#heaven forbid. HEAVEN FORBID.

[daincrediblegg]

grim reminders today how fucking obnoxious most of the got/hotd fandom is even on a fringe interest level with the single exception of alt shift x and glidus, who continue to fill me with joy with several hour episode commentary filled with excitement and joy and lore speculation

[o-cinnamonstickz]

A while back @naffeclipse answered a question from @boxofcreampuffs’s asking: “what would the boys do if they lost their vessel?” (This post)

@pure-plum came up with the adorable idea of the hunter sewing up a rag doll for the boys to settle in while they searched for a more suitable vessel for both the boys and their little hunter to enjoy.

Needless to say I fell in love with the concept and jumped to draw it immediately XD

[lunar-years]

People hating on maisie on her happy eras tour 15 second tik tok clip I need everyone to back the fuck away from her please and thank you :) like damn you people are miserable

[friend-crow]

They/them are not catch-all pronouns for all trans people.

If the person in question uses other pronouns, you are still misgendering them.

They/them is for A. people whose genders/pronouns you do not yet know B. hypothetical people C. people who actually choose to use they/them pronouns

[m1ssunderstanding]

[trappedinafantasy37]

"Oh, I don't like Minthara cause she's mean to the other companions."

Shut up. All of the companions are mean to each other. Did you just like, completely skip over the passive aggressive comments between Shadowheart and Lae'zel throughout all of Act 1? Did you just skip over the confrontation in which the two of them actively try to kill each other in the gayest, most homoerotic way possible? Or did you just make an exception for Minthara and decided she's the only one not allowed to be mean? Larian had to de-bitchify Shadowheart cause she supposedly was too mean in EA, and she's still a bitch in the release version (and I love her for it). For fucks sake, Astarion is the fan favorite and one of the reasons is because he's an ass to everyone.

"But but her third son comment to Gale is so mean and cruel!" Shadowheart literally tells Astarion he deserves to be publicly executed. You do not have a problem with companions being assholes to each other, you just don't like it when Minthara does it for whatever dumb reason.

Just another example that shows that people have either 1) never recruited her and don't know the full context of her comments and miss out on all the positive things she has to say for all the companions and/or 2) hold her to a standard that they do not hold the rest of the cast to when they are all guilty of the same shit.

To me, this is just a lazy excuse for someone who doesn't actually have a valid reason to dislike Minthara.

[bananonbinary]

i saw a post yesterday i think that was like "dnd got easier when i realized i was the author and not the character" and im still baffled about it like. is that not how you play every game?? you think when i play settlers of catan or monopoly or whatever i'm playing the way i, the human person would realistically react? no!! i am making cutthroat alliances with the other players at the table just for the Drama of it all when we all inevitably betray each other. are yall out here playing boardgames or even videogames as if you suddenly got isekai'd into them??

[crimeronan]

portland is the go-to city to make fun of online because to right-wingers it's full of degenerates and to left-wingers it's full of the Annoying (TM) type of queer people. this is why everyone found the fake portland polycule meme so believable, because they desperately wanted to believe in the mythos of a portland queer who's This Obnoxious.

but i DO need people who've never been here to know that this image is seeded in an actually-very-nice truth: queerness is Literally Inescapable here.

like. any given starbucks will have 30% to 70% of their baristas using nametags with they pronouns. you'll find progressive (if performative) signage in a dozen storefronts along any given street. it's the only place i've lived where i've met people who ACTUALLY ask EVERYONE for their pronouns, not just the "clockable" folks. i'm hard-pressed to go a week without interacting with trans women who are hostesses, bank tellers, receptionists, sephora consultants, etc.

right now i'm in a writing critique group that's spun off from a larger group of writers -- this one is made up about 50% of women (and one nonbinary rafi) & 50% men invited by said women (and nonbinary rafi) bc they passed the vibe check.

rafi and i are the only queer people in this group. but last week one of the men pitched a sci-fi story whose protag is a polyamorous woman sourcing bodies for the AI members of her polycule so they can be together irl.

i am NOT out as polyamorous and have never mentioned polyamory. this guy is in his late 60s or early 70s and is retired with his wife. he has an adult daughter. his outlook on polyamory and non-traditional relationship structures is nothing but positive.

i do not think i'd find this so easily living back in new hampshire!

[ossafr4cta]

food since I neglect all of you like my plants

[radioactive-earthshine]

Bart and Kon, both members of the "didn't do anything technically to warrant it, but are still regarded as the resident fuck up that can't be trusted or believed in" club.

[oetscop]

crack night wide open

[tastesoftamriel]

Just so it's clear, I do not debate topics like politics and cultural appropriation with bad faith actors who do not meet my academic qualifications. I hold two degrees in social anthropology, both of which I graduated with first class honours and a distinction respectively. I am a published academic author, including an upcoming publication with Bloomsbury. Oh yeah, and I'm doing my PhD at one of the country's best universities. I also charge for academic services, so if you want to rant about me being a coloniser (lmao) that'll be £30 for the hour.

Catch up to me in higher education or don't bother. If you're genuinely curious and have questions I am more than happy to have a chat, but if you're here to troll...I'm not the least bit sorry that I'm hot and educated.

[leofrith]

obviously the quality of all these shows is suffering from the fact that their primary function is to provide the setup for future star wars projects (mcuification, baby!!! who's ready for the infinity war style team-up movie where the gang takes down thanos—i mean thrawn?). but i also think a big part of why the book of boba fett, mando s3 (and to a slightly lesser extent, s2 as well), and ahsoka all suffer from the same issue of having their main protagonists cast aside in favour of side characters—which in itself might not be as annoying as it is if those stories were even remotely interesting or well-written—is because filoni & co. want to be making an ensemble piece. but instead, they're stuck having to make a bunch of solo projects that are ostensibly about individuals or smaller casts of characters, which they then stumble their way through in the most half-assed, half-hearted way possible because it's all just setup for the "mandoverse movie," a phrase which makes me want to projectile vomit.

[swan2swan]

I knew rewatching this show with Knowledge would change things, because oh my gosh, look at Sammy hugging Ben and Darius for one second each, and then just locking herself around Yaz.

Texas is dropping HUGE hints and trying to clue this beautiful track star in, and Yaz is Absolutely Clueless.

[cafe-smut]

Yall I just speedran Mairimashita Iruma-Kun anime (season 3 cause I'd already seen the first 2) and now I'm at like, chapter 225 of the online Manga. And I just realized. (Minor spoilers)

Iruma says that Azz is his soul mate and is also clearly down with Clara ALSO being on of said soul mates. But both Asmodeus and Clara are in complete agreement that they are his only soul mates. But with the literal lecture that the class gets afterwards, it's clear that the somatic thing is almost equated to being best friends or the like. And Iruma goes along with this, making it seem like he ALSO doesn't understand the implications of that. However, I think he does. And here's why.

This is the panel where he says it, hunched up into himself, like he's nervous and/or embarrassed. But here's the panel right before that.

He's BLUSHING. And from reading this Manga, I've noticed that Iruma's faceless moments are key scenes and when they're trying to hide Iruma's true expression for later reveal. But my main evidence that Iruma knows EXACTLY what soulmate means and is scrambling for an explanation when Asmodeus doesn't is the panel that comes directly AFTER the confession/admittance.

He's SO EMBARASSED and boy is SWEATING. He did not anticipate this and heaven's knows that we know he's impulsive. This was probably partly a spur the moment choice after their date (which neither of them seems to realize was indeed a date).

(Also the fact that Clara seems to be partially aware of their dynamic with the fact that she called them the Love Trio which is what I believe cause Iruma to have the realization that he loves them in this way but that's a whole other post. Shes probably the most emotionally mature of them all and i get the feeling this will be a reoccuring theme in their relationship.)

[interstate35south]

ik i already joked abt how in tgcf modern aus the default seems to be white sweater xie lian but goddamn that shit really is ubiquitous. read a ff (fantastic btw) where 9/10 times xie lian’s appearance was described?? white sweater. home on a sunday? white sweater. work? white sweater. out to dinner? white sweater. going to the fucking club?? white sweater. every tgcf modern au HAS to be set in autumn/winter for the sake of xie lian’s cartoon character closet. pull up to the beach in 90 degree weather in that fuckass white sweater i would not be surprised