#gay things are happening here!!!

[gennianydots]

Acceptance (is a beautiful thing)

[ash-and-starlight]

Sokka splashed a line of water through his path. The fire fizzled. Zuko’s eyebrow raised, then he forged on. The path zigzagged out of the constellation, hopped eastwards through the galaxy’s north. Hiss. Hiss. Sokka met him each time with a streak of water. Zuko pressed on, building rhythm with each star he joined up.

The Mercy of Magpies Chapter 4 out now!!

as always written by thee @ranilla-bean and betaed by @faux-fires

Chapter Post || Cover || Map and Characters || Ch2 || Ch 3.1 || Ch. 3.2

[yukipri]

For curiosity's sake...

[creekfiend]

I have been having a really weird experience this summer, which is that I fell in love for the first time. I'm 36, and if you'd asked me if I had ever been in love previously, I would have said "I don't know, maybe? I used to think so but now I'm not sure? What's it mean to be in love?? how would I know if I had or not???" I thought that because I had not experienced it myself, the people who were always saying "oh no, trust me, You Would Know" were all lying or otherwise mistaken. I DID NOT BELIEVE THEM. I was fully like "this is some sort of mass delusion, there's no way that's a thing"

Now that I know that this is something that Exists even if it doesn't always Look Like They Tell You, there's SO many things that make sense to me!!! Whenever I encountered Romance Stuff before, I had no desire to do any of it AND could not comprehend why anyone else would ever want to either. It was this really large experiential disconnect for me. Whether or not I want to do any of those things, I now understand why other people would, if they Were In Love. LIKE I GET IT NOW. IT MAKES SENSE TO ME. I still can't relate to things like people in movies falling in love instantly, but now it's like "oh right, that's a potential state of being that exists," rather than "pretty fucked up that hollywood made Being In Love up to sell more flowers or whatever."

I feel like I'm constantly 24/7 running a software update on my brain that's been overdue to be installed for years or perhaps decades. It's just like "OK YUP UPDATING ALL THESE PROGRAMS AND FOLDERS. THIS WILL TAKE SOME TIME AND DATA BYTES OR WHATEVER, BUCKLE UP!" Pretty sure there's actually one of those little rainbow spinning icons above my head the whole time I'm conscious, like I am some sort of very confused Sim.

This happened to me REALLY SLOWLY, too, so it was like a big blockage in a river, and more and more stuff was just piling up against it, and then the dam broke, and now I'm sitting in the shallows of a giant basin lake under a massive waterfall wringing my hat out and going "woah. they got never before seen types of fish in here"

Who else knew about this??? Unfortunately the answer is: a majority of human beings over a certain age DID in fact know about this, it's just that every time anyone said "this is a way people feel about each other sometimes," I said "hmm. sounds fake." In-cred-i-ble.

Turns out that being in love is just an experience that people can have!! It's just a thing that happens sometimes! Some people have had it happen to them a bunch and some people not at all. It's just A Thing That Can Happen To You. Wtf. WHAT WILL I DISCOVER NEXT????? IT COULD BE ANYTHING !!! WHAT WOULD BE THE FUNNIEST POSSIBLE NEXT THING FOR ME TO REALIZE EXISTS? ONLY TIME WILL TELL. (Can you fucking imagine having this happen to you when you are in your seventies or eighties rather than your mid thirties ????? THAT WOULD BE THE WORLD'S MOST DISORIENTING EXPERIENCE.) (I also thought that "having chemistry" was fake.) (Do not diagnose me, I PROMISE I already know)

[yache-berries]

Average Buddy Holly Enjoyers

[intrepidtrickster]

Moominvalley and Snufmin

S4 Spoilers Under Cut

I’m so disappointed in how they handled Snufkin and Moomintroll this season. I had my worries, but I also had a lot of hope. They did deliberately put in those interactions. The team also kept reacting to mentions of Snufmin with winks and nudges in interviews and videos they put out. It makes me wonder what the point was. I genuinely feel like this was queerbaiting. And I don’t want to use that term because it doesn’t feel like one to use lightly. Even more so since I had such a great love for Moominvalley’s other seasons. Especially 1 and 2. It was genuinely really beautiful and soft and had such lovely queer undertones and moments. But I think it’s more than fair to say that the team knew about the reactions and how many people were introduced to it via Snufkin x Moomin. And they seemingly used that. They gave us build up but didn’t follow through. When it came down to it, they shrugged it off and didn’t address it at all. It felt so removed from Season 4. And I think that that, in essence, is queerbaiting. Because if you keep nodding to something throughout a series, using it to keep your audience waiting for the ‘inevitable’ conclusion to it that’ll certainly play out by the time the story ends only to snatch it away once you’ve secured your viewers and money, that is what that is. And I honestly expected better from the studio. If they weren’t going to commit, then they shouldn’t have kept bringing hopes up and making it seem like the direction it would go in.

(forgive the essay in the tags- I was thinking so many things)

[chushanye]

I am so beyond happy that Kristen is messy as hell. I'm glad that jealousy overtakes her after a breakup. I'm glad she is procrastinating and completely lost when it comes to reviving/creating a religion, and that the weight of responsibility is freaking her out so much she is ruining her relationship with her goddess. I'm glad Ally made her fall behind in school simply because needing to do it is overwhelming. I love that she bitterly snaps at people who annoy her.

she's a character that in every step and decision is reminiscent of a teenager you might actually meet. the heart is there, the flaws are there. she feels so tangible. I love her, so so much.

[waitineedaname]

i know it's just the trope of like. one true love/soulmates/"never loved someone before this person" but I find it very funny that in writing that trope, mxtx accidentally made all her protagonists read as very arospec

shen qingqiu? whole essays have been written about how he is absolutely on the ace spectrum, and i'd argue he's on the aro spectrum too for similar reasons. he's like "damn it would be difficult to get a girlfriend as the scum villain" and then proceeds to not really give a shit about that problem whatsoever. he's completely clueless about the fact that people are falling love with him left and right, does not even consider romance an option until luo binghe straight up kisses him on the mouth. i think in general attraction for him is kinda muddy and it would be hard to neatly label the affection he feels for binghe as one thing or the other. i do firmly believe that if you plucked romance out of the equation, he and lbh would still be attached at the hip because their dynamic is a mess that isn't exclusively romantic

wei wuxian? the most demiromantic motherfucker i've ever seen. he knew lan wangji for HOW LONG before he realized he was in love with him??? he was very clearly obsessed with lwj from the start, but it likely started as "this guy is fun to provoke and I want his attention" rather than romantic attraction (as opposed to lan wangji who was attracted to him from the start and Very Mad About It) and I think it took wwx so long to figure out his feelings because it genuinely just took a long time for those feelings to develop from something platonic (and a little physical) to something romantic, and I think that development came about because he realized just how much he could trust and rely on lwj

as for xie lian, im only on book five, but so far my assessment of him seems to be that for 800 years he was like "this chastity shit is easy" and now he's suddenly experiencing attraction for the first time and he's like "whoa. okay. well I'll deal with that later once i'm done dealing with the horrors"

[andithil]

Yeah, flick it. (ooh) How's that? (ow, ooh) How's that? (*moans*) Six inches of silver (arghh) in your scapula. (uhn~) Ooh, it's inside, lovely and deep that is... ... .. .

[toads-n-moss]

[ no dl6 au ]

hey fellas, is it gay to stare intensely into your rival's eyes while you both mutually test your limits during your sparring session. also your faces keep getting really close to each other-

anyways, happy narumitsu day :3

[variksel]

dungeons and daddies s1 was, supposedly, about the funnies and it turned out to be about the horrors (and old man yaoi). we now need to make dungeons and daddies s3, which is supposedly about the horrors, into the funnies (and also old woman yuri)

[there-are-many-ways-to-smile]

Time Cut is predictable and really Fucked up like emotionally

● Like what do you mean your first kid was murdered and your first thought was to have another as a replacement. They honestly might as well of just named the second child Summer as well. They named the second girl the first girls middle name.

[I don't think the sisters look alike, maybe skin tone wise but that's it]

● Product placement is everywhere and very obvious.

● While it's a slasher flim, they don't actually show you any of the deaths, like they cut away from the gory bits. [Which i find weird but whatever]

[Apparently the fashion in the 2003 year isn't right and I honestly can't agree or disagree cause I was a child at that time and didn't pay attention nor do I remember]

● I like how Lucy is, questioning if she should stop the killings. (Cause butterfly effect)

"Should I invest in BlackBerry?"

Madison Lily Bailey isn't the best actress, like she's good on OuterBanks but here, it's not very good unfortunately.

You know what actually no one probably expect for Antonia Gentry can act.

Maybe it's the script, cause everyone is off but her.

● Sad scenes are still hitting where it hurts though

● It would have been really sad but they honestly should have had Lucy cease to exist, cause I don't understand how she's supposed to support herself living in the past, she has no identity, she can't sleepover at Summers and Quinn houses forever.

Someone's gonna start asking questions, or you think time wouldn't allow someone to just stay in the past unchecked.

●I've said it before but Time Travel is a tricky bitch

Would the killer really look exactly the same 20 years later? I think not

That makeup looks horrid, they should have gotten an older looking actor.

This movie was clearly made on a budget, how much? Two dimes and a dream

● "Take advantage of the present" is a wild sentence for someone that stayed in the past. Lol

==

Okay, so my final thoughts, um.. it's an Okay movie.

It just seemed like the main character just gave up, and I guess she couldn't really talk to her parents. But a blow up fight with them [like how she's her own person and not just their replacement for the daughter they lost] before the time travel back to 2003 would have been so good. Like they play a big part in Lucy life, her character and we don't see them much in the movie. I wish she would have gotten angry with them. Instead its just sadness.

So much more could have been done with the parents and I feel like we missed out.

Lucy a bit too comfortable for me, she's totally okay with her not existing and being a stranger to her parents.

While it's not an OG idea, and they have legit the same mask or something similar from Totally killer, I wouldn't compare the two.

Different Ball parks by far.

One I'd definitely buy the DVD and the other is a one and done

[notquitedeadpod]

me talking about writing this show: it's such a privilege and i'm so grateful to be able to work on it, i'm so proud of it and delighted people listen and respond. it means so much to me to be able to make something like this thank you 🥺🥺🥺🥺

the show:

[suffarustuffaru]

hi i made a tier list of how homophobic rezero characters are

hello in the spirit of valentine's day and the very welcoming community here on rezero tumblr i decided to make this with the help of my lovely mutuals.

[bumpscosity]

Actually all gravity falls shipping wars in back when the show was airing were hilarious. i once saw two ppl arguing abt wether pinecest or stancest was better like guys i think its better if we just throw both of you into the bottomless pit forever

[girlbloggercrowley]

i am a believer in the s3 1941 kiss