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(DIR) Post #B4Tya4OzhOYsW4TxLc by AppleAmps@seafoam.space
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Ever since I learned to do my hair and started dressing in like 6/10 clothes I've been getting gendered as a woman in public about as much as I get treated as a man. Cool!
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Toy Story from Buzz's perspective is kinda fucked, right? Like, an astronaut crash-lands on an alien planet and gets gaslit by the cultish locals into thinking he was *born* on that planet and was secretly *one of them* all along.
(DIR) Post #B5AO5SVemAqPkpynA0 by AppleAmps@seafoam.space
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@fiore Yeah! Weirdly enough it's basically the same plot as Yorgos Lanthimos' Bugonia but with the roles swapped.
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Orbán is gone! 🇪🇺🇭🇺
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Watchmen lowkey sucks. Moore tries to have it both ways, making Rorschach a smelly neonazi AND a badass force of nature could have maybe worked but it's written so abysmally that it just makes neonazism somehow seem cool. Plus it's misogynistic as SHIT.
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If I had been on those planes, 9/11 wouldn't have gone down like that. In fact it would have been far worse.
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Gen alpha if they were multiplied by two: Twelve Fourteen! Twelve Fourteen!
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Something I find interesting about the way Toby Fox and people that occupy that space handle queerness is the fact that, like, none of their characters are really *queer,* per se. Like, in the original sense of the word, I mean. Alphys and Undyne are, in a literal sense, lesbians, but the society in which they exist doesn't view lesbian relationships as strange or abnormal so their love lacks any of the inherent friction of real life same-sex pairings. You could make the Royal Guards a buff4buff straight couple and literally nothing would change.This is why I feel UTDR has problems depicting transness in any real way. The main character is nonbinary but seemingly they just spawned into the world like that, because actually *showing* transition in the way people experience it requires that friction, something the idyllic post-queerphobic society of Hometown can't handle.
(DIR) Post #B6IEe7wpoj05dtmMxE by AppleAmps@seafoam.space
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@fiore That's true! And I don't think it's a flaw with Deltarune that Toriel doesn't look to the camera and dictate her experiences with Kris' coming out, but frankly I'm a bit tired of queer existence in popular media being exclusively communicated tacitly by way of themes and allegory. It feels like if Detroit: Become Human was the only accepted way of touching on race, y'know?
(DIR) Post #B6IF1ry8sUgP2DiCMC by AppleAmps@seafoam.space
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@fiore Ok ok that's true I totally forgot about her. I think if I'd had written her it'd be a bit *more* explicit but for what it is I think it works well.
(DIR) Post #B6IYaDgiX34BMzedqy by AppleAmps@seafoam.space
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@fiore I mean, to be fair I didn't say I thought Deltarune *should* be anything, I said it's interesting how Toby Fox and others in his pop-cultural space (the people making Adventure Time, Steven Universe, y'know, that stuff) create stories with explicitly queer characters that don't really have explicitly queer experiences. Also, idk, I don't think it would *hurt* to have some nod to that stuff in Deltarune, doesn't have to be anything big.
(DIR) Post #B6IZloBzFYjvj3N1xQ by AppleAmps@seafoam.space
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@fiore Oh, no worries, jaja. This has been a really nice, thoughtful discussion, so, uh, thanks for that!I do wanna add that my comparison of Undertale/Deltarune with other popular all-ages media from the 10's isn't purely aesthetic or meant to deride it, though! Adventure Time is like, my favorite shit ever so it comes as high praise.
(DIR) Post #B6IaUnJBNofe11Besq by AppleAmps@seafoam.space
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@fiore Y'know, actually iirc what I've been saying about Deltarune here goes double for Homestuck vis a vis June Egbert, but I haven't read it so like, idrk.
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@fiore G'night
(DIR) Post #B6MbXYnIgEiGSIzrd2 by AppleAmps@seafoam.space
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(Video Essayist voice) Good things are actually bad, if you really think about it.
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The fundamental difference between the left and right in the global north is their preferred mechanism for controlling the global south. Some folks are partial to IMF loans and global grant programs and some enjoy planning coup d'etats and military occupation but there is fully no "side" of mainstream western politics that wants to leave us alone.
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Northern Italians are TME but crucially Southern Italians are TMA.