lurkerlady [she/her]

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Cake day: March 28th, 2022
  • lurkerlady [she/her]totraaaaaaannnnnnnnnns•Let's make a definitive list of trans representation in anime/manga
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    2 months ago

    I'm gonna get the worst ones out of the way:

    1. Anime

    2. scifi / isekai / adventure modern fantasy fighting thing

    3. Re:Zero / Steins;Gate / Fate/Grand Order. The plots are mostly just anime slop, Re:Zero at least has a more interesting setup and I genuinely enjoy watching the creepy protag die repeatedly in new ways. Trans rep in each of these is 'trans woman everyone calls a boy but is weird weeb lust bait'. Later manga Ferris comes out as a woman which is handled much better than the other two animes.

    4. Bad, bad, bad. One upside: the character designs are so motivated and cute, smfh. How fucking dare they draw me in with the cute outfits. Characters in order: Ferris from Re:zero, Ruka from Steins;gate, Astolfo from Fate.

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    Obvious better ones:

    1. Anime

    2. modern fantasy

    3. Zombieland Saga / My Hero Academia

    4. Good! Zombieland Saga has stfu-terf Lily Hoshikawa and My Hero Academia actually has a couple of trans characters, some are villains and some are heroes and its a little lowkey, you have to pay attention and listen to the small lines where they mention they're trans. Lily's story is heartbreaking, she died of fright after hitting puberty and seeing a single hair on her chin and all the girls in her zombie pop band are very accepting of her. As for MHA, the villains have very sad and brutal stories, so keep that in mind when watching for Magne, who was not able to transition due to stigma and being poor, yet is constantly gendered correctly and Twice even berates the shit out of someone for misgendering his 'big sister'. Yawara Chatora was in an all female cat-hero group and transitioned to male.

    Lily from Zombieland:

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    Yawara:

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    Trans Vibes Honorable Mention:

    Your Name. This is honestly a tearjerker of a romance bodyswap movie and it feels trans as fuck and kinda gay as hell even though its technically straight. 10/10 one of the best anime movies I've ever watched.

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  • lurkerlady [she/her]tomusic•Red Army Choir - The Stalin Album - Lossless Upload
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    2 months ago

    I will probably upload some of their more recent albums (that are mostly just updating to current audio quality standards) as well. But next I will be uploading some more rare music from the Soviet Big Children's Choir. Next Red Army album is probably going to be the Lenin Album.

  • lurkerlady [she/her]tomemes•___
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    3 months ago

    So like, unless youre really digging into wireshark or something over a long time, you really dont know what connections are encrypted or unencrypted coming from your OS. Thats more what I'm referring to. Certain OSes like whonix have safeguards for this, and linux in general is much better about this. Its hypothetically possible a malicious actor could hijack an operation that isnt encrypted coming from your OS to bork you.

    And yeah tor browser on its own without JS and high tracking prevention is the way to go if you dont want a big hassle dealing with your OS. I was more referring to TORing all of your computer traffic, which should only be done with specific OSes. Mullvad browser with vpn is fine for the vast majority of people and it doesnt reduce speed a lot like TOR does.

  • lurkerlady [she/her]tomemes•___
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    3 months ago

    Tor can be very dangerous if you don't compartmentalize it enough and use the wrong software with it. Its pretty well documented that if you request a normal http page (not https) malicious tor nodes are constantly checking for it so they can attempt to serve you bad shit to steal info. You never really know when your computer on say, a windows machine, will make a bad request. So it becomes imperative to use operating systems and technologies that limit that issue. (Re: use tor only on the tor browser, or use qubes+whonix to compartmentalize potential bad requests).

    The most secure 'every day' thing someone can do is use almost any linux distro, mullvad browser (or a normal hardened firefox), and a trusted vpn (proton, mullvad, ivpn, out of these three mullvad is probably the best).

    the most secure thing possible (re dont do this its ridiculous for 99.9% of people) is probably a sneaky self-made wireguard vpn entry node + tor + qubes/whonix. and by sneaky wireguard vpn i mean doing stuff and things in order to not pay for an ISP with your vpn server. that means you have pivpn or something setup on a hidden raspberry pi on a network you probably dont have permission to run vpns on.

  • lurkerlady [she/her]tottrpg•*Permanently Deleted*
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    3 months ago

    Unfortunately Owlcat said they wont be revisiting Pathfinder/Paizo IPs for at least 3 years, which is likely due to the OGL fiasco and not wanting to touch OGL with a 10 foot long pole. They mentioned they would like to make a PF2e/Sf2e game at some point then, and potentially some remasters of Kingmaker and WOTR in the pf2e system.

    I figure they're waiting for these systems to mature more. 3.5e games are untouchable now, and tbh is probably why Larian is no longer interested in 5e either.