#presenting War: the angry bisexual

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Christina Buttons

Few topics are more politically volatile right now than trans issues. Matters such as pediatric medical transition and questions about access to and the purpose of women's sports and spaces are complex debates that require nuance and time. Unfortunately, discussions of these issues are generally dominated by extreme, intolerant ideologues who fail to distinguish between ideas and people. As someone deeply concerned about some aspects of trans ideology, it pains me that the discussion of these delicate issues more often resembles a Jerry Springer marathon than a meaningful public policy debate.

The currently dominant, no-holds-barred strain of trans activism has spawned a right-wing backlash that has troubling implications for the broader gay, lesbian, and bisexual communities. During Pride month, this became even more evident. The right led boycotts against stores with Pride displays, leveraged the excesses of trans activism to give new life to old arguments — that the legalization of same-sex marriage was a “slippery slope” — and broadcast alarmist warnings about “state-enforced homosexuality.” This has emboldened religious fundamentalists and opportunistic provocateurs eager to seize this opportunity to propagate homophobic messages. The backlash has sent the right veering ever further towards extremism that may have the political result of curtailing the hard-earned basic rights of gay, lesbian, and bisexual people.

Pushback against the more extreme aspects of the transgender movement is absolutely warranted, but it isn't a partisan issue, despite how frequently the political left and right portray it as such. Like so many issues that get caught in the warring political tribes dynamic, we should refrain from seeing ourselves in an existential fight against evil, irredeemable forces. The fact remains that most people across society are good and have good intentions — even those who disagree with you politically. Those of us who are critical of the excesses of trans activism need to raise awareness and a better understanding of the actual issues. And currently, it is the left that will require the most persuasion from us.

The stakes are too high to take the wrong approach. Pediatric gender medicine needs to be subjected to systematic evidence reviews. The widespread implementation of “gender-affirming care” — a dangerously broad medical model supported by weak evidence — is a genuine cause for alarm. If we do not want the left to dismiss our valid concerns as mere bigotry, we must approach these matters judiciously. Otherwise, US-based medical organizations will continue to dismiss even the most reasonable calls to reconsider their treatment protocols as simply part of a right-wing moral panic.

It is natural to feel frustrated and angry in the face of what many of us sincerely believe to be an unfolding medical scandal — but we must redirect this energy into constructive dialogue and strategic action rather than resorting to counterproductive hyperbole. People’s beliefs can change with exposure to new information. I’m living proof: I used to be a so-called “social justice warrior”, but I changed my own views on “gender medicine” (and other important issues dumbed down by the culture wars) after discussing the issue with people who presented compelling evidence and reasoned arguments, rather than inflammatory rhetoric.

Our best chance of facilitating positive change is to try to gain a deeper understanding of the issues involved, learn how to communicate more effectively, base our arguments on credible evidence, avoid taking part in online pile-ons, and employ precise, careful language that addresses beliefs or specific policies — not individuals. The first step is understanding the beliefs and policies involved. Conversations about transgender issues can be difficult because there are so many different interpretations of the relevant terminology. Even the basic definition of what it means to be trans is a subject of intense debate.

Many people on the political left insist that everyone possesses an innate and immutable “gender identity” present from birth, which can be known from a very young age, and rarely, if ever, changes. In this view, being transgender is an inborn trait (like sexual orientation) rather than a choice: people are born that way, and they have no say in the matter. For many, to question these views is to attack the very existence of trans people.

This belief is sincere, but it is not accurate. The empirical evidence does not support the idea of an inherent, hardwired “gender identity.” There is currently no objective test — neither neurological nor of any other kind — that can differentiate between an individual who identifies as trans and one who does not, especially when we control for confounding factors like sexual orientation. Even most definitions of gender and “gender identity”, increasingly cemented into law and public policy, are circular and self-referential.

However, there is a wealth of evidence that gender nonconformity — encompassing preferences, behaviors, traits, and presentations that deviate from the norm associated with one's biological sex — is a natural part of human variation, influenced in part by prenatal testosterone exposure. Gender nonconformity is strongly associated with homosexuality and is particularly prevalent among those with autism. Prior to 2006, gay male children dominated pediatric gender clinic referrals. That has changed dramatically in recent years. Nowadays, adolescent females, many of whom are autistic, make up the majority lining up at gender clinics. For activists, this apparently doesn’t even raise an eyebrow. It is simply a sign of greater societal acceptance. For me and many others,  given the permanent impacts of gender medicine, such a rapid flipping of demographics warrants, at a minimum, closer inspection. Up to 35% of adolescents referred to the largest gender clinic in the UK displayed "moderate to severe autistic traits", with some pediatric gender programs reporting that approximately half of the youth in their studies are autistic. Shouldn’t that set off alarm bells?

People are born with various inherent traits, such as gender nonconformity, sexual orientation, and neurological differences like autism. Additionally, some individuals may be born predisposed to psychiatric conditions, which may include gender dysphoria — the significant and persistent distress with one's biological sex. However, a predisposition towards gender dysphoria does not guarantee a transgender outcome. In fact, the vast majority of children who experience gender dysphoria do not identify as transgender into adulthood. Most of them simply end up as homosexual adults.

Many scientific and civil rights organizations, however, have begun broadening the definition of “transgender” to encompass all instances of gender nonconformity. According to this wide classification, if a person's behavior or gender expression doesn’t align with traditional expectations for their sex, they are transgender. This expanded definition, a symptom of concept creep, is likely playing a large role in the rapidly escalating rates of people identifying as trans. Certain individuals who are born gender-nonconforming may interpret their sex-atypical traits and behaviors (including same-sex attractions), along with any distress their gender-nonconformity may cause them, as evidence that they have a "gender identity" mismatched from their body. As a result, they may wish to identify as transgender, be acknowledged as the opposite sex, and seek medical procedures that they believe will bring their bodies into alignment with their perceived sense of self.

Worryingly, many well-respected medical organizations and healthcare officials in the US are perpetuating this confusion. Informed by a misguided and imprudent model, they are prematurely “affirming” newly-adopted cross-sex identities by psychosocial, chemical, and surgical means without sufficiently investigating the root causes of the individual's gender-related distress. Meanwhile, the “Dutch Protocol” which guided, inspired, and justified the establishment of current American gender care standards, involved extensive counseling and other safeguards — safeguards which now have been largely removed in the US.

Most people are not aware of any of this. When this information is presented to them in alarmist language that suggests the speaker is primarily motivated by partisan scaremongering, they are less receptive to it and may even feel attacked. But if we present the facts calmly, people are reachable. By fostering sincere and compassionate communication, we can also assist those who might regret transitioning in the future to make informed decisions while still respecting the choices of adults who wish to maintain their trans identity.

Those of us who are critical of some aspects of trans ideology often point to the importance of social influence when we talk about people adopting transgender identities. But we forget that we can exert an influence on the behavior of people in our own peer groups too and that we therefore have a duty to model reasoned discourse if we don’t want the entire debate to descend into frenzied partisanship.

It can be reassuring to find a community of like-minded individuals online, especially if you have to self-censor in real life — as is the case with many who hold gender-critical views. It’s tempting to focus on winning allies among your new in-group, and one cheap and easy way to garner online popularity is to deride members of the outgroup. But it’s important to resist the influence of groupthink, or we can quickly end up in an echo chamber in which our opinions are never challenged.

These polarized environments inherently reward extreme views and penalize moderation. Online interactions make individuals more likely to engage in antisocial behaviors due to factors like anonymity, reduced accountability, and a mistaken feeling that what we do online doesn’t matter in the “real” world. In one particularly disturbing new example of this phenomenon, people in the gender-critical camp have been using the unfalsifiable claim that “being kind is what got us here” — a form of slippery slope fallacy — as a license to now be wantonly vindictive and cruel. And while it's true that the notion of kindness was too often misused by trans activists to shut down debate and critical thinking, disparaging people now won't win us any allies. For better or worse, a person’s sex cannot truly be changed, but insulting people who think otherwise will not change their minds.

This underscores the importance of setting boundaries — establishing limits on what is acceptable or tolerable behavior from others. Boundaries allow you to protect your values from being compromised by external influences. If someone oversteps a limit you've set, you have the right to voice your disagreement or distance yourself from that individual or organization. Remember, you can always opt out of group membership and still continue to fight for what you believe in.

Online tribalism is also heightened by algorithmic bias, which fills our timelines with outlier events presented as if they were the norm. In gender-critical discourse, our social media feeds often amplify the worst and most extreme examples the transgender community has to offer. Of course, nothing we see on these platforms is an accurate, representative sample of the millions of trans people globally.

Like all groups of people, those who identify as transgender or transsexual (as some prefer to be called) are not a monolith. There are many ways of being trans. Most trans people are not interested in erasing sex-based legal rights: they are simply trying to live their lives as an integrated part of society. And, as we know from the growing prevalence of detransitioners, trans-identity is not always permanent.

We should differentiate between the broader population of trans people and the social media activists who promote radical ideologies — many of whom are not themselves trans. Our criticism should target ideological beliefs about gender and the specific actions of individual activists — not trans people as a whole.

People on both the left and right tend to become emotionally invested in their beliefs and may find ingenious ways to rationalize them. Leftists are often highly skeptical of the right and of anything that challenges dominant left-wing narratives. This makes them more resistant to changing their minds on this issue. It can be a very disorienting experience — it was for me — to realize that the sources you’ve come to trust are wrong about trans issues and could therefore be wrong about other things, too.

It’s especially difficult to admit that you might have been wrong if you have already taken drastic and irreversible steps to medically transition yourself or to allow your child to medically transition or if you are a healthcare professional who has facilitated the medical transitions of your patients. That’s why it’s so important to approach this topic sensitively and refrain from catastrophizing. Detransitioners have frequently pointed this out, requesting not to be referred to as “mutilated” or “ruined” — descriptions that insinuate that they are damaged beyond repair.

Many people grappling with gender-related distress are in genuine pain. They are struggling to reconcile fundamental human needs of identity and belonging. They deserve our compassion and understanding, even as we critique the ideologies and practices that we believe are causing so much harm.

I am firmly convinced that those of us who are critical of trans ideology possess the best evidence and the most compelling arguments. We need to take the ethical high ground. Some socially conservative commentators seem primarily focused on gaining popularity by publicly dunking on their opponents. But genuine persuasion isn't about who can land the most devastating verbal blow. Civility and decorum are themselves conservative values, and we demean ourselves and our cause when we forsake them in favor of mudslinging. 

Now, more than ever, we need open and constructive dialogue with people of different viewpoints, especially those from the left. If we want to convince people, we need to learn to communicate more effectively, and that means challenging beliefs without alienating people. We can do so only by making calm arguments supported by evidence from reputable sources. We're unlikely to see a dramatic shift in public opinion overnight, but each respectful interaction we foster brings us closer to achieving public awareness of these issues and ultimately, more informed and evidence-based policies.

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Same principle as criticizing Islam.

[corujalesbica]

OK so I couldn't sleep last night. Cue-

Dabihawks number 1 hero x number 1 villain au

OK so basically au that takes place after the war is over. Endeavor is either dead or arrested, Shigarakis dead ( my poor smol boy :c ) and All for One is defeated. Cue Keigo is the number one hero and dabi scapes and decides to keep the League of Villains alive as its new leader, recruiting new members with the sole purpose of helping people who are still forgotten by society + being a chaotic little shit. So yeah he's the most wanted villain in Japan. Aaannnndddd

Theyre dating. And living together. Yeah.

They actually managed to get together a pretty good plan to reform hero society. Their actions, much as they seem random are always coordinated with the others with the goal of changing a quirkish society from the inside and from the outside.

They fell in love when Hawks was a spy and somehow sorted their shit out during the war. And you know what- Here's a quick scene on that.

*******

The wind is quiet tonight, but strong nevertheless. Hawks can always get a grip on these things, his feathers react to the weather quickly, staying glued to him with more force than necessary. Right now, he's in the eye of the storm, and that has absolutely nothing to do with the wind. Before him stands a man as broken as him, scars covering half of his ever healing ever hurting body, blue eyes meeting his with a piercing gaze. He wants answers, wants an explanation. Keigo wont give it to him.

"Kiss me" He says turning on his heels. He's not scared of this anymore. He won't hold back any longer.

"What ?" Dabi sounds angry, but Hawks knows he's just sad. Lonely.

"You heard me" Keigo takes a step forward "Kiss. Me." Dabi seems to consider it. Hawks is a traitor, but he already knew that. They are in opposite sides of a never ending war, and they have been from the moment they were born. The son of a villain who became a hero. The son of a hero who became a villain. And they fell in love like a knife strikes a pulsing heart ; certain and deadly. The moment seems to last forever, and when he finally decides to lean in for a kiss, Hawks puts a finger on his lips. "But do it like you mean it. Kiss me like you mean it, Touya."

"Touya Todoroki is dead." Dabi says it simply, matter of factly, still inches away from the blonde man. "Touya Todoroki," Hawks wraps his arm around the others neck, enlacing his fingers in white hair. "-is Dabi. Touya Todoroki was a broken kid, from what I am told. And Dabi is someone who wants revenge for that child. I want you to kiss me like neither and both. Love me not to forget from your past and not, so I will tell you secrets from the heroes afterward. Love me because you're you and I am me. Kiss me like you mean it. Just it. Nothing and no-one but you and me"

"And if you can't, I'll walk away. If you can't, then there's no reason to stay. If you can't-"

He loses his words, his breath, in Dabis mouth. And he can let go of the worry. Hawks can take that as a yes, as if there were no heroes and no villains, no one else in the world but the two of them. And Touya was kissing him because he meant it.

**********

I just needed that scene out of my head, it was living rent free there. Anyways, back to the au. Now to mislead any enemies from both sides they both decide to invent fake boyfriends. Dabi manages to hide his scars with LOTS of make up and idk if he can take out the staplers but for the sake of our story yes he can. So he hides his scars, puts on a ginger wig and pretends to be this nice little doctor after Hawks officially comes out as bisexual to the press.

As for Hawks,he pretends to be a drug dealer who travels to other countries a lot for business and for that reason is not that present for the leagues shenanigans, also he dresses in all black (he steals dabis clothes for this and he loves it. Dabi pretends to hate it but Hawks goes 'cmon babe is for the sake of the mission :) ' ) I can also imagine him putting on tons of eyeliner for this and most importantly he wears the same wig Dabi does when he pretends to be a doctor, because they find it funny that some people have the theory that 'doctor ' and 'drug dealer ' are the same person cheating on Hawks with Dabi and vice versa.

Anyways I love them and I want them to rule Japan and also rule the world and-

[mvgcs]

learning when to swallow your rage & when to keep it close by just in case, little girls weren’t made for war and yet it is all you know, a pretty smile coated red with eyes that calculate every move, the eerily calm silence before a raging storm ensues, the weight of the world has never felt more heavier on your shoulders.

personal.

full name: lucy amara weasley

nickname/s: lu, luce, lu-lu (she refuses to acknowledge it) Tiny (james only), weasel,

age: twenty four

birthday: october 12th

gender & pronouns: cis woman & she/her

sexuality: bisexual

relationship status: single

aesthetic & personality.

positive traits: loyal, protective, ambitious, pragmatic

negative traits: short tempered, cruel, argumentative, destructive

hobbies: she draws in her spare time, cooking, sewing up torn clothes, trying to get her fathers approval at least once,

health: depression & anxiety

scars/tattoos: has a scar from falling off one of the beds in the safe house when she was a child on her right knee, another scar running along her back from combat.

magic.

patronus: a fox ; sharp, clever, intuitive, creative.

boggart: being captured and left behind, never to be saved

wand type: elm wood, dragon heart-string, 11" & unyielding

occupation: a soldier for the order

affiliation: order of the phoenix; griffin rank.

school & house: scholomance & slytherin

childhood.

you were born screaming and wailing, grabbing the attention of everyone present at your birth. it was not calm or joyous. it was terrifying - a war was waging outside the doors and hideouts you knew as home, which was always changing. your birth was the scathing reminder that the world still was not safe, it was on fire, and at any moment death could knock. they named you lucy amara weasley, a terribly soft name for a girl that grew up to be anything but. your father knew this was no world for soft girls with blankets of safety and innocence surrounding them - - the monsters under your bed were the death eaters in your fathers bedtime stories, the skeletons in your closet were the friends your family lost through the years. there was no address attached to your name, and yet home had become the people around you - cousins, friends, your mum. there were doubts your father ever wanted you, and yet he instilled in you the knowledge of every defensive spell and maneuver. do not rely on anyone but yourself. survival instincts became second nature to you despite the safety of scholomance. but you always felt like a hassle. your emotions had always felt too big for your body; the rage coursing inside filtered out in acts of defiance; fights at school, smart comments made to teachers - you were reckless, and brave, and so fucking angry at the world. but no matter how much anger and recklessness spieled from your ever-growing body, percy weasley barely lifted an eye. and it seemed that is how your life would be.

scholomance.

scholomance had become the home away from home and popularity had become second nature ; it was easy making friends. everyone knew of lucy weasley, the slytherin, the popular girl, the trouble maker. always something attached to the name that bore no weight of importance. the hat had towered over your head, picking apart the depths of you that had never seen the day of light before, announcing the decision before you could even protest. but it was the ambitious and cutthroat nature that carved a home within the den of snakes ; and instead of being disappointed, it was where you finally felt home. the upbringing hesitantly given by percy helped with your education; despite all the flaws in mannerisms and attitude, there was ambition fueling you; needing to be the best. to prove yourself to everyone. nothing drove you like the spite that fueled your actions in childhood, but even still. approval from the one who you wanted it most from never came; it was as if he never saw what you could be. but you'd make him see. others were afraid for graduation and what it meant. for most, it meant signing away their life for a cause that might never win; and you knew you'd be one of them. willing to die before you had a chance to live. joining the order with your family, your best friends - all in the name of freedom. for the chance to step outside without a target on their back.

now.

the rage that lived inside your bones was finally useful, and it helped boost through the rankings of the order; other's were recognising your lethal combat and defensive magic. it was where you were strongest - protecting, defending - but with power came great responsibility. because for all you were good for; hesitation almost came with the cost of your life. it was supposed to be a simple look out; listening out for information and reporting back to one of the older order members. what wasn't accounted for was the stray death eater that had slipped past your defenses and in a moment of hesitation, they had left you scarred ; running along the length of your back. ever since then there's been something different. more darker. spells become more vicious, nights are spent studying poisons, spare time is pouring over battle plans, or training until you cant stand. a griffin rank. a soldier. a daughter - but not when it matters most. and you fear, that this is all your life will ever be.

[cherry-dr0p]

◇ Dedicated OC post ~ The Blyth Siblings ◇

Talking about my OCs more because I love them dearly :3

More info -

Sam Blyth

Age: 23

Pronouns/gender: They/Them [Non-binary]

Sexuality: Androsexual

Species: Angel / [REDACTED]

Height: 4'11

Description: Sam Blyth is the younger sibling of the Blyth family, being Andrew's younger sibling. Sam is a shy, sensitive soul who struggles to communicate with those they aren't familiar with and cries at any minor inconvenience that is brought upon them. They love to wear dresses due to the fact it makes them feel prettier.

They have an obsession with strawberries and adore the colour pink, especially baby pink. When you get to know Sam, they can be the kindest soul you could meet. Unfortunately Sam can get overly emotional a whole lot and can rarely stand up for theirself. They hardly ever get actually angry but when they do, they get angry. Sam LOVES animals, they deem them as cute and fluffy. However, their favourite are cats.

Powers: Sam technically is the strongest in my OC's universe, but they are completely clueless to that fact. Sam had been told from a young age to never use the abilities they have, which means that they don't use their more obvious abilities. However, being the angel of nature, although it isnt their total duty to look after the wildlife, they do so anyways due to their love for animals in general. They had soon discovered at a later age that they can communicate with animals, which makes things much easier in terms of finding out their needs.

Sam's gemstone weapon is a bow, meaning their can summon their own designed bow and arrows at any time given.

However, Sam discovers bit by bit little things, like controlling water, or making tiny gusts of wind. They cant control the weather as such, but they can currently do minor things. Sam hasn't been taught how to use their abilities, so it's only minor abilities they can do

Though when Sam feels extreme emotions (seething rage, unwavering sadness etc.), well. I won't explain. >:3 but they become much stronger for a short period of time. I will not elaborate because uhh mysteriousness or something.

Andrew Blyth

Age: 237

Pronouns/gender: He/him [Cis Male]

Sexuality: Bisexual

Species: Angel

Height: 5'6

Description: Andrew is the oldest sibling of the Blyth family, being Sam's older sibling. Andrew is filled with grace, elegance, and is extremely strict on how he presents himself. He is obsessed with how others perceive him, even going as far as to have his appearance a certain way, otherwise, it bothers him a lot. He is kind, caring, and mature. He enjoys the idea of him being a strong, corageous man.

Andrew is the role model in my universe, as others see him as almost "perfect" to a certain extent. Truth be told, how he presents himself to the public isnt how he really is. He has an alcohol problem and is quite depressed. The stress of desperately obsessing over continuing to serve others a role model wears him down. He has fought against 2 wars against the main antagonist of my universe - Discord - in which serves as a big reason people look up to him (especially the mortal humans). Only those extremely close to him know about his deteriorating mental health.

Andrew is a human born angel; being turned into one after dying unlike Sam, who was born one. His halo is twice the size of his head and his wings are huge. He was born in 1785 France, in which he became a famous poet in France(Paris) in the 1800s. Sadly, that was short lived as he died and became an angel in his 30s.

He loves to read books and write poems, and is also extremely intelligent. He can learn things he wants to rather quick with his intelligence and smarts.

(He's my most traumatised OC too 💀)

Power: Andrew has a couple of powers.

1. He has puppeteer strings that come from any surface to lift something/someone or control someone(for an extremely short amount of time. I.e. a minute or two). His strings are green and have a soft green glow to them, and weak or sturdy depending on Andrew's willpower or strength. However, this ability has some cons. First of all, he hardly ever combats anymore, so he rarely uses it for combat. Second, they have to be on a surface (i.e they cant come from the sky). Third, how sturdy or strong the strings are depends on his physical strength at the time (If he is weak, the strings will be too, and vice versa). Finally, He can only control people for a very short period of time, as it uses up his magic and strength very quickly. Typically he doesnt use the controlling part of his power as he just doesnt like the general feel of being able to do that.

2. Andrew's gemstone weapon is a golden spear, in which he can summon as many as he wishes in a single battle.

Yeah I'm done rambling :3 I love these two sm... But perhaps I shall introduce more later down the line.

[star-dot-net]

My thoughts & feelings on Loki

Thought I should give my two-cents given the debate occurring right now. I will discuss:

Sylvie

Kevin Wrong

Lokius

Sylki(e)

This is just my thoughts! None of this is objective (none of this is fact, necessarily) it is simply my take on the situation(s).

Sylvie

No sugarcoating it; they majorly fucked Sylvie’s character this season. The writing seemed off, and if you removed every scene with Sylvie in it, the story would still make perfect sense. I hate that, because I love Sylvie. First season she was so badass! She was a strong character. This season she was a filler. She did not have any development, which would be fine if they had written her as a static character this season. But they didn’t. They wrote her dialogue at the end as if she’d gone through some revelation of some kind, when in reality she was literally returning to where she had been at the beginning of the season. They wrote her like shit. I am very upset about it.

Sylki(e)

I would not call myself “anti-sylki.” However, I personally feel uncomfortable by the incestuous nature of the ship (they have the same parents). I am not uncomfortable with it because it “ruins my ship,” because shipping wars are fucking dumb. I can admit part of me just… doesn’t like the ship. That being said, there is something to be discussed with the Lokius vs Sylki ship debate; I have seen a few Lokius shippers being sexist about Sylvie. I have seen many more fetishizing MLM relationships. I hate that. You should not SHIP something and use your ship as an excuse to be a bigot or a creep. Another point I see some people bringing up is related to queerness. There’s this ridiculous argument that Lokius shippers are only wanting queer relationships; that they don’t like Sylki because it’s het. My question is: Is Sylki straight? Because, in my eyes, we have two bisexual genderfluid characters. That is, inherently, queer. Regardless, because of the presentation of the two characters as cis in the show, it also feels a bit like queer erasure. What I’m saying is: if they had explored the identities a bit more, the queerness of both characters? I still wouldn’t be comfortable. It just doesn’t feel right to me. Having said that: ship away! My discomfort should not (and does not) dictate your ship. Not when, in technicality, there isn’t truly anything harmful about Sylki. I may make an entire post discussing the queerness of Sylki, so stay tuned.

Lokius

Heads up— I’m a Lokius shipper. That being said, I also have the ability to go about an analysis without being too biased (I hope). Continue with this knowledge in mind.

I despise the MLM fetishization aspect of this ship. There are a lot of cishet girls doing this in the fandom. If that sentence makes you feel defensive, you might be one of them. Look into that.

Additionally, I want to stress so hard that Loki is not a man. He is genderfluid. Even Kevin Wrong confirmed that much. Lokius is still queer. It was always queer. It is, however, definitely not just MLM. Just wanted to point that out.

Continuing from the Sylvie sexism— while I’m sure some Lokius shippers are indeed being sexist, think about it the other way around, too. Why does Sylvie need a love interest? So many women in film and TV are cast simply as love interests. Sylvie doesn’t need to be. She doesn’t DESERVE to be boiled down to that. She’s powerful, and the writers took that away from her this season, and it makes me angry. Regardless of my feelings, the idea that she must be in a relationship with a “man” (again— neither Sylvie nor Loki are “men” or “women”, but for the sake of simplicity I’m just going to refer to them as such since Marvel&Disney can’t take their heads out of their asses). That idea— doesn’t that feel a little demeaning? Can’t she live her life without a romantic connection to a man? I don’t know. I just think the situation has much more nuance than “Lokius shippers sexist!11!!1!!1!”

Kevin Wrong

I don’t really have much to say about him, to be honest. “We can’t see inside Loki’s head” made me actually laugh out loud. What, in the everloving fuck do you mean by that, sir?! You are his thoughts, in a manner of speaking. You WRITE HIS THOUGHTS. It’s the most bullshit excuse for queerbaiting I’ve ever fucking heard, actually. Absolutely ridiculous. Again, however, this one’s biased because of my Lokius shipper status as a person. It just feels like a lame excuse for lack of representation.

Thank you for reading my word vomit!! Altogether, I loved this show. It’s just flawed, like most shows are. It could have been more inclusive, like most shows can be. Writers are people, too, though, and not everyone has as much freedom of speech in that field as you’d think they do— regardless of what the writers might have wanted, Disney’s S&P most likely would not have okay-ed the queer relationship. Kevin Wrong was one writer; keep that in mind. He’s one cishet writer in the writer’s room with many other people. He might just be a bumbling idiot, guys. He might just be.

ANYWAYS! Ship what you want (as long as it’s not harmful)! Don’t harass other people for their ships!!!!!! BE KIND. ETC. IT’S ALMOST NEVER THAT DIRE— FANFICTION EXISTS, HEADCANONS EXIST!!! I understand it’s disappointing if your ship doesn’t go canon, but sometimes you don’t get what you want. And that’s okay!

[starlliiqht]

GETTING TO KNOW ARABELLA . . .

BASICS.

 ⋅   Full Name : Arabella Margaret Huntzberger .  ⋅   Nicknames : Almost everyone calls her Ella ; sometimes her mother refers to her as diavoletto (italian for devil) ; her father always called her prinzessin (german for princess) .  ⋅   Age : 25 years old .  ⋅   Birthdate : July 18th, 1998 .  ⋅   Birthplace : State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil .  ⋅   Zodiac Sign :  ⋅   Occupation : Musician ; member of New Romantics .  ⋅   Gender : Cis Woman .  ⋅   Pronouns : She/her .  ⋅   Sexuality : Bisexual .  ⋅   Civil Status : Divorced .  ⋅   Skeleton : New Romantics (muse a) .

PHYSICALITY.

⋅   Height : 160 cm . ⋅   Body Type : Ella has a curvaceous "hourglass" figure . The girl feels content with her body. It is not something easily changed. ⋅   Hair : She wears her long blonde hair parted in the middle or a little to the side. She prefers to leave it natural, but often styles it with French braids. ⋅   Eyes : Clear blue eyes, she needs to wear glasses due to her myopia, but she opts for eye lenses. ⋅   Skin : Fair complexion runs in the family, Arabella is no different. Tanning nor burning is something she has much experience with. ⋅   Markings : The brazilian has some scars on her body obtained while she was an athlete. She also as four tattos ― “the faith and the fighter” under the left breast ; a rose on the hip ; “dirrty” on a buttock ; and her ex husband name "cadiel" on her lower back . ⋅   Walking : Arabella walks gracefully, looking like a model on the catwalk even in her pajamas . ⋅   Speech : Although Arabella's English is perfect, she often speaks too quickly, making it impossible for her words to be understood ; so, she often has to repeat herself . ⋅   Posture/Bearing : Arabella stands very straight, as if she were constantly posing for a portrait . She perfected the position from a young age, so she seems to handle it like a glove .

PERSONALITY.

⋅   Presentation : Ella is often described as an energetic woman, full of life and an easy laugh . ⋅   Interactions : The Brazilian woman is a match for any mango, a social creature that fits into any circle. Interact with any type of person and always feel like a fish in the water when doing so . ⋅   Lures : It's no wonder that back at home, people think Arabella is the life of the party . She likes loud music, disco lights and the smells of alcohol and sweaty bodies from dancing . ⋅   Temperament : Arabella says she only asks for peace, but the truth is that she only knows how to live at war with herself. She can't tell if she's crazy or if the people around her are just messing up. She gets angry easily and her number one weapon against this type of emotion is her typical dose of oxycodone. ⋅   Reputation : Arabella is an extremely sensual and sexual woman . As she does not try to hide or deny it, she is often described as a sexual deviant or cheap whore by those who find out about her life from other people .

HABITS.

⋅   Favorite Hours : Ella is a night owl and would love to live in an endless night .  ⋅   Punctuality : She is unable to arrive at anything on time. Even if her life depended on it, she would be terribly late. ⋅   Nervous Ticks: When she is nervous, Arabella takes a cigarette from her pack and presses it to her lips, relieving some of her frustration with each drag. ⋅   Sleeping Style: She alternates between sleeping on her back and side. She keeps two pillows underneath her head.

EDUCATION.

⋅   School : Arabella never cared about school and she was terrible at it, unless she wanted to make her father believe that she was living a nice and innocent life, away from drugs . ⋅   Known Languages : Beside English, she is also fluent in portuguese, given she lived most of her life in Brazil . Because of her family, she also learn how to speak german and italian, to communicate mostly with her grandparents . ⋅   Talents : Ella is a sublime ice skater, if it weren't for her injury she would certainly have won at least one gold medal at the Winter Olympics . More recently, she learned to play the guitar and uses much of her free time to improve her technique. ⋅   Learning Style : Arabella is a hands-on and auditory learner.

PHILOSOPHY.

⋅   Religion : Arabella was raised Catholic, but over time stopped practicing the religion. However, when she hits rock bottom she tends to scream at a God she doesn't know if she believes in. ⋅   Superstitions : Ella is not a creature of superstitions, but she believes that it is bad luck to toast with water and that whoever toasts and does not drink will spend the next seven years without having sexual relations . ⋅   Virtues : Arabella can be kind and patience, not only with her loved ones but also with those who need it at the moment . ⋅   Vices : The brazilian exhibit list, pride and sometimes greed .

RELATIONSHIPS.

⋅   Family : Arabella is an only child and always had a troubled relationship with her parents, often question herself if the loved her . So, she finds family doesn’t require blood relations, feeling rather close to some friends them with her immediate family. ⋅   Friendships : Arabella has many acquaintances, people with whom she can party all night and drink until she drops. True friends, those who she feels she can tell anything and still be loved by them, she can count on one hand . ⋅   Friends in Need : Arabella is very sweet and a people pleaser, often sacrificing her own comfort and joy for the pleasure of others . She is always ready to defend her friends, showing care and sincerity in her actions . ⋅   Needing a Friend : She doesn't ask for help . Arabella wants to deal with things on her own . ⋅   Discord : She will either ignore it until it goes away or buy a gift to appease the person. ⋅   Enemies : The only thing that a person can do to become an enemy to Arabella is to betray her, in anyway . If someone were to break her trust, she would never speak with them again .

[ghostlyhq]

𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐡𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐨 .                                 freya , the deity of war .

name: freya age: 1000+ ( 30 appearance ) gender: demi woman pronouns: she / they sexuality: bisexual occupation: bounty hunter hair colour: white eye colour: grey height: 5'2" inspired by: freya , god of war ( video games )

𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝

you were a warrior long before you were a wife, defended your home with a valour which always belonged to you. heroism — you wanted it, but in the end it was a sacrifice. wedding yourself to a man you hated, an invader — you formed an uneasy alliance with odin and to asgard you went. you lived with it until you couldn't, this man you despised. the day you broke free of him, he stole your warrior spirit, cursed you, exiled you. lonesome, you retreated, left behind the children you adored for you were bound for a life away from asgard. you found yourself in novigrad, established a home far from the humans you were so wary of. later you would begin to collect bounties, etching out a life in this strange land, far from everything you know. the longer you spent here, the more you grew to know them. you can't help it, the shell of your heart yearns to understand them. humankind, though a strange and angry thing, is something you love. you know now that you will not stand by the gods that shunned you, but with the humans that need you.

𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐧𝐬

baldur's death drove freya to the brink of madness. closed off, she shut herself off from those around here, anyone who tried to care for her or simply just to know her. she wishes for vengeance more than anything, and curses the gods for the injustice.

𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬

bounty hunting partner — a katniss and gale type vibe? someone who works alongside her, the only real person that knows her and what makes her tick.

informant — someone they speak to regularly and pay well for information on bounties.

lovers, past and present — freya has needs and has taken many a lover to bed. would love to explore the dynamics of those she might have lingering feelings for (or vice versa), or someone who now dislikes her, etc. lots of possibilities!

[thegreatwarhq]

character name & any aliases: neville augustus longbottom 

character dob & age: july 30, 2004 || 18, 19 in july 

canon or oc: canon 

character pronouns/gender identity/romantic & sexual identity: he/him || cis man || bisexual character 

faceclaim: george mackay 

character house/past house if relevant: gryffindor 

which school they attended: hogwarts 

character alignment in the war/explain if and why it’s changed since the battle: still with the D.A.! 

where have they been living for the past year: neville stayed at hogwarts, after the battle. the longbottom estate was still overrun with death eaters from the attempt on his gran, and to be truthful it never really felt like home. important 

character information/bio: he didn’t precisely remember being told in words, what his parents had undergone when he was an infant. neville just remembered knowing, the same way most people just know how to walk without remembering being taught. their bravery and sacrifice and where that had ultimately lead him to was rubbed indelibly into his young years like fingerprints over all of his memories. his grandmother never made any bones about it; she was matter of fact from his earliest memories. looking back, he’s sure there were benefits to how augusta raised him, neville does pride himself on talking to his students like they’re people rather than babies, but he couldn’t help but wish that not every moment of growing up was so marked by expectation for him.

from his grandmother to his great aunts and uncles, they all expected him to do great things and be a great wizard because of what his parents had undergone and their own legacy they had left to him. of course, neville didn’t have any way to tie this in with the fact that he didn’t present his magic until it was nearly time for him to be expecting a hogwarts letter… but he also feels like it certainly didn’t help. there were a lot of things from neville’s childhood that didn’t register as ‘not normal’ until much later, one of which being the amount of times his great uncle put his life in danger, trying to provoke his magic into presenting to save himself. it was simply how he thought the world worked.

he had thought that going to hogwarts would be a new beginning, as much as that managed to terrify him he also was desperate for a new start… for friends. spending all of his time with octogenarians or higher didn’t really lend him much to social skills, and it took much of his time through hogwarts to start to figure out who he was, and what he could do.

of course, forging himself in the fire that was the death eater occupation of hogwarts during his seventh year was truthfully not the best way to find out who he really was or what he was capable of, but that was what fate placed into his hands. stepping up to take charge and make the decisions that no one else wanted to make, or taking the punishment being threatened by one of the carrows or by snape just became second nature. it placed a new sense of purpose in neville, one that turned to steel in his chest as the year went on and terrible things just seemed to keep happening; and they just had to keep waiting. waiting for rescue. waiting for things to be *finished*.

after the battle well… is neville stopped to be able to get his mind off of the fact that he was probably the last person harry spoke to, before? is he supposed to be able to keep himself to revisiting the small minutes of interaction where he could have asked harry where he was going, or tried to stop him? is he supposed to stop being angry at himself for failing to do *anything*, at the adults who were supposed to take care of them, maybe even at harry for going like a lamb to the slaughter?

it was the sort of writhing mass of unwieldy negative feelings that settled into neville’s stomach and made a home there, over the year of harry’s capture. even now that harry’s back, it’s a sort of clenched fist feeling he doesn’t know how to release. like a held breath, prepared to yell. it’s easier to just keep all of that exactly where it is. neville doesn’t know how to let it go. 

MUN INFORMATION: 

ALIAS/NAME: jesse 

AGE: 29 

TIMEZONE: cst

[ask-the-riders]

A Chance Reunion

While out on a job, War hears a familiar song being sung, and she decides to follow it. That decision leads to an attack, a reunion with her best friend, and a reboot caused by immense embarrassment

The glitch made a face and paused what she was doing, the wind carrying some unknown medley in her direction. She knew she had a job to do here, but at the same time... What was that song?

As she began to follow the sound, doing her best to avoid the pricker plants and thorny brush, War gained a sense of familiarity. She'd heard that song before, but she couldn't pinpoint from where. The tune grew louder and louder until the song was crystal clear, and as the rider emerged from the bushes that lined a long forgotten path, she spotted the singer. The mystery person was perched on the edge of a dock, singing to themselves with their feet in the water. They seemed unaware of her presence, and she furrowed her brow bones. 

That sense of familiarity grew stronger, but before War had the chance to call out to the singer, a guttural growl was heard. Immediately following the growl, War was slammed into the side of a tree by the force of someone's full weight. She cried out in shock and instinctively reached for her sockets, but as if the attacker had seen this move before, one of his hands snatched both of her wrists, pinning them above her head. She screeched and began thrashing, her figure glitching heavily, "H-Hey, what the hell do you think you're doing?! Let me go, jackass!" 

Her attacker tilted his head and chuckled, his voice low and husky, "I don't think so, Glitchy. Not when I've already put you on the menu for tonight's dinner." Her sockets widened and she continued thrashing, "You can't eat me! I'll turn to dust the second my soul shatters!" The monster before her leaned closer, the stench of death and decay on his breath as he spoke, intentionally flashing his sharp, serrated teeth at her, "I know." He lifted his free hand, entirely too content as he tugged off her scarf, eyeing the fabric for a moment, "Huh. This might be somethin' my kid would like. Guess I'll have to hold onto it and ask her." 

With her neck vertebrae now exposed and vulnerable, War scrunched up her shoulders. Watching the futile attempt to hide her neck from him, the elder of the two skeletons laughed, "Cute, but I can still see your neck." He paused, leaning even closer and grinning as she squirmed. The instant she tilted her head again and he saw an opening, he buried his face in the crook of her neck and mumbled, "If you were anyone else, you'd be dead by now. You're funny though, so you should count yourself as lucky." As the glitch felt a grand total of four rows of jagged teeth graze over her neck, she whimpered, tightly squeezing her eyes shut.

A voice called out to her attacker and he let out a sigh, pulling back to look at a second monster. Hesitantly cracking an eye open to peek at her incidental savior, War frowned; That posturing, the clothing style, and those violet eye lights... Memories began to resurface and the rider narrowed her eyes in confusion, "......Betta?" The smaller of the pair before her blinked, her attention now focused solely on the glitch. With some prodding, her attacker released her wrists and took a step back, allowing his daughter to move closer. War's face became flushed as the other female skeleton began to sniff at her, starting at her face. As she continued sniffing around the glitch's body, she made a face, promptly deciding to step back and nonchalantly check her out, her violet, heart shaped eye lights roaming over War. As the realization finally clicked into place, she seemed to perk up, her eyes wide with excitement as a piranha-like grin stretched across her face, "MALLY! IT'S REALLY YOU!"

War yelped as she was tackled, nearly losing her balance. Letting out a deep sigh of relief, War made a sound of confirmation, awkwardly wrapping her arms around the lake dweller, "Yeah, it's me. I'm glad you finally recognized me, Weirdo." Betta giggled, visibly giddy at being reunited with her old friend. She shared a look with the elder lake dweller, "Dad, look! It's Mal! It's my best friend!" Her father rolled his false eye lights, disappointment flickering in his gaze at having lost his prey, "I can see that, Betta. I'll leave now so you guys can catch up, or whatever." Betta made a sound in acknowledgment, and with that, her father dismissed himself, vanishing into the forest. As soon as he was gone, War let out another breath, flooded by even more relief than before, "Oh, thank god. I thought he was gonna kill me. As much as I hate existing sometimes, I really don't wanna be someone's dinner." 

Betta continued grinning excitedly at her, "He would've done it too, if I hadn't shown up in time." War offered her a slight smile, "I don't doubt that at all. Thanks to you and your impeccable timing, I get to live another day." Betta beamed at her, "Mmhm! Once again, I've saved the day with only minimal effort." The glitch couldn't help the amused chuckle that left her; She'd forgotten just how much she missed this dweeb. Her body froze up and glitched in surprise, her entire face flushing bright blue as she felt teeth press against her own. It wasn't the first time Betta had kissed her like this, but it'd been so long that War had forgotten the way it felt. Her body began to relax and for a moment, she began to cave, melting into the kiss. 

Remembering her current circumstances, she placed her hands on Betta's shoulders, nudging the lake dweller and lightly pushing her away. Betta tilted her head in confusion, and War sighed, visibly flustered, "I know you're excited to see me, and I know it's been a while, but you can't do that anymore. I found my soulmate, and he probably wouldn't appreciate you kissing me." The lake dweller pouted, "Sorry about that. It's just been way, way too long, and I missed getting to kiss you... I'll try not to do it again." War's blush became a bit brighter and she looked away from her friend, "Thank you. At least you're listening to me, this time." Betta made a face and huffed, "Well, it's not my fault that you always smelled like chocolate! Pardon me for thinking you smelled nice." 

Memories of previous times the lake dweller had kissed her began to invade the glitch's mind, and her figure fizzled as she recalled the other's hands wandering on more than one occasion. War's face burned even brighter, and before she could snap at her friend to shut up, Betta smiled again as if nothing was wrong, completely casual as she chirped, "So you finally found your soulmate, huh? What's he like?" War shrunk back a little in embarrassment, avoiding eye contact, "He's... He's uh... He's great. Funny, unbelievably smart, good with animals, and absurdly charming." Betta hummed, "What's his name? Is he hot?" 

War's body glitched again and she glanced around, needing to remind herself that Pestilence wasn't there with her before answering, "His name's Pestilence... Wasn't always that, though. Mine got changed too. It's 'War' now. But yeah......... He's hot." Her face grew even brighter at the admission and she mentally cursed at herself. If Pest had heard her admit that she thought he was attractive, there'd be no way he'd ever let her live it down. The lake dweller remained completely casual, her brow bones lifting as she noticed War's scarf on the ground; Her dad must've dropped it when he left to go off and pout somewhere. She leaned down to pick it up, before offering the item to the rider, "You guys got your names changed, huh? That's cool." She paused as War reached out to take back her scarf.

As War busied herself with putting it on again and looping it around her neck, Betta watched her, tilting her head in curiosity, "Is he good in the sack, too?" As expected, the glitch's sockets widened, almost the size of small saucers as she stared at the lake dweller in disbelief, "...Are you seriously asking me that right now, Betta?" The lake dweller shrugged, entirely unashamed, "Yeah, I am. I'm just curious, y'know? I wanna make sure he's good at pleasing my bestie, in every sense of the word." War made a face, "I appreciate your concern, but I'm not answering that. That is extremely personal, and I won't be discussing it with you today." 

Knowing her friend all too well, Betta arched a brow bone and smirked, "So in other words, yes, he's amazing. I gotcha, Grumpy Butt." To finish off her statement, she teasingly winked, and War's sockets began to cloud over. Reaching maximum embarrassment, a dial tone sound could be heard, and War's body went limp. Acting fast, Betta was able to catch her, lifting the glitch into her arms and sighing as a reboot bar appeared above her head. Unbelievable; They hadn't seen each other in years, and after not even an hour of finally speaking again, War had already shorted out on her. The lake dweller couldn't help the way her expression softened as she looked at the rider, and she shook her head, smiling slightly. 

It was unbelievable, but at the same time, it was exactly like War to do this sort of thing. Despite all the time that had passed, the glitch really hadn't changed at all.

[purplenoiseinmyhead]

When did Korra and Asami made love for the 1st time? 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩💖

(I made this post to answer this one)

🔍 This is my personal theory 😄:

I heard some people say that their first kiss was the one we saw on this page (Turf Wars comic):

However, I do not agree. In fact, I think a lot about how they talked about their feelings for the first time. And I'm pretty sure it was because Asami couldn't take it anymore and she finally kissed Korra at some point after the canon explosion. So then, she had to explain to Korra why she kissed her, but Korra didn't need too many explanations because she knew it, at least instinctively. --

↘️ But let me start from the beginning:

Ever since Korra returned to Republic City, she could tell that her interactions with Asami were a bit different. Maybe in her mind it was normal for the two of them to be charming to each other... BUT this time Korra could felt the strange tension between them:

So when Asami finally kissed her, Korra wasn't really surprised by it. I believe Korra didn't think quite about what was happening between them, at least consciously, because she had a lot going on her mind. In fact, this is what she said on the getaway to the Spirit World:

Returning to the present (to the pre-confession moment), remember that she had been learning to be more sensitive to energy for a long time. So now she doesn't need a lot of words to know how people feel. The only "problem" was that she wasn't 100% sure of Asami's feelings because she probably thought Asami was completely straight. (I'm being serious about this.) And with that idea in mind, it turned out harder for her to know if Asami was into her as a romantic interest. After Asami kissed her, that "problem" was finally solved in her mind.

💬 A little talk about Asami's sexual orientation and romantic orientation:

She's clearly bisexual oriented in both aspects (romantic and sexual). End of the story 😂

💬 A little talk about Korra's sexual orientation and romantic orientation:

Now talking about Korra's deep feelings. I know that even the authors said that she is bisexual. But looking at Korra and Mako's interactions in the past and comparing them to Korra and Asami's, it's clear that she feels much better with Asami. Here's my bet: maybe Korra is sexually "bisexual", but when it comes to romantic interactions, she's a bit more into women. We can call this "emotionally" lesbian. (I think this is a term of mine, never heard that from anyone but I know it's possible.) ✨ She's begining to realize what she really wants in a relationship since she started hers with Asami ✨ Many of you may say that Korra and Mako were too young to know how to be in a relationship, which is true. But also, I think the behavior that she naturally has with a man, that is, that she doesn't hesitate to be physically aggressive with a man and gets angry easily... this doesn't happen to her with a woman. This behavior is not exactly related to age. Because now she has grown up, but she is still tough and aggressive towards Mako in the present, but she is totally incapable of being like that towards Asami. I leave you some pictures to compare:

💢 Mako and Korra arguments:

Her arguments with Mako mostly all the time ended up bad. With both of them really angry which each other and none of them wanting to ask for forgiveness.

💢 Asami and Korra arguments:

Her arguments with Asami mostly all the time end up fine with both them in good terms. They are always open to ask for forgiveness.

📝 My personal conclusion:

This all made me conclude that, what she can achieve with a man is a kind of a colleague relationship with sexual encounters but with a woman she can really achieve a fully, physical and emotional relationship. By the way... a few days ago I found out about a concept called "comphet" (Compulsory Heterosexuality) and I could see Korra pictured in what I read. You can investigate about it here. Anyway, I don't discard the idea that Korra can really enjoy having sex with a man but I'm pretty sure she's unable to fall in love with a man. That's at least what I think... in my opinion, of course. You are free to be against this opinion. 🤝 -- So, with all that said:

👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩💖 When was Korra and Asami's first kiss?

I believe this happened in the days after the whole Kuvira issue was finally over. I think one day they were alone and Asami cried over her father's death and when Korra was comforting her, Asami suddenly kissed her.

And then she had to explain everything she was feeling towards her.

With that confession Korra finally understood what was going on between them and for sure she accepted it because she felt the same. So they began their relationship.

There were fifteen days between Kuvira's attack and Varrick's wedding.

I think the confession was in the first week.

And in the second week they spent together A LOT OF TIME ALONE. Like A LOT...

👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩🔞👅💦 So when was Korra and Asami's first time making love?

Maybe you could say it is precipitated that they had their first sexual encounter in the second week of their relationship, but think about this:

On one side, we have a Korra who has faced death for the million time... She wants soooo hard to live for herself for once in her life... Plus, she's 21 years old! Let the girl be.

On the other side, we have Asami, who has been waiting for Korra for three years and also she's now all alone because she has lost all her family with her father's death. She's also 22 years old! She deserves to be happy.

Both of them have their emotions to the limit.

Plus, they are friends since 4 years ago... they are really good friends. Not precisely unknown people.

You combine all that and... YEAH ✨, they made love 💖💖 for the first time on the second week of relationship. A few days before Varrick's wedding.

🎲 That's my bet! C'mon, just look at their faces OMG:

🎒 The reason why they decided to go on a getaway so soon:

I think that's the reason Korra didn't doubt to propose Asami going to a vacation together. Because they both noticed their relationship was deepening fast but the compromises with the city didn't allow them to feel free to spend enough time alone together. (By the way, Korra, did you brought at least two pairs of panties? Your bag was ridiculously small! You planned to be naked all the time or what hahahahah)

🔞 The night at Suyin's house 🌚🌝

So, with all the previous text, now we can understand why they are on a room on the guest house on Suyin's place, and Korra doesn't doubt to lead Asami to bed with a smirk on her face 😏

With this panel and all the text above, we have finally confirmed: ✅ They both are sexually active for sure since a loooooong time ago. Even before the Spirit World getaway... 😏😏 Just look at those faces! Hahaha Ps. Btw, is Asami bitting her lip????? Oh my gosh 🔞 Let's discuss this please. Tag me..... -- Hope you liked this testament. 😂😂😂 Bye 💖💖💖💖

[ahhhsami]

I really like what you said the other day in response to someone who mistakenly thought Asami was white. I do have some comments on another part of her identity you mentioned in that response. Hear me out, but I don't think that it is fair to say Asami is not a lesbian. She could be. She could also be bi or pan.

Lots of lesbians date men before coming out. This is due to compulsory heterosexuality or comphet which basically means societal pressures makes women feel compelled to be attracted to men. Yes, the society in Avatar is different. However, in Turf Wars it is explained that homophobia does exist in this world, so it would make sense that people would be closetted or take longer to figure things out. In the comic, Asami is also nervous to tell Korra's parents about their relationship because of this homophobia. Kya even explains that the fire nation is the most homophobic of the nations. The fire nation helped form Republic City and Asami is ethnically fire nation. Therefore, this influence would definitely be present in her life which could make her feel compelled to date men.

I'm not saying that Korra or Asami are definitely lesbians, but they could be. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's never explicitly stated if they are lesbians or bisexuals in Avatar or any real world official media. Therefore, they could be either of them. If a lesbian sees some of themselves in the characters and projects their identity a little bit, there is nothing wrong with that. If a bisexual sees some of themselves in the characters and projects their identity a little bit, there is nothing wrong with that. I don't think it's erasure to say that they could be either, but it is erasure to say they can't be one of them.

I'm a transgender lesbian. I strongly identity with most of Korra's traits. We have very similar, flaws and strengths. She feels like the only person I have ever identified with in media. One of the many ways I relate to Korra is her roamances. One time I dated one of my best friends, a straight man. At first I was head over heels and extremely excited. I saw a future with us. After several months I kept saying stuff like, "This part of our relationship would be better if I was with a woman," and stuff like that. Just like Korra in season 2, I started getting angry at him very easily, sometimes over nothing. We love board games, but couldn't finish one without someone getting pissy. I eventually realized that I couldn't do this anymore and I told him I made a mistake and that I'm not attracted to men. We are still very good friends and if I could be attracted to men, he would be the perfect boyfriend for me. Sometimes I think Korra is a lesbian like me. Sometimes, I think she's bi and just Makko wasn't a good fit. Either way is a perfectly fine way to think about it. No matter what, she is a badass sapphic and I'm glad we can all be inspired by her in some way.

Hey first off, I want to thank you for sending this and being really awesome about the way you've approached this. You don't always see it on tumblr, so it's much appreciated!

There's a lot you've said, so instead of responding completely line for line, I'm just going to write my complete opinion about this and hopefully it makes sense.

Bryke had made two official statements after the airing of the show, none that overtly say that they are bisexual, but it is heavily implied, especially in Bryan's statement which is the first post linked (x)(x). As quoted by Bryan, "Despite what you might have heard, bisexual people are real!"

Comphet is a legitimate issue in the world today, but I personally never got that feeling from Korra or Asami (through the series or comics). I believed that their relationships with Mako were genuine and it just didn't work out (all of them being the issue, not just Mako, lol). But again, that is my own personal viewpoint.

Erasure is the thing that I want to tackle most and hopefully I can do that cohesively and in an understandable way. The idea of labeling and identities on a personal standpoint is fluid and is on a spectrum. As a person, you don't need to label yourself or you can label yourself if you'd like, you can be as you are and that's okay. Personally, I identify as Queer because Bisexual does fit me, but just not completely in the way I'd like it to. Pan doesn't fit quite right, neither does Lesbian. So, thus I label myself as Queer leaning towards Bisexual tendencies.

But this idea and concept of labeling is very different when it comes to media and it's not focused on a real life person and their experiences. Labeling in media is important and that is because of positive representation in society. Often times, bisexual characters are portrayed in negative ways, so when there is positive portrayal and representation, this is important to the nth degree. Korra and Asami also weren't just side characters, they were main characters. So to have a clearly positive portrayal of bisexual characters on a mainstream show, that was huge. On top of this, this was a children's show, so to be a little kid or even someone older, finally seeing someone that is like you would be a significant moment in your life. This is honestly another reason why I love Korrasami so much, because of my own struggles with identity.

This all can be countered with the idea that they're lesbians and wouldn't that be good representation too? Yes, it would be, but it also wouldn't be as significant when taking into account all of TV/Film media.

If we breakdown and take in all of the positive representation of Lesbians vs Bisexuals, it would be more significant for them to be bisexual in a time where there was little to no good bisexual representation. In 2013 '64.7 percent of inclusive films included gay male characters. 23.5 percent included lesbian characters, and 17.7 percent contained bisexual characters.' Presently, on cable TV 34% of regular and recurring LGBTQ characters were lesbian and 18% of regular and recurring LGBTQ characters were bisexual. On streaming, lesbian representation makes up 28% and bisexual representation makes up 19%. These numbers don't even break down if it's positive representation either! So again, although real life sexuality is fluid or can be on a spectrum, media labeling is more rigid and representative of a specific area. Making it extremely significant and influential when there is a character labeled a specific way, bisexual in this case.

To this day, people still deny that bisexual people exist. Often times the debate is whether a person is gay or straight, but nothing more. So erasure is a big deal and claiming that Korra or Asami are lesbians can be detrimental in ways that people may not have thought of at first. People can obviously identify with a character and feel attachment to them, but there is no reason to not feel that attachment if their sexual orientation may differ from your own.

[residents-of-the-darkforest]

Dark Forest Resident: Pitchfang

Aliases / Nicknames: Pitch, Badger-Cat

Gender: tom

Sexuality: bisexual, aromantic

Family: unnamed mother, unnamed father

Other Relations: Sootfang, unnamed apprentice

Clan: Shadowclan

Rank: deputy

Characteristics: kills warriors of Clans threatening his own, brings bodies near their camps

Number of Victims: 3

Number of Murders: 3

Murder Method: snapping necks

Known Victims: Gingerwhisker, Shellfrost, Elmbreeze

Cause of Death: fall, blunt force trauma, killed by Cedarnose

Cautionary Tale: ??

Story: 

He was a Half-Clan kit, which of course put some contempt onto his existence. His mother got together with a loner, and didn’t bother hiding it. She was the kind that was unapologetic about that kind of stuff. It was her own life, and that. What would the leader do? Throw out a perfectly good warrior carrying a future perfectly good warrior?

In spite of the stares and comments, most didn’t take their dislike of the situation over the kit. There were even a few of the warriors that chose to play with him out of sympathy, or perhaps wanting to show their Clanmates that he was just like the rest of them.

Pitchkit felt cared for enough to love his Clan, and rejected enough to feel a need to prove himself more than the other kits.

Sootfang, one of the warriors who often played with him, and who became his mentor. He supported Pitchpaw’s resolve to work as hard as he could, reminding him every now and again to take a break.

Pitchpaw was about to change the elder’s bedding when he overhead them discussing him, saying how with his loner blood, he would run away at the first sign of danger, among other heartbreaking things.

He ran off into the woods until his legs were too tired to move anymore. Sootfang caught up with him, leading to a long, heart-to-heart. Sootfang revealed that he, too, was Half-Clan. In fact, hardly Clan at all, according to what they said when he was Pitchpaw’s age. His mother was a loner who became sick while expectant with him, and sought out the Clan’s aid. She died shortly after he was born, and the Clan took him in.

Pitchpaw had been shocked, and part of him felt broken to now the Clan he loved could be so cruel to those who were different. The other part felt warm and comforted, knowing he wasn’t alone and that there were those that did love him in spite of knowing his origin.

In addition, Sootfang was now one of the most respected cats in the Clan because of how hard he worked and trained. Pitchpaw’s resolve returned. He would do it too.

And he was rewarded. He became respected, admired, deputy.

The bitter hurt of early rejection was forever present, but distant now, as though it had happened to someone else. He truly did love his Clan, every warrior and every piece of territory it protected. He was reasonably angry when Riverclan threatened war. 

They were in a drought and needed more territory for food, but the territory they wanted was home to medicine Shadowclan needed, with five of its warriors sick.

Shadowclan could not afford a battle right now. It was stretching itself weak as it was, with warriors needing to go out, in, and right back out on patrols. Everyone was either too sick or too tired. There was no way the battle could not result in serious injury, possibly even death.

They needed to be scared off, but how?

The first time wasn’t calculated, a slip of anger. A Riverclan warrior was taunting him and his patrol. They got into a fight with one of his younger warriors. He was hurting them. In an attempt to separate them, Pitchfang had accidently snapped the Riverclanner’s neck.

The patrol was in panic, but Pitchfang felt oddly calm. He stared at the body as solutions fit together in his mind like a puzzle, becoming clearer and clearer.

He made the patrol calm down. Then he ordered them to help him carry the body. They weren’t exactly eager to do so, but Pitchfang managed to convince them. 

Riverclan needed to now what Shadowclan was capable of. Anyone could kill a lone warrior at the border. Only a truly dangerous warrior could bring the body right to its camp!

The warriors still weren’t eager, but Pitchfang made a good case. They couldn’t revive the dead, the least they could do was make sure his death was not in vain, and that no one else would have to die in the Riverclan-Shadowclan feud. 

Even though he expected it, Pitchfang couldn’t help but feel surprised that it had worked. Riverclan had suddenly stopped their threats, even patrolling the Shadowclan border.

The cats kept quiet. No one else knew why Riverclan stopped their threats, but they wouldn’t question it.

One of the warriors, Cedarnose came close to caving in after the next gathering, where Riverclan announced the cat, Shellfrost, would be greatly missed by his friends and family. It made it too real for them, to know that the cat they dragged was someone who would be missed.

Pitchfang made him ponder what was worse, someone you don’t know dying and knowing their family, who you also don’t know or see, are mourning, or have your own beloved Clanmates die and have the Clanmates you do know and care about mourn? 

It had to be done.

It would be done again.

Twice again, he killed warriors who wandered alone by the borders. Elmbreeze, who was one of many Thunderclan perpetrators stealing prey from Shadowclan during leaf-bare, passing the strip of land that belonged to Skyclan. And Gingerwhisker of said Skyclan, who was padding too close for comfort to the border.

It was the third one that was the final straw for Cedarnose. Maybe Elmbreeze and Shellfrost’s deaths could be justified-- although he still felt guilty for both-- but Gingerwhisker hadn’t even passed the border!

Pitchfang was more than enraged when Cedarnose told him that he would tell everyone. He chased him through the trees, zigzagging, running into unfamiliar territory, passing dense bush, and down a steep fall.

Additional Information:

--Cedarnose deliberately lead him to the cliff, turning sometime in the bushes.

--Although cats don’t exactly have fall damage, the fall itself had a bunch of jagged rocks on the way down.

--Cat maker: https://meiker.io/play/14330/online.html

[dragynfirearc]

what are your favourite headcanons for some (or all) of your muses?

thank you for this question, lovely! i'll go ahead and put some down for all of them because why not asgjk 

aemond:     

the most important people in aemond’s life are his mother and his sister,   helaena.  they are one reason why he trains so vigorously,  as he wants to be able to protect them.  he’s so close to his mother that sometimes they can communicate without speaking.  they simply have to look at each other and know what the other is thinking. aemond’s relationship with alicent is complex, however.  he has kind of had to take on a caregiver role and act as a parent instead of the other way around. alicent definitely leans on him and expects him to bring her comfort because she feels that no one knows her better than her son, which is true. 

after he lost his eye,  aemond had to get used to functioning again.  he had to get used to walking,   needing to be aware of his surroundings,  and his issues with depth perception before he could pick up a sword again.  ser criston cole trained with aemond every day,  and not just battle training,  he helped him with those simple things like walking.  cole was more of a father figure to aemond than viserys ever was. if he were ever put in a position where he had to chose between the two,  he would actually chose cole.  

one of the things that makes aemond super soft and basically the epitome of this emoji,  🥺, is whenever someone plays with his hair.  it is his favorite feature as it shows his targaryen heritage and also it just feels nice.  if his significant other wanted to braid it, he wouldn’t refuse,  and would actually be excited about it.  although if someone who does not have permission to touch his hair does... yikes they are gonna face a grumpy angry aemond. 

alys:

alys is a witch and has a deeper connection with nature than most.  she is able to communicate with animals,   not really so much as in sentences but through feeling. there is often a raven that hangs out around her that she’s named tesha,  which means survivor.  she has become alys’ companion and they have created a connection so close with one another that alys can go inside of tesha’s mind and see through the eyes of the crow.  it helps if she ever wants to spy. 

alys catches aemond targaryen’s eye because of her affinity for witchcraft.  it would be good to have one on their side, especially one that see visions in fire.  he keeps her alive because of it.  they have a flirtation that grows into something deeper and into eventually love.  it is said that alys is the one who makes aemond seem more human,   which is ironic because she isn’t one. 

alicent:

she is in love with rhaenerya and has been since their childhood.  her feelings are kept secret because she knows that no one would approve of them,   but also she does not fully understand them.  the only love she has ever known is for rhaenerya and people like to claim that it was ‘friendship’,   so that’s all alicent believes it is until she grows up and realizes that ‘hey this might actually be something deeper’ but by the time she realizes it,  she has sullied the princess’ name by claiming her children are bastards.  one reason why alicent is so set on viserys seeing the truth about his grandsons,   is because she is jealous of the freedom rhaenerya has to love whomever she pleases. 

alicent is bisexual, but prefers women and feminine presenting people over men.  she is attracted to their strong nature and the softness of their skin.  her first kiss was with a servant girl,  which she enjoyed,  but afterwards had her swear not to tell anyone. as stated before,  alicent did not acknowledge her sexuality until she was in adulthood. if the war did not occur,  then she would have allowed herself to be happy with another woman because her duty to viserys was no longer an issue. 

despite her father’s actions and pressure for her to be queen,  she does love him and care about him.   she feels the same way about aegon, her son,  and before his death, she did care for viserys.  she never fell in love with him but was saddened by his passing.  he was a kind man even though the two of them never really connected.  aegon is not at all what she wanted her son to be,   but she feels responsible for him,  and would not let any harm come to him. 

cregan: 

cregan’s first wife,  named arra norrey,  was his first love. they had been childhood companions and he had always promised that he would marry her,   so whenever he overthrew his uncle he did just that.  they were so incredibly excited to start a family together.  cregan always thought he wouldn’t be a good father,  it was an insecurity of his,  but arra calmed those insecurities.  he knew that he could do anything with her by his side.  whenever she dies in childbirth,  he is completely devastated.  he honestly believes that he will never love again.  his marriage to alysanne comes as a shock to many people,  they hadn’t expected him to remarry,  but he does so that he can strengthen the stark bloodline.  he does end up having feelings for her,  they grow as their relationship does and he loves the daughters that she gives him. 

cregan has a direwolf because how could i write a stark without a direwolf. the direwolf has a grey coat of fur and blue eyes.  his name is smokey because of his coloring.  he was given to cregan whenever he was a young boy and the direwolf was a pup, so they grew up together.  cregan loves smokey as if the wolf were his own brother,  he’s very protective,   and vice versa.   smokey is not often seen leaving cregan’s side. 

helaena:

helaena loves gardening,    she enjoys getting her hands dirty and enjoys digging in the dirt,   but also the finished product excites her too.  the reason that the garden in the red keep is thriving and arranged the way it is, is because of her.  her favorite flowers are violets. she likes the color and that the flower represents innocence. 

helaena’s prophecies are not just words or riddles that she blurts out,   she can actually see almost like a blurred and incomplete version of what will happen.  they can come to her at any time,  either right before a thing happens or days before.  sometimes she sees a vision a few times,  kind of like a repetitive dream.  she doesn’t always understand them but most of the time she does and tries to warn those around her. 

[ceriseeclipse]

Dark Skies

The Signs’ Face Claims

I had this idea for a while: Personification of the signs. I always wanted to write a story that presents the signs as people, with the same features and personalities that the signs are said to have, living their lives, interacting with each other. Here are a few ideas for each character, if I get to the actual story, the characters will develop a lot of course. Please inbox me your feedback, if you would be interested in a story as such. 

Here’s an idea for the face claims. (the actors’ actual sun signs don’t have anything to do with their roles):

Henry Cavill as Aries, the impulsive soldier.Strong-minded and brave, but a hot-head, which makes him dangerous in a fight. He often throws caution to the wind and goes straight to the point, which he may regret later. He lives for today, is initiative and ambitious, lacks certain gentleness, humility and sense of social act, hurts people without even intending to. He’s restless, vital and always looks for new challenges and adventures. Deep-set eyes and dark eyebrows give him the severe, serious but handsome look. He’s not into love, but does like sex. He rarely gets attached to people, only lives for war and winning battles.

Zoë Kravitz as Taurus, the confident, self-sufficient, but sensitive girl. You can rely on her, she’s honest and respects good manners. Patient and cautious, she knows what she wants and won’t let anyone stop her. She keeps her feet firmly on the ground, doesn’t like to dream or wish, she strongly believes that if you want something enough, you have to go and get it. She’s practical and responsible, but easier to break than she’ll ever show. She loves strongly, and passionately, has a big, loving heart, but knows when to let go, she doesn’t put herself down for anyone. Her doe-like, big, brown eyes will make you trust her with your life. She is exactly who a woman should be, if you could say that, confident, strong, independent and intelligent.

Tom Hiddleston as Gemini, the sweet and funny, blonde, curly-haired sunny-boy. He can seamlessly change everything, from style, ideas to work or partner. He is easy to adjust to significant changes. Surrounded by a little nervous energy, he is brilliant but sometimes emotionally unstable. Being bisexual, he likes to sleep around with different people, but doesn’t really mean to intentionally hurt anyone, he just expects other people to take life and relationships as easily as he does. He’s humorous, energetic and cheerful, but doesn’t let anyone see his sensitive side, that’s why his mysterious way seems very attractive. 

Andrew Garfield as Cancer, the typical sweet boy, who likes to play with fire and often gets burned. He can go from being in a great mood to suicidal thoughts in a second. His heart is easy to break and he doesn’t know how to get over it. Trying to bring an order to his chaotic feelings, he starts writing. For himself at first, but that’s how his talent as a writer gets discovered. It helps at first, but his vulnerable nature wants him to take revenge on those who hurt him, which starts to destroy him slowly. 

Madelaine Petsch as Leo, the Queen Bee in Louboutins. She likes expensive clothes, always looks flawless and knows it. She appears even more confident than she actually is. As a struggling actress, her life hasn’t been the easiest. Trusting and a little naive, she’s often been used and lied to. She likes to manipulate people, but sometimes ends up being manipulated herself. Trying hard to hide her generous, forgiving heart, she thinks that the key to success is heartlessness and diamonds. Her brutally honest personality gave her the name of a “bitch”, which she enjoys at times, it gives her a painful kind of satisfaction to be hated, but admired at the same time. Her long, red hair perfectly matches her ever-red lips and green eyes, that roll so often. She enjoys her naturally good looks and knows how to use it for her best. 

Jamie Chung as Virgo, the beautiful healer. She’s a doctor, she lives for helping people. But the sad truth is, she doesn’t always know how to help herself. Being a gorgeous, strong woman, she is full of insecurities, no one can understand. She is ready to sacrifice herself for others, even people she doesn’t know, because her own life doesn’t mean anything to her. Attentive, with great analytical skills, she seems to see everyone's personality through, she sees when somebody’s hurting, when somebody's lying, her eyes don’t miss out on anything. She loves to bring order into the chaotic life, and tries to make the world a better place by being considerate and organized. Being wealthy, she doesn’t like expensive and unnecessary luxuries. Taurus is her soulmate, but unfortunately, there are many struggles that come in their way. Their love is beautiful and innocent, but leaves them both heartbroken, more than once. 

Shay Mitchell as Libra, the girl next door. She has always been a girl who went by unnoticed. A wallflower kind of girl as they say. She never minds, she doesn’t like to show off, doens’t like to shine. Simple clothes and sneakers, ponytail and barely any make-up, that is her every day look. She has a soft personality and knows how to handle troubles, a diplomat, religious, fair, justice has always been important to her. People usually think that she is a depressed teenager, but that isn’t true, life is going as she wishes it to go. She doesn’t like to be pushed, pressured, she prefers to leave responsibility to others. Sometimes, she feels a little basic, that’s all. But the girl will find her place in this world very soon. 

Michael Ealy as Scorpio, the blue-eyed devil. Despite what people said, he isn’t all that bad. The often call him “the evil eye”, if your eyes meet, you always move first. He can kill you with a look, undress you with a look, send you to hell with only one look. He’s never easy, everything is important to him and he takes everything seriously. All around him is black or white, nothing in between. The only people he can call friends seem more like loyal servants. It feels like he never tells the truth, he’s mysterious to a fault and will never tell you his opinion about anything. Don’t do him wrong, he will never let you leave with it. He scars a lot of people. Not always intentionally, just by being himself. 

Will Smith as Sagittarius, the short-tempered cop. He’s charismatic and respectful, a real fighter for justice. Straightforward, he will shoot arrows, he can’t leave anything unspoken. If you’re in the wrong, he’ll make you crack. He does have strong relationships with people, but only the ones who deserve it in his opinion. Quite tolerant, he will accept a lot of your flaws, but never cross a line, he can cut you out of his life in a second. He’s living on the edge, taking risks, jumps into danger, whether it’s about work or love. Being short-tempered, he gets angry fast, screams, even gets physical, but calms down fast and often regrets it. He does have a good soul, but not many get to see it. Mostly, all they see is a man fighting for the good in any possible ways.

Keanu Reeves as Capricorn, the lone wolf. He never really needed anyone. He was fine being alone. Growing up in an orphanage, he was used to it. Not knowing love, no one to care about. But still, he got through, fought for his degree, became a teacher, not even knowing what for. He doesn't really fall in love, he doesn't really get attached, he doesn't really need it. His good looks and seemingly cool nature attracts a lot of people, he’s interesting, mysterious behind closed doors. But no one really knows him, not even himself. At times, it feels like he's ready, to be a part of the world, to take care of people, but he struggles to believe that anyone would put up with him. He always was so ambitious, so determined, but he came to a point where nothing makes sense anymore. That's the moment he meets him. Better said, he reads his book. A book about retaliation.

Margot Robbie as Aquarius, the sharp-tongued beauty. She grew through struggles and insecurities, which turned her into this perfect human being. She was abused, betrayed and had to fight to survive, just to become a brilliant thief. She’s a woman who gets what she wants, with her intelligence and incredible looks. She considers herself a visionary, she has her ambitions and desires, she’s close to the spiritual world and has a great imagination. Overly dramatic at times, she knows her worth, and knows others better than they know themselves. People bore her quite easily, she expects mystery and entertainment from others. Sexually passionate, she suffers from lack of permanent feelings. Her life has to be a never-ending adventure. 

Jared Leto as Pisces, the lost soul. He'a a musician, struggling with drugs and alcohol abuse. His curious and creative mind can't manage between his will to get inspiration and his addictions. He always needs more, whether it's whiskey, love or music, he can never stop. At times, it feels like he's at the end, that he can't do it anymore, but only one shot, and he's back, writing, singing, playing guitar. He falls in love with creative souls like himself, struggling, even dying. For him, it's always over. Every day, can be his last and all he does is singing, dreaming, he always took the path of least resistance.

[oneprompt]

I love your stuff 👉👈 so I guess here's my match up! I'm a 23 year old, female, and a Teacher's Assistant! ENFP and a Leo! I have short, dyed black hair, a bunch of ear piercings, two nose piercings, and a septum. I tend to get long acrylics, and love to do my makeup as well. I'm 5'2" and I'm kind of shy but then get loud and feral when I'm known a lot better. I don't let anyone fuck around with my friends or anyone I love and I also have a short ass temper. I tend to overreact and get easily irritated due to this. I am blunt but I do it out of the best intentions. I love showing my friends and partner affection to show my appreciation for them. On the flip side, I'm super sensitive and tend to get upset over things other people say if I misconstrue what they say or if they raise their voice at me. I also curse a whole lot. I love playing video games all day when I'm not working or just relaxing in my bed. I also love to read and write! I looooove cats (since I got two myself). Cute things, the color pink and black also catch my attention a lot.

I'm also bisexual! I can do preferably males but if no one good comes to mind I can do females! Or both! Whichever is fine 🙂 Thank you!

I Match You Up With...

The ex War Lord, Sir Crocodile!

Crocodile loves the way you carry yourself. It’s no secret this man has a love for material things. So, he’s bound to adore all of your piercings and the way you do your nails. He’s rather extra with things such as presentation and loves to see things such as rings and jewelry on others.

He’s a rather laid back man, at least for the position he’s in. Crocodile never has a reason to yell at you, even when he’s upset at you. When he’s angry, he’s passive aggressive and snarky, not much of a screamer. So, that lets you off the hook for your sensitivity to yelling.

The way you can be loud and what constraints greatly with him but he’s quick to adjust. I mean, look at Baroque Works. Did you see a single brain cell? With how eccentric Mister Two, Miss Valentine and overall, a majority of the workers, Crocodile is capable of handling your energy.

Crocodile adores seeing you go off on others, setting them in their place when they bother you. He enjoys seeing the more ‘serious’ sides of you.

He’s fine with how affectionate you are. Crocodile isn’t much of a kisser but he tries to keep his hands on his partner at all time. Wether it be slipping an arm around your waist or back, he’s content as long as he can feel you.

[mariacallous]

NYT Debatable: OnlyFans and the new war on porn

By Spencer Bokat-Lindell

Staff Editor, Opinion

Last week, the paid subscription platform OnlyFans announced it was cracking down on the very content that built its business: pornography. The news, first reported by Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw, created an infinite scroll of jokes on social media, but also a great deal of outrage and distress among the two million people for whom the platform had become a source of income. “OnlyFans is how I pay my rent,” one OnlyFans creator told The Times. “I feed myself from this.”

Pornography has been a subject of sustained national debate since the 1960s, but the battle lines have shifted and blurred over the decades: In the wake of the #MeToo movement, many liberals are now taking a closer look at the ubiquity of online porn and its treatment of women. At the same time, social media has given pornography and its creators a larger platform than they’ve ever had before.

Is pornography a vice to be regulated, or is it a kind of speech to be left largely alone? And what does the answer mean for the people whose livelihoods depend on it? Here’s what people are saying.

The new war on porn

After the sexual revolution, pornography became a central preoccupation of the American right, at one point even more so than abortion and homosexuality. “Smut,” President Richard Nixon said in 1970, “should not be simply contained at its present level; it should be outlawed in every state in the Union.”

The cause found willing recruits in Christian conservatives like Jerry Falwell, but also in influential feminists on the left like the legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon and the activist and writer Andrea Dworkin. Dworkin believed that pornography constituted a violation of women’s civil rights: “Every rule of sexual abuse, every nuance of sexual sadism, every highway and byway of sexual exploitation, is encoded in it,” she wrote.

But by the end of the 1980s, the movement to censor pornography had foundered on First Amendment grounds, and American culture had largely moved on too. “High heels, lipstick and sex positivity were in,” Moira Donegan wrote for Bookforum in 2019. “Dworkin — and her gruesome, angry characterization of sexual violence — was decidedly out.”

In recent years, however, the proliferation of pornography online has revived interest in its regulation. As Maggie Jones wrote for The Times Magazine in 2018, pornography is now the de facto sex educator for American youth, prompting concern that internet-native generations are being taught ideas about heterosexual sex that are unrealistic at best and violently misogynistic at worst. (For gay and bisexual youth, Jones noted, studies show that pornography can be a source of affirmation.)

There is little research on what children are watching and whether it affects their behavior. “But you don’t have to believe that porn leads to sexual assault or that it’s creating a generation of brutal men to wonder how it helps shape how teenagers talk and think about sex and, by extension, their ideas about masculinity, femininity, intimacy and power,” Jones wrote.

Online pornography has drawn the strictest scrutiny for how it facilitates the abuse of women and girls. Within the past 10 years, nearly every state has criminalized “revenge porn,” the nonconsensual sharing of sexually explicit photos or videos. Revenge porn primarily affects women, as Rebekah Wells wrote for The Times in 2019, and it can devastate the health and long-term financial prospects of its victims.

Last year, The Times columnist Nicholas Kristof detailed how pornography sites profit off this and other forms of abuse. One of the most-visited pornography websites, Pornhub, attracts 3.5 billion visits a month, more than Netflix or Amazon, and it’s “infested with rape videos,” he wrote. “It monetizes child rapes, revenge pornography, spy cam videos of women showering, racist and misogynist content, and footage of women being asphyxiated in plastic bags.”

Shortly after that column’s publication, Discover, Mastercard and Visa suspended payments to Pornhub. Mastercard later announced new rules for banks that process payments to sellers of adult content: Starting in October, sites will have to verify the age and identity of anyone who is depicted in or uploads adult content, institute a pre-publication content review system, and offer speedy complaint resolutions and appeals.

These rule changes appear to have played a key role in OnlyFans’s recent ban. In a statement, the company said the move was made “to comply with the requests of our banking partners and payout providers.”

Why porn creators and free speech groups are pushing back

While the porn industry surely plays a role in facilitating sexual and economic exploitation, many performers reject the narrative that it’s a root cause of sex trafficking. Alana Evans, the head of the Adult Performers Actors Guild, notes in The Daily Beast that, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Pornhub’s parent company, which owns several other popular porn sites, accounted for 13,229 reports of “child sexual abuse material” in 2020; Facebook, on the other hand, accounted for 20.3 million — nearly 95 percent of all such reports. The majority of online recruitment in active sex trafficking cases in 2020 also occurred on Facebook, according to the Human Trafficking Institute.

So why the focus on pornography sites? In The New Republic, Melissa Gira Grant argues that pornography is just the latest target of Christian conservative organizations engaged in a “holy war” against what they see as America’s moral decay. Concerns about sex trafficking, she writes, offer a way for such groups — like Morality in the Media, an anti-porn organization founded in the 1960s that in 2015 rebranded itself as the National Center on Sexual Exploitation — to cast their mission as one of social justice.

Many pornography creators say the intensifying crackdown will only put them at greater personal and financial risk. “Companies like Mastercard are now accomplices in the disenfranchisement of millions of sex workers, complicit in pushing workers away from independence into potentially more dangerous and exploitative conditions,” the Free Speech Coalition, a trade association for the adult entertainment industry, said in a statement.

The paradox is especially bitter when it comes to OnlyFans, which took power and money away from studios and sites like Pornhub and put it into the hands of individual creators. When the pandemic hit, the platform also became a lifeline, offering countless performers a way to earn income in the safety of their own homes.

As Charlotte Shane writes in The Times Magazine, OnlyFans has its faults: The company takes a 20 percent cut of earnings, and while some performers rake in millions of dollars, “a vast majority are lucky if they see a few hundred.” And though the company has a policy of barring minors and blocking posts containing sexual assault, violence or bestiality, a recent investigation by the BBC found enforcement lax.

On the whole, however, “Direct-to-consumer sites like OnlyFans have been a boon to workers in significant ways,” Heather Berg, a professor at Washington University in St. Louis and author of “Porn Work,” told Shane. One of the best measures of that, Berg said, is that traditional porn managers are really angry about their existence.

On top of its consequences for porn creators, OnlyFans’s decision raises important questions about the power that payment processors have over online speech. “Who gets to decide what stays and goes on the internet?” asks Protocol’s Issie Lapowsky. In the case of OnlyFans, “The answer as to who’s calling the shots appears to be Visa and Mastercard.” Comparisons have been drawn to the content moderation regimes of social media giants like Facebook, but Lapowsky notes that the stakes are in some ways higher when it comes to credit-card companies because their policy decisions cut across industries.

Can porn be reformed? Does it need to be?

Today, you can still find plenty of conservatives who believe, as Nixon, MacKinnon and Dworkin did, that porn should be outlawed. One of them is The Times columnist Ross Douthat, who wrote in 2018 that pornographic education produces a kind of toxic male personality, “at once entitled and resentful, angry and undermotivated.” Banning porn, he argued, “would dramatically reduce its pedagogical role, its cultural normalcy, its power over libidos everywhere.”

As Douthat acknowledged, however, this is not a proposal that’s likely to win most Americans over. For one thing, whether porn cultivates harmful attitudes toward women — the “negative effects paradigm,” as academics call it — is still a live question: One 2019 study found that “porn superfans” actually held more progressive views of gender roles than the general U.S. public.

But even if you concede the problem of porn’s pedagogical influence, other ways of countering it besides prohibition have been proposed. One, as The Atlantic’s Elizabeth Bruenig has explored, is “porn literacy” instruction designed to help adolescents think more critically about pornography and how to consume it ethically. Bruenig, for her part, is skeptical that school educators are up to the task. And she’s not alone: The Oxford philosopher Amia Srinivasan has said that a superior sex education program would enlist sex workers themselves.

Industry exploitation is perhaps an even thornier issue to solve, but Shane says the answer is to give creators more power, not less. OnlyFans offered many women a way to control their labor and keep most of their income, she writes in The Cut. But “what the internet gave — easy and no-cost means of advertisement, better tools for screening clients, cheaper ways to record and distribute porn — the government, with the devastatingly effective propaganda arm of anti-sex-industry civilian coalitions, keeps taking away.”

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