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[your-unfriendlyghost]

it feels so…… weird… seeing a cishet dude be so chill with queer themes lmao your soda-in-drag moment, the stevepop of it all, even guys with queers in their friend circles can’t bring themselves to partake sometimes lmao 😭 but it’s cool !! refreshing even sjksksndks this is a /pos statement I promise

Thanks lol! I think it’s cos I’m fairly secure. Sorta. (I’m still prone to compensating for things and being a stupid teen boy, but like, I’m aware of it, at least when I stop to think. Yk I’ll still join in on dick measuring contests, but deep down I’ll know it’s dumb and performative.)

I guess I feel a kinship to queerness. I go to art school where I’m sometimes the only guy in a class of girls, and I’ve been the token straight guy in every friend group I’ve been in since freshman year of high school. Beyond that, growing up I was frequently mistook for a girl- I had long-ish hair (post bowl-cut era 😭) and I’m part Asian, I was pretty androgynous lol. People irl have thought I’m gay, or a trans man on testosterone (I mean fine, I guess I am pretty short and hang with a lot of trans guys.) Hell, I did drag on a dare once, back when I was even more secure. (And I was hot asf in drag lemme tell ya. It felt lousy and it’s definitely not my thing, but man if I had a clone who was a girl-) All this to say, I say I’m straight, but honestly I don’t really know. I like girls a lot, but I have seen a buddy of mine in drag, and lemme tell ya I felt something but I’m not gonna examine that rn lol. Straight just feels comfortable, safe, and it’s good for interacting with folks who ain’t so progressive, so it’s what I’m sticking with…but I’ll admit there’s a gray area.

I relate a lot to the guys in the Outsiders, and irl I like to present myself as a tough, cool, Very Masculine guy. Hell, sometimes I play dumb about stuff because it’s “feminine” and a guy like me shouldn’t know about it. I act a lot like how I write Steve Randle, he’s my guy I like to project on lol. Honestly, I’ve got a fair amount of internalized toxic masculinity. But I think because I know how silly it all is deep down, I can interact with queer themes in art without feeling like I’m not “man enough”. Idk, I suppose it’s an outlet in some ways. Who knows maybe in 2027 I’ll come out as bi or something, but don’t wait up.

idk, I guess what I’m trying to say is that I like exploring queer themes, not because they’re queer necessarily, but because they’re human and I relate to them. And that’s hard not to partake in, y’know?

[no1ryomafan]

Never occurred to me until randomly how funny it is that both getter and mazinger have had meta takes in manga form written by different authors then their original and yet they have a different reaction to mecha fans universally, ZERO is liked a lot despite being edgy cause it tells a nice message and portrays the mazinger cast how they usually are with some slight differences where as Devo completely changes how the getter cast is with the designs + portrayals, the story gets needlessly complicated yet at the very end wants to tie to the original manga in a way that doesn’t work, so it ends up being very divisive by fans.

Though of course this is just my basic understanding of them both as I haven’t read either and apart of me IS tempted to read to not only see it my opinion is the same or the opposite- but I’ve been told I wouldn’t be able to stomach ZERO cause it gets uncomfortable to read at points despite being considered the better story. (I may read devo out of morbid curiosity at some point either way tho but idk when)

[fujii-dlc]

Remembering a ‘parental figure Dialga’ art piece that changed my brain chemistry a bit…. I wanna implement it to my au somehow, but I don’t know how bc him and Dusknoir are two grown men. Like I can see Ribbons and Aimilios referring to him as ‘Grandad/Grandfather time’ and Dialga just not minding that. But with Dusknoir it’s more ????

…I could see a kinda fucked up ‘Son does literally everything in his power to impress dear old Dad but to no avail’ to ‘Holy Shit how do we even Talk to eachother or maintain eye contact after all That’ pipeline… but I dunno. I am scratching my chinny chin chin….

[bizlybebo]

i literally can’t look at stuff i drew even a month ago without cringing but still jrwi has done some genuinely crazy stuff to my art. like you can see it from the moment i started live-blogging riptide which is just really fucking bonkers i have never progressed so exponentially in anything else like that in my life . i just have a long record of progress Out There for my friends in my phone

[duskstarskies]

bye sunshield is literally someone with nothing to lose (subz) and someone with everything to lose (zam)

[deus-ex-mona]

im working hard at hardly working just for you my queen~~~~~~

[serenadeofsunshine]

this year was Something i’ll tell you that much but goodness me am i thankful for all my nice friends i met on the tumbly…

[egregiousderp]

I thought I worked today, so I fumbled a bro meetup aaaaaaa.

Culmination of the week I guess, but…

I did make it to the other store and stockpiled a bunch of the good noodles, some ingredients to make a really decadent stuffed shell, and found my favorite mom and pop liquor store is selling 1.5 L of cucumber vodka for like. Eight bucks. So it’s been…productive in a Calm Before The Storm kinda way.

[shortqueershakespeare]

Funny that my migraines can sometimes just look like me being too fucking tired and foggy to mediate between family members

[tyrramint]

Sometimes I get jump scared by my own art, but like in a good way?

I’ll open up the drawing program and my latest art will be pop up and I’ll be like ?????? I MADE THAT???

[plantyaoi]

man. i really don’t care about robots.

[insert-game]

i’ve been meaning to add a couple things to my etsy store and make new things as well but the crushing weight of being alive under the current administration has been severely impeding my ability to do anything in general

[ensoleils]

it’s so hard to describe what i feel for the people at nyc kendo but they’re really my second family.

[ssreeder]

I started reading this like 4 days ago, time has blurred together. I have not slept over 5 and a half hours of sleep in that time, I had to get up at 6 for something and was going 'just one more chapter' several times until it was 2am. The only thing that I can think about is LIAB, I am quickly losing my sanity to Zukka and the prison camp. I came here for a fun time, a good time and the sheer amount of angst that I had heard this had. And, I was certainly not lied to.

I am the type of person to read hard core angst. Impaling, torture , doesn't even phase me anymore (bit concerning but ignore that), I have taken to the blank word document to get that sinking, queasy feeling when the angst gets really hard core. First few chapters of this had me captivated and then Zuko came into it, *Chefs kiss*

I can't read long fics because I don't have the attention span, but for this I make an exception, also if you read it all in like 4 days the attention span doesn't have time to run out! I am on the 3 part, chapter 2 and I actively plan to binge read it tonight. Do I have school in the morning? Yes. Am I still going to stay up until 1 in the morning reading this and make up for my lack of sleep with caffeine? Also yes.

I really hope that Jet dies in this, I hope that he has a really anti-climatic death as well, like he falls off a slightly too high ledge. NO ONE and I mean NO ONE gets to separate MY GAYS LIKE THAT BECAUSE HE JUST HAD TO TELL FONG THAT ZUKO WAS AT THE BLOODY CAMP!

and the Forest Lesbians, may they live forever in the local folk lore about two witches that lived the forest and used the power of being gay to cure people.

thank you for writing this, it has really made me happy reading this even though my favourite gays are getting traumatised (more traumatised than usual for Zuko). I have only been reading this, my friends are concerned about me since I don't think I have willingly left the house in... *looks down at fingers, realises I don't have enough fingers to count this* umm... too long!

*holds your hands* how are you doing friend??

your ask had me both nervous and excited haha & the greatest thing about responding to this a few days late is that you’ve probably finished it by now haha. I feel sorry for your sleep schedule but I also don’t feel bad haha <3

I’m glad LIAB met your expectations in the angst, it’s probably one of the more angsty/ darker zukka fics & it’s probably going to get worse lol. (Not for zukka specifically, everyone gets to join this time) But you’ll see… if I can hold your attention until the end haha.

as for your Jet thoughts I’m sure you found out what happened to him by now ;) <3

thanks for this amazing ask seriously you’re great & you deserve to get yourself a treat for taking the time to send me this haha YOURE AWESOMEEEEEE

[girlfailurefelix]

remember when i said i was writing something fluffy for my next fic? yeah sorry guys i lied.

[redflannelsheets]

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