nikkitranslates

Today, I celebrated the resurrection of Jesus Christ by entering some sort of bizarre stupor and going on a horrible editing spree of Fanlore's Jojo's Bizarre Adventure articles.

The only valid Jingliu playlist is the one floating around Spotify that starts with the NIN version of Hurt and just goes in that vein from there.

There's something really interesting I've noticed about the reactions of people around me to me Being A They/Them since my move from Blue City In Purple State to Solid Blue City In Solid Blue State, and it's that people tend to treat me like a person.

There's the lack of "gets transphobicly street harassed by random guys" and "gets deliberately misgendered repeatedly" that's pretty obvious, but even in Former City, while there were still progressive people, I was often the first nonbinary, or even the first openly trans, person they'd ever met, so people would frequently just wind up overthinking the interaction, trying desperately not to be offensive, or worse, using me as a prop to demonstrate how Progressive and Accepting and Trans-Positive they are.

In Current City, I am frequently not the first they/them people have encountered, or the first person with an ambiguous presentation. People have social scripts for handling nonbinaries and genderqueers, and I get less of the "I shall use M, who is literally just a normal cat trying to live their life, as a canvas to demonstrate how much of a #ally I am" shit".

It's nice.

you know, on my sbr anime bingo i did not put “they somehow innovate an EVEN WORSE release schedule than what they did to stone ocean”. good god.

I love Yoshiki Summerhikarudied because (at least by the end of Season 1), he's operating off of the subconscious logic that he's in a story where the monster is a metaphor for like, repressed queerness, and it's not not that, but this is also a story where Monsters Are Real And They Eat People.