#mel stuff

[fazedlight]

When it comes to queer stories on TV/film, the options are often either queerbait (canon queer relationships get shot down before ever making it on screen) or a rushed queer romance (because who knows if it'll get renewed, better make it happen FAST).

With those two options, I'd 100% rather get queerbait.

But what I really want is a queer slow burn :(

Joining the war on queerbait on the side of queerbait bc after a time you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical but is often true

[fazedlight]

Sapphics are always telling their girlfriends to jump

[starwolfie]

So…. Tell me if I’m the weird one, please…

My mom just told me her neighbor no longer wanted their cat. Because said cat had given birth, they want to keep the kittens and give away the cat to a shelter.

I started to cry because this broke my little heart. It’s an animal that loves you, you heartless monster, not a sock that you throw away when you get a new one! 🥺🥺

Sorry if I made anyone cry, but am I weird because this makes me very very sad? 😢

[crysys-kidd]

PRIDE MONTH - based on my Sims game where I had a pride mod installed and Mel wished every other week to come out to her dad like it was a surprise every time.

Bonus:

[fazedlight]

We all know Kara Zor-El is worthy 😌

Thank you @heeeygracie for taking my comm!! Please also check out her other works! (twitter/ko-fi/patreon)

[starwolfie]

Don’t know if it was in the news for any of you, but today was a sad day for southern Germany.

Don’t worry, my family and I are okay, but I apologize for going silent on here 🥺

[fazedlight]

[fazedlight]

If my blog ever convinced you to watch Xena, you're welcome.

If my blog ever convinced you to watch Supergirl... I'm sorry.

if my blog ever convinced you to watch a tv series

you’re welcome

sorry

[starwolfie]

Today I visited Nemo and his friends.

Found a fellow animal nerd in a guide and enjoyed getting infodumping for an hour about fishies. I enjoyed this so much! /gen

[fazedlight]

While creating a recent fanvid, I couldn't help but notice the resonance of these two shots.

The cold blue and the warm yellow. The first steps in anger, the second steps in trepidation.

The light cascades, first with Lena walking away from it, and second with her stepping into it.

[starwolfie]

I decided that I wanted an intro post, so here it is 😉

Hi, I’m Mel.

I use she/her pronouns.

I write and draw, mostly Legend of Zelda/Linked universe stuff.

You can find me on AO3

My writing tag is #my writing

My art tag is #my art

Other/personal stuff is tagged with #Mel stuff

Feel free to send me asks, it can take me a while to answer sometimes.

I’m not a native speaker of English, so I sometimes make mistakes, Sorry for that!

[fazedlight]

It's so funny how I got into anthropology in college, frequently talking about the importance of storytelling in culture and how it shapes who we are... and yet it took until my mid-30s to realize that I was allowed to tell stories.

We live in a culture that devalues and commodifies folk culture. So please: tell stories badly, sing off-key, paint something awful.

We need to bring creativity back to being focused on people, connection, community.

Not just something to consume and demand.

[starwolfie]

So…. I‘ve hurt my shoulder. While driving in my car.

No, I didn’t have an accident, I just had to swerve out of the way of a car on my lane.

🙈

[fazedlight]

[fazedlight]

I think they're more alike than Lena would like to admit.

recognising your parent's mannerisms in yourself and physically feeling psychic damage occur

[starwolfie]

I was in the Amazon rainforest today 😉

No, actually I was visiting a 360° panorama of it that is 15m high and absolutely gorgeous.

Drawn by the artist Yadegar Asisi.

Last picture featuring a wet possum Hyrule ^^

@hero-of-the-wolf @readingismyhobby24 had that glorious idea for his dark world form! 🥰🥰