Michaela Joffe

Agrias was assigned male at birth by her dad as part of a medieval heir scheme and was "socialized male" until adulthood when she left her family to live as a woman. they finally did it, they finally made a cis trans woman. Gaffgarion even calls her agp if you bring her to the gate fight.

another time I finished a buddhist art history final paper five hours before it was due, at least a little drunk, at a train station with a dying laptop, the same night I had sex for the first time. A- and I had my second time the same morning. fuck your ai, get good scrub.

pulled a 20 minute power point lecture on emu farming out of my ass in an hour once. there was no grading involved and I tried telling them I was an art student, but the point remains!

and what happens when, even if by some miracle every queer audience turns to these scenes, straight and cis audiences get funneled away from them because they don't bother to think about how media companies actively keep them sequestered from us unless they already KNOW us enough to watch for it.

while I'm coping with the idea of queer audiences possibly going "fuck this, time to buy independent comics or games or writing by queer people" I'm also worried about how many cishet people will be content enough with scraps and occasional thrown bones and ignore growing queer indie creative scenes

its harder to get people to be bigoted against people in their daily lives and communities. not impossible by any means, but harder. and with corporate media being too many peoples' community-substitute... even with how rancidly bigoted fandoms are whats depressing is how that is still a step up.

like, I hope its "get angry and cultivate a healthy if long-overdue distrust of corporations" but also "give money directly to queer creators doing independent work." but still the main benefit of mainstream corporate IP queer content was that it made cishet audiences less likely to want us dead.

as more media companies use the current political situation as an excuse to ditch queer content and creators asap, I wonder what audiences who grew up or came out in a "post-subtext" world are gonna do once they realize subtext scraps are once more going to be the best they get on a corporate level.

Ramza: Your very words admit to gender's subjectivity!
Argath: Admit to it? I champion it! Gender is not a binary, Ramza. It is a hierarchy in which we sit on top. The stratum beneath defined by proximity to our needs. We give them identity, Ramza! 'Tis the Father's will that we serve this purpose!

Argath: Yes Ramza, I called her "this person." Have you not yet learned that gender is but a performance? Is it not our right as cis to judge that performance? To let them know when they have made themselves useful enough to us that they we may deign to grant them the title of "woman" they seek?

“Yes, I see your ‘Artificial Turk’ dreams himself a dictator. Hiding deep in the ‘Number Jungle’ he facies himself a ‘Tiger.’ But it is MY hand that presses his buttons to unleash his ‘Disinformation Age.’ See how easily I render myself in the ‘Ghibli Style’ the lowlies adore!”

Jack Kirby would’ve had a field day with AI. there’d be some hooded guy saying “My lord Darkseid, the Fire Pits of Armagetto burn to fuel Micro Mark’s ‘Poison Pen.’ See how his Copies remove the Imperfections of Creation? Anti-Life given flesh!” then Darkseid’d go “Not Anti-Life, something worse.”

supping on knot, butt, broth of bean

its genuinely funny that Argath heard Milleuda coin "sup on broth of bean" and then stole it to use himself three battles later. even in the middle ages, the right can't meme and has to steal from the left.

streamer Argath like "Chattel, is this real?"

"well what about one piece?" I am going to feed you to raccoons.

even when it is well meaning, I do not think it should count as trans rep at all because it only gets used to artificially inflate the numbers so people go "see? we don't need more trans women characters, look at all the hulking fist-of-the-north-star-ass monster men they already get!"

Vinland Saga is a good comic but if you think it has "good trans rep" I don't think you should be trusted to operate heavy machinery or advocate for my rights.

you're excited about a stealth new pikmin reveal, I'm disappointed that nintendo games are apparently now going to go for an illumination cocomelon style. we are not the same.

its a minor thing, but it does bother me whenever someone is described as “talking like sephiroth” when they’re actually “talking like martin prince.”

me: I've been Final Fantasy Tactics posting a lot, maybe I should ease off the gas a bit
the giant, ominous letters hovering over the united states: Chapter 1 - The Meager

the sudden, terrible realization that as a result of Undertale and its fandoms, the new Moomin movie may be arriving at the exact point in history the most possible viewers per capita will be horny for Moominmama.

as much as I love the writing and big ideas of some of them, there’s a reason I became a jrpg freak instead of a crpg freak.

the difference is that Ramza networked with Orran. that's why its so important to hire a PR guy, even if he is a nepo baby.

in terms of the unexplored meta-narrative of Final Fantasy Tactics, the six generic units Ramza starts with are all also the children of nobility who give up their lives of privilege at the exact same time for the exact same reasons, and they didn't even know Tietra! and yet they get no credit.

if you're enjoying Final Fantasy Tactics be sure to check out its highly praised sequels... Vagrant Story and about 2/3rds or so of Final Fantasy XII

the intricate, heart-rending emotion at the core of Snufkin discarding a miraculous dragon just for the sake of Moomintroll's feelings, yet still being compelled by his nature to abandon him every year. Finnish yaoi just hits different.

I can't wait to see how all the tech dipshits taking non-stop Ls the past week reconcile "we can't ban bigots because we believe so strongly in giving you the tools to block and moderate on your own." and "we will ban ever trans, black and/or jewish person we have to until it makes them like us!"

These people were enslaved as laborers for a call center soliciting church donations in case you’re wondering the exact level of where we went wrong as a human species

the moomins are great because its like “here is your whimsical children’s adventures, I made it full of melancholic explorations of community and longing, subversive anarchist leanings, and bisexual yearning just like you asked” and some of us DID ask so thank you