#but also a lot of the time no not at all

[femboypussy420]

recently i've seen a lot of people saying that the larger proportion of m/m vs f/f and f/m fanfics are because straight women write a large proportion of fanfiction and project themselves upon one of the male characters, in order to create a fictional relationship that doesn't have to deal with misogyny. i think this could definitely be the case for some people but i want to throw out another theory that also takes into account how a lot of fanfic writers are actually lesbians, bisexual women, and asexual women.

i think there's a pretty good possibility that a lot of these people aren't writing m/m to project into the relationship, but specifically because they *don't* want to project onto the relationship.

i find it interesting that people seem to have an underlying assumption that everybody who writes fictional romance and smut is projecting on the characters or imagining themselves as one of the characters in some way. surely, some people do, but i feel like i more frequently talk to other people who specifically do not want to imagine themselves as part of the romance/smut at all. when women are doing this, maybe the fact that the relationship is m/m is actually to make it *harder* to project into it? sometimes the point of fiction, even and especially fictional porn, is to very explicitly *not* imagine yourself in the scenario, since it's one you don't want to be in.

disclaimer that i'm not saying this is true of Everybody, obviously, there is no one thing that's going to be true of all fanfic writers and readers. I am writing this as a gay transmasculine person and I think there are more trans people writing fic than people want to recognise when they talk about fanfiction as a "female" hobby, and that complicates this point a bit, but talking about that would add another 10 paragraphs so i'll do it later in another post, maybe. I've definitely missed nuances in this post but, again, trying to keep it as relatively concise as I can, with my own ramble forever disorder issues lmao

Fanfiction, including the proportions of fic written about men vs women, are reflective in some ways of the misogyny and sexism of the world we live in, but they are absolutely not the cause of it. harassing a fiction writer does nothing to diminish real world harm related to gender or sexuality, it just adds another real world harm of harassment, so don't do that! I just think it's interesting to think about the reasons we find the trends we do within fanfiction, and I've been fascinated seeing so many people talk about fanfic as if straight women are writing all of it when a huge majority of the fanfic writers that I know of are queer women and trans people.

[stil-lindigo]

lead balloon (the tumblr post that saved me)

if this comic resonated with you, it would mean the world to me if you donated to this palestinian family's escape fund.

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no creative notes because this isn't that kind of comic.

I know I don’t owe any of you anything but I still felt compelled to write about my long term absence. And I feel far enough away from the dangerous spot I was in to be able to make this comic. I have a therapist now, and she agreed that making this could be a very cathartic gesture, and the start of properly leaving these thoughts behind me. I am still, at seemingly random times, blindsided by fleeting desires to kill myself. They’re always passing urges, but it’s disarming, and uncomfortable. I worry sometimes that my brain’s spent so long thinking only about suicide that it’s forgotten how to think about anything else. Like, now that I've opened that door for myself, I'll never be able to fully shut it again. But I’m trying my best to encourage my mind in other directions. We'll see how that goes.

I am still donating all proceeds from my store to Palestinian causes. So far, I've donated over $15K, not including donations coming from my own pocket or the fundraising streams which jointly raised around $10K. In the time since I made my initial post about where this money would be going, the focus has shifted from aid organisations to directly donating to escape funds.

If you'd like to do the same, you can look at Operation Olive Branch, which hosts hundreds of Palestinian escape funds or donate to Safebow, which has helped facilitate the safe crossing and securing of important medical procedures for over 150 at-risk palestinians since the beginning of the genocide.

[hinamie]

10 years later

[krysmcscience]

I have some questions about karaoke night, Alex Hirsch. Very Important Questions. Which I will happily scream at a poor hapless baby triangle who can have no answers for me, and possibly also does not have object permanence yet.

Follow-up that is I guess suggestive, but let's be real here, Bill's a fucking triangle:

Dude slipped right into his birthday suit, lmao

this is so stupid :D

Anyway, I don't care what anyone says, this brilliant individual knows what's up - Bill is absolutely way more of a monsterfucker than Ford could or ever will be, full stop.

[mroddmod]

don't be weepy sleepy puppies

[ruporas]

dragon meat, you, and me

[harboretum]

It's Make a Terrible Comic Day

[chloesimaginationthings]

Happy one year anniversary to this FNAF post,,

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

HOT, SINGLE, UNSTUDIED SPONGES. 3000 NAUTICAL MILES AWAY. Come sail the distance and read Tiger Tiger!

[lotus-pear]

charm stat at debonair ‼️‼️

[pokimoko]

Asexual bird? Please

How about two asexual birds?

[otp-more-like-killmeplease]

[weaselmcdiesel]

Do You Love The Color Of The 413?

[hinamie]

unconditionally

[ikiprian]

Ghost Kitchen (brought to you by criminal entrepreneur, Red Hood)

Danny’s got the easiest job in Gotham.

He works as a fry cook at a shoddily-run, independent burger joint. Hardly anyone comes in, despite prices being criminally low, and portions insanely large, and while the manager looks like the average tough-as-nails ex-con, he lets Danny mess around in the kitchen whenever the place is empty. (Which is often. This place has to be the city’s hidden gem or something!)

Mr. Manager’s the only one ever there with Danny, except for sometimes when his buddies come over to smoke and play cards. Danny would find it shady, except part of his job is not to ask questions. Literally, he was told during the interview.

(It was a weird interview. Why would they need to hire someone who’s been in a gunfight before? Like, he has, but Gotham’s idea of “hirable qualities” is so bizarre.)

So instead he whips up some killer burgers with the frozen ingredients, and basks in the praise as the guys tell him he shouldn’t have, he does too much for this joint, ain’t that friendly!

Now, Danny’s a chef on the newer side. As a teen he’d preferred the look of Nasty Burger over anything with Michelin stars, and he only really took up cooking after Jazz moved out for college. But just like ecto-exposure used to turn the groceries sentient, Danny’s low-level ecto signature imbues all his food with something historically haunted Gothamites just love! And Danny’s never been one to half-ass a job when it makes people happy.

With fresher produce, real meat, Danny’s sure he can take his dishes to the next level. It takes a couple months of badgering, but his manager finally agrees to contact the mysterious store owner, who keeps the place going, despite profits Danny knows have to be in the red.

Danny spends the morning prepping. He pours his heart into his food, eager to impress. The big boss will be here soon, and he wants to prove that despite the dangerous location, this place has real potential!

It isn’t until the Red Hood shows up that Danny realizes he’s been working for a money laundering scheme.

[aarchimedes]

for context: I read the hobbit first over the course of two years when I was like 13, but I'm only now starting to read lotr. having a blast tho!

anyways, reblog if you feel like it 🙌🏻