#it’s the only acceptable outcome

[foxtrot91]

My son fell asleep while watching The Land Before Time.

I’m so offended right now.

[timethehobo]

I had some angsty thoughts so we shall suffer tgt with my doodle.

[raintemper]

I struggle to accept being a bug.

[serpentface]

What's the Wardi cultural take on Akoshos sleeping with/partnering with/marrying other Akoshos?

It's not highly regulated to a degree that there are overwhelming cultural norms about it. There's a lot of societal focus on akoshos being theoretically suitable sexual partners for both men and women due to being dual-gendered, but not to an extent that relationships with One Another are stigmatized.

They also largely get to escape from the most severe concerns about penetrator/penetrated power dynamics because they're not regarded as Men (they're regarded as dual-gendered, and they're a female social class on every practical level), there's no status of manhood to Lose by receiving sexual penetration. The only real thing you see in that department is people assuming that one acts as 'the man' and one acts as 'the woman', but this is largely due to preoccupation with a notion of sex being Penetration With A Penis (and that Penetration With A Penis means that one person is in a Man's Role and one person is in a Woman's Role). But this will not be regarded as unnatural as in same-gender male relations, akoshos will Have to take up a position in this sexual dichotomy if they want to have Real Sex (Penetration With A Penis) with each other, and this is not unnatural and doesn't involve gaining or losing status since they are simultaneously male and female, not men.

So like you might see individual culture critics finding stuff to nitpick about it as their annoyance of the week or a singular Guy here or there who thinks it's weird, but this isn't a widespread norm. The vast majority of people don't give a shit about akoshos having sex with each other. The worst thing you're likely to experience Solely by virtue of being in an akoshos-akoshos relationship is someone asking you (probably with genuine curiosity) which one does the man stuff and which one does the woman stuff.

Akoshos also don't experience Hard expectations for marriage (though there are societal pressures that make marriage an attractive safety net all the same, ESPECIALLY marriage to a man) so unofficial life-partnerships between akoshos are pretty much the Only same gender partnerships between unwed people that are going to go unquestioned. ((Sworn brotherhood is technically a same gender life partnership for men that is Functionally similar to marriage (in that it's a kin-making practice between unrelated adults), but the tradition is Built upon the assumption that both parties will be married to women and that a primary goal of this kinship is to provide security for both parties' wives and children)). Marriage obligations in general are more lax in the economically secure but not Wealthy lower mercantile classes (as obligations to support and perpetuate one's family are universal, but these obligations can be filled simply by having at least One son who can get hitched, and marriages in the lower classes have no political functions and therefore there's less reason to ensure All your children are wed (there's still incentives like dowry, but this is not desperately needed when a family is economically secure)). So akoshos in this class group tend to have a Lot more freedom in terms of their life arrangements and chosen partners (though still experience the limiting frameworks of structural misogyny in other capacities).

The only thing that is out of the picture is akoshos/akoshos marriage. Marriage in this society has a predominantly reproductive function, the concept of reproductively non-viable marriages is generally considered absurd. This is not JUST this culture's form of homophobia, as marriage is a very practical arrangement at its core - both in a reproductive capacity and as bedrock for the patriarchal blood-kinship family system that forms the core social unit. The idea of same gender marriage isn't just absurd because 'ewwww weird' it's like, that Cannot work within this system, it Cannot fill core functions of what a marriage intends to do here, the ways on which marriage and kinship are BUILT makes same gender marriage practically (rather than just socially) untenable.

The sole exception to the 'marriage = reproductively viable" rule is that akoshos can be married to men (which in practice is almost always as a remarriage after a man has secured At Least an heir). This has a Little bit of internal logic here in that they perform predominantly female social roles (thus are suited to being a wife, even if they can't bear children) (and also on practical levels of them having the same legal status as women) but it's really more of a 'this is just how it's always been' kind of thing. A lot of the older pre-Wardi identity dual-gender roles that got mashed together under the 'akoshos' name would have involved marriage to a man as a second wife/concubine, in addition to his primary wife who would bear his children. Men potentially having multiple spouses has not been retained as a cultural practice, but the notion that an akoshos Can be a wife to a man has survived into modern day legal and doctrinal practices around marriage.

So like this being said, marriage as it is legally defined is only between a man and a woman, a man and an akoshos, or a woman and an akoshos. In practice the latter two are comparatively VERY rare- a man/akoshos marriage cannot provide children (though an akoshos can practically fulfill all other obligations and duties of a wife), a woman/akoshos marriage Can provide children (and while akoshos cannot function as a male heir, these children Will take their akoshos-parent's family name (though the wife retains her father's family name)), but akoshos are legally grouped with women in terms of rights and privileges (including being permanently under legal domain of their father unless they have been legally handed off to a male husband) and Cannot provide hard power patriarchal support that this family system is built upon and therefore depends upon, which makes these marriages socio-economically insecure. They can obviously still be a good partner and parent, but this is not the same as having the Legal hard power of a patriarch.

Akoshos marrying each other would be reproductively and socially nonviable, and is treated as a similarly absurd concept to a man marrying a man or a woman marrying a woman. It's just not a part of the marriage and kinship framework, it's not a thing that you can Do.

[mayahawkeswife]

ngl IF. and i mean IF dominik does FOR SOME REASON turn on rhea at summer slam and helps liv keep the title or some shit, i need for rhea to go FUCKING CRAZY. like i need full on brutality, attacking every man and woman around. like i need her to go on a rampageeeee bro.

[faloverfae]

Ranboo never used the key the Puzzler gave them, did he? It just sat on the desk when he put it down? Hetch distracted them with the "truth" and he just...left it there. We never saw it enter inventory, we never saw them pocket it. He just set it down and walked away

So then what if that key was the actual way out? What if it led to an exit?

Since Hetch works for Showfall, it would make sense that when Ranboo found the key there would be an attempt made to divert them from escaping, especially when the control Showfall had over it's actors definitely seemed to be slipping

The Puzzler was the Saviour and Ranboo left the item that would save him behind

[stlangels]

I am shaking with fucking rage listening to this state of the union i think maybe two other faces have made me instantly get this angry.

I am not your "fellow American." I refuse to be American if this is what it means to be American. I am human before I am an American.

I refuse to die before I see a free Palestine. I will see a free Palestine in my lifetime. I refuse to die before I can see a free world. I will see everyone free in my lifetime because I refuse to die without seeing it. It's probably impossible but I don't care because I have to see it. I'm sick of seeing anything else.

[s0lavellan]

just saw a break down of that fight in Veilguard and yeah 💀🤡 it’s a good thing that scene will never see the light of day in my playthroughs.

[anxiously-sidequesting]

i will never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever accept canon where ceren nichtchant becomes a fucking salesman i will not i will never fucking accept that

[gayofthefae]

Milkvan endgame does not serve any of their arcs.

El's independence is separate and even at times hindered by Mike.

Mike's self love is motivated and assisted by Will.

Will loves and receives nothing in return. Nothing is the absence of anything, including anything bad. But it is still nothing.

It ranges from harmful to unhelpful. That is not a happy ending. Byler on the other hand...

Has no effect on El's independence, which can still be/has been achieved, if anything, freeing her to explore it more.

Aligns with and continues to encourage and cement Mike's existing arc of self love and who it relates to.

Shows a queer person that he doesn't have to settle.

[ohgawdplzkthnx]

Mithril's version of events.

[cradle-of-darkness]

COOKIES OF DARKNESS NATION WE ARE OFFICIALLY BACK 💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

(long rambling in tags if u care)

[dateamonster]

ill accept satsuki/komachi as canon BUT i will be imagining a post-canon scene where akira offhandedly mentions having a huge crush on satsuki on highschool in a sorta "oh haha yeah you probably knew about this and were trying to let me down easy lol its nbd ive moved on" and satsuki is like WGHAT???

[sometimesraven]

ANYWAY Addison, Ben, Hannah and Tom are gonna be in a squishy lil polycule and nothing will hurt and everything will be fine

[hyacinth--girl]

The greatest love story of our generation (Katie taking Viv’s 11)

[adhdphilosopher]

sent in my ~3 weeks notice for my weekend job! ive discovered that i don't actually enjoy painting