The Brainworms Struck. Trans Man! Bella Swan.

NO FUCKING TERFS ON MY BLOG NO RADFEMS NO ONE WHO CALLS THEMSELVES “GENDER CRITICAL” NO TRANSMEDS!!!!! YOURE ALL EVIL

I think what the biggest kick in the teeth is with the watcher announcement- at least for me- is knowing that they are NOT Netflix OR Hulu. they do not have enough content to hold an entire streaming service on their back. I get why they’re doing it and that just worries me more. They’re trying to make more money to support their growing company but they just aren’t Dropout, Netflix, or Hulu. With the big buck streaming services, they have enough content beyond their original series to keep people watching (ignoring the fact that most big boy services have needed to switch gears in their monetization to keep going) but watcher does not have that. in order for this change to work even remotely on their end, they’d need to kick into high gear and make more content. Like fast. Someone else pointed out that they’ve got a “two episode per month” schedule and that absolutely will not work for a streaming service. and of course everything I’ve mentioned is on their end, not even taking into consideration how many people are very visibly angry by this. What happens when they don’t have enough people sign up? 

what a kick in the pants.

I fully blame the acceptance of this behavior on the abhorrent representation in the show. Fans are sexualizing the one character whose sexual trauma has been discussed in show at length? Mayhaps its the show itself..

More bullshit I found on the hazbin subreddit

Im sorry but

What??

No we wouldn't???

What the fuck is wrong with this community!? Nobody would want to put cameras in people's changing room! (The original post was talking about Vox having cameras in Angel's changing room, btw)

Shipping two male characters but making one of them super feminine for no reason is kind of gross! And its the same thing if you make one person in a lesbian relationship super hyper masculine for no reason. Its just really weird.

also i’ve seen some people say they’re gonna kill themselves or swear off watcher because of something they announced TWO HOURS ago and i just

please i say this with the upmost sincerity, PLEASE reevaluate some things in your life and please seek mental health help or take a step back to think things through because a company should not have this kind of impact on your life

just in case the wrong type of person (those who will absolutely use this as an excuse to physically harm, harass, or do unmentionable inappropriate activities to unwilling parties) sees this:

Your intent and diagnosis is an explanation but when someone does actually say “hey don’t do that” / “that makes me uncomfortable” / “please stop” YOU STOP. When people are SAYING and actually communicating with you to STOP that’s not something that’s vague or misunderstandable.

of course this doesn’t apply to the implications of people being uncomfortable, because that can absolutely be missed by anyone neurotypical, let alone anyone autistic. But I’m sick of seeing people use this as a scapegoat for straight up assault or harassing people. If people say stop and you don’t? You’re not just an asshole, you’re a freak who’s about to have no friends.

this post cannot apply when people tell you how to change.

I think some of you forgot that autistic people sometimes act strange and say things that are poorly worded and speak with incorrect tone and misunderstand or miss social cues because they are autistic

In the same spirit, my bff accidentally found my dead name on pinterest and made fun of me for a full minute, thinking my mom had a bunch of boards named after a random girl and not a single one for me

My boyfriend found out what my dead name was, then he preceded to roast it for the next 25 mins.

I had to break this to a close friend of mine recently but I worry that this sort of information needs to be more widespread, especially since we’re still coming off the popularity of “Don’t ever trauma dump on me! If you say anything about what you’re going through ever it’s trauma dumping!!!” And it’s equal and opposite reaction of “actually you must be there for your friends no matter what or you’re a bad friend and trauma cannot ever be weaponized that never happens you’re lying.”

You are not your friend’s therapist. You can be there for them, provide support, be a shoulder to cry on, but you are not and should not attempt to be a friend’s sole source of healing their mental health issues. Bad advice often does more harm than good, and you are not a licensed professional who is equipped with the knowledge of how to help.

I’m not saying abandon your friends, I’m speaking from the position of someone whose bad, damaging, habits were enabled by a friend who thought that watching psych101 videos meant they were qualified to heal me.

I am but a cockatiel spouting relevant information about the latest controversy.

Idk who needs to hear this but it's not misogynistic to call out women who treat queer men as sexual objects. That is the meaning of the word, and why fujoshi means "rotten girl". They're basically an even worse version of girls who want a "gay best friend" as an accessory, and the female version of men who want to see girls in the bar make out because it's "hot". Anyone who tells you otherwise is not only blatantly lying to you, but dangerously homophobic and should be avoided at all costs.

Also, as a trans man who has been in plenty of fujoshi spaces in the past, they are infinitely more transphobic than people who use the term correctly (as in not using it on gay trans men living their lives, but actual fetishizers). But what the fuck would my cuntboy ass know am I right.