*fingerguns* you might be looking for my howlingmoonrise sideblog for writing and Petshop of Horrors stuff. I don't tag anything consistently unless asked.
Something else that hit the news yesterday (07 Jan. 2026) that you may not have seen but I want to make sure you do is that Avelo announced it will end the deportation flights it’s been doing for ICE, citing controversy and costs after a months-long grassroots public pressure campaign to get them to stop.
Source is WHYY, because public media is still alive (and if you can support it, please do.)
We’re not helpless, and they’re going to fucking lose.
Unironically I think the early to mid 20s age group in America has unbelievably bad consent boundaries on all levels and so much language to defend it but this makes me sound like elon musk if I say it however the commonality of someone who will be like “I had 47 panic attacks and it’s your fault” if you tell them no is insane
I rejected someone and got called “the scariest person I’ve ever met” with so much therapy speak interspersed like alright okay alright okay alright okay
“You just say whatever you’re thinking and I don’t know how to handle it” was verbatim part of this conversation. Also everyone hates to see an autistic bitch
When I was in this age bracket, there was a huge emphasis on improving consent culture via graceful rejection, and it’s gone by the wayside. Which sucks.
Twice in my youth (once in high school and once in college) I was in situations where I was asking someone out and I could tell they were calculating in their heads the risks of rejecting me, and both times I said, out loud, “you can say no, I wouldn’t have asked if I wasn’t prepared for either answer.” And then they said no. This wasn’t some spark of special wisdom I had - I knew to do it because feminist conversations among my age group brought it up regularly. This isn’t happening nearly enough anymore.
More recently, I was really glad when we got to “rejection sensitive dysphoria” in my IOP program and it was one of those symptoms where the therapists really emphasized how it affects others. Because it does.
Being someone who cannot handle rejection makes you much more likely to violate boundaries, and yes, that includes sexual ones. Yes, you, reader who has never hurt a fly. If you don’t want to stumble backwards into sexually assaulting someone, fix your RSD meltdowns. If you keep them up it’s only a matter of time. Because if you’re nice enough to interact with, but are known to have RSD meltdowns, guess what happens when your friends and acquaintances need to reject you?
“ao3 always receives more funds and donations than what they ask for” yeah that’s because people love a place that actually protects all fanfics, art and artists against censorship, purity culture and capitalism. shocking, I know
Actually on the topic of Sailor Moon abridged, (fucking amazing btw. You and Kaleigh killed it.) was there ever a discussion that it might be a bit odd having two trans women voicing the main villains? I was super happy to see you both get awesome roles and then it sorta rubbed me the wrong way.
So Scott and I talked about it during our recording session and he was like “You both were perfect but it feels weird that-”
And I stopped him and said the same thing I always say:
DID! WE! AUDITION! FOR! THAT! ROLE!
If the answer is yes, we’re more than happy to play the role. It’s a role. It’s a character. It’s not us and does not reflect on us as people or as trans women.
Scott was awesome about it, was super cool to work with, and very kind and considerate throughout the whole process.
THAT SAID! I do think everyone, fans especially, kinda needs to get over these hang ups because it’s that kinda thinking that lead trans women to not get cast in most things. And if the fans say it the people in charge feel that they can use that as an excuse to just not include us in general because it’s “easier than dealing with trans women.”
I, personally, fucking love voicing villains or evil characters because they get to be far more grandiose, theatric and often have the best dialogue in the entire project.
If I only ever played villain roles for the rest of my entire life I’d be pleased as punch.
So I think fans, over all, need to kinda realize that if a trans woman auditions for something and gets the role there should be nothing but celebration and never shutting up about how cool it is that there’s a trans woman (Or in this case MULTIPLE TRANS WOMEN)cast in something.
Fandom spaces have to, and I mean this fully, get off their asses and SCREAM FROM THE ROOFTOPS any time a trans woman gets cast in anything when it comes to voice over.
I had this same thing happen when Sena and I got cast in Unicorn Overlord. Because folks were like “Happy to see two trans women in this… but you’re both playing men. That sucks.”
Sena and I fucking LOVED being in Unicorn Overlord and we’ve both waxed poetic about how AWESOME it was that they let us flex our range and play as much as they did in the booth for that project.
If fandom spaces keep saying “:< I can’t believe you cast a trans woman in a role that the trans woman actress auditioned for” and harass the casting directors, producers, creators over this shit trans women aren’t going to get cast in fucking anything.
Spoilers, the other trans woman playing opposite me as the other primary villain in TFS’s Sailor Moon Abridged is that very same trans woman from Knights of Guinevere, Kayleigh McKee. She’s also a casual friend of mine and is very sweet and kind.
The circle of working industry trans woman voice actresses is so intensely small and most of us either know eachother or exist in the same circles casually.
But anyway, yes. It’s very frustrating to see the VERY FEW creators, casting directors, producers, etc who are willing to cast a trans woman in something getting harassed for casting that trans woman as a role that she auditioned for ON TOP of the trans woman actress ALSO getting harassed.
It’s happened to Kayleigh, it’s happened to me, it’s happened to all of us.
I need y’all to please, when you see a trans woman get cast in something… especially a BIG THING or a VIRAL POPULAR thing to take a second and realize that even if (AND ESPECIALLY IF) it’s the villain or a male character. Because we AUDITIONED FOR IT and GOT IT!
We’re actresses like anyone else in our craft. We can, and will, play roles that are absolutely nothing like us as human beings. So stop seeing us being cast as “this or that” as reflecting back on us as human beings because that’s absolutely ridiculous.
Anywho…
YES there’s two trans women VA’s in TFS’s Sailor Moon Abridged! GO WATCH IT! Send us some love in the comments!
YES! There’s ALSO two trans women VA’s in Unicorn Overlord! Tell SEGA USA you loved us in the game and want us in more games!
It’s actually kind of striking how rapidly the ads on ostensibly respectable platforms have changed in the last 12–18 months. I’ve been getting penis enlargement scams and pyramid schemes that don’t even bother to pretend to be otherwise on YouTube – it’s like every platform is now running the kinds of ads that even three years ago would have been restricted to porn sites, and I’m not gonna lie, the fact that everyone seems to be getting desperate all at once ain’t an encouraging sign!
I just saw full frontal erect penis on a weather app. It’s not the sign of the impending tech-bubble implosion I expected, but apparently it’s the sign we’re getting.
“You know those are based on your browsing history” no, you don’t get it: I tried obfuscating my identity on YouTube with a burner freemail account on a public terminal and actually got more boner pill ads. Boner pill ads appear to be the default experience when they don’t know your demographic.
ALT
