#I always liked her

[justanancientfangirl]

Am I becoming obsessed with Mina Harker in the year of our Lord 2024?

Yes. Yes I am

[raddestrose]

Poor little Mianmian, who knows what she may have seen

[10piecechickenmcnugget]

you kinda remind me of squirrelflight earlier on in the warriors books ngl

fair enough i think

(ask game)

[wilburgersoot]

I’m glad Doreen’s okay at least …

[starridge]

puppet hour was brutal

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The math just adds up!

[pangur-and-grim]

one thing that took me embarrassingly long to learn is "sometimes when people say things, they will not be true."

I used to tell people about this revelation and they'd be like yeah.....duh.....but like, why wouldn't my base assumption be that you're communicating to me in a straightforward manner. anyway, I get scammed a lot.

[gongyussy]

i'll let phie-san say it:

[shikai-the-storyteller]

Job talk

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I need to careful about how I phrase this but in essence

Me white knuckled responding to my old boss, a higher-up at [redacted], trying to gently explain the ethical problems of generative AI when she mentions her hesitations around AI stuff because Good God there's a dark path looming in the distance and I'd love to see her swerve to avoid it

[sunflowerscottie]

“deploying Aubrey”

[chloesimaginationthings]

The FNAF Vanessas meet their younger selves..

[lungthief]

sometimes u just gotta remind yourself that while ace attorney is about law and justice and stuff it is also about a bunch of young adults living in [CALIFORNIA]

[bean-spring]

Hot take and not to be a killjoy or the shipping police but people treating Viktor or Jinx's aroace headcanons as if they were canon is not the revolutionary take people think it is.

Headcanons are always all right but we have to acknowledge that they are somehow damaging when they apply to stereotypes. It might not be the case for everyone but most of the time people unconsciously assume that disability/mental illness=asexuality. These headcanons erase the freedom of attraction from people who are already seen as unable to have sexual/romantic experiences/desires, when it's completely untrue and harmful.

You can headcanon Viktor and Jinx as aroace, but I have seen people changing their minds once Viktor is no longer disabled (s2 with all of his other forms) and Jinx is no longer as mentally ill (alternate universe Powder). And it speaks wonders of how people see these characters.

"I never thought about Jinx being able to feel romantic/sexual attraction until s2!" To believe she's actually only capable of that when she's not "damaged" is incredibly disturbing. Especially since Jinx has always had a bit of a flirty personality too.

"I've always seen Viktor as asexual, I don't know why!" That's fine. You can headcanon him as ace. But I believe there is a reason behind it, most of the time, if for some inexplicable reason the "vibes" of the disabled character are making you think he's ace.

I say all of this being aroaspec myself, by the way. Headcanon all you want but going to people's posts commenting how "it's weird for you that they have romantic/sexual plots when they're clearly aroace" is not a win at all. It's a headcanon, after all, and it should be treated as such, and that's fine. But it also is damaging to spread stereotypes like these.

Of course the disabled character is asexual. Of course the mentally ill character is aromantic. It's not as revolutionary as you might think, tbh.

Fandom is not activism and it's all right to have any headcanons you want BUT some of them are filled with damaging stuff and perhaps we should look into ourselves more before treating these assumptions as something canon.

[ionomycin]

Maiden of Light

[fraternum-momentum]

Lace and Leather.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Penelope's final gambit, you will always be famous, no matter the subtext.