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Vosyl
@Vosyl

In downloading my favourites, I'm finding out all the update posts people made to FA about their webcomic no longer direct to a working website. All links are dead and they've been missing online for the past two to three years.

Nothing on the internet is going to last forever. Some used tumblr as an archive, there's nothing there anymore, others say they can be reached out on twitter, their accounts are suspended. I'm still thinking over how when MySpace ate the bucket, we lost a generation of indie music, much like when ConceptArt dot Org went down it took with a cache of digital expression and an invaluable trove of educational material. They used to run weekly tutorial workshops on there.

Every plan I've cancelled has been something I'd wind up regretting in hindsight. I was once the founding member of the city's trans support group, only last year did I find out our Leader at the time died so many years ago and left it to the organization who currently run it, and from what I've seen they run it well, its thriving, and offers more than what we ever did when we had so little and was competing with a rival group who'd chase out people they thought weren't really trans.

But man, the stories Taig would tell me about what it was like growing up in Ireland as a queer youth during the Troubles, and how he came to America to study Sculpture where he didn't see themselves as trans but a very butch dyke, and there is just so much regret I have of not getting to know everyone as thoroughly as I could've. I just wonder where everyone has gone to, and what they're doing now with their lives.

Everyone had their own life story, and there is just so much we've lost already.



aliengeo
@aliengeo

Ah yes, when the video game allows you to use they/them pronouns, dye your hair, and equip top surgery scars but the body type options are cis woman model and cis man model, and hairstyles + clothing are gender locked, so you can't ever actually look realistically gender nonconforming

(in fairness they do also let you equip makeup on the masc body, though this is personally irrelevant.)


aliengeo
@aliengeo

I just think it's very telling that an "inclusive" character creator for a game that's meant to be about hot people would explode if you tried to make a femboy or a butch lesbian

Like, I guess it's nice that I can have top surgery scars but even getting everything as close as I can, the character doesn't look like me and it doesn't look like the hypothetical Hottest™ version of me either

There's also no body hair???


aliengeo
@aliengeo

Honestly I think the underlying issue here is something that keeps popping up in my orbit:

Namely, there is limited imagination on the part of cis people—particularly cishets but queer cis people can also fall victim to this—as to how a body can exist with so-called sexed or gendered components and still be worthy of discussion.

I say so-called not just bc trans and intersex people exist, but bc these components can vary even among dyadic, gender-conforming cis people. Finding a dyadic cis woman who naturally has dark hair on her upper lip, for example, is trivial (in some cultures it used to be the beauty standard, even), but in the modern West this is construed as not just unattractive but un-woman.

I was once asked by a game developer what I thought the biggest issue was with "gender-inclusive" character creators and my response was that they often aren't familiar with salient factors such as adipose distribution. That's not how fat you are, but rather how your body distributes fat once having it. "Android" distribution goes to the belly, "gynoid" to the hips. It can be altered by HRT or you can just be born with an indeterminate or "opposite" one.

This also has meaningful impact on the shape of a person's face.

But games don't know that, so their depictions of transmascs, for instance, end up being either "draw a cis woman, erase the breasts" or "draw some lines on a cis man" and while SOME transmascs do look like that, it's missing key factors that you would notice if, for instance, you made a point of drawing real trans people.



trans-lykanthropie
@trans-lykanthropie

I'm so glad I wasn't working in Rudkøbing zhe year zhey found zhe mercury trap box, but even so I did still find some mercury in a plastic bag in a cupboard in zhe wet lab



trans-lykanthropie
@trans-lykanthropie

Luckily I was in full PPE because I was dealing wizh my own exotic collection of medicinal poisons


trans-lykanthropie
@trans-lykanthropie

Zhis was pretty much what it like getting rid of all zhose old medicines wait a minute does zhat one jar say 'arse'