#person: tobias

[brothersandtragedies]

My favourite part about RITE HERE RITE NOW was when everyone sat there in the dark for a moment after the last scene and someone then blurted "YOU MOTHERFUCKERS"

[kafzielx]

The sale wasn't decided by her, apparently the vampire who use to own this shop was a bleeding heart and the demon who seemed to manage it in her wake had a soft underbelly. She needed enough money to pay rent in her shithole apartment and to feed her vessel that required food, she can tell she's supposed to feel bad but Kafziel had never had a mother and her father had always kept his distance until he slaughtered all her remaining siblings so her emotional understanding was quite fractured. Rummaging through the shelves, she spotted something that might match the description and brought it to the front. "This is what you're looking for? I can ring you up for it." As she packaged his purchase, she let out a breath. "That's good of you to remember the dead, I lost many of my siblings recently and I thought about doing a ritual to honor them but I'm clueless on how, there's no gravesite to visit."

Walking up to the counter, Tobias winced slightly at the woman's blunt, though not unkind words. It made sense that there were so many people in mourning, but it was strange that a company wasn't trying to take advantage of that. Guess there were still some good people out there. "Uh, yeah, I actually was hoping to have something made up for my mom's grave. Do you guys have cone vases here?" He tried to put flowers at his mom's grave year round, but unfortunately that hadn't happened with the recent events.

[ficandkaboodle]

Y’think another reason why they’re taking a break is because Tobias is like “Oh shit oh fuck I used up the best colors what the fuck is this next fucker going to wear without looking like a dickwad” and the people who do the costuming are waiting in the wings for this guy to make up his mind on whether or not he can make goldenrod yellow work for two or four years?

[copias-juicebox]

*moans* x

[sincericida]

"WE LIVE IN TIME" first trailer from the new romance starring Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh.

(X)

[vv-ispy]

Rachel and Tobias from Animorphs commissioned from @decarabiandivorce! Absolutely in love with their colouring as always, and the fall sunset atmosphere that really captures the two's relationship.

Check out their commissions here, 10/10 communication and experience :D

[shippofuri]

Thoughts on Lycion's identity, species, gender. (CW: mentions of internalized transphobia)

as someone who is trans and has species dysphoria (and whose transness is intrinsically linked to species dysphoria, the human female form being too exaggeratedly human to feel comfortable in) it feels a bit odd when people exclusively discuss Lycion's body dysmorphia as exclusively a trans allegory (which is a perfectly reasonable read! but it can be more than that...) seemingly without much awareness that people who are like him, and especially trans people who are like him in a more literal sense exist... So I figure, as one of those people, I might give some observations on Lycion, along with some anecdotes of my own experience and how it parallels it, how his characterization reflects real-world struggles- both literally and as a trans narrative, and why I appreciate characters like him so much.

What is fascinating (but also so relatable!) to me, both when viewed in a literal sense and as a trans allegory, is that Lycion does not actually have a particular affinity to another species, but rather feels a visceral discomfort with his own elven body.

We even see in his raceswap portraits, Lycion is visibly happier as anything but an elf. Unlike Laios, who wants to become a monster, Lycion doesn't want to become anything in particular, he simply wants to stop being an elf.

Most depictions of transgender characters in media are focused on the idea of wanting to become something. Feeling in your heart you were always meant to be a boy or a girl or perhaps some secret third thing. Having a specific goal. What is less often depicted is the experience of I don't want to be what i was born as, I'd rather be anything else but this. anything is better than this. And, in both my struggles with gender and with my own humanity, this has been my experience!

Of course, there are a great many creatures I look at and think "I would be much happier if i were one of them", but those feelings are broader and less pressing than the overwhelming discomfort with my own body, and the desire to be less human. I aspired to masculinity and ultimately pursued transition not out of a particular affinity with any idea of maleness, but because masculine human features, to me, appear more animalistic, less of a strange naked thing that sticks out like a sore thumb in the grand scheme of things. And so too did Lycion pursue becoming a beastman, not because he felt a particular affinity with being a wolf, but because it would make him less of an elf.

And after pursuing it, even though he still has to spend much of his time as an elf, Lycion is far more comfortable, no longer nihilistic and self-destructive. He's confident, prideful even! He has a body that doesn't feel wrong, even if he can only wear it sometimes.

And, myself having been on HRT for nearly four years now, i have to say my experience has been much the same! Even though, of course, I'm still human, my dysphoria has essentially been eliminated, I feel comfortable in my body, and I genuinely like the way I look. I admire my reflection and find joy even in the changes that i was merely indifferent to the possibility of when beginning my treatment, and it even eased some issues completely unrelated to gender...!

Finally, Laios' dismissal of Lycion's identity here feels very reminiscent of people casting doubt on a trans (most often nonbinary) individual's identity due to transitioning for what they view as "the wrong reason", even at times arguing that only people who meet their personal standard for transness should be allowed access to transition. And like with Laios, who himself wishes to become a monster, these arguments are often coming from within, from others in the trans community.

Is someone who identifies as male because they don't want to be female less justified in their desire to pursue transition than someone who doesn't want to be female because they identify as male...? Should people be denied the right to feel comfortable in their own skin because they are seeking to escape something, rather than reaching for something specific...? Of course, you know what my answer is, but I digress.

[papafuckingemeritus]

Proof that Tobias and Papa are not the same, this man is looking at a mic as if he’s never seen one in his life😂

[rpfshippingpolls]

⚠️ DON’T START DISCOURSE ABOUT RPF IN THE NOTES!! YOU WILL BE BLOCKED IF YOU DO SO ⚠️

Before you vote: This poll is about the content creators, NOT the characters. If you don’t ship them because you don’t ship rpf, hit the “non-rpf shipper button” option. If you ship the characters but not the real people, don’t bother saying that as that’s not the point of the poll.

Do you ship it?

Reason:

“They're literally married, divorced, best friends, and enemies at the same time”

“they've been friends since they were kids. they became famous together. they got married in real life and then got divorced. tommy wrote and published fanfiction about them kissing.”

[hoss-bonaventure]

michael kinda giving live slug reaction here

[terr-hedgehog]

Modelling the ghracksuit. Copia's New Year's resolution is to be fit in time for the European summer tour.

[skywarpie]

We've come full circle

[sincericida]

From "WE LIVE IN TIME" first trailer, the new romance starring Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh.

That’s so TASM Peter Parker at 40. I accept fanfics. You’re welcome.

[dragonseeds]

the thing about daemon and rhaenyra as doubles and mirrors, reflections of each other, is that it shatters when he crowns her. he can be her attack dog, her whip, her sword arm, but that sameness is gone. he lost viserys to the crown, to the role, and he crowned her anyway and it’s like. i keep thinking of that line from saint mungo that everyone quotes. i feel like something bad is going to happen to me. i feel like something bad has happened. it hasn't reached me yet but it's on its way. because trauma does this, creates a temporal distortion in your body and your mind. i think daemon’s going to be thriving for a minute—finally fulfilling his purpose—but some part of him is stuck in that moment where he crowned her because that’s when he lost her like he lost viserys and it’s going to come back for him. there’s too much history and wounded animal pain there. he’s always comparing her to viserys-as-king from that point on, consciously or not, and waiting for what happened before to happen again and it does because it was always going to. the hurt that allows them to understand each other in ways no one else can, allows them to find healing with each other, is what’s going to kill him. later after they take king’s landing and lose more children, if he sees her pushing him away in her grief, ignoring his advice and letting her advisors come between them—that’s the end but he’s back at the start, trapped in this circle/cycle, already dead but he’ll follow the pattern. it all comes back again. and he crowned her.

[constellationclarke]

Spoilers for The Other Place but I did NOT expect to see Rhaenyra Targaryen fully spit into Black Jack/Frank Randall's mouth and then make out with him.

If I had a nickel for every time an Emma D'Arcy character made out with their uncle I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice

[redkyrii]

Saw a GIF on Twitter and needed to do this before I exploded.