So Last of Us II,which has an unavoidable conversation in the main storyline about how trans kids will not "desist" and trying to get them to is abuse,has sold over 4 mil copies Just something to think about when weighing the value of someone's Twine game vs AAA representation
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For all the screaming about how allegedly traumatizing the trans plotline will allegedly be for trans people (wasn't for me), consider how many of these copies are likely being sold in the UK where the opposite argument spreads like wildfire in the newspapers daily
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For some cis players this will be the first time they've thought about this issue and for others it'll be the first time they'll hear our side They would never be in the target audience for some experimental amateur game
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(incidentally based on trophies 25% have now completed the story, so it's likely a lot of people are definitely seeing this part of the story)
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(and I will note as I've seen the final trophy percentage rise, the Disc Horse about the game has become less overwhelmingly negative. almost like a huge number of people had completely wrong preconceptions, only like half of which were the developer's fault)
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Also I want to note that doing a post apocalypse shitworld trans kid storyline is actually a statement, in a way that doing it in Halo or something wouldn't be - because it's saying "no, trans people will exist even in evil zombie cults, there's no 'gender id*ology'"
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
Unfortunately the more sophisticated T*RFs have this whole belief system about how trans men are women "fleeing from misogyny" and in a utopian feminist world there'd be no reason for them to exist And Lev's story does play into that narrative
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(The trigger for him shaving his head and fleeing the cult is being assigned as a child bride to one of the elders)
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Right but the conversation is actually really explicit: > Lev rebels against rules, sister asked why > He tells her he's trans, she says to hide it > Child bride thing happens > Lev shaves head and goes rogue He was definitely trans before that came up
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Sure, I still feel like this one is pretty hard for them to make into pro-them. Like, I guess if one of them was a huge franchise fan and needed a headcanon it would work
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