#i understand that there's Stakes but man

[spiderman2-99]

Where should you be kissed?

Knuckles. it feels as though you have fought every day of your life. sometimes, you cannot even tell how much of the blood on your hands is your own... and how much comes from those who've tried to hurt those you defend. you deserve the gentleness of a kiss to your bruised knuckles and broken skin, a reminder that you are not only made of violence.

[stolen from templeofvengeance; tagging you]

[uncanny-tranny]

At this point, gender nonconformity is about what the person says their experience is.

If a woman with a beard or a man with lipstick and a mustache says they're gender nonconforming, then they are! If a woman with short hair or a man with long hair says they aren't, they aren't! And that's not even getting into the awesome nonbinary, abinary, genderqueer, intersex, and general genderfuckery that may both be and not be conforming.

So much of what is even considered gender conforming or gender nonconforming is based on a world of exclusion. When we start defining one's conformity with whether they fit into white cishetero perisex standards or not, we play into the idea that there's only a very narrow window of what is considered worthy of time and thought.

[longagoitwastuesday]

Kusakabe, dear, you're too beautiful to be saying that kind of stuff

[commbowman]

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Key to writing Dave is that you have to understand that he is just a guy™️. Just a guy who is good at his job and thus is boring.

Is he severely traumatized before the events even begin? Yes but it’s in a way that informs him and his actions more than the actual story itself and there’s… ough

There’s simultaneously so much there and nothing there. He’s just a regular guy— like he’ll go home, make dinner, watch TV and go to bed. He doesn’t exactly have some huge mystical everyday you know? Idk

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

after thoughtful consideration i’ve mapped out a list of the bsd men who are most Mother and i fear kunikida takes the top spot easy (closely followed by chuuya)………..

[nandermoenthusiast]

guys i have been in a state for days. i am giddy i am gasping for air i am broken inside i am blushing i am sweating i am twirling my hair i am suffering i dont know how to deal with the very real possibility that nandor has loved guillermo for years and has been restraining himself, feigning aloofness, keeping his distance, because all these years he understood that maybe guillermo would never be ready for vampirism - and maybe hes been so depressed in the latest years because hes finally found someone he wants to spend eternity with, and he strongly suspects he will spend eternity missing them instead

[sing-me-under]

*stands at the top of a stage with a megaphone *

LET BATMAN HAVE FRIENDS.

[aberooski]

Taylor has officially endorsed Kamala Harris and Tim Walz and denounced Tr*mp's AI posts using her image and promoted voter registration on her Instagram after the end of the debate tonight.

Miss Americana lives.

Thank GOD 😭

[forgetbeam]

okay so like genuine question that may just be the dubiously-maybe-arospec in me speaking but how many like. crush confessions in real life mimic those super dramatic ones that happen in fanfics where like the person that confesses starts crying and apologising for the fatal human flaw of Having An Emotion and is all like “oh i understand if i’ve made you uncomfortable and you never want to see my face again blah blah blah i’m going to make a bunch of assumptions about how much you hate me before you’ve even gotten a word in—“

because like. in my personal experience, of both being told and telling other people about romantic feelings it’s always been just. “i kinda have a crush on you” “okay 👍 cool” and then we either do or don’t date for like a week or whatever because this mostly happened in highschool when none of that shit really mattered anyway, at least to me

basically what i’m asking is, does a single person on planet earth actually get that high-strung about revealing a crush or is this just a kind of annoying/off-putting fanfic trope that sprung from nowhere??

[babieken]

This man.....

[hecksupremechips]

Girl like. The reason he said "this is how it should be" and faced death with a smile....is cuz he wanted to die. For 2 years he sat there thinking he was worthless and deserved to die. If he hadn’t be shot, his death would’ve been suicide, he was fully planning to die in a gutter somewhere undetected. When saying "this is how it should be" hes literally saying "don’t cry because I’m dying, my death is a good thing actually because I fucking suck and you are better off without me". I don’t think that’s badass even slightly, it’s actually really sad and really shitty. Shinjiro is so convinced that he deserves to die and hates the idea of anyone giving a shit about him because he literally can’t wrap his mind around the idea that he will be missed when he’s gone, that his death is a bad thing actually. And his last words were meant to be comforting because he fully did not intend for anyone to be there when he died, he intended to die alone, so he says them as a reminder that he’s not worth crying over

Personally, if it were me, if I was holding my dying best friend in my arms who was deeply depressed and suicidal and he said "this is how it should be" uh. I wouldn’t admire him for it??? Like am I losing my mind when I say the way this game handles Shinji is bad or is anyone else seeing this too 😰

[aingeal98]

It's been... hm. Disappointing to say the least to see accounts I know who correctly called out both people's dismissal of Ukraine and leftists that carried water for Russia's imperialism in the name of being anti American, now all suddenly use the same talking points they once condemned in order to defend Israels colonization. All of a sudden viewing everything through a cynical political lens is justified ("Why does Ukraine have to appease Russia?" You said. Only now you keep implying that Palestinians have the responsibility to keep Israel's war crimes as low as possible and never question why the people living in an open air prison and brutalized daily should have to appease their oppressors).

Accounts who have 10 posts condemning both Hamas and general pro Palestine sentiments for every one post touching on the source of the conflict (and none acknowledging that Hamas exists because Israel deliberately quashed other, less extremist resistance movements) are the same accounts who before were able to rightly call out people for using Azov as a quick way to dismiss all cruelty and brutality Ukrainians are experiencing. The switch from criticizing people who only spoke about Ukraine to condemn Azov to becoming someone who only speaks about Palestine to condemn Hamas is jarring to witness. It's just a massive lack of empathy towards Palestinians in comparison to Ukrainians and it does come as a shock from people I thought had more sense and self awareness. How can you spend months on end breaking down exactly what insidious tactics people used to justify Russia's brutality only to turn around and parrot those same tactics? What is it about Palestine that makes you suddenly so eager to focus on everything but the people fighting for their freedom, whereas before you were straightforward in condemning anyone who did not acknowledge the reality of what Ukraine is dealing with?

It really does come down to Palestinian being the "other" to Israel and Ukraine's "civilized" western-approved states. Disgusting and disappointing, to see that those accounts weren't actually principled against imperialism and oppression, just against anyone who disrupted the western status quo. For all their criticisms of pro Russian leftists choosing campism over having principles and a spine, they're no different in the end.

[celestial-sapphicss]

it's good that i already don't like jim as a guardian so i am not affected by wheather jim being homophobic in the previews is accurate or out of context, i do worry for little li ming though 😭

"but vi he's tryin-" no i have ZERO empathy and understanding for any bad guardian/parent. i don't care if you have trauma, i don't care if you're poor, i don't care about how difficult your like is, i don't care how much you love the kid but struggle to show it.

if you have to take care of a kid, you do so with love and affection and care regardless or your circumstances, which jim is not the best at, which automatically makes me dislike him as a character, no greys, only black & white.

yes you make mistakes as a parent, but you can always make it up to them, and it costs literally nothing to be kind. stop projecting your problems on your children

[ltfanboy]

lieutenant sunshine.... that's it that's the post

[youssefguedira]

i do actually think assane's choices in s3 like. entirely make sense. whether you agree with them or not. his father died and gave him a decades spanning revenge complex and his mother, as far as he knows, just vanishes out of thin air. of course he drops everything the second she contacts him he's got parental issues larger than the entire country of france. my man has been making decisions that negatively affect people who care about him in the service of his own greater Plot since season 1. it's both 100% in character and 100% understandable given *gestures* all that

[how-the-feathers-have-fallen]

unfortunately a gaiman apologist but this. I know it's a spoiler which suck was but it's one (1) thing. that came from a trailer apparently!

A detail that basically confirms something we've already know or heavily suspected/theorized.

you really gonna sit there and clutch your pearls on amazon's behalf? on tumblr (famously hostile environment to corporations, celebrities, influencers and profitably).com?

on gaiman's behalf? who although created (several) beloved and well-written works of literary art, is consistently and enthusiastically active within his fan base, openly supportive of queer fans + shipping/shippers, supports the wga strike and seems like a very down to earth, good/likeable person is still profiting from this project. along side amazon (who I'm not gonna on about because its 1:50 am, I have 3% battery and we all know what's up with Amazon. if not google isn't your friend but a useful tool)

people are still gonna watch it. gaiman's sad about it I'm sure but he's a grown-ass man he'll live with it and move on. not to be a complete bitch but this ruins absolutely nothing for him. I haven't checked his blog and have only seen what passed my dash but it doesn't seem like he's dying so it's fine

also amazon isn't doing any damage control so don't come at me but maybe (like /gen maybe) The Leak was purposeful? There are other things people are mad about I'm sure but there always will be.

(it's a situation adjacent to a large online community/fandom dedicated to a show that deviates from the source material which is a book with a fan base that holds many varied and split opinions)

i just ask people on all sides to think critically as a collective about all the elements involved. c

Insane percentage of this website lives in a little acorn house in Neil gaiman’s asshole