#chelonianmobile

i dont know how you manage to bring up something even more unrelated than what i used as a joke. Like you literally just looked up random symptoms because you have no genuine interest in the rights of neurodivergent people beyond infantilizing and pathologizing them for the purposes of justifying your spinelessness towards resisting bigotry and fascism. You have to be very purposely obtuse to believe that people criticizing harry potter fans are doing it directly because of the self-identification as opposed to the spineless immaturity of doing it with a franchise that is not only itself bigoted and created by a bigot but whose financial earnings are directly and explicitly being used to fund transphobia at large.

that’s a super interesting take!!

i’ve never considered much the digestive system and stuff of trolls, but it would make sense with the way you put it!

apparently even on earth humans are unique in that we ingest starch (like potatoes and plants like that) and most other animals can’t do that. Its fun to imagine the “toxic” earth things we think is normal that is completely bizarre to them

...I think you might be right? The closest sign I can think of is Arun but the proportions on this one are slightly off.

I had to load up one of my Hiveswap autosaves just to get back to the car for this and in the process realized the girl in the coat right behind this one has a bronze sign that, even though we can't see it, looks like it's either really similar to Chixie's sign or is just Chixie's sign because no other bronze signs have little protruding bits on the top and bottom like that (maybe Taurpio but the proportions would have to be skewed for that to be the case).

Yeah, that's what I meant when I said he might have us all fooled! Because he's nice to MSPAR specifically, while still letting other people get hurt and die without batting an eye (he doesn't Personally kill his audience*, but he does let them kill each other in a frenzy while he leaves for the backstage with MSPAR; same thing with Zebruh in his bad route, when he gets ripped apart by the audience), and he's nice to them in an explicitly non-canonical event that he somehow knows is non-canonical (the entirety of Friendsim, which is more a way to get to know the characters than anything).

In fact, I'm pretty sure he's the character that displays the most knowledge about meta bullshit, or at the very least he's more direct about it than Boldir “aware of Doc Scratch's existence and determined to fuck his shit up” Lamati, which is definitely something to note.

(He does also get a comparatively lighter punishment for his meta timeline bullshit (tanks the limo's explosion to protect MSPAR, which does hurt him a lot but doesn't seem to do him in before the timeline ending does) than Boldir gets for hers (is poisoned in both her routes, though she only dies in her bad end; is physically restrained and dragged away by narratively-aligned strings in her PQ cameo), though this probably is because she's actively working against Scratch.)

The reason Zebruh wants to get in with Marvus despite him being a highblood is because of that whole thing about clowns being the most oppressed class of all, and apparently his music also has subversive elements like Chixie's does; it also seems like he wants to take advantage of Marvus' fame and his status among the other clowns. Though literally everyone seems to lose their minds once they see him so that might play a part too.

*unless the whole mind control thing (which Is very heavily implied) has something to do with that, which it Might? Once MSPAR's on the stage with him (only in his good route though, which is also the one where MSPAR simps for him the most because the bad route's taken up by Meta Stuffs) we can see a purple overlay around the lower edges of the screen, and it basically seems that his mere presence causes literally everyone around him (except apparently his fellow purples) to go fucking bonkers, as I said above...

All the other clowns we've seen seem to have their chucklevoodoos under control (we don't see Chahut use hers, but the Soleils are very skilled with their powers and Karako's psychic fear nuke doesn't seem to leak out in any way), and if the baby clowns don't have problems keeping their powers in check I don't see why Marvus should...

I forgot about this scene! It’s the one where Vriska plays out Pupa Pan while degrading Tavros about his disability that she caused him the entire time, and upon kissing him and not having him kiss back - because he can’t tell if she’s callignious or flushed for him - she dumps him on the floor! Then, wonder of all wonders, she manipulates him into not just kissing her, but actually being FLUSHED for her! The only reason she gives up is the realisation that, yes, he is still disabled and can’t actually stand up. Again. Because she paralysed him. 

This is definitely one of the deeper problems with trying to put trans rep into characters who were never originally written as trans. No trans writer would write this scene about a transwomen in their goddamn life. Noone trying to represent a genuine and accurate portrayal of a trans woman would even THINK about writing a scene wherein she forces her abuse victim into a kiss - not just once, but twice. 

I honestly don’t think I could put it better than you did. Sexual violence is the most prominent and harmful stereotype of trans women. Nobody in their right mind would write this for a trans women unless they were actively trying to write into that stereotype. Or, as is the case here, unless that character was never written as trans to begin with and trying to retcon a trans identity on them now has deeply unfortunate implications.

When you read this piece, the comedic effect is meant to be at Tavros’ expense - that he’s a weak and weedy boy who can’t even kiss a girl he’s actively interested in when she’s trying to instigate - and not meant to be a slight against Vriska’s character. We’re meant to laugh because a female abuser is abusing her male abuse victim, and that makes Tavros pathetic. They’re not trying to shine a negative light on Vriska herself; you can tell this by how much they focus on her genuine disappointment that her plan fails. You’re meant to sympathise with her, somehow.

This is bad enough when Vriska is seen as a cis woman. When you put the trans identity on top of that, oh, boy does it become just ten times worse. Becuse not only does it focus on this deeply harmful stereotype, it also tries to make you think that stereotype is actively okay! That it’s funny! Again, no shit do people like Kate say Vriska can do no wrong as a trans woman; scenes like this only emphasise that fact. 

This admittedly is the difference between having a headcanon and genuinely making those things canon. 

When you headcanon someone as trans, you tend to put things into them that don’t actually happen in the comic, or you retcon out certain things because a trans person wouldn’t actually do them, or you slightly change others because a trans person would see them in a different light. Headcanon!Vriska still isn’t perfect, not by a long shot, but transwomen aren’t going to perpetuate this scene in their headcanons when it’s so genuinely harmful to them. They’re going to create scenes for her instead; experiences they’ve been through to replace some of the worst shit she’s done. 

When you canonise that identity, however, you are explicitly taking them out of that headcanoned context. You have to see them in their canonical light. You have to accept literally everything that character has done, said, thought, achieved, whether it would come across as inherently transphobic or not. Headcanon!Vriska might never do what canon!Vriska did to Tavros, but canon!Vriska can never undo that. So she becomes a transmisogynistic stereotype instead of a genuinely cared for and built up piece of representation that the fandom loves.

This is why we need more trans representation that was always legitimately meant to be trans - and good trans representation at that. The issue I just described is always, always going to be a problem unless Hussie and co. start writing trans characters from day 1, and not just writing cis characters and slapping on an identity when the fandom attaches a headcanon to one long enough. They need to start being genuinely aware of how they’re writing their trans characters and if they’re falling into - or ever fell into - transphobic/transmisogynistic stereotypes.

Trans representation isn’t good enough if it perpetuates hatred and violence against trans people. 

Unfortunately on Vriska’s behalf, there’s nothing we can do about that scene. It’s canonical. It’s always going to be there, and it’s always going to be a transmisogynistic slight on her character. I think the best we can hope for is that future trans women aren’t written like this. 

hmm,, imo, I think it’s acceptable. if the service of making the aesthetics/moodboards is still free but people still have the option of supporting them otherwise, it’s perfectly ethical. it’s like how in public service jobs you have your hourly pay vs the tips people give you of their own volition. hourly pay gets you in a uniform and working there, tips are just kind of the generosity otherwise. 

if people do start asking for commission money for making the moodboards at all, I think that’s where it starts getting dicey and in the realm of Making Money Off pictures that aren’t theirs (though it’s debatable whether or not the final product counts as smth like collage work?? like I said, dicey), but as a general statement, asking for/opening up tips isn’t a crime or nothin.