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TRANS TRANS TRANS men are part of the the primary targets of patriarchy and sexism.

Gender segregation should ONLY ever to counteract the patriarchy. there is no other purpose for it.

There is every reason to use our brains and realise that being a TRANS TRANS TRANS man is a different SOCIAL CATEGORY to cis men.

if you want to talk about TRANS OPPRESSION, why dont we talk about the reality that trans women face the VAST MAJORITY OF ANTI-TRANS VIOLENCE, ANTI-TRANS DESCRIMINATION, AND ANTI-TRANS LEGAL PERSECUTION. its almost like a fundamentally patriarchal society specifically targets WOMEN and FEMININITY in general. the same way a black man has priviledge over a black women, a trans man has priviledge over trans women. and even cis women in some instances! because our society values men!

Sorry but your "privileges" sound incredibly subjective and arent universal. Who's forcing anyone to buy any "man" vs "woman" products, and do you think this is true for every trans man, and that conversely every woman, trans or not spend a lot of money on "woman" products?

Both Hotel Transylvania and School for Little Vampires (SFLV) are animated children's media that focus on vampires, but they are quite different in tone, type of humour and design.

In this post I will compare HT and SFLV in how they depict vampires, explaining I prefer the latter (SFLV) to the former.

HT:

SFLV:

Like other "spooky cartoons" for children such as Gravity Falls, Over the Garden Wall, Amphibia and The Owl House, "School for Little Vampires knows how to make "child-appropriate" horror--terrifying moments that are still appropriate for its target audience.

In the show, there are numerous occasions where there's a real sense of danger, especially in the 1st season that was more somber and serious in tone than the latter.

The protagonist Oscar is a gentle, kind-hearted vampire boy who's so hemophobic he faints at the sight of blood, and one episode deals with his fear of hurting Sunshine, the human girl he has a crush on because he was told that losing and regrowing his fang would make him turn into a blood-thirsty monster.

Another episode centers around a villain from centuries ago who has escaped and wants to take over the castle, to accomplish this he took Sunshine hostage, and throughout the episode he's presented as a ruthless and terrifying villain who wouldn't hesitate to kill everyone inside the castle should he win.

Last but not least, there's an episode where Sunshine is accidentally turned into a vampire by Oscar, and becomes bloodthirsty and aggressive as a result. To turn her back, Oscar and his friends attempt a blood-transfusion that would result in her death should they not succeed, and since the bully Stoker likes her as a vampire, he attempts to stop the transfusion.

In comparison, HT (and by which I include the series) feels a lot more juvenile and "defanged": there isn't much of the same sense of peril and therefore no tension. Except for movie 3, none of the films had anything close to a major antagonist, and even then there isn't the same eery, creepy athmosphere; the big battle in movie 3 was set against pop music which makes the scene more goofy than scary.

And in movie 4, it was shown by the end that Johnny would've turned human at the end regardless, thus making it clear that there was no danger of him staying as a dragon, which would've given some stakes to the story.

When HT tries to make their vampires scary, they always use the same "rage-face" expression:

Sure, it might look scary as a still picture, but they're all "blink and you'll miss it" rather than truly played for horror.

In comparison, SFLV knows how to build up a scene to create tension, allowing the horror true impact.

Example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAAwJS0Se8Q&list=PLT-OdcNZtAFgx8ubfTqnI3eHXjsOyGUz-&t=0h0m52s

Otherwise though, fun news! I’m changing Leonardo’s mer au species from a mimic octopus to a coconut octopus

I think it’s personally a better fit since I want someone else to be a mimic in this au, and coconut octopuses are more adept at utilizing tools to hide and hunt (I.e. discarded coconut shells). The adaptive and nature as well as their habit of making and selective tools make a better candidate for a resourceful guy like Leo (an inventor in the game), and it gives more logic to why in this au he has a habit for collecting things— empty shells, discarded trash, anything that peaks his curiosity. Another fun fact is that coconut octopuses engage in bipedalism, oftentimes while carrying other things or hiding under a coconut shell.

Nature + Fiddler

Commission info

Flat Colored Sketch:

15 USD per character (full body)

10 USD per character (headshot)

Colored Sketch

15 USD per character (headshot)

25 usd per character (full body)

Full illustration with background:

65 USD per character

Extras Things that will incur an extra charge:

- props, like weapons or instruments - especially detailed character or costume designs - "unusual" anatomy like additional limbs or wings

Won't draw:

bodily fluids/excretions

genitals/explicit sexual acts

Some years ago I had a very unpleasant experience with a religious right wing nut. It started when I saw his post which compared the mermaid from H.C. Andersen's original story with Disney's Ariel. He claimed that despite many criticizing Ariel for being "a selfish brat who got away with everything" he claims that the original mermaid frm H.C. Andersen's story fits the description far more in his opinion.

He argues that because Ariel was manipulated by Ursula and her minions to make the deal, as well as suffering from an unaccepting father she is far more sympathetic while the original mermaid was not influenced by outside factors, but was "only" suffering from an existencial crisis of learning that the only way for a mermaid to gain an afterlife is to get a human to fall in love with her.

He says that Ariel did make up for her actions by "making up her mess" by help take down Ursula while the original mermaid left her family grieving, and even might have caused her grandmother to die of heartbreak.

Finally, the OP claims that the original mermaid got her goal of being able to earn a soul, something he thinks is undeserved because of the grief she put her family through, and because she supposedly committed suicide by jumping off a boat that would in his eyes "automatically damn her to hell" (in his conservative christian viewpoint).

His opinions do upset me because they seem really skewered. It feels stupid to care so much about someones opinion on fiction, but they do bother me a lot, and still do now, especially his take that the OG mermaid "forced her sisters to get Chemotherapy" because in Andersen's story, the mermaid's sisters try to save her by exchanging their hair for a knife to the Sea-Witch. This is utterly bizarre.

To deal with my distress I've turned to creating and sharing my fictional stories, and I've created a character in response to the right-wing nut, designed specifically to piss him off.

She's a fan character for the game "Vampire Therapist".

Background: Vampire Therapist is a visual novel where you play as Sam Walls, a vampire who became a therapist to help other vampires process their emotional baggage and deal with their mental distortions.

It was not only funny and imaginative but provided me with a perfect vessel to process my emotional baggage and indulge my historical nerd side at once.

So onto my character: she was born during the late Roman empire to parents who were early Christians. She was a rebellious teenager who found her home life to be dull and restrictive, and defied her parent's authority by attending pagan festivals, and it was during one particularly wild celebration where she met her "Bloodfather", an ancient vampire who acted as the leader of a mystery cult in the guise of the god Dionysos, and they became lovers.

Her parents became worried and after finding out about their daughter's lover the father tried to kill him, but was mercilessly slaughtered in turn.

Since then she has continued her hedonistic lifestyle with little care in the world. Deep inside she does feel some guilt for indirectly causing her parent's death, yet it bothers her little, or at least she doesn't let it show.

Her quirk is a compulsive need to rebel against authority and shock conservative religious communities. She has given herself the nickname "Blasphemia".

Oh what's that? You think that she is defending him because they have a relationship? Of course you'd say that... Because sexism.