You mean an animal that’s vicious because its only hope of survival is high risk aggression and it’s probably starving?

Like, yes they’re very aggressive and scary, but in the same way an incel with a semi auto is. They’re still losers who’ve failed and aren’t likely to live long.

Damn that’s a very accurate critique, mind you I find few adults care about the ethics of the fiction they consume (and I don’t mean that as purity testing, but like if you’re going to show ethics make them reasonable or interesting

I had to use it in order to lose it

As a trans woman I generally agree with you, especially about the amab/afab bit. Like, yes, sometimes it’s necessary information, but so often it’s used as politically correct wording to misgender. I’ve seen it used in so many contexts where I’m just like “you understand that I’ve been living as a woman full time for nearly all of my adult life and have undergone a lot of medical transition right?”

Like I don’t mind the term transfem, but ime its far more often used in conversations about transmisogyny. In that context I think it’s useful. But at the same time, I had a long period of frustration with being treated as though I’m anything less than the binary woman I am. I still don’t like it, but I don’t experience it nearly as much

Inshallah they shall fall

That’s how I do it. I love some makeup styles, but I like it bold and if I’m not going bold I may as well just not wear any

Yeah Americans being introspective? The whole world would notice

Carabiner on a belt loop

That’s basically how coming out to my mom went lol

Well you’re a bit late as I haven’t had a dick in a few years lol. But yeah it’s brutally difficult to be trans and also my life is so much better as I don’t have an underlying misery and hiding my self hate of my body anymore. I don’t even hate it at all anymore

May the gods show him all the love and kindness he plans to show his most vulnerable citizens

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Idk if you’re also a young millennial, but yeah in my teenage years I secretly devoured content about trans people (especially women) where I saw it and given that that was the latter half of the 00s when the internet was finally connecting communities more broadly and when trans healthcare was going through its shifts away from those systems towards the more “hey they’ll just tell us what we need to hear so let’s just do informed consent and save everyone some trouble” period. This means I got a weird mix of advice, and you know Susan’s place was Susan’s place. So I was afraid I might have to cut everyone off to start a new life (and thus I alienated loved ones for a while), and I knew the old advice to wait until the dysphoria is so bad it’s “transition or suicide” so I waited until that was the case, which only cost me a year or two, but it wasn’t good for me.

I still remember the first time I saw a trans woman like me on the internet, one who didn’t feel the need to be overly performative in her femininity, but could just be a person. I couldn’t hold my egg together after seeing her, and I went from “sure I might transition someday” to “but am I actually a trans woman, and when will I transition” within a week. The early 10s were a wild and exciting time.

Oh absolutely and sorry if I was kinda downery about it, I had it easy, not as easy as some, but those who came before did important work. I just think as someone who transitioned in a different time it’s important to not let our history be forgotten, especially as many who experienced it learned to be less loud about it

V speaks of anarchy as having two roles: destroyer and creator, as he teaches Evey to create and he destroys. Additionally he describes anarchy as the order to be contrasted to the chaos immediately after his destruction of norsefire’s control.

As for that quote, I’m struggling to find evidence it was in the comic (I never actually watched the movie). The wikiquote for the comic doesn’t have that line, but the one for the movie does, and the comic one instead has a lot of V explaining anarchy to anyone whether or not they’re interested in listening.

The comic is very explicitly about British anarchism against British fascism, whereas the movie is a lot more about George W Bush, the patriot act, and the left wing opposition to these things in the America of the early and mid 00s

Oh yeah I’m old lol. RLE is short for Real Life Experience. The long and short of it is many therapists used to make you live as your identified gender full time for a period of time before they would write you a letter of recommendation to start hormones. And back then you couldn’t get hormones without that letter, it acted as a diagnosis of gender dysphoria. The rise of the modern informed consent model is something I transitioned during about 11 years ago and it was kinda a huge deal.

But yeah as an old comic I spent too long looking for before deciding I probably shouldn’t link it anyways said, RLE more or less functioned as hazing for trans people by the medical establishment. Even as late as the early 10s you might be denied hormones for not transitioning to hetero (or bi depending on the therapist) or for not dressing exaggeratedly enough (in the mid teens a friend got refused a letter because she didn’t wear makeup or skirts to appointments).

Kinda, but both are performative maximalism done within a subcultural framework done as both a means to express identity and to have an opportunity to be as flashy and showy as they’d like. The people who go all out for Halloween are a different variant of it.

Show about two hockey players experiencing sexual tension

Oh absolutely, and I’m going into it knowing I’m about to see the opposite of Picard, that’s why I see it as a palate cleanser lol. My expectation for Kirk is what if the Riker we see in season 1 was a captain, but less of a feminist. Like, I’m expecting him to be feminist by 60s standards, but Riker is over here being feminist by 90s standards. And that’s ok, I love Riker as a character as well.