#I mean they’re. Fine. they’re cool

[angeltannis]

I’m always using [INTIMIDATION] with my barbarian character but I’m also frequently switching to Shadowheart to heal and then forgetting that I’m switched. So I have Shadowheart approaching NPCs like this

[yellowsubiesdance]

i think i’ve learned a lot when it comes to not applying my own values to the media i consume

for my script analysis class yesterday, we discussed two gentleman from verona, and nearly every classmate of mine was up in arms about how sexist the story is.

and i'm not saying it's not, or that it's not infuriating to read. but i'm also not putting my energy into getting upset about something written 500 or so years ago. and i'm not about to put my own beliefs onto these characters that are not me. i'm going to let their choices speak for themselves, and interpret it in the context of the story.

all that said, this now brings me to the point of alastor in episode 5, and how viscerally people are responding to it. those of you up in arms about the choices he’s making, and the violent threat he gave husk, you’re missing the entire point of his character, of this place they’re in, of the story being told. he’s an overlord, and he became an overlord by killing much bigger overlords and broadcasting their deaths over the radio.

HE IS NOT A GOOD PERSON.

if you started this show with the belief that every character working the hotel is a good person, you’re in the wrong place. watch the good place if you’re looking for a good wholesome story about getting dead sinners into heaven, because that’s not what this show is about.

you’re more than welcome to hate him after seeing the way he exerted power over a being whose soul he owns, but you’re doing the media you’re watching a disservice by writing it off so quickly. if you don’t like to be uncomfortable watching media, watch something else. this is an uncomfortable show, it handles uncomfortable topics, and it’s going to be an uncomfortable ride, and if you’re not up for something like that, then you should take a break from it and pick up something else. you don’t have to get online and defend your own ideals while you watch a show that goes against your ideals.

[jankwritten]

I’ve been thinking a lot about what a Hazel and Jason friendship would look like.

Hazel tentatively reaching out after finally understanding that Jason isn’t everything she built him up to be in her head, influenced both by Nico and by what she actually observed of Jason herself

Jason assumes she just wants tips on leadership or maybe how to fight better, so he obliged by offering to train with her

Hazel expects Jason to go easy on her like Percy and Annabeth and Piper do, but instead she gets taken down within a few minutes and has Jason ruthlessly pointing out what things she could improve on.

(Cue: Hazel finally having an opponent who doesn’t underestimate her. Hazel who finally feels like she has somebody she can spar against who will help and not just let her win because she’s young and small. Hazel who finally gets why Nico spends so much time talking about how kind and helpful Jason is, even if what she’s seeing isn’t necessarily kind.)

Jason starts hanging out with Hazel outside of sparring but in other groups, like with Piper, or Nico. He learns that she loves dancing and horses and likes to test the hardness of a stone against her fingernails, likes to collect shiny non-precious things just like Nico does, likes to swear loudly whenever possible as if she’s doing it to purposely piss people off.

Hazel asks Jason if he wants to go hang out one day after the Argo quest is over, maybe go to some museum in NYC that she’s heard Percy talk about, or find metaphysical shops to walk through (I HC that Hazel really loves modern mortal interpretations of magic and that she’s fascinated by the ways mortals accidentally connect to the gods etc.) and Jason assumes she means with someone else and agrees, only to find out they’re going alone.

Jason panicking for a moment about potential misinterpretations, once he realizes, and stammering out some garbled thing about how he really likes her but not like that because ofc all he’s known so far is that being alone with a girl = someone will assume romantic intent. Hazel openly laughs in his face and rather boldly states that she KNOWS Jason is in love with her brother.

Hazel, eventually, being the first person Jason feels safe coming out to. Jason, in return, being the first person Hazel feels safe to talk about being asexual with. The two of them discussing their feelings more and more often while exploring new places together, like Hazel talking about how she did so much researching into queer history and labels when she first found out Nico is gay, Jason telling her that he still doesn’t feel like Thalia is his sister as if he might not be the same Jason Grace she remembers, the two of them coming to terms with being on the aromantic spectrum together.

Jason talking Hazel out of joining the Hunters when she’s having a very very bad day. Hazel stopping Jason from disappearing back out into the mortal world to finish school without first giving his other friends a chance to have input.

(Hazel and Jason inadvertently saving each other’s lives by tweaking fate, thus making their friendship literally woven into their lives forever indisputably. Hades/Pluto patting Jason on the back and telling him thank you with no context or clarification the next time they meet. Hera/Juno, tight lipped and silent, offering Hazel some kind of gift or blessing the next time she returns to New Rome. Hazel and Jason laughing it off when they tell each other because wow, their godly parents are weird as hell.)

[tsubasagirl]

My twelfth photo featuring power siblings :3

(They’re gonna beat you to death <3)

[peach-pot]

allo queer people are all in favor of found family and queer friendship until you do it in an aro way that goes against amatonormativity and then suddenly that makes no sense to them.

it’s cool to combat heteronormativity but only if you do it by slapping different gender roles & labels over the same societal structures. when you’re not participating in those societal structures at all, suddenly all the cool allies aren’t on board anymore.

[mars-ipan]

GODDD.

[shaykai]

Gonna slap the people who named bugs

[lesbianworlock]

Posted several vent posts that I think painted my wife and i’s relationship in a really negative light, and they don’t use tumblr anymore and literally can’t see them but I remembered I had irl’s on here and feel I should clarify that I genuinely love my wife and love being in a relationship with them.

Love as an autistic person dating a non autistic person is often times difficult. We have a gap in our communication that sometimes manifests as one or both of us getting angry. But we are also both adults and those fights are quick to resolve, and are few and far between anyway. I just only ever post about that stuff and nothing else.

I feel like I have to vent HERE because my best friend is ALSO my wife’s best friend and I CANNOT vent to people we both know what if I accidentally change their perception of my wife 😭😭😭

I need to start posting good things my wife does too so I don’t change my tumblr friends and mutual’s perspective of my wife because I was mad when they wouldn’t check their bag for their wallet at 6 am this morning and posted in anger without proofreading my tags to see how bad they sounded

Like I love my wife my wife is so cool I am my wife’s number one fan. Thank you.

[quietwingsinthesky]

soery for the ignorance but what's tma tme ?

no, it’s alright, no need to apologize for asking questions.

to break it down, tma/tme are acronyms for ‘transmisogyny affected/transmisogyny exempt’. they were coined, i must assume, with good intentions as a way to talk about how transphobia affects trans woman/transfems versus everyone else. which, yeah, obviously, how you’re perceived and gendered flavors the kind of violence you are subject to. the problem is that the terms have been used to enforce a new false binary, one in which anyone ‘tma’ experiences a more violent and traumatizing form of transphobia and anyone ‘tme’ just. doesn’t experience that, i guess. this is demonstrably false.

i mentioned intersexism in the post i assume you’re referring to because a lot of the time, what people mean when they say ‘tma/tme’ is ‘person who is amab/person who is afab’. the creation of any sex binary erases that intersex people exist, sweeps the shit they go through under the rug. and enforcing these categories in this way also leads to people’s lived experiences being denied or downplayed, because it turns out that transphobes don’t actually care what a doctor said about your genitals at birth or how you identify now when they attack you, they care about how they’re gendering you right now and how they perceive you as a threat. (there’s this idea that if someone ‘tme’ experiences transmisogynistic violence, that they’re just collateral damage of violence that was actually meant for anyone ‘tma’. that’s, frankly, dehumanizing as hell. it does not stop being transmisogyny directed at you just because you don’t fit a category someone else put on you.)

transmisogyny is real. transandrophobia is real. we are all hurt by transphobia, and having language to discuss the nuances of it is a damn good thing. trying to insist that our experiences all exist in opposition to each other, that for some of us to suffer means that others must be doing great, isn’t helpful. and strict binaries of any kind are only going to hurt people.

hopefully that helped. not exactly in my best essay writing mode. but that’s the basics of it and why i dislike its usage.

[saetoru]

i think about what alhaitham’s childhood must’ve been like and i honestly make myself very sad thinking about it

[coconut530]

WOAHHHHH MAN COOL I’M HEADING THERE RIGHT NOW 🍭❤️

[akkivee]

tbh i expected reijuto’s duet to be called ‘white and black’!!!!!!!! however tbqh i did not expect it to sound like that lol!!!!!

[hellfireeddiemunson]

random thoughts don’t mind me

[lilnasxvevo]

Things that would have happened if Madam Yu had married Wen Zhuliu instead of Jiang Fengmian:

-Zhuliu would have treated her RIGHT. For all his faults, you know he would have let that woman know every day of their lives how cherished she is, and that is to say VERY cherished, because if there’s anything Zhuliu appreciates it’s a woman as violent and grimly competent as he is.

-Yu Ziyuan would have been pissed at the exact shape of Zhuliu’s career, Zhuliu would pull his whole “It is a debt I cannot not repay” thing on her, and she’d be like “That’s lovely and all but I am going to smother Wen Chao with a pillow in his sleep because my man is not going to be beholden to such a sniveling obviously inferior little creep”

[polyamorouspunk]

smooch <3

!!!!

[gloriousfoxkryptonite]

Honestly? A fundamental part of supporting the queers and the lgbtqia involves not hating any gender tbh. It’s so easy to fall into since they’re not the marginalized group, but you HAVE to take the step back. Yes a lot of them suck for individual and socialized reasons but like. Being a man itself is fine

Dont give into the terf mindset tbh

I couldn't have said it better myself.