you've also not been "brainwashed by the West" or whatever bullshit I've heard over and over. queer people have existed in the Indian subcontinent and its neighbours for as long as humans have. you're not something Other and you don't deserve to be alienated from the aspects of your culture that you love. you have as much right to your history as anyone else.
you are free to reject it or choose not to associate with it for various reasons, of course, but you make that choice. they don't get to make it for you.
yeah please reblog/share this even if you're not desi or queer, because i need it to find as many of them as possible, because it's so, so easy for us to forget that we do have a community and that we aren't alone.
our cultures are generally extremely social, with large families and communities for every single tiny thing, and that's how we were raised. to feel alienated, and to feel alone, is a horrifying feeling for anyone, but it's so different when you grow up in a society where everyone else has so much security and support and belongs. because then you start to wonder if you're the one who's wrong, whether there really is no one else like you, because everyone seems to have a community except for you.
so yes. please share this. i want us to know, that we aren't fucking alone. and we deserve that sense of community just as much as anyone else.
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I have a theory that the moon IS a trans woman cause she’s always associated with feminine things but when we saw the craters that look like a face we called it “The Man In The Moon”. She’s a woman with a face that people may perceive as male. She’s a beautiful trans woman
the moon is a beautiful trans woman who hates terfs and shows her face every night to remind other trans women they are beautiful and strong and loved and important and wonderful and that terfs and their opinions dont matter
I wanna add to this if it’s ok?? In Hindu mythology, Chandra, the moon, was originally thought of as a male deity. However, as time went on, symbolism involving the moon and the name “Chandra” itself became identified with femininity, with beautiful girls being described as having “moon-like faces,” with their dark, long hair reminding lovers of the midnight sky, and names like “Nilaa” (”moon” in Tamil) and “Indu” (in Sanskrit) are now pretty much now completely girl names!
AlsO Chandra is married to 27 wives, who are all stars. The moon is a trans lesbian and is gay for all the stars in the sky.
Happy Friday Everyone.
Work is out. Time to get on the Party bus.
Time to get in touch with the weekend, it’s Friday Night
Happy Friday
@sodakickparty helped me finish this Friday Fred
It was SUPER RADICAL!!
Have a totally tubular new year
First Fred of 2023
Oh my god!! It really works!! I reblogged Friday Fred on Friday the 13th and nothing happened!!!
you know what day it is.
Happy Friday Fred. Soon every day will be Friday!
He grew into the hat…
Oh yeah it’s mid-march-ish
Sorry for reblogging twice in a row but I need to include “The Frides of March”
Happy Friday, everyone
Friday Fred IN 3D!!!!!!!!!!
Created by @docvalentine
Friday FR3D
Power still out so killing 2 birds with 1 stone
You were drawn by flashlight, actually.
Found these tags on my last hand-drawn post inspiring:
I’m so good at art.
This doodle made me laugh too much so now this is the Fred this week
THE ONE PIZZA…!
THE ONE PIZZA IS REAL!!!!!!
A scan of the old Friday Fred expansion from the GUYS system. I don’t think this is Friday Fred’s first appearance, but I could be wrong. It’s definitely an off-model design.
Fred is Going Corporate
He can’t stay this small forever…
♩ ♪ ♫ ♬Nu är vi här Fred♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
♩ ♪ ♫ ♬CaramelDansen♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
We need you to roll up a most radical Friday, Prince.
OK this week I am doing a roundup of the Freds which got lost in the shuffle.
“He’s coming to you from a lab table!” From @alter-ego-cole
“my friday fred fanart. happy april fools eve” From @seven-oh-four
“FRIDAY AGAIN BROSEPHS” from @neon-draws-sometimes
“🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟” from @vulturevomittm
“my horrible rendition of Angular Bitty Fred” from @sodium-bitch
And finally a PIZZA THROW Fred from @kawaiikitten96
We got stuck in traffic
My contribution to our lovable Fred the Friday Cat.
Another one for the day!
So I don’t miss this Fred from @bontonexthequizzical:
>Be Friday Fred
>Look inside Friday
>Saturday
Come on, you can do it. Keep reblogging Fred. Let’s smash this Ad Circus website on the ground like a tacky lamp.
Don’t worry he will turn back next week.
i met this lad last week but i feel like he’s been with me my entire life
stay funky, Friday Fred, and TGIF
And this Fred from @therealbrigeedarocks
(Link)
“throwing my jam into the ring for @andy-jam-blog
meet Fraud Fred Jam!
he has a favorite day of the week and you’ll never guess which one it is
no really he is totally the real fred how dare you insinuate otherwise”
@littleguysdaily HAS APPEARED NO LESS THAN
8 TIMES IN THIS ENTIRE THREAD
GET 9’D, KID!!!!
RADICAL FRIDAY
Some freds for the post:
from @marzipan-nosebleed
“the venn diagram of things i’m supposed to do at school and things i actually do at school is just two separate circles”
from @talkingattumble
“I’m honor of Friday, October 13 I’m gonna get into the holidays spirit and post….valentines Fred!”
From @linkyu
from @velcrow101
From @angrytreemarten
“I’m bad at drawing”
From @disembark-starstruck
“Friday Fred dnd statblock”
From @atethemango
And my humble addition:
issa spooky month!!
added by @brobietumbles:
Doodled in my notepad during a DND game.
have a happy friday from the garbage wastes : D
From @splorb
From @kitzenvoncatzen
“frd frdy”
From @frostiecake
“Okay, I can’t NOT add on to TGIF Fred!!”
scrolling through this made me so happy i physically could not not draw Friday fred
From @peekoo3
from @ccritterbugg
And this week’s Fred:
It has been a whole year of Fred. Here’s to many more (All on the same post, of course)
From @catatomicofficial
From @k1tty-wh1te
This week’s Fred:
Thank goodness it’s Friday!!!!!
you know i had to draw friday fred
From @maxwellpaws
& this week’s fred:
Do a flip or something…
u made it to friday! fred says good job
From @lucariwoah
“Here’s my contribution. May God have mercy on all of us. I had to sit through this, and so should you”
From @pteracotta
“my usual art program wasn’t working so i had to use ms paint”
From @thanatos-ghost
This week’s Fred:
I gave him a boy best friend who he totally isn’t dating cuz it’s the 90s
from @kenniex2
“Save me fred
fred save me”
from @rat-detector
This week’s Fred:
My small contribution to Fred Friday :)
From @zbitche
From @immushymellow
“its friday!!!1!! fuck yeah!!!1!11!!!!! dumping out all of my old markers just so i could find a blue one that looked kinda like the shade of blue of freds hat and also wasn’t missing its cap and dried out was totally worth it!!!1!!!!5!!”
“I drew this on the whiteboard at my scool it took forever becase i couldnt find any other pink or magenta markers.”
This week’s Fred:
From @muttmuttgoose
“Tiny Fred”
from @immushymellow
“this weeks friday fred drawing(s)(whitch i started making last friday but couldnt finish on time):”
“totally definitly normal and finished version:”
This Week’s Fred:
Instead of doing finals I drew Fred
@meowmeowmeowimacat sent this Fred to me via my inbox:
“My TGIF fred using a free base by charliesTea on DA: https://www.deviantart.com/charliestea/art/F2U-Kitty-Cat-Base-909802179”
This week’s Fred:
woahhhh friday with. Fred!
from @damascenedotjpeg
From @anaskunk
Today’s Fred:
I have a calendar that has a holiday for every day and today happened to be pizza day so I quickly scribbled up a friday fred with some pizza
From @anaskunk
“here’s friday fred thanks for the reminder !!”
From @sillyfunny
“MS paint Fred upon ye”
From @acornmaybe
From @i-likegamesbut-cant-playthem
“im so sorry for making this longer”
Today’s Friday Fred:
here, havve an incredibbly long post
have a really bad ms paint fred on this wonderful friday
From @burntowl25
“friday fred wid da ghos from @damascenedotjpeg”
A Radical 3D Fred from @docvalentine
Today’s Fred:
From @th3dicesystem
“Drew him”
This Week’s Fred:
I don’t need this comparative anatomy cat skull diagram for class anymore so I put a hat on it. It’s Fred now. Happy Friday before my birthday.
From @pending-dope-username
“my edition featuring a human version of friday fred beside cat fred, starring a tumblr quote cuz im too lazy to crop.”
This week’s Fred:
It’s my opinion that like if a white supremacist/Nazi is going to be reformed. They need to do so willingly. The only times I’ve heard of successful rehabilitation of fascists is when they made the conscious decision to no longer be one anymore and seek atonement. People who try to like hug and change fascists that don’t want to change are fucking morons
Correct. I was crypto-facist for a few years, and the people trying to hug me didnt change me because at that point I wouldnt have listened. It was only when I started to see the movement for what it was that I was finally able to listen.
Yeah trust me it *is* horrifying. I’m ashamed of who I was and I think my only atonement is to talk about how damn easy it is to become one when you’re young.
This is gonna be a long post.
For a little bit of background, I am a mixed race person, half brown and half white. I was raised in a Muslim family and am still closeted around them.
I started to have issues with Islam at around 12 or so, when I first started to get the idea that I might be gay. Now I never would have admitted that was my reason. If you had asked me I probably would have said “logic” or something. Because of that I went hard into atheism and atheist circles.
Now people hate to admit this but ex-Muslim spaces are predominantly right wing. Ex-Muslims often see the left as “too tolerant” towards a religion that hurt them. This was the only community I had though, and I read through everything. I was 13.
The other thing that people hate to admit is that, especially when you’re young, being mixed race is so damn hard. If I acted “too white”, following my mother’s German/Austrian traditions, I was accused of hiding my true nature. But if I acted “too brown” I was just another camel jockey. So I hid my “Indian” customs from others and tried passing as white. Especially online.
So I’m not saying this is all youtube’s fault or anything. I was raised to believe that the brown half of my family was lesser and stupid. And with my hatred of Islam, I believed it doubly.
Then came Anita Sarkeesian. I was watching pewdiepie and from there my recommendations were all set. If I’m remembering the pipeline it was pewdiepie - Philip Defranco - Chris Ray Gun (sp?) - Thunderfoot - Sargon - etc. But I was pretty much acquainted with all of the right wing youtube of the day.
Funnily enough, I found her through Thunderfoot. That got me into antifeminism, and more specifically, GamerGate.
I was primarily on the subreddits KIA (Kotaku In Action) and TIA (Tumblr In Action). Both made fun of the SJWs. I kid you not, I would gleefully wait for “Sanity Sunday”, where the people would talk about how feminism is disgusting, cultural appropriation is fake, the wage gap isnt real, etc. I would scroll through this tag for hours.
I got most of my youtube recommendations from those subreddits. This led me from GamerGate to more fascist lines of thinking, such as watching videos about why BLM is a terrorist organization, why all muslims were evil rapists, and why I was fundamentally right to reject my Indian heritage and follow my “correct” heritage.
From here I delved into “race realism”, and I believed it all. I had to. This was the only community I had felt safe in. One of the fash guys even offered to shack me up at his house if my parents kicked me out for being atheist. I was 15.
To say that again, I was 15 and believed that white was right, blue lives matter, “we wuz kangs”, etc. I never would have called myself a fascist or a Nazi. How could I? I used my brown skin as a token, so that people could point to me and say: “See, we aren’t misogynistic and racist! We have this brown girl right here.” But I believed in all the things the Nazis did. I’m not going to pretend I didn’t. I will never pretend I didn’t.
But then something happened. I admitted to myself, and to a few others, that I was gay. And suddenly, the homophobia that I had molded myself in, it didn’t fit right. I happened to, by accident, click on the reddit thread of GamerGhazi, the opposition to GamerGate. And after a long bout of introspection I found out that they were accepting of gay people, that the things I had been experiencing were common, that maybe, just maybe, we didn’t need a white ethnostate.
I don’t want to be dramatic but that accidental click saved my life.
From there it was a road of recovery. I deleted all my old accounts, made new ones, and started to read leftist theory. I found better friends, cut out old people. So now, just about two years later, I’m healing.
I think that’s everything. I probably got some times and dates wrong because I’ve been trying to move on from it. But if you need more info or anything like that, please let me know.
yes, love the trans women who are 3 years on hrt and shitpost on tumblr about gay sex, but also love the trans women who don't fit that mould. love the 37yo trans women whose eggs just cracked after decades of ignoring it. love trans women of color. love the trans girls still in high school who have to clear their browser history every night because of their parents. love trans women who dress like someone's mom instead of a badass punk. love trans women who can't fully transition the way they want to, whether that be no HRT access or costly surgeries or pre-existing conditions. love the trans women who are still closeted. love trans women who are fat. love trans women who are hairy. love trans women whose only connection to the trans community is like, r/egg_irl and their blahaj plushie. love trans women who don't want to have sex or be sexual in any way. love trans women who are parents. love trans women who are sex workers. love trans women who are out to some but not for others. love trans women who need your company to feel safe going to the toilet. love every. single. trans. woman. you. meet. no fucking exceptions. if you don't, it's already too late.
I'm not done yet. love the trans women who are disabled. love trans women with chronic pain and illnesses. love trans women who need painkillers almost every day and take a fuckton of meds, HRT or otherwise. love intersex trans women. love black trans women. love brown trans women. love trans women who are ostracized from their communities for whatever reason they thought was enough to kick a trans woman out. love trans women who want to pass and love trans women who don't. love trans women who don't want to reclaim slurs for themselves because they're still dealing with shit from being called them. love trans women who haven't met other queer people IRL yet for whatever reason. love trans women who aren't confident enough to go out on their own to the club or the gay bar or the pride parade. love trans women who don't know all the latest lgbt discourse terminology. love trans women with chests flatter than a board and an ass that makes hank hill look thick. love trans women who don't look like your usual perception of "trans woman". love trans women who use unusual pronouns. love trans women with schizophrenia, with NPD, with any various disorders. love trans women who can't find community with other trans women. love trans women no matter what
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since people rly seem to like this post i will let you in on its Secret Origins which is that my roommate was looking for their carabiner but couldnt remember the word so they asked me "have you seen my *pinchy hand motion*" and i responded "lobster claw????"
this is a prime example of whats known as new england brain syndrome
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I want to talk about why I think this is the one of the most important Falin panels:
So, Falin is really nice, right? It's one of the first things we really learn about her. She's kind even to the monsters of the dungeon - choosing to ward the party rather than fight spirits and cause them needless harm.
In the above early flashback in chapter 11, we see Marcille fawning over Falin's kindness, calling her an angel. Namari calls her soft-hearted. We see Falin choose not to fight even when a zombie attacks - instead she resolves the confrontation with a hug. After the flashback, the first thing Senshi says is that Falin "sounds like quite the person," which Marcille strongly affirms.
At this point in the story, all we have seen of Falin are these impressions; she is a healer, an angel, a caretaker with an infinite well of kindness towards everyone she meets - both friend and foe.
And honestly, that remains most of what we have to go by to understand her. The only times we get to see Falin on the page, alive and just herself, are in the opening and closing pages of the story and in the brief period of time after she is resurrected.
Nonetheless, we do have some more details to work with. For one, there is the scene that The Panel is from - a short memory in chapter 75, when Marcille flashes back to while she's dying. In that scene, Falin prepares to teleport them all out, and says that she's sorry "if there is a person at [their] destination." And that's when we get The Panel.
If you teleport someone or something into another person, the person teleported into is likely to be, at minimum, severely injured. They could die.
We can see a lovely little horrifying example of exactly why in one of the Daydream Hour doodles:
So, hmm. That's not... that's not SUPER nice. Certainly not displaying the same "kindness to all, friend and foe included" we saw represented earlier. On a basic level, this adds some nuance to Falin's kindness. We see it break a little, when pushed to the limit. We see her chose to protect the people she loves above all else.
Which makes sense! As Laios says when the Winged Lion accuses him of similarly being motivated more by his friends' safety than everyone else in the dungeon, "...most people, aside from virtuous do-gooders, would feel the same way."
So, we can take The Panel as simply showing a moment of weakness for Falin. A time when she was pushed to her limits, and that "most people" selfish side of her shone through.
However... I think there's a little more going on with Falin than just her being an angel 99% of the time, except just that once. I love The Panel because I think it helps us understand that Falin isn't just motivated by kindness - she also has a desire to avoid seeing people in pain.
Isn't that the same thing?
No, no it very much is not.
Let's look at a short comic from the Falin section of the Adventurer's Bible, because I think it illustrates this point perfectly. The group is complaining about how much Marcille's healing hurts, and comparing it to Falin's, which "doesn't hurt a bit." Marcille retorts with the following:
Now, the punchline of this comic is that, despite Marcille's sentimental assertion that she's "thinking of [them]" by letting her healing magic hurt, they all still prefer to be healed by Falin.
But hey, this wouldn't be the first time that Dungeon Meshi hides a very real character beat or insight in a gag, so let's think about this somewhat seriously.
If Marcille is right (and she knows a fair bit about magic, so we can assume that she has at least somewhat of a point), then what Falin is doing isn't kind. I suppose if someone specifically requested to not feel the pain, it could be kind, but that's not really what happened here. She is the one who felt badly about the others being in pain, and she is the one who decided, without telling them or giving them a choice in the matter, to take away that pain.
Both Marcille and Falin are healing the party, but Marcille is doing it in a way that accomplishes the task in the most straight forward way, without any additional interference. Falin is going out of her way to perform the healing in a way she is more comfortable with. A way that avoids pain.
Going back the The Panel, I don't think its a coincidence that the only time we see Falin (well, non-chimera Falin) willing to do something that could hurt someone is when any potential pain will be far away from her. If she got someone hurt or killed by teleporting the party to the surface? Not only would it be far out of her sight, but she'd be dead before she had to deal with any consequences of that action.
Falin is not a confrontational person. She doesn't push when Marcille won't tell her the truth about the resurrection, and she comforts Laios about her own death - both of those things happening in the only full chapter she is alive and conscious in the whole story.
We also know that she considered accepting Shuro's proposal, despite not having any special feelings towards him, and that Falin never explained to Marcille that she wanted them to share a meal together. When she brought Marcille various foods at the academy, she just accepted Marcille's confused rejection and gave up.
And lastly, we know that she is still in contact with her parents, despite the neglect and abuse she suffered at their hands. Although the way someone chooses to handle contact with abusive or bad family is a complicated topic, which I don't want to overly simplify, I do I think this fact gets at the heart of how she handles conflict.
So many people that Falin loves have hurt her. There are understandable hurts, like Laios leaving the village, or Marcille not understanding the food. And there are bigger, far less justifiable hurts - like her parents neglecting her throughout her childhood, and sending her away to be alone at the magic academy.
It doesn't seem like Falin has ever confronted any of it directly.
And the unhealthy aspects of this kind of avoidance of pain and confrontation is one of the things that the story of Dungeon Meshi is all about. We see Laios grapple with it before he goes to kill Falin, and we see Marcille acknowledge it at the end of the story, when she tells Laios that she has come to terms with Falin's death:
Eating is a part of life. Consuming other living things is a part of life. It isn't really possible to avoid that pain - you can only hide from the truth of it. You have to be selfish everyday. You have to eat - to choose to live. To choose to take up space.
And this is something Falin embraces, too. She comes back to life, after all.
We see her choose to come back to life.
And how does she make that choice? She eats. She consumes, and then she is asked a question by the manifestation of hunger itself:
Do you want to eat more?
There is a double meaning in the Winged Lion's final words on the next page.
When I first read this, I took it as him saying: life is cruel. You will suffer. You will feel more pain.
But perhaps, especially for Falin, this also means: you are choosing a path where you must cause pain. Where you must consume. Where you must take, and must be selfish. Because eating is the special privilege of the living, and it is their burden, too. In order to stay alive, she will need to keep eating.
And she chooses that. Chooses to be selfish. It's why her resurrection scene is so important, and it's why The Panel is so important. Because Falin coming back isn't the ultimate reward for all of the party's hard work.
It's her choice. Just like it was her choice that started everything in the first place. But this time, she doesn't choose to accept causing pain for the sake of Marcille and Laios. She does it for her own sake.
