tinycartridge:

Pokemon XY’s implied transgender trainer ⊟

The English translation here isn’t as suggestive as her Japanese text, which reads, “I was a Karate King just half a year ago; the power of medical science is awesome, wouldn’t you say?” Note that “Karate Kings”, or “Black Belts” as they’re known in the West, are a male-specific character type in the Pokemon series, their female counterparts going by “Battle Girls.”

Hurray for more diversity in Nintendo games! We have a podcast episode coming up that talks about this trainer and Japan’s approach to queer characters — please look forward to it! (Or ignore it if these conversations grind your gears. Whatever makes you happy!)

Related: Pokemon X is just $34 on Amazon right now. Credit to Legends of Localization for the Japanese translation (via TC reader TomSkylark).

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noctstiel:

superwholocked471:

lokifirefox:

dooweeweeweeboo:

zombie1ovejuice:

weshookthesky:

The Blue Dragon (Glaucus atlanticus), one of the world’s rarest and most beautiful mollusks

that’s an alien, that’s an alien dragon baby. that’s the coolest thing I’ve ever seen

YES FINALLY BACK ON MY DASH I LOVE THIS LIL FUCKER. LOOK AT IT

ohy my fucking god i finally know how my patronus looks like

So of course I read up on it. It’s even more beautiful when it’s in the water, not collapsed like it is on the original pic. It also freakin’ eats Portuguese Man o’Wars. They are also hermaphroditic because, damn, they so pretty, no way are they gonna hit anything but theyselves.

My spirit animal.

nothing will stop me from believing this is a baby lugia

buildingbagend:

*Fellowship theme plays dramatically in the distance*

Female-assigned intersex kids’ vaginal canal size is also assessed by doctors, to ensure that it’s long enough to fit a penis inside of it. Doctors might surgically construct or re-construct vaginas, which can result in a host of health problems and necessitate multiple, multiple surgeries. This is especially the case since most intersex kids have these surgeries very young, and when their bodies grow into their adult forms, more surgeries are necessary to keep their vagina size in proportion. Non-surgical methods are also used to increase or maintain vaginal length by regularly using medical dildos to stretch the vagina over months and years. (It’s kind of like braces for your vagina, but much, much worse.) Just like there are no standards for how long a clitoris “can” be before it’s classified as a penis, there aren’t absolute standards as to how long a vagina is for it to be of “normal” length.

I had a dilation procedure performed for almost every exam I had with intersex doctors from the time I was 8 until I was 16, so that they could check how long my vagina was as I grew. I absolutely hated these procedures. I mean, imagine a man as old as your father or your grandfather, who you don’t know, inserting a medical dildo into you each time you saw him, knowing that you can’t question the doctor’s orders and just accept that you have to undergo these uncomfortable procedures for your health. Imagine a decade or so later, realizing that these procedures did nothing to track your health, and had everything to do with grown men feeling good about the fact that you could fuck some dude someday like a “normal girl”. That all those traumatizing procedures weren’t actually medically relevant at all, and it actually was within my right to refuse those examinations.

I didn’t know any of that at the time.

I also had no idea that I wouldn’t want to ultimately have the kind of sex they assumed I’d be having, adding yet another layer of this-was-totally-unnecessary/messed-up to my history.

Other kids shouldn’t have to go through this. Other adults shouldn’t have revelations some day far into the future that what was happening to them WASN’T okay, and their traumatic feelings ARE valid, and the whole system of how intersex people are conceptualized and “treated” IS entirely fucked.

And it’s gotta change. We’ve gotta change it.

deductionhunters:

Okay so everybody needs to watch this video in which TheThirdPew lays the smackdown on NashGrier and his douchebag friends for the “What Guys Look For In Girls” video because it is amazing

Four for you, Nathan, you go, Nathan

horrorrpgartmastersupplier:

MAD FATHER HOROR RPG!!! its’s Chainsaw Girl, Aya Drevis, RUUUUUUUUN!!!!

愛★無

HARU

Karei

sin3c12

シャン・グリラ

深海モンスター

大福草莓

桜花

japhers:

when I’m sad I think about the existence of male Gardevoirs