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.

Happy that more people get to enjoy it too, when we're done with it all, I want to translate some parts of a text file Ogawa Issui posted earlier this year where he answers a few questions. It also has some discarded ideas, things that he couldn't include in the books and notes such as:
◎俗語資料
・ウケる　funny
・大笑いする　（私それで割れちゃう）Thats crack me up
・ヤバい　epic　歴史的だ、の意味か
・死にそう　killing me
・大笑い　LMAO laughing my ass off（one's ass offはケツが割れるの意味か？　うんこ漏れる、か？）

I might try to translate one of Terra and Diode's character concept if it doesn't spoiler anything happening later, since it's pretty fun to compare with what we got imo.

I think it's people subscribing. If you look at page 12 when the vtuber starts streaming in the bottom left, there's the click effect and the button says "Start Streaming". Normally after you click it, the button text should change to something like "Stop Streaming", so in this case, the panel is showing what everything looks like right before the click.

if page 20 is consistent with page 12, then "Subscribe" is what the button says right before the click whereas if the viewers were trying to unsubscribe, the button should say "Unsubscribe" instead.

The text in the original is 登録済 so it should be "subscribed". I think what matters is if the clicking is coming first or after. If first, they're subscribing, if after, they're unsubscribing. I agree with you though, I believe they're subscribing to her.

As much as I appreciate the translator's notes, I'm still not sure whether what I read was intentionally wholesome, or a mean spirited "parody" by somebody with such horribly bad takes they ended up proving what they disagree with on accident.

I thought about this ambiguity over the day, because there's the usual narrative of "transfems are delusional, look at how (physical traits nobody has any control over and carry no moral value), they look pathetic and disgusting trying to be cute", but what imo makes it different from plain, undeniable transmisogyny is that there's also a self-harm aspect to it due to dysphoria, but the sort that hits others inevitably, similar to the drawings of a manmoder you'd see from /tttt/ and similar spaces (if you haven't seen those it's probably best not to look for them, since it is a form of self-harm and may hit a little hard those who are currently dysphoric).

This work is the fruit of a fetish, but there's a reason this fetish came to be, and often it's a very depressing one. "This man is trying to cross the impenetrable barrier that separates him from a woman, and deserves to be ridiculed for being a freak." so it wouldn't surprise me at all if the author is trans and repressing... even if transmisogynistic self-hatred isn't something that should be incentivized. Dysphoria and shame destroys the mind and you can't blame anyone for coping like this.

Let's not pretend none of us old men here reading yuri wouldn't switch in a heart beat if it was real possibility haha

Every "man" should try estrogen at least once. If you want to be a girl you can be one, it's never too late to live as yourself.

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This is awesome...

This is a new form of tail sex

I like Meika, but no matter if you hate her or not, I think at this point it's clear she won't be getting the ending with Diode she wants, so an extreme like that isn't necessary. In general, despite everything they're going through, Terra and Diode are very, very lucky they're able to work together like that and have what's needed to run away.

Terra came from one of the few valuable fisher families and had the pillar boat passed down to her, and Diode was an odd case allowed to spend the majority of the hours a girl from her clan would likely be spending learning to be a proper woman/decomper flying the kayak instead, which eventually led them to finding out about the world outside and obtain a spaceship to take them there, so they both started from a position of advantage compared to most of the women living at FBB, despite the isolation, and were a lot more firm on what they wanted(well, that and the fact they both like women which would serve as another motive not to want to accept things as they are). Even if Meika has a comfortable life with money and people willing to do whatever absurds she orders them to, ultimately she is tied down to her position as the daughter of Nurude, and won't be allowed the same freedom—no matter how limited it is— to visibly defy others and pursue their goals like Terra and Diode are, even if she's got the brains to use her father's dumbassery for her advantage.
The two decided to give up on what conforming could provide them and gamble at fleeing, while Meika decided to take the crumbs and put up with it instead. She gave in to the fact she'll have to get married and become a decomper, and wants Diode to do the same so she can have her as a treat.

Anyway, Meika is awful and that's why I like her. She has it good, a lot better than most, but it's still pretty bad and she doesn't want to/have the courage to give up on everything and see what will happen to her, she would rather force others to be miserable with her and use the power she got to keep Diode glued to her. She knows Diode would never willingly come back to her, but she's obsessed with Diode. She sucks and she can do worse!!!!!! She's awful!!!!!!

Also here's a drawing by Mochizuki Kei where Meika appears if anyone's interested https://x.com/key_999/status/1493929448651259908

It's honestly still a mystery how Terra's hair ended up brown

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Looking for a newer yuri. It starts off with the MC lamenting on how she was the most popular girl at her highschool and as an adult she's just a lower level designer at her company. She ends up finding comfort with a beautiful woman with black hair who approached her. And they hooked up more than once. Then it cuts to her meeting the client that she's working with who's a very high level designer, who is the same beautiful woman she slept with. She learns the beautiful woman's name and remembers that they went to high school together. The beautiful woman knew they were highschool classmates the entire time.

If anyone knows that would be amazing :333

That's anata mitai ni and currently not uploaded here

I think you can post this sort of thing here https://dynasty-scans.com/forum/topics/20416-faq-help-suggestions-2022 but also you shouldn't worry about that, if a suggestion doesn't make sense I'm sure the uploaders are just going to reject it haha

I'm happy this got picked up, really excited to see how people will react to a certain scene

Okay forget what I said, lmaooo

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