#give me examples

[cxsmicvega]

"nonthreatening they/thems on testosterone"

ma'am have you lost your entire mind have you met a single transmasc enby in your entire life??? what fuckin they/thems are you referring to?????? why are you throwing your brothers under the bus to make a point when these places you claim want a clean face hate both of us??????? what kind of fucking psyop shit is this

[frnkiebby]

stretchy boi~🎃

[tom-hossain-minis]

Foes with benefits

[cactuscryptid]

One of my favorite things video games do is give you a quest near the beginning of the game under the guise that it's just gonna be a silly throwaway gag or something, but then later in the game something heart wrenching happens and after a cutscene or something you get the award for finishing that quest. Like idk if I have any examples of this but I just think it's awesome yknow.

[relaxxattack]

if homestuck came out today what types of internet guys would the trolls be based on

[mythicalcoolkid]

You don't wish your disability was worse or more visible, you wish your disability was taken seriously. Please stop confusing the two, I guarantee you would not get the support you need JUST by being more severe or more visible. Please listen to visibly disabled people when we tell you it isn't better on our side

[solarartzz]

“Miss Ayase… I love you! I don’t want to let go of you!”

[bacchuschucklefuck]

truly this one's just for me. I can do what I want foreverrr

[morganbritton132]

The Corroded Coffin boys know that Steve and Eddie are dating way before Eddie tells them because he starts using sports terminology during band practice.

[keferon]

Imagine you're in the world of Transformers. Imagine you woke up randomly in the med bay and you're a giant robot.

You don't know which version of Transformers this is, the movies or the TV series or the comics? You don't know.

But you need to pick a faction and join it right now.

[ibenology]

when two characters starts physically fighting and crashes into a media player which in turn starts playing a random song that becomes the fight track >>>>>>>>>>>>

[casscainmainly]

A Deep Dive Into Why Cass Threw Dick Out A Window

If you've been here long enough you've probably seen or heard of this moment, which is super hilarious and iconic. It's mostly discussed in reference to Dick and Cass' relationship. However, in my opinion Cass throwing Dick out a window had very little to do with her opinion of him, or even of Barbara; it has more to do with her understanding of romance and love. I briefly touched on this in my gender/sexuality post, but I'm going to explain more in depth my interpretation of how Dick functions in Batgirl (2000) as a whole. (This moment is very open to interpretation though, this is just my opinion!). So let's try to answer Dick's question: what was that all about?

Love, Language, and DickBabs

While Puckett's run is notable for not having Cass date anyone, romantic love does play a role in Cass' early understanding of the world. It's the impetus that spurs her to write: in issue 2, she sees a wife read a letter from her deceased husband, and her reaction affects Cass so strongly she immediately starts trying to write. (She also kisses the husband on the cheek earlier, which may or may not be a crush). Romance, and the ability to communicate your love, is a fundamental part of Cass' desire to learn language.

So we have Cass, who has experienced neither love nor language, living with Babs, who's in a relationship with Dick. This telephone conversation in #4 (the issue where a metahuman changes Cass' brain into understanding language) again links romance to communication. Dick and Babs are talking on the phone, unable to see each other but understanding each other perfectly; Cass and Babs, on the other hand, live together and can't understand each other at all.

"She can't talk, so it's not all that different [to living alone]." Babs is telling an eavesdropping Cass that her inability to speak prevents her from love and connection - a love and connection symbolised by one of the first romantic relationships Cass is consistently around, Dick and Barbara.

Dick as an Ideal

There's a debate whether Cass likes Dick or not because half the time they're friendly, and half the time she's punching him or throwing him out windows. This disparity makes sense if you consider that Cass strongly associates DickBabs with communication, understanding, love - very idealised notions - but she does not associate Dick as a person with them. Her interactions with Dick (sans Babs) are cute and normal - Batgirl #29 and Nightwing #81 feature some very adorable Dick-Cass moments, with no real tension whatsoever.

It's only when Cass sees Dick in a romantic light (as in associated with Babs) that she makes him into a symbol.

Cass often tries to copy Babs, thinking it's the 'correct' thing to do - in DC First: Batgirl/Joker, she goes after Joker because that's what Barbara did; later in Horrocks' run she'll wear Barbara's outfit. In a way, Cass' affairs with Tai'Darshan and Kon - as much as I do think Tai'Darshan was genuine attraction - is another way to 'copy' Barbara. In #42, Cass stares at a picture of Dick and Babs while asking if Babs likes boys. Obviously Cass knows the answer is yes, but see what she asks next, and how Barbara responds:

She shifts from 'like' to 'love', and Babs responds that she 'care[s]' about him. For Cass, whose arc in Horrocks' run is about parsing out the nuances of attraction, understanding the difference between like, love, and care is incredibly difficult. She struggles to separate familial from romantic (Bruce in #50) or romantic from platonic (Kon, and in somewhat the reverse way Steph). In this conversation, Cass comes to associate Dick with like, love, and care - DickBabs becomes not just a symbol of romantic love, but of any connection whatsoever.

The Old Costume

I've discussed elsewhere that Cass wearing Babs' old costume in #45 is a representation of her desire to be 'girly', and how she associates girlhood with someone other than herself, discarding her own costume for Babs'. But putting on a costume is not the only prerequisite for being a 'girl'. In Babs' speech to Cass, she emphasises being sexually attractive to men, with her final comment being about this "particular look Dick used to give [her]". For Cass, visual language is incredibly important; putting on Babs' costume is not about being or feeling like a girl, but about being perceived as one. Dick is symbolic of the perceiver: the one who can essentially 'grant' women their femininity.

But Cass is disgusted when Tim calls her hot, which adds to her confusion - why should Dick being attracted to Babs make Babs happy, but Tim (who's not a sibling at this time) perceiving her like that grosses her out? Cass' inability to feel good - to feel 'feminine' - through the male gaze is another sign, to her, of her failure to be a woman.

Which finally brings us to issue 46...

That Ableist Kon Comment

Cass finds out Dick breaks Babs' heart and then starts hallucinating on a drug. One of the things she hallucinates is Kon saying "who wants to date a cripple? Ain't that right, Nightwing?" and Nightwing responding "not me--at least, not anymore."

For the first time, we get to the heart of why DickBabs mattered to Cass: it was an example of a disabled person in a loving, romantic relationship. It goes back to that phone call in #4, where Babs implies that Cass is hard to care about because she can't speak. The Kon comment suggests Cass has carried that with her all this time, trying to find proof that she can be loved, no matter her disability. DickBabs showed her it could be done - the break-up shows her now that it can't be done.

Dick's hallucination mocks her disability: "look at her--she can't even read!" Attributing this mockery to Dick (whose real-life counterpart, unlike the other hallucinations, has never said anything remotely like this) shows that this 'Dick-as-ideal' is intrinsically tied to Cass' self-worth.

Honestly this whole post stemmed from me thinking about this one panel. There is no real reason, from Cass' view of Dick as a person, for her to think he's brave and noble and kind (more so than anyone else). But it's in the DickBabs context - that Dick seemed to love, wholeheartedly, a disabled woman - that makes Cass think this way. And now that DickBabs is broken up, it shows that she, too, is rotten to the core; that someone like her cannot be loved.

And so when Dick shows up, she throws him out the window.

Conclusion

In this moment, Cass isn't just reacting to Dick breaking up with Barbara, she's reacting to what it means to her. If Dick can't stay with Barbara, then that means Cass, as another disabled woman, is also unable to be loved. This all leads up to #50, which features another Cass punch to Dick's face, but more importantly is when Bruce and Cass reconcile through Cass' first language. It's a confirmation that though her verbal skills may not be fully developed, she still can communicate, and she can love and be loved.

I don't think a lot of the ideas I touched on here are fully developed, or conclude cleanly. For example, how does Cass' 'failure' to be a woman relate to her inability to be loved? Is she able to have a stable romantic relationship? There are lots more questions, but the role Dick specifically plays in Cass' understanding of romance is probably not going to develop further. I just think it's interesting how Horrocks uses the Dick-Babs relationship to explore Cass' identity.

[teddybeartoji]

toji fucking your throat always ends up in such a big fucking mess; you're crying, you're slobbering all over yourself and him, his pre is mixing with your spit and it's dripping down your chin and your neck and his balls and it's somehow even on your thighs – it's a lot.

but it's all only making him harder.

you gag around him and he rasps out a row of curses, his lust filled eyes fixated on your pretty face. you can't even look back at him, your mind set on trying to breathe through your nose – you feel so fucking full and it's getting so hard to breathe, your head is dizzy and your knees are starting to hurt, but you refuse to stop. the moans and groans that spill from toji's scarred lips are what egg you on, what gives you the strength to keep on going.

with his fingers wrapped around your neck, toji feels himself move inside you and it's driving him fucking insane. he's swimming in a daydream, he's having a rough time believing this is really happening – you're taking him so well, and you feel so good and you look so pretty and fuck, the way your throat keeps clamping down on him as you gag and the filthy fucking sounds that you're letting out. he thinks he really might be in love.

"shit, sweetheart..."

the petname has you humming around his cock, which in return makes him instantly force himself as deep as he can; his heavy, spit covered balls are flush against chin and at this point, all you can do is sink your nails into his thighs for support.

"look at me."

it takes you a second to even register what he said, your all mind fuzzy and gone. but then you do so anyway – glassy eyes and tear stained cheeks, toji reckons you look like a fucking angel.

his knees nearly give out when you shake your head ever-so-lighty, just enough to rub your nose against his pubes, just enough to push him over the edge.

he spills his load deep down your throat with a loud groan and lets his head fall back as you swallow around him. he almost misses the way you tap his thigh, his body overwhelmed by the wave of pleasure rushing through him, but when you do it a little stronger the second time, he's quick to pull you off of him.

you swallow another time, but cum still dribbles from the corners of your lips – there's always so much of it and you're still trying to get used to that. wiping the rest of it with the back of your hand, you crane your neck to look at your lover once more and knot in your stomach tightens just a little at the sight of him; covered in sweat, red in the face, disheveled hair and a stupid lovesick grin – you, too, think he looks like a fucking angel.

with a sniffle, you try to keep yourself from falling over but you're so tired, your body and mind both numb after all of your hard work. but before you can even think about climbing onto the bed with him, his hands are reaching for yours.

he pulls you to him with one swift move and cradles you against his chest, completely ignoring the mess you've made for a moment. he doesn't take his eyes off of you as nuzzle your face into him – he knows you're about to pass the fuck out, you always do, but he thinks it's cute.

toji wipes a thumb over your cheek to rid of the drying tears and then leans in closer to press a kiss to the very same spot. he lets out a breathy laugh when you push at him, murmuring something about 'being dirty'.

as if he fucking cares.

he presses another kiss to your nose and then to your lips. and then he's smearing the remnants of his own cum all over your cheek.

but just as you're about to bite at him from being ridiculous, he's already got a shirt in his hands, ready to clean you up.

he ignores the way you glare at him with a sly little smirk on his face and simply continues to gently wipe your face, your neck, your chest and then your thighs – he takes his time with you, he doesn't rush it at all because he really does feel proud of the mess you've created together and he won't hide it either.

by the time he's all done, you've already dozed off. skin on skin, you've always felt the safest like this; you melt into your lover and with one last kiss to the crown of your head, toji lets you get your rest. he'll stare at you for a few more minutes before joining you in dreamland.

skin on skin, he's always felt the safest like this.

[spineless-lobster]

The way characters like diomedes, neoptolemus and telemachus constantly get compared to their fathers without ever actually knowing them is something that can be soooooooo personal

[chalkrub]

some of the head coms from recently <:^) indefinitely still open for these !

[hers-underwraps]

Man I love how dopey this trio is

By themselves and even as duos they are effective. But these three together? They’re achieving absolutely nothing!

I don’t know why but when they are together it’s like they actively cancel each other out and share a single brain cell

These three are introduced as the epitome of stupid in the first episode.

Look at this

And then they’re just like

“Heh.. guys if we all charge the whale shark at the same time, we can escape”

They don’t question it and are just like “YEAH. We’ve got this”

Or the time they were looking for the lyrebird stowaway on the octo ray and their thought process was like

“Hmmm ok, so there’s three qualified pilots here and we need three people to go searching for this bird. Ok Shellington you fly”

They don’t even question it. They just chuck him on autopilot and assume he’ll be fine (he’s not).

The only time this trio would be effective is as a sports team.

These three seem like the try hard sweats that would take the game way too seriously and absolutely demolish the other team (lowkey real though)

(Man who chose the teams for this snowball fight. Tweaks team is absolutely cooked)

They can’t be left alone because trust me when I tell you that this trio will genuinely go nowhere if left to their own devices