Caption: [A stitch with user @/sapphicyuji. The text on screen reads, “ "you can’t misgender cis people!”, you have never had your gender questioned outside of your transness and it shows. sincerely, a trans poc".
I’m actually super glad we’re having a conversation about this. The masculinization of black and brown women, because for years I felt like I endured this unique form of trauma until I realized other people went through the same thing too. And if there’s one thing that I’d like to add to the conversation, there seems to be this misconception that this is something that starts at puberty. Like boys tell you you look like a man to hurt your feeling when that’s so far from the case.
The first time I was purposefully misgendered was in kindergarten. I was constantly referred to by the masculine variant of my name, I was chased out of the women’s restroom, and I had grown adults questioning what my biological sex was before I even knew what the difference was. And those behaviors persisted into adulthood because now if I present as anything less than 100% feminine, people will either compare me to men or animals.
And for myself and for many other brown and black women this is a life long act deliberately intended to humiliate, shame, and other us for the features we were naturally born with and I’m glad we’re having a discussion on how harmful it actually is.]
I know it’s mainly because Mario is the main character and therefore needs a “trusty steed” of sorts, I.E Yoshi, but there are times where I wished Luigi and Peach had their own buddies, so that’s exactly what I did here! Birdetta is Peach’s companion, Peppers is Luigi’s, and of course Yoshi is Mario’s. uwu
Yoshi follows Mario around and joins him on his adventures, thereby making him a Spec-Op of the Mushroom Kingdom as well. Long story short he’s essentially Mario’s partner; he watches his friend’s back just as Mario does his!
Birdetta met Peach when they were both youngsters, with Birdetta’s mother having worked in the castle kitchens. The two became good buds and would play all around the castle, something Peach remembers very fondly because at the time she didn’t really have many friends. In fact, Peach would probably say Birdetta was the first legitimate friend she’s ever made, Daisy the second. Today, Birdetta aids Peach as a royal messenger, where it’s her job to run throughout the kingdom to deliver important documents between jarls. She’s exceptionally good at her job due to her speed, and sometimes have been tasked with getting messages to neighboring kingdoms.
She and Yoshi are mates. :)
Peppers met the brothers through Yoshi, since she was in a neighboring tribe and often came to Yoshi’s tribe to play. She accompanied the boys when they all made the decision to travel to Mushroom Kingdom, and when Luigi first opened his bakery Peppers was adamant about working in it, so it was pretty much a natural progression since they were already roommates. :)
While we’re on the topic, please have some headcanon regarding Companions and how they work:
Companions are animals with human-level intelligence. This generally means that while they don’t necessarily have their own kingdoms, they usually reside in simplistic societies with clear structure and culture, and as such they are considered sapient. Companions typically aren’t able to speak (or if they do, it’s extremely limited due to their vocal range) but can very clearly communicate regardless through other means, whether it be through universal form of Sign Language or some other way.
They got the name “companion” since in general terms they are friendly and are sometimes known to have families to host them when they travel into much larger, much more modern cities and towns. As such there were laws put in place to make sure the hosting families did not treat these beings as pets or even live-in servants, something I can imagine being an issue before the World Convention was formed. As time went on, the Convention had begun a program where companion races can petition to be recognized as a Kingdom and join their ranks. The requirements of such include having one or more Sponsor kingdoms, their own land/island, and clearly having an established body of government of some form (that is in some ways democratic in nature).
The very first “companion race” to have done this are the Kongs and the Kremlings, in which they were officially named a kingdom under the name D.K Isle.
Other companion races include Birdos, Yoshis, Rexes, and Nintendogs.
Now, Pets are animals who do not hold human-level intelligence and are, typically, domesticated from their much more feral counterparts for a variety of purposes. Sometimes its for companionship, sometimes for livestock, beasts of burden, whatever it may be. These animals include Spinies, Buzzy Beetles, Reznors, Poochies, Dhino-Rhinos, so on.
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But ye! Hope you enjoyed this headcanon blurb! Feel free to ask questions and more to come soon :)
the first person says, “what’s an opinion you have that might piss some people off?”
the second person says, “The fact that y'all think body dysmorphia only has to do with being "afraid” to get fat shows me that you actually have no clue what you’re talking about when it comes to this topic. Every month like clockwork, there’s some fatphobic trend on here that’s some iteration of skinny people being like, “ooh, thank god I’m not as fat as my brain tells me that I am.” And then when they got called out for being fatphobic, they say, “Well it’s not my fault, I just have body dysmorphia.” I genuinely don’t think that y'all know the difference between having poor self image and having body dysmorphia. Body dysmorphia is a very pervasive kind of obsessive compulsion. Its not you feeling bad about your body sometimes or being afraid to get fat. The intrusive thoughts and the fixation on the imperfections takes up your whole life. And it’s interesting how y'all only bring that up when it comes to the topic of weight. What about the other symptoms? What about skin picking? What about obsessing over body odor? What about looking in the mirror all the time? What about the way your hair looks? What about those?“
My favourite type of videogame criticism you can do is when you just present unaltered gameplay footage and the only thing you have to say is “this game costs 60 dollars”
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