#“yes yes you always say this”

[sygneth]

I have been talking to a friend of mine about how I see HDB as someone very affectionate physically towards his friends, and also how I assume that Jean and Harry had times of partying together a lot, and parties with Harry means dancing but they said "...I can't really see this" so this happened.

Enjoy two idiots dancing together.

[beepboopappreciation]

Is this anything

[miss-americanbi]

was chatting with my brother about gravity falls (again) and i said something like “man, can you believe stan waited and worked for 30 years just for the chance to try and bring his brother back?” to which my brother responded, “yeah, it’s nuts when you think about it. i wonder if stan got trapped in the multiverse instead, if ford would do the same.” HELLO???

[magicicephoenix]

I'd like to tell Moon that it's incredibly endearing that he blue screens or has to buffer when people give him affection in any form.

that in mind: you're lovely, Moon

not sure what you expected from him lol

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The dog days are over.

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[egophiliac]

(almost) four years in, and I finally had time to draw something for the anniversary! woo! 🎉🎉🎉

[just-null]

wrestling to be the first to greet you (they broke into your house)

[technically-human]

Ooh, now that we’ve seen N!Edwin and DP!Edwin talk about Feelings could we see the same with N!Charles and DP!Charles?

As simple as that.

Edwins version

ko-fi

[sarasade]

One of the most generally useful things to come out of Hbomberguy's plagiarism video and Todd in the Shadows' similar video on misinformation is how they bring transparency to the internet phenomenon of "I made up a guy to get mad at".

Seriously, I've seen people make up a lot of stupid shit on the internet over the years and it's often just a manipulative attempt to paint a group of marginalized people in a bad light.

That's the TL;DR version of this post. 

ANYWAY here is the long version

Those videos are mostly about James Somerton's plagiarism of other queer people's work. However I'd like to talk about that 20-30% of Somerton's original writing- and oh boy. It's mostly about complaining about White Straight Women and misgendering well-known trans creators such as Rebecca Sugar and calling Becky Albertalli a straight woman while it's pretty common knowledge that she was forced to out herself as bi because she received so much harassment over "being a cishet woman who appropriates LGBT+ stories".

One thing that irks me especially is how in his Killing Stalking and Gay Shipping videos Somerton brings up how straight women/ teen girl shippers exploit gay men for their personal sexual fantasies. This gets brought up several times in his videos.

Being all up and arms about Somerton being a "White Cis Gay Who Hates Women and Queer People tm" is not that useful because the kind of rhetoric he's using is extremely common in fandom and LGBT+ spaces on Tumblr, TikTok and Twitter. We really don't need to bring Somerton's identity to this since he is in no way an unique example.

It's hypocritical to make this about an individual person when I've seen A TON of posts, tweets and videos where queer people talk about these Sinister Straight Women who are supposedly out there fetishizing and exploiting queer men. It's pretty clear to me that this is just an excuse to shit on women and queer people for having any sexual interests. At worst these comments are spreading misinformation about BL, a form of media that has been excessively studied by both Asian feminists and Asian queer women.

This all sounds really familiar and I think it's good that people are calling it out as what it is: misogyny and transphobia. I'd also point out the potentially racist motives behind being this hypervigilant about Asian media.

People can absolutely be misogynist regardless of gender or orientation. I really don't know why we need to create some kind of made up enemy to get mad at. I actually think it's almost sinister how "anti-fujoshi" people call Slash shippers and fujoshi misogynists or claim that they have internalised misogyny while being dismissive about women's interests and creative pursuits under Japanese obscenity laws, China's censorship, book bans in American schools and various other disadvances that are part of being a queer and/or female creator.

I think we shouldn't be naive about the bad faith actors who want to turn queer people against each other. For example Fujoshi.info mentions anti-gender (TERF, GC etc) movement using this kind of rhetoric as well.

Anyway if you want to read more:

- about the false info around BL fandom fujoshi.info

-There is the scholar Thomas Baudinette who studies gay media in Japan. Here is a podcast with him and the scholar Khursten Santos

-James Welker is a BL scholar as well. Here is a podcast interview about the new international BL article collection he edited.

-I've already talked about this Youtube channel by KrisPNatz and his great Killing Stalking video that actually engages with the themes of the manhwa

- There is also HR Coleman's thesis DO NOT FEED THE FETISHIZERS: BOYS LOVE FANS RESISTANCE AND CHALLENGE OF PERCEIVED REPUTATION where she interviews 36 BL fans and actually breaks down why fetishization has become such a huge talking point in the fandom discourse. Spoilers, it's mostly about young queer people and women being worried that they will get judged and pathologized for their interest in anything sexual.

-Great podcast about Danmei and censorship with Liang Ge

[hanafubukki]

Sebek watched the dance floor. You always drew a crowd around you.

He wasn’t surprised. You have always been like this.

The center of the universe. The sun encircled by planets.

Close to your ethereal touch but not enough for fear of being burned by your radiance.

“Keep staring and you’ll burn a hole into them.”

“A-ahem.” Sebek cleared his throat, masking his surprise, “Lord Lilia.”

“You should ask them for a dance.”

“I have my duties.”

“Excuses~ Excuses~ Malleus will be fine.”

Lilia leaned in with an expression that had Sebek tensing, “The sun will always shine equally on all but if you want to be its equal you must risk trying to get burned.”

“I’m sorry?”

Lilia sighed exaggeratedly, “This is what I get for trying to act wise and cool.”

Lilia leaned on his heels and waves towards the dance floor, “It’s not every century you’ll meet someone like them. Believe me, I would know. Get off your butt and go woo them before someone else does it for you, namely that strapping prince that’s walking to them right now.”

Sebek whirled towards you, tensing when noticing an RSA student approaching you.

“Will you let the prince take them away?”

That’s all Sebek needed to hear before he sped to the dance floor.

Lilia watched in amusement as Sebek made a show of asking for your hand.

He laughed under his breath. He couldn’t wait to update the Zigvolt family about you two. Baul will surely be grumpy yet proud.

[illiaccrest]

Neuvillette going from being frustrated and slightly annoyed by Furina, only to end up being down bad for her, and Furina never noticing him due to her anxiety and self loathing is the FUNNIEST way that their relationship could turn out.

These two are the characters of all time

[tetragonia]

how can you say no to this face?

[itscherryterry-again]

yea

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Happy Valentine's Day! (and this blog's first post anniversary!)

[casscainmainly]

Looking at the notes of that Cass name poll and I don't mind people preferring Black Bat for certain reasons, but saying 'Batgirl is not unique/her own name' is not a good argument to me. Yes, it's not unique; that's the whole point. It's a legacy mantle. The power comes from the fact that Cass is linked, through Batgirl, to the people she cares about most. For a girl who was forcefully isolated, who was denied a name (and therefore denied a legacy), Batgirl is the first thing that was ever hers. And Batgirl is not, and has never been, tied to Bruce; the point of the mantle is women carving out their own spaces, forging their own identities regardless of what others have tried to make them. Saying Batgirl is not a good mantle for Cass is also denying what she brought to the name - under Cass, Batgirl became a legacy mantle. Batgirl irrevocably changed her, and she irrevocably changed Batgirl. Preferring other names is completely fine, but it's important not to undermine what Batgirl meant, and continues to mean, to Cass.

[gin-juice-tonic]

ive touched on this a little before (in comic form) but if you took young, pre-transgender-realization me aside and said something like "if you could push a button to turn you into a boy forever, would you do it?"

I wouldve either said "No." or "What? i dont know. No?"

but if you had asked me "when you get older, would you rather grow into an older woman? Or an older man?" (now this is just for me being binary trans, obviously there are more options than these two)

i genuinely think that question would've given me pause. I would've had to think about it, and it would've stuck with me. Maybe I even might've realized something sooner through it