#AND HE LOVES HIS HOT AUTISTIC WIFE WITH EVERYTHING HE HAS!!!!

[llycaons]

I'm so sad claire stanfield isn't on the spoiler characters poll. he's everything to me.

[nerdwithabirb]

In Praise of Bluey

I haven’t been on Tumblr in a hot minute because life marches on and I forget about some of my socials for a while.

Anyway, today I’m doing something a little different in the form of a longass rambling post so if you read to the end, you’re great and I hope all of the dogs you meet want you to pet them. (If you’re not a fan of dogs, insert whatever your favourite animal is.)

I’m not a parent. I will most likely never be a parent. I got my tubes removed almost two years ago now, by choice, because of medical issues that would impact a pregnancy, and sociopolitical issues I don’t want to bring a kid into. If I decide I want children, I will adopt them. But for now, my nephew is enough to get my fix of hanging out with kids.

With that said, I adore Bluey. It’s a masterpiece of animation, especially as far as modern kids’ shows are concerned.

Conflict Resolution and Realistic Characters

I find that many modern children’s shows are, for lack of a better word, sterilized. They don’t seem to like to show any sort of conflict. Bluey shows conflict. The Heeler sisters get frustrated with each other, with their friends, with their other family members. Bluey herself can be bossy and vindictive at times, occasionally bullying her sister Bingo, her cousins Muffin and Socks, and her classmates. Bingo is shy and sensitive and has a love of nature, but she runs into problems standing up for herself. 3 (later 4)-year-old Muffin behaves like an average toddler: absolute chaos, but not trying to be bad on purpose. Chilli and Bandit aren’t perfect parents - they get frustrated and sometimes hurt their girls’ feelings as a result. But they all learn from their mistakes, and they’re not afraid to admit when they’ve done something wrong — even the adults.

I grew up with an emotionally abusive father who was always too afraid (or too many beers deep) to form a meaningful connection with me. He’d belittle me for being interested in the arts and actively bullied me when I passed my driving test instead of congratulating me at all. He’s never apologised for any of it. Bandit is the dad I never got to have: he’s entirely devoted to his wife and daughters, even when it humiliates him. He’s not afraid to own up to his mistakes and learn from them.

Chilli reminds me of my own mother in a lot of ways: witty and sarcastic on the outside, completely losing her marbles on the inside because she’s afraid she’s not a good enough mom. Like my own mom, Chilli has a passion for drawing and encourages her daughters to keep practicing. She’s warm and welcoming and gives great hugs. She’s got both jokes and sage advice. And she sets out to right all the wrongs - my mom apologises to me all the time for stuff that happened years ago. (I love you, Mom!)

Tackling Serious Subjects and Different Family Dynamics

Another thing Bluey does absolutely spot-on is addressing serious subjects tactfully and in a way kids can understand. In the episode “Copycat,” Bluey starts her morning annoying the hell out of Bandit by copying everything he does. Things take a turn for the serious when the pup finds an injured budgie and rushes to the vet with her dad. The little bird doesn’t make it, which crushes Bluey. To cope, she plays out the events of the day in a game, but budgie-Bingo doesn’t get the memo and acts all better. Bluey realises that, like the budgie dying, Bingo derailing the game is out of her hands, and she comes to accept it.

In “Dance Mode,” Bandit steals Bingo’s last French fry. She’s given three chances to activate Dance Mode on her family, but gets all of those taken from her as well. Poor little Bingo is absolutely heartbroken when Chilli asks her an important question: “Does your outside voice sometimes say yes, when your inside voice is saying no?” As an (at the time undiagnosed) autistic kid who often struggled with speaking up and asserting myself growing up, this hit me like a ton of bricks.

“Early Baby” tackles premature birth with Bluey’s classmate Indy, “The Show” nods to Chilli having had a miscarriage, ���Grandad” emphasizes that aging parents still need to take care of themselves for their adult children.

“Flat Pack” is an allegory for evolution, faith, getting older, and the struggle that is putting together flat pack furniture.

“Sleepytime” and “Baby Race” show some of the more everyday aspects of growing up, like sleeping independently and learning how to walk, all set to beautiful arrangements of classical pieces (Gustav Holst’s “Jupiter” from The Planets and Bach’s “Prelude in C Major,” respectively). And I won’t lie, as a nightmare-prone kid who was super attached to my mom, both of these episodes hit me hard too. I can’t watch either of them without getting a little misty-eyed.

In a more general sense, and regarding different family structures and dynamics, secondary characters like Judo, Winton, and the Terrier brothers are all shown with single parents. Rusty’s dad is in the army and, as a result, away on deployment for long stretches of time. But none of these things are made out to be a show or a spectacle or something bizarre, just a fact of life: different kids come from different backgrounds. I can guarantee that if a same-sex couple were to be introduced, it would be in a way that feels natural, like one of Bluey’s or Bingo’s classmates saying “My mums/dads are here to pick me up!”

Humour and Art-Related Ramblings

The character designs are simple and memorable. They have extremely expressive faces and movements despite being made of basic shapes like rectangles and ovals. The animation is smooth and fluid while embracing the “cartoony-ness” of being a cartoon. Everything is colourful but not to the point where it feels like a rainbow exploded on your screen. The backgrounds are simple, but not TOO simple, and many settings are nods to actual places in and around Brisbane.

Joff Bush and anyone he collaborates with on the soundtrack can convey everything from the beauty of nature to a boring workday via music alone, whether through arrangements of classical and folk music or original pieces. Bush isn’t afraid to use a variety of instruments, from a delicate music box in “Charades” and “Mount Mumandad” to a rambling banjo in “Grandad” and everything in between.

The humour is amazing, especially for children’s media. There are a few jokes that are clearly aimed at the adults in the room, like Bandit’s Polaroid camera going off in “Bob Bilby” when Chilli arrives with her tandem bike, or his discussion with Fido about getting a vasectomy/neutered in the original cut of “Perfect.” Bingo innocently asks Bandit questions about where babies come from in “Takeaway” and “Daddy Putdown,” though he always dodges the questions. “Dad Baby” is all about the struggles of pregnancy from the perspective of Bandit carrying Bingo in an old baby harness and it’s frankly hilarious; despite not being a parent myself, I have a nephew and I’m in that magical spot in my twenties where several of my former classmates are having kids left and right. There are well-timed fart jokes (“Daddy Robot,” “Fairies”) and slapstick moments (“Dad Baby,” “Born Yesterday”).

Conclusion

Bluey is a show that people of all ages can watch and learn from. It has heart, humour, and lovable characters. Its natural conflict resolution teaches its audience to be better people through showing rather than telling. It’s a beautiful show and I’m unashamed to watch it as a childfree adult.

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like this for a starter from one of my d.imension 20 muses. specify muse(s) from under the cut, there's a little blurb about each to help:

ayda augefort. half phoenix in her 3rd incarnation. autistic. logical / analytical. owns a library of spells on a pirate island. daughter to the dean of a magical high school.

lady amangeaux. once queen of vegetania, her title was stripped from her once her husband, the king, died. caring, compassionate, and willing to fight for what's right. thoughtful and empathetic, she's trying not to become bitter with the war. has telepathy and can communicate nonverbally.

king amethar. rightful king of candia. man made of rock candy. nearly assassinated. not very good at being king, but he's learning alongside his wife and daughters. good in battle.

prince andhera. prince of air and darkness. awkward, hot, and muscular. done trying to make his mother proud - he's going to make himself and his friends proud, instead.

barry syx. number six of the nine barry clones. lost all of his brother clones to barry nine, who killed everyone but syx. big himbo, but happy to be here. good with guns. cyborg.

cassandra. goddess of doubt and the unknown. unstable. also known as the nightmare king when corrupt. needs followers to stay alive, but can't manage to get many (for obvious reasons).

cody 'night angel' walsh. works at hot topic. into black clothes, satan, and kickass rock music. has a good heart beneath all the spikes and dark colors.

colin provolone. born of the dairy isles. daddy issues. a very loyal himbo who tries to do what's right. did not want to be a part of a war, but destiny had other plans.

delloso de la rue. mistrex of ceremonies at the bloom for over a millennia. needs everything to be perfect. has never enjoyed any of the festivities. has been hiding themself for too long - they're finally ready to show who they really are, and start living.

evan kelmp. wizard going to school for magic, and staving off the dark monsters and magic within him. orphaned, homeless, and a sad boi. bad at making friends, and has a bad temper, but a good heart.

fabian seacaster. son of a famous swashbuckler. pompous and very wealthy. acts as if he's above everyone else, because that's how he was raised. cares about his friends, even if he doesn't say it. has a talking, demonic motorcycle. loves to dance.

garthy o'brien. anasimar pirate and impresariex of the gold gardens. they trade in a lot of fine goods, especially magical items, and are known for their ability to break curses. nonbinary and badass. calm and pretty much unshakable. everyone wants to be with them. a bit of a flirt.

prince gerard. the frog prince. turned human when he married his wife, but cursed to turn back because of his cowardice. has anxiety, but learns how to fight and overcome his fears. still has his frog powers when he's a man once more.

gorgug thirstlespring. half orc. adopted, by gnome parents. emo teenager who likes music. trying to fight better. became an athlete with two of his friends. kind of sad. just wants to belong. now an artificer and builds great stuff, just like his mom and dad.

kingston brown. the man who knows everyone. protector of new york city. do no harm, but take no shit attitude. loves his parents. slow to trust, but loyal once he does. magical. vox populi.

kristen applebees. grew up in a religious home, now constantly questioning her faith and deities. recently found out she's a lesbian. laid back and chill, most of the time. philosophical in nature. smart, but a little clueless. absolutely built. worships the goddess of doubt. running for class president.

kugrash. 5 foot tall rat who travels through the subways of new york to help people struggling with homelessness. friends with santa claus. cares deeply about people and wants the world to change. has the mouth of a sailor, but means well.

pete conlan. also known as 'pete the plug' because he's a drug dealer. uses a lot of his own drugs because of a bad breakup. trans man who is estranged from his family. just learned magic and is absolutely tripping out.

pib. trickster spirit. familiar trapped in animal form due to his keeper dying. mischievous and always ready for a scheme. likes money. loyal as long as he likes you. good heart underneath it all. will change back into a human when he finds someone new to serve, or frees himself.

pinocchio. not a real boy, and never will be. warlock who gets his magic from his strings. used to lie a lot, but he's trying to be better. likes to tell jokes, but isn't the best at it. not very serious. drinks whiskey and eats bubblegum.

riz gukgak. wants to be a detective, so he's always investigating. carries a briefcase wherever he goes. acts too old for his age. drinks a lot of coffee. i'm always willing to take the stress off of his friends.

ruby rocks. one daughter of king amethar. twin to jet rocks. princess, but would rather perform in the circus. wants to be a part of the people and help them. has wild ambitions. practitioner of magical tricks.

sandra lynn faeth. fig's mother. has issues keeping partners. brave and willing to protect the kids at any cost. 100% mom coded, down to the mom jeans. great with a bow. has a griffon familiar.

theobald gumbar. a giant, pink gummy bear. knight of candia. loyal to the house of rocks. good in battle, not the best at casual conversation, but he's learning. will fight until the death, if needed. needs to relax a little bit.

[ashwhowrites]

heyyyy hope ur doing good. ik i very rarely come on here and it’s usually to ask advice but i need some on this new situation. so basically i’ve been talking to this guy and we have some classes together but he’s a very joking type of person and we have this fake mean typa vibe going on even though we are friends. we kinda started talking a couple of weeks ago and he’s said some things that are definitely flirty (like he saw me when he was coming out of another lecture and i hadn’t been in in a while due to sickness and he called my name and was all like “omg i actually missed you so much i just looked at ur empty seat in lit all week”) and over text too (like when i messaged him “hey fuckwit” (it’s how i flirt) and he responded w “hey babe” (IT MADE ME START KICKING MY FEET SCREAMING INTO MY PILLOW LIKE A FUCKING BOY OBSESSED TEEN GIRL)). the only thing is that i can’t 100% tell if he actually likes me like that or is just joking?? i mean he always talks to me when he sees me and he always asks me questions and talks ab stuff i say to his friends (they actually take everything so seriously though which kinda sucks bc i have a habit of saying “suck my strap on” bc so many dickheads had to ruin “suck my dick” w U dOnT hAvE a DiCk and they told half the fucking campus i have a strap on but ig it could be worse). he also says cute shit like this one time he was being annoying but like in his own hot way and i told him to suck my dick and he said “u don’t have a dick” so i said “eat my pussy then” and he literally shouted bc we were going in different directions “will u marry me” and i told him to get a ring and he said he would so now it’s like an inside joke us calling each other husband and wife and i said goodnight my annoying husband over text and he responded “love you too” WHICH WAS LIKE AJDJDJD. also one of my friends who is incredibly immature and has the vocabulary of a 12 yr old boy said “is this rizz you and __” when we were talking and he literally went bright fucking red and got even redder when he was like “ooh ur blushing ur going redd” . he also stares at me a lot?? and like notices everything like i can’t bring a different flask to lectures without him quizzing me on it. ig i’m just worried he doesn’t like me like that and he thinks it’s just a joke or something? i’m autistic so i’m rlly not good w tone and reading ppls intentions. anyway thanks for reading my rambling and apologies for how long this is

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Honestly, the only thing you can really do is talk to him about it.

He does seem interested from my end, but boys are tough. I'd definitely talk to him about it, maybe clear the air if he has any truth behind his jokes.

I wish you the best of luck

[thatdamnmutt-exe]

My OC List <3

So probably no one cares, but I wanted to make a list consisting of all my OCs! I absolutely love making OCs for all of my main fixations! These are a lot of the OCs I will be using to write oneshots with!

Disclaimer: I am no artist at all, so I did use bases from photos that I have found online and have made my own character from that! When I get a chance, I will credit the artist when I find them again, until then, I would like to say that they get full credit for the bases!

(Some of the characters are still in development, they will be updated as time goes on.)

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Representative OCs <3

• Name: Salem Grey (Will probably get a redesign later on) • Age: 21 • Height: 5’5 • Species: Hybrid - Human / Saint Pyrenees • Gender: Masc Enby - He/It • Sexuality: Aromantic / Pansexual / Poly • Ethnicity: White • Relationship: Happily married to his wife. (Will put her oc in soon. Based on my irl wife @alastorradiodemon99)

• Family: 1.) 1 Mom 2.) 1 Dad 3.) 1 Step dad 4.) 1 Little Sister 5.) 1 Little Brother

• Likes: 1.) Music and video games are his favorite 2.) Loves to design photos, videos, websites, homes- anything that he can add his own touch to he loves 3.) Really loves art- mainly art with a darker meaning. 4.) Museums and coffee are the way to his heart 5.) Loves the night and cloudy days over sunny days 6.) Rain and thunderstorms 7.) Absolutely adores animals 8.) Loves to volunteer at animal shelters 9.) Loves to read and write 10.) Loves lazy days

• Dislikes: 1.) Hates bugs- especially dragonflies and spiders 2.) Hates getting wet / Large bodies of water 3.) Greasy and Sticky textures 4.) Hates feeling like no one is listening to him or his point of view 5.) Rude / Entitled / Mindless People. 6.) Whipped cream on coffee. It's an abomination 7.) His stuff being messed with or put out of place. 8.) Cottage Cheese. Everything about it is horrible. 9.) Hot days and just hot environments. They make him angry. 10.) Mornings. Absolutely not a morning person.

• Personality: 1.) Is naturally a quiet, introverted person. Only really talking and being noisy with people he's fully comfortable with. 2.) Hits his weed pen like it's a vape anytime he's not working or not busy doing things. 3.) He has a strong sense of justice and will not allow intolerance against things he doesn't like. 4.) He is a nihilist, but not in the depression way. He knows there's not point in life so he made it his mission to exist for others. 5.) He doesn't really care for himself and will put others needs above himself. 6.) Gets hyperfocused on anything that catches his attention. Especially if it involves his special interests. 7.) Autism. Autistic as fuck. Sleeps in a bed tent with mounds of blankets, stuffies, and pillows. 8.) He is an absolute pushover and simp for his wife. He worships the ground she walks on. 9.) He is a spender, but is working on that. He can't help spending his money on oversized clothes, blankets, things for his pets, and anything for his wife. 10.) Needs down time away from people or he will become easily overstimulated and lash out.

• Personal Secrets: 1.) Doesn't really let people know that he struggles with reality. Can't tell what's real sometimes. 2.) He feels guilt everyday for a multitude of things, but never wants to bother people with it. 3.) Doesn't let anyone know the extent of how bad his anger can get. He doesn't want people to see that side of him, nor does he himself. 4.) Doesn't want people to know that he struggles with internal thoughts of wondering if he really is a good person or someone who acts that way to get what he wants. 5.) He's ashamed to admit to himself that he doesn't have a family. His image of family is so screwed up that he just feels like he doesn't have a family connection. His siblings are the only thing he could consider 'family'.

---- "A shadow dancing on the edge of oblivion." ----

• Name: Cemetery • Age: Around 25ish. Age isn’t a thing within sharks •Height: 5’5 • Gender: Intersex - Prefers the masculine terms. (He/They) • Sexuality: Unlabeled. Just happy to be included. • Species: Tiger Shark Hybrid • Ethnicity: White • Partner: Trevor Philips (In a self representation way. Not canon to the game.)

• Family: 1.) Unknown

• Likes: 1.) Outer Space 2.) Dancing - In his words ‘it’s like swimming’ 3.) Slow / Happy music. 4.) Fascinated by art & neon lights 5.) Minecraft / Animal Crossing / The Sims 6.) Loves to learn to cook and bake 7.) Salt and Vinegar chips are his favorite food 8.) LOVES large stuffed animals 9.) Loves big, fluffy blankets 10.) Oversized hoodies are a must

• Dislikes: 1.) Loud noises due to sensitive ears 2.) Pudding 3.) Dry heat. Hard on his gills 4.) Puzzles / Riddles 5.) Jello 6.) Peanut Butter - Hates how it feels on his teeth 7.) Big cities. He likes the lights from afar, but otherwise cities are too busy and too loud for him. 8.) He hates messes even though he makes them half the time. 9.) Mornings. Hates waking up early. 10.) POP ROCKS- ALMOST HAD A MELTDOWN OVER EM

• Personality: 1.) He is overly sweet. He's new to the human world so he's naturally nice to everyone he meets. 2.) Ditzy. Very ditzy and bit of a space cadet. 3.) He does come off as dumb and immature, but he's a quick learner and is quite smart. 4.) One of his favorite things to do is to decorate. Will try to decorate EVERYTHING. If it could be a love language, it would be his second main one, behind physical touch. 5.) Is overly clingy without realizing. He always has to be touching his favorite people when he's with them. 6.) He's very respectful of peoples' boundaries - they just may need to remind him whenever he messes up with the touching. He does it without realizing. 7.) Has an unusual obsession with cats. 8.) Very oblivious 9.) For the most part- he's overly positive and just overall a happy person. 10.) He's overly dependent on Trevor. Since Trevor was the first human he's met and since he shown them kindness, he clings to Trevor a lot.

• Personal Secrets 1.) Keeps how whole life backstory quiet (Otherwise he's pretty open about everything else)

• Headcannons: 1.) Absolutely forces Trevor to make him a blanket and pillow fort and makes them sleep in it for a week straight before Trevor refuses because his back can't handle it anymore. 2.) He has a love hate relationship with horror movies - he enjoys watching them but hates getting scared. 3.) Has a whole life inside of The Sims dedicated to his life with Trevor. 4.) He will force Trevor to play Minecraft with them. He makes Trevor get all the stuff they need to live while he just decorates their home. 5.) Constantly begging Trevor for a pet cat.

---- "There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness." ----

• Name: Nesryn Rose • Age: 180 - Born 1845 • Height: 5'8 • Gender: Trans Man - He/Him • Sexuality: Demisexual • Species: Vampire • Ethnicity: British

• Family: 1.) Dead

• Likes: 1.) 2.) 3.) 4.) 5.) 6.) 7.) 8.) 9.) 10.)

• Dislikes: 1.) 2.) 3.) 4.) 5.) 6.) 7.) 8.) 9.) 10.)

• Personality: 1.) 2.) 3.) 4.) 5.) 6.) 7.) 8.) 9.) 10.)

• Personal Secrets: 1.) 2.) 3.) 4.) 5.)

---- "An eye for an eye, mother." ----

Fursonas <3

• Name: Jynx Cypher • Age: Ageless • Height: Changes height - Main Height is 5’3 • Species: Shadow/Demon Dragon - Mainecoon Cat Mix • Gender: Nonbinary (He/It/They) • Sexuality: Aromantic / Pansexual / Poly

• Family: 1.) 2 Siblings

• Likes: 1.) Music / Art. 2.) History / Visiting Museums. 3.) Loves video games. 4.) Loves to collect stuffies, gaming consoles, and music. 5.) His favorite thing to do with someone is to cuddle and watch a show. 6.) Loves to learn about new things that finds interesting to the extreme. 7.) Loves the night and going on walks late at night. 8.) Brings him most happiness when people remember small things about him or learn about his interests. 9.) He likes to steal snacks 10.) He loves helping the underlings learn to fly or learn new things about their species.

• Dislikes: 1.) People who talk to much or try to bring him into pointless conversations. 2.) People who don’t even try to understand both sides 3.) Hates when people don’t respect his boundaries about touching his ears and tail. 4.) Tired of hearing the same shit about his symbols 5.) Ironically hates fire. 6.) Hates bugs 7.) Hates when people try to put stereotypes onto others 8.) Can’t stand big groups of people. 9.) Hates seeing art and music be disrespected. 10.) Hates when people mistake his pride for an ego.

• Personality: 1.) Mostly a quiet and introverted dragon but loud and proud for the things he believes in. 2.) Is strong minded and stubborn. 3.) He finds comfort in the darkness and the more ‘evil’ side of people. ex. lust, greed, pride, gluttony. basically the 7 sins. 4.) He relies heavily on his demons and deities/gods/goddesses. He serves them so of course he relies on them. 5.) He enjoys some fashion- both the masculine and feminine side of it. 6.) Always has the latest knowledge on the demon realms. 7.) Always has a pair of headphones or earbuds on him. 8.) Has random bursts of energy at random points in the day or during times his favorite things are mentioned. 9.) He takes a lot of priority in his tail and wings, he keeps them clean and soft. 10.) Has sensory issues which cause some issues within his line of work but manages to work through it.

• Personal Secrets: 1.) He’s terrified of people finding out the real him. 2.) Keeps his shape-shifting a secret because his mainecoon cat form is weak and vulnerable. 3.) He doesn’t look it, but he’s secretly trained in the dark arts of magick and other dangerous things. 4.) Doesn’t want anyone to know how many people he’s killed. 5.) He knows his real parents and what they’ve done to him and his siblings but refuses to tell his siblings.

---- "Not all demons live in Hell." ----

Fallout OCs <3

• Name: Ren Sherwood • Age: 26 • Height: 5'8 • Gender: Trans Man - He/Him • Sexuality: Gay • Species: Human • Ethnicity: White • Partner: Robert MacCreedy & John Hancock

• Family: 1.) A son, Shaun

· Likes: 1.) The Silver Shroud 2.) Comic Books 3.) Animals - Mainly Dogs 4.) Reading SiFi / Nonfiction history books 5.) Learning what happened in the last 200 years while he was frozen 6.) Frank Sinatra & Dion Music 7.) Swords - Loves to collect them 8.) Children - In a normal way! 9.) Games on his pip boy 10.) Blanco mac and cheese  11.) People who take him seriously and don’t try to baby him because he struggles with the world around him 12.) People who treat him like a person and don’t judge him because he struggles with empathy 13.) Info dumping on things he likes

• Dislikes: 1.) Getting wet 2.) Radscorpions / Any giant bug 3.) His now dead wife 4.) Sugar bombs. The sugar make his teeth feel weird 5.) People who try to change him 6.) Hates small / enclosed spaces - especially metro tunnels 7.) Vault-Tec 8.) Hates the classical radio 9.) Hates being seen as a horrible person because he struggles with empathy 10.) Hates when people try to tell him that he needs to care more 11.) Hates the Brotherhood because they spread lies 12.) Uneducated people

• Personality: 1.) He is autistic. 2.) He rarely feels empathy. Only feels it with people he's really close with, children, and animals 3.) Struggles with showing emotions- most of the time he's really blunt 4.) He is very blunt and doesn't see how that can come off as rude at times 5.) He's good at being sarcastic but has a hard time sensing sarcasm with others 6.) He does lack emotions- they are there, but they're very bland.  7.) Takes everything literally 8.) Does get overstimulated easily with bad textures, tense missions, and the amount of people around him. 9.) Hates touch. Only allows it with three people. 10.) He doesn’t sleep much, he has trouble sleeping so he gets about 8-5 hours of sleep every few days.  11.) Struggles helping others with issues because of the disconnect he has with emotions. He’s only really good at connecting with things that also lack emotion 12.) He is very thankful and does deeply love his partners who are patient with him and help him navigate the world. He just struggles to show it often. 

• Personal Secrets: 1.) No one knows what his dead wife has done to him 2.) No one knows that he was in an arranged marriages 3.) No one besides Hancock & MacCready know that he’s trans 4.) No one knows his backstory 5.) Secretly hates his son because he reminds him of his dead wife

---- "I'll give you war." ----

• Name: Fox Wilder • Age: Presents 25 - Is 235 • Height: 5’10 • Gender: Male - He/Him • Sexuality: Bisexual • Species: Human • Ethnicity: White • Partner: Nick Valentine

• Family: 1.) Has a son, Shaun

• Likes: 1.) Making weapons 2.) Collecting melee weapons 3.) Collecting cute clothes 4.) Decorating settlements 5.) His detective boyfriend 6.) Researching the creatures of the wasteland 7.) Exploring the ruined towns 8.) 9.) 10.)

• Dislikes: 1.) 2.) 3.) 4.) 5.) 6.) 7.) 8.) 9.) 10.)

• Personality: 1.) 2.) 3.) 4.) 5.) 6.) 7.) 8.) 9.) 10.)

• Personal Secrets: 1.) 2.) 3.) 4.) 5.)

---- "Don't bleed on my floor." ----

Skyrim OCs <3

• Name: Nyxis Eclipse • Age: 32 • Height: 5'7 • Gender: Woman - She/Her • Sexuality: Man-Hating Lesbian • Species: Dragonborn - Alduin's bloodline. • Ethnicity: White || Race: Nord • Partner: Serana

• Family: 1.) Murdered

• Likes: 1.) 2.) 3.) 4.) 5.) 6.) 7.) 8.) 9.) 10.)

• Dislikes: 1.) Men. Anything about them. 2.) 3.) 4.) 5.) 6.) 7.) 8.) 9.) 10.)

• Personality: 1.) 2.) 3.) 4.) 5.) 6.) 7.) 8.) 9.) 10.)

• Personal Secrets: 1.) 2.) 3.) 4.) 5.)

---- "I will not forgive, and I will not forget." ----

• Name: Kalix Thane • Age: 29 • Height: 6'0 • Gender: Trans Man - He/Him • Sexuality: Unlabeled. He just likes who he likes. • Species: Dragonborn • Race: Kahjit • Partner: Cicero

• Family: 1.)

• Likes: 1.) 2.) 3.) 4.) 5.) 6.) 7.) 8.) 9.) 10.)

• Dislikes: 1.) 2.) 3.) 4.) 5.) 6.) 7.) 8.) 9.) 10.)

• Personality: 1.) 2.) 3.) 4.) 5.) 6.) 7.) 8.) 9.) 10.)

• Personal Secrets: 1.) 2.) 3.) 4.) 5.)

---- "I am an instrument of chaos." ----

Red Dead Redemption OCs <3

• Name: Finnian Kilgore • Age: 26 - 5/16/1872 • Height: 5’7 • Gender: Trans Man (He/Him) • Sexuality: Demisexual/romantic

• Family: 1.) Dead

• Likes: 1.) Music / Art. 2.) Running from the law 3.) Loves his horses more than anything else 4.) Loves collecting random things on his adventures like skulls, bones, plans, feathers. 5.) He loves clothes, and even making some for his horses. 6.) Loves keeping a journal of all the animals and plants he sees 7.) Loves the night and going on walks late at night. 8.) Robbing trains are his favorite crimes to help with, bounties being second. 9.) He loves learning the bow and mastering it. 10.) He likes to hear the begging from the most disgusting human beings before he kills them. He likes making them feel the fear they’ve inflicted on the innocent.

• Dislikes: 1.) When his horses are put in harms way or people harm them. 2.) He hates basically hates all the gangs around because they’re all the time and they’re all killing with no purpose. 3.) When he joins the Van Der Linde Gang, he hates Micah. Reminds him of his father so he just doesn’t tolerate him. 4.) Hates the city of Saint Denis but spends a lot of time there because it’s easy to rob people there. 5.) Due to his past, he hates being touched by random people or people he barely knows. 6.) He hates overly hot days, they overwhelm him. 7.) Can’t stand the sight of puke or being anywhere around it. 8.) He hates strong, grotesque smells. 9.) He hates teas because they all taste watered down. He also basically lives off coffee. 10.) He hates smoking and any tobacco product.

• Personality: 1.) Mostly a quiet and introverted- prefers to keep to himself. 2.) Is strong minded and stubborn. 3.) Once he sets his mind on something, he does it and he does it very well. He also does something after repeatedly told no. He just can’t stand being underestimated. 4.) He does believe in revenge and it consumes him at times. 5.) He is mostly mute, only really speaking in private to his most trusted people. 6.) Endless amount of knowledge on horses and nature around him. 7.) He has a strong sense of character and knows when not to trust someone. 8.) He’s not the strongest due to his size and knows this, he instead uses stealth and knowledge to his advantage. 9.) Just because he isn’t the strongest, that doesn’t mean he’s not good in a fight. He’s been fighting all his life so he has good reflexes and knows how to defend himself. 10.) He takes most pride in his appearance and how he carries himself.

• Personal Secrets: 1.) He’s terrified of people finding out about him being trans 2.) His whole past is kept a secret from others as he afraid of judgement and backlash. 3.) Feels like he’s the reason his mother died 4.) Doesnt want anyone to know that he kind of just wants to die. 5.) Doesn’t let anyone know that the reason he loves going on robberies or any risky job is because of the rush and possibility of him getting kia.

• Extra Facts: 1.) Tennessee Whiskey is his and Dutch’s song 2.) He has a strong sense of morals. He has no issue killing people who have wronged him, or killing people who have done bad things. 3.) His weapon of choice is the bow- earning the nickname ‘Quick Draw’. He was fast, people report not even seeing him reload the bow before shooting. 4.) He is one of the fastest outlaws- completing most of his crimes within minutes. 5.) He would spend days away from his parents- just to get away from his father. He loved his life of crime, he was able to stay away from his father and live dangerously 6.) Johnny Cash is his idol- that music is literally his life. He deeply respects Johnny Cash- (Johnny Cash exists in this time frame because I said so.)

• Quirks: 1.) He has nervous ticks- neck cracking, finger snapping, making clicking noises.

---- "The chains are broken, but are you really free?" ----

(Not my character- just kind of an idea of what she's going to look like when I can make her.) • Name: Evie ‘Devine’ Palmer • Age: 37 • Height: 5’10 • Gender: Female (She /Her) • Sexuality: Lesbian • Species: Human • Ethnicity: Spaniard • Partner: Molly O'Shea

• Family: 1.) Dead

• Likes: 1.) 2.) 3.) 4.) 5.) 6.) 7.) 8.) 9.) 10.)

• Dislikes: 1.) 2.) 3.) 4.) 5.) 6.) 7.) 8.) 9.) 10.)

• Personality: 1.) 2.) 3.) 4.) 5.) 6.) 7.) 8.) 9.) 10.)

• Personal Secrets: 1.) 2.) 3.) 4.) 5.)

---- "It's pointless to fight when your life is in my hands." ----

Helluva Boss OCs <3

• Name: Kazmir aka “Kash” • Age: 36 • Height: 5’4 • Gender: Male : He/Him • Sexuality: Pansexual • Species: Imp / Feathered Dragon Hybrid • Ethnicity: • Partner: Andrealphus • Voice Claim: Shaw from Open Season.

• Family: 1.) Half brother - Striker

• Likes: 1.) Training. He grew up doing training drills of all types. 2.) He enjoys taking lives- it helps release stress and anger. 3.) Having the element of surprise when it comes to attacks. He’s mainly stealth and speed. 4.) Collecting sharp weapons. He had a large collection of knives, axes, spears, and daggers. 5.) Organization and schedule. It’s an absolute must. 6.) Unironically- loved romcoms. 7.) Challenges. He’s the type of person that needs to be challenged and always loves to up his skills. 8.) His guilty pleasure are children’s cartoons. 9.) Jazz / Slow music. 10.) Going out to a bunch of bars with his crew members.

• Dislikes: 1.) Can’t stand using guns unless the job absolutely calls for it. 2.) Miscommunication. It’s unnecessarily annoying and causes too many issues. 3.) Royals. Hates how most of them look down on lesser demons. 4.) Hates to be seen only as 5.) His brother. 6.) Sloppy and messy people - it’s a wonder how he works with blitzø. 7.) Hates staying still. He always has to be doing something. 8.) Has a lot of pride so he hates being wrong. 9.) He cannot stand being out of control. He will spiral. 10.) Disrespect. Doesn’t care who you are, you disrespect him or those he considers close to him- he will not hold back.

• Personality: 1.) For the most part, he has a good hold on his emotions and is able to stay level headed in stressful situations. but if you know his triggers, he will fly off the handle so easily. 2.) He’s normally a quiet person, only really being a smart mouth during missions. Also when he’s been drinking and is flirting. 3.) Speed is his main strength. Often being described as ‘faster than sound’. 4.) Since he’s lean and nimble, he’s able to sneak into and slither around small areas and use it to his advantage. 5.) He’s mainly the one that makes sure that everyone at the office doesn’t die or let them set the building on fire. Basically keeps everyone in line. 6.) He is blind due to his dragon genes. But he’s still able to kind of ‘see’ with a form of echolocation. His hearing is very good and can hear just about anything in a 400ft radius. 7.) He’s very intuitive and intelligent. He’s usually very good at reading people and can tell their intentions. 8.) He loves to mess with people. Mind games, small pranks, and white lies. Both just for fun and to get what he wants. 9.) He’s learned to appreciate the small things in life. 10.) His main hobby in his spare time is crafting knife handles and new blades.

• Powers: 1.) His powers come from his dragon side as imps hold none. He doesn’t haven’t overpowering abilities or anything super intense as his dragon side has been pasted down through a lot of generations. They slowly grew less and less as his family mated with other demons. 2.) The dragon in his genetics are light dragons. They are blind but are blessed with the power called ‘the sight’. They hear tremendously well and the sound kind of highlights an outline of the object as they make noise. 3.) Super speed. 4.) Has healing abilities. Quick healing himself and can heal others with his tail by placing it on their chests. 5.) Shadow domain. He is able to release a huge cloud of pure white smoke. He uses it to hide his companions in battle and can allow them to see attackers.

• Personal Secrets: 1.) His relationship with Andrealphus is kept hidden from basically everyone. 2.) He keeps his history a secret from everyone. He didn’t like that they found out he was related to Striker, because he had to reveal a lot more than he was comfortable with. 3.) He’s ashamed of his brother. 4.) No one knows the extent of his powers besides him and striker. 5.) Does not want Millie to know to know that feels like his life is forever indicted to her. She grounded him and helped him embrace parts of him old self with his new self.

---- "You have no idea how much pain and poison run through my vains." ----

Gravity Falls OCs <3

• Name: Charletta Corduroy • Age: 28 • Height: 5’2 • Gender: Woman (She/They) • Sexuality: Bisexual • Species: Human • Ethnicity / Race: White / American • Partner(s): Stanley Pines

• Family: 1.) Oldest sibling in the Corduroy family.

• Likes: 1.) Keeping diaries of plants and other oddities around Gravity Falls. Nothing like Stanford- just observing. 2.) Plants. Oh my god absolutely loves plants. 3.) Loves hanging with the twins when she goes over to see Stan 4.) Besties with Sues 5.) Loves to go fishing with Stan 6.) Loves to play dress up with Mabel 7.) Loves to talk about books and the journals with Dipper 8.) Books and learning how to make drinks is a favorite hobby 9.) Isn’t forced to work at the Mystery Shack, but she likes helping 10.) Loves to design and make outfits for Waddles

• Dislikes: 1.) HAAAAATES ROBBY WITH HER SISTER 2.) Hates when bugs land in her- she likes them from afar. 3.) Hates soda. Hates the carbonation 4.) Hates when Stan makes comments about how bad marriage is. She will make him regret it. (not in a good way) 5.) Dislikes how Stan lies to his customers, but she knows better than try and fix that. 6.) Hates the heat. Makes sure everyone knows about it if she’s too hot. 7.) Hates dirty places- and feeling dirty. She’s always clean. 8.) Absolutely adores the rain, but absolutely hates the thunder. 9.) Just absolutely hates loud noise in general 10.) Hates seeing her little sister upset in any way.

• Personality: 1.) She’s been described as a sweetheart with a temper. 2.) She can be fiery and stubborn, she stands on her shit. 3.) She’s no procrastinator, she always get shit done. 4.) She kind of keeps Stan on track with a lot of things. 5.) She likes to spend a lot of time in the library. Her favorite thing to read is nonfiction books. 6.) 7.) 8.) 9.) 10.)

• Personal Secrets: 1.) 2.) 3.) 4.) 5.)

---- "She's a badass with a big heart." ----

What We Do In The Shadows OCs <3

• Name: Blythe Nevermoore • Age: 589 - Turned at 26 • Height: Masc/Main Form: 5’9 | Fem Form: 5’3 • Gender: Nonbinary ! They/They (Prefers masc compliments overall) • Sexuality: Aromantic ! Pansexual ! Poly • Species: Vampire - Shapeshifter • Relationship(s): Nandor's husband | Has sexual relationships with Laszlo & Nadja (The vampires all fuck but have their main partners) • Ethnicity / Race: British ! White

• Family: 1.) No bio family

• Likes: 1.) Enjoys talking shit with Nadja 2.) Loves to watch Laszlo do science projects, only to watch them fail 3.) Loves to prank the others in the group, especially Guillermo 4.) Absolutely adores Guillermo and finds him adorable 5.) Loves to make blood / skeleton jewelry 6.) Loves music, and is deep in the music history 7.) Big into anything that is victorian goth. 8.) Loves to spend downtime decorating the house 9.) Loves to collect bones, crystals, and rocks. 10.) Loves to study nature and all the animals & plants.

• Dislikes: 1.) Doesn’t mind technology, but hates television 2.) Absolutely hates ‘live laugh love’ signs and anything like that 3.) Sometimes hates how oblivious their husband can be 4.) Hates that no one else in the house wants a pet 5.) 6.) 7.) 8.) 9.) 10.)

• Personality: 1.) 2.) 3.) 4.) 5.) 6.) 7.) 8.) 9.) 10.)

• Personal Secrets: 1.) 2.) 3.) 4.) 5.)

---- "Only a vampire can love you forever." ----

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My OCs Part Two <3

[fanfic-gremlin-ft-trauma]

thank u for the tag aaa!! these games r so fun

1.) Zuko (Atla): sighhhhh yes I know he’s the heartthrob awkward angst dark haired boy I knowww. but!! I don’t like him for the same reasons you like him!! I like him bc he’s a dork and has a huge heart and an amazing character arcs and is!! just sixteen!! also he’s hopelessly in love with his best friend. like. same dude.

2.) Eda (Toh): she’s a milf, she’s insane, she cares about her kids, she has a dope partner who I’d literally give the world to, she was a pirate that one time, she kicks ass, she’s disabled, etc. etc. easy favourite I love her sm <333

3.)Reki (Sk8 the infinity): my baby boy my love my sunshine he’s sooooo amazing and I adore him. he’s just so excited about his passion?? and felt so distraught and devastated when someone was better than him so quickly even though he put so many years and so much effort into it?? he’s so me it’s not even funny. and he’s an ENFP. samesies. I would give him anything. (and renga is probably my favourite ship across the fandoms.)

4.)Legolas (lotr): sighhhhhh I wish I could say it’s for his character or wit or his sense of duty or his heart of gold or the fact that he shoots a bow and arrow but. I am but a simpleton. I see pretty boy with long blond hair and I fall.

5.) Entrapta (spop): she just like me fr!!! I adore her I adore her mind the fact that she loves science and robots the fact that she’s canonically autistic the fact that she has her own character and struggles and isn’t treated like a joke the fact that. Id literally give her the moon and sun my soul my body my mind.

6.)Remus Lupin (hp): look. we don’t speak of jkr here but!! I am specifically talking about marauders fandom Remus. He’s so important to me he’s a sweetheart he’s a bitch I love him. the fact that he’s imperfect the fact that he’s literally comfort the person the fact that his cure to everything is chocolate. I’d die for him actually. I’m so serious about him in fact.

7.)Bucky Barnes (mcu): he’s my guy forever!! went through hell like 5 times, mr. fucked by the narrative, pretty boy long hair (when he had it rip) dark past hard demeanour huge softie inside? what more could I ask for. he perfect. he amazing. i love he.

8.) Vi (arcane): again. I wish I could say it’s for her complicated past her instinct to protect her loyalty her heart. but…. she’s just… so hot. I’m sorry 😭 she has an UNDERCUT and TATTOOS and PIERCINGS and IS VOICED BY HAILEE STEINFELD. what are you asking me to ignore that?? like no??

9.)Harley Quinn (DCU): she’s insane, she’s a badass, she has a hot wife who makes plants, she’s a people pleaser, she’s a psychologist, she was fucked over so many times, she’s a wildcard. she’s my favourite forever.

10.)Tori Spring (Osemanverse): she’s imperfect, she’s depressed, she has anxiety, she’s lost the will to live, she’s cold, she doesn’t know how to have friends, she doesn’t know how to keep friends, she struggles every day, no one can ‘handle her’, she’s a mess. I love her.

tagging: @ash-and-starlight @electro-strike-zukka-time @please-dont-burn-out @ambriel-angstwitch @autistic-katara @kiki-strike @zukkaturtleduck @zukkaart @ozais-lobotomist @sukiluvvs @strrwbrrryjam <- oops if you’ve already done this/been tagged and only join if you feel like it <33

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This is cool, thanks for the tag @transuncletaylor! I think I just talk about my faves right? I know I’m forgetting some but here goes

Sokka (ATLA) : he’s so funny and interesting and his character is So Deep actually! I love a guy with Secret Issues. Must be relatable I guess.

Mako (LOK) : You’re going to start seeing I have a type. Hot, bad boy vibes, seems reckless but has a huge sense of justice actually. Also I LOVE a mysterious and tragic backstory.

Jim Kirk (Star Trek) : I mean the exact same reasons as above pretty much.

Jack Kelly (Newsies) : same hehe. I just love these guys of questionable sexuality who are like a leader of a found family and would do ANYTHING to protect them.

Marius Pontmercy (Les Miserables) : he’s annoying af and doesn’t get the point of anything going on around him but he knows exactly what he stands for. So relatable. His hyperfixation with Napoleon for entirely stupid reasons? Iconic. What a king. Living through a tragedy too? I’m attracted to that angst like flies on shit.

Tommy Shelby (Peaky Blinders) : He’s just badass. The best antihero. He says fuck capitalism and then falls victim to it lol. Also he is a GENIUS and loves to fuck people up to protect his family. Also his trauma is delicious to me ofc.

Geralt of Rivia (The Witcher) : Mysterious hero with pain and a family. So yeah.

Roronoa Zoro (One Piece) : I mean pretty much the same as the majority of this list. Tough guy who would die for his captain omfg

Han Solo (Star Wars) : the og baddie, need I say more

Anya Forger (Spy x Family) : listen it creeps ME out too that a little girl is on the list of me, a grown ass man, but she’s SO funny and her cuteness reminds me of like every student I ever had, I can’t help it

ok idk if y’all figured out but I just tag people by typing letters and clicking the first people who show up lol. Anyway if I dont tag you and you wanna do this, go for it. If I tag you and you don’t want to do this, fine.

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My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

that stupid fuckign red piece of silk is gonna make its way to stede i swear to god. the logic in this show doesnt make sense we know it doesnt. its possible. ed just threw it out into the wind. stedes gonna fish it out of the ocean with his oar and Know that he needs to get back because something is wrong. he's gonna dry it out and press it and do tiny little needlework repairs on it and fold it neatly back into a pocket square for ed, taking care of his washed up, thrown away little heart and making it whole again. not because ed asked him to but because he wants to. and ed's gonna see that people care about him, even after everything he's done. and it's gonna be okay again.

12,649 notes - Posted March 25, 2022

#4

tracy chapman really unlocked something with fast car. you cant listen to fast car without Feeling. every person who has ever and will ever listen to fast car has felt the same feeling as every other person who has or will listen to it. fast car is an experience. it should be listed in the dsm5. felt too much while listening to fast car.

17,457 notes - Posted June 24, 2022

#3

its actually kind of funny to think about the fact that stede didnt know he was gay. because bestie ur whole crew is. im like 98% sure lucius has tried to suck stede's dick at least once. everyone's limp wristing all over the place. you're flying pride flags baby. queer people flock to each other. who else is "uncomfortable in a married state" and leaves their rich wife and kids to be a pirate. literally only gay people. what did you THINK you were doing stede.

26,976 notes - Posted April 3, 2022

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My #1 post of 2022

love the way david jenkins refuses to apologize for shit just not making sense. how do they get places so quickly? doesnt matter. why is ed wearing full leather wouldnt he be sweating like hell? oh yeah it'd be awful to be a pirate in that, but it's hot, next question. he does not hesitate to just be like. eh who gives a shit. they're in love, who cares about how the boat got there. it's all fake anyway. here watch taika and rhys kiss.

51,946 notes - Posted March 25, 2022

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Tom Hardy Movies rated least to most queer

I made a list of some Tom Hardy movies and I rated them based on my own, non-specific criteria about what makes a movie queer. Results below the cut.

(Some films not included, because I haven’t watched them yet, because Mr Hardy’s only in them for a few minutes, because the subject matter doesn’t lend itself to this list, or because I just don’t want’em here. TV series also not included. The list is organised into both groups and ratings, because I’m doing The Most.)

Movies are divided into four groups and rated from 0 – 10 on the Queer-Scale, scroll down to the bottom if you want the ratings without the commentary.

Disclaimer: This list is subjective. Don’t come at me because I didn’t rate Inception higher, Nolan himself is as queer as cargo shorts. 

1. This movie would make more sense if it were queer

If this movie were queer it… might not become a perfect film all of a sudden, but it’d make a hell of a lot more sense than what’s actually going on. With an occasional dose of “are the cis-straights okay?”

This Means War (2012): So Chris Pine and Tom Hardy are ostensibly both in love with Reese Witherspoon, but say “I love you” to each other pretty much constantly throughout the movie and their friendship is often presented as a domestic partnership. Cool, cool, cooool.

Queer Rating: 2 out of 10. This movie hate-crimed me by having Tom Hardy literally spell out his relationship with Chris Pine, only for the script to then have him say… “can you imagine all that… but with a woman…” Later on the movie explicitly denies polyamory is possible. Fuck this film.

The Dark Knight Rises (2012): Batman movies should always be queer. Mr. Hardy’s the only one who acceptably camps it up, despite Nolan’s best attempts to make him “acceptably gruff.” No matter what you do, Bane is a massive daddy in a mask and thanks to Mr Hardy’s honestly iconic fucking speech pattern in this film, it goes from pretty atrociously straight to just queer enough to imagine a future where Robert Pattinson plays batman and maybe adopts a bunch of kids.

(the only truly decent mask in this franchise tbh)

Queer Rating: 3 out of 10. Mr Hardy’s back is the one that’s actually broken carrying any semblance of fun in this overly long movie all on his own.

Lawless (2012): Wow, this really was the year of the not-queer-enough, wasn’t it? Look, it’s “based on a real story,” but it’s also a movie and movies don’t need to stick to the truth, and this one certainly doesn’t. Was the guy queer in real life? I don’t know. But that doesn’t matter, what matters is that it’s just kind of an eh movie and maybe being queer would add something to it. One of those “but why make someone queer? because it’s always more interesting to do so,” movies.

Queer Rating: 3 out of 10. It’s just not queer. But Tom Hardy wears cardigans and described his character as a “mother figure,” which adds an interesting dynamic to him.

2. Actually Queer but in a homophobic way

Tom Hardy plays a canonically queer character, yaaay. The whole movie contains a strange sense of the director being too not-queer to actually engage with that and everything around him is almost aggressively straight, noooo.

RocknRolla (2008): Honestly this movie has the funniest coming out scene ever + that familiar undertone of “all these manly men secretly want to fuck each other” is only heightened by one of them actually being gay and in love with his best friend. It’s such a fucking… it’s such a movie. Personally I find Mark Strong, Idris Elba, Thandie Newton, and, of course, Tom Hardy to be really hot in it, so that’s a plus. There’s a scene in which Strong’s character teaches another gangster how to do a proper backhand. It’s really gay of him. Also slow-dancing at a gay club. Butler’s character needs to get himself together, you really don’t think 2008 Tom Hardy is hot? Mate.

(left to right: functional queer, disaster queer, distinguished queer)

Queer Rating: 6 out of 10, for having an actual gay character who is played by Tom Hardy doing a sexy phonecall voice to another guy, but then there’s that feeling you can’t shake that the whole movie is vaguely uncomfortable about it, like a family member awkwardly patting you on the shoulder after they found out you were queer second-hand, but they’ve still got 50 years of bias to unlearn. Also Thandie Newton is killed, fuck that noise. 

Legend (2015): If I had a nickle for the amount of times Tom Hardy’s played a gay gangster, I’d have two nickles. Which isn’t a lot, but weird that it happened twice (looks at Peaky Blinders and thinks it ought to be three times). I’ve watched Legend three times and every time it just… loses me. And because this is a biased list, I’ll only specifically mention that it fails to make Ron’s queerness anything but a way for him to shock others. Gangsters could be gay? Gasp! On the upside Tom Hardy has so much sexual tension with everyone in this movie, including himself (why would you do that? Asks Ron, bemused. Because I can’t kill you, no matter how much I fucking want to, hisses a blood-soaked Reggie right into his ear. It’s hot).

Queer rating: 5 out of 10 because the film is just not very queer for a movie with several queer men in it.

3. Straight as a forced family dinner

It’s straight.

Locke (2013): He’s a married man who had an affair and trying to deal with the fallout of it. This isn’t a spoiler for most of the movie, it’s a pretty neat movie where we look at Tom Hardy having a bit of a mental breakdown and taking lots of phonecalls (my personal hell). Is it queer? Not in the slightest.

Queer Rating: 2 out of 10 for Hardy’s face being in almost every shot.

The Revenant (2015): Yeah, yeah, DeCaprio’s and Hardy’s characters are obsessed with each other, yeah it’s a man’s world where the only women are dead wife, kidnapped sexually assaulted native princess, or background whore, yeah, they fight each other and there’s a ton of grunting, but also… I just fucking don’t like this movie. The thin line where a storyline like this one becomes queer might be crossed for others, but not for me. Fuck these guys and their stupid  bear fights.

Queer rating: 3 out of 10 for it being about dirty men in the middle of nowhere (but you could just watch Brokeback Mountain or The Lighthouse or God’s Own Country or any Mad Max, or, or, or…)

4. Queer? Queer. Queer? … Queer…

The plots, aesthetics and/or characters played by Tom Hardy lend themselves to a queer reading, even if there is no overt intention towards queerness. Often this is because of a deliberate lack of heterosexual and/or cisgender writing, which in this day and age is still pretty uncommon not to include within a plot.

Inception (2010): Okay, I don’t even need to write about the added “darling,” or the “go to sleep Mr Eames.” I don’t need to go on about the absolutely bonkers amount of fanfiction written for Eames and Arthur, based on a few minutes of film and a boatload of chemistry. It’s queer.

Queer Rating: 7 out of 10, because the actual plot of the film isn’t very queer, but between the Arthur/Eames dynamic and Elliot Page, Nolan was really given a gift he didn’t deserve.

Warrior (2011): Okay, so first off, this might be my favourite Tom Hardy film, at least some part of my brain is fixated on it at almost all times and I’m considering watching it for the third time in two weeks. I don’t only consider it queer based on Mr. Hardy’s character, although he has no romantic or sexual interest and could be read as aroace, but because of the themes, especially those surrounding said character, who is coded as a caregiver to women and through close emotional connections to men. It’s got possibly unintentional deconstructions of masculinity and two men (brothers) who need to forgive each other and can only do so through the catharsis of violence. It speaks to me as a transmasc with several cis brothers, struggling with my own masculinity. It’s not at all written for me, but I find myself all over it. I could talk about this movie forever.

Queer Rating: 8 out of 10. I’m not allowed to say any more or I’ll never stop writing about it. I love you Tommy…

The Drop (2014): Bob’s lack of sexual and/or romantic interest in Naomi is so strange to her that she doesn’t know what he would want from her otherwise. Bob really just wants to raise a dog with her (and also forgiveness for past sins). Bob is such a rare ace and possibly aro coded character, it really throws me every time I watch this film how obvious it is. Bonus points for also being autistic-coded and not in the stereotypical ways.

(Tom Hardy’s most challenging role: pretending he doesn’t know dogs)

Queer Rating: 9 out of 10 because it’s so fucking rare to see ace and aro coded characters that aren’t, you know…. serial killers. Also Tom Hardy adopts a puppy and has a very cute, kinda lispy voice. How often does Tom Hardy play softer men like this?

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015): Very deliberately no sexual or romantic writing included in Max’s and Furiosa’s relationship. Sure, there’s not a lot of time for that in the post-apocalyptic wasteland, but it was also done with a purpose! “It was always going to be two warriors on par, starting off with very little respect for each other and ending up with a massive respect for each other.” - Charlize Theron. “So of course they meet, of course there’s a relationship, an unspoken understanding. A recognition.” - Tom Hardy.

Queer Rating: 9 out of 10. It’s not just the characters, but the world and it’s apocalyptic BDSM leather scene, the questions it asks about sustainability and about people as tools, and the found family. It’s about overcoming violence through multiple kinds of love. And it’s about watching a guy playing flame-thrower guitar. What could be queerer?

Venom (2018): Talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show stopping, spectacular, never the same… No, but Eddie is queer. The only question is whether the sequel will acknowledge that aspect or not, but even if not. Even if it manages to straightly bypass the reality of a symbiotic relationship with a genderless? genderfluid? being from another world that is linked to you down to your very cells and understands you more intimately than any other person possibly could… even if all that: Eddie is queer. Venom and Eddie are in a relationship. Any relationship Eddie ever enters into will automatically become a thrupple. He makes out with Venom in the movie! Eddie is queer.

(aw yeah that tongue is going down his throat)

Queer Rating: 9.5 out of 10, because it’s still coded by the creators in the language of bromance (hey, bro, is it gay if we’re physically and emotionally closer than any other people on earth?), but the movie is so, so camp and Mr Hardy’s acting choices are beautiful – the screaming? The lispy soft voice and lack of taking up space? The lobster tank? The only people who don’t know how queer this is are the people making it apparently. Fingers crossed for that sequel!

Hon. mentions:

Star Trek: Nemesis (2002): Star Trek – even at it’s worst (especially at its worst?) – is camp af + Hardy is a straight-up baby in this film.

Bronson (2008): It’s about a real person who’s still alive, so I won’t comment on the actual man. However the film seems to code the character Bronson along an ace line and also has genderqueering Vaudeville. Someone let Tom Hardy do more of whatever was going on in those stage-bits.

(this right here: this the good shit)

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011): Another ensemble piece not massively about Hardy’s character, but it’s a movie that centers around queerness in a strange, depressing way. Tom Hardy’s character isn’t queer. Colin Firth and Mark Strong are though. The book makes me cry.

Peaky Blinders (2013-): Because it’s a TV series I left it out. There’s a lot of straight nonsense going on there, but Alfie Solomens is gay. There’s nothing in the series that disputes that and plenty that lends itself to the reading.

Dunkirk (2017): Tom Hardy plays an RAF pilot in a deep emotional connection with the other main RAF pilot. That’s immediately gay. However he’s not in the movie much because of the way it’s constructed, so I left it off.

Queer Ratings (least to most)

No queer to be found here traveller:

This Means War: 2 out of 10 - illegal movie, Tom Hardy swore he wouldn’t do another rom-com after

Locke: 2 out of 10 - straight Welshman and his straight problems. He pretty though

Lawless: 3 out of 10 - cardigan-Hardy being a mother-hen, but very straight for all that

The Dark Knight Rises: 3 out of 10 - a superhero movie that doesn’t deserve Mr Hardy’s camp talents (unlike Venom)

The Revenant: 3 out of 10 - doesn’t give me what I want out of a movie full of dirty, bearded men

Queer but we deserve more:

Legend: 5 out of 10 - timid homosexuality, considering the source material. 

RocknRolla: 6 out of 10 - hey bro, is it gay if we kill the only female lead in our massive ensemble cast

The queerest of Hardy’s:

Inception: 7 out of 10 - Elliot Page and JGL kissing was an all-around terrible choice that made no sense, we know the truth, Nolan

Warrior: 8 out of 10 - I’m still crying, Edgerton’s crying, Hardy’s crying, we’re all crying, and I think that’s really emotionally healthy and queer of us

Mad Max: Fury Road: 9 out of 10 - non-romantic love in the time of BDSM post-apocalyptic wastelands is something that can actually be so personal

The Drop: 9 out of 10 - “Fucking punk. Go out to dinner dressed like you're still in you living room! You wear those big hippity-hoppity clown shoes! You speak to women terribly! You treat them despicably! You hurt harmless dogs that can't defend themselves! I'm tired of you man. I'm tired of you. You embarrass me!”

Venom: 9.5 out of 10 - Sometimes a relationship is an anxious reporter, the sentient goo inhabiting his body, his kinda-ex-girlfriend and her new doctor boyfriend, and I think that’s beautiful

[magical-girl-coral]

you get two characters- Entrapta and Hordak!

Thank you, babe 💜 

First, Entrapta

Why I like them - she’s the best autism rep I’ve seen yet. She’s funny, brilliant, beautiful, and all-around best girl. Her complexity and brilliance will never be forgotten

Why I don’t - It’s not a problem with her as much as the writers. In the last season, her treatment has been awful which ruined some of her better moments. Out of context, they’re great, but in context, most things fall flat.

Favorite episode (scene if movie) -  Ignoring that one scene fans have already torn to pieces, the rescue from Beast Island was incredible.

Favorite season/movie - Season three. 

Favorite line - Everyone already knows the more iconic lines so I’m choosing my favorite underrated one, “Wait, do I have to explain math to you?”. I love unintentional sass.

Favorite outfit - Her space outfit.

OTP - Entrapdak, of course.

Brotp - Honestly? The Super Pal Trio. I miss their dynamics.

Head Canon - Entrapta secretly wanted revenge against the princesses for leaving her behind. Part of the reason why she joined the Horde so easily was that her anger took control of her actions. When Catra apologized on Darla, Entrapta remembered how her anger brought her nothing and forgave Catra instead.

Unpopular opinion - Entrtapta should have been allowed to get angry in season five. She was abandoned twice, almost died thanks to depression vines, and had to work with people who hated for weeks. I don’t care for emotional maturity, she already showed signs of anger and annoyance in the earlier season and with how the show treated her. Entrapta’s acceptance of Catra felt like a mix of “autistic character feels emotions like a robot” and “neurodivergent putting their feelings aside for a neurotypical.” It all just left a bitter taste in my mouth.

A wish - Please let her have a good break after this. She has been used enough.

An oh-god-please-dont-ever-happen - Getting together with Wrong Hordak. He’s like her fucking kid, y'all serious about this?

5 words to best describe them - brilliant, naive, funny, unique, and perfectly imperfect.

My nickname for them - tech wife.

Now, Hordak

Why I like them - The more complex villain in the last few years. A beautiful and tragic story arc with a happy ending that still makes me cry. One of the best written male characters in cartoon history and you can fight me on that.

Why I don’t - I don’t there is something I don’t like about them as much as the fandom sometimes. He’s not an innocent baby. He was a conqueror and a dictator with a lost cause who most likely killed Scopria’s family. Stop watering his character down so you guys will have your “unproblematic fave.”

Favorite episode (scene if movie) - The season finale of season four. The escalation of the events left me breathless and Hordak’s tears did something to me. Literally, everything about this episode was perfect.

Favorite season/movie - Season five. He was there for less than fifteen minutes but he still stole the show.

Favorite line - “I am Hordak, and I defy your will.” (Sidenote: I memorized his entire speech and practiced it before sleep for weeks. I love it that much)

Favorite outfit - His slutty battle outfit. Nothing says “how to make your ex take you back” like an open cut dress and a giant fucking arm gun.

OTP - Entrapdak

Brotp - Him and Adora. I feel like they’re going to talk a lot after some dust starts to settle.

Head Canon - Hordak sneezes just like Catra. They both got into a pollen field once and refuse to talk about it ever again.

Unpopular opinion - Hordak’s arc in season five was kind of clumsy. I found It odd how was there to find the Luvd crystal, be there for Prime’s speeches, see Prime look into his old vessel,  find Entrapta AND be the guard that stood next to her in Prime’s big final villain speech. It was all very convenient.

A wish - For Hordak to find out more about his own biology. I highly doubt he knows a lot thanks to Prime.

An oh-god-please-dont-ever-happen - NO ONE KILL OFF THE SPACEBAT. I FUCKING MEAN IT.

5 words to best describe them - intelligent, beautiful, hard-working, hot-headed, misunderstood.

My nickname for them - space-bat, emo space-bat, Entrapta’s trophy husband.

[margotverger]

top 5 best hannibal takes and worst hannibal takes. go

okay i’m going to do this generally on what other people’s takes (that i’ve seen or read somewhere) are because none of my hannibal takes are bad. 

top 5 best:

that margot should have been butch in the tv show and that the margot/alana romance could have been developed a little more, i’ll elaborate more on the butch angle in top 5 worst, but i think while i enjoy marlana in s3 (who doesn’t) i do think that there could have been a Little More to it, especially since there was admittedly a lot of gratuitous metaphorical work on a visual or verbal level in early s3 that didn’t... really do much after the first few, and that i think bryan fuller definitely got a bit self-indulgent. while i love s3 i think it was weaker because it got quite ensnared in feeling like it had to explain everyone’s individual recovery (not a bad thing necessarily and the looping narrative definitely had this feeling of “time has been changed, mutilated, adjusted after mizumono”, but on a narrative level it could have probably still been achieved but left more room for things to. Happen) and i think that some of the excess could have been trimmed to allow for more margot-alana development beyond simply talking about taking revenge, i would have loved to see some genuine conversation that only affected both of them that made us realise just why alana would raise the child with her, why they would get marriedーalana having very little dating life and presumably trauma around relationships since her immediate ex tried to murder her and is also a serial killer, and margot having been traumatised repeatedly due to being a lesbian in a very homophobic family, they deserved some space in order to explore why exactly they mean a lot to each other. even a singular scene that didn’t depend on taking vengeance on the men who hurt them would have given us enough i think. 

lara jean chorostecki’s hot take (implied) that freddie would have a wife. groundbreaking. love that. regardless of bryan fuller i am assuming with full confidence that freddie lounds has a wife after the timeskip

autistic will graham. enough said. hugh dancy’s only stupid thing was saying will isn’t autistic. that was a sin. will graham is autistic

lesbian abigail hobbs. lesbian abigail hobbs!

the hot take that hannibal doesn’t do its women characters justice, this isn’t just about deaths (i do agree that for the gothic horror narrative characters are doomed to some extent, and i don’t overly grieve over deaths that came too early, so i’m not too fussed) but on a writing level, bryan fuller definitely tries to portray himself as a very woman-positive author who introduces feminine energy - and he does! but at the same time there is a lack in developing relationships between women, and for a story to truly give space to be a genuinely woman-positive story there needs to be strong relationships between women that don’t depend on men; obviously since hannibal’s presence is insidious and infects everything, as is his luciferian ways, and will’s often the binding agent, this can’t be entirely avoided but regardless of hannibal they can exist, on some small level, individually. we saw that a lot in s1! between abigail and freddie and alana and abigail mostly, plus there was a small glimpse at it in season 3 with bedelia and chiyoh (underrated imo i would love to see further into why bedelia has her views of chiyoh and what that means ... i hope they interact again if hannibal s4 comes to pass!). so it proves there is room for it. it doesn’t need to be every episode or even have a huge arc but seeing hannibal pass the bechdel test more than like. twice a season would be nice!

top 5 worst takes:

that bedannibal is more romantic than hannigram (lol)... i love bedelia and bedannibal a lot but that’s just. hm. incorrect

that hannibal has never loved anybody except will. i’ve wrote about this before but i think that’s a deliberate misunderstanding of the character hannibal. what is unique about hannibal and will’s relationship is not the presence of love but the presence of being changed by that love; transformation is at its core, the openness to being adjusted or altered... recognition, seeing, understanding, and that allowing compassion not only for the other (in hannibal’s case) but for the self (in will’s case). hannibal loves a lot, but his love is not separate from crueltyーi think this is where people misunderstand. just because he is willing to hurt or harm people isn’t, in the narrative (not in real life), because he doesn’t love them. his cruelty is because he loves people enough he wants to bring them to the height of their being, in extremis. he loved alana, which is why he showed her a chance at mercy. he loved bedelia. he loved jack. he loved abigail! he loved bella especially, and he genuinely mourned. these went beyond fascinations; these were genuine expressions of affection, love, whether they be platonic or romantic or familial. hannibal’s flaw is not that he is incapable of love. and personally i think to disrespect his relationships with other characters (who are all women, black or both lol) in order to further isolate the white m/m relationship is... not ideal. not a sign that someone is wholly prejudiced but i think it’s something we should be critical about, especially when hannibal through word of god is confirmed to love other people. 

bryan fuller’s own take that margot being femme is somehow less prejudiced or problematic than if she was butch. i haven’t read the book yet but i already know that margot’s portrayal as a butch lesbian was problematic but thomas harris is . undoubtedly prejudiced in many ways and that’s a fault of him, not a fault of the existence of being butchーbeing butch isn’t just a “stereotype” it’s a genuine mode of existence, it’s an intricate relationship with gender, sexuality and love, and butchness deserves to be represented as something beautiful, desirable and complex... instead of just deciding she should be conventionally feminine because that’s somehow more progressive. but then again he also made her have sex with a man so you know. lol

ANY take that involves over-analysing who is a top or who is a bottom and then rendering the characters into homophobic/fetishistic stereotypes. it’s ugly! it’s weird! keep that shit away from me. also any take involving “dark!will”. again that just does the character of will disrespect lol. the whole point of will is that he is morally complex and perhaps beyond the human scopeーhe is not just an echo of hannibal... i’ve seen one too many fics where will just becomes a savage brutal unfeeling murderer who only cares about hannibal after s3. like please watch the show

that hannibal is a narcissist/sociopath... or any other ableist interpretations. not every villain is a narcissistic (a genuine disorder) sociopath (just another word associated with npd etc) just because they do bad things. they’re very real disorders that people deal with and are infinitely more complex than just a character having a god complex and killing people. the whole point about hannibal is that he exceeds what is considered neurodivergent and while i don’t mind if people with similar disorders relate to him (much like how i relate to will’s autistic traits) i think a lot of bad comes from people throwing the label sociopath around because it becomes dehumanising and leads to further stigma against truly vulnerable people. 

basically any trope that just does a character a disservice or neglects the actual story in further of fetishistic thinking, prejudiced thinking, ableist thinking... will graham can be autistic because of his empathy (i’ve seen it implied that he can’t be because of it when, as a very empathetic autistic person, hyper-empathy is a very common if not universal symptom, it just appears differently) and hannibal is not a sociopath just because he kills and eats people. and we should all have a little sip of critical thinking juice

[thenugking]

anyway here’s that pre-relationship pre-campaign fic i wrote for hennie and their patron

nb orc warlock/nb archfey patron 2000 words, also they’re both autistic and the fey are welsh in this world.

cw: brief mentions of domestic abuse, sexual harrassment, alcohol, and allistic behaviour 

AO3 link

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The locals warn to avoid the Woods. Barely more than a copse from the outside, but they say those who enter can become hopelessly lost. They say the air is thick with old magics there. They say that at the center lies a ring of mushrooms, a portal to the Feywild. They say within the Woods dwells a powerful, dangerous, beautiful Fey, whose powers of seduction are otherworldly and devastating.

Which all sounds incredibly fucking hot to Hennie.

Hennie’s been interested in the Fey since they started their apprenticeship. Or at least, from three weeks in, when Master Cornelis finally stopped making them copy shopping lists, and instead gave them a book of Folktales of the Fey. Since then, they’ve read everything about the Fey they can get their hands on. Back in their home village of Gornstad, Hennie dreamed hopelessly of adventuring in the Feywild. Accompanying Master Cornelis to the town of Arentsen to do in-person calligraphy for a very prestigious client--one Hennie should probably have remembered the name of--they’ve spoken with people who actually knew those a Fey spirited away, and for the first time, their dreams seem like they might actually be obtainable.

And the fact that this Fey makes a habit of seducing Orcs who wander into their Woods doesn’t hurt either.

It’s a little past the stroke of midnight--Hennie took a couple of wrong turns on the way--and the Woods seem unnaturally quiet around them. Guided only by the rumours of the townsfolk, and an unwavering commitment to the cause of faery sex, Hennie ventures onwards, further into the Woods. Their heart beats heavy in their chest as they notice an outline of mushrooms between the gnarled old trees, and they suck in a breath before taking that fateful step into the ring.

Nothing happens.

“Uh… hello?” Hennie looks around. “Lord…? Lady…? Sir Fey? Are you there?”

A slight wind blows through the wood as they stand there, and Hennie shivers. Maybe they should have brought a cloak, instead of the shirt thin enough to show off their chest. Or maybe they should have stayed in their warm bed in the inn, and got some sleep, instead of chasing stories. Master Cornelis isn’t going to be happy if they yawn their way through tomorrow’s lessons again. Whether Hennie’s just not pretty enough to be worth seducing, or there was never really a Fey here to begin with, no one’s coming, and Hennie’s pretty sure they’re wasting their time.

“I must say, it’s been a while since anyone sought me out,” comes a voice from behind them.

Hennie whirls around, their breath catching in their throat.

The Fey stands illuminated between the trees, the Woods somehow light around them, though they don’t carry a torch. They look almost human, except very unhuman in a way Hennie can’t quite place. Their shining white hair blows in the wind--the wind that Hennie was certain stopped before they appeared. They’re the most beautiful being Hennie’s ever seen.

“Uh,” they say.

“Eloquent,” the Fey responds, and Hennie can feel their cheeks heating. Their face is serene, yet their eyes seem to bore into Hennie. “I am here to bargain, not to give freely. If you wish another word from me, you will tell me--truthfully--your intentions in coming here.”

“Um. So it’s--it’s really nice to meet you. Amazing, actually. Hello.”

True to their word, the Fey doesn’t reply, only continues to regard them impassively.

Hennie takes a deep breath. “People said you seduce visitors to the forest?” they blurt out.

The Fey’s composure slips suddenly, and for a moment they look astonished, before they throw their head back and laugh. The sound is magical, but Hennie feels it maybe goes on a little too long.

“Is that why you came here, dynan? Seduction?” They seem to have regained their poise, but the corner of their mouth twitches upwards in a smile. “You think I desire mortals for intercourse?”

“No! I mean--that’s what people in town think! They say Orcs fall in love with you, and then you spirit them away.”

“Your people do like to think the worst of mine.”

“So… what do you really do?”

“Avoid concerning myself with the affairs of mortals, when possible.”

“But you come when called?”

“Yes.”

They answered only what asked, Hennie realised. Of course they did--they had told them they didn’t give freely. Hennie had done the same as a child, until Master Cornelis had taught them that “No” was not an adequate answer to the question of, “Have you finished copying the manuscript yet?” and they also had to give a reason why not, and an estimation of when they would be finished. It feels odd to realise Master Cornelis’ conversation style is now more familiar to them than their own. It feels comforting to return to their own with the Fey.

“So what made everyone think you seduce people away? If you know?”

“Misunderstandings.”

“Tell me about them? Please?”

“Politeness, too. How sweet. Very well then, dynan. The first came to me for help. He felt his name and his place in your realm a meager enough payment to escape his wife’s beatings. The second was a Lord who thought himself powerful enough to take whatever he wanted,” their lip curls, “That he could make an archfey bend to his whims.” They grin suddenly, their teeth gleaming, before they turn and place their hand on one of the gnarled trees. “I thought he should learn to give back to the world a little.” Shadows dance across the Woods, and for a moment, Hennie thinks they see a grimacing face staring out from the tree trunk.

“Right. Um. Sorry for... presuming. Uh.”

“Since you’re here, you could always offer me something in return for me granting you the gift of speech.”

“I know how to--hey, none of the books ever said the Fey make fun of people!”

“Didn’t they? Then perhaps it’s just me. Or perhaps it’s just you.” The Fey is smiling at them now, their eyes--somehow able to repel and draw Hennie in at the same time--glinting.

“Uh,” says Hennie again.

“Or perhaps it need not be a jest, after all.”

“No, I’m fine!” The Fey wants real answers, real explanations. “It’s just--I know I was wrong about the whole… seduction… thing, but you’re beautiful, and I’ve wanted to meet a Fey for years, and this is the most amazing thing that’s ever happened to me, so I’m sort of… overwhelmed. And intimidated. And… you know.”

“Do I?”

Hennie flushes again. “It doesn’t matter! You said you weren’t interested in mortals.”

“Did I?”

Hennie opens their mouth to respond, and then closes it again as they think back over the conversation. “No. You said you hadn’t seduced mortals here before. You didn’t… you didn’t say you wouldn’t.” The fey continues to watch them impassively. “So does that mean… could we… am I seducing you?”

They smile again, bright and sharp, and take a step closer to Hennie. They could have sworn the Fey was shorter than them--tall for a human, perhaps, but nothing to an Orc--but somehow, they tower over Hennie now. Their heart feels like it’s about to burst from their chest as the Fey reaches out to take their chin and tilt it upwards, and Hennie closes their eyes.

“I think not,” says the Fey.

Hennie’s eyes snap open. The fey has let go of their chin, and is several feet away again, without Hennie having noticed them move. “Oh. Right. I mean. Of course, that’s your right. But you were kind of leading me on there…”

“You muddle your words once again, mortal. I was most definitely leading you on.”

“Right. Yeah. So can I ask--No, I’m just asking. Why not?”

“Because I am an Archfey, the Tywysog of a realm your mortal mind cannot comprehend, I have powers that can change the very plane you walk on. You are tiny, compared to me. Make no mistake, our meeting has been delightful, but while I may tease you for my own amusement, I will not take advantage of you further, dynan.”

“Right. I mean, I’d be fine with it if you did take advantage…”

“I gathered.”

“I guess you have. Yeah.” Hennie looks down, shuffling their feet. “So, I mean, I’m still really interested in all the non-seduction related things? Can I give you my soul for a trip to the Feywild, or something?”

The Fey’s eyebrows raise. “You can.”

“That would be, uh, a much better deal on your end, wouldn’t it?”

“Quite.”

The Fey steps forward again, staring at Hennie closely, and they feel a flicker of fear. “I don’t--I’m not giving you my soul. Not for just one trip, anyway.”

Their smile now is softer than any of those they’ve given so far. “And I would not take it. I have been far kinder with you than I needed to be, dynan. Other Fey may not be. And I suspect I have done little to temper your enthusiasm to meet them. So I will offer you a deal.”

This was the moment, according to everyone Hennie had ever spoken to about the Fey, that they should start running in the opposite direction. Well, actually, most people they brought the subject up with told them not to go looking for the Fey in the first place, but everyone was pretty united on the, “Don’t take any deal they offer you,” front.

“Go on,” says Hennie.

“Give me your name. Make yourself mine. Come to me when I call, and help me when I ask. In return, I will protect you from other Fey, I shall ask no more of you than you are able to give, and I will grant you the gift of magic. All this I promise you.”

Hennie really isn’t sure there’s any downsides. “That… would be amazing. Wait, when you say you want my name, do you mean what my parents named me, or--”

“Of course not. It matters little what others call you. Your name is your own.” Their lip twitches. “At least for the next few moments.”

“All right. I accept. My name’s Hennie. Hennie Geluk.”

The Fey is holding a pendant. Hennie didn’t see them pick it up, but is sure they weren’t holding it a moment ago. They hold it up, and it shines in the moonlight. “Hennie. Take my blessing, wear my locket, and you shall have the magic of a Warlock at your fingertips.” They raise their pendant to Hennie’s neck, and then pause, their hands almost touching them again. “There is… something further I could offer you. A suggestion, rather than a deal. A bargain uncompleted. If you wished.”

“Tell me.”

“What I’m giving you is the ability to cast spells. Your skill you will have to develop by yourself, through experience. There is a town, far away, across the sea. There are mortals who will be drawn together. Travel there, seek them out, quest with them, and you will begin to gain that experience. And your power will grow. And at the end of it… I shall make you no more promises, but you would not be so tiny. Make of that what you will.”

“So… if I leave my home, and my job, and everything, and go off on a dangerous quest with strangers… you might bang me at the end of it?”

“That is one path in a stream of endless possibilities.”

“Yes! I’ll do it.”

The Fey smiles, fastening the pendant around Hennie’s neck. “You do amuse me, dynan.”

The world around Hennie glows with light, and images of strangers flash across their vision.

An aged elf wielding a greataxe, the brow of a ship behind her. A goblin working on an intricate magical construct. A human healer, set of scalpels in hand. A young woman whose ears suggest elven ancestry, but whose wax seals suggests an allegiance to the inferior human calligraphy guild. A bombillan with a swarm of smaller bees surrounding them. A dwarf playing a steel drum one handed, as she takes a swig from a bottle with the other. A port town, the name Hrip inscribing itself in Hennie’s mind.

When it’s over, the Fey is gone, and Hennie is alone in the Woods again. They shiver, the cold of the night returning as it occurs to them that this hadn’t been a problem in the Fey’s presence. They wish again that they’d brought something warmer, and then suddenly, their shirt is letting off heat. Right. Magic.

Hennie beams to themself as they start to make their way back to town. They have a long journey ahead of them. And if things go very, very well, a powerful, dangerous, beautiful Fey to bang.

[yiling]

Untamed rewatch Episode 13

Evil field trip time!

-ok hot take: lwj responds to so many things with “boring” because he’s autistic and it’s a scripted response that usually gets people off his back. and he’s in enough pain to not be able to spare the mental energy here

-wq is so good. I said that before but she is

-I like jzx much more on a rewatch. he is perhaps overly proud, but he’s got his head on fairly straight, for a wealthy prettyboy (except where poor yanli is concerned)-I love the mutual unspoken agreement to not answer wen chao  that’s so funny

-lol jiaojiao is jealous lmaooooo sis he cheated on his wife with you, he’ll cheat on you with someone else

-I think this is the first time in the show the stakes actually feel real. we now know and like all of these characters and we don’t want to see them hurt. the yin iron is a decent diversion to keep things going but this is where the plot Really kicks off. (Of course, this is actually from the novel, and not written for the show, so that helps in making it be more connected to everything obviously)

-wwx comes off as a little bit manic here. he’s been Through It already and I think he’s even more obnoxious and impulsive than he would otherwise be already

-my sister: omg it’s the basilisk! they’re in the chamber of secrets!

-it’s always funny when the subtitles actually translate swearing 

-the cgi on the tortoise is not all that bad, considering

-lol wwx getting branded just looks silly, what with the dramatic slow motion and the way that it clearly doesn’t go through his clothes even though it’s meant to

-hhh jc fighting wen zhuliu makes me anxious now

-oh I didn’t remember wq goes with the rest of the wens out of the cave. she has a change of heart at the top but it’s too late then.

-man watching all the clan kids just play off each other is really fun. you do really get the sense that they’re just 15 or 16, and this is the biggest thing any of them have done

-my sister: jiang cheng did swim team

-(wouldn’t he have had an easier time if he took one of his robes off? i guess the water is cold idk)

-poor mianmian shes really going thru it

-seeing lwj visibly in pain is...oof

-ahh the red robe appears 

-ok we all know the cave scene is fucking aces, but let me just say: this is amazingly, amazingly gay

-wwx trying to comfort lwj is so sweet but lwj’s grief over his clan is palpable. we haven’t even got to the Really Tender bits yet and i’m already feeling So Much

[yastaghr]

Our Skeleton 36 - Machine and Machinations

Summary: Sans, Papyrus, and Alphys work on a machine to help everyone remember when Frisk has to LOAD. Everyone else works up a plan of action to use against the parent-creatures.

Warnings: Real World Issues

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/7563223/chapters/60380821

“everything is temporary, everything will slide! love will never die, die, die. i know that ooh~ birds fly in diff-”

Sans’ distracted half-mumbling, half-singing was interrupted by the creak of the basement door. He looked up from the machine he was actively working on and smiled a truly lazy smile at the monsters walking down the stairs. Alphys and Papyrus were coming down the steps with milk crates full of scraps in their arms. Alphys had one crate of electronic components. Papyrus had three full of scrap metal and bits of wiring. Sans quickly lept over and took the wobbling crate on the top of the stack out of his brother’s arms and carried it over to the lab bench.

“thanks, guys,” Sans chuckled, “it’d take me hours to find all this stuff. it’s been a while since i did any tinkering, so i’ve got no idea where the dump is up here. i’m nowhere near as good at machines as you are, alph, but i thought i’d give this a shot.”

Alphys set her loaded box on the table next to the one Sans had set there and shoved her glasses up the bridge of her nose with her finger. “I d-d-don’t know if I would say that, S-s-sans. your ideas for the heating coils in the hot fridge were genius! I, um, would never have thought about running electricity through ionized air like that.”

Sans blew out a huff of air. It wasn’t a sigh; it was more like an expression of fond exasperation.

“i didn’t come up with that one, alph, the humans did. i…”

He hesitated. How exactly did he learn about that? He couldn’t remember ever actually reading about it. He could vaguely recall someone telling him about it, someone tall that he looked up to, even if they were eccentric. He usually had a pretty good memory, but this one was slipping away from him. Apparently his memory wasn’t good enough to transcend timelines. That had hurt a little bit to learn, especially when he found out that the plant could remember where he couldn’t. It was hardly going to stroke someone’s ego to find out a plant had a better memory than they did… What was he thinking about again?

Sans blinked at the two monsters who were blinking back at him. He was pretty sure that, by the expressions on their faces, Alphys and Papyrus had no idea what he was talking about, either.

“uh… sorry about that. i’ll just get back to my project.”

Alphys’ face flushed with an expression Sans could only name as bravery and determination. She stepped forward and said, “I-I-I’m going to help, Sans. I want to be able to remember when Frisk LOADs, too. That’s what your machine is for, um, right? To help everyone remember?”

Sans nodded, too surprised to respond properly. How had she known that?

“I’LL HELP, TOO! I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS, HAVE SPENT ENOUGH TIME WORKING ON THE PUZZLES IN SNOWDIN TO BE OF GREAT USE!”

Sans looked between the two of them until he got dizzy. Then he shook the cobwebs out of his head. If they wanted to help that was fine by him! “go ahead, guys. paps, do you think you can take apart the scrap with me? i can’t- no, we can’t do anything until we have more parts. and alph, maybe you can take a look at my code? i keep getting a stack overflow error that i can’t track down. there has to be an infinite loop somewhere, i just can’t find it.”

Both Alphys and Papyrus nodded their heads and grabbed the right tools for their respective jobs. Sans smiled. This machine was going to be finished in a snap!

=====

The living room was full of silence as the council of war got underway. Toriel and Asgore were sitting on either side of Frisk on the couch. Flowey was leaning in a window on the wall to their right. Undyne was pacing back and forth in front of the fireplace, her boots squeaking as she did so. Gerson was sitting in one of the overstuffed chairs that flanked the couch and faced the fireplace. Finally, Grillby was leaning against the other chair. His arms were crossed and his face was unreadable.

Grillby was the first person to break the silence. “..... We must do something about….. those awful people. They have done….. too much to hurt my boys and as….. Frisk has said, they are not above killing others. What should….. we do?”

Toriel broke the thoughtful quiet that followed his words. “The police would be the best option, would they not? They are trained and paid to do this kind of work.”

“NO!” Two voices and one set of arms objected. Frisk had signed as emphatically as they could. Asgore looked absolutely horrified, and Grillby was resigned. Toriel tilted her head in confusion, and Asgore answered her with an explanation.

“The police are not very nice, Toriel. They are one of the biggest groups of anti-monster people around. They are also very… bribeable. The parents of our datemate and his brother are quite rich. They would easily be able to pay their way out of this. The police would be more likely to arrest us than them.”

Frisk nodded vigorously and signed, [There’s a reason I made sure no monster joined the force. They hurt Undyne really bad a few times before I figured out it was them. That’s the reason her arm doesn’t go above her head anymore. They pulled it out of its socket completely.]

Toriel looked shocked. She protested, “But, they are supposed to protect and serve!”

Grillby shook his head. “..... There is nothing in their oaths about that. They….. are supposed to enforce the laws and….. protect the ruling class. They are notorious for….. bending the truth and attacking minorities like us….. humans of color….. and disabled people of every sort.”

Toriel’s face grew a layer of determination that had Frisk worrying about her health. Monsters weren’t really built to handle it… but, then again, Toriel was a Boss Monster. Maybe the rules were different for them. She said firmly, “Fine then, no police. But when we do go after them, none of us are going alone. And neither of the boys must be involved.”

Gerson agreed, “That’d be a bad idea. Who knows what they would do if they got their hands on them? And Frisk already said that they attack us if we go on our own.”

Frisk nodded. [It took me 19 LOADs to realise it wouldn’t work. I don’t want to do any more.]

Asgore, Toriel, and Grillby all shuddered as they thought about how much pain that must have caused Frisk. The others nodded in agreement. Flowey said, “I doubt we’ll get away with this without a few more, Frisk. But there’s definitely a few tricks that can make you have to do less. For one thing, you need to avoid a fight screen. They’re both crazy powerful and they cheat, just like Sans. They also aren’t above using attack magic outside of a fight screen, so be ready for that. Finally, don’t go after them together. They’re way more powerful as a team.]

Undyne narrowed her one eye. “You seem to know an awful lot about them for someone I’ve never met before, flower.”

Flowey shrugged. “I had the power to LOAD and RESET long before Frisk did. I’ve done everything under the sun in the name of boredom. Frisk is a goody two shoes by comparison. They hardly killed anyone their first time, and they didn’t kill anyone at all in this timeline. Not even Jerry.”

Undyne frowned. “Don’t think you’ll get away with saying that because of this, but you’re right. It’s always better to divide your enemies’ forces. It’s just good tactics.”

Toriel nodded. “Then it is decided. No police, no going alone, and divide them up to make them weaker. Now, how will we accomplish this? Should we split into two teams and go after them at the same time, or should we concentrate our forces on one or the other?”

Gerson coughed and motioned to Flowey. “If the plant’s right about their power then I’d say we go after one at a time. That way there are more people to back each other up in a fight.”

Frisk signed, [Roman spends most of his time at the house, so we should go after him there. The only problem is the servants. They’ll probably side with Roman. After all, he’s the one who’s paying them.”

A devious smile crossed Undyne’s face. “Not if someone else doesn’t pay them more. I bet they only put up with those parent creatures because of the money. We could send them an offer to work for better wages somewhere else.”

Asgore frowned. “But who could we convince to pay them like that? Normally it takes quite a while for a servant to be hired. There are interviews and paperwork galore!”

Undyne’s smile only grew. “The university, of course. They’re putting together a training college for home aids. I’m sure they’d love to get all of their positions filled by people who have actually worked in the industry. And if you suggest it, I’m doubly sure they’ll be on board.”

Toriel nodded while Asgore sat there, stunned. “That is a most agreeable plan. We’ll make the appropriate calls as soon as we decide what to do about Coursiva.”

Grillby spoke up. “Perhaps we can….. go and retrieve her from her….. workplace. What is it she does again?”

Flowey answered, “She works for one of those think tank places. It’s one of the ones that goes after disabled people, especially autistic people. She hates them so much it’s ridiculous. That think tank is behind the stupid fad for not vaccinating your children. There’s a reason those things exist!”

Everyone in the room nodded. That whole idea tree was stupid as heck.

“Then, the plan is this: We go after Roman in his home while his wife is at work, then we track down Coursiva at her workplace and bring both to the Embassy for… further investigation. If we can prove that they have done what we think they have done then we can banish them to the Underground, can we not? That seems like a fitting punishment to me,” Toriel said decisively.

Gerson nodded. “We can put them in room 3b. That’s the most secure room in the Embassy. I’d challenge anyone to break out of that.”

Asgore, Undyne, and Frisk all nodded. They knew the room in question. Toriel, who was less familiar with the Embassy, asked, “We should test that, should we not? I do not want either of them to escape. Who knows what they would do once they are aware that their cover is blown?”

[full-course-identity]

oc ships that are self indulgent for us: mo/rich, mo/gh, gh/christopher, mo/christopher, mr. heere/moses, jeremy/moses, mr reyes/moses, mo/brooke, mo/cody

sorry this is SO FUCKING LATE and sorry the crackships are more in-depth than the ships i really ship, i like the what-ifs involved and sometimes it’s so hard to explain why i like more normal ones hjvbnfdhjvbnhjfdn

ANYWAY. i’ve been working on this reply for A While bc... shit happened, but!

Mo/Rich (as a reminder, Mo/Moses is Rich’s Squip)

vomit / don’t ship / okay / cute / adorable / perfect / beyond flawless / hot damn / screaming and crying / i will ship them in hell (as before, italics means it’s a positive/healthy/tragic OTP way, bolding means it’s Problematique, and bold/italics like this is specifically in relation to things like… well. I still ship them in the later half of Smoke Signals, after the upgrade makes Mo mindfucked)

What could I say about Mo/Rich that isn’t just incoherent keyboard smashing and less-than-3′s everywhere? Godddd. I love this ship so fucking much, dude. Like Jeremy/Rich, this is one of my other favorites; whether it’s during some of THE most depressing fucking angst imaginable, or GOD EVERYTHING IN SUNSHINE AAAAAAA, it’s just… oh. Ohhh.

I can’t imagine any situation in which they know each other that doesn’t result in them being romantically engaged. Period. Point blank. They’re just… they’re too fucking perfect for each other, yknow?

I just

I JUST

GOD FUCK I LOVE THIS SHIP

Mo/GH (the Squip’s name)

vomit / don’t ship / okay / cute / adorable / perfect / beyond flawless / hot damn / screaming and crying / i will ship them in hell 

Squip (or in general BMC canon related) vers first:

Mmm.

This is. A very hot ship, in every incarnation of it. Like, this is extremely kinky, whether consensual or not. 

Like. Currently, GH is a full-blown bottom in our stuff with them, ESPECIALLY anything canon-adjacent… yet even though it’s not what we go for anymore, them switching more or Mo bottoming is impressive.

BUT outside of sex, THIS IS ANOTHER FAVORITE PAIRING AND I AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA OH MY GOD IT’S SO FUCKING GOOD

GH IS SO TSUNDERE AND HUFFY AND A PRINCESS AND MOSES IS SO CAREFUL AND CALM AND GENTLE AND THEY UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER SO WELL AND THEIR CHEMISTRY IS SO GOOD AND THEY CAN WORK ON REDEMPTION AND CHANGE TOGETHER AND AND AND

OH MAAAAAN I LOVE THESE TWO.

Human vers second:

Okay so a lot of it is the same BUT LIKE

Mo and GH having to navigate their shitty fucking family as the two strongest siblings trying to protect the others is…

Mo having GH’s babies is legitimately one of my favorite fucking things ever. Imagine them trying to raise children together. Imagine Mo as the Second-in-Command while handling their kids and refusing to let what happened to them happen to their babies.

The two of them trying to rebuild the family into something better, greater, trying to dismantle the systems of oppression. They can’t get away from it, so they’ll fix it.

Or, fuck, them actually running away together, them and the rest, rebuilding their lives together…

GODDDDDD THEY’RE JUST SO GOOD TOGETHER IN EVERY WAY, ALWAYS

GH/Christopher (Squip’s little brother)

vomit / don’t ship / okay / cute / adorable / perfect / beyond flawless / hot damn / screaming and crying / i will ship them in hell

AUTISTIC BROTHERS AUTISTIC BROTHERS AUTISTIC BROTHERS INCEST AND MUTUAL HEALING!!!!!!

TOGETHER

UNDERSTANDING EACH OTHER

SILENT COMMUNICATIONS

SMALL BITS OF AFFECTION IN THE FORM OF LOVE BITES AND SIMPLY EXISTING TOGETHER

CHRISTOPHER CLINGING TO GH’S BACK AS HE WORKS AND EITHER WATCHING WHAT HE DOES OR FALLING ASLEEP

CHRISTOPHER LOOKS UP TO GH SO MUCH AND GH TRYING REALLY HARD NOT TO FAIL HIM EVEN WHEN HE’S BEING A BRATTY OLDER BROTHER

THEIR SEX? AMAZING. PERFECT. 100000/10. GODHEAD IS ABSOLUTELY SHOCKED BY JUST HOW PRETTY CHRISTOPHER ACTUALLY IS WHEN HE TAKES THE TIME TO LOOK.

KILLING FH AND TAKING CHRISTOPHER AS HIS BRIDE THO. ULTIMATE FUCK YOU TO DADDY.

AND

OF COURSE

EVIL!GH ABUSING AND MANIPULATING HIM AND

Mo/Christopher

vomit / don’t ship / okay / cute / adorable / perfect / beyond flawless / hot damn / screaming and crying / i will ship them in hell 

This fucking pairing, dude.

Christopher… is hard to understand. His communication is subtle and neutral and also like a puzzle. It’s not like he tries to be this way–… usually, he DOES have a very dry sense of humor–but he really is just extremely neurodivergent.

But Mo has never

ever

had issues understanding him.

And you know what? Despite the self-isolating BPD Mo has, Christopher similarly has an instantaneous understanding of him.

GOD. Platonic or romantically (sexuality is an “always” thing), they mesh in this a way that goes from mother-and-child to total soulmates to the only people both of them could advocate for. Christopher can see through Moses’s carefully constructed Everything Is Fine mask, and Mo seems to know how Christopher will feel about something before it’s even happened. 

It’s really, really, REALLY fucking good.

Mr. Heere/Moses

vomit / don’t ship / okay / cute / adorable / perfect / beyond flawless / hot damn / screaming and crying / i will ship them in hell

So like… it never comes up in our stuff, but Mo is like. His gayness has a pretty broad spectrum of attraction; he can and does find older men, bears, lumberjacks, otters, etc etc very nice. It depends on the circumstances and how the person is, but.

Anyway.

Mr. Heere and Mo would prolly go one of two ways:

1) If Mr. Heere was just straight-up gay (or is his bisexuality was a lot more open, since my usual portrayal of him is SUPER picky when it comes to anyone who uses he/him pronouns or masc-aligned identities) and married his wife bc she snagged him, wouldn’t let go, and emotionally manipulated him into becoming desperate for her love and approval in a more queerplatonic sense, Mo would be a “pretty but very masc” sort that he’d REALLY enjoy. He likely skews towards “muscle and masc is fine as long as there’s a prettiness to them”--like, say, Mo’s soft lips and tong lashes and flowing hair. Mo, in turn, would find Mr. Heere a very handsome DILF type. They’d prolly go out after matching on OkC or something and fall into a very domestic, playful, soothing relationship. It’s like... it’s not something I’d really do usually, but it’d be VERY wholesome.

or

2) Evil!Mr. Heere finding Mo pretty and taking what he wants after some grooming. There could be a lot of situations to set this up, but it would probably follow a pattern of “meet him, flirt with him, pull back a little when Mo shows signs of being uncomfortable, plan, start building up his trust, do a lot of favors for him, and then start ‘cashing in’ in progressively more sexual ways”. It’d almost certainly have to be an AU of some sort, maybe a “Mo/GH/Rich/Jeremy in high school together as humans” one where Jeremy’s boyfriends are constantly at the house, but.

Either way, fun as shit, actually.

Mr. Reyes/Moses 

vomit / don’t ship / okay / cute / adorable / perfect / beyond flawless / hot damn / screaming and crying / i will ship them in hell 

Okay. Listen. He’d be one of Mo’s first boyfriends (outside his brothers or Rich, depending on AU), and he’d be such an asshole.

I can’t imagine this one in any wholesome way tbh, Mr. Reyes is a pretty toxic person.

Mo is actually... well. He’s a liiiiiittle bit of a Switch, like, a tiny amount, right? And when he first starts dating... tbh, the people most after him are tops. A lot of bottoms are SUPER interested of course, but he wants A Relationship, and all of those are just looking to get their ass pounded for a bit. Which is fun! Mo has one night stands every now and then. But when he’s Dating, he’s *Dating*.

So, since they want him to bottom, and he’s naturally inclined to be As Helpful As Possible, he complies with their request to use his ass.

Oooooof course, because he wants to be helpful and he’s a very sad person and people sexualize/objectify/dehumanize him (not as in those words mean the same, but that people reduce him using all three at once) and he feels like he deserves it, he’s very easy to abuse.

So Mr. Reyes sees [a rich kid, a vulnerable artist, a sex god, a maid, an exotic treasure, etc] and just becomes such an emotionally abusive, probably sexually abusive, lazy, ungrateful bitch.

Bonus points if human Mo is either like, 16 (and we’ll pretend that’s NJ’s age of consent), or some sort of underage while being one of his theater kids.

... Mr. Reyes as his teacher insulting his acting and dismissing his talent because of racial bias while also sexualizing him and putting him in these misgendering, scantily-clad, damsel-in-distress roles. 

Mo/Brooke

vomit / don’t ship / okay / cute / adorable / perfect / beyond flawless / hot damn / screaming and crying / i will ship them in hell

They would actually be... really really cute...

Brooke Likes Older Men, Brooke Likes Strong Men, Brooke Likes Nice Men, Brooke Likes Intelligent Men, Brooke Like Affectionate Men--Mo is like, instant-crush material. So pretty. So sensitive. So fair and honest and soothing and never ever talks down to her and

If Mo was bi instead of gay (... admittedly he probably is because in human AUs he WILL fall for Rich even if neither of them knows Rich is, well, Rich) and he didn’t think dating Brooke would be inappropriate--

... that is rich (lmao) coming from the guy dating Richard fuckin Goranski, but Brooke is so... she would do anything for a lover, she literally wouldn’t say no to anything even if she wants to or she’s scared, and Mo doesn’t want to accidentally use or hurt her... plus there’s like. Her neurodivergence reduces her ability to consent further tbh. I’ve stated before that I portray her as being autistic, but I also think she might’ve gotten misdiagnosed at first as having an intellectual disorder bc she does process the world very differently and developed incredibly slowly as a little’n (there’s... more to it, but I don’t think I could properly explain right now). She’s like, uniquely vulnerable in a relationship.

--ANYWAY. IF MO WAS BI AND GOT OVER THAT HUMP OF FEAR HE’D HURT HER, SHE WOULD BE SOMEONE HE’D WANT TO DEVOTE HIMSELF TO. She’s sweet, she’s kind, she’s so cute and so interesting and so much fun, and she just, she loves with all of herself, and Mo would be so

They’d really get along in a relationship. She’d find his artistic hobbies very fun and make fantastic suggestions, he’d really enjoying hearing about her special interests (dogs, CG/l and various other forms of age play, desserts, some other stuff I can’t think of right now) and taking her on dates, they’d have fun hanging out at the mall together, he’d tutor her for school and they’d give each other oral during breaks, etc etc.

Mo/Cody (Rich’s brother, for the folks at home

vomit (not in a bad way [eyes emoji]) / don’t ship / okay / cute / adorable / perfect / beyond flawless / hot damn / screaming and crying / i will ship them in hell

God Cody is such such SUCH a fucking BASTARD and HONESTLY I looooove thinking of all the people he must’ve raped in his life so far. He’s still fairly young (anywhere from 28 to 33, depending on Rich’s age and whether he was 12-15 when he knocked up Elizabeth... uh, when their dad knocked up Elizabeth. Yeah. That’s totally what I meant), and he’s just the worst that he’s probably hurt hundreds of people at this point. 

Anyway. Cody is such a bastard, and altho it’s very very VERY unlikely traditional bodied-Squip or AMAB Mo would be put in a position where Cody wouldn’t be terrified of crossing him, he’d legitimately hurt him the moment he got any chance.

So, basically, there’s a lot of situations here. The desire is present. It’s just a matter of the route and whether Cody was smart (or dumb) enough to take a chance when the opportunity presents itself.

Like. For one example, probably an AFAB human Mo who is underage and dating Rich, he’d decide to approach Mo when Rich isn’t there and be like “... listen. You don’t want me hurting my brother, right? Let me fuck you instead.” and Mo, who absolutely loathes Cody for how he treats Rich but also isn’t about to kill someone unless there’s no other choice, is like “... okay.” And thus begins a very nasty “secret relationship” between them that he’d be terrified of Rich finding out about.

It’s hot. Cody is gross and also hot (... his actions and the way he looks on top of characters is, anyway). Mo looks so pretty when he’s being abused.

OKAY FINISHED OH MY GOD I’M SO SORRY

[alexsfictionaddiction]

12 of the best feel-good books

I think we could all do with a pick-me-up right now. We’ve been in some level of isolation for over a month and we’re perhaps being forced to accept a new normal. However, we’re still seeing frightening and tragic headlines all day every day (ration your news time, if you’re not doing so already), so of course, fear and hopelessness is going to set in. If you’re not used to spending time alone, loneliness is also a huge possibility but we know that books are a great source of solace in times like this. 

Maybe you want to do your own research and discover how far into the realms of science-fiction we’ve got. For you, I have compiled a list of the best books that pandemic fiction has to offer but if you’re looking for something more light-hearted, I’ve got the perfect tonic. Whether you need a laugh, to be comforted or to simply remember what life used to be like, here are some books that will help you escape the current face of reality. Above all, remember that it’s perfectly natural for your mental health to be suffering at the moment. Do whatever you can to look after yourself and stay safe.

1. The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary

Remember when you could just move in with a stranger without worrying about keeping two metres apart at all times? Tiffy and Leon share a flat and even a bed but due to entirely opposite work schedules, they manage to not even meet for months after Tiffy moves in, only communicating via texts and notes left on the fridge. But Tiffy’s controlling ex-boyfriend and Leon’s innocent prisoner brother ignite a connection that is fuelled by basic human kindness and a touch of romantic attraction, of course! This quirky rom-com has been a bestseller for over a year now and it’s not hard to see why. It’s a celebration of love, friendship and the unexpected happiness that can come from taking calculated risks. Beth O’Leary’s second novel The Switch has also just been released, so there has never been a better time to read her debut!

2. Wonder by R. J. Palacio

A beautiful story of empathy, kindness and acceptance, Wonder has fast become one of the most popular and widely read contemporary middle-grade novels. Auggie Pullman was born with a facial deformity and he’s attending mainstream school for the first time but of course, kids can be staggeringly cruel to those who are different. Wonder kickstarted a global kindness campaign and spawned a film adaptation, which is one of the best and most faithful I’ve ever seen. It has already given so much to the world and I know you’ll get a lot of joy out of it too.

3. The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

Of course, not all sci-fi is doom and gloom. This is the first instalment in Becky Chambers’ Wayfarers series and it’s laugh-out-loud funny. It follows a misfit crew of space travellers and their wonderful smile-inducing relationships. Celebrating the coming together of a variety of races, sexualities and personalities, it features a lot of loveable memorable characters who begin to read like dear loyal friends. If you’re looking for quirky, light-hearted sci-fi in a similar vein to Star Trek and Firefly, you’d be wise to start here.

4. Less by Andrew Sean Greer

Arthur Less is a struggling writer about to turn 50 and the love of his life is engaged to someone else. To say that he’s not feeling too hot right now would be an understatement but he has been invited to a range of literary events around the world, so he does the logical thing and accepts them all. We can’t travel right now but with Arthur, you’ll visit Paris, Berlin, southern India, the Moroccan desert and Japan. You’ll also go on a journey of self-acceptance, learn how to love the life that you have and appreciate the time you have left. 

5. Hot Mess by Lucy Vine

It’s rare that a book makes me guffaw out loud in public but Hot Mess did exactly that, when I read it a couple of years ago. Ellie is a single woman who hates her office job and is absolutely nowhere near having her life together. However, she does have some great friends and a lovely relationship with her dad Alan, whose drafts of a romance novel are truly side-splittingly hilarious. We see Ellie through terrible dates, trauma confrontation and a quest for true happiness that is hugely satisfying. It has been described as a modern-day Bridget Jones but I found it much more relatable and actually quite a lot funnier!

6. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

It’s the first in a trilogy of novels that explore the trials and tribulations of finding romance when you’re genetics professor Don Tillman. Don likes facts, logic and reason and he applies all of these things to his latest endeavour, The Wife Project. He knows exactly the kind of woman he wants to marry but then he meets Rosie, who ticks none of his boxes and he’s forced to accept that perhaps true love doesn’t always follow the rules. Don and Rosie’s relationship is such a heartwarming, mutually beneficial one that will make you laugh and leave you with a big bag of warm fuzzy feels. 

7. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

There is a huge chance that you will have read The Hobbit but what better time to revisit a funny, charming favourite? Re-embark on the quest to retrieve Smaug’s treasure, take back the Lonely Mountain and make a plethora of fantastic friends along the way. As well as relating to Bilbo’s personal growth throughout the novel, I think the idea of facing epic threat and mortal peril in unknown environments and yet still returning safely home to a quiet comfortable life is the reassurance we need that this too shall pass. Of course, it will also be an intoxicating nostalgia trip, so there’s really no reason to not pick it up again!

8. The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams

I read this over the Valentine’s Day period and was so enchanted by it. Gavin is a top baseball player for the Nashville Legends and he has recently discovered that he has never given his wife Thea a genuine orgasm and it’s threatening the relationship. So he does the logical thing and turns to his team mates, who actually double as a secret romance book club. They suggest taking a leaf out of a smutty Regency paperback to save his marriage -what could possibly go wrong? Funny, heart-warming and touching, it’s a great choice if you’re looking for a rom-com with a difference.

9. My Pear-Shaped Life by Carmel Harrington

If you’ve spent a lot of self-isolation being wholly unproductive and perhaps not looking after yourself too well, you may be feeling that you’re simply not good enough. Especially if your social media is full of happy healthy people doing just about EVERYTHING. Meet Greta, a struggling actress who is used to playing the role of the funny, overweight girl in all areas of her life. That’s ok as long as she laughs with everyone else, right? But things have been pretty rough lately and it’s only when she hits rock bottom that she begins to realise that maybe things need to go a little bit pear-shaped sometimes. With joy and despair in equal measure, this new novel, populated with an array of wonderful characters, will teach you that true happiness comes from simply being you.

10. A Boy Made Of Blocks by Keith Stuart 

Eight-year-old Sam is autistic and struggles to make sense of the world. His dad Alex has also lost himself somewhere along the way and needs to change. Minecraft offers a place where father and son can rediscover their bond and put the family back together, block by block. I reviewed this incredibly moving, uplifting story when it was first released a few years ago. It’s actually inspired by Keith Stuart’s real-life experiences, which I think give it an extra dollop of heart-warmth! 

11. The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta

The entire focus of this fantastically written YA novel is on embracing your own personal uniqueness and on not being afraid to let it out. Michael is a mixed-race gay teen who has grappled with his identity for his entire life. On arriving at university, the idea of becoming a drag artist causes everything to begin to slot into place. Told in verse, The Black Flamingo will show you how your boldest brightest colours can shine through the darkest of times. Highlighting the power of words and challenging all forms of homophobia, whether it be external or internal, this is a book that I’m sure will become a staple of LGBT+ literature in years to come. As for now, it will simply inspire you to live your very best life, regardless of who tries to prevent it.

12. Reasons To Be Cheerful by Nina Stibbe

As the title may suggest, there is plenty to smile about in Reasons To Be Cheerful. It’s chiefly a coming-of-age novel about a young woman called Lizzie living in 1970s Leicestershire. She has just got a job as an assistant to a work-shy, racist dentist who is desperate to join the freemasons. Navigating this new position alongside a relationship with her alcoholic writer mother, a boyfriend who doesn’t seem terribly interested in her and a few unlikely friends, Lizzie’s life makes for some pretty amusing anecdotes. Whether it’s the simple retro setting or small cast of eccentric caricatures, there is something quite other-worldly yet familiar about it. There is a lot of detail that is relevant to the period it’s set in, including the blatant social prejudices that were so rife at the time. I am too young to have experienced 1970s Britain but it certainly feels authentic to what I know. I have no doubt that those that were there will get even more enjoyment and nostalgia from Lizzie’s life than I did. 

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oh fuck me his father hugged billy. this is too MUCH! he had a sister and a brother?!! also yes his FATHER hugged him, because neil will never be his father. and his mother protected him, yes ma'am that is right she protected him! she never ran away without! no! omg. who gave you the RIGHT?! he was gentle when he was jason and so good with his sibling! fuck this. I can't with this.

Power Rangers AU Part 3 

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Yes exactly! 

Jason was his mom’s child. Jason was a young boy shaking his hair out like a dog and laughing with his mother as it flopped over his eyes, Jason was the boy who walked his sister to school with their hands locked together so she wouldn’t run away and carried her Strawberry Shortcake backpack over one shoulder, Jason was the boy who slapped a kid for teasing an autistic kid for wanting his pencils a certain way. Jason was a hero - the Red Power standing tall with the others flanking him and confidence in his shoulders even when they seemed so close to losing. 

Jason is a teenager who has lost everything that has ever mattered to him and whose heart aches when his friends call him by his name because his mom and dad and sister are dead and he wanted to be a Scott, but not the last one. 

Neil Hargrove keeps them in Santa Monica for a few months, but then he packs them all off to Hawkins. It’s a decision made for a combination of reasons - because he’s lost his job for being drunk one too many times, because people are starting to question Susan’s turtlenecks in the summer and reconsidering the family now that it turns out Neil had an ex-wife and son that left him for some reason. 

Billy has already changed in the months he lived in Santa Monica - anger as hot as magma in his gut and spilling out of his mouth and fists. He doesn’t talk to his friends anymore - Susan will tell him one of his friends are on the phone for him and Billy will slip out of the house so avoid answering, they send letters and Billy put them in a box under his bed without reading. 

Moving to Hawkins is like flipping a switch for him. 

Billy Hargrove is everything that Jason Scott was not. 

Billy Hargrove blasts music loudly enough to burst eardrums and without concern for neighbors that he doesn’t know. Billy Hargrove sneers at the idea of taking Max Mayfield to school, but puts up with her in the car as long as he doesn’t have to hear her voice because he doesn’t want her but she’s not worth getting his ass kicked by Neil. Billy Hargrove bares his teeth and infuses every word with anger, with confidence, with the idea that he’s on top of the foodchain. Billy Hargrove joins the basketball team to stay out of his house (not because he loves it, but because Jason Scott loved football and even with his knee healed from being a Power Ranger, he can’t step onto a field without thinking of dad cheering from the stands and mom with a school shirt on and his number painted on the back and Pearl with her cheeks painted with school colors), but sneers at varsity jackets and slams his elbows into chests with every chance he gets. 

Jason Scott was the boy girls introduced to their mother - the boy that Trini’s mother had nearly fainted over when Trini invited him in and who had Kimberly’s mother sending her daughter secretive smile and eyebrow raises. 

Jason Scott was a hero. 

Billy Hargrove is the boy who teaches you how to shotgun in the bathroom at a party, who leaves girls houses from the window so that parents won’t see him. 

Billy Hargrove is done being a good boy, done being a hero. 

Billy Hargrove has a dead family and a father who only speaks or touches him when its to hit him. 

Billy Hargrove wants people to hurt as much as he does.