#WHAT'S NOT CLICKING

[dancing-lex]

Matsu have you ever met a homosexual

[prokopetz]

Level 1: Being contemptuous of pro wrestling because it's "fake".

Level 2: Acknowledging the artifice, but still having fun with it.

Level 3: Acknowledging the artifice except for one specific bit, like you freely grant the outcomes of the matches are scripted but act like you think Undertaker really did come back from the dead all those times.

[spngirlpolls]

sorry but i don't care if a character on the killing people with guns show would be a bad person if they were real. 1: it's not real. 2:they would all be bad people, they are serial killers. i can enjoy a character's narrative function in fictional storytelling. it's not a crime.

[cassierobinsons]

"why do you care so much about Emma slice girls" she was a supernatural creature raised in a warrior cult who struggled against the violent brainwashing she experienced and I am a cas girl. hope that helps.

[graveyarrdshift]

istg if i see ONE MORE PERSON CALL MARIA SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE FRENCH I'LL START RIOTING

[thetopichot]

draw fem Auron with muscles so she can fucking body slam me & PUNT ME PLEASE LORD 🙏 😫

[inthst]

Readers: Duna and Wookyung are assholes

Duna/WK simps: How do you know? Have you read the story? Where's your proof?

Readers: yes and here's the situations where they were horrible

Those simps: oh so you read the whole story despite hating it *insert snobby laughter*

Readers: of course we did. Did you just think we were badmouthing them without any proof or something?

[vellichorom]

i s2g i feel like the only normal hato fan NOT being a papa/isa shipper get out of hEEREEE isa was like 14 or younger when they met.........

anyway here's my essay thinking about their relationship in any other context & IT'S RIGHT

[nevertheless-moving]

"Huh? Oh, ha, i didn't say it was good, I said I loved it - oh hey you watched, that's awe - wait, why are you mad, come back -"

[dnangelic]

like it's just the way that outside of the BATB/POTO 'love what's ugly and ostracized' narrative itself cocteau was gay and everybody hated his gall about it, howard ashman was gay and had to conceal it and died of aids after finishing his work for disney's batb.... rather than have dark be homophobic and spitting in the face of his inspirational roots (the sole canon detail i can't stand) it's much much much more interesting for me to both read and write not someone who's meant to be a pervert (in humor) and an agape lover (in serious contextualization) only to turn and say 'no homo' to the crowd every single time but rather, instead of all that, someone who, simultaneously taking daisuke into account, is both extremely firm yet simultaneously insecure in the struggle to establish their identity not only in regards to themselves but also around others.

that applies to a lot, but i've been considering it especially in regards to dark's gender and daisuke's attractions. dark in my portrayal (while overall 500% nonbinary) is closer to someone bi-gender rather than agender; the feminine aspect to him isn't just theatrics, it's actively also part of his entirety to him, (compared to daisuke's passivity; the ten thousand canonical princess allusions,) and even if nobody ever recognizes it in a cognizant way, it is always, always there, the same way that erik blurs and obscures gender in leroux's novel (my second enormous inspiration, sugisaki's outright admitted primary) and sakurai occasionally discusses his relationship as both a performer and a person as well (my third enormous inspiration and sugisaki's secondary,) (see 1, 2.) simply put, the tragedy of (my!) dark does not ever derive from his being able to choose and sit comfortably and confidently with this sort of identity (in fact, it's one of the few things he can stubbornly, viciously decide for himself [alongside daisuke] as essentially a non-human, autonomous 'angel',) it's instead the way that his personality is so strong and 'anti-feminine' in the eyes of convention that said aspect of himself often gets disregarded for strictly masculine (and regardless, further self-contradictory and therefore isolating,) expectations.

dark himself alone does not care if others do not understand him; this is meant to be one of his far more admirable and impressive traits. he's staunchly independent: he knows who he is, what he's supposed to be, and he knows that if he actively presented himself more femininely (crossdressing to 'pass' essentially,) then people's behaviors WOULD be very likely to change around him, but he doesn't even do that because it goes against his overwhelming sense of pride. he never contorts, he never twists himself, what matters to him is that he and he alone understands himself and knows what he is, what he isn't. but he is, without proper support or acceptance, still alone. even bearing a strong character, the stifling loneliness and inherent, underlying self-sense of broken/wrongness of the 'other,' (god's luciferean problem child, the black sheep, the black-leather wearing punk,) is still inflicted on him. dark exists solely for himself, he exists solely for daisuke, which is simultaneously wherein the inversion and insecurities lie: if dark is canonically the live metaphor for all the aspects of daisuke's self that he attempts to and yet cannot possibly, conceivably repress, from his loves to his faults to his shames and his criminal sins as a thief, then the likes of daisuke's own personal confusions in regards to himself and his attempts at intimacy/socialization with others is the other, hidden side of dark's absolute self-confidence; it's every fear of perpetual isolation, misunderstanding, and abandonment for things outside of daisuke's own control.

queerness in relation to the self (transgender allegory) queerness in relation to others (non-hetero-romanticism) mental illness (depression, anxiety,) etc, etc, dark's thematic basis may at its most general simply be "a secret that feels wrong and that you feel you can't really tell anyone or else you'll get in trouble/won't be as liked as much" but it feels much better to give due respect to each of these primary roots.

[darling-sephiroth]

yes yes sefikura toxic but consider this... they should fuck

[edgepunk]

whatever!!! time to isolate and not talk to anyone

[coldasyou]

when people compare taylor to other shit tumblr hates like disney and booktok and marvel or whatever im like okay but like iron man didn't write our song

[jessaerys]

“universe where he grows up alongside mello his entire sexual awakening and formative puberty experiences are mortifyingly rewritten by years of getting bullied by what is essentially a mean but occasionally caring older brother figure” YESS exactlyyy. can u pwease tell us more give me headcanons 👁️👅👁️

i don't know what else to tell you it's a pretty self contained thought 

sometimes you're raised in a high-stress environment being brainwashed from childhood to believe the only thing that matters in life is being a fucked up little detective so to encourage you they pit you against a sexy hot sexy sexy hot sexy guy who hates you passionately because you're slightly better than him at this arbitrary academic thing but also not really because growing up in the same house bonds you as a family whether either of you like it or not which in turns adds a heaping dose of affection to the whole complicated one-sided rivalry thing that is mostly just annoying to you and you think is beneath you but really you probably only think that because you're winning at becoming an L replacement My Sweet Audrina style something that is normal to want and possible to achieve. and then you hit puberty and suddenly getting shoved into walls comes with an unbearable amount of sexual tension due to the aforementioned high-stress high-competition insulated environment because you don’t interact with literally any other peers with like different outlooks on life outside this YA dystopia-ass school so the combination of claustrophobic familial love and this manufactured personhood scarcity which leads to these insane life or death stakes that are definitely giving you lifelong complex ptsd while being hotboxed in raging teenage hormones permanently rewire your neural sexual pathways and now you only care to get off if he’s manhandling you a little and you’re going to make it mello’s problem. you become responsible forever for what you have psychosexually spawned or whatever saint-exupéry said in the little prince. what’s not clicking

[eliseliedl]

genuinely the fact that bg3 became extremely popular and yet people still don't care to play divinity original sin 2 is so sad. like dos2 totally deserves the love and hype bg3 gets i'm so serious. story-wise and gameplay-wise it's even better imo

[avesblues2]

And now I make one more appeal, my dear brothers and sisters. Watch out for people who cause divisions and upset people’s faith by teaching things contrary to what you have been taught. Stay away from them.- Romans 16:17