#musings ;;

[plaidos]

Isaac (from the binding of) is one of the most transfem coded fictional characters ever made

[domivancarvalho]

@charlie-fabray

@teddycohenswitch

hardcore porn: massaging his scalp until he falls asleep in my arms

[ghost-bxrd]

Jason having a fear of clowns after everything. And it really shouldn't surprise everyone but it does.

Y E S

but instead of a “freezing” fear response Jason just shuts down completely. That boy knows how to function even if all his higher faculties are stuck blaring D A N G E R at him.

So, it takes a short while for others to notice that whenever there’s a clown around Jason just goes full on autopilot until the perceived danger has passed. Hyper vigilance to the max. Any sort of rapid movement from the clown causes him to tense and reach for a weapon ((maybe when Bruce is around he’ll instinctively inch closer to him)).

It’s Tim who notices first how clipped and monotonous Jason’s sentences become when they’re in those situations, the others just think the Red Hood is in a bad mood again…

[plaidos]

anybody who thinks the transphobia problem in the US stems in anyway from Trump is probably too privileged to be trusted to talk about the trans community. some of us have been living as trans since before he was ever elected president and seen just how much all US politicians & US culture hates us lol. if you only started getting worried about transphobic legislation this term or Trump’s last term then you’re a moron with your eyes shut (Biden let through more transphobic legislation than any other administration) and, critically, i probably share nothing in common with you

[elysian-writing]

unfortunately i do think that sirius hated regulus. as an older sibling myself, whenver i see posts that are like: 'oh sirius could never actually hate regulus' or whatever, i just wonder whether people realize how complex sibling relationships can be. you hate them because you can't let them go; they are bound to you in a way no one else is. that isn't to say that sirius didn't love regulus, he probably did, somewhere buried under years and years of repression, but it never would've overcome the hate.

[studynxiety]

Tbf, I feel like artists are some of the most emotionally constipated people on earth. I think art is a language for things that words can't explain.

For instance, I could tell you I miss someone or I could tell you I want to eat my heart out. I could put you in my shoes. I could show you the colors I saw, the noise in my head, the feeling of skin under my fingers. And then, I wouldn't need to tell you I miss them because you would feel it too.

And here is the thing, I am afraid of longing for the person, afraid of the power they have over me and afraid of others knowing about the power they have over me. But when I put you in my shoes, it's no longer about me. It's about the reader who has felt the same desperation before, the writer who is running from it, and the critic who pretends to understand it.

So yeah, the curtain is blue because the writer was high, but the writer was high because they wanted to run from the blue curtain.

But hey that's just a theory :) A GAME THEORY-

I'll see myself out.

[thatdisasterauthor]

I cannot express the sheer, utter rage I feel having to do my taxes right now. :)

[thomas-hartnell]

Enough is enough. I'm taking her home.

[andreil-fic-stash]

Neil, who has spent years on the run, breaking into places to sleep, who has never been explicitly allowed and welcomed anywhere, who has never belonged, to whom Wymack gives keys to the court and to whom Andrew gives a key to his house and let him in.

Jean, who has spent years in the Nest denied privacy and boundaries, who has been forced to go where he is told, whom Zane betrayed by leaving their door unlocked, to whom Cat gives her door security bar and helps him lock his abuser out.

On the other hand, nobody telling Jean the code to USC's exy stadium so he instead repeatedly enters Evermore's code--symbolic of the Trojans' distrust of him and the way he doesn't quite consider himself one of them (yet).

[cardassian-artistry]

"Mother whats a 'vibrator'?"

"It's something for adults I'll tell you when you're older."

"Oh, Okay"

HORRIFYING INTERACTION

[marigoldbaker]

i will say tho it’s really fun to see all my dormant half a decade long btvs mutuals who knew me when i was in high school coming out of the woodwork to make posts like “what the fuck is going on.” I love you guys. We are all holding hands in our horror. I love you

[johannestevans]

i never understand with dog training when people are like "oh well i just feel bad / guilty about being mean to the dog by giving it rules and denying it treats" and it's like. why would you feel guilty about giving this animal rules and stability in life?

discipline is SUPPORT. it's not mean

rules - including consequences for disobeying rules - are ways in which we create firm psychological supports around our pets' lives. if x, then y. if i do x behaviour, then y happens.

if i ask nicely, i get to play. if i bark or nip, if i'm rude, i get ignored. boundaries help me learn.

rules and routines say, hey, this is a stable environment. this is a structured environment. you and i both know what's going to happen next. you can trust me when something unexpected happens, or when something goes wrong, because with me, life is predictable, and i know what to do

idk i think as with many things it's this thing where people confuse their empathy and their sympathy and their SENSITIVITY with like… compassion. or just fucking good sense

getting upset about your dog potentially feeling criticised as if your dog understands what people are saying when they call him an asshole, or fussing about people not thinking you're a good dog parent, rather than simply helping your dog NOT be an asshole, is absurd

[riddleredcoats]

thinking about Ghilan'nain and how her character drives me insane.

Like imagine you're just this girl, you belong to Andruil - whether in a slavery-type-of-way or even in the more 'normal' way where you just worship the super-into-sacrifice general/empress/goddess that irrevocably helped change the world - and you're a good Huntress of hers; dedicated, faithful, talented even. Fuck, she even saved once you once, when you were bound by a man who had disrespected her and she turned you into this beautiful expression of grace and purity in the halla.

But you're also a little weird; you keep to yourself, you spend days in a workshop creating beasts (alongside the halla, who you so love because Andruil turned you into the first manifestation of that beauty to save you) for Andruil to hunt - like as a form of worship? to test her and see if she is worthy of your devotion? for... fun? - and she does. More! She's so impressed with you - you, who are her devoted servant in whatever way that manifests - that you become known as her Beloved and she offers you Godhood.

You get elevated to Godhood.

You get fucking elevated to Godhood.

And you're the youngest of the Gods and they slayed Titans and you're a girl who grew up in the world they shaped and sure, you made some monsters for your Goddess/Lover/Undying-Devotion, but are you good enough? Are you powerful enough? Or are you just Andruil's smash piece who is indulged by the others?

And how does that insecurity manifest? Do you start creating more monsters to wound your People, set up your own central power of devotion? Change yourself to fit an aesthetic you think you should have?

Do you start modifying your body to seem grander, because the other Evanuris came from spirit, but you (likely) didn't? Do you change your shape like they changed theirs? Is that metamorphosis that becomes your linchpin- the point to which you point to as to when you attained Godhood?

Not to mention that your expertise, your field of study has driven your Lover/Goddess mad and you're experimenting with it - using it to change yourself and to create more and worse monsters - and maybe, just maybe, you're a little mad too but you're a Goddess now and you are at Andruil's side and all the other gods are on your level, because you mastered the weapon that will become their most potent power source.

And, in the end, if the Evanuris shaped the age you lived in then you shape the age that comes next.

Like.... Wild, amiright.

[plaidos]

it is genuinely insane that anybody has ever thought “trans women and trans men shouldn’t be fighting they should be making out” in response to transfeminist critique of the way trans women are treated as sex objects within the trans community.

[kindalikerackham]

not the Grammys playing the most evil lines of Not Like Us and the crowd singing along 💀💀💀

like stop stop! he's already dead!!! it's not even the Superbowl yet!!!!!!!