What are your initial thoughts or feelings about the concept of transautism?
hey 👋🏼
i spent the last 25 minutes searching up everything about transautism, including the infamous carrd (and i may have gotten consistent C’s in science, but i’m not sure they got the brain stuff right in the q&a section)
my first feelings were mainly that of confusion, then i got pissed off, and now i just feel pity
honestly it’s very strange because if you feel like you are autistic (regardless if you get told you’re not), then why don’t you just say you’re autistic? the implification of the “trans” (meaning transforming into being) in this specific context for “transautism” means they know they aren’t autistic on some level, yet they want to be or they feel like they should be
i’ve looked up transautism blogs on tumblr to try to get an idea for why it is they want to be autistic and the main reason keeps being something around self-exploration and celebrating “different” types of neurodiversity
but another reason, which is very, very interesting to me, is some kind of dysphoria
there’s this blog that gives out advice to any transabled individual and people often describe feeling pain either (or both) psychologically and physically because of the lack of something they feel should be there (or something that shouldn’t be there, as i’ve seen with people who identify as transamputees)
this has led me to believe that there’s definitely something wrong, probably not autism, but definitely something
i mean, the lengths some of these people go to is quite literally reducing their quality of life
and, i saw many autistic people online call out transautism blogs with heavy criticism or just insults, which is very understandable don’t get wrong, but i truly just feel so concerned
like transautism isn’t good, it isn’t healthy, at all
at first i literally thought some people had munchausen's syndrome, but then i realized that if you have munchausen's syndrome, then you aren’t supposed to know? because you just have it, not just want to have it
i genuinely want these people to get some type of help that works for them, because this is just sad
and for all the autistic people that get super angry at transautism individuals, i suggest blocking any blogs and blacklisting related terms, because even if calling them out feels good, it really doesn’t do anything other than tire you out and piss you off
hey sorry but they goyified your inherently jewish written character. yea. yea no they tried catering to a wider audience. yea they made him scorf down a pile of bacon. i’m so sorry
how people go about interpreting dr bashir I presume? really frustrates me sometimes ngl especially the “jules bashir died” scene.
like that whole scene is about julian revealing the depth of how deeply his augmentations fractured his sense of identity and who he is - which feeds into the themes of the whole episode surrounding how disability and then by extension disabled people are often viewed as a problem to be solved and because of that are often denied the ability to have fulfilling lives because the able bodied people around them don’t believe that they can.
but… idk, when the fandom talks about it there’s always seems to be a push to read a trans allegory into it that I don’t think is really there? I keep mulling over this post in my mind and when I initially reblogged it I didn’t really want to talk about this because the post is about how stories about racism can be hijacked by white people to be made about their own transness and it felt like as a white person, using that post to complain about ableism would be missing the point. but it really helped me articulate in my mind why the trans reading of this episode feels off to me because the same general principle seems to apply and that is taking a story trying to discuss a specific type of marginalisation and putting a trans reading above it because you can relate more to it personally.
“jules bashir died in that hospital because you couldn't live with the shame of having a son who didn't measure up!” this scene is the culmination of julian expressing his pain about what was done to him as a disabled child by his parents due to how they viewed his disability. but often when I see it being discussed, people aren’t really interested in talking about that. instead supplanting it with a trans reading instead which, in my opinion is an allegory that doesn’t even really work when you think about what’s going on in the broader context of the scene.
julian didn’t stop going by jules because he came to the conclusion on his own that the identity didn’t suit him similar to the way a trans person questions or rejects the gender they were assigned at birth, he stopped going by jules because he felt like the identity attached to that name was taken from him because of what his parents did. it’s not julian affirming who he wants to be it’s grieving over who he can’t be and to me at least, it’s honestly kind of harrowing.
and as an aside: when people read transness into a story about parents who change their child’s body and mind at a very young age without consent, which is literally a narrative projected onto trans people by transphobes to justify the curtailing of trans rights, that also doesn’t sit well with me. I think people latch onto this reading because of the idea of “killing a name” but again in the context of the whole episode the trans reading really doesn’t feel appropriate.
I think it’s okay for people to have trans headcanons about julian of course or literally any character they want to really, but I think saying that specific episode codes him as trans isn’t all that great honestly.
i feel bad for everyone saying nolan can’t get a redemption arc or that he’s gonna be some big final antagonist
his redemption arc is a huge part of the plot of the comic guys they can’t not do it. Doesn’t mean anyone needs to like him or anything but yea don’t worry he’s gonna pay in his own blood for his crimes. mark got his proneness for getting his ass beat from his father
Play the game however you like, by all means. If you wanna do your “I can make him worse” playthrough, wanna rule the world together as an evil couple, you’re here for the darker story, go for it! I’m all for it! My party is planning a campaign where we’re all villains! I’m here for that!
But for the love of all that is good in this world, don’t lie to yourself and say that ascending Astarion is a “good ending” or “whether or not it’s a good ending is up to the player.” No. Shut up and sit down.
Killing seven thousand people is an objectively bad decision. There is no way around that. The Ascension ritual is a classic Faustian bargain, you lose your soul for power, which is ultimately a loss to you because what you gain is far less valuable than what you trade away. Astarion loses who he is and becomes the same thing he feared in the name of power. And the thing about power is, once you have it, you become obsessed with keeping it and it slowly turns you against everyone around you. Astarion will become another Cazador, even if he isn’t that way at first.
Astarion’s good ending comes with sacrifice because he can’t walk in the sun, yes. But he retains his personhood and doesn’t become Cazador. And more importantly, he heals from his trauma. He is happy, and truly free. Free from Cazador, free from the illithids, free from his past. That’s a happy ending.
Make no mistake, the Ascension ritual is Astarion’s bad ending. Don’t delude yourself into thinking otherwise.
something i’ve been thinking about for a long time is how characters that are widely headcanoned as transmasc are almost always non-masculine in some way. they’re almost always nerdy, or physically weak, or feminine in style/behavior, or more emotional than men are typically portrayed in media, or all of the above. every time i’ve seen someone say “this character has transmasc vibes” they slot snugly into one or more of those categories.
which, ofc, headcanon whoever you want as trans. the more trans characters the better. but i also think that the general widespread phenomenon of having lots of transmasc characters be the ones “””failing””” masculinity in some way is… not the best?
and like. i get it. i am also that flavor of transmasc, and i like seeing myself reflected in characters, even if they are just headcanons. i know there are a lot of trans folks who see themselves in those characters because they are “””failing””” masculinity in some way. (and, as i’ve indicated by putting “failing” in tons of quotation marks previously, i don’t think having those traits actually makes someone lose masculinity points or something.)
but not every transmasc is like that, and i hardly ever see more traditionally masculine characters headcanoned as trans. it’s gotten to the point where i feel uncomfortable seeing transmasc headcanons with characters who fit the stereotype, and i also fit and love being the stereotype, so i can’t imagine what it’s like for the transmascs who don’t.
i don’t have a particular call-to-action or anything for this post. i can’t and don’t want to order people to stop headcanoning something, that’s not the point. like i said, headcanon whoever you want as trans.
i suppose if i have a takeway, it’s.. think about why [x character] gives you more trans vibes than [y character]. consider expanding beyond the gut-feeling vibes and play with the idea of a different kind of character being trans, one who you absolutely would not have considered before.
really actually kind of enjoy how the big lore moments are sort of quiet on a singular stream (or a small group!) instead of the events solely being the lore; i think there would be this hesitation to develop anything solo if the server reinforced this idea that Big Lore could only happen during scheduled events and days. instead the more narrative-progressing moments (take the baghera hybrid experiments revelation or the philza birdnapping for recent example) are very low-key and almost unhyped up— there’s no expectation for that kind of lore necessarily at the time which makes it more rewarding to experience as a viewer. big fan of how they do the events as player bonding time rather than serious narrative progression because it allows all the players (especially the ones who don’t engage in the rp side that much) to participate and get to know each another more; it’s very neat it’s really smart it’s nicely executed
negative connotations to Arabic phrase ‘God is Great’ incorrect. average praying Muslim does takbir (says Allahu Akbar) a minimum 95 times a day and should have been counted.
I think part of the reason people think that thrawns actions weren’t accurate or that thrawn isn’t really thrawn and “Dave filoni ruined him” is because thrawn isn’t the main character or even the main villain of Ashoka and therefore people haven’t gotten any sort of “real” context to his actions (besides everything we got in the show and rebels) because no one is saying “oh thrawn did this because of this” “I, thrawn, am doing this because of this” “I, other character, do not understand why thrawn is doing that but it’s thrawn so there has to be a reason”
Because it’s a fucking tv show, no one is going to say that in a tv show!! When reading a book, it feels normal for the character to ponder or guess at what the other characters mean when they say that or do something. It feels normal that the character is thinking things through on the page but thrawn is going to say out loud what the fuck he’s doing because that’s stupid and he barely talks to other characters in Ashoka anyways!
Go read an essay if you want to get an extremely detailed explanation of what someone is doing, if you’re not reading an esssay shut up about how you didn’t get the explanation
why am I getting so upset around the idea of favourite characters. Like Amane is my favorite character but recently I’ve been thinking about John a lot and his story and I don’t know why it feels like I’ve betrayed Amane sometimes I think is she really my favorite character? Like I know she definitely is but I don’t know what makes a favourite character and it feels especially weird having two comfort characters and a favourite out of them like picking between two children and sometimes it feels so weird when I think about another character more at times and I just feel really bad about myself
i feel like i’ve been WAITING for the other shoe to drop wrt people’s opinions about watcher for this very reason. not that i think the reaction is completely not understandable but the greater the parasocial relationship, the greater the fallout as soon as public opinion shifts. you don’t have a relationship with these people they’re just content creators, chill
i hate that you're feeling this way about Misha, i hate it because i went through the same with Jared and i know it sucks, to be disappointed on someone you had in high regards.
i'm not going to lie, i was a Sam girl, i loved Jared a lot, just as much as Jensen and Misha and even after the finale happened i was out there like an idiot defending him, and i didn't drop him until i found out about the "come and take it" tattoo he has on his arm.
i'm Mexican, and that felt way too personal, and it hurt me, i cried, just to think that maybe he looks down on people like me. point is, after that, looking back i realized Jared isn't exactly the best person.
but Misha is a good person, and looking back we can see all the good things he did over the years, how many people he helped, how kind he always was with the fandom, and how many lives he touched in a positive way. and now people is acting as if being wrong about something suddenly negates everything good he's ever done, and that is just not fair, he doesn't deserve that, he isn't a terrorist, all he did was speak an opinion.
oh my gosh i am so sorry! i can’t even imagine how much it must have hurt to find that out about someone you looked up to so much :(
and i hate it too, believe me.
i do think misha is a genuinely good person but i’m just a little disappointed at the moment. i don’t think he was wrong in everything that he said, but a lot of it i disagreed with and it honestly hurt to read. i know he’s not perfect, and i don’t know him personally and people can grow and change and learn. and he has proved that over and over. so i guess i’m just hoping that’ll happen with this.
but instead of waiting for that to happen, i’m going to continue trying to help in any way that i can and keep talking about palestine. but misha isn’t right now. i know he ‘just stated an opinion’ but it didn’t help anyone or anything, let alone himself.
Christopher was confirmed autistic at yalc, not ADHD - I literally asked the question
popping on to say if anyone read TMI source’s blog post about the yalc panel the Christopher information is wrong, I asked the question and the conversation was about autism, not ADHD. Christopher is confirmed autistic. I’m actually so frustrated at seeing the two confused especially as it’s lead to Christopher’s autism now being erased bc everyone will see the blog post.
as a russian who doesn't talk to russian people online what the shit is happening there hello
look man i myself have put in the effort to Not talk to online russians for like (checks hand) 7 or so years (of course i’ve met some really great ones but this isn’t about them and they probably know it) but i’m sure the community didn’t change much. actually from the glimpses i see it seems to have gotten worse. don’t even get me startedddddd man
Now he’s trying to lie when he literally tagged Princeton like 5 fucking time. White people are so evil, bro. They always know what they’re doing when they do shit like that. With the attempt to bring harm to Black people who they want to “get out of the way,” because they don’t think that we belong in the same spaces as them while at the same time, believing they should be allowed INTO our spaces and afforded hospitality and a whole red carpet rolled out. The sad thing is, she has connections to the industry because of her uncle and name so what if this was just a random Black woman who worked for Princeton without this kind of protection at all…?