Sparklemoth Yumi

I do this as well. Azorious? Preposterous! BIRDS

You have a Golgari deck?

No no, that's a Squirrel deck silly

It doesn't have Squirrels in it? Well does it have the actual Golgari guild from Ravnica in it?

Referring to MtG two-colour pairs as their associated Ravnica Guild?

Boring, overplayed, the names mean nothing to people unfamiliar

Referring to them as their associated Bloomburrow animalfolk?

New, exciting, people know what animals are

That's fair

But many trans women have height dysphoria

And there was also just her wanting to be pink and cute

Another thing I very much feel as a trans woman

But yeah, it can be both

I mean, I watched the show

I just never made any age regression connection

She was just really relatable in general as a trans woman

Girls are just infinitely more fun and interesting and relatable and unique and pretty and cute and

Okay maybe I'm just gay, but STILL, I stand by this statement

Oh?

TRUE

You could also just remove the protagonist entirely and have the story be about the female love interests without him

That would also be infinitely better

Especially if there are multiple love interests and instead they just date each other

Almost any manga or anime with a male protagonist and female love interest(s) can be made infinitely better by making the protagonist a girl instead

I'm sorry but I just do not care AT ALL about your male protagonist

They're just simply not interesting, relatable, or attractive to me, a lesbian

Once again on the "am I aro?" thoughts

So a couple questions

What even IS romance?

And does a desire for romance have to be involved for it to romantic attraction?

Am I being lied to by my friends?

Probably not, it's probably just my insecurities and anxieties making me think they might be

But how can I know for sure???

I think I might have a warped view of relationships

So I'd like to ask

What does being in a relationship mean to you?

And especially, who is your partner to you, particularly in comparison to your other friends?

What exactly makes them different or special, if anything?

Well, the aro thing I'm constantly back and forth on

I have no idea how to tell if I am or not tbh

When you're aroace but still desperately crave a relationship >w<

The professor's assistant is just the other character you could have chosen to play as, not an entirely new different character

And as far as I know, the only other time they've done it with a different character based on your chosen gender is in B2/W2 with Yancy and Curtis

Those characters are version exclusive though, not based on your chosen gender

And Scarlet/Violet had very limited clothing options and didn't even have skirts at all, which is frustrating

Love when in order to interact with the cute girl in my video game, I have to subject myself to lots of real life gender dysphoria 🙃

I guess they have until "late 2025" to change it, to fix it

But I find those chances slim

This has genuinely ruined the presentation today

Anything good is being overshadowed by this for me

Maybe I'm clinging to a small detail, but is it really a small detail when this is probably a recurring/main character?

And with the implications about how they're handling gender as a whole

AND WHY CAN'T WE PLAY AS SOMEONE WITH THEY/THEM PRONOUNS >:(

C'mon Game Freak, Pokémon Company, Nintendo, whoever else

It's 2025, get with the times, especially when you KNOW queer people love your games and you absolutely have queer people on your teams

I thought they were getting closer with S/V

Things still gendered, but less so

But now it seems like they're going backwards, probably gonna gender more things

Why don't we have separate appearance and pronoun fields?

Why do we either have skirts locked to girls or none at all?

It's bullshit

Right??? They haven't learned a thing in over a decade I guess

I THOUGHT they were making progress, but I guess not

I hate it so much, genuinely ruined today's direct for me

Taunie is just so cute

I just want them in my game 😭

At least the gameplay of Legends: Z-A looks really fun

I'm excited and intrigued about the new battle system, it looks a bit awkward but having a non turn-based system is really cool

Like, I've gotten kinda tired of the battle system we've had for ~30 years, something new is fresh and exciting

ALSO STOP MAKING CLOTHES EXCLUSIVE TO ONE GENDER

PLEASE

And this doesn't mean making all clothes look "neutral"

LET BOYS WEAR SKIRTS DANGIT

Like, I've already been really upset about not being able to meet Yancy if I play as Rosa in B2/W2

But that's a pretty old game now, I thought they'd do better by now

BUT I GUESS NOT

Two counterpart characters from Pokémon Legends: Z-A One is masc presenting and is labeled as Urbain, and one is femme presenting and is labeled as Taunie Text on the image says "Which character you meet will depend on the appearance you chose for yourself in the game"

I am infinitely mad about this >:(

WHY CAN'T I BE FEMME PRESENTING AND ALSO HAVE THE GIRL???

ALSO STOP MAKING THINGS EXCLUSIVE TO THE GENDER OF YOUR CHARACTER

"Will depend on the appearance you chose"
You're just doing gender without actually saying the word, and it frustrates me >:(

When you're asexual and fundamentally do not and can not understand Smash or Pass

But all your friends around you are having a blast doing it, while you just sit there lost, confused, mortified, and isolated

Talking with friends about my bad emotions helps me feel better

But constantly venting and putting that emotional burden on them is shitty and will weigh on them over time

So every time I have said emotions (frequently), I struggle with if I should talk to friends about it or deal with it alone