@eromancer Look man, perhaps in your confusion you're not realizing it, but the manner of writing you wrote your initial posts came off not as confusion but as with some authority. Perhaps you meant it, perhaps you didn't. I'm going to tell you that I was irked all the same. If you intend on engaging for the intent of clarification or further context, I would say you should ask a question rather than providing further statements.

Yeah, I'm starting to realize this. That's just the way I talk, but I guess I need to change it up in this context. I appreciate the constructive criticism.

Also as a side note yes, there are going to be people who embrace certain minority groups and exclude others with prejudice, even if they are also part of an endangered minority group themselves. It's an unfortunate fact of the world we live in.

Yes, that's true--you've got the TERFs and all that. But I wanted to emphasize that it isn't always mean-spirited--one person's inclusion is another person's appropriation. It's something I've noticed as I've wrestled with the frought notion of identity. As progressives we all want to be inclusive, but identities are exclusive by nature (based on mutual life experience), and some groups are very keen to guard them, in some cases understandably, and the terminology around them.

And yeah, I'm mostly an outside observer, because I have relatively few identities and I don't really care much to identify with others based on them. I certainly don't purport to speak for anyone; I only talk about what I observe.

Lmao, this is too good

I kneel orange gremlin

@Swag Wagon lol same also quite the coincidence that I've finished watching mlp season 4 on Netflix today lmao

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Horse is asleep

Horse with wings

Was not expecting to see Ian Flynn slander on here.

I'm ambivalent to ponies, but any palate cleanser from all the Hololive stuff works.

I'm telling you guys, the endgame will be an orgy.

Happy little accident

This takes me back to a more innocent time when the worst thing the internet had to collectively worry about was book-length Fallout x MLP crossover fanfiction and not fucking Nazis all over the place

^Yeah...that's definitely a mood

Amazing, but Kita needs the animal ears and tail as well.

Dropping the snotty tone. I am an enby who is feminine and has primarily dated women and enbies who are feminine. eromancer, the stuff you were saying was justifying cis lesbians discriminating against people like me. You may not realize it, but that was absolutely the case. Or, you're being disingenuous. I don't know, and I don't care.

Either way, you said some hateful shit, whether it be by accident or on purpose it does not matter. To quote David Lynch: Fix Your Heart.

Finally, stay out of queer peoples' business when you are not queer yourself. Your opinion don't matter on the subject.

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@Casusby Looking back in this thread, I noticed it was mostly my fault for the derail. Sorry, I just had to vent out a little bit. In a way a might have brought the type of "conversation" that I said I'm avoiding.

Shouldn't this also have the parody tag? Since it's parodying Mafia City.

imagine blaming Flynn for trying to make a gay couple... How dare he!? >->

^No worries. That's also understandable and fair I think, and yeah Yuru Yuri definitely has similar vibes. For me I've funnily had a harder time detaching the older I've gotten lol

^I brought up the difficulties the artist faced for posting this art, since I think that's relevant to the art and the discussion of it. More conversation came of it and branched out from there. We got more off topic as it went, and I think we pretty much concluded the conversation by the time we were told to wrap it up anyways. I wouldn't say it's your fault and I thought it was an important discussion, so I take responsibility as well.

Grabbing some udder.

^ For what it's worth, I sincerely apologize. I realize this is a safe space, and I messed with that. Really, I regret it; I got angry and defensive. I don't have hate for you in my heart. I get intellectual about things and expect my rational tone will prevent anyone from getting offended; I know it's a problem of mine.

You're right, I said things I shouldn't have. I know how nasty TERF lesbians can be; I should've known better. I tend to draw a distinction between "discrimination" and identity/terminology policing, but I suppose in practice there's not much difference.

Anyway, think what you will of me, but I hope I didn't hurt or upset you too much.

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Ah ha and now we get kitty Kita

The classic princess carry is always lovely

I see Falin's switch got flipped, hopefully poor Marcille can survive lol

Yipppeeee!