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[elizabeth-mitchells]

2024 character wrapped

tagged by @deerest-deer thank you so much!! <33

Juliet Burke (Lost)

Kate Austen (Lost)

Linda (Gia)

Lottie (Yellowjackets)

Laura Lee (Yellowjackets)

Amina (We are lady parts)

Caitlyn (Arcane)

Vi (Arcane)

Jamie (Drive Away Dolls)

tagging: @rebeccamarinwife @lottieurl @deankarolina @sapphicscience @jamie-clayton @mrgaretcarter (if you want!!) (and anyone else that wants to do this!!)

[egophiliac]

swipes everything else off of the table to yell about diasomnia flower bookmarks

(I gave Silver one too :D)

[goatanarchy]

my Surana and Duncan surviving their Calling with the power of love and blood magic.

[jade-len]

i adore how mxtx sorta flipped the idea on the whole top/bottom thing with svsss, and just BL relationships in general.

making bingqiu very open to switching, not making the "bottom" super feminine and actually leaning more to the handsome side compared to the "top", how luo binghe is manipulative sensitive and cries easily, etc. one of the main themes in svsss is literally about sexuality (and possibly even about gender roles).

as a queer asian man myself, i absolutely despise the "yaoi archetype" and it was one of the reasons why i avoided consuming BL media. hell, years ago when i first saw heavens official blessing, i mentally groaned and went, "ugh, let me guess, the bottom is super feminine and innocent, while the top is masculine and experienced." of course, that's not the case now, but it's disappointing how that thought was there purely because of the god awful way fetish-y media portrays homosexual people and couples. because, believe it or not, we are not assigned male/female typical gender roles just because one likes to top/bottom (and even then, it's not even like that! some people have preferences, sure, but it's not so strictly "i'm top/bottom")

so, while i absolutely LOVE the english novel designs (especially luo binghe's cute curly hair, gongyi xiao, etc, and personally believe a lot of the takes from the western artist on the designs are an improvement), i am greatly saddened by people subconsciously assigning shen qingqiu as someone more delicate and feminine and luo binghe as someone super masculine and muscly. like, if you're going to have luo binghe depicted as the western design (i believe this stems from binghe being applied to more western ideals for men, and, admittedly, i actually really love his design), at least don't make shen qingqiu feminine and delicate? don't have his appearance play into the stupid yaoi thing?

i get that people have different takes on svsss, especially how the western version depicts it. but, people just... seem to very over exaggerate the top/bottom roles when it comes to bingqiu (again, these two are, canonically, VERY open to switching).

it's weird, it's uncomfortable, and it comes across as, "so, who wears the pants in the relationship?"

so, can we please have more canonically handsome shen qingqiu? canonically beautiful and pretty boy luo binghe (they literallly state that binghe looks EXACTLY like his mom, su xiyan! while a more handsome woman, is still very beautiful!! plus it is stated several times that binghe is slim, and that shang qinghua made him that way!) or at the very least, a BL couple who actually look like normal people (ok thats a little hard considering binghe is literally supposed to be perfect) and not just a stupid fetishized version of themselves.

and no, i'm not saying that queer men shouldn't be feminine or men who are feminine shouldn't be in a relationship with guys who are masculine, etc.

TLDR: please stop twinkifying shen qingqiu and going against what mxtx defied for us queer men (the stupid yaoi roles). and for the love of whoever you believe in, do NOT think that i hate the english design or people's personal interpretation of characters, i just hate the subconscious assigning of gender roles to bingqiu and how media portrays and fetishizes LGBTQ+ relationships in general.

edit: also i love teardrew's (check them out on twitter!) interpretation of shang qinghua. while i do really like the the eng novel design's tiny scared hamster vibes, teardrew's version just radiates "up to no good, paranoid but suspicious looking bitch" rat man and i love it so so so much. i'm not gonna repost their art bc i don't know how they feel about that but perhaps you can search up "svsss designs" on here, you'll see it pop up eventually lol.

edit 2 (1/16): i just saw someone reblog a post (that im pretty sure was referring to this one because, well, if you saw it i think it'd be a little clear kahxj) that was about how bingqiu switching and completely eschewing traditional top/bottom dynamics was a fandom idea or smth? so now i'm wondering, since i swear i remember that they were open to switching, but it's just that sqq preferred to bottom and/or was just a little too lazy to top. plus, sqq is a pretty unreliable narrator who says he doesn't want something one moment and then he does. how could he say no to bingbing? esp if he seems to wanna try bottoming too. perhaps i'm mixing things up though, idk? so if anyone can find that passage that says he only and strictly wants to bottom or whatever please show me! but i think the point of this post still stands haha (i wanted to ask about it, actually, but when i clicked on the og post's user it turned out that they blocked me ? so that was a little surprising oops. hey if ur somehow reading this, im... sorry for making you want to block me bc of this post? akdhxjj)

[omo321]

“Are you crying?” Fina exclaims in alarm. Tsurumi is equally startled when he wipes at his face and his hand comes away wet. Not once had he shed tears, not even when he’d lost them. Pulling a chair up to him, Fina dries his cheeks with soft dabs of her handkerchief. With her hand on his shoulder and her beautiful, bright eyes soft with more love than Tsurumi can bear, she waits for an explanation that he cannot give.

gnawing on "theatre" by Saengak again... it's free serotonin to me

[xxplastic-cubexx]

it doesnt need to be said but its genuinely so funny how at-the-hip charles and erik are in krakoa like they really had the green light- the OBLIGATION- to be as obnoxiously close to each other as possible and abused that right to the fullest extent

[inkstainedhandswithrings]

Yk the real crime of Umbara will always be how pretty they made Rex in one of the most heart wrenching clone storylines in the universe.

I MEAN LOOK

pls give credo when u reuse, I edited myself thanks🫶

bonus: hot&angy fives below cut

[luna-the-cretar]

I know this was technically forever ago on my part (since I’m halfway through ep 30), but I am still REELING over the whole Gideon love curse in episode 26. Mostly because Kremy was under the aladrin curse, and Gideon WILLINGLY mentioned that he loved Kremy’s regular form just as much as the aladrin form. And then, when the love curse eventually dissipated, the DM said “you see Kremy as the sniveling alligator that he is, but you still love him”

ALSO???? THE ODDLY CONVIENENT DICE ROLLS???? LIKE WITH THE MATCHING LOBSTER OUTFITS???? Also the fact that the rest of the Krew (Twig and Torbek included) took one look at them, and basically keep saying “oh my sweet fuck just kiss already”. Hell, that one snake NPC took one look at Gideon and essentially said “I know what you are”. Why else would she bring up “falling in love” specifically????

[velvet-games]

is anyone onboard with a bi/pan -> ace pipeline alastor? like an alastor that parties at gay bars in the 1920s/30s and assumes he's bi bc he thinks men are just as attractive as women (zero equals zero!).

[elavoria]

2024 art vs. artist! : )

Full picture of me below the cut, plus the sillier picture I almost used…

[dimension-20-every-introduction]

Everyone Introduced in Dimension 20′s Mentopolis episode 1

[juaneloriginal]

two thierry :3

+ extra doodl

@vellichorom

[starhunter21]

Watching Hugh Jackman movies this week like it’s my job

[grassbreads]

Man, genuinely there's little that excites me more than encountering queerness in fiction where I wasn't expecting it. I'm gonna be thinking about Kikuhiko/Yakumo from SGRS for so long.

Even setting aside the subtext of his feelings for Sukeroku, the narrative around his relationship to gender norms and his own expression is so fascinating. Guy who grows up steeped in rigid 40s gender roles and actively tries to enforce them, yet only truly feels like himself when he's acting on stage as a woman. Guy who says his life would have been better if he were born a woman and then refuses to elaborate.

[fake-married-my-dead-fiance]

Bringing the creator of Hangul into a nasty comment about smut is... something

Also, pretty sure writing smutty/romantic novels is the very first thing women did once they learned Hangul in the past times, so she's really just upholding a time-honoured tradition.

[mollysunder]

I wonder what Mel and Jago's relationship was like during Mel's exile. Jago was the one to (or assigned to) take in Mel when she was 15. In Mel's bio she could still remember how obviously he felt bad for her (which seemed to make her feel worse at the humiliation of the exile).

It's not a strong start for those two but in the preceeding decade we see that Mel would be the one to represent Clan Medarda on Piltover's Council when the seat could have easily been filled by Jago or his son Jae. Yet Mel was the one allowed to ascend to the seat of Councilor.

I like to think during her exile Mel and Jago grew close. Jago offered Mel an arena (or theatre) suited her style more than Ambessa's gladiator pit did. Jago may have enjoyed having a protégé through Mel.

In previous lore, Jago's own son, Jae, was uninterested in trade and politics and preferred to pursue glory through expedition and adventure, so Mel would probably be a welcomed presence. He may have even thought Mel would make a good successor in the likely event Ambessa never came back for Mel.