#caught me off guard by the way

[ladsofsorrow24]

my goodness that first scene when james met eddie... i struggled so much not to gag, the acting sounds too real, bro...

and angela... that poor girl, i feel so bad for her, so many complicated emotions from her body language and voice... especially love how she keep referring to her mom as mama, how she still sees her as some sort of safe space, yet here she is hunting her with a kitchen knife. her whole character arc is so subtle yet... it hurts to see her like that. they did great with the writing and acting for angela. such a great character.

[ryllen]

no, but it's really CUTE tho......!!!!!!❣️❣️💘 😫 [x]

[moonkhao]

LOVE SEA | EP2

[snarkylinda]

*Emily storming onto the Mexico border thing offices* "Officers that man is innocent! Look at him, he is so pathetic he can barely use the bus!"

[rikan-oo]

"Lee Hyunsung was talking about the scenarios he experienced. I silently listened to the story while examining Lee Hyunsung's body. His pectoral muscles were more developed than before." Kim Dokja

"Conversations should be conducted while looking at the other’s face. I knew that, but my eyes kept going down unconsciously. There was quite a wide gap between the sides of his unbuttoned collar. I knew there were always a few gaps that he couldn’t help because of the size of his clothes, but he was still a public official …Honestly, it was too much in many ways." Han Yoojin

Khem. Men of culture, I see.

[amusl02]

Son of Ogre

[biohazard-inevitable]

Constantly rotating zosan in my brain like a rotisserie chicken and came up with this HILARIOUS idea featuring trans zoro

But think about zosan making out and getting ready to *do it* so to say, and sanji’s feeling zoro up but doesnt quite feel what hes lookin for so he goes

“What? Thought you were into me?” Half teasing half worried

“I am” zoro would respond with a shrug, or maybe hed kiss sanji even harder

“Then why arent you hard?”

“Cause i dont have a dick..?” Zoro would say as if its the most obvious thing in the world, shattering sanji’s mind

“Wait- you’re trans?!”

“YOU WATCHED ME GET TOP SURGERY!” (Zoro firmly believes the loss of a tit during mihawk’s attack counts as top surgery)

And idk where it’d go from here but they’re idiots in love your honor

[queenwhoneverwasx]

'But my ship is no longer the Sea Snake. She was a testament to my own glory, I've given her a new name. The queen who never was.

What I do now, I do for her.'

BTS of the new ship thanks to Steve on Insta. Via @evebestonline

[sleepanonymous]

I just wanna say that watching Mr. Vessel Sleep Token the First lay down in the middle of The Summoning tonight at Red Rocks was the most relatable thing I’ve ever seen him do. The Vessel/Mother Token fued may be over. I haven't decided yet, gonna sleep on it 🫡

[the-modern-typewriter]

Just wanted to say thank you so, so much for writing Fate's Favourite. I actually found and loved your blog before I ever found that fanfic, and it was a delight to know it was written by you, and it's so clear how you've improved. But Fate's Favourite will always have a part of my heart, because it's the first story I've read that just has a platonic friendship that feels as equal as a romantic one without being romantic? And as a lonely aroace that means everything. EVERYTHING. (1/2)

(2/2) I had a conversation today that reminded me that I'm never going to have the queerplatonic relationship I want that I've always wanted since I was a child, and how it makes me want to write one so much more, but then I've never managed to write the story I've wanted to write my entire life because I'd always be afraid of being accused of queerbaiting or people just going, 'but it's actually just a gay romance this isn't what friendship looks like' and just. Thank you for Fate's Favourite.

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Wow. FF is a blast from the past!

You are very welcome.

Apologies for the long, self-indulgent reply.

That story was one of the first things I ever properly wrote and my first (maybe second?) truly long-form story ever. I thus have a soft spot for it, even though in terms of craft and technique I can't so much as look at it without seeing all my numerous beginner flaws and cringing and can't bring myself to actually point people to it. Much improvement since then, as you say!

(An excellent reminder that writing is a learned skill.)

Anyway. The other interesting thing about that story is that I wrote it before I'd ever heard of asexuality or realised that was what I was. I was a very confused teenager being bombarded with this pressure to have crushes and date people and all that general societal messaging we have about romance being the most important thing ever. Especially in YA.

So I'd go home after school and write that story.

Obviously it's more unhealthy than what I'd want for myself in my real life, but the sheer intensity of feeling and importance of the platonic main relationship was something I had also never seen before but craved. And still crave, honestly. So I feel ya.

As for queerbaiting...

A lot of readers at the time told me they viewed the story as 'pre-romance'. AKA, it's a romantic relationship and they haven't realised it yet for whatever reason. They mostly didn't mean that badly, I don't think.

(Although I sometimes think though that if the term 'queerbaiting' was as broadly known and misused then as it is now that I would have been mercilessly lambasted out of ever writing again! And I wouldn't have known how to articulate the fact that wasn't, actually, what I was doing. I think we need to be kind to new writers. I think 'content creator' is gutting something vital in the ecosystem. But that's another rabbit hole.)

So I've been there. It happens. But other people's bad takes didn't change the story and what it meant to me as a lonely ace teenager or what it meant to you.

I have had readers before make a similar comment to you about how it was the first time they got to see something so important to their heart portrayed.

That matters so much more than whatever people say about your writing who don't need it.

Which is why we have to keep writing the stories.

Even if it's clumsy and raw. Even if it's the first thing you've ever tried. Even if it's (especially if) it's a messed up fantasy straight from the most primal part of your brain.

If we don't write it, it won't exist.

And that's so much worse.

The nay-sayers can come to the party, but it wasn't thrown in their honour.

[eridiasangel]

Spoilers for touchstarved demo

I genuinely believe by now that the main character twist for Leander is going to be him being some sort of very possessive or yandere archetype character, going solely from the interactions in the demo. I think this is his flaw that was scratched out on his character sheet. (As a side note I still think it's very possible he has some supernatural aspect too but I'm focusing solely on where I think his characterization might go)

Firstly, our first interaction with him. We are given 2 opportunities to refuse him, and both times he refuses to take no for an answer, once getting very threatening for a moment.

Second possessive streak, at the end in his route when you question him about the other LIs he explicitly discourages the player from pursuing them, speaking unfavorably even of characters we know from his relationship chart he likes.

I think the devs also hinted to this out of game. In their online quiz about which LI you should date, getting Leander will pull up a message like "don't try retaking this quiz".

I think we've been given a good reason for this darker streak too, he is kind of like the glue that holds this very disfunctional group of characters together, the tie they have in common. He's very charismatic and wants a close connection, but we see from the character sheet that while he has plenty of friends/acquaintances he hasn't actually managed to form a close bond with any of them, and I think that is eating away at him. It could be the case that he feels lonely, he feels desperate for something deeper, and he doesn't care what it takes to get that at this point.

[dang-dood]

i completely forgot that house md was canon in torchwood

[lonelyzarquon]

a very important gif.

[we-dont-talk-about-potato-nonono]

Smiling Friends!

[dykeofmisfortune]

the thing about having a radical butchformation (like transformation but. butch.) is that people are starting to perceive me as a trans man and someone at the coffee shop i go to told me that they respect the LGBT but that boys trying to be girls and girls trying to be boys is too far and then she added that i'll always be a girl no matter what. like thanks? but also kill yourself