headcanon. all reindeer have antlers, and aesthetics aside her relationship with kris makes it extremely obvious to me that she is tme. beyond that is where it gets interesting. her light world outfit is implied to be dictated by her mother, and in the dark world she is awkward in the very feminine nurse outfit from virovirokun's acts that kris and ralsei wear confidently. in weird route she is explicitly shown to be uncomfortable to a dissociative degree with the persona of "noelle", in a game where dissociation and gender dysphoria are closely linked. everyone she fixates on and/or looks up to (dess, kris, susie) is gnc, transgender, or possibly both in dess' case. finally, her room has trans colors. all this taken together, I think noelle is transmasc. I don't have a clear picture of what exactly a post-transition noelle would be, but the particulars of her relationship with kris make me suspect her ideal presentation is something like kris at present: they/them with androgynous leaning masculine clothing.

Danielle Lalonders ‪@dlalonders.bsky.social‬

this doesn't even have the full context which makes it funnier:

@ hannawithfur on X.com

i feel like even in woke 1.0 we never really reconciled that the villains in arguably the two most critically acclaimed horror films of all time are men who dress in womens clothing that each film goes to great lengths to say are absolutely not transvestites

reply by @ Gnoc290438

this has been talked about extensively you're just 21

7:31 PM 6/30/26

‪Liz Faber‬ ‪@lizwfab.bsky.social‬

The number of times I have wanted to write “this has been talked about extensively you’re just 21” on a student’s paper cannot be calculated in human numerals.

“Why is no one talking about…” They are, sweetheart, you just lack the basic research skills needed to find the conversations, which is why we make you take this class in the first place.