#he’s gnc as fuck

[cry-ptidd]

I was looking at this pic of Alucard, and the absence of a line to define his legs makes it look like he’s wearing a pencil skirt. And well

[hijinxinprogress]

Does the JL know that YJ has just casually been beefing with darkseid??

imagine there’s a all hands on deck battle against darkseid and everyone is there but darkseid points out the nearest yj member (it’s probably Bart) like ‘you!!! You managed to escape with your lives last time but this meeting will be our last’ and for a split second Clark’s so fucking confused bc we haven’t fought in years wtf are you talking about then he hears ‘oh shit, look it’s Doug’ and everyone turns to see Bart nudging Kon going ‘he’s talking to you…damn he must still be mad about the coal’ and kons shoving him back bc ‘you were the one fucking around with his coal, you fucking walnut’ while Cassie’s being scruffed by wonder woman bc they’re trying to avoid being around when the jl finds out and tims having a very intense silent conversation lecture about why tf there’s at least half a dozen yj mission reports that mention an assailant named ‘Doug’ 

then Constantine shows up with Greta and everyone (including darkseid) starts yelling and if you don’t know her Greta seems like the one with the ownership of the braincell in yj (she is not but I guess she looks like it from a distance if you squint) which goes one of two ways:

retired-civilian!greta is giggling and waving excitedly to each member of yj along with hal before she practically tackles each of them in a tight hug while the titans, jl, & jl: dark lose their collective shit bc Constantine brought a tiny civilian dressed in pastel floral prints from head to toe into an active battle with fucking darkseid, a civilian who doesn’t register as a threat in any capacity until she makes eye contact with darkseid and gives him the most disgusted look imaginable “Doug… you look…well.” and then like three jl members have to stop her from leaping at darkseid while Hal’s like ‘no! No no, bad Greta! We don’t fight supervillains with…what is that?? I really fucking hope that’s not a gun…Is-is that fucking silly string?! Greta no we don’t silly string supervillains! We’ve talked about this!’

or

never-retired!/recently-out-of-retirement!greta who does the same thing but when she notices darkseid she rocks his shit in eight seconds flat and starts muttering about ‘that fucking Doug, always ruining my goddamn day’ and Hal is the first one to recover from the shock/confusion but only to tell Greta she’s grounded which gets another irritated ‘fucking doug!’ while Wally and Barry are losing it at Mach 6 while Bart tries to explain himself also at Mach 6, Cassie manages to catch Wally’s exasperated ‘where the fuck did you get Doug from?!’ And responds with ‘Apokolips’ in a tone that means they’re questioning his intelligence which leads to more screaming bc ‘so you knew who he was?? Why didn’t you come to us??’ and they all back up Kon when he claims they told Lex bc that means they have at least 3 hours of freedom while Lex is getting yelled at by the jl (and honestly every cape over 24)

[bunnyboy-juice]

NO MORE ASSOCIATING THINGS WITH FEMMES ONLY BECAUSE THEY ARE PINK!HYPERFEM FEMMES ARE GREAT AND I LOVE YOU CAMPY FEMMES WHO EMBODY PINK BUT ALSO JESUS CHRIST CAN YOU GUYS NOT GO MORE THAN ONE DAY W/O TRYING TO SHOEHORN FEMMES INTO BEING ONLY PINK UWU BABIES. I AM FEMME AS IN GRASS AS IN DIRT AS IN TREE BARK AS IN WEEDS SPROUTING THROUGH THE SIDEWALK CEMENT. FEMME AS IN GENDER NONCONFORMITY AS IN FUCK YOU MY FEMININITY IS WHAT *I* SAY IT IS. FEMME AS IN DEPTH AND DARKNESS AND WARMTH AND TERROR. FEMME AS IN CAVES. FEMME AS IN LIGHTNING. FEMME AS IN AN AMALGAMATION OF TRAITS THAT I HAVE DECIDED ARE FEMININE REGARDLESS OF WHAT SOCIETY SAYS. FUCK IS IT THAT HARD TO UNDERSTAND?!???

[beastwhimsy]

I'm completely enamored with this wizard who is in like 5 episodes total and gets barely any lines and I have found THREE other artists who have ever drawn fanart of him. anyway I have decided that I will rectify this injustice by getting even more unwell about them. here he is I love you life giving magus

they're the kind of wizard to say "wonderful!! ^_^ 🌼🌷💞" and "HOT DOG!!!!!!!!‼️💥🤯" in the same 10 seconds <- he has done this canonically

ID in alt, please consider reblogging thank you I love you

they're so silly I love you gnc wizard teacher who enjoys road trips and making yummy treats with their friends

[tavina-writes]

I started writing an essay in the tags of a post that was not strictly related to this topic but started getting me thinking and realized I should just. Make my own post about this because I have kind of been sitting on this frustration for a while? And mmmm idk how to feel about this.

(For the record, the post that inspired this is this one.)

I want to make it clear UPFRONT that I am not knocking on ANYONE's interpretations of NHS or about having gender headcanons about a character in general. I think people can headcanon NHS as whichever gender they like because those interpretations are fun and exciting and I like to read about those too.

What I have been getting progressively iffy on, and am not entirely clear on how to express until I came across the above post is the idea that 'NHS is femme-coded because he has femme-coded hobbies' or 'NHS is very gender/gender nonconforming because he likes to paint and doesn't like exercise/practice his saber' or 'NHS is not very masc in comparison to his brother and people in his society put him down/are irritated with him/react to him differently because his gender presentation is more femme.'

And I think what's always kind of boggled me about interpretations like these that I've mentioned above is because...

Hobbies like keeping birds* and painting and calligraphy and poetry** and being well dressed and fashionable*** were strongly masculine coded scholar gentry hobbies for bored rich men**** in historical China. People react to NHS they way they do in text (at least from what I can understand of the social norms of the MDZS jianghu) because NHS is determined to be a particularly foppish dandy and also yknow, actively wailing about his many problems.

So, I think the tldr of this is that: NHS can be interpreted as whatever gender people would like! But his society and his peers and the other characters are not reacting to him in a certain way because he's femme-coded, they're reacting to him that way because he's an irritating asshole and kind of foppish (affectionate)

*keeping birds (as pets and not like, just raptors for hunting) was a rich man's hobby in Ancient China from at least the Zhou dynasty, though which birds were popular as pets (everything from parrots to orioles) differed depending on the dynasty, but the Ming and Qing dynasties were extremely big on pet birds in rich people's houses in particular.

**it is unclear if NHS is particularly good at say, painting or calligraphy OR poetry but the point is that he appears to like these things

***men's fashion has been a wild beast throughout the ages both in the east and the west, and men have done things for fashion like wearing gaudy archer's rings to show off archery skills they didn't have, high heels, Song dynasty men wore flowers in their hair, and my own personal unfavorite: the Qing Dynasty queue.

****the four gentlemanly arts were for example: qin qi shu hua -- playing the qin (music), weiqi (Go if you want to use the Japanese name for the game), shu (calligraphy), and hua (painting). See brief wikipedia summary about the four arts here. There were different things also included in the education of an aristocratic gentleman in pre-imperial China but we have no time to delve into that in this post. HMU for more info if you want it because I love to talk about historical things.

[seeminglydark]

Always up to no good! They both got that Henderson High school spirit. (Pretty sure either Caro dared him to try on their cheer skirt and unlocked something in his brain, and he found he rather liked it.)

Caro and Sully are from my comic Mil-Liminal! And Seemingly Dark, though they don’t appear in their teenage years in that one, you can still read about them!

[godlygivenanxiety]

bitches hate jarley because they're incapable of rewriting a problematic heterosexual relationship, the fools! i, however, am gifted with the power of an enormous brain and top/alpha!harley ideas

[foalfangs]

huh? who goes there!? (looks back at my sketchbook, but the page is completely blank) tch...must have been the wind...

[bigboobshaunt]

Thistle Dungeon Meshi operating under 75 layers of gender we can only approximate by describing him as Court Magician-Lord-Elf-Jester

[butchford]

Shoutout to queer masculinity. Butches, transmascs, amab people who enjoy the masculine parts of themselves, gnc people, etc etc. No if ands or buts.

[hijinxinprogress]

Whenever the JL starts complaining about YJs public image YJ just straight up gaslights them

[bardace]

my guys and their fascinating attitudes towards dresses

[pnutsdotorg]

put him in a shirt. put him in a skirt

[oh-no-its-bird]

I was not mentally prepared for the amount of comments I'd get either borderline complaining ab or being worried about the fact I tossed Orochimaru into my fic. I refuse to have regrets bc I have PLANS for him and I really like his character but like

[avirtualdrive]

i am curious about your ocs so 🥺👉👈 hi please give me either the most egotistical bastard you have. or. the knight. i Think those are my types jgdfjhdgj

SORRY THIS IS SO LATE I have such a terrible track record when it comes to answering asks. Augh...

This was for my post where I jokingly kinda wanted to "matchmake" my OCs with people, so!

Hm. My most insufferable freak ... okay

Old art from, like, 2021? + little sketch I did of him just now ww

This is Isaac! He's 22. He's a prodigy who graduated at 13 and has stayed shut up in his house ever since. Okay, well. He went out and got a job exactly ONE time, at 16- and didn't even last a month there before getting fired because he kept talking back to his own managers like he knew better than they did and was generally super unlikeable to both customers and coworkers.

He spends a lot of time obsessively researching things because he wants to have as much knowledge as he can. On everything. If he meets someone who knows something he doesn't he gets really really really fucking mad (actually it's kind of a point in his backstory that he intentionally gave another student food poisoning so he could win a competition but yknow.)

Ahhhhhh I don't wanna make this THAT long... Well his mother eventually forces him to go outside, he makes a few friends (SOMEHOW), they form a sort of RPG team together where he's the mage. ...Except he doesn't believe in magic. The other issue is that his magic is powered by his emotional state, and he's... DEEPLYYYYY emotionally stunted LMFAO

See also: this post

I think once he gets over his need to prove that he's the most intelligent person in the room and stops being so closed-off , he... okay well he's still annoyingly dramatic and does still love bragging but... at least he's MARGINALLY more affectionate?! HAHA

Also he refers to everyone by last name exclusively. Hate him.

[littleshopofhorrors-confessions]

every time i see orin referred to as a twink or drawn like a twink, a part of my soul shatters. stop twinkifying him please for the love of god. on the opposite end, everyone whos drawn him with literally any other body type and has included his arm hair, i love you i love you i love you

AHEM ^^ AHEM COUGH COUGH ^^^^^^!!!!!!!!