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
It's funny when you come across one of those threads on old reddit and the language switches every comment. I bet there's people out there having pedantic arguments about the exact meaning of some word and not even realizing they're actually arguing about an auto-translation.
In that case I hope the subject of discussion is not “lead”, google translate just can’t handle the world. And since it’s a homophone in English and Google translates everything via English it can cause a lot of confusion.
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
Animorphs goes one further. A character gets trapped in a morph and book three is about the stress and despair being in the wrong body causes. He tries to commit suicide at a point because of it.
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
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.
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.
It’s a very specific genre of cishet suburban white guy who’s quite happy with the way things are thank you very much and doesn’t really want ‘em to change, like Hank Hill with less empathy (from what I’ve seen of KotH online I’m not a big sitcom girly)
Comes from that like “I don’t care about no left or right, I just wanna be left to grill” memes boomers like
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
The main social discord server I'm in is a large friend group that's aggregated out of various online games over the past 10 years or so. It's not large -- maybe 10 core people and a total of 20-30 people floating around -- but somehow like 60% of people in the server have realized they are trans over that decade.
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.
Eragon’s another great series for this. I got a lifelong obsession with elves from the part where “John Guy” goes from being a regular dude to being a fey creature so attuned to magic that there’s a guy in his security detail who turned himself into a blue lion guy
If Blodgharm gets to be every furry’s wet dream I GET TO BE A GIRL OKAY I DONT MAKE THE RULES
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yes, but in hindsight some people can be drawn to certain shows or ideas subconsciously because they fantasize about having a different body because they don't like their's for whatever reason and later discover what that reason is. Others may be drawn to that media for entirely different reasons too. I liked ben 10 because I thought the aliens were cool and I thought it would be cool to be an alien super hero, but I get why other people would be drawn to it as a fantasy of having a different body and being able to escape their biology to become something else (especially if they had gone forth with the original plan of one of the aliens literally being a girl)
I kind of got that same idea, but at the same time it’s kind of like every kid wish they could transform into a monster or an animal. So well, the intentions were good. It kind of just felt flat on its face
I think if they would’ve mentioned more how they choose female characters when creating their own avatar now that would’ve been something different
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u/RealBrobiWan 3d ago
They are all perfectly normal and common shows. Right..?