#i s2g if i'm wrong about this!!!!!!!!!!!

[jobazzle]

reading this book about a princess who falls in love w her bodyguard and the drama is her brother abdicates so she's next in line to the throne right. and it is Law in their made up country that royals have to marry other royals. so i've been very ???? about just how tf they're gonna end up together (are they gonna change the marriage rule??? is her brother gonna change his mind on abdicating??????) but!!!! i'm positive i've figured it out!!!! he grew up never knowing his father. he also weirdly hates her home country (ok so does he know who is dad is or not idk why he hates the country...) ANSWER: he is somehow of noble blood and that WILL be revealed eventually

[remmixx]

i'm doing way too much research for a fic currently and i think i found the model of cynthia's bike? if i'm right (there's a good chance i'm not, but) she drives a Triumph Thunderbird. SHE DRIVES A T-BIRD

the T-Birds got their name from the Ford Thunderbird car, but i love that cynthia drives a T-Bird too!

[clowngore]

the idea that narcissists can't be self aware is laughable. you think I don't know ME? ME? the most important person in the whole world? you think i don't think about myself all of the time?

[corpcuffed]

i just want everyone to know i tried

i really did

to what? not make another blog? well, yes, but more importantly:

me, compiling my hcs: i already have one extremely gay disaster stu/dio inv.estig/rave boy; i should try to not do that again (*ﾟｰﾟ)ゞwally how do you feel about girls ?

wally:

me: ok gay it is then

[steddie-island]

When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let's spread the self-love 💛

Thank you! 😘😘😘

It was a big writing year for me and there are a lot of fics that I'm really proud of. 🥰

Mutually Beneficial - Smutty filth with a mean dom Eddie. 😌

Wallpaper - Platonic Stobin, with Steve coming out as transfem to Robin (TBH I love all 3 of the fics that I did in this little 'verse.)

Sweet as Cherry Wine - Featuring transmasc Steve Harrington and vampire Eddie Munson. Again, I love all 3 that I've done for this 'verse and am excited to do more with them.

Love is a Battle(vest) - Steve replaces Eddie's battle vest and they get together about it.

Squeezed In - Steddissy filth with some sweet schmoopy feelings that sneak back in at the end. Eventually there's going to be a part 2 to this, too. I just have to finish it.

I'm also going to follow your lead and rec some of my fave fics of the year! All of these are Steddie unless noted otherwise.

Like Lovers Do by @v3llichor - Just SO FUCKING SOFT. You can't go wrong with any of their fics (I know I'm biased here but Dra-mate-ic was a gift fic for me that is just full of Steve and Eddie both being ridiculous and dramatic and Robin and Chrissy being fed up with them. It's so cute, go read it!) Also No Fairy Tale Ever Started This Way, it's so funny and so hot and just really gives us dork 4 dork Steddie.

I had been hungry, all the Years by @jamiethegardener55 The Steddissy fics of all Steddissy fics. Also go read her unsafe, medium sane, very consensual series because it is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Mine by @runninriot (another author where you literally cannot go wrong with any of the fics you pick.)

Proximity by @stervrucht Some of the best fucking pining you will read I s2g!

To the moon and to saturn by @pennyplainknits Correction— this is the series name but you should read both parts anyway! The first part features Steve helping Robin when she's asking him to explain going down on someone (SO SWEET and so well done I cryyyyy) and the second part is lavender marriage Stobin and it is also so 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰!!

Sub Eddie Week by @steddieas-shegoes All 7 parts are just exquisite. 😌

Demisexual/Virgin Eddie by @pearynice Another series where every one of them is just so fucking good. Just do yourself a favor and read all of them because 😍!!

I don't know you figure it out by @wynnyfryd The first Steddie series I got into, I read this on Tumblr and then immediately went and read it on ao3 once I was caught up. Mind the tags, this one has some angst to it, but it's so fucking well done and makes me want to bite shit in the best way!

I know I've left a lot of really talented authors off of this list, I would be here all year if I tried to remember every amazing fic that I managed to read in 2024. We're a fandom that is really lucky to have so many amazing authors and artists.

Here's to Steve and Eddie keeping our brains rotting in 2025!

[chelledoggo]

friendly reminders/spicy hot takes:

you can (and should) support Palestine and oppose Zionism WITHOUT being anti-Semitic. practicing Jews exist in Palestine, even if they are a minority there.

to Christians supporting Israel because they "support their fellow Christians": Christians exist in Palestine, too.

also to Christians: Revelations was never meant to be a literal prophecy of the future. we don't need to "protect Israel" so "Jesus can come back." (i know. this is a lot to take in. i was surprised when i first learned this, too. feel free to sit down and process this.)

one more to Christians: if you "support Israel" but hate Jews, stop and take a look at yourself in the mirror because what the fuck is wrong with you?

don't boycott your local Jewish-owned small businesses if you don't know for certain whether they support Israel, you weirdos.

if you support Israel just because they're "LGBTQ+ friendly," you have your priorities messed up. (and i'm saying this as a queer person myself. government pinkwashing does not excuse war crimes.)

war is hell and by no means should we be okay with violence or death of civilians. we want peace and freedom for Palestine, not more death.

literally anyone can drop into your DMs and claim to be a Palestinian in need of financial support. make sure to thoroughly verify their genuineness before considering donating. (the person in the DMs claiming they're verified by 90Ghost is NOT sufficient proof.)

beware of AI "photos" and videos. (i can't believe i need to say this we live in the worst timeline i s2g)

Israel's government is the enemy. innocent civilians of Israel are not. (unless they support the war, but in that case they are likely brainwashed by their government. no one is immune to propaganda.)

people can care about other current issues while also caring about Palestine. don't freak out because someone is talking about the hurricane or election season "instead of" talking about Palestine.

for the love of GOD don't shame people for taking a mental health break from the news.

k bye

[yourdadsbasement]

he looks so happy about it

lmao of course she has a "WRONG" buzzer within reach at all times

can't let the kerhonk steal the show

sounds like a breakfast cereal

incredible work dabio

now THAT is an evil plan

and that's why you don't try to catch a monkey IN the trees (this is one of my favorite screengrabs i've ever taken)

he has corrected her on this twice now, Dabio it's because she doesn't care

personally i do not think this is how manhandling a fully grown wild male monkey would go down

she's a genius, i'm sorry

having it all is so difficult for the modern woman

i would pay money to see this fight

like the fandom (i kid, i kid, shoutout to all the koki and jimmy lovers out there)

i s2g i did not mean to take a picture of him looking this goofy, i was just trying to make a joke about how this would be useful information if i ever was in madagascar and needed to kill someone

[mars-ipan]

God I feel you on this. There are so many avenues for people to get sucked into bullshit infighting too.

I s2g every time I engage with trans content my for you feed starts serving me a ton of discourse about intercommunity transandrophobia or w/e and like... if people are being weird about trans men that's worth talking about sometimes, but I get the impression there are corners of the trans community that are doing nothing but scream at each other in some pointless transmasc vs transfem war. Meanwhile I'm sitting here on TERF island, transfem people right beside me, hoping our HRT and shaky legal rights don't get nuked in the next 5 years 💀

I feel like a general online discourse rule should be that if you're putting more energy into fighting your own community/policing language/etc than fighting people that materially affect our lives, something's gone wrong and you're at high risk of radicalisation into bigotry. Or might already be there.

ghhrgh LITERALLY….. like .

from what i’ve seen a lot of this transandrophobia debate came up in response to seeing trans women talk about transmisogyny. my theory is that a portion of tme folks saw that people have been discussing transmisogyny and felt that they were having their unique experiences erased. which, like, look . i get it. erasure is something i’ve experienced kinda my whole life. i understand that it feels Bad to have your struggles downplayed. i had that same worry at first. BUT. we GOTTA be able to examine how your own fears and anxieties and biases may be coloring your perceptions!!! bc yes being trans does not make you immune to transmisogyny!! we live in a transmisogynistic world implicit bias is Going To Happen.

like. transmisogyny is a real thing that happens and disproportionately affects transfems. transmisogyny is not something non-transfem people experience unless they are falsely perceived to be transfem. it is a uniquely transfeminine experience coming from the intersection of being trans and female (or female-adjacent). it is not just a unique kind of transphobia, but rather the intentional combination of transphobia and misogyny.

is this to say that transmascs don’t experience their own unique kind of oppression? no! but it’s not an intersectional oppression and it shouldn’t be treated as such. also, the name of “transandrophobia” just gives off. a really uncomfortable energy. you’re not being oppressed because you’re male. you’re being oppressed because you’re trans. i don’t feel like we need to give this type of transphobia a name because it is just transphobia. similar to how misogynoir is a word but we don’t have a word for the specific type of oppression black men face because that’s just racism. just because transphobia impacts you in a certain way doesn’t mean it’s a special type of transphobia, and really why are we playing oppression olympics in the first place? we’re ALL hurting. can we just like… help each other out? can we stop accusing transfems of like…. deliberately trying to overshadow transmasc issues or whatever? and for the love of god if we have to argue can we STOP misgendering and degendering each other mid-argument.

like. at the end of the day this is all trivial shit because In Real Life we’re being targeted by horribly cruel legislation and social movements. it’s like we’re in a burning house and i’m watching my brother and sister argue over black mold. like yes that’s a problem but i think !!!! we should focus on putting out the fire !!!! like i live in texas. lawmakers have been trying to pass anti-trans bills here for ages, and a couple of them have gone through! i remember being sat down in gsa in my freshman year of high school and having the club sponsors tell us that if a bill that was up for ratification mandating that teachers out their students to their parents was passed that they would do everything in their power to keep us safe. i have to be careful about how i dress when i go to certain places. and i’m not even someone who’s transitioning medically— lord knows what kind of bullshit hurdles people on hrt have to go through to get it. and we’re arguing over what we want to call our oppression? we’re all facing transphobia at the end of the day can we PLEASE fix that instead of dividing ourselves into little easy-to-eliminate factions please and thank you

[lastoneout]

I s2g these like...third party? clinics that doctors send you to for MRIs and x-rays and stuff like that are run by absolute clowns.

I get an order to go an ultrasound of a weird spot on my skin that's probably just torn soft tissue just to make sure nothing's going wrong and I call them and they schedule me for the 6th of June, but tell me that the order I got from the urgent care place needs to be from the clinic supervisor, not the NP who saw me, so I need to go get that fixed, and also to tell them that the NP isn't in their system so they need to fax them documents to update her info. Okay, I'm not an employee there so idk how that last bit is my problem, but whatever.

In between this call and me having time to go to the urgent care clinic I get a call telling me actually they don't have anyone who can do the ultrasound on the 6th so I need to come in on the 30th. Great, whatever. This has happened before, sometimes DAY OF with these types of places so while it's annoying, I'll live.

There's less time before my appointment now so same day I go down to the urgent care place and explain all that and the desk lady seems to have no clue what the hell I'm talking about and just gives me a copy of the order and says if the ultrasound place needs updated stuff they have to request it, which is the opposite of what I was told but whatever!

So I call the ultrasound place and explain and the guy is like "uh no you should be fine with the order" and then to be sure he checks the info and is like "oh this doctor's info is out of date" and then he has me stay on the line and give him the urgent care clinic's phone number and address and again! I am not an employee there!! Why is this my job!! But whatever, he says I'm good, so I'm good.

Today, the 29th, I get another call from the ultrasound place informing me that actually, they don't even perform this procedure in Tucson AT ALL and if I want to get it done I either have to GO TO PHOENIX or get my order sent to a different clinic that does these. I do not understand why this information was not given to me immediately the first time I called, and now I have to go down to the urgent care clinic AGAIN and beg them to update the order, and idk if they'll even be able to do that bcs this is an urgent care clinic not my PCP, but whatever guess I get to go beg! And continue to worry about the soft-tissue tear bcs it isn't going away on it's own and idk if there's something legit wrong with me or not.

I fucking HATE these little third party clinics so much they are always canceling the day before or telling me actually I need to go to another location bcs they can't do it at this one or claiming they called me to tell me the date got moved when I didn't get a phone call AT ALL. Why are they so poorly managed. Why does no one know who works at what location or what location does what procedure. Y'all are doing serious diagnostic tests to confirm if people have like cancer or some shit, I've had procedures done at them twice to make sure I don't have cancer, but they still play SO fast and loose with people's time and yank us around.

I genuinely miss the days when they would just send you to the hospital to have this stuff done, they aren't great but at least when they say they can do something they can actually do it. Jesus christ. I'm so tired.

[zell-dincht]

idk if I ever put my "Will of D" theory here, but I'm so convinced that I'm right, I just gotta share ok here's what I think...

I think people with the "D" in their name are the TRUE descendants of the original Celestial Dragons, and that's part of the secret of the void century.

We know that the "family" of D is seen as the "enemy of the gods," especially the world government/nobles, primarily. There is this natural opposition between the two sides, so it makes sense that perhaps "fate," or whatever you want to call it, would tip the scales in favor of restoring order. Restoring order would mean deposing the current establishment, hence the family of D being the "enemy of the gods."

But the big thing that REALLY ties this together for me... We have a definite connection between a family line with the D initial to the Celestial Dragons - the Nefertari family of Alabasta. We know that when the Celestial Dragons were first established, ruling nobles from throughout the world left their kingdoms to stay in Mariejois as world nobles... all, except the Nefertari family, who declined and chose to remain in Alabasta. They are the unique that ties the D initial to the original Celestial Dragons.

And I s2g if I'm wrong about this, I will eat a shoe

[kafus]

holy shit kiki knows ave mujica? so based

i'm so excited for their story but i also have a feeling it's going to be a tragedy, especially coming from sakiko... girl has so many issues :')

"knows ave mujica" is maybe an exaggeration LOL i have a friend who's really into mygo/ave mujica and because the ave mujica anime is coming out really soon, they wanted to rewatch the mygo anime in preparation, and i offered to watch it with them which was the first time for me. i am not into bandori and i haven't been in this sphere of media since high school so i was completely and totally out of the loop and had no idea any of these girls existed until a week or two ago when we started watching mygo. i literally watched the final mygo episode with the ave mujica introduction yesterday LMAO. i am being filled in pretty fast though cause my friend is nutty about this stuff and sent me a ton of supplementary material to look through

anyway i'm ungodly amounts of excited i s2g ave mujica has set off a nuclear bomb in my brain. new interest unlocked. i need to know what the fuck is wrong with these women i love them

[ettadunham]

i hate to be the guy adding to the arcane ramblings when i'm also the guy saying 'just let me enjoy women's wrongs in peace' @ discourse, but god, i keep thinking about arcane's storytelling. there is this cheap trick that i've seen tv shows do in our modern fandom ecosystem, seemingly to try and cultivate a following, where they would gesture towards / imply things or let the audience fill out the blanks constantly. and obviously, that almost always leads to a let down, because no, they're not gonna follow through. they're not gonna write the story that you're writing in your own head, and they're probably just gonna give you something else to chase instead of fulfilling that potential you saw in it.

but what i like about arcane is that they're not just letting you fill out the blanks - they want you to find the connections and the details that complete the story that they're telling. it's not just vague gesturing where you can read anything into it, it's intentional and consistent. yes, it's super fast paced, but it's also efficient not just with its story but its character writing, and if you can meet it where it is, if you can follow its characters through their journeys, it can be immensely satisfying.

and listen, i'm also the guy saying that we should bring back 22-episode seasons. give me my bottle episodes, my beloved fillers, my special little bros, let them breathe gdi, but damn. this show is my exception that proves the rule, whatever the fuck that nonsense phrase means.

and okay, season 2 maybe was a bit overstuffed. a bit too punchy for its own fucking good. there actually were some points where i got a bit of a whiplash, but even there, it was mostly when i felt confused by whatever was happening (and that might also have meant that i missed something or didn't have a full on vibe with a character). like, i didn't really understand what the fuck was going on with viktor, and why jayce smashing him (nice) with a hammer made it so that he was suddenly evil aligned i guess. but you know what, they somehow still made it make sense retroactively by the end, so i'm not mad.

on a somewhat opposite end, i don't think i got a full grasp of the whole black rose plotline, and to this day, i'm still not sure if i'm supposed to think that mel's brother died because their mother failed to save him, or because she just straight up murdered him herself (i think it's the former, but i s2g, i was so sure at points that they were implying the latter). but that ultimately didn't really take away from the heart of that storyline which was mel and ambessa's characters and their relationship, and that really was all that mattered. god, that was so good.

and you know what? i don't even care that caitlyn seemingly switched up on a dime when she bumped into her ex. because i was so fucking locked in to that character and it just... made sense to me. and not just in a funny 'haha, lesbian' way, but in a real, i-know-this-bitch-in-my-gut-and-my-emotional-investment-is-paying-off way.

god, this show is so good. still would have loved a s3 though.

[wellhalesbells]

tagged by @i-sveikata! thanks for thinking of me, ladybug <3

hardcover or paperback (paperback for stuff i've never read before, hardcover for books i love and am adding to the collection) // bookstore or library (i'm probably about 35-65) // bookmark or receipt (anything/everything) // standalone or series (i just have so many books to read, get it all done in one and i'll love you forever lol) // nonfiction or fiction (mostly) // thriller or fantasy (i def read more fantasy but i'm always in the mood for thriller, i get burned out on fantasy) // under 300 pages or over 300 pages // children’s or ya // friends to lovers or enemies to lovers // read in bed or read on the couch // read at night or read in the morning // keep pristine or mark up (i don't do either) // cracked spine or dog ear //

Currently reading:

finishing up jonathan strange & mr. norrell, susanna clarke - should finish it today or tomorrow. just started: the queen's starfire throne, hailey tuner - it's the last book, i'm gonna have all the feels about this i can already tell. this is the most i've liked a series in a long time and i'm a wreck. bumbling along on: the puzzle wood, rosie andrews - i hope this book is actually gothic, the last one i picked up that said it was 'gothic' was absolutely not. still trying to scratch that itch. stalled out on: blood of torbatt, c.j. merwild - i've been reading this for two months now and i just.... blegh. there's nothing wrong with it, i even like it so far but i want gus and domino to be together and, like, domino has another love interest now and i don't like it? i like her, she's an intriguing character, but i also hate that she exists because gus and domino have been apart for SO LONG NOW so her existence just keeps the story going in the wrong direction, y'know? it doesn't seem like gus and domino are going to meet again for a long, long time and i'm just over it. i know the only way to get them back together is to keep going but i'm not pleased with how long it's clearly going to take and it's making me want to never pick up this book s2g so blegh

Tagging:

@callunavulgari, @kikiroo, @rosieposiepuddingnpie, @literaryoblivion, @midnightisquiet, @squeeingfangirl and anyone else who's interested!

[monstersinthecosmos]

this isn't really related to anything in particular but do you ever read some kinks not even because you're into them but just because they're so deliciously fucked up lol? granted this can often be like a gateway kink if you will but i just love to be mortified sometimes. TRULY unrelated now but i'm also soooo excited about ttsr! oh my god! you're a gift kacy <3 <3 <3

nsdklgajsdkg lmao why is this soooooooooooo fucking common with Sheiths I s2g

I mean, that was a rhetorical question, I know the answer! The ship is horny as fuck and hits all the fucking tropes and there's an unusual density of INCREDIBLE porn writers!!! Like when you're only a LITTLE into a ship, are you horny enough to give a weird new kink a shot? idk. But with Sheith fics I think we love the characters so much in ANY situation AND!!!!!!!! we trust the writers so so deeply. Like, the Aphor fics I've read? EXCUSE ME LMAO???? But I'm like, damn you're fantastic, I trust you.

I love it it's so educational!!!

ALSO I wanna say like, something I think vanilla folks don't always understand is that a lot of kinks DO exist in a vacuum as kinks ! Even kink practice IRL has this element of roleplaying or pretending and is often not literal. Kinks can be about being TRANSGRESSIVE, it can be ABOUT the wrongness! It's like the sex equivalent of trying not to laugh at a bad joke, that becomes funnier because it's so bad. Sometimes, the more wrong something is, the more you're not supposed to want it, the hotter the idea of it becomes. And it's a thought experiment, isn't it? Not literal. Not something you'd actually do. And there's a feedback cycle as you start exploring it as a kink/as a game/as fiction where you realize it's safe and can lean in even harder.

So yeah like it makes a lot of sense that they are popular in fiction, where they don't hurt anyone!!!!!!!!! And perhaps also in private, because these can be very hard to discuss or practice IRL!

[sincerelyyellingback]

I am LOSING MY MIND at this facebook interaction between me (yellow) and my uncle (blue). I'm trying not to fight with him right now because his sister just died, and I'm pretty sure he knows he's wrong anyway, but it's still mildly infuriating. I s2g, he just wants to fight. It is taking everything in me to not go OFF about the "true trans" thing, and the fact that trans "healthcare" IS medical abuse.

[ju1ian]

how can u say that u don't care about pronouns? I s2g ur not really trans and only pretending for internet points. Grow up.

I am very confident in my sense of self and I know who I am and what I am about.

How others perceive me isn't my problem. How they talk about me when I'm not around isn't my problem. How strangers from online are going to talk about me is not my problem.

At the end of the day I have to live with myself. I have to know myself.

I know myself as Male, I know myself as He. I do things that make me happy. I do things that make my life more peaceful and fun.

That's the only thing that really matters.

I think you should probably grow up still accusing trans people of faking for 'internet points' lmao

Also for context, I didn't say I didn't care about pronouns. I of course care about other people's pronouns but I'm not gonna spend all my time correcting other people when they get mine wrong, I have better things to do.