on the 333rd playthrough they just fall into a throuple

when it comes out on streaming, same gimmick, you can't skip ahead and you won't know which version you're watching until you get there.

BUT! Once a user has seen both versions start to finish, their next playthrough is a secret third ending where her romantic interests fall in love

When "I won't vote for somebody who doesn't support trans people" is considered a hostage taking purity test

but "I won't vote for somebody who DOES support trans people" is NOT considered a hostage-taking purity test

then we aren't against hostage taking, we're just choosing our preferred hostage

Racism is fascism practiced on Black people first.

Hitler based the Nuremberg laws on US Jim Crow. He invaded Russia because he wanted his own California.

The US shifting from a racist country to a fascist country basically means "Start treating everyone like you've always treated Black people."

follow-up hot take: Ponyo should have become a kaiju after eating the ham

yeah, medical personnel taking advantage of confused and desperate trans women is unfortunately pretty typical

I almost said "anti-moderation," except that credit card companies and advertisers have ensured that the internet is actually *quite* heavily monitored and policed — but only for adult content, queer content, and subversive leftist speech. So "villain-moderated" it is

I think it's really interesting that the kids in kids' media still mostly don't have access to ipads/cell phones/computers — technology's changing so fast that including it dates works within just a few years. So there's this constructed era-agnostic alternate "modern day" in almost everything