#like theres literally so much man

[aplpaca]

"YA fantasy is just more diverse than adult fantasy" "adult fantasy is all hopeless and grimdark" "every adult fantasy book just shoves sex scenes in your face"

tell me you don't know anything about adult fantasy outside of secondhand reviews of game of thrones without telling me. it costs zero dollars to google "queer adult sff books" or "adult fantasy books without sex" or "feminist adult fantasy" or "hopeful adult fantasy". Check the content warnings on storygraph if you have to. Hell go on r/fantasy and search any keywords or questions you want and you'll literally get dozens if not hundreds of results, including lots of things that arent "mainstream". I read like 50 fantasy books last year and less than 10 of them weren't queer in some way, none were "grimdark", and the majority did not have explicit sex scenes.

You can complain about shitty things or things you don't like in adult books or from specific authors without implying that every adult book falls into that and that it's impossible to avoid. Bc once you put even a tiny bit of effort and research in, its pretty easy to get a hang of what books you wanna try, at least from my experience. As long as you don't just grab something randomly off the shelf, you'll be a lot more likely to find things you like. (that's a pretty bad way to pick YA books too, let's be honest)

Just, there's so much variety and a lot of really good stuff out there, you just gotta actually search for what you want before diving in

[turtletoria]

the krampus incident from the book of bill if it was out of character and stupid

[viperra1]

a rare moment of reprieve

a closeup:

[tea-cat-arts]

I simply think this fandom doesn't give Wei Wuxian enough credit for the various ways in which he saved Lan Wangji

[kendyroy]

i’ve always wondered what worst logan thinks of main logan. is he jealous at all of how revered he was? i mean what do you even think of the guy that’s considered the “best version” of you when you’re seen as the worst.

[rose-serpent]

So the Artemis questline absolutely broke me😁😁😁

[critterishere]

A loving god wouldn’t let such a filthy creature exist.

[b4kuch1n]

glorioso from last years twitterin

[skunkes]

i loooove when ocs unrealized development makes them feel like real people like no i dont know whether talon is genuinely attracted to women after years of both clinging to them for safety and years of putting them onto that untouchable idealized Perfect Protector Pedestal that must remain untainted by any bad experiences, so he doesn't even try to Be With any. He doesn't know either

[sunkillerlovechild]

the worm segment was actually the most exciting thing ever

i actually saw the worm, with my own eyes, on the surface PHENOMENAL

[skitskatdacat63]

Cannot stop thinking about how Fernando was the first one to hug Seb after Monza 2008:

[krotiation]

this soundtrack genuinely makes me so emotional like damn. the jack vs fiona scene at the end of ep 2 is already so perfect and then they had to go make this beautiful as hell ost with it too. those bastards

[spearxwind]

Something I've been thinking a lot recently after becoming a lot more social and going out is like. How different people really LOOK in general. Or rather, I've always seen it but I've been noticing it more. Different body types, different faces, different features.... etc. Everyone is so different looking.

There isn't a way you could possibly gauge how "beautiful" someone is because everyone is so different, and everyone's perception and preferences are different. Someone who you could consider extremely handsome could have deep seated self image issues, and someone who looks unremarkable to you might be someone's ideal.

I feel like being online and constantly exposed to the same types of faces, especially the type of people who become popular online due to the appearance, they always have the same set of features, same set of body types. It's not inherently bad, people do gravitate towards them because there's beauty standards that certain people fit. But in general exposure to people who look all similar rots the brain. It rots your self image. It distances you from your own community as well.

It bleeds into how people handle their relationships, it brings prejudice to people just based on their appearance, and it sucks so much to actually like, fully consciously REALIZE. Everyone is worthy of love, no matter how they look like (this includes you btw!! Yeah you!!! <3) no matter what the media says. It sounds like something sooo obvious but it really is something that grows roots in your brain given the chance and is hard to pull out.

Feeling like you're in an arms race against your peers to "score" someone who you could pass for an instagram model, instead of finding someone who you truly connect with. Having to deeply justify your partners and friendships to your family as being worth it, when they don't look like celebrities on TV and just look like regular people. (This has been my personal experience for a long time, but I feel like theres probably more people who have gone through the same)

"What will other people think? What will my family think?" is something constantly on my mind whenever I make any friends, and im only recently realizing that it really does not matter what they do think what matters is one's own happiness.

Not sure where I am going with this post I just wanted to write it out for a few days now and I finally did it <3 have a swag day

[why-ami-not-asleep]

and five year plan wise i keep thinking abt gender which is frankly the least of my worries but like im not going to transition. im not going to become a man im not going to get surgery or on t or anything bc i am decidedly neutral to my body just generally until someone looks at it. like thats my issue i do wish i were a boy just because shit would be easier for me and people would see me differently but at the same time i dont hate being a girl. i hate being feminine and the expectation of wearing makeup and shaving and looking pretty all the fucking time drives me insane and the literal only way to escape that norm is to be a man. like i don't want a dick. i dont want surgery and i dont want any of the changes associated with hormones. i am neutral abt my chest overall. at the end of the day i am a girl and i always will be i cant escape that. i will always be my mothers daughter and fathers daughter. i will always be someones sister. that shit is not changing ever at all thats something that even thinking about changing would be denial. i am no ones son and no ones brother and i would never claim that because i dont want it. outside of my family i can be anything though thats ny issue. i can be a person my own person when im away. i can be nothing. i can just exist ambiguously because in all honesty i dont look like a girl and i dont have to play that part if i don't want to. what im saying is that it doesnt matter whether im a boy or a girl. the only time im obligated to give an answer is if im going to fuck someone and im not. i do prefer he/him pronouns but not in a man way more in an ambiguous way. i dont like they/them because its too specific. im fine with she/her its just too familiar. i hate being perceived and i hate the idea of having a gender because i genuinely don't think it matters. i wish i were in charge of how i am perceived all the time to a precise and minute extent but that is impossible. im not nonbinary and im not trans and im not cis. gender wise im dont think about it. i am do not refer to me. i am alone and myself and beyond that it's no ones business.

[glitchfang]

always sort of a shock to the system when i remember ppl know sonic 06’s plot more for the fandub than for itself. which is understandable given the og is a mess, but idk its kinda sad bc theres some good stuff there (shadow’s entire story arc)

[puhpandas]

I want the fnaf dbd chapter to be good so bad