#but god forbid the lesbians get nice shit

[blackdykegirlblogger]

caitvi could've been some 5 star toxic yuri if the writers (and fanbase) actually had the balls to acknowledge just how fucking toxic they (mostly cait) really are and didn't try to play it off as a healthy relationship

[misspickman]

cassierose for the ship ask game !!

Ship It

What made you ship it? i liked them in tt03, which you know, is truly a feat considering how terribly that comic treats both of them. but their dynamic (angry homoeroticism) managed to be compelling still

What are your favorite things about the ship? i enjoy girl antagonism from time to time. i know were all sick of the trope that teen girls all hate each others guts but considering cassie has a pretty good relationship with all the other girls on her team(s) its fun to see her just go ugh i hate this one. this one can go. theyre just fun and bitchy and i think they should hatefuck about it. but beside that theres also so much potential there ! i think you know, if anyone writing that comic actually cared about cassie or rose or about their character development, it would have been interesting to see their relationship change over time instead of getting one issue where cassie implicitly calls rose family while protecting her, and then the next one she immediately she calls her a manipulative psychopath for no good reason bc they cant figure out how to make the team interesting without having some wildly antagonistic relationship that doesnt make sense if u think about it for a few seconds. theyre never going to be besties but it would have been nice to see them go from blind hate to an uneasy truce; they dont like each other but they do, unfortunately, care about each other, and lets see where we go from that. + itd be interesting to dig into cassies hypocrisy when it comes to hating rose

Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship? i guess its that i would like them to grow past mindlessly despising each other ? this is not me criticizing anyone but i feel like a lot of takes on cassierose ive seen are that they should stay in the hatefucking no mushy business❌❌❌phase which is definitely fair and true to how they are in tt03. but i do have some issues with the way they were written in tt03 (particularly cassie) and would like to see their dynamic progress from that (see rant above)

[laikabu]

re: my thoughts on laios’s sexuality (long post ahead lol)

let me start this post with this. first, this contains a lot of references to the new adventurer’s bible world guide book released last february. i can read japanese, but i’m sure they’re translated somewhere. general spoiler warning in case. also… i am ESL, so sorry for any grammar errors

second, if you’re on the team that insists laios doesn’t care about humans enough to form relationships, either read the manga again or at the very least read this thread.

last, please don’t chime in with your acearo headcanons on this post. there’s already a majority of posts here that insist laios is acearo and that anything else is impossible. i don’t like it the same way i don’t like when someone declares they hc marcille as bisexual to a poster who reads her as lesbian. i already have enough people here who declare he’s ace on my own art. at least people on twitter of all places don’t do this sort of thing to me. nothing in this manga is canon, you can headcanon anything i won’t get mad if you hc him as bi or something. just. don’t be weird on my post.

okay. trust me, i love women, and i love the idea of making my favs women lovers but the idea of laios being gay really appeals to me because of his background. this isn’t fueled by yaoi since i don’t even ship the only m/m relationship i bring up here, i just think it adds a nice layer to his disconnect with his own humanity

i do think laios has a very abstract relationship with his sexuality for a multitude of reasons. he grew up in a very conservative backwater village. he has a hard time recognizing his own feelings towards others just as much as vice versa. i don’t really care for the “laios is a monsterfucker” agenda people are pushing but i do think he’d engage in sexual thoughts in his own weird way, i won’t deny his deviantart fetish shit

as an autistic person myself, i relate to how he’d prioritize his special interest over social interactions. after all, he was fixated on monster food so he’s distracted from dark thoughts. he’s not an actual glutton

he’s shy around women, but i don’t think it’s out of attraction. i just think it’s because he’s awkward and doesn’t want to be seen as a threat. there’s a couple of times when, out of armor, he deliberately tries to make himself look smaller and nonthreatening.

he didn’t show any interest towards ashivia (the hubby hunter girl marcille replaced) and just humored her because she wouldn’t leave him alone. his other party members thought he was giving her special treatment so he had to tell her he “doesnt want to give her special treatment anymore”(even though he never did), so she left

ashivia did her best to butter herself up to laios and he didn’t care, but laios thought shuro was his bestest friend in the whole world because he was too much of a pushover to reject him. ironically… what ashivia did to him parallels what he was doing to shuro

also… yeah sorry i keep bringing up that one comic of laios saying if he were falin he’d marry shuro and then begging him to take him back to his country, or that comic of laios wondering why he doesn’t like him(and then the first two questions he asks the magic mirror was what if he or shuro were women). i don’t even ship them! but it’s not a reach to assume that he likes men because of this, even if it’s kinda played like a joke(after all,a lot of people like chilshi even though their ‘shippy’ interaction was played as a joke)

of course, given the setting, i don’t think knows he’s gay, he wouldn’t have the vocabulary to label himself. i do want to dance around with the idea of him forcibly confronting his own sexuality after years of yaad pressuring him to produce heirs lol. laios might not be cishet but he’s a king so he rdgaf about that right now. i’m open to him having female consorts for political reasons, but i don’t think he’s into women, is all.

before anyone brings up his succubus… god forbid an author makes hetbait. a part of the plot twist was that not-marcille wasn’t the only succubus enticing laios, his other party members were copied too. she was the only one who approached him. also… succubi aren’t always inherently romantic. once it realized marcille didn’t work, it switched to appeal to his desire to be a monster.

[the-martyrfication-of-the-matron]

I am going to give you my fandom opinions from a fandom you are not a part of cause you always seem down for just random knowledge.

So I grew up watching Criminal Minds, my mom loved the show and I do to but much like you with 911 I am also a "vaguely interacts with fandom but kind of just watches it due to its weird toxicity but still has OPINIONS". Anyway, there are 2 characters on the show that get so much unessesary hate.

One of the characters is Haley Hotcher, who was the wife of one of the main characters, Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner, and eventually becomes his ex-wife, AND SHE IS HATED SO MUCH. For the record, the reason why she left is completely reasonable, she and Aaron had a child, and he CONSTANTLY put work above his family. She signed up to be married to a lawyer and while she did support him joining the FBI she didn't know that it meant he would never be home and when they had their son, he was still never there.

Now, there is a single scene where it can be inferred that she cheated, with a stretch. The house phone gets a call, and Hotch picks up, but it immediately hangs up and calls Haley. A lot of people took it as cheating, but it was most likely a divorce lawyer because either in the same episode or the following, Hotch is served with divorce papers. But since in can be inferred, she cheated, and that neglectful father #1 is fan favorite, she is now a horrible character. (Even though after divorce, she is then put into witness protection and then MURDERED!)

Character #2 that I find unreasonably hated is Will, the husband of one of the characters but his is much more interesting cause it is a fandom trend flipped. You know how everytime there is a female love interest for a character that is in a gay ship that female character IS SUDDENLY EVIL AND BELONGS IN THE DIRT? It is that trope but flipped! He gets in the way of a popular lesbian ship even though he is such a good dude! Genuinely just a nice man, but now he is evil!

Another part of his hatred actually comes from a problem that is very prominent in America, the hatred of characters with southern accents if the don't fall into "cowboy". The character Will has a Cajun accent (that isn't quite right, but still pretty accurate) and he is hated so much for it. There is a large history of like, can't describe it other than accent ablism, in America so like Northern American fans of the character JUST HATE HIM and it is so weird.

But yeah! Here is some fandom drama that has nothing to do with youuuuuu!

My mum actually had criminal minds as one of her ‘watch this shit on loooooop’ shows, and I watched a little bit with her. And I have a friend who’s a big fan too. So I’m on the outskirts haha.

But yeah, the cons of Big Fandom is that ex-wives? Fucking trash. Ship-cockblockers? Clearly the worst.

If a character, in any way, interrupts what the Fans Want, they’re evil and need to be destroyed. And god forbid they’re a woman, or gay, or a racial minority, or disabled, or even slightly on the fringes of being any of these things. If someone can negatively stereotype them; then they WILL

Even 9-1-1 fans, who pride themselves on being woke, do this a lot. And it’s such a shame to not be able to enjoy things because hoes can’t be normal

[blue-cypress]

Time to post about my fave vanilla romdram ahahah

Okay so like this season was really nice overall just like wonderfully made a produced it didn't feel rushed (except the random ass FOUR MONTH time skip at the end)

Mel's pregnancy arc came to a sad end that I didn't expect, but in hindsight I probably should have. There were some times where they would say things about the pregnancy and I would go 'the fuck I thought you were only telling your boss his wife and your sister about this, why are you telling this to these random extras we'll never see again??' Brie and Brady made me sad especially cause of the reason she broke up with him. Mike literally had the same secrets as him and she's still choosing to date him, which bugs the shit out of me. Also I still don't trust Mike, I get off vibes from him. Preacher is the man Bo Burnham was talking about in lower your expectations cause this man is everything. He's thoughtful strong attractive will hide a body for you can cook!! And he's dating a woman who lied about her relationship status and wanted to keep things casual even though she didn't say that at the beginning of their relationship. Also her ex is really possessive of her and she keeps telling Preacher "oh its fine, he's harmless" and then two seconds later the ex is like " she's always gonna choose her job over you, and guess what, I'm part of that job". Lizzie and Denny. God they're cute and all but he's in love with her and she loves him. Like they said that to each other with Lizzie specifically saying "love" rather than "in love". Also Dennys grandma was a biiiiiitch. Hated her. "I was doing it cause I loved you!" 'It' being lying about being in love with someone else cause I know you don't want a baby so I'm not gonna tell you I'm having a baby and never speak to you for 50 (30? I don't fucking know man) years. And then telling denny she wanted him to go back to college even though he wants to live the rest of his healthy life with someone he loves?? Bitch behavior. Going back to Mike quickly, whenever brie and Brady had a fight or argument, he would just swoop in and flirt with her, even though he knew she was dating brady, huge red flag to me. Him getting shot did nothing for me, it just gave Brady more trauma. And the fire, it got the BnB, lily's farm, Muriels house, but god forbid the bar burns down. Speaking of the fire, nick was a terrible mayor and jo Ellen shouldn't have told her husband about hopes fender bender. Hope may not be in tip top shape, but she was delegating better than nick could have dreamed. One thing i didnt really like, however, was Mel and Jack planning to buy the land of lily's farm and rebuilding said farm. Like I don't know why but it feels weird to me. I'm not even gonna touch on Cameron or Charmaine cause I am not ready to type out my rants on these two. All in all, amazing how in 5 months half of Virgin River burned down- paiges abusive husband held her hostage, died, got buried on the side of the road that's coming back to bite preacher in the ass- abusive husband's BROTHER came to Virgin river, held Paige hotage, got arrested- Jack got shot by the brother- brie came to town and had a miscarriage- Lilly (a forty ish year old woman) gave birth then died of breast cancer- Hope got into a car accident so bad she was missing for almost an entire season- Mel got pregnant and then also had a miscarriage- Tara's sister Ava came to town and revealed she had mentioned-once-disease-that-i-cant-rememeber-the-name-of AND that she is one of now two lesbians in the show- Charmaine got dumped, pregnant, engaged, was forced to give away her dog, had a high risk/high maintenance pregnacy, then BAM we barely ever saw her or heard about her pregnancy for the entire latest season also Calvin is her baby daddy?? You know what I'm just gonna stop- Jack's cabin was set on fire- hope and doc went from on the verge of divorce to happily married and probably some other things I missed.

Also the only gay people in this are Ava, Hannah (who I'm pretty sure didn't have a name until season 2), and two extras named Johnny and Adrian.

[gaelic-symphony]

3, 4, 6 and 10 for violence asks bestie 🔥

3. screenshot or description of the worst take you've seen on tumblr

*insert every incorrect quotes post that portrays Emily as some incompetent idiot chaos goblin who breaks everything and every rule and is always in trouble*

4. what was the last straw that made you finally block that annoying person?

Someone said they didn't like Emily and thought Hotch was justified in treating her like shit in her first few episodes because of course he knew he couldn't trust her 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

6. which ship fans are the most annoying?

Again, I have to pick just ONE???? Okay, I'll narrow it down to a few.

Hotchniss- This ship is a hate crime. It's awful. Even if Emily weren't very obviously a lesbian it would still be awful because it is absolutely DRIPPING with internalized misogyny. They'll turn Emily--man-hating, fiercely independent, anti-patriarchal Emily--into little Suzie homemaker so that they can project their Hotch fantasies onto her. They practically turn her into an OC because the thing is, they don't ACTUALLY care about Emily. They just have an easier time projecting themselves onto her and turning her into the "not like other girls" self-insert than they do with JJ or Penelope.

Emily/just about any man- For the most part, if you ship Emily with a man, you just don't get her character AT ALL. Demily is the one exception. I personally recognize that Emily is a lesbian, but she and Derek have such a strong connection that I'm willing to bend on that if the Demily is really well done. But everyone else who ships Emily with a man just wildly misunderstands her character and doesn't care about anything except fantasizing sex between two characters they personally find attractive.

Hotchreid- Listen, there are plenty of Hotchreid shippers who are wonderful people, and plenty of Hotchreid fics and art that are perfectly nice and lovely! But Hotchreid is also like the go-to ship for people who only care about male characters and m/m fics and would rather die than admit that female characters can be complete humans deserving of their own narratives, let alone actually READ a femslash fic, god forbid!

and honestly, I know I'm gonna get heat for this, but...

Jemily- It's only a small segment of the Jemily shippers, and is IN NO WAY reflective of my feelings on the actual ship. I like Jemily! I read Jemily! I write Jemily! But there are some Jemily shippers out there who are SO laser focused on this one ship that they're unwilling to acknowledge anything else. They're unwilling to see that Emily also has great chemistry with Penelope and Tara, or that Jemily in canon is actually kind of a hot mess.

10. worst part of fanon

the rampant misogyny, racism, and lesbophobia

[empressofthesunwriter]

The Stick of Truth

Codename: Dovahkiin Part 1!

N.K. is angry at her parents. Not only did they move again, no, but they moved into a snowy hicktown named South Park! She was sure she would hate it there, yet surprisingly she gets to participate in the epic RPG the kids play and falls for the human princess and the elf king. Who is friend, who is foe and which side should she choose?

Main Pairing: New Kid/Kenny McCormick/Kyle Broflovski

Chapter 1: Quiet little mountain town

Dear Dairy,

so here we are again.

Moved after a few weeks in Seattle now to this shitty little town named South Park in buttfucking Colorado.

I already hate it here.

It’s a tiny hole, in the middle of nowhere, right at the Meridian of misery and suffering.

This town doesn’t even have a Game Stop!

How the hell I’m supposed to get new cards for my YU-GI-OH! Deck and buy new games and anime merchandise?

Back to Amazon, it seems.

Gosh, I bet these people don’t even know what cosplay is!

Why did we need to move again?

I was happy in Seattle.

I had a nice group of friends and hot Serena Matthews wanted to go on a second date with me!

And yet, poof, again, my nomadic parents had us moved.

I will never understand them.

I’m only eleven, my body started puberty and I can’t outlive it because my parents get this urge to randomly move us from here to there.

This is such bullshit!

I wanna be a pre-teen, watch anime and talk about it with friends. Play Duel Monsters and beat asses. Cosplaying and playing video games and dear heaven kiss girls, boys, or whatever!

Serena was such a good kisser!

And her red hair was so lovely!

In this hicktown, there aren’t for sure bisexual people like me. Or god forbid lesbians. I don’t think I will like the straight dudes in this town.

I’m allergic to straight.

Yuck!

Okay, jokes aside, why this little shit town?

Couldn’t we move to California, if it was so necessary to move?

I just want to again live on the ocean side.

A loud knock was heard on my door, followed by my Mamma’s voice: “Sweetie? Hon, you all dressed?”

I look up from my Dairy. I’m sitting against my bedframe, knees up, balancing my dairy on them, and writing about my woe.

I close it with my red glitter pen between the two pages I wrote for today.

“Yes, Mamma, you can come in.”, I let her know.

Not a second later both my parents enter my room.

“Hey, princess. How do you like your new room?”, ask me my Papà.

I look around the half-finished room with the still-to-open cartons. It was bigger than my room in Seattle for sure.

“It’s all right.”, I decide.

This makes my parents smile happily.

At least they are happy.

“I know it's a big change for all of us, but ... princess, do you ... REMEMBER why we moved to this quiet little mountain town?”, wants my Papà to know.

I frown and rub my head.

That’s actually a good question.

It is all sort of a blur.

I have this sometimes. That I forget things, and can’t remember them.

Don’t know why, it has always been like this.

I learned to live with it.

The most I remember from our last day in Seattle is asking beautiful Serena for a second date and she agreed. Then going with my gang to Game Stop to buy some more children’s card games and then…then I was in our car and my parents told me, that we are moving to South Park.

Yeah, that’s about it.

The rest is a black blurb.

I rub my head harder and feel a headache forming. It’s better to stop thinking about it.

“Because you got the itch to move again.”, I answer my parents with sass.

Normally I would get called out, but strangely my parents seem to be happy about it and are whispering to each other. I can’t quite grasp what they mumble to each other.

A frown forms on my face.

If this is not suspicious, I’m straight.

“Uh, sweetie, we want you to have lots of fun here.”, turns my Mamma back to me. ”Why don't you go out and make some friends?”

“Right, get outside and PLAY, princess. Like ... like normal kids.”, adds my Papà.

“Why do you have to say it like that?”, I wonder and frown deeper.

My Mamma gives Papà a little whack on the head, which makes him whine and rub the hurting spot.

“Don’t listen to your Papà, he is just being silly, right, Chris?”

“Sure, Kelly.”

“We've got some money for you on the kitchen counter, sweetie.”, informs me, Mamma. “Just ... be back before it gets dark.”

Not like I have anything better to do than to whine at my dairy. Maybe I walk will do me good. I hardly doubt I can make friends with these hicktown children.

I’m way too queer for them.

So I put my dairy on my night table and nod.

“Of course, Mamma. I love you both.”

Even if you drag me around all of America.

“Yeah, we love you too.”, say’s Papà for both of them and they leave my room with small smiles on their faces.

I put my hands in the pocket of my pink hoodie and sign.

Well, let’s go, shall we?

I sigh loudly and watch how my breath turns white in front of me.

I’m not fucking Elsa and the cold fucking bothers me anytime!

My parents know I love warm places more, but no we had to move to this snowy hicktown.

I hate everything.

I’m glad I put my black jacket over my hoodie and gripped a pink wool hat before I got out of the house.

Dear Ra, how can people survive in this climate?

I walk down the little path to the sidewalk and for the first time today, something interesting happens.

On my left side, a little barricade is up, with a red flag, and written on it is No Humans.

Well, that IS unexpected.

What could this mean?

I decide to go right, maybe I will find some clue about what that is about.

That is when I see two little fourth-graders, one dressed as an elf and the other in a long blue robe, fighting against each other.

These little dudes seem to give their all.

“You shall die by my Warhammer, Drow Elf!”, yells the blond-haired boy.

“Nuh-uh!”, disagrees the Drow Elf.

“I banish thee to the forest realm!”

“No way, I banished you first! AHA! You can't hold out much longer!”

“Help! Somebody!! I can't hold out much longer!! Heeeeelp!”

This is all very interesting I decide and has surely to do with the sign I saw. Are they LARPing, perhaps?

Anyway, this hicktown turned exciting from 0 to a solid 8.

I must know what this is about.

But for that, I should help the little blond dude.

So I grip the Drow Elf by his clothes and tear him away from the blond boy.

“Hey, no fair. That's cheating. I'm gonna tell my mom.”, whines the Drow Elf and runs away.

Probably to his mom.

The little blond-haired boy smiles up at me, I’m at least a head taller than him, and says: “Thanks, kid. I didn't realize he had a health potion. My- my name is Butters the Merciful. I'm a paladin. I live right next door to you. We should be friends!”

LARPing, called it!

I can live with that!

“It’s whatever.”, I wave Butters off. What kind of name is this anyway? Weird. “And sure let’s be friends.”

This makes the little dude happy and I get a new Facebook friend. Why this always happens when I meet new people I haven’t the faintest idea.

It’s one of a weird me things that I don’t get.

“Now that we're friends, you should speak with the Wizard King! He's been talking about your arrival. The Wizard lives this way. In the green house, over there.”

“Sure, why not?”

Not like I have anything better to do and I like LARPing. It is really fun.

So I follow Butter, while he asks me questions.

“Hey, where are you from?”

“Was born in Washington D.C., but never really lived there.”

“Where'd you live before moving here?”

“Seattle.”

“Do you like Colorado?”

“To snowy for my taste.”

“Why are you wearing your hair like that?”

“I like bob-cuts. Long hair takes way too much time to groom it.”

“You don't talk much, do ya?”

“Meh.”

“That's ok, I can talk for both of us!”

You surely do Butters. The little fourth grader is amusing. Really happy-go-lucky it seems.

We reach the green-colored house and my new friend knocks. A little fat kid who tries his hardest to be a wizard opens the door.

With my super detective skills, I detect that this must be the Wizard King. Yet, Butter screams it to the heavens.

At least they seem dedicated to their LARPing.

“So, you are the New Kid.”, guesses the Wizard King right. “Your coming was foretold by Coldwell Banker. I am the Wizard King. But the time for talk is not nigh. Let me show you my kingdom.”

“All right.”, I just say and follow the two smaller boys into the house.

“Ohh, who's your new friend, Eric?”, asks a brunette woman the Wizard King.

“Shut up, mom, not now.”

The Wizard King or Eric seems to be kind of a dick. I would never talk to my parents like that.

“Hello, ma’am, nice to meet you.”, I greet her with my best smile.

She can’t even answer as Eric tells me that she isn’t part of the game and I shouldn’t talk to her.

Wow, rude much?

He is a dick.

Still, I follow him and Butter to his backyard. I’m way too curious about what’s there.

“Welcome ... to the Kingdom of Kupa Keep!”, presents me, Eric, his backyard.

I must say, you see that the kids tried to make their best what they had and it’s kinda okay. Can’t expect a masterpiece from 10 years old.

So I simply say: “Nice, dude.”

The answer pleases Eric and he gives me a tour. First, he leads me to the Armory where a brunette boy with a silver helmet stands.

“Our weapon shop here is tended by Clyde, a level 14 warrior.”, tells me, Eric.

I give Clyde a wave and we move to the stables.

“Here you can see our massive stables, overseen by the level 9 ranger Scott Malkinson, who has the power of diabetes.”

What kind of power is diabetes?

From what I know it is a really huge hassle.

I nod to Scott and follow Eric to…Princess Zelda?

The person now before me wears a costume and a blond wig which reminds me a lot of her.

Is Link somewhere too?

Princess Zelda rip-off twirls one of her fake blond locks around her finger and gives a soft giggle.

She pats her eyelashes at me.

I have a feeling she is flirting with me…well she has really beautiful blue eyes from what can I see since her face is covered mostly by her orange parker.

 “And here, of course, is the breathtaking and lovely Princess Kenny. The fairest maiden in all the kingdom.”, presents Eric her. “Don't ask why Kenny wanted to be a chick, it's just how he seems to be rolling right now.”

Ah, so the princess is actually a boy!

So either he/she is genderfluid or attracted to more than one gender or both since she is clearly hitting on me.

I’m damn happy that there is at least one queer kid in this town!

So nothing bad with flirting back.

I give her a wick and she giggles more behind her hand.

Nailed it.

I decide to talk to her.

“Hey beautiful, how it’s going?”, I ask her and path my own eyelashes.

Again she giggles cutely and…she wishes for a flower? Her speech is so muffled thanks to the parker that I only understood a part.

Where do I get a flower now?

I look around the kingdom and see a daffodil. That we will do!

Quickly I pick it up and present her the flower with a bow.

She gasps happily, taking it.

“A daffodil for me?? Teeheehee, you shouldn't have.”

“Its beauty is nothing against yours, your highness.”, I flirt, which makes her wave her hand before her face and I can see that she is turning red.

Still got it.

“Hey New Kid are you done now? We got shit to do.”, calls the Wizard King for my attention.

I send the princess a kiss and join up with him and Butters.

“You have been sought out, New Kid, because humans everywhere are in great danger. I need something from you and, in return, I am prepared to allow you into my kingdom. I know you are very excited. It's time for your first quest, but first - please tell us thy name.”

“I’m Novella-Karin Campo. But people mostly call me N.K.”, I introduce myself.

Both Eric and Butters stare at me. What’s up with that look?

“That’s a really-“

Butters can’t even finish his sentence, as Eric starts to laugh like a manic holding his chubby belly.

“Hahahaha, that’s the douche’s name I ever heard for a dude! Hahaha, New Kid, your parents must fucking hate you. Hahaha!”

…Did he just call me a dude?!

Oh jeez, not again!

People sometimes mistake me for a boy, I don’t know why.

I clearly look like a girl, even if I have a bob cut!

For Ra Sake, I already need to wear a bra! And both my ears are pierced!

Why is this happening again?

I open my mouth to tell chubby that I’m female and identify as one, as I see how Butters shakes his head and makes Aport-the-mission signs.

Clearly, I shouldn’t correct Eric.

Oh, I have a feeling, and also thanks to Butters, that Eric doesn’t let girls play with them.

But I wanna play with them.

So I have to pretend to be a boy.

Oh well, if Kenny a boy can be Princess Zelda, then I a girl can be Link. I still have somewhere my old Link cosplay from last year’s Comic-Con.

It’s not tragic.

Eric finally calms down from his laughing and grins wicked.

I don’t like this face.

“You know what N.K., since you already have a douche name I think it’s fitting for you to be called…Douchebag!”

Asshole.

I grit my teeth and fight against the urge to punch this fuckers face in.

What one endures, just to not die of boredom!

“You will now choose a class: Fighter, Mage, Thief, or Jew.”

“Jew?”, I repeated confused.

How can be Jew a class in a LARPing, isn’t it more a religion?

“Jew, huh? So I guess we'll never really be friends.”

“No, I was just surprised to hear that!”, I tell him. “I take the mage.”

“Then we welcome to our kingdom Douchebag the Mage!”, proclaims Eric.

Butters cheers for me, meanwhile I plan how I can take revenge on Eric for dubbing me Douchebag. If I ever get the chance to kick his ass, I will take it, whatever I have to do!

Butters hands me the Mage gear and I decide that I definitely will go home and put one of my cosplays on.

I have a beautiful Dark Magician Girl Cosplay, sadly I think I should probably go with Link for the time being.

So long till I get what beef Eric has with girls and how I can make myself so valuable in this game that he doesn’t kick me out from it.

It is quite clear that Eric calls the shots here.

Just my luck.

Now he wants from me that I get a weapon, so I walk over to Clyde.

“Would you like to see my wares, weary traveler?”, ask me the brunette boy. “Perhaps you would like to hear tips and rumors for two dollars?”

I have a feeling that this is a scam, so I just ask him to show me his weapons.

Sadly it seems I can only buy the twig since the weapons have levels and my level is apparently too low.

I give the kids this, they are really creative.

With my new weapon, I return to Eric. Time to learn how to fight!

Next

[bramblefrump]

This is gonna sound weird but hear me out.

The further I've gotten into my transition, I feel the further moved away from gay men's culture but people haven't quite understand what I mean by that. And it's kind of annoying.

Back when I was like 18 I was all about that shit, if it wasn't for the gay men in my life at the time, I'd've never come out as queer in the first place. I came out as bi and had equal experiences with boy n girls but I still felt like I had to present the stereotypically gay side to be accepted for it.

And like during uni, I was going to the gay bars, using all the lingo and such (I know I type like a victorian widow) but it just felt like I was forcing it y'know?

Then like, around 2020 when I started transition I began taking on some more lesbian traits until eventually it just felt normal. I wouldn't say I'm the most up to date culture wise but whenever I've encountered lesbianic ideas in films and books, it just clicks now like, hell yeah that's me!

But that hasn't changed how people see me. People still want to treat me like a gay man but my masculine traits are all kinda played through this lesbian filter meaning, yes they are right to assume I'm queer but like, I'm not queer they way they think. So in the end I get this kinda disappointed stare cause I'm not being the "over-the-top femme gay" they're expecting me to be, I'm just a dyke.

Weirdly it's never been a problem with people in the pub industry though.

My point being, I dunno why straight people just assume all queers are the same when we don't loom or sound the same most of the time? And if people took the time to properly differentiate how the cultures intertwine instead of just lumping us all together like a pie chart with a really large gay section, middling lesbian section and then tiny slices for trans, asexual, queer+ folks.

Plus it then sucks cause I go to all this effort to properly understand the whole community (mainly cause I want to anyway) and then I have to explain it to people who don't give two shits but if I don't, they're just gonna keep treating me like a gay guy.

"Did you watch drag race?" "Did you watch ?" "Isn't pride so much fun, i got drunk there last year!" "My uncle has a boyfriend" etc. like cool, that's really nice, but I wanna talk about Fun Home and frotting so . . .

Also once I had to explain to someone that American drag culture came from trans people and not gay men, a girl who had seen Pose and was asking my thoughts.

Tbf, since I've started passing more I get more trans related questions but if I get misgendered by a middle aged white woman, god forbid.

[storytimewithnova]

Ken not barbie

Disclamer/also trigger warning this is going to contain homphobic/toxic parents I myself don’t normally write this stuff but i am part of LGBTQ+ so i am really sorry in advance for what is going to come out of this i am writing this at 5:00 in the morning i have had zero sleep anyway on with the story

Hinata’s parents are homophobic for example his father because he is always the main one pushing the topic Keeps saying “when are you going to get a girlfriend” or “why can’t you be with that nice girl yachi from you class with him thinking 💭 sure dad a gay and a lesbian hook up i can see that going down well i have a boyfriend. God knows how many times he wanted to scream that at them then he had an idea he message Kiyoko

Private messages between kiyo and hina

Kiyoko:hey sho whats up

Shoyo: hadn’t said anything yet

Kiyoko:i know whats up

Shoyo:my parents are being completely homophobic again they keep asking me when am i going to get a girlfriend and to hook up with your girlfriend i have Issei i need help

Kiyoko:okay way a head of you lets make a group chat

Kiyoko created a group chat

Kiyoko named the group chat ken not barbie

Kiyoko added Seijoh4 suga kenma kuroo akaashi bokuto sho yachi Mr and mrs hinata

In the ken not barbie GC

Kiyoko:before anyone talks mr and mrs hinata your here to listen the reast of you are here to help is that clear

Everyone: HaiEveryone: Hai

Kiyoko:🎶… Two little boys Met each other on the playground Just like the rest Didn't stick out from the crowd🎶

Yachi:🎶But between themeselves They knew that they were different But they pushed it down 'Cause nobody would even listen🎶

Oikawa:😮 🎶… Their parents always saying "Boy, when you grow up You're gonna find a nice lady Make sure you act tough🎶

Mrs hinata:sho what are your friends talking about

Sho:….

MR Hinata:🎶 You'll be living a life Like Barbie and ken Come on suck it up And forget this nonsense🎶

Issei:🎶… What if he wants Ken not Barbie? Why should he have to say sorry? Tell me do you even listen To all the dumb shit you're slippin'🎶

Sho:Babe I-

MR Hinata:What did you just call him

Kenma:Sir back down 🎶We can love who we want to Don't say he's not supposed to If he loves ken not Barbie He doesn't have to say sorry🎶

Kuroo:I just fell in love all over again

MR Hinata:Disgusting

Shoyo:Dad shut up

Kiyoko:🎶… No, not to you Not to me Not to anyone, anyone, anyone🎶

Suga:🎶… No, not to you Not to me Not to anyone, anyone, anyone Oh-oh🎶

Mrs Hinata:Honey is that how we made you feel

Shoyo:Honestly yes

Akaashi:🎶… Avoiding mom and dad When they're asking "Who's your girlfriend?" 'Cause Lord forbid they see His true identity🎶

Bokuto:You made your own son hate himself

Mr Hinata:As he should he is wrong

Iwaizumi:Then sir we are all wrong

Mr Hinata:What?!

Iwa: I'm Gay

Yachi: I'm Lesbian

Kuroo:I'm also Gay and Poly

Akaashi: ^

Hiro: I'm Bi

Bokuto: Bi and poly with my bfs

Suga: I'm gay

Oikawa: I'm also gay

Kenma: Bi and poly

Issei: Gay and happily dating sho

Kiyoko: Lesbian

Sho: Gay

Kuroo:🎶… His parents always saying "Boy, when will you see You'll be happy I know It's just a woman you need You'll be such a great Ken Just gotta find your Barbie Make sure you act like a man It's what you're born to be🎶

Sho:🎶… What if I wants Ken, not Barbie? Why should I have to say sorry? Tell me do you even listen To all the dumb shit you're slippin' We can love who we want to Don't say i’m not suppose to If I loves Ken, not Barbie I don’t have to say sorry🎶

Mr Hinata:You bloody well do

Mrs hinata:🎶… No, not to you Not to me🎶

Mt Hinata:Honey you are meant to be on my side here

Mrs hinata:No No not now I have learnt we are pushing our son away oh and for the record i want a Divorce i know you are cheating on me go back to the US with your whore leave me and my son alone

Mr Hinata:Fine

Suga:🎶Not to anyone, anyone, anyone Not to you Not to me Not to anyone, anyone, anyone … No, no He doesn't have to say sorry No, no He's never gonna say sorry🎶

Shoyo:🎶… I always wanted Ken, not Barbie I never ever have to say sorry Nobody is gonna listen To all the dumb shit you're slippin' We can love who we want to Don't say i’m not supposed to I’ll always love Ken not Barbie And i don’t have to say sorry To you🎶

Mr hinata is offline

Mrs hinata:I am so sorry son

Shoyo:Its okay mom you were just trying to keep the peace with dad

Mrs hinata:C-can i meet your bf please

Shoyo:Issei what do you say i think its just going to be me mom and my bartty sisters if you can deal with that

Issei:I would love to meet you mrs hinata

Mrs hinata:Tonight for dinner

Issei:Sure thank you so much for accepting me and your son

Mrs hinata: I didn’t realise what affect my husbands actions was having on him

Yachi:None of us did auntie

Suga:Never knew your dad was like that hinata

Shoyo:Yeah he would go as far as theatening me with conversion therapy just to get his stright son back i was never stright to start with

Mrs hinata:I never knew this

Issei: Sunshine we have to get ready to have dinner with your mom

Shoyo:Right thanks again for your help everyone

Everyone: your welcome shoyo/ hinata/chibi chan

And after that day Mrs Hinata was more accepting Mr hinata did go back to the US and took his side bitch with him they are now married with kids Issei and hinata moved in together and as it is also almost time for hinata to graduate the will be looking at colleges and corse together all in all the found their happiness and was finally accepted and thats all they could ask for in life the rest is just a bonus

[frostyfiend]

//Political Vent dont mind me//

Another ramble from Ter here but man I would GENUINELY prefer Trump over DeSantis in the fuckin 2024 election. Its so barf-worthy to say but this is where I'm fuckin at rn.

Neither is fucking optimal... and tbh neither is Biden but I feel Biden at the very least a roadblock to total facism. A really shitty one but at least there is one. Keeping either one of those scumbags out of office is enough for me to earn my vote.

But man, I am leaving the shithole that is Florida to escape DeSantis's dogshit policies. I wanted to leave anyways just because I don't like the vibes here, but its become such an unlivable hellhole and I am financially worse off than I've ever been despite working my highest paying job. PLEASE don't let this evil shit bag ruin whatever good America has left. I cant leave the country. I don't have the means to. I'm not even surviving as is, I'm having to leach money off my father because I can no longer sustain myself in my apartment and I hate having to do that.

And the worst part of it, the DeSantis's biggest supporters aren't even native to Florida. They're seasonal shitbags who only live here when the weather is nice. Anyone who says that FL is thriving under DeSantis either doesn't live here full time, or has only lived here for a few years. I've lived here since I was 10, we are not fucking thriving. Neither will the rest of America under DeShitass.

At least we know kinda what to expect with Trump... DeSantis is a different kind of danger. I feel between the 2, he's the bigger threat to anyone who he doesn't like. He's been shown to abuse his power by attempting to silence Disney, as well as a state baseball team for daring to speak out. He has effectively ruined the already shit FL education system, considering a teacher is currently under investigation for the heinous crime of showing a goddamn Disney movie to her class.

Don't even get me started on how "free" Florida is as a non gender conforming lesbian. Now I have to take my goddamn legal ID into the bathroom, god forbid some Karen old lady feels the need to call the cops on me because she doesn't like my small boobs and short hair. I guess I'm not allowed to piss anymore in the beautiful and free sunshine state.

[tristinai]

As another long time fandom person, all of ^. But with the way queer relationships have been sanitized in more recent media to appeal to straight audiences, I am almost happier that Johnshi will likely never be canon. If so, I feel as if everything that makes Johnny and Kenshi's dynamic so compelling would be stripped from them and we would end up with watered down characters who have maybe one or two flirty lines, romance that's referred to in dialogue but occurs off-screen, and little-to-no physical contact when they are in a scene together because god forbid the straights get upset. Regardless, the straights would rage online, harass the shit out of Netherrealm, make a shit ton of "Go woke, Go broke" YouTube rants about why MK1 is the latest example of the decline of gaming, and then demand refunds and boycott the game.

Those offhand comments about the palatable lipstick lesbian couple made by a number of MK characters throughout the story mode/intros? Acceptable.

A well-written, enemies-to-lovers relationship that develops between two male characters throughout story mode? Ha!

I don't doubt that if we ended up with Johnny Cage and Kiyoko Takahashi, or Janet Cage and Kenshi Takahashi, as this timeline's Johnny and Kenshi, that the end scene at Madame Bo's tea house would have probably ended with Johnny/Janet coyly asking, "So, does this count as a first date?" and Kenshi/Kiyoko replying, "Keep trying, Cage" but making it so obvious there are more dates to come. If not explicitly confirmed that they are together, the game would give hetero Cage/Takahashi a "Will they, won't they?" vibe by the end of the game as Johnny and Kenshi have arguably the most popular heterosexual romantic trope as their friendship dynamic (enemies-to-lovers. Yes, I get that Johnny and Kenshi aren't lovers but I mean that the progression of their relationship would have been romantic if they didn't take a detour down NO HOMO lane and stayed there XD).

I don't know if I really have a lot to add to this conversation. I think the TL; DR version is we can't have nice things XD

Big agree with what you said about Johnshi. I've been in fandoms for a fuckton long time and this isn't new but damn does it bother me that in the year 2023 we still have to go through this.

It isn't only how the story goes for both Kenshi and Johnny (they meet at their lowest, go through hell together and come out of it as better people). It's also the banter in the intros (not only between them but also the fact that Kenshi and Johnny talk about each other to the others). And don't get me started with how their designs work : the blindfold is now forever tied to Johnny and the whole red/blue design going on.

But no. We can't have what would be the most organic relationship in the whole MK1 story. Instead we have Syzoth and Ashrah (which, don't take me wrong I LOVE them both) who happen to breath in the same room and possibly bond outside of the mainstory?

Agh sorry for the rant but sometimes I get bitter bc we couuuld have it aaaaaall >:(

EXACTLY 😤😤 I AM SO MAD!!!

Let me rant some more about this.

NRS was the first to introduce the first ever gay character in the fighter style video games. Love them for it, love that Taleena is canon. However, they're still pussayh for not making johnshi canon.

So i have been fangirl for more than a decade and IT IS ALWAYS THE SAME DAMN PROBLEM WITH BIG PRODUCTION COMPANIES they're so afraid of public backlash.

Let me tell you why not making Johnshi canon situation is different from Taleena and Kung Jin by opening big ass can of worms.

1. MK is dominated by cis hetero males. Yes, many people from various bg play the game, but it is undeniably true that the majority of fan base is men.

2. There's a phenomenon called the fetishization of lesbian and bisexual women. I am aware that I'm being controversial by saying this, but this fetishization makes the general public be more "accepting" of lesbain couple than the rest of the queer community, and it resonates mostly in straight men where they see queer women as objects that are simply putting on a show for the enjoyment of those watching.

This leads to my next point that it is a high probability that Taleena is allowed to be canon because the backlash from the cis hetero male fan base will be less than having gay relationship in the game. And let me tell you, Taleena interaction is bare minimum in the story mode!! I mean, yeah, they're trying to hide their relationship from others and the story is not exactly focused on them but they can be so much more! I can gloss over the lack of taleena content but was hoping for more in the future installment. But guess fucking what? Alternate universe Tanya and Mileena are rumored to be married to men in the upcoming mk1 side story.

Like imagine the vast possibility of having alternate universes where you can notch up the teased Forbidden Lovers trope but instead of having Taleena being happily united, NRS makes their only queer relationship straight???? *maniacal laugh* Honestly i will fight NRS on SIGHT. In my eyes, this only proves that they don't really care about queer representation, they're just filling the diversity qouta.

3. With what i said, NRS is a fucking coward for not making their popular male characters gay. You might bring up my boy Kung Jin but listen to me, debuting new queer character and making existing fan favorite character queer are completely different things. Kung Jin is first introduced in MK X and his sexual orientation is subtly suggested in the game. While Johnny Cage has been rated among the top Mortal Kombat characters by various gaming media publications.

If NRS made Johnny gay and in a relationship with Kenshi, imagine how fucking big the media coverage of them would have been. Literally, the second coming of that beer company queer backlash would have happened. Every gaming news outlet would be making articles on it. Johnshi would be trending on twitter.

I understand that it would be quite a risk to that to your business but guess what? They gave the most organic, the most heartfelt, the most tender story arc (ok i could be lil baised but you cant deny the chemistry) then slapped good ol' guys being pals and best friends forever crap on them 🙃

If Johnny and Kenshi were opposite gender, no cap, NO FUCKING CAP THAT THEY WOULD HAVE A FUCKING COUPLE.

4. I think Johnshi arc takes almost half of the story mode because we go through Johnny, Raiden, Kenshi, Baraka, Ashrah, Syzoth POVs till they come back from Outworld mission and in every chapter, Johnny and Kenshi get significant moments. And those moments are exclusive to only two of them, specifically tailored to them.

People say they're just friends, but i think the difference really shines if you consider that Kung Lao and Raiden are equally friends with them too. During outworld mission, Kung Lao has minimal dailogues and screen time when Johnny and Kenshi have interaction. If Kenshi and Johnny were just friends, they should have shown Kung Lao's reaction to Kenshi's blinding, Kung Lao's worry for Kenshi in the Shang Tsung's real laboratory, Kung Lao's line for Kenshi's regained sight RIGHT ALONG SIDE WITH JOHNNY.

What Kenshi and Johnny have exclusively belongs to them. That sets the difference between platonic friendship and the connection of those two.

Straight couples have less fucking interaction than one fucking scene and they are magically together. So tell me why the fuck Johnshi is not real

They SHOULD BE REAL and I'm so DONE with NRS

[clericbyers]

Getting real sick of every post talking about queerbaiting in the show that gets enough notes becomes full of people making fun of us, saying we're just upset our ships didn't become canon, or saying Will not coming out is "realistic" for the 80s.

Last I checked, Stranger Things is a work of fiction not based on real life events, everything in the show was decided by someone else. They could have decided to have Will explicitly say he's gay or just admit his feelings for Mike to Jonathan, the person who would never reject him. Everything they did was a choice. Fuck their "realism." All it's done is give viewers the choice to view Will as straight (and now in love with El I bet) or still "behind his peers," cause god forbid there's a second queer person on the show.

Never forget Robin is a lesbian cause Maya Hawke demanded it of the Duffers.

!!! this all of this!! christ the only people really losing their minds over a ship are the people who keep claiming cries of queerbait are about a ship. the people misusing the term arent the people using it in full earnest this go around . and its sad how people want to shit on others for being upset bc "realism" ok . sure . im supposed to be suspending realism while i watch this show bc there is a supernatural alternate dimension invading the world, but i need to be the most realistic fucker in the world apparently when it comes to wanting queer rep or racism that isnt fodder for white characters for a show set in the 80s. cool . nice comeback people !!

[aeondeug]

So while I was reading GtN and HtN I occasionally stopped to be like “Wow, it’s great how these can be just so gay!” And like. That is really great. Super great. I love that about them. But I also remember at least once stopping and going “Wow, it’s great that there’s no homophobia here!” And like at the time I just kind of nodded along to myself. Around when I just finished GtN, I remember being very fond of the bit after the book with like the guy explaining like. The deal with necro/cav relationships in The Media and throughout history and how actually none of these things have ever been romance. This is just a pure relationship, unaffected by naughty things like ROMANCE. WHY DOES EVERYTHING NEED TO BE ROMANCE?! shouts the author of this paper. And I laughed at this. Because it reminded me a lot of people who do this shit with queer love. They do it with history and just go “Why does Sappho have to be gay, why can’t she just have passionate feelings for her BFFs”. Which is mindbogglingly stupid to me and anyone who has so much as LOOKED at some of the poem fragments. But like people do say that shit. And they do this a lot over like queer anything in fiction unless it like punches you in the face with rainbows immediately. “Why do Bubblegum and Marceline have to be gay? They’re just friends!” is a take that I legitimately saw on the day of the finale. And not just once. I saw it a few times. And I’ve seen that happen over so many ships in so many things, whether or not the ships end up canon. “Why does it have to be gay?” and the specific sort of outrage over it I’ve seen in essay length posts is just common, and that sort of outrage reads very similar to the argument that dude made about necro/cav relationships. It reads like that and close enough so that I made a joke about it even. I didn’t think too, too much on this at first though because I mean. We have Abigail and Magnus. They’re right there. A man and a woman, a husband and a wife. So like I was able to simultaneously go “omg it’s just like those why can’t they just be friends WHY DOES IT NEED TO BE GAY people” and also “wow it’s nice that there are spooky negative queer experiences of SADNESS here”. Which has got me thinking. Ok. So we have that essay. Now what else do we have in the books? I suppose could point at the entirety of Gideon and Harrow’s just furious refusal to admit that they might actually be in love with one another. Even though it appears to be obvious to literally everyone else in the galaxy. And is obvious to the readers. Hell, Gideon even has a moment of feeling like she needs to tell Harrow something the day before she dies. Something which is heavily romance coded, I don’t know the word for it. But like a “Wow I feel a need to tell them something and it’ll be my last shot” before a death just kind of always reads “It was an ‘I love you’. They needed to say it and didn’t get a chance”. So we’ve got that and, specifically, we’ve got their outrage at the suggestions. Gideon stresses that she’s JUST Harrow’s cav. And she’s very fucking insistent on that. Part of the why is that she knows Harrow is in love with a fucking dead girl in a casket but like. It just hits a certain way. There’s also Harrow’s just repeated disgust she expresses towards the concept of necro/cav relationships. She needs to explain away to herself that like, well, Abigail and Magnus were ALREADY married before he was named her cavalier primary so maybe that makes it fine. And even then she’s not like super duper comfy with the idea. A taboo has been broken, Harrow feels, and she needs to get really rules lawery to find any comfort with that. Other small things that feel of note to me here are the nature of the ways we know that these two are gay outside of like. Their weird thing for one another. With Gideon we’re introduced to it basically immediately with her joke about titty mags. Harrow specifically makes a comment at some point that some of the magazines Gideon gets are very gross, yes. Her interest in women is explicitly made sexual from the get go, and the idea that The Gays are just weird sex fiends and there is no love there is a frequent one. With Harrow meanwhile we know because she says she’s in love with the girl in the Locked Tomb. Who is very much dead. A thing that is fucky enough that like there is an entire song and dance about “GIDEON THE FIRST IS MAKING OUT WITH A CORPSE??????” and how Harrow is a hypocrite for being so offended by that all. Also the girl is behind the door. She is something that isn’t supposed to be seen or known about or, heaven forbid, woken up. That is all the ultimate taboo and Harrow not only fucking broke that but she looked at the girl and went “Wow I’m in love” on the spot. So we have this collection of things that could be read as some sort of metaphor for like...The taboo nature of queer love. “Why can’t they just be friends?” and issues of purity and the lack thereof. And we have characters who are very clearly in love but who can’t just admit that because they think there’s something fucking wrong with that. Gideon’s JUST her cav and Harrow is also in love with a dead chick. We also have Magnus and Abigail around who are just like. Happily married and fine with things regarding their whole necro/cav aesthetic. Ianthe doesn’t seem to give a shit that Gideon’s into Harrow at all. There’s a fondness for necro/cav relationships enough that there’s an entire romance genre centered on them and like characters in the cast are fond of those, some of them. Things appear to be Fine, at least as far as their friends are concerned. Maybe the asshole writing the essay that kicked this pondering off would have an issue and a stuffy old grandma would pitch a fit. But like their friends don’t have a problem with necro/cav shit. But we still very much have Gideon and Harrow being “Well no. We’re just a necromancer and their cavalier. GOD.” Now part of what got me thinking about this is that I recently decided to start watching Bly Manor. Because fuck it we haven’t yet. And specifically part of why is I remember seeing an analysis of it done by Rowan Ellis which had this bit where like the argument that “Bly Manor proves you can do queer stories without homophobia being a part of it!” is brought up and like...Ellis is like “Ok but we very much do just lock a queer woman in a literal closet while she screams to be let out”. And lo and behold in the first episode we very much do just lock a queer woman in a literal closet while she screams to be let out. In an episode showing that she’s like just unable to go back home for...some reason. And that she has some sort of difficulty with her relationship with her mother. No, the show is not having the character literally go “Wow I sure am in the closet and I kind of fucking hate that woe is me I am so gay”. But figuratively? It’s all over the place in that first episode. I’m not sure about the others because I haven’t watched them, but it is there in the very first one. And that’s something horror does very well. It takes things that are scary and uncomfortable and bundles them up in shades of metaphor. It hides them from  you by showing you the thing cleverly disguised. Maybe you do not notice it the first time through perhaps. Maybe you felt that a certain thing like the closet scene resonated very hard with you and you’re not sure why. But you perhaps don’t consciously go “Aha! It is the horror of being closeted!” Upon looking back on it or back through it though you might notice it. And be like “Oh that was there. Holy fuck.” Now maybe you’re also someone who isn’t like. Comfortable. With straightforward depictions of specifically queer suffering. Maybe it’s just too scary. But with this show hiding it in a metaphor you got to sit through that. You got to be brave enough to sit through a very, very scary thing. And afterwords you go to think about it. This is the power of metaphor and it’s something horror has been very, very good at doing for ages. Maybe racism or homophobia or whatever else is too nerve wracking for you to look at face on in media, but maybe you can watch a movie or a show where the horror of those things are very much there but cloaked in metaphor. And so maybe we are getting that with Gideon and Harrow’s weird issues around how “taboo” their feelings are. Two people who are just unwilling to believe that it might be that thing, in part because that thing is “taboo”. Except instead of the taboo being literally “They’re lesbians, Harold,” it’s instead cloaked in a comforting metaphor of necro/cav relationships and some dude who is really fucking offended at people’s space ao3 fanfictions about his historical favs. Which is important because every fucking scrap of anything one gets is an argument. It can’t just be that they’re in love. It’s that you must PROVE it and some asshole with a degree or just a bone to pick is going to come by and be like “WHY CAN’T THEY JUST BE A NECRO AND A CAV” about it all. And like I’m someone who’s known they’re into other women for a long while now. At least half my life. We have conquered that hurdle. But we haven’t entirely unpacked all the weird little societal bullshit that is still in there. Hiding. Lurking. And that societal bullshit specifically frames that sort of love as something gross and taboo and “Why Can’t They Just Be Friends?”. With that last thing hurting a lot. I’ve constantly run across people going “Why can’t they just be friends?” or going “They just have a sisterly relationship!” about things I shipped. Even when those things involved shit like the characters kissing on screen or mentioning that they’ve been dating in a sequel series. I can’t simply like my ships. I can’t simply see myself in romance. Because my sort of love is so taboo that it is, in itself, a debate. Maybe being shown the thing cleverly disguised as another thing might help me unpack that. At the very least it helps me look at it. When it’s something that hurts a lot to this day.

[iampikachuhearmeroar]

okay i’m going to go off about celebs again…. but like…. does anyone remember the gross asf vitriol that went around in 2011-2013 about justin bieber where the joke was “more like justINE bieber am i right??? 😂😂😅😅” from the “haters” of him. i, myself, actually joined in on this; considering that i thought that liking all the emo shit i was into made me “more mature than belibers” or some other absolutely batshit backwards bullshit that i would’ve spat out at the time to sound “edgy” and “NoT LiKe OtHeR GiRlS 👩🏻‍🎤👩🏻‍🎤”….. when in my group at catholic school, i had two girls in my group that were belibers themselves lol. i honestly made zilch sense.

but like to rest on this a bit, what the actual fuck was up with this joke???? why the fuck did the whole world just gang up on this teenage boy, who through no fault of his own, was still going through puberty…. so of course his voice was still going to be high??? and then the weird fucking speculation some fucking gross ass literal grown up adult people had back then of “when do you/we think his balls are going drop, so that we wont be call to be able to call him justine bieber anymore 😅😭??? just let us have our fun??!!” like what the FUCK??? why did everyone think that this was their business??? it wasn’t his fault in a sense that he stumbled into usher and got signed.

like….. no wonder justin’s had several breakdowns over the years. i would too. because how the fuck would you deal with this???? people just throwing out so casually this horrible fucking vitriol that they think you’re a girl OR think that you should get a sex change because it’s obviously a lie that he’s a boy/man OR think that you’re not “just a butch lesbian disguised as a 16yo boy” (these were legit other arguments at the time). like he was a KID for fucks sake. who the fuck asks to go through puberty in the fucking spotlight???? fucking N O O N E thats fucking who. like obviously he’s had a myriad of meltdowns and bad publicity over the years since. but this bullshit would’ve been so fucking horrible to take during the shitty years of puberty and high school to boot. obviously, in the years since, he’s done roast battles with jokes about this, so it’s good that he was able deal with it and joke about it, albeit eventually.

but i would’ve absolutely fucking hated to have all my pubescent behaviour and changes being fucking aired and speculated on in public view, for completely random people, famous or not, to comment on and make fun of. like i’ve talked before about the trouble i had with my period in my teens. i would’ve LOATHED to have that shit aired as it happened, on a red carpet for example. or as im accepting an award or just let alone performing at a show. just mid speech or mid performance. i would’ve bled (leaked) onto an expensive costume or provided expensive designer dress (or my own clothes/outfit) because my flow for a particular month/week was uber heavy. or god forbid, i wouldve thrown up mid-press-junket-interview on air or almost fucking passed out as well, depending on how my cycle/ovaries/hormones were feeling during a particular month/week.

like this is besides my point in a sense, but still. i would’ve had this aired and speculated on if i’d been catapulted to fame at the same time as bieber (and keep in mind, he is literally only a year older than me). but my period struggles would have been spun as “are you SURE this GIRL isn’t a BOY who knows nothing about period products??? does she know ANYTHING about pads & tampons so she WON’T bleed onto her dress or the like??? what a lazy, disgusting “girl”!” or “does she KNOW just how WEAK she is for NOT controlling her period pain??? how dare she pass out mid-show??? does she know she’s FAKING IT??? what a weak person, just GET UP and PERFORM, MONKEY because PERIODS ARENT THAT BAD!!! just think like a MAN and your period pain will go away!” or some other bizarre speculative bullshit that has absolutely nothing to do with anyone else.

when unbeknownst to anyone, i would’ve had about 5 advil tablets to both deal with my utterly unbearable period pain and unfathomably blinding and mind-numbing hormonal period headache, right before the said event or interview or whatever the fuck celeb duty i was carrying out. i would’ve had heat pads on, i would have been dizzy when arriving to and leaving from sets, etc etc etc. and finally, i would’ve been incredibly tired during all of this…… because of how much my periods fucked me around as a teen, to the point that some nights i couldn’t even fucking sleep properly. or the only reprieve i would get from the pain would be the aforementioned 5 advil tablets and an all day nap. on top of all this, i probably would’ve had to BEG (all because video call interviews weren’t particularly popular back then) for some like video call interview type thing from my bedroom or home studio or whatever, just to avoid going into an actual studio & set so i could just lay in bed or sit somewhere comfortable for the whole interview. and again etc etc etc because of all the other problems i had with my periods in my teens til my early fucking 20s, that i’ve mentioned several times on/in various posts on this hellsite over the years.

and the same goes for female stars like sasha pieterse from PLL when she opened up about her struggle with PCOS, and halsey with sharing her struggle with endometriosis. i would’ve hated to go through those medical conditions in the spotlight. i feel for them. it’s also the same thing with boobs: where the most famous example in recent years is ariel winter from modern family….. with how she needed a breast reduction because her boobs were giving her back problems and stuff, because she was like an F cup or something. and she also hated the creepy ass comments she was getting from gross dudes about how nice her boobs were or whatever the fuck, even while she was still a teen on the show.

anyway. back to bieber. i only say this because literally like last year or in 2019, the bieber joke appeared in my feed again in the first time in YEARS and i ended up tagging one of my old catholic school friends like “how the fuck do people still think this is funny?? it’s so 2011. and come to think of it, it was never funny in the first place anyway”. like both the media and the public had absolutely no right to speculate this shit and invade a young teen boy’s privacy like this??? it was so fucked up. idk why i didn’t make a post about it at the time…. but it also came into my mind just now because i commented on a post about justin bieber the other night about how he’s had fans stalk him to his nyc apartment again. like when the actual fuck will people fucking learn to let celebs have their goddamned privacy lmao.

[nsfwitchy2]

Listen I know I already made a post about this on my last blog and it’s still circulating but like. This is legitimately the most baffling thing to me. Queer infighting is a fascinating study in

- How many people do not learn from their pasts and the past actions of others

- How easy it is to turn entire communities against each other at the drop of a hat

Everyone, EVERYONE, wants to think they’re not a bigot and they’re not capable of bigotry - until someone wants a label to describe their specific experience, or somebody wants to mix and match labels, or someone identifies with your label in a way you personally disagree with or don’t like. And then suddenly everyone’s capable of bigotry - but no no, it’s fine! It’s cool when YOURE doing it because you’re just defending your community against those nasty fakers/bad faith actors/people who don’t REALLY get what this identity is about!!!

I mean…. First y’all came for the bisexuals, demanding they pick a side.

Then the pansexuals because they had the audacity to not identify as bisexual, they felt their attraction wasn’t represented and wanted a different label! And you couldn’t just let them have that right?? I mean, you can’t just MAKE UP these labels that we made up!! 😤

Next we had the ace/aro discourse where you all told aroace people they’re not LGBT because “lack of attraction isn’t a sexuality”. I mean, fuck the fact that the LGBT community is for social outcasts who feel their attraction or gender presentation doesn’t fit the societal norms - your LACK of attraction that doesn’t fit societal norms can’t sit with us!!

Oh and who can forget the bi-lesbian discourse. What was that about again? Right, you couldn’t comprehend the idea that someone may want to identify their romantic and sexual attractions differently, or may identify as both a man and a woman. How dare those FREAKS not fit in with our strict rigid sexuality labels in the FREAK COMMUNITY? 😤😤

And then there was the time you guys just. Unironically started calling trans women pedophiles. Yknow, like the community as a whole doesn’t already have a history of being painted as pedophiles and sexual abusers by the media. Like in the 80s there wasn’t a surge of propaganda calling gay men pedophiles for the crime of…. Being gay. Yeah man if we do that again but this time with a different member of the community it’ll go g r e a t.

Next we had the trans men wanting their own word to discuss their own issues - you guys jumped down their throat about that too. I mean god FORBID the MEN want to talk about THEIR problems? What problems do MEN possibly have??? Yknow not counting the issues that come with being trans and the issues that come with being a man of color and the actual negative ways our society does affect men. Not counting any of that, of course.

And now. Now. You are all making me sit through AFAB transfem discourse - like this is any different??? Because what? Because AFAB women will never experience transmisogyny? Because that’s all being transfem is right - it’s the oppression you face and nothing else? Because AFAB women can’t also have a complicated relationship with their gender that makes them feel alienated by our society at large?

And I haven’t even touched on the kink at pride discourse or the lesboy discourse or the neopronoun discourse or the honest to god millions of other dumb fucking things you people make up to be upset about.

Fucking. I’m tired of this shit man - it all boils down to the exact same argument. How dare these FREAKS want to sit with US at the FREAK TABLE? Don’t they know that they don’t fit into OUR rigid definitions EITHER? They need to find their OWN community? 😤

Like…. We do this every year, and every year you guys sit me down and look me in the eyes and go, “No no!! It’s different this time!!” But it NEVER IS!!!

I mean, aren’t you people fucking tired??? I’m tired!!! I am tired of watching YALL go ape shit - don’t you just wanna be NICE!?

It’s JUNE! It’s PRIDE MONTH and yesterday I got to watch a trans woman post an opinion on a gender label that another trans woman didn’t agree with, so she publicly started bitching on her post and invalidating those people. And then less than an hour later I found a post by a different, completely separate trans woman, this time about kink - with notes FULL of people just SHITTING on the second trans woman from earlier because of HER kinks. And like… what is this accomplishing??? Who is this helping???? Anybody???? It’s pride month, a time when we should all be celebrating the fact that we’ve even gotten this far - but your heads are all so far up your own asses you’d rather cannibalize your own community online. I mean fuck man congrats, the actual bigots don’t even have to do anything anymore - you’re doing their jobs for them.

Happy fucking pride month I guess. I’m sure if you keep publicly tearing down your brothers and sisters, it’ll fill the void in your soul eventually.

Surely this time it’ll be different.

I think queer infighting is genuinely the best example ever of that phrase, “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results”

[smellsfaintlyofvanilla]

I just saw your post on the matchups,,, but first of all - CONGRATULATIONS!! you deserve it so much<3

and can I please request a match-up?

my pronouns are she/they and I'm a lesbian! I'm infj and aries!

I'm 5,6 and I have brown-purple long length hair with hazel eyes.

I love learning about flowers and lgbtq+ history, singing, exploring nature, traveling, and baking! oh, and painting rocks!

well, I'm very quiet and closed off to strangers. but with my friends, my personality totally changes. they describe me as kind, responsible, chaotic, and pretty cheerful! but also realistic and honest (in a nice way?). I think that fits my actual personality.

I'm a very good listener, but I also really want someone to listen to me. also, someone that tells me how things are and is pretty good at communication because I'm a big overthinker. physical affection would be great as well. just someone who loves me as much as I love them.

my worst weakness is being bad at confrontation! but my biggest strength I think is being cared about others.

I also love picnics and studio ghibli movies!

I don't know if this helps but I listen to Mitsuki, mother mother and marina and the diamonds a lot.

photos for the relationship would be better, please!

thank you and congratulations again꒰⑅ᵕ༚ᵕ꒱˖♡

Okay okay okay, I know this is a character matchup but like... can I match you up with me? You literally sound perfect.

Also, amazing taste in music, Mitski and Mother Mother are totally my two favorite artists!

Enough of that, I match you with...

ANNIE LEONHART

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Okay, reading this ask, it was basically screaming Annie at me

It feels like it would be a really stable and mutually beneficial relationship

At first, she was drawn to you just because of how quiet you were

Because, thank god, there was someone in the cadets who knew how to keep their mouth shut

Plus, she couldn't deny at all that she was physically attracted to you, too

So, for a while, she stuck by your side, watching over you like a hawk would to her territory

But, over time, you seemed to start talking to her much more

It surprised her at first, but she quickly decided she liked the talkative you much better

You seemed so genuinely happy to be near her, always smiling and spending time with her, no matter how stoic and unresponsive she stayed

And, she couldn't deny that occasionally getting roped into your little schemes and jokes was a little amusing sometimes

The more time she spent around you, the more she felt her affection grow towards you

It started with just an innocent curiosity, but was quickly growing into a genuine crush

She resisted pretty fiercely at first, refusing to admit her feelings or, heaven forbid, confess

But time passed, and it grew harder and harder for her to hide it

The way you would so casually put your hand on her shoulder, acting like it was such a platonic gesture. It was, to you, but to her, it made her heart flutter and her face redden

But she'd persist on keeping it hidden

That is, until she can't take it anymore

Having you around her so often, being so friendly to such an aloof person like her... it was driving her wild

So, one day, she quietly led you by your hand to a small open area in the forest near the barracks, having brought a soft blanket and a handful of stolen food for the two of you to share

She listens intently as you talk to her about whatever currently interested you, eating her portion of the food and making sure there was plenty left for you

Eventually, the sun was starting to set, and the two of you had ran out of food. You had to head back in soon, and Annie suddenly had no more time to stall

She quietly confessed her feelings to you, spilling the words from her heart in a moment of vulnerability that seldom surfaced

She raised her head to meet your glance, and you could her the slightest shake of nervousness in her voice as she asked if you liked her back

Which, you did, and you made it clear that you did very quickly

And boy, she was elated

Not that it showed on her face, but her heart was practically doing cartwheels as you moved over to hug her, and she immediately hugged back, practically involuntarily

Following the start of your relationship, Annie still stayed closely by your side, almost like a protector (a knight in shining armor, if you will)

If anyone, anyone, tries to start shit with you, she's immediately there to tell them that "she doesn't want anything to do with you, back off"

But, when the two of you are alone, she gets very soft

Insists on touching you in some way

Not sexually, but just laying your head in her lap, or leaning against her chest

She'll just melt having someone who she cares about deeply, someone like you, so close to her

She truly feels like she has the whole world in her arms whenever you cuddle with her

Refuses to let you go whenever there's "still extra time to cuddle"

ESPECIALLY at night

She will spoon you the entire night, and dare you even try to wiggle away, she's pulling you right back

Even when she's asleep, she'll always make sure that you're firmly against her front, like a giant teddy bear she refuses to let go of

Whenever you're anxious or upset, she makes sure that she's the first one you go to

She's not the best with words, but she can sure as hell listen

She'll always make sure you've vented out all your feelings, be it frustration, anger, sadness, grief, anything

She'll cradle you in her arms and pull you against your chest if you start crying, coddling you in the most comforting way she can manage

And if she's upset about something, she'll be a bit hesitant, but she'll ask if she can talk about something with you

And she sounds alarmingly small whenever she vents like this

Sometimes she might want to cuddle, other times she wants your words to reassure her that she's worth it, and sometimes she just wants someone to listen patiently

Sometimes, when it's really bad for her, she'll ask you to sing for her, and by the time the song is finished, you'll find her already asleep against your chest

She even started calling you her little songbird on occasion after that

But don't be fooled by her nonchalant behavior, this woman would do anything for you

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"Alright cadets, sparring is up! You'll be on free time until the sun begins to set, then file into the cafeteria for dinner!" Commander Shadis shouts over the commotion of the sparring ground. You finally stilled your movements, dropping your fists from their defensive stance and letting them fall to your sides, taking in a large sigh of air. Immediately, almost all of the cadets, including your training partner, dissipate to seek out their own little friend groups, using the rare free time as a chance to unwind and relax with your friends.

A warm hand on your shoulder startles you out of your breathless and oblivious state, and you turn to find the owner of the hand; none other than Annie.

"Hey, I was watching you from where I was sparring." She started, moving her hand in slow circles to lazily massage your shoulder in a calming manner. "You're technique is improving. Well done, you're catching on fast."

You sigh, tilting your head back to stare up at the sky. "Yeah, I guess..." You mutter. It didn't escape you how your voice sounded fragile and weak, but you weren't surprised. You had been feeling pretty awful for the past few days now, and as time passed seemingly without any time to breathe, you could only feel as the soreness seeped through your muscles, headache already starting to pound away at your temple, throbbing painfully.

Annie tilted her head to the side slightly, eyebrows furrowing in concern as her hand stilled. "You okay? You don't sound good."

"I'm fine, just didn't get enough sleep."

"Liar." She spoke bluntly. You knew she was only trying to pry out what was wrong, but it didn't stop the sting of the word. "What's really going on? You can tell me." Her voice softened drastically from her previous tone, practically coaxing you to spill all of your worries onto her.

“Really, don't worry about it-"

"HEY Y/N! ANNIE!" An obnoxious voice called over the buzzing of voices left and right. The short-tempered brunette, Eren, jogged over to where you two were, trailed closely by Armin, Mikasa, Jean, and Reiner.

"We're going out to the forest to see who can collect the most berries, wanna come?" He chirped, inviting you into his little competition. If your body didn't feel like pure shit right now, you would consider joining him.

"It's fine." Annie interjects, taking a few subtle steps forward, standing in front of you to avoid bringing you into the purposefully short conversation. "She isn't feeling well, we're going to head to the barracks."

Eren's eyes traveled from Annie towards you, then back at Annie. Finally, he shrugged, turning around and walking away. "If you say so. But I'm not sharing any just so you know."

Once the small group had all started in the direction opposite of you and Annie, she took your hand firmly. "C'mon." She mumbled, tugging at your wrist to get you to follow.

She led you exactly where she said she would: the barracks. There, she found your bed, the one you had agreed to share with her, pulling the blankets up and climbing underneath them. Silently, she stared at you, patting the space next to her as an invitation. You obeyed silently, lying down next to her, and feeling a small fraction of the tension in your body melt away the second Annie's arms wrapped around you.

"Are you sure you're okay? Seriously, I don't like seeing you look so miserable." She muttered into the crook of your neck, hand searching under the blanket for your own, soon finding your it and rubbing comforting circles over the back.

"Mhm..." You groaned, already fighting off the urge to close your eyes and fall asleep right then and there. "Just... tired. I feel like Shadis hasn't given us a break in weeks. I'm so sore... and tired..." A quiet grumble breaks through the silence, from what you presume to be your own stomach. "...and hungry." You finish.

Annie laughs softly at your last statement, heat rising to her cheeks as she moves her body to kiss you on the forehead. "I'll make sure to split some of my rations with you darling, I don't mind."

Her soothing voice had an unfortunate (or fortunate, it all depends on the situation) effect on you, sleep already trying to grasp you and pull you into its realm.

"You don't... have to..." You mumbled, lolling your head to the side as your eyes slipped shut, all attempts at protest dying in your throat as you plunged into unconsciousness.

Annie smiled softly at your sleeping form, pulling you closer and planting another kiss to your forehead. "Sleep well."

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(I couldn’t make the images smaller help 😥)