#but they're just soooo interesting to me !!!!

[sbd-laytall]

Clark. Come on. I'm so sorry. Sorry, Clark. Please. Clark. Clark, can you hear me? I couldn't stop myself.

Smallville | 8.01 | "Odyssey"

[asharaks]

we've talked about wyll's bit and we all know about astarion's bit but let's talk about gale's bit. let's talk about his presentation as the Ideal of what it is to be an archmage. the man wears purple velvet pajamas with an embroidered collar to camp in the underdark. he wears a gay little earring with mystra's symbol on it. its all fun and games to joke about his jammies but let's be clear: those things Fuck. he dresses well, he dresses richly, he is a wealthy lavish man who, in a world where things like long hair are not traditionally associated with femininity, is not what I would call gender nonconforming, but I think he does have a very interesting presentation.

robes and jewellery are traditionally associated with wizardry and femininity - or, if not femininity, at least nonmasculinity. theyre the garments of monks, eunuchs, and nuns, people who stand outside of the typical sex/gender binary for socially accepted reasons. traditionally most archmages are men (karsus, mordenkainen, elminster, etc) who perform this exact presentation. the doylist explanation is, of course, that dnd canon is inherently misogynistic, but the in-universe implication would suggest that to present in this way is not regarded as gender non-conformation but as class conformation. so our options are:

wizardry is for gayboys

'wizard' is its own gender

gender presentation is less important than getting that sweet sweet +1 spell save dc and everyone knows it

class is a gender modifier. this has interesting implications for the other classes - particularly ones like clerics, which might have prescribed uniforms or vestments - but given that faerun does have a not-insignificant classless, non-adventurer population- how does it work for them?

regardless, I think it's fair to say that gale's bit - like wyll's is the Blade of Frontiers and astarion's as the seductive rake - is The Archmage. he presents himself, from the start, as an academic, as a wizard. he's a friend of elminster, the (ex-)chosen of mystra, gale of waterdeep - he's everything a Wizard should be. even when he's tadpoled, camping in the woods, he carries a stack of unread books, wears mystra's symbol, wears his purple velvet jammies. he's presenting himself with care and thought, and giving a highly specific impression. I think it's really interesting that, as much as wyll and astarion, he's putting on a front, and it plays into his story. do you encourage the side of him that's ambitious and daring, the archmage, the man who pushes the boundaries of power and knowledge - or do you try to break that down, and place the value on the man who just wants to sit in front of the fire with his cat and read a book?

[annalyticall]

I think it's good to have at least one ship with a fanon characterization so wildly different to your own perception that you can't engage with the majority of its fandom content. Keeps you humble

[serfuzzypushover]

somethin about them... makes me soft ♦️

[sysig]

Guess who :3c (Patreon)

[disposal-blueeee]

really really small guys

edgar belongs to jhonen vasquez

scriabin belongs to @zarla-s

png ver. for some reason

andddd the sketch. for some reason too

[mecharose]

i may be flying too close to the sun using tumblr as my diary and im not gonna get into a whole rant about the adhd thing im not. but like. why anyone would want to remove credit from themselves as like. a person. i cannot fathom. with ADHD things are hard but many of them are not impossible!

[halamshirals]

did you guys know that, well, the cruelty is the point

[front-facing-pokemon]

[sskk-manifesto]

Finally got around to watching ep 11 (´；ω；｀)

[ihamtmus]

it's weird how jhope is Right There and he's like the Most Talented Person but some armys just. don't see him. should be studied

[mooodyblue]

men make me want to bash my head into the wall i'm so fr

[tumblasha]

i need to make something this year. i really want to make my hair essay. i've been wanting to write it since i was like 13 lol

at 13 my thesis was "i used to be a little girl whose life was controlled a lot to the point that my parents 'forced' me to keep my hair long bc they liked it, now i'm a Teen and i can cut my hair to my shoulders B) yay choice!"

at 15 my thesis was "i used to be a controlled little girl with long hair, and now as a teenager i want to get a buzzcut and dye my hair, but my parents and my school's catholicism don't allow it."

at 17 my thesis was "i used to have my hair controlled when i was a straight girl, now i can cut my hair when i want as a bi teen girl."

at 19 my thesis was "i used to be forced to keep my hair long as a small straight girl, now i'm a bald nonbinary teen. fuck my hair."

now i'm 22 and idk what my thesis is. is it about choice? is it about re-growing my hair enjoying the process of disconnecting femininity from long hair? i'm so gender-confused, all i know is that if someone calls me a girl i want to cry. all i know is that if my hair looks too ...girly? i freeze when i look at myself in the mirror. all i know is that i stopped dyeing my hair when i started my job.

my brain is weird. there was a long time where i perceived my growing hair as "growing masculine-ly", like how when a boy tries to be cool and androgynous. what does that mean.

i don't know how to verbalize these thoughts without isolating an audience. hmm.

[feral-ass-raccoon]

gonna start studying the "aro/ace + incredibly horny = best friends" phenomenon bc like. huh.

idk i just think its interesting- the whole 'ace and bi besties' thing is REAL and i am actually in one of those friendships irl and it's AMAZING lmao

[seagullcharmer]

the retconned timeline is so messed up. what do you mean everyone broke off into pairs and didn't talk to each other for three years