#(based on my regression)

[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

[princeofsnails]

Early 2000s age regression moodboard

(Made on picrew)

[hadeskiddo]

funfetti / birthday cake inspired little moodboard 🎉✨🧁

[bunnelbaby]

🔪✨ Slasher Caregiver flag (please reblog if you save)! ✨🔪

[arttime567]

First post and it’s art :D

Ruin is called Equinox in this.

Click the ALT

I will be posting on this often bye bye :D

[laundrybandit]

never posted something like this but im in a mood rn;

CG DEAN WINCHESTER

watching him struggle to put a car seat in the backseat of the impala because i dont think those have seatbelts (heas swearing and shaking it around angrily but its fine because hes mostly joking) ((bonus points if he calls sam and says ‘the damn thing’s haunted or something!!’))

sitting in the back on a trip and complaining about being cold (old cars yknow) and he just tosses back one of his jackets and its so big it just swallows you whole

a ridiculous amount of baby jokes, walking back to the car “alright kiddo, you driving?” or acting shocked at a bill and asking if you brought your wallet, “whadda you want? cheeseburger? nahh your too little for that-“

making dinner while you babble and play in the floor, occasionally chiming in with a “uh huh/ no way??/ tell me more!”

running around wearing his clothes and playing ’hunter’ (hes the monster and just tickles you when you get caught)

getting ridiculous matching accessories (big pink sunglasses, clunky bracelets, plastic gem ring)

[🫎: “uhh dude? what are you wearing?” 🐿️:*wearing the most obnoxiously large and glittery sunglasses with neon hair clips all over* ”its called fashion sammy, you could learn a thing or two🙄”]

headbanging/air instrumentals to childish songs (acting like the ABCS is the heaviest metal hes ever heard)

OBVIOSLY watching scooby doo with you. how could i forget that

[tinycatstars]

☆ agere moodboards for jade harley and rose lalonde ☆

(DNI if: nsfw, kink, proship, anti-agere, etc)

[aron-mp4]

The Eldest Brother brainrot yippee (i love this fic soo much actually)

[always-a-joyful-note]

What if becoming an idol is a parallel to finding a space where you can be as weird as you like? Where you can explore interests that were mocked by others and prove that they can make others happy? What if being an idol is a parallel to becoming boxed in by the expectations and perceptions of others? Where you can only be what you are and only change if your audience gives you the approval to change? What if being an idol and a main character were parallels, forced to replay the same story of glory without ever going beyond the happy ending that is, effectively, still an end?

[fluffyboopz]

Red Pandas from Pinterest!

[helianskies]

Abel offered to pick him up. Old habits.

Antonio told him that he would pick him up that evening, but not at the airport. Older habits.

So, Abel would wait. He would wait as he always waited, in the end, and give Antonio what he wanted. That was perhaps the oldest habit they shared.

[ read on ao3! ] [ for @hetaberia-week! ]

[dipplin-daycare]

✿ 25 days of agere moodboards ✿

day 10: based on my regressors! the left side is for Blu and the right side is for Rosa

[tinyderse]

🎀 self-indulgent cute stimboard :3

made & posted by Juliet (she/they/wave/doll/sea/foam/star)

🍼

[coyote-kiddo]

lazy day in 🍓🪽

[everybodyshusband]

let the tides carry you back to me

dewdrop & rain (the band ghost)

general audiences | gen. | 3.8k | age regression, little!dew, caregiver!rain, hurt/comfort, NON-SEXUAL heat, baths, reading aloud

snippet and ao3 link under the cut !!

quick little disclaimer: this is written as a completely sfw fic, and nothing is explicitly mentioned or described, but given that it is about someone going through a heat, there are a couple mentions of things in here that mightn't be super comfy for littles or regressors !!

and before i forget: a massive thank you to @royalchachi and @strangeferrum for bouncing a few ideas around with me about this wip way back at the start of june <3

“Can– can we do the bubbles? Please?” Dew twists his hands in his shirt as he speaks. “I– I like the bubbles…”

Rain smiles at him, forever in awe of just how sweet Dew is. “Of course you can have a bubble bath, baby.” They press another kiss to the fire ghoul’s face—his overly warm forehead this time—and rub a thumb over each of Dew’s cheeks lovingly. “Well done for remembering your manners, too. You’re so polite, little one!”

They don’t mention to Dew that they were planning on running a bubble bath anyway; partly because the little ghoul adores bubble baths, and he deserves something that makes him happy right now, but mostly so Dew won’t catch a glimpse of himself underneath the water and get even more uncomfortable than he already is.

“I like saying please,” Dew states simply, struggling to wrap his tongue around the L sound of the word. “I’s nice.”

At that, Rain wants nothing more than to wrap the little ghoul in a tight hug, but they know if they move him in the wrong direction he’ll feel even worse, and they can’t have that. Instead, they help Dew climb off of their lap and stand up, holding a hand out for the fire ghoul to hold. “Let’s get a bath running for you, alright, darling?”

“Uh huh…” Dew stands up from the bed on shaky legs and takes a few small, uncertain steps forward, grippingly tightly onto Rain’s hand.

“Yeah, that’s it, Dew. C’mon, we’ll walk slowly, it’s okay.” Rain guides Dew slowly towards the bathroom, pausing every time the fire ghoul’s legs get too wobbly and he has to stop. “You’re doing such a good job, darling,” they tell him. “You’re being very brave, I’m so proud of you.”

Dew smiles at the praise, but his face doesn’t light up like it usually does, which prompts Rain to gently nudge him along and seat him on the floor next to the bath.

“Can you wait nice and patiently while I get the bath ready, Dew?”

“Mhmm,” he nods. “Can be… pay-tent for you, Rainy.”

Rain praises him for being so well-behaved and busies themselves with filling the bath, making sure to pour Dew’s favourite bubble bath in as they do so. They help the fire ghoul step out of his clothes as they wait for the bath to fill up, taking in the sheen of sweat covering Dew’s body and making mental note of the other places they’ll have to wipe down with a washcloth. Once Dew is undressed, Rain runs a reassuring hand up and down the fire ghoul’s arm as he shivers in the cold bathroom. “I know, darling, I know,” they soothe. “The bath still needs to fill up a bit more, but if you’re too cold I can help you in now. Is that what you want?”

“Yeah, p’ease. ‘M cold…”

“Alright, sundew. Let’s get you nice and clean, darling.” They take Dew’s hand and help him step into the bath, making sure he doesn’t slip on the wet porcelain of the tub as he takes a seat. 

The fire ghoul giggles as soon as he feels the bubbles tickling his skin, a wide grin spreading over his face as he seemingly forgets the predicament he’s found himself in. Rain smiles too, listening to Dew mess around with the bubbles as they open the bathroom cabinets to find soap and a cloth. They turn back around to see Dew scooping up the bubbles in his hands, using the still-running tap to rinse them off and giggling as the bubbles dissolve and run down his arms.

[read the rest on ao3 !!]

[thelittlekinghelios]

Imagine you get sick and your f/o realizes you’re under the weather. They carry you to your comfy bed with fluffy pillows and blanket, tucking you in and making you feel safe. They bring you water and soup of your choice to make sure you’re hydrated and rested.

Your f/o lets you sleep as long as you need, they know rest is important when you’re sick, and they’ll wait as long as they need for you to get better.

When you finally go to sleep that night, they gently kiss your hand and whisper, “Sleep well, [insert name or nickname].”