#I'm running on three hours of sleep

[batmansblushofrobins]

Bridgerton as an AroAce

As an aromantic asexual, I have a lot of thoughts on romance in media and amatonormativity. I used to just hate all romance on sight--it got to the point that any time a book hinted at two people getting together, I would get annoyed. It took me a while realize it’s not the romance that bothers me, but how it is treated as something to be wanted by everyone even in worlds on the other side of the universe. I like watching things centered on romance but dislike romance being inserted into other genres (plus, established relationships/domestic fluff makes me cringe). I've grown more tolerant over time and can even appreciate some canon ships if they are done well; the first of which I can remember enjoying was Six of Crows, and I could write a whole other essay on why its romantic pairings worked; however, I would much rather read fanfiction about two characters getting together that I feel have the right chemistry for it than chance reading or watching something with romance that I will, in all likelihood, hate. There was a post on here a while back that talked about how if they were reading fanfiction, that meant they were specifically seeking romance out and in the mood for it. I will try to find and link it, because it's really relevant here.

Anyways, enough of the personal preface. Here are my romance-related thoughts on Bridgerton Season 1:

The only other romance shows I've enjoyed are the Pride and Prejudice 80’s miniseries and Heartstopper, so I surprised myself by liking Bridgerton.

SIMON/DAPHNE: Obviously I liked this season enough to keep going, but, looking back, I like it the least. It has a lot to do with Daphne SAing him and being forgiven by the narrative (it made me do the whatever is the opposite of putting on rose-coloured glasses when I remember the season. spilling milk over the film reel? idk), but even if I think of their relationship before that happened, it’s not my favourite. I liked the fake dating trope, but sometimes the misunderstandings were a bit much. Every time they talked, things improved. I know that it's for the drama, but I was still annoyed when they avoided each other again and again.

ELOISE: I related to her so much. She had no love interest this season. She rejected social conventions and the typical path for a lady, was more interested in reading than the idea of courting someone, and wanted to remain a spinster with Penelope forever. So many of her lines resonated with me. I knew because of the type of show that there was no way they would keep her single, but I guess I still had hoped for the impossible.

Season 2:

KATHANI/ANTHONY: This was my favourite pairing of the whole show. I loved how they could be vulnerable together and how many parallels there were between them, such as them feeling the need to protect their younger siblings. Anthony choosing to marry Edwina frustrated me, but I was frustrated at the characters rather than the writers. It felt in-character instead of being there to further the plot along.

ELOISE: This season, Eloise anxiously made her debut. Her mother pushed for her to give love a chance. Violet is well intentioned, but she believes romantic love is the only way to be happy in life since it was what made her happy. Eloise dodged potential suitors and stuck close to Penelope at the balls. Despite this, she got a love interest as I feared. Her relationship with Theo was… cute, unfortunately. I was still upset that she needlessly got a love interest, but at least it was based around intellect which is true to Eloise’s character. Another thing that happened this season was that Kate told her that being a spinster is not as great as one would think. That is probably true for the time period since women didn’t have the freedom to move about the world without a chaperone, but it still perpetuates the idea that single people, specifically women, won’t be happy long-term.

[salty-and-spiraling]

Startouched Elves can breathe in space, right?

Aaravos and Leola were in space when they faced the Startouch Elf Council, right? Am I right?

With that being said, I think tdp should have a whole episode in space or on another planet for no reason in particular. Cause that would be pretty cool.

[theclearblue]

I think if there was a version of me that could go to sleep at a normal respectable time that could actually fix 35% of my problems

[front-facing-pokemon]

[astuteobservations]

yo... tumblr is not for happy people

[fidgetspringer]

Did some retrieves at the cabin yesterday

[teddybeartoji]

ok so i'll change my werewolf!toji predator/prey and fear play thing into a wolf!toji x bunny!reader thing instead bc holy fuck you guys have awokened something inside me

anyway anywho feel free to send more snow leopard!gojo and wolf!toji thoughts bc i wanna get so much worse this is so fun🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈

[an-atlas-or-other]

I saw a comment of yours on this post that said "reblog if you're 104% okay with someone asking you a bunch of questions" and idk when you said that but I don't want a King Of Acting Normal prize so Tell me about Space

Hello yes you are now my favourite person ever

Where do I even start? Well I’m working on a paper about Mars so let’s talk about that

You know how it’s generally accepted that Mars used to have liquid water on its surface and was generally a whole lot less desolate and depressing than it now is (that being, a rusty red desert)? (A redert, if you will—) Well, that’s because Mars has no magnetosphere to protect it from solar wind. A magnetosphere is what gives a planet its poles — north and south. It also protects a planet from solar wind by creating a sort of shield out of its magnetic field. Since Mars doesn’t have one, most of the atmosphere it catches just gets blown away. It’s also why it has such extreme temperatures — no atmosphere means it can’t homogenize itself, which is why it reaches upwards of 10°C and as low as -150°C, depending on where on the planet you’re measuring from and if you’re facing the sun.

So why doesn’t Mars have a magnetosphere? Well, we think that up until relatively recently, it did. To explain why it doesn’t anymore, we’re going to have to talk about why magnetospheres exist in the first place. Remember how you studied the layers of the Earth in middle school? How Earth has a liquid metal core? That core is why we have a magnetosphere. It basically acts as a massive magnet, generating a magnetic field around the entire planet and extending into space.

Mars is a little smaller and older than Earth, so scientists think that Mars has cooled down enough for its liquid core to have shrunk, weakening the magnetosphere over time until it was so weak it couldn’t protect the planet. However, we do think that when Mars did have a strong magnetosphere, Mars would have been healthy enough to be covered in liquid water like Earth and maybe even be capable of supporting life.

[kyouka-supremacy]

Failed a social interaction 0 injured 1 killed (me)

[dawdlecentric]

Man, this doujin isn't fucking around

Meanwhile, Seikuri in the background...

Doujin: Flashbackers by Totobe

[cyanide-sippy-cup]

Middle of the night but I gotta talk about some frustrations. 'Cause you know what pisses me off? The mainstreaming popularization of punk. Don't get me wrong, I love seeing it become more popular and I love seeing people discover themselves and the culture. I mean, I got into it from a young age with RATM, for crying out loud.

The problem is that when something becomes more and more popular, you get a lot of... unsavory types. And I'm not even talking about the Tiktok punks that do it for the fashion and the "cool factor" (ignore how punks weren't considered cool and actually disregarded and disrespected as a group of "radicals" and "unsightly" which is what makes punk punk to begin with) and talk about "posers" but then the moment you ask them about their favorite local band or even their opinions about the BLM protests or Drag Queen Story Hour the real them *cough* bigot *cough* comes out. I'm talking about how everywhere you turn, there's an increasing erase of the culture and history, and it's turned into yet another thing for cis white people to use to make up for their lack of culture.

Punk is based in queerness and blackness. Period. That is an undeniable fact. It is a culture started and rooted by black musicians which then bled into the equally black queer community. It is impossible, when you go through the origins, to separate the three. From the fashion to the music, we owe everything to them.

And it's just like what happened with the gay community. A massively marginalized group, technically allowed to live in society but not allowed to be our true selves. And then, like, you have super famous and historic movements lead by black activists through the 60s to 80s. And progress is finally made. Huge celebration. We're finally allowed in public, we start appearing on TV again. But then fast forward to modern day, and white people, like we've always done, we get our grubby little paws on it. And we scrub at it in all the soap we can until any instance of black or brown is gone. And then we claim it as ours. Everybody acknowledges where it started, but nobody celebrates it. In fact, we put down black people in our community. We appropriate their culture and their language, because stealing your voice is actually our way of celebrating you so you should be happy. We make movies of those movements, and we erase any evidence of them ever having been there.

And it's relatively the same thing here. The more mainstream it gets, the more people are doing it to be performative, the more we erase and cover up the "unseemly" history that makes it so beautiful in the first place.

And, like, I'm white and I'm pissed/tired. I can't imagine how black punks feel. Cause, like, think for a minute. Some group decides they want in but they don't like how it is, they want it their way. The "correct" way. So they begin to "kick out" everybody who they don't want, appropriate everything they like about it, and rewrite and recontextualize the history that made it. Isn't that, like, the textbook definition of fascism? The whole thing we're trying to take down? Like come on.

And to the white punk/gays who read this and got confused or upset. No, I'm not saying there aren't any white punks. No, I'm not saying there weren't white gays from the get go. Nobody is saying you can't be white and punk. The point of this post is, just, be a good person. Respect, acknowledge, celebrate the culture that created this thing we love. The gay community that we know is specifically a product of blackness and black efforts. Stop appropriating them, start learning how to celebrate them properly.

[nobodybetterlookatme]

Guess who didn't get to go home 😭

[edgepunk]

day four of not sleeping well

[shockingshinx12-shinx]

Lazy comic about tigers doing as they do on this bitch of a desert world

I've been rotating this little interaction in my head for like a week or so now JHGDHFJHD I HAD to make it real Also, first time drawing Shinx and Shock ACTUALLY interacting, can't believe it's taken me this long smh my head

[abeautifulblog]

Ngl my first reaction to Jaskier being canonically bi was “oh I CANNOT WAIT to see how poorly they handle this”

I swear, ever since the Hemsworthening, I feel like every time I learn something new about this show I'm checking the date, all, is it April Fools again already? Look at the URL, because surely this is a satire site? Is there a camera, am I being punk'd? Am I having a stroke?? Those sure are some words they said in some order!

I made my peace with the Radovid thing -- I went and breathed into a paper bag for a bit, and remembered that everything feels catastrophic when you're running on three hours of sleep, and also that (1) game-Radovid != book-Radovid and (2) LOL, IT'S NOT LIKE TWN IS FAITHFUL TO BOOK-CANON EITHER!

Reading what they've said about it so far, it really sounds like they just made up an OC to ship Jaskier with (probably hoping The Gays would SHUT UP ABOUT GERASKIER, SHUT UP ABOUT GERASKIER) and named him Radovid, and he's going to bear no resemblance whatsoever to any previous Radovids who may have appeared in this franchise.

Which again begs the question of whyyyyyyy did they not just invent a new guy?? Why THIS GUY, of ALL GUYS, to arbitrarily assign as Jaskier's love interest, since it's a pairing with no basis in any canon, a pairing that book-fans met with polite confusion and game-fans met with visceral repulsion.

Even if TWN Radovid winds up being a completely new character, as I expect he will, it's still baffling. The showrunners know that a good portion of their viewer base is coming from the game -- they have been actively courting the Witcher III crowd in their marketing since the get-go -- so even if the only thing the Radovids have in common is their name, why choose to evoke a character with such utterly rancid associations? And then repurpose him as a love interest for Jaskier, of all people? o_O

idek, man.

The curse of knowledge, I suppose -- because if I weren't familiar with game-Radovid, I could be out there partying with all the people who are just like, BI JASKIER CONFIRMED, WOO HOO!! 🎉🎉

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[tactlesstuesdays]

i wrote something that's basically just a drabble based on mika calling bose delicate. it also could be part 2 to 'how you get the girl' and it's (for the most part) just bose simping for mika

"So," Bose begins with a low chuckle, "You think I'm delicate?"

Mika's hands fall heavily to swing at her sides whilst she freezes as her boyfriend's words fly to her ears. She'd been fixated on some sentimental object on a cupboard but now she could feel Bose's presence tickling and tattooing goosebumps on her skin and she shivered. His eyes were focused on her back, but she could tell he wore a wide grin. They'd been dating since she led him to that hallway and forced Bose to reflect on his jealousy; Bose's heart quickly began to beat solely for Mika. A year ago, he wouldn't have pictured himself like this; his heart overflowing with content by being with the girl he'd been in love with since his twelfth year. But a single year can do strange things to a person, and Bose wasn't regretting this one at all. Even if he had to suffer an involuntary exile period from the Cell and have a vacant soul the longer he stayed apart from Mika.

"You should really stop listening to Chapa so much, baby. You know, she speaks a load of bullshit," Mika casually insults. Bose swallows back a laugh. Mika finally twirls to face her boyfriend sitting on her bed; he watches her with a curious glint in her eye. His brain was stripped out and was replaced only with Mika.

"It wasn't Chapa," Bose confesses. Mika's face contorted with a sour expression. "Turns out Miles has loose lips. He just spewed it out. Along with other irrelevant shit but I only cared about whatever he said about you. I thought of you all the time, Meeks. It's great to know you thought about me, too. How desperately you missed me, how worried you were about me."

Mika's hands fly to her face, concealing her cheeks that bled in the colour of roses. There's shuffling from the bed and heavy footsteps echoing on the rug-covered floor. Bose's (extremely) bigger hands envelope Mika's and gently jolt them away from Mika's face; a satisfied grin tweaking his face as he basked in the revelation of his word's reactions.

The pads of his fingers drag across her cheek, tracing the layers of her blush. He hadn't touched her like this for weeks; his schedule was overwhelmed with overdue homework and crime fighting. They couldn't even touch in the Man's Nest, especially not with Ray's incessant (and unnecessary) rule about no dating between superheroes, even with the loophole of them being sidekicks. Bose, obviously, knew that everyone bar Ray suspected something was happening with the two. Bose never disreputed that Mika felt warm and familiar, nor solid and safe; a sanctuary for someone who suffered a void of love. Bose wanted to cling to Mika, bury his face into the warm curve of her neck, intoxicate himself with her distinctive vanilla perfume, and never let go.

Mika's knees seem to buckle the further Bose's hand trails upwards. His touch is like fire to someone whose wintry and cold touch could burn you itself, fingers full of knives until you explode with a bonfire of warmth. Bose lit her up as if fires were coming to life at the other end of the Earth. His fingers collapse down to indent a light touch to Mika's lower lip. Her lips flutter with a phantom groan.

"You seriously don't know how much I've missed you, honey," Bose murmurs, his voice hushed and deep as he wraps his arms around her thighs and delicately placed her on the cupboard's uncluttered space. "Just the thought of you saved me. I had Schwoz but I couldn't understand anything he said, science this science that. I just wanted you, all I've ever wanted is you."

"Show me then. I need you just as much as you do with me, honey," Mika replied with a syrup-rich voice. Bose wasn't one to disappoint, and he inched closer to his darling before ghosting his lips over Mika's.

And Bose is kissing her. His fingers mindlessly ran through Mika's hair. She'd changed it since he'd been gone. And whilst she looked superbly stunning in anything and everything, any new hairstyle drove him crazy. Mika looked splendid and Bose would criminalise himself if he didn't find perfection in each hairstyle.

Bose's heartbeat merges with Mika's. The sky seemed to cave in, forcing them to bend into the proximity, as Bose drowns in the sunshine on Mika's lips. The epitome of perfection, truly. Bose's mind is racing with the experience of Mika. If this were to be his last moment, he'd be content. But he'd never felt more alive, every time their passion met with a kiss, he'd relive the first time. Bathing in the splendour that was his relationship. All of it makes Mika's spine throb. Bose loves her so effortlessly, like separating salt from water.

Mika pulls away slowly though, pausing the intense emotions that flourished across her chest like a million needles peaking at the skin. Mika flutters her eyelashes at Bose. "You know, my parents aren't home. And Miles is at Chapa's."

"The things you do to me, Mika," Bose groans. Mika's lips part with a minute giggle and Bose pulls her by the waist, closer to him. And she slips off the cupboard and directly into the arms of her beloved.

i really was so sleep deprived writing this, but i did power through for the bomika crumbs. i'm also losing motivation for df fics madly so be patient with me, and if i never write again then it's been fun