I don't get why some people are so pissed about "the future is plural." it doesn't mean child abuse, or even making more systems. it just means making the world more accepting of plurality.

quit acting like being plural is inherently bad. it isn't. being plural doesn't mean suffering all the time. our suffering has not once been related to being plural.

Y'all.. do you think the ut community will like my au??

ReverseTale - Monsters won the war. Humans in the underground but there is no barrier..

If a reversetale already exists can you guys help me create an au cause I'm in the process of fusing these two images together to create a sans.. a giant ass Sans meant to counter any sans fairly in pure neutralism and not be broken.

I should not have to be an educator on all things gender just to be treated as valid. Like holy fuck I should not have to answer the question of “are you a boy or a girl” with “neither, I’m nonbinary” five times in a row because apparently “that’s not a real answer”. I should not have to listen to unhinged rants about “basic biology” to get people to stop demanding to know what’s in my pants when I refuse to tell them. I should not have to thump the Bible back at someone spouting made-up bullshit about what it says about gender (it doesn’t say fucking anything about trans people, btw, but it sure does say a lot about shoving your religion down other people’s throats — funny how they never know those verses!). I should not have to go dig up articles about third genders and gender diversity in ancient cultures and trans research from 100 years ago just so people will stop acting like I’m hopping on some new trend!!! Holy fucking shit!!! I am literally just some person going about my day, minding my own business!!! If you can’t respect basic shit like my name and pronouns then leave me the fuck alone!!!!

I’m So Mad

The pressure to go to a gynecologist continues. I’m four years past the recommended age, but again, I see no reason to go. I’m a virgin in every sense of the word, I’m having regular periods which have changed only slightly. It’s true that my mom had endometrial cancer, but she had risk factors: age, weight, the fact that she’s not a virgin like me. And the doctors who treated her said it was non hereditary!!!

I understand she’s nervous for her health still, because even though she’s luckily cancer free, she still has to go for checks every three months. But she shouldn’t be pushing it on me. My therapist shouldn’t be pushing it on me. I signed a wavier with my doctor saying I don’t plan on seeing a gyno and that’s how it’s going to stay. My doctor isn’t pressuring me after I made the decision.

In fact, I recently watched a couple demonstration videos about how they do pelvic exams and Pap smears, and they put the speculum way deeper than I thought. I cringed so much. I thought a Pap smear would at least be a little bit better than a pelvic exam but now that I see how deep the speculum goes, they’re both equally bad in my opinion. So that’s a no go.

I really don’t understand how everyone thinks I’m crazy. I’ve never had anything inside me. Not a tampon, not even my own fingers. And I sure as fucking hell don’t want a cold metal thing or someone else’s fingers inside me. I mean the only thing separating the pelvic exam finger thing from being sexual is the setting and the gloves (and the intention).

I don’t understand why everyone thinks I’m crazy for my personal opinion on this. Everyone has an opinion. You want to go to a gyno, go ahead. But don’t try to convince me to go. I don’t want to feel violated like that.

I’m not sorry for my decision. My body my choice. Be upset about it, I don’t fucking care

I LOVE the asexual rep in Bojack Horseman so much, to be honest, it was the reason I found out I'm ace. When Todd was finding out what asexuality was, it also taught me as well and I understood what he felt. Bojack Horseman led me to do more research on asexuality and I finally understood all of those feelings that I've had in the past. I think it's amazing how greatly Bojack Horseman explained asexuality, and they didn't just do it in one episode and call it a day, they slowly explained it throughout the series as Todd discovered himself and that's amazing to me. Out of curiosity, my fellow ace/aro peeps, how did you guys figure out you were asexual?

This post is a bit of a rant, but oh well, I’m posting it anyways.

As an aromantic, asexual teenager, I hate telling adults that I’m aroace. This is because every single time I have, they always clearly seem to think that they don’t believe me. As if they know that I just need to grow up and then I’ll realise how wrong I am. As if they know me better than I do. And I hate it. I hate it so much.

I know that identities are always changing and that people are always growing, but this is who I am now. I will not centre my identity around who I might become in the future. No one knows if I will change. And I don’t need to change, I just need to be accepted.

On a more happy note, there is this place in my hometown that hosts both a youth club and a queer cafe (which is really just a meeting place for queer people), and both the adults there and my fellow teenagers are very understanding, so I have people that accept me.

-Franz Kafka [ Letters to Milena // The Metamorphosis]

[TW: LOUD NOISES]

my bestie is a fucking genius, so uh, rise up Boothill nation (I swear this has a context)

So, Annie is from Argentina, which means she had all the hoyoverse games (and in general all games) translated to Latin American Spanish, but yet somehow there are characters that defeat the laws and speak in Spanish from Spain, like for example Boothill and Beidou. (Boothill screenshot under the text and I lost Beidou's one)

So yeah, from now on this guy is Spanish to us.

// slight vent

It really sucks that most of my irl friends/family probably wouldn't support me for being otherkin. They can barely even stomach the idea of xenogenders and neopronouns.

Alot of you will be probably be like

"why don't you just stop being their friend?"

but it's just not that simple. They are great people, but just so uneducated when it comes to more obscure identities. It makes me feel kind of alone, like they will never truly know me.

I hate living in the south.

I just want to say something that I’ll probably get some upset people come after me, but nevertheless, I do not care.

I feel like writers are dying. Which is why I do not read.

Many writers seem to feel like they have to say they love their fans or owe them.

I don’t want that. I want writers that hates their fans or at least don’t love them.

I want writers that aren’t here to satisfy me or their writers. I want them to write what they want to do, what they want me to feel or do.

If your writing is to anger me, stab me, kill me, torment me. If your writing is for your own desires, want you want, do it. Fuck what I want, what I wish the plot or ending is.

Then anger ne, stab me, kill me, torment me. Peel my skin off and rip my heart out if that is what you want to do.

Make me feel I’ve been dehumanized if your story is about dehumanization and your goal is make me experience it, go through it.

I don’t want my story. I want your story. I’m not your fan, I’m your fan of your writing. I can’t say I’m your fan and that I love you when I don’t know who you are. You can’t say you love me when you don’t know who I am.

Tell me that you hate me and tournament me with your writing. Fulfill your satisfaction. It’s YOUR story. I’m here to read it.

Am I the only one who's super annoyed by the accounts that are posting sasukarin ai art in the sasusaku tag??

Like I don't even mind the ship, but can you not shove it at people who don't wanna see??? The fact that it's ai also plays a big part in my anger

I've noticed this has been a trend here, especially in the sasusaku tags. Anti sasusaku post also have sasusaku tag, like what is your purpose here?? Are intentionally trying to rile ppl up? I respect your opinion and many others here do, why can't you respect ours

What is the need for this?? If you don't like a ship, it's ok. But you don't have to ridicule or ruin the experience of people who do like it

Thanks for listening to my rant 🙂

i was so close to being happy why can’t i have one thing

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Fair warning: this post is in regards to the recent Assassin’s Creed: Shadows trailer. I will talk about my thoughts and feelings regarding race. Thank you.

I’ve been a massive fan of Assassin’s creed (AC) since I first saw my uncle playing it at 7 or 8 years old. I’m a massive history buff and the idea of being able to experience the past through the eyes of an ancestor is such a brilliant idea. Not mention the concept of a secret war being fought through out the centuries is always fun. But as of late, I haven’t been really excited for a new entry. Odyssey was the last game I really played and it was alright, but I’m personally not a huge fan of the new RPG mechanics (although I do understand why they were implemented).

Valhalla looked interesting, but didn’t really feel like an AC game to me. So I put it on my “to play later” list. Mirage looked far better and I definitely do want to play it, but I honestly just haven’t felt a super big pull to pick it up. But when I saw that AC was finally going to Japan, I was ecstatic. I adore Japanese history in general and the Sengoku period is full of interesting conflicts and characters that would fit perfectly with the assassin’s and the templars.

Although they went with some pretty standard people to showcase, such as Oda Nobunaga, I still think they have a chance to do something really interesting story wise (of course, reserve all real judgement for the gameplay reveal. But I’m mainly just talking about the story). Especially with the portrayal of Yasuke. From what I could tell, it seems like his story will be one of disillusionment, possibly betrayal, and redemption. Certainly a story we’ve seen before, but it’s still interesting to see Yasuke in something as big as AC.

Before I get into the more unfortunate discourse regarding Yasuke, I absolutely have to talk about Naoe. See, what caught my eye about her was how she and my OWN AC OC have very similar stories. Well, I don’t know for sure. But they certainly share a similar experience, which is watching their families be butchered by Oda Nobunaga’s armies. It’s not much, but by the gods does it make me pretty happy. My OC’s name is Minori Kishimoto and she’s one of my favorites, so seeing a canon character with some similar traits is kind of exciting for me (okay, very exciting).

Anyhow, back to Yasuke. As soon as I saw the trailer, I knew I was going to see people saying something stupid. So I checked both the comments on the video and twitter. And I was certainly not mistaken. So so so many bad takes and ridiculous arguments that, honestly, only go to show either mild racism or straight up hatred toward African people. Not to mention the fact that they completely ignore Naoe as a protagonist. I guess she must be the greatest assassin of all time.

From what I understand, a lot of people are upset that for a Japan centered AC game, there is a black protagonist. Which, again, ignores Naoe entirely. The biggest argument I have heared against Yasuke being one of the protagonists is that he wasn’t actually a samurai. To which I say: False. Incorrect. Mistaken. Wrong. Factually incorrect.

The primary issue here is the fact that many people refer to him as a retainer. A title that he never officially held, as far as I’m aware, but even so that still makes him Samurai! Looking just at the facts of his life, he was respected by arguably the most powerful Daimyo of that time, earned his trust, received a pension, received a sword, and received property. So then the question becomes: what exactly makes a person a samurai at this time? Because I can tell you one thing, it isn’t noble blood.

A peasant man was once hired by Nobunaga to do a multitude of tasks, one of which was to hold his sandals. This man would soon prove himself to be capable of all of his tasks as well as in the art of war. He would become a powerful man and rise through the ranks until he held the rank of Taiko at the end of his life . That man was Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

If Hideyoshi’s story proves one thing, it’s that at this time anyone could rise to become a daimyo. So then, why wouldn’t Yasuke also be considered a samurai? We’re not even trying to claim he was a daimyo, just that he was a samurai. Retainer, bodyguard, slave, whatever. The fact is that the man was 10000% a samurai and was a respected one at that. To claim otherwise is to prove yourself ignorant in the history you claim to be proficient in, and incompetent at backing up your argument.

Not to mention that from a writing point of view, it’s a brilliant move. Yasuke was not super well recorded and thus is relatively unknown to others. Which makes him perfect for being a:

1. Fish out of water character

2. Real person, that can be treated written like a fictional one

All of this to say, I think that this newest Assassin’s Creed has a chance to become one of my personal favorites. As well as putting the series back on the map for many. But, with no gameplay and an already worrying pre-order package, I’m worried to say the least. Only time will tell, but I look forward to it.

Unpopular opinion but the reason being a teenager sucks is less to do with hormones and social cliques and more to do with the fact adults fucking hate teenagers. The fact that adults expect teenagers to be able to take on adult responsibilities yet don't deserve rights of an adult. They don't see teenagers as human beings and they aren't prepared to see kids with their own formed identities and humanity. Teenagers are so sexualized and seen as needing to take on more and more adult responsibilities. Yet when they want rights and humanity they are denied. The years your brain spends wanting nothing more than to form an identity are being taken away from you. Teenagers are essentially being kicked out of social spaces unless they have an extra 40 dollars lying around anytime they want to go out. Teenagers being kicked out of the mall just for existing or groomed into the school to prison pipeline. And now creating legislation to keep them off the Internet. Our society hates teenagers. And does everything we can to hurt them. The fact that anyone makes it out of their teenage years without trauma is a fucking miracle frankly.

I need this man biblically.

Can we please stop putting down autistic, ADHD, and other neurodivergent people whose traits are considered 'cringe', 'dorky', 'weird' or something else considered to be socially unacceptable?

We get enough shit from neurotypical people—we don't need to throw each other under the bus too.

"But they're making us look bad!"

I. Don't. Care. It's wrong to put each other on hierarchies. Simple.

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