#But also

[melilotus-picea]

Where is Rock Wizard??? Is it wrapped up in Paper Wizard???

Scissor Wizard and Paper Wizard

It’s probably fine to leave them alone together.

[babymorte]

༺𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓅𝓇𝑒𝓉𝓉𝓎 𝑔𝒾𝓇𝓁 𝓂𝒶𝓃𝓉𝓇𝒶 ༻

[gauntletgirlie]

So, I have a confession to make. Long post to follow, sorry.

Anyone who follows my blog knows I post the thirstiest bullshit, alright, and I love it but…

… there’s a part of me that doesn’t agree with the sexualisation sometimes. I’ve often wondered if my brain just works in different ways to other people’s, maybe I have some aroace in me yearning to come forth? But there are a lot of ships that sprung up from TROP where I have nothing against them at all, I firmly stand on ship and let ship, but what they were founded on I did not interpret as sexy or romantic.

For example, Adar is shipped with all and sundry and it’s brilliant and peak comedy at times, fuelled by Sam Hazeldine’s fantastic chemistry with his co-stars. But there are certain scenes where I get why they were interpreted that way, but I also think a lot can be missed by jumping to sex/romance.

One instance is Adar telling Elrond he has the beauty of his forebear Melian. In modern society, a man calling another man beautiful probably is flirting, since men (generalisation) struggle to compliment each other apparently without feeling the need to caveat “no homo”. But in the context of Tolkien’s world and even medieval norms, that wasn’t the case. If anything, Adar is showing off his knowledge and also baiting Elrond by asking if he’s as wise as Melian.

Also take the scene where Adar chokes Elrond to get Nenya from around his neck. Often interpreted as kinky (which is valid). Sometimes choking is just violence though. Adar needed to get Nenya and overpower Elrond. He’s in the middle of a literal battle. Maybe I’ve watched too much true crime and seen the effects of countless domestic abuse cases, but choking can just be violent and violently intended. Probably a boring and obvious take, but that’s how I perceived it when I watched.

Does Adar look sexy as hell doing it? I think so but others might not. Could you also see it as Adar flirting with Elrond and ship them together? Of course! Why the hell not! I just sometimes miss the non-romantic aspects of analysis and discussion.

Same with Maidar. I totally get where that ship comes from, it makes sense, it has a lot going for it. I also personally adhere to the notion there was no sex or romance between them. I think there was alluring, I think there was admiration, I think there was a codependency, I don’t think it was sexual or romantic. To me, having your best friend and/or most trusted, loyal follower stab you in the back would hurt more than a lover. I might be falling back on my own thoughts on how I’d feel and I would personally be more devastated at being betrayed by my closest friend than my husband. I’ve lost friends and I’ve lost loves, the friends hurt more.

Adariel is another one. Again, I think there are strong grounds for that ship and I love so much of the art for it, but a lot of what is interpreted as romantic for me was just tactical manipulation, coupled with genuine admiration on Adar’s part and the fact that Galadriel is beautiful so most people would be attracted to her if we’re being totally honest. Adar used her to get what he wanted. His methods might have included flirtation or creating tension in closeness, but for me, they were all about tactics to defeat Sauron. Galadriel and Nenya were a way for him to do that so he did want he needed to facilitate that.

I’m not even going to touch on Haladriel or Saurondriel because this post is already hella long and my anxiety is already sky high so I’m chickening out.

Sorry this is such a weird random word vomit, it was nerve wracking to write and post, but I just needed space to let this part of me out. I know it’s so contradictory to how I’ve presented myself on here so far, but I felt like if I’m allowed to let the thirst flow, I should be allowed to let this version of me out as well.

I’m literally this:

Guess which one gets fed more? 😂

Fear not, folks, I will resume my thirsty bullshit forthwith.

[aka-indulgence]

Augh hanging out with extroverts is!!! Fun! But also!! Ahhhghsggghg!!! I can't keep up!!

[hyog-blog]

Fangs of Fortune - ep. 15

Another one of those precious moments of Bai Jiu cosplaying his Ge. That lil' serious face he's making makes Zhao Yuanzhou smile, ahah :D

[ask-the-murdertimetrio]

Dust you have a Shadow plushie🤨

-Inko

[e-enbyanon]

Pukicho, can I pay you to kill the nazi’s in office currently?

do you think Elon musk actually tried to do the Nazi salute

PSHH! He definitely wasn't doing that one salute that everybody thinks of when you make that specific gesture. twice. No no, he was doing ANOTHER salute that no one had heard of prior to today!! We simply must agree that this is what he was doing, and not the really obvious thing that makes more sense given all of the context and pretext and subtext.

[youling-the-ghost]

no thoughts just Tom in glasses

[telugu-girl-13]

being annabeth chase would solve all my problems

[utdrmv-confession-box]

Transcript: I do not like lust sans or Underlust. Personality wise, he's just a mix of angel dust and a less funny mettaton in twink edition sans body. His design sucks ass and isn't even remotely sexy. Underlust COULD have been peak if it didn't have that weird shit with chara and the designs had actual substance but noooo their all just skin fishnets skin skin boob window skin skin ass window skin (whats even the point in giving skeletons skin if your going to make them skinny?????) . I hate it. The only half way decent design is mettatons, and even then, he's just the 🤓 emoji with better hair.

Half tempted to remake the au, remove all the gross weird shit with the 'royal harem' and chara/frisk and make the monsters designs based on queer kink culture instead. They had the perfect opportunity to make sans a bear, and they DIDINT!??!! It's so weirdly horny and gross that the designs loop right back around into being unsexy. Why was Frisk even involved in this story. Showing the monsters what 'true love' is feels weirdly Puritan but maybe I am just too sensitive to people demonizing (queer) sex & sw and i HATE how underlust handles it while trying to be a 'serious' story. It's giving hazbin hotel accidentally condoning gentrification. It handles its topics only slightly better than hazbin does, too, with about as much tact and hamfistedness as to be expected.

The only good thing this au has to offer is the frisks sweater being the ace flag that's neat, but I'd rather a child character not be involved at all in an au like that. Especially with how it handled and drew chara 🤢.

[notcuddles]

HELLO??????

As someone who follows a lot of webcomics, including some very long running ones, I'm suddenly curious: have you any thoughts on the decline and fall of Sinfest?

I was there when Sinfest went off the rails, and it's kind of hilarious because it didn't go at all the way most folks assume it did. A lot of people have only seen the comic's early days and what it's doing this week and conclude it must have been a straight line from the former to the latter – which honestly isn't a bad guess! – but it actually went through a milquetoast liberal feminist phase somewhere in the middle, if you can believe it.

The trouble is, the comic's author had this whole Grand Philosopher of the Internet shtick going, and this was back when just having a regularly updating website made you kind of a big deal, so they were accustomed to being treated as an authority on whatever subject they saw fit to shoot their mouth off about. However, when the comic took a turn from edgy T&A pop culture parody to didactic feminist allegory, practically no one was prepared to take it seriously; the comic's established readership was broadly unreceptive, and whatever new readership the comic was trying to court found the idea of suddenly treating the Calvin-and-Hobbes-with-tiddies guy as an authority on the topic of feminism laughable.

Of course, I said practically no one. There was, in fact, one notable group who were perfectly willing to kiss the Calvin-and-Hobbes-with-tiddies guy's ass. I'm sure you can guess who.

(To be 100% clear, I'm not saying "oh, Sinfest's author was forced to go down the transphobic radfem pipeline because we nasty leftists were mean to them". They're a colossally entitled twerp who voluntarily got in bed with fascists because couldn't deal with not being taken seriously as an authority figure, and they made their own choices. I'm just remarking on the particulars of that trajectory!)

[allpiesforourown]

My kink is calling him princess to tease him until we get get together, then calling him my beautiful princess endearingly

[zipadeea]

I really need Brian cox to present the best supporting actor award at the Oscars this year

[the-demoness-next-door]

spotted on reddit | art by u/Revolutionary_Lab670

[vertejay]

I need haikyuu characters that would randomly break no contact rule like months or even years after the break up stat. Please and thank you. ◜◡◝