#i think i need to make it a separate tag by now

[ravenkinnie]

how I sleep knowing that regardless of twitter outrage ciri is canonically bisexual and the witcher is one of few depictions (in Polish media!! if you're not Polish you might not realise how huge that is) of how wlw relationships are as complex and nuanced and can be just as abusive as straight relationships

truly, if we measured sexuality on the basis of consensual encounters there would be way less women in this world we consider heterosexual

even more so, as uncomfortable as this truth is, women everyday in this world stay in relationships with their rapists and love them and believing that lesbian relationships are or should be exempt from those depictions is not only stupid but also dangerous. there's already so little guidance on how to approach relationships when you're a wlw and there's even less on how to recognise abuse because many resources for women are catered towards straight women since the concept of rape is usually looked at through a lense of gender dynamics

but at their core gender dynamics are about power dynamics and so is rape - which is why it is actually important that ciri is vulnerable in that moment and that she is fourteen (!!!) and mistle is an adult, this is that power differential abuse that happens to women all the time, regardless of sexuality. I've met queer women who didn't know for a long time you can even be raped by another woman because we're barely told our relationships are as real as straight relationships

the concept of good representation isn't only annoying just because we want to have all these flavours of characters that are also queer that straight people get all the time, it's also about recognising that queerness is human and we have as many nuances and shades as heterosexuality can have and sometimes those shades are very ugly and unsavoury. I'm gonna pull out a quote from carmen maria machado's in the dreamhouse:

it's so important that it's not just straight people who deny humanity to these depictions, when we don't talk about them or dismiss them we deny ourselves humanity too. it's important to recognise those as real relationships, as serious relationships and to describe them how you would a straight relationship, to say rape, to say abuse - to use trauma bond correctly!!

because this is what it is, ciri is trauma bonded to mistle which is why they can have those vulnerable scenes, she can love her and that violent sexual relationship can exist alongside it. and I'm gonna use another machado quote here:

if you've ever been in this situation you will recognise that by the time someone raises a hand against you, everything has been turned so inside out and reality has been so skewed that inside this scene everything makes sense

I'm not sure if the games will ever reference this storyline - she does have the matching rose tattoo she gets for mistle so it does seem like they choose to keep this canon. but regardless of if it comes up in the context of ciri's queerness in future canon, her having experienced sexual violence by another woman does not deny it. you have so many women around you whose first sexual experience was violent and their sexuality is not defined by it

anyway, in this house we love bisexual icon rape survivor cirilla!!

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

This one is for all my fellow "My gender is 'I have a job and I can't worry about that right now"'. I see you.

(part 1, part 2)

[xxplastic-cubexx]

just wanted to make a color ref for Brain Therapist Magneto from 309 but i needed lights too for some reason

bonus The Flats Only Version

[somerandomcockroach]

Actually, screw it all, I'll make a pinned post just to put things I will want on over time

This thing will be first, because yeah I noticed like typing does take time if you type it several times in a row XDDD

My art stuff is here -> Animations | Arts (probably a lot is not tagged because I just tossed it to sharks)

[madrabit]

We need a Bonace hands comparison

I think about this way too often.... why are Bojan's hands so much smaller and why are Nace's hands so big....

[myreia]

✦ F F X I V L E V E L 9 0

—compendium

[sluckythewizard]

'I wont cry for you, I wont crucify the things you do. I wont cry for you, see, when you're gone, I'll still be BLOODY MARY'

[regicidal-defenestration]

The language part (ie the Main Actual Game) of Chants of Sennaar is very fun don't get me wrong - figuring out when a radical means person, or signifies a verb, etc etc - but the number system is absolutely fascinating

[blade-that-was-broken]

@endlesspaint

[cuteniaarts]

Digitalised + coloured + redesigned version of my Suiren and Vaatu sketch from two days ago, as promised!!

Coming up with Suiren’s design was a very long process of trying and failing because after you’ve drawn 9+ different versions of one character, the creativity starts to run a little dry, but I’m actually really proud of this one, she looks absolutely adorable <3

(Also yeah I did mostly just scribble Vaatu’s pattern because who has the energy to draw the all out accurately. Not me, that’s who, I’m chronically tired. People who draw him on the regular have my utmost respect. He’s still a funky little guy though :D)

Bonus, Raava incessantly screaming inside Suiren (and being completely ignored because Suiren is tired of her) while all this is happening:

[astral-schools]

you are the most important person in this story.

you are dead.

this story is your own drawn out funeral. you are not the main character, and yet your ghost lives in the shadow of every step they take. you have been consumed, body and mind, and words spill from your voice without your direction. your actions are judged in your absence; you are on trial and you cannot defend yourself. you have no defense.

you are not the main character. you are not a character. you are a foundation. you are an idea. you are a lesson. (you are a villain, in every story but your own.)

there are two ghosts in this story. one is at the center of it all. the other is you. the first one is also you. he decided to be. (and then he decided not to be.)

(he killed you and decided you weren't good enough.)

you didn't have a voice. you didn't get a say. you weren't even there.

no one knows how you felt about dying. they didn't need to. you are not a main character in this story. (this story is not about you.) you are the most important piece of this story. (this story could not happen without you.) you do not have the power to change anything.

you have the power to change nothing. (whether you want to or not.)

you are in checkmate.

(you've never been very good at chess. what an infuriating game.)

[nerdie-faerie]

Just when I think the day's going well, I crash a golf cart

[stargazinglesbian]

More than anything i feel like Percabeth is just too......boring.The development is very predictable at best and toxic at worst and ngl i feel book!Annabeth wouldn't be the best partner for a transfem,much less an afrolatina trans femme who is also punk like Percy.She's not a bad person but she has.SO many issues to unpack but Rick refuses to adress them and i need them away from eachother asap.Wdyt?

ugh well, my opinion on percabeth is. complicated i guess. like, i can understand why people like it? because it does have a lot of fandom appeal (which imo is mostly because of the boring parts..), but i also agree with you in the sense that it just doesn't work in so many ways.

people really find the idea of characters 'going through hell and back' together but i hate the way that kind of stuff just starts to define relationships, like are you guys even in love or are you just hardcore trauma bonded. a lot of percabeth 'moments' (in tma especially) are just made up of annabeth talking about different times theyve saved each others lives, but we never even really learn that much about *why* they like each other. annabeth thinks percy is funny and percy thinks annabeth is smart? i gues??? but beyond that its jsut ???? do they share any common interests?? from the way they talk sometimes it doesnt even really seem like theyre interested in each others hobbies!! (if your eyes 'glaze over' while you listen to you partner talk thats a bad sign actually) their relationship seems to only really revolve around camp and/or quests and it annoys me because theyre supposedly really close but we never actually see any evidence of that.

you're spot on about annabeths issues. i think away from source material she has so much potential to be an interesting character. she has so much stuff happen to her (she ran away from home!!! at SEVEN!!! and was straight up homeless and alone until she ran into luke and thalia + she got groomed) i could write like ten thousand words about her, but fandom interpretations, her relationship with percy and the fact that so many actual aspects of her character are never addressed in text is just so frustrating. she shouldn't be in a relationship during the timeline of the books, and i think this would be true of a lot of people but ESPECIALLY for annabeth. she and percy get together right after the titan war, and neither of them spend any time healing or processing any of their trauma from it! they are so young and yet they launch themselves straight into a relationship and its meant to be seen as sweet and romantic because 'who knows how much time they might have left'. unpopular opinion but if you're trying to hit as many relationship milestones as possible as fast as possible because of the imminent threat of death i think you maybe have some issues to resolve and that relationship might not actually be healthy!

i think in the end their relationship would, realistically, be so much more unhealthy than its depicted. people ship percabeth because the text convinces them it works but then you look at it and its like Oh wait Ok No.......

i also have a lot of thoughts about the pressure surrounding them (its been a while since i read the og books but if i remember correctly there were a lot of people making jokes about them getting together. that might be wrong though!) as some idealised couple, annabeths self conscious and equally headstrong nature (again i need to reread the books a bit but the tunnel of love scene comes to mind as well as her constantly overthinking) as well as her internal and external biases but im just gonna leave it here for now

[nbclover]

What if you could exist as nonbinary in the world

[rose-lalondde]

the difference between the tumblr and twitter reactions to the boruto time skip designs has been so funny omg