#all of these gays make me mentally ill

[murderpastaa]

some wips and doodlez!!!!

[abrillustrated]

see arcane is so funny because none of these bitches have friends. honestly wasnt super into jayvik until the finale because That Level of codependence that jayce and viktor have makes total sense when u realize that neither of them have Any fuckin friends. jayce has caitlyn and mel but they're off doing their own shit, and viktor has absolutely no friends except for jayce. mel and caitlyn also have no friends. all of vi's friends are dead. so.

[wis-art]

Being a weird faggot is so much more fun than being a miserable repressed teenager who loathes themselves and tries to act like a """normal""" member of society because they're too afraid to be cringe

[donahdevotees]

Just blocked an anon being highly transphobic so I'd just like to remind everyone this blog does not tolerate bigotry or harassment.

Anon if you evade the block and see this I just want you to understand you can disagree and be upset with what someone has said without immediately turning to transphobia, someone disliking or insulting something/someone you enjoy/take comfort in/look up to/etc does not give you a pass to be to hateful back at them.

Everyone please be kind to your fellow trans, mentally ill and queer selfshippers, the world is scary and this is meant to be a safe space for all of us. Trans lesbian selfshippers I am especially holding your hands, you are loved, you matter and you make the world so much brighter and I am so grateful to be sharing this time and space with you; your f/o's told me you look gorgeous today btw 🩷🩷🩷

[guzhufuren]

me and the traumatised live action danmei tumblr besties hallucinating a bl show together

[right-there-ride-on]

Gyjo in the fandom

cw: light discussion of ableism

Gyjo… what am I thinking about gyjo…

I like them. I like them a lot, actually. They have paralleled narrative arcs, they complement each other nicely, the romantic subtext is incredibly obvious to the point that even the most homophobic fan you know will admit they understand why people ship it… so why do I also have a problem with it?

There’s a lot of good fanart. Hell, I’ve reblogged plenty. Maybe it’s just something that’s more pronounced in fic.

I’m trying to word this correctly. My issue with gyjo has nothing to do with the text itself. I think my problem is just how people portray it in the fandom.

Maybe it’s because it’s so popular, or maybe it’s the sheer prominence of applying ‘Character A’ and ‘Character B’ dynamics without considerable regard for the characters involved, but I feel gyjo is very prone to flanderization. I believe the intersection with how ableist people are toward Johnny (intentionally or not, subtly or not) and the old tropes these two get shoved into makes it so I have trouble enjoying fics in the fandom.

I’m not saying it’s bad to enjoy certain tropes. I’m not saying headcanons are bad either. What I am saying is that writing is hard, but if you’re going to write fanfiction please have consideration for the characters you’re writing. The arcs of these two are complex and multilayered, which is why I think they have such staying power, but I also think they also provide a good opportunity for us as writers and artists to examine our biases when it comes to the portrayal of certain groups, personality types, mental illnesses, queerness, disability, etc. and maybe come out better people for it.

[musical-chick-13]

Regarding the whole "Fandom Is An Escape, so why should I have to care this much about misogyny/racism/ableism/transphobia/etc." thing. Idk about the rest of you, but it gets kind of hard for me to "escape" when I keep seeing people say the same vile things about characters who share aspects of my identity that I hear all the time in real life.

[illogicalghost]

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[bookshelfpassageway]

running out of audiobooks for the thing you were reading is the worst feeling, especially if it's a comfort series

[shi0n]

got jumpscared by friend who suddenly said "me kin id" how do YOU know that... i need to eliminate him

[thissliceofnonsense]

Okay so I tried to figure out what Frida (Big Mama's assistant) would act like.... and she may just be my favorite character ever.

(there is literally no videos/gifs of her, so take these screenshots)

The "cannon" description of her is that she's so adamant for the rules, that it's kind of silly. Given that and the factoid that she's probably been raised by Big Mama, I tried doing some characterization.

NOTE - I have only seen rise and read a lot of rise fan-fictions, so I can't use anything from other versions, but if anyone who has seen the other versions has some suggestions, let me know!

Frida, daughter of Big Mama, gained a few of her traits. The main one being that she is a master negotiator. Her favorite past time is making deals with people and getting rewards from it, not because she changes the terms like Big Mama does, but because she finds loopholes and has people agree to her original terms. She never breaks a rule, just exploits them.

(My sibling watched a masterclass on negotiating and it had a bunch of morally questionable tidbits that I think would be SO FUN in a character. Things like: "Empathy doesn't mean you have to be nice to them, you just have to know what makes them tick." "A no is worth five yes's" "When someone is lying, try to use a warm, slow voice" "Let people know what they will lose if they don't do the deal"....)

She has half the battle nexus loyal and/or in debt to her.

Despite her stoic exterior, she genuinely enjoys figuring out what makes people tick. She sees emotions as logical consequences of their personality and experiences, and they are quite fun to play with. Not maliciously... it's just fun. She is hyper-observant and can read someone pretty well, but it's her simple questions that slowly evolve into deal making that make all the hidden city lawyers afraid of her.

As far as illegal activities go - since most of what Big Mam does is illegal, much to her annoyance - she's actually one of the main reasons the Hidden City council cannot bring up a single point against Big Mama. Frida wouldn't dream of breaking rules, no. Rather, she has so much more intellectual enjoyment of discovering loopholes to the rules, using every one of their laws to her favor, making her and her mother's activities 100% legal.

As far as mystic powers go, she can understand it - they are based on emotions after all. But she can't make it work for herself. If Frida herself cannot control (read: suppress) her emotions, then the others (read: Big Mama) can control me, and no no no. She needs to be the one in control.

[groovyspinewitch]

Instead of praying AWAY the gay, I am praying TO the gay.

[here-there-were-dragons]

my mother is absolutely convinced of some nonsense conspiracy theory that (in her words) "originally humanity lived in peaceful all-woman societies of goddess worshippers who took care of eachother and lived in harmony, while males were roving loners that had no society and never cooperated. that changed when the men banded together and overthrew the peaceful woman-dominated societies, and enslaved us all." and, according to her, this is proof that a woman-dominated world would be innately more peaceful, and that men are innately violent and evil and should be either barred from holding any legal power or leadership roles or at least should be (again in her words) "gelded like bulls" to remove their testosterone before even being considered for such a thing.

she also evidently believes that the problem with all religions today is primarily that they aren't "goddess worshippers", because she seems to think goddess religions are inherently peaceful and pure too and seems to be especially obsessed with "Isis" in particular. the very very few times she's openly considered it unambiguously bad for some population or another to have been exterminated (she's got a bad case of devil's advocating genocide brain), she's gone out of her way to make up some crap about how said people were a peaceful society of goddess-worshippers, almost always of isis. delusions of isis-worship seem to be the only thing that ever causes her to consider any arab or middle-eastern culture, society, or ethnicity to be relatively uncomplicatedly undeserving of extermination, in fact, because every fucking time she doesn't immediately start devils-advocating it and making remarks about how "the rest of the world should box them in and let them blow eachother up" it's when she's whinging on about how whatever specific micro-ethnicity she's thinking about are or were traditional persecuted isis-worshippers.

the sole major exception to her weird fixation on isis worship justifying worthiness of life is the whole israel thing going on, in which she has consistently made very obvious that literally the only reason she's against the genocide of palestine is because it gives her an excuse to even more openly hate jewish people than she already did. and honestly i'm not sure even that's true because i think she's made some offhand remarks about palestinians having probably been peaceful isis worshipers before the jews infected them with christianity or something anyway.

so for the last, however fucking long it's been i've been constantly having to listen to her go off about how this behavior is in the jew's blood or whatever and that they literally invented all genocide because somehow the concept didn't exist before them and wouldn't have ever been invented by the rest of humanity without those jewish aliens dropping it in i fucking guess apparently and she furthermore goes on about how every single genocide and mass-oppression movement in history is directly inspired by them, ESPECIALLY the nazis, and THEN i have to listen to her rant about how, basically, wwii was something they entirely brought on themselves by "dominating the economy and treating everyone not them like shit" and the nazis were just "using their own tactics back at them". and then she goes on a rant about how the people the original jews exterminated back in the day (aka the first ever genocide, which they invented, because jews invented genocide and hate according to her) in the middle east region were peaceful matriarchal isis-worshipers.

and then she starts making comments about arabs being backwards and palestinians either being mysogynist muslims that should be boxed in to blow eachother up with everyone else or secret peaceful isis worshippers corrupted by men's cruel hand, sometimes in the same sentence, entirely dependent on which group she's more in the mood to hate at the time.

it's exhausting. beyond exhausting. her sole purpose in existence seems to be to have the singularly most exhausting set of politics physically possible to fit into one person.

just, sometimes i think, if there really is anything at all to the incredibly stupid and inexplicably popular idea that anyone or anything has a Purpose tm to exist for, i feel like my mother's purpose is to be walking proof to me of a Type Of Guy That Is Real, cause i sure as fuck would have trouble inventing this mess if it wasn't standing right in front of me spewing confusingly bipartisan hate. all of her thoughts and opinions are these long winding nonsense chains that feel like if that man carrying thing sketch about the friend with confusing politics was a person. on meth.

[ikuhara]

STILL CANNOT BELIEVE OFF SEASON AND MONSTER SEASON ANIME IS REAL

[kohakhearts]

Trick or treat!

hii thank you!! this is my big character study on gary, which...i haven't really worked on since june last year lol but i keep telling myself i'll come back and give it the attention it deserves (maybe this summer...if i'm not working 50 hours a week again).

the fic goes through pre-canon to the last episode of mpm. it's kind of just the dumping ground for my thoughts on gary's family situation, ash and gary's history, gary's research, how/why gary got involved in project mew, some of his catches (eevee and hatterene are probably the ones i'm most interested in personally, but there are more!), etc. i only got as far as the end of the indigo league, though sadly. ...but i'll get there someday. probably :p

It’s not just Gary’s Pokémon that have changed since Viridian City, though; he is thinking of the Poké Ball in his bag, and even finds himself taking it out once in a while just to feel its weight. Ash doesn’t say anything about what happened, or even look at Gary as if he thinks there might be something worth saying. And Gary wouldn’t have anything to say to him if he did ask, but it frustrates him nonetheless. When he holds the Poké Ball in his hands, all he can think is that something broken isn’t worth keeping if it can’t be restored to its original function. More and more often, he thinks of getting rid of it completely. Throwing it in the trash, or maybe back into the river where they found it. But there is something that always stills his hand. In that moment, he cannot imagine anyone else he would have rather seen than Ash. As firmly as the cold claws of terror grip at his shoulders, the memory of Ash’s arms around him persists. That in itself is somehow more defeating: he is the same as he was that day in the forest, wishing Ash would hold his hand the whole way.

ask box trick-or-treat! 🎃

[thepartyishere]

dont think too hard about my favorite headcanons they are absolutely not a reflection of me why would you think that