#or straight up orientalism

[15-lizards]

I know you’re mostly vibing with Dune right now, and I’m here for that, BUT I’ve been really into traditional Circassian fashion lately, and it made me think of you because I instantly wanted to know where you would place it in ASOIAF. I was thinking it should be nearer to Dorne than the North and nearer to Essos than the West because of the cultural ties to the Turkish style of Northern Donishfolx and the Mongolian horse lords of the Dothraki but I’m not sure where that really belongs then. I love the women’s dresses and the sort of militarized style, it’s very unlike GoT show-style but feels very in keeping with the idea that these tiny houses make war on each other like a spring activity rather than the way we think of total war in the modern era and fashion has slid in to be like “okay but let’s make it pretty”. Does any of that track at all?

Eurasian/west Asian fashion is criminally underutilized in fantasy settings but ☝️I have always been a firm believer in it

I’ve always seen it as belong in the north of Dorne. Where it’s not as hot as the southern reaches, so heavier fabrics and more layers are commonly seen, but still hotter than the stormlands and the reach, meaning that clothing is looser and offers more freedom of movement and airflow. Headwraps and veils being more frequently used for sun/wind protection than just fashion or modesty. Also finely wrought and intricate golden jewelry I tend to associate with Dorne. The style itself also feels like a organic blend of the traditional clothing of both Western European and the Near East, which contributes to my headcanon of this type of fashion being common on the border and in the marches. So in short this is what I think the Daynes wear 🔮💫

[nonbinarywannabepreggo]

Today, when my fiancé was giving my morning load against the cervix, he once again pleaded me not to only stop taking T, but to remove the IUD as well, knowing damn well the consequences. I agreed. We agreed to see some maternities I can go to and look for some human milk banks, as even if I still can breastfeed, it won't be enough. We talked about getting a reeeeally low cost wedding, and he said he wanted to announce my pregnancy at our wedding, on next may. So we might as well should start preparing. In 1 week, I'll be due to my T shot. I'm considering skipping it, and get some exams done to assure I will birth a healthy baby. I'll do in 2 weeks a revisional consultation with the gynecologist to check on the IUD, and I might ask to book its removal. This is stupid and irresponsible, but the thought of intentional pregnancy risk sex? He told me he sometimes sees a girl in me, but sometimes not and I feel so seen. I've tried to take my womanhood out of the scene for so long, it feels nice to embrace it with someone I feel safe. I still don't plan on changing anything about my regular life (like name, pronouns and overall aesthetics), besides embracing a little more my female anatomy and my feminine traits. I have long understood that there is no other way to accurately define me other than "nonbinary", but I can take it easy on the "macho" act. Dysphoria still strucks, but my fiancé is dealing fine with it, and it will be even better when he's whispering my deadname in my ear while he puts a baby in me he intends to give the same name "like their mommy". People will call our daughter without even knowing how feminine I feel when I remember I gave birth to a girl with the same name as me. I'll be off of T for now, and depending on how I feel about it, maybe forever.

[onesidedradiostatic]

If velvette is aroace and Val is demiromantic does this make vox the token allo

reference to this ask? I think it is? but um

I think you missed out part of my answer anon

I like the idea of alloro demisexual vox, mostly cause val and alastor are both people vox has known for AGES (longer than you or I have been alive) and well he made sexual comments in relation to alastor in episode 8 and makes out with and sleeps with val but was literally the only vee completely uninterested in lucifer's "NOW I am going to FUCK you" to adam (in the case of aroace velvette idk maybe velvette is aegosexual, I don't usually hold onto it though cause I don't have a solid velvette sexuality hc)

incredibly funny to me he just lost all interest after alastor fled, was screaming about how hard he was and how watching alastor get the shit beaten out of him was better than sex but the prospect of lucifer and adam going at it in bed? uninterested.

alloromantic is just cause the idea of vox love at first sight-ing alastor is funny to me (but I'm fine with that not being the case) and it's like the inverse of demiro allosexual val. I mean I'd just as easily buy him being double demi but idk, vox being alloromantic is just funny to me especially in the context of having interest in arospec people (alastor (canon) and val (hc))

[creaturefeaster]

Wire... what's Elliot's sexuality..?

that man is GAY!!

[bacchuschucklefuck]

How would Riz give bardic inspiration in your class swap au

motivational speech

[purplesoup-lad-le]

Here we have Quan Song, from the Keeper Sexyman bracket of 2024! I'm pretty sure he was meant to face the left when i was making him, but oh well.

[thedemonsurfer]

-lays down-

I KNOW the thing is like. Ace people can fuck, aro people can date-- but also that's apparently not supposed to be applied to characters because it's an excuse--

But like, here's the thing. Look me in the eyes here.

Then fucking write them outside of traditional shipping.

Stop telling people what they can and can't write and write it YOURSELF

You can come up with a million "but what if" statements, and at the end of the day this is still a "You can't ship [x] because [y]" comment being made.

So get good! Write the stories you want to see!

[alienglowgarden]

My personal exo Sexuality headcanons:

Theyre all poly queers who grew up in an equally queer hippie anarchist space colony and making certain characters straight when theyre not in-game because they give off "that vibe" is just bias.

I do wish there was some option where u basically just shack up with all of them and continue the hippie commune spirit. give these bitches a blockhouse of their own and let them have messy poly queerplatonicwhatever relationships that rotate with the seasons <3 (imagine.... the polycule from hell but It Works. Mostly)

[pennamepersona]

the thing that finally let me understand wyll was seeing a couple posts about how he's like. unfazed in the beginning. this is normal to him

very "the day you were taken by the nautiloid was the worst day of your life. for the blade of frontiers, it was tuesday"

[nuks]

good news!! they’re inviting me back to orientation!! :D I think I got it besties!

[jackass-jones]

I’m very curious about something because I see lots of mixed opinions about this soooo

[ultimatecryptid]

wip: emery ostagar fic

The warden woman is doubled over her own sword dry heaving, the mage behind her is shaking so much their stupid feather cap looks ready to fly off, Alistair is frozen, and Emery can feel a dozen more darkspawn staked out behind the stupid door. The fire from the barricades on the first floor might not be following them up the stairs, but the crackle of it is echoing and she can't think past it. 

She forces her breath out through her nose. 

"I'm taking her shield," she says. It's not like the woman is using it. "I open the door. Pop in. They chase me out. You," she points at the mage, "Fire. Freeze, maybe. Alistair and I keep them pinned in the doorway until you can go again. Freeze first, actually, to block the door more. When they push through, we swing."

That seems to drag Alistair back. "Cath."

What? Emery blinks, she can feel her face twitching. Alistair isn't even meeting her eyes. "Their name's Cath." Ah. Forget the twitch, Em reels herself back with yet another breath. It tastes like the blood.

"Cath sparks. You and me keep the darkspawn back. Ready?"

[adashofniallandasprinkleoflunacy]

[chiarrara]

i think maybe after all this time.... I'm not attracted to women in the way straight men aren't really attracted to women. you know? like i think women are hot, but i feel waaaaayyyyy differently looking at men

[here-there-were-dragons]

my mother is absolutely convinced of some nonsense conspiracy theory that (in her words) "originally humanity lived in peaceful all-woman societies of goddess worshippers who took care of eachother and lived in harmony, while males were roving loners that had no society and never cooperated. that changed when the men banded together and overthrew the peaceful woman-dominated societies, and enslaved us all." and, according to her, this is proof that a woman-dominated world would be innately more peaceful, and that men are innately violent and evil and should be either barred from holding any legal power or leadership roles or at least should be (again in her words) "gelded like bulls" to remove their testosterone before even being considered for such a thing.

she also evidently believes that the problem with all religions today is primarily that they aren't "goddess worshippers", because she seems to think goddess religions are inherently peaceful and pure too and seems to be especially obsessed with "Isis" in particular. the very very few times she's openly considered it unambiguously bad for some population or another to have been exterminated (she's got a bad case of devil's advocating genocide brain), she's gone out of her way to make up some crap about how said people were a peaceful society of goddess-worshippers, almost always of isis. delusions of isis-worship seem to be the only thing that ever causes her to consider any arab or middle-eastern culture, society, or ethnicity to be relatively uncomplicatedly undeserving of extermination, in fact, because every fucking time she doesn't immediately start devils-advocating it and making remarks about how "the rest of the world should box them in and let them blow eachother up" it's when she's whinging on about how whatever specific micro-ethnicity she's thinking about are or were traditional persecuted isis-worshippers.

the sole major exception to her weird fixation on isis worship justifying worthiness of life is the whole israel thing going on, in which she has consistently made very obvious that literally the only reason she's against the genocide of palestine is because it gives her an excuse to even more openly hate jewish people than she already did. and honestly i'm not sure even that's true because i think she's made some offhand remarks about palestinians having probably been peaceful isis worshipers before the jews infected them with christianity or something anyway.

so for the last, however fucking long it's been i've been constantly having to listen to her go off about how this behavior is in the jew's blood or whatever and that they literally invented all genocide because somehow the concept didn't exist before them and wouldn't have ever been invented by the rest of humanity without those jewish aliens dropping it in i fucking guess apparently and she furthermore goes on about how every single genocide and mass-oppression movement in history is directly inspired by them, ESPECIALLY the nazis, and THEN i have to listen to her rant about how, basically, wwii was something they entirely brought on themselves by "dominating the economy and treating everyone not them like shit" and the nazis were just "using their own tactics back at them". and then she goes on a rant about how the people the original jews exterminated back in the day (aka the first ever genocide, which they invented, because jews invented genocide and hate according to her) in the middle east region were peaceful matriarchal isis-worshipers.

and then she starts making comments about arabs being backwards and palestinians either being mysogynist muslims that should be boxed in to blow eachother up with everyone else or secret peaceful isis worshippers corrupted by men's cruel hand, sometimes in the same sentence, entirely dependent on which group she's more in the mood to hate at the time.

it's exhausting. beyond exhausting. her sole purpose in existence seems to be to have the singularly most exhausting set of politics physically possible to fit into one person.

just, sometimes i think, if there really is anything at all to the incredibly stupid and inexplicably popular idea that anyone or anything has a Purpose tm to exist for, i feel like my mother's purpose is to be walking proof to me of a Type Of Guy That Is Real, cause i sure as fuck would have trouble inventing this mess if it wasn't standing right in front of me spewing confusingly bipartisan hate. all of her thoughts and opinions are these long winding nonsense chains that feel like if that man carrying thing sketch about the friend with confusing politics was a person. on meth.

[the-mad-prince-of-denmark]

Hey baby girl?

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