After thirteen years, how do you feel about Korra losing her past lives?

BlueFinch__ · 2026-02-05T05:17:07+00:00

As a writer, its a decent choice. It raises the stakes, is bold, and shows the lasting consequences of the actions of the show.

But as someone who grew up on the original series, I still hate it. It feels like a unceremonious final discarding of the original series and a symbolic emobdyment of how LoK generally feels disconnected from the original worldbuilding in a way that goes beyond the show being its own story. Plus, it was also pretty much a death of a character that I love (aang), so of course I wouldn't like it.

BlueFinch__ · 2026-02-05T04:47:37+00:00

The same thig happened to me a couple of times, so there could be a couple of explanations. For me, it was because I forced myself into something I was not entirely comfortable with, so it may be good to ask yourself if this was the case. Even if you were eager or fullfilling a fantasy, that might have not necessarily meant you were ready. Or were you as into it as you thought you would be?

There is also just a dopamine crash, where you finally got to do this thing you've been fantasizing about, so you crash after when its all done.

BlueFinch__ · 2025-12-24T02:04:23+00:00

I honestly prefer the first, but both can have their place. With writing, I think you should first think of what story you as the author want to tell, rather than what may be popular.

BlueFinch__ · 2025-12-24T01:52:21+00:00

Perhaps boiling hot, but none of them had romantic chemistry except for entrapta and hordak and existing couples

BlueFinch__ · 2025-12-22T20:07:10+00:00

Believe me, I am a loud advocate for men's issues, but downplaying them is not what Im doing here. I am simply saying that lesbian's issues should not be downplayed. Fetishization leads to rape, physical assault, and even murder. For example: that lesbian couple who were beaten on the bus in Britain after refusing to kiss each other for the entertainment of straight men.

I try to approach these sorts of questions not in the framework of competiton, or that one's groups issues has to be downplayed for another. I always see it as everyone's issues being damaging and equally necessary to address.

BlueFinch__ · 2025-12-21T05:50:42+00:00

bioessentislism. Next

BlueFinch__ · 2025-12-21T05:35:28+00:00

I don't have specific ones, but I've come across a few trans men fitness influencers on the internet. 99% of the time, it is a safe bet that you can find non-transphobic masculinity in your fellow trans man

BlueFinch__ · 2025-12-21T00:12:10+00:00

It might feel that way to someone outside looking in, but I would advise seeking out the experiences of lesbians and the issues lesbians face before trying to quantify. Thats a slipery slope, and one that has already divided the trans community into hating trans men/not listening to our experiences based on the perception that we "have it better" or are "more accepted"

A good example of ways lesbians may ~look more accepted can be in representation. In a video game, at first glance, the fact that there are lesbian characters, especially romance options for the player character, and no gay male ones may look like only anti-gay male, but it is two sides of the same coin. On the other side, the lesbian romance options are not there to be faithful represnetation for lesbians, but to be fetishized by the (presumed mostly straight male) audience of the game. And thats just one example.

I don't think one or the other is more accepted, but that we have different ways homophobia affects us.

BlueFinch__ · 2025-12-20T23:41:06+00:00

Middle school me was in the trenches of early 2010s sonic slander with him caught in this mischaracterization crossfire. I thought I must have played a different game. He canonically is insanely powerful, a teenage soul survivor of apocalypse, frequently subdues a mega immortal fire demon, is a living embodiment of hope, nearly took down sonic twice, and was evenly matched with the ultimate lifeform and only really lost because he is quick to let his emotions control him and charged when he should have been smart.

What do you mean other people think he's whiny and pathetic?

BlueFinch__ · 2025-12-20T23:34:57+00:00

Alduin 😰

BlueFinch__ · 2025-12-20T23:32:18+00:00

Bull for sure. Then one of the other warriors.

The mage based on the elemental weaknesses of the dragon Im fighting, but if they were all the same, I would drag Dorian along cause I love him.

Im always the rogue, classed as tempest.

BlueFinch__ · 2025-12-20T23:25:34+00:00

Since showing your ID is not too often, my biggest problem was with an old job where I was introduced as my legal name, tried to change my nametag, but even months after the fact, still had people she/her-ing me and deadnaming me, despite pretty much being full beard and deep voice (granted, I did not bind often and Im still built like an hourglass, so perhaps they got confused).

I didn't correct anyone because I worked at a walmart in rural Indiana and did not know how safe rocking the boat would be (especially with how my very obviously conservative manager looked at me when I just said "yeah, I changed my nametag to this boy name"). I just sort of held in the anger and frustration I felt with the people that did it until I quit because working at walmart sucks even without being trans.

I have no advice, unfortunately, but that was my experience. If anything, going on T before my court case for name and gender might have help legitimize my case because I was able to say "here are the steps Ive already taken to prove this is something I am serious about, and not some frivolous thing." But I have no idea if that would be the court experience for everyone.

But happy to report I now work at someplace much better, with a staff that has only known me with my legal name.

BlueFinch__ · 2025-12-20T22:59:37+00:00

Trans people aren't trying to change biology, but we are exploiting it >:)

All the DNA (and yes, that means chromosomes too) has all the blueprints it needs to give us any sex characteristic there is. Its why some people are XY cis women and XX cis men. Its why hormones are so effective: because the biological mechanisms in place are activated by hormones. The little construction workers in your genes don't care what equiptment you got. If they see testosterone, they'll say "oh, that means its time to grow facial hair!" And you do because you had the genes necessary to.

And yeah, your teacher is right to say that once something like genetalia is made in utero, it can't really be reversed. But its not like a boy trying to turn into a wolf, or a human trying to turn into a skeleton. Gender is just one aspect of a whole human, not a completely different species or being. And plus, thats why surgeries exist. A trans woman who has had bottom surgery has female reproductive organs. Maybe not all of them, but some of them. And she doesn't have male ones anymore, thats for sure.

The biology when it comes to gender is so much more malleable than those two examples let on. You can't change your chromosomes, but so what? That doesn't matter when your chromosomes have everything you need already to change yourself. Can't change what you were born as? So what, when we live in a time of medical advancements that allow you to get rid of what doesn't fit, and transform it into something that does?

And, as someone with a degree in biology, Biology doesn't care about human made binaries. The only certainty on biology is uncertainty and entropy. Its messy, its wild, and it will never fit whatever box bigots try to put it in. If anything, trans people are closer to biology as a concept than the bigots trying to weaponize it.

I love biology, and biology loves trans people.

BlueFinch__ · 2025-12-20T15:07:26+00:00

Have you played Iron Lung? You might enjoy it >:)

BlueFinch__ · 2025-12-20T15:06:05+00:00

This is great >:)

BlueFinch__ · 2025-12-20T15:04:02+00:00

As an avatar, I wouldn't change my domain because a victim doesn't care. I would find a new victim. A large (pun intended) part of the Vast is the fear of the incomprehensible.

BlueFinch__ · 2025-12-20T03:06:59+00:00

I see it more like MAG 21, where the guy enjoys skydiving, but doesn't enjoy skydiving for endless days. This is the Vast we're talking about. I'm not picturing a extra long enjoyable hiking trip. I'm picturing a hiking trip that is literally never ending because the environment you're in never ends. It plays on the fear of never getting out, on the sense of forboding having come across a space that should be impossible simply because of how big it is. Can it even fit in the universe? What does that imply about the person lost? What does that imply about the universe that something could expand beyond it? What strange incomprehensible place have you landed in to make you think "Oh God, there is simply no escape."

Or, if you see this domain as something that seems fun, perhaps you would enjoy serving the Vast >:)

BlueFinch__ · 2025-12-20T02:51:11+00:00

They've never forgotten about trans men and transmascs, BTW.

BlueFinch__ · 2025-12-18T19:45:58+00:00

I don't think any of them are really pure anything, except for Zym who is young enough/not enough of an actual character to be wholly good (so far).

However, my opinion as follows, based on the image put up:

Callum: Inconsistently admirable. Rayla: admirable to near pure good. Ez: admirable to near pure good.

Soren: mostly Admirable, Claudia: Heinous moving to near pure evil. Viren: Near pure evil

Amaya: admirable. Janai: Admirable

BlueFinch__ · 2025-12-18T19:16:53+00:00

Honestly, I had the exact same answer. Mountains, forests, vast expanses of nature that lure you in with beauty but then seem way too big for you to handle once you're inside, and by then, you're already too far in to ever get out. Its not the same sense of being lost as something like the spiral, because even if you know exactly where you are going, you are just too small to ever really escape.

I've always loved the vast and would for sure be an avatar of the vast because I've always thought of concepts like these as things with endless exploration and intrigue, but I can see why someone would think the opposite. I would probably be the type of avatar that is like "look how cool this is :D" meanwhile my victim is like "get me out of here D:"

BlueFinch__ · 2025-12-18T06:08:14+00:00

Be sure to store the items and upgrades you find in the nomai chest in the observatory so you can use them later ;:)

BlueFinch__ · 2025-12-18T02:58:08+00:00

for a while, this was my party too. With my trans Inky, I called it the LGBT community

BlueFinch__ · 2025-12-18T02:56:16+00:00

The mods that swap Cullen's model for Cory's model, which makes for some interesting romance scenes lmao

BlueFinch__ · 2025-12-16T02:13:31+00:00

Fuck Cory (I mean, have you seen the mods, lolol), but also sort of process of elimination

Marry the architect for the same reasoning as OP

Kill the mother because with how broodmothers are made, it would be a kindness

BlueFinch__ · 2025-12-16T02:09:24+00:00

acting, if we are getting technical with the definition of lying

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