I ❤️ Self-loathing Characters, Characters Who Struggle With Monstrosity (either Fearing Or Embracing

To all the trans people who see this tonight, no matter what happens, we will survive. Trans people will still be here 4 years from now and 10 years from now and 100 years from now and tomorrow. We have always existed and we always will. The world cannot unlearn about us; we are too public, too loud, too beloved, too present. Ill be here tomorrow. Please stay here with me.

Yuri Kaisen 🤩😳

ok im going to #seriouspost for a second here. I don't think Harry Potter is a manifesto. I think it was a flawed passion project that millennials latched onto because of the fantasy of sticking it to their mean teachers and arbitrarily categorizing themselves (hogwarts houses; it's the thinking millennial's astrology). I think the fact that the series got popular when and how it did was very much a product of its time.

I don't think Harry Potter is the biggest symbol of JKR's bigotry. I think the most flagrant sign of that was how she responded to critics. I watched her become radicalized in real time. I watched how she doubled down on her racism when she was called out for the ways she promoted her tragically mid fantastic beasts movies. I watched her chase marginalized teenagers with a double digit follower count off of twitter for daring to criticize her thought process, and no one with any kind of power standing against her because she was the one who was paying them. This isn't to say Harry Potter is without flaws. This is to say she really didn't give a shit about that. Getting rich and powerful is a hell of a drug, and she had enough sycophants that she had no reason to care about what her critics were saying.

She was convinced that she was a martyr; a voice for the unheard; a leader for the ages, so of course her detractors were the bad guys. And I think we should take this to heart. We should see this as an example of how easy it is to get radicalized; if you think of yourself as a paragon of virtue, you are going to think that whatever you see as good and right is an objective fact. Most people don't know this, but the majority of terfs start out as trans allies. You are not immune to propaganda! You are not immune to falling into dangerous ideologies!!!

This is why the most important thing you can do as an activist is to listen. Do NOT think you're above being wrong; do NOT develop a god complex; do NOT form an identity out of being right all the time. Involve yourselves in the groups you claim to speak for. Listen to trans women; share resources that help trans women; familiarize yourself with the diversity of experiences that trans people have and the struggles they face.

No, none of you are as bad as JKR because you don't have her money or her power. You will likely never have the capacity for harm she does. But check yourselves. Do not affirm yourselves into thinking you always have the moral high ground. Watch yourselves; humble yourselves; check yourselves for signs of cult behavior and internalized prejudice. You are always learning. You will always be learning. Do not allow yourselves to get a power trip from brushing off marginalized voices.

saw an anime piracy post with links i didn't like, so i'm creating my own - updated 2023/3/25

as always use an adblocker everywhere you can, preferably ublock origin on pc, if youre on mobile you can use adguard (both android/ios) or firefox nightly with ublock (android only)

anime streaming - a majority of these sites pretty much function the same, especially for newer shows - animepahe.ru - my personal favorite, with adblock it Just Works - 9anime - the old classic, has a huge library and still works perfectly - gogoanime - another old classic, most other streaming sites steal their rips from here directly

manga reading - tachiyomi - android front end that aggregates all sources into an easy to use app, highly recommend. there's also tachidesk for pc, though i personally have not used it. all the below sites also exist as tachiyomi extensions - mangadex - the classic, has pretty much all scanlation content out there, servers are very stable now compared to years ago - dynasty-scans - the go-to for yuri content - mangasee - my personal favorite for officially licensed content, ad free!

visual novels - this section focuses on direct downloads, but for vns especially, i greatly prefer torrenting - ryuugames - has lots and lots of porn, but also has almost every other vn here too, has link shorteners, my preferred dl source is onedrive - erogedownload - older site, doesn't have everything and has downloads split across 200mb files - gog-games - though not explicitly visual novel-centric, many vns are published on gog and are available to download here, along with the bonus gog goodies

torrenting/other bonus things under the cut

anime/manga/vn torrenting - this method is preferred over direct downloads/streaming if you can help it - for starters, you definitely need to use a vpn for this, if you are unsure what to use r/vpn has a really detailed provider comparison table, i personally recommend mullvad, though - you will also need to use a torrent client in order to download content, use qBittorrent for pc and flud for android - nyaa.si - has most content out of anything, your go-to site, if you are looking for official manga add "digital" to your search - sukebei - nyaa sub-site that contains any r18 content, most visual novels are here instead

light novels - admittedly, i am not as familiar with lns, but here is what i've used/seen around - novelupdates - my personal go-to, does not host links themselves - webtoepub - converts websites into downloadable epubs, works with ao3 as well

raws - itazuraneko - your best bet, has manga/light novels/visual novels/movies/japanese subtitles for anime, also features japanese guides - bszip - another source i use infrequently, has manga/light novels/magazines

syncing - if you like tracking your watching/reading with sites like mal/anilist/etc - malsync - browser extension that despite its name, works with mal/anilist/kitsu/simkl - taiga - windows app that works for downloaded anime, also contains a built in torrent tracker

additional links - i personally can't vouch for all of their items, but thewiki.moe and their catalog theindex.moe both are invaluable resources, with tons of sites and feature filtering

Prison is the most obvious choice. It's more direct about its queerness; it spits in everyone's faces that yeah, we exist. Its directness has the power to anger homophobes because it's so obvious and unequivocal that it's about queerness.

But I think we should vote Mama. There's the argument that the queerness in Mama is subtextual, or that it was named queer by the fans, which automatically makes it less queer than Prison.

But isn't that the point? We made Mama our own song. We claimed it because it made us feel seen, it comforted us, it gave us something to identify with. And community is so important. I love Prison just as much as the next person, but we made Mama our own. It's personal, intimate, individual.

Prison is a song whose queerness is explicit. Mama is a song whose queerness is subtextual. Both meanings are very important: the former conveying being out and proud, the latter conveying the very real queer experience of having to hide yourself for safety, and the desperation that comes with it.

Really, one could make a solid argument for both. But my vote goes to Mama for the song that spoke to and provided comfort for so many fans. It feels a lot more impactful, a lot more meaningfully queer for me.

Anyway leave it to me to vomit multiple paragraphs of MCR song analysis under a fucking tumblr poll, but perhaps that's what tumblr is all about.

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CHAOS, CONFUSION AND WHOLLY UNWORTHY

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