they hate me for my girlish whimsy and for my pathological degree of avoidant behavior

So listen, I often do this thing where there will be a male character that I like and I'll just decide that they're a trans woman solely because I like them. This is a thing I do, I acknowledge this, I would never fight someone when it comes to these headcanons.

I need you to know that I thought that's what I was doing with Ferdinand. I was wrong.

1. Ferdinand is surprisingly concerned with the treatment of women and girls in Yurgenschmidt, to a point that goes beyond her usual baseline moral concern for others (which is often otherwise low). When opposing the idea of bringing another Lanzenave Princess to the Adalgisa Villa, Ferdinand argues less against the treatment she received there and more against the way the princesses themselves are treated.
2. Being assigned male was literally an early death sentence for Ferdinand. It is directly tied to all the suffering she has endured, and she literally has a deadname that she rejects that represents the circumstances of her assigned gender.
3. She hates the sound of her own voice, despite it being beloved by everyone else.
4. She's so woman-coded that Elvira, attempting to write a way for her to be happy even if just in fiction, made her a woman in her story. The fact that there's canon rule 63 Ferdinand in the books is wild.
5. She's engaged to an aro lesbian. Myne is very into women, and she's into Ferdinand in the same way (she just hasn't totally figured that out about herself). I know for a fact that if Ferdinand started HRT it wouldn't take more than six months before Myne dropped any pretense of not being in love with her.

And so as you can see, Ferdinand is a trans woman, Fermyne is yuri, and Ascendance of a Bookworm is very good.

As Elon Musk cements his place in history as a fascist tech overlord and the rest of the world looks at us in horror, I really do want to reiterate what I feel will be lost to the history books

Nearly everyone in america has thought and continues to think that Elon is very cringe.

What we all thought Wilfred was going through in p5v4: Rozemyne does not deserve me, her world should be centered around me - I am the future Aub and she should be doing everything to guarantee my legacy

What he was really going through: Rozemyne I SWEAR TO GOD IF YOU TALK ABOUT YOUR WIFE ONE MORE TIME-

LOSERS round 6 poll 2

no? it's just a game. a roguelike deckbuilder even. words mean things

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the shimp got too much attention and now there are transphobes in my notes, this is a transgender blog run by a transgender dyke. fuckers.