I would say "my kingdom for never again having to deal with people who think that victory over fascism comes from playing respectability politics" but I already lost my kingdom playing respectability politics

Lina Inverse was the first crack to my egg because I got to Tenou Haruka's gender play in Sailor Moon S and brain went "nope, the nascent bog witch is not yet ready for this wisdom"

yes, yes we do, though we can't have grass on the grass for reasons I don't entirely understand

you're right, WaniKani, I am definitely an apprentice at becoming empty, I am a giant ball of attachments— oh, wrong kind of empty, this is more like my mug of coffee.

now playing, my childhood

there's going to be a moment in the future where I fuck up the voicing on this word and I'm going to feel tremendously dumb because I have watched so much yuri and have heard this so much even before the 100GF brainrot happened

me: *tries to focus on Japanese drills* anxiety attack: "you're in a courtroom, litigating your right to exist, and no one actually gives a damn about any of your arguments because the proceedings are entirely prefunctory" me: "wait, no, I'm in Holland. I guess it's time for my afternoon anxiolytic"

I am getting *adequate* at *reading* Japanese I feel the difference between that and actually *speaking Japanese* literally any time I try to construct a sentence and about half of the time I hear someone speaking to me there's an auditory processing disorder but also I just don't know many words!

LRP: I was kind of hoping that the hat would turn out to be read as "ヤンキー" / "yankii" jisho.org/word/%E3%83%... but no, it's utter nonsense

lol. That absolutely, positively does not say “Yankees.“

I can only afford to write smut freely because of collective bargaining with one of the biggest employers on the planet meant that when they worked me into disability they have to pay me a percentage of my salary as an annuity that keeps me housed and fed and some of that money goes to artists

Good vibes are great but people die of exposure.

Someone at a convention once said to a friend who was working the booth with me that he liked my work but he wasn't going to buy anything because "Chris is successful enough and doesn't need my money". Anyway I'm no longer a full time game designer because I didn't make enough money to live.

in light of the uk being the uk again

Kikuri hiroi #doodle #bocchitherock #art

the sudden haunting realization that United States recordkeeping management has almost certainly been delegated to AIs that are not at all capable of doing the job in a way that complies with the recordkeeping obligations of the United States government at least it's not my mess to clean up anymore

the bog witch, having retreated to a land where fictional things are fictional and real things are real, having sworn to never again be the Rose Bride: "I /did/ swear on the blood of my ancestors that I would speak out against this kind of evil if it reared its face again. Also this coffee is good."

Americans: watch Nazis roaming the streets having illicitly gained control of the organs of government Americans: "Now's the time that we need to be making lists of the degenerates we want to see killed right?" not quote-posting the OP for the obvious reasons being discussed in this post right here

first reaction: "that's a thing people say?" second reaction: "puritans have come again, we're relitigating the 90s, fuck." third reaction: "yes this is correct; that is a summary of an abusive relationship dynamic." fourth reaction: "cisheteronormative serial monogamy sure is getting so much worse"

the thing about voice training for me is that I very quickly noticed that most of the advice I was getting for how to modulate my voice to be accepted as a "woman" was the exact opposite of the advice that I was given getting my doctorate in law, which is functionally "persuasive rhetoric and cites"

if you deny guilt, the accusation is delivered again more forcefully. if you are bullied into a false confession, the harassers smell blood and demand greater and greater displays of shame, self effacement and groveling. no out exists save refusing to value their opinion

one of the core functions of moralism is the manufacture of excuses for wrongdoing. it's the means by which the exploiters are converted into social activists and the exploited are converted into an untouchable underclass. each and every victim can be saddled with an unfalsifiable sin

there’s even a part of Black Iron Prison about this, using largely the same metaphor

"Eventually you can't help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars. Which, also, are constructs." from Nevada by Imogen Binnie sometimes i worry i quote this too much but i think its just that good of a line

when I changed my name in Virginia I filled out the Order of Name Change for the judge to give a cursory signature because the state by and large does not care and my locality cared even less there are a bunch of states that it was not difficult to get a name change in a decade ago It Gets Worse.

EVEN THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE INFAMOUS BILLBOARD ARE CLOWNING ON XENOSYS LOOOOOOL

the constant news of trans women being murdered and made illegal and losing their jobs and having to beg for money for food and rent and medical bills is kinda fucking me up to be real honest w u

same; I use "じゃあね" b/c I am old enough that "ciao" feels tremendously dated, despite living in EU I do not think that this is even remotely the most hypomanic pixie dream girl coded thing about me, though; I think that's probably going to be somewhere in the general category of "sexually libertine"

So relevant.

Since the concept is being misunderstood and misused, let's talk about what "third-sexing" means as a mechanism of transphobia. I built on an idea first discussed in @juliaserano.bsky.social's "Whipping Girl" that discussed how, interpersonally, cis people refuse to acknowledge our genders.

Me: a trans girl sorority would be cool My wife: do you mean a polycule?

"this was paid for with your tax dollars" bumper sticker for my neovagina technically every employer-based health insurance plan in the United States is obliged to do the same because Bostock was never overturned but I'm not in the United States anymore because due process is long dead, so 🤷🏻‍♀️

Trans gals and pals out as themselves for the first time, nervous but so happy that they look practically radiant. 😭😭😭

QTP with a character that permanently altered your brain chemistry this is how my egg got its first crack!

Absolute confidence Comm from @yoracrab.bsky.social

me: "what if I made the Dr. Manhattan multiple-body sex scene hot instead of off-putting?" brain: "we don't know, bog witch. we can't know until you write Yachiyo making multiple copies of herself while Iroha gets more and more flustered." two Yachiyos would be easy; the real challenge is three+

y'all this art of Rydia from Final Fantasy IV is older than most of the people on here

one of the best notes I got on my first segment of fic to go on AO3 is "the audience does not need all of this plodding exposition to explain the backstory; enough of it comes out in dialogue" and I excised about 10% of the total word count and the smut is much better for it

#TransRights #GBA gameboy.stonekokoro.com

(via gameboy.stonekokoro.com)

one of the most humiliating aspects of being trans is being forced to think of 2015-2020 as a brief golden age

Something like 8 years ago I wrote an essay about how I was going to stop using the "trans women are women (etc)" slogan, because it felt tautological and ridiculous to be stating common sense over and over. But you know what? Trans women ARE women. Factually, biologically, materially, women.

holy crap I put in a request for Vyvanse / lysdexamphetamine into a web portal a few days ago and just walked to the apothecary and was given a 90-day fill. for €0. my “congressional” health insurance delayed my modafinil until the day before my departure from the United States just b/c they could.

Renako's panicked "no, Ajisai, I'm definitely not into you treating me like an older sister, I could never be into something so debaucherous!" seems timely given the 💽🐎

the way Kiwi is unequivocally romantically attached to Utena [with everything that entails] while finding Utena's commitment to the kayfabe of Magical Girls Versus Baddies endearing is a big part of why this ship means so much to me bc I am the girl my wives think is cute being performatively queer

other small presses were less direct about the same general phenomenon. When we ask "what is trans lit" or "why is trans lit like that", we are asking a question similar to trying to discern the soul of the trans woman from the Grooby frontpage

Well I saw the dossier compiled on you by cyberstalkers and believe that you should be subjected to the most unaccountable tools of state violence/extrajudicial violence should be wielded against you. I am not a fascist btw