#i just feel very strongly about this ok

[gillianthecat]

btw. Charlie's villainy is what I love about him. It's what makes him an interesting character and why I ship him with Babe. Don't be fooled by his puppy dog eyes and submissive mannerisms; he is play acting, he is using this to manipulate Babe. They're not doing role reversal when they have sex; sex is when they are being their most authentic selves. That man is manipulative and extremely dominant, and it's hot. He has been lying to Babe all along, and I would bet real money he's continuing to lie. I don't know why he stole Babe's powers, but I do know he didn't try very hard to avoid it

This is not to say he is only lies; I believe that he genuinely is in love with Babe, and that his manipulations and games are, in some convoluted way, to protect Babe.

But he is absolutely not a uwu innocent baby.

Did anyone make a video or gif of that moment when he casually commands Babe to give him his glass, and has him switch the alcohol for water? And Babe instantly, unquestioningly, complies. Because that's who Charlie is when he's not pretending to be someone else.

[lunarharp]

uhh another modern au agott follow-up. They've gotten progressively sillier

[fisherrprince]

anon had a much different message I’ll try to get back to But it spiraled off in my brain and I think like, a character note about the twins especially in the beginning is that they’re very uncomfortable with (if not with most loud emotions) crying. exactly like my brother and I tbr alisaie is not comfortable with it even if it sometimes happens to her without her consent, so she stuffs it behind being snappy so it’ll stop. as the story goes on she doesn’t necessarily get more comfortable with it, she just gets around people who make her feel more okay about it. alphy just seemed unused to it in general - nothing in his life has ever caused emotion like that to overwhelm either reason or ego or logic, and so it just never happened, and even when he was upset he always always distanced how he felt about things from what his role was in the real world. like as a ten year old they were doing this. after hw it kind of starts happening to him wether he wills it or no, mostly around bittersweet or moments of stress release. which rly leads me to believe in the space between arr and hw was a lot more unmentioned (or obliquely mentioned, they kinda leave it to you) awful attempts at feeling really harsh emotions by someone who’s just genuinely never done it before than we hear about directly. he’s just never cried since he was tiny, and it probably sucked. anyways alisaie understands the emotional weight of events instantly and gets to react to them even if she dislikes it later and becomes determined to fix, while alphy still retains the habit of quickly separating himself from an event until it’s like, done with and either fixed or nothing we can do, and then falls apart. they both kinda try to hide it anyways

[aroanthy]

hi!! i know u talk a lot about aromanticism a lot on here, but i don’t think i’ve ever seen u talk about aromantic anthy. would u mind discussing/elaborating on it or linking to a post where u do because i’m very curious!!

i got a similar ask half a year ago or something ridiculous like that on my main blog, but i’d like to really do justice to my url right now and explain it in more concrete terms.

i will say, it’s important to bear in mind that this reading of anthy’s character is very much informed by my own experiences, and a lot of those experiences are ones im not keen to talk in depth about. but you know. let’s make some nebulous gestures towards ideas of being traumatised, being autistic, struggling to meaningfully connect with others and honestly not really wanting to do such because of how they treat you.

like ive previously said, an aromantic perspective on the world would, i think, really benefit anthy. when youve lived your whole life experiencing violence at the hands of these patriarchal structures, of which romance is absolutely one, it’s kinda like. damn. im uncomfortable buying into those ideas.

anthy also has this lovely line in ep 19 where she says to utena ‘romance either happens or it doesn’t’ and it’s just sooooooo. so very interesting to me, actually, that anthy would say something so black and white about ‘romance’, a topic that anthy knows better than a lot of rgu characters is hopelessly confused and arbitrary and often enabling violence. and utena (fellow aromantic gaybo) says 'yeah, i know, but...'. these simplifications, these elisions. what is and isn't articulated. but what? maybe things are much more complicated than we'd like to think.

anyway enough of that tangent. one thing i as a trans and aromantic person always return to when discussing trans and aromantic readings of characters/texts more broadly is that there's no singular piece of evidence that can really cement these readings as Undeniable. it's like. okay. there's a critique of romance as a patriarchal structure in revolutionary girl utena. there's an ambiguity about anthy's feelings towards characters like utena, where there is clearly a queer connection but it takes shape in unconventional and complex ways. me, i'm aromantic, i see all of these pieces and i go oh well that's because she's an aromantic lesbian. you know, there's plenty of little moments i can evidence but those moments can be used to argue for an alloromantic lesbian anthy too. romance is a very arbitrary thing and i think everyone should take their own approach to it unapologetically. of course, mine is that it's hellish and i want nothing to do with it, but im just one guy. and im okay with that. i feel strongly about this reading and it is personal, and id be dishonest to say otherwise, but i do also find that it's well-evidenced in the text. as one of my lecturers once said, don't worry about authorial intent, it isn't real <3

[jitteryjive]

i need to remake my cup bros ref… both cup and human designs… it’s been almost a year(?) and i’ve developed the headcanons and i would like to share with the class!!! (i wrote thirty tags. Please help me)

[ankhisms]

can i be emotionally vulnerable with you all in the torture dungeon

[somestarstuff]

I can't find the post but to whichever of yall said normal oak fits the song love me normally: how dare you I've had the song on repeat for the past day now and have had several revelations about why I'm so attached to normal oak

[motheyes]

things effect me alot

[orcelito]

I went and did my exam (very thoroughly), got home and sorted out my finances + ordered groceries (bc I finally have some fucking money to buy them with), & then planned to write a bit and then do some chores. But then I just conked out lmao

It's been... a rough few days. I probably needed the rest.

[kil9]

not to be discoursy but i swear to god stop people have got to stop bringing up taemins gender statements & androgyny and shit just to be like "yeah pretty good for a cishet i guess" "pretty cool but cishets always get all the credit :\" "whoa crazy hes doing all that for a cishet man" bro call him a cishet one more time i will deck u

[snekdood]

i think my problem with other ppl who claim to possibly have native american ancestry but dont know is when they dont seem to treat it like as if it could *actually* be true and just treat it like "yeah im a spicy white person" dshdfshjv? idk if that makes sense, like they dont do the internal work of deconstructing racism around native people, they dont start listening to native ppl- its more or less used as either an excuse for appropriation or just to seem more "exotic".

[medicinemane]

One issue I have is there's a whole lot of things where it's like "I'm actually nearly on your side, I'm very sympathetic to this, I just need one or two issues addressed and then I'd be with you on this... you just have to kinda... walk me through how this thing that feels like a kinda big problem isn't a problem"

And pretty much always it's just kinda like "oh, well it's not a problem, so don't worry about it"

...mhh... yeah... but I need some actual proof. I want to trust you, but I need something that actually deals with it, not to just basically be told to have faith... I have no faith, I'm a faithless person

And it's such a shame cause... instead of being able to work along side people I tend to hover off to the side trying to support it in my own small ineffective ways cause... I just have serious issues no one's ever bothered to address

Just sucks, you know?

[bredforloyalty]

clancy ranking NOW🤬 (pls)

coming RIGHT up luv and i was thinking about ranking them anyway so either you're my sister or we're siblings in spirit

backslide (i stand by this. i think)

midwest indigo (new favorite..)

at the risk of feeling dumb (i moved this one up bc it was stuck in my head all day)

vignette

paladin strait (but points deducted for the nico stuff at the end 💀)

overcompensate

next semester

routines in the night

oldies station

navigating (trouble w this one bc i don't like the chorus but i love the rest)

lavish

snap back

the craving (i'm happy for the marriage it's a sweet song just not something i'll listen to)

what's your ranking what's up what's up

[loverboybitch]

have to speak my truth..calling the person ur dating ur “partner’ is cringe!!! 0 romance!!!! like sweetheart, lover, schnookums is better even. “partner” .. 0 sex, 0 rizz, makes me feel like im on dragons den, -1.//.

[tubbytarchia]

Etho doodles in which I let my inner dinosaur nerd take over 😔 and also have no idea how to shade

Get it cause he's old and washed up haha... ok but actual raptor Etho hybrid justification below cut

To be honest the main reason was because I really wanted a hybrid in the mix who wasn't some furry creature and a reptile or amphibian or smth instead. Etho still ended up feathered but whatever it's close enough! But for ACTUAL reasoning:

He does feel damn ancient, like an old deity of the mcyt space that no one can dislike. Dinosaurs are the same!! They're old but still thought of with great fascination and fondness, everyone loves dinosaurs...

Dinosaurs are ever so mysterious, as many advancements as we make there's still so much we don't know. Just as we know jackshit about mister Kakashi skin man. Also, there are so many incomplete skeletons out there. I didn't have a particular species in mind for Etho, because where's the mystery in that? He can be one of those 5% skeleton 95% speculation dinosaurs like this guy!! Missing jaw and all

"I'm a runner, not a protector" - so, a raptor, or more specifically the Dromaeosauridae family, which literally has "running/runner" in its name

But! I'm always a fan of stuff going against its nature, especially in this case! Etho states he's not a runner yet protects his allies rather fiercely even in total silence. Eg refusing to kill Cleo in SL or to give away Tango's location during the LimL manhunt, same for Grian in SL. He was a bit flaky in 3L I think? And he only started to have genuine care for allies in LL with Bdubs? Though he is still very much a runner in many cases like during the LL Wither fight. Research also strongly suggests that most if not all raptors were solitary hunters, and the way I see Etho (through my shamefully limited watchtime of his POVs...) he feels a lot like someone who ultimately only trusts himself at the start even if he's pleasant and allying with others, and doesn't seem to think he can carry his weight in groups though he doesn't voice this a lot. That's just how Etho is, very composed, but it feels like there's an insecurity there, showcased especially in SL but again I haven't seen almost any of his POVs in full so maybe I'm talking out of my ass!! Sorry ethogirls I'm only a sidegig ethogirl myself... But yeah tldr to me he gives off the vibe of an otherwise solitary animal struggling to find 100% sure footing in a pack. In whichever ways he does go against his nature, its not usually made a show of

At the mention of a raptor, a lot of people will probably think of the glamourized Jurassic Park Velociraptors. But those awesome guys from the movies are actually the size of chickens. In general though, dinosaurs tend to be a bit.. exaggerated in media, despite how inherently fascinating they already are. And I think it fits Etho because we all know how the Lifers seem to fear and mancrush on him when he's just some dork with perfect capability to become pathetic at a moment's notice. Still, he's a clearly skilled player and still respected without question Etho's not some killer machine like some people make dinosaurs out to be. He's just a fellow creature fulfilling his role in the ecosystem 👍

dinosaurs are cool

The hook-like sickle claws on the feet... something something fishing rod

I swear I'm not turning all my Lifers into hybrids I'm not!! Still plenty normal humans in the mix I swear....... But Etho is such a radical dude, I really wanted to do something more for him. The whole Kitsune thing that I often see associated with him is really cool. I don't actually know the reasoning for it but I assume something something naruto, but also, him being this ancient mythical cryptid who people know so little about, you know? It makes SO much sense. So anyway I turned him into a dinosaur instead rawr

As a herbivore advocate I also considered stuff like the triceratops (known for how they protect themselves and their own) but nah the raptor symbolism...

[welldrawnfish]

I have genuine questions about this mermaid identity thing.

i legit don't understand anything about it. how does it make sense to identify as something not human, let alone something fictional? isn't it still a human body after all? is it more like a "perception of thyself" thing?

i'm genuinely sorry if this comes off as rude. it's really not meant to be. i'm just.. very confused, and i'm trying to understand.

So.. its more like.. Ok so the identify thing is a misnomer, its easy to conflate it to say, gender identity. I know im human, id probably transition to a fish if like.. we lived in a magical world where both i could be what i want and live in a fantastical world where i can just still have like the internet and stuff, and not live in an oil spill. Its more like... at least for me feels like a "spirit animal" in a non appropriationy way. I think therian is a catch all for that. I like.. cosmically vibe with a fish, my chakras are aligned my crystals charged idk. Looking back ive felt strongly attatched to fish my whole life, everything about me has been heavily water themed, i named myself after a god damn mermaid. I had mermaid dreams all the time when my trans egg was cracking, even my birth sign pisces played a major role. Then the welldrawnfish thing and the username that just spoke to me, and has led to actual success online as an artist... Even my own brother basically told me he associated this mermaid song to me for like 10 years now and would listen to it and think of me and thought of me as a mermaid for years I know I cant be a mermaid, I know I'm human, its more like.. a deep longing for the fantastical, but also a guiding force in my life. idk what else to say haha. I guess you either get it or you dont.