#highly unlikely but still

[luv-kae]

idk if this has been said already but i’ve recently rewatched atsv for like the 4th time and tbh….

i really don’t think earth 42 miles would’ve gone down a much different path if he had been bitten like he was supposed to.

like let’s think abt it, even with the technological advancements he has as the prowler, he’s not necessarily fighting crime as it is. like he already has similar abilities as a spider person ( swinging w his grapplers n shit ), but still does what he does.

let’s also consider how his dad hasn’t been around for years, so even w spider powers, would he really have drifted that far from becoming the prowler??? like on earth 1610, w jeff being a cop, i think that helps to instill a stronger sense of heroism in miles. along with the fact that there was a spiderman before miles, so he had more heroic figures to look up to ( also drawing him further from his uncle’s influence ). but without his dad or peter in earth 42, his uncle has a much stronger influence on him, and we all know his uncle isn’t known for being heroic.

this is not to say that he’d become a villain or anything, because as we know, the prowler on earth 42 is not a villain. i just think he’d still do similar things if he had gotten bit, but w spider powers lol !!

[juniemunie]

This post wouldn't leave my mind.

Error and Ink meeting before they completely become themselves is so....

ლ(ಥ益ಥლ) HHHHHHH

[hepbaestus]

Pactw are you /s or /j right now

[eyepatchoflove]

lestat being both french and italian explains everything, because there is actually nothing wrong with him, he's just like that.

[skimmeh]

I drew this ...cos I can, I'm making myself sad over them

I think I trust Tumblr not to be weird about this doodle (which is an ironic statement HAH) purely platonic

[coquelicoq]

if we assume that each of the three pillars comes exactly three times for a total of nine times, and we know that the 7th time it was the 40-year guardian, and if we assume that was her final visit and the last two visits will be split between the 30-year guardian and the 8-year guardian, we can calculate how long ago the miharu family made that deal: (40x3)+(30x2)+(8x2)=196 years. 196 years ago it was 1828, but i think this is supposed to be set in the 1980s or 90s, so call it the late 1700s. that's the kind of thing matoba as the head of the matoba clan has to concern himself with - deals with youkai made by people 200 years ago from families that don't even exist anymore. it's an interesting contrast to the thing he says to natsume at the end of this arc, about the 9th visit, which is 30 years away, being someone else's problem. he's embroiled in the past but doesn't even think he'll get to have a future.

[aldoodles]

Some exceptionally lazy gregor expressions (ranging from neutral to ‘my sisters! My sisters are in there!!’)

[skarkkk]

Angst prompt | Cherik

— No. Please, Erik. Don't run away from me when I can't come after you.

Angst prompt | Scogan

— You always do that. You run away and isolate yourself on a mountain or somewhere far from everything. I don't expect you to stay anymore. I don't expect my love to be enough for you to stay or that our love is worth you not leaving.

[serpentface]

What's the Wardi cultural take on Akoshos sleeping with/partnering with/marrying other Akoshos?

It's not highly regulated to a degree that there are overwhelming cultural norms about it. There's a lot of societal focus on akoshos being theoretically suitable sexual partners for both men and women due to being dual-gendered, but not to an extent that relationships with One Another are stigmatized.

They also largely get to escape from the most severe concerns about penetrator/penetrated power dynamics because they're not regarded as Men (they're regarded as dual-gendered, and they're a female social class on every practical level), there's no status of manhood to Lose by receiving sexual penetration. The only real thing you see in that department is people assuming that one acts as 'the man' and one acts as 'the woman', but this is largely due to preoccupation with a notion of sex being Penetration With A Penis (and that Penetration With A Penis means that one person is in a Man's Role and one person is in a Woman's Role). But this will not be regarded as unnatural as in same-gender male relations, akoshos will Have to take up a position in this sexual dichotomy if they want to have Real Sex (Penetration With A Penis) with each other, and this is not unnatural and doesn't involve gaining or losing status since they are simultaneously male and female, not men.

So like you might see individual culture critics finding stuff to nitpick about it as their annoyance of the week or a singular Guy here or there who thinks it's weird, but this isn't a widespread norm. The vast majority of people don't give a shit about akoshos having sex with each other. The worst thing you're likely to experience Solely by virtue of being in an akoshos-akoshos relationship is someone asking you (probably with genuine curiosity) which one does the man stuff and which one does the woman stuff.

Akoshos also don't experience Hard expectations for marriage (though there are societal pressures that make marriage an attractive safety net all the same, ESPECIALLY marriage to a man) so unofficial life-partnerships between akoshos are pretty much the Only same gender partnerships between unwed people that are going to go unquestioned. ((Sworn brotherhood is technically a same gender life partnership for men that is Functionally similar to marriage (in that it's a kin-making practice between unrelated adults), but the tradition is Built upon the assumption that both parties will be married to women and that a primary goal of this kinship is to provide security for both parties' wives and children)). Marriage obligations in general are more lax in the economically secure but not Wealthy lower mercantile classes (as obligations to support and perpetuate one's family are universal, but these obligations can be filled simply by having at least One son who can get hitched, and marriages in the lower classes have no political functions and therefore there's less reason to ensure All your children are wed (there's still incentives like dowry, but this is not desperately needed when a family is economically secure)). So akoshos in this class group tend to have a Lot more freedom in terms of their life arrangements and chosen partners (though still experience the limiting frameworks of structural misogyny in other capacities).

The only thing that is out of the picture is akoshos/akoshos marriage. Marriage in this society has a predominantly reproductive function, the concept of reproductively non-viable marriages is generally considered absurd. This is not JUST this culture's form of homophobia, as marriage is a very practical arrangement at its core - both in a reproductive capacity and as bedrock for the patriarchal blood-kinship family system that forms the core social unit. The idea of same gender marriage isn't just absurd because 'ewwww weird' it's like, that Cannot work within this system, it Cannot fill core functions of what a marriage intends to do here, the ways on which marriage and kinship are BUILT makes same gender marriage practically (rather than just socially) untenable.

The sole exception to the 'marriage = reproductively viable" rule is that akoshos can be married to men (which in practice is almost always as a remarriage after a man has secured At Least an heir). This has a Little bit of internal logic here in that they perform predominantly female social roles (thus are suited to being a wife, even if they can't bear children) (and also on practical levels of them having the same legal status as women) but it's really more of a 'this is just how it's always been' kind of thing. A lot of the older pre-Wardi identity dual-gender roles that got mashed together under the 'akoshos' name would have involved marriage to a man as a second wife/concubine, in addition to his primary wife who would bear his children. Men potentially having multiple spouses has not been retained as a cultural practice, but the notion that an akoshos Can be a wife to a man has survived into modern day legal and doctrinal practices around marriage.

So like this being said, marriage as it is legally defined is only between a man and a woman, a man and an akoshos, or a woman and an akoshos. In practice the latter two are comparatively VERY rare- a man/akoshos marriage cannot provide children (though an akoshos can practically fulfill all other obligations and duties of a wife), a woman/akoshos marriage Can provide children (and while akoshos cannot function as a male heir, these children Will take their akoshos-parent's family name (though the wife retains her father's family name)), but akoshos are legally grouped with women in terms of rights and privileges (including being permanently under legal domain of their father unless they have been legally handed off to a male husband) and Cannot provide hard power patriarchal support that this family system is built upon and therefore depends upon, which makes these marriages socio-economically insecure. They can obviously still be a good partner and parent, but this is not the same as having the Legal hard power of a patriarch.

Akoshos marrying each other would be reproductively and socially nonviable, and is treated as a similarly absurd concept to a man marrying a man or a woman marrying a woman. It's just not a part of the marriage and kinship framework, it's not a thing that you can Do.

[buckleygrace118]

I might have theorized a little bit too close to the sun bc what if we get another karaoke scene in season 8...

what if the firefam goes to the bar after shift. everyone leaves early except for buck and eddie. they find themselves on stage again, singing what I like about you. they look at each other longer than they should and flashbacks from the bachelor party start playing. people cheering around them as they exit the stage, them standing in a secluded corner, shoulders touching, love song playing in the background, and we get an almost kiss.

[millidew]

maizuru and milsiril are my favorite fucked up dungeon meshi mother figures

[roscoehamiltons]

@f1blrcreatorsfest week 4: unconventional colour palettes (valtteri bottas)

[tomialtooth]

I will sound like a complete fucking redditor for saying so but yeah, I absolutely would play a shooter or tank gunnery game set in strangereal. Let me be a ground soldier in the Belkan war. Let me drive a tank in the Continental war.

[sonknuxadow]

please tell me people are joking when they say sonic prime is queerbaiting with sonic and shadow. that is not whats going on here please be serious you guys just see sonic and shadow interact in any way and become unable to turn your shipping brains off

[snapscube]

thinking about how this single melody was basically the cornerstone of my musical taste development for the past 12 years at least

[theprinceandthewitch]

Honestly, I legitimately don't understand how people think Adrien is going to get an arc... Thomas wants Adrien to be Marinette's Ken doll and nothing else.

I can see why he made this decision: It's a no-brainer because he doesn't actually have to stop and think about what girls like in a Love Interest. He can just copy and paste The Girl character trope but dress it up in boy clothes and everyone will eat that shit up. Like... He literally gave Adrien's arc to Felix... who is technically an earlier version of Adrien... it is incredibly bizarre... like idk how people look at that and think it's fine.

Even if you wanted to say, "well sure Adrien's arc wasn't planned from the beginning, but they can still build an arc off of previous seasons" it's too little too late. The ship has already passed because the climax of any potential arc Adrien COULD have had died with Gabriel. But more importantly, I shouldn't have to wait 10 literal years for THE PROTAGONISTS LOVE INTEREST to get an arc. That is actually insane and no amount of delulu is going to convince me this isn't a problem.

Look man... if you're a newer fan, then this might not really bother you -- but I have been watching this show when the first few episodes of season 1 came out. I don't care how good you think your writing is, you shouldn't make your audience wait A DECADE before giving the deuteragonist his arc.

This show was never "slow burning" Adrien's [non-existent] arc and I don't see why they'd suddenly give him one when Adrien absence of an arc didn't impact the shows success. Why would they break the formula they've crafted over the past 10 years by giving him an arc? Seriously, I think people should lower their expectations lol.