#Ash rambles

[ashwii]

ALRIGHT looks like the people are goin back to this bad boy

https://bsky.app/profile/ashwii.bsky.social

Me when the New Twitter Of The Month gets traction again, even tho chances are it will never pick up 😔🏳️‍

[polyamquackity]

Stop doom scrolling, look at my cat

[ashes-onthewind]

i love baikal seals. they always look like they've just gotten out of a sixteen year relationship and are now having an existential crisis. sopping wet cats. weirdly smooth. i love them.

[aroarachnid]

no one is safe

Simple comic featuring two characters labelled "favourite character existing" and "me" respectively. 'Me' raises their hand to blast an "aro beam" at their favourite character that has the aro pride flag colours.

[ashlinxsloves]

My obsession with older men is getting out of hand

Pls, i want this divorced man to scold me...

[higurashiz]

I’m sorry, Inuyasha’s face when looking at a chicken is the funniest fucking thing ever to me.

[taifenggg]

just saw that one post where Barbatos will purposefully rig a game of like chance or something else so that MC wins, and me personally I think thats fucking hilarious.

[zaynes-left-chesticle]

PSA: Go watch "Hidden Motive" without the Background Music 😳🥹

I tried it just to hear all of the intricate background audio, and:

1. Hearing the birds and light breeze makes this so much sweeter

2. You can hear more movement and Zayne's small noises 🥹

And 3. YOU CAN ACTUALLY HEAR THE CHAIR ROCKING (and last time I checked, a chair does NOT rock like that unless there is s o m e t h i n g happening in it... Lol)

[ashintheairlikesnow]

irl whump but my employer is the whumper and i am the whumpee

[ashthewaterghoul]

Been seeing Ghartists saying like “I need to change my Swiss design now” YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN DOING THAT ANYWAY!!!!

The Ghouls ≠ the people in the masks.

They are SEPARATE people, they are more than JUST GHOST.

NO Ghoul design should have their faces on them regardless of if you like/support the person under the mask or not!!

This is a hill I shall die on. Thank you very much.

[ashwii]

Ive always thought tumblr badges were sorta dumb, but nono, I was mistaken. These boop badges are all that matters in the world now

[polyamquackity]

Kind of a dilf, reblog

[ashleestarz]

“Mcsm season three is possible after that terrible Minecraft movie trailer!!” YOU DO REALIZE..if we got a season three the new order (Jesse,petra,Lukas,Axel, Olivia) wouldn’t be a focus?? Eric Stirpe even clarified this. I swear I’m content with the ending we got and would much rather prefer a release of the game back on shelves or hell merchandise to commemorate its 10th year.

But I think people would become haters fast finding out some characters have no mention or don’t appear at all; anyways I heart Mcsm, the movie trailer gives no hope. And thanks for the apology to mcsm we never needed it cause like..yknow we still enjoy the game but you do you guys

[ashes-onthewind]

this is a marshal trahearne appreciation post.

you agree. reblog.

(or don't, you don't have to, i know you love him too)

[aroarachnid]

"but if it were me, I'd really wanna be, a giant woman"

stevens relationship with gender is so fascinating to me. his entire diamond days arc is a clear trans allegory, but more specifically reads as a transmasc allegory, what with everyone reffering to him as "rose" or "pink" and feminine terms despite his repeated insistence that he is *steven*. and yet he never actually corrects anyone when they use she/her. he only corrects his name. this was pointed out in the tags of that one post youve probably seen:

this post doesnt show it, but steven is delighted when blue said this. obviously you can read this as steven being glad that shes making an effort, even if incorrect, and is just choosing to let the wrong pronouns slide. but its never explicitly stated. and like i said, he never corrects she/her, he only corrects his name. although it is interesting that, by the time the movie rolls around, the diamonds have switched to he/him.

its also interesting to mention how excited he was to put on pink diamonds outfit, and also how quickly he took it off once he got the chance.

of course stevens relationship with his mother and his identity issues are going to play a big part in how he percieves his gender, given that for a large chunk of the show he actually belived they were the same person, at least to some extent. ("im my mom and my sister?! what kind of magical destiny is this?!). how would you define your "agab" when half your family is telling you that you are a centuries old alien called rose/pink who has no sex and used she/her? not to mention all of the various gender identities and pronouns his fusions have.

thats not even getting started on how the gems percieve gender, which is to say, they generally don't. gems are sexless beings and their society has no concept of gender, although after spending a long time on earth im sure the crystal gems have a better understanding (i actually could talk about the gems relation to human gender a lot more but ill save that for another time). for steven, a child raised by gems for a good chunk of his childhood- who use feminine terms as a default-i can see how that would lead to some interesting perceptions on gender presentation.

thats not even getting into stevens gender noncomformity. and while gender presentation doesnt necessarily have anything to do with your gender identity, its interesting to note and i just think its really cool that a male protagonist is so unapologetically feminine

also i could talk for days about connie and stevens knight/princess dynamic, and how it parallels pearl and roses, but in a healthier way that nips the whole "obssesive self sacrifice" thing in the (rose) bud as soon as steven notices it. but then id have to talk about pearl and then wed be here all day lol

so yeah, stevens relationship with gender fascinates me. I mean, does the concept of "cisgender" even apply in the way we usually mean it to, given stevens unique experiences?

[ashfierce]

A part of the reason why I liked Rafayel was because he could cook. In my whole life I've never seen a man cook and make it seem like a normal chore/ a normal house hold work. I love when he cooked for us in a 4* card ( I forgot which one ) He didn't make it a big deal to get praised or seem cool. he cooks because he knows how to cook, he cooks because he wants to, he cooks because it's something that would make his partner happy. ( Same with sylus but he has yet to cook for us and he only made salad which is kinda meh so yeah) and it got me thinking that how normalised it is for men to not know how to cook. it's something a woman should know and those who don't get ridiculed because how can you not know woman it should be in your DNA like wtf???

The guy I had a crush on told me almost bragging that he lives alone and can cook and my response was 'cooking is a basic skill which you do to survive ofc you should know how to cook' and he seemed offended?? Like he was waiting to get praised and for what? Cooking? I've been doing that since I was 12. When a woman/ girl tells that she can cook nobody bats an eye but when it's men — it's supposed to be something praiseworthy?? Like be for real!

( My crush on him ended then and there btw also because he was like I wanna have 3 wives and 16 kids which was so out of pocket for me because I'm asexual and I don't want kids!!)