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why is my 12 year old sister prettier than me tf
#blue posts#ignore everything i say after this and forgive me for overanalysing everything#shes got such good bone structure and stuff#literally is going to be a headturner#not that im uglyor anything but im more 'approachable girl next door' vibe#im 'cute' and maybe 'pretty' but im not gorgeous or stunning or beautiful yk#which is fine its fine#im just complaining lol#and shes so skinny omg but in like a tall statuesque strong looking way#whereas im skinny in a weird way where im skinny but also soft looking :/#cant win
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Isaac Clarke somehow ended up with the Mandalorians again. I swear I didn't mean for this to happen again.
Fuck, I'm back at it again.
Another Star Wars x Dead Space crossover, this time it’s the original thought process! (I lied, it's the original era I had in mind but not the same thought process.)
So Isaac once again manages to get stuck in a galaxy far far away, only this time it's the prequel era, I’m thinking of the Clone Wars era.
If he’s in Mandalore then he could be mistaken for a new type of Mandalorian or knock off version that neither Death Watch or the New Mandalorians want. The True Mandalorians probably would have mixed feelings, he could be an asset but he’s an unknown party that doesn’t even seem to want to be involved and knows nothing about them despite looking like the Wish version of them. Maybe he accidentally gets involved with their plot, honestly I can’t see him helping Death Watch, the only way they could get him to help would be tricking him but not only do I think they wouldn’t want to be associated with Isaac but also because I think Isaac wouldn’t get tricked that easily by them. Then again, he did go to the Ishimura for his dead girlfriend who he thought was alive, but that was because of the Marker’s influence so that’s a pass. He probably would help the True Mandalorians since the New Mandalorians don’t like armor or violence which would suck for Isaac who just committed a massacre. The mental images of a blood stained Isaac appearing in a crowd of New Mandalorians is hilarious.
If he does get involved with all the Mandalorians jazz that goes on then he can do the other stuff after. Now I wanna expand on Isaac and the Mandalorians. Shootdangit. (Yes, I do mean that to be one word, that’s how I say it irl)
So focusing on this now, Isaac could (should) probably be placed before Jaster’s death (romance? No, not again. Stop giving me potential old men yaoi material. It’s not my fault they wear helmets). Man accidentally stops Jaster’s death if he ended up before it happens, but also consider this, if it’s after then Jango is parentless, Isaac is parentless, Isaac can become a bad influence on this kid. I’m not saying Jango should get adopted by Isaac cause they both now have problems they need to deal with at the moment to even think about that type of thing, but Jango picking up Isaac’s habits is funny to think of. Jango just curb stops everything, and learns curses from Isaac which would be headturners in this universe since they don’t exist, but please let someone say fuck. Jaster doesn’t need to die to have Isaac influencing Jango, I think he could get along with Isaac and understand where he’s coming from and why he’s confused and likely panicked. I was gonna say that maybe Isaac could try and fight Death Watch before Jango’s parents die but I don’t want to deal with the effect that would happen so Jango, it’s easier with Jaster since you still keep the connections and all that but also see how much the years have worn on them. Isaac needs someone to help him learn, if it’s between the three factions then the True Mandalorians.
HOLY SHIT I JUST REMEMBERED ARLA
I was writing a part later in this rant and remembered her and had an idea, Isaac saves Arla before meeting Jaster and Jango and basically adopts her, that or gives her to Jaster. I don’t care if Jaster isn’t their dad in either of the canons, he can be if I will it! I have the power over the canon of MY fic/rant, fuck you Star Wars writers! (jk, I love star wars, just not the crap in this Disney era, some was good tho.) Anyway, if Arla just kinda forces Isaac to adopt her or if something that happens subconsciously then both her and Jango can compete against each other about who has the better dad. Isaac is somehow getting by and Jaster has already been raising this boy for years up until now, you would think that Jaster would win but Isaac has some things on Jaster, like his weapons and modules and literally everything he possesses because I am very willing to bring up the crap his RIG can do. He can store information of different kinds, has a navigation system that has both a map and guide to show him where he needs to go and can store things of all kinds in it, he can survive in space with it and knows how long he can last AND not only walk on any surface while in the vacuum of space but also move however he wants. You can argue the Mandalorians can use their Jetpacks to do the same but my man’s abilities have not been hindered, he weapons all still work the same and so do his modules, the only thing holding him back is the fact he has limited air at a time and has only fought the Necromorphs. This is ignoring the other features the RIG has. Fuck you, he can hold his own decently by my standards which admittedly are not that high. Anyway, the sibling rivalry is real, one of them has a dad who was and is seen by them as the Mand’alor and this deeply traumatized man who only a few days ago just wanted to save his (dead) girlfriend.
Anyway, if he meets a different faction, he could meet the Children of the Watch. In my last rant of ideas with him in the Mandalorian, I had him co-parenting Grogu with Din, in this one Isaac can become a parent again but instead of Grogu it’s Din this time. He could either appear with the Children of the Watch a little before they rescue him or he could appear as they arrive to help. Either way, we can get Din getting raised by Isaac and him reluctantly becoming a parent, once again he could teach him curse words, have people say fuck in Star Wars, it’s fucking funny. I can’t see Isaac becoming a Mandalorian but I can see him having either good or neutral relations with them, some would like him and maybe befriend him for his winning personality but others may just like him for jobs they need done. Anyway, he could have connections to the Mandalorians and somewhat raise Din in that lifestyle, maybe just have it influence him so if he really wants to he could become one in the future. I could see him wanting to because they’re the closest thing to Isaac in the fact that they wear armor all the time and are warriors, he doesn’t need to know Isaac is just running on adrenaline while on fight or flight mode. Imagine his surprise when he finds out Isaac doesn’t actually know what makes a Mandalorian and the fact he’s just an Engineer and his one of a kind weapons are just tools he found, Din doesn’t need to find out about the Necromorphs until he’s older, hell maybe not at all. Point is that he could just have an accidental baby acquisition fic with him fumbling and eventually going into hiding as the Empire forms. Maybe we see his reaction to the Great Purge, maybe he helped a few of the few he was close to, maybe he finds out after it happened by a Mandalorian friend he had that he comforts, maybe he helped a few clans escape, maybe he was there and saw so many die, maybe he was hiding as he saw the terror unfold, either way he would be devastated at the amount of people he knew and their sudden deaths. He could help keep contact between clans since he isn’t Mandalorian and doesn’t look like one, either way he would be an asset to them after the Purge.
Another thing I want to briefly mention here is him meeting Revan, not long but just a little thought. If he went to the Old Republic and met Revan then he would be so confused if he stuck with him or had any form of contact with him. I love Revan and all but for someone like Isaac who has no idea what a Mandalorian, Jedi and Sith are he would be confused as hell to meet him, my man Revan has been all three. I just want to see how confused Isaac can get with Revan.
Anyway, Old Men Yaoi time™! I think I just like shipping masked men with masked men but still. Just like the last rant with the Mandalorian, this is just an excuse to have the two co-parent Jango and Arla. Maybe Arla does become Isaac’s kid and her and Jango think that since they’re both siblings and they both have their own dad that it only makes sense if they finalize it by getting them together. Basically they Parent Trap Jaster and Isaac, maybe the other True Mandalorians help or start a betting pool, some could try and sabotage it so they win said betting pool. Isaac could ask some of the parents of the group about tips in raising a child to which some could point him to Jaster if they’re trying to help get them together since he’s raising her brother, or if they’re trying to stall then they either will give him advice or warn him not to ask Jaster since he might become a father for Arla instead of him. I don’t think Isaac sees this as a problem because he knows they both have shit they have to deal with and he’s sure that he can’t be a proper father figure for her and does go to Jaster regardless who could give him good insight. Jaster could already have a thing for Isaac for saving Arla, his son’s sister who they thought was dead, and saving his life either before or after meeting the True Mandalorians, Isaac could’ve barely found them in time to save Jaster, maybe give him some medpacks so he doesn’t die. This could lead to him admiring or respecting Isaac to keep it platonic or have it also cause him to develop a crush on him and eventually develop as they talk more and get closer, add in the fact he’s raising the sister of your son and it’s already a done deal for Jaster, he will be too far gone while Isaac is hesitant as hell. I would like to say it’s one of those ‘Blank fell first but Blank fell faster’ but if they fell for eachother then it’s ‘Jaster fell fast and hard while Isaac is slowly walking down a slope at a snail’s pace.’ or alternatively, ‘Jaster fell fast and hard while Isaac is slowly climbing down like he has acrophobia.’
Anyway, this derailed again, it was originally gonna just be Isaac fumbling his way through the Clone Wars and somehow helping resolve it, y’know like other crossovers that are just fix-its and have goofy interactions with the characters but it once again ended up with Isaac getting caught up with the Mandalorians. You can see how my views changed as I went on. I need to stop, get me out the kitchen, this ain’t what I meant to cook.
#crossover#dead space#dead space remake#isaac clarke#star wars#jaster mereel#jango fett#arla fett#isaac clarke x jaster mereel#crossover ship#crackship#darth revan#revan#din djarin#nothing can express the shame I feel whenever I do the tags#keep me out the kitchen cause I done know what the hell I'm cooking#anyway this is a silent plea for more dead space crossovers to read#isaac clarke in star wars#icisw
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Ch. 7: Hedgehogs, Honey, & Hazelnut-Covered Strawberries
Written for @hdcandyheartsfest day 7 prompt: mementos. 518 words. Many thanks to my beta @wqtson! 💛
Start from beginning on AO3 here, or click the #fic: HHHS tag.
Summary:
A chance meeting—or is it a setup?—leads to the start of a relationship filled with buttery baked goods, sweet smelling flowers, and hedgehogs.~ 🌹🦔
“Is it that difficult?” teased Potter. “I mean, I know I’m no headturner like you are, but I can’t be that bad, can I?”
Draco’s mouth flapped open and closed like a fish. “You— What? You think I’m a headturner?”
Potter rolled his eyes. “Spare me the modesty, Malfoy, You’re literally listed in the Top Ten Most Handsome Bachelors by Witch Weekly. Your photos blew up all over the papers!”
“No, I mean, I’m just surprised that you….” Draco trailed off, unsure how to word it, so he moved on. “Besides, I don’t know who snuck those photos of me, but I look much different in real life without the perfect camera angles and natural lighting.”
Potter stared at him like he was dumb. “You look the exact same. Your hair might as well be waves of golden-white silk.”
“How— How can you say that with a straight face?!” exclaimed Draco, his cheeks flaming hot. “You’re pulling my leg, aren’t you? Ha-ha, very funny.”
Potter smirked, and Draco’s stomach flipped upside down. “You see? I am very good at compliments, as you should know.” He waggled his eyebrows with a pointed glance at the notepad with flower meanings jotted down and bookmarked ‘Meanings of Flowers’ booklet beside it half-covered by a napkin. “Did you finally look up the first bouquet I gave you?”
“Oh, um, yes, but I couldn’t remember a few of the flowers….”
He put his bookmark on the table as he searched through the booklet as Potter listed the flowers for him, and it was only after he’d found the last flower that he looked up and caught Potter staring pensively at his bookmark.
Draco nearly had a heart attack. He frantically stuck it back in the booklet, out of sight, and hoped to high heavens that Potter hadn’t recognised it—he’d dried and pressed the small flower crown Potter had given the hedgehog him as a memento to use as a bookmark.
It’d felt fitting, at the time, but he felt quite panicky and stupid at the moment.
Thankfully, Potter didn’t comment, so Draco busied himself with writing down the remaining flower meanings before he could forget, then wondered once more if he’d got something wrong.
After all, the meanings seemed very…well, flattering.
He’d thought for sure there would be something along the lines of ‘pride,’ ‘coward,’ or even ‘ferret’ somewhere in there.
Draco showed the list to Potter. “This isn’t right, is it?”
Verbena: ardour
Sweet Alyssum: worth beyond beauty
Magnolia: truth & perseverance
Eucalyptus: strength, protection, abundance
Myrtle: good luck, prosperity
“It’s right,” said Potter, amused. “What, were you expecting the flowers to mean poison or something?”
“Well, yes,” muttered Draco. He stared at the list in disbelief. “You’re sure these are right? You said that you chose the flowers with me in mind.”
“Yes, I did say that, and yes, these are right.”
“But—”
“Malfoy, if you ask me again, I’m going to steal the rest of your butter chicken.”
Needless to say, Draco did not ask again, and he kept a close eye on his food for the rest of the night.
#hdcandyheartsfest2023#drarry#drarry fic#OMF writes#fic: HHHS#fluff#harry x draco#draco x harry#harry/draco#draco/harry
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What does Christopher Priest see when he looks at Vampirella?
Loneliness.
And in his new Vampirella ongoing launching July 17, the veteran writer will give Vampi the human connection she craves... before ripping it all away.
Illustrated by Ergun Gunduz, Dynamite's new Vampirella relaunch begins with the alien vampire as the last survivor of a plane crash which took away any friend or acquaintance she had. Now she's here on Earth and all alone. And this isn't a fictional world known to have vampires, witches, warlocks, or werewolves - this is the real world, and you know how real people would take to someone like Vampirella?
... but do you, really?
As Priest tells Newsarama in an email interview, Vampirella's supernatural abilities are "a metaphor for a univeral human condition, for being either rejected or idealized (or, in the case of our series, both) because you are different. Anyone who’s ever moved to a new town or a new school or taken a new job should be able to identify with Vampi’s challenges."
Priest, an ordained Baptist minister (as a reminder to readers, prefers to be addressed as 'Priest'), shared his thoughts with Newsarama on how the prospect of writing Vampirella was first received by him, how it fits within his religious life, and how he's using it to examine humanity.
Newsarama: Priest, what makes Vampirella interesting to you?
Christopher Priest: The fangs. Definitely the fangs.
When DC Comics approached me about writing Deathstroke, I’d really never thought much about the character. It wasn’t a book I’d normally read because I probably wasn’t the audience the book was targeted toward. But it presented an interesting challenge: what new things could I find to say with this character and what unexplored areas of the character were there to develop?
When Dynamite Publisher Nick Barrucci said “Vampirella,” I had nearly the identical reaction. I was, of course, familiar with the character but wasn’t a Vampirella fan, wasn’t the audience for that book, which made me an odd choice. You’ll have to ask Nick why he made it.
My immediate reaction was exactly the same: what new thing could I bring to this property? Where is the untapped potential? That, for me, is the interesting part; craft a Vampirella narrative that broadens the audience for the property while (hopefully) not putting off the hardcore Vampi fans.
Nrama: So what was the answer to that? What is the story?
Priest: I read this Bruce Springsteen Rolling Stone interview a couple decades back (yah... decades...) around "Born In The USA," where Springsteen said something remarkable that’s stuck with me all this time, about how each of us needs community. He said something like, “Without community (by which I presume he meant human attachment and interaction) we’d likely go crazy and kill ourselves.”
Over many interpretations Vampirella has developed many versions of a supporting cast, but she is fundamentally alone, one of few of her race living on Earth. Considering the Boss’s statement, I wasn’t eager to create yet another supporting cast and then echo adventures she’s had before. For better or worse, I wanted my at-bat with the character to be unique and in some ways challenging.
So the thought occurred to give Vampirella that community, that human connection... and then have it all ripped away. Our story arc revolves around a plane crash which effectively terminates many connections Vampi has built while forging new ones.
Nrama: You're setting this in the real world. A real fish out of water scenario, but one you're playing at for deeper cultural issues. What's a woman like Vampirella likely to face here on Earth?
Priest: With all due respect for the legion of much better writers who’ve handled the character, as I mentioned, I probably was not the audience for this book. Vampirella was created with a satirical flair and Vampi herself was in on the joke; not quite breaking the fourth wall but offering up a knowing come-hither smile. She’s existed in a reality that routinely and, for me, far too benignly, accepts the supernatural as fact.
Here in the real world, vampires are merely a thing of myth and the reality of hyperfactual supernatural events are subject to the interpretation of the particular tribe one belongs to. It bothers me that, in 2019, DC and Marvel universes are still mostly portrayed in an idealized hyper-reality where the average man on the street simply accepts superheroes as fact and, in fact, refers to them literally as “heroes” or “villains,” which is absurd. There’s no news anchor in the world who would start a broadcast piece with, “Arch-villain Saddam Hussein...” even though that description would be apt.
The world our Vampirella series takes place in doesn’t believe in vampires. Or witches or warlocks or werewolves. This world seeks rational scientific explanation for paranormal phenomena which it greets with enormous skepticism.
Which isn’t to suggest no one will believe Vampirella exists but that that acceptance is not as matter of fact as it seems to be in most of this genre.
In terms of what she’s facing, her number one enemy is loneliness. I am, hopefully, writing a woman first, a story about a woman who loves and wants to be loved but whose circumstances are complicated by the fact she has fangs and drinks blood. The supernatural attributes are a metaphor for a universal human condition, for being either rejected or idealized (or, in the case of our series, both) because you are different. Anyone who’s ever moved to a new town or a new school or taken a new job should be able to identify with Vampi’s challenges.
Anyone who wears their hair a different way, listens to a different kind of music, embraces a different religion, anyone who steps outside of or gets shoved outside of the so-called “mainstream” can identify with our take on Vampirella. I hope it is precisely this universality of theme that helps broaden her audience; the Vampi tent is large enough for everyone.
Nrama: Someone walking around in that Trina Robbins-designed costume is bound to get some headturns. If I know you as much as I think I do, you're going to tackle that head on, right? How are you getting into the subject of the costume?
Priest: Well, yes, we will have a go at it. The basic argument is simple: where do you draw the line between women’s liberation and women’s exploitation, and who gets to draw it? Who gets to define femininity and why should an extraterrestrial have to submit to that definition?
It’s like the world woke up in the last few years and realized we actually have two genders and both of them matter.
So we now have heightened scrutiny of themes and behaviors and that poor bastard Joe Biden gets caught up in the switches. I’ll confess, I’m terrified of women because I’m a Joe Biden. I was taught to pay a lady a compliment and open doors and I want to be friendly and accessible but I’m absolutely terrified of having my good intentions taken in a bizarrely paranoid light.
It is comical to me that I am far too often seen as creepy by women - especially black women - because they have been conditioned by their personal experience and their media consumption to misinterpret a simple "Hello." These days I cannot pay a woman a complement without a legal preamble and assurances that, no, I am not hitting on you and even then I get the skunk eye of suspicion.
Which is a little insulting because this “guilty until proven innocent” defensive posture presumes I am other people or that the bar is set so low for me that I’ll jump into bed with just anybody I happen to meet. It’s like we’ve just gone too far now to the point where women are not just being protected but being alienated to some extent because I have no earthly clue how to deal with them and I’m frankly scared to shake their hand.
So, is Vampirella’s wardrobe choice sexist? I don’t know. Vampirella obviously doesn’t think so. As I see her, she comes from a culture much like Star Trek’s Betazed, where people wear little or nothing at all. If anything, Vampi wonders why we humans choose to smother ourselves in so much fabric and why we’re all so bound by self-loathing.
There are hundreds of women who enjoy cosplaying as Vampirella, and maybe hundreds of thousands offended by the character. How do we reconcile all of that for the 21st century?
The one thing I won’t do is cover her up. I accepted the gig: write Vampirella. If you change the outfit, she’s no longer Vampirella. Frankly, her costume is the only thing about her (well, okay, that and her pansexuality) that makes her at all shocking or controversial.
My goal, and the readers will have to let us know if we’re passing or failing, is to make this a book as much about femininity as about bloodsucking. The storyline is driven by women, mostly populated by women, of all shapes and sizes and ethnicities, and most of them dress as sexy as they dare. The singer/rapper Lizzo is a terrific example of this. Is her blatant sexuality liberating or is she being exploited? How about Beyoncé? Do we put Vampi in a raincoat but cheer Bey on?
See what I mean? I’m screwed either way.
Nrama: So Priest - Vampirella's here on Earth. What would you do if you found yourself, I don't know, sharing a cab with Vampi?
Priest: I’d ask the driver to pull over and let me out. I’m a Christian, so I have these issues with all of that “fornicating in your mind” stuff. I don’t live a perfect life but I try to avoid cluttering up my conscience. Among the things the printed page cannot convey is the amazing, intoxicating glow and, yes, smell of a woman.
All women are beautiful, from 8 to 80, regardless of weight, height, or nationality. I wouldn’t share a cab with a woman as under-dressed as Vampi, which sounds hypocritical because I’m writing her. But I write Deathstroke, too, and wouldn’t share a cab with him, either.
Nrama: On the flip side of this, Vampirella's stranded on Earth. What's going through her mind in all of this?
Priest: How stupid and primitive we are. It’s not arrogance. I believe any visitor from another world would surf the net for a few hours and come away shaking their heads. I watched an episode of Little Miss Atlanta yesterday. Jesus. We’re just idiots. The moms fighting and bickering and cursing - cursing - in front of these little girls, berating the little girls. This sickening child abuse... That's entertainment?
I have Christian friends who will criticize me for writing Vampi but they watch that crap.
Nrama: This comes over a decade after your previous stint with Vampirella - Harris Publishing's Vampirella Revelations with artist Eric Battle. That run had some issues, but you're back here again. What makes is something you want to return to?
Priest: *scratches head* Really? I did a run...? I remember doing a silent issue... and vaguely remember doing something with Eric, a good bud. But that was way back. I really hadn’t considered this a “return.” I just pivoted and stared into Barrucci’s hypnotic vampire eyes and ran dozens of scenarios through my feeble brain, coming to one conclusion: this would be an interesting experiment, a writer’s challenge. Writers love challenges.
Nrama: Big picture, what are your goals with this ongoing?
Priest: To not have the women of America torch my house. This run will be as different a take on Vampi as any that have come before.
Which is not to say “better;” “better” is subjective. I’m sure a great many Vampi fans will hate what we’re up to. Maybe they’ll come along, maybe I’ll get fired. If I wasn’t nervous about it, it wouldn’t be worth doing.
Editor's Note: The above interview was conducted via email eariler this week, and we received all of Mr. Priest's responses along with all our original questions. Newsarama asked Priest if he would respond to follow-up questions Friday by email. He agreed and those questions and answers follow.
Nrama: Priest, our original questions to you were about the Vampirella comic book and our role is to talk about that and not audit your personal life, but your responses appear to be hyper aware of a social climate you seem to lament in terms of relationships between genders and conduct towards one another.
Priest: I lament the social climate in general, on all levels. I lament our lack of civility and lack of empathy, lack of patience and understanding. I hate the way we assassinate one another with our thumbs, all this hostility in social and other media. It's not just gender issues.
Nrama: Yet empathizing with Joe Biden without citing the actual specific behavior he’s under scrutiny for, stating things like "the amazing, intoxicating glow and, yes, smell of a woman" and by offering you’re “often seen as creepy by women,” it seems like intentionally inviting the sort of reaction/assumptions you state you’re “afraid” of and inviting the same scrutiny Biden is under.
Was this was your intent and are you prepared for pushback to your words and questions to be asked?
Priest: Wow, there's a lot to unpack, there. But let's start by saying I seriously doubt anyone reading this is NOT aware of the Biden issue to which I am referring.
I come neither to defend Biden nor to bury him, so I think you're probably taking my "poor" Joe reference a bit too seriously. I wasn't trying to litigate Biden, only to make a point about how hyper-sensitive and overly politicized our nation is and how this will impact Vampirella in her series.
Assembling disparate quotes to paint me as some kind of deviant makes that point for me. I stand by my statements. "...the amazing, intoxicating glow and, yes, smell of a woman..."
is something difficult if not impossible to convey in literature (which was my point), but your question was about me sitting in a taxi with a near-naked woman and I answered that honestly.
And my point was relevant to understanding the challenges and conflicts Vampirella will face in this series.
This is the environment Vampirella finds herself in, people misinterpreting her actions, words, and motives. This is why I mentioned it, to place the work we are doing with Vampirella into context.
Were a person like Vampi walking around in our world (or riding in a taxi with me), she would be misinterpreted, and every word she says would be drilled into looking for the worst possible interpretation of it. I can't help but wonder why anyone anywhere speaks publicly because no words spoken by anyone can withstand this level of ridiculous scrutiny.
Nrama: In another response you state “It’s like the world woke up in the last few years and realized we actually have two genders and both of them matter”. While not assuming your intent one way or another, it seems it to overlook genders outside the male/female paradigm. Can you speak to that?
Priest: Gender: noun
1. either of the two sexes (male and female), especially when considered with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones. The term is also used more broadly to denote a range of identities that do not correspond to established ideas of male and female. "a condition that affects people of both genders"
I wrote an ecumenical commentary in support of gender and and LGBTQ issues, Chris. I invite everyone to read it.
It was a simple interview. I was promoting a comic book and, as a really busy writer, I was typing really fast and speaking honestly while engaging with you. What I won’t do, not even for my own safety, is censor myself or try and anticipate every horrible way someone might choose to misinterpret something I've written or said.
If anything, that just makes my point for me about how free speech is being compromised. It's a tough environment to publish comic books in because every publisher is terrified by the spectrum of extreme possible reactions from an increasingly intolerant environment where everybody's playing "gotcha" and looking for the worst possible and most extremely negative interpretations of everything.
The whole point of free speech is my duty to defend others' rights to have it, not to shout them down or demonize them.
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I barely have the tools right now to be the outlandishly strange + headturning person I want to appear as but I try with what I have and it literally keeps me alive, I love putting together outfits and doing the most appearance wise because it makes me happy to attempt to go against the grain and look really cool doing it, as a gnc transman I don’t usually have to do that much to achieve that and I know that it’s something I want to keep up for a really long time. It’s just annoying sometimes to see peoples super low thresholds for experimenting with fashion and makeup </3
I use tiktok and enjoy it for reasons like promotion of my art and meeting new friends but I hate it x10000 because it’s basically a peanut gallery for anyone to be brutally honest and insulting on the basis of anonymity and you look at their profile and they look like the most boring people alive and you know they would never speak like this to another human irl . And I don’t mean bigoted insults I mean that for some reason your outfit face and soul are on a weird public trial no matter who you are and yr being insulted by people in your community bc they think something you’ve done with yourself is Too Different
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So you know that typical situation,,
Yanno, the one where some girl touches this dude and the dude's s/o gets a n g r y?
I just wanna make that situation real quick so that u get to see a little of Naomi's less nervous side:
Guy: *talking to Naomi*
Naomi: *is put into some sort of small pressure to make contact with Guy (nothing sexualized, maybe just a literal touch/handshake)*
Guy SO: did you just f****** touch mY MAN??? I love this man, no WHORE like YOU could ever replace a champion like ME!
Naomi: (will need to draw to elaborate)*slow headturn, painfully piercing glare*
-insert soliloquy-
I believe the question would be "did you make physical contact with my man", because had you asked that, I would have answered 'yes'. However, I have no feelings for this man whatsoever. You people often overthink, and i see why. Some men do cheat, and you may respectfully assume i was going for more. I do not believe in the pains of affair, so I will not try and steal anyone's 'man'.
But for you to call me such things? When I have not done more than but a touch? Insensitive. This is how you start fights that may never end. And never being quite literal, since we are, after all, already dead. Go, take your man back home. I'm sorry for the stir.
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1. ive not been diagnosed but i think a combo of atypical anorexia (im not underweight :( ) and bulimia
2. 11 or 12
3. no
4. not until my bmi is below my age (16)
5. mixed feelings. spent all of yesterday binging (10,000+ calories) so im planning on fasting until i go back to school next week
6. pak choi, popcorn, broccoli, carrots, pickled beetroot
7. ice cream, cookies, anything cooked in oil, bread, pasta
8. yes but im really bad at it honestly
9. 1,000
10. 5'3
11. 65lbs
12. desperately
13. yeah, it sucks
14. nope😃👍
15. 115lbs
16. 130lbs
17. 118lbs
18. yes
19. FUCK no
20. yes we make jokes all the time LMAO
21. sometimes, but honestly its thrilling seeing how long i can go without food
22. no LMAO
23. once a week
24. bonespo >>>>>
25. thighs
26. [Redacted]
27. bones. headturns. people being worried
28. yes
29. no
30. i try my best not to, usually only after a binge. i didnt yesterday though because i was eating nonstop for literal hours🥴
31. see above
32. longest is 2 days
33. kate kusmina on Instagram but i feel rlly bad for using her body like that
34. insatiable AHAHHAH
35.
36. NOPE HAHAHA
37. not that much bigger picture. i still get my schoolwork done and shit and can keep up with my friends
38. 21.9 😃😃😐😐
39. im vegetarian if that counts?
40. the binge eating
41. i thought it ruined mine with my ex boyfriend until he cheated on me and gaslighted me, so, theres that
42. all food
43. both
44. yeaah
45. nope
46. nope
47. no
48. also no
49. no🗣
50. nothing lol
51. i am terrified
52. no i got fatshamed yesterday lmao
53. the big sad
54. YES ALWAYS FUCKIN HMU
55. i gained so dont want to say until i lose again LMAO
ED questions
not mine btw i just copy and pasted it cause i want a distraction from hunger lmfao
1. which eating disorder(s) do you have?
2. when did you develop your eating disorder?
3. are you currently in recovery?
4. honestly, do you want to recover?
5. how are you doing today?
6. 5 safe foods?
7. 5 fear foods?
8. do you count calories?
9. what is your max calorie limit?
10. what is your height?
11. what is your ultimate goal weight?
12. are you trying to lose weight?
13. have you ever been called “fat”?
14. have you ever been called “too thin”?
15. what is your current goal weight?
16. what was your highest weight?
17. what was your lowest weight?
18. do you wish you were back at your lowest weight?
19. does your family know about your eating disorder?
20. do your friends know about your eating disorder?
21. do you wish you didn’t have an eating disorder?
22. have any “free foods”?
23. how often do you weigh yourself?
24. thinspo or bonespo?
25. biggest problem area on your body?
26. favourite part of your body?
27. what kind of results do you want to see?
28. do you purge?
29. do you take laxatives?
30. how often do you purge?
31. do you binge?
32. how long have you fasted for?
33. who’s your biggest thinspiration?
34. favourite eating disorder movie/show/documentary?
35. favourite thinspo picture?
36. can you post a photo of yourself/your body?
37. how does your eating disorder affect your life?
38. what is your BMI?
39. do you follow a diet?
40. least favourite part about your eating disorder?
41. has your eating disorder ruined any relationships?
42. do you have a “guilty pleasure” food? what is it?
43. meanspo or sweetspo?
44. does anyone else in your life have an eating disorder?
45. ever been inpatient?
46. ever been outpatient?
47. ever been in residential care?
48. ever been in a psych ward?
49. are you currently in therapy?
50. what did you eat today?
51. are you scared about the holidays?
52. are your family/friends supportive?
53. have any other mental illnesses?
54. looking for ana buddies?
55. what is your current weight?
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