#and also men and people of color and--

[geekeryisafoot]

I have been so curious to see more about Kagami's royalty inheritance because I feel like that's the a non-subtle thing that really REALLY tells you how a story and its author sees gender. The vast majority of fantasy has gender based inheritance, and even the ones trying to subvert that frequently simply mirror it into a matriarchy. It is bizarrely rare to see depictions of fictional royalty that is completely gender-agnostic in terms of inheritance.

Which is a more obvious pointer towards how a story treats gender implicitly: what does a story say in the background, in the subtext, about the differences between genders? What does it considered inherent traits for men vs woman? What does it believe about the differences between proper behavior, acceptable violations of proper behavior, roles, hobbies, personalities, priorities of men vs women?

Ichi the Witch has it's core premise that only women can use magic as the only difference between genders. Beyond that core world building, it's completely normal about gender. It is managing- even in the subtleties where real world biases usually creep in- to treat women and men as completely utterly equal. It's seeing every single one as an individual while gender is irrelevant to their personality and how the narrative treats them. You could gender swap any character and their role in the plot would change but their personality would not.

So, like, props Ichi the Witch. You are truly a delight to read and you build my confidence in you more and more with each chapter

[fully-caulked-wagon]

Actually insane how many people like this woman, man.

[sha-brytols]

i also think the fact that weekes wasnt out when masked empire came out also plays a lot into how the tumblr side of fandom perceives the romance which. leaves sort of a bad taste in my mouth..

[razzafrazzle]

[wip] chet my everything my beautiful little loser

[st4rstudent]

i'll bring these out to the public actually

[spw-art]

Imagine being Jorge. Dear lord. Scary.

[kookyburrowing]

some of you will really look at a group of people who regularly refer to each other as siblings and have close relationships with each other and are literally genetically identical and go “but it’s not incest because there’s so many of them!” girl there are a great many royals in europe and yet that is very much still incest.

[eviefrie]

i'm copying the idea of doing @batmanisagatewaydrug's 2025 book bingo from @lesbiansagainsttheatre, here's what we have so far:

-literary fiction: dykette by jenny fran davis. i still don't know if i liked it or not

-short story collection: lake of souls by ann leckie

-childhood favorite: graceling by kristin cashore (AND all 4 sequels, the last of which i hadn't read yet)

-fantasy: the city of brass by s. a. chakraborty & sequels kingdom of copper and empire of gold

anyways. will update this as the year continues. ideally when i read more books that aren't by white women.

[philsmeatylegss]

Me, who has never engaged in a single bit of Rachel Zegler’s content, ready to fight and die for her when I hear one even relatively negative comment about her:

[ironwoman359]

Taylor becoming Bisexual was not on my 2025 bingo card. But dear God I am here for it!!! Happy pride to you too!! 🖤🩶🤍💜 🩷💜💙

(Pls save some purple for the rest of our flags 🤣)

NO! :D

(thank you 💜)

[pythiaswine]

thinking about how difficult it must have been for Rachel Fawcette [Hamilton] to leave her firstborn behind in order to safely remove herself from Lavien's house. how much it must have eaten her up inside and how there was nothing she could do because her husband owned her and he owned their son and he owned everything that was hers and if she stayed, there's no telling what could have happened to her. And she lost her firstborn son over it, fuck the rest of everything she lost and how people treated her, she had no claims to her son who clearly grew up to resent her for what she, if we think critically for a moment and look at the context and the subtext and hey, let's face it, the TEXT, likely had to do. how women were constantly pitted in the most volatile of situations in those days and how she did the difficult thing and saved herself.

but yeah sure let's reduce her to Whore because that is so much more impactful through a modern lens, like sure let's give her disgusting husband, and every other fucking man throughout history, the glory of successfully making the women they hurt out to be cheating whores. let's tell her son's story by calling his mother a whore every other fuckin song. let's act like "son of a whore" at the end of all things is more of an insult to him than it is to his mother, the so-called whore who clearly had it so bad at Lavien's that she fucking left. do we not realize that by reducing her to that, we let Johann Michael Lavien fucking WIN? i'm sick. so fucking sick to my stomach I hate it here

[lannisterdaddyissues]

one thing that gets me when i see people draw characters with personal headcanons and redesigns is like. their fashion sense would not be that good

[littlebeautifly]

Bastion Edit | Sonne | X-Men '97

[unproduciblesmackdown]

winston my quant of billions

[danmeichael]

supporters of queer m/f romance fiction so frequently miss out on the glory of transhets, and especially t4t transhets, which is a shame.

[beastsovrevelation]

Fine, I'll admit it. With long hair...

He's very attractive. He really is.

But, he's a harebrained trend chaser, who will butcher his good looks for fickle fashion.

He also looks like he should be wearing a kilt, not a cloak. Because of the long red hair, not David's nationality.