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Weekly Trans Megathread for the Week of 3/18 - 3/24 (hexbear.net)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I hope everyone had a great week! Hang out. Chat. Talk about what's going on. Have fun :3

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Guess I'll shit up this mega one last time, soz and thanks for having me ✨

Now that I'm in Arc 2 of Unjust Depths, I literally had to go remind myself who Sonya Shalikova is (pale skinny mech pilot with something against Murati) because it's been near two whole books, like 17 sub-chapters, since we last saw her. I legit forgot she was onboard the Brigand.

To be fair & for comparison, The Last Girl Scout is also a pacing disaster and can bog down at times, it comes with the territory of a big sweeping dramatic narrative. I still don't love it though, I'm having to homework-check myself on the crew of the brigand. There's that lady who does the announcements who was late the first day, Yana and Aaliyah, the bridge crew has the navigator guy(a guy, woah!) and that trans gamer girl and the "full figure" lady, uh and there's the fishgirl security guard? I think that's most of em?

Also, I like Shalikova. She seems to hate absolutely everything and everyone and I just can't help loving her bitter cynicism layered over some sort of trauma. Also there is no fucking way in hell she's not autistic, my headcanon has decided. "Hell really was other people!" Beloved.

Conversely, I don't think I love Genivov much, because she doesn't seem like she respects people's privacy, or desire to be alone I guess. Also she's a total fuckin g*mer. Plus, who the fuck describes another woman as "buxom"????? Yes, give me the angry misanthrope lady instead please ✨

Anyway I adore the Brigand as a setting, it is as comfy and mundane and slice-of-lifey as I'd hoped. Underwater mech ballets to the death and intense ship-to-ship combat is rad, but it's all the more rad for the contrast against the little moments of calm. Sorry I could go on about Unjust Depths literally forever, I'd never run out of things to say about it niko-concern

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

::: spoiler unjust depths! yeah i remember having forgotten a lot of the characters from the brigand at this point as well. thankfully it does a pretty good job of reminding you of the important bits, and pretty firmly establishes the whole cast in a way that sticks because we get to spend more time with them. shalikova's great, i love her. she's just like me fr fr

geninov is obnoxious and kind of a creep but like everyone in the cast she has her moments. i would absolutely take shalikova over her any day though

and yeah the brigand is just really good, lots of time spent on the day to day workings of the ship and the people who make that possible, lots of really great slice of life moments. it's got a great sense of place. i wouldn't mind you going on about it forever, but that would get in the way of you actually reading anymore lmao

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

Oh my god this shit is soooo gooood

It does true, we also have a lot of new buddies including "I'm a living machine" Zachikova (which, I'm assuming that's more of an "I identify with my metallic/electronic bits and it fucks" rather than a self hate thing) and Unjust Depths' very first enby, Valya!!! Awwwh man I'm excited to have None Biney in this tbh :) The scene where Murati was monologuing about how cool &rad & diverse her diver squad is, followed by introductions, was awkward in a really endearing way. Shouts to Sameera for not being a dog of the empire comrade-doggo

It's so dorky how loup wag their tails all the time, makes me giggle.

She is LITERALLY ME, denji-just-like-me I'm excited to see what Shalikova's deal is whenever we do.

Oh wait, so I'm not just being an asexual buzzkill, and Genivov is actually an obnoxious creep? Uh oh that's a baaad sign, worse than I thought basil-anxious-smile

The author is actually really good at giving locations substance generally I'd say, like we spent maybe seven chapters in Vogelheim but it basically felt like a pocket of royalty-fantasy undersea, quality stuff. Also I don't think it would, I sort of got the sense that I'm crowding out other people in the mega with more relevant things to say, (because this thread is like 50% Unjust Depths goodposting by volume) but short of that I could easily post an update every day, every two days. I didn't even talk about the Khaybar Shimii jihad because I didn't wanna ramble too long, or the anarchists, like I'm boiling over with thoughts about it and getting through 4-8 subchapters per day!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

[Even more Unjust Depths posting]

I guess it follows that if there are catgirls, there must also be puppygirls! Me rollin' when Ingrid literally says "awoo". I'm a silly puppy in the fascist regime barkarwuff!!!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Really throwing everything I can at the problem of body distress and hoping anything works.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

Same as usual, spoilers for all of Unjust Depths 4.x

At the end of book/chapter 4, I like it well enough even if I still think it was a big pacing misstep for Unjust Depths. I see why it was necessary, at least, appreciate what it introduces. Bethany is a-ok in my book, I respect her, and I like the dynamic it's built between Marina and Elena. Elena in particular is now set to stop being vapid & immature, which will be cool. The look inside of the empire was also neat, although I will say it's a bit tough to see the fash as menacing when they're also all hopelessly gay, but it does make them funny & enjoyable villains c:

Still, when Murati walks into that cargo depot I'm like TRANSBIAN COMMIE MY BELOVED, HOW I HAVE MISSED YOU cri I'm also excited that Elena and Gertrude are probably gonna be star-crossed lovers on opposite sides now :)

Anyway this omnibus epub has intermission stuff on the end of 4, and I'm like no reeeeeee keep going I wanna see Aaliyah again!!!

E: Oh man, I think Sawyer was just jealous that Victoria got to live the dream and be taken in like a sad lil animal by mommy domny ten years her senior, lmaooooo

Also that was, definitely the most kitty scritches headpets scene I have ever seen in any fiction. Huh... It was uh descriptive.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

[Yet more Unjust Depths posting]

At the point where there's a mech battle involving a National Socialist aristocrat pilot screaming her head off at a psychic autistic gay catgirl, I realised that Unjust Depths may be ever so slightly silly blob-no-thoughts

I really enjoy both reading this & also posting about it, I'm having a lotta fun.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

new unjust depths chapter!

13.8

elena and conny reconciling is nice meow-melt

ulyana remains the baddest bitch in the seas, her gula conversation is really fantastic.

oh my GOD i need to see aatto and elena rooming together that sounds like the worlds biggest trainwreck

murati eating chips and getting distracted thinking about how important corn is as a crop... she's just like me fr

valya finally getting focus, i'm glad to see it. mysia seems interesting, i'm excited to see where this goes

yoooo aaliyah's log talking about the meeting is so good. gloria IS deeply unserious. tamar talking about the shmii pirates is uh. really something. but more importantly AALIYAH AND ULYANA DATE NIGHT! AALIYAH'S IN LOVE

homa looking forward to dancing with kalika is also very cute

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

I'm not lookin at this yet bc spoilers but I'll catch up soonish lets-fucking-go

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

What does the father-son bond even mean now? I'm so confused cri

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