#and ONLY THEN got together

[1very1fancy1doilies1]

oh brother, remind me to never look at the "latest" on the catradora tag ever again, because how are there still so many anti catradora (really just anti catra) accounts actively posting in the year of TWENTY TWENTY-FOUR 💀 I swear I've blocked so many

[fandomsandfeminism]

Yall wanna hear a kinda funny, kinda sad story about my grandmother and hetero-normativity?

Ok, so... when my grandmother was in her 50s (I was an infant), she met a woman at the Unitarian Church. And, as can happen when you meet your soul mate, this event made it impossible for her to deny parts of herself that she had fiercely hidden her whole life.

All the drama- their affair being found out, the divorce with my grandfather, the court battle over who got the house, happened while I was a baby. Even in my earliest memories, it's just Mama Jo and Oma, and my grandfather lived elsewhere (first his own apartment, then a nursing home, then with us.)

But here's the thing- no one ever explained any of this to me. No one ever sat down and was like "hey, Rosie, so do you know what a lesbian is?" It was the 90s. It was Texas. I think my mom was still kinda processing all this, and just assumed that like... I was gonna figure it out. Don't mention it, let it just be normal. Like I think my mom thought that if she explained the situation, she would be making it weird? I dunno.

But like. In the 90s, in all the movies I had seen and books I had read, do you know how many same sex couples I had seen? Like. 0. Do you know how many "platonic best friend/roommates" I had seen? A lot. I had no context, is what I'm saying.

I literally thought this was a Golden Girls, roommates, besties situation until I was like...I dunno, 11? 12?

It was actually their parrot, an African Grey named Spike, imitating my grandmothers voice saying "Johanna, honey, it's getting late", that triggered the MIND BLOWN moment as I realized that *there's only one master bedroom and it only has 1 waterbed* when all the pieces finally clicked.

Anyway. I think it's a real important thing for kids to know queer people exist, for a lot of reasons, but also because kids can be clueless and it's embarrassing to have your grandmother be outted by a parrot because everyone just thought you'd figure it out on your own.

Anyway, here is my grandma and her wife, my Oma, after they moved to Albuquerque to be artsy gay cowboys and live their best life. They helped run a "Lesbian Dude Ranch" out there (basically just with funding and financial support. As Oma has explained "traditionally, most lesbians don't have a lot of money" so they wrote the checks and let the younger ladies actually run the ranch.)

[doomedclockworkdotmp3]

his therapist woulda had a field day at their next appointment

[just-an-enby-lemon]

The thing about jonmartin is that Martin wants to be a romantic, he loves poetry and probably watches romance but for him it is a fantasy, a silly game he plays. Martin is at his core very cynical. Things don't work out for him so he doesn't really belive in romance, it is a pretty dream but that's it. He is pratical and realist. Dating Jon he has to remind himself it is real and he actually struggles with romantic gestures, it is something he has to remind himself to do, to remind himself he can do even and honestly who even has the energy and what if Jon doesn't even like it?

Jon on the other hand wants to be cynical. His first coping mechanism was pretend the things he was afraid of weren't real and goddam if he isn't afraid of love. It didn't really work to him so far so it's easy to pretend he doesn't care. But he is a romantic at heart. He saw love and he read about it and he has enough evidence that it is undeniable. And to be honest Jon was always to much a bunch of mushy feelings hidden in a grumpy (and bitter and afraid) trench coat. Dating Martin he has to hold himself so he isn't too much. He plays the grumpy unromantic guy at first. But he just can't stop giving flowers and planing dates (this is the guy that saw a theme park on a fear domain and considered how he wanted to take Martin to a romantic ferris whell date [until he discovered Martin was afraid of them]) and making all the silly things one does when in love.

TR: Martin is deep down very cynical about love but wants to/pretends to be a romantic and Jon is deep down very romantic but wants to/pretends to be cynical about love.

[daisybell-on-a-carousel]

Being someone who read Under The Red Hood and came out with the firm belief that, for Jason, it's not about killing Joker, it's about Jason wanting proof Batman would choose him over the Joker (bc shelia chose the joker). Makes seeing any other media where it's all about just wanting the Joker dead is a teeny bit frustrating. to be honest

Jason could've killed the Joker himself, really, really easily. Jason kidnaps the Joker before the confrontation. I can't open my comic for a reference right now, but it felt like he had the Joker for quite a bit before the confrontation. He had him. He beat him up with a crowbar. He had every single opportunity to kill the Joker himself, but he didn't because that wasn't his goal. Make no mistake, he did plan for the Joker to be dead by the end of it, but do you see what im trying to say here

Edit: If I knew this post was gonna get 1000+ notes I would've tried to word it better or something, this was a rant I made on the way to the grocery store 😭

It's not about making Batman kill either. When Batman says he won't kill, Jason adjusts and goes, 'Let ME kill the Joker or kill me to stop me' instead. The test is all about Batman choosing him. The whole final confrontation is Jason's first death again. The parent, The Joker, and the explosives. It even ends with Jason unable to move as a bomb goes off right next to him again because the parent didn't choose Jason. And instead tried finding an option that'd benefit them and (consequencely) letting the Joker walk, again, lol, lmao <-in agony

[egophiliac]

we were fucking ROBBED

[dredgesnails]

been thinking about double life again lately so here is my ideal lineup if they ever do a second one:

scott & joel

would be horrible (incredible)

pleas eplease please please please i need to see them self destruct

gem & jim(my)

sometimes when the others say one of their names i think they're saying the other and then i have to go back to recontextualise the entire conversation for myself

i just think theyre a sweet duo and would be cute soulmates

jimmy final two (real) (not fake)

skizz & lizz(ie)

i like when their names rhyme

though after that guess the build it's questionable whether skizz knows how to rhyme

before wild life i'd just say some of the silliest on the server maximising their joint silliness, but

lizzie wants him dead now. it would be such a shame if he was the one person she wasn't allowed to

impulse & etho

yeah how do you like that bdoubleo100

this time impulse wins i swear it'll for real be this time

grian & bigb

they'd both be sooooo happy

bigb would treat him right

#grumboOUT #scarianOUT #bigrianIN

tango & bdubs

toxic AF

they lowkey are even now after wild life but i dont think thatll stop them from divorcing on live tv

cleo & pearl

most terrifying duo for everyone but gem

they've resolved their past trauma and now they can live happily with pearl's DOTS (Dog Of The Series)

unless,

mumbo & scar

completing the buttercups soulmate circuit as is Right and Just

unstoppable force (mumbo "kills a lot but only when he can die even more" jumbo) vs immovable object (scar's persistent survivability when in grave danger)

ren & martyn

god. i mean. you know i had to do it to them

this time they can die in each others arms

holding each other until their bodies give out

whispering reassurances until they can't speak any longer

[hawberries]

Feliz Navia! I hope all Demoiselle wanters have become, or will become, Demoiselle havers <3

[chloesimaginationthings]

Deep down, FNAF movie Vanessa and Michael are siblings

[ryssbelle]

Drew a bunch of Marinettes in a bunch of different artists styles it was a lot of fun!!

Artists who's styles I mimicked: @buggachat @hamsternamedmarinette @ladybeug @sabertoothwalrus and @anna-scribbles all epic artists 🤟😎

[bananafire11]

He has arriiiived. I think i got almost everyones suggestions.... oh and wretched is there too

[platoapproved]

iwtv ships + book quotes

[5ummit]

Paul: *does anything* Feyd: 👀🥵😍

[ruporas]

birthday party (id in alt)

[demaparbat-hp]

Izumi (steambaby) sketches.

[hey-heigo]

happy pride month