I ate'nt dead

For context in Halo, the enemies you fight are usually a group of aliens called The Covenant. They're a bunch of different alien races organized in a religious hierarchical caste system. They have some classic normal lookin aliens, there's the big monkey men, the crafty avians, the tall noble warriors, etc. But they also have some weirder ones in the mix. Hunters are these enormous balls of armor with a gigantic cannon and a shield they're more than happy to slap your shit with. They look like this:

But it's not just a normal alien guy under that armor. It's a bunch of worms. See Hunters are made up of colonies of Lekgolo worms. Each Hunter has a gestalt intelligence made up of all the worms that also make up its body. As part of creating a hunter, the colony of Lekgolo are actually split, and half is growth into one hunter, and the other half is its brood brother. They are raised together, fight together, and literally are each other's other half. Those two in that pic? They've known each other their entire lives

Back to Scarabs. Uhh, you'll notice how they're not named to the usually naming conventions of Covenant vehicles? Covenant dropships are Phantoms, and Spirits. Their tank is called a Wraith. Small personal attack vehicle, that's a Ghost. Static defense turrets get called Shades. You get the deal. Their vehicles are named after spirits of the dead. Scarabs, are not named after spirits. Sure, scarabs are associated with the dead, given how much ancient Egypt loved scarabs. But they're not spirits, and very much a living kind of bug. That's because Scarabs are made of the same stuff as Hunters.

This thing right here? That's not a vehicle. That's A GUY made of worms wearing highest tech mobility aid you have ever seen.

People make jokes about "imagine drunk driving one of these mfs" with a pic of a Scarab, imagining it would be like driving a car, when in reality it would be much closer to how every few years you hear a news story about some drunk guy letting his horse take him home because it knows the way better than he does. Except in this version the horse crushes your house and slags half of your neighborhood in frustration.

describing this as generalized transphobia flattens out the differences in how variously trans people are variously discriminated against. framing this as transmisogyny correctly focuses our attention on the ways in which discrimination which uniquely targets transfems is weaponized. there will no doubt be downstream effects felt by any number of transmisogyny exempt people, and they will rightly feel upset about the injustices they will experience. i do not want those things to happen, but they will and it will be bad and wrong when they do. but the first people targeted will be those least able to exempt ourselves from transmisogyny, those named explicitly in the majority opinion.

you'll pardon me for not sparing much consideration for future injustices when my sisters and siblings are already suffering, already being cast out and labeled as dangerous, things whose inclusion is a bourgeois luxury reserved only for when we have the time to weigh the complications and the nuance.

The UK's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Andrew Tate was being charged with seven further counts of rape, as well as other charges relating to alleged crimes including sex trafficking and indecent images of a child.

When I hear "tumblr sexyman," I think of Cecil Night Vale being constantly depicted as a skinny white man instead of literally anything else. I think of the background character white men who get elevated over protagonists that are women, people of color, or otherwise not the white man power fantasy.

Cecil Night Vale, as previously mentioned.

Oncelercest, because if there aren't two skinny white men to ship, tumblr fandom will start shipping the skinny white man with himself.

Bill Cipher inexplicably being fanon'd as a white twink despite being a fucking triangle.

Everyone fawning over Marvel Loki while shoving every woman and Black person in the MCU aside.

The way nearly every single character in Hazbin Hotel has the same "tall and skinny" body type, along with all the criticisms Black audience members have made about the issues with Alastor's design.

JK Rowling has had her hands in UK politics for a long time. She’s close friends with Gordon Brown, who paved the way for Tory austerity, donated to the Better Together campaign and hounded independence supporters, and, as you’ve said, actively funds anti trans legislation.