Better_with_Gender [pup/pup's, she/her]

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Joined 8 months ago
Cake day: October 10th, 2025
  • Better_with_Gender [pup/pup's, she/her]@hexbear.nettoAnime & Donghua@hexbear.net•What have you been reading/watching recently? [Anime - June 2026]English
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    7 days ago

    Anime

    I watched and completed Neon Genesis Evangelion and Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion. (I’m writing up this just after finishing The End of Evangelion, so just immediate thoughts now and possibly a more fleshed out analysis later).

    Possible spoilers

    From my perspective, it went ‘oh Misato is using her rare sports car as a van, thats funny’ to 'this show is getting creepy with subtle de-humanisation of characters to each other but also to themselves (also a lot of extremely scary screams).

    Then the ending episodes that start to explain whats going on to a very creepy second to last episode before both ep26 and The End of Evangelion film.

    The ep26 episode makes sense but was confusing till I thought about it, its both Shinji understanding whats happened to him plus what’s been taught and learnt from the experiences at NERV and piloting Eva; while also giving the viewer being given a chance to reflect and understand themselves what the show was saying and teaching.

    Blorp

    Stalin showed Berserk (2016) which rounded off the Berserk animated shows. Personally it was fine with a decent artstyle but mixed animation. I am curious to see how the story continues in the Manga.

    Following that was Madoka Magica. A magical girl series that does not want to be a magical girl series. It was confusing but good though I would need to re-watch to understand whats properly going on. Good soundtrack as well.

  • Better_with_Gender [pup/pup's, she/her]@hexbear.nettoGames@hexbear.net•Sunday is Gaming Day: What Are You Playing Weekly ThreadEnglish
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    10 days ago

    Completed Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number this week.Its very intensive, frustrating and rewarding all at the same time. But: why can enemies kill you off screen when you can’t see and respond to them!!! Good sound design and music, the sudden stop of the level music once its complete and a change of track is a good feature. I guess it grounds you into realising what you have done to complete the level; sure its a video game and the violence is fictional but its almost as if what you’ve done is impacting the story progression.

    I don’t quite understand the story but its seemed interesting and has some depth that’s probably worth delving into when I go through again on Hard mode.

    I also went back to the Splatoon series this weekend. Was Splatoon 1’s 11th anniversary so I hopped into the Pretendo servers for a bit. Seems to be a reasonable amount still playing and possibly new players judging from the player levels. Though it could be long-term players trying a new save instead of porting their old one over, though others have (including me). I had my Splatoon 3 muscle memory after over a year after not playing, was nice to see that my skill level didn’t drop. Though the issue of being on a losing streak when playing with a less aggressive gear-set is still there. Will be good to just hop in Splatoon 3 every now and then for some intensive matches and it was also nice to re-remember all the lore that honestly got me fascinated with the series. Though looking back into it raises some questions into how the English localisation severely differs and portrays some of the world differently, some of it worryingly.

  • Better_with_Gender [pup/pup's, she/her]@hexbear.nettotraaaaaaannnnnnnnnns@hexbear.net•Lasers - Trans Megathread for May 11th through May 17th, 2026English
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    26 days ago
    spoiler

    I feel uncomfortable not knowing what to call myself, I didn’t ever relate to being a man but not really with being a woman either. I feel stuck in-between them but don’t relate to Non-Binary either. My gender while not something I thought about a lot when I was a child, looking back I felt possibly gender-less and the confusion of ‘oh hey actually there is a big difference between boys and girls, stay on your side’ makes figuring out my gender now very frustrating. Doesn’t help I dress mostly masculine and so get seen as a guy when I’m not, I did dress in an alternative feminine style wearing only skirts, even seen as a girl, though haven’t in ages.

  • Better_with_Gender [pup/pup's, she/her]@hexbear.nettotraaaaaaannnnnnnnnns@hexbear.net•Lasers - Trans Megathread for May 11th through May 17th, 2026English
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    27 days ago
    CW dysphoria

    My gender feels like a mess right now. I’m definitely not a guy but feel awkward being called or calling myself a girl. It feels comfortable to be referred to with she/her pronouns but I can’t really see myself as a woman. Now that I’ve accepted myself as trans I’ve started to look back at who I was previously, and how obviously trans younger me was. A lot of my memories are now trans-coded and that gives context for my past, but also brings more questions of my identity as a whole.

    trans-coding in media

    Started watching Evangelion this month for the first time. Leaving thoughts on the show for another time, Shinji felt really trans-coded to me, mainly because some of his behaviour was very trans and what I did when I was younger. I couldn’t really relate to guys and kinda inherited behaviour from girls, something I noticed Shinji do. I haven’t finished the show so I’m leaving any analysis for afterwards but I did see something about Shinji being originally written as a girl.

  • Better_with_Gender [pup/pup's, she/her]@hexbear.nettoAnime & Donghua@hexbear.net•What have you been reading/watching recently? [Anime - May 2026]English
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    29 days ago

    I thought that might be that why the series was shorter, but when I finished the show it didn’t really feel like there could be more to it other than possible arcs developing the other characters. I think the show was fine as it was pacing wise, I don’t think there could be another 13 episodes without it ending up as filler. The show feels that its come to the ending arc once Otonoshi figured out who he was and delaying that would have conflicted with exploring other characters.

    I do agree the show didn’t age that well. Some of the comedy and comments stick out badly now but the general premise of the show is still worth seeing now.

    I did not know that Jun Maeda made Charlotte as well, I added that show to my watchlist ages ago but haven’t seen it.