#Women in Virus

[envolvenuances]

lesbian masterdoc and the unforgivable damage of making people hear compulsory heterosexuality and think of "can lesbians have crushes on men?" (no) instead of "are heterosexual women settling in unhappy marriages with men bellow their worth because of economic and social pressure?" (yes)

[licaonia]

♠️_Il virus più terribile è essere costretti all' umano.Da lui non c'è vaccino contro l'infezione🖤🌹

[stardustedknuckles]

Jesus fuck I thought Sam was gonna do a bit and was absolutely blindsided by the cancer talk. Holy shit. I'm so glad he's okay.

[cinderflower]

Hey! I love your works, thanks for sharing them! Your stuff is some of my favorites in the fandom!

I just wanted to ask your opinion on how Malenia and Miquella (from FoR and your characterization of them specifically) would view Millicent. How do you think they'd interact with her? Would they avoid her? What would that mean for their own relationship? Etc etc.

Just asking because I think your take on Malenia and Miquella is so interesting to play around with.

Thanks! Your stuff is awesome!!

Wah, anon this is such a sweet message, I'm always humbled to hear people like my works and my characterizations! Thank you so much 🥺💕

I'm so sorry this is so long but as I'm sure you can imagine, I have Many Thoughts about Malenia lol.

I've actually thought quite a lot about Millicent and her sisters and I think, first and foremost, that she doesn't know about them at all. I think after her bloom and being carried back to the roots of the Haligtree that she's basically been in a pseudo-coma as the rot progresses now that she's needle-less, so she might know about the kindred of rot but not Millicent or her sisters.

With Malenia, I really focus on her lack of autonomy as a character throughout the most formative years of her life and the trauma that undoubtedly came with it, where she is burdened with the rot which would have effectively ostracized her from most people except Miquella (because of his immunity to the rot). This is also in addition to her being named as an Empyrean and already having her fate decided for her. So the nature by which Millicent and her sisters came to be, after her bloom and presumably like offshoots or cuttings from plants, they'd be another blow against her autonomy because she didn't have a say in their creation (implied by Gowry raising them and her rejection of the kindred of rot).

Specifically with Millicent, I imagine Malenia would see a lot of herself in her, and I think she would harbor a deep resentment because of that - not because she'd dislike Millicent, but because Millicent would be a reflection of her younger self. Someone who is spawned from her, consequently cursed BY her, to suffer the same hardships. Millicent is the same as younger Malenia, which consequently forces Malenia into the role of the Outer Rot God in their dynamic - unwittingly having taken on the role of the thing she hates. If Malenia had embraced the rot like Romina, I think it would be different, but every time she accepts it, it's when she's at the end of her rope with no choices left and she's essentially resigned herself to death.

This might sound harsh, but it's also why I love her as a character - I believe Malenia is ultimately deeply selfish in her actions where Miquella is concerned (and vice versa ignoring all the DLC). She's sworn herself to his cause, has proven herself willing to die for him, to go to war for him, to commit countless atrocities in his name and inflict the very thing she despises - the curse that has caused her so much misery - on countless others. For him. But! In a twisted way, it's also for herself! Because for once, this is HER choice. She decided to take on the title of his blade and devote herself to him. No matter the ask, no matter the cost.

Miquella, who knows Malenia better than anyone and has been by her side throughout the worst of it, knows all of this. I believe he would be sympathetic to Millicent and her sisters (also seeing a younger Malenia in them) but I suspect that while he would also try to help them in secret, he'd be (selfishly) keeping them away from Malenia so that she wouldn't have to deal with all the trauma I mentioned above. He might feel some guilt about it, but with how I write him in FoR, he's always willing to harbor some secrets if he believes it's in Malenia's best interest. He wants to save her, to give her back the life she's been denied - a life free of her rot and any burdens. And that would mean a life without five magically spawned new dependents whose existence would be inflicting constant psychic damage on Malenia and that she'd feel responsible for.

In a timeline where the twins are far less codependent, and where they're not both so focused on Miquella's ambitions to cure Malenia of her rot and revolutionize the world, maybe Malenia is able to take the time to heal and make peace with herself. In that timeline, maybe Millicent would serve to be a positive and healing influence on her.

[bear-boi-5]

Smg6

Hello there you mortals :] I took over this blog again to introduce an up and coming new addition to our little family here!

Wh-Where am I- What do you mean up and coming-

This is Smg6, a lil teaser for what's to come! She doesn't exist within that world just yet

What-

But she does exist here! The owner of this blog just felt the urge to make her now :]

Smg6 is a little partner of mine I decided to make after noticing that the other SMG's had their own partners! I think of her like a "sister" (whatever that means, I read that it's someone, particularly female, who's "found family" or biologically related to you)

But for now, she's just gonna remain as a lil teaser for what I have in store for the ending of this story~...

I'll be seeing you user :]

[netscapenavigator-official]

I think the Starfield devs should give the Woke Panic people what they want and provide a pronouns toggle at the start of the game. If opted-out, all in-game pronouns default to she/her. Because if there's one thing that makes incels angrier than trans people, it's strong female lead rolls in video games.

[just-sp-in-inginthevoid]

This manga sure was something

[skinskisurf]

[athletictaipan]

[cinnamoontopography]

I'm cynical but not doompilled because I don't care about collective liberation and trying to get idiots to see the light-- I think about how feminism can benefit me first and foremost. My whole thing is that feminism needs to fulfill my personal needs and goals and idgaf about if the rest of womankind wants to help themselves or not tbh! I want an actual career, codified reproductive rights, the workplaces that have jobs that actually pay well (a good chunk of which are male-dominated) to be not-hostile to me by default and so on and so forth (all of which are fulfilled in the US to some extent, but there is the constant tug-o-war politically and/or culturally to regress on them, most prominently reproductive rights). All of the women that have a problem with this mean nothing to me, not even if they make up the 99% because I don't care about that "majority rules" shit. In all honesty, these types of women are basically children stomping their feet while outwardly politically and socially cucking themselves. And the funny thing is?

They end up taking advantage of initiatives that feminists fought for anyways despite their whining. There is no point in talking to women who are mentally deficient and/or misogynistic sociopaths that want to remove the ladder that is supposed to help us all climb, especially the ones who already made it to the top.

Seriously, it is actually much easier to be a feminist once you drop the savior complex and focus on yourself first and foremost.

[nakanotamu]

People will talk about "idol wrestling" and just mean wrestling that wants you to emotionally invest in the performers and want to see them improve as if that isn't virtually all wrestling ever and then hold up TJPW and Act Wres like they're some sort of ultra pure sports based presentation that're just ultra focused on putting on quality matches and not the most pure unadulterated attempts to copy idol frameworks since 2011 Stardom

[connectionterminated13]

I think everyone should draw their faves like this

[notsocheezy]

Brain Curd #98

Brain Curds are lightly edited flash fiction - practically first drafts - posted daily and sometimes written with the express intention of being terrible… but, you know, in an endearing way. Please enjoy.

“Oh, what the hell…” Clyde clicked repeatedly on his computer mouse, but the computer refused to do anything.

Betsy poked her head out from the next cubicle. “What’s wrong?”

“I can’t get this email to send. It just keeps showing me an hourglass.”

“Let me see?”

“Sure, go ahead. Knock yourself out.” He leaned back in his chair, rolled his eyes, and crossed his arms.

Betsy walked around to his cubicle and looked closely at the computer. “Is this your disk in the floppy drive?”

“My what in the who?”

She pressed the button to the side of the slot and a disk popped out. She pulled it out. “Oh no!”

“What is it?”

“Look at this! Read the label!”

Sure enough, written on the disk was the word ‘virus’ and a drawing of a mischievous-looking face.

“You’ve been infected, Clyde!”

Clyde gripped the sides of his head. “But I don’t even feel sick! I- I- I got my flu shots and everything!”

“It’s not that kind of virus, it’s the kind a computer can catch. And yours has it.”

“What do I do? What do I do?!?”

“We have to delete your whole hard drive, I think.”

“But my emails!”

“Do you do anything other than sending emails?”

Clyde stared at her with a blank expression on his face. “Was I supposed to?”

Betsy sighed. “Well, the great thing about emails is you send them and receive them, so all of them should still exist on everyone else’s computers. Better start going around asking for them.”

The computer made a little whoosh sound and the email Clyde had been trying to send finally went out. Suddenly the whole office was full of computer noises - everyone had received that email.

“Hey, that’s weird. I was only trying to send this email to you, Betsy.”

Betsy’s eyes snapped wide open. “Uh-oh.”

[ravensandsongbirds]

so was anyone gonna tell me that the wedding of sir gawain and dame ragnelle was gonna permanently alter my brain chemistry or ???

[skinskisurf]

[athletictaipan]