#and you don’t know me as well as you think

[treeshidingleprechauns]

This tiktok about someone’s pre-transition self is so so SO tender and I just want anyone who has transitioned and may be mourning their old self to see this and to know it’s okay. It’s okay to miss that person you once were, it’s okay to wish you had embraced what you had and who you were before transitioning. It doesn’t mean you regret it, and it doesn’t mean you made the wrong decisions.

It’s okay to think about that person, it’s okay to mourn them, and it’s okay to wonder. The person you were before transitioning may have been a trick of the light, but it doesn’t mean they weren’t special while they were here.

Everyone’s experience is different... but if you find yourself feeling this, just know it’s okay. You don’t have to completely block out every aspect and memory of who you were before. It’s okay if you do, but you don’t have to.

[sunnibits]

Izzy domestication arc in which they redirect all his angry dog energy into something useful and he just becomes fiercely loyal to Stede, like absolutely ready to kill a man if anyone so much as slightly offends him…

Izzy, bending some poor barkeep over a table and holding a knife to his throat: “He asked for no FUCKING pickles, you’d think even a stupid bloody twat like you would be able to understand a SIMPLE request-”

Meanwhile Ed and Stede have to physically pull him off and reassure him that everything’s okay, he eventually cools off and reluctantly sheathes his blade…

Then he catches Stede looking at him and smiling sweetly because Stede totally thinks it’s absolutely adorable and endearing when Izzy defends him and Izzy’s just like “WHAT” >:(

Stede’s like… “Oh nothing 😌 that was just very thoughtful of you Israel.”

Then of course Izzy gets all grumpy like “Fuck off, I’m not fucking nice, I’m just doing my job-” but as much as he protests, Ed and Stede just look at each other like, ‘yeah, we both know’ ;)

[gar-trek]

One of my professors figured out I like Star Trek and told me he used to be a huge trekkie back in the day. He brought me this zine to look at that he got when he was 13 at a convention! It was pretty cool, just had episode synopses and definitions for a lot of the stuff in the show. It was like pre-internet memory alpha. The little illustration were so amazing!

[last-in-line-for-hell]

I know I’m poking the bear with this one but I’m not going to lie, it makes me exceedingly uncomfortable when I see JC portrayed as a “good uncle” to LSZ of all people. The kid whose family was actively murdered by the guy. The kid whose death the guy actively called for even after knowing that A-Yuan was an innocent toddler. I don’t hate JC, and if you do like this fanon relationship then more power to you, but it’s genuinely something that makes me cringe to see.

[hermitdrabbles56]

Give me two dumbasses with self-sacrificing/people pleasing issues trying to look after each other while also bitching like an old married couple.

Give me Wars and Twilight butting heads like rams because they're both stubborn but both worried and determined to look after each other and everyone else at the same time.

Twilight has more of the self-sacrificing problems but they are both people pleasers and its a dangerous combo.

Twilight will flat out ignore his limits/hide wide spread bruises and injuries he deems insignificant and focus his attention on others even when his own bones are going snap crackle pop from head to toe and he aches worse than Legend and Time together. Be it fixing gear, soothing the others while they struggle with nightmares or chronic pain/headaches or just aches from the day. Just as long as he's helping them.

Meanwhile Warriors just doesn't have a grasp of his limits sometimes just forges ahead with task after task to keep himself busy and help and be effective and efficient. He stress projects and hyperfixates and forgets himself in the mix. He's bit great with the feelings but any other little problem he can help with he will.

Twilight catches him swaying and wrestles a bowl of food into him and pins him to his bedroll if he has to.

Then next day Warriors notices Twilight isn't waking at the ass crack of dawn for fucking once and has to keep the tired idiot from wearing himself out giving piggyback rides and doing all of the scouting on his own while hearding all of the teenagers.

A back and fourth dance ensuing and no one can really tell if they're helping each other or at each other's throats in the most passive aggressive way possible. Least until the chain finds the two of them passed out in bedroll together utterly exaughsted but finally sleeping at the least.

[bakedbananners]

Alex and Magnus spend the first part of book 3 playing gay chicken but Magnus is a pacifist so it’s just Alex making the most blatant and egregious attempts at flirting and absolutely whiffing all of them

[roobylavender]

do you believe Bruce is emotionally abusive? ik fans prioritise physical abuse and ultimately ignore emotional abuse tactics like parentification etc because it’s not “that bad”. I don’t believe Dick ever resents Bruce for letting him be robin (he’s grateful for it) , but in ntt he mostly resents him for being emotionally closed off, and rejecting him as a partner. Bruce worries for his kids safety so he pushes the whole “if you’re not perfect you’re dead” mentality onto Dick which ultimately is harmful to him. He’ll never regret being a hero but the rift between the two isn’t just a “we want different things” scenario but more that they’re incapable of giving the other what they want.

bruce being emotionally closed off from dick is what’s revisionist about that version of canon though. i think bruce can be bad at communicating sometimes esp when he’s deeply pained (like in knightfall, for example) but for the most part he and dick are shown to have great communication for decades before new teen titans and the adjacent post crisis starlin canon starts to rewrite that dynamic into something else entirely. per that version of canon i do believe he’s emotionally abusive but it’s not a version of canon i particularly appreciate bc it requires overriding the dynamic they had previously where they could certainly be prone to disagree at times but bruce was nonetheless willing to have an open and understanding conversation with dick about whatever the disagreement was. even the whole idea that bruce is responsible for dick believing that he has to be perfect or he has to be dead is one that new teen titans cements (or that issue of batman where bruce makes dick quit and jason is introduced thereafter)

i get that it’s easy to take new teen titans as gospel bc it is in essence the textbook source for dick but i think there should be some awareness too of how it twists that relationship between them and not necessarily for the better. i’m not opposed to bruce having faults he has to answer for. i absolutely agree he’s not cognizant enough of the complexes dick develops as a result of wanting to be seen as an equal, and thereby can’t realize the effect it has on dick for him to still be protective and fearful even if it’s ultimately out of goodwill and love. and there’s also the fact that even if he gives dick the space he desires to lead his own life it doesn’t mean he should be hesitant to reach out bc he’s afraid he’ll overstep by doing so, as a parent he should reaffirm his love for dick regularly regardless of knowing he might get some pushback bc dick is growing into his own (again, knightfall is a really superb example of this). but i also think those are tensions you can wholeheartedly explore without rendering bruce into a controlling and abusive figure, and i’m not sure who it benefits to write bruce as such in the long run

some of dick’s problems have to be his own, and he’ll never escape bruce’s shadow if the only source point of issues in his life is his relationship with bruce. that’s something i would actually apply to the robins at large. hardly any of them are allowed to explore problems entirely unique to themselves and i think that’s in large part bc writers simultaneously portray a mildly to explicitly abusive bruce at their leisure while refusing to ever actually address the elephant in the room that is literally of their own creation. a lot of people believe the bruce shouldn’t be an abuser argument is framed entirely as a resistance to bruce’s character assassination and for me i can admit that’s part of it, but a more pertinent part of it should also be the fact that bruce being written as an abuser is what truly chains his children to him forever to the point that they can never grow beyond that abuse bc writers refuse to allow them to. imagine the problems the robins could be addressing individually in their lives if not everything came down to them being fucked up bc that’s the way bruce raised them or failed to thereby. there’s a lot about the robins as individuals that’s deeply interesting and i think it’s not just a disservice to bruce but to them as well to write the relationships this way bc it obscures their own agency and ability to be explored for more than a haunted legacy narrative

[hillerskaroyals]

i know we’ve gone through a rollercoaster of emotions about malin after snow globe gate but when wille asks her to take him to simon’s she says “Hi Wilhelm” not “kronprins” or some other variation of his title. outside of boris i think she’s the only authority figure to refer to wille by name

[maximotts]

Things like this make me wish moving posters were real

[c-rowlesdraws]

look guys, I cannot stress enough how little I know about DnD lore. I have been in two games in a conventional fantasy 5e setting: one was 2 sessions long and the other was a oneshot I played with friends two days ago. I love reading the lore for fun but there’s a lot of it spread over lots of different sources, going back like 3 decades!

I learned about gnolls like a month and a half ago and they’re super common! Orcs used to be no-exceptions evil but now you can play them and they can be chill? Dragons come in different colors and like different… uhh stuff depending on what color they are. I am the girl standing in line at the cafe wearing a band t-shirt and I can’t name five of their albums. I just liked the shirt. I know their big hit from 2006 and that’s it. Please lower your expectations for how in-depth I can get with DnD lore-related questions. I am just a poor fool who likes monsters

[kimbapisnotsushi]

"everybody has a crush on daichi" "everybody has a crush on oikawa" false. everyone has a crush on moniwa kaname and futakuchi is APPALLED when he learns about this from the rest of second gen

[ofalltheginjoints]

[keldabe-kiss]

If I felt more confident in writing SW characters, I would prob write a novel worth fic of the Bounty Hunter Leia AU that lives in my head.

Leia Skywaker was raised on Tatooine by her aunt and uncle, who tried their hardest to sway Leia into NOT being a Bounty Hunter. Unfortunately for them, she cannot be stopped, especially considering she met got saved by a mandalorian at age 9 and thought they were the coolest person ever. Most of the money she makes from bounties, she sends to her aunt and uncle, she never uses her last name in travels (doesn’t want it to possibly get back to her family) and she never takes bounties for the Empire although she has been tempted, but only to beat Boba Fett.

Meanwhile Ben Kenobi is trying his hardest to get this 16 year old to stay on Tatooine for more than an hour to talk to her about the Force.

[comixandco]

imagine if the credits for majora’s mask were tied to the actions you did in your last cycle

like instead of that everybody is happy celebrating the festival, if they were a specific set of cutscenes that each play depending on whether you did it before fighting majora or not

so like, if you didn’t defeat each temple boss you would see cutscenes from that region still in trouble like the deku with the monkey over the fire or the gorons all frozen, but if you did kill all the bosses in the last cycle you can see the regions happy like in the actual credits

and the same for important quests as well, grog could either be with his chicks or with grown cuccoos, pamela might be with her dad or she’d be on her own, you can only see anju and kafei’s wedding if you complete their quests then fight majora, if you don’t help romani defend the ranch she isn’t playing with her sister in the credits she’s just sat there

idk i just think it would be really neat if you finished the game and were suddenly hit by the realisation that that’s it, the cycles are over and your choices in that final go-through are how the characters will live the rest of their lives

and it would make you want to go back and play through again if you saw your favourite characters not having the happy ending they deserved

[mabaris]

When I say that I wish Morrigan was a lesbian, I don’t just mean that I wish she was romanceable by a female warden (GOD. I absolutely do tho). That's half, but the other half of that is that she feels like the perfect opportunity for a story about compulsory heterosexuality, and that's just as important to it.

She talks a lot about how she was sheltered and has little to no firsthand experience of the world. She knows only what she’s seen and what Flemeth has told her, but part of her journey centers around realizing that Flemeth is not always right, and that there's more to life that her mother could never have told her about. (The grimoire, sure, Flemeth would never have shared with her. But what really stands out to me is that when you gain her friendship, it's something she never anticipated. Because Flemeth taught her there was no point in that kind of relationship, and she believed it unquestioningly.)

Morrigan is no stranger to sexuality (because, well, she says that she's seen her mother bring men home), but it stands to reason that she has very little idea of how it relates to herself. If she has any experience at all up to this point, it's in a similar fashion: seducing people for her own benefit, ie intentionally manipulating them, generally so she can save her own skin (and thanks to the fact that the devs forgot to put female templars in the first game :) it’s implied that these have to have been men)

(And with a male warden who tries to romance her, she says that initially she was planning on doing the same to him: she strung him along because it served her goals, and she wasn’t expecting to actually develop feelings for him in return. She wants to create an old god baby, and she needs him to be the sperm donor. That's it.)

She knows only what she's seen from her mother (or what she can reasonably deduce by herself. She knows how babies are made). She thinks things like love and romance are foolish, and Not For People Like Her, so it makes perfect sense that, in her mind, having sex with men would be one of those things that you're just supposed to do. Even if you get no pleasure from it. Even if it disgusts you. Because you should feel nothing for the other person—otherwise, you're weak and naive.

But I'm enamored with the idea of Morrigan who still doesn’t have experience with friendship or love, who plans on seducing the male warden (which, in this situation, would be Alistair, until she realizes he’s too infuriating lol) because she has the same endgoal. But in the meantime, she makes her first real friend in a female warden, and doesn’t know how to explain things because she doesn’t have any frame of reference for what platonic friendship is supposed to feel like, but surely this can’t be right.

Just like in her romance as it’s currently written, she doesn’t know how to handle serious feelings, and she definitely wouldn’t know how to handle romantic or sexual feelings for someone who isn’t a man. That isn’t one of the things she knew could happen. It's unique because in this case, it's not comp het from society, because she doesn't participate in one. It doesn't stem from any kind of malice or ingrained bias.

It's the blind spot you don't even realize you have, in the same way that she has no reason to know what a flamingo is because she grew up in a bog. It's just the result of being sheltered.

[devilsskettle]

“horror movies spend less time establishing character” have you only ever seen 2 movies