#idk if im expressing myself well but

[daydadahlias]

Empty Gut anon here

Just read the Brokeback Mountain short story (I honestly had no idea about it so I'm so glad you mentioned it) and I definitely like it more then the movie (even though the movie is still great) and I can see how you based your telling of it more off of the short story

I feel like it's so common in the showing of gay love stories (specifically the man/man ones) that one or both of them are cheating on girlfriends/wives and while it is pretty common in the real world we deserve some happy stories with zero cheating or miscommunication so it's amazing to be able to read Brokeback Mountain without cheating and with Calum and Ashton

And it definitely deserves more recognition and love, it's an amazing story!!

You're so welcome!! I think fanfic writers always need more love and support, writing and then sharing your writing is so hard and sometimes scary so support your fav fanfic writers!!!!

It wasn't rude for you to be surprised by the fact I'm a man!! I'm very aware how few men there are in the 5sos fandom and I bet quite a few are the "no, I don't read fanfic that's weird" type so it makes complete sense that your surprised!!

I hope you're having a lovely day and thank you again for sharing your writing!!

hello empty gut anon!! sorry, I saw this last night at 2 am but am just now getting around to it.

I read the short story I think my freshman year of high school?? and idk when I saw the movie but I think it was a couple months after and to me it just doesn't have the same punch because it loses the "you just have to stand it line" which is the most powerful one to me. That being said, I haven't seen the movie for years and years so it honestly might be time for a rewatch.

I agree with you that mlm stories often include some type of infidelity. I know that cheating rates are high within any relationship (it's smthn like 1/4 of marriages experience cheating, right?) but I feel like fiction often goes out of its way to include it especially with gay men. It always just... makes it out to be tantalizing, y'know? It creates the forbidden feel to it (and I think makes some people feel more comfortable watching it because they already inherently felt it was forbidden and now there's a legitimate layer to make it that; and it also plays into the stereotype of gay men being very sexually promiscuous which is like a whole other rant). And I don't enjoy it!! I agree that queer people deserve to have romances without the extra underlying layer of "oh this is wrong, that's why they have to sneak around." I understand it in Brokeback considering the time period and setting but we still see media today that continuously presses that narrative. I think queer people (and just romance in general) deserve healthy communication!!

And yes, thank you again!! as an avid fanfic reader/writer, it's a really cool thing that people create works and share them for no benefit other than just their love of the characters and writing!

I hope you have a wonderful day as well and thank you sm for your kind words!!!

[cerealmonster15]

five stages of adeuce ft the trials and tribulations of ace trappola

[pathetic-tboy]

not to get discoursey on the nsfw account but you do realize both "chasers fetishizing trans women for penises they may/may not have/want to use is wrong and should be warned against to young vunerable insecure trans women" and "some trans women feel indifferent or even positive about their genitals/using them during sex and/or might not want bottom surgery and theyre still equally trans women to the trans women who do have bottom dysphoria or have/want bottom surgery and also deserve protection from chasers" can both be true right? i just dont think its fair to try to erase those members of the community because they might not align with your standards for "real" or "safe" trans women who "deserve" to be trans and safe from chasers ykwim? am i making sense?

[b4kuch1n]

tdov was like a week ago already but I just wanna say when I came over to vacation slash help my sworn brother move flat he told me, "ever since you said you wanted to get top surgery I've been thinking about it. it's straight up number two on my bucket list"

[chinacatmoonflower]

i love everyone so much but i do not know how to be a friend :(

[rosykims]

do i make ashara more devoted to mythal post trespasser or do i alienate her from the evanuris entirely. is she immune to propaganda by virtue of how badly solas damaged her ability to believe in anything or is she especially vulnerable to it now bc she still WANTS to believe in anything. is she sporting subtle mythal details in her costume design or is she not

[mechagender]

Idk what a kinsona is but it looks cool as fuck so it can't be cringe it is epic 👍

a kinsona is a sona that takes attributes from a canon character and incorporates them into that design! sort of like a "based off of" thing! it's usually with fictionkin in mind but i've seen plenty of people make some for characters they just really like as well. you know how people on deviantart in the early 2000s used to draw naruto characters as emo wolves? sort of like that

[electric-friend]

i’ve got so many unfinished fics in my drive and maybe even one published one where someone calls stede strong and brave for maintaining his softness even when life pushes back.

recently i feel like stede made a choice ed and izzy have both made in the past that they’ve always wished they never did, and stede could have been spared from. at the very least i think it hurt ed to see the version of himself he hates in stede. he probably thinks stede wanted to become that man for reasons other than stede has been bullied his entire life for being inadequate and told a man a bit like blackbeard is a real man.

call me crazy or whatever but i actually think a major thing that should be communicated between ed and stede is something on stede’s end. his trauma and his feelings and his issues. as it stands now, i don’t think ed understands what’s going on with stede. i don’t think he understands the person stede really wants to be. i don’t think he understands stede’s own issues of self-doubt and stede’s insecurities. hell i don’t think ed even has that much of a grasp of how unpopular and disliked stede has always been his entire life. and i think maybe if stede explained himself better, ed would understand more of what was going on. that he wouldn’t be seeing stede as manifesting something he wants to escape from, he would see stede as someone he needs to help escape with him.

[vamptastic]

yk i genuinely don't think ive ever been able to actually express my gender dysphoria out loud to another person cos with my family they'll get uncomfortable or think im somehow bragging bc i have the misfortune of a hyperfeminine body, with therapists im always trying not to say smth that makes me sound too self hating to get letters written, and with other trans people i don't want to upset them. idk writing it down just feels like im cataloguing everything that's wrong with me but I don't think ill ever have anyone i can talk to about it either

[wind-up-thancred]

still tickles me to think about HW katsucred where thancred's laying there night after night overthinking his relationship with katsu and worrying that he's getting too attached and projecting his feelings onto what he thinks is just a FWB for the both of them to let off steam. guilting himself over burdening katsu with his own attachment

meanwhile katsu's just. completely unaware. and is just giddy that he has someone that he gets to kiss and cuddle for the first time and isn't worried in the slightest about what's going on between them. because he has zero idea how this shit works and is just rolling with it. assuming that thancred, guy with """relationship experience""", knows what he's doing. (he does not. he hasn't earnestly romanced someone outside of work reasons since his mid 20s in my HC.)

it is genuinely a fucking miracle that they made it as far as they did considering the lack of proper communication between them up until late STB. i think if katsu hadn't accidentally blurted out that he loved thancred during their reunion in the lochs, they'd probably still be in a perpetual state of situationship weirdness. idiots (affectionate)

[hellonoblesky]

Playing the am I tweaking game

[toastsnaffler]

was gonna say smth else but this turned into a vent sorry everyone just ignore. typical weekend post on this blog u know how it is here we go👍

[bingoboingobongo]

me after writing out the word pussy

[sunnikko]

Saying Goodbye to My Mask event on project sekai may have been a premonition of having my own mental health tank to the same level as Mafuyu's because well. Let's just say. The depression. (⁠.⁠ ⁠❛⁠ ⁠ᴗ⁠ ⁠❛⁠.⁠)

[naggingatlas]

i could make a post about why i think spamtong had black hair from day one and articulate myself more thoroughly or i could just say i think blonde men are ugly and i think thatd be a thricely more valid point

[ankhisms]

the shift went better than i thought it would it does help to be able to complain with your coworkers about things but also this is like the second shift ive worked where the stage manager of the last show i was in is working and theyre very cool and we get along and i was nice to see them (: they were talking about how after the shift they were gonna go pick up their wife from work and it was very cute to hear about gay love and i was like maybe one day ill have a wife to pick up from work and they were like I BELIEVE IN YOU SO MUCH REY which was very sweet. anyway things went well today heres hoping the load out of the show will go well too i hope everyones alright mwah