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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 pigmask-off , Zionists hamas-base (they literally will not die why are they still here oh my god), The ‘Anarchists’ (social chauvanists) lenin-dont-laugh in Bosporus, and the monarchs gui-trans 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 soviet-chad is a socialist federation of three states (and one anarchist mountain left-unity-4 )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 bridget-disco , Shimmi kbity-how (Catgirls who usually follow a religion closely related to modern Islam), and Kattaran transshork-happy (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 three-heads-thinking 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 chad-stalin , 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. specter

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 steban

All serve the Union USSR

All would gladly give their lives to defending socialism comrade-stoic

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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  • lilypad [she/her, null/void]@hexbear.netEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago
    spoiler

    Orange Book is very good so far. When I’m proper done with it I’ll be putting together a list of quotes that I liked into a post here. Maria’s inner monologue is me fr fr. Ash was right - it really is quasi-theory, disguised as narrative.

    Ok imma have to read this, quasi-theory disguised as narrative sounds right up my alley ^^

    just want non-gendered bathrooms

    Ugh seriously, nongendered bathrooms with a mirror sink and toilet, is that too much to ask!?

    once they started unmasking and unmasking, digging further and further, that they really just saw nothing at the bottom, and it prompted an existential crisis.

    niko-concern yeah I was in that crisis for like 2 or 3 years… I just tried to not think about it until recently…

    for instance, I could be uptalking, and really what I’m giving off is uncertainty, but how it might be interpreted as is feminine.

    Perfect example of what I was getting at!

    absolutely!! this is new to me but I love this, and actually what I was getting at with the comment, well put though.

    Ah gotcha i was just misunderstanding ^^

    blech, this is less awesome

    yea the gender superstructure fucking sucks doesnt it… The accelerator talked a little about enforcement through SV, but implicit enforcement is in our language, built into our cultural norms, its everywhere and I hate it. Its one of the driving factors in my seperatist impulses, which want to go build a queer cob commune somewhere.

    I hear you, in my head i’m 3 inches shorts and 2 band sizes smaller, maybe this is why I am so clumsy. dysphoria is weird. and my anatomy is just like “oh that’s not what’s in my head… what an annoyance”

    Ugh this is so real. Havent felt comfy in my height since I started really growing… My mental map of my body is just different than how my body is.

    • rtstragedy [fae/faer, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago
      spoiler

      Ok imma have to read this, quasi-theory disguised as narrative sounds right up my alley ^^

      i like it, my plan tonight is to get through a bunch of it ALSO NO WORK TOMORROW WOOOOO

      Ugh seriously, nongendered bathrooms with a mirror sink and toilet, is that too much to ask!?

      100%

      yeah I was in that crisis for like 2 or 3 years… I just tried to not think about it until recently…

      oof, that’s a long time. did you ever resolve it?

      the gender superstructure fucking sucks doesnt it… The accelerator talked a little about enforcement through SV, but implicit enforcement is in our language, built into our cultural norms, its everywhere and I hate it.

      i agree, it really is everywhere. its kinda eh, i used to feel affirmed by gendered language, not sure anymore. just get me out of this binary lol

      Havent felt comfy in my height since I started really growing… My mental map of my body is just different than how my body is.

      this is it, but it’s not even just gender. its like a part of my expects me to have more of the shape and height of my mom, it’s not even like sadness, just … well, surprising, when i see myself in the mirror. dysphoric, lol

      • lilypad [she/her, null/void]@hexbear.netEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        NO WORK TOMORROW

        lets-fucking-go

        did you ever resolve it?

        Eh kind of? I slip in and out of resolution, but the idea of identity being performance really helpedr resolve everything for me. Cause I was ripping out every performance, only to find another performance underneath, and sometimes one I thought I had excised already. So it was this horrible black hole of lack-of-self that I couldnt escape.

        i agree, it really is everywhere. its kinda eh, i used to feel affirmed by gendered language, not sure anymore. just get me out of this binary lol

        This one is so weird for me, cause on the one hand I want the binary to be gone, but im also like, idek how to describe my gender but its like adjacent to binary woman, and im comfy, or comfy enough, in binary womanhood. So I feel affirmed by gendered language and kind of love it, but also hate that it exists, all at the same time lea-breakdown

        like a part of my expects me to have more of the shape and height of my mom, it’s not even like sadness, just … well, surprising, when i see myself in the mirror. dysphoric, lol

        denji-just-like-me just like me fr fr

        • rtstragedy [fae/faer, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          I slip in and out of resolution, but the idea of identity being performance really helpedr resolve everything for me.

          I feel that first part, for sure.

          So it was this horrible black hole of lack-of-self that I couldnt escape.

          Hmm, thinking about it more, I’m not sure I’m here yet. Maybe check in in a week, lol.

          its like adjacent to binary woman, and im comfy, or comfy enough, in binary womanhood. So I feel affirmed by gendered language and kind of love it, but also hate that it exists, all at the same time

          Nice, I mean I can only really speak for myself, honestly, but if you are happy with gendered language, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with just enjoying it, if you can. I don’t have a real theoretical basis for that, just think you should enjoy the things you like.

          • lilypad [she/her, null/void]@hexbear.netEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            don’t have a real theoretical basis for that, just think you should enjoy the things you like.

            So, i probably could have phrased my statement better, and like yes i agree with you, but also within the broader context of society, the way language shapes us and our thoughts, i really do think the world would be better with a neutral-by-default language custom. Like, we dont have to abolish gendered language ig, just, we shouldnt apply it by default. Idk, my initial statement was a little dramatic i guess, and those feelings are fuelled by my not wanting to be in that box of womanhood. Like, I want to be in the area of womanhood, but not have walls around it, and the way gendered language is used in modern english often feels like walls. Idk how to describe it its not a well thought out thing, sorry.

            Maybe check in in a week, lol.

            Ill try to remember lol

            • rtstragedy [fae/faer, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
              3·
              2 months ago

              I think I follow for the most part, actually?

              also within the broader context of society, the way language shapes us and our thoughts, i really do think the world would be better with a neutral-by-default language custom.

              I think you’re saying here that the binary is reinforced by our speech,

              those feelings are fuelled by my not wanting to be in that box of womanhood.

              and that it feels constricting.

              Like, we dont have to abolish gendered language ig, just, we shouldnt apply it by default.

              Yeah, I was doing a work thing yesterday for localization and I noticed that Google Translate now has “masculine” and “feminine” options for nouns. I’m at least glad English doesn’t have that, but I kind of agree with a neutral-first language.

              Maybe this is a bit of an aside, but when I’ve appreciated gendered language in the past, there’s definitely been an element that was me enjoying it because people saw me as the gender I identified as. I’ve never told anyone my pronouns before this site. What was I feeling? Was I enjoying the feeling of passing privilege? That’s kind of a scary thought… I’m still trying to figure this out too, might be time for me to sleep on it. Have a good night!

              • lilypad [she/her, null/void]@hexbear.netEnglish
                3·
                2 months ago

                enjoying it because people saw me as the gender I identified as

                I think this is part of what happens for me, its confirmation that they see me as a woman, which simultaneously makes me happy and unhappy, because im a woman but also not; im a woman but im also woman adjacent, and it feels like that confirmation is affirming my woman-ness while also negating/minimizing/ignoring/suppressing my adjacent-to-womanness.

                To put it another way, i do woman, and i do woman adjacent, and i do agender/wtf-is-gender-go-away. And theres no way to wrap all of those up in a single pronoun, in a single gendered verb conjugation, in a single word inflection. Inherrently one will be elevated above the others, or the others will be negated.

                Hmmm i have thinking and reflecting to do I think… lea-think

                What was I feeling? Was I enjoying the feeling of passing privilege?

                I mean, i cant tell you what you were feeling, but theres a difference between passing privilidge and respect+acceptance of who you are/what you perform. Idk, its late and im kinda exhausted, i think thisll have to wait until tomorrow.

                • rtstragedy [fae/faer, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
                  3·
                  2 months ago

                  I think this is part of what happens for me, its confirmation that they see me as a woman, which simultaneously makes me happy and unhappy, because im a woman but also not; im a woman but im also woman adjacent, and it feels like that confirmation is affirming my woman-ness while also negating/minimizing/ignoring/suppressing my adjacent-to-womanness.

                  well put! I follow that. Makes sense.

                  To put it another way, i do woman, and i do woman adjacent, and i do agender/wtf-is-gender-go-away. And theres no way to wrap all of those up in a single pronoun, in a single gendered verb conjugation, in a single word inflection. Inherrently one will be elevated above the others, or the others will be negated.

                  100%!! I feel you about “trying to wrap it up into a single pronoun or word inflection”

                  Hmmm i have thinking and reflecting to do I think…

                  same, I feel like I’m shifting every day that I think about this now, enby feels right to me right now, but I’ve thought about pronouns, I think I’ll keep she/her for the time being. To cis people, it’ll always be she/her. To people that get it? I’m not sure.

                  I mean, i cant tell you what you were feeling, but theres a difference between passing privilidge and respect+acceptance of who you are/what you perform.

                  Haha, sorry, those were meant to be rhetorical. But yeah, I like this distinction too. Good point.

                  • lilypad [she/her, null/void]@hexbear.netEnglish
                    3·
                    2 months ago

                    To cis people, it’ll always be she/her. To people that get it? I’m not sure.

                    Omg 100% this, like theres such a huge difference in how Im comfortable with people referring to me between people who have considered gender and have a similar viewpoint as me, and those who dont. Its not even a cis/trans divide, its just like what framework do you understand gender through i guess? But even for the people that do, idk what words to use to describe myself. Like, they/them is fine but not right, if that makes sense. Idk, if there was something that reflected the absurdity and arbitrarity of gender within our culture, that would be great, but also I move around (we talked about this further up i think?) a bit so not all the time, and i love being femme (id present hyperfemme all the time if it wasnt so much work tbh) idk its just confusing.