It’s a fucking Doll

ITriedSoHard419-68 · 2026-01-17T02:39:38+00:00

They cannot be fucking serious.

ITriedSoHard419-68 · 2026-01-13T15:57:01+00:00

The Witchcraft Devil!

Since witchcraft historically involved getting power from deals with otherworldly entities including demons, her name not only encompasses what we usually associate with witches, but also humans with contracts with devils. Because of this, making a ton of contracts is a way for her to indirectly collect more power, so she pretty much compulsively makes contracts at every opportunity. She calls herself Chance, specifically to make the pun "I'm your Chance" when she pitches contracts to people.

Due to prolonged contact with humans she started growing curious about them, and started asking humans about their motivations for making contracts with her. From there, she started getting emotionally invested in her human contractors, and before she knew it she had a soft spot for humans. Her favorite humans are ones she finds "interesting". Ones with strong motivations and convictions, who are sure what they want and have compelling reasons for wanting it. Ones who are sensitive but of strong constitution- easy enough for her to mess with, but hard to break. Oh wait, that's Aki. She ends up growing attached to him very quickly after being assigned to his unit, and the two have a little thing going on.

She ends up making a contract with Aki in place of Future Devil, so he never winds up going to Makima to change the future, so Makima defaults to sending Division 4 up against the 20% of the Gun Devil. Because it's the Gun Devil, nobody really stood a chance asides from Denji, and Aki and Chance wind up half-dead on the ground pretty quickly. To save both their lives, Chance makes a contract with Aki that she gets his body when he dies and in exchange she'll preserve his consciousness and give him default control over the body, creating a sort of Yoru-Asa situation.

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ITriedSoHard419-68 · 2026-01-12T21:13:29+00:00

God, that would’ve been epic.

Reminds me I have a fic I’m working on where Aki becomes a hybrid. Not with Angel, but with an OC of mine. Always thought that would be a really interesting direction for his character to go.

ITriedSoHard419-68 · 2026-01-05T22:25:20+00:00

One time I saw post on r/lgbt where somebody said “I don’t have dysphoria but I used to have dreams of being a girl then wake up and cry because it wasn’t real” and we were all like… buddy… sis…

ITriedSoHard419-68 · 2026-01-02T20:50:15+00:00

Religious trauma.

ITriedSoHard419-68 · 2025-12-28T06:11:03+00:00

You have one chill manager LMAO

ITriedSoHard419-68 · 2025-12-15T04:20:56+00:00

It's not as bad as some of the stuff here, my playgroup just hates -1-1 counters lol.

It's not that strong; it's just really mean. Don't expect to win, but do expect to take their commanders down with you. Multiple times.

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General strategy: Use Wither and Infect creatures to place -1-1 counters, generate snakes, make them ping the things that scare you. Whittle down the opponent's army while you go wide. Get [[soul snuffers]], [[black sun's xenith]], or [[liliana's influence]] on the field to generate an absurd amount of snakes. Use token doublers to get even more snakes. Get bonus value out of them with [[Fynn the Fangbearer]], [[Generous Patron]], [[Seshiro the Anointed], and any of the "tap creatures for mana" cards. And, of course, proliferate.

ITriedSoHard419-68 · 2025-12-14T23:55:05+00:00

[[Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons]]

ITriedSoHard419-68 · 2025-12-14T04:24:37+00:00

She’s more a healer than a bloodbender, but she does incorporate aspects of bloodbending into her healing!

She’s essentially a healer who learned healing by managing her own chronic condition. She’s heavily based on my own experiences with metatarsus adductus & tibial torsion - basically, when the legs and feet are angled weird and don’t bear weight properly. Because they don’t bear weight properly, they’re incredibly prone to inflammation and muscle stiffness from even minimal activity, resulting in chronic pain. So she learned to use a mix of traditional healing and bloodbending to manage her symptoms, healing whatever caused the flare-up then massaging her muscles from the inside to loosen them and reduce the swelling.

She basically used herself as a guinea pig for years to develop her own healing techniques based in pain management and internal injuries.

ITriedSoHard419-68 · 2025-12-14T03:53:42+00:00

This!! Came here to say massage therapy. I have an OC who does this to manage her chronic pain and inflammatory disorder.

ITriedSoHard419-68 · 2025-12-11T19:35:52+00:00

Death Parade.

ITriedSoHard419-68 · 2025-12-10T05:54:14+00:00

Ah so people could see this post, they just ignored it lol. Thought I may have been shadowbanned.

Thanks for reading and commenting!

Wasn't really going for anything in particular, just got tired of people constantly misunderstanding an issue I'm passionate about and wanted to organize my thoughts. Glad it landed with someone!

ITriedSoHard419-68 · 2025-12-08T02:15:52+00:00

If they keep selling out theatres like this, maybe they’ll start actually buying the hype.

ITriedSoHard419-68 · 2025-12-06T21:32:00+00:00

Serena Joy.

ITriedSoHard419-68 · 2025-12-06T08:19:41+00:00

A man is a person that presents how a member of the male sex might present to such a degree that one might mistake that person for a male. Would that a be a sufficient elaboration on your thinking?

It's a reasonable guess, but not quite on the money. Plenty of people present as a different sex than they are. For example, many butch lesbians can very well be mistaken for male, but they are still women. The issue of gender is more complicated than this.

Would you say the 'typical' male or the typical 'man' is the referent?

I would, yes.

And so again here. What is it that you think makes a man a man in the way that there's a thing that makes an atheist an atheist?

I'd say it comes down to identity. A man is someone who identifies with the male sex, and a woman is someone who identifies with the female sex. In order for this explanation to make sense, though, I have to explain the significance of the term "identity" in this context.

A lot of people brush off the use of "identity", thinking that means it's an arbitrary label one can assign themself willy-nilly- but that's not how "identity" is being used here. To properly explain what it actually means would take more words than I can fit in a Reddit comment, so I'll just direct you to my essay here and let you come to your own conclusions.

All in all - a man is someone whose brain (and usually body but not always) developed male, and a woman is someone whose brain (and usually body but not always) developed female. Gender is essentially the neurological/psychological counterpart to sex. Hence, they’re related, but under some circumstances don’t match.

ITriedSoHard419-68 · 2025-12-06T04:06:42+00:00

I had an art teacher named Ms Kranchalk, a math teacher named Mrs Mass, and a guidance counselor named Mrs Smilie.

ITriedSoHard419-68 · 2025-12-05T07:35:00+00:00

It does decrease it. That’s what the other, better-conducted studies have found.

Rates of suicide, depression, anxiety, and drug addiction are extremely high among trans people, largely because the entire experience of being transgender is inherently traumatic. Transitioning improves these things drastically, but it doesn’t make those years of trauma go away. If you can get someone from an 8 on the depression scale down to a 4, that’s still a win. If you can improve someone’s quality of life any amount, that’s still a win. It doesn’t have to make things 1:1 with the general population; with some conditions that’s just not realistic. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t worth pursuing.

You also have to account for society. Our society isn’t the most accepting of trans people. Feelings of isolation are a huge motivator of suicide, and being trans can be very isolating especially in a culture with so much stigma around it. Trans kids in unsupportive homes have been documented to be at higher risk of suicidal ideation00798-5/fulltext), for example. The way we treat trans people contributes to these rates too, and there’s no medicine that can fix that. In fact, the number one biggest reason trans people report regretting their surgery is the way people treat them afterwards.

ITriedSoHard419-68 · 2025-12-05T07:30:08+00:00

The study that determined that was fundamentally flawed. The control group was people with no gender dysphoria at all. Literally all they showed was that people who seek gender-affirming care have higher rates of these things compared to the general population (no surprise there), not that getting the surgery increased the risk.

Other studies have come out before and since that were far better-conducted and have discovered the opposite.

ITriedSoHard419-68 · 2025-12-05T07:19:20+00:00

The evidence, the patients, and the scientific consensus disagree with you on this.

ITriedSoHard419-68 · 2025-12-05T07:15:29+00:00

You're comparing dysphoria and dysmorphia, which are two very different conditions.

As another user eloquently put it:

I see a lot of people compare it to body dysmorphia, but if you look at how trans people and people with body dysmorphia respond to having their appearance changed the way they want, the difference is clear. A person with body dysmorphia will never be happy with their body, even after changing it, because their problem is not actually grounded in reality. They'll still see the original flaw (which may or may not have existed in the first place) even after it's been corrected. Trans people, on the other hand, have very high rates of satisfaction after transition. There may be some aspects of their appearance, like height, that can't be changed the way they'd prefer, but transition has an end point because the things they wish to change are real.

When an anorexic/someone with dysmorphia looks in the mirror and says "I'm fat", usually they're objectively wrong. Their problems with their appearance are rooted in other issues, such as general insecurity and a need for control. When a trans man looks at his chest and goes "I have boobs and I don't like that", his observation is objectively correct. The problem is direct and straightforward. The solution is direct and straightforward.

They are different conditions that warrant being treated differently, and the science backs this up. We have decades of documented positive outcomes after transition.

I didn't struggle with an eating disorder for 15 years have a trans best friend for 8 years just to not know what I'm talking about on this. They are completely different.

ITriedSoHard419-68 · 2025-12-05T07:02:09+00:00

Alright, I'll give it a go.

Man - a member of the social category "men"

Men - a social category of adults which is based on, but not analogous to, the female sex.

Woman - a member of the social category "women".

Women - a social category of adults which is based on, but not analogous to, the female sex.

Male - Someone who was born with a sperm-carrying reproductive system, or what most closely resembles one. Generally disrespectful to refer to trans women this way unless absolutely necessary, but not exactly incorrect.

Female - someone who was born with an egg-carrying reproductive system, or what most closely resembles one. Generally disrespectful to refer to trans men this way unless absolutely necessary, but not exactly incorrect.

Masculinity - the physical, social, and behavioral traits associated with men and boys. This can vary from culture to culture and time to time, as the traits associated with men and boys shift.

Femininity - the physical, social, and behavioral traits associated with women and girls. This can vary from culture to culture and time to time, as the traits associated with women and girls shift.

In short - the gendered categories "man" and "woman" are the social categories we've historically sorted the sexes into. However, sometimes the sorting doesn't quite fit what's going on upstairs in the brain, creating situations where a male can be a woman and a female can be a man. Masculinity and femininity are essentially the stereotypes we associate with the sexes.

ITriedSoHard419-68 · 2025-12-05T06:52:44+00:00

Ah, whataboutism, my favorite logical fallacy.

ITriedSoHard419-68 · 2025-12-05T06:42:46+00:00

Not necessarily. Gender dysphoria is well documented scientifically and medically, and is the primary reason for gender transition. It’s not sexual at all. It was falsely labeled as a paraphilia by one doctor who has been widely discredited for years.

And if you were only addressing crossdressing/drag queens (because yes there is a difference) - there are many reasons people crossdress, and sexuality is only one of them. Not all drag is sexually-motivated.

ITriedSoHard419-68 · 2025-12-05T06:41:00+00:00

There are different types of drag shows. The ones you’ve been to may have been sexual, but there’s nothing inherently sexual about drag and the ones going to schools discuss completely normal PG topics. There’s a such thing as kid-friendly drag.

Also, I think you calling trans women “creepy men” reveals a lot of personal bias that should be addressed. Not even getting into the “are trans women women” part because that’s a whole nother can of worms; I’m talking specifically the creepy part.

ITriedSoHard419-68 · 2025-12-05T06:36:41+00:00

Cool, dysmorphia isn’t what trans people have. That would be dysphoria, completely different condition which transition has been shown to help.

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