#especially in pretend play

[ardentblossomings]

We finally semi-officially got the confirmation for which tattoo stands for which faction, thanks to @pinkyjulien's folder! Last two are vallaslin, and thus empty!

Body tattoos ✦ body paints ✦ official vallaslin ✦ facial scars

[willowser]

every single day i think about the influence touya would have had on shouto as an older brother.

he has to take him everywhere he goes, so they're always jamming to the same hardcore music in touya's shitty car. shouto, obviously, develops a taste for the same bands, same songs. shouto is also in the ride-along to buy cigarettes and beer at midnight, and touya threatens his whole entire life if he tells rei, but shouto would never because he likes going too much.

shouto 100% would attempt to kick the ass of anyone that talked shit to his brother. little string bean, doesn't matter, this little boy is throwing HANDS for touya, and touya very much has the attitude of "no one can fuck with my little brother but me". whenever shouto gets in trouble for doing something he shouldn't be doing, touya is always taking the fall for him, no questions asked. shouto lies for touya like it's second nature.

shouto wants an earring because of touya, and touya probably GIVES the piercing to him, which makes enji blow a gasket. touya learns to play the drums and then shouto wants to, too — though he ends up being better than touya and touya promptly quits after that. touya teaches him to drive. shouto gets drunk for the first time with touya BECAUSE touya wants to be there to take care of him. they hate each other, they get into fist fights all the time, rolling around the house as fuyumi screams at both of them. they're best friends. they understand each other more than anyone else ever could.

[thief-of-eggs]

Romanticizing my 4am drive to work by pretending I am one of the Bats heading home after patrol

[offorestsongs]

a villainess doesn't get to end up with the prince.

low-quality silverflame posting time! with some vague lore! i don't have the energy to do anything more polished rn but i still wanted to get the idea out

[atopvisenyashill]

i was thinking more about characters Performing Gender, but not necessarily Transgressing Gender. I wound up focusing on Ned and Sansa bc I feel like I understand them the most but-

Sansa as a hostage is imo the most obvious (bc it’s so well done) moment of someone clearly Performing Gender but not being transgressive in that performance. Which isn’t to say it’s not a complicated performance; it’s a fine line Sansa walks between weaponizing her gender to protect herself without seeming too fake. She’s trying to placate the Lannisters by playing the perfect, dedicated, air headed betrothed because it’s the only defense she has - if she outwardly rebels, she will be punished in a likely violent and/or sexual way (which isn’t even conjecture - when she says “or maybe he’ll give me yours” Joffrey has her struck with an armored hand). She’s not quite successful in being convincing but that’s because it’s a rather extreme situation; despite no one believing her, she does make herself seem meek and stupid enough that no one suspects she’s plotting to escape with Dontos until she’s well away from KL. The fact that she even has Dontos to confide in is because of Sansa’s relationship with gender! When she saves him, she covers her rebellious slip by playing up Joffrey’s intelligence & his role as King; she reaches for “tools” of her gender AND of ~proper manhood~ to save a life and herself from another beating. Her retreats into the godswood and silence are very much Sansa attempting to recharge from these draining interactions, the same way a knight would need to stop and eat and rest after a fight. She is fighting, constantly, by forcing herself to stay within the narrow confines of a specific type of gender performance as a way of shielding herself from harm.

Ned yelling at Cat is another big one, and I’ve seen the scene referred to as Ned using his patriarchal power to scare Cat, which is a great description. It feels like a Performance because Ned is putting on this terrifying Lord Stark mask in an attempt to get Catelyn to stop asking about Jon (and Lyanna). This is not how he usually acts with those he loves! When Ned is with His People, he is welcoming of questions, curiosity, emotion, even transgressive thought (to a point! the idea that Ned is a feminist because he lets Arya learn to fight is Not accurate but you can’t deny he allows significantly more flexibility wrt gender expression than most of the fathers we meet in this series. the bar is in hell tho). Yet when Cat asks him about Jon’s mother, Ned scares her so well she stops asking & still remembers the moment bitterly over a decade later. And if that snippet we see through Bran’s eyes of Ned praying that Cat will forgive him does come after she asks (like it’s suspected), it’s clear not only that this is a performance he’s putting on & weaponizing against Cat, it’s one he does not like using as a weapon against someone he is close to. After using the power his gender gives him to cause harm, he retreats to the godswood and silence to pray and rest, much like Sansa. A spiritual cleanse, the way a soldier may pray after battle, to reset and reconnect Being A Proper Man to Being A Kind Man.

I think there’s something interesting in that two of the characters most widely defined by how well they adhere to Westerosi gender norms both dislike feeling like they had to weaponize their gender. They are exhausted by the performance, because it’s a performance. This isn’t Sansa getting excited over tourneys, or Ned teaching his sons to fight; it’s toxic masculinity, it’s structural misogyny. It’s something they’re good at, excel at, and connected to something they enjoy but when it’s paired with violence, whether done by Ned or done to Sansa, it crosses over in their minds from an innate part of themselves (The Gender) to a performance necessary due to survival (The Gender Role). And that after these performances, both retreat to nature & god as a way of resting and cleansing from the experience.

[inafieldofdaisies]

Character Edit | Deputy Sabrina Donovan as a Naiad

Watch the lights like water underneath my skin And my blood boils hotter, I can feel you swim in my veins like somethin's forcin' me to sin

@strafethesesinners @strangefable @socially-awkward-skeleton @shellibisshe

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@direwombat @elligatorrex @mkdecimation @carlosoliveiraa @theelderhazelnut

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@simplegenius042 @cloudofbutterflies92 @lilywatt @roofgeese

[stop-breaking-my-heart-dragonage]

I'm not ready to shut up about Aveline and Carver--so, when you go see Aveline in Act 1, you can catch up with her a little bit and that's where this conversation can happen:

Aveline: "It's just one more change, though. The real end for me was Ostagar. What about you, Carver? You were there. Do you feel something similar?" Carver: No. Aveline: All right, then. Bit of a tit, your brother.

I wanted to see what she would say if Carver isn't in the party. Instead, she says this:

Aveline: Carver was there. I imagine he feels something similar. If he allows it.

......well, at least she didn't call him a tit?

[sonnycrsi]

Every time there are some discourses on who’s side is correct on any slight problem TK and Carlos have, I always come and read this.

They’re both imperfect people with different trauma and coping methods but they do love each other so much to work on being better and be together

[puppychase]

Everyone writing mirage as cool and seductive is so wrong. He calls his bf “bro” and “dude” and he’s always unserious. One earnest moment and he’s turning into a Porsche and driving away out of embarrassment

[kirisclangen]

Cicadashine

She/her, 132 moons, cis molly

[tenebrous-dream]

amusement park date with lindsay :3

[puppyeared]

who up seeing their disorder in a fictional character but feel like its not their place to put a name on it

[warlordfelwinter]

corvo being a witch being the Worst Kept Secret in the empire after emily being his daughter has such enormous comedic potential

imagine how incensed the abbey must be. emily has a remembrance service for the overseers who died trying to kill delilah, meanwhile the outsider's specialest little boy is standing behind the throne

we get one witch off the throne and there's just another, official, one scuttling through the vents. trying to get rid of the outsider's chosen is like dealing with cockroaches

[bidoofenergy]

not to CR DiscourseTM but maybe some of us dropped campaign 3 because the one (1) POC at the table turned out to not be a permanent addition and we were really upset because we loved him in EXU and by that point we had already started paying for dropout (#SummerOfAabria) and d20 isn't perfect but we were finally seeing POC at the table, in the plural, and maybe we decided to not spend our time watching the table full of white people and their occasional guest of color

[spikes-got-anger-issues]

On February 3rd, 2016, Lab Rats ended

[laney-rockin]

As a white-passing mixed race indigenous person I remember as a kid going up to teachers and telling them with smiles that I was indigenous and having them go "you don't look native."

Now with that rememberance I also remember my father coming down to my level to warn me who I tell that tidbit about myself to because they'll always treat me/look at me differently because of it.

Why do I share this you ask?

IMAGINE SPOCK GOING THROUGH THAT AS A KID.

Just tiny Spock going up to people proclaiming he's human and people on Vulcan saying he's illogical and that he does share characteristics/mannerisms/the same biology as humans.

Imagine Amanda pulling him aside and telling him he should be more careful with showing off his human side for fear of persecution/exclusion by his peers. Imagine Amanda fearing for her son's bright future.

Imagine Spock growing up, now more hesitant to even speak about his human side, rejecting a lot of human things that he used to enjoy. Amanda's heart breaking as she watches her son become so Vulcan-like because the slightest slip-up causes Spock to become the topic of ridicule and disdain within Vulcan itself.

Imagine Spock leaving and going to Earth and feeling so disconnected from humans that he just keeps up this whole "Vulcan brick wall" shtick and humans poke fun at his "Vulcan-ness"

Imagine Spock, too human to be a true Vulcan and too Vulcan to be truly human, not knowing where he fits exactly. But accepts he is both Vulcan and human and should not have to choose between one or the other. Accepting that he will always be treated differently for simply being both the son of a Vulcan and a Human.