#ok a lot of this is just personal dislikes

[todaysbird]

just wondering but do you believe afabs not wanting to date trans women is transphobic? /gen i feel like afab people can be trans allies and support trans women and trans people in general while still having boundaries for what they do or dont feel comfortable with.

I’m not a trans woman so I don’t know if this question is for me. With that being said:

To my understanding, this is an overhyped issue that gets brought up a lot honestly just to further divide cis lesbians and trans women. I don’t see it as a common talking point outside of radfem/TERF blogs, because the reality is there are very few trans people insisting that cis people need to date them.

It is not transphobic to have preferences or to simply not be attracted to someone’s genitals. But I think blanket statements that you would NEVER date a trans person based on the virtue of them being trans is transphobic, yeah. You said ‘trans women’, but that gives us no information on what her genitals are, if she has had any surgeries, etc. there are many trans women with vaginas, so ‘I wouldn’t date someone because they have a penis’ doesn’t hold up well. At the end of the day, you cannot ‘tell’ with 100% accuracy who is and who is not trans; would you disqualify someone who looks like your expectation of a woman simply because of her different start in life?

I think you can also just have your preferences without loudly declaring untrue statements like “Lesbians who date trans women aren’t real lesbians”, which is where a lot of the infighting starts. If you personally can’t imagine yourself ever dating a trans person, regardless of their genitals, then…OK, but you don’t need to proclaim that everyone who DOES has somehow failed in their identity. I think there’s a misconception that trans people WANT transphobes to want them; we do not. Nobody is trying to ‘turn’ people who dislike trans people as a whole to dating trans people. We’re good. If you think trans people are bad as a whole, we can probably mutually exclude each other from our dating pools.

[cazadorcockroach]

Sometimes I genuinely ask myself why we romance the characters that we do and why we dislike other romances so much. I wanna focus on Gale for this example.

I personally love Gale’s character and I seldom do think of romancing him, however the fanon vs canon version of this romance always stops me.

Maybe this is on me for becoming emotionally attached to fictional characters bc of my own problems, but hearing Gale want to go back to Mystra later in a romance would crush me and make me want to not even play anymore. There’s a lot of people irl that do this and going through it personally I don’t think I could have it happen again in a game.

However, some people love him! I notice that here on tumblr a lot of these individuals have experienced healthy relationships which is so good to see! But it also makes me realize why we feel the way we do about our characters.

I always romance Astarion because I’ve been feelin a little like him as of late. Actually a lot like him and it helps when I go directly into a characters shoes. I know it’s not real but it helps me deal with my own issues especially since there isn’t a great support system to talk about little things like this.

Overall, the characters we romance I think are just about what we have or haven’t experienced. someone who’s only been exposed to bad relationships may want to help heal a character who’s never been in a true one and others may want to feel differently about a partner than they do irl and many may have never dated at all and that’s ok. But it just shows how different we all are.

[arsonstatistic]

something something screwtio something something the woes and wonders of a human-robot relationship something something learning from each other as equals something something affection displayed by mental connection sometjing something time passing and the memory of one living on in the other eternally idk idk

[iyote]

I know he said this in response to Tower of Grey saying he'd go mad from the pain, but kakyoin my dude you sound like a villain

[supermaks]

I'm so confused do you like Lando or not

I wud say after my big 3 Lando is like the driver I fw the most but not more than I fw lets say, Max's left eyebrow. Do u understand

[hirokiyuu]

Heddwyn "Wyn" Caldera is a freshman from Diasomnia. He's well known in alchemical circles for multiple revolutionary breakthroughs in the world of potions, the first of which he discovered at eight years old. Though invited to NRC last year at age thirteen, he waited a year before accepting a position at the school.

here he is my baby boy......!!!! been tossing this kid around in my head a lot lately and wanted to make a profile card for him to show him off to the world. imagine me as a proud parent and ive pulled this out of my wallet.

based off the black cauldron. both the movie and like. the cauldron itself. naturally he is good at potions. since the cauldron is essentially a mcguffin wanted by everyone the idea is that he's extremely good at what he does but is also pretty vulnerable to being used. he's also very stone-faced bc he's...... made of stone............ get it.............

template is from here!

[radioroxx]

yargh. complicated characters save me complicated characters…

[bfdifan26]

onethree……

[heavy-lobster]

Hate it when I see people say shit like "the Violet paradox mons are so stupid and lame, they're all just robots!" like uhmmmmm yea they are and it OWNS ok. blasts you with my beam attack

[welcometoteyvat]

friend got pulled into genshin again and now its got me thinking about f/f relationship dynamics in this game

[typemoonconfessions]

[lab-gr0wn-lambs]

Out of all the things that threw me through a loop in the mario movie, the bros taking their gloves off was the most oddly jarring. I said out loud “they have flesh hAnds!-”

[spirking-and-smirking]

it's so hard being out here liking all genders and using the lable bi

[look-at-the-stars-tonight]

today my coworker turned to my mentor and told him there was something about him that was just inherently likable and turned to me and told me i should work on being less giggly if i wanted to be taken seriously in life

[scentofpines]

my brother is visiting us again and i'm soooo fucking doneeee he is so annoying omg

[chocochococoffee]

reads this popular tgcf retelling au

me: dont like it much but it has some good stuff... 99 eps more? well ill keep on it for the good things it has