Evan Urquhart (@evanurquhart.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Idaho kids can't call suicide hotlines in crisis because someone might affirm their gender to save their life.
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view profile on Bluesky Evan Urquhart (@evanurquhart.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Idaho kids can't call suicide hotlines in crisis because someone might affirm their gender to save their life.
Evan Urquhart (@evanurquhart.bsky.social) reposted
We tried so hard to explain that the anti-trans panic wasn't just going to hurt trans people. Whether through recklessness or intent it resulted in extremely weird, broad, harmful laws. I'm not mad, but I'm telling you, we really tried.
dr. caitlin m. green (@caitlinmoriah.bsky.social) reposted
how many rubicons has it been now
Alex (@dirtbagboyfriend.bsky.social) reposted
My partner and I (2/4th of SNW) are both trans and attempting to leave the US (I’m also an Arab immigrant). It’s extremely expensive, so please consider buying our game/leaving it a review so that we have some sort of income when we inevitably have to make the jump and start over. Thank you.
Sen 🏳️🌈 (@dresdencodak.com) reposted
TFW your girlfriend shows up like a meteor for the save but you're also reminded that you're gay.
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So everyone really liked the comic dub I did, and I had a blast doing it, sooooo... if you want more of things like that, let me know! :3c <3
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
many such cases
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
SAME God I'd visit like every friend I have all over the country and it wouldn't take any time at all
Katelyn Burns (@katelynburns.com) reposted
Getting one of these in the US would cure my depression
Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithPalestiniansAndIranians🇵🇸🇮🇷 (@joneshowdareyou.bsky.social) reposted
I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️ "Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
This is the way, fr. Kids need to learn how to computer at least a little bit, but tablets are just empty brain calories teaching them to be consumers and nothing more.
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*gently to my cat*: you cant be a little fucker. You have to be good. No more being a little fucker. *My cat, purring*: the Being a Fucker hour draws near
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Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
According to the notes at the end, the performance the main character does in French is a reference to this thing, and the lyrics are surprisingly relevant lol www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRva...
eke (@eke.bsky.social) reposted
i think, for most of the framers, the president sending one state's militia into another state over the objection of the state's governor would be indicative of the collapse of the union itself
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
There's a fair bit of thematic overlap between the two stories, but one aspect in particular I really love is they both have some adorable Gay Yearning. HDG stories are nearly always gay, but sometimes you wanna see a protag REALLY stew in her unbearable desire to kiss another pretty girl, you know?
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
And on the note of new HDG stories and dollkink, if you love mind and body control and the glorious STRUGGLE of having your thoughts rewritten (as well as a healthy dose of exhibitionism), Muscle Memory is also extremely good. archiveofourown.org/works/697584...
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
The competition is admittedly fierce, but it's definitely contender for hottest dollkink HDG story
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social)
If you love HDG and have a doll kink, you owe it to yourself to read No Strings Attached. It's just one chapter for now, but DAMN what a chapter it is. Forcefemme dollification where the protag gets an implant right away so you get to watch the STRUGGLE archiveofourown.org/works/68931416
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
I remember on more than one occasion I was blown away by the cutscenes, even if I can't recall too many details
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
I am 10,000-fucking-% done with bug weather, bring on the freeze, I need these fuckers out of my life for another six months.
🦋Blue🦋 (@bluespark64.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Samus collecting new types of alien dna for her genome like they’re pokemon is maybe the most transsexual thing a character can do without getting gender involved tbh. The number of people I’ve met that go “need that for me” is stacked so far in the trans direction it’s not even funny
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
If I could turn off this fucking horrid feeling, knowing it could show itself again at any moment... Goose bumps won't go away and I can't even relax...
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social)
A fuckin CRICKET was crawling across my desk and I got Mistress to take care of it but it RAN AWAY I know they're harmless but they're so gross, I want it gone so badly, ugh Now I know the prey the cats were so interested in a few nights ago
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
Mmmm Metroid Prime, now THERE'S fucking soundtrack. Fucking beautiful work of art, that whole game
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
I found them to be intriguing, basically timed pathing puzzles, and for that they were very good imo
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
I could be wrong, but I'm like 90% sure someone involved with the translation for the remaster at the very least said in an interview effectively "We know the history of this, we didn't want to erase it like the last team that was tasked to do this 20 years ago"
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Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
I think it less about shock and more about like, thinking on your toes and the failstate being a complete redo. I recall t he last one being tough as nails, tho I can't recall why.
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
Yep, the packs in particular. I've been playing Magic long enough that I can very quickly look up pretty much anything I need to know, and I'm following it closely that I usually already know half that info already. For new players there's a learning curve, I think.
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
As I recall, that was the result of a trans woman who was on the team tasked with translating it (or maybe it was someone on the team had a trans friend?), and there was a decision made to not make the same mistake twice, tho I think there were fears that the higher ups would stop them.
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
And those robot things that made you have to think so much more carefully about planning your movements. I was so ready to call Hollow Knight the best Metroidvania and like, it's still way up there, but then Dread came along and for my tastes it's a really close call.
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
That's the other weird thing too, between Birdo & Vivian, Nintendo of Japan is fairly chill with having trans characters. It's really just Nintendo of America that's tried to snuff that out, assuming that transness isn't appropriate for US kids. Samus would be a big shift tho, since she's the star.
Null convention (@nullconvention.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
I think it's pretty clear that there's widespread discontent and anger about Trump's actions but the muted response by news media has prevented a wider call to action. So I would say that media corporations are all in with the american fascist movement as we've pointed out for years.
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
Been long enough that I can't really comment, but I will say I don't remember raving about the soundtrack. Not bad, but not as "wow" as the rest of the game, perhaps.
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah as far as "fanon that simply refuses to die," Samus being trans might be one of the biggest examples of it. It's sticking so hard I think one day Nintendo could make it canon. Vivian in the recent Thousand Year Door remake's localization gives me hope. bsky.app/profile/vrid...
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
Contender for best Metroid and the competition isn't even that fierce imo, not because the bar was low (it's in fact QUITE high), but because Dread is that fucking incredible
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
Clearly I need to play Dread again! Which I'm not complaining about, it's one of my favorite games in the Mettroidvania genre, and I'm pretty sure my favorite Metroid as well
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
If there's two things Digimon does fantastically, it's women and robots (and some of those robots ARE rather large) (And if there's three things, it's women, robots, and dinosaurs lol)
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah I really did intend to beat him but I could tell it was gonna be a "I need to get this rhythm game down flawlessly, it's gonna take days" and I just drifted from it without meaning to. One day!
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
I had forgotten, thank you! Yeah Dread makes previously canonically dubious stuff explicit in the games. She's still not canonically trans like Birdo/Cathy is, but I don't think that matters. The Chozo splicing means she's even more trans, dammit. bsky.app/profile/that...
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't recall, but it's possible
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
YEAH the Memory mechanic being this game's answer to how to throttle spells was the first time that drew me to the game initially. For years it's been "I probably need to try that" until I recently felt it was finally time lol
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
I need to play Dread again (I never beat the last boss, he's a fuckin doozy) but I recall there being some really heartfelt stuff about her connection with the Chozo towards the end, as well as her revealing she can of course still speak Chozo fluently.
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social)
This is all kinda half remembered, but IIRC there was a Super Metroid era comic that delved into Samus' origins & revealed the Chozo spliced her DNA a bit to make it easier for her to live on her adopted home world I'm not the first fan to theorize they could have given her a bird alien uterus too
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
Better them than Wizards!
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
YEP Cathy is technically more canonically trans than Samus, but I think given the guy was joking when he implied Samus was, that means she's double ours. They don't get a say in that anymore as penance for being gross. bsky.app/profile/tran...
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh, I guess I didn't mention this part and this post is kinda blowing up: She IS trans, canonically, in Japan. She's technically more trans in Japan than here, given Captain Rainbow (Japanese exclusive Wii game) makes this explicit and Nintendo of America would never.
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
That's coming soon from what I hear! I think someone said there's supposed to be an update on its progress at an upcoming event for Bandai or the Digimon TCG or both?
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
Not quite. It was one of the creators of Metroid (the director, I think?) in Japan that speculated in an interview Samus might be a "new half" IIRC, a Japanese term that, for simplicity sake, we can say means trans woman. But trans fans have since basically said "NO YOU SAID IT NO TAKEBACKSIES"
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
yessss thank you baby 🥰
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social)
I haven't even played a single match yet and yet I want to get as many people into this silly card game as possible lol
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
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Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
lol I'm kinda the same. I prefer Kat but my deadname didn't have a shortened version so having two possible names feels novel to me. I usually just default to "You can call me Kat, but my name is also Kathryn"
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm flat broke but I DID get my wife to buy a box of World Convergence lol You've bought them before tho, right? Or did we REALLY play each other?
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
I CAN'T THEY'RE BOTH SO CUTE
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Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
Ah I didn't know that about MK8 and forgot that about SMB2. Neat!
Punish the Villains (@internethippo.bsky.social) reposted
I can't even summon the energy to be mad at these guys anymore, they're just the wrong people for this moment. Any Dem who wants to be a leader has to be for systematically breaking the right wing's power in this country. Tell me you'll nationalize car dealerships so I know you get it
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh I quite like that explanation! Certainly solves for the awkward Yoshi/Toad problem, even tho I don't think we've ever seen another of her species
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
Side note: I personally don't go by Kathy but you can always call me Kat lol
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, she was IIRC Certainly she is now, given she's explicitly trans in Captain Rainbow, a Japanese exclusive game
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
It's like if you said "My name is Catherine, but you can call me Cathy" & then some cis ppl overseas replied w/ "What's that? Your name is this masculine-ish sounding name we made up & you'd prefer to be called a feminine version? We'll call you the masculine one" Like wtf do you even say to that
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social)
In her home country, Birdo is named Catherine and would prefer to be called Cathy. It was American localizers who decided to give it a gendered deadname spin, which for me makes the whole thing a lot murkier. Maybe we should just call her Cathy then lol
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
THAT'S what it was, thank you for that correction! Fixing my response!
We Have Always Existed: Transgender History (@transgenderhistory.bsky.social) reposted
Then why aren't you calling her Birdetta, you stupid asshole manual writer?
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Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) reposted
That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
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Matt Baume 🏳️🌈 (@mattbaume.bsky.social) reposted
When we talk about how "Magneto was right," this is why -- here he is, correctly predicting how this is going to go. It starts with dehumanizing; then that leads to tracking; tracking leads to arrests; arrests lead to camps; camps lead to genocide.
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Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah even just occasionally seeing an IRL trans friend can refresh the tanks. Some folks don't have that option of course but at the very least you gotta always remember online isn't the trans community, even if it needs to be your community most of the time.
Listen I'm Scary OK (@katiemcvay.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
starting to think Big Atheism was annoying but also load bearing
onion person (@junlper.beer) reposted
we’re about to see a second wave of teen reddit atheism the world has never seen before
David Forbes (@davidforbes.bsky.social) reposted
Still standing by this one.
Dieselbrain (@dieselbrain.bsky.social) reposted
yesterday this petition had less than 800 signatures. today it has almost 2500. can we get it to 5k next? come on number go up bay bee!!
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
Curses! I might still set aside the money for it sometime tho, there's sooooo many pretty cards in there
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
That makes sense! Looks like RB might mean a reprint set as well?
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Almost there...
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Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah it makes sense! There's so many cards I want in that set lol So EX are are more targeted themes, main sets I assume are the BT ones? What does ST tend to signify?
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
Just like with most new special interests, repeating my findings on here has the dual benefit of committing more of what I learn to memory AND roping in other new players >:3
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social)
While MOST of the Digimon TCG seems way more affordable than Magic (in some cases HALF the price per card from cracking packs), there are some sets that are a little spicy. Guessing Infernal Ascension was a special edition set, that might mean what "EX" means? STILL cheaper than some Magic tho!
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh for sure! Sometimes I lose track of the gamestate and just enjoy the banter. I think even non-Magic players could enjoy this show tbh
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
PRETTY sure that was Spice8rack, but in case I'm mistaken I don't wanna @ it lol (Its pronouns also include they/them IIRC? I recall noting some players on SUP default to that for it)
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
Makes sense! Magic does that too on the bottom of their cards, and some collectors collect specific artists as well. I've never gotten that specific with Magic, but who knows with Digimon! Cracking packs is half as expensive per card than Magic and I ADORE the art on almost all of them tbh
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
Viruses too in some cases! And sometimes it's just Data lol
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Do the Renamon artists... Know? Because I think they Know
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
YES YOU DO >:3
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
Yep, I figured that's what was happening there. Not a big deal now that the other labeling system has clicked for me lol
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
I know this isn't helpful for most people, but the only thing that helped me was seeking out a vocal therapist trained in voice training
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
Also each card's number contains the set number, and that number is also what the max playset of 4 each cares about. The deck I wanna build has several different Mirei, but all the game cares about is that I don't have more than four "EX6-074" cards
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
This is also present on the English packs where I can read the name of the set of course, and I'm unlikely to be buying the Japanese versions of cards anytime soon, but just small touches like that make getting into this game so much smoother for a newbie.
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social)
The Digimon TCG database I've been using to learn the game (digimoncard.dev) uses the Japanese packaging for booster pack images, which was annoying at first until I noticed unlike Magic there's an overt labeling system: Top left is the set number, bottom left tells you how many cards in the set!
Parker Molloy (@parkermolloy.com) reposted
See? This shit is why I'm not going to let up on Newsom or other transphobic Democrats: they might otherwise go the Labour route and plunge the country into full on transphobia as policy.
Kathryn Salamander (@transsalamander.bsky.social) reply parent
"Being an ally is not enough, you need to transition" Okay this is already my favorite episode of SUP lol