#anyways i love these queer legos so much

[catboy-fentanyl]

lmk doodle dump featuring QUEERS

[sunflowerandstrawberryspice]

Ninjago as things me, my friends and random people at school have said pt. 3

Jay: When the ADHD get's a little to not funky

Cole: My makeup isn't gay enough to go out in public yet Nya: Mood

Kai: I set an egg on fire once at 7 and now no one trusts me with even the microwave

Zane: Social cues! More like social death, for me specifically, seriously who was gonna tell me [name] hated me???

Nya: White people food *shivers*

Zane: I've got cool ass socks but no one can see them and that's the biggest tragedy since Kai dropping his gold fish

Lloyd: So the other day some asked me "If you're asexual how come you don't replicate" and he was so serious that I'm pretty sure this guy thought I was claiming to be a self reproducing entity

Jay/Cole: I found my old fanart from when I was 12 and I cringed so hard I went back in time just to slap that bitch

Pixal: Gender? I accidentally ate mine in the womb Zane: Gender? I usually leave mine at home (same conversation 2 different nb friends talking to each other lol)

Lloyd: When summer break comes I'm gonna sleep so hard God's gonna have to wake me up

Nya @ everyone: So what flavor of familial trauma are y'all?

Cole: The best use of my southern accent is my ability to flip into the homophobic uncle voice and saying shit like "You one of them damn queers?" and it fucking up my friends (I do this way to often but it never fails)

Kai: I realize I accidentally flirted with that person when I definitely didn't mean to, how come I'm smooth inconveniently?

Pixal: I brought Capri-suns for everyone!

Jay: *singing supergirl from Hannah Montana in the middle of the hallway*

Zane: I don't want to stim I want to explode

So I will be posting my Ninjago pride drawings very soon, probably after the new show comes out tho (which I'm VERY pumped for though I'm hesitantly optimistic since crystalized was...) Also this person I like may or may not have gotten me into Lego Monkie Kid and it's literally so fucking good and Mei WILL get fanart eventually.

Anyway I'm like this close to getting out of school and literally want to cry T-T.

Yall have a good day or night or whenever you are! Bye!

Garmadon: You kids scare me almost as much as the IRS (Love my algebra 2 teacher so much)

[masterofstringcheese]

on the other hand i am a lgbtqia+ cole truther

i personally really fw the idea that cole and vania/seliel form a genuine friendship instead of a romantic relationship as people interpreted which is fine!

it’s literally fictional legos you can intercept it however you please that’s the beauty of fiction

but i personally like the concept that cole forms genuine friendships with the girls he is “shipped” with and it’s a perfect way to give representation to queer people in television

cole as a character is more complex than people give credit. he’s very much so the “rock” of the team (pun intended) where he really holds things together. he’s very mature yet has his flaws (which, side note, I LOVE THAT THE NINJA HAVE INDIVIDUAL FLAWS IT MAKES THEM SUCH GOOD CHARACTERS) and that’s ok! he is mature and tries his hardest to be the support of the team when the others are too preoccupied to be

i always saw cole as more not so much closeted but private about his relationships. he doesn’t say it even if i totally believe that the team knows

anyways yap yap bye bye

[yunayoshi0]

Ahem, so there’s a lot of people who read majima as queer and I found a video talking about interpreting the games (Y0, and YK) through a queer lens. There’s a lot of people in the comments who are upset about people thinking majima is queer

Here’s some of the arguments people used to say that he couldn’t be queer and why they are stupid.

1. “well what about y5, y0 and yk2”

First of a bisexual people exist And also 2 of those examples are the same women so like idk why you’re separating those 2 situations and also his feelings for makoto had closure like the game makes it a whole point to show he has closure with makoto now how’re you just going to ignore that and say it’s proof that majima can’t have any way of every having feelings for someone of the same gender because he had feelings for a women that wouldn’t have even worked out anyways because she loved Y0 Majima which is extremely different from how he actually is during the events of Y0 he was restrained mentally which like HE KNOWS THAT which is why he talks to the doctor dude at the end of y0 he knows it wouldn’t work out.

I haven’t played 5 yet so I can’t say much but he divorces Mirei

And either way it doesn’t mean he can’t be queer because he married a women 💀

2. “I think he’s crazy more like the joker the things he does that imply he’s queer is just him being unhinged”

Okay listen tf up people if you knew anything about DC you would know The Joker is extremely queer coded !!!! Like literally he’s in love with batman and it’s shown in many adaptations. It’s not a healthy love by any means it’s very much obsessive but it’s still there and it shouldn’t be ignored. Fucking Lego batman is a perfect example of that which I know is like a silly example but like the way they portray the relationship between Batman and Joker didn’t like come out of nowhere it’s because there’s a history of Jokers queerness throughout the franchise. So like my point is the joker is an awful example. And to argue the other point majima is not crazy he’s very flamboyant yes, but he’s not like clinically insane he is aware of his actions and makes them on his own accord. He does things because he wants too there’s nothing that is influencing his actions in most cases.

Majima has trauma yes but trauma doesn’t make you act queer

3.“Most of those things are treated as a jokes so it doesn’t really mean anything”

I mean yeahh i won’t argue that a lot of things majima goes that could be interpreted as queer is treated as a joke which is unfortunately how queercoded characters are usually treated even if it is treated as a joke it’s still *something* and I feel often times in the story it’s not treated as a joke by majima himself I mean he’s very persistent with it for it to be some big elaborate joke to him I’m sure there’s something to be taken from the encounters even if it’s framed by the creators in a joking manner.

Lastly why does it matter anyways if queer people want to latch onto a character that’s very relatable to a lot of queer experiences and especially if it’s a franchise people like in a genre with like 0 representation of that kind. It’s not hurting you it’s really not and you can let one character be fucking gay 💀

Here’s the video in question

[fluffy-death-swamp]

So, I unlocked my Lego Batman hyperfixation again.

I say Lego Batman I really mean Lego Joker and Lego Batjokes. Really need to do a Lego Joker cosplay at some point, I just love him so dang much. He's my lil skrunkly and I adore him. I love him and the dynamic he has with Batman, they're so cute and queer coded it's both emotional and funny. Not to mention the relationship Lego Joker has with Lego Harley! They're besties and I love it!! Also, I just noticed the bit in the background while Joker is watching the superman interview, THEY REALLY ANIMATED POLKADOT MAN POLE DANCING WHILE THE OTHER VILLAINS MADE IT RAIN ON HIM OH MY GOD. Plus, the movie is just fantastic anyway. The jokes land so well, it's never meta to the point where it's annoying and it does the emotional beats so shockingly well. I just need to talk to someone about this movie while I physically and emotionally recover from Good Omens 2

[ferociouslycreativemystery]

Dead dove, do not eat: Detailed show negativity below cut, keep scrolling to keep up the good vibes 😇

This is only halfway coherent since I don't have the energy to edit it thoroughly, but thought it worth sharing anyway. Lots of unfinished thoughts, but I hope I still manage to get something of my feelings across. Here goes:

The pirate show really isn't working for me. In season one it was mainly the editing that bothered me, that it wasn't quite tight enough to set a good pace for the humour, but the story and characters were intriguing enough to keep me engaged. It was immensely thrilling to see the love story develop the way it did, especially as it coincided with some of my own queer identity conundrums. It genuinely helped untangle and rewire something crucial in me, and I'll always be grateful to it for that.

But I've only barely managed to make it through the first two episodes of this new season, and to be completely honest I was bored and fretting all the way through. I agree with those I watched it with that it felt somehow darker compared to the first season. Which, fair enough given the direction of the story, but the translation fumbled what appeal the first season still held for me.

The thing about this show is that it's always felt like it's aiming to appeal to certain very fandom-specific sensibilities, particularly the sensibilities that I never really got the hang of. It feels like it was entirely built around the phenomenon of fannon. The thing about fannon is it is highly normative (if not typically heteronormative, then built around certain understandings of life, queerness and ethics, many of which I don't appreciate being made 'defaults'). Fannon mostly isn't as cohesive as your typical canon story either. It consists of lots of disparate elements, a smörgåsbord of generic and normative tropes for you to pick and choose what you personally like the best while being free to discard the others mostly without consequence, allowing you to assemble your own creation from your chosen legos. The allow for some creativity, but only within the frame of how those pieces are predisposed to fit; a curated playpen.

But I like digging deep, not casting my net wide.

What I like about having a particular canon is that it doesn't just have those generically cross-compatible fannon pieces, it carefully crafts its own ones and assembles them in very particular ways. You can strum one thread and find it resonating somewhere else completely unexpectedly. It's exciting to explore how everything is connected in this one-of-a-kind web of meaning, and with each discovery come to love and appreciate its intricacies even more. There are a million paths to walk if you keep adjusting your aim.

Having that solid framework allows for a specific and unique perspective on humanity, emotion, and the world, which takes me out of myself to see familiar things in a different light. Seeing the world through different eyes also generates sympathy, which heightens my emotional engagement. That is what I find so fascinating and rewarding about this particular way of fandom.

In relation to this, I almost always need ships to be explicit to the point of 'the creators definitely made intentional romantic insinuations in this relationship' to see the appeal of it. It needs to tie into the story as it is being told. My romantic imagination beyond that point is basically non-existent. I'm not good at picking up scraps and filling in the gaps; I'm an explorer, not a conductor.

With the pirates, I see the ideas it puts on the table, the pieces to play with, and could see how they might eventually be made appealing to me, but then it just leaves them there and expects me to do most of the actual development. It feels stale and lifeless, with little room for exploration without first constructing the thing to explore, which defeats the whole purpose.

A lot of the language used also reminds me too much of online discourse for me to disappear into it; it drips with the anxious phrasing habits of someone aware and overthinking all the ways this statement will be taken out of context and how its original meaning must be understood or at least not taken as something Bad when that will happen. This is another aspect where the show feels like it was made to be consumed online, being torn apart into pieces which must each individually contain all their context. There is rampant lamp-shading and making subtext full text, leaving nothing to the shadows. It becomes almost like an academic presentation of a story, which demands that you as the viewer can already bring your own pre-prepared web of understanding and interest, that is ready for the pieces to fit into. But if every part of the story is resolved in itself, then what's even the point of telling the rest of the story then?

In fandom, the pervasive focus on shipping or creation of fannon and headcanons never intrigued me as much as the dissection and exploration of actual canon. "Fuck canon" is a valid take (we're here to play!) but it is entirely antithetical to my personal enjoyment.

It tastes like all the sugar without the bitter almond to balance it out.

I'm not saying this is an illegitimate or bad way to tell a story, because I don't believe that such a thing exists. This show definitely has its place in the landscape of TV; there is very clearly an audience for it, and I'm glad that they're getting what they want from it. I'm not part of that audience though.

[labcoatlad]

Do you have any OCs? feel free to talk about them if you do

What was the first piece of media you engaged with on the internet? Are you still interested in it?

What's something you made or did that you're proud of?

What's something that made you smile this month?

AAIWWW.... THANK YOU...... I think this is my second ask ever. I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO ASK ABOUT MY OCS !!!! Especially since it's so hard for me to come up with them and I finally did .... (based on a prompt on tumblr posted a long time ago ) So get this. There's this guy and he's your usual miserable pathetic sopping wet cat kind of guy and he gets fired from his job broken up with his girlfriend and kicked out of his home all on the same day .Because he's a loser like that. He spent the whoole day planning and stressing but nothing good comes out of it 😁So fast forward it's night and he's sleeping on a park bench with his suit from his office job still on tie wrinkled and everything with a newspaper for a blanket that flies away and his suitcase for a pillow . And then boom this random fella walks in and he's all dressed weird and it's craazy and the loser guy doesn't have time for this he's fed up.But the other guy persists and he starts talking in this strange foreign language and upon deeper inspection he's wearing these loong dramatic robes and clothing reminiscent of the 1200's Islamic golden age of iraaaq and he's speaking Arabic and he's like WHERE AM I????? And he TIME TRAVELLED. AND THEY FALL IN LOVE . AND THE LOSER SUIT GUY ACCIDENTALLY GOES BACK IN TIME and it's one of those things that is a funny comedic little thing with queer subtext that would've probably been popular in the superwholock era except it's not queerbaiting and there's a lot of angst The end ^_^ (I made some art but it's on my ipad and it's unfinished ... .You get the idea) RIGHT so first internet thing I engaged with was aall the way back when I was 11 and I was fixated on the trolls movie and I stumbled upon wattpad. Wattpad was like tumblr for me back then there was this whole community ANYWAY my 'mutuals' and I grew up and they all migrated to instagram where I eventually moved and it made me realise I was queer and autistic like the butterfly effect. I'm not interested in it as much of course but it's fun to think about and I'm grateful for it's effects on me .Also I'm excited for the upcoming third movie :^) A similar thing happened with me and dc/ lego batman movie but that's too much to get into. Something I made that I'm proud of uuheer I post all my art on instagram so there's that ^.^ I might also make some doctor who keychains for etsy I got into the artist seller grind .I should post my art more on here .And lastly you made me smile :-) ❤️🎀 .🌸

[rottmntliberation]

PLEASE when you have the time tell us about your oc's and hc including about lego monke kid i would love to hear it too!!

AGAGSGSGSHS OKOKOK SO

Lego Monkie Kid:

RED SON IS MY FAVORITE I LOVE HIM SO MUCH I LOVE HIS LONG HAIR AND HE'S SO SILLY

ALSO Macaque,,,,, I LOVE HIM GRGRGRGGGRRRR HIS SHADOW POWERS ARE SO COOOOOL

Overall 11/10 the animation is SO gorgeous and you should to watch it right this second

ROTTMNT:

OKOK SO I ACTUALLY OBSESS OVER VENUS DE MILO SO MUCH I WROTE A LIL STORY AND DESIGN FOR HER maybe I'll ramble about Venus sometime 👉👈

BUT ANYWAYS I think Casey Jr would probably find a part time job or smth so my friends and I agree he'd work at a comic store

I have a Rise OC I like a lot but I always get nervous talking about them bc I don't wanna be annoying lmao

OH ALSO TMNT 2012 MY 2012 HEADCANONS

Leo: He/him, gay

Raph: He/They, unlabeled queer (will date anyone but is very attracted to masculinity)

Mikey: He/Him, aro/ace

Donnie: He/Him, Bisexual

I also like to HC Karai as lesbian bc 💖 I love her she can smooch me if she wants

I also have a 2012 AU called Kintsugi I sometimes post and draw about on my Insta so lmk if you wanna hear about that!!

- Mod April 🍑

[kerakeriza]

saw ur post about wanting to know about the "gay history" of Robin and Batman, and if ur genuinely curious, let me try to explain.

I remember learning abt this in depth a while ago, sorry i can't find a link to anything right now but here's what i remember; (WHILE I WAS WRITING THIS I DID FIND A LINK here u go https://youtu.be/FWzY5d9G5mI?si=3skV8YS4NaJoGPb this is abt the subversive queercoding in the lego batman movie, but it goes really well into the history of said queercoding)

Basically, Batman started out as a rather queer character. In the beginning, he gave 'gay vibes.' Grant Morrison says that "gayness is built into batman'. There were scenes in the comics of Bruce and Dick say; sharing beds, or saying things that could be very much taken out of context.

Around the 50s, parents were starting to catch on and this was when the Comics Code Authority was introduced. This is basically a massive censorship to 'protect the children.' like with; DnD, horror, being queer, etc.

I mean look at the Joker; he is framed as being obsessed with batman, right? and Batman continuously denies him. It's like joker is "in love" with him, right? So it was framed as the "bad" queer and "good" straight macho man is Batman. (Even tho batman remains... a very queer character.)

anyway, so,, yeah. It's just that they were in fact queercoded in the earliest batman comics. Theres references and stuff in the video if you're curious! sorry if im a bit unclear im just tryna fill u in real quick lol its like 4am i aint writing a good essay rn.

thank you for the link, i do appreciate that.

in the 50s, absolutely, i won't deny how gay it looked for bruce and dick to sleep so damn close to each other lol. i do still question that it was there in the *start* of batman & robin's dynamic though, since they kicked off in the 40s as legal guardian and ward, and i *have* seen some people seem to imply that it was in the very very beginning, or that the earliest comics neeever had bruce and dick's dynamic as something more akin to parent-and-child. if i could see more direct evidence in the early 40s of the same shit, like the beds-too-close thing, then i'd buy that it was literally baked into batman's character and not just appended to him 14 years after his inception.

i have yet to see evidence that goes *that* far back, to the actual beginning, and i'm a bit too busy to go looking for it myself when i've already promised to read some other comics first, hehe...

sooo, feel free to send me more of the brudick crumbs (as one may call it in shipping terms, i mean) from the 40s. i remain curious.

(here is the gayest panel i've been shown so far, and while i did initially think they were sharing a bed, as you've mentioned yourself, looking closely reveals they're actually in separate beds and just possibly sharing a blanket? lol. still gayer than may be acceptable. i found out it was from batman #84, as well. yay!)

[loverofstufflof]

Can I take a moment to talk about the censorship in LMK? I’m gonna take a moment to talk about the censorship in LMK

I don’t know too much about WildBrain, but I do know that the Flying Bark crew were like, extremely queer, and projected it onto the show outside of canon as much as possible. We all know the famous Pokémon Trainer Cards, and the art of Red Son not conforming to gender norms, and the Alejandro Saab cover of Peaches.

The crew are aware of the fanbase, and seemingly would also like for there to be more explicit representation in the show. Unfortunately, as we all know, Chinese censorship laws are very strict, with the tolerance for queerness within the country being even stricter, and LEGO will very realistically lose most of its viewers if anything were to actually be confirmed.

…that is, if anything were to change in the Chinese version of the show.

Peng is a very interesting character in this regard. For the entirety of the season they were introduced in, they were never referred to outside of their name and some epithets. Having the title “Brother”, and all of us knowing that LEGO wouldn’t dare to queercode a character in their Marketable Series, we all assumed they were a boy.

And then the special released.

And, for two lines, we heard Peng’s pronouns for the very first time.

They

Wukong and Mei used gender neutral pronouns for a character.

Now, I don’t know what exactly was happening behind the scenes, but there are a few factors we can gather that led to the writers being allowed to do this:

Peng is a villain. The antagonization of queers within media is no new concept, so if the show portrayed the only NB character as a Bad Guy, then they couldn’t be seen as “marketing it as a good thing to the youth” (or whatever homophobes say)

It’s barely acknowledged, only said twice in the entire show, rendering most people to miss it entirely. Hell, it’s possible that executives even missed it when approving the script.

The description on Peng’s sets use he/him, making it the most prominent pronoun

Peng is a throwaway character, who leaves within the same special their identity is solidified. If there was backlash to it, then that’s okay! They weren’t going to bring them back, anyways!

Most importantly, it can only be noticed in the English version of the series, outside of the reach of any overseas queerphobia.

I’d like to believe that this was the writers’ first go at experimentation. Seeing what they can get away with, and how.

This isn’t even the only time they’ve experimented with something (while giving themselves an out in case it doesn’t work). You guys remember Tang’s new hair in the same special? Watch it again, you’ll find that in the beach scene, his hair is completely covered, likely the outcome of the artists not knowing what the response to his redesign will be like, and preparing for a “it went back to normal after the fight!” excuse if people didn’t like it.

And they probably will do this Queer Test again, especially if it’s something as easily redubbable as a pronoun; something they can cover up in other languages.

So, no, I don’t think we’ll ever get a Shadowpeach make out scene, but I do think we can plausibly expect a few lines being altered for a more queer subtext. My personal bet is a confrontation that, in Mandarin, translates to “I care about you,” but in English is said as “I love you.” Something they can back out on as “brotherly love” and can cover up, but also definitely meant to be gay.

(Hell, we kinda already got that in the special too! Macaques’s Mandarin “it’s me,” compared to his English “cute.”)

Anyways that’s my essay about this stupid LEGO show I’m gonna go to bed now.

Is shadow peach likely to become canon in the show? or unlikely to happen cause it’s considered queer coding or up to the audience to what they’re relationship is in the show?

I’m somewhere in the middle, I like to see them become canon but not so sure. I don’t mind them not being canon in the show but still would feel disappointed if they’re aren’t. but to be honest I prefer it to be up to the audience to figure it out, i really like that a lot more.

I’m not a shadow peach shipper in general (I’m a free noodles shipper) but I do respect it and do think it’s cute but still I don’t know how to feel about their relationship being canonically physical in the show.

Do you think it would work well in the show?

Well... I do like shadowpeach, thats for sure.

Sadly though, It is a chinese show, so it could never be canon. So my theory is that the writers are instead making it as open as possible for the audience to make their own opinion about it.

Because at this point, they probaly know, that Wukong and Macaque are/ are gonna be shipped. But they also know, some people arent going to ship them.

Therefore a solution, where we can still get a really interesting relationship, but leaving it up to the audience to figure out, how they are going to view that relationship, is going to be a win-win sitatuion for everyone :)

[a-buruhamu]

Brain Dump 04262024

I think I'm losing it. I almost started crying at work while watching an episode of "911," where people are haunted by the ghosts of the past. It made me think of my ex, who I broke up with 3 years ago. He randomly messages me from time to time. I had many reasons for leaving. My ex, who loved me despite me being closeted, wanted us to live a life on our own. However, I didn't want to deal with us being financially unstable and I felt they were so unprepared to take on the burden with no career or savings. On top of this, I had an overwhelming resentment for how different their experience was compared to mine. They are very social and out person, whereas I could not fathom a life where I was out. I still can't. I'm already 30 and I can't bring myself to chase after the things I want. I gave up so much to protect myself. I gave up love. I gave up happiness. FOR WHAT? I find myself in a job I don't want, with a nonexsitent social life, parents and family pressuring me into a conservative, religious life, a pressure to conform to society's expextations, crippling anxiety and fear, all the things I used to express myself with like music and art gone, a degree I thought I wanted, living alone in an apartment thinking I believed would solve all my problems, that I would feel more free, free to pursue the things I want, but I am just as stuck as I was living in my parents house. I am so unhappy, so alone, so afraid. I'm so upset. I'm mad. Mad at myself for not waking up sooner. Mad at that guy from high school telling me that he had a big crush on me back then in this moment where I find myself at my lowest. Why didn't he tell me sooner? Maybe it would've motivated me to fix my life sooner. What if it was all a iie? What if he was just horny and he just wanted to see what it would be like to fuck that guy he knew in high school? So he can say that he did... God, why are all my emotions suddenly coming out? Is it because I just broke up with my therapist and now I just feel completely alone now? Ugh I'm reliving how alone I felt when I broke up with my boyfriend. I had no one to talk to. No one to tell. Even when I tried to reach out, people thought it'd make me feel better to tell me, "Oh he wasn't worth it anyway. He was a queer weirdo not worth your time; not someone you could bring home to your parents, hypothetically speaking." But I loved him. I loved how much he loved me. He was there when I first dislocated my shoulder; the first of four. I still remember staring at him in the ER. I loved that he was there; that he was mine, that he worried about me. After my injury, I was forever his "Lego boy." It made me so mad and so happy that he called me that. All this to say, I think I'm afraid to let all of the memories go. Although I have no desire to be in a relationship with them again, I think part of me is afraid to move on in fear that it will nullify all the beautiful moments we had together: doordashing together during the pandemic, long summer drives with him as my passenger princess, staring into each other's eyes the first time I dislocated my shoulder and feeling overwhelmingly in love with him, dancing in front of Raley's on Howe Ave alone together on New Year's Eve after smoking hookah with friends, feeling so free holding hands and walking together in the Castro, the several times people have told us we looked like a cute, happy couple, Halloween night sitting at the Castro Coffee Company watching passersby in costumes. Will I have that all with someone new? Can I handle making new memories with someone new? Why is it so hard for me to move on? Why is it so hard to let go? The days where I look back on these memories fondly with no regret seem so far away.

[crackdkettle]

Canon versions of Supernatural characters as undergrad professors

Dean: Acts like he hates his students but is everyone’s favorite. Hilarious but you’re not sure if you’re allowed to laugh. Lectures are fun, interesting, and informative, but you have to decode his pop culture references and you will drop a whole letter grade if you say anything even vaguely disparaging about Led Zeppelin (or, god forbid, don’t know who/what Led Zeppelin is). Believes in hands-on learning, so there’s a lot of in-class activities. Not approachable in the least, but very understanding and willing to help anyone who has the guts to ask. Casually drops the most insane details from his life and moves on; refuses to elaborate when questioned (also there’s no way he could have done all the stuff he’s claimed he has when he’s still this young?). Could have a knife stuck in his chest and would still come to class, but will get one text from his husband or kid and end class forty minutes early. Exams are challenging but easy enough if you attend class and take decent notes.

Sam: Not an easy A, but not a difficult one either. Definitely a case of “you get out what you put in”. Happy to grant extensions on projects, but you basically have to have a therapy session with him in exchange. Interesting if you already like the subject, but probably won’t get you interested if you don’t. Seems about as normal as any academic but at least once a week will say something completely out of left field and act like it’s not the craziest thought anyone’s ever had.

Charlie: Spends the first class showing you how to pirate all your textbooks. Super fun, but don’t make the mistake of thinking that means she’s a pushover. Uses Lego action figures to reenact ancient myths, and offers extra credit for LARPing. Adopts any and all baby queers. In lieu of a final exam, the whole class has to do a dramatic reading of Lysistrata in the school’s amphitheater wearing chitons she taught you to make earlier in the semester to an audience comprised solely of her and her best friend.

Rowena: Terrifying in lower-division classes; fun and chill in upper-division classes. Doesn’t tolerate insolence in lower-division; loves when you challenge her in upper-division. Genuinely wants to help you learn. Rewards ass-kissing but rewards effort more.  Reassures you when you mess up that you can never be as good as her anyway. Invites your 400 class over for dinner and makes a joke about the food being poisoned in a way that makes you feel like maybe she’s not joking? Possibly having an affair with the dean. Heavily attended office hours.

Crowley: Genuinely hates his students (except for the elite few he likes), but a weirdly forgiving grader. Very easy to distract and get off on a tangent. You probably won’t learn much but you will have a good time. Exams are either a cake walk or downright impossible. In a feud with the dean.

Bobby: Both the most knowledgeable and the wisest person you’ve ever met. You want to record all his lectures and then transcribe them because every single thing he says is the most profound thing you’ve ever heard. Sincerely wants you to succeed. Everyone wants him as their advisor. Never assigns essays in his GE classes because “the students don’t like writing them, and more importantly, I don’t like reading them.” In a feud with the dean, and extremely smug in the knowledge that the dean can’t do jackshit to him because he’s tenured.

Castiel: All his lectures are either insultingly elementary and broad or doctorate-level technical and specific. No patience for stupid questions. Constantly refutes things in the textbooks but refuses to cite his sources beyond “I was there” (when writing was invented??). Cancels class at least once a week “due to a family emergency”, but then you run into him at the local arcade with his husband and/or son. Never returns homework and seems put upon/confused when you ask about it (usually says something like, “Human markers of academic success are meaningless,” and just squints at you if you ask what he’s doing in academia then). In a feud with the dean, the provost, and the university president. Essay-only exams. Rumor is he’s never given anyone an A.

[lqtraintracks]

I'm sorry to bother you, but what do you think about all the comments saying everyone needs to stop interacting with all HP material including fanfiction because of how horrible JKR is?

Hi there. Yes, her again. I want to take a moment to just acknowledge the next-level cruelty, ignorance, and hatefulness of her newest tweet(s). I saw one of them yesterday and felt sick to my stomach, and then I felt an all-consuming rage. The false and inflammatory rhetoric she’s spreading, make no mistake, contributes to violence against trans women. It contributes in a very real way to them being targeted with physical and sexual violence and to being murdered. JKR is an actual piece of shit. So I will never presume to tell people what is the right and wrong way to handle that for themselves.

Here’s the thing. We all have to make good decisions on our own behalf about whether or not to engage with HP material, whether that be the books and merch, or fan creations. I will never ever think it’s my place to decide that for someone else, and I respect and honor every fandomer’s choice to completely disengage with it all. Take care of yourselves, whatever that looks like.

I will also say that for me, there is a big difference between, say, buying a box set of the HP books or a Hogwarts Lego set or anything else that makes that vile scourge of a person money, and producing or engaging with fan content. I will never buy her shit again. That’s a firm boundary for me. I do not support her or her sickening views in any way. I do, however, continue to write fanfiction and engage in fan content for that fictional world. And let me tell you why.

I’m finding that HP fanworks are not only the best place but maybe the ONLY fucking place to find solace as a queer and gender fluid person who loves HP. It’s the only place I’ve found that is actively producing queer and trans content, which is more important than ever, in my opinion, to countering JKR’s awful lies and monstrous beliefs. There are trans fandomers creating beautiful things, and I would never presume to tell them that they shouldn’t. If your response to JKR hating you is to throw that hatred back in her face and write or draw self-love and love for others instead? I honor the fuck out of that choice. Trans fandomers making one another feel loved and seen is a spectacular way to deal with this shit if you ask me. I respect it just as much as I respect the choice to walk away.

When I write for this fandom now, it is always at least in part a big fuck you to Joanne, but more importantly it’s a message to trans fandomers, and that message is this: I see you. I love you. You are not only valid as a person but you are essential to this and every other fandom. These stories are yours more than they are hers at this point. You have great power here, to create an HP world where you set to right everything that JKR destroyed by being a heinous bigot. Not that you have any responsibility to do so. But it is your world, if you want it.

You are Hogwarts. You are HP. You are magic.

She can never ever fucking take that away from you or any of us. And as a fandomer and creator here, it is my honor to unfuck this world of hers and make it as queer and trans-friendly as possible. Because it should be.

I have not always included trans and nonbinary characters in my fanfiction. This is relatively recent for me, because I’m learning as I go, becoming a better ally as I go, and opening my eyes to the need there a little more every day. It has in fact been JKR’s utter bullshit that finally pushed me to get over my fear of writing trans characters badly, because I was afraid I’d get something wrong, and to just do it anyway, fear and all (and employ a sensitivity reader). It’s because of her hatred and the huge platform from which she spews it that I got over myself real fucking quick on that issue and wrote my first trans characters into a fic. But I’m late. I recognize that. I’m trying to make up for my lack of awareness now.

Look, I love writing HP. These are the characters I fell in love with writing before JKR showed how truly horrible she is. I’m still in love with them. I love telling stories about love with them. I also hate that JKR has made it feel unsafe for many trans fandomers to be here. I fucking hate her for that. But I imagine a world where we all abandoned the fandom because of her, and I think… does that let her win? Does that let her define what Hogwarts is, who these characters are? I don’t have that answer. And just as we all have the individual right to walk away, if there were a mass exodus because of that, so be it. She’d certainly deserve to see her world burned down around her. But that’s never going to happen to her. That won’t affect her, sitting on her piles and piles of money and being a raging TERF. No, that would only affect us. That would be a loss for us.

Yes, it’s a valid choice to walk away, and I support every individual’s right to do exactly that. But I’m going to stay. I’m going to stay so that any trans readers of mine can see themselves in what I write, can see themselves loved in it. I don’t think I’m all that important personally, and there are a ton of creators producing more trans content than I am. But I want to contribute to that. I want to be a small part of someone feeling welcome in HP rather than reviled. I want to be some small speck of someone feeling like they matter and they belong, that it’s her that doesn’t belong anymore, not us. I want to take HP back and write stories about how well we can love each other rather than let her define that world with her hate.

So I’m staying. And I’m writing HP. If you need to back away and leave fandom because of her rampant toxicity, please do that and know that I love and support you. But if you want to stay… there are those of us that are here for you, that want you here, that know trans fandomers make fandom, and we appreciate you. I’m here for that.

[astudyinfreewill]

"adam would have been fully justified in running ronan over with his car" LMAOOO ok but NOW we've said it!!! like. lbr. the real reason maggie had to get rid of the crying club is that NO self respecting group of queer friends would have watched adam go through that without going "girl the dick can't be that good block his number NOW!!!"

ok wait i'm so. chin in hand kicking my legs twirling my hair reading your idea this is GREAT. "being both a huge bitch and expressing character growth" is the adam parrish BRAND so it hurts that we didn't get any of it. and any of my friends will tell you, i was SO certain that adam being a magician would be a part of the resolution that i fully made it a key point of a 50 slide powerpoint presentation we all orchestrated (ley theory u will always be famous TO ME) because, honestly, why the fuck wouldn't he???

i honestly think whatever hangups and fandom bullshit caused stief to delete the adam povs from the series are a big reason that the final book falls flat - there's just so much plot stuff that would have hit different if the characters had had actual agency on page instead of weird astral projection mind space fighting. i was sure either adam or ronan or both would have to make a sacrifice of some sort so that the emotional and narrative payoff would feel earned, but they just... didn't. ronan just reached Enlightenment via magic and adam was disassembled and reassembled like a lego set and that was like. it.

anyway back to your ideas - i would LOVE a hennessy adam roadtrip. do they like each other, no. will they team up to gang up against ronan, yes. i want interactions that are soooo charged and uncomfortable. the church scene x 1000. the adam blue pizza fight scene ON STEROIDS. but most importantly RONAN APOLOGIZING WITH HIS MOUTH WORDS HELLO FOR THE LOVE OF GOD HI

it can happen in a big action climax OR it can happen years down the line i don't care i will drink up the angst like a fucking milkshake babey!!! and i'm lactose intolerant so i KNOW it would hurt but ultimately it would all be worth it!!

"alternate universe pynch where it doesn't work out" no no say more. i was dying for their whole thing to be the most excruciating acrimonious breakup followed by getting back together and so I am very much Feeling This

AHHH i don't know what this was in reference to anymore, bc tumblr decided to eat not one but TWO of your asks (what kind of truly diabolical fuckery tbh???) however rest assured i WILL say more!!!!

listen. LISTEN. i will never forgive mstief for how quick and painless and easy their resolution in greywaren was. i know that one of the premises of these books is "ronan never really needs to be accountable for anything", but damn. my guy joined an ecoterrorist cult and almost destroyed the world (except he didn't, because PSYCH! ronan can never really be the bad guy either! it was really Random Faceless Antagonist #2 all along! booooo boring :/) because his boyfriend was late to text him back. he also proceeded to then ghost said boyfriend by not answering his texts, calls, and shutting him out of the communal dreamspace they usually codependently/homoerotically share. that is a NEXT LEVEL ghosting. and THEN!!! when they finally speak, since adam went behind his back (for good reasons! because ronan was behaving too erratically to be trusted! but he STILL went behind his back!!!) ronan unceremoniously dumped him and threw the whole phone away!!

when i tell you i was SALIVATING for the confrontanion that would inevitably happen. i wanted DRAMA i wanted ACCUSATIONS FLUNG IN FACES i wanted CATHARSIS for heaven's sake!!! and then. and then in just a quick five minute mind-meld in the astral sea, all was forgiven. and it's like, of course we knew everything would be forgiven. there was never gonna be a universe when adam didn't come back to save ronan. he made a big deal of leaving him in front of declan and then came back one (1) day later. BUT IT DIDN'T HAVE TO BE SO EASY AND UNEARNED!!!

what about a universe where adam returns to save ronan, but then things are stilted and awkward between them. what about a universe in which they don't patch it up actually, at least not for a while. what about a universe where adam is so confused about what he wants out of his life - now that he actually has options - that he doesn't know if he can keep doing this. what about a universe where ronan is not actually magically okay with the mind-shattering revelation that he's a different species from a different dimension. what about a universe where ronan refuses to apologize (because he never does, really!) and so adam refuses to just accept him back as it is, because ronan made his choice and it wasn't me and if adam has nothing else, he has his stupid pride at least.

idk man i simply think that would have been DELICIOUS and i mourn it every day. these characters have never been simple for one single page, so why would they get a cookie-cutter resolution?

[burtonbabygirlguster]

how comfortable i would feel with different stranger things characters

Argyle

8/10

he would be 10/10 but i’d be scared he’d mention what i’ve told him when he was high

i’ve got no idea if being high works like that tho???

but i’d be panicking very hard

like he’s probably use my preferred name instead of my deadname and i’d be like 🧍

would offer me weed to help with my skin picking problems or my mouth pain

fuck you braces and nails

Robin

10/10

we can ramble to each other :)

my best moments with my friends is of us rambling to each-other and getting off topic every other sentence

she’s very funny we could laugh about anything it’d be great

and i’m also queer so like..yeah, gay people flock together type shit

Eddie

6.5/10

the cafeteria scene scared me, i’d constantly think he’s about to..like..jump on my sandwich

also he’s too extroverted for me im sorry

i can’t handle that type of attention anywhere near me

he’d probably look at what i was drawing or something and show everyone 🧍

and i’ve got too much anxiety for that soooo…

Steve

7.5/10

i can’t really explain in

like, yes, i’d be comfortable, but constantly tense, expecting something, at the same time

like i said, can’t really explain it, sorry lmfao

Jonathan

13/10

would make me feel good about myself

between my fashion, music, general interests, being trans and gay, i’d be the Hawkins high punching bag

i already was at my middle school some? like nothing physical but constant shit, it was this group of kids constantly coming over to the tree i hung by and shouting slurs and jesus blah blah

plus the usual barking and being called emo in the halls

anyway

he could tell when i’m about to have a breakdown, whatever i’m feeling honestly

the only person i think i’d EVER be comfortable sharing how i actually feel with

he would never judge me

i think he’d like my stupidity and chaos, i usually get really insecure about it but he’d be nice :))

the only way i can interact with a movie/show is to vocally talk about it and my family (reasonably) gets mad but i think he’d enjoy hearing what i think and how i perceive whatever we’d be watching

even outside of movies, they don’t really like hearing me ramble or talk

and if one person did like it, another one would interrupt and they’d forget about me

even my general family issues, he’d be there to listen, and relate on a lot

i also love photography so we could have fun with that!!!

overall he’d be the biggest comfort ever

Nancy

2/10

i’m sorry but i wouldn’t be all that comfortable

i think the biggest thing was how she treated robin

and since i act like robin with the rambling and such, i really think she would not like me

opposite of Jonathan

she’d only get annoyed and i feel like she’d just act like my family when it comes to how i express myself, and would make me feel like shit

maybe she’d actually be really cool once i got to know her

but everything that the shows given me is her pushing away barb, the love triangle, being rude to robin, and supernatural stress, so not quite sure :p

Jason

-3/10

i don’t even need to explain

i would be called slurs and beat up

he was ready to break Gareths fingers

which i guess me just being casual vs him hunting a guy are definitely different situations

but i feel like he’d break something

i’d definitely be a suspect of joint murder forces with eddie lmfao

Billy

-3/10

same thing with jason

but pretty sure he’d also body-shame me

unless if we were around people

but still -3/10

Will

12/10

Same thing as Jonathan

but i’m closer to wills age so i think it’d be better :)

plus he at least used to play with legos and i fucking love legos

also we could draw DnD characters together!!

he’s gonna love my literal dragonborn himbo that wears sunglasses

i’d love to be in a byers-hopper family campaign with him :))

gays flock together again

Lucas

11/10

he’s super duper fucking nice and would always be considerate of everything

would not judge me

except in a funny way

he could help me out if i ever had relationship issues

he can climb trees i think? i feel like he climbed one in season one or two

if he can, i’d love to go tree climbing with him

i used to play basketball so we could play together!!

he’s awesome

Dustin

8/10

i can’t really explain why he’s only 8

i would, however, love to go and open curiosity doors and do random shit

i’m gonna train demodogs with him

would love to tease steve with him

El

8/10

nothing really special, just chill :)

again, would love to do a whole family campaign

i’d like making fun presentations with her like she did for the school project

would enjoy doing stuff like how she and max did, i love clothes shopping, because i can express myself- and that was the whole point for her clothes shopping!

i’d absolutely love to do that with her :))

Max

7.3/10

would maybe make fun of me a little bit?

sometimes in a funny friend way but sometimes in an actual way

i don’t think i’d be able to tell which is which so i’d be sad each time🧍

would love being chaotic with her and torturing mike (i’m sorry mike)

pulling pranks on everyone definitely

Mike

depends which season

1-2 is 10/10

3-4 is slowly declining…

i’m very childish (although i am a child so doesn’t really count) and i love doing thing how will does, and i’d too, be asking to play

would feel the worst feeling if he ever yelled at me like he did to will :(

although that’s on byler drama, so he wouldn’t yell at me like that

would make me feel both appreciated and highly judged

it switches every day honestly

but season 1-2 would be great <3

after he gets his byler drama sorted out he’d be back to 10/10

Erica

depends if she’s insulting me or not

but if she’s insulting me then i probably did something first so it’d be my fault

but overall she’d be super cool to hang with!

and she’s super smart- if i pay her, maybe she’ll do my math homework 😭

i haven’t nt watched my little pony in years (and obviously not the 80s one she watched) but i think i’d watch it so we could talk bout it

and talk with dustin too about it

cause he watches my little pony too

Joyce

6/10

As great a mom as she is, she barley ever payed attention to Jonathan

like, never

i would trust her to save me, yeah, absolutely, she’d do anything

but like i said with Jonathan..

overall though i suppose really good, she’d be fun to hang out with

Jim

4.5/10

dudes SCARY

yells too much

i’m generally spooked by older people, especially older men sooo yeah 🧍

that wouldn’t help

would constantly feel like a disappointment even if that’s not what he wanted

every so often a really good moment

maybe a heart to heart that’d boost him up a few numbers

Murray

4/10

as funny as he is, if he started talking about my relationship, i’d punch him

not actually i’m a coward but i’d mentally punch him

if he never talked about relationships then he could be a good 8/10 or something

nothing too special even then, just casual

Bob

9/10

gets -1 point because old men scare me lmfao

other than that i’d love to play his brain games and learn about the radios and such

great guy :((

would love to have him as an uncle :))

would like to listen to me ramble!

he jon and i can have camera sessions

Owens

7/10

again, -1 point for old man

but specifically during season four i kinda wished i had a dad a lil bit like him

i think the food got to me

and him trying to go against brenner

“kiddo” hit me hard

would not enjoy in the other seasons tho, no trust, thus no comfort at all

Mr Clark

9/10

once more, -1 for old man

but he’s super nice to the kids 😭

and always helps them solve the Upsidedown mystery of the year

where was he this season????

only teacher i could actually go up to and ask for help

would LOVE to have him as a dad

he’d also definitely enjoy to hear my ramblings, especially if they’ve got anything to do with science

i ramble about time travel and mythological creatures a lot (especially dragons and how they would have been) and i’d think he’d enjoy ny special interests of curiosity doors

Alexi

9/10

would love to go to the fair with him and get all the stuffed animals

and watch cartoons and eat slushes i think it’d be great fun

wanna have murray deal with both of us

harhar the old man will never know what hit him

[purble-turble]

Okay... so I see you love trans headcanons COULD I PLZ GET ME SOME!? Like some trans red son and trans prince red headcanons? I need some for spicynoodleshipping! I honestly crave it maybe a little to much... but I really haven't found any trans red stuff yet, only stuff with MK and I think of Monkey King too now that I think of it.

But could I have some please I would to see what you come up with. I also don't know why but seeing MK with a preggers Red just seems so fricken cute to me!🥰🥰🥰

I do love trans headcanons!! Trans!MK is my favorite because there’s just so many lil bits about his character in canon that lend credence to that theory such as his unknowable name.. People have really latched onto that headcanon for MK specifically, which is fun because I love seeing it, but yeah you’re right, having Red Son be trans is also amazing! I have seen some people make content using that headcanon but not nearly as much as there is for MK. And tbh there’s some canon backup to the Trans!Red Son theory too. Remember this moment?

“S-son?” Like it was a big deal for DBK to call him ‘son’ specifically.. yeah I buy it. Also if this is the first time Demon Bull King calls Red Son his son, maybe he transitioned while DBK was under the mountain or something? Would certainly make sense if that were the case considering their first interaction. Red Son gives a whole big speech about how it was “I, RED SON, WHO REMOVED THE STAFF” and yeah it can just be chalked up to what a freakin theater kid he is, but putting his love of drama aside, it could also be because he’s like Hey I’m your child! I’m gonna reiterate that you’re my father and my name is Red Son. It’s SON, I’m your son now!

Oh and let’s not gloss over the fact that he loves repeating his own name all the time throughout the series. “I, Red Son,” is something he says all the time. Just pointing out to everyone around that he’s Red SON… Also about the name, I may be wrong about this because I don’t read Chinese so forgive me, but the name for him from JTTW in Chinese is Hóng hái'ér (红孩儿) and hái'ér (孩儿) also appears to translate to child or baby which is a gender neutral word… so in this English version at least, the deliberate use of Red SON could mean something in terms of his gender identity. Again, I don’t know for sure that my interpretation of the Chinese word is accurate, so if not then my bad. I tried to find an answer to if it was specifically masculine but could not get a straight answer online :U

Anyway, besides the name, there’s other things about his role in Lego Monkie Kid and its version of JTTW that are interesting for Red. In JTTW, he is the demon who is defeated by Monkey King with the help of Bodhisattva Guanyin and their vase that can hold an ocean of water inside it. In LMK, when Tang is recalling the lore of the vase to MK, he says he can’t quite remember the demon that was defeated using it. Either Tang knows and is just like a great queer ally for not outing his enemy, or maybe Red Son actually did some kind of magic to make it so people don’t remember who his was before he transitioned. Either way, I thought that was an interesting point… there’s also the fact that in the first special, when MK goes to Flower Fruit Mountain for the first time and is given visions of Monkey King’s life and it includes a shot of all the villains he’s faced, Red Son is noticeably absent.. despite the fact that both his parents are there. Curious.

As far as far as some spicynoodles trans headcanons go, I think it’s fun for both of them to be trans! That just seems like it could make for a great coming out scene for the both of them. Like, Red Son doesn’t take it lightly to come out to anyone because he’s worked really hard on his image (and maybe even make the world literally forget that he ever wasn’t Red Son) and he doesn’t want anyone to think of him differently, especially not MK. But if he’s dating the Noodle Boy, then he should be able to trust him… and he should know… right? Anyway, Red tries to be all serious and dramatic as he tells MK, but MK is just like :O DUDE! SAME! And he lifts his shirt to show he’s wearing a binder with the trans flag on it. And Red is just like omg of course he is. I knew I loved this idiot.

Also, you mentioned Prince Red in your ask specifically, and yeah I think this would be a great AU for Red to be trans in. The previous headcanons having to do with his name don’t really apply here, since he doesn’t use ‘Son’ in his name at all… but he does go by the gendered title of Prince, so that’s something. Maybe in this version his mother was less than supportive of his transition. When he was released from Guanyin’s service (which was probably the time in which he came to terms with his gender identity) he probably went back to his mother, grieving the loss of her husband, and tried to console her while also trying to help her understand that he’s a boy now.. and she just either doesn’t get it or doesn’t care to try and it makes it so much easier for Red to walk away….. eventually she comes around, but only begrudgingly, and it’s after a few centuries of Red giving her the cold shoulder.

When it comes to the spicynoodles in the Prince Red AU, I see no reason this couldn’t be the AU where it’s Red who has their children instead of MK.. there’s a lot of MK babies out in the fandom, Red should get to have some of them, right? :U