#cw pregnancy related context

[vuetyris]

Jade Shadows related thoughts tm

For context; fandom active since 2016, with various hc & fics

I record all my first runs in case I miss anything or need to refamiliarize myself, but in brief I like it for what it is. Would've liked a more direct content warning than just 'motherhood' which can include a VARIETY of things.

But especially as someone critical on DE's tendency with smaller stories (and hoping between mediums of story telling), I went in with no expectations besides it being Stalker related. That whatever happens doesn't conflict with personal hcs, they can split off etc, and did not share an expectation that it'd be lgbt+ rep JUST off the expectation of it being released during pride month. Feels unhealthy to go into it expecting a certain outcome from a big company's story telling, especially on the premise of release timing. Just icing on the cake if it is :)

Historically DE has issue with smaller scale stories; they have high ambitions and not a lot of restrictions where they put their resources. From the Simaris Scans, the Prime logs, the various scanning stories, EVEN NIGHTWAVE, which has only to date had three story sets. There's a lot of crumbs of their ideas that don't work or aren't able to work on in a constant rhythm. So not just tooting my horn that "DE is trying their best with what they got", they fumble constantly, and their limits just happen to only be "what resources (money, time, and people) do we have".

I still remember them wanting to do Railjack and TNW all in ONE PACKAGE, in ONE UPDATE, before the pandemic kicked them in the ass.

Again before tangent of historic context; I liked Jade Shadows for what it was, a brief three mission jaunt around as the Stalker. Whom for all intensive purpose of the story is not shown to be very caring of others, and in context at the point out for the tenno for the slaughter. Jade gives context for why Stalker is like that TM; Stalker is selfish, self-serving, unwilling to ask for help, and the only person that spoke up was the Old War Relic that fed his daughter to the Orokin and did nothing to stop his son from succumbing to the same fate by the same man.

Hunhow and Stalker both have issues and it kinda feeds off one another, and Jade didn't deserve the double-wammy. Its a dark story brought of the world ruined by the Orokin and their colonizing empire that ripped up ever resource they could before setting the Sentients out whom they built to be rued of their reproduction if they traveled back through the void. Body autonomy and societal abuses has been a constant theme throughout warframe, and that means sometimes its uncomfortable! That's good! Fiction is a tool to analyze the uncomfortable spaces in a safe manner, and allow the viewer to step away if they need to.

Was it done well? No, it has room for improvement, it could've involved Jade more as an active role instead of just relegated to Stalker's manpain, but its done better than other media who sole purpose from the get-go is some dude's mainpain. Relegated to the end was that Jade and Sorren were both seemingly glad for it, but there was a hesitancy alike to Dagath's situation. It wasn't socially -allowed-, and may or may not be in relation to why they were both transformed to warframes. And may be what was referred to before of Stalker being a 'low guardian'. We may not, or may never, know his mental state at the time, but the weight of the Orokin empire still hung over him as the system changed.

I wish there was more of Jade than just having her laying there as a story piece honestly :( More of her relation to Sorren, why she still stayed with him, more than just as a vessel for the story, you know, give more oofm to the ending of her becoming one of the jade light and a techno-organic baby left in her wake. Her relation to Stalker after the war where she had to save his ass from a default Excalibur. But we didn't and I'm sad. :(

AS FOR the labor section; preempting with how operator got wrapped up in the situation by Stalker coming in and demanding help by the end of his scythe; the circumstances forced to comply just like how the Orokin would do before with others. Stalker is just the same as the 'golden lords', replicating the same cycle of abuse that society saw as normal.

Did I like the thought of teenage character being subjected to the outcome of the events of: society defying pregnancy -> body transformed to a low guardian as punishment -> (potential implications of depending on an abusive system for support, akin to military service to access health care and financial support where if you did not engage you aren't allowed to access) -> Death of the terrible system of oppressive and colonial Orokin empire -> Unwilling to change for the changing society, and unwilling to engage with other victims of the same exact system -> Prolonged inaccessibility to the necessary care to survive a difficult pregnancy until the very last moment?

No; I would've preferred the Drifter if it had to be engaged with, at least in the touchy aspect of child/teenager + pregnancy/labor. It at LEAST has the detachment that they're not actively going through it, it doesn't come with the specific body-autonomy horror of carrying another life to term - which is something I would've preferred more.

BUT CONSIDERING, how within USAmerica legislators have been stripping that same body autonomy from afab people, allowing far worse to happen than just "press button to go into labor" its good to have such difficult topics handled! Because shaming it, disallowing conversations around it, or even shaming the 'thought' around even the briefest of acknowledgement, is no better than the pro/anti fandom bullshit that are two extremes of tolerance or intolerance.

As a story beat it stripped both the player and the operator of body autonomy for that ONE moment; an operator that had put a brief trust in helping the Stalker, to help a warframe with an affliction they had no idea of going in.

And, said as personally, as uncomfortable as it may be, it also speaks into the moment of an adult coercion of a child or teenager. He walks in and asks for help with a scythe aimed at the person they ask for help, it's not a plea, its a demand, to which the details are never discussed. Especially under a guise of 'don't want to say no' isn't easy to get across in a quick way within dialogue, so they leave it to interruption. And so has to go along with it, no matter what happens, and it just end with an astral projection event of the results of such a predicament.

It's a dense cluster of subject matter that is hard to get across, and if it resonates or not, tasteful or not, its handled in a delicate way that other media would just fuck up with majorly.

I'm not touching the fandom built expectation that i'd be yoai. That's on ya'll getting riled up after witw and wanting token instead of what warframe has already been doing. LGBT+ as people instead of tallies.

[unknownarmageddon]

Hey Geddon do you know the song Velvet Ring? Yeah because it’s very Kross coded to me. Let me explain please i promise I have a convincing argument that’s not insane or mentally ill or deranged at all

(CW : mentions of murder, terrorism, prostitution— NOT prostitution relating to Kross, but the song is about it so. Yeah)

“Velvet Ring” if you don’t know it or know of it but aren’t sure of the meaning is a song about a couple, Eliza and Ben, who are in a loving relationship before Ben finds out Eliza works as a prostitute after she gets pregnant. In the end he decides to stay because of how much he loves her

While these first lines may seem like they don’t hold much meaning I really love these because it demonstrates Killer’s mental state to me

“Chilled in the kitchen of a city tomb” — “chilled” and city “tomb” both evoke feelings of dread, coldness or isolation, reflecting Killer’s own mental state reflecting how he perceives the world around him

“The light would flicker like a violent womb” — In the song, this is likely reference to Eliza’s own “violent womb” which is later explained with her pregnancy. However in the context of Killer, I like to think “violent womb” is in reference to mutilation and gore from his time of mindless slaughter back in his original timeline. Comparing a light to a “violent womb” could easy be dissociation/flashbacks to him murdering residents of his old timeline. This is further backed by his comics as, canonically, he does have flashbacks to his murders.

“The night was thicker than a smoky fume” — “Smoky fume” sticks out to me for two reasons. One implies the singer (Killer, in this case) may feel choked or blinded by the night, which is not an inherently bad or scary thing, but can be made into one based on warped perceptions. Another interpretation of this could be Killer’s liquid DT and how can physically choke/blind him in moments where he is emotionally unstable

“Eliza waited in her room” — If I haven’t made it obvious already, Killer takes the place of Eliza. Eliza waited in her room… we’re never told what she’s waiting for, here, but we can infer she is waiting for Ben (be it him physically or Ben’s reaction) based on her later addressed pregnancy. In this case Killer would be waiting for Cross

“Ben, he loved her like he loved no one” — Ben is Cross, here. Otherwise I think this is self explanatory. However, it’s very important to me here that “like he loved no one” is emphasized because we know Cross loves very much. He loved Frisk so much he became a guard for them, a dangerous and lifelong profession. He loved his family so much that, even after they abandoned and tried to kill him, he still tried to save them. Saying he loved Killer like no one else is no empty sentence.

“The way she laughed and held a smoking gun” — Another self explanatory one. “Smoking gun” stands out to me as Killer holding a weapon such as a gun or knife and Cross silently admiring him in the moment

“The way she always said "What's done is done"” — Killer would say this I think. Cross is a very regretful person; he likes to make quick and final judgements and will only second guess himself after making them, which can lead to a lot of self-hatred and regret. Killer’s finality of “what’s done is done” and that there’s no use whining about the past if you can’t fix it would be very comforting, and a direct challenge to Crosses mentality of holding grudges against himself and his past actions.

“And he is not the only one” — I believe in the song this is a reference to how Ben is not the only person that loves Eliza (i.e. the men that pay her for her prostitution services). This could easily be in reference to Nightmare’s obsession with his pantheon, or in this case, Killer.

This is the chorus— there’s not a lot to explain, but I’d like to point out one thing

“Yours is thicker than a velvet ring” — This line is very dear to me because I like to think it’s referring to Killer’s soul. The amount Killer can love is limited physically by his own soul; he can’t feel emotion as strongly or to the same extent that a normal person could. Cross saying “your love is thicker than a velvet ring” is, to me, Cross telling Killer that his love shouldn’t be compared to others, and that the love Killer has for Cross is enough. The *strength* Killer can feel love holds no flame to the fact that it exists and it’s there and he does love Cross.

Killer’s love extends beyond what he can feel with his soul, with his “velvet ring”. It extends to the tiny wooden figurines he carves Cross. It extends to the time they spend together. It extends to the sympathy and he tries to extend and comfort he offers in Cross’s darkest moments even knowing he can’t really understand what Cross feels.

“A victim here with a sharp, sharp blade” — Cross knows of Killer’s past and of Killer’s present. He knows of his murders and his terrorism under Nightmare. However, see back to the word “victim”; in Cross’s perspective, Killer is a victim of the players resets holding a weapon that he then lashed out with in fury and a desire forced onto him by the player for their own entertainment. Killer is then, later, a victim and tool used to carry out Nightmare’s whims and desires. Cross also projects his own feelings onto Killer in this way, as Cross can be seen as a “victim” when he both lashed out and killed his family in order to get the overwrite ability and restore his universe, and spent time working under Nightmare, both of which ultimately failed in the end. Killer does what he had to— “what’s done is done”, after all.

“And Ben, he knew how she was getting paid” — Again, reference to Cross knowing of Killer’s employment under Nightmare and what that means Killer has to do

“Her water broke, and they would have to wait” — In the song, this is in reference to Eliza’s pregnancy. I think here, it could be in reference instead to acts of terrorism or violence Killer commits under Nightmare.

“And when he knew that she was fooling” — Cross knows of Killer’s terrorism/murder under Nightmare’s employment

“He faced the mirror to avoid the thing” — Cross willfully ignores/turns a blind eye to Killer’s job out of his love for him. Neither have a choice.

“We're out of money, and we've sold the bling” — In the song, this is about how, because Eliza is pregnant and can’t prostitute anymore, they begin running out of funds. In Killer and Cross’ case, this could mean multiple things depending on interpretation. For simplicity I’ll just say here that it means both of them are continually drained of emotional energy (“out of money”, out of emotional energy) (“sold the bling”, sold their morals (to murder, or to ignore murder, depending))

“And I just wanna take you home, I just wanna take you home” — Think of this as a plead, a cry in vain for the pains and horrors of the world to be taken away from Killer. Cross just wants to keep Killer with him, safe and protected and okay. It’s not possible, but he can wish. He just wants to protect him. Please. (This is fitting as we see Cross has an instinctive need to protect those he cares deeply about, i.e. Frisk. He’d want to protect Killer)

That’s it!! Excuse any typos or weird grammar I was listening to this song and blinked and then there were many many paragraphs in my notes app. I figured I’d shoot an ask over because need to share my insanity with someone but also just in case you’d like to see my absolutely deranged Kross Brainrot HEHA

Feel free to disagree/give opinions I’d love to hear,, very ill about these two

OOOUH,,,,,, okay so i haven’t heard this song. but this is so so fascinating to me i lovee kross song analysis

i am a bit,,, iffy about if i fully agree or not just cause i do Not really like pregnancy stuff, especially in relation to kross. which is just a me thing. BUT the way you explain it here kinda side steps that part of the song. so. that’s rad

the way you interpreted “we’re out of, and we’ve sold the blind” is so so interesting to me cause my mind immediately went to like literal money. like them having spent all the (limited) money they had between them on some impulsive trip somewhere, just the two of them. even after they’d already sold like,,,, stolen jewelry or something. WHICH that definitely isn’t to say i disagree with your interpretation of it it’s also very very real i just found that interesting cackles

i don’t have a ton to say just in general but the lyrics “the way she laughed and held a smoking gun” “yours is thicker than a velvet ring” and “victim here with a sharp, sharp blade” are so fucked up. what’a up with that. like that’s so killer aughgghh

ALSO nevermind i have one other thing i just remembered CACKLES about “the night was thicker than a smokey fume”, i do legitimately lovee it being tied into like a metaphor for killer’s dt tears that’s so good but ALSO i think, to me, it could also be like,,,, something about him smoking as he’s anxiously waiting. and it feeling like it’s almost choking it cause of that anxiousness. so both the dt tears and smoke i think. to me. both is good /silly

[reneesbooks]

meja in 3

@chayscribbles thank u for the tag <3

rules: pick an OC and post a song that you relate to them, an image that represents them in some way (aesthetic, picrew, art, etc), and a quote of dialogue or narration from them. feel free to expand or explain!

meja my love. let's talk. salt and brine

song

this was tough bc i make playlists religiously. decided to pick a random from my meja playlist and oh boy did spotify deliver (cw for discussion of domestic violence and miscarriage in the analysis)

so some context. meja is married and was married young, in hass tradition you marry young and have many kids to continue the hass tradition. meja married stian, a spearfisherman who was passing through her village, and moved to his village on the coast. she had one daughter right away, reijka, which disappointed stian because he'd wanted a son. they tried again, and meja lost the pregnancy. stian became more controlling and angry, and meja failed to get or stay pregnant multiple times. stian's abuse grew worse over time, but it was never directed towards reijka so meja let him explain it away. she gets away from him by the end of the story (this is a romance and it has a happy ending) and has some. complex feelings. about him and their marriage in general. some lines in particular:

And I doubt you ever think about the damage that you did But I hold onto every detail like my life depends on it My undying love, now, I hold it like a grudge And I hear your voice every time that I think I'm not enough

And I try to understand why you would do this all to me You must be insecure, you must be so unhappy And I know, in my heart, hurt people hurt people And we both drew blood, but, man, those cuts were never equal

I try to be tough, I try to be mean But even after all this, you're still everything to me And I know you don't care, I guess that that's fine But you know I can't let it go, I've tried, I've tried, I've tried for so long It takes strength to forgive, but I'm not quite sure I'm there yet

i could annotate this entire song if i rlly wanted to bc it makes my brain vibrate at the speed of light about meja

2. picture

meja's refuge is the cove, where she finds kamon on the beach. she continues to meet him there and her excuse for going there all the time is that she sets traps along the shore. no fish swim into those traps, but she picks up plenty of shells and digs up mollusks to bring home, and it's time away from stian if she wants it. she grew up in the foothills, so she loves standing at the edge of the ocean and watching the waves come ashore. fun fact! the north sea is incredibly deep and hass tradition holds that the reason their land doesn't slide into the depths (their equivalent of hell) is due to the waves holding the land up. this is totally an irrelevant detail that has no bearing on the story :)

3. quote

meja's most iconic moment. the night she escapes reijmor, with reijka and her newborn daughter. (another cw for mention of domestic violence)

Meja stands there with Reijka's hand in hers, Eima asleep against her chest, and looks at her friend standing in her way. She feels no remorse. “Move, Tisha.” Tisha shakes her head, her expression hidden by the shadows. “You can't do this, Meja.” “I can and I will.” Her voice is stronger than she expected. “Get out of my way.” The deksa is warm against her collarbone. I know you would defend your home with only your bare hands if you thought you had to. Meja is covered in blood and sweat and tears and she understands the man clutching his deksa, the desperate bravery that comes from having no other choice. “I don't understand,” Tisha says. “I don't expect you to understand.” “How could you betray—” “How could I not?” Meja's hand tightens around Reijka's. “I...” She swallows, steeling herself. “I won't explain myself to you.” “Don't you think I deserve an explanation?” Tisha's voice doesn't raise, as if she's being careful not to give them away. It doesn't reassure Meja at all. “No,” she says. “You don't.” She inhales shakily, shoving down the sobs. “You knew. You always knew what he is. You never helped me, not really.” “I always helped you.” “You let him hurt me for years!” Meja fights to keep her voice low, tears springing to life in her eyes. “You didn't help me, you just turned the other way when the truth was inconvenient to you. I was suffering and you did nothing. So no, you don't deserve an explanation, but I will give you this. The choices I made, I made because the other option was quietly accepting my fate and letting Stian beat me to death without complaint.” Reijka presses against her side, trembling. “I don't care if you don't understand, I don't care if you think I betrayed Bjerkja by laying with an outsider, I don't care if you think Stian had the right to do what he did. It won't change what I did and it won't change what I'm going to do now.” Tisha shifts where she's standing, sighing. “You're a traitor,” she says sadly. “I am a mother.” Meja glares at her. “Get out of my way. I don't want to have to do something that I'll regret doing in front of my daughter.” “I won't stop you,” Tisha says, standing aside. “But I won't help you.” “That's fine.” Meja throws her bag into the boat, helping Reijka climb inside. “I'm used to doing it on my own.”

where is kamon in all of this? :)

tagging @oh-no-another-idea @avrablake @akindofmagictoo and anybody else who would like to do this for an oc!

[edgelordfucker]

Hello, what's your opinion on Belos trying to (non-con) babytrap a human reader who sorta stumbled into the Boiling Isles?

Hot.

I, personally, don't ever want kids (I love, LOVE kids and have an upsettingly strong Urge to Be Bred but no inclination whatsoever to actually parent), and I'm not sure how likely I am to write An Actual Pregnancy Fic, but the idea of Belos attempting to babytrap the reader is really hot to me. Unfortunately for him, copper IUDs exist, so he can nut and nut and nut, and nothing will ever come of it. Get fucked, you tall idiot.

In my typical x reader stuff, I think he has a quiet urge for a family (he thinks he's a lot more paternal than he actually is), especially in the context of a partner who is good with kids, but realizes that it's not a practical decision, so it comes up in dirty talk - I love the idea of his partner telling him that they'd look so good with his baby in them, and finding themself bent over and spread about a second later skldjfjk - but isn't something that'd actually bear fruit, if you'll forgive the pun.

Take this snip from one of my aphrodisiac wips that's vaguely related:

CW: daddy kink

(reader is fucking zooted from Horny Poison, and, since Belos knows that she won't remember afterwards, insists on being called Philip here)

[purrmoon]

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[countryconditionswithshiro]

Human Rights Watch, “Every Day I Live in Fear” (10/7/2020)

CW: human rights violations/sexual assault/gang violence

(I Background)

“El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, which comprise Central America’s Northern Triangle [(“the Northern Triangle”)], have among the world’s highest murder rates.”

“Education and employment discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity contribute further to economic marginalization, ultimately leaving many LGBT people without stable livelihoods and few housing options outside of poor and often gang-controlled neighborhoods.”

“None of the governments in the Northern Triangle have criminalized same-sex conduct since the 19th century, but measures to protect LGBT people from discrimination are insufficient.”

“El Salvador outlaw[s] discrimination on various grounds, but do[es] not explicitly include sexual orientation or gender identity, and even where such laws are open-ended in terms of the categories that they protect, they are not applied.”

“[T]he government[] of El Salvador…[has] failed to curb gang violence against the population in general, but LGBT people may face an additional barrier to protection: … LGBT people reported stigma and discrimination from police officers when they attempted to report crimes, deterring some LGBT crime victims from reporting at all…”

“Between January 2007 and November 2017, at least 4,385 people sought asylum in the United States based on claims of persecution related to gender identity or sexual orientation, according to data NBC News obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request to United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.”

“Undoubtedly, for decades, individual LGBT people from the Northern Triangle have fled their countries for reasons related in part to discrimination and violence based on gender identity or sexual orientation.”

(II El Salvador)

“State authorities have historically been largely ineffective in protecting the population from this violence … Authorities may be unable to help protect Salvadoran citizens who are victimized by violence for reasons including fear for their own security, infiltration of authorities’ offices by gangs, and insufficient resources.”

“Article 246 of the penal code prohibits job discrimination based on ‘sex, pregnancy, origin, civil status, race, social or physical condition, religious or political beliefs, membership or lack of membership in a labor union, or relationship with other workers.’ The term ‘sex’ has been held to be inclusive of sexual orientation and gender identity in some jurisdictions elsewhere in the world… but no existing jurisprudence or authoritative legal guidance in El Salvador makes clear whether such grounds are covered under article 246.”

“Article 292 of the penal code criminalizes discrimination by government officials on the grounds of ‘nationality, sex, race, religion, or any other condition of a person,’ creating space for prosecutions on the grounds of discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, but the law does not cover abuses by non-state actors.”

“In 2015, El Salvador passed a landmark hate crimes bill that increased sentences for homicides and threats based on gender identity and expression and sexual orientation, as well as race, ethnicity, religion, gender and political affiliation, although the statute does not extend to other crimes, such as assault or rape.”

“The Special Comprehensive Law for a Life Free of Violence for Women, passed in 2011, establishes severe penalties for femicide, defined as the murder of a woman when motivated by ‘hatred or contempt for her status as a woman,’ but it does not alter sentences for other forms of physical and sexual violence against women.”

“Violence and discrimination take place in a context of family rejection and social stigma that have a negative impact on the well-being of LGBT people. Despite some progress in attitudes toward LGBT people in El Salvador, social stigma remains pervasive.”

“The Attorney General’s office in El Salvador released statistics in January 2020 indicating it had tabulated 692 cases of violence against LGBT and intersex people in five years. Importantly, the government has also acknowledged violations at the hands of security officials.”

“[United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)]’s 2016 guidelines for asylum applications of Salvadorans stated that LGBT people have ‘consistently been targeted for attacks and murder by the gangs and other sectors of society, including by the police and other public authorities’ and that El Salvador’s gangs have demonstrated ‘virulent hatred and ill-treatment of persons based on of their perceived sexual orientation and/or gender identity.’”

“[S]everal policy initiatives suggest good will on the part of government institutions to make policy inclusive of people of diverse gender identities and sexual orientations. But for many LGBT people, daily life on the streets is controlled not by the state but by criminal gangs, including the two factions of the 18th Street Gang… LGBT people… face violence at the hands of gangs that can be motivated by anti-LGBT animus or opportunism related to LGBT people’s perceived or actual social and economic vulnerability. LGBT people also face violence from the police, and activists have pointed out that putting more police on the streets – a key feature of the Bukele administration’s approach to crime – is not necessarily beneficial for LGBT people.”

“While El Salvador’s penal code prohibits discrimination by state officials, as discussed above, LGBT people have no protection against violence in sectors such as education, employment, and housing. A 2018 study by Spain’s international development agency found that ‘the structural character of the discrimination and exclusion of LGBTI people places them, often from a young age, in a cycle of poverty because of the lack of access to services, opportunities, and social services.’”

(V. Obstacles to Asylum in the United States, and Their Impacts)

“Between January 2007 and November 2017, at least 2,253 LGBT people from the Northern Triangle entered the United States to seek protection from persecution…By the time LGBT asylum seekers from the Northern Triangle arrive at the southern US border, they have not only fled violence and discrimination at home, but are also often beaten down by violence and discrimination in transit through Mexico.”

“The risk of violence facing LGBT asylum seekers in Mexico is accompanied by the risk of discrimination.”

[reviewsthatburn]

As the penultimate book in the series, LORD OF THE SHADOWS returns to Darren's hometown to answer what happened to his family after he died. He also learns what happened to his friends, since around twenty years have passed by now and they've more than grown up. There's kind of a new storyline related to the people who visit the Cirque and what happens there, but even that ends up being a way of tying up loose ends. Darren has changed a lot since the first book but he's pretty consistent with the most recent ones. It would not make sense to start here as this book is all about addressing answers to old questions and beginning the final confrontation which will determine the identity of the Lord of the Shadows. 

Full review at link.

[waluigis-837th-testicle]

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my name is Soap and this is my writing blog.

i post headcanons, fanfic, drabbles, playlists, and other fun stuff.  in addition to my own writing, i reblog content like writing advice, prompts, and tropes in fiction to watch out for. (you’ll also see a lot of fan art!)

I’m trying to get back into writing for the fun of it and I thought making a blog would be a nice outlet. for now, I’m gonna keep this to fandom related content, but I may eventually write about my original content, if you guys would be interested in that :^)

I self-ship, but I’m chill about it.  If you wanna bypass my key-smashing, blacklist #soapy self-ships.  

What I Write for Consistently (will be updated):

The Arcana

Penny Dreadful

DC Comics (specifically the Batfam)

Bojack Horseman

i write snippets of content for a lot of other fandoms as well so stay tuned:)

What Content I Write (free of charge):

headcanons 

drabbles / stream of consciousness stuff 

A n g s t :)

platonic relationships 

hurt & comfort

light amounts of gore (eg. references to wounds, descriptions of fights, mentions of blood)

shit posts B^)

lime (e.g. making out, groping, slightly sexual activities but nothing super explicit) 

What I Write (for coin):

match-ups 

personalized letters from a character of your choice

explicit NSFW

monster p*rn / romance, I can give you a match up or you can ask me to write specifically about a character as a monster

drabbles/short fics of you and your fave 

drabbles/short fics w/ romantic ships. (I’m not super into shipping characters outside of platonic contexts, but I’m willing to write about romantic ships if you have some $$ to spare)

Pricing:

Drabbles (or anything under 300 words): $3

500 words: $6

1,000 words: $10

1,500 words: $16

Playlist - 5 songs: $4

Playlist - 10 songs: $8

Match-up: $10

Match-up w/ short playlist - $12

What I Don’t Write (w/ or w/out payment):

explicit/heavy gore

anything relating to pregnancy/childbirth

A/B/O

dub-con/rape

Tags I Use (Trigger Edition)

cw sex mention

cw sexual humor

cw gore

cw ww2

cw blood

cw injury

cw body horror

cw eye strain

cw death mention

cw alcohol

cw smoking

Note: If I get an ask that makes me uncomfortable, I reserve the right to not write anything for it. I will try to tag any potentially triggering content.  Please let me know if there are things you would like tagged.

[herawell]

I was just randomly scrolling through your blog (glad to find a mythology fandom on Tumblr!), and I saw a post you reblogged nearly a year ago, saying something about Yudhisthira during exile, and one of the tags you used was #pregnancy cw and I was just sitting there semi shook semi cackling for a long time because I was genuinely imagining Yudhisthira pregnant and desperately trying to hide his rapidly swelling baby bump from his brothers 🤣🤣🤣

Jokes aside, was that accidentally tagged or did I miss the context and if so, what was the context?

This was the post!

The pregnancy was related to a "horse placenta" anecdote in a poem the OP had linked to, which was apparently horrific and apparently actually happened. I didn't read the full poem, so I have no idea what it was about, but I tagged the post with #pregnancy cw and #animal horror cw just to be sure.

(The horse placenta anecdote had nothing to do with Yudhisthira, there was another line that the OP had quoted from the poem which gave me Yudi vibes.)

[starling-the-whore]

I think that an analysis of the relationship between terfdom and white supremacy should also mention the ways that the colonial gender binary is constructed by white supremacy to exclude people of colour from gender (black people in particular, and women in particular)

I think that in a general sense it's seen most obviously in the way that gender norms for women are modeled off of cisgender white women, so that women who aren't white or aren't cisgender are expected to conform to how cisgender white women look when possible, and when not possible can just expect to be perceived as masculine. two concrete examples are the presence of body hair, which white people and especially cis white women grow less of, and thinness, as fatphobia has a lot of roots in antiblackness

I found this article, Gynecology and the Ungendering of Black Women, discussing a chapter out of Black on Both Sides by C. Riley Snorton. It's a good material example of how the ungendering of black women was used to justify medical violence against them and how that relates to chattel slavery. (so CW obviously for discussion of medical violence against black women in the advent of gynecology, discussion of chattel slavery, some discussion of the relationship of this to transphobia and transmysogynoir). the ideas that were invented here to justify the medical violence are also still perpetuated into today; for example, black women are much more likely to die during pregnancy and childbirth than white women, and I've seen this at least partially ascribed to black women not being as likely to be believed about being in pain, or the extent of their pain. you can also see in that last link that a national abortion ban was projected to disproportionately put black women at risk of pregnancy-related death, which is obviously very relevant at the moment.

there's so much more that can be said here but I think that some understanding of the context of the deep relationship of the colonial gender binary go white supremacy is necessary to contextualize terf bullshit.

terf fascism does not go hand in hand with white supremacy because they happen to accidentally have similar propoganda, rhetoric, and disposition towards hierarchical enforcement of their ideas. it goes hand in hand with white supremacy because colonial understanding of gender is intentionally built on white supremacy and cannot be separated from it.

this is necessary to understanding an intersectional approach to racism and transphobia, and neither will be dismantled without the other!

When push comes to shove terfs will always back facism and white supremacists ideals becuase it works better with their exclusionary ideology. Terfs are a few steps away from full blown white supremacy.

[radthursdays]

#RadThursdays Roundup 12/21/2017

A drab concrete wall blocks a bright blue sky. On top of the wall is razor wire which has been covered in colorful flowers. By artists ICY and SOT. Source.

Inequity

BAN PRISONS: From Ban Week on Splinter. “The U.S. prison system today is not about detaining a small group of dangerous individuals. Over the past 30 years, we have grown addicted to incarceration, relying on it as the solution to all of our social problems.”

Nothing Protects Black Women From Dying in Pregnancy and Childbirth: Not education. Not income. Not even being an expert on racial disparities in health care. "Stress has been linked to one of the most common and consequential pregnancy complications, preterm birth. Black women are 49 percent more likely than whites to deliver prematurely (and, closely related, black infants are twice as likely as white babies to die before their first birthday). Here again, income and education aren’t protective."

[CW: bright, flashing animated content] Millenials Are Screwed: Why millennials are facing the scariest financial future of any generation since the Great Depression. "'By shifting tasks to contractors, companies pay a price for a service rather than wages for work. That means they don’t have to think about training, career advancement or benefit provision.' This transformation is affecting the entire economy, but millennials are on its front lines. Where previous generations were able to amass years of solid experience and income in the old economy, many of us will spend our entire working lives intermittently employed in the new one. We’ll get less training and fewer opportunities to negotiate benefits through unions (which used to cover 1 in 3 workers and are now down to around 1 in 10). Plus, as Uber and its 'gig economy' ilk perfect their algorithms, we’ll be increasingly at the mercy of companies that only want to pay us for the time we’re generating revenue and not a second more."

Tweet from @HousecatStrike: “Conservatives: 10 people should own half of the world. Leftists: No they shouldn’t you fucking sociopaths. Neoliberals: HALF 👏 OF 👏 THOSE 👏 PEOPLE 👏 SHOULD 👏 BE 👏 WOMEN 👏 ” Source.

What Will Make Us Change?

Gui Stampur: Reform Is Long Overdue: The lawyer and activist on helping unaccompanied immigrant children navigate immigration court. "In the criminal court system, you have the right to an attorney, and one will be provided to you at government expense. In the immigration context, it’s totally different. You are allowed to bring an attorney, but one is not provided. From the beginning we’ve taken on representation of kids who appeared at immigration court by themselves. With an attorney, the chances of success are exponentially higher, estimated at about 93 percent. Children without a lawyer will be deported 83 percent of the time."

[CW: gun violence] What Bullets Do To Bodies: "'As a country,' Goldberg said, 'we lost our teachable moment.' She started talking about the 2012 murder of 20 schoolchildren and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Goldberg said that if people had been shown the autopsy photos of the kids, the gun debate would have been transformed. 'The fact that not a single one of those kids was able to be transported to a hospital, tells me that they were not just dead, but really really really really dead. Ten-year-old kids, riddled with bullets, dead as doornails.' Her voice rose. She said people have to confront the physical reality of gun violence without the polite filters."

A photo of part of a newspaper article that reads, "During a five-hour public hearing, many Palo Altans said the project was too big and moving too fast. 'It just seems to me that a billionaire can come in and get whatever he wants and run roughshod over average millionaires like myself,' said Crescent Park Neighborhood Association president." Source.

Issues

This Is The Daily Stormer’s Playbook: Nazis are actually Nazis.

Witch Kids of Instagram: “Disempowered by society and overwhelmed with physical changes, teenage girls fall in love with the idea of forming covens. . . . the more disempowered people are, the more they long for magic, which explains why magic becomes the province of women in a sexist society.”

Productivity Is Dangerous: "At every moment, you are hurtling through space at around 70,000 miles per hour, while also rotating along with the rest of the Earth’s surface at a speed of a thousand miles per hour. You’re filling your lungs with air, over and over, and as long as you’ve eaten recently, blood is taking nutrition to every part of your body and creating it anew. Even if you’re sleeping, your mind is always occupied with something. Do you really, actually, need to be doing any more than this?"

An illustrated image of a man holding a toddler up to his face with the words, "This is Dy Nguyen and his baby girl. Like me, Dy was three years old when his mother packed him into a boat to escape Viet Nam, risking everything to seek out safety and freedom." In early October, around 150 Cambodians and 95 Vietnamese were picked up by ICE for deportation. These are the largest raids to ever target the Southeast Asian community. There are about 2000 Cambodian Americans and 10,000 Vietnamese Americans at risk of being picked up in future raids. Source.

Direct Action Item

What charities do you donate to? Do you know how they directly impact the communities and people they're concerned about? While no charity or organization is perfect, take the time this week to evaluate what changes you want to see, and if the charities you donate to effect those changes.

If there’s something you’d like to see in next week’s #RT, please send us a message.

In solidarity!

What is direct action? Direct action means doing things yourself instead of petitioning authorities or relying on external institutions. It means taking matters into your own hands and not waiting to be empowered, because you are already powerful. A “direct action item” is a way to put your beliefs into practice every week.