#[just felt like i should clarify]

[duck-in-a-thrift-store]

Me whenever I come across a spicy "character × reader" fic written in the 2nd person: nooo leave me alone this is sexual harassment get off my fyp

Me whenever the exact same scenario happens but it's two characters I ship: this is some good fucking content right here

[filibusterfrog]

cheating for fun

[transfemcwilbur]

we all need to have a discussion on what queerbaiting is. because clearly no one knows

for clarification, dream has been unlabelled for what i assume to be more than half a decade now. nothing wrong with that, labels truly aren't that big of a thing to some people. the issue is that he's been marketing and profiting off of that. let me explain.

a person can't queerbait. a business, show, movie, game, can. why? because a person can do whatever the hell they want, they are not advertising it to a demographic and gaining money and influence off of that. dream is. a tv show can give us two male leads, or female leads, even a nonbinary and male/female lead, and tease us with romantic and/or sexual tension, flirting, etc. they can reel us in, making us buy merch, stream songs or episodes, and keep us hooked while never truly giving us a relationship or clarification of what those two are, sometimes hitting us in the face and making the male / female lead a opposite sex partner or otherwise. look at the wiki here. also,

dream (and mind you i was a dream fan up until 2020-2021, i know what im talking about and up until the grooming allegations where i quickly dropped it, i kept up with him and followed him on youtube and twitter) relied heavily on dreamnotfound. from the shop site to georges merch, to his own merch, etc. no one is saying dream, or george, are queerbaiting, and in order to prove otherwise they have to come out. they are saying the duo are queerbaiting because of the marketing and profit they get from views, (think of the moving in video w dream and george, or basically any video with the two of them) or merch from their sites, or collective trio site with sapnap. *that* is queerbaiting.

making a profit, targeting a specific demographic and bringing them in because 'hey, this is so cool that my streamers are like me.' that is queerbaiting. you cannot market a person, but you can market a relationship in the similar way some celebrities pull publicity stunts to gain more fame or attention. they gain money, or publicity because of it. there is nothing wrong with being unlabelled, but there is something wrong with actively selling a relationship to a demographic while not also pushing the other away. they sell their (perhaps personified? who knows) relationship to the demographic of unlabelled/queer folks in their community, and make a profit based off of that, even off of the straight cis ally's.

i've seen it firsthand with many shows or movies. its designed like that. it brings in money and keeps you on the edge of your seat if their 'really together' or not. there is nothing wrong with neither putting a label on their sexuality, or even how they present themselves. what's wrong is the obvious marketing tactic they use. that is what dream is doing. tubbo, and any others, are not forcing them to come out. i personally just want it to be addressed that they are in fact queerbaiting and using their queer & ally fanbase as a profit. because that's what it is. it's been almost half a decade, and they still profit off of it without ever disclosing it, because if they did they'd lose the profit on merch & views because that's what they rely heavily on if they admit neither are dating or even remotely romantically in a relationship.

i am not saying this in defense of dream. everything he is doing is wrong, from saying the r slur to everything now. i am saying this as queerbait has been thrown around with no one knowing it's proper origins. many unlabelled folks get backlash as 'queerbaiting' when a person cannot queerbait. i hope this helps, and i hope this is as clear and accurate as i can write it.

[hyzenthlayroseart]

Sometimes family is a runty goose, his robot mom and his fox dad

[flowerakatsuka]

here's the sapphics i promised for yuri day!! 😊💕

[thesnailtail]

;; magic shizubnuuy…….

[noxious-fennec]

Alright. I want you all made perfectly aware that I have completely cut support for Wilbur soot and any associated projects. I find his "apology" to be disingenuous and trashy damage control, and it undermines whatever desire he has to improve, however genuine that is.

I 100% support Shelby and any victim of such disgusting behaviour, i commend them for their courage, and I wish them nothing but prosperity, support, and happiness. I will always value their peace over whatever art he made. I'll find other fucking art.

[loderlied]

this is at least a part of why i don’t feel comfortable posting in the general p@thfinder spaces on here anymore lmao

[flowerfletching]

Alright so I've seen someone post about how Jenny x Gilan is a bit weird, which I do agree with, but since I don't really focus on their relationship much I don't really have much to say on it, plus what I would have had to say was better said by other people. That being said when I looked on the reblogs I also noticed that someone brought up Halt x Pauline and how there are some things weird about it because of how they met but I also have more to add to it. And since this is really long I decided to make it my own post since I have a LOT to say on this. Plus it's just a bit different than their reason for mentioning it so I figured it'd just be a better idea if I made it an individual post-

First, to the person who mentioned it, I agree. There is absolutely NO WAY Halt would have fumbled that hard and I don't care how pretty she is, it just makes absolutely no sense whatsoever for him. There's also the fact that, a little bit after, Halt said that he was tempted to tell her about his royal background but ultimately decided not to. And you want to know why he decided not to? Why, that's just because he thought that she wouldn't be impressed. Not because he just spent all that time escaping to begin with and didn't want to risk her stabbing him in the back, no it was just because he thought she wouldn't be impressed. Keep in mind, I'm pretty sure they had literally JUST met. Like, bro. Seriously?

Then there's also the fact that their relationship just kinda feels shallow and undeveloped. I feel like it's shallow because it was literally love at first sight, which was essentially loving the other immediately without knowing the other person literally AT ALL. We also don't really see them growing together much before they actually get married, and the little moments that we actually DO get to see still don't have very much development and don't really show good examples of the love that is allegedly there. I get that there was a lot of the relationship that was built behind the scenes but still, you really couldn't show us much proof of those developments, could you? Plus it also just feels like their marriage in general was just used as a plot device, providing as a huge event that got disrupted to lead into the main plot of the book.

Alright but that could be mostly excused if the relationship was actually nice, cute, and functioning in the end, right? Well, while there are some scenes of them having a good relationship, there's this one scene that absolutely DESTROYED any chances of me actually enjoying that ship.

My final reason for not liking this ship, which is actually kinda why I just don't like Pauline in general, is in the Lost Stories (I believe the section it's in is Purple Prose and it's the first chapter of it). I mentioned not liking this section when I rebloged someone else's post and mentioned that I had another reason for not liking this section, and this is that reason. This is actually the main reason, actually. The idea is that Halt, Pauline, and Will are all having dinner together, right? Will decides to read to them what he plans to read at Horace and Cassandra's wedding for his speech. Will's wording was a bit extra and Halt didn't hesitate to let him know. Now I will admit, I feel as though Halt was being a bit rude in this scene. And while his personality of being blunt and grim doesn't really make that behavior okay, his behavior absolutely does NOT justify Pauline's response to it.

How it ended was by I believe Will mentioning the way that Halt was acting, and then Pauline ominously (literally the word that was used, I'm not joking) said that she would talk to him later. And how did Halt react to that, exactly? Well when it comes to his reaction, it says that the wolfish smile was wiped off of his face and that he looked scared. Halt, the war hero, the one that had been betrayed by his own family, and the one most famous for hiding his feelings, was scared of his own wife. I've seen the trope of men being scared of their wives but I feel like if Halt, of all people, has to be scared of his wife, then there's a problem. Not to say men having to be scared of their wives ISN'T an issue, it is, but for someone like him to be scared it MUST be bad. Especially after she literally just hit him... TWICE. This scene alone proved that Pauline would hit Halt (proven by the first hit), she WOULD do it again (proven by the second hit), and that there's probably more that goes on behind the scenes that we don't see (proven by Halt looking scared when Pauline ominously mentioned talking to him later). Once again, Halt was being rude in the way he let Will know that he didn't approve of the way that he decided to go about his speech. That does NOT, however, justify Pauline's behavior in response to it.

And the thing is, Pauline is the stupid either. She's smart enough and is good enough with people that there's almost no POSSIBLE way that she doesn't know what she's doing. And yet, she does it anyway. This is either borderline, signs of, or is straight up abusive behavior. You might think I'm exaggerating and I hope wouldn't really blame you, with the way he wrote it it wasn't really depicted as serious since that probably wasn't the way it was intended. That still doesn't change what actually happened.

And yeah, that's the reason why I have such a hard time actually liking this ship. To me it feels shallow, underdeveloped/forced, is borderline abusive, and is basically built on an interaction that was just ENTIRELY out of character to begin with. And while yes, there are some good moments, I feel like there aren't NEARLY enough to make up for all of the flaws in it.

[undead-knick-knack]

[hyacinthus-project]

Wait, IS this a doomsday cult?

absolutely not, lol. i don't actually know how to respond to this because i'm baffled that i ever came off that way.

HYACINTHUS is just a support group for victims of incidents and entities related to the Tall Man. i, in NO way, am encouraging or organizing cult-like behaviors. this group is supposed to be a safe space for people to share their experiences and start the healing process with support from each other.

i do know that there have been a number of religious and cult-esque groups formed based off of the Tall Man and similar entities, and i welcome victims of those groups with open arms as well, but this is not another one of those.

hopefully this clears some things up. the last thing i want is for anyone to feel unnerved by or unsafe in HYACINTHUS. ^^;

[jewish-mccoy]

it’s a wild world, because six years ago I was depressed and not sure what to do with my life. Things sucked.

Today I am still a bit Sad but I have a great boyfriend, a cat, and pet fish, and I’m not 100% sure what I’m doing with my life, but I know I’m moving forward and at the end of the day, what else can you really ask for.

[leaf-in-a-flower-garden]

Welcome to my Garden,

There's tea and fruit crumble on the table,

Enjoy your stay and please don't walk on the grass.

<More information below>

🍁 My name is Leaf,

<friends can call me Jake if they want, but I'll respond to Leaf quicker>

🌇 Pronouns are They,It.

<He is fine too, use it sparingly>

🌆 Transmasc <presentation>, Agender <descriptor>

🌃 Asexual-Aromantic

Interests are as follows:

🕯️ : Sky: Children of The Light

🌌 : Space <Stars and General Astronomy >

🗝️ : History <Irish history to be specific>

📚 : Books <Queer, (post)apocalyptic, murder mystery, classics>

🎧 : Music <changes frequently, currently interested in Nirvana, Bôa & other similar genres/artists>

✨ : Supernatural <mainly castiel>

Be aware:

I have autism, so I may sound blunt in tone on occasion, this is not to offend or upset anyone. I use tone tags (ex /j) at times but not always, if you think something I say should be clarified by tone tags, feel free to tell me.

I post Skycotl Elder content most frequently, specifically of the Isle Elder, if you're here for other elder-centric content, don't hold your breath.

18+ blogs will be blocked, love to all but I do not want to see anything like that.

I can be very passionate about my interests, don't take anything I say personally if I were to act on that passion.

I have a very bad memory and habits can be set in stone really easy for me at times, please correct me if I say something wrong or anything of the sort, don't feel bad in correcting me because it will have to be done if I'm going to have to remember something.

Tagging:

I use "art/my art" to tag my works, usually I don't tag reblogged content unless I deem it necessary. All Elder art/etc will be tagged as both "x Elder" and their name (Daleth-Isle). When it's just me talking it will be tagged as "leaf flower rambles"

[bluekingofsalmonids]

How r u so big??? Did you eat many fruits and vegetables???

I EAT 3 MILLION EGGS FOR BREAKFAST EVERYDAY

[camellia-thea]

initially this post had some commentary about interests right now. and then it turned into a ramble about personal healing in the tags. so the interest post is going separately.

[cozy-the-overlord]

I find it very fascinating how a simple change in color can completely alter the way a person views an outfit. When I bought this dress and tried it on, I was wearing black knee high socks, and my mom made a comment about how sexy the dress was — she asked me if I was sure I wanted it, because "it's a little risqué." I am currently wearing the exact same dress, styled in the exact same way, except my knee high socks are white instead of black, and my mom just told me that I looked like a little girl.