#but i decided to do only the mcs

[ms-all-sunday]

gender post

zoro - overcompensates because of his inherent view of himself being outside of the masculine ideal (i hc him as trans for this but it works with queer zoro more generally) preforms gender to the maximum he possibly can despite being disconnected from the cishet ideal of masculinity. he has a lot of pride and knows what he wants but oftentimes doesn't know how to articulate that within the context of his preforming gender.

nami - preforms as a woman to the maximum she possibly can. doesnt fit within the view of cishet submissive femininity and is a lot more confident in her gender performance than zoro is which isnt to say she has no insecurities about it she just doesn't let them dictate her life. also has a ton of pride but does know how to work within her gender performance to get what she wants. (please assume i hc everybody as trans forever)

sanji - preforms both as a man and a woman and identifies with aspects of both in the words of my friend "sanji is both mom and dad". he is the in-between. he tries to get himself to preform 100% as a man and it does not work. if he tried to preform 100% as a woman, it wouldn't work. he relates to femininity despite wanting to seem incredibly masc and admiring and finding himself within aspects of masculinity. he also overcompensates similar to zoro but it comes from a more disingenuous place, he's jealous of both zoro and namis gender and relates to them both. his gender is actually just "caring person" whether that be masculine or feminine.

usopp - gender is a performance and he is giving A for fucking effort. wants to be a man so bad. is a man. but wants to be a man so bad. kind of like zoro but more outside of traditional masculinity going in rather than already being A Man and still viewing himself as disconnected from that. his gender is man max sincerity.

franky - the exact type of guy usopp wants to be, zoro doesnt think he deserves to be, and sanji half-is. gender is a performance and he is performing it like it's the last concert he'll ever do. max sincerity to everything he does, he is the manliest of men but with no insecurity around that with an inherent queerness to him. he defies everything zoro thinks about masculinity and will happily do so. preforms and takes confidence and comfort in his presentation more than nami does, exceeds everybody by a mile in terms of performance. he also doesnt think hes inherently better than anybody and doesn't fit within the cishet norm, yes, but also fundamentally is anti-patriarchal in his performance of gender. punk as hell

[someiicecube]

messing around; Solstars outfits !

—feat. Barbatos, the no. 1 Solomon hater

[redo-rewind-if]

Small report this week! The current path is shaping up to be a doozy. 😬

Next Update (Chapter 4):

Opening: 100%

Avoid August/Confront Him: 100%

A Normal Day at Work: 100%

You Can Fix This, Right? 🤡: 20%

Keep Your Friends Close...: 0%

Avoidant Route: 0%

Oh boy, things are getting intense in this section. I wish I could share more, but it's hard to without any spoilers. Just know that the plot is really starting to amp up and MC is not having the best of times lol.

Hopefully I'll be able to share a snippet next week (I tried to find a good one for this past week but everything felt too spoilery, y'know?).

[journey-to-the-attic]

there's a moment in lesson 45 of nightbringer where mc falls off a thing (again?? is this foreshadowing?? i'm going to rule-of-three this and wait to see if it happens again) and satan tries and fails to grab their hand to catch them, but now i'm imagining the same thing happening with satan and ik except he does succeed, but it's her right hand and the prosthetic just POP comes straight off

[hartxstarr-art]

when life gives you lemons

[lexalovesbooks]

This description of Queenie in the glossary of the eidolon is pretty funny, considering.

[saraswatibasulover3000]

I think legend of the willow is the best rc has to offer, geniuenly amazing story and characters and Beautiful art and music make it such a profound experience. but in terms of climax I don't think anything will ever trump amala killing amrit on kindness and independence path. getting angry at the doobays getting everything, deciding she can do everything herself and giving them power was a mistake. the basu era is beginning again in West Bengal. I will never love a character more than Amala in this scene and I will forever continue replaying season 3 just to relive this moment again and again

[cinnamonest]

He's considering it

[princekirijo]

How are we doing folks this fine Wednesday

[masked-alien-lesbian]

That top is the ugliest thing I have ever seen...

[nonbinary-octopus]

my dream last night was mentally tagged as "based on a movie you've seen!" and I was like "I wish that was true, because then I could rewatch it!" and so my dream doubled down on that, and after going through the whole story (which, I do appreciate that I got to see the whole story, it was very neat!), the dream shifted to 'awake' me looking the movie up on my phone to prove that it was real.

I couldn't remember the title, so I googled "audrey hempburn sleeping beauty" because it was a sleeping beauty retelling (presumably), and the lead actress was Anne Hathaway, misrecognized as Audrey Hepburn*

and of course, since I was dreaming, found the movie! I don't remember the title anymore, but I think it had both the words Love and Power in it. Also, the movie was based on a book! With a similar but slightly different title.

So I went and found the book, which I just so happened to have on hand, and started rereading the story. Also it turns out that it was the first book in a series of like five.

aaand then the dream got distracted with other stuff

* ironically, turns out irl that sleeping beauty from the disney animated film was based on Audrey Hepburn. I did not know this before this morning seeing what would happen if I actually did this search

[boygirlctommy]

ive been thinking about my ocs all day and i FOUND A WAY FOR MADINEAU TO BE RELEVANT AGAIN!!!!

[killjoy-prince]

Finished Jumin's end

[jamrroll]

I like the way Caelus thinks (talking about the third choose lol)

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads // twitter thread

If I See You Again Tomorrow

YA contemporary/light sci-fi

follows a boy almost a year into a time loop, who has almost given up on finding a way out

until a new boy shows up at his school - which has never happened before - and he’s motivated to step out of his monotony and maybe find a way out

exploring loneliness and social isolation

[s0fter-sin]

finally figured out the reason it’s been difficult to get back into reading books after reading fic for so long is so many fantasy books are just self inserts and the mc has no personality beyond the bare minimum