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I've seen some people say: “Trent shouldn’t have been gay, he should have just supported Colin anyway.” And it's such a weird (and bad) take.
Had Trent been straight we wouldn’t have gotten the scenes we did. Colin could have opened up and told Trent how he felt, but Trent wouldn’t have understood, he could have been supportive. But he wouldn’t understand where Colin is coming from. But because Trent is also gay he knows what it’s like being in the closet, living with fear and dread. Living with thoughts like “if I tell the people I love about my sexuality, will they hate me?”. You can’t get that from a straight ally, no matter how supportive and well meaning they are. Because they don't know what it's like. We need straight allies, we need all the straight allies we can get. But what Colin needs RIGHT NOW is someone who, while not a professional athlete, is involved in the world of football. Knows about homophobic fans, knows that there are a culture of toxic masculinity and homophobia in the clubs. That is why it’s important that Trent himself is gay.
Colin almost got runover by a cyclist in his desperate attempt to run away from Trent at the gay bar. But the relief when he understands what Trent is saying "I must have a good reason for that, mustn't I?" is so clear. Trent is also queer, Trent is safe, I can let Trent in.
And I think some people might read that line as "I haven't outed you because I'm gay too, but if I had been straight I would have" which isn't what Trent means, Trent is using that phrase to be subtle, to let Colin come to his own conclusion, because Colin is stressed out, he's scared. By letting Colin think for himself it gives Colin an opportunity to calm down (which is also why Trent holds his hands out as if calming a frightened animal, he also makes himself slightly smaller by bending his knees and leaning forward slightly). And he does, he realises what Trent is saying and he calms down. It's also an added layer of security it's not just, "I haven't outed you" it's "I haven't outed you because I am also queer". A straight person saying that they haven't outed you doesn't hold as much weight as a queer person saying it. Because you know that the queer person knows how important it is to be safe and to come out on your own terms wheras a straight person, especially an eager well meaning ally might try and encourage you to come out because "hey, it's gonna be fine", even when that's not the support you need at the moment (there are ofc exceptions, both when it comes to straight people and queer people).
But because Trent is also gay, Colin now has someone in his corner at work, who knows him, knows his secret. Who also carried that secret himself once. We’ll most likely get straight allies in the other players and the leaders at Richmond.
So no, Trent shouldn’t have been straight. Because that is not the support Colin needed at that moment. He needed queer solidarity.
#ted lasso#ted lasso spoilers#colin hughes#trent crimm#I saw someone on reddit saying that this whole thing with colin being scared of coming out was a bad storyline in 2023#because it's not a big deal#and I was baffled#thankfully some people called them out on that#because colin just wants to live his life#he says he doesn't want to be a spokesperson but that's what he'll become if he comes out whether he wants to or not#because he'll always be the first active gay premier league player#and it's also arrogant to say that it's accepted to be queer in 2023 so it's not a big deal#when queer and trans people are stripped of their rights and their right to express themselves in the US for example#and queer and trans people are killed all over the world simply because of their sexuality and/or gender identity#and even if you live in a fairly accepting country like I do for example#it's still the fear that YOUR OWN family and friends will reject you#because to quote monty python ''we're all individuals''#it doesn't matter how accepting society at large is because society are made up of individuals who has their own beliefs#so no the world isn't as accepting as people are led to believe and that's what I mean when I talk about straight people#no matter how well-meaning they are they will have a hard time understanding#nicole watches stuff
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i appreciate the attempts a lot of game devs are making with gender neutral character creation, and i appreciate that it's actually a very difficult task to implement that depending on the game's base code. but it's so funny to me when you hear an uproar because some game has "entirely removed the gender option from character creation!!!!!" so you go to check it out and its just like
#i swear ive seen this happen in like 3 games now#and every time i am a little baffled at how this is a big deal#but like. well. they DID make an attempt. u right.
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the woman who holds the moon
prints available here. my cover for this month's issue of baffling magazine.
#i can finally share this piece!#this cover was based on a short story called “moon bearer” by celia daniels that features on this issue of the magazine#the character designs are mine#also there's a sale on inprnt again so my prints are cheaper than usual!#illustration#artists on tumblr#illo#lesbian#wlw#sapphic#lesbian art#wlw art#sapphic art#queer art#baffling magazine#blue#moon#night sky#queer fantasy
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how to differentiate a Polecat (Putois) from a Skunk (Mouffette)
idk i looked up Polecat (putois actually) and it showed many many pictures of Skunks smh (somehow),,,,
Polecat (Putois) look incredibly similar to a Ferret (Furet), they could also be compared to a Marten (Martre) or a Weasel (Belette), as they have similar features (they are from the same family after all; Mustelidae)
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In comparison, Skunks (mouffette) are a part of the Mephitidae family. Sub-species include; Conepatus, Mephitis, Mydaus and Spilogale.
This is a Mephitis, the "common" skunk:
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They have completely different bones structures:
Polecat ("common");
Skunk (Mephitis "common");
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Their coat:
Polecat (Putois): there is a type of Polecat that look similar to a Skunk (Mouffette), such as the Stripped Polecat, also called the Zorilla (Zorille), usually a Polecat's coat is brown-ish (as seen in the first picture of this post)
Skunk (Mouffette): Skunks are always black and white (the black can be replaced by brown), usually with two stripes down the middle (though it may vary to spots or a single line depending on which sub-species you find, to the left is a Spilogale, and to the right is a Mydaus), which is completely different from a Zorilla, who will have 3+ stripes
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Still confused because "WAIT THERE'S STRIPPED POLECATS????"
an other trick to differentiate them is their face marks:
Polecat (Putois "Stripped"): They literally have eyebrows
Skunks (Mephitis "Common"): Their face is split into two by a single line
Skunk (Spilogale "Spotted"): their face markings looks very similar to the Polecat, but their coat is very unique
Skunk (Conepatus (very similar to Mephitis)): cant put any more pictures but it kind of looks like they have halo/crown from the front and no face marks
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Their tails:
this is a generalisation, but often, a Skunk has a "poofier" tail than a Polecat (who usually has a slim tail).
A skunk (Mephitis & Conepatus) is fuller, it has more fur than a Polecat.
Whilst a polecat can have a poofy tail, it usually looks devoid of fur, very skrunkly looking:
Compare it to the first skunk picture and you'll get it (i am reaching the picture limit,,,)
As for the other two skunk sub-species:
Spilogale ("Spotted"): their tails looks very similar to a Polecat's, but as seen before, their coat is very unique, Polecats do not have that variation
Mydaus ("Single-line" or as a lot of ppl i talked to have called them; "rat"): What tail? it's so tiny you can barely see it,,,
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AAAND that's it! I may have gotten some stuff wrong, but i like doing spontaneous research for fun :D
#quenouillerant#skunk#polecat#putois#mouffette#idfk#i made this cuz apparently ppl mix them up#and i was baffled#and then my research went on for a little while longer than what i had originally planned#my sibling dared to say that ppl mix them up bc they dont give a fuck about polecats and skunks.......#:(
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my (very white, very middle european, very protestant christian, very sixty-year old) father just dropped an inshallah in casual conversation. without precedent or without any acknowledgement. "inshallah they will send us a new internet router" he said. didn't even stutter. what did he mean by this.
#to be very clear i am not mad at it we stan a multicultural king but its just so baffling.#i cant stop thinking about it#WHO TAUGHT MY DAD HOW TO SAY INSHALLAH
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Had an interesting conversation about this IRL the other day, so...
*Onions excluding "green onions" AKA scallions and already cooked or chopped onions
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he's king of the junjile....
#dungeon meshi#dungeon meshi anime#look i havent seen anyone make an edit like this yet im baffled#laios touden#laios dungeon meshi
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Kamala Harris does want "transgender surgery on illegal aliens that are in prison", btw.
So since Trumpists are getting mad enough about the jokes to actually cite their sources, I thought I'd put the source out into my left extremist commie faggot echo chamber, too.
The claim originates from an ACLU questionnaire she filled out for her 2020 presidential candidacy, specifically this section:
She wasn't given a new questionnaire for 2024, and has stated that while her policy on some things may have changed, her values had not. (This most likely means she moved more to the center to appease larger demographics and cut corners to reach compromises. The basic politician stuff.)
It boils down to this: If you're in prison, whether for "illegal" immigration or other crimes, you rely on the state to provide you with necessary amenities, like food and health care. Her argument isn't "hell yeah everyone in prison should get sex changes for free". It's "gender affirming surgery is a necessary medical procedure. If you are in the states care while this becomes necessary, the state should provide it." If you're outraged by your tax money being used on this, consider the massive amount of people being incarcerated in for-profit prisons, on your dime. Then ask yourself if maybe a prison reform might be in order.
Worth noting: In 2015, while Attorney General, Kamala Harris actually argued against providing gender-affirming surgery to an incarcerated trans woman, claiming that HRT and psychotherapy were sufficiently covering her medical needs. She has since obviously changed her stance and assumed responsibility. (I would like to take this moment to remind my fellow left extremist commie faggots that "willingness to learn and rethink your views" is infinitely more valuable than "perfect from the start and unwilling to listen to anyone")
Also found in the source: This image of Kamala Harris participating in the 2019 San Francisco Pride Parade, wearing what I believe to be a sequin rainbow embroidered denim jacket.
I encourage you to read the provided CNN article and the answers to the ACLU questionnaire, as they give great insight into her values.
TLDR: Based.
#we dont have to get into the fact that most prisons fail to provide bare necessities to inmates because you make more money that way#thats not what the post is about#it is frankly baffling to me that the orange wet bag somehow referenced an actual policy stance#i wasnt aware he knew how to do that#fox news had covered it the morning of the debate so i guess thats how i found out about it#but i didnt know he knew how to read#transgender#transgender surgery on illegal aliens that are in prison#politics#us politics#kamala harris#election 2024#queer#trans#ramble#still think that one guy in my comments was a bot tho lmao#better a bot than this stupid#long post#go vote#vote blue#register to vote#vote so we can have transgender surgeries on illegal aliens that are in prison
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What’s William Afton’s problem in FNAF….
#myart#chloesimagination#comic#william afton#michael afton#afton family#funtime foxy#fnaf#fnaf 4#sister location#fnaf fanart#five nights at freddy's#UNSERIOUS comic time….#what did William Afton mean by this…#is William trying to be nice or insulting#Michael is frozen stunned baffled flabbergasted even#William is gonna send Michael into an identity crisis at this rate#seeing baby and ballora are semi inspired off of Elizabeth and Ms Afton#made me wonder about Funtime foxy makes sense that be Michael#but the more I thought about it the funnier that thought got#Michael gets called fruity in the most ridiculous way possible#I’m glad I finally got to draw Funtime foxy though!! ��
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the four horsemen of the apocalypse (wherein you say something interestingly sus)
#ace attorney#dgs#dai gyakuten saiban#the great ace attorney#the great ace attorney chronicles#herlock sholmes#kazuma asogi#miles edgeworth#klavier gavin#narumitsu#wrightworth#klapollo#asoryuu#homumiko#i think about this a lot#especially the one with herlock-#like the first time i encountered it in the game i was absolutely baffled#the woman was too stunned to speak#and then they started playing that epic music during sholmes' logic and reasoning spectacular segment#cool beans cool cool cool#i'm very normal about them
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you keep telling yourself that, buddy.
#isat#isat spoilers#isat siffrin#isat mirabelle#in stars and time#isat fanart#fanart tag#rn i'm obssessed with the idea of siffrin and loop just having the worst recovery process and are just baffled that just cause they escaped#doesn't mean they're free from their trauma! like you THOUGHT!#give me every fic where they're struggling and relapse but ultimately get better. i need it
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rb for larger sample size! feel free to elaborate in tags about your process.
#tumblr polls#polls#i'm just curious#because i've met a couple of people recently who can bang out 10k or more in a day once the idea hits them#and that just baffled me to my very core#so i want to see#and i'm saying 2-8k because i feel like that's your general oneshot lengths#people are usually gonna have it up to 3-4k or up to 8k depending on plot/if it's pwp#etc etc etc
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Reading Red Robin after having heard all the fanon takes is hilarious. It's like, oh. That didn't happen. That person didn't say that. That person did say that, but it meant something totally different in context. That happened, but it wasn't as big a deal as people say. That didn't happen. That person didn't say that. Again and again every issue it's actually so funny.
#uhhh not gonna tag for this one#i don't hate fanon and i think all fans have a place in fandom#but the takes on rr09 are so... extreme???#the interpretations of dick and damian are downright bizarre#damian in particular is actually really well written and sympathetic#how you can come away from rr thinking he's a bad person is baffling to me#dick i will personally free you from the 'sending tim to arkham' allegations
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legitimate question ....... why do people like to tell me all the reasons they don't like miraculous ladybug? i know i complain about the fact a lot, and i find myself on the defensive a lot, and i keep telling myself i'll stop and let it go, but it really is hard when people are always coming onto my posts, in my replies, in my comments, on my art and my fics and my text posts and anything i make, and telling me blatantly all the ways that they don't like the thing that i so blatantly find enjoyment in. "the show is bad". okay? good for you? why are you on my post about it? why don't you make your own? why are you telling me, specifically, this, on the art/fic/analysis i made that i assume you found by searching through the tag?
it's kind of a behavior that i legitimately don't understand. I'm a human being and I hate a lot of things, too. there are things i've loved at first and been disappointed by and have strong opinions about. there are things i like to complain about. so i'll complain about them to my friends or my family or my cat. but i have never, once, not even for a single moment, thought, "oh let me go into the tags of this media, find a positive post about it written by someone who's having fun with it, and make it that random stranger's problem". never once.
i just don't get it. i really don't get it. i sometimes worry that i come across like i'm heavily critical of people who just personally don't like the show, when really i'm just trying to defend my interests to the droves of strangers who are always coming specifically to me to tell me all the ways they hate the thing that makes me happy.
just.......... why? where does the urge come from? what do you get out of this?
#i remember there was a poll a while back asking people if they thought it was ok to tell ml fan creators that you hate the show unprompted#and 'yes' won#and i am still baffled by that#why is this normal?#why would you even want to?#why is it impossible to be an artist/creator on the internet without having to deal with people bitching and moaning in your ear about the#things that you are dedicating your time and energy into for fun?#why is this the acceptable online culture?#you don't have to like the show. im not saying that. im not saying you cant complain or vent#im just saying. why TO ME?#buggachatter
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"I feel bad because i dont really like sucking dick honestly"
"I'm not a fan of eating pussy really, whichsucks because I wanna make my partner feel good"
that is actually completely valid!! you shouldn't feel like you have to do something you dont enjoy just to please your partners! there's lots of ways to make someone feel good, you dont have to force yourself to do ANYTHING that you dont enjoy or that makes you feel uncomfortable!! and if anyone tells you otherwise, they're wrong!!
#i genuinely really enjoy giving head so i dont relate#but it's always so baffling to me when someone says they just “power through” or they feel bad for not enjoying something like that#you have no reason to!!#colten yaps#actual serious advice#ftm dom#ftm nsft#ftm t4t#trans nsft#t4t nsft#ftm bunny#ftm sub#ftm bottom#nsft ftm
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I finally watched breaking bad (all within the past week or so while I worked, finished it and watched el camino last night) and I'm confident this isn't a new thought I'm expressing or anything but genuinely how DID an entire generation of dudes convince themselves Walter White was cool and admirable and intended to be sympathetic. I know ppl just lack media literacy sometimes but I'm still so confused
I don't think I've EVER watched a piece of media that so blatantly depicts a guy making the worst possible decisions at every turn and having his life ruined for it and not being redeemed or made sympathetic in any significant or lasting way. the kinds of justifications villains USUALLY give that make people consider them "morally grey" or "tragic" or whatever (everything I did was for my loved ones, I did what I had to to survive, once I was in this I couldn't get out, I just needed you to trust me so I could keep you safe, etc etc) is ALWAYS framed as complete self-serving bullshit when Walt says it, and one of the only shreds of personal growth he ever exhibits in the whole series is when he finally fucking admits that. every time he does something even remotely cool or drops a quotable one-liner, something terrible immediately happens that makes everything worse and makes him look like an unreasonable idiot asshole again. by the end of the series the ONLY characters they can still contrast as being morally "worse" than him are literally a bunch of bloodthirsty neonazis who kept a guy in a cage for several months. this show is practically SCREAMING at you the entire time not to admire Walt. why did every dude I knew in highschool have his face on tshirts and Facebook pfps.
I just don't get it. at least with The Dark Knight's Joker it was like, a feature-length movie and that's it. you spend a lot less time with the Joker and it has a lot less time to delve into his motivations, so there's way more room for flanderization and misinterpretation as people extrapolate the few cool/interesting/sad things they saw into a whole nuanced misunderstood guy in their heads and online. Walter White has 5 seasons' worth of 45min episodes to convince you beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is a miserable fucking loser who ruins everything he touches because of greed and selfishness. if you weren't watching it for that, what WERE you getting out of this. what DID you think this show was about. am I just missing some key piece of context from 2012 or whatever that would help me understand this
#buny text#breaking bad#also I'm vaguely aware there was a big movement of fans who blamed everything on his wife and said she was the worst#which like. obvious misogyny from the primary audience of teen boys and young men aside#she's not really worse than any of the other adult characters?? she sucks real bad in the first couple seasons but so does everyone else#half the point of having all these characters be so shitty and rigid and unwilling to grow or accommodate others is so that#they can serve as landmarks to show how rapidly walt is abandoning his morals and spiraling into self-justification as the series goes on#the people you hate in season 1 are largely people you sympathize with in season 4 and 5 because compared to walt they're saints#idk. it's just weird having grown up around the fan culture for this show for the past decade or so and then finally watching it#and just being completely baffled now that i know what they were responding to
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