froginthebag
frog, he/him, 19!
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okay but if you ever see a male creative who had a string of great work and then everything else he did was dogshit, go to the "personal life" part of his wikipedia and look at his relationships. you'll either find a major tragedy he didn't recover from (completely understandable) or, more likely, there was a woman in his life doing uncredited shit editing his stuff or contributing generally and she's not there anymore.
I told a friend about this phenomenon in literature and he called me weeks later like, I remembered what you said about women doing uncredited work when tim burton came up. he made a string of bangers then everything else just was nowhere near as good. the timeline matches perfectly to when he was with this german visual artist (lena gieseke). he's done some good work in collaboration, but if things were dug into I suspect we would find she did a lot more than people realise.
so yeah whenever you look around like wow women didn't work in history, or, women aren't auteurs, or, there just aren't as many great female writers - societal reasons for that aside, half the time they absolutely did.
my very unfinished notes i wrote angrily after mw3 came out and i ran it
i might as well toss these here. sorry for 900 million spelling mistakes. might post my gaz headcanons ?? someday i love him dearly actually
open missions
Feel long and awkward with minimal dialogue, like a match in the dmz but more annoying especially if you’re trying to find all of the items. it gets quiet unless you’re in a fight.
not utilizing the dialogue system from alone and recon by fire. both missions were long but had the same sort of feeling, especially alone with the scanvenging. especially a big problem in highrise where price and gaz say NOTHING unless you go up or down a floor. it feels weird especially after recon by fire. should and could have been used for character building or smth fun.
too many of these in general. gora dam + precious cargo are REALLY good for open combat. highrise is fun and i love the level design, but gaz not having an ascender is WEIRD.
soap’s death
Feels off as a plot beat. I understand he died in the original mw3 but having him die in mwIII reads as just a shock effect of a game scripted too fast.
Price should have died instead, more below
the dialogue and reaction compared to the original mw3 and soap’s death is lackluster. minimal. it’s not emotional, it’s BORING. Price is screaming in mw3, where is that from him? where is that from ghost? where is that from gaz? Give me a cutscene after the bomb defusal of price scrambling up to soap with ghost sitting there looking away and gaz rushing the bomb in the background because look ok i have headcanons that would make this more understandable bear with me. give me them discussing where to send him. give me the ash scene where simon motherfucking riley can’t look at the ash because he got to know this bastard too well.
also talk about character assassination. the only reason ghost is loved and has character is because he played off of soap. now he’s gonna become that stony bastard in the background saying they should missile strike this and that. fuuuck.
Price and why he should die
survived original mw series as the only ’main’ person who didn’t die. less predictable.
has had a fakeout death in EVERY reboot game he has been in. his original introduction was a fakeout death (and recon by fire start is also one). him not waking up/realising it’s not a fakeout would have been a much more efficient and interesting plot point. Rule of three.
him dying is a chance to explore a lot more of Gaz as they’ve technically known the longest (by how much we’ve seen them together in games) + i want gaz to grieve and to be forced into a leader role because Ghost is too freaky to be captain and soap is too young while Gaz’s introduction was already showing him as a good (N)CO. Also like is this not a natural progression if he’s so calm/ idk how to put it? diplomatic? in mw3??
his whole ’cutting the head off a snake’ thing. he’s getting his head cut off. what with the whole royalty thing makarov talks about (french royalty and beheadings)
more frusturating in-universe. he’s dead and the team is FUCKED because they just lost their lead. and makarov isn’t behind bars. bigger blow, bigger panic -> wonderful set-up for the fourth game.
I want either Gaz or Soap killing shepherd. Ghost would be too stereotypical lmao. Specifically Soap would be neat- he’d spiral into revenge for sure and he’s already got good reason to hate shepherd for the whole mess in mw2 AND false intel for price AND he had the whole thing about shooting shepherd earlier. on the other hand, Gaz specifically bargained for shepherd and had remained the calm here, so i think it’d be cool to see him fuck around. if he must have his changes then god give me ”WE HAD ACTIONABLE INTEL ON THIS” gaz back. also like ’taking command’ is getting your hands dirty and i feel like killing shepherd would be a LOVELY start if you ignore the butcher scene in 2019.
Gaz
i feel like his character changed.
he curses when the dad dies in embassy, he’s shocked when price tosses the guy with the bomb off the balcony. HE STILL TRIES HELPING EVEN IF THERES NO TIME. He gives Farah coffee after embassy. He’s KIND. HE CARES. SO WHY IS HE SO DISTANTLY BALANCED? This guy has righteous fury, where the FUCK is it?
he’s literally concerned about random people at a checkpoint (shock n awe cutscene! the cop car one!). he’s literally asking what if they don’t move- he doesn’t like the idea of hostages, he’s concerned where they stop. he’s concerned about innocents. it’s development that he’s willing to go further but why is he so ready to forgive and forget when he wasn’t before??
i feel like the fact he can refuse to help Price interrogate the informant on mission is important. Price gives him an out to stay clean. i do not remember which is canon. i just. like that he has the choice yk.
he’s level-headed, but his introduction shows him LITERALLY joking / being sarcastic with his commander. “can’t truly alarm the public”, “terrorists know that too sir?” He comments that someone’s an easy shot in old comrades. He’s prickly when Norris declares Farah’s army hostiles. He jokes when he’s angry and frustrated. He literally pushes back when that happens, why didn’t he push back with SHEPHERD? HE GETS PHYSICALLY AGGRESSIVE OVER JUST THE BUTCHER, WHERE DID THAT RAGE GO??
he’s BITTER. he starts bitter. He’s pissed at the piccadilly attack because there wasn’t proper support or authorisation. He’s PISSED. He curses when he talks to price. he wants to fight, he’s FRUSTRATED. Where did all of that go? Why is he so unnaturally level-headed, why isn’t he frustrated? Why isn’t he pissed at shepherd for the civilians in alone when he cared so much in piccadilly and the embassy? Is he just repressed or did they change him?
Why isn’t there more talk with him and price? he’s clearly the only one slated to be captain or a higher rank. let him and price exchange looks more. let them talk more. let price either talk to him like a friend or like a mentor. ?? link back to my highrise complaints ok i really like the way they play off eachother in 2019 and in 2022. wish they’d kept that up
thaaats everything i wrote i swear i had more thoughts way back then. i liked laswells mission tho. cheers. also i swear i had thoughts about the plane stuff ?? uhhh something something why don’t we get anymore actual choices in these games
Trans posts then: what's in my pants? Erm my phone XD !! This is an anon blog, my gender is none of your business!
Trans posts now: if you don't disclose whether you are tma or tme within the next three seconds I'm legally allowed to call you a nazi mens rights activist to all of my friends. Give me a detailed explanation of what your genitals look like and why so I can decide if you should have a voice in this conversation.
but fr I'll never take it seriously when someone says "i was abused by men, I'm allowed to hate them and anyone trying to show love for men is an MRA" like you know how many of us were abused by our mothers and it's still (rightfully) considered not okay to say that women are all abusers just waiting to kill their children. If you blame violence on someones gender instead of the societal mechanisms that encourage and allow violent and harmful behaviour you're perpetuating that cycle.
do what you want forever. except be a bigot. everyone has the potential for bigotry
ok, i'm getting confused again and i want to see trans people's general opinion on it cause you lot are the only ones i trust.
signed!
my one dream is to one day illustrate the graphic novel adaptation of a xenofiction series I loved as a kid….. alas all my favourite childhood animal books already have graphic novel adaptations. shaking my freakibg head
What trans men say: when you exclude us from your activism simply because we're men, you are telling the patriarchy that it's okay to be misogynistic towards us, as long as we don't identify as women. Not only are you putting us in danger but you're also feeding the same evil that oppresses you, that will never respect you no matter how many of us you sacrifice, because at the end of the day predatory cis men see us as just another flavor of you. They hate us cause they hate you.
What y'all hear: when you say you hate men, that hurts our feelings so please stop saying that
See, this is a problem because I don’t remember if i picked it because it’s sea-themed (long story, family stuff) or if I liked my favourite Finnish actor’s role a little too much; It’s Ahti! Shoutout to Martti Suosalo and immortal god beings wanting to look like near-retired old finnish men with a bad back.
I’m trans and stole my name from a streamer. Not even his biggest fan or anything I just heard the name Tanner and liked it, so now I’m curious where everyone else got their names from.
"The attempt by the administration of US President Donald Trump to interfere with the language of science abroad is causing concern.
The Chancellor of the University of Helsinki, Kaarle Hämeri, told Hufvudstadsbladet in February that US authorities have pressured the university to remove certain words from press releases related to Fulbright scholarships.
The words “equal society” and “climate change” were among the words that were sought to be removed from the press releases."
"Arene Executive Director Ida Mielityinen is not aware of any previous attempts to influence Finnish science from abroad in this way. Not even from China, which is known for its censorship, has there been anything similar."
USAMERICA FUCK OFF!!!!!!!!!!!
Abolish Tesla.
Every country celebrates their independence day differently. For Estonians, part of the tradition is watching TV and seeing our president shake hands, one by one, with Estonian politicians, athletes, celebrities and other important people who were invited to the independence day reception. In fact, it is one of the most popular live broadcasts in Estonia annually.
psst in finland this was a thing (enforced sterilisation). you needed it to legally change your gender and often also to get your diagnosis -> hormones. horrific doesn’t describe it well enough and i’m probably one of the first generations of (transgender) finns who wont need to be sterilised forcibly. it also enabled a friend of mine to change their passport marking as a minor without any of that. also, to get sterilised in finland you either need to be 30 or have 3 kids. so they really set that bar lower for us haha
To all the transfems that bring up forced sterilisation when a transmasc talks about forced impregnating and a loss of bodily autonomy: stop.
Transmascs also face forced and coerced sterilisation. In many places, it’s only recently that any trans person can change their legal gender without being sterilised. This is not a problem specific to transfems.
The issue is more complicated for trans people who can give birth (including some intersex transfems) because cis people want them to become baby machines so bad. This introduces more barriers when somebody wants to make certain legal and medical decisions for themselves!
All trans people are directly victimised by a restriction of reproductive autonomy. But the issue tends to be more central for trans people who can give birth, since giving birth is nearly a year-long process that can ruin your life and health. Being forcibly sterilised often is less focal in transmasc activism because, especially as people who might have dysphoria around getting pregnant, being forced to endure that for months, being forced to have permanent and sometimes harmful alterations to your body made, being forced to go through an incredibly painful process where they will almost certainly be repeatedly misgendered, being forced to produce a living being you never wanted to produce, etc., might seem like a worse fate than never being able to have kids in the first place.
This is not me saying one group or another has it worse! And I am not downplaying the pain of transfems (or trandmascs) who were forcibly sterilised. It is still a very serious issue that can cause a lot of pain for many.
But this is me saying that this specific issue is one that much more often impacts transmascs. And if it is not something you will ever be at risk of experiencing, then you have no business taking about how “bad” it would be or comparing the issue to some “equivalent” transfem problem.
Bigotry often does not have perfect equivalents. Transmisogyny and transandrophobia are distinct forces of oppression. Just because one group experience one type of problem doesn’t mean they’re More Oppressed or something. I say this as somebody who experiences both. It’s ridiculous to compare a trandandrophobia-specific problem to a general trans problem or a transmisogyny-specific problem because they just manifest differently. Neither is worse or better. They don’t have perfect equivalents. Don’t let your mind be tainted by oppositional sexism and give your fellow trans people room to discuss their fears and anxieties and experiences with issues that are unique to them.
i dont use this platform for anything have a little ad poster wip i suppose
Something that’s NOT discussed enough is the way that baeddelists / transradfems are Really Fucking Weird towards amab or camab non-binary people too, or just. Trans women of color.
Radical feminism - INCLUDING ‘trans-inclusive radical feminism’ - is and always will be inherently tied to fascism and white supremacy.
trans men/mascs are NOT the enemy of trans women/fems transmisogyny is
trans women/fems are NOT the enemy of trans men/mascs transandrophobia is
ascribing bigotry to an entire demographic is what is causing this divide in the community
everyone needs to start understanding how to separate the demographic from the bigotry because otherwise you are going to be extremely susceptible to radicalization
anyone is capable of being transmisogynistic, even trans women/fems
anyone is capable of being transandrophobic, even trans men/mascs
and people are not inherently [insert bad thing here] based only on their identity
anyone else think it’s kinda weird to say “why would you choose to be a man??” to transmasc/transmen because to me you are implying that being trans is a choice…which it’s not…I didn’t choose to be transmasc…that’s how I was born…
ok quick question
why does shinigami eyes (browser extension that tells you who is trans-friendly and who is anti-trans) mark people who LITERALLY deny that transmascs and intersex people are oppressed as trans-friendly? since when transandrophobia and intersexism are a trans-friendly thing to spread?
if that's what's going on then this extension is very much useless. maybe it always has been useless.
oh so you’re telling me the guy had a 3 page handwritten explanation of his motives and mindset and a gun and silencer that matches the description despite it being a week since the guy was shot? hmmmm interesting
stop calling the arrested guy the shooter. stop laundering the cops' narrative. the man who was arrested is a suspect until proven otherwise.
Ulkomaalaiset petivaatteet on kyllä vihoviimenen vitsaus tällä kirotulla maaperällä.
Se että pussilakanassa ei oo niitä pieniä reikiä toisessa päässä on vitun ärsyttävää ja vaikeuttaa pussilakanan laittamista. Mutta. Selviän kyllä. Vituttaa, mutta selviän. Jollain tapaa ymmärrän, että ulkomaalaiset ei oo samalla tasolla kun me suomalaiset ja tajunnu suomalaisen innovaation parhaimpia ideoita. It's fine. It's cool. Mä selviän.
MUTTA. Se, että tyynyliinoissa se reikä on PITKÄLLÄ SIVULLA???? Jumalauta se on se viimenen pisara. Nyt mä oon niin raivoissani että meen tuhopolttamaan tehtaita että voidaan rakentaa Finlaysonin tehtaita tilalle. Ne tarvii lähetyssaarnaajia, jotka kertoo niille miten petivaatteet KUULUU tehdä.
trans man: exists
TERFs: obviously SHE'S been groomed by the evil queers to hate herself and to seek an escape from the patriarchy by becoming the patriarchy
"trans friendly" radfems: no, he's a MAN and he was always a man because that's how gender works. which meanssss he's inherently an aggressor and part of the patriarchy and cannot relate to real women and thus an inherent danger to them unless proven otherwise!
trans man: 😐
Today in Finland:
The police did a cavalry charge into an anti-Nazi demonstration because according to them, a Nazi torch march is a "tradition".
Happy Independence Day
You can tell if someone's actually pro intersex liberation by seeing their reaction to the phrase "abolish the sex binary" Yes I said sex. Like biological sex. It's not binary.
"Trans men don't know what misogyny is like" you do realize we've all spent a significant amount of time being percieved as women, right? It's important to me that you realize that
the classic Finnish mix of extreme dutifulness and “we will make actual conversation after a silent interaction trial period of 6 weeks, thank you” can be really funny sometimes. told my coworker that I’d like to save the coffee grounds the workplace generated and take them home “for my mushrooms and worms” and she was just like “okei” and dutifully saved every single grounds-filled filter for weeks and weeks. about five weeks into this whole thing, after I thank her for the coffee grounds and tell her my worms must love them because they’re breeding very enthusiastically, she finally asks “so your worms… do they have a purpose or are they just… worms”. like sure I’ll save you all these coffee grounds every single time I drink coffee, 3+ times a day, but god forbid I inquire about your specific worm habits before propriety allows it. you could be eating them for breakfast for all I know but that’s your business
Tme this, tma that.
I'm intersex and i want you to stop being transphobic (yes, using these terms seriously is transphobic, even if you are trans) and intersexist
And stop saying someone talking about issues they are facing shouldnt happen cause you are facing issues. We are all in this together. Or do you want the bigots to win?
Stolen from reddit :
that's what a lot of trans man exclusion boils down to - punishment for not being sexually attractive to people who are attracted to primarily women, punishment for passing or not passing, people getting angry and disgusted at you for being on T or getting gender affirming surgeries because they think they are sexually entitled to a body that makes you dysphoric and think you're stealing something from them/society by transitioning...
so you're treated like you owe everyone forever to make up for daring to be yourself and 'taking a woman away from people who wanted one' by not being one , punishment for being trans and not being a cis woman while people try to gaslight you and say it isn't happening & that your life is easier for being a trans man and that you need to shut up and be stoic and never talk about your feelings or you aren't a real man....
But at the same time you apparently have to be a good example of non toxic masculinity for cis men because you aren't allowed to exist in your own right you only exist as an object for others you're a sex toy or a human shield or a lesson they can learn about themselves while they disregard the things they could also learn about you