As A Queer Cis Woman Who Uses She/they, Simply Because My Queerness Is Such A Big Part Of My Identity

As a queer cis woman who uses she/they, simply because my queerness is such a big part of my identity that I want it reflected in the way people refer to me, this made me feel very seen! Thank you <3

lowkey hate the shit “afab she/theys” catch. is it that hard to believe that some afab people are just more comfortable with she/they. or that they’re starting to explore their relationship with their gender or identity more. plenty of ftm people start their gender journey by exploring she/they pronouns. and some people just feel more comfortable with she/they pronouns.

honestly I don’t even care if it’s a phase. or if people think it seems like it isn’t “legitimate.” I’m not gonna question someone’s pronouns. I’m not gonna act like afab people have to “earn” their she/they pronouns. I don’t even care if they’re lying about it to seem cool or for attention. I don’t care. it’s not my job to scrutinize someone else’s pronouns. leave them alone.

i like to think theyd get their happy ending, too

I feel like people miss the point of the "war is bad" message

What it's supposed to mean is that war is terrible, it's destructive, it ruins lives, it leaves scars, and you should only partake in it when there are no other options, because even if you win, even if you survive, you will not be the same, which is why the phrase used to be more commonly known as "war is hell"

But "war is bad" seems to have been construed by people in fandom into "any fighting is bad, if you fight you're morally terrible and impure, you should not fight at all, no matter what", this is annoying in fandom, as it often misses the point fiction is trying to make, but what's worrisome is when people apply this to real life, as I have seen people do regarding russia's invasion of Ukraine

And that's almost never the point of "War is Bad" works

Works like Lord of the Rings, Avatar The Last Airbender, Transformers, The Clone Wars, Halo (especially Reach), etc all have themes on how horrible war is, but they categorically do not say it is wrong to fight, what they say is usually along the lines of "war is terrible, and what makes it so terrible is that we have no choice but to fight, it would be ideal if we didn't have to fight at all, but we must fight, because not fighting is not an option, because not fighting, not opposing tyranny, conquest, and evil only allows those things to exist unimpeded"

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One day, I’m gonna snap and write the essay about how Anakin was a good person right up until he made the choice to Fall in RotS and how that’s the whole reason why the tragedy of the PT is so effective, because us viewers are truly rooting for him, hoping against hope that he’ll do the good deeds that we know he’s capable of, right until the very end. Reading him as a shitty person from the very start, constantly abusing the people in his life, is both contradictory to the great pains that canon takes to display his genuine accomplishments AND imo a really boring way to view the trilogy. I’m less interested in the story of an asshole becoming a bigger asshole than I am in the story of a good person with flaws that were deliberately exploited by the Manifestation Of Evil until his willpower broke.

(Tempted to insert into the essay the fact that both Anakin’s selfishness/possessiveness and his anger are symptoms of his actual fatal character flaw, not the flaws itself, which is a direct product of his childhood, but idk if this fandom is ready for that.)

This is the funnest expression ever pulled in all of starwars history