Final Fantasy XI

Final Fantasy XI is the eleventh numbered installment in the… Okay, you know what it is, I’m just going to tell you about one of the storylines!

During the Wings of the Goddess expansion, adventurers will be sent back in time to experience the events of the Crystal War, a cataclysmic event that is the foundation for conflicts of the modern-day timeline. Should an adventurer choose to serve the Kingdom of San d’Oria, they will be immersed in the story of the Young Griffons—a group of children who would see themselves knights, many of whom grow into prominent characters later in life.

Among the Young Griffons, the player will find Bistillot, a shy boy who doesn’t like to be seen. With his penchant for engineering, shy demeanor, and lack of combat potential, Bistillot prefers to spend his time inside of an orcish war machine that he was able to repair to working condition.

He is often seen before he is heard, with his signature phrase, “HAAAALLOOOOOOOOO” being used to hail the adventurer. Through the course of the story, Bistillot finds his way, even contributing to the war effort with his engineering skills.

However, when another member of the Young Griffons is kidnapped and taken to the present day, the adventurer must return to the present day and reunite with the Young Griffons’ present selves! The adventurer’s first contact in the present day is Bistillot. When the adventurer hears the signature “HAAAALLOOOOOOO,” Bistillot approaches the player, but what the player sees is… a woman?? She introduces herself as Bostilette, a “friend of Bistillot.”

After the rescue mission, Bostilette comes clean. She is, of course, the very same Bistillot who was a little boy twenty years earlier. She explains that she was very sick as a baby, so her parents gave her a boy’s name so that she would be stronger and survive the illness. Once she overcame the illness, she was comfortable to reclaim her name and gender. Well, that closes the book on that story, except… I’ve decided that’s bullshit!

I have unilaterally decided that Bostilette is trans, the sickness she had was dysphoria, she stayed in the orcish war machine because she was an egg, and I hope you all agree!

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  • starkillerfish [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    12·
    22 days ago

    I’ve been seeing TMA and TME in bios on tumblr lately, and Jules Gill-Peterson talk about it a little. I know what they mean broadly, but was wondering what’s the story behind them? What’s the reasoning behind using them? Kinda afraid to ask, but online searches haven’t been very helpful.

    • ashinadash [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      12·
      22 days ago

      Jules Gill-Peterson

      We have Canadian kkkanada historians specialising in transgender history?

      TMA and TME though, many people seemed to use transmisogyny exempt and affected to recreate a binary, again. Shouts to the transfemme person who screamed at me to Read Whipping Girl when I asserted that maybe not every single trans man is a misogynist, (paraphrasing, been a while) lol.

      • BountifulEggnog [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        6·
        22 days ago

        Wait, why were they screaming at you about that? scared Is every trans man a misogynist?

        spoiler

        Actually started reading whipping girl last night, was going to wait until I was a bit further in to say anything but seems relevent

    • Eco [she/her, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      9·
      22 days ago

      tma and tme stand for transmisogyny affected and transmisogyny exempt. so tma would be anyone transfem and tme would be cis men and women, transmascs, and the non-binary people not considered affected by transmisogyny. i’ve mostly seen the term crop up when contrasting the experiences of transfems and transmascs, especially when discussing (trans)misogynistic transmasculine people.

      • AcidSmiley [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        13·
        22 days ago

        Honestly, (trans)misogynistic transmascs are a pain in the ass, but in the end they’re just incel ideologues or liberal chauvinists like any other masc person with problematic views, and the reason is largely the same, they latch onto male privilege to lord it over women. As people navigating a masc-aligned gender role, they intuitively get how to center yourself in conversations, how to silence women and how to be a petty, power-grabbing piece of shit in general, because our society provides ample role models, material and ideological incentives and culturally ingrained leeway for that. It has to to maintain patriarchal property and power relations. Trans men are men and sometimes, some of them are men in the worst ways possible, it comes with the territory when you live in a society that enables male violence in all kinds of ways.

        The main difference is that they are people i run into in supposed safer spaces, but it never sat well with me to give them their own trans-specific label, i honestly don’t think these dinguses deserve it. They’re just misogynist swine like all the other misogynist swine. And i wouldn’t say that all transmasculine people are united by a shared lived experience of not experiencing what i go through, trans experiences are a bit too diverse for that. I get a feeling that there’s a neo-binarist essentialism to the TME and TMA labels, and i do not use them when calling out (trans)misogyny. I do that a lot, i had to do that with somebody in a trans space just yesterday, but i did not need to call dem TME for that. If i needed an expression for that person, i would go with transmisogynist, joyless pile of spite and insecurity, that seems more fitting than TME.