#but less fuckable imo

[eggybubblegum]

18, for the questions hehe :3

yeah! ghosts are pretty cool and i like to think about being able to fuck with people after i die :3

[loudanqueer]

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[varlaisvea]

i’m really drawn to the idea of khajiit furstocks, because it implies a culture with a far more expansive and complex view of sex, gender, attraction, and bodies.

like there are 16* furstocks, ranging in size from ‘about twice the size of a housecat’ to ‘bison’. four of them walk on all fours. and they are all socially and sexually compatible with each other. khajiit could be attracted to someone who is much bigger or much smaller than they are, who has totally different body shape than they do.

it means attraction can’t be based on gender first. like, saying ‘i’m attracted to females’ means nothing, because there isn’t one way to be masculine or feminine, there isn’t an ideal that people are looking for when they gauge how fuckable someone is. the designations ‘male’ and ‘female’ mean so much less; they imply nothing about body type, attractiveness, social roles, sexual ability… the only thing males would have in common with other males is genitals. so the only real reason to care about genitals is if you’re interested in procreating, otherwise, you’ve got way more important things to think about, like relative size, strength, and body configuration of your partners.

the act of sex would have to be culturally separate from procreation. they’d have to be two completely separate (if sometimes related) goals, because procreation through means other than penetrative sex would have to be fairly common. so the act of sex would sort of have to be foremost about pleasure and communion, you’d have to be intentional about how you want to be with your partners. with so many different body types and combinations, there isn’t going to be a standard set of interactions. there are countless different ways to give and receive pleasure, and you’d actually have to employ them all and get creative.

plus, you’re all constantly a little stoned. this is a way better way to do gender imo

*17 bc ‘Mane’ counts as its own furstock, even though the Mane ends up looking like another furstock. just to be accurate for the lore purists.

[larsnicklas]

INTRODUCING: megan's definitive nhl captains fuckability scale, 1 being i personally would not under any circumstances, 10 being i will fly to where you are just say the word. okay let's go team!

(disclaimer: i am joking. i don't actually want to fuck these men!! and if i vehemently do not want to fuck an nhl man you DO want to fuck. more power to you!! he's all yours!! and if i vehemently DO want to fuck a man you also want to fuck. he's still all yours i would never sleep with a hockey player i know what they're like!!!!)

ATLANTIC brad m.archand: 3.5. like i know myself he COULD rizz me up but he'd have to work pretty hard like it wouldn't be an automatic yes sasha b.arkov: 9. he has an Aura he would not have to work hard at all i would in fact be working to rizz HIM up (<- matthew ghostwrote) steven s.tamkos: 4. this goes up to like a 7. if we invite h.edman. john t.avares: 3.5. ok don't get me wrong here. he IS handsome!! but i'm not getting any vibes here that say we would work. like it's not a NO. but it's not like i'm Interested off the bat. and i don't think he could rizz me up. kyle o.kposo: 6.5. like yeah i would. wouldn't go out of my way to approach but if approached would say yes. nick s.uzuki: 5. cute!! a true neutral imo. he does seem stressed often (side effect of being h.abs captain) so like maybe for fun. out of the goodness of my heart. to loosen him up a little. etc. brady t.kachuk: 2. NOT bc he's not fuckable in his own right but because the spectre of his brother would be hanging over me. does that make sense.

METRO jake t.rouba: 8. have long had a fondness for him. decent politics which is SO rare so that probably actually pushes him to a 9. jordan s.taal: 1. not the worst s.taal. but also i do have standards. i realize this list is not really backing me up on that claim. but i do have them. f.lyers rep: if most recent captain (g.iroux) like a 9.5. if assumed future captain (tk.onecny) like probably a 4. not for me but could be persuaded. if g.ritty — sidney c.rosby: 2. this is once again not a general fuckability scale it's a personal one. i would not fuck a pittsburgh p.enguin. if he goes to another team ever (i don't want him to!! he's a p.enguin for life!!) we can revisit this. nico h.ischier: 8. solid 8. good vibes, nice hair, big brown eyes. like he wouldn't have to work that hard you know. alex o.vechkin: 9. huge man. face that is interesting to look at (this is a compliment). at the stars game this weekend he knocked a guy over and then stood over him imposingly. i think i blacked out. boone j.enner: 2. my mind slides over him. i KNOW he exists. but my brain doesn't. like he's not that objectionable per se i just don't see a world in which i wouldn't instead go for whatever guy he's standing next to.

CENTRAL gabe l.andeskog: 9.5. this is not a looks thing. he IS handsome but it's in a bland way. this is an Aura thing and also a Hockey thing. power forward with commanding presence who can wrangle a team with really strong personalities. gabriel call me i am free on thursdays — jamie b.enn: 0. less than a 1. my least favorite n.hl player besides the ones who are actual criminals. terrible rep around here with locals. tips like shit. bunchmoxgate. under no circumstances would i consider him fuckable. in my mind joe p.avelski is the stars captain lmao. adam l.owry: 6. would clock him across a bar but not be interested enough to go over. but would be down if asked. brayden s.chenn: 6.5. i think he's really personable. another one that's like, it wouldn't be an immediate yes but he definitely could charm me. it would be more of a yeah this could be fun than an I Want You kind of way but nonetheless i would c.oyotes rep: is their most recent captain o.el?? it's been such a long time then...? he's like an 8. if a current alternate... 6 for c.rouse, 7 for s.chmaltz, 4 for k.eller. jared s.purgeon: 5. no he's not very tall but neither am i so it's fine. i think he does have a vibe i could be into hypothetically. but i'd have to see. chicago rep: i would not fuck a chicago b.lackhawk captain of the last few decades etc.

PACIFIC quinn h.ughes: 7 in a vacuum. 3 in the context of feeling bad about how much i want his teammate. mark s.tone: 5. true neutral again here. wouldn't go for him but wouldn't walk away. connor m.cdavid: 6.5? i think this would depend on whether funny dorky connor or very media trained connor showed up. hey do you think he'd tell me why he didn't go to dylan's wedding — anze k.opitar: 8.5. yes. hard yes. i'd be seeking flirtatious eye contact from across the room. k.raken rep: okay if we're talking most recent captain (g.iordano) i would say that's like a 3. not interested but not like. repulsed. of the alternates though. adam l.arsson YOU are an 8. call me anytime. mikael b.acklund: 6.5. like i could be into him. i can see it. i think this would also be a semi pity fuck. not because HE is pitiful but because i feel bad about the state of his franchise. ducks rep: most recent captain (g.etzlaf) is probably a 4.5? the gut reaction is like a 2.5 but if i think about it. i bet he has a commanding presence. i could be persuaded i think. logan c.outure: 1. absolutely not.

[daz4i]

Speaking of old men: top 5 old fictional men you want to fuck

OOF that's a hard one, ngl I'm less of an old man fucker and i generally don't know that many :P so instead let me rank the bsd old men from most to least fuckable, to my taste at least 🧐

1. mori . for the reasons i listed in the last post. I'd let him dissect me if he wanted

2. melville tbh..... he's def most handsome imo. and ik he will treat me right.

3. fukuchi. also for the reasons i listed in the last post. i am not immune to big strong men with scars

4. fukuzawa. he will also treat me right but idk how interesting it'd be for me unfortunately

5. hirotsu..... I'm sorry king..... ily but not like that. he is simply not my type 💔

[least-fuckable-taz-character]

Round 1

Why?

Devo la Main - Ethersea

he'd be really needy imo. and like Not Sexy

Cassidy - Balance

N/A

[retro-hero-5]

It's because the muscles allow you to basically ignore all monsterfuckery elements of the design and focus on one thing. I think a good comparison to make in order to help frame this is thinking about a character with and without tits, since those are a frequent "hear me out" for a lot of people.

You all know Glados from portal, I won't bother explaining how and why people find her hot. Do me a favor and think about what makes her attractive *visually*. If you said nothing, congrats, you either aren't into robots or she's just not your type. Maybe you're into her for other reasons (i.e. you have a degradation kink) or maybe not, but I think we can agree that she is not visually attractive by most standards. Aside from robotfuckers (me) most people are attracted to her personality rather than her appearance.

Now imagine her with like DDD cup tits (scaled up to fit her chassis, of course) Assuming you haven't passed out from a nosebleed, can we now agree that the design is more conventionally attractive? The addition of those big ol aperture science attraction assets makes her much less niche to find physically attractive since a lot more people are into boobs than machinery. The conventionally attractive feature is effectively a gateway for people to find the design hot, but it unfortunately dilutes it in the process. Does that all make sense?

IMO, Venom isn't a good "Hear me out" not because he isn't a solid monsterfucking icon, but because we've all seen him as nothing but the monsterfucking icon for years at this point. We've all seen the film reviews that just call Venom a gay tentacle hentai, so nobody's going to really fight you on that. It's understood and agreed that he is a fuckable monster in the mainstream, even if not everyone is into him.

Another example of this can be the xenomorph from alien. While yes, it's core themes are inherently sexual, it's physical appearance doesn't outwardly scream "bombshell," does it? While plenty of people (me again) find it attractive as is, plenty don't and that's okay. Not everyone is a monsterfucker, whatevs. Due to the nature of the internet, the inherent sexual themes of the creature, and probably some other factors I don't care enough about to list, people of course end up drawing the perfect organism with conventionally attractive features. Downstairs genitalia, breasts, more human like proportions and fat distributions, etc etc. These elements yet again dilute the monsterfucker exclusive appeal with more mainstream people, making it a more commonly understood attraction. Curiously enough, since those conventionally attractive features are not part of the original design, people who are into xenomorphs as their "hear me out" are more respected (I use the term respect rather loosely) for this proclamation.

Anyways tl;dr, yes if a picketfence had abs it would be more normal to want to fuck it. Not 100% normal, but it would be a lot less weird of a "hear me out" because of that grounding, conventionally attractive trait. Thank you for coming to my tedtalk.

Accidentally wound up on "hear me out cake" tiktok, and I swear, if another one of these bitches puts down an at-most-unconventionally-attractive human man, Lady Dimitrescu or Nick Wilde/Robin Hood I am going to lose my fucking mind.

Saw one where the first person they named was Disney's Aladdin and I tapped out so hard I entered a fugue state and didn't regain full consciousness for like a solid hour.

[valfruits-archived]

unfortunately i think a lot of characters in ffxiv actually become less sexy & fuckable over time rather than more (& thats saying something cause imo its not a very sexy & fuckable enabling game rlly). e.g. estinien was at his most fuckable when he was insane & bitchy & filled with rage & covered in blood. g'raha was at his sexiest when he had the cool exarch robes & the mystery & his body was literally transforming into crystal as a manifestation of his willing devotion. in my opinion y'shtola's best look was her miner outfit - the black dress is nice & all but its like too deliberately made to be nice to look at that its more boring.

not urianger tho. urianger got more fuckable w time. good for him.

[moitiefille]

13:

two

his hair makes him remind me of moe from the three stooges, and his outfit has no style. i don’t know his personality so he has no way of compensating for looking like moe from the three stooges

12:

seven

he is ok. i like his stylish umbrella, i wish new doctor who continued the question mark motif, but his face does nothing for me and he looks like a guy who would be a man reading a newspaper on a park bench but not in a fuckable way

11:

eleven

he’s pretty handsome in a weird looking way actually but i don’t like his hipster fashion sense and he reminds me too much of moffat era to be fuckable, but i do like his heavy brow ridge and still congrats to matt for getting people to love his doctor so much bc i remember how skeptical people were when the first promo photos came out of him in that proto-costume that was mostly just dark semi-formal-wear

10:

ten

he’s not physically attractive to me at all, and i really hate his haircut, it’s the worst sort of 2000s hair imo, but he (david tennant) is just having a good time and that makes his doctor more fuckable :) i like a smiley cheerful doctor. he’s also an angsty doctor but that’s ok, he’s got that hurt/comfort fuckability. i hate his suits though, although the converse does make it a little less bad

9:

one

fuckable grandpa

8:

eight

not sure if this was he right spot. don’t know this doctor and i don’t like victorian clothing, but i like long hair and he looks like a pansy so that gives him pints :)

7:

twelve

even though i associate him with looking like jordan peterson and reminding me of rick from rick and morty idk why and i’ve never seen the show but even so he’s still pretty fuckable :) he’s got a handsome intense face, i love his eyes, and the way he’s got bags under them. he’s made up of a lot of pleasingly curved lines: eyebrows, eyes, nose shape, curly hair, graceful hands, snarly mouth etc

6:

thirteen

hard to place her because she’s sort of generic looking to a degree. she’s definitely pretty and she does have a face that’s exudes wonder and excitement in this picture. i don’t like her hairstyle, though, i think i would like it more if it was a little less styled, a lil more Wyled :3 lol although she does kinda have hair like 5’s. was that intentional? 🤔🧐

5:

three

he’s very handsome! and another

fuckable grandpa

he’s got a gorgeous big nose, and generally handsome face and nice curly hair. i like the dandyish cape and ruffles and velvet suit, he’s got that GNC bisexual swag. not astral but astral, also remember those pics i sent of jon pertwee in the 70s on that bike and in those short shorts? incredibly fuckable :3cc would definitely fuck this doctor even tho idk his personality much

4:

six

this guy has the best suit and that alone makes him fuckable. a man who decides to wear that every single day and has a matching cat pin and multiple vests with dotted buttons, teddy bear buttons, ladybug buttons etc, is a man with fuckable vibes :) even if he’s mean, perhaps because of it uwu. also like his curly blonde hair and smug look

[aprito]

hello <3 since i got these asks at the same time i decided to combine my thoughts on them in this post. yet another annoying sjw essay from yours truly on this blog 

before i get into these i think i need to preface why im like. i guess overly hyperfocused on a certain unproblematic base (same age au / platonic canon) for them and avoid the ped0philic content like the plague lol

tw for pedophilia ment, rape ment if that makes you squicky. ALSO THIS IS LONG AND RAMBLY

as i’ve mentioned a couple times already, ive been into the ship since i was 12, back when it was very very common to not only post untagged (nsfw) canonverse content of the two in writing and in drawing but also non con and the like, so you can imagine how bad my first impression online was. thinking back on it ...as a child i found it disturbing but didnt really register how problematic it really was?? (i know, but i also lived in the middle of nowhere and had no one explain this to me) 

skip to 2014 aka me coming back to naruto at 17ish and i had kinda become hyper aware of the fact that there was an increasing amount of people online who had come forward with explaining how fictional problematic content, mostly pedophilia, had been used to groom them into starting relationships with adullts. it was also a time where a lot of people didnt believe these victims, not registering how common it was for minors to be online friends with adults who had no boundaries and no qualms exposing them such content. not gonna get into my personal life here but i was lucky to not having gone through this myself. like... it kinda was my first time truly realising how fiction can EASILY be used to manipulate others irl (and yes i will not argue this, if you dont think fictional media can form and manipulate people’s opinions on attitudes, countries, cultures and virtues, pick up a book about the effects of propaganda media at least once please) 

i, being young, still liking the dynamic but not really the romance, would point this out here and there in the fandom and get into fights with grown adults in their mid 20s who assumed i automatically hated the ship(s) and tried to restrict their freedom of speech or whatever, heard everything from the “age of consent doesnt exist in naruto” to the “sasori looks like a child what does it matter” despite people clearly playing on him being older and experienced. it made me so upset that people were just consuming all this content uncritically and exposing children to it tbh?? not really just sos but a lot of minor/adult ships in naruto in general. and thats where i sat down and thought, i do not want to be a grown adult talking down to children that point out how unsafe the fandom is. theyre absolutely right in drawing these boundaries and calling out adults who defend the uncritical consumption and creation of this content. i do not want to consume or create content that predators could use to groom minors, and i absolutely do want to let younger people in fandom know that i am respecting their comfort zones and want them to have a safe and fun experience. after all, naruto is not an adult show and i think a lot of people forget that!!!! i am not perfect in that regard but its something that i, at the age of 23, am very passionate about and strive towards to.

and i guess thats where same age au was born for me and i have been sticking to it ever since. 

so finally we can move to the first question 

aside from the fact that we both dont like canon sos, i dont think it would work out even if i wasnt prejudiced to it anyways. in all honesty, 35 year old canon sasori is not a redeemable character to me, given the fact that he’s easily amongst the cruelest villains in naruto (torturing and killing and taxiderming people for his own fun personal gain, never for a goal that served anyone but himself. how do you redeem having over 300 corpses in your backpack that you felt absolutely no remorse for killing). sasori was legit one of the only cruel villains that didnt had someone else pull the strings, which sends a clear message on kishi’s part, who absolutely loves to redeem villains LOL.

being that old, he obviously had already been very manifested in what he believed in, even if it was shakey, to the point where the first crack in that world view (sakura and chiyo protecting each other) immediately had him give up on his life all together. that, in my opinion, is not a man who’s going to know what healthy relationships would look like, regardless of it being romantic or not. 35 year old sasori to me has the same appeal as an expired can of tuna and he’s probably very happy 6 feet under. he’s supposed to be a failed gaara in that sense that he had no one to look out for him and therefore was never going to experience anything but a bad ending in life. its fine that hes dead honestly, it wraps up his short character development the best IMO.

adding to that, seriously, sakura was obviously interested in knowing why he was that way, and called him out for being seriously fucked in the head, but it’s weird to me that people assume she had any interest in actively rehabilitating him, let alone starting a serious romantic relationship with him. sakura who’s not only very, uhm, immature and straight forward when it comes to her romantic viewpoints also, as a big bootlicker, wouldnt soil her standing in the village by starting anything with a disgraced and far too gone criminal like sasori. shipping that version of sasori with sakura intimately is still going to set her up for a huge power imbalance that would be difficult to handle imo, even if she was the one in the fight ultimately exerting her power over him. i would still look at it and think damn she deserves better than having to play therapist for man like that lol.

additionally, even if you ignored all of this, you cant really ignore that sasori had already known her as a child, and that had been his first and most impactful impression of her. i dont think that sasori would look at 35 year old sakura and see her as a grown woman and not the little green girl she was in the fight. plus, you easily fall into predatory comparison territory between the “childish” and “womanly” and i have seen way too often in fic just being boiled down to her now being fuckable. a lot of of ships do this and i would just like to remind yall thats it not normal for adults to want to start relationships with children they have seen grown up or known as a child when they themselves were fully grown adults. therefore, maybe if sakura hadnt met sasori before it would be less of a problem? but that also obviously defeats the point of the dynamic and the reason he died in the first place. so yeah, it sounds kind of doomed especially if you were to make it romantic. 

WHICH BRINGS ME TO THE SECOND QUESTION

let me preface this that im not fundamentally against age gaps, even if im not super interested in it. after all, colorblind had a 5 yr age gap (with sakura being 21), even if, say, i wrote similar fics today i probably would make it smaller lol. i think it can be handled well if both parties have enough life experience to deal with it, and the author is cautious of where the age gap starts, i think a 10+ year age gap would be fine in a scenario where the younger party (i guess sakura) was at least 25-27ish, meaning she has completed most of her most formative life stages and probably had been in relationships before, meaning she would be able to handle it without having to fear a huge power imbalance. the older the younger party is the less the age gap is going to matter tbh .TsukiHoshino and AngelOfDeath10 both handle age gaps in their fics really well imo, so i do not mind reading about them.

unfortunately, a lot of people in this fandom think making sakura barely "”””legal””””” (18, not even 20 which is hilarious to me because the source material is obviously japanese) because they both cannot stand her being past her “prime years” of being young fertile and fuckable to much older men as well as thinking a 20 year old is automatically old enough to handle that type of relationship. ive seen a lot of unironic takes that believe it will absolve them of callout posts if they throw around age of consent and “shes 18 now suckers!!!” enough lmfao. absolutely hilarious. aging a minor up without aging the adult down seriously reeks of predatory “cant wait until youre 18″ narratives and thats why i find it similarly disturbing as straight up pedo shipping.

ultimately, sasosaku is and will always be a inherently problematic ship in canon, which is why i think it should always be handled a little more responsibly in fandom spaces, ignoring or outright excusing the main problem factor, which is sasori, isnt going to convince anyone that the dynamic in itself is well written and interesting enough to explore in aus, like giving sasori the redemption most of us wanted him to have by aging him down to a point in time where he was still realistically going to allow being positively influenced, similar to gaara. 

so really, what i think is well handled age gap and how most people handle age gap in the naruto fandom are two different worlds at times lol 

tl;dr

canon shippers have never been anything but gross when i was younger and i didnt wanna be like that, even if youre “smart”enough to differenate, actual creeps dont really care and might use your content to blur the lines, sasori isnt rly redeemable so romantic canonverse realistically wouldnt make much sense and is still iffy, age gaps are fine if they are handled well, but given that the dynamic doesnt really need the age gap to still work im not that invested on making that an essential part of my shipping experience.  

thank you for reading and hope this makes sense!

[the-acid-pear]

Nvm i found a comic. I'll speak of that later, for now, FUCK THAT MOVIE WAS GOOD.

That was some of the most fun I've had with a movie in so long. It was so silly and funny and also quite cute, the way Mario and Luigi way and their relationship and little quirks were just so fun to witness 😭😭

It is true this movie got super away from the actual Mario Bros story but honestly? I don't give a fuck. This thing is so cool and creative i couldn't care less. It's a really weird and fun reimagining of the original while also bringing back stuff from the of and it's just so fucking cool imo JWGWKSGD

This might be my longest movie liveblog so i really don't know what to even say. I'm a bit fucking exhausted. It's a very fun and very interesting movie where shit is just constantly happening and Luigi is Latino and Mario is so fuckable.

So, is this movie good? IT IS. FIGHT ME IF YOU THINK OTHERWISE, THIS MOVIE ISNT BAD GOOD IT'S GOOD GOOD AND I LOVE IT. Do i recommend it? I'm on my knees begging y'all to watch this. Literally an unique experience. It's so fucking worth it.

That's my final message to the world. Watch Super Mario Bros (1993). Goodb ye 🚬🐁

I keep seeing some fucking deranged gifs of this movie so, in preparation for the newer movie, I'll watch Super Mario Bros.

As always, i don't know anything I'm going totally blind and. I'm sorry where Mario and Luigi holding guns?

[mengyao]

my long-awaited list of top 10 most fuckable cql characters in terms of if i was actually swiping in real. no one asked. i’m posting it nonetheless

jiang cheng. doesn’t even need to be said but i’ll cop to it anyway. red flags everywhere, would be a nightmare hookup, no sense of boundaries, yet i physically could not resist the siren song. his personality is like the colours on a poisonous frog and i am the dumbass ecotourist compelled to pick it up in the jungle not despite but because of them

jin guangyao. very similar to the above situation except the way in which i’m attracted to these two dudes is very different; regardless, once again i begin piloting my ship toward the rocks. alas poor roscoe, not immune to malevolent p*ssy

nie mingjue. honestly, one of the more normal one night stands on this list imo. i don’t think nmj like casually dates but i can buy him doing NSA one-offs sometimes. crucially, i don’t think nmj is particularly neurotic about sex and would probably pay for your cab home. this would be a one-off thing that you brag to your friends about afterwards

yu ziyuan. i’m not a woman and even if i was i don’t think i’m her type but if we ever met irl i would be down horrendous

jin zixuan. you may be like, roscoe, what the fuck, he’s so boring and/or insufferable. the answer is that there’s a certain je ne sais quoi to stuffy uptight insecure men who are cringey and embarrassing. i want to bully them. crucially, unlike jiang cheng jin zixuan is not an insane person. this makes him both more viable and less enticing as an option

lan qiren. his 65 year old virgin schoolmarm charms are powerful. i want to sweep him off his feet and show him the world. if you try and make fun of me for this you are both homophobic and ageist

lan jingyi. he’s a bit of a fuckboy but in a way that i think is cute and endearing. i want to smoke a joint with him

jiang yanli. i don’t look at her and feel immediate waves of lust, but i think she would be extremely sweet to casually date once she got past her shyness and she IS very cute

wen qing. ranked surprisingly low considering she’s very on-trend for my IRL crushes but that’s actually the reason why, i know with 100% certainty that if we actually dated it would be a situation where she’s looking for something very casual as a stress relief thing but i would become completely infatuated with her for being a beautiful and sad emotionally repressed workaholic and she would eventually dump me in a polite but firm way because she doesn’t want to be anyone’s girlfriend and i was desperate to come over with takeout all the time. NOT that i’m basing this off of past relationship experiences i’ve had or anything,

wen ruohan. nothing like a bitchy old queen

[gayregis]

oh dandelion is such a weird case tbh. like all the sleazy shit he does is entirely unnecessary imo but people have latched onto the womanizing and all as such a huge important part of is character that no one seems to really question it? and in part due to mistranslations its treated by fans as a whole as way less harmful than it is? idk but honestly its part of why i just think hes gay now bc his canon sexuality is a mess nd basically every non-platonic interaction he has with a woman is gross

(this is part 2 ig? sorry shdjs) for example idk how it looks in the translations but in the original like. one of the very first things dandelion talks about is how he groped one of nenneke's students, and the bit with the brothel in eternal flame is. really awful when you look at it esp with the (horribly constructed but still) race dynamics in-universe, when he talks about "being able to afford a half-elf or maybe even a full-blooded elf" like idk its just. Bad and i think ppl gloss over it

(okay i started writing this part of the response before i got part 2): yes, it seems to me like a lot of him is based on this trope of the slovenly womanizer bastard-sort, but sapkowski does nothing to invert that part of the trope, lol. he disproved being a coward, because he was brave to follow geralt into brokilon/stand up for geralt’s life in dol blathanna/etc. he disproved being an idiot, because he makes intelligent observations sometimes. he disproves being selfish, because he is very caring for geralt and others. but he does nothing to disprove womanizing/misogyny, perhaps except for how he treats essi as his little sister, and for how he is appropriate with shani and also good to ciri. also i suppose in something ends, something begins he has female friends who he does not act disgusting to.

(this is considering part 2 as well): YES. there are so many little stupid fucking moments that drive me insane. such as that one, i already mentioned the rape joke to yennefer in limits of the possible/bounds of reason, the comment he made about she-elves in eternal flame was disgusting, all of his stupidity when he first met milva (commenting on her body, and also making a comment about how zerikkanian women cut off one of their breasts to shoot better, even though this is refuted by milva). how he says in lady of the lake that women don’t need money, since they don’t drink or gamble (in the presence of milva, who has drunken in his presence, and angouleme, for whom gambling is part of her backstory). also commenting on how he finds philippa scary and that he categorizes women into “fuckable” and “nonfuckable” basically. i think his comments towards yennefer in a little sacrifice are maybe the least horrible (just saying that she is old and isn’t a ‘normal woman’ because she is artifically young due to being a sorceress) but is still annoying.

i feel like the concept of brothel-going in general is supposedly “of the setting/time” and is normalized in their society but is taboo and mildly alarming to at least some in a modern audience,

i think it is also partially due to sapkowski normalizing the brothel-culture in-universe, and also (on the translators ends, too?) to be keen i guess to use terms like “whore”, like i think he calls toruviel in edge of the world something like “stupid whore,” which, if it came out of a man’s mouth today, hopefully he would be strangled.

the thing that is annoying is that he is a “good character,” he is literally the best friend of the main character, and is meant to represent that best-friend role. so his actions and sayings aren’t intended to villify him, but to be amusing, so it is assumed that the audience would find all of this amusing, which it’s not.

i think he can have this part of his personality (not misogyny, lol, but the “womanizing” as it relates to “being a dumbass”) without being so horrible, for example when vespula kicks him out of the house in eternal flame, i find this funny because he is obviously in the wrong, and he is experiencing punishment for it. additionally, things like repeating urban legends that zerrikanian women cut off their right breast in order to shoot better, to which milva ridicules him. or when he in his ballad sung that yennefer had a heart like a diamond that was unfeeling, and yennefer addresses this with him, and he shuts up and tries to steer the conversation elsewhere because it is obvious that he is terrified of her wrath...  it demonstrates that he is foolish and stupid, and is in the wrong, and can be made fun of. he did or said something (largely inconsequential, not violent or horrific) which was stupid, and is being ridiculed for it both in- and -out- of universe.

when he is in a position of power over the women however, saying derogatory things that men reading might agree with, that aren’t ever contested in-universe, then we have a problem. saying things like referring to women as whores, or trying to get a ‘full blooded she-elf’ at a brothel, or saying that he divides women into the fuckable and non-fuckable: these are never contested, he is never shamed for them, no one ever recieve retribution for them, and additionally, they are of a more violent and disgusting nature.

i feel like i treat geralt, yennefer, and dandelion all the same way overall. they each do and say some pretty messed-up things (geralt has sex with two barely 18-year old girls, yennefer smugly threatens to basically sexually assault geralt and was intending to mind-control a man into sex at belletyn (magic equivalent of a roofie; rape; what triss did to geralt), and dandelion espouses all of the misogynistic bullshit above). i like their characters but i simply cut this stuff out when i think about them because it adds nothing to them, only discomfort and disgust. it’s not intended to show “grey morality,” rather personal fallibility, and they are already fallible outside of such grossness. whether this affects if i headcanon dandelion as gay or bi i don’t know; i feel like it would be nice to rewrite some of his relationships with women to be more equal and less shitty (like how anna henrietta had an abusive husband beforehand and dandelion is not a violent man so ig it is nice to think she had some emotional love life with him around), but i also totally understand your perspective of just “there’s a lot to unpack here, but let’s just throw away the whole suitcase” haha. either way i think his [romantic] relationships with women are not very interesting at all, and i would rather focus on his platonic friendships with women, like milva, and/or mentorship/siblingship with essi. 

[confessionsofa-roleplayer]

There was a similar confession(s) on here awhile ago that mirrored some of my thoughts on certain situations. So I’m gonna go off here and veer a little into another field and share some of my stuff and confess some feelings. The confession(s) were largely about muses with minimal-to-no interaction getting pinned with the blame of supposedly being ‘badly written’ under the pretense as that being the reason that no one reaches out to them regardless of thier efforts or how well-written thier content actually is. Another good few concerning salt with ship obsessions and the hyper focus on ships. I think I’ve come to realize that alot folks seem to sniff out canon-anything for these matters. I would like to take this moment and say: there is nothing wrong with wanting to rp canon or rp with other canons or doing ships and smut. It just becomes kinda gross if you fall into these categories/types of things I’m about to mention below imo.  Not all folks are akin to some of these people who brush aside ocs on these notions or subsequently only care about them on these notions too. There’s plenty of legit oc-lovers out there(and folks who prefer other types of non-romantic ship) I’m aware of you, but even some of those supposed oc-lovers can be guilty of the same thing in my experience. They sniff out and cling to canon or specifically -just–ocs they only want to ship with/only value them for thier ship potential, and it’s all about -that- from then on out no matter what and more often than not there is an apperant male-lean or some measure of yaoi fixation mixed in. This isn’t ALWAYS the case from my perspective but more often than not it -has- been apperent. To add, I also realize that people have a tendency to blame any low-activity blog with the fault of possibly being a 'bad/uninteresting muse’ whatever they wanna say they are; simply because they don’t want to invest any real effort unless they can court the muse, or again if - in my particular experience/observation- the muse seems hypersexual, ship-friendly, has a pretty FC they wanna chase etc. However, if the muse can’t be shipped or if the muse is any bit of unconventionally attractive female or unconventionally attractive male or any NB spectrum that can’t be pinned with a masc-vibe, they get way less attention, if any at all, no matter the content. That’s from my own experiences of course, as well as my observation in my 7+ years on this shitsite in the rpc over a span of fandoms and fandom circles. There’s patterns I’m seeing even outside of these bite-sized chat communities and it’s really hard to dismiss, I’m gonna be real here– the only amplified these realizations and helped me see what I did NOT want to deal with and it later helped me find some more meaningful to partners and wonderful friends. Many people also try to undermine it simply because they don’t wanna feel bad for likely being selective on potential fuckability of an canon or expressing an interest only on that front.

Hell, a fine example of the bullshit I’m talking about is one of the very first real rp chat group dedicated to a certain rp fandom from tumblr (one I was invited to) that was made with 'ocs welcome’ supposedly in mind– thing is tho, it just devolved into the admin obsessing over yaoi and any male canons that fell into “pretty white twink’ catagory or some combo there of concerning canons, as well as –some– ocs and trying to basically fish for a all-male harem for thier character which made… A good few of us uncomfortable the longer it went on. If you had a female muse (be her canon or oc) or an NB muse, you were shoved to the back burner and only interesting if you fulfilled a fetish in some seldom cases, if you were using an NB and/or a GNC muse, well… Goodluck in that shithole unless you somehow fit the nasty fetish ’'trap’ trope.

This group harbored many mutuals, most in which had thier obsessions/fetishes to be the priority and interests despite what the group advertised if it wasn’t hyperfixation on shipping/smutting with canon and the occasional oc rather than any real neat discussion and development/fun fandom chat. Outside of this,  you also had ocs ignoring other ocs and only wanting canon with some of these folks. Alot of the others in there was shoved to the way-side while the weekly or monthly ’'thirst fit” was put on a pedalstal in the group. Most of us who were there actually -for- oc chat, interaction, and canon discussions kinda began to go silent one by one, and eventually many of us left.

Sadly, this has been mostly my experience in many many rp chat groups from Tumblr over the years(not as extream as the first of course) however they still echoed similar issues. But there’s a clear lean in what I’ve witnessed, and i see how it scars against other people in the community while being padded up with deflective arguments and group isolation even in active chats. Like I get not everyone will be friends with everyone, or wanna rp with everyone– but these patterns are hard to shake and it’s hard not to feel like some at of it is pretty legit even outside of thesw bite-sized chat communities. Also, knowing that many confessions and issues echo some of the problems seem to carry validity with it depending on what unfortunate side of the rpc you fall on. It’s why I think we kinda need to come together more on these things rather than pick at each other tbh, so we can at least curb it. Also sorry if I got really rambly, I just hope some of my points made it through. This isn’t supposed to be an attack, I’m just sharing some feelings and reflections on what I’ve noticed in being here. Clearly, I’m not alone.

[monsterrates]

can you rate thanos?

THANOS (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

You didn’t specify MCU, but it’s topical and I don’t know much about comics Thanos, nor do I want to plumb the depths of the various comic universes. NOTE: I’ll try to avoid like, major spoilers for Infinity War, but I’m definitely gonna reference it a bit.

INTRODUCTION: This monster is “The Mad Titan,” an alien warlord looking to complete his signature accessory, for the sake of annihilation. 

PROS:♥ Thanos isn’t THAT much taller than a normal human, but he definitely is and he’s very beefy on top of it. I don’t know how he’s in such good shape seeing as he’s basically just been sitting on a chair in the middle of space for the first 10 years of the MCU, but maybe Titans are just like that. Also points for spending most of IW running around in a tank top to give us tickets to the gun show.♥ The weird face/arm wrinkles... I don’t know what they are, but I’ve not seen something like them before, and I like the visual interest added by them, even if it’s not a whole lot going on.♥ Honestly.... I’m weak to dad types. Throwing that curveball at me was rude on top of everything else rude in IW. Villains who are just COMPLETELY 100% EVIL AND ANGRY ALL THE TIME are boring, like, you can tell me Ronan is the way he is because of injustices his people suffered, but if he’s just a turbo dickhead for the whole movie I can’t be bothered to care. I know people are really agitated about IW, but presenting this big purple maniac as actually having this weird paternal affection, twisted it may be, was a great move imo. Especially because the role of “father” is traditionally, societally, that of a protector and order enforcer in the family. And that’s exactly how Thanos views what he’s doing.

CONS:♥ IW Thanos has way too much of Josh Brolin’s actual face now. They really wimped out on the whole face area, like...

Here’s Thanos in Guardians of the Galaxy, looking far more distinctly alien. His face lines are more prevalent, and he’s got these weird, almost luminous blue eyes. Possibly even with black sclera? It’s unclear. ANYWAY, some coward decided they needed more Josh Brolin and less overtly alien. There are already plenty of generic whitebread men in MCU, we didn’t need this. If someone needs to see Josh Brolin in a Marvel movie, he’s literally also Cable in Deadpool 2, so???♥ Honestly Marvels alien designs are so boring.... like, most of them seem to esentially be “a regular person, but blue and with one weird physical feature.” Thanos is no exception. If I wanted a wild alien design that I still want to fuck, I’d play Mass Effect.♥ As always, I have to have the villain bullet point. This man is an intergalactic mass murderer, and it’s pretty fucking lame of him to do that.

RATINGS:MONSTRUOUSNESS: 1/10This is just a big purple man, honestly.

FUCKABILITY: 5/10This is a handsome dad, but he’s exceedingly bad and crazy, and that’s just hard to ignore on the massive scale it’s happening.

PERSONAL RATING: 6.5/10I enjoyed Thanos a whole lot, as a character, honestly. Still looking forward to him getting his ass handed to him in Infinity War Part 2, though.

[gamebird]

I agree with a lot of that point and with OP. In the course of the way internet communication works, I didn’t bring up the things I agreed with, only the one I had a quibble with. Which is this: “that they think will get them sex with women”. I don’t think they think that.

The guy who leads my BJJ class is ridiculously sculpted, fantastic-looking man, without being a dehydrated body-builder. He’s also married. I’ve never seen him flirt with anyone other than his wife. I think he looks that way for himself. Because he likes the way he looks. Not because he thinks it will get him sex with women.

I haven’t known any professional body builders, but I’ve run into more than usual share of guys obsessing about their bodies and I have yet to run into any who are doing it for other people. Sometimes they talk about looking intimidating, but that’s it. (Maybe this is because I’ve been in BJJ and MMA gyms where ‘intimidating’ is not a buff, sculpted form. We all know those guys aren’t fighters or scary and that’s okay. We all co-exist in the same building and use similar equipment. I mention the setting because maybe the body-builders would be bragging about being scary if they were the scariest people in the room.)

I think focusing on whether they’re gay, not gay, or more or less casually homophobic puts the focus on their orientation and level of homophobia, neither of which have much to do with it in my opinion and experience. It’s more like ... narcissism, but that has such negative connotations that I don’t like using it this way.

I agree with OP that the “men are sexualized too” argument is a complete dodge from these guys, when what they’re actually doing is appealing to a personal/internalized ideal of a sculpted male body that has to do with their idea of the perfect male form/what they’d like to be, and not a genuine complaint that men are sexualized, too. I disagree that the dodge is because they’re gay, secretly gay, or trying to get sex with women (or men). They want the female characters to look fuckable and the male characters to look perfect (in their opinion), but they don’t want anyone to change how the characters look so they pretend the males weren’t equally drawn/designed by men as a power fantasy.

Edit to add:

It occurred to me after posting this that ‘guys who are trying to get a sculpted, buff body’ and ‘guys who claim male comic book characters should have sculpted, buff bodies’ are not necessarily the same group. I have enough experience with the first to have an informed opinion (IMO), but not the latter, since I block those dudes on sight and avoid most of the mainstream superhero type comic book industry because the art is so gross I can’t get past it.

So I might be talking about A and everyone else in this thread is talking about B.

Thor in God of War: Ragnarok

So, every now and again you’ll see brodudes rushing to argue that there’s nothing wrong with bikini armor because “men are sexualized too” and that shirtless barbarians are made sexy to cater to women, etc.

However, whenever something that comes out to challenge this… its always the same cishet men who make this claim who also cry about a male character not meeting their expectations.

That’s because, unsurprisingly given that they’re usually designed by men, those supposedly exploitative images are generally made by men, for men to fulfil not just their fantasy of power but also of being some weird form of hyper masculinity.

Appealing to women is not a priority they actually care about, only the fantasy that their ideal would definitely get them laid. Many don’t allow themselves to consider if its appealing to men-loving-men… and well, they certainly don’t think about nonbinary people or anyone on the asexual spectrum.

Of course, if you read this blog, you almost certainly already knew these guys only thing about themselves - but I thought you’d enjoy the hilarity of them telling on themselves so spectacularly.

- wincenworks

Jack Saint tweet