#ash's ramblings

[ashoss]

just saw a post saying "batman doesnt kill because he knows he'd love it" like please tell me ur joking

[ashlinxsloves]

Kodi's version of Nightcrawler is actually so cute, I love him so much <3

I wanna write so many fics, but I'm currently working on headcanons I got asked by an anonymous ask ^^

[blueberry-ash]

Huang Shaotian, especially, seems to have made it his mission to figure out who, exactly, Wang Jiexi is messaging so often. And with that little smile, what the fuck. He’s met Wang Jiexi’s siblings at least once, and he’s pretty sure it’s not them. Or Fang-stupid-Shiqian, for that matter. ALSO, and this is far more important,,, Huang Shaotian has long considered himself one of Wang Jiexi’s good friends, alright? And, honestly? He’s frankly offended by the idea that Wang Jiexi might be dating someone without having let Huang Shaotian vet them first. What if Wang Jiexi has picked a total creeper?! Or a complete loser?! What if! What if! Everyone knows Huang Shaotian has the best taste in people, okay! Like, the empirically and obviously best taste! So, yeah, duh—it’s only natural that his friends should know better than to try dating anyone without having had Huang Shaotian give his tick of approval first. GEEZ.

kjfasdl;fs just a little section from my QiaoWang marriage of utility not!fic WIP. Because (a) it amuses me, (b) i love HST and yet somehow almost never write him, and (c) i just remembered there's an earlier conversation that kinda nukes a lot of this, and so i'm probably going to have to delete it (or at least dump it somewhere else) XD;

[ghostdoodlen]

Baby fever is so funny cuz some look at baby clothing, others get pets and here I am emotionally adopting fictional characters

[caricature-of-a-witch]

going by the sudden influx of messages from a bunch of different people at the same time rn, the most likely time to get new year's greetings appears to be ca 18 minutes past midnight

[asherella-is-a-dork-3]

Do you have a dc next gen canon???

Okay so I seen all three of your asks,

Call me a little bit spacey lol

I do have a next gen DC cannon, it's quite lengthy and I have been going through some creative changes lately so you're actually on time for the soft reboot I've been toying with in my head today!

So starting it all would be the team forming and later a time Skip to a big reveal for the team about one of their co leaders.

The team comes from main DC cannon (I love the shows but the comics is where all the potential is for this)

Co leaders Damian Wayne and Lian Harper.

The resident experts on science and sass twins jai and irey West.

The only woman to tell guy gardener to shut up and have him listen green lantern milagro reyes.

The lastest Kryptonian who attached himself to a bat for friendship Jon Kent.

The myth, the legend, the animal girl. Maxine Baker. (we call her max for our own safety)

The only Atlantian who's almost never actually seen in water Artur Curry jr. (AJ)

The man who looked scarecrow in eyes and said he had better toxin from Riddler Colin wilkes.

They are a very chaotic group, who love very strongly.

[caricature-of-a-witch]

ok so while I 100% agree that Elphaba's sex/gender identity can be read all sorts of ways, and while I, too, miss a lot of the novel's depth in the musical, promising people textual intersex representation in the book seems a bit wrong to me?

Mind, I'm not intersex myself and I apologise if I'm misreading something either in this post or the book. I do, however, know the book pretty damn well, and am kinda in the process of writing a paper on, amongst other things, gender identity in Wicked, and have relevant quotes:

[image description: photograph of a book page reading:

"Hah," said the bleary-eyed maiden, "look again, there's the weather vane."

For a minute they were in disagreement, even with the child naked before them. Only after a second and third rub was it clear that the child was indeed feminine. Perhaps in labor some bit of organic effluvia had become caught and quickly dried in the cloven place. /end ID]

(p. 27)*

I'm guessing this is the scene in question, and while it certainly sets the theme of gender ambiguity throughout the novel, the text does imply that once she's cleaned up, no one sees any reason to question Elphaba's gender. Which is further cemented a few pages later:

[image description: part of a book page with the following sentence circled in red:

The child was wet and soiled but felt made according to standard design. /end ID]

(p. 32)*

This is Nanny's observation when she first meets and examines the baby, and pretty much implies that there is nothing about Elphaba's genitals that points towards her being intersex.

I'm all for people reading the book (it's brilliant), and I'm certainly not disagreeing at all with the claim that there's all sorts of queer-coding and gender ambiguity in it especially with regards to Elphaba, but if people are looking for an Elphaba who is textually intersex, I'm pretty sure they'll be disappointed.

*Harper 2007 version 978-0-06-135096-2

Elphaba Thropp was canonically born with ambiguous genitals in the original Wicked novel, and assigned female after an inspection by the midwife. This didn't make it into the musical version, but it is very much a thing in the book.

I've seen a few "Elphie is trans-coded" posts, and as a trans intersex person, I just wanted to remind folks that she is intersex in the source material. The book's prologue includes blatant speculation about her gender from other characters, and she gets called the intersexist h-slur.

Elphaba Thropp is intersex. 💛💜💛

[ashoss]

jacked babs .pls ..

[ashlinxsloves]

He's my boyfriend. My loser, pathetic emo boyfriend.

I'd make him whimper and beg–

I'm totally normal about him ☺️

[blueberry-ash]

My mother, who is deeply Christian and(but) also supremely autistic, once accidentally pulled aggro on an entire church's worth of women because they were so aggressively demanding she condemn my newly pierced ears. Against God's design!!! they wailed. Then how come you all shave your legs?, my mother asked.

On the bright side, I had to suffer through significantly fewer church-based social invites after that.

The idea that bodymod of all kinds from piercings and tattoos to gender-affirming care and amputations "goes against God's design" is such a fragile fucking take imo.

Like. Fuck, Brendine, you don't cut the moldy bit off a block of cheese? You don't spit out the bones when you eat fish? Do you never bake bread or cook food or chop off your hair? You just crawl around in a fig leaf bikini eating pine cones off the ground and shit in a hole?

Eve ate the apple already hon we ain't gonna undo that shit dressing like we're Children of the Corn

[blueberry-ash]

Greatly afeared that I am coming down with something nasty (thank you, spouse's work christmas party, what a gift, etc). Madly banging out the non-fandom project I have a deadline on, but honestly I just want to spend the rest of the day in bed. What I currently have isn't even all that bad, technically, but it's set pre-existing stuff off, and now I'm miserable 😭

Anyway, feeling deeply resentful about the "oh, getting sick isn't that bad really" rubbish I have to hear from certain folks IRL. Like, Janice, I'm so happy it's not all that bad for YOU, how nice! For some of us, however-----

[xxx-ashhazard-xxx]

Hey fam!!! Sorry for not being active as I would like to. I always keep forgetting that I have this account and haven't been posting much as I would like to. I don't know when I'll try to post again but when I do, you all will know.

Thank you guys for being patient with me.

[caricature-of-a-witch]

I think it's mean that just bc I'm an adult and living on my own I have to take care of myself when I'm sick like. keeping my dishes clean and the space in order next to uni and working and social life is already hard enough when I'm physically healthy how the hell am I expected to keep up with everything while my brain is molasses and my nose is running huh. why is there no magical caretaking fairy to make me soup and do my dishes and whatnot

[caricature-of-a-witch]

may I also point towards the concept of compound nouns according to which "dwarf planet" counts as one noun rather than a combination of adjective and noun

the thing is that whenever someone says "pluto IS a planet" you don't know if they're actually a space fan who is prepared to love and cherish all the other bodies that would become planets if pluto was promoted again or the dumbest motherfucker on earth who thinks science should have stopped when they left 3rd grade

[ashes-onthewind]

i love baikal seals. they always look like they've just gotten out of a sixteen year relationship and are now having an existential crisis. sopping wet cats. weirdly smooth. i love them.

[httpdwaekki]

alright fuckers it’s binnie loving hours.

my big binnie boy <33