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#pride

#pridemonth

The Aegis was almost more dangerous to her allies than the enemy. Even her expert handler had gotten a chunk taken out of him. But I could tell the beast would never raise a hand to me, a lowly artificer. She seemed to like me. I asked her why.
"You say 'please' when you want something," she said.

Wind her this way,
Watch her dance!
Wind her that way,
Watch her kill!

So goes the rather grisly nursery rhyme. But is there any truth to it? We recently unearthed one of those ancient automata, and now we're-- Wait, what's that sound? Oh, fuck, it's awake! Security! Securi--
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an interesting distinction one sees between these male and female transgressors of gender in japanese popular culture, these beautiful young men and princely women, is that femininity is the natural property of the men while masculinity is a *choice* made by the women