#JK LOL JUST JOKES

[jxlynes]

me liking my own posts cuz if i dont then who is #thisisasignforutolikemypost

[publicthreat]

[personwholikespmtok]

What in the actual fuck is this ad

[snailwitdamail2]

Caesar x Koba this Caesar x Koba that. when are we going to hop on that Rocket x Bad Ape train!!!!!!!!!!!

[pocketscribbs]

i adore your barry hc actually

I swear I’ll be forever pegged as the gal who gave Barry the Quokka lore

[funkytoesart]

you can always tell the people who give social media advice who are naturally or conventionally attractive even without even having to look at a photo of them cause they're always the ones that recommend showing your face in reels or videos to promote your art and it's like,,, talk about pretty/skinny privilege lol

[only-lonely-www]

Alcryst sketch 🤗

[bmpmp3]

everyone on earth probably has a hypothetical farming sim in their mind's eye that they daydream about on occasion because of the unfortunate situation that despite there being like a thousand farming games released every minute only like 4 of them are any good. and i think this is fun, i think its good to keep the imagination alive. if i made a farming sim i would bring back rival marriages from the old friends of mineral town. i want to steal someones wife.

[zeldacd]

A Jalisciense Zelda to match my Charro Link design I posted a while back.

[daisyachain]

Restorative or Transformative?: Homoerotic Subtext, The Closet, and Ciphers in Pop Culture. The nature of commercial art is that it’s sometimes bad and inconsistent. Notably it’s also misogynistic. One way in which audiences try to reconcile massive plot holes or gaps in character motivation is by reading secrets or hidden information into a plot.

Commonly, male characters are interpreted as closeted gay or bisexual to reconcile the absence of women from commercial narratives with the generally stunted and poorly-written male characters that form the focus on said texts. This reading has become especially common among a non-heterosexual milieu. Rather than transforming the original text into some radically different new form, this closeted interpretation seeks to make the original text stand on its own as a story rather than a Swiss cheese of dumb writing decisions.

This interpretation only works for a specific type of pop, usually genre fiction. Any story in which tortured male leads eschew women in favour of male-male bonds (because female characters are constantly killed off, written sparsely, or written out, because the production team keeps casting their male buddies, because actors demand to keep having scenes with their bros, whatever) can become a sounder structure if you put one of them in a closet.

The gay interpretation is the natural consequence of shoddy misogynistic writing from ventures like Supernatural, Naruto, all the biggest hits. It’s also the natural consequence of more benignly misogynistic writing like The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes or The Lord of the Rings, where women aren’t necessarily rejected but are simply absent from the worlds of the protagonists. When the emotional crux of the story falls on male-male interactions, this reads as romantic because society at large priorities (definitively heterosexual) romance as the pinnacle of human connection. Two forces are in conflict, the primacy of heterosexuality (read as: romance) and the primacy of men.

Anyway. All that is to say that the typical gay or bisexual reading of male characters in pop fiction comes from a very real place. But, in some places, that’s the default interpretation. Angst, insecurity, secrets, double lives, fatigue, disappointment, restrained passion, stunted personal growth, anyone living in the closet can tell you that it impacts and defines your whole life to know that you live in a way fundamentally incompatible with The Proper Way that life is structured around down to tax law and superstore prices (which assume a heterosexual nuclear family unit). Characters in fiction also tend to have personal problems because that makes them interesting and tasty.

If you’ve grown up on stories with the specific type of misogyny that can be papered over with a closeted interpretation of the male leads, carrying this interpretation over to any male character will make sense more often than not. Even a bit of angst or insecurity? Well of course that makes sense if a character is closeted.

Except that’s hurt a normal part of fiction, and sometimes the closeted interpretation takes away from the point of a character. If a male character is on another axis of marginalization, the closeted interpretation imposed by the slash reading community downplays or trivializes the effects of that marginalization in the plot by overwriting it with another type of marginalization. Alternately, sometimes a character’s heterosexuality is a part of the story. There are some sorts of critiques or investigations of misogyny or masculinity that don’t work if the character has an ‘opt out’ of the cisheteropatriarchal perspective. Not that gay/bisexual men aren’t except from misogyny, but misogyny masculinity and heterosexuality are so tightly linked that it sort of defeats the point if you interpret that character outside of heterosexuality.

All that is to say—the closet interpretation is a quick and easy spice to apply to the weaker parts of action-adventure genre fiction to make it taste better. It draws from a large enough sample of art that it’s pretty widely applicable. Because of that, it’s part of some people’s [my] default interpretation package just because the semi-dull macho show at least gets less dull if you imagine there’s a reason for there to be no girls besides simple hatred. That then forms its own problem where the interpretation that works with your average genre work gets then blanket-applied to all genre works and obscures the places where the closet interpretation doesn’t fix the work, and actually makes it less interesting.

[deliciouskeys]

I want to stop stressing about work deadlines and start stressing about cozy corner kinktober deadlines!!

[honeycombhank]

And here is tiptoe pretending she sees nothing as human mother is harassed in the background

[solradguy]

I got addressed as "Sol Badguy Guilty Gear" over on Twitter earlier today and I'm still processing that. Putting the series name at the end adds a whole new dimension. It's not like all the times I've been called Sol Badguy for kinnie jokes or because I go by Sol Radguy. It's like... Did they think I'm a roleplay account... I'm not roleplaying...... I was like this before Guilty Gear...............

[superpyodan]

who is Kenny closest with in town? (besides Alex hehe)

Ah! This is kinda a difficult question tbh, because he has a lot of friends and he’s close with them for different reasons!

While Abby is his best friend, I’d have to say he’s the closest with Shane. They both see each other at their worsts, and help each other through it, too. For a while, Shane knows more about Kenny emotionally than Alex does, because Kenny has a hard time opening up about his feelings. He feels safe with Shane, though. They have similar struggles :’)

Kennys other friends are Abby (ofc), Sam, Seb and Haley!! He’s also kinda friendly with Emily

Thanks for the ask!!!❤️❤️

[dangerliesbeforeyou]

most unbelievable thing about the rwrb film is Stephen 'Rampantly Homosexual' Fry playing the homophobic king pfft

[i-am-totally-not-a-lizard]

as a message for the general public tumblr user i-am-totally-not-a-lizard is in fact warm blooded and has hair or feathers or something and does NOT smell the air with their tongue pls be respectful

Wow, for someone telling others to "be respectful" you just made a lot of unnecessary assumptions. There are many non lizard creatures out there which are not warm blooded, do not have hair, and smell with their tongues. It is awfully presumptuous and exclusionary of you to assume I do not have those characteristics. Do not go about spreading such uninformed words on the internet, there may be people here who would take this at face value and simply believe that I share those features. Which I shan't disclose whether I do it do not, by the way. I can't comprehend that you would say such a foul thing. Do better.