shen qingqiu (self-identifying as an old man and calling luo binghe a child because his body is a couple decades older even though he is at most seven years binghe’s senior in lived experience) 🫱🏼🫲🏻 jing beiyuan (self-identifying as an old man and calling wu xi a child because he has three centuries worth of memories even though they are physically the same age in this life)
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Mass Effect is this really interesting case study of male-as-default vs female-as-default in non human species, because they give us such prominent examples of both.
Turians, salarians, and krogan all have women, yet none are seen on screen until the third game, and even then we get like, one of each in minor roles. Less prominent species like hanar, volus and elcor all have male voices, despite hanar being canonically genderless and volus' gender being considered a 'mystery'. It would've been easy to include female voice actors to any of these, or have an alien with a typically "male" sounding voice be referred to by she/her pronouns (frankly that would make sense for elcor and krogan, but by the time we finally get a krogan woman she sounds just like an ordinary human woman). And this isn't even getting into referring to genderless aliens with neutral pronouns, which seems to never have occurred to anyone as an option (fair enough, they/them pronouns weren’t exactly mainstream in 2007).
But no. The idea of gender as removed from human defaults to male, either visually, vocally, or in terms of pronouns. Voices meant to sound genderless, such as Legion and the hanar, still have male voice actors. None if of this is ever in-game commented upon. It’s just How It Is. The only species other than human in which we see a fairly equal balance of men to women is the quarians, interestingly one of the most human looking aliens outside of asari.
With the all female asari however, not only are they designed to look explicitly human (which they then in-game try to weasel themselves out of by going 'but ALL species find the asari hot, not just humans!' as if we don’t all have eyes), we are also beaten over the head with it constanly. Every single bar you walk into, there are half naked asari dancers. You are constantly hearing background chatter about how hot they are. A genderless character coded as female HAS to be explicitly and traditionally hot, while anything removed from that defaults to male.
The closest we get to non-human looking women is the rachni queen (which I'm guessing is only because of the age old trope of the queen of an insect hive mind) and EDI before she is given a body (at which point we are again beaten over the head with 'non-human coded as female (EDI) has to be hot' vs 'non-human coded as male (geth) get to be actually removed from human').
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They’re so pretty oh my goddddd sun and moon got me fucked up Fr amazing designs ty ty ty
I never meant to make em really pretty but here they are smhh
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happy 8th anniversary undertale we love you <3
also whoever buys me the new undertale merch i will give you my soul (/j but iwant it so bad THE BLOOKY LAMP.)
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Holy cow.
TIL the word for how a word or a name is pronounced is written as "pronunciation". I really thought it was "pronounciation".
Pro-Nun. Well I love Arknights Specter.
That reminds me some years ago I was absolutely bamboozled by "similar" & "available", I thought those were written as "similiar" & "avaible" .
My life is a lie.. all this from being curious on how to pronounce "Berrien County Jail".
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To go in depth about what bothers me about Kyosaya is that we never see what Sayaka’s feelings on Kyoko are romantically and we never see how she even develops them in the first place. It’s why I hate that scene in Rebellion because it just seems like pure fan service with no proper set up. We KNOW Kyoko cares for Sayaka and most likely has romantic feelings mixed in there (also an ass pull but she’s gay so it’s understandable), but when and WHY did Sayaka even come to reciprocate those feelings for her? What does she like about Kyoko?
We know where Kyoko’s feelings towards Sayaka comes from: Kyoko sees herself in Sayaka and is reminded of when she was a child who believed in hope, but it’s also not a stretch to say that she saw Mami in Sayaka as well, which is why she holds a fondness for her.
So what about Sayaka? Why does she want to be friends with Kyoko? They were about to be friends before she died in Madoka’s new world but we never have any follow up about that.
And don’t tell me it’s shown in the Wraith Arc bc the entire premise of it being made AFTER Rebellion annoys me too. Whatever they have written for them in that arc is just going to be nothing but excuses for me; like why that scene in Rebellion even went the way it did, why she even regretted leaving Kyoko behind. Because from what we know in the TV series, going by RELEASE ORDER, she didn’t give two fucks about Kyoko.
Sure, it’s probably better late than never to develop them when they have time to, but idk maybe show me that in the movie a lil before getting to a weirdly intimate scene where she essentially confesses to Kyoko.
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H i t s b o n g
Look,,, u guys kno me,, You know I have alot to say about the Zant fight and how it could and honestly should have been even wilder, but hear me out!
I think we should have had a Stallord section where we hit the guy in his ankles with the goddamn spinner. I think that would be really funny. Do we already kind of do this in the Blizzeta phase? Yes, yes we do. We can place the Stallord fight,,, after,,, the Blizzeta phase. He's bending reality; we can bend the timeline jussst a little~
Wack him in the ankle like a thirteen year old boy getting hit by his Razor scooter-- Except YOU'RE the scooter!!! Brilliant idea, genius, thought of the year.
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Crochet is so humbling. Going from knitting Neiblings to swatching crochet colourwork that looks only slightly better than what I was doing in highschool is a good reminder to myself to work at things I'm bad at.
(My crochet friend's response to this photo was to go "JESUS" i feel EXTRA humbled :3c)
I bought enough yarn to make a small ish throw blanket for my mother. Fingers Crossed I don't get too annoyed with how messy my work looks before I finish it. Thankfully the actual pattern has a lot less colour changes stacked than this swatch does.
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It’s 5:30 on Day 3 of 4 of my break…and I still haven’t done crap! I’ve just been sitting around playing video games!
And yeah, I know, it’s break, and it’s like “well at least you’re taking time off from your schoolwork!” No! I’m not! I am not doing anything different from what I do normally, it’s just that I don’t have classmates and my roommate’s out of town!
And I told myself I was going to take this time to actually work on things, like watching videos about Physics so I can actually understand it before my second exam on Friday and so I don’t bomb it like I did my last one, or to take the time and do my 3 Physics homework’s due on Wednesday, as well as actually do my Engineering homework (also due on Wednesday) for once since I haven’t done any of them yet, and we’re gearing up to halfway through the semester
And I can’t even say I’ve been productive from a creative standpoint! That drawing I did earlier has been all I’ve drawn this whole, and I haven’t thought of much in terms of new stories and characters either. I’ve just been playing video games and watching random internet videos, effectively wasting all this precious free time I’ve been granted
And chances are, considering it’s all gonna be stacked on Tuesday, and knowing myself, I’m not gonna do much on Tuesday either, meaning this entire fall break will have been a total waste!
I hate that I’ve become so goddamn lazy! I wasn’t even this bad last semester, because at least then I cared, even if it made me feel horrible. I can’t even be bothered to answer texts or read something someone sent me days ago. And I’m not like, going through anything, I’m just being lazy!
Sorry I need to rant about my stupid, stupid brain
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