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NEW YEAR NEW REDESIGN
About time I had a ref sheet tbh

#introductions
Hi everyone! My name is Morgan, but feel free to call me Husker or Prosperity! I'm a trans nb woman from Malaysia, I use she/they pronouns, and I like drawing furries.

Talk to me about video game criticism, what your main weapon is in Monster Hunter: World, and why Clip Studio Paint's fill-in mono brush is god's gift to mankind.

This is my fursona, Prosperity! She's a trans gal fu-dog with luck manipulation powers. (she/her pronouns, ofc)

Game is http://fer.al, feel free to add me! I'm HuskerFu there as well

funney animal game

.... really in a taur mood

was just in a taur mood

been watching @[email protected] stream Wonderful 101 lately and honestly this moment never stops being hype, even without Rules of Nature over it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBVJe1wwTVI

Bases are meant to be stolen.

me every second playing this game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5k_arVcqR8

I know Into The Breach is stunningly well designed cause I spend every second of it going "aw gee aw fuck how do I get out of this one" and somehow I have not run away screaming from it yet

I gotta pick up spaceport again sometime

been watching a lot of rhystic studies mtg videos lately and I s2g if this gets me into arena I will be so angry with myself

I'm not kidding.

Should you watch BNA? I dunno. It's a Studio Trigger-ass show with all of its wild power escalations in its final stretch, as stylish as it is confused. It's never as tidy or well thought out as you'd wish it would be. But you might see a small grain of truth refracted in there that feels true to you and only you.

Also Shirou gets naked a lot towards the end.

All this and I don't think I've even mentioned Michiru herself, who goes through an arc where she initially despises her otherness, to experimenting with her fluid, transformative nature, and finally embracing it. There's a reason it's easy to read trans narratives onto her, and other people have done it better, but it's still incredible to have a protagonist assert her own truth, again and again.

I don't think BNA is necessarily great at its attempts at metaphor, or that it's even a great queer text. But it still has these moments that catch me off guard, like how humans will "celebrate" beastmen while simultaneously exoticizing them. That it doesn't ignore the way class affects people. There's a virtue to metaphor that allows it to talk about how messy people are without being a direct indictment of the people it's telling a story about, and I appreciate that.

(On a side note, I appreciate that the show takes the time to declare that the villain's purebred superiority is an absolute myth, and that it's just nice to see a eugenicist get fuckin' bodied.)

Even the show's final absurd twist, that the villain is secretly a beastman eugenicist working with humans and deeply invested in his own purity, and how it immunizes him from going berserk - nonsensical as it is, it feels true too. A queer person willing to play along with the people doing the othering, convinced that he is pure and therefore immune from judgement from other queer people feels fucking ridiculous, and then I remember that Rupaul is a real person.

There's something about the way BNA treats this otherness that, even as I recognize its faults, still feels truthful to me. A later episode reveals that overcrowding of varied beastmen in one city exacerbates their many differences and turns them berserk, fighting one another. I've watched my share of queer communities rally around their shared identites and then fight tooth and nail over, I dunno, whether bi lesbians are a thing. It's unpleasant. But it feels true.

There is a truthiness to BNA's depiction of otherness, here expressed as animal people, that isn't just satisfied with saying "this person is just like us". A different show would stop there and continue on with what it's actually concerned with. Beastmen in BNA are messy. Just as often as they are saintly, they are also flawed, self-interested, and ultimately trying their best to navigate a world in which not everyone, human or beastman, has your well being at heart.