Brand New Zodiac

my personal headcanon for Sonic’s shoes is that he gets them from some random no name shoemaker in the middle of nowhere that he stumbled upon during one of his early adventures who’s like 90 years old and can’t see a foot in front of his face and has no idea sonic is, like, famous. Sonic keeps coming back because this one grandpa who probably doesn’t know what the internet is makes the only shoes that can survive his crazy high speed life style. it leaves everyone guessing like what brand is sonic wearing? but Jokes on you, because it’s not a brand at all. Nike corporate fucking wishes it had half the swag Mr old man shoe does

Imagining deranged shit in the sonic world like people making dupes of Sonic’s shoes to sell on bipbop shop or whatever it would be called and then getting into scandals because of unethical production or tailsblr discourse over how no one can replicate Sonic’s aura vs “anyone can wear the mask” type shit. Does anyone else think about the sonic world like this or am I just insane.

the thing that drives me crazy about transmasc invisibility as a topic is that i DO think it's a problem, but i think the term gets misused a lot and i also think a lot of trans guys come to some pretty batshit conclusions on how trans women are treated

i think maybe we can talk about how we are routinely erased from conversations about reproductive care, abortion, gynecology, etc and then treated like we're annoying when we ask to be included without insinuating that trans women somehow benefit from it.

Werewolf Be Upon Ye

actually, that sex scene is load-bearing

Just so we’re clear, if I point out that you did something racist, that’s not the same as me thinking you’re irremediably terrible. You did a racist thing.

You think you don’t do racist things, homophobic things, etc? You do. I caught myself in fat phobic and homophobic lines of thinking/speech just this morning. I’m fucking gay married. Nothing disqualifies you from acting in a way that reflects the society you exist in. We are obliged to fight it. Why not fight it in honesty and with camaraderie?

another essential read, maybe even as a counter/companion to "conflict is not abuse" (which i am now dipping into some criticisms on) is david graeber's "the bully's pulpit" about the relationship between power, performance, and domination.