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🧃🔁忘れられた百合の移動要塞(Forgotten Yuri Mobile Fortress) @yurimobilefort.bsky.social · Oct 27

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makana yamaghosto @makana-yama.bsky.social · 5h

blow up their phones. people on the inside are fucking livid about this decision, and trust they’re making noise too

kitt kogut @himdianajones.bsky.social · 17h

Let them know what you think.

Gov. Healey: 617-725-4005
AG Campbell: 617-727-2200
Fenway: 617-267-0900

cis Bostonians specifically, we need you to step up. I'm already seeing my local trans circles raise hell about this, but we need you, too. I wrote a phone script. Use it and spread it:

Hello, my name is [name] and I'm a [transgender] constituent living in [City], Massachusetts. I'm calling to bring to Gov. Healey's attention the deeply alarming development coming from Fenway Health, in which they've recently announced they will no longer provide gender affirming healthcare to patients under the age of 19 in order to retain their federally recognized status. This is in utter direct violation of our state constitution, specifically Chapter 127, in which quote, "Access to reproductive health care services and gender-affirming health care services is a right secured by the constitution and laws of the commonwealth. Interference with this right, whether or not under the color of law, is against the public policy of the commonwealth." This is also in contradiction of Boston declaring itself a sanctuary city for transgender people, the resolution which states Boston has, quote, "a specific commitment to protecting transgender and gender-diverse individuals. Taxpayer-funded agencies shall not comply with federal efforts to strip resources that safeguard their rights. Boston will not cooperate with federal or state policies that harm transgender and gender-diverse people and remains committed to ensuring their access to healthcare...without fear or discrimination."

As Massachusetts' first openly gay Governor, I'm aware that this past August Gov. Healey signed updated Shield laws protecting gender affirming healthcare in Massachusetts. Jordina Shanks, the CEO of Fenway Health herself, said these protections are quote, "a landmark victory for health care, human dignity... and that Massachusetts stands as a national beacon of equity and compassion." I am in complete and utter disgust, yet unsurprised, that a leading institution in gender affirming healthcare is capitulating to federal threats that are not law, and acting in direct opposition to the city of Boston and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. This is a deep betrayal of their transgender patients. I urge Gov. Healey to bring all powers of the state to investigate and reverse this gross over-compliance on the part of Fenway Health.

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🧃🔁忘れられた百合の移動要塞(Forgotten Yuri Mobile Fortress) @yurimobilefort.bsky.social · 6h

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lydelle buster @babyshoes4cash.com · 8h

look! consequences!! people still care about this stuff no matter how much the oligarchs try to tell us its a brave new racist world

The Lawrence Times @lawrencekstimes.com · 9h

The Kansas GOP said the Kansas Young Republicans organization is inactive as of today after leaked messages showed the group’s leaders making racist and antisemitic remarks.
Via Kansas News Service: lawrenceks.news/4ooiPf2

Kansas Young Republicans group now inactive after racist chat messages get exposed

The Kansas GOP said the Kansas Young Republicans organization is inactive as of Tuesday after leaked messages showed the group’s leaders making racist and antisemitic remarks.

lawrenceks.news

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Mewtype Ghost @mewtype.online · 15h

it sucks because a thing i used to do regularly was mix a scoop of a vanilla one into iced coffee because sometimes breakfast upsets my stomach, and this was better than just skipping

anyway, dudebros giving themselves lead poisoning explains a lot of *gestures to everything* yeah

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Mewtype Ghost @mewtype.online · 15h

ya know, protein powder having such a high lead content explains a fuckload actually

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🧃🔁忘れられた百合の移動要塞(Forgotten Yuri Mobile Fortress) @yurimobilefort.bsky.social · 15h

yeah! billbine is adapting for the way in which the show is becoming a full-ass earth war show and it's really fucking clever and smart about it

🧃🔁忘れられた百合の移動要塞(Forgotten Yuri Mobile Fortress) @yurimobilefort.bsky.social · 16h

you see this in superman redesigns too; i don't think it's actually exclusive to mecha. i think a good superman is a little cringe-looking by necessity, because he needs to be showing you that *he is not a threat in neutral stance*

🧃🔁忘れられた百合の移動要塞(Forgotten Yuri Mobile Fortress) @yurimobilefort.bsky.social · 16h

i take a pretty dim view of being someone who fucks heavy with this type of thing as protagonist adjacent if you're over about 28 years old, because it feels intuitively like the worship of a thing "because it is powerful," not because of what that power is used for

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🧃🔁忘れられた百合の移動要塞(Forgotten Yuri Mobile Fortress) @yurimobilefort.bsky.social · 16h

unfortunately it does make a robot look very *powerful*, because it usually involves marrying both "real" and "super" signifiers *for power* and that is a thing that attracts a certain genre of model kit buyer.

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🧃🔁忘れられた百合の移動要塞(Forgotten Yuri Mobile Fortress) @yurimobilefort.bsky.social · 16h

giving something more entity stancing -- exaggerated toyish features, more faceness, etc. -- while also making it more visibly A Militarizable Object tensions the design in a way that isn't particularly, i think, "inviting"?

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🧃🔁忘れられた百合の移動要塞(Forgotten Yuri Mobile Fortress) @yurimobilefort.bsky.social · 16h

i think this is neat as hell because you can do it deliberately. however, you can also do it non-deliberately. i think this is why a lot of designs that feel "hype moments and aura-y" also kind of scan as evil if you actually like mecha

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🧃🔁忘れられた百合の移動要塞(Forgotten Yuri Mobile Fortress) @yurimobilefort.bsky.social · 16h

and again: the thing feels real fuckin bad to look at beyond the extent inherent in the "skull-ness" of it, because the design is moving in two directions at once.

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🧃🔁忘れられた百合の移動要塞(Forgotten Yuri Mobile Fortress) @yurimobilefort.bsky.social · 16h

the last boss, the mir orlen, fully flips the script. it has many "entity" parts -- teeth, "bones," a ribcage, lots of that fuel-line-as-organic-tissue language i mentioned with the zaku -- but *actively sheds* the one point of expression wanzers do have; the colors are all steel tones

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🧃🔁忘れられた百合の移動要塞(Forgotten Yuri Mobile Fortress) @yurimobilefort.bsky.social · 16h

and to get past gundam, you can take this and start porting it around. let's look at front mission 1. front mission 1 wanzers are distinctly tools. they behave as military hardware fully; the one point of humanized, "entity" expression is color

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🧃🔁忘れられた百合の移動要塞(Forgotten Yuri Mobile Fortress) @yurimobilefort.bsky.social · 16h

until, i think, the zeong. the zeong is piloted by char at his most humanized and it is the first thing where *most of its design language* moves in sync with the thing it is. it's alien, but i don't think we understand it as viscerally hostile in the way that we do the zaku

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🧃🔁忘れられた百合の移動要塞(Forgotten Yuri Mobile Fortress) @yurimobilefort.bsky.social · 16h

the fact that the design moves in both directions at the same time makes it instinctively feel evil, because *what it is conveying to you is in tension with itself*. it is deliberately not telling you what it is up to, visually, and the zeon MS continue this (gelgoog notably less on it than others)

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🧃🔁忘れられた百合の移動要塞(Forgotten Yuri Mobile Fortress) @yurimobilefort.bsky.social · 16h

the zaku has several features that are *more entity coded* than the Gundam -- more rounded edges, visible "hoses" (this type of winding shape codes a little organic -- think intestines, blood vessels, etc) -- but also several features that are less entity coded -- monoeye most obvious one here

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🧃🔁忘れられた百合の移動要塞(Forgotten Yuri Mobile Fortress) @yurimobilefort.bsky.social · 16h

we might be sad the GM exists but i don't think we're given to sense evil from the GM.

the same cannot be said of the zaku!

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🧃🔁忘れられた百合の移動要塞(Forgotten Yuri Mobile Fortress) @yurimobilefort.bsky.social · 16h

the GM is "the Gundam, but successfully made a tool." it sheds entity features (two eyes, one of the colors in its color scheme, most of the "toyish" weapons) in favor of tool ones.

HOWEVER, this is aligned with its purpose, so we don't feel tension about it.

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🧃🔁忘れられた百合の移動要塞(Forgotten Yuri Mobile Fortress) @yurimobilefort.bsky.social · 16h

when we start comparing other things to the gundam we start seeing the entity-tool distinction play out in varying ways.

let's break out the gm and the zaku as example cases

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🧃🔁忘れられた百合の移動要塞(Forgotten Yuri Mobile Fortress) @yurimobilefort.bsky.social · 16h

the gundam is an entity that people want to be a tool. much like amuro himself

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🧃🔁忘れられた百合の移動要塞(Forgotten Yuri Mobile Fortress) @yurimobilefort.bsky.social · 16h

consider the gundam; the gundam is an entity. people make a lot of hay about the gundam as the first Real but you need to stop thinking about what it defined. it is an expressing-thing; it *wants* to Defend Home but what it is called on to do is Make War

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🧃🔁忘れられた百合の移動要塞(Forgotten Yuri Mobile Fortress) @yurimobilefort.bsky.social · 16h

you are ascribing it some combination of "tool" (robot is hardware) and "entity" (robot either is an entity or projects entity traits)

this is fairly neutral in terms of real-super, or at least more so than you think

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🧃🔁忘れられた百合の移動要塞(Forgotten Yuri Mobile Fortress) @yurimobilefort.bsky.social · 16h

we need to talk about the tool-entity distinction in robot design and why certain robots exude evil that probably isn't intended (and in some cases why certain robots exude evil that probably is)

broadly: when you present a robot in a robot show and describe its role --

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🧃🔁忘れられた百合の移動要塞(Forgotten Yuri Mobile Fortress) @yurimobilefort.bsky.social · 16h

like this is the thing is despite my misogyny frustrations, which are my #1 issue and i feel like if i am not the one talking about them they will not get talked about in the contexts and with the specificity i have, i think i have an interesting analytical perspective

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