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It’s an awful series that only really got any following because Crunchyroll propped it up so damn hard. They bankrolled most of the damn thing and pushed it super hardcore. If you go to their homepage, you currently have like 7-11 different direct references to their newest push, God of High School. You’ll see them only take down God of High School stuff for a day or two when Re:Zero has a new episode.

I put in the effort to actually watch the entire thing and it just doesn’t stop having issues. It’s enjoyable if you can fully shut your brain down, but that never happened for me. The fact that Raphtalia gets an opportunity to not actually be a slave and instead says “I want to be a slave,” is some fucking hot garbage. It doesn’t deserve any of the hype it got or the weird cameo they somehow forced into isekai Quartet. It feels like just a hard push from Crunchyroll to appeal to the “anime audience” which is assumed to be a bunch of horny teenage boys that have never had a single struggle in their lives.

I don’t know if anyone actually gives a shit about spoilers regarding the end of the season but…

100% agree.

Ikuhara is best, watch all his shows.

It’s a stupid way to try to explain our current capitalist system and the bailouts they receive. You hear it much more from libs or social democrats like Kyle Kulinski. “Privatize the profits and socialize the losses.”

I respect Bernie for making the word socialism no longer toxic to a lot of people but America is fucking the worst.

I gave up on that community a while ago when there was a discussion on welcoming Joe Rogan after he endorsed Bernie. Pretty much the sentiment was, he’s fine and has a platform that we want and he’s only wrong some o the time so we need to be open. A few trans people were there saying that his previous transphobic remarks were enough for them to never want to be near him and that he didn’t need the red carpet rolled out for him. They got dogpiled with concern trolling and transphobia that the mod team never addressed.

So fuck 'em. They can have their Joe Rogan branded “quality leftist content.”

It’s terrifying. There’s so much just looming on the horizon and nobody seems to give a shit. I live in the northeast so we’re not being overrun by COVID, but in my state, 40% of the renting population is at risk for eviction. My mother seems to think that judges will protect people but that’s a pipe dream.

I’ve lost my unemployment at this point and because it ran out at the same time the COVID beneits did, I’ve lost a giant chunk of what was helping me just stay afloat. I got fired late last year and haven’t been able to get a job because for months now, hospitals have been running with as few nurses as they can. They’re not hiring because a large number of their own nurses are furloughed. If I really want a job I’d have to travel to Arizona or something at this point, work 48+ hours a week, and live out of a hotel. I just can’t do that, I already have a very shaky support structure and moving hours away from it would just kill me literally.

Early on I was excited to be able to work as a nurse to care for COVID patients and every time I got ghosted by an employer it just made it hurt more that I couldn’t work to help people during a pandemic. But as time has gone on, I kinda don’t want to even go near it anymore. I know not everyone that has COVID is at fault for having it, but with the American population just being fucking stupid and refusing masks, I don’t even want to do that much anymore. It feels like the population is trying to kill healthcare workers. To just undermine every last attempt at making things better.

I feel like I’m the only one in my (extremely small) immediate circle taking things seriously. Watching the empire crumble just fills me with dread. I don’t feel like I can flee the country. I’m scared of the progressing transphobia and measures trump has done to hurt trans people as much as possible. I’m damn near positive that that the reason I was fired will prevent me from getting almost any job going forward because I have to out myself to even defend myself because my previous employer felt that it was just too unacceptable for me to tell a patient to fuck off after they called me a transphobic slur amongst other things.

There’s no hope left. Like someone else said in the thread the view of the future is contracting. I honestly can’t imagine where I’ll be in a few months. I know there’s massive civil unrest coming, but I can’t see it. I’ve hit full despair and honestly it’s a miracle I’m not dead yet.

I did a fair bit of research on it back in high school because I found the idea so abhorrent that so many innocent civilians would have to be murdered. I came across that line of thought a few times and as I’ve evolved politically I can honestly say that it was likely a heavy factor but probably not the only one. Speaking to a few Japanese people that were alive back then that hadn’t seen a foreigner since the occupation, the average person knew the war was over and that Japan had only so much time left. Life was quite miserable for everyone. From the American side it was a decision to force Japan’s hand and avoid what was thought to be an extremely costly ground invasion as the American side expected absolute and total rebellion from the Japanese people every step of the way.

In my opinion it wasn’t just because of Stalin. It was a message to the world that America was not to be touched and It was a terrible tragedy that allowed the nationalist government to save face and surrender but there’s also conflicting information on if they had been planning on surrendering but it was too slow and America wanted an absolute unconditional surrender.

It’s been 10 years though since I actually did my research so information may have come to light or my memory isn’t the best but I will say that speaking with people from Japan in regards to it is enlightening but also disappointing due to just how little education is provided on Japan’s actions in the war.

I’ve been having the same dilemma myself. I live in PA so I’m considered part of a swing state so unlike if I lived in New York my vote ‘matters.’ After Bernie dropped out I decided to not vote in the primaries because I saw no point in partaking in a sham. Now I just feel guilty for not wanting to vote in the general.

I’m watching trump erode trans rights and it scares me. My mother has to go back to school because trump and his goons have pushed for schools to reopen so I’m scared I’m going to lose my mother now.

But even despite all the feelings I get from trump I find Biden equally repulsive. He won’t be as open about how much he hates me and the people I love but he will enact the same types of policies but nobody will give a damn because he’s not orange or whatever.

In the end I just have to remind myself it doesn’t really matter, if they wanted my vote they’d have actually tried but I’m marginalized enough that I’m not even a thought to them. So why should I help them?

Back near the Beijing Olympics my mother spent some time in China and even back then the one child rule wasn’t this hard law like it was hyped up to be for me growing up. Not that the law didn’t have issues and favored the rich, but that’s hellworld.

I’ve personally found futa stuff to be really empowering in general and I know that it doesn’t necessarily empower everyone out there so it’s more of a personal thing but I feel like there is more to elicit from stuff of this nature with self acceptance. 男の娘 (otoko no ko, quite similar to femboy but a Japanese pun where it sounds like boy when spoken but is written boy-girl in the more literal sense) stuff is a bit more varied and full of problems since it has to run up against these issues more head on since unlike futa you have a real life counterpart for this stuff and in general the audience isn’t as full of cis-het people because of obvious reasons.

I’ve had a fairly extensive relationship with futa in general amongst a bunch of other gender non-conforming porn in general. I feel like there’s more to it than just simply ‘a cis woman with a dick.’ Yes there’s stuff like that out there but I feel like that’s only a segment of the genre. You have situations where in an otherwise cis-het story a girl being given a penis. Look to the multitude of princess raping stories to find that kind of thing popping up relatively frequently. I’m showing my age a bit but the easiest example would be something from Black Lilith like Soukou Kijo Iris. It’s not quite a princess but whatever. At one point in the plot while being captured the main character’s friend is ‘given’ (had it grown on?) a penis and uses it a bit in the progression of things. It’s not really thought of as anything other than ‘gross and disgusting’ on a woman. But it allows the audience to enjoy the spectacle of a woman with a penis without having to worry about losing their cis-het pride. This kind of stuff exists but I feel like there’s more to be had with the genre and it comes more down to independent creators, even if they are more successful than others at times.

An artist like Red-Rum tends to do more with more vanilla het stuff but the girl just so happens to have a penis while also having a vagina. The penis is acknowledged but it’s not really ‘used.’ There’s no real hardcore diving into gender identity or anything like that but it does sometimes acknowledge how having a penis can be a barrier to a romantic relationship. I never really identify with this kind of stuff but it’s out there.

You have other artists that draw a world where it’s just accepted as common fact that girls have a penis sometimes. Again, there’s no real revelations coming from this group but it is nice to have stories out there that depict non-cis-het bodies as the norm and that it’s simply the day to day fact of this universe. You have artists like Dulce-Q (more recent works mainly, Dulce Report is not really fitting here) and Aoba Q Madou falling into this category.

There are others that basically write a lesbian story but toss a dick in it for reasons of sex. People convert more common tropes into futa x girl. So you’ll see rehashes of older tropes but without the men involved.

Finally at least in terms of what I’m bringing up are the much rarer but far more interesting pieces that do actually address some of these other parts. While usually cranked up to an absurd degree with way more sex than would ever happen, you have some things that stand out to me as being more gender revolutionary. That there is a third sex in this world and maybe it’s not accepted in the world but it exists and people are people. I personally love to bring up Moriya Gia’s Futanarist as an example of this. It’s an oversexed version of gender revolution in a way. There’s this group of men in black that are implied to have strong control over society and they go around murdering any futanari they find. The main character loves exhibition and gets herself in a pickle but is saved by a mysterious girl that says she’s fighting for the liberation of futanari. Things happen and like I said it’s oversexed but they end up wresting power away from the MiB and set up a school for futanari kids to go and be safe as themselves.

I feel like there’s more that can come from these stories in general than just resigning it all as an effort to appeal to cis-het guys. They’re a massive consuming population for pornography so that stuff is going to be a given, but I feel like there’s some deeper meaning to it all even if it isn’t necessarily intended by the artists. These works like I said before have had a profound impact on who I am and how I’ve accepted myself as trans.

Going into the other side though, 男の娘 stuff is very mixed and filled to the brim with problems. There’s good stuff out there, but in general if you don’t go in ready to make some adjustments in your head you’re going to have a bad time. The most standout example from recent memory is Ruuen Rouga’s recent new series. First part was actually kinda amazing. Character cracks their egg, gets interested in trying their sexuality, has a bad experience and is upset that they weren’t given a chance to really express their gender adequately so the next time they make sure to wear what they want out in public. They then proceed to present full time and feel able to fall for their best friend eventually starting hormones because there’s no way those boobs just magically appeared. The second part kinda crushes some of that by making the character stop referring to themselves with female pronouns back to male ones and everyone saying they’re a guy again but then going back by the end. You see this issue crop up a lot all over the place that one can never escape the ‘but they’re a guy’ mentality. While I would like to cite other stuff to show the good out there, I feel like it’s not as prevalent as futanari stuff since you run into these issues much more frequently whereas futa can sidestep a fair bit of it. I will say that I feel like the medium is evolving though and compared to 10 years ago when I was barely out of the closet and had almost no exposure to this stuff, looking back at a lot of older stuff you can see these issues much more obviously. Japan is slow to move on social issues.

In the mainstream you see things like Fukakai na Boku no Subete wo really making strides. It is long past time to move past terms like tr*p in that it’s damaging to people and used as a way to normalize trans panic. I’ve seen the term tomgirl used for years now as the opposite to tomboy. The term femboy is gaining traction and I feel like I don’t have to necessarily use Japanese terminology to refer to a lot of this stuff now whereas a few years ago, 男の娘 was the only way I felt like I could refer to this stuff since all English terms came with unneeded baggage and even in Japanese, 男の娘 has its issues and erases trans people. It doesn’t carry the same negative weight as trp but it’s picking up baggage over the years.