#I believe in it so strongly

[huntingrays]

every time i see a fic or twt au make leo gay, i get very happy

idk, it just makes so much sense to me

[asharaks]

it is, i think, symptomatic of the way larian has built this brand: bg3 was always marketed as being mature (read: sexual), and that was one of the big draws for players - myself included! especially as media pulls more towards extremes, with mainstream video games starting to get increasingly graphically sexual, graphically violent, and the vogue for 'grey morality' becomes the norm, those boundaries get pushed, and it becomes more and more of a selling point.

larian obviously focused on this, along with the How Do You Do, Fellow Kids brand, the increased accessibility of game devs on twitter, and adopted it heavily into their marketing strategy, and are now pretty reliant on the horny gamer crowd for a lot of their audience, and more importantly, they're doing this on purpose.

which is how you end up in situations like this.

characters (white men) the players want to fuck get centred: they get updates, they get more content, they get favoured. halsin's gone from a side character in EA to a half-fledged romance option, to a full romance option: he shows up in the promotional material, is larian's poster boy for the sex scenes, he gets more content with every update.

now gortash gets more heavily implied situationship lines with the dark urge, because players are horny for him. nevermind that some people aren't playing that way, or that he was originally set up to be a lower-level antagonist; nevermind that if the durge's storyline needed expansion, it should've been with orin and sarevok and bhaal, or that it muddies the writing for the rest of gortash's arc + characterisation: people want to fuck him, so it gets put in the game. it's not even to do with karlach, whose quest so desperately needs expansion! it's specifically catering to the people who want their character to have a Relationship with the slaver, because they're either not interested in or not able to focus on strengthening the weak spots in the narrative: they're just doing things that will net the 'my favourite dating sim' people lmfao.

meanwhile, literal main character wyll gets his quest demoted to a subquest, doesn't get bugfixes, doesn't get a single unique romance greeting after 6 patches and months of requests. he's not a Horny character, so he doesn't get the focus: he's not a player favourite, so he gets nothing. it's just... so unbelievably, indisputably racist, and it's incredibly grim and disappointing to watch it happen in real-time.

[here-comes-the-moose]

Crosshair: Ever since Echo joined our squad, my brothers have accused me of being too…intense about the reg. They’re over-exaggerating; I like and respect him a normal amount.

Hunter: The other day you threatened to blow up the ship if we didn’t cheer and clap hard enough for Echo.

[antiyourwokehomophobia2]

Been thinking a lot about how lesbians have to pretend they never experience any adverse feelings to rejection in order to avoid the "predator" stereotype. When we get rejected by a straight woman or even just get hit with the reality that most women are straight, we're not allowed to be upset or angry or hurt about it.

I am not saying that lesbians should be allowed to verbally abuse a straight woman for saying no, but I don't feel like we're allowed to be angry at all. Even privately. Having those feelings at all makes us 'bad'.

The truth is that it very much so sucks to watch women you love choose men over you. It sucks to know that no matter how attractive and sweet and kind you are, most women will simply not be attracted to you in the slightest and there's nothing you can do about it. It sucks to know that men get to freely love women while you have to hide from bigots. It sucks to have strong, tender feelings for women that they simply do not return.

It's perfectly normal to feel deep sadness and anger over this. I'm talking bubbling violent anger that leaves you feeling like you're a descendant of the Greek goddess Lyssa. Wishing deeply that your feelings for women were returned doesn't make you a predator. Having extremely negative feelings towards the men that catch your crush's attention doesn't make you a bad person. That is all incredibly normal.

Straight men get rejected one too many times and commit mass shootings... You feeling private rage doesn't make you a bad person at all.

I just really hate that it seems like the only appropriate reaction lesbians are allowed to have to heartbreak is demure acceptance.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

[RHETORIC - Legendary 14]: Convince Kim you are in a timeloop.

(ISAT side of the swap)

[macbethz]

Imagine you and your codependent situationship part ways because you decide you’re too toxic for each other and you find a new girlfriend and you guys open a little diner together and move on with your lives and then one day a younger version of your ex-situationship walks in with his polycule and you have to pretend you don’t know him until they leave and you breathe a sigh of relief but then his polycule returns distraught without him a few hours later and from spying on their conversation you realize they think he’s dead (you know from experience he has faked his death yet again) and then an even YOUNGER version of him walks out of the bathroom and you realize he’s invited himself to his own fake death which is honestly just typical but you still can’t say anything even though this is really classic behavior of his that he still does not grow out of in a few hundred years. You’ll never believe this but this happened to my friend Clara Oswald-

[hatsunevita]

post-war bakudeku as pro hero duo where deku, having lost his quirk, starts using technological support stuff (like the costume all might had during his fight with all for one) because he is not ready to give up his dream and there are still people in need of saving.

and i like this concept because i think bakugou would destroy anyone who dares say that deku is not a hero anymore due to his quirk loss. bro is literally the first one to defend izuku’s honour and he gets so pissed when anyone underestimates deku and his determination to save people no matter what.

just. just imagine bakugou saying “you don’t need a quirk to be a hero, and izuku is a living proof of this phrase”. imagine him continuing to view deku as his equal. as someone worthy of competing. as his partner – in any sense.

[hirayaea]

ONCE UPON A TIME, IN PHILOS

Jeremiah: Xavier, please, you just need to wear this costume and wave to the crowd!

Xavier: No.

Jeremiah: It’s for charity! Do your duty as Prince of Philos, why don’t you?!

Xavier: I said no.

MC: Oh, Xavier, I finally found you! Here’s our matching masks for the charity event later!

Xavier: Matching… masks?

MC: Yeah, didn’t Jeremiah say? We’re going to have a play sword fight to amuse the kids! You and I will be the Moonshade Duo! Pretty cool, right?

Xavier: …Yeah.

MC: Get dressed soon, okay? Anyway, see you later!

Xavier: …

Jeremiah:

Jeremiah: *sighs* I guess I’ll ask someone else, huh—

Xavier: Quiet. And give me that.

/

SOMETIME DURING THEIR SPACE JOURNEY

Xavier: Why did you even decide to pack my Moonshade Duo outfit?

Jeremiah: You never know what world we’ll arrive in, what disguise you’ll need!

Xavier: But… it’s pointless without the pair outfit.

Jeremiah: Stop sulking, Captain! I made these, so I can make her another one once the time comes!

/

14 YEARS AGO (FROM PRESENT TIME)

Jeremiah, after seeing Lumiere land in front of him during the day of the incident: You— I thought you didn’t like— you actually wore it on your own?!

Xavier, brandishing his sword: Not. A. Word.

[spkyart]

Off screen

[elancholia]

Crafting a take that Tumblr users' disdain for warm weather and love of fall and winter is a symptom of our disconnect from the body, the land, the rhythms of natural life, and so on. Our ancestors understood that the sun would always rise again, that kings would always come and go, and that winter sucks ass. All their folklore worth a damn, all their songs and festivals, knew this.

Liquid modernity, Capitalism, Whiteness, Faustian civilisation, central heating, whatever, has made us forget, made us a retiring, neurotic people in love with age, death, and shivering. The winter has taken root in us, frost rime in the drupelets of the lungs, ice clotting the chambers of the heart, and we think Halloween is better than Easter and pretend to be excited to wear sweaters.

[the-real-list-of-ominous-threats]

tell me your pronouns or so god help me I will

legitimate question what pronouns would you guys diagnose me with based off vibes

[ekat-fandom-blog]

Musical Chairs the second

Based off of my Musical Chairs prompt

Danny was working with the Teen Titans when a magic user hit them with a body swap spell.

[ingravinoveritas]

Five minutes into the first table read, and Michael and David already looked like they'd been together forever. No one does it like them or ever will...

[genderkoolaid]

the more i think about it the more i feel transunity is vital. i dont mean this hatefully and theres no way to say this that wont be misconstrued by someone but. i feel like so much trans activism has been focused on aligning trans women with other women in feminism (itself not a bad goal) but that as the end all be all of trans activism intrinsically hurts other trans people. so much baeddel rhetoric relies on "there is no trans community/trans people it should only be about trans women" and i think its extremely extremely important to talk about transness as its own class, and fully embrace how trans liberationism must involve completely deconstructing cis-centric analysis of gender/the patriarchy to include the full extent of trans oppression. the idea that transphobia is fundamentally and exclusively based in misogyny & is ultimately a part of women's oppression is just fitting transness into the cis-centric binary system we've always had. transphobia has to be seen as its own thing and transness as its own class, for the better of all trans people and especially transmascs & transneutrals who are otherwise forced to choose between misgendering/detransition or being left out of class analysis/treated as oppressors even while being oppressed. transness is not just a subsect of womanhood it has to be seen as its own thing. transunity or death

[assorted-things]

I love how Harry's amnesia means I'm discovering the setting of Disco Elysium along with him. I mean, for all he and I know so far, maybe being really, really communist DOES give you psychic powers, who knows???

[pyjamacryptid]

‘The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so it lives.’ - Tales from Earthsea: Dragonfly, by Ursula K. Le Guin