My friends all went to steamworks together for their Genderfucked night, but stopped going when they got rid of that event.
I found it really off-putting that the Seattle location changed it to purple party and used an image that seems like a cis guy to advertise. i didn't even know it was supposed to be a night for trans men until i messaged them.
it felt like they wanted to SAY they had a trans night without accidentally having trans people find out about it? 😕
i also don't like that trans women aren't explicitly included. theyre 'welcome' but its a night for trans men. idk im trans masc but i don't like that.
In terms of the branding and marketing, I can see it both ways, tbh. When something is more visibly and clearly broadcasted as "trans night" it's easier for the realllly ignorant chasers to come out of the woodwork. The kinda people who ask you "wait did you used to be a boy or did you used to be a girl?" while you have their prince albert piercing in your hands, or ask to honk your boobs.
If it's more a sly signaling then it feels more like it's for the community, to me.
i looked up the poster to see what you meant, i'm assuming it's this one:
for me, this is sly in exactly the right way. i get what the message is right away. tho i agree with you, it would be a lot better if the guy was hippier or thicker. they need fatter and curvier dudes on these advertisements in general, everything runs super twunky.
i understand why you'd want the messaging to be more explicit and less focused on cis standards of appearance. the Chicago Steamworks brands their night as TM4M, which I think nails it. if you're trans or not a dipshit you know exactly what it means, it centers trans men as the ones being there actively looking FOR men to sleep with rather than presenting them as the prize, and it's terminology we actually use. it's clear enough that now some of the weird chasers of the type i mentioned have started coming sometimes, but that's a consequence of the most ignorant in society starting to learn about what trans men are.
Steamworks chicago also has a TW4M night just as often, which is for trans women, and I think that works out pretty well from what i've heard. Having TM and TW nights *and* a genderqueer night of some kind would be even better. going from having a "gender fucked" night with a broad definition to having something primarily for trans men is definitely a downgrade.
to the best of my knowledge Steamworks operates under a franchise model so every owner does things a little differently. Chicago Steamworks has no gear/rubber nights whereas other cities' do, and I find that disappointing. they're pretty decent on trans things though.
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Can I say this here? I really want like any of the 95 line to slap me around and humiliate me.. idk, I just think they would cause they're mean and really plays into the power imbalance I think they'd like to have.
(This is a confession)
MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY. no fr though. and i just know they’d be so so mean about it. so mean so so so mean, sobs. especially if you’re younger, they’re always using that as some sort of twisted excuse for you to listen to them without question. im actually still trying to work on the second part of savoureux and its basically just this idea (it’s been in the works since i uploaded the first part). but any au in which the 95z tag team your ass— your ass is DONE for.
95z is all about that power imbalance fr. degradation and humiliation all the way. using you for their entertainment. your pleasure wouldn’t be their concern, but they like to make you cum over and over again even if you try your best not to or beg for them to ease up mainly so they can go “see you love this, why else would you make such a fucking mess.” plus for seungcheol it would be that; “you’re gonna tell me no? im in control of you and your body right now, who are you to tell me no?”
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been obsessed with highlight's killing voice recently (until now the only song I had fully heard was fiction) and aside from now being in love with beautiful night and slowing being forced to stan them
jeonghan from seventeen totally looks like a mix of yoseob & gikwang but specifically how they look in the killing voice
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i would love to hear about the ollie and handler crack ship here’s a silly doodle as well
LOVE THE DOODLE YOU SEE THE VISION!!!
Also this got my ass to design Ollie so:
(Love him - Also redesigned Reggie for this too so thanks!!)
And idk if it's moreso a crackship or a rarepair that only works in an AU (HACKS up Starstruck), but Reggie's line of "...and I hope Ollie made it out too. I hope a lot of things." It's totally me reading into it but like,,,,I want them to talk because Ollie is not dead to me in my heart of hearts.
Maybe the only change is like Reggie taps into the communication on the radio in Hot Water instead of using the earpiece, so Ollie ends up hearing him also? And they end up getting along really well (with Reggie having to jump through a couple hoops to be like "haha what agency..."). There's an Agency base in the South-East coast of Australia and maybe the Agency ends up adopting him after he washes up on the shore with the escape pod (after HEAVY questioning).
Alas take a doodle of my own:
Transcript (it's just canon lines):
Ollie: "She's being controlled, it's not her fault."
Reggie: "Agent, I have 0 experience dealing with giant security squids."
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hello i am neurodivergent and i apply it (project??) onto alot of characters but often i dont share these thoughts bc unfortunately as much as we may hope they dont tend to get received well among the wider audience bc ppl dont want their faves being "weird" but i feel like i see myself as someone who is neurodivergent in a lot of these characters so it is interesting to see when allistic/neurotypical ppl make the same observations!!
it's not projection hehe
yeah. i mentioned it a lil in my reblob but......... i truly think people who find it weird just don't understand it, whether that means they don't know anyone nd personally, or have never really bothered to educate themselves.
but (or and?).............. while this is most def a serious topic, it really just makes me want to ask ARE YOU DUMB LOL? because......... i see it, too. and maybe that's just bc i have tons of nd friends and am mentally ill myself (which i only mention bc i never know if nd covers mental illness)... but like. it seems so obvious!!!
and also... not even like something that should be a big deal, either. your fave can still be your fave even if they're nd. truly, what's so difficult about understanding that? what really changes explain it to me. now.
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I work at a fast food place and I just had the best workday of my life!!
It was sooo busy for some reason, but I was bagging the orders and I love bagging, and I did it so well that one of my bosses came to my dad as he was waiting when my shift was over and i wasnt there, but my dad told me that he was shaking his head happily like (in my dads words) 'he didnt really know what to say' and complimenting how i worked. htis is SO much better than my last job where they basically implied i was an idiot once a day minimum.
we dont usually have food leftover because the kitchen is so careful to wind things down as it gets closer to closing, but this time there was SO mmuch food. bags full of messed up orders, (NOT my fault, im so glad for that! seemed to mostly be problems with taking payments..?). also food that they made with the intention of it being ordered, they were making new stuff at like, 20 mins to closing. TEN minutes to closing the line was still going INTO THE STREET! That is insane because the bulidng and parking lot is huge. genuinely insane.
god tho i love this job. every day im excited to go to work. i mean i still kinda feel lazy about it when i only have one more hour at home to do anything i feel like but once i walk in its like i enter 'work mode'
i hate that working fst food is always portrayed as this horrile thing in media. this burden on a kids life. i always loved my summer job. maybe in part cuz i didnt have a ton of freedom outside my home. irredgardless. gotta love having money as a kid too. i love saving money now too. like i spend it but. idk. i mean im trying to live on my own within a few years so thats why, it feels responsible and like ill thank myself later.
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