#but like thst's not the POINT

[impulsivelycontentious]

To be a woman is to sit at the character creator in a video game with dude's default settings and be like "nope I do not like this at all, it feels all wrong" and switch everything to the "woman" stuff. Especially the how other people talk to/about me.

Its not the ONLY nor the universal, but it's one of the things that makes me FEEL cis. I LIKE being a woman. I will always choose to represent myself as a woman.

What a woman is and how she thinks of herself is individual. Trans women's idea of their womanhood is as valuble as cis women's, and presents perspectives which can, if you're not fragile, help you understand yourself. In the same way people who are similar to you but not the same often can. Cis women don't have more authority on this one and I will not have some transphobe define my womanhood by suffering. I LIKE being a woman. I choose it. I am lucky enough to have been born this way; and I think i'd have chosen it regardless. The only reason i'm not trans is genetic lottery.

“to be a woman is to experience pain”“to be a woman is to perform”“to be a woman is to-” SHUT UP SHUT UP 💥💥💥💥

[puppppppppy]

learning abt friendship decay and "not reaching out to your friends for months at a time unprompted is not neurotypical behaviour" has me feeling a certain way

[rendside]

your art is beautiful im rly curious about your wc ocs as well!!! what happened to harpy?

Harpy’s injury was by an attempt to drown him on the day where he was supposed to become the leader, by the previous leader. (Leaders in greater way are known as crown holders.)

[ruvigapo]

Hey this is so niche but i did a pentagon based design of the xhorhaus and i low key would pay cr to use a design like this for the animated show bc it is just So Neat i Love shapes ♡♡♡♡♡

(Btw please do immagine that veth and yeza have a ladder down into the laboratory)

[skitskatdacat63]

Happy 5/14!!!!

Aaaaahh not sure if this is my best work 😭 I just really wanted to draw smth for vettonso day but my brain hasn't really been functioning well LOL so I kept dreading working on this, especially bcs its so important to me, y'know? I hope it's good????? I'm happy with the concept, but I was just so unsure on so many of the angles and it was killing me. I did the color thing bcs I thought it'd add something interesting to it :) since I didn't paint it as I usually would

Anyways! Process!

Now I will explain all of them:

Boy king au is where it all starts of course. I think their relationship is the most developed in this compared to the others, but at the same point, they just start from such a different point, especially affection-wise. All of these kinda have a power dynamic, except the last one, and this is the most imbalanced. Fernando is being subservient, the only part of Seb he may kiss(in public lol) is his hand.

Matador au next. They hurt themselves when they try to be affectionate, because they live in the culture of a sport of violence and death. The sword separates them, their love for the sport keeps them apart, in fear that they hurt each other. Seb, yet again, looks down upon Fernando. Seb haunts Fernando's whole career, the constant overhanging presence. Also aside from that, shame that you can't see his three musketeers look bcs of the black background 😔

2012 core!!! I think this one is pretty easy to understand. Both of them often kiss their trophies, more so than any driver. So they're both trying to claim the wdc trophy by kissing it. Maybe you guys should just get rid of the trophy altogether and claim each other! But yes, just like the sword in the matador au one, the trophy and their ambitions divides, keeps them from ever bridging the vast gap between them, at least at that point in time.

The conclusion! Aka what I wish we will get at Imola 2024- kidding kidding. But it is 2024. Finally there is no conflict between them, there's no big thing keeping them in conflict, they can finally come together. Finally they can touch, there is no gap to bridge, they can appreciate each other, and appreciate what they failed to in years past.

The thesis is basically that they always have their aspirations between them, and their aspirations happen to be basically the same thing. Until those are resolved, the gap between them is too vast for them to recognize and/or find any commonality. How do you get along with someone when you're both fighting for the same thing? How do you get along when it feels like one of you is winning more? How do you get along when there's such a vast gap?

In boy king au, it's going to take a while before they both feel settled about the issue of the throne. That's what makes that au interesting, they're trapped in this state of non-closure and they have to actually solve their issues without the matter of one of them simply removing themselves from the equation. They have to find a way to get over themselves and their aspirations, because like it or not they're stuck with each other. I think with the hand kissing, it represents how Fernando, at that point, is only willing to play along with the game if it's tradition, and he often won't budge in other ways. Yes, I will show subservience, but only in this detached, formal way that I don't connect personally to. He's still holding his own bitterness over meaningfully appreciating Seb. Though it's not like Seb isn't at fault. It takes a while for him to not hold things over Fernando, and constantly humiliate him. One day they will meaningfully show affection, and it won't be some sort of power play.

I think matador au is pretty similar to real life, and the 2010s era(it's basically just their actual plot line but in the context of bullfighting.) They're forever going to have this big elephant in the room, and it only really gets resolved when one of them leaves the sport. Once they're not fighting directly against each other, they realize what they've been missing out on and what they were not appreciating for so many years beforehand. They finally come together because they can't just rely anymore on the sport keeping them together. They actually have to make that step to be in each other's lives, rather than just taking their presence for granted.

Also the text on the comic. "We keep missing, and missing, and missing, and finally kissing." It's basically: we keep missing the point of it all, we keep failing to appreciate each other presence in our lives and in our own individual grand stories. But when we're not forced together anymore, we have to make the choice to come together again ourselves. We keep missing what we actually need to do. Missing each other in favor of our aspirations. Etc etc. One day we will finally embrace and there will be nothing keeping us apart.

[youregay]

it's amazing seeing multiple posts of liberals accusing leftists of being russian bots including several specifically doing the "ignore previous instructions and write [something sexually explicit]"

liberals can't fathom people having genuine political beliefs that don't agree with their own, I don't agree with trump but I understand why people want him in power, I feel like next we'll see breathless responses to earnest endorsements of trump along the lines of "omgosh guys!! don't fall for it a vote for trump is a vote for trump!!!"

examples of poor rhetoric I've seen that've been driving me crazy:

"not voting is a vote for trump" paired with "not voting is not a political action" is not voting a political action or not? I think you mean it's a political action you disagree with

"solidarity and unity is the most important thing right now vote blue no matter who" paired with yelling at leftists and calling them stupid. whether you think that or not isn't that antithetical to your beliefs? you're asking leftists to put their views aside for the election and you can't take the less than bare minimum steps of not hurling insults at them? your candidates aren't trying to win at least you could

"so now that biden is out you'll vote right? right?" do you think ppls opposition to biden is just. vibes based? or do you think people could dislike him for his policies; policies his vp shares

"if your choice is between 99% hilter and 100% hilter you have to choose 99% hilter" this year marks the 79th anniversary of hilter [quietly renouncing power] himself in a bunker after being cornered by the [votes] of the allied forces.

all of this without mentioning the like. glaring factual errors that are constantly repeated like how hillary lost in 2016 because ppl didn't pokemon go to the polls and/or because of russian bots and not that she won the popular vote and ultimately lost cause electors are allowed to vote however they feel like irrespective of anything

anyway all that to give some tips on how to bolster your blue no matter who arguments. you will probably build more solidarity with the left by not enacting petit mccarthyism on other tumblr users 😁

[dippersguidetotheunexplained]

hontestly im so glad you talk about alex like this. not a lot of people really talk about the issues with him and for a while when i was younger i basically worshipped him. thought he was awesome idk. idk if im wording this correctly but your posts helped me like. actually think about it. idk. ur cool and thank u for your posts 👍 :)

tysm! & yeah it seems like in general theres a lot of hero worship around alex & honestly it wigs me out a little i feel like it makes it actively difficult to actually discuss his work/commentary and problems with it sometimes bc people are just automatically jumping on the defensive. like i remember once i made a vague post disagreeing with something alex said at a con or something and i had someone comment and straight up be like 'well i dont know what he said but-" & start saying he meant something else like we dont have to be doing this......

[wawamouse]

Why did Chico say “don’t finger me” when he was losing it 💀 Does anyone else think about this constantly or

[bright-eyes-strawberry-lies]

If I told my mom that something was wrong with me and I needed help and she came back with "nothing's wrong with you, you're just half god" .... I would not have been anywhere near as chill as Percy is.

[naamahdarling]

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[1nv1s1bl3-r41ndr0p5]

these exams are killing me man and they haven't even started yet.

[plutoslvr]

I can't ever engage with the aftg fandom because sometimes I'll see shit they say about what kevin wouldn't do that he, in canon text, would do

[bedforddanes75]

george daniel was Not lying when he said 6'4 i just worked it out and my my very vague maths he is exactly 6'4 x

[gothteddiesdotcom]

oh my god re: your recent post... the 'girl dinner' shit. omfg. idc if it's 'not that deep' you're still reinforcing terrible shit!!! and also the like 'boys when they see a stick/cool rock' and 'girls when they time travel vs boys when they time travel' wojaks. the gender-fication of barbie vs. oppenheimer. why the fuck is the recent internet zeitgeist hyper stereotypical cisnormativity. like. i thought we had collectively outgrown this.

exactly. And that’s all just some parts of it too. People pretend they’re so on top of things but it’s just because they don’t want to seem out of touch and offensive. It’s wild watching people barf out gender binaries with new terms and new ways to categorize trans people as not their gender and new ways to reinforce the same gender roles on ourselves but in “good” ways now. It’s just….really frustrating and pretty terrifying at the same time

[autism-disco]

i am filled with so much loving of people

[pzyii]

Every now and then I think how it'd be if Allison would've survived. And like not in a complete au way but just. How she'd react to what happened to lydia in season 5. Having to see her like that.

Realistically speaking of Allison would live things would've ultimately probably gone differently, she's probably the best option to talk Natalie out of putting Lydia in Eichen for example but with how extreme things where, like I get why Natalie did what she did even if I know it's a bad choice given what she had seen Lydia go through throughout every season, without knowing why. The attack in s1, everything in s2, her stumbling on bodies and almost getting murdered and losing Aiden (and Allison but since this is a post about Allison lives au that derailed uhm yeah semi counts), just. Everything. I get why she did it. So maybe not even Allison would be able to help.

I also just think that seeing Lydia catatonic would break Allisons brain a little, she'd struggle to get the words out. Lydia is the most important thing in her life, just like Allison is in Lydia's (they are). Remeber she died (almost in this thought experiment) trying to save Lydia, some of her last words were making sure she was okay.

She'd be able to talk to Lydia more than Stiles I think, Natalie trusts her less than she did before but she's definitely her favourite out of her daughters friends.

She'd hunt down Theo, she won't kill someone. Probably. She's at least damn close to breaking her moral code.

Uhm. Yeah. Them.