#i have nothing to offer here

[highlifeboat]

@horror-lady00 Wasn’t the real reason they wrote the line about the Ultimate Spider-Woman not thinking as much about their past as Peter was that the new writer realised that because the previous writer essentially had written her as a trans girl without meaning to, since it was explicitly Peter’s mind unaltered that was copied, that would imply Peter also was, or at least agender?

‘El Goonish Shive’ had an IDENTICAL storyline, where Elliot (the clone left as a girl) going on to ‘resume’ dating Susan, their ex-girlfriend as Elliot (who’d realised she was gay, but still loved Elliot, so it was a win-win), while Elliot later saw themselves as gender-casual, not really minding eventually being cursed with a SheZow-type situation of being able to turn into a girl superhero and back again?

I wish a series in the future would explore this in more detail, since both of them are still around / not being written for. Maybe also doing something more with Courier (a 1990s ‘Deadpool’/‘Gambit’ character who was a guy trapped in the body of a girl and annoyed about it, but not always annoyed about it).

@horror-lady00 I think our mail got mixed up.

[robiinurheart33]

This will be the plot to movie 4 trust

[zukkaoru]

ohhh you guys are reading bsd without suspending your disbelief. you guys are expecting to get a clear cut perfectly understandable scientific explanation for something that can't actually happen in the real world, and then you're upset when you don't get it. you're forgetting that bsd has always had fantastical elements in it and it is not meant to be a 1:1 replication of Our World. you don't have to know and understand every single scientific concept being talked about in the recent chapters; you just have to be able to get the general idea and realize that this isn't the real world, so it won't make sense by the standards of our reality. then maybe you can stop whining about how nonsensical all the dialogue is and start appreciating the story itself

[professorjirt]

*grinds my teeth together and pretends to be normal about people reducing Bilbo taking Frodo in to simply a Bagginshield thing with zero regard to Frodo as a character save how he can be compared to Thorin or Bilbo and zero regard for the deeper reasons why Bilbo might have been compelled to take in a young hobbit at that stage in his life*

[respectthepetty]

Hi Petty,

I dont know if you can help, if this is a field of interest for you or not, but I hope you can clear something up for me.

The Loyal Pin is set in the 1950s. The idea is that Anin goes to the UK, gets liberated, and starts pursuing Pin romantically. At least to me, that is what the text is saying.

My hangup is that the 1950s were famously a conservative decade. Talking specifically about the UK, Alan Turing, a war hero, was castrated for homosexuality. Clearly, they were not favorable to gay people if that happened to a war hero who basically saved the Allied Nations. One look at history, and you can tell 1950s UK was not any more liberal than any other cross-section of humanity at the time. They liked their gender roles and hierarchies.

So, how does this story make sense? Am I missing something?

(Sorry for my English. It's not my first language. I'm relying on autocorrect here.)

Your English is perfect, so never worry about that with me!

But your question . . . I can't answer this.

I haven't read the book, which I'm sure gives more context and I'm an American who knows some Spanish and Latin American history/politics, so there is nothing in my life that would properly prepare me to answer this specific question.

@absolutebl wrote about historical politics when the Thai BL I Feel You Linger in the Air came out, and although that series and The Loyal Pin are set in different decades, I think the implications still holds that Europe shaped the mentalities of the Thai elite, which conflicted with Thai beliefs at the time.

@hallowpen has also been writing about the series weekly in their Koda's Royal Records in which they explain the Thai culture, customs, and historical content of the series. They could possibly answer your question.

And @lurkingteapot always knows things about Thai culture.

Perhaps someone else has thoughts to offer on this, so I'll leave it to them to educate us all on this.

[dj-wayback]

happy month to ns. I love the month sep

You are just saying nothing. This is nothing.

[teddybeartoji]

i have just ONE more big thing to do today and then i can fuck around in peace but oh my god it's so annoying .

[prophecyoflunarflame]

I realized I hadn't updated my 1x designs here at all, but also I only really have doodles so uh, 1x art dump?

As you can see I decided to make Betrayed's hair VERY long-

And some bonus Noli ig since hes there as well

[beastsovrevelation]

Right, then. The sick part of my brain is terrorizing me once more, and taking an idea from it is like taking a bone from an angry rottweiler.

Who wants a fucked up Michael Langdon x Reader oneshot?.. I really do not feel like making a yet another OC, and adding a yet enother epic to my endless list.

[luanna801]

I will probably write a longer post about this at some point, but I'm always baffled by those takes that are like "Oh if only Jin Guangyao had TRUSTED Lan Xichen enough to confide in him, he wouldn't have HAD to Do All Those Bad Things!", because like:

Jin Guangyao does, indeed, canonically confide in Lan Xichen about numerous problems in his life.

Lan Xichen has an absolutely 0% success rate at solving any of said problems. He invariably either doesn't have a solution or, more rarely, tries to help in a way that absolutely backfires.

[lala-blahblah]

I will never make this because it would be for an audience of one (me) but ever since reading "If we Were Villains" (story about serious drama kids in college who perform shakespeare and deal with a murder) I have been entertaining the thought of a crack fic crossover with High School Musical The Musical The Series where the staff decides they will no longer put on shakespeare after the tragic accident that happened at Thanksgiving, because Shakespeare plays would only increase the tension and drama. So they hire Ms. Jen who decides their spring play will actually be High School Musical (which exists in the 90s in this universe) and it ruins the vibe so much that everyone gives up on being dark and mysterious because they're universally pissed at Ms Jen for making them learn choreoraphed basketball dancing.

[pendulouspuppyudders]

there is something to be said abt being born in america and knowing your existence and life is propped up by horrors committed by men you've never met hurting people around the world but then that life being that of poverty and marginalization so you don't even get the chance to do anything about it but flee the country and that's if you're lucky

[googoogojob]

[lenzimanotarchived]

I kept thinking about wether to post anything, but I’ve been doomscrolling, my anxiety is high & I need to let it out somewhere. As a German, as a former history student & as a child raised by parents who grew up in a dictatorship- I am f-ing scared. I‘ve learned from a young age how it all starts, what to look out for & seeing what is happening in the us? it‘s exactly that. & knowing how much the us influences the rest of the world just has me terrified for all of us ngl.

[asgardian--angels]

....idk in a fandom this gigantic how are people already coalescing onto a handful of popular headcanons and scenarios that just become the baseline now, when the source material gives us literally limitless possibilities to work with

[hiddeninthe-veil]

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