#but they are complicated men

[fjorests-of-wildemount]

Orym's feelings for Dorian and the place he is in right now are fascinating because he *did* get to know Dorian before he left. And it hasn't been that long, even though they have both experienced so much trauma and loss in the intervening time. Just because a part of Orym longs for the times before Dorian left, and even though nostalgia has put a shine on Dorian for Orym, I don't think that means he's fallen for the idea of him rather than the reality. They have both missed so much, but in the end they *are* paralleled to each other. Orym may be saddened by what Dorian went through, but a Dorian who never knew loss couldn't understand Orym as he is now. There is a potential there for both of them to truly be *known*.

Orym didn't ask Dorian to come back as a band-aid, or to reminisce or somehow bring simpler times with him, even if that was part of the longing. The initial reality that Dorian, too, was affected by the same sorts of things that affected Orym is jarring, but they can re-learn each other. Dorian has meant safety and support to Orym for a longer time than the time they've been apart, and I don't believe Orym would turn away from him because he's angry and grieving.

"Dorian," Orym said, truly and sincerely. "I'm so sorry."

Realizing that he's spent all of this time needing Dorian, and maybe Dorian needs him, too.

[squarecloud73]

*I worship you Tumblr please don’t remove it

Inspired by Duckkiken’s art on twitter, they put Holm in the gnome hood Kui designed and my heart melted

[laniidae-passerine]

don’t get how you can watch iwtv and be a sincere diehard lestat hater. like the world’s biggest lestat hater is louis and that man can’t even commit to it for more than five minutes before literally hallucinating lestat wearing a wedding ring and talking pretty to him. this show is about louis and every road leads back to lestat for that man

[ducksbeloved]

nothing funnier than fabian somehow being the most popular kid in school while simultaneously walking around telling people he eats raw vulture innards and fumbling maizie and [redacted sequence at the end of the episode]

[kriskukko]

ghosts in the 15th century

[t8oo]

my wife and my husband for 2024

[motryaa]

grian and his bombastic husband

(for my darling girlfriend)

i know just a little bit more about them now

apparently, the bombastic guy is no longer sort of dead? zombie husband? nice

stay tuned because i am now watching 6 season of hermitcraft for a deeper understanding of these guys

[mutantpowerlist]

Nightcrawler - Kurt Wagner 🇩🇪

• Teleportation • Enhanced abilities of agility, strength, flexibility, and night vision • Camouflages in shadows • Blue fur • Pointed ears and end of tail • Three fingers, three toes • Skilled Acrobat

Teams: X-Men, Excalibur, Quiet Council, Legionaries, X-Treme sanctions Relatives: Mystique (mother), Destiny (mother), Rogue (foster sister), Gambit (brother-in-law), Margali Szardos (foster mother), Azazel (father), Baron Wagner (father), Raze (half-brother), Graydon Creed (deceased half-brother), Amanda Sefton (foster sister), Stephan Szardos (deceased foster brother) TV / Movies: X-men: Pryde of the X-Men (1989), X-Men: The Animated Series (1992), X-Men: Evolution (2000), X2: X-Men United (2003), Wolverine and the X-Men (2009), X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), Deadpool 2 (cameo) (2018), X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019), X-Men '97 (2024) First Appearance: Giant-Size X-Men #1 (Apr 1975)

[creepycatboyz]

I offer transmasc anya... I fw this concept A LOT (please see my vision)

[scrimpswrites]

Trans Logan is such a great concept to see art of, because seeing him with top surgery scars is great, but seeing people factor in that he simply would grow them back, and adapt it to portray him as a burly, testosterone fueled little man who just so happens to have a chest is GROWTH. People are DEVELOPING. The world is healing because of this.

[direquail]

One of the many things I find funny and irritating is the slant of a lot of interpretations of Alecto's name (that it's about feminine rage)--on this here wlw internet in the year of our lord 2024, it's easily made to figure as rage against God, or rage against patriarchy, or religious oppression, and therefore an allusion to the idea that she's going to get her vengeance on John for betraying and oppressing her somehow, but like

John is the one who named her Alecto. He's the one who named her that. So, naming her "Alecto" is alluding to the embodiment of John's rage--their rage, since they are joined inseparably (John even explicitly says that when he first perceives her: "You wouldn't stop screaming. You were so scared. You were so goddamn mad").

He says of Alecto to Harrow, "In a very real way, you are [Alecto's] children". At a very surface level, Alecto is (depending on the text or tradition), one of the Furies--famously, in several surviving Greek tragedies, who punish Orestes for the crime of killing his mother. In fact, in Aeschylus' Oresteia, they declare that they are specifically bound to avenge matricide.

So the name "Alecto" alludes to the nature of John's mission and how he sees it.

It also implies that his divine rage, the rage that gives him power, the power that makes him divine, that he either represents or wants to represent, is feminine rage. He was chosen by Earth (which, Furies are sometimes the daughters of Gaia); he is her champion, however he's managed to fuck that up. Once the truth of that comes out, it becomes clear that all of his power comes from her.

And that's why you get statements from Tamsyn Muir like:

“[T]he God of the Locked Tomb IS a man; he IS the Father and the Teacher; it’s an inherently masc role played by someone who has an uneasy relationship himself to playing a Biblical patriarch. John falls back on hierarchies and roles because they’re familiar even when he’s struggling not to. Even he identifies himself as the God who became man and the man who became God. But the divine in the Locked Tomb is essentially feminine on multiple axes – I think Nona will illuminate that a little bit more."

So yes, he plays the role of Emperor and God and Teacher, with all of the things that implies. And I don't think it should be discounted. But he also is (and partly sees himself as) the chosen champion of a goddess, or what is for all intents & purposes for a human like him a goddess. He is her avenger, and while she sleeps, her avatar.

And I don't think we're meant to read him purely as a parasite who's taking advantage of her to gain power for himself, either. Or an oppressive, Kronos-like figure. Especially if you consider Palamedes' theory of the Grand Lysis, even if he was purely motivated by desire for power before (which I really doubt), there are parts of each in the other, now. What was clear and separate before is uncertain and interpenetrated. Is his rage his own, or hers? Is his mission of revenge his, or hers? If he wants power, is that his own selfishness, or her desire to survive?

And does it matter?

[uncanny-tranny]

A lot of cis people may not want to hear this, but here goes:

You are going to have more in common with trans people who have a similar gender identity to you than you think. Trans people are reliable narrators of their own experiences, and whether you like it or not, we will have similar or even identical experiences to yours. Cis people don't have a monopoly over their gender or the experiences people have as a result of their gender.

[demonkinguwu]

Vanessa Doodles before work™️

My interpretation of canon Vanessa + her w Snatcher + Someone wanted to hug he <3

[wishchip106]

what the fuck..

they really getting into it 😨

he got a treat at the end that’s something 😭

why did pinterest decide to show me these pictures…

Charles live reaction ^^^

[men-in-4k]

JOSHUA BASSETT The Complicated Tour · 2023

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[youssefguedira]

does anyone know any movies about women that are interesting i have been looking at my letterboxd diary and i have got to stop watching shit about men. for personal wellbeing