#and he does it all so attractively too

[ineffablecho]

Like how is he even real?? He sounds fake. He sounds like the self-insert wish fulfillment character who is good at everything for no reason...AAHH

[x] - Paley Festival 2006

[dollypopup]

hm. idk, maybe the reason Luke Newton isn't announcing new projects or posting any Bridgerton content is because some of you demons treated him like hot trash instead of a creative that you wanted more work from and he decided fuck it, this isn't worth the stress. you know, like a lot of creatives who get mistreated do?

like this is a man who went from couch surfing in a friend's house and bartending to make ends meet, deciding that the Bridgerton audition was the last one he'd do before he quit, to suddenly being recognized on the street because that last audition propelled him to star in a global show where fans who have zero media comprehension blamed him for his character's actions and literally stalked him at any hotel he happens to stay at. he went from being a dude doing musical theatre and shopping at thrift stores and recording random songs with friends and posting silly memes on Twitter to being harassed on his only social media page and his friends insulted and his partners bullied by his supposed 'fans' and anything he posts being so microanalyzed that he can't do a damn thing without someone coming out the woodwork screaming about how he's the WORST and won't he think of the FANS!?

like damn he can't have a girlfriend without being harassed, he can't travel without being harassed, he can't like or not like social media posts without being harassed, he can't post a fucking MEME without being harassed, he can't take a vacation or cut his hair or hold someone's hand or just live his life without being blamed for some bullshit or another. but yeah, okay, 'when will Luke Newton come back?' as if it isn't your fault he's AWOL now

[pharawee]

[grahamcarmen]

And my thing STILL is that as carmen gets a stronger sense of her past and better connections with her friends and allies the need/desire for Gray in her life doesn't decrease and dissapate, it INCREASES and is refined. All while constantly being more sincerely layered in romantic tones as the show goes on.

[tabellae-rex-in-sui]

I'm new to Sade so sorry if this is a stupid question, but was Sade gay? I'm currently reading Justine and noticed the passionate, semi-romantic descriptions of m/m sex, which contrast with the crude descriptions of f/m sex. I've not read all of Sade's books, but the ones I have read also feature characters who're mostly disinterested in women, who give off self-insert vibes (e.g. Dolmancé). Am I reading too much into it? IDK but I was wondering if you could shed some light.

Happy deathday to Sade!! lol

Really all that can be said with certainty is that he definitely wasn't straight lol. Like anyone who died before modern queer theory, Sade's sexuality can be difficult to label with today's terminology. He was certainly attracted to both men and women, so for simplicity's sake I just say he was bisexual. But really, who knows...

Characters that he uses as self-inserts like Dolmancé in PitB or Bressac in Justine are pretty exclusively attracted to men. Like you said, there's multiple times in his writing where characters will praise m/m sex and show blatant disgust towards sex with women. But if you look at Sade's life, there's only one known* male sex partner and many women. There's also several women Sade was in love with throughout his life, but there exists no letters of him professing love to any man. Could this be because male victims were less likely to go to the police, therefore less known to us? because women were easier to pursue in public? because even he felt the pressure of societal norms? because he kept relations with men better hidden? because any such letters or records were selectively destroyed by a relative? Who knows! It could be some, all, or none of these things. It's really up to the interpretation of the reader. The misogyny, philosophical extremism, and very culturally different ideas about sex add so many different variables to Sade's sexuality.

To add further confusion: gender and sexuality were much more correlated in Sade's writing (and seemingly in the time period in general, I mean look at the bisexual Lord Hervey being referred to as "the third sex"), male characters who get sodimized call it them "becoming women", women who put on strap-ons "become men", even women who get sodimized are masculinized: Saint-Ange says she wants to be a "Ganymede" to Dolmancé. So sodomy seemed inherently gay to Sade, regardless of the sexes involved or what roles they played. Whereas today, that's definitely not the case. Beauvoir follows along with the sexuality-gender correlation and suggests that Sade felt more feminine than masculine and his written contempt for female genitalia was a product of his own gender frustrations. From what I've read, most modern historians tend to avoid labeling Sade with anything other than "sodomite" and "libertine" only using "bisexual" and "homosexual" to label certain actions he performed like "homosexual sex" "bisexual orgy" etc. This is when the word queer is godsent.

Tldr; He's too 18th century libertine for modern labels. Colloquially, I default to calling him bi, but we'll never really know. Maybe he would have preferred gay due to his preferences/philosophies. Who knows. Safest bet is to just call him queer.

*Should go without saying but, there were obviously more. Latour is just the only named one with recorded proof.

[cosmic-chelonian]

The fact that there are so many lore inconsistencies in Dr Who is sometimes a good thing actually because it means I feel justified in having headcanons that vastly and grossly contradict show canon. If the writers can ignore things they don't like why can't I.

[flufallo]

Edwin, after catching feelings for his bully back in the early 1900s, falling for his friend of 30 years, replaying the cat king's abs and 'i am fascinated by you' over and over in his head, and meeting up with a astrology loving crow- human: he is a boy and I am a boy. If anything he just enjoys ghosts.

[seiwas]

megumi quiet rizz on the mind again lmao everyone thinks he’s just some scrawny kid but that guy has sleeper build 😔

it shows when his shirt rides up when he reaches for something, or when he answers the door, scratching the back of his neck first thing in the morning.

when he lends you his sweater, taking it off him, his shirt almost always accompanies it halfway—and maybe that’s the reason you always ask for it.

[eywaseclipse]

Why I’ll never accept any sort of chance Quaritch might have for a redemption arc when we had this scene..

Those were babies! And young children and families!! I’m willing to bet that entire bloodlines were completely eradicated that day💔

[bacchuschucklefuck]

Can you expand on what you mean by Baron being "too cool" to really fit a horror monster? It's a very interesting concept and I'd love to hear your thoughts. Is it that they're too active/involved/tangible and it detracts from their scariness?

I feel like I should preface this with a wall of disclaimers lmao 1/I am a hardcore, down-to-the-marrow, avid, deeply sincere horror enthusiast, esp. horror creatures. this usually means my mileage is vastly different from the average populace's, and my scaredy bone has been disintegrated by longterm exposure. most things in a piece of horror media won't scare me! so I practically never use that on its own as the scale to talk abt horror experiences, but when something does scare me it's always a special occasion to be treasured. 2/canon d20 is never really meant to be horror horror, and for good reasons: it doesn't fit the company's output, it takes a kind of carelessness in production estimation that is always a huge risk, it's often vulnerable in a way that kinda goes against how TTRPGs usually facilitates vulnerability, and for most people it's just! stressful! d20, even with the "horror-themed" seasons, generally just plays with horror tropes and stays focused in its goal of being a comedy improv tabletop theater show. 3/fantasy high's chosen system is DnD, which as I've mentioned before is before all a combat-based game system, which means the magic circle of play is drawn based on stats that facilitate and prioritize combat. want or not this affects every interaction you have in the game, and given fantasy high's concept from the ground up (everyone's going to school of DnD stuff to get better at DnD) it's doubly relevant. 4/This Is Fine I have no quarrel with this. my meters are internal, I do not ask this show to be anything it doesn't advertise itself to be, and what it is is fucking great! I like it! when I expand on this ask's question it will be like a physicist going insane in a lab. that's the mindset we're going in with.

disclaimers done. my stance on horror as a genre is that it's a utility genre rather than a content genre or a demographic genre; it is the discard of narratives. it's the trash pile. horror, above being scary, is about being ugly and messy, it's the cracks on the ground any story inevitably steps over to stay a genre that isn't horror. the genre's been around long enough to develop a codex and a general language that medias and makers and enthusiasts of the genre can use to talk about and build onto, but if you go into individual pieces there's really no unifying Horror Story. one person's beautiful life can be another's horror story, it's just how it is.

this makes The Monster a deeply intriguing piece of the genre. thing is a monster is in a decent percentage of any story - it's just when the antagonist force steps into something past a certain line traced out in the story's world. monstrousness is in pretty much every western fantasy story, it's in any story with a hero and something to vanquish or win; more than anything it's a proxy of that thing up there. the line in a narrative's world. the monster is the guard of the unknown lands, where heroic, civilized people don't tread.

what does this mean in the context of horror? the genre is about that perceived lawlessness, that "unknown land" so to say. we're in the monster's home. that's the literary context that we often walk into a horror piece with; the monster knows more than you about where you are. it may not understand you, but it holds more information than you, and with that it moves swifter than you, has more covered than you, and is more assured in its existence in this context than you. it's a struggle to catch up to it, it's nigh impossible to get one over it, and you're never sure it'll 100% work, because you just don't have the information necessary to.

with that framing you can kinda see where I'm coming from here: horror's often about the breaking of rules. I always think a monster's most effective when it breaks well-established rules of both existence and visual storytelling. think Possum (2018) or Undertale's Omega Flowey or the Xenomorph Queen - unique change in medium, unique change in graphic, unique change in design language, etc. in that sense I actually really like how canon baron plays out: they don't really function like anything else in the fantasy high universe, the bad kids have not managed to kill them when they've felled literal gods, their domain in fhjy literally introduces new mechanics to encompass their existence! from an experience design standpoint they slap mad shit. BUT! I can't help finding their character, like as a character riz (and the other bad kids, eventually) interact with, to be very... coherent? in design. this is kinda hard for me to articulate in words, it's more often a sense you get once you've looked at enough of these scrumptious fuckers, their general design and the way they show up is just kinda too clean, so to say. always kinda newly made? fresh unboxed. it, once again, makes sense for their lore - they are looking for more about themself from riz - and their function - they're an antagonist in a game experience, they're meant to be interacted with in a way that produces results and meshes with the existing magic circle - but that shininess takes away from the implied history they should have dominion over and the person they're haunting doesn't.

from another angle there is kinda something there about how put-together canon baron is as a concept; the domain they call home is riz's deep-seeded fears, extremely vulnerable things he's drawn borders around to quarantine and refused to walk into. things that from his perspective would irreversibly shatter certain pleasant fictions his world is built on top of. canon baron, While Extremely Cool, I feel is kinda too neat to connect with and signify the apocalyticized mess that'd result from this paradigm shift. the part where they're in riz's briefcase and looking through every mirror is Very Cool And Fucked Up! but ultimately the show draws a line around them as well, by making game-physical, tangible spaces they're in (the mirrors and the haunted mordred manor) and put riz and the bad kids there only when they need to confront stuff. riz is meaningfully narratively away from baron's unknown land for most of fantasy high.

with that and all of my disclaimers in mind my conclusion here is if canon baron wants to be a Horror Monster they'd have to cross way more lines. be a Lot more invasive. hence (holds up my class swap baron like a long cat)

[sieglinde-freud]

actually thinking very hard about gerome/yarne specifically virion!yarne because hes my favorite but also what if when we were kids i was your only friend and confidant in a country where everyone despised your family on account of your traitor father and you were looked down upon due to your taguel lineage and then your parents died and oh fuck so did mine and you were left with nothing but a dead culture and rule over people that hate you but i stayed by your side through it all not only as your knight and guardian but also as your friend and also we were both boys. what if we had to flee our home after it fell to risen and i watched as you succumbed to your anxiety over being the last taguel and sole heir to your house but i was powerless to comfort you in my own grief and then i lose sight of you for years as we travel back into the past and when we finally reunite things are can never be how they were before but i dont need them to be i just need you to be okay now. and we were both boys. my vision do you see it

[recareels]

sobbing over the thought of mr reca calling you ‘my little starlet’ >.<

but he says it like my leetle starrrlet! ｡ﾟ(｡ﾉωヽ｡)ﾟ｡

[caruliaa]

just bc im a lesbian doesnt mean tht i wont at times become deeply entranced with the beauty of male actor or character. it just means i wld rather be locked in a room with a man with a knife than do anything romantic or sexual with one

[fulltimesapphic]

Everyone (old widowed white men) wants this hot piece of ass (Jessica Fletcher).

[widowshill]

— Are you sure Burke wants to buy Collinwood? — Yes, he said so. I'm just afraid it's only the beginning of what he wants.

[hel-phoenyx]

Oli belongs to @thal-ent and Domhildr to @soupedepates

I knock on the door with quite a lot of difficulties. Well, for my defense, it's hard to lift your hand when it's full of bags for a sleepover, pastries and the Switch lying down somewhere.

We're having those quite a lot since our little "discussion". I've started coming back to my flat just so she could come in and I would not have a grinning nephew on my back. Or worse, a grinning sister. Would you believe the moment she saw Domhildr at her home sitting on my lap, she shouted in all the house "No fucking on my couch, Tyr, you horndog !"?

Gustav had to remind her Fen was upstairs. And even then, she couldn't stop laughing.

But, well, today it's at her place. And I've taken everything. The onesie, the pillows (can't sleep weel without my pillows), snacks, clothing for tomorrow. Don't think I have forgotten anything...

"Tyr ! Finally here, I was waiting for you~"

In fact, I had forgotten something.

I'm covered from head to toe because the weather is still quite cold, even in the beginning of the afternoon. And, in what's left of my innocence, I expected Domhildr to do so too. But it is underestimating her.

Because she is now standing on the porch in a full set of lingerie. Nothing else.

i blink. Try to not let my eyes deviate. Yes, we are in a relationship, and yes, I've always found her beautiful, especially right now in the damn lingerie set my godforsaken sister bought her for Christmas. The dark pink is complimenting her skin tone and brown hair perfectly. Showing off her tattoos and moulding her figure so well it looks like it was made for her.

And of course, because it's Kriss and she has a taste for expensive things, her presents are also expensive. Velvet and silk expensive.

Nope. Nope. Not imagining taking that off. Get away, thoughts of kisses and brushes against my skin, fuck off, lingering feeling of velvet inbetween my fingers. Not right now, for fuck's sake !

I may be particularly red, right now, because she looks extremely satisfied.

"Enjoying what you see ?~"

Very much. Especially when she's posing lavishly in a way showing her tattoos and pushing forward her chest.

"....... You really are making a habit of taking me by surprise."

I let go of my bags, close the door, and that little shit is now embracing me.

"You know I can always take you~"

She winks at me.

Usually it's the kind of things that would make me fold. Or, before our conversation and during my seemingly hopeless pining, run away to Oli.

However, this time, it looks so exaggerated that I burst out laughing.

"Ha ! Not today, Satan."

"Heeey, are you calling me demonic-"

She looks offended, but a kiss in the forehead and every shout melt into a giggle. Gods, she's adorable.

"Well you are beautiful enough to send the most pious man to damnation. But I'm not in the mood, have not planned for this, and hell, I don't even have protection on me."

"I always do, you know~"

Oh, I'm aware, do you know how long I have known you ? But it's not an argument strong enough to weaken me, especially with your relationship to sex.

"Yeah, but this kind of things take two, does it not ? Also I am perfectly content with just seeing you, lingerie or not."

And I intend to do things right, regarding sex. Like, not do a Brynja and sleep with her drunk, unplanned and definitely not in the right headspace for this, for example.

She pouts.

"You're weak."

"If I was, we would not be talking this way right now, trust me-"

"Oh, get a room, you two," a third voice intervenes while she was about to retort. "I'm not in the mood to witness another kind of pining."

I turn towards the inside of the apartment to cross eyes with Oli, in a big sweater and pants and a teasing smile on his face.

Are they fucking kidding me right now-

Domhildr is still giggling and pressed against my chest. I sigh and take her cheek in my hand, she leans in like a kitten. Cute.

"So you're trying to arouse me while knowing Oli was there ?"

"Don't worry, they say with a laugh. I would be out at the first moan."

"Or I would have invited her, who knows, you still have a lot of pining to resolve, Tyr~"

Oh please not right now. I roll my eyes, pinch her cheek, she starts laughing and it's the most beautiful thing I've heard today.

"You're little shits, you know that."

Wouldn't have them any other way, but still.

"Com'on, let's go make ourselves comfortable. You look like you're freezing in there, Domi."

"Oh I think i'm rather hot~"

"That's not the question, being pretty is not warming you up. Let's put ourselves under a plaid and play a bit of Smash Bros, for lack of smashing."

Both of them burst out laughing, and Oli guides me and all my things to the bedroom while Domi is stealing the food I brought, my plaid and my Switch to prepare the games corner.

It's worth nothing that when I wake up the morning after, they're both snuggled against me under the covers, the Switch laying down on one of the bed's corners and Domhildr curled up in one of my sweaters.