#Andile

[cannontranscharacteroftheday]

Trans Character of the Day

Andile from Thisty Suitors is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns!

[kinghijinx22]

Thirsty Suitors is an incredibly charming, super fun and beautifully queer game that I wish more people would talk about Part 2

Continued thoughts on Thirsty Suitors, read part 1 first. I wrote this after my second night of playing it, after I finished the game.

Thirsty Suitors is indeed a very lovely experience, very heartwarming and sweet and queer and, the characterization is very strong, it's some of the most personality I've seen in a game. I actually finished it last night and it is now one of my new favorite games. I defeated the rest of the 3 exes that were left which I guess I'll just say, you do end up eventually having to face Tyler but I'll get around to that.

The first was the most dudebro guy in the game, named Bruno who was actually just awful and is probably the only person who was worse at relationships then Jala. He leaves town afterwards and is the only one of the exes that you can't text and do side quests for which, good.

After that you face Andile who, it seems like there was a very messy 3 way love triangle at one point between them, Tyler and Jala? They are very close with Tyler now and are a lovely person, who mostly seems to be facing off against Jala for her sake. Also Andile is nonbinary which it was cool to see some enby rep and also, the way they actually talk about their experience as a more masc presenting nonbinary person, not being perceived as the person they feel like, it made me very happy that they thoughtfully discussed these experiences that nonbinary people have. They even mention that when most people think of nonbinary people, they think of someone who is much smaller and more feminine which I do know is a thing.

But then the last of the exes you need to confront is Tyler, which you do after finishing helping her investigate what exactly is going on with the weird bear cult in the skatepark. I didn't fully understand the plot but from what I can gather, the bear mascot guy was using outcast and queer kids who had been mistreated to band together to help him take over the place and go against the Mayor? Which kinda sounds like a good thing but I think the bear is implied to have some sort of ulterior motives which is the part I didn't get. Also at this point, Jala does end up reconciling with her sister in a very sweet scene and you find out that it was Jala's sister who had set up all her exes to confront her in the first place because she wasn't ready to talk to Jala yet.

But anyway, so the final battle does end up being against Tyler which was very much the most emotionally devastating of the exes. Tyler was a very important person to Jala, they were child friends, Jala was there to support Tyler during her transition, and as a romantic partner she was always who Jala would come back to. But what was hurting Tyler was that Jala would always leave her for someone else, and that she felt like she was being played with at this point. Jala recognizes how shitty she was to her, they do end up reconciling in a really beautiful scene and they do agree to take things slow, as friends for now. I cried so much during this scene though, just for Tyler and how she's the person that Jala always comes back to. I'll skip ahead a bit and say that at the end of the game, you do get scenes of Jala with each of the exes hanging out and out of all of them, the scene with Tyler does suggest that they do end up back together fully in love.

The final boss after Tyler though actually ends up being Jala's grandma, who's arrival has been dreaded throughout the entire game, who arrives to attend Jala's sisters's wedding. And this is where you find out why Jala's mother is so awful and yes, this is a story about generational trauma. Because grandma is a lot worse, and you see that with each generation we move away from being controlled by these primitive roles and "traditions", and that Jala's mother is considered rebellious compared to grandma. And because grandma couldn't live vicariously through her daughter, she's now trying to control Jala, but Jala needs to teach her that she needs to be her own person, and also that she herself was just being controlled by expectations which she is now forcing on Jala's mother and now Jala. This was a another fight that obviously got very emotional and, something I loved about this as well is that, before this Jala ends up loosing her inner narrator who takes the form of her sister because she didn't need her a comping mechanism anymore, but she does get another voice who helps her get through this battle and it's her true love Tyler.

In the end though Jala is able to reconcile with her grandma and make things right between the multiple generations of family. So yeah it was an amazing ending for a really beautiful game, about queer love, community, self improvement and generational trauma. Probably in my top 10 and I would very much recommend playing it yourself.

[yourfandompersn]

Kloktober day 5

OC.. her name is Andile and I made her out of boredom and she wasn't really supposed to belong to a fandom but she is a earth goddess

[egotenebrisper]

ANDILES WITH GOOD LUCK BABE 😭

Simone Biles x Rebeca Andrade

[egolifontein]

Andile Yolanda Mlambo (@ yolanda.mlambo)

[irishleo13]

Stranger Things version of Tyrus (New Will Byers crackship)

So I've been thinking of a possible pairing for Will if Byler doesn't happen and the Duffers do want to give Will a BF in S5. One of candidates I've thought of was someone on Basketball (and I'm going spefically with Andy since he's biggest living member left). I know Greatwise has become somewhat prominent crackship but personally I don't think the idea of that relationship is interesting and pairing Will with another DnD fan feels like lazy (and also actor age-gap is a decade, unlike Andy which is just a few years).

Now some might be unaware of ship a refer to in the title of this post, Tyrus is canon gay ship of Disney Channel Andi Mack. I've always really enjoyed the dynamic of the ship which consists of a gay Jewish nerd who's struggling with his sexuality and crush on his male bff who ends falling for a Jock who starts as a antagonist in another storyline and who's ususally a jerk to everyone but has a heart gold that is first shown with his treatment of the other boy (Cyrus) . Definitely sounds fitting with Will's story and so far Andy seems like a jerk but he's flat enough of character you can give him a redemption arc and reveal he's actually good guy underneath (I mean witchhunt does make sense from basketball team's perspective especially after Patrick's death). He also works as kinda of dark foil to Mike, someone who's a snarky shit but taken up to eleven (accidentally ST pun lol) due to lack of genuine friendship ( except for Patrick giving good angst opportunity) or even shittier parents.

Andy does seem like he'll have a role in S5 but unfortunately, he'll probably play the role of generic psycho bully but I honestly even if we don't get this crackship, hope they give him some depth. Hell if they want a psycho bully, just bring back Troy. Could even start this ship with a resuce romance moment of Andy standing up to Troy for Will.

Finally tell me what pontential ship names sound the best:Wandy, Andill, or Willdy. Or something more creative like BasketballCleric

[afro-artistry-chronicles]

SHE by Andile Bokweni

[h00dsw0rld]

Andile Nkomo

[boernepedia]

“Urban gay men live in chic condominium apartments, buy a lot of hair and body care products, [and] have great taste in cars, clothes, and interior design”

– Andil Gosine (Professor for Environmental Arts & Justice) about mainstream representation of gay men

(Quelle)

[zia-zee-bee]

never getting over them. can’t believe they’ve ruined my life. wtf. they deserved so much better. i’m crying screaming throwing up.

[kiraziwrites]

List 10 songs with 10 names in the titles that I like, and then tag 10 people.

thanks to @eponymiad for the tag, this was a fun one! I specifically forbade myself from including Jolene because it is probably the no. 1 answer to this prompt but for the record it was still the first song that came to mind.

in no particular order (but these have all seen a fair amount of play on my spotify over the years):

1. Jenny by The Mountain Goats

2. Brimful of Asha by Cornershop

3. Marlon Brando by Zeynep Bastık

4. MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name) by Lil Nas X

5. Django Jane by Janelle Monaé

6. Leyla Mecnun by Burak Bulut, Kurtuluş Kuş, and Mustafa Ceceli

7. Lake Marie by John Prine

8. Jackie’s Strength by Tori Amos

9. Abdo by Mashrou’ Leila

10. Athandwe (Hamba Wena). This is a viral gwijo song so idk who to credit, but I am losing my mind about this locker room video of the SA women’s football team singing it before their match with Sweden this week. If I’m understanding various translations correctly, Athandwe is the person the singer is addressing and half the internet is calling the song that, so I’m going to say it counts even if most of versions I have downloaded actually use the title Hamba Wena.

tagging: @auntieclimactic @mattatouile @enumchase @naomignome @banthacakes @kormantic @laiqualaurelote @leupagus @pretty-thief @nire-the-mithridatist

[egolifontein]

Andile Yolanda Mlambo (@ yolanda.mlambo)

[florjus]

Andile Dyalvane draws on Xhosa heritage for iThongo seating collection.

[spookycycledragon]

The School for Good and Evil

Now the film was ok (despite the changes)but it left out soooooo much & the books are well worth reading.

The books provide :

Character backstories

Brilliant characters I love which didn't make the film

A far more entertaining trail by tale

Talent show G vs E

3 witches of room 66 (Hester, Andil, Dot) as a very much codependent group

The princesses have a proper personality

Ect. I cant even think of how many more could be on this list

There are also six and you dont have to wait for them to come out. You could read them in one go if you so desired.

[nomairuins]

i also of course am excited for my eye doctor appt bc we r driving to my hometown (me and weeman r gonna have an appt on the same day bc the eye doctor in our current town was fucking Horrible to him (tried to shove shit in his eye not even saying hello and then yelled at him when he freaked out bc hes like. rly scared abt medical appts and needs to be walked through whats happening. 6 year old child by the way). so were going back to the one in my hometown bc theyre good and im gonna help and bc were going to be in my hometown in the morning i get a little bowl of seeds for me (bacon egg and cheese on poppyseed bagel from my favorite bagel place in the world)

[h00dsw0rld]

Andile Nkomo