#moral of the story is There Are No Rules

[tillywunderwing]

psst. hey. do you ever worry that you’re writing characters ‘ooc’ in fanfiction? well guess what. you’re not. that’s just your au now.

“they would not say that” yes they would, my au version of this character would totally say that

“ummmm this character’s powers don’t work like that” but they do. in my au

“these characters would never canonically be dating” buddy oh boy i cannot wait to tell you what fanfiction writers have been doing since the advent of their craft!! anything goes in my au!!!

the medium is inherently transformative do whatever you want forever ok ly byye

[spicyvampire]

I find it interesting that the time Great spends with Tyme in Timeline1 are the only ones that leak through without Great having a 4 minutes into the future vision in the Timeline2 that we are watching, Great who is having a heart attack in Timeline1 must REALLY be in love Tyme

[demigodofhoolemere]

Trying to find nice stuff for Wish but everywhere you go people are being painfully wrong in their interpretations of the movie

[happyk44]

Thinking about "default to violence as a form of justice and discipline" Jason and him never questioning those thought processes or his constant urge to maim others for not staying in line with his morals/beliefs (even if those beliefs are not standard/societal or are incredibly niche to Jason specifically) because he was raised under the unspoken rule of "fuck up and find teeth in your throat" in the wolf house and it only really begins to bother him when he loses his memories but as soon as he starts to remember his past, he stops caring because oh right, this is how the world is supposed to work (he does not understand why others do not agree)

[gracecarstairss]

In Nothing But Shadows, Ragnor tells James that he’s been waiting for James to come to him for help on his warlock powers, and James says he’s only ever wanted to be a Shadowhunter. I think this should have been explored much more in TLH, where James is struggling to differentiate himself from his warlock side but it’s hard because of his abilities and his warlock mark.

On the other hand, we have Lucie who always says she doesn’t appreciate being overlooked (even though she ends up being overlooked through the whole narrative even though her power is more plot-relevant than James’s). Objectively, Lucie has the more powerful ability between her and James, and she does not have a warlock mark and is unafraid to use her power. She has a willingness to learn about her warlock side. Therefore, I think she definitely should have started warlock training so we could see the way that James and Lucie have opposite views on their powers and whether they are a blessing or curse, something to hide away and tame or something to utilize. It would also be interesting to see because, although this is not discussed in TLH, it is mentioned in the short stories that even at a young age people in Shadowhunter society think that Lucie is never going to be married because of her warlock blood and that any little misstep could forever ruin her reputation. So her warlock training just adds even more risk but I think that seems like something Lucie would do regardless. It could have added much more dimension to Lucie’s character and furthered an antihero arc (that I so desperately wish would have happened).

[moonilit]

sometimes reading Kory’s talk about love and how her culture normalizes poly relationships and love is separate from marriage as in yeah sometimes you marry for politics but doesn’t mean you ‘love’ that other person or they you and thats OK is so weird because, you don’t even need to go to space for that?? Its already somewhere on earth??

[paint-it-dead]

this is completly self indulgent and fucking random but i HAVE to vent

this was one of my favourite few months fandon wise istg

first i experienced dazai osamu- THE Mr. Bungou Stray Dogs himself die on the anniversary of Bakugou Katsuki's death. Both of these occurencies very fucking hilarious to me for different reasons but needless to say i celebrated both(dazai's more, REST IN PISS BOZO) nevertheless

then i read a post here on the site of the tumblr that apparently griffith berserk has managed to live this long(over 30 human yrs) cus he "allegedly" survives by stealing the life force of other white haired anime boys. i found this hilarious and jokingly prayed to him that if that WAS the case then 'Please o please o please o great griffith i'll take any penalty just fucking kill Gojo Satoru i cant stand his fake ass' and GUESS WHAT

GOJO SATORU DIES WITHIN THE FUCKING WEEK OF ME SAYING THAT

but on that same day fucking DAZAI comes back from the dead.

so griffith did what he had to do to rid us of the annoying white haired twink but said brunettes r not his type.

what a wild ride.

i wish my life made as much sense as this lmao

[threeawfulfruits]

Not the “Across the Spider-Verse” film introducing yet MORE ways in which Miles is pulled between two worlds/two identities!!!

Already in “Into the Spider-Verse” we saw him pulled in two directions / straddling two identities or communities on multiple fronts, namely:

Afrolatino

Bilingual

Graffiti artist / STEM student

Regular kid / Spider-Man

Fancy private school kid / Brooklyn public school kid

“Focused” honors student / “Distracted” serial truant

And now we get to tack on:

His DNA is literally hybridized - part from his birth universe (Earth-1610B) AND part from the Earth-42 universe

Heroic Spider-Person AND dangerous anomaly

Bruh. The levels. They really went all-in with him on the myriad ways one can be othered by their own community - never being considered enough of one identity to be claimed by either of them and thus never really feeling like you truly, wholly belong anywhere, huh?! Gotdamn.

[fruitzbat]

the conversation where molly says "I leave every town better than I found it" is when he's defending himself after beau called him out for doing something fucked up, which was telling strangers what he arbitrarily decides that they need to hear and subsequently scamming them with false fortunes, like has legitimately everyone fucking forgotten that. it was just quoted in the wired article about critical role's positive legacy and it's...still the tagline for their nonprofit

[maliciouscigarette]

I’ve been successfully peer reviewed and I’m pretty sure I now have tenure 💅

[ghostofskywalker]

there are very few things that will get me to stop reading a fic once i get into it, but the one that never fails to get me to click away is when the reader explicitly says that they are straight, or that they’re only attracted to men

especially because i’ve never felt the need, in any of the fics i’ve written with a heterosexual pairing, to have one of the characters announce it to the world

[scorchedhearth]

a lot of things could be fixed by making casca a butch. the rest of the issues could be fixed by making her a protagonist before a girl

[thepastneverforgets]

atsv's miguel o'hara is so lana del ray multiverse of madness' wanda coded. went out of his way to steal the life of another miguel in order to have the family that he never did in his own universe. and caused irredeemable harm because of it.

and then he goes and projects all that guilt and emotional trauma onto miles, because he has the potential to make the same mistake >:C not because miles wants to steal and gain a family he should've never had to begin with. but because he just wants to save the family he already has. wasn't even meant to be spider-man and now miguel's after his head because he's trying to break the mold of what it means to be spidey

like mfer if you don't leave that child alone and let him save his dad

[sleepy-stories]

Spoiler!

these are references that i did for this sketch

[myopicry]

So I was thinking about how ppl often talk about the "adult human female" definition being restricting and depressing partially due to it "reducing ppl to genitals" but personally as a cis woman it has kind of helped me a lot.

I have dealt with some body image issues (tho not severe), and altho I have already done some healing before lurking in radfem and gc spaces, I have found the definition to be in fact very... Liberating ? It's concise with some neutral descriptors, and it doesn't comment on much at all. Like it doesn't dictate how you have to dress or act, what body type you should have, what your up bringing should be like, your race, experiences, if you can have body hair or not, your hair length etc. All of that is up to you and doesn't make you any less of a woman! In fact it kind of makes being a woman such a neutral thing it's almost left in the background, a by-the-by thing, not something which controls and defines every small aspect of your life. It allows such variety imo and even confidence in a way. It's just very medical and ig I like it that way lol.

I also don't rlly get the genitals thing anymore bc doesn't the definition tie back more to gamets or something? It just feels rlly rudely interpreted imo but then again I haven't looked in depth on GC scientific proof of arguments lol

~🪼

yeah, this is a very relatable sentiment to me! I remember finally looking into the definition of woman that the people around me had been so vehemently against accepting, and then realizing just how neutral it was.

"adult human female" really is the most bare, least intrusive or demanding definition. just realizing, "oh. all that means is that my body is developed to create egg cells. and that is in fact what it does if I am in good health." was honestly a bit more mind-blowing to me than I'd like to admit. long post below on why!

(content warning I talk about surgery and genitals, not graphic but elaborated slightly and also warning just in general it's a long post. I'm long-posting again :p)

I think a lot of the "baggage" I had with being a woman, especially the disconnect/dysphoric feelings I had around my body and presentation all tying to some idea of "gender" was exactly because for so long the only vague definitions of being a woman were so tied to not just femininity, but also relationships with men. when I was younger, it just was never made clear that the discomfort I felt with my body and mind wasn't just the amorphous concept of gender and being "assigned" the wrong one, I was simply uncomfortable with the societal roles and obligations the world at large around me had hoisted onto me just because I was born with a certain body. I was, frankly, uncomfortable with imagining any future where I tangibly had a relationship with a man. but when everything around me reinforced that to be a woman, you had to be with a man, it was hard to not feel dissociated from my body as a result when I literally couldn't imagine getting older and ever having a meaningful attraction to a man. that, coupled with classic misogyny and patriarchy just constantly shaming and/or objectifying and/or controlling female bodies, no wonder I didn't "feel" like I was a woman!

but, exactly as you said, there isn't really much outside of biology that the definition of "woman" should encapsulate. the term shouldn't limit any expression, and it, in its gender critical "adult human female" state, doesn't box anyone into any set of roles or appearances or stereotypes. now, if we want to get very semantic here, this does technically depend, as all words do, on who you're talking to. obviously a right wing traditional conservative would think of a female in more regressive terms of fulfilling some possible "function" of femaleness and use it to demonize child-free women, but in its least biased, most scientific, and most neutral state, "adult human female" is plainly not about societal gender stereotypes. it's just biology!

I think the definition has also really helped me personally with viewing myself more holistically, not creating further dissonance between my mind and body. I used to really think of myself as two separate entities, my mind a trapped consciousness, stuck in a useless, painful, and burdensome suit of flesh. this kind of thinking really made me feel like my body was, like clothing or legos (lol), customizable. like I could (and should) take apart the pieces that caused my mind distress, and make something new. something idealized. something "beautiful." the act of creation, as trans communities often poetically frame it as. but man, did we as humanity collectively learn nothing from frankenstein? or literally any parable about hubris and "playing god"? I'm the farthest thing from religious, but even I get why sometimes people shouldn't get too ahead of themselves when thinking about what they can make.

of course, surgery, trans surgery especially, has made significant strides and is at least non-fatal and has proper hygienic and fairly humane procedures. BUT, these surgeries (any surgery, really, but certainly these which have a level of "electiveness" to them as they aren't necessarily biologically medically necessary, rather deemed psychologically necessary) are still incredibly life altering and have significant side effects, again, as any major surgery would have. it's almost like surgery is a medical procedure! and those are intense! but thinking of your body as separate and malleable, these surgeries suddenly seem so easy and so logical. when you think of yourself as a sculptor of your own form, the "only" solution to fixing a mind-body disconnect is getting the sculptor's tools out.

whereas, in reality, in the non-idealized, plain, state of nature, the only true solution is simply reconnecting the mind and body. because they really aren't very separate! medical science shows that mental stress and anxiety can cause physical pain, and obviously, physical bodily pain can cause mental distress! it's all so connected, and your sex is woven into every aspect of that. hormones, sex characteristics and genitals are just one part of the intricate machine, and the whole thing becomes way less structurally sound when you decide to just start replacing parts. (afaik, this is why organ transplants are so finicky, bodies are incredibly particular about surgical changes)

okay, weird surgery tangent aside, what I basically realized was that my mind wasn't trapped in a flesh suit, my body wasn't the thing wrong with me because it was female, because it wasn't just my body that represented being a woman. I just was a woman. and it wasn't my body that was wrong for being a woman. it was the world treating me wrongly because I was a woman who didn't dress like, behave like, or want to live as their idea of a woman. and knowing that, ultimately, being a woman simply just meant existing as I already was in good health, an adult, human female, was an important reminder of clarity.

I also never really got any talk of genitals in these definitions either. other than knowing what types of genitals I absolutely did not care for, I found equating only genitals with gender kind of strange, like if you define woman as "people with vaginas or uteruses" doesn't that bring up a whole slew of problems no matter what side you're ideologically agreeing with? for pro-trans this is a bad definition for trans men, but also not having the definition is bad for trans women, and for anti-trans defining people by their genitals just plays into agreeing with the validity of sex-reassignment surgery as a way to truly "become" a different sex? so idk. I think people who interpret "adult human female" as only about genitals and think the definition stops there are just willfully ignoring facts for some reason. gametes are my new best friend I guess lmao.

all that to say, you brought up a really good point and it made my brain light up again and that's why I've suddenly spawned like a thousand more words of pure ramble into the servers of tumblr. I guess I do still have a lot of thoughts about transition and my body and etc. I have realized that I try and think about some of it less often and concern myself with topics that don't give me a headache/existential crisis (very few topics do this, it turns out) but this was a very valuable little reflection time over what being open to some radfem/gender critical can do for me when reconciling with my gender dysphoria! I guess talking gender ideology gives me the dual reaction of happy to delve and blab about some light sociological analysis or philosophy, but it also makes me realize how much of the conversation is always ALWAYS semantics, and how I have to throw up like a million tangents and disclaimers to double make sure I am not misinterpreted simply by a misunderstanding of definitions. maybe I'll reflect/probably rant about the contradictory and slightly stupid fixation on semantics and language within gender ideology at some point...

all in all, a very nice ask! thank you for stopping by again !!

[sibblank]

not sure how to word this but having the embodiment of the sin of lust in your edgy story set in hell care very seriously about consent, has the same energy as when people convince themselves that spamton would hate nfts.