I admit, I hadn't really considered that a knock on of an expensive nintendo console pricing people out would be a diehard subset of nintendo fans interrogating people about why they can't find the money to spare
the problem with "games were always this price in the past and people still bought them" as an argument is that a lot of people didn't buy them at that price, and that's the group you're speaking to
magical girl who requires constant affection: i don't know what to do. i... i think im in love with her. is... is that wrong? is there something wrong with me?
kyubey: homosexuality is highly common amongst magical girls.
magical girl who requires constant affection: that means it's normal? should... should i ask her out then?
kyubey: humans usually enter relationships to make themselves and their partners happy
magical girl who requires constant affection: yeah, you're right ill make her happy! thank you kyubey.
magical girl who has problems with intimacy: i dont understand what she wants from me? she just doesn’t understand! i- i can’t afford that kind of vulnerability, doesn’t she understand?
kyubey: relationships where boundaries are clearly stated and enforced are more likely to be positive for both parties in 95% of cases
magical girl who has problems with intimacy: is that true? i… i should put my foot down then! it will be good for both of us! thank you kyubey!
magical girl who is new to the city: wow you're telling me both the original magical girls here died recently? what happened?
kyubey: they got into a fight, and after a witch interrupted it, neither of them was able to survive.
magical girl who is new to the city: a fight that got interrupted by a witch huh? that's some real bad luck there. why'd they fight anyway?
kyubey: they had a disagreement about boundaries.
magical girl who is new to the city: fucking territory disputes... those are never pretty. more for me though.
slush puppy! 💜
sometimes your robot gf craves a simpler existence for a little while
i think there is something to be said as far as Dolls And Maids And Such go and the Enjoyers' relationship to gender. in my experience it's primarily trans people, and transfeminine people in particular.
so having, say, dollhood thrust upon you has a similar sort of core theme as, say, forcefem (another thing which is popular with transfemmes), in that it's often framed as someone taking the decision to Be Something out of one's hands. I'd say Empty Spaces revels in it a little more, though: not only is this physical change forced upon one, but the end result of that is that one is kept safe and left to exist within the roles this shape imposes upon then.
(obviously it's not all forced, either, but when presenting it as a counterpart to forcefem it obviously leans that way)
and usually when i see Becoming is involved, that lands in an ultimately positive place. one is safe and happy within that role, with everything good and bad that role entails — and often the bad is REALLY bad — but it all sort of ends up being worth it to exist in one's correct form.
maybe im overthinking this. im like half asleep and very dizzy as i write this, so maybe it doesn't even make sense idk
i think this is A Possible Interpretation of the concept of dollhood but its not the only one especially with Empty Spaces. A lot of the earlier works especially used the framing of dollhood not necessarily as a means toward being taken care of (see also HDG) but as an allegory for fragility, incompleteness or brokenness, uncanniness (i.e. the state of appearing not-quite-human), disposability, etc. There's a lot of Empty Spaces work that seeks to exalt the positive aspects of dollhood (beyond even the fantasy of being cared for) but there's just as much that focuses on the alienating and coercive aspects of it.
Personally why I gravitate toward "doll" as my gender is that mixture of alienation and playful affection as i find they both represent my being quite well
Can-dolls. Little dolls of wick and flame. Handcrafted to burn themselves away. Convenient, pretty, and just a little dangerous if misused. The favorites of nobles with many long hallways and witches too afraid to use the lady’s room alone at night. A limited time friend, whose expiration is always visibly approaching.
Sometimes we have to hide who we are to avoid detection. Other times we feel eyes boring into us wherever we go.
Reblogging a render/post from last year for trans day of visibility. It's ok if you have to stay invisible today. It's scary out there, especially with the current state of things.
Please take care.
