bitches who believe in astrology are so fucking stupid haven’t you watched the pokemon movie where mewtwo explicitly says the circumstances of your birth are irrelevant
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Me immediately after getting the Claire's vaccine
I feel like people who use he/him or they/them pronouns for Akito (after seeing the end of S2 or the equivalent point in the manga) may be genuinely misunderstanding the character in a way that is actually opposite of what LBGT+ people stand for.
Akito was *forced* to present as male by her abusive parents (throwing you in there too Akira because you went along with that shit), and it's honestly pretty sketchy to see that and say "Ah yes, a trans masc character." Gender identity comes from within, being trans is not something that you can just...make happen with a sufficient amount of abuse. And it is pretty disconcerting to see so many people aggressively misgender Akito and headcanon her as trans masc when that is completely contrary to how she actually identifies, especially in light of all of the healing that she achieves at the end of the series by moving past this coercively assigned identity.
If anything, Akito's story is more narratively similar to that of a MtF trans person, someone who is forced to live and present opposite of their female identity. So to me using He/Him or They/Them for Akito (other than to avoid spoiling the reveal for someone who hasn't seen it) is equally bad as having a "cis headcanon" for a canonically trans character. To see someone be subjected to so much abuse and manipulation and then to come away thinking that the abuser was in any way right to do what they did is something that I think people should really think twice about.
me: *scares myself to the point where I can’t even function because of the anxiety I have created over a situation*
the situation: *works out fine*
me: oh
hey fun fact: shipping real people is invasive, creepy, and unethical. Not to mention, extremely disrespectful to the people you’re shipping, and the people they’re actually in relationships with
driving over the rippled highway safety strip to feel something
your yearly reminder that Baby It’s Cold Outside is a song about a woman having CONSENSUAL sex, at a time when premarital sex was frowned upon. The female singer is offering up the token demurrals society expects her to, because it’s expected, not bc she doesn’t fully intend to stay and have awesome sex with a dude she’s into. The male singer knows this, and is in turn offering her an excuse to give to the neighbors in the morning (“it was too cold for me to go home, the only responsible thing to do was spend the night at his place. because of the weather, get your minds out of the gutter”). A 1950s audience would have understood all this, but the nuance gets lost in a modern age where women are actually allowed to say yes when they mean it.
Also the “hey what’s in this drink” thing was a common joke at the time, where the punchline was that there was in fact nothing in the drink. the woman’s making a joke that she wouldn’t do this if she was sober, oh goodness no! it’s only a joke bc both she and the man are in on the punchline: she is sober, and is only staying bc she wants to
I have no opinion on the song, but if it requires a multi-paragraph disclaimer to be understood that it isn’t about rape, it’s probably not a good idea to play it in a store or on the radio with zero context.
What are we supposed to make of the fact that the anime kept Yuki’s chest a featureless rectangle and then gave Kyo a set of washboard abs? 🤔
15x18 truly was just a way to get all the destiel shipper that abandoned the show years ago to tune in for the finale and get their numbers up. Damn. Truly the last great american queerbait.
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Potentially unpopular opinion but I still think Arisa should’ve ended up with a girl.
I know Fruits Basket has a very strong “no homo” mentality (except in off jokes) but lesbi-honest, that girl ain’t straight. I don’t know who this older guy is they set her up with but no. No.
Here we go again saying that a story with several explicitly bisexual characters has as “no homo” mentality. It definitely isn’t biphobic at all to “not count” bi characters in opposite-sex relationships 🙃
Komaki is so underappreciated in this fandom, I really hope she gets the recognition that she deserves once the anime-only's catch up in S3. Kakeru's struggle to realize that loving someone deeply doesn't mean that you can speak for them or that you always know what is going on their head is so human and real. And even though she doesn't get the most screentime, we can tell that they have one of the most mature, caring relationships in the whole series.
No hate to Yukeru shippers, but I also highly recommend that people make sure they aren't ignoring important, meaningful parts of the story for not matching up with their non-canon ships.
Can we talk about how imagining Ritsu as trans woman may be a fine way of interpreting a character who would not have realistically had the opportunity to be portrayed as trans during the time that the story comes out, but it also tiptoes up against assigning someone a gender identity based on their clothes?
It's definitely not a stretch to think that if Fruits Basket had not been written in the 90s, Ritsu's may have been conceived of as a trans woman from the start. That said, canonically speaking, Ritsu does not identify as female. He likes dressing in traditionally female clothes and feels more natural in dresses (furisodes), but readers/viewers should keep in mind that dresses are not a gender.
Insisting that Ritsu must be trans because of the way he dresses comes uncomfortably close to the thought that "Real men don't wear dresses." Since the idea that "Real women don't wear pants," was a very pervasive line of thinking that we thankfully left back in the 1950's where it belongs, I'm hoping that we can extend the same courtesy towards men and not get ourselves into a headspace where we question anyone's gender identity because they don't dress the way that we think a man or woman "should" dress.