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Weekly Trans Megathread for the Week of 3/25 - 3/31
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Unjust Depths, on 7.5
Woah Hunter III's leviform detransformation/shedding is hardcore as fuck, uncritical support to the meat-machine death salamander which is actually a small lady. Body horror CW did not disappoint, who needs a diver when you can become a many-eyed sinewy sea monstrosity???
Anyway, dear Potomac, engineer for Norn, please stop doing psychomechanical synchronisation of pilot and diver, I have watched NGE and know where this is going. Yes I do appreciate that you say "normies", in quotes, without irony, but you cannot continue with this brain plug stuff using grey matter grown from stem cells =) Divers should not bleed on their pilots or cause hallucinations!
Having said all of that though, Potomac's presence and commentary does make the Sunlight foundation considerably more interesting. Kind of split between being weird traditionalists (WE MUST RETVRN TO HUMANITY'S NATURAL PLACE) and technofetishists (WE WILL DO IT WITH WEIRD PSIONICS MACHINES AND TRANSHUMANISM), very based. I was wondering what they were up to after they were introduced in like book 2, so it is neat to see that they have more going on. The way Potomac discusses its members makes it sound like the Sunlight foundation is an autism guild, a place where people do socially unacceptable special interest stuff, which is incredibly funny.
spoiler Woah absolute filth!! Adelheid walks into Norn's room like 'Word around the Antenora is you've got a fat cock.' Lmao.
I hadn't even considered questioning whether or not "all Katarran women have one" so uh, gee thanks Adelheid... I wonder what kind of gene shenanigans cause that as an occasional by-accident thing though. Does also leave me wondering about the status of queer and especially trans issues generally in the Empire? It feels obvious that they'd all be genderfash under the Fueller regime, but like... so many Imperials of all stations are gay
so uh Idk. Adelheid's attitude is sort of, uh, weird I guess. "I think you'e beautiful, all of you is"...? Uh huuuuuh?
Fwiw the following scene is considerably enhanced by seeing Norn smash her head against the shower wall in self-contempt! Goes on for fucking ever though, it feels like.
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::: spoiler responding to ur mega response as well i would ALSO be buying those kits, 100%
when reccing unjust depths to people (assuming i don't know they're ardent communists) i generally mention the communism, but like just as a basic background of the world's politics if i go into the setting at all and i mostly just go "lesbians! mech fighting! cool submarine!"
and yeah the sunlight foundation stuff start's getting really interesting at this point. it really is the autism guild!
idk, i don't find it hard to believe that the genderfash could sustain itself despite everyone in a position of power being very queer. agreed on the vibes being a little weird though, adelheid is definitely weird and i also LOVE seeing norn's self contempt
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Nooooo wtf, I put those in the mega JUST BEFORE IT REFRESHES so people DONT SEE MY EMBARRASSMENTThere should be Diver model kits... my money, now that's a fuckin' Patreon/Ko-fi incentive...
I see, you must be recommending it to a better caliber of person than I usually am - I only know libs outside of bear website =) "Lesbians! Mech fighting! Cool submarine!" Lesbians will hear this and go "hell yeah"
I fucking LOVE the autism guild!!! The imperium must fall so that Potomac may continue her shenanigans! She's just a smol bean mechanical bioengineer
Uh I suppose yeah, I guess it just feels weird? How can you genderfash if your prince is a boykisser and your praetorian is freely flaunting her brat
"Prince Erich, milord, I see your regime wants to uphold traditional Europ*an gender roles, and yet you have a pet twink! Curious!"
I guess I'd just expect suffering if that were the case, but 0 queerphobia basically, which tbf I appreciate and admire. It's kind of the inverse of [incomprehensible book you've never once heard of]* y'know? Fwiw actually I did wonder in the moment if Adelheid was gonna be weird, it did seem super weird, but the subsequent scene I was like 'Nah okay, it's cool probably, I think we're aight' :) Critical support to Norn and Adelheid in their utter filth.
spoiler *[incomprehensible book you've never once heard of] ~~The Last Girl Scout, there are a couple of actual genuine fetishist freaks, and the Blackland New Republic from its goofy brownshirts right up to the Oberkommando, they're equally as committed to "we must not let the men fall to homosexuality" as they are calling people really horrible racial epithets. Full spectrum fash, very true to life, I mean the BNR is pretty much the Fourth Reich whereas the Imbrian Empire isn't quiiite there yet... which tbf I think 100% of readers would prefer not to read that? Now I've been shown the alternative, but TLGS is very interested in the nuts-and-bolts mechanics of fash~~
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::: spoiler unjust depths
it's me im lesbians
just a smol bean mad scientist!
hmm. i mean, if the parltriarchy and gender fash is in the system that leads to you having power i don't see why some people wouldn't uphold it even as they go against its norms and it harms them in some ways. hell, there are queer people in positions of power in reactionary governments all the time, you know? if pete buttigieg somehow became president he wouldn't start fighting for socialist policies that would actually help queer people, right? seems like the same thing to me, if that makes any sense. especially because the imbrian empire isn't really full on fash, just a very conservative government. like, i don't think homosexuality is even necessarily outlawed, just very heavily frowned upon
also yeah critical support for nasty lesbian sex
also i have heard of tlgs, and i am planning on reading it soon! all my free time sadly got sucked into star trek this last week, but i was hoping to read it then. but i will be reading it soon, everything you say about it makes me anticipate it doing so more!
Unjust Depths AND MORE
Im also lesbians :)I really enjoyed her having to handle Selene's freak-out over that biomass, that was cool. I'm digging all of the neurodiversity that's being signaled in this. Like when Zachikova is playing with that fish, what a lil dork she's just havin' fun :')
No worries and no pressure, Star Trek is also a good use of free time! I'm glad you're lookin forward to it, TLGS is pretty dark but it's one of those things, I find it deeply cathartic and its examination of how fascism interacts with queer people is pretty unique.
the depths... they're so unjust
there's a bunch of characters who clearly aren't neurotypical. it's nicei'd say more like the usa of like, the 80s or 90s? like, very much seems like queerness is supposed to be kept quiet even if it's an open secret. to continue the buttigieg metaphor, i doubt you could openly have a same sex partner and be in any major positions of power, but as long as you keep it on the down low it's probably fine. of course if you aren't in a position of power things might get stickier*
and i'm definitely gonna read this, that sounds unbelievably up my alley spoiler *this is a little informed by future stuff, but nothing important and nothing specific like, we see some of what it's like for trans people in at least one part of the empire and it's not strictly speaking illegal but it isn't good. below even the low bar of the modern usa (considering the whole country, it's possible things are better in the empire than in like florida or whatever) :::
Idk abt the title actually, seems pretty Just to me given that humanity doubtlessly fucked up the Aer... maybe Unjust for the people who have to live with the consequences centuries later? Idk...
Nice, and it's not even explicitly called out in-universe, cause the Depths seem to have their own roster of medical conditions and neural divergences, but I can just tell and given everything else COOL going on, there is no fucking way the author isn't intending Zachikova or Shalikova to be ND :) my beloveds...
Yeah okay, I see! I read your nonspoiler, I'm lookin forward to that. Queer issues in the Empire is one of those societal things I wanna see when the Brigand docks at a town next, along with Shalikova and Maryan's date lol ✨
Rad, looking forward to hearing about it when you do =)