356 vivacious vampires

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Oh vampires! Oh meme! It's October, which is officially Halloween season. And... Himaruya is back? Kind of? Sort of? In a way. I wonder if we'll ever find out what happened on Halloween. Or if it will forever remain... a mystery. Much like the decision making process behind most of these titles.

Enjoy part 356!

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[(Anonymous)]

someone posted himaruya's fanmail page to tumblr in hopes of SJW writing to re-educate him on elagabalus' true gender

this is why we cannot have nice things

[(Anonymous)]

Man, I thought this cringe worthy stuff got left beind in 2011...guess not

[(Anonymous)]

I saw :x
I kind of side-eye that person sometimes because they were an ardent Nighteevee supporter

[(Anonymous)]

Then we'll just have to send him a lot of positive mail to drown out the haters. I'm sure most of the tumblr haters won't even bother to mail him though. They like complaining on their own blogs, but don't ask them to do anything extra, especially if just claiming they sent him hatemail will get them the same amount of attention as actually doing it would.

[(Anonymous)]

I was afraid of this

[(Anonymous)]

The worst part is, because he's a Japanese man, he'd likely agree with whatever they say instead of explaining his feelings on the matter... and just not address the issue all together.

blurgh tl;dr

[(Anonymous)]

What pisses me off the most is that these people are calling him "transphobic" and "problematic" over using a Japanese term that is used to refer to male-to-female crossdressers and is used when you don't want to bring a gender identity or sexual orientation into the mix. Which, to me, is the right term--because WE DO NOT KNOW how Elagabalus identified, really. Using this relatively neutral term is actually more sensitive of Himaruya than what I would expect from most Japanese publications, which often use derogatory terms instead.

Like... can this person stop saying "read their wikepedia article!"? Because a wikipedia article saying something, and not even saying it's concrete, does not = DEFINITE HISTORY. If you read about Elagabalus, if you look at his history in the context of the times, then no, you cannot say: "HE WAS TRANSGENDER."

Almost everything we know about him comes from Roman historians who saw him as a political and social failure and were glad to see him go. And what better way to besmirch his name than to make up, or exaggerate, what Romans would have seen as negative traits: ie: 'he behaved like a woman instead of a man.' Not to mention that, like most ancient history, these historians were likely reporting "what was said" of the day--and what they personally believed--rather than what may have happened. How does Cassius Dio know what Elagabalus did behind closed doors? He doesn't. It's not like the history of the day where we can pour through archives and cite letters. Ancient historians are tricky because you have to weigh how much you believe in what they say.

Elagabalus had multiple wives--and, even according to the historians that decry his 'unnatural behavior'--loved at least one of them. He also took male lovers, which was common, although the historians amp things up by saying that he treated them like husbands, which was unnatural. I mean, if you read through what's said about him in these ancient books, nothing of what he did even if you take the Roman historians as 100% truth concretely says: This man was definitely transgender.

If it did, then a few of my gay friends who act "feminine" and occasionally dress in drag are trasgender, too. Only... no, they don't identify as transgender, and as any SJW would normally tell you, actually, gender and sexuality are fluid and shouldn't be stamped with such concrete labels. Funny how that gets thrown out the window when they want to be outraged.

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