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On this mega I shall take the opportunity to rant about one of my favorite things: the Webnovel UNJUST DEPTHS!
Do you love transgenders?
Do you love communism?
Do you love queer romance?
Do you love killing fascists in a giant fucking mech?
Would a plotline with all of these things happening in a underwater retro-futuristic gundam setting intrigue you?
Especially if its actually really well written with good characters, rich worldbuilding, and a marxist leninist transfem author?
All of the answers should be: YES I DO or else I WILL BAN YOU
Since you obviously love all of those things then Unjust Depths is perfect for YOU yes YOU! It is DESTINY
The Imbrian Ocean is at a time of severe instability. The monarch of the vast Empire that spans its unjust depths (:3) is sick and nearing death, every territory of the ocean now vying to carve their own Destiny out of the chaos. From the Volk fascists , Zionists (they literally will not die why are they still here oh my god), The ‘Anarchists’ (social chauvanists) in Bosporus, and the monarchs of each vast noble domain, each vies for power and prestige no matter who they crush underfoot, but it would be a pretty depressing story without a bright light in the dark.
On the edge of the Empire sits the glorious Union! The (Soviet) Union is a socialist federation of three states (and one anarchist mountain )that were formerly slave colonies under the Imbrian Empire until they broke away in a fierce liberation war. They have spent the last 20 years since then building themselves up. Whether they be Human , Shimmi (Catgirls who usually follow a religion closely related to modern Islam), and Kattaran (a hybrid humanoid species with characteristics of sea life ranging from sharks to cuttlefish)building socialism side by side.
First lead under the revolutionary leader Dashka Kansal, then the Idealist Ahwalia who lead the country to near ruin in pursuit of building a utopia on pillars of sand, then under the scientific socialist leadership of the Grand Marshall of the Union, Bhavani Jayanskar (I love Jayanskar so much shes basically as if Stalin, Lenin, and Zhukov were rolled into the same person but was a black lesbian badass who wore the uniform REALLY WELL)(she aint the main character at all tho shes only in very few scenes i just love her so much). Under Jayanskar, the Union has been growing their economy to both eliminate hunger and give everyone a home , but also growing their military capabilities for the inevitable return of the Empire. The Union is alone, but with the people by its side nothing, not even Destiny, can snuff out true freedoms light.
As war wages between the Empire and Republic (basically underwater USA) once more over the lands between them, the facade begins to finally crack…
And a border conflict between the Empire and Union escalate, and the dreaded reconquest begins.
Amidst this turmoil, lives our main characters (yes there are multiple and all of them are lovely). Each of whom I personally love dearly, and are very well characterized. Many are soldiers of the Union, some are scientists, some are divers (mech pilots), some are lost strands finding new meaning after joining this band of Brigands
All are Communists
All serve the Union
All would gladly give their lives to defending socialism
but even they would have little inkling of the adventure set in store for them as the lands beneath the waves erupt in fire, fury, and revolt
Can these transgender badasses kick fascist ass?
Can they kiss? (oh my god please kiss ISTG THERE IS SO MUCH SHIPPING AHHHH ITS GLORIOUS)
FIND OUT HERE: https://unjustdepths.com/
please do or else I will pout incessantly
just try it pleeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase i need to talk to someone about it after Cromalin went AFK
(I miss her, she was a real one)
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I almost forgot how fucking infuriating Steins Gate is, someone needs to pay for that
FGO and Rezero are just the most prominent four-letter-t-slur examples.
Anime delenda est.
Why?
Without getting way into it, the “trans woman” (and Luka does have a much better claim to being trans than Astolfo) in this scifi time travel show goes back in the timestream to be “born a girl”, but it turns out this breaks the timestream!! so she has to stay as an object of casual groping and gender fetishism for everyone!!! Thank u steins git!!!
Weebs think this show is really good, I wish Stalin’s guys had got past Manchuria. A Japanese Democratic Republic would never have let this happen.
100% honestly I agree, I had that feeling when I watched it but kinda got distracted by weird feelings I was having for Okabe and Kurisu. But it’s there, and it kinda fucking sucks that they have to reverse that. Wtf. I enjoy a good time travel fuckery + conspiracy theory tho (I played the VN as well), but a couple of the other endings were just … really nice but they were wrong apparently and had to be reversed? Not sure I’d go back.
(also, I can’t really relate to wanting to be born cis anymore, there’s a deeper opinion there, but I can’t find the words)
It just soured me on the entire show, which was all I watched. Like, it’s probably the most fucked a not-trans anime character has ever been plotwise, lmao. Anime delenda est.
Yea, I will not be cis and you cannot make me tbh.
fair. I had a much less critical eye back then as well.
The cis can keep that “born in the wrong body” bullshit far away from me.
Same
main take away from the post is that you should go watch Your Name its a cute and sad romance
I need to rewatch it. I had really strong feelings about the movie and loved the soundtrack, but because I was deep in the closet my memory of why it resonated so much aren’t we defined.
I loved that film so much. Straight up gender swapping lmao. My favourite part was the first-person pronoun joke but I’ve got like 6 minutes before I have to actually go out and do errands so I won’t figure out how to get fcitx set up to type Japanese on this computer and be able to write it all out lol. Good moment, especially if you’re learning the language, I took the gender-neutral “I” for granted.