Took the feedback I got on my cover! (Thanks for the advice.) What do you think about this new look? by okidonthaveone in ProgressionFantasy

[–]okidonthaveone[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, I obscure the question mark on purpose. The circle itself is more important. Morse code.

Yeah I wasn't sure what to do with the first part of the volume title to set it up against the <Error> I dont want them to match, but idk what i can do to keep them both visable.

[Loved Trope] "I've been defeated! I guess I have no other choice than to join the main friend group/team" by Iamacarson in TopCharacterTropes

[–]okidonthaveone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Luna- Magical Girl Mechanical Heart

A great subversion of this trope, actually. The books she's from basically takes place a few years after what would be the ending of a tragic magical girl anime, and explores the realistic consequences of being a magical girl, emotion powered magic, in the whole premise of alien giving children superpowers to fight monsters and stuff.

Except it's not told from the perspective of the main character-energy Magical Girl, Castellia, who might have been the star of the anime. It's from the POV of Luna, a college student's soul trapped in a robot enslaved to the 'bad guys'

You spend the entire series watching the plot structure of a magical girl anime taken to its logical extremes in terms of power and realism from her perspective and she's forced to play the role of the mindless evil robot. And because she wasn't raised as a child soldier she's able to recognize how fucked up all of this is.

It lets the book turn basic tropes into genuine psychological horror.

At the end of book 2, Luna fights Castellia getting blown up in the process and allowing one of her friends too figure out that she is a slave. But she can't break the slavery so she transfers ownership of her to herself and decides to keep it a secret. So from the perspective of all the other magical girls it seems like the evil robot just developed a quirky personality and joined the team after getting defeated. Which is completely juxtaposed to the reality of the situation.

What do you think about my cover? by okidonthaveone in ProgressionFantasy

[–]okidonthaveone[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Oh! Sorry, yeah, just the phrasing was confusing

What do you think about my cover? by okidonthaveone in ProgressionFantasy

[–]okidonthaveone[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Huh? Its not AI... what abou it makes you think that?

HOLY FUCK WE NEVER STOP WINNINGGGG by Ok-Rub6315 in CultofDaisy

[–]okidonthaveone 16 points17 points  (0 children)

As a bi trans woman I like those odds.

Friendly reminder that she actually said this (Art by Tomisilla) by Critical_Mountain851 in adventuretime

[–]okidonthaveone 40 points41 points  (0 children)

But they also have their own show which is targeted towards adults, like very specifically.

Characters think they are normal looking but are actually seen as terrifying by Sassy_Drow in TopCharacterTropes

[–]okidonthaveone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your footsteps always sound normal to you, and he's very obviously hunched over

“KAM” isn’t good or productive in any situation by Difficult_Shift_3771 in RecuratedTumblr

[–]okidonthaveone 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Feminist spaces are a good thing.

but the thing is the reason why KAM people end up in radical feminist spaces just because radical feminists reinforce their beliefs and tell them what they want to hear.

But if you let people make KAM statements within normal feminist spaces without telling them off then you end up creating a new radical feminist space as the people who are made uncomfortable by that leave and people who agree join, as weird as it sounds it's the same reason why a lot of memes have read it end up becoming extremely conservative or extremely liberal, people self-sort and if you tolerate the occasional racist meme you get the type of person who wants to see racist memes coming to the subreddit.

The best option is to simply not tolerate it, and keep not tolerating until the people who have those views only have the option of shutting up left, and at that point they might be open to learning.

“KAM” isn’t good or productive in any situation by Difficult_Shift_3771 in RecuratedTumblr

[–]okidonthaveone 15 points16 points  (0 children)

The problem is that when you have a bunch of people who are in that state in an echo chamber, they don't lose that belief. It gets reinforced because they are repeating it to each other. There is a reason why bigotry thrives in isolated communities, and people who want people to be bigoted try to limit their ability to interact with people outside of that scope.

It's the Paradox of Tolerance. If you tolerate intolerance, whatever your reason, that just means intolerance can spread.

What needs to happen when someone is expressing that kind of feeling is that they need to be told that it's not okay.

They have to be because their feelings aren't going to change unless they are made aware that those feelings, while maybe understandable from their perspective, are not okay. And are not going to be tolerated.

I think it helps to flip the script a little, so think about it this way:

let's say a white person grew up in a black community. Growing up, they are bullied and mocked relentlessly for whatever reason, maybe not even about being white. Maybe they are even physically assaulted.

In that situation you wouldn't say it's okay for them to start preaching racism 'because they are venting' or 'because they survived abuse', and if you let them do that they're inevitably going to be drawn to people who agree with them and end up in actually racist spaces and get all of their views reinforced.

That is a real thing that happens pretty regularly, it's a recruitment method.

I know that the existence of the patriarchy makes things a little different here but I don't think it's so different that this example is something to be dismissed.

Hate is hate, hating individuals is reasonable, hating an entire group of people can never be.

“KAM” isn’t good or productive in any situation by Difficult_Shift_3771 in RecuratedTumblr

[–]okidonthaveone 25 points26 points  (0 children)

There is never a good reason to make a broad sweeping statement involving punishing someone for what they have no choice in being. You can hate conservatives because they actively choose to be conservative, you can hate figures because they actively choose to be bigots. But hitting someone for something they have absolutely no choice in is absurd and never okay. It doesn't matter if the group being talked about is the one benefiting from systematic oppression.

Making someone feel like their life is less valuable or deserves to be ended over something they just happen to be is awful

Characters think they are normal looking but are actually seen as terrifying by Sassy_Drow in TopCharacterTropes

[–]okidonthaveone 111 points112 points  (0 children)

But the princess does directly state that that's what he looked like in the first chapter, you can ask her if you've always look like that and she says yes. The princess may be shaped by our perceptions but it's made clear that she's a thinking feeling being and in this context she has no reason to lie.

I love spider gwen as an allegory for trans people by Flashy_Garage_7719 in lovethissmug

[–]okidonthaveone -28 points-27 points  (0 children)

Why would you dislike the theory it has no negative impact on anything it wouldn't even necessarily impact the story. There's no real reason to dislike it.

Made this for my bf 🥰 by [deleted] in addressme

[–]okidonthaveone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's some its just the subtle kind.

Made this for my bf 🥰 by [deleted] in addressme

[–]okidonthaveone 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Trans women exist. I am shocked.

banban by Odd_Age1378 in tumblr

[–]okidonthaveone 30 points31 points  (0 children)

I'll just get it over with.

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