Bapying out

Wow, it's already been almost 10 years since this got posted. I didn't understand it very well back then, but reading it again now, I like how it's a mix of cute and messed up, though I misremembered it as being a lot more messed up in the animal cruelty sense.

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@juanelric

Yeah, not to go too off-topic, but sadly too many people, even other trans people, love to act like transness is an uniquely western/white concept. So you get people who are more in contact with anglophones and similar saying that it's a western plague invading their countries, or even trans people saying that a clearly transmisogynistic category found within other countries that transfems were/are shoved into as a way to degender and dehumanize them is, actually, something unique to another culture that we 'outsiders' (when often it's another 'outsider' who doesn't even speak the language claiming that) are completely incapable of understanding and that it definitely doesn't make the people there trans(fem).

Like damn, I wish we could go on for longer without those sort of comments on pictures and works with trans girl characters trying to debate if they're actually trans or a woman. At least the moderation here does act on transphobia unlike other websites.

(Also, regarding the dog whistle, it's still serving as one, and it's a matter of what online spaces you're looking at and how aware people are of the TERF narrative... and since a lot of people aren't very aware, it helps them camouflage better. It's not unusual for us non-native english speakers to make that mistake, but one we all have to be careful of regardless. And like, it does carry a negative implication on its own, that trans women are different to women, since nobody says that about other groups of women.)

A fictional trans girl could be screaming to the audience that she's a girl, and you'd still get people like that user debating and insisting that she's a feminine cis boy. Anyone who read through her story and didn't catch the blatant transfeminine themes is either so disgustingly ignorant they're transmisogynistic, or they're the average transphobic troll trying to rile up others by acting ignorant.

Even if she's not a binary trans woman (because trans women can be both women and non-binary), she's still transfem and there's no debating that. That's even putting aside that she was only referred to as 'they' due to the initial reaction to the localization iirc.

(Also, transwoman is a TERF dogwhistle, so be careful not to write it like that. The correct is trans woman.)

I think that this story was alright at first, but as it progressed and started having more social commentary (Idk what else to call that) on it, it started to sound like the author didn't really put enough time into their research so it feels like "baby's first time talking about oppression", and while that would have worked well if it was limited to Haruki herself, it kind of extends over other characters which means it's probably coming from the author themself. And well, that scene when Kiyo is first introduced was quite transmisogynistic with the text immediately jumping to "You see that woman? That's a guy actually." and despite not being transfem myself, made me uncomfortable because that wasn't necessary at all, and her being the only character to make vulgar jokes like that puts her together with the other characters who harass the protagonists sexually in my opinion, and that's not very nice. That chapter kind of soured the whole thing for me and there's this undertone that separates her from femininity even if the character is bigender.

I'm not saying it's absolutely Bad, but it could have been a lot better if the author had spent more time researching about the people they wanted to write about, because there would have been a much better contrast between Haruki's own prejudices and Reality. At least I think it did well on how it portrayed the homophobic (sexual) harassment and how many don't understand the risks of being outed, though I won't spoil this because I don't remember if it's been translated yet.

I did enjoy Haruki's initial denial of being into Asuka and the insistence on wanting to top at first only to give in and get really shy about it lol. She just can't go against years of That. I'm not particularly interested in office settings so I read this knowing I was probably not going to get into it, and it really wasn't my thing, but it was entertaining enough to read the entire translation and then a few of the raw chapters.

There's a surprising amount of adults on Roblox :P I still play it sometimes, though mostly with a friend (who's also an adult) or with this one kid I know.

But Roblox yuri...? Never seen any of it before, I wonder how that works lol

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Yeah it is, you might want to reference the other works in the novel tag to account for the resizing.

There were a few other similar leftovers I noticed in the chapters after, but I forgot to write them down, sorry... I'm guessing you're working on it completely on your own so it's easy to miss those and might be a good idea to give them one more read as you convert. It's mostly leftovers from changing the sentences and one where you used "his" to refer to one of the girls.
It's not the sort of work I'd usually read but at least until up the point I stopped, I do quite enjoy how Haruki's own obsession with Asuka is visible from the start and how once she comes into play, whatever interest Haruki has in others shifts from being about what they have to provide her to making it completely about Asuka, and sometimes without her being aware of it lol. No thoughts on the work itself as a whole yet, though yeah, the initial focus on Haruki's crush on Okubo might put some off, but once that was over and Asuka started showing some... hints of maybe being a stalker, it started getting nicer so I'll continue later.

Happy to see more text here. You might want to increase font size a little in the upload because at its current size, I think it's a bit hard on the eyes.

a leftover "I" in page 52, also.

I was worried if I would have time to support Mizuno, but I there was...

I really need to read this, it seems so good

Woag

Transphobia

Cute!!

It's for sure going to happen the moment more people find out about it, looks like very few have gotten to the ending in question... but the thing is, I don't think it's literal and it's people that are taking it literally instead. Yeah we are never given any exact numbers for how long it took for the game's events to unfold, but with how the bugs speak, I think it's safe to assume Lace has been around for quite a while and it's only her demeanor that's childish, and not even that much, she only seems playful for me and with a clear grudge.
While I don't really care about shipping in Hollow Knight, Hornet's comment on a certain journal entry about how she has tried to have a mate of her own before, but they couldn't match her lifespan, does make me see the appeal of two beings that can live for a very long while together and how their relationship could develop to that point. It's going to suck for the people invested on the ship though, since none of this is confirmed at all and you know how there are individuals who love to go after others because they're personally grossed out by it.

I think that it's because she gets called a child of silk in her journal entry

Silksong!!!!!!!!!

Fought for my life (Thank you for the help

It's fun to compare how they're acting this time with back during chapter 7 in volume 1. The stress is still there, but they aren't throwing it at the other and are trying to fully take the blame instead.

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Thank you for the typo report!

I'm currently finishing up the rough version of 3.2

My apologies if I have come off as rude.

It's okay, you haven't, I think you've just missed some of the subtext so far that makes it so Ren isn't just a tomboy.

Can we please let people make theories about gender identity plots without treating it like an immediate attack on transness and then rush ahead to throw spoilers around? (Or at least spoiler the entirety of the paragraph?)

I didn't treat it as an attack and did my best to respectfully respond to the other poster on why I disagreed.
If sounded like I was being aggressive, then I'm sorry. it wasn't my intention to.

Wow they really are hinting strongly that ren is trans masc, huh.

I personally don't think that's what is going on. Some women, like myself, just feel more natural in men's clothing than women's.

Hence the term "Tomboy".

Ren isn't just a tomboy though. Most of the character's agony comes from not wanting to be placed into neither the category of man or woman, which even at this point in the story, strongly points towards them being non-binary transmasc, even if it's not something directly stated by them or the work itself.
It's not just a matter of clothing and wanting to be seen as more masculine, but still comfortable as a woman. Again, I think those two pages are quite clear about that.

And yes, while some of their experiences is also something cis people can and do experience, it's hitting them a lot harder, just like how it would hit a trans person.

Spoilers from around 10 chapters from now
There's a scene where they're shown wearing a binder, and Matsuri accidentally says something inappropriate, making them run away, and later while in the shower, start punching their chest.
and well, if anybody after that insists they're not trans based solely on the character's aversion to giving themself a label, they're either ignorant on how it is being trans or transphobic. There's been a considerable amount of trans people, both transfem and transmasc, in the thread pointing out the trans tone to it, so I wish that wasn't just brushed aside or like we're doing the same as fictional characters by wondering if a character is trans.

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It's incredible how nothing can ever be about trans women, not even when it's about a trans woman.

I miss this one so much

I've cooled down since my initial comment and while I don't agree on its removal (more like, it wasn't tagged properly and it's not something to read when you're not feeling well) I read it as focused on the humiliation that comes from trying to act feminine while considered the complete opposite of, which is fine, this sort of thing is going to pop up in certain trans spaces especially when people are trying to make fun of themselves, so I wouldn't say it's unambiguously positive, but it's likely I'm misunderstanding what you mean.

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transphobia

Calling transfems delusional is a very common form of transmisogyny, but it's not that you're wrong about it exactly, because it is about a trans woman whose mind was so destroyed by dysphoria reality is completely beyond her. I said it wasn't in my other post, but idk, could very well be transphobic self-harm still, it often is, just that, no matter what, it's still a transphobic depiction, very depressing and I believe it needed a proper warning.

Agreed, I don't really know where the positive interpretation of this is coming, or even why it was uploaded here, because in the end it's still a transmisogynistic caricature (I later looked through the author's social and I don't really think this is a self-harm case like I thought it was before, and even if it was, it's not really something you shove on the people who are going to be incredibly affected by it with NO warning!) where the joke is that she's bald, fat, old and acting feminine and everyone thinks she's crazy... which is all the author draws (おじさんのTSFと女装男子ばっかり描いています。). I'm not even transfem and it made me feel unwell to read it.

I don't know, there's nothing "wholesome" about it.