#i create my own identity

[shamelesslyimpurrfect]

[wyervan]

so i have software on my computer that changes the letters Y / n into my IRL name ( for fanfic activities ofc) , and it took me so long to realise that the AU name was Y / N star and not my IRL name 😶😶😶 i was just thinking " YOOOOO they got my name thats on TOP."

Oh i gotta friend who told me that she had a browser extension that does that! I remember looking into it but there doesn’t seem to be an equivalent for mobile (where i do most of my doing)?

Yeah lololol I was using “y / n” as like a title for Star, as in they’re that type of character within the story. Personally I don’t like to use “y / n” within the writing itself cause I find it kinda takes me outta it? If you know what I mean? So I’ve tried to get around it by giving “y / n” a nickname—“Star” (points for creativity amirite) but it’s essentially just become their name at this point.

Tbh i use “y / n” and “oc” semi-interchangeably. Star essential functions as an oc (albiet one very much like myself). They have specific interests, a vague background, and a personality, and when I portray them visually, they have an explicit appearance. I don’t think bald blank slate 🧑‍🦲 y / n works well in the semi-realistic style my drawings trend toward 😂

[mochiri]

Makoto and Sousuke's Identity outside of Haru and Rin at the end of Free!

I've seen some people say they're a bit reluctant to finish the Final Stroke because Makoto becomes sidelined. Though, I did want to point out that Makoto's developed career ambitions at the end of the Final Stroke ends up being a beautiful closure to his insecurities and worries that actually start in High Speed! Starting Days.

Makoto, why do you swim?

Makoto in Starting Days, has his entire world turned upside down because he realizes his entire reason for swimming is because of Haru. But in the Final Stroke, he evolves his meaning of swimming into something that's very Makoto. He develops his own individual identity with swimming by being a coach for both children and for swimmers on the global level. Instead of swimming just for Haru and his friends, Makoto evolves his relationship to swimming to something he identifies better with. Which is connections with people and the ability to support them emotionally, physically, and mentally.

In relation (because Makoto and Sousuke are direct parallel characters as the best friends of RinHaru), Sousuke's own motivations for swimming is related to Rin (I don't want to say he directly swims because of Rin like Makoto does for Haru). But Rin is Sousuke's motivation enough to overwork his entire body, transfer schools, sacrifice himself to just swim one last race with Rin... Because Rin's motivation is friends and Sousuke doesn't really understand that at first as someone who always thought you're alone in the water.

But at Sousuke's "end" he actually learns to form connections OUTSIDE of Rin. Because sousuke throughout his entire arc tries to learn about what friendship means to him and how that can develop you as a person.

when he does rehab with Nao and Makoto they help him specialize in other strokes, remind him not to overwork his body, refine his swimming skills and overall he became a better swimmer through the connections he made and not alone like he always thought. Sousuke learning the power of friendship through Momo, Nitori, Makoto, Nao + the others in Tokyo.

So... Summarizing it all up:

Makoto whose original motivations to swim is Haru, develops an identity to swimming outside of Haru. And then makes it his own by adding his caring and nurturing personality through coaching.

Sousuke, whose original ambitions to swimming is individuality, competitiveness, and Rin, develops a relationship to swimming through connections and friends outside of Rin.

Makoto uses swimming to solidify and create bonds while Sousuke’s is the opposite where he realizes bonds are what can solidify his swimming.

Here's other related analysis about these swimming boys i care too much about:

Makoto and Sousuke as parallel characters

How Makoto uses backstroke to solidify bonds

Free! color theory (contains another soumako parallel lolol)

[windupbastion]

UH OH!!!!

[libertea-and-icedcoffee]

speaking french and spanish and having non-binary pronouns is a curse

and i'm not even talking about the fact that the whole language is gendered

i'm talking about the fact that "elle" in spanish (pronounced "eyé" (?) is a gender neutral contraction of el and ella

but "elle" in french is basically "she"

So saying that my pronouns are iel/they/elle confuses french speaking people when they read it because they think that my pronouns are basically french-they/they/she and it's annoying lmao

[bobokitty]

pov you're a trained soldier in 1462 and you see this fuckin gremlin who has lost whatever cheap armor he had come at you in the night

Feeling things today and doodled Vlad back when he was human

[catboyidia]

its june so i wanna share my lgbtq+ headcanons for ffvii characters just for fun, starting with the main playable cast:

(except they’re hcs by an obnoxiously trans gay person that projects onto their faves at all times, spoiler alert: they’re all trans and gay)

- cloud: he/him gay trans man - starting off strong with a gay trans guy (i warned that i would be projecting a lot with my hcs in this post) … but i’ve noticed a lot of other people hc/portray him as a trans man too so i know i’m not alone on this one! i cant explain exactly why i hc like this but i just do, probably cause i like him

- tifa: she/they transfem lesbian - i cannot be convinced that she doesn’t like women considering how she is with aerith and jessie tbh, and i like her so i’ve lovingly hit her with the transgender-inator beam out of love

- aerith: realistically- they/them nonbinary lesbian - i have no basis for this tbh except it just seems right to me! as for my actual hc for her (which is a pure projection, pls bear with me) - he/they gay transman - this is purely my own projection because aerith is really like stereotypically feminine(?) in ways that i am also feminine, so it comforts me to think of her like me if that makes sense

- barret: he/him but willing to test out she/her, unlabeled gender that is not quite cis but he’s only now exploring it and hasn’t quite figured it out yet, bi-curious and experimenting - thats so long but i’m not sure how else to describe it, i feel like he grew up all “traditional” and stuff, and then being a single adoptive dad and being a huge part of avalanche, he probably hasn’t had the time to really think about any of it too much or explore his gender/sexuality, but now he can with being surrounded with others that can help him explore, realize it’s alright to be uncishet, and help him learn about these things

- cid: okay i’m not gonna lie, canon wise he gives me major homophobe vibes (maybe its the raging misogyny that makes me think he’s bigoted in every other way…) but ignoring that he/she nonbinary bi - definitely exploring a lot and isn’t quite set in stone about what he is yet but he just knows he’s not cis or het and with those being more broad and spectrum like labels, he feels most comfortable with those over anything else, and he feels like they’re just right for him

- vincent: he/they transmasc gay - i’ll be honest this is also projection on my part because i love vincent a lot and want him to be like me! also he gives me major gender envy…

- reeve (in place of cait sith): he/him transman and gay - again, i just love him a lot tbh, and i feel like he is the kind of guy that knew who he was from a young age and tried to help out other people that are trying to navigate their queer journeys and find out who they are, i feel like reeve would be a major inspiration and advocate for the queer youth

- yuffie: they/them demigirl lesbian and arospec - she’s definitely still figuring herself out but she has very little interest in pursuing romance, but any relationship she can imagine wanting in her future is with another girl

[tavtime]

headcanoning monogamous characters as polyamorous is free, fun, and easy to do! additionally, it is always both cool and sexy 😎

[thatstroubling]

when your favorite character makes it to the finale

As a fellow Danganronpa fan, I'd like to imagine that if Pre-game Shuichi wasn't, you know, gone forever because he'd given up his life to become an anime character like a dumbass and could somehow witness our Shuichi kick So Much Ass in Trial 6, he would be the one cheering him on the loudest. After all, Shuichi is his perfect little detective guy and the person he once hoped he could become. That's why I can hear the "You tell them!" in his voice in my head so very clearly. And in spite of being responsible for ending Pre-game Shuichi's favorite TV show in the world, at the core of it, Shuichi was ultimately fighting on behalf of his friends for what was right all the way to the end.

And who wouldn't want to get behind that?

[wings-of-angels]

trying to plan out what pokèmon bruce wayne would have... much to think about

[daydreamerdrew]

Iron Man (1968) #105

[fefairys]

i love selfshippers u guys r so based

[bandzboy]

it's interesting how i don't think in the course of my life i always dabbled in both feminity and masculinity pretty well and i kinda constructed my own idea of my presentation without even thinking? if that makes sense? i think about it a lot

[objectlovernonhuman]

villain fictive existing in online spaces moodboard

[thatone-churro]

i love that i apparently can’t NOT create queer fiction. just looking at my side for-fun projects alone, you’ve got:

a sapphic blatant naruto rip off

a story i literally nicknamed “sci-fi sapphics” before i had a name

a demon slayer & bloodborne crossbreed where the main character’s only driving force is being incredibly gay for her best friend

a kinda trippy world-hopping story where it’s not directly expressed but everyone’s definitely some flavor of queer

a fun and “cutesy” fantasy wizard world where it’s an exploration of identity in more than a few ways

a superhero story where there’s like little to no romance at all but everyone’s pretty much queer (again, not explicitly stated but you can kinda tell)

a cliche where the interstellar bounty hunter accidentally falls in (sapphic) love with her target

like, when i say i love it i genuinely mean i love it. the fact that my identity can be so ingrained in my work that i create just for the fun of creating makes me love it (both my queerness and the works) even more

[eyepatchdate]

im like, ‘oh i should make a different pride icon to use this year’ but then i remember theres only 3 characters i headcanon as asexual, and jonathan is the prettiest of them anyways.