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>Among the characters there are one or two White characters with minor and/or distinctly antagonistic roles.

>White tumblr users focus entirely on said White characters.

>Tag of Black led piece of media is filled with posts about White character(s)

Just need a look under the hood.

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- Spending time with cool trans people ( @mystery-incorporated-whore and I first got physical with our QPR on the 4th a few years back, I do highly recommend cuddling with your local transfemme goth)

- Eating a bunch of delicious food (I bake over a hundred cookies usually just for the party)

- drinking or smoking if you like (I will not be sober tomorrow)

One trans woman put out a lit blunt on the wrist of another trans woman, who responded by moaning so loud that her cry of ecstasy could be heard over the explosives overhead

A trans woman who isn't car-savvy mentioned that her car was giving her trouble, so all 6 cis men at the party grabbed beers and stood around her car as she revved the engine and tried to diagnose it for her, while I pounded a blunt in the passenger seat

Lesbian sex of a few different degrees

I've always believed I hated motherhood as a trope (specifically that a character might have or want to be a mother in the future, not characters that are already mothers when canon begins, yes that distinction matters and you'll see why as you keep reading this) because for me it read as a version of the Soft Retirement Arc, where a character just kind of goes "I'm tired of fighting for whatever cause drives me, I want to be Soft(tm) now" and fades out of the story into a life of quaint, backlit complacency in a world they know full well isn't safe yet. It's a whole other mess as to why I hate this trope, but suffice to say that it's that association that makes me dislike when female characters are seen as possibly being future mothers. That and the way it feels like it's this aggressive implication of a Next Generation(tm). It truly reads to me as internalized franchising mindset in fanworks, it grosses me out.

HOWEVER

I have only ever applied this to characters who present as mostly/entirely female. And I now realize that the reason for this was my own un-confronted culturally-based assumption that a woman having a child is likely/meant/expected to permanently leave the workforce (or in this case the quest, the cause, the party, the team, the story, etc), while men having children (even if it's a m/m couple and no women are involved) aren't.

this post taught me something about myself.