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But the second the rules mean they need to include a trans woman...out the window, she's a genderless plant person that just happens to develop female characteristics as she grows. Sounds a lot like female puberty to me...

Hunter's breasts (or lack there of) are shown proudly to signal to the viewer his overt transgender identity, but Huntress gets no such fanservice moment. Her breasts appear. They just show up as she grows. She does not need to assert her own gender identity, Fionna assigns she/her while she's still a 10 inch cabbage patch kid. Huntress Wizard might as well be afab.

Maybe the show will include more scenes that do show Huntress is transfemme, atleast in some Oo way. But to have her gender swapped counterpart be transgender overtly and to chose a more obfuscated path for huntress is just. It makes me sad.

I was so excited for trans Huntress Wizard, but I don't think we're going to get it. Trans women cannot be allowed on television.

The whole "assigned plant at birth" thing can be a joke if you want it to be, but the fact is huntress isnt human. Her biological sex, if she has one, is not something that fits in a human binary. Her chosing to present as female is indicative of an identity she landed on herself.

Plus, we dont know what pronouns huntress used as a child. For all we know, maybe she was training with her father because he thought she was a boy

Huntress and Hunter are both people who chose to present as a gender other than the one they were assigned at birth. They are both currently presenting as genders opposite to each other. Their current statuses as a trans man and a trans woman are what make them gender-bends of each other, not what genders they were in the past.

Just because nobody explicitly misgenders either of these characters doesnt mean they arent good trans representation.

I'm sick of all the boring normie summer holidays. We need a new big blow-out thing that we all actively look forward to every year, and I nominate Moon Day.

July 20th is the anniversary of when humans first landed on the moon- one of the greatest achievements in our species' history, and I cannot believe we don't make a bigger deal out of it. We landed on THE MOON.

We should be taking July 20th every year to celebrate the beauty of our celestial sister-world, the drive and perseverance of the human race to actually make it there, the jaw-dropping genius of the women who wrote towers of mathematical formulas to make it possible, the bravery of the astronauts who went there and came back in one piece, the cool rocks they found!

Moon Day shouldn't just be a day where we go "oh that's cool," and move on. It should be a day where we we get to ignore the idiots in power who are trying to ruin our good name and scream to the sky "HUMANS ARE AWESOME AND WE CAN DO AWESOME THINGS"

Anyway, as much as I love gushing about the moon and moon day, I'm drawing a blank on what new traditions I'd actually want to attribute to it. But if I ever get the chance, I would really want to start some new traditions in the local community (On the grounds that it's been a while since I've seen anyone do that).

In an ideal world, I'm envisioning an excuse for a nighttime summer festival, showcasing lunar symbolism and rituals from around the world, moon-rock candy, alien mascots or something, people showing off cool science projects, idk.

A few weeks ago I finished a chapter for a Code Lyoko manga fanfic. It is 100% just a fan-work and not official in any way, but it is still one of my favorite things I have made this year. So, I went ahead and created a concept cover for the first volume of the manga (in the event that I get to keep making more of it).

If you wanna check it out on Webtoon, here ya go

Also, I have a patreon in case you guys wanna see my art early 👉👈

Since Sissi is fairly skilled in the Pencak Silat classes she takes with Ulrich (a fact that is rarely brought up in the show, but a fact I adore nonetheless), I wanted to lean into that Indonesian martial arts aesthetic.

It's not exact, and I may tweak her design later to better represent the robes usually worn in the sport, but that's the origin of her outfit.

And as for her horns-

The live chat for the Nintendo Treehouse expo today has just been this for the last like, hour

I'm partially joking but okay look,,

I hate Disney too and I am not even gonna waste my breath complaining about Wish in this post because I just do not care about Disney anymore. But it used to mean a lot to me, so I can dream about what a 100th anniversary would've looked like in a world where they didn't completely fall from grace. And I think it looks like a film adaptation of an absurd, convoluted but genuine love letter to old Disney movies. It'd be weird, it'd be cringe, but it would be fun.

And for the love of god, it would be hand drawn in fucking 2D.

Like, the Zelda community is such an amazing place for community theorizing and conspiracies, and the people involved are so smart and passionate about this stuff. But then the moment I try saying "Hey, I think the Ancient Robots from SS and all the glowing-green robots from TP might be related to the Zonai Constructs from ToTK"

or "Hey the ancient guardians from those astral-realm trials kinda look like the Zonai, and also have 3 eyes??"

or "Hey, ancient mysterious flying islands with blocky Jomun-inspired architecture also appear in Twilight Princess and Four-Swords Adventures..."

"...Do we think the writers had this in mind for longer than we thought? Or maybe they're connecting older unanswered stories to try fleshing out the world's history?"

I'll definitely see a few people point these things out but then I see an overwhelming amount of people who just respond with "hmm. Nope. Can't." or "Stop putting so much thought into it it's not that deep."

Like omg who cares if it's not that deep? What happened to forcing Nintendo to retcon in the "three timeline" thing? Where's the pizzaz? Where's the imagination?

Anyone wanna talk about this Mural that appears in Twilight Princess that seems to show the Rito, apparently thousands of years before they canonically evolved? Oh it's just a continuity error?

How about the Gloom Hands and Floor Masters possibly being the same thing? just in different art styles?

Well the official answer is apparently just that it's a design inspiration. Silly me.

God I love this series.

If you're not sure where to start with voting this year - either bc it's your first time or bc you usually vote on E-Day in person and now that may be an option, or bc you're intimidated by structural barriers - here's a good place to start:

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/how-to-vote-2020/

And that then lends to your question- we need to normalize voting because the white people who show up to vote get to swing their election Republican while suppressing the voices of minorities, and a lot of the rest of us only get involved once every four years to be performative. White people dont do enough, convince ourselves that voting is pointless, and then blame everyone else for not being active enough. With that looped back around, spreading that narrative is actively silencing leftist voices.

Like yes, Im just cranky because I spent a lot of time playing with/learning coding and got my art blog lookin nice n spicy right before people stopped caring about themes. But also, this is the only social media website where you still have freedom over how your page looks and I hate how staff just made the whole thing completely Dashboard/Mobile focused.

Every other site completely did away with individuality years ago and now everything is either Chrome or Dark Mode. For example, YouTube used to have customizable layout themes before Google bought them. You could have fun color schemes and backgrounds that fit with your channel and video style. Sometimes it looked cute and aesthetically pleasing:

Sometimes it didn’t

Or you could just leave it as the default. But you had the choice and that added a layer of discovery to web-surfing. (Forgive the examples, but google is trying VERY HARD to pretend that customizable Youtube was never a thing and I’ve been having such a hard time finding images of it.)

Now with TUMBLR, you can still edit your HTML to look like ANYTHING and a lot of people got really good at coding as a result. If you found out that someone you followed had a dope theme, it was exciting just because it was fun and cool to look at. Now that most websites are mobile-focused, they’ve all lost their panache and nobody has the incentive to make individual blogs anymore. And I understand why, but I’m a mad nostalgic baby about it.

Can you imagine if websites started allowing this kind of artistry again? Sure, not everybody uses desktops anymore but it would be nice if your personal social media pages could have, y’know, personality? Your youtube page could have unique layouts, play buttons, video boarders, playlist cover designs (I mean beyond custom thumbnails). Facebook could give you customizability for the design/font of your posts or different ways to showcase photo albums. Hell, maybe even do some fun things with mobile themes, idk. 

Deadass Katara just stuffed her shirt with melons, did nothing else to even pretend that she was older than 14, Sokka put on what was probably an incredibly fake-looking beard and pulled the most shakespearean accent he could muster. 

They just saunter on in with their son who looks literally nothing like either of them, but also almost the exact same age. The headmaster probably just thinks “Fuck it. Okay. Benefit of the doubt. I’m not particularly well-versed in the ethnicities of the colonies maybe this is just normal. Adoption maybe? Good skin care?” 

And then when he asks their names, Sokka just comes out guns blazing with surnames- which is implied (but not confirmed) to be sort of nobility status. And not only is their cover story that they have surnames in the first place, but that their name is Fire. Wang Fire and Sapphire Fire. 

Deadass Katara just stuffed her shirt with melons, did nothing else to even pretend that she was older than 14, Sokka put on what was probably an incredibly fake-looking beard and pulled the most shakespearean accent he could muster. 

They just saunter on in with their son who looks literally nothing like either of them, but also almost the exact same age. The headmaster probably just thinks “Fuck it. Okay. Benefit of the doubt. I’m not particularly well-versed in the ethnicities of the colonies maybe this is just normal. Adoption maybe? Good skin care?” 

And then when he asks their names, Sokka just comes out guns blazing with surnames- which is implied (but not confirmed) to be sort of nobility status. And not only is their cover story that they have surnames in the first place, but that their name is Fire. Wang Fire and Sapphire Fire. 

Can we just like, collectively start trending hashtags that gaslight Trump into thinking that all of his advisors are secretly planted liberals?

The conspiracy is JUST DUMB ENOUGH for him to believe. Like "Noooo Donny it all makes sense now! The reason your presidency has been so awful is because the LIBS! Theyve been planted by AaAAaaAntifa all along to trick you into making a fool out of yourself! It would be impossible for this all to have gone so poorly if they were TRULY republicans! Your advisors dont want you to use mail-in-voting because they want to trick you into thinking that the conservatives are secretly weak and that you cant risk having more liberal votes- but the truUuUuth is that theyre trying to surpress your poor Republicans stuck at home!! It runs deep bunker-i mean- Donny boy!"

Get fake conservative bots to start doing it so that the more nut job right wings would start believing it. Cause heres the thing: theyve disillusioned themselves into thinking that this dude is a good president but they KNOW it's crumbling, and if theyre given a reason to think that the administration are the ones secretly making their God King Tr*ump Look bad, they will fucking RUN with it.

Regardless of what the administration would say in response, theyd all be losing their fucking minds because Trump would go Azula on them and just start firing people left and right until the GOP destroys itself from the inside out.

Or maybe even just hashtags to the tune of #trumplookslikeapussyfornotshakinghands