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Monstrosity has been political since before Theseus killed the priest of the Minoan bull-headed god and instituted his Poseidon-led state religion. (Also he's the son of Poseidon, king of the gods, so that's why he's king of Athens so nyeh!)

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u Mae Try @umaenot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is. This is very normal corporate brand synergy? That's. That's how you'd drum up interest in any remake about a twenty year old book.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 07/10/2026

The thing that frustrates me most about this "third gender" stuff is that it's living proof of how transmisogyny is deeply baked into patriarchal cultures, and how the societal refusal to recognize trans womanhood is millennia old, but it's been turned into Noble Gender Savage fanfic by dipshits.

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u Mae Try @umaenot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I usually point to Odin knowing the womanly art of seidr (which I think is math?). It's not much, though.

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u Mae Try @umaenot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The rhetoric IS a measure of the public's trust! What in the world...?

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 07/10/2026

Props to the photo editor for getting this down to the vast and trunkless legs of stone

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u Mae Try @umaenot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

... That doesn't even make causal sense! If an abuser reflects on the harm they've done, then yes, they might have unique insights into the power dynamics and systems of oppression at play. But it's the reflection, not the abuse, that would make one a better person. What the hell?

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Charlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I had seen this before but without the update and look, this is a pretty good stance on bodily autonomy and also hilarious

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u Mae Try @umaenot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I feel the same way when I'm willing myself off the couch to go to the bathroom and my cat decides it's finally lap time.

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May “Bunny” Peterson 🦄 @goddessblade.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Maybe one of the most important messages that trans people can internalize is that there is no “true trans.” Transition is a *practical choice* we make based on what will best serve our lives. Transness is a social identity that emerges out of that context.

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u Mae Try @umaenot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I was definitely picking up, like, prison relationship. But the writers are cowards so!

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u Mae Try @umaenot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There is no heterosexual explanation for Benny and Dean.

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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Well dang, should’ve just memed it in the first place

An illustration by Gustave Dore for Dante’s Divine Comedy that shows two silhouetted figures standing on a tall summit gazing up at a great celestial conflagration of souls in heaven. Text reads “We already had free art for people who are broke or bad at designing things. It’s called the PUBLIC DOMAIN”

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u Mae Try @umaenot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Someone else was INCENSED when I said a sapphic MC didn't make a book sapphic unless her sapphism affected the plot.

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u Mae Try @umaenot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A Black lesbian on Threads offered this comparison: "If I read your Black romance and the main character ends up with a white person, we're going to have words."

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u Mae Try @umaenot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

- What about a book with a sapphic MC detective but the romance is a subplot? ... The relationship is still in the book. - What about a woman who realizes she loves women and spends the book leaving her husband? MF relationship, no attraction or romance. ... No. That's queer, but not sapphic.

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u Mae Try @umaenot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

- No, just the first book. That's a very obvious slow burn enemies to lovers, even if the payoff is yet to come. - What about a book where a woman has attraction to woman but never acts on it? Boring, but crush/admirer is still a relationship.

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u Mae Try @umaenot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It's rampant on Threads too. (I think there's a Sapphic September thing people are trying to get going?) It boggles their minds that someone might define a sapphic book as "a book where a sapphic relationship affects the plot". - What about Gideon the Ninth? Griddlehark is central to the series.

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u Mae Try @umaenot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I remember playing GTA IV and identifying with an immigrant who has an annoying cousin.

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u Mae Try @umaenot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I read Whispered Words and frequently found myself going "Oh right, she's supposed to be a muscle girl and her crush only likes "cute girls" (... gyaru, maybe?). Because she's not... Uncute? Not that buff?

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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"Now, with it being a year, it’s hard to feel like that justification holds any water," said another guard member. “It feels like the guard is being exploited in a sense." National Guard members deployed to DC, in their own words, in @newrepublic.com:

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National Guard Members on Their D.C. Deployment: Hey, This Sucks!

“It actually embarrasses me to be involved in any way,” said one self-aware guardsman stuck in Trump’s authoritarian fever dream.

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u Mae Try @umaenot.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Ooh! Irish Yuri! That's rare.

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u Mae Try @umaenot.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Hmmm. The more I look into this... the lesbian with a trans pride labrys is played by a trans VA. Definitely needed a sensitivity viewer (the labrys should probably come from the heart, Utena-style!), but, while misogynistic, I don't think it's intentionally/subversively TERFy.

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u Mae Try @umaenot.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Me, watching a procedural show where a man and woman are professional partners: Oh wow, what good friends they are!

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u Mae Try @umaenot.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Oh wait no I would like to sign up for the womb-in-ization process please and thank you

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u Mae Try @umaenot.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Oh yeah, I watched Dangerous Queen earlier this year, I should see what other GLs I can find.

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u Mae Try @umaenot.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Also I am struck just now remembering that I read some shitty book about a feminist dictionary that renamed woman to wombyn when I was like 5??? Why did I have that? What did it do for my gender???

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u Mae Try @umaenot.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Dammit, I was hoping it wasn't the piece of queer media being pitched across Tiktok as "every fandom unites against it". Very unfortunate for sapphic media in the West that LSP is bad AND transmisogynistic.

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u Mae Try @umaenot.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I'm concerned that it's Lesbian Space Princess, which is getting a lot of a lot of hate (the current viral meme is that every fandom is united against it because it's such a bad movie). If it's TERFy, that's not coming through in the hate, which seems outsized because it's about/for/by queer women.

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u Mae Try @umaenot.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

What... Is the TERF cartoon?

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u Mae Try @umaenot.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

... Maybe I *should* read Nana.

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u Mae Try @umaenot.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Huh. Be me: - Start reading She Loves to Cook and She Loves to Eat - Catch up to English releases to find out it's on hiatus - It comes off hiatus within months - Start reading Wandering Son - Catch up to English releases to find out it was discontinued - Publisher is trying again, within months

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u Mae Try @umaenot.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

As a child, my Greek mythology source was The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles, a 1920s story for children that adapted Euripides's Medea in the final chapter! Which is admittedly wild, but it showed me respect.

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u Mae Try @umaenot.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

What do these people think of the Chronicles of Prydain, that's what *I* wanna know.

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u Mae Try @umaenot.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Hell I read The Hobbit as a child and then again in a 7th grade Reading Comprehension class. Sure, it was only as an adult reading the book that I picked up that each chapter plunges Bilbo further into the past of English fiction folklore / myth.

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u Mae Try @umaenot.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Tolkien literally began The Hobbit as a bedtime story for his children. He only began writing it down because his son Chris would point out inaccuracies, which would cause him to storm over to the desk, mutter "Damn the boy", and jot down a note.

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u Mae Try @umaenot.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Sigh... To this day I think the most lesbian line in anime is Claire's "PUT HER INSIDE ME!"

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u Mae Try @umaenot.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Ahaha, no problem! 😅 Last try: It's like confusing France for the Treaty of Versailles. Mab enforces the Unseely Accords, but several supernatural factions have signed onto them.

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u Mae Try @umaenot.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Listening to @owwrpod.bsky.social talk Small Favor & I do have to pop in with a "Well Actually." Marcone didn't join the Unseely Court. The Unseely Court hosted the Unseely Accords between the supernatural factions. ... And it occurs to me that you might have just been swapping Court/Accords. 😅

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u Mae Try @umaenot.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Oh! I did find this! It was The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Pádraic Colum.

An illustration from Pádraic Colum's The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles. Medea takes into the air on a chariot drawn by dragons.

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u Mae Try @umaenot.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

And that last point is important, because this is not a Japanese phenomenon. It's expected that EVERYONE will go see the latest MCU blockbuster, but real men only see rom coms because they have a date, and even then it's under duress.

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u Mae Try @umaenot.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I find it useful to think of the boy demographic genres as inclusive and the girl demographic genres as exclusive. shounen is for kids and seinen is for adults, but shoujo is YA girly stuff and josei is what the West calls "women's fiction."

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u Mae Try @umaenot.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

What? I love blackberry marh, just like my nana used to make.

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u Mae Try @umaenot.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

And suddenly remembering a root image from my childhood, an illustrated version of the Argonautica for children, and a drawing of Medea in her dragon-drawn chariot as she escapes Corinth. Baby Mae loved the ancient Greek baddies who did nothing wrong ever in their lives.

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u Mae Try @umaenot.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Reading the Odyssey, thinking about "beautiful, dread Circe" and the different vibes of the Mediterranean island sorceress and the Germanic forest witch.

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u Mae Try @umaenot.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Gonna be honest with trans sky. I didn't know we were boycotting NYT Games.

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u Mae Try @umaenot.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Threads is such a welcoming place. #TheOdyssey

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u Mae Try @umaenot.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Just a proud mother and her very tall daughter.

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