hoihoi-san
Recently saw Chinese trans women and transfeminists on twitter talking about online English-speaking trans spaces being very anti-youth, constantly preventing youth from being a part of them (MDNI in bio and whatnot) and adults interacting with minors over the Internet being widely demonized, and how absurd and awful that is.
And it was like water from fresh springs.
And yeah, how are trans kids — especially kids who are transfem, racialized, and/or disabled — supposed to find the necessary support, education, and resources to survive (transition being vital to survival)? How can these disenfranchised kids find people they can relate to and find solidarity in? People who face the same forms of oppression but with more knowledge they can pass down and more access to resources they can connect them with, to ensure the younger generation have a greater chance to survive and thrive?
From their parents, their teachers? Surrounding institutions? In-person peers? Be fucking real. You know statistical likelihood of even a small percentage of those people and systems who won't abuse these kids, let alone truly love them and give effective support to them. You know how many trans kids die before they can grow up because of their parents and institutional authority. And even if there happen to be a few, it most likely won't be enough without the Internet, particularly the resources and education built by trans people working together.
And yes, adults will always have power over kids that can be abused, but the power adults have over kids on the Internet pales in comparison to the power adults — especially parents, and to a lessor extent, other adults whom the parents trust with their kids and institutional authority — have over kids in-person. A parent with legal ownership of their kid can control every aspect of their lives, abuse them to literal death, with minimal consequences.
The power adults have over kids on the Internet is real and shouldn't be ignored, but preventing any and all interaction won't solve that, it actually makes it worse. There will always be kids who seek safe, genuine connections with adults online, mainly due to a lack of it in their in-person lives. With nearly all adults avoiding any interactions with kids, their options become extremely limited, further isolating them and making them more vulnerable to abuse.
Trans spaces must start allowing kids in their community. It's already bad enough that kids online are being further oppressed by KOSA, trans adults like us should not be contributing to and perpetuating that.
As trans adults, we need to start building a culture of love and responsibility for the survival, well-being, and growth of trans kids. Create communities and foster relationships that center their experiences and uplift their voices. Pass down our knowledge, our stories to the next generation, so that they may do the same, and so on.
Trans kids are our little sisters, brothers, and siblings. Love trans kids now and forever.
A relatively well-known quirk of Super Mario Sunshine is the interaction between Mario losing his hat and talking to NPCs. Losing his hat (through getting it stolen by the Swipin' Stu enemies) will make Mario quickly lose health (commonly assumed to be due to heat stroke from the high temperatures on Isle Delfino; supported by the fact that he will not lose health when in water).
When talking to an NPC without the hat, Mario will lose health during the conversation and eventually die, which the NPC will completely ignore, and simply continue talking.
However, there is a variant of this interaction that makes the NPC appear even more rude. If Mario talks to an NPC with a set facing direction from behind, as seen in the footage, the NPC will turn away from Mario's body after he dies during the conversation, adding another layer of disrespect to the scenario.
Source: theeasteregghunter
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