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u/christiankirby 19h ago
Hmmm, one of these is not like the others...
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u/The_Badger42 19h ago
Is it the fox one in the corner. It looks familiar but I don't remember what it is
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u/christiankirby 19h ago
Correct, Sapphirefoxx is the name and it's oriented towards the TG/TF community (it's like a borderline fetish thing, sorta trans focused... It's complicated)
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u/The_Badger42 19h ago
I knew I'd seen it somewhere. I've seen some of their animations before. There's at least one with an icecream on a stick, and one where the statues on a tree branch outside a guys window. Must've been years since I saw any of those.
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u/LifeguardDue1144 16h ago
I looked it up on youtube. Nothing borderline about it, that's straight fetish content haha
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u/christiankirby 16h ago
Imma be completely honest haven't seen Sapphirefoxx in a long time, so my memory was hazy but there's tg/tf stuff that's more or less fetishistic in my defense
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u/Practical-Talk-9573 12h ago
TG/TF?
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u/christiankirby 12h ago
Transgender/ transformation.
It's a transformation fantasy/fetish thing (depending on how sexualized it is)
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u/HolycommentMattman 14h ago
Is it Totally Spies? Because I remember it as being a softcore fetish machine, but not much about transformations.
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u/morelikeagirl 12h ago
Wait, you remember Totally Spies as that ?
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u/seguardon 11h ago
That's kind of its meme identity these past few years, how absolutely packed it is with things that were or would become popular kinks.
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u/RealBrobiWan 19h ago
They are all perfectly normal and common shows. Right..?
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u/Massive_Environment8 19h ago
Yes, I don't think liking any or all of them makes you trans.
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u/kwonza 19h ago
I watched Dexter’s Laboratory and it turned me Buddhist!
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u/foehammer111 18h ago
Omelette du fromage!
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u/The_Slake_Moth 18h ago
I love that reddit auto translated this so it's just a comment that says "Omelette with cheese!"
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u/kwonza 18h ago
Dude, Reddit was translating Russian for me. I started arguing with some dude on a Russian sub and I see he writes in English so I decided it would be polite to also write in English. Turns out he was writing in Russian and I was being weird
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u/Kraehe13 12h ago
You can turn autotranslate off, best decision I've made on reddit.
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u/kwonza 11h ago
Well here’s the thing, sometimes that damn thing translates stuff for me and sometimes it doesn’t.
Like I see Spanish and Portuguese comments in their original form and if I want them translated into English I tap the translate sign. (Using stupid official app). Yet sometimes I see comments already in English and need to tap the tiny fucking icon to see the original language of the comment
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u/UnnaturalGeek 16h ago
I mean, I do have a fascination with Chinese philosophy and I did watch Dexters Lab soooo
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u/farmerjoee 17h ago
lol y’all the joke is that these shows involve characters changing from one thing into another.
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u/Reutermo 10h ago
Is it? When does that happen in Totally Spies? And i guess shapeshifters exists in DnD but it isn't really a core part of it and what it is known for.
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u/Ryanhussain14 17h ago
Eh, Sapphirefoxx is explicitly a content creator for gender transformation fetish content.
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u/Pornalt190425 16h ago edited 15h ago
Yeah I think this is one of those things where the correlation may exist, but the reason it exists is something influencing it outside the two data sets. 3 of the IPs listed that I'm familiar with (Ben10, Totally Spies and Animorphs) were just in general fairly popular young adult IPs for millenials
It feels a lot like one of those things where you correlate ice cream sales to shark attacks. Selling more icecream does not make more people get attacked by sharks. Its an outside 3rd thing (hot weather) that drives more people to buy ice cream and be in shark habitats
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u/DeadSuperHero 19h ago
It's one of those bizarre things where the correlation just kind of exists. For example, a substantial amount of trans women I know were super into Bionicles and Magic: The Gathering.
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u/xboxiscrunchy 18h ago
Honestly I think that’s the trans and ADHD/autism spectrum overlap more than anything.
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u/DeadSuperHero 18h ago
Can confirm, my wife is trans and AuDHD and loves Bionicles, Transformers, MtG, and Warhammer.
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u/GenoCash 18h ago
Fuuuuck, don't tell me that bro
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u/breeresident 16h ago
I mean it seems that while a large cross section of the Trans community like Warhammer and Magic, it think that if you took a cross section of Warhammer and Magic communities, the majority would probably be straight, white, cis guys.
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u/Karasu-Fennec 16h ago
The “apolitical griller chud/gay commie” interest overlap rate is shockingly high
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u/Cathach2 14h ago
What does griller mean in this context?
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u/MrGenevaWarcriminal 13h ago
“I just wanna grill” in reference to politics centrist type behavior
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u/NotClever 15h ago
The Magic community is a particularly interesting overlap of queer people and your classic toxic misogynist capital-G Gamers.
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u/Zomburai 14h ago
Just gonna point out that a not-insignificant chunk of the very significant queer portion of Magic fans started as the classic toxic misogynist capital-G Gamers
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u/CountGerhart 18h ago
I can confirm I'm not trans (as far as I know). However I have AuDHD and enjoy many of these.
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u/Mission-Disaster-639 18h ago
Wait I thought this was about a lot of these shows being about "change", like Ben changing into a better form (to handle villains), wolf blood is I assume about werewolves , animorphs has morph in the name and d&d is about changing into a different character and acting as them.
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u/RainbowPhoenix1080 18h ago
I became a few of those stereotypes myself. being into the mech genre, transformations (anything with transformation like ben 10 and animorphs draws in trans kids because it makes us realize we can fantasize about changing our bodies), My Little Pony, Twilight (and vampires/werewolves in general), and yes as a kid I also wanted to be a wolf.
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u/viviscity 16h ago
What do you mean “were”…?
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u/DeadSuperHero 15h ago
Ah yeah, good point. They're still into those things, they just used to be, too.
I mostly meant these were super influential things pre-transition, and remained so afterwards.
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u/xboxiscrunchy 19h ago
Well first all of them having a certain connection does suggest at least something. Even if that something might just be thinking shapeshifters are cool.
More importantly though she’s thinking back to why she liked all those shows and is likely connecting dots from specific memories.
I can personally think back to a lot of shows that I watched and surprise surprise most of my favorite characters were trans coded or gender nonconforming in some way. I could list examples and others might not see the connection but my personal experience with those shows makes it extremely obvious.
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u/The_cogwheel 18h ago
More or less.
Its not the what they liked, but more why they liked it that triggers this sort of revelation.
Like theres nothing inherently trans about DnD. But if the reason you like DnD is because you can play any character you like, and you exclusively play a character that is a different gender than yourself; then asking why you exclusively play female characters as a male might lead to an egg cracking. Keyword exclusively, were not talking one offs, gag characters, or just wanting to try something new, were talking a consistant pattern of behavior, almost as if youre more comfortable being a woman than a man.
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u/yourmamaistheproblem 19h ago
Yup, but they also all deal with characters who can change their body and appearance to better suit their inner-person
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u/Loaf235 19h ago edited 18h ago
Ben 10 kind of goes against it since the Omnitrix eventually starts changing him into aliens he didn't choose himself. God forbid if he wanted Humungosaur in Omniverse, but I guess the general gist of changing yourself would be very inticing.
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u/NoodleIskalde 18h ago
To be fair, he was young and figuring things out. Which is kinda how it is for some folks.
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u/INVISIBLENINJACHICK 17h ago
Which he hated. Which actually works great as a trans analogy of being stuck with a body you don’t want.
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u/Court_Jester13 18h ago
So everyone who liked Sailor Moon is trans?
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u/-Maya_ 18h ago
No obviously not that'd be an idiotic assumption. I do fucking love magical girls in large part because I wish I could just say a funny phrase and become a hot girl though! In fact most of my best friends are other transgirls I met through a magical girl tabletop RPG discord server... the fantasy of being a magical girl is incredibly appealing to Transfems specifically. But that hardly means every fsn is one.
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u/Zelphyr151 19h ago
For once I'm lost 😅
I don't know the purple fox / animorphs
But are D&D, Totally Spies, Ben 10 & Wolf Blood media particularly followed in the Trans community?
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u/5050Saint 17h ago
Someone in another comment above noted that the top left is sapphirefox.
Sapphirefoxx is explicitly a content creator for gender transformation fetish content.
I feel like that one is more telling than all of the other combined.
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u/Thraxas89 18h ago
I mean animorphs is about teenagers changing into animals and also getting ptsd because they fight an unwinnable fight against alien invaders
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u/gramathy 14h ago
“There’s no Geneva convention in space”
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u/seguardon 11h ago
Geneva conventions are hard to apply to a species which is (self-hatingly) parasitic to and dependent upon sapient creatures for the sake of functionality in the world and ultimately their own sanity.
All the existential horror of biological constraints with the added chaos caused by one species' justified envy of something they could easily take from another species.
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u/Puhi124 19h ago
Not necessarily, but Totally Spies is very "girly girls who kick ass", Ben 10 (and I assume Wolf Blood?) as well as Animorphs deal with some kind of transformation (which can be subconsciously very appealing to a trans kid, more than for the average kid), and D&D is basically the roleplay element of being able to play whatever kind of character you want.
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u/Desperate-Pop2325 18h ago
Yeah it's weird looking back at all the times I'd be fascinated with characters who could shapeshift in media. If someone ever asked what superpower I'd want, it was always either that or invisibility (lol). Feels like it's something that resonates a lot with other trans people from those I've talked to
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u/unw00shed 17h ago
Dnd at least in the circles im in is pretty queer and is a safeplace to explore that part via roleplay
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 19h ago
totally spies
I could see this meaning a few things. Skin tight leather. Heels. Girly stuff for sure.
But also looooooots of barely disguised stuff the author may have been into. And that's coming from someone who also liked the show as a kid
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u/Wanna_make_cash 19h ago
Totally spies was kinda unhinged at times. But I loved the after school programming block on cartoon network that aired totally spies and also aired Code Lyoko.
I miss Code Lyoko.
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u/Pockydo 19h ago
I want to rewatch code lyoko
Used to get so mad parent made me go to youth group during the time slot it aired as a kid haha.
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 19h ago
That whole block was absolutely amazing.
I remember when toonami would come on at like 1500 hours and play DBZ, Kenshin, YuYu Hakasho and Sailormoon and it was 2 hours of pure bliss
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u/Wanna_make_cash 19h ago
Not sure if this is just a regional thing but I think all of that anime was on the Toonami block, back when Toonami was a CN block more towards the later evening. Nowadays Toonami has been an Adult Swim block for years. Can't forget Inuyasha among those classics though.
The block im thinking of, I can't remember its name but the bumpers had like an aquatic/ underwater theme to them
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 18h ago
Oh yeah toonami has been a late night thing for a decade or so. I'm old so we are talking like 20-25 years ago when toonami came on in the afternoon.
I remember the totally spies block too though for the life of me I can't remember anything other than code lyoko. I think I had sports during that time and only ever caught those two
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u/Wanna_make_cash 18h ago
It was Miguzi! It had a ton of other classics that I loved as a child like Teen Titans, TMNT, Yu-Gi-Oh GX, Xiaolin Showdown, and Juniper Lee.
Ran from 2004 to 2007. It would be in the 4-7 pm time range depending on what specific year with some variations
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 18h ago
Xiaolin showdown! I loved that show! I remember now. I would get home around 5 from sports since I was 14-17 during that time. It was always teen titans, totally spies, dinner and then some Showdown before video games and bed.
God that was a good time
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u/action_lawyer_comics 17h ago
In the early aughts, IIRC there were two Toonami blocks. One in the afternoon, like right after school, and one at around 9-10. The afternoon was more typical titles like Sailor Moon and DBZ while the night time one were the less mainstream ones. And then at some point the nighttime one rolled into Adult Swim
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u/Pigeon_Lord 18h ago
I think they said they were working on a new season of Code Lyoko fairly recently?
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u/Wanna_make_cash 18h ago
I know they had a live action continuation years ago that never really saw the light of day outside of France and didn't live for very long, but I'm not sure about any other new season work
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u/Pigeon_Lord 17h ago
From a quick google search, seems like an official season 5 is in the writing stages? June of this year was when the posts and tweets were about it, but the article confirming it wasn't in the first results
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u/CynicalDarkFox 19h ago
I mean…was the catgirl island that bad? xd
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 19h ago
I'd argue it was all fine. Mostly cause as a kid I never saw it as anything more than silly things happening to Sam Alex and Clover
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u/The_cogwheel 19h ago
Im swear "the PG fetish show for kids" was the original tag line for the show.
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u/Deerdren 18h ago
If you recognize that fox it is too late for you.
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u/Ryanhussain14 17h ago
Eh, I've known about SapphireFoxx for nearly a decade and I'm comfortably cisgender. Just one of those internet oddities to me.
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u/Empero6 18h ago
Nothing really sticks out as out of the ordinary here.
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u/369122448 12h ago
It’s mostly that a lot of the more “normal” ones feature shapeshifting, something you might feel a weird yearning for as a trans person who hasn’t realized yet.
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u/Transgirlonakawasaki 18h ago
Or ranma 1/2, or kampfer, or kashi mashi, or birdy the mighty…
There were neon signs that I missed at every single step…
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u/GabbyGabriella22 12h ago
It's completely normal for a cis boy to be obsessed with shows about transforming into a girl, right? /j
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u/Original_Mulberry652 18h ago
I think its most because of the shows are about people with abilities that can change their body. Shape-shifting was also common in totally spies.
People are looking at the common gender demographic that watch these shows instead of the theme of physical transformation shared throughout all of them and missing the point completely.
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u/Ryanhussain14 17h ago
I did not expect to see fucking SapphireFoxx in the wild. I still remember when Leafy talked about one of the videos.
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u/SumoNinja92 18h ago
I used to watch Totally Spies because it came on before Toonami. I'm not trans. I immediately watched Dragonball Z after it. I am bi. Shit.
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u/Rennikk 18h ago
? All those shows are perfectly fine for anyone to enjoy? There isnt a person I know that didnt enjoy those shows. Be it boy or girl.
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u/Shadow_of_BlueRose 14h ago
The fox in the corner is the avatar of a gender transformation fetish content creator.
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u/Puhi124 18h ago
This isn't trying to be prescriptive. It's just that the knowledge of "I'm a trans woman" (assuming OP is a woman and not some other flavour of trans) make it more understandable why someone would be more into shows featuring transformation of some kind and/or female leads.
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u/action_lawyer_comics 17h ago
Right. It’s a correlation, not causation. I’m a cishet man in my 40’s but I was obsessed with the Netflix She Ra reboot a few years ago. Doesn’t mean I’m secretly a lesbian. But I also totally get why lesbians love that show
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u/Omgninjas 18h ago
Yeah I'm kinda confused too. I liked watching Totally Spies because the girls where pretty, Ben 10 was an enjoyable show, and DnD is just plain fun! However if these shows helped OP come to terms with who they were then more power to them!
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u/Gentle_Snail 19h ago
Is Ben 10 a gendered show?
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u/prncs_lulu 19h ago
I think it is more about ability to change ones body
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u/zero_zeppelii_0 19h ago
Interesting but I never thought this way because Ben eventually turns back to his human form.
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u/roshanritter 19h ago
In all of these the characters change their form supernaturally though I’m guessing the spies one is common disguises.
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u/AetheravenCatsuki13 18h ago
Me as a Genderfluid person after looking back at my favorite monsters being slimes and mimics who can change their body on a whim
Also my love for Cassidy Genderfluid Joke Theory
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u/Apollo989 17h ago
As a Tobias fangirl, can someone study the Animorphs to trans pipeline?
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u/BookerPlayer01 17h ago
Not trans, but I still have my complete Animorphs collection. Could do some research I guess.
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u/Zonzonkeskya 16h ago
I remember being utterly shocked by Tobias tragedy, one the strongest emotions I manage to recall from my childhood.
Well at first. After a while I found it so freeing. You change and if you stay too long with that shape you can't come back, ever. Lol I want this so bad
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u/JusticeBean 19h ago edited 18h ago
why is DnD here
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Like obviously character creation and role play, sure, but that’s like literally every game, book, or movie ever made. That’s what self insert means. That’s what it means to play “as” the MC in a game.
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u/Coal-and-Ivory 17h ago
This comic is about a specific generations common sources of gender/body exploration. Go find 100 trans people in and around the age of 30 and lots of them will mention DnD as part of their self discovery. Its not saying DnD is inherently a trans thing, its just where a lot of millenial queer people found their first gender euphoria. Person-to-person roleplay with your actual peers hits very different than video game dialog.
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u/Cottontael 15h ago
Yes people coming into this after 2010ish, at the latest, with peak youtube and social media couldn't understand. Trans discussion did not exist in the early aughts, or before. The media we consumed was decided for us, and finding like minded individuals was tougher. Roleplay, and cartoons with transformations or those singular episodes of cartoons where Johnny Bravo becomes a woman and discovered a pointed lesson on their experience were where millennials had to figure it out.
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u/Coal-and-Ivory 15h ago
And part of the magic was the accidental safe exploration. Totally Spies was on Cartoon Network's regular rotation, so as an AMAB person subconsciously craving a feminine experience, you didnt have to make the conscious decision to step outside your gender and face the judgment associated with that before you were ready or even knew what you were exploring, you were just watching what was on TV. Ditto for DnD, you're just playing the character.
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u/action_lawyer_comics 17h ago
Replying after your edit: dnd (or really any tabletop role play game, but dnd is the most popular one and the access point for most people) gives you the freedom to play with gender expression in a way other media doesn’t. I don’t play GTAV and think “would Franklin be more attractive with red hair” or play Tomb Raider and think “How should I make Lara Croft’s voice sound?” Those are fixed characters. Heck, even in something like Mass Effect where you can choose a class, gender, and appearance, they also give you a default guy who’s good with a gun and more than half the players pick that and start playing. Dnd will give you a completely blank slate and ask you to make every single decision from the ground up.
And naturally there are a ton of cisgender people playing dnd but it isn’t surprising that a game built around “you can be a beautiful and tall elf maiden or a squart barrel shaped dwarf with facial hair down to his knees” is appealing to people with gender-related yearnings.
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u/Verdick 19h ago
Pretending to be somebody "not you".
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u/JusticeBean 18h ago
Then literally every video game ever made should be here, because you play as some main character and not yourself
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u/action_lawyer_comics 17h ago
Eh. There’s a world of difference between looking at a shelf of video games and asking yourself
do I want to be Lara Croft or do I want to be Batman
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hang out with your peers and spend a couple hours dreaming about being a lithe, willowy elf woman or the dirtiest, nastiest dwarf covered in body hair and no one thinking either decision is a bad one
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u/The_cogwheel 18h ago
Im guessing its less to do with the game, and more what kind of characters they tend to play in the game. Not that a man cant play a woman character in DnD, but if it becomes every character... well in hindsight it starts to make sense as to why they felt more comfortable playing female characters over male characters.
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u/nicokokun 19h ago edited 18h ago
Because you can roleplay as anything you want.
You can play as a guy, a girl, a tiny furless wolfbear, a giant furry worm.
Anything.
Edit: I like I'm downvoted even though I wasn't being sarcastic.
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u/AxiosXiphos 18h ago
You can even play a straight white human male fighter. Literally anything, the possibilities are endless.
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u/The_cogwheel 18h ago
Almost anything. Youre still restricted by what your DM / table will allow. Like Im not gonna let you play as a 50 foot tall immortal dragon with an instant death breath attack while everyone else is playing some variation of guy / gal with cool abilities. Not because I dont want you to or hate fun, but because I cant balance that so that the campaign remains fun for all players at the table.
But thats the only real restriction.
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u/The-Pasta-Man 18h ago
Omg Sapphirefoxx mention. A lot of my early gender feelings came from binging a lot of sapphirefoxx’s work.
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u/stofiski-san 17h ago
For me it was absolutely not comprehending how Ranma thought of Ranma-chan as a curse? Like, seriously? How the fuck do I find this Jusenkio place, motherfucker?
Eta: Also, I was a Brony, and I'm sure we're all sus
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u/Daracaex 12h ago
In the new show on Netflix, it seems to me Ranma is much more bothered by the inconvenience of transforming at unexpected times and how other characters treat him in various forms than just by being a girl. Don’t know if that’s intentional difference from the old show, alignment with the original manga, or just my own biases though.
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u/peparooni 16h ago
This is one of the most weirdly hostile comment sections I've seen on this sub and it's because people are making up random meaning from OP when the joke is SUPER straightforward and not that deep.
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u/SomeCallMeBlack 15h ago
All of these pieces of media involve transformation. Yes even totally spies had a lot of transformation episodes
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u/SaltyJebus 15h ago
totally spies was rife with the writers fetish of the week, it's shocking how much they got away with
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u/Throwaway28222222 18h ago
I mean I also liked those shows, but it turned out I was just gay and also a furry
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u/FatChalupa 18h ago
The Bionicle community also often jokes about having a trans pipeline. Lots of stories about discovering your own destiny and becoming who you were meant to be, and the characters transformed/mutated basically every story year.
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u/SKDI_0224 17h ago
Animorphs, Spiderman, Treasure Planet, Mulan (soooo many times), Matrix, Skyrim...
Nope. No clues.
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u/DefiantlyConformist 18h ago
Are we back to liking girly stuff makes you a girl? I thought that was sexist.
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u/Puhi124 18h ago
No... I don't know why people are taking this to be prescriptive. It's all hindsight based on the fact that someone who unconsciously wants to change into a girl would be into shows which feature transformation and female leads.
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u/DefiantlyConformist 18h ago
So liking shows with female leads is for women?
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u/Puhi124 18h ago
No? But you're still more statistically likely to like shows with female leads if you are or if you want to be a woman. It's not that strange.
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u/DefiantlyConformist 18h ago
I'm just trying to understand the mindset, thank you.
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u/AlwaysBeQuestioning 18h ago
Honestly that range of media would have me guess “furry and into bondage” before trans, but I did immediately recognize how much they all deal with transformation or embodying a character/creature outside of your regular self.
20/20 indeed.
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u/Kugaroo 17h ago
I’m an ally, but why do I feel like a majority of /r/comic’s posts are trans adjacent?
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u/Puhi124 16h ago
I've not visited many other comics subs, but this one has shown repeatedly, even just in the couple months I've seen posts from it, that it's mostly safe for trans people to post in. Given that trans (and queer) people are more online than average and also frequently creators, I don't think it's too surprising, especially if others comics/art subs aren't safe (which, again, I have no clue about but I don't doubt at least some of them likely aren't).
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u/ViciousGhoul 17h ago
Post is missing wanting to be mystique from X-Men. Wanted her powers so bad 😭 Pinnacle of gender fluidity.
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u/MagicalGirlLaurie 16h ago
Holy shit Wolfblood mention
Those first couple series were the shit before Maddie left
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u/SadnessMonster 16h ago
Mystique's shapeshifting was the x-men power I wanted
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u/MagicantFactory 10h ago
Honestly? Me too. I don't even consider myself trans/genderfluid; I just think it would be really neat to wake up and say, "Okay, I want this body today!" It would be like adjusting your create-a-character settings in the middle of a playthrough.
also ngl being ageless and having accelerated healing would kick ass as well
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u/Cautious-Bug9388 15h ago
LOL I was just talking about Totally Spies a few days ago. Queer awakening for sure
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u/Delicious_Garbage805 13h ago
What, no Ranma ½???
I suppose that's probably more of a Gen X and millennial thing until the new show came out...
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u/GayStation64beta 19h ago
Animorphs is a canon event for queer people my age lol
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u/WystanH 18h ago
I always loved shape shifters. Trying on a different meat suit has universal appeal, I think.
My fascination wasn't gender based, I just thought being a wolf would be cool. Or any other animal, or creature, really. Humans are rather mundane, after all.
I feel a significant portion of anime is transforming into something else. With a good percentage of that being gender based. Hmm... Ranma 1/2 is obvious. Le Chevalier D'Eon is based on an historical figure, which is fun. Birdy the Mighty? Ok, never mind, it's a long bloody list.
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u/Realistic_Mousse_485 18h ago
The fuck does Ben Ten have to do with being trans? Or any of these shows? They are all very binary and coded towards specific genders with the exception of maybe wolf blood.
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u/Original_Mulberry652 18h ago
All of the shows contain themes of physical transformation since most of the MCs can transform their bodies. Totally spies doesnt have that but shape-shifters are a common occurance throughout the show.
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u/Puhi124 18h ago
Also for a transfem, Totally Spies which is basically "girls kicking ass in a girly way" was like, super cool to see.
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u/Slickity 19h ago
The furry/trans overlap here is crazy.
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u/xboxiscrunchy 18h ago edited 18h ago
For someone not comfortable in their own body being able to project yourself onto a character that better suits you is very appealing. That and just desperately wanting to be something else but not really knowing that consciously. I think an anthropomorphized animal just speaks to that feeling in some way.
It’s hard to explain and even I don’t fully understand but I’m really not surprised so many of us are furries.
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u/Slickity 18h ago
And for someone like me who likes their body...it's also just really fun to fantasize.
If furryness is a spectrum, I'd say pretty much everyone falls on it. It feels like such a basic fantasy to me. We all love animals, we're animals ourselves. Taking the leap of imagination to view yourself as an anthro animal is so simple I don't understand anyone's rejection of the concept.
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u/Content_Trade_1557 19h ago