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Don’t care. Die.

#i hate this kind of thing so much #since the first time it happened to me with neopets #im super vulnerable to it #somehow my empathy is directly tuned to this kind of thing and it always fucks me up #nikke did it too. will not forgive them.

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Arknights and stars

On that topic, Arknights has always had a connection to the stars and its own star map is a bit wonky if compared to earth now but makes sense if you see it in the great scheme of things.

From Astesia's file on, it's been implied that the dome that surrounds Terra is fake, and Kristen is the first one who has gone beyond it so far (traveling from Terra to beyond the dome). It's also said that the reason people cannot navigate the sea reliably is because the stars themselves aren't reliable.

But it's also a bit more concrete that the stars are a bit off, or, it would look like that.

Remember Children of Ursus? Everyone remembers its dark story but few remember the map layout.

This is the Big Dipper, part of the constellation Ursa Maior. Fitting for an event that features bear characters.

But wait! Doesn't the Big Dipper look like this?

It does. But the Big Dipper over 50,000 years looks like this...

Like I pointed out in the previous post, the stars are always on the move. It may seem slow to us but if you take a large enough timescale then the sky sure does shift from what it's now.

Remember this skin of Astesia's?

It sure is a pretty skin. But zoom in on the star chart and you'll find something...peculiar...

Several constellations look...off. Like Leo, Virgo, Hydra and Gemini. And...

The star that's marked as the North Star (i.e the star in the middle) is not Polaris, but Vega, the largest star in the constellation Lyra! Don't see it? Here, I'll make it a little more clear:

And Lyra how it is now, which is, again, slightly different from how Lyra is depicted in the above image:

Vega is not our current North Star, it's the star Polaris (duh). But Vega was in about 14,000 years ago, and will be again in about 12,000 to 13,000 years in the future. So not our current North Star.

The celestial globe is also tilted at 45 degrees instead of 23,5 for earth.

So! A huge misser on the part of the artist, right?

Wrong!

You see, the ecliptic and equator in the artwork do obviously not align with our current ecliptic and equator. But our equator and ecliptic looking like in the skin can only happen if the precession of the earth's axis is tilted towards the south...which will be the case in 12,000 to 13,000 years from now. At that time, the constellations will look 'off' compared to how they look now (I was talking about the stars shifting over time in my previous post) and Polaris will no longer the be North Star, like in the artwork.

The kicker?

Lone Trail reveals that Terra is at least 13,000 years old.

#WHAT THE HELL #chat is this real #big if true #arknights

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bg na_taraipisu

#i love the way this artist draws them. and especially #rosmontis #arknights #blaze

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Santalla with ASPD on-demand…

#arknights

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my friend wrote this in his notes app while extremely drunk

#literally perfect #no notes #faves

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my headcanon is that scolipedes can be rather comfy

#scolipede #my beloved #pokemon

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e pluribus unum summary

#THIS IS FUCKING INCREDIBLE LMAOOOO #faves #medb #arjuna #fgo #fate series

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TME and TMA as intersexist terms: as written by an intersex transfem

I’ve had a few different people in my inbox asking me why I view these terms the way I do. In particular, why I claim it’s intersexist. So, I thought I’d lay out a few examples, so everyone can understand where I’m coming from.

Imagine an intersex woman. She was assigned female at birth by her doctors, and was able to go about her childhood as a woman with no inclination that anything was amiss. Sure, she didn’t experience certain parts of puberty, but puberty was different for everyone, right?

But, later in life, she learns she has Turner syndrome. This is an intersex condition where a woman has only one X chromosome, rather than the usual two.

Soon after she learns this, she finds that laws are being made to attempt to keep trans women out of women’s spaces (often specifically sports) which use chromosomes as a defining factor of womanhood.

Would this intersex person be considered “transmisogyny affected”? She has been raised as a cisgender woman with no problems regarding being ‘clocked’, but she is also a direct target of transmisogynistic laws. She lies in a gray area.

Now, let’s go to another intersex person. Imagine an intersex man with PAIS. AIS is an intersex condition where babies are born with testes and XY chromosomes, but their body is immune to or can’t respond to androgens (which includes testosterone). Intersex people with partial AIS (PAIS) often develop a vulva and clitoris during puberty.

This intersex person identifies as a man, and he was assigned male at birth. However, his body does not produce testosterone, and he went through a feminizing puberty. To the average eye, he appears to be a woman now because of this.

Would this intersex person be considered “transmisogyny affected?” He was assigned male at birth, and now appears to be a woman, much like many transfems. However, if many saw how he looks now, stating that he is a male, they would probably clock him as transmasc. He was raised as a boy until puberty, and then faced astrozcization from his peers when he began a puberty that feminized him. What he was facing was a form of intersexism where transmisogyny was playing a huge part. Does his childhood matter? Can one become TME over time, when they were TMA as a child? Again, he lies in a gray area, where the answer is not quite so simple.

What about the “opposite”, per se — an intersex woman who had a masculinizing puberty? She has aromatase deficiency, which means that many ‘male’ hormones (which would usually be converted to ‘female’ hormones) would remain unconverted. She identifies as a woman, and was identified as a female at birth and was raised, until puberty, as a female. But now, she would be clocked as a trans woman upon looking at her. What does that make her? Is it different from the previous example? How and why? This intersex person also lies in a gray area. How she should be described with these terms is not clear.

And keep in mind, these are all relatively simple examples. All of the examples I listed self-identify as cisgender. But there are intersex people who are trans in any direction you can imagine.

If that last example identified as a trans woman, because she is now clocked as one, would you be able to say she’s wrong for that? What about if she identified as transmasculine, because of her experience with puberty? What if she’s multigender, bigender or genderfluid, and says she’s both transmasc and transfem because of her complicated experiences? Would that make her a TMA transmasculine person? But I thought that transmascs were all TME? That’s how it’s so often framed, anyway.

The reason why these questions are so difficult to answer is because these terms were not made with intersex people in mind. Very real intersex transfems were pushed to the wayside in favor of centering the perisex view of transgenderism. Intersex people are nothing but an inconvenient little afterthought, annoying perisex people with their demand for “inclusion” and “consideration”. (As per usual.)

You cannot simply make a new gender binary and say, “No, really, this time everyone fits into these two categories! Forcing people to confine themselves to these two rigid labels which are shown as opposites, and as never interacting, will definitely include everyone this time!!” No matter what the contents of the new binary is, it’s not going to work, because sex and gender alike are too complicated for that. There will always be people in the gray area.

This isn’t even getting into the fact that these terms, for all intents and purposes, seem to have been popularized by and associated with the Baeddelism movement around 2017, which was essentially “Radical Feminism 2: We’re Trans Women, So It’s Fine!” This movement is known for chronic villainization of trans men and non-binary people who aren’t transfem. (They act like this with cis people too, but noticeably less so than they do with non-transfem trans people. How curious.) Think along the lines of how regular radfems treat all men (and who they deem to be men) as inherently morally disgusting scum who deserve to be attacked.

Methinks that maybe these terms aren’t the neutral, fact-based descriptors of oppression that many people nowadays tout them to be, considering that.

So, yeah. “Transmisogyny exempt” and “transmisogyny affected” as terms: not even once. Listen to intersex people, stop trying to make sex and gender into binaries, and for the love of God, stop drinking the queer seperationist koolaid!

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I refuse to accept that this is just a mistranslation and that the EN translation team are fucking hilarious and did this on purpose because Amiya who was raised in a pharmaceutical company since she was a child by dr Kal'tsit (and Doctor),and calling an unfinished cake an embryo is so good

based on this tweet

#arknights #amiya

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#i think about this one constantly #amiya #arknights

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I’ve been thinking recently, especially in the light of all the big, long-awaited reveals of the recent CN anniversary, which signals many of the major long-term arcs coming to a head.

Intermezzi vs. side stories.

Intermezzi are main plot relevant, right?

We’ve got Walk in the Dust and Darknights earlier in the game’s run that developed core concepts and people like Kal’tsit, Theresa, Rhodes Island, Kazdel, and hinted at the history and trajectory of Terra back in the times we didn’t know much. They also gave us a proper introduction to W, Ines, and Hoederer, who have now become main characters in the second main story arc.

You can see why they’re there, they directly prelude and give the backstory to main story content. They’re very important.

Similarly, you have Lonetrail, which is the capstone to the entire early era of Arknights content. It marks the change between Arknights content focusing on various nations and social conflicts of the modern day while teaching us about the world’s gods and giving small glimpses of the underlying forces of the world, to a new page in the story where we talk directly about that mythological history, the purpose of the sarcophagi, the threats and cycles of the world.

It makes sense for that to be in Intermezzi. The previous Rhine Lab events are side stories, since they depict a side arc that fills out the world, like all the others. Lonetrail finishes that arc but it also says, you have walked among these people, and you know the lives they lead, the injustices they suffer, the futures they envision for themselves.

Now look down at Terra, floating through space. Consider its foundations, its threats, its fate. Now you understand why Kal’tsit traveled alone for millennia, trying to change the future: why Theresa decided that people needed to strike out in a dramatic new direction, despite the danger.

A new age is upon us, indeed.

But that leaves me with one question.

Why are the Aegir events in intermezzi? Why them, and not the stories of Nian collecting her siblings, or the details of the Lock and Key incident and the place the Sankta take in the geopolitical landscape and the history of the Sarkaz?

What do they still have planned? What’s in store in the next big arc?

#arknights

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Front: Don’t Bully Me Back: I Will Cry

#eli my beloved eli #its okay i prommy youre the coolest #elizabeth bathory #fate extra ccc #fate series

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March on Washington for LGBT Equal Rights and Liberation in Washington DC (April 1993) by Elvert Barnes Photography

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#faves

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Trying to comfort someone u care ab but you have zero (0) empathy and dgaf like

Sir have we tried “I’m so sorry”

Sir have we tried “gotta thug it out”

Sir have we tried “that must suck”

Sir have we tried “aw are you ok”

Sir have we tired “that’s really bad”

#faves