Uuhhhh you can call me Arrow I guess. Sometimes I draw or cosplay, but I mostly just waste time. Feel free to send me a draw request, unless it's nsfw I'll do it. What else am I supposed to put here? What sorts of info? That I'm a capricorn? Man idk
I think what really makes Over The Garden Wall stick in my brain boils down to how it says, “despair is a liar and not nearly as powerful as it pretends”
the show’s climax is weighty and good for a lot of reasons (big fan of how pathetic the Beast looks in the moment we see it in the light) but the bit with the lantern is my favourite. You kill the Beast by doing the thing it said would destroy you! If you chain yourself to what it says is necessary, you’ll never get free! You have to risk total ruin, look into the darkness and then you can kill it!
Somehow the “is dude gendered” discourse seems to have battered a few women I respect into submission with its neverending entitlement and weaseling, so allow me to restate the transfeminist position, assertion, and point of contention: it does not matter if you actually, genuinely for real use dude, or any other masculine term, gender neutrally. It feels gender neutral because society is built upon a bedrock of misogyny where men are seen as the default human. The fact that it’s a linguistic quirk with centuries of inertia doesn’t absolve it from criticism.
Being a woman is seen as a deviation from being a man. Cisgender women are punished for this, but given a nominal sympathy by virtue of the sexgender binary determining that it isn’t their fault and they can’t help it. Transgender women are not only not granted this reprieve, we are in fact punished to an exceptional degree not just for daring to transgress the sexgender binary, but for doing so in the wrong direction. We are the women of women, and get treated as such.
We are putting forth no less than a challenge to the very bedrock of human society for millennia. You don’t get to worm your way out of it by appealing to that bedrock. Rework your linguistic assumptions for us or get the fuck out of our lives.