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twilitfalchion

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I love hearing Trails music or the Toradora opening theme every time I open up my Vita. Thank you homebrew community for making so many awesome custom themes and music to go with them.
 

Cfrock

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And who is the dude with the long hair?
As far as I understand, that dude is Cheery Littlebottom, the female dwarf who defied the patriarchal culture of her people to present herself in a more feminine manner, thus helping spur on a cultural shift amongst dwarves that, over the course of the books, led to more and more female dwarves embracing their femininity and slowly tearing down the conformist monoculture centred around men.

So for that character, whose defining trait is being female and how that is politicised in everyday life and how she challenges those traditions and helps build a world in which other women are able to express their femininity openly and be recognised by their peers as women, they cast a 'gender non-conforming' person who goes by they/them and thinks Littlebottom is "gender fluid".

In other words, they've not read the ****ing books and don't understand who this character is or why her story matters. They've just hogtied her so they can slap some completely different set of themes and politics on to her that she herself has no connection to.

Littlebottom does not have a beard in the books because she's gender fluid. She has one because all dwarves do, it's a fundamental part of their physiology. Littlebottom's story is all about women not being considered less than men. It can be said to be about gender expression, but only insofar as it concerns women expressing their womanhood in defiance of patriarchy. Littlebottom is not 'exploring' her gender or anything like that. She knows what she is and chooses to embrace that rather than let her culture repress her.

Discworld as a setting, and in terms of its politics, has space for non-binary characters. But create one. Don't usurp one. Especially not one whose own story is so important. This """adaptation""" is absolutely astounding in how much it misses the whole ****ing point of what its based on.
 
As far as I understand, that dude is Cheery Littlebottom, the female dwarf who defied the patriarchal culture of her people to present herself in a more feminine manner, thus helping spur on a cultural shift amongst dwarves that, over the course of the books, led to more and more female dwarves embracing their femininity and slowly tearing down the conformist monoculture centred around men.

So for that character, whose defining trait is being female and how that is politicised in everyday life and how she challenges those traditions and helps build a world in which other women are able to express their femininity openly and be recognised by their peers as women, they cast a 'gender non-conforming' person who goes by they/them and thinks Littlebottom is "gender fluid".

In other words, they've not read the ****ing books and don't understand who this character is or why her story matters. They've just hogtied her so they can slap some completely different set of themes and politics on to her that she herself has no connection to.

Littlebottom does not have a beard in the books because she's gender fluid. She has one because all dwarves do, it's a fundamental part of their physiology. Littlebottom's story is all about women not being considered less than men. It can be said to be about gender expression, but only insofar as it concerns women expressing their womanhood in defiance of patriarchy. Littlebottom is not 'exploring' her gender or anything like that. She knows what she is and chooses to embrace that rather than let her culture repress her.

Discworld as a setting, and in terms of its politics, has space for non-binary characters. But create one. Don't usurp one. Especially not one whose own story is so important. This """adaptation""" is absolutely astounding in how much it misses the whole ****ing point of what its based on.

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