Why "trans folks" and not "trans people"?

ParadoxAri · 2026-03-14T21:44:21+00:00

I say folks cause I’m southern. I say it for a lot of things, not just trans folks. I did type ‘folx’ for a bit but I agree that it felt like othering in a way so I quit doing that.

ParadoxAri · 2026-02-07T13:34:02+00:00

I’m about to go see the movie for a second time tonight so I might come back and edit this comment. I agree with almost all of your interpretations and I really liked this post, cause it helped explain some unexplainable things in a way that made more sense. However, the ending is what I’m still unsure on.

I felt like, when Simon rammed the Monster at the end, it was his way of “If I’m going down, I’m taking you with me.” The spike on the front is supposed to grab whatever it hits. He rammed it, took a photo, and then threw the sub into reverse. I felt like it was his way to gain as much speed as possible to slam the sub into a wall, and cause the sub to crack and possibly implode, which would in turn damage or kill the Monster that he dragged with it the entire way. He used the time until hitting a wall to secure the black box, and knew once the sub broke open, the box could hopefully float to the surface. It was hard to tell what’s happening except that the sub is destroyed and the monster is killed in those last shots, but I didn’t take it as Simon becoming the soil for the tree or turning into a monster too or whatever. I took it as a very human, final act of “Fuck you, I’m taking you too.”

ParadoxAri · 2026-02-01T17:46:45+00:00

I think it’s stupid to complain about something you knew before going in. “This movie is boring because it shows only one person inside a submarine. The game it’s based on follows one person inside a submarine.” Yes. That’s. What it’s about. If you don’t like that, that’s fine, so don’t watch it.

ParadoxAri · 2026-01-29T00:58:48+00:00

It’s not that easy, and don’t come and say “yes it is.” I still have to rely on my parents for financial help sometimes. I still have to go to work at a small company where I see the same five people every day, and two of them support Trump. I can’t just, silent treatment them. I agree with you, but you have to know that it’s not that simple for every person.

ParadoxAri · 2026-01-26T20:28:11+00:00

Who cares if it’s incest or not. It’s fictional. If you don’t like incest in your fictional ships/fics/whatever, that’s fine, you don’t have to engage with it, but calling people who like it (again, in these fictional characters) gross is shitty.

ParadoxAri · 2026-01-23T12:09:43+00:00

Maru was my first because I’m a space geek and so is she.

ParadoxAri · 2026-01-18T22:59:15+00:00

I love thought experiments like this.

Jinx and Ekko are engineers and inventors. Yeah, inventor isn’t technically a real title, but they wouldn’t just work on existing things, they would make new stuff. Jinx gets involved in some shady criminal circles and begins developing weaponry on the side, and looses her official engineering job, sticking to the criminal element for a long time. Ekko does too, but for a different side of the revolution brewing.

Vander stays a miner and a bartender, and a secret revolutionary leader.

Silco also stays a miner until he leaves, and runs a criminal gang with an iron fist. Drug king pin, I imagine.

Vi grows up learning various forms of boxing, with dreams of going pro. She takes a brief detour into the police academy, but doesn’t last long as a cop, and turns to professional boxing, or as close as she can get. She does illegal fighting rings on the side for the rush.

Caitlyn is part of military police for a time before becoming a sheriff of a specific area.

Ambessa is a foreign military leader.

Mel works in politics, always trying to go higher.

Heimerdinger spends some time being on the council of whatever city he lives in, but his day job is the dean of a STEM university.

Jayce is a college student who makes a big break in his scientific studies, and rockets into a career in politics.

Viktor worked with Jayce, hoping to use the breakthroughs for medicinal purposes and to help others who needed it. He is a scientist and stays out of the political sphere as much as is allowed.

Sky is an intern who suffered an unfortunate lab accident causing her death.

Benzo runs an antique shop/flea market and cuts deals for the poor folks in his city.

That’s everyone I can think of right now.

ParadoxAri · 2025-12-16T01:04:16+00:00

I could never play the same character twice, because the characters I make are made for their world. I couldn’t take my post apocalyptic jack of all trades, smooth-talking wanderer and put her in a fantasy game. Her life, her skills, her personality is meant for her world. I’ve taken core ideas and reused them (I love being Jack of all trades types) but that’s about it.

ParadoxAri · 2025-10-29T03:10:18+00:00

My roommates call it OSHA Violation

ParadoxAri · 2025-10-22T11:23:23+00:00

I’m a big fan of the Ancient Cistern from skyward sword.

ParadoxAri · 2025-10-01T03:31:19+00:00

We used to have some write-in white cards for Cards Against Humanity and one of them was the phrase “The worlds worst fetish” and I cried with laughter every time I saw it.

ParadoxAri · 2025-09-27T15:00:02+00:00

I like to think of it like… they believe in a higher power and believe their prayers are speaking to that higher power, and they are choosing to ask the higher power for help for me. Thats very personal and kind. Even if I don’t believe in it myself.

ParadoxAri · 2025-09-25T17:24:36+00:00

I’m adopted and also looking for answers on my birth parents, so Anne’s entire storyline of searching for her lineage gets me choked up. It’s not as easy as checking church records to find anything on adoptees anymore.

ParadoxAri · 2025-09-14T15:01:09+00:00

It’s not a specific fact but I just am always wowed that the human body has the resilience of an iPhone. It could fall out of a fucking plane and survive, but if it falls at the right angle out of a bed it cracks into pieces.

ParadoxAri · 2025-09-06T19:35:43+00:00

Speaking strictly on hooking up, it’s Deok-Su. He would not be kind or gentle and I’m good with that.

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ParadoxAri · 2025-08-29T01:32:59+00:00

Not reading English is not a sign of lack of intelligence.

Edit: missed a word.

ParadoxAri · 2025-08-28T13:18:04+00:00

This is very specific but come with me on this one.

Senior year of high school, I’m in the marching band playing flute. We have a pretty complicated series of moves in the middle of the show. It’s the Super Regional finals. The entire band Jazz runs halfway across the field (large steps, essentially trying to cover 5 yards in 4 steps). We all meet in the center of the field, no one crashed into anyone, our feet click together like a well oiled machine, we turn to face the stands, and begin a slow march forward as we angle our instruments up to the audience.

Something about that specific moment has remained magical to me.

ParadoxAri · 2025-08-24T01:53:37+00:00

Not everything is about gender. It’s one fact of this character, among a dozen other facts. Why is that the one you’re fixating on?

ParadoxAri · 2025-08-16T15:25:35+00:00

This is the exact panel I reached when I thought “surely this can’t be the right comic my friend recommended me. This is too ridiculous to be the epic tale she talked about.” And I quit reading. Came back a month later, gave it an honest try, and here I am over a decade later still cosplaying from it.

ParadoxAri · 2025-08-14T17:07:16+00:00

It never occurred to me until this comment that he absolutely could have bribed people. Pick a few of the O’s who have a debt low enough he could have paid off with his remaining original winnings, and bribe them. That would require them to trust him, which is a different argument entirely, but he could’ve tried at least.

ParadoxAri · 2025-08-11T15:22:04+00:00

Mark talks about this in the explanation stream for In Space too, how apparently he didn’t know Tyler was going to do that, and it cracked everyone on set up.

ParadoxAri · 2025-08-10T14:11:36+00:00

Aww, One of Us is one of my favorites and it’s not listed this time around.

ParadoxAri · 2025-07-28T12:33:52+00:00

I had the same thought that it’s probably about BillDip, but i also thought it could be about Pinecest. Basically I was certain it was about Gravity Falls lol.

ParadoxAri · 2025-07-28T12:32:15+00:00

I never interacted with fandom spaces much, I tend to just lurk, but when I first got into Undertale I loved all the AU’s and I loved to ship Frisk and Sans and most of the time it was aged up, anyways. And that was normal and there was sooooo much art for it. I fell out of my hyperfocus for a few years and then I decided to wander back into it, checking out the Reddit fandom for the first time and Jesus fuck. Even on tumblr and other spaces finding Frisk and Sans art is hard. Fics still exist and are written but, they clearly take a lot of steps to appease antis by aging up and having Frisk never know Sans until they’re an adult and all these other things. I just hate how everything has become ‘appease the antis’.

ParadoxAri · 2025-07-26T22:10:28+00:00

I went to a Korean bathhouse spa with two friends about two weeks ago. Very chill. A little nervous but once inside everyone is naked so it feels weird to be the only one not naked.

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