#like 'joking' essentially

[klaviergavinwiki]

just saw someone saying "hank is not a racist it's banter between him and his partner my dad is in law enforcement and that's a huge part of cop culture" like imagine thinking that's an own. Like don't get mad at the people who kill all the brown people for saying racial slurs because saying racial slurs is a big part of their culture.

[mitskiluvr]

sorry i’m a megumi apologist because i, too, would lay on the floor crying and throwing up if i was just forced to watch my own hands tear apart my sister and the man who raised me

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

context <3

[todayisafridaynight]

[whateverthought]

I know, for a fact, the writers put no thought into making the Velaryons black.

There was no way these writers saw how fucked over the House was in the books and could have not seen how bad it would look for all their black characters to be so second fiddle, so subservient to their main white leads. Its so obvious they only wanted to focus on Rhaenyra and Alicent and use every other character as tools, they straight up take out characters so they won't have to lose time building them up, Daeron and Maelor and Nettles and Sara Snow and Black Aly and Sabitha Frey and Jessamyne Redfort...

In the case of Daeron and Maelor, they did not intend for either to exist till they got backlash and are now implying Daeron as if he's this big reveal and Maelor this Helaena/Aemond bastard when they really just didn't want to use screentime and their own thoughts into writing them.

But in the case of House Velaryon, from the beginning the story fucks them over, from Rhaenys and her unborn child being passed over to 12 year old Laena being pushed for marriage by her parents to an old man, to Laenor being murdered by his lover or Daemon, to Laena being killed in the birthing bed and getting taken out of the story so soon, to Corlys having bastards and being a shit dad, to Rhaena and Baela being Rhaenyra Stans only. Why would you make them black? And I know the twins had waaay more personality in the books but I've already said they never intended to stray from Rhaenyra and Alicent

I wholeheartedly believe they only made them black so they could highlight the Bastardy of Rhaenyra's boys.

[apostate-in-an-alcove]

Millennials and gen z will whine and cry about "I hate my wife jokes" and the whole universe of "men are from mars, women are from venus" jokes and commentary as if the whole "ew why would a man be there, why would you choose to be with a man, men are gross and dumb" they spew isn't the same sexist garbage just repackaged. Acting like men are inherently gross and bad and women are pure and good isn't the progressive dichotomy you think it is.

[toddtakefive]

few will understand demiromantic gay neil but i do

[dairyfreenugget]

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I think "one or more of them is in danger or almost fucking dies, in the process discovering their child's impurity, and then after a lot of emotional turmoil they just pass the fuck out the second they're safe and calm again thanks to the awful, exhausting day they've had" is a scenario I write weirdly often for this messy as hell family

Anyway. Family cuddles. My babygirl is exhausted and deserves to be held for once

ID start: A black and white doodle of the Pale King, White Lady, and Pure Vessel from Hollow Knight as humans. The three of them are covered in bruises and scratches. They're sleeping in a pile of blankets with the Pure Vessel tucked in between their parents, with only their face showing. The Pale King is hugging them with both sets of his arms, his face buried in their hair, while the White Lady lays beside them with her arm drapped over the both of them and roots coiling around them. End ID.

[purpurussy]

I feel like the "dan is bi" anon is trolling but just in case they're genuinely confused: yes dan said in BIG that he loved and felt attracted to his high school gf (although he also made it pretty clear that they did not have sex so idk where anon is getting the idea that he has slept with "multiple women" 💀), and he alluded to his attraction not being confined to a specific gender in the part where he talked about labels, but you're completely taking all of that wildly out of context and missing the point of the whole video by calling him bi. I feel like this is probably the part that's frying their brain:

(shoutout to the legend @goldenpinof for this transcript!)

But firstly, imo it was very clear from BIG, as well as other stuff he's said over the years, that he just doesn't like labels. Which I find very valid, it took me a long time to figure out how to label myself. I still don't know what my gender is lmao but I started saying "bi" for my sexuality because it's a widely-used term that gets the point across. And I think that's the thing here: he came to the conclusion that the labels "gay" and "queer" are the best descriptors of his identity, which do the most accurate job of approximating something extremely psychologically complex and multilayered and nuanced in a simple everyday term that gets the point across to other people.

Obviously words mean things and it doesn't make sense to just pick a label at random (like for example it wouldn't make sense for me to identify as a lesbian, since I definitely feel attraction to men as well as women and everything outside the binary, and am interested in acting on that attraction at times, so I wouldn't be conveying accurate information to other people if I used the label lesbian for myself) but a label is just supposed to serve the task of conveying relevant information to other people (if a lesbian feels some kind of abstract attraction to dan and phil, that doesn't mean that the alphabet council needs to immediately revoke their lesbian card!! Since the word "lesbian" still does a perfectly good job of conveying relevant information to other people. Likewise if a straight dude has a fun little gay dalliance with his college roommate, but has absolutely 0 interest in men beyond that incident, it wouldn't be remotely necessary for him to start calling himself bi if he didn't want to, because what would be the point in that if he's only interested in women? Like if he told a gay dude who found him attractive that he's bi, only to backtrack... Do you see what I'm saying here?). It's perfectly valid for Dan to use "gay" and "queer" as umbrella terms that in his opinion do the best job of describing him, out of the language that's available. If he's like essentially a kinsey >5 and decided to just round it off to a 6 at this point, who are you to tell him he can't lmao

(shoutout to the legend @goldenpinof for this transcript!

Human sexuality is often way too complicated to boil it down to a single label in a way that doesn't erase any of its nuance, and I feel like this is something he's struggled with in the past, especially with him being a public figure. He's mentioned multiple times that feeling like he had to choose a label was a factor that prolonged his decision to come out.

And this is not even getting into the impact that his trauma from his childhood and also from spending a chunk of his formative years in the public eye probably had on the way he identifies or the way he chooses to label himself. It clearly took so much courage and strength for him to finally be able to call himself gay/queer please have some respect for our brave troops

Ultimately the point is that he uses the labels "gay" and "queer", not "bi", and it really shouldn't be difficult to respect that. It's also not biphobic for him to choose not use the label "bi" (again speaking as someone who uses that label). It's just that he feels "gay"/"queer" are better descriptors for him and nobody gets to determine that except him!! :) He wants people to know he's gay so he calls himself gay and that's that on that.

There are definitely people on here who are way smarter and more well-educated than me who would've done a much better job eloquently discussing this topic without rambling all over the place but that's my take (if anyone would like to add to this please do so, I'm always open to learn more about topics like this. And I'm also not saying that the way I see it is the only objectively correct opinion, but anon is definitely wrong so 💀). Thank you for coming to my ted talk

[uncleardyn]

man i love that character. you know, the deeply paranoid author who made a pact with a dark entity that ultimately ended with him stranded in another dimension separated from his loved ones for years at a time? takes place in the pacific northwest? has twin imagery associated with him and a reoccurring specific piece of symbology related to the unfortunate situation they're in? doesn't ever explain the reasoning behind his actions and instead just kinda goes "bro trust me"? yeah he also wears an outer layer of clothing with elbow pads on it, that one.

[vellichorom]

do not open thestanleyparable.exe

[frenchfriedgiraffe]

would have liked to see more of the consequences of dirks time at blackwing pls :((

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

Good morning still on my bullshit in spite of myself and thinking about how Taylor took the shit-talking about rings and cradles at face value (e.g at dinner you move my ring from my middle finger to the one people put wedding rings on and that’s the closest I’ve come to my heart exploding) because SHE took marriage and especially other thing so seriously and couldn’t fathom someone would talk about those things as a joke or a ploy because they were some of the most important things in the world to her which is part of why she fell so hard when someone started promising those things to her and 🥴

[beesgav]

dont. look at me

[mayormimii]

Thinking about the fact that (in Pathologic 1) Daniil looks almost exactly like Victor Kain.

You know, Maria’s father.

There could be something in that, I think.

[cross-mountain]

Happy new year everyone! Here's my 2023 art summary but it's all xenoblade ;;;;