#sye's babbles

[syekick-powers]

english's pronunciation rules are absolute bullshit poopoo made up crap but one of my favorite side effects of this in written english specifically is like. altering the spelling of a word in such a way that it's technically pronounced the same. but reads very differently when your eyes go over it in written form. and that sort of dissonance between the proper spelling and the altered spelling producing the same basic sounds in your brain creates an unprecedented level of comedy.

#sye's babbles

[sye216-fr]

THE BLUE STARLIGHT CLOAK RECOLOR IN SPARE INVENTORY!! THE WILL O THE WISP!! HOLY FUCK I LOVE THEM BOTH!!! THUNDER HALO!! BEASTCLAN FAMILIARS!! YAAAASSSSSSSS

#sye's babbles #the big apparel and skins im slightly underwhelmed about so they dont get included

[vampcubus]

Kissing over someone’s insecurities? (Like if Izuku gets shy about his freckles and scars or Ralph’s scars). -👀anon

YE SYE SYE SYE SY EYS EYS EYS YESYES

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God just peppering absent-minded kisses over Izuku’s freckles, softly counting them under your breath as he rattles on about how he’s shy about them. He just gets redder and redder, eventually just babbling nonsense that he loves about you instead. So easily-distracted 💜

And RALPH omg, so so sensitive about his scars, always thinks he’s being stared at and ridiculed whenever you convince him to go outside with you. He’s had the scars so long that he’s scared to get them looked at, if they even can be fixed. Oh but the way he whimpers and melts when you press gentle kisses over them, whispering such sweet things to him. Ralph thinks that maybe... if you like them then, maybe they aren’t so bad?

#ashi rambles #👀 anon #izuku midoriya #Ralph dbh

[syekick-powers]

yeah yeah everyone's fine drawing a guy with visible top surgery scars but when's it going to be popular to draw visibly masculine people with boobs. i mean drawing a guy with a full beard and bear levels of body hair and just massive honkers. top surgery scars are nice and all but i just want to see more men with huge boobs that aren't just pecs. give me the be-titted men you cowards

#sye's babbles

[syekick-powers]

gotta say, i do not like how lately i've been seeing posts from people who use a person having colorfully dyed hair as a sort of shorthand for "leftist who is actually secretly an asshole." like people making comments like "the girl with blue hair and perfect eyeliner wings is also the one who won't give up their seat for a disabled person on the bus". like we already have to deal with the right-wing fascists using "blue hair and pronouns" as a shorthand for "leftist (trans) person who is insufferable and oversensitive", can we please not turn brightly colored hair into a caricature in leftist circles as well. having brightly dyed hair is not some magic symbol of "person who claims to be a leftist but is actually secretly an asshole". it is a morally neutral trait. and while i'm not discounting anyone's experience with someone with brightly dyed hair who treated them badly, i think that turning it into some kind of shorthand for "asshole" is just going to ultimately hurt us more than it's going to help.

#sye's babbles #like. i love having blue hair. i don't feel right without it. #and i am kinda getting uncomfortable with the level of vitriol that is being aimed at ppl with brightly dyed hair #from BOTH sides of the political spectrum #just because you had one fucking person with pink hair treat you badly does not mean everyone w bright hair will #it's obviously not comparable to axes of oppression since its a personal choice to style your hair like that and all #but also like. it just feels like two steps below being an asshole to someone who is gnc #because having brightly dyed hair IS a non-conformist hairstyle #it's treated as improper and unprofessional #and shitting on people for not conforming is always going to make you look like a conformist assimilationist douche. #please for the love of god begging EVERYONE to be normal about brightly dyed hair.

[syekick-powers]

STOP putting annoying music over cat videos and START letting us hear all the noises the cat makes again. i am no longer asking.

#sye's babbles #i am so sick of seeing a good cat video and unmuting for kitty sounds #only to get assaulted by the worst goofy-ass royalty-free music ive ever heard #LET THE KITTY SOUNDS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES YOU ANIMALS!!!!!

[syekick-powers]

it's starting to get really fucking old how certain people (usually feminine cis white women) have started using the term "pickme" derogatorily against masculine women or transmasculine people & trans men, implying that expressing masculinity when you're expected to be feminine is done to appeal to shitty men. like. girl what universe are you living in. masculine women and trans men & mascs, even if we're in a cis-male-dominated social circle and "accepted" as "one of the guys", are rarely actually valued for expressing masculinity beyond just nominally being "one of the guys" (and usually end up being reduced to a therapist role for the guys in the group anyway because they still perceive you as inherently more Caring and Nurturing even if you're not like that at all). and, in fact, there are tons and tons of cis (usually straight but not always) guys out there who constantly talk about how "disgusting" masculine-presenting people who were AFAB are. like...... surprise, gender nonconformity isn't fucking rewarded by society!!! being a masculine woman or being perceived as a masculine woman is not really something that gets you the favor of most cis straight men!!! and to be fuckening honest, most of the women who i would actually call "pickmes" trying to get mens' attention by throwing others under the bus are almost always the hyperfeminine tradwives who think women need strong men to "train" them. like where did this fucking "AFAB and masculine-presenting = pickme just looking for male attention" shit come from, for real. in what goddamn fucking universe do you live in where being perceived as a masculine woman actually nets you positive attention from cis men. get fucking real.

#sye's babbles #surprise! it's the transandrophobia again!!!

[syekick-powers]

some of the funniest trans headcanons are when a character someone hc's as trans has a bad relationship with one or both parents, and the parents are undoubtedly still shitty--but they're 100% accepting of their kid's transness, while still being undoubtedly shitty. like posts i saw going around about zagreus hadesgame being a trans guy and how hades would be instantly, completely accepting of the transness but still constantly call zagreus a disappointing failson. i just love the idea of a shitty parent being like "yeah my kid is pathetic, but im not gonna misgender them. that would just be too much."

#sye's babbles #something something i love when transphobia is treated like the line in the sand when the parent has definitely done even more awful shit

[syekick-powers]

i think probably the most surreal thing about hatsune miku specifically becoming kind of mainstream is that her fame is detached from her roots. i.e. a lot of people who are only hearing about miku via cultural osmosis don't actually know WHAT she is. i see people make a lot of comments about what miku is without ever actually being correct. "she's a robot" "she's a persona" "she's a hologram" for fucks sake she is a synthesizer. she is an app, a program. she is not AI. the voice samples used to make her voice were given with consent and you actually have to plug in the words and melody manually instead of just typing in a prompt and generating something. and one of the side effects of this particular semi-mainstream status is that miku kind of eats up all the popularity that could be going to other vocalsynths. like unless you've been in the vocaloid/vocalsynth community for a while, the likelihood that you're familiar with literally any other vocalsynth aside from MAYBE gumi is like astronomically low. and even if a vocaloid song with other vocalsynths manages to get popular in this landscape, it most likely gets covered by utaites/youtaites and other adjacent singers like vtubers over and over until the original version of the song gets completely buried. and it's just a tiny bit exhausting.

#sye's babbles #this is speaking as someone whose favorite vocaloid isn't even super obscure #like my favorite is luka. she is a crypton vocaloid. she has some amount of built in focus as a result. #and yet.......... no one knows her outside of the vocalsynth community #songs with her rarely get as popular and it feels like her popularity in even the vocalsynth community is shrinking and shrinking #she doesn't get as much merch or figures as she used to #and i would just like it if maybe some other vocaloids/vocalsynths aside from miku and gumi could get some attention for once #'you owe hatsune miku your life and your bones' but what about the rest of the vocalsynths? #what about the music that has been produced by people who havent and dont ever plan to use miku? #what about even the other cryptonloids? rin and len? kaito and meiko? luka??? #what about lily and IA and sweet ann and big al and oliver???? #dont mind me im bitter.

[syekick-powers]

ever since my post abt lou sullivan took off i’ll every once in a while get a reblog where someone asks in the tags of their post “WHO is saying [that trans men didn’t contribute to queer history] i’ll FIGHT THEM!!” like i appreciate the enthusiasm but i literally cannot see a single post about a historical trans man without seeing like 200 replies from angry ra/df/e/m/s being like “how DARE these TRAs try to STEAL WOMEN’S HISTORY?? this is CLEARLY a butch lesbian and/or A Woman Crossdressing To Get Male Advantages!!” when the historical trans man in question would literally attack and/or threaten anyone who called them feminine terms, absolutely insist people call them men even in private, write in their journal about how they “wished they were born a man”, have sex with men and not “reveal their real gender” to avoid getting charged with buggery or sodomy, and write in their wills to be buried/cremated in the clothes they were wearing at death so people couldn’t see what their AGAB was. like. people (especially ra/d/fe/ms and r/a/d/f/e/m adjacent people) will fall ALL OVER themselves to deny that historical trans men were ACTUALLY men and not just butch lesbians or crossdressing women. i know people not knowing this is just a result of transmasc erasure but it really makes me wonder where people are NOT seeing this relentless minimization of trans men and transmascs of all genders.

#sye's babbles

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the absolute funniest thing about going from childhood to adulthood is that when you're a child, you see a lot of childrens' media try to push "The Power Of Friendship" and the idea that caring for your friends can change the world and things like that. and when you're a kid, this just seems really stupid and preachy and annoying. like from a kid's perspective most of the time that shit just doesn't make sense to you, and it annoys the hell out of you because it's EVERYWHERE. but then you become an adult and make friends and you hang out with them and just sometimes get overcome by how goddamn much you love them and how happy you are to have them in your life and you feel completely sure that the depth of this joy could change the world. and then you watch a kid's cartoon about the power of friendship and think about your own friends and just get so emotional. like. how come most of the media where The Power Of Friendship is a major plot point is kids media. when most of the time, it's adults who feel most strongly about their friends and their relationships.

#sye's babbles #maybe i'd watch an action movie if The Power of Friendship was a part of its plot

[syekick-powers]

you know i normally dont comment too much about AI art in general because ive seen some absolutely bugfuck insane takes from both the pro- and anti-AI crowds, but the one thing about the pro-AI techbro crowd that boggles my mind is like. how they don't seem to understand that sometimes the process of making the art itself can be equally as or MORE satisfying than just having the finished product. like yeah, making art is nice because i can get ideas out of my head and on paper, but sometimes the idea changes as i work. sometimes the process of customizing every little detail of my art is incredibly satisfying. sometimes making something that i spent hours shaping and perfecting makes me genuinely happy even if the piece isnt perfect. and the "oh why dont you just type a prompt into midjourney" people don't seem to understand that i LIKE the process of making art. i LIKE how my art shows little bits and pieces of myself in it. i LIKE being able to spend a few hours just chilling and working on something. i know not everyone has the same capacity to spend hours working on something like i do, but the AI techbro "just make it with AI" crowd make it really obvious that they value art as little more than cheap consumption when they say shit like that. like they must be blind to the personal touches you can get when you buy from human artists. it's just rly fucking annoying. sometimes the journey is more important than the destination, man.

#sye's babbles

[syekick-powers]

been giving myself Porch Time at least once a day for the past week or so and it is truly wild how breathing in the fresh air, getting some sunlight, and Appreciating the Local Creatures has a noticeable impact on my mental health

#sye's babbles #i just saw a jumping spider and a pillbug #this is somehow very good for my brain

[syekick-powers]

absolutely nothing funnier in a splatoon match than when the enemy team shuts down your devastatingly aggressive push where you get very close to a knockout and someone on the enemy team squidbags you really aggressively because of how tilted they were you got that far. and then you win the match because they never manage to muster a push to counter your lead. and when you see the screen of everyone's kills/deaths/specials, the guy who aggressively squidbagged you got half the kills you did, twice the deaths you did, and got off maybe one single fucking special. like. way to broadcast you are the most tilted individual playing in queue right now. have fun fuming over getting your ass severely beaten by my gay little octo doing his gay little run across the map and limp-wristedly swinging his painbrush at you. perhaps you should invest in some gitting gud

#sye's babbles #inspired by a particular battle i played during the giant tower challenge today

[syekick-powers]

honestly if in your post complaining about transandrophobia you compare transmascs talking about our oppression in any way to white women using fake tears to win arguments, you have lost all right to complain about transmascs talking about our oppression. not only is the comparison just watered down misgendering (some transmascs don’t mind being referred to as women, but a huge majority of us DO FUCKING MIND), it’s also completely false because like a good 65-70% of the people i see talking about transandrophobia are fucking trans MOC and nonbinary transmasc POC talking about how racism, transandrophobia, and antimasculism intersect in how they are oppressed.

don’t you love how trans men and transmascs are not allowed to say our oppression is rooted at least partially in misogyny without 2000 r/a/d/fe/m-adjacent shitheads claiming that we cannot POSSIBLY face misogyny because we’re not women, checkmate transandrophobia truthers; but then the moment it’s remotely rhetorically convenient to compare us to cis women (esp white women), we are suddenly guilty of all the prejudice of the most privileged of white cishet upper-class abled neurotypical women, even if the majority of trans men and transmascs are not even CLOSE to being privileged in the ways that particular group of women are?

i swear to god transandrophobia deniers have like three recycled arguments against transandrophobia and just constantly cycle between the same already-debunked talking points like a broken goddamn record. just shut your fucking stupid mouth and don’t interrupt conversations you clearly have no understanding of. you can, in fact, not join a conversation when you don’t know anything about the subject. you don’t have to inject a fucking hot take into every single discourse out there. just close the post editor and go outside for 10 minutes and wonder if your opinion is actually warranted or if maybe, just maybe, you have internalized internet social media hot take culture too much and are sticking your nose in somewhere you’re not welcome and where you have nothing to contribute. install a few more filters between your brain and the post button and fuck off.

#sye's babbles #if you try to argue with me in the notes of this post i will block you #im not interested in debating transandrophobia deniers #i don't care what you have to say #you can suck my Tdick

[syekick-powers]

very funny for me to wake up this morning to the sound of my phone exploding because a post i'd made like two and a half weeks ago suddenly started blowing up with notifs. me slowly oozing into consciousness at 8:30 in the morning to turn my ass over in bed and hearing the sound of my phone beeping nonstop

#sye's babbles #idk what even started it because i looked at the reblog map w the lil balls #and it doesn't look like any one single reblog caused it to start gaining traction #VERY funny to wake up in the comparatively early morning for me and just hearing my phone going off like #[BEEP] [BEEP] [BEEP] [BEEP] #over and over while im lying there half conscious wondering what the FUCK is going on