I recommend the movie Promare, in which homophobia is the root cause of global warming

Way back when google’s rss feed shut down I switched to Newsblur. I haven’t really checked in on the competition in a long time, but newsblur has been chugging along just fine with no major updates or overhauls (which makes it unlikely to enshittify itself).

No, you’re fruit!

I’ve had classes with a couple textbook authors and every time they strongly imply that we should pirate their books. People write textbooks out of frustration with their alternatives, not out of profit motive. The publisher is the one making most of that cash.

I prefer to use mine to solve sudoku on a sinking ship

get OUT OF HERE, creepy shoe man!!

(I am excited for this though)

Ya, I’m excited! (But less creepy shoe man this time please)

I enjoyed the first season, even as someone with very low tolerance for ecchi and harems. I decided to nope out on the second season though when I learned our boy’s harem has some creepy age gaps and incest in it. I figured I’d just let myself imagine the rest of the show instead of continuing until it’s too uncomfortable to watch. Plus, in my imaginary version, Friend A can come back and make the title slightly inaccurate.

Does Clair Obscur count as a souls-like mash-up? Because hoo boy has it been a lot of fun. I’ve been describing it to people as the midpoint between dark souls and paper mario

I have no knowledge on the topic so I can’t answer the first couple questions.

However, I will say its a useful correction to say there are ongoing efforts to maintain historical practices if it makes the correctee happy to hear that (as is the case in the meme). It’s also useful to remember that indigenous peoples still exist and aren’t just historical (something a lot of US folks aren’t taught in school)

I believe it’s the verb tenses. Instead of it being a historical fact, it’s an ongoing practice of an ongoing group of people

You should check out Total Fantasy Knockout. The author has stated multiple times that the exact nature of the unavoidable queerness of the story is left for the audience to decide and that they just want to cause people to realize things about themselves, lol.

I do get kind of frustrated when transfems claim for their “team” characters whose experiences and stated feelings map really well onto transmasc experiences, but I understand the impulse and at some point we all just need to take what we can get. (For the record, Ranma does not fall into that camp for me because he very much does not seem to have dysphoria, lol)

Hardly anyone reads Ranma as a transmasc character though, mostly because he was born and raised male and his female form is rather new. Instead, he’s typically seen as the transfem egg fantasy of “oh no someone made me become a girl! Oh well, there’s nothing I can do.” In the actual text of the anime/manga, he is pretty adamant that he’s a guy, but mostly seems to want to get rid of his female form because it’s inconvenient (he gets comfortable being seen as a woman pretty quickly). IMO it’s got some genderqueer/gnc flavor, but doesn’t map very well onto more binary trans experiences.

I’m really not a fan of .ml, but I’m not sure I see what’s objectionable in either of these posts.

If it makes you feel any better, I am very confident in my guess that there are cis men your dad and grandpa would call “not real men” either.

Ultimately, if being a boy makes you feel more like “yourself”, that’s enough. Sorry you’re dealing with unaccepting family.

I’ve heard that part of it is a spoiler and part of it is a pun that’s impossible to translate

Best time of year. I love my little octopus skeleton 🐙 💀 💕

Them: i got an error

Me: ok, what did the error say

Them: i didn’t read it

Me: ok… well, can you take a look?

Them: i already turned off the computer

Imo,

It makes sense for a hospital birth record (not a government document) to note “observed sex at birth”, alongside other measurements like length and weight, since it’s a medical record and gives then a moderately good first guess about internal organs.

It makes sense for drivers license and passport to have “gender expression” alongside hair and eye color, height, weight and if you wear glasses. Everything in that section is self-reported and helps make sure you’re the person on the document, but they’re all things that can be situationally different or go out of date. With how dimorphic our fashion is culturally, gender expression can be pretty identifying, similar to the other qualities.

Every other government document has no business recording sex or gender in any capacity. Neither of them is the government’s business.

Ya, I’ve bounced off a couple non-fromsoft soulslikes and they always seem to forget that the games are tying to build you up by challenging you rather than tear you down by defeating you. I can definitely see how those kinds of harsh dev vs player type games could feed into a mindset of “it’s everyone for themselves and i will come out on top”