#scout talks

[al8estos]

Dress up a monkey in Armani

He may seem precocious and cute

Despite all that primpin'

You still got a chimp in a suit!

#my art tag #fanart #tf2 #tf2 scout #tf2 spy #dirty rotten scoundrels #I hope people see my vision width dirty rotten scoundrels..l it makes so much sense but I don’t have anyone to talk to about it #anyways here’s scout trying to wear his dads suit #he kept his shoes one #he still wants to run

[homkamiro]

Sooo....are we gonna acknowledge Sniper's voicelines or

#every thing he says sounds like some dumb dirty talk. good god. sir. you're talking to a corpse. chill #anyway i'm an animatot btw #if you didn't know #team fortress 2 #team fortress 2 fanart #team fortress 2 animation #tf2 #tf2 fanart #tf2 animation #tf2 scout #tf2 sniper #sniperscout #speeding bullet

[uncanny-tranny]

Something I love that some trans people do is talk about their pre-transition selves with no context as to their transition.

Like, if a trans woman talks about her past by saying, "when I was in Boy Scouts..." and never elaborates that she's trans and that there was a time where she was a boy scout. I just think that kind of normalization is great (and honestly, it can be funny when others are like "a GIRL in the BOY scouts?????? My life is changed")

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #i think normalization can/should look like being able to talk abour yourself pre-transition without couching it in 'i am trans. i am trans' #like that's not the focus of the story obviously!!! let the women talk about being in boy scouts without fear and explanation gddamnit!!!

[thebearme]

Here more silly tf2

#team fortress 2 #team fortress fanart #tf2 #tf2 fanart #scout tf2 #miss pauling #spy tf2 #scouts ma #scout's mom #soldier tf2 #medic tf2 #engineer tf2 #fem sniper #fem scout #scoutpauling? #take it as you will #sniperscout #speeding bullet #me and my friend hc that engi and medic were a thing and cant stop talking about it- so there will be more of them later

[newvestroia]

What will happen in the future? Do you think it will be better than today?

#their contrast is so interesting me especially their aces #unfortunately pokemon masters gave me volo brain again #going feral over some of his lines in masters #what is he talking about!!! I need to know #anyways I finally got him at 360/400 scout points #ive got so many pokemon thoughts rn so please send asks!!! #fanart #pokemon #pokemon volo #pokemon cynthia #pla #pokemon legends arceus #champion cynthia #volo #pokemon diamond and pearl #cynthia pokemon #togekiss #garchomp #myart #procreate #this took me 14 hours but the volo card watching over me on my shelf gave me the power to push through it 💪 #reblogs are appreciated!! I’ve very happy with this

[pleckthaniel]

Also my ultimate hope for Goncharov is that it becomes a big enough meme that an interviewer asks Martin Scorsese something about its themes or whatever and, not wanting to admit that he has forgotten one of his own films, he answers seriously

#scout talks #goncharov #containment breach

[pleckthaniel]

Seeing people take photos of the rural heartland and then tag them horrorcore and midwestern gothic. Ma'am that is someone's house. They live there.

#idk it comes off as some kind of weird poverty tourism to me #like yes the desolation is horrifying but. you are not the one being endangered by it #scout talks

[pleckthaniel]

also I love that the fact dracula clearly doesnt have any serving staff is being used as a bit of creepy foreshadowing. like logically i know the implication is that all the locals wont work for him bc they know hes a vampire and dont want to get eaten but it is so fucking english to be like 'ooOOoo this nobleman is carrying things and cooking for himself! isnt violation of class expectations spooky?'

#daily dracula #scout talks #containment breach

[pleckthaniel]

I feel like the adoption of internet shallow-corpo-feminism speak into popular media might be part of why so many teenagers seem to think that no one was fighting inequality until 3 years ago. like if you believe, truly believe, that equality is about Saying The Right Things and Looking The Right Way instead of like, a set of principles, then of course it’s going to be impossible for you to recognize feminism that doesn’t look exactly like the current trendy/profitable strain

#this is about the insane amount of people ive seen saying that taylor swift couldnt have written 'fuck the patriarchy' in 2011 #bc 'no one knew about the patriarchy then' #it's also about the equally insane amount of people ive seen saying riverdale s7 having queer characters who arent tortured and sad #and characters of color who are like educated self-advocates. is 'unrealistic' because in 1955 NO ONE was fighting oppression dont you know #scout talks

[pleckthaniel]

as a trans man who has become a political refugee in my own country, Directly caused by 1. autistic-women-being-manipulated-into-transitioning rhetoric and 2. testosterone being a controlled substance, frankly i feel like i should not have to say this, especially not in this year of our lord 2024. but.

trans men are oppressed?

if you're using "transmisogyny" to mean "transphobia against trans women", you MUST contend that transmisandry/transandrophobia is real

if you're using it to mean "transphobia intersecting with misogyny," first congratulations on knowing the actual meanings of sociological terms instead of making things up based on what you misunderstood from tumblr posts, and second this definition still means that trans dudes are oppressed lol

and, incidentally, if you see a post blaming The Concept Of Trans Men Being Oppressed for trans women getting their blogs deleted off tumblr instead of, i don't know, the Multiple Known TERFs On The Website's Full-Time Staff, maybe reflect on yourself for like 5 fucking seconds before ya hit reblog

#the post that pissed me off also was Literally calling baeddel a slur #which for those of you that don't know. it was a self-chosen term by a group of trans women separatists who used it as a dogwhistle #its a slur in the same sense that terf is a slur. so i very much doubt anyone who agreed with that OP will be convinced by me #anyway i managed to ruin my morning before i even drank any coffee so its time to cry in bed now! #scout talks

[pleckthaniel]

#scout talks #q #i think i can already tell what the winners will be but #im curious #anyway dont mind me fantasizing about food im too poor for groceries rn and this is what ive got

[pleckthaniel]

PSA

On the pending Missouri trans healthcare ban, every post I’ve seen so far tells people to get HRT now. The thing about that is -

Accessing HRT through informed consent before the deadline will not save you.

I’m no legal expert and even if I were, this emergency order is so new and so poorly worded that actual lawyers are having trouble parsing what this means for trans Missourians. What I do know is that the clear intent of AG Bailey is to prevent as many trans Missourians from accessing care as he possibly can, and he’s going to die on that hill.

In order to be grandfathered in with the standards laid out by this emergency order, we have to have been on HRT for 3+ years and pass a multitude of extremely restrictive screenings for depression, anxiety, autism, and “social contagion” (yep, those are the actual words they used! hell world!). This means that if you started HRT after April 27, 2020, you will not qualify.

Word on the street is that different clinics are saying different things about who will be able to continue HRT and for how long, so it is possible that your doctors will fight for you if you start HRT now! Moreover, the ACLU and Lambda are already planning to challenge this order as soon is at goes into effect, and most likely, it will end up being paused. So there is still a lot of hope, I just don’t want people to think that there’s any easy loopholes in this order. If you are a trans Missouri resident you’re pretty fucked and there’s no way around that.

Obviously, the best thing to do now is to get out if you can. If that’s not possible, though, you can take steps to protect yourself apart from accessing hormones while you still can:

-Talk to your doctor about accessing a “vacation dose” for after April 27. This is the most important step because it means you will not be relying on a possible challenge to the order for hormones in the short term.

-Look into a legal gender marker change, which will make it much more difficult to legally block your access to gender-affirming hormones. If you live in St Louis or the surrounding area, you may qualify with just HRT, but if you live elsewhere, you will be required to have had gender-affirming surgery.

-If you can’t afford a GM change, some local activist groups offer microgrants to cover the associated fees. Message me and I can help connect you with them.

-If you’re looking for specific legal assistance, again, message me. I’m acquainted with local activists who personally know many of the trans-friendly lawyers in MO and are willing to refer anyone who needs it.

-If you’re transfem, I strongly recommend taking control of your own transition. Don’t have personal experience with this but IIRC you can get E in bulk for relatively cheap thru the gray market. Look at r/TransDIY on reddit for more info

-If you’re transmasc, I definitely DO NOT recommend making friends with cis male gym bros. Testosterone is a SUPER DANGEROUS federally controlled black market substance and the fact that it’s often easily accessible at local fitness centers is a SUPER BAD thing that NO ONE should take advantage of

-For the love of God, try to stay safe and sane. I love you so much, we’re going to get through this.

#scout talks #missouri #signal boost #psa #please #trans #transphobia #trans rights #trans genocide

[pleckthaniel]

I guess the thing that really interests me about WindClan is that it has a shit ton of Dark Forest trainees, more than any other Clan. Which implies to me that this is a community with a lot of embedded problems, that participating in the DF is just one possible response that individuals may have to living in such a toxic environment. And then there’s kind of a built in plot arc of the DF battle forcing cats to confront themselves and one another about what kind of community they want to live in, and how they need to behave to ensure a better future. The battle unearths problems that have been buried for a long time, and that’s something that’s kind of unique to WindClan. Also all of this happens offscreen because the Erins don't give af about them so canon doesn't contradict me on any of this

#scout talks #silver linings #wc #q

[pleckthaniel]

By far the funniest part of this book is Yellowfang repeatedly running through the walls of the elders' camp like Perry the goddamn Platypus for no discernible reason

#scout talks #warrior cats #exile from shadowclan spoilers #wc spoilers

[pleckthaniel]

ivypool has literally never done anything wrong in her life. discuss

#q #wc #getting really tired of the new sHeS mEaN tO dOvEwInG stuff #its a pretty mutually toxic scenario that's explicitly neither of their faults. #scout talks #also i just dont understand the angle of 'she shouldve been more chill about her sister flagrantly breaking a major law/cultural norm' #especially when doing so put dovewing in direct danger many times #but maybe thats just me

[pleckthaniel]

Well I finished Bunny FUCK was it good. Definitely one of those books that you can't say much of anything about without spoiling it, but like. The way it totally speared all the academia-literary-workshop bullshit games WHILE ALSO beating that entire genre of fiction at its own game just to prove it could... and STILL managing compelling characters and a legit thrilling plot.. and maintaining this perfect woven balance of action and theme and thoughts and sillies... and not to even mention the gorgeous prose..... this book is gonna haunt me

#scout talks #bunny mona awad #just english major things <3