#queer jou

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Hant "Vagabond" Jou /// hard worker

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transfem joe because I've been thinking about her for ages and I don't know if I've drawn her

headcanons:

-i don't think she'd mind he/him pronouns being used on her, she just is happier with she/her . I think she'd also vibe with they/them and maybe some neos too but I'm not sure which

- I honestly think she'd keep her name Jou/Joe. It's familiar to her and she doesn't really feel any disconnect to it, it's still her. I do think it'd be cute for Sara and Ryoko to have a girl sleepover with her where they research name options though. I think she'd be /open/ to changing her name but ultimately Joe still feels good for her for now and she's in no rush to change it

-She wouldn't figure it out until her mid 20s ish and that's only because she has her friends to help her. Like Sara would have to sit her down and the conversation would be like: Sara: Joe... you know most boys don't wish to be a girl or feels happy when they're mistaken for a girl, right? ...You know if you want to be a girl, that's okay. Joe: What? You can do that? Sara: *waving her hands wildly at Ranmaru* Joe: *eyes wide* RANMARU'S A GIRL?! Sara: NO

-Reko and her band is what got her into the queer scene at first. I think she probably knew her sexuality before her gender lol. Meeting Reko in person just made her more into the band and she became a BIG fan and then Reko recommended her some other queer musicians and it's like an entirely new world was opened for her. I think Sara wouldn't really get it (I don't see her as a girl that's into much music in general and so being a fan would confuse her) at first but after she gets used to it and goes to a few concerts with Joe she really enjoys it. Ryoko was ecstatic when she found out the music Joe was listening to and proceeded to share her her playlist of lesbian artists she loved lol.

-don't think she'd stick to any certain aesthetic. one day she could be wearing hippie clothing, the next punk and the next just strolling around in her pajamas.

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[evermoredeluxe]

[bibellebibuck]

Finale Thoughts

This is a long ramble that I’ve attempted to categorise and form into something coherent - but bear with me if there’s any mistakes, I’m working rn and didn’t have time to proofread🙏🏻

HENREN & MADNEY

I adore Madney and how inherently GOOD they are all the damn time. My favourite straights ever.

I know there’s differing opinions on this plot line but honestly I am glad that Madney are fostering Mara, for Maras sake. It’s a safe space her for where she’ll be loved and can keep in contact with Henren.

I do agree, though, that the constant struggles they put Henren through as they try to build their family is getting old and tired now, let them off the struggle bus, it’s time for a breather.

It’s a testament to how rushed this episode was that we didn’t even SEE the councilwoman at all. She just drops this bomb on the Henren family last episode and then disappears? No follow up? Okay.

My thoughts/hopes on these guys for S8 are; Madney will be left as they are once the Mara storyline is resolved (which I think won’t take long after the whole Gerrard situation is sorted) as they’ve had a lot going on with their wedding etc. I think they’ll be put aside for a while while other characters stories are expanded this season. I think it’s a possibility we’ll get another Buckley-Han baby after they see the sibling dynamic between Mara and Jee. Afterall, it was Maddie who commented on Denny and Mara “getting along so well” “like siblings”.

Henren specifically id like to see more of, I want Karen and DENNY! to have more screentime. Karen’s job is fucking interesting, SHOW US MORE SOMEHOW!! And Denny, what’s going on with his relationship with his dad now? This kids a great actor, give him a little more screen time.

BATHENA & AMIR

Now, Athena was bad ASS this episode. I love BAMF Athena with all my heart, that’s literally my mother. Her talk with Amir was emotional and I think well written (one of the few well written moments in this episode..) but it all went downhill from there. Amir’s rescue was rushed as fuck, I wasn’t tense at all, Athena basically showed up, burnt the place down and sauntered out with Amir like it was nothing. Ofc my girl is capable of this no problem… but it wouldn’t have hurt to have had more of a fight scene, maybe Amir being a little more proactive, then show them struggling to get out of the fire? Idk. Just SOMETHING to expand on the scene a little. I did like “I’m Mrs Bobby Nash” though, hell yeah you are <3

Oh also Yay! May sighted!! Love my girl, wanna see more of her in S8 I miss her sooo much :(

For S8, I think Bathenas marriage issues should be gently explored a little more, i feel this plot line wasn’t properly resolved during the cruise eps? Idk maybe I’m just a nervous child of divorce but I’d like to see some of their trust issues put to rest. I mean, just an episode ago Athena was terrified Bobby was going to off himself, and Bobby literally retired without telling her. It’s not healthy, I wanna see them work it out and get stronger together. I don’t want more conflict between them to cause this though, maybe they just start up a conversation when things have calmed down and agree to talk it out or go to couples therapy or something. Leaving them where they are right now will feel like a dropped plot line.

I want to see more of Amir but I sincerely doubt we will, I have a feeling he won’t even be seen in S8 at all to be honest. It’s a shame, he’s an interesting character that I’d totally love the see explored more. Someone suggested he could be a connection opportunity for the hospital? I like that. Tim, take notes !!

I also want them to stop murdering Angela Bassets hair. Let her slay, please.

BUDDIE

I wish I had more to say here, but sadly… I don’t. My heart is telling me we’ve been gently queer baited once again, but I think that’s just old scars hurting (Destiel and johnlock survivor ✊🏻), my head is telling me a lot of the hype was stirred up by us as fans giving journalists and actors comments a little too much credit.

This isn’t to say I don’t think Buddie is happening, i still have my naive little belief that if WILL be canon eventually. They’re just going to drag it out as long as possible for the drama and possibly to appease Those fans, and the older viewer base who won’t be pleased by buddie canon.

I was very disappointed by the scene after Chris left, where Buck just put his hand on Eddies shoulder. We can say all we like that the shoulder touch is Their Thing™️ but in that situation a hug was absolutely goddamn necessary. Idc about shipping, that man needed a hug from his best friend in that moment. I think Buck needed it too. They just said goodbye to their son for an indefinite amount of time ffs why are we standing here like absolute mugs.

S8 - I want gay Eddie this season. I want it.

I want gay Eddie and then I want them both to be single for a while and Then I want buddie. If they can fit this into season 8 while keeping a nice steady pace (I have little faith after this insanely rushed finale, but let’s give them the benefit of the short season doubt) then I want Buddie feelings realisation towards the end of S8.. possibly setting up canon for S9 or even ending S8 with canon and a cliffhanger.. maybe a good one this time though!

As much as I’d like to see Buck supporting Eddie as he navigates life without Christopher, I don’t think we’ll get many scenes between them at first. I think this is where Ryan is talking about Eddies isolation. He’s going to go to work, be with his family, then go home and be without his family, and it’s at this time that he’s going to be working on himself. To get better for Chris, and for his own mental health. This journey is his alone, and I think it (although a little painful) makes sense that Buck isn’t involved in this too much.

EDDIE & CHRIS

To sum it up.. OUCH!

Eddie is an amazing father, and if you think otherwise just block me. He made a mistake with Kim, that does not make him a bad father. Him respecting Christopher’s space and choices in this ep was soooo healing and lovely to see, he called Buck because he knows Chris trusts and loves him and needed somebody to talk to, and knew he wasn’t the person for that right now.

I’ve seen some people bothered about how it’s unrealistic for the Diaz parents to have gotten to eddies so fast after the incident. To this I say, how are you not used to 911s complete disregard for timelines/timeline realism at this point? Just let it happen and move on, like it’s a fantasy land where time isn’t real. Now, I’m not American so maybe I don’t get the extent of the distance between LA/Texas - but still, I enjoy the show more I think, because I don’t overanalyse the timeline 😅

What I DO find unrealistic is that Chris would call his grandparents and not Buck. I’m not looking at this through shipping lenses either, I’m saying that when Eddie had his breakdown, Chris’s first instinct was to call Buck. When Chris was upset and scared at the Ana situation, he went straight to Buck. And now this, he doesn’t talk to Buck at all before calling his grandparents?

It makes sense that he wanted to go to Texas as if he stayed with Buck he wouldn’t really be getting much space from his dad, and maybe he’d be thinking that Buck/Eddie would be on his case trying to force forgiveness on him while he’s there. But I think he first instinct would still have been to Call Buck to discuss the situation first, to confide in him, ask for help. Then he’d call his grandparents.

For S8 - I hate to be a downer but I don’t think we’ll see Chris this season. At LEAST the entirely of 8a, anyways.

As I mentioned earlier, I think this season will show Eddie growing and healing from this situation and becoming the person he wants to be, for himself and for Chris.

I think there is a lot of potential for us to finally get some Eddie & Maddie scenes, she could open a conversation with Eddie about her own struggles with feeling like an unfit parent for Jee - maybe Buck initiates this conversation, asking Maddie to speak to him?

I hope he will finally be able to put his insecurities about his parenting aside and stop trying to find Chris a mother figure, and accept that they’re a fine (wonderful, even) family unit as they are.

BUMMY / BT

Ooooohhh lord let’s get into it then.

It’s no secret that I hate this relationship. I do NOT hate it because I am a Buddie shipper, or because I’m homophobic (the fact that I have to clarify this is stupid, but the anon hate in my inbox means it’s necessary). When BiBuck became canon, I was OVERJOYED! I was excited to see Buck exploring his identity and enjoying a relationship with a new partner (I did want him to be single for a while originally, but it wasn’t a big deal, the Natalia relationship was barely a relationship anyways).

I initially had a bit of an ick from the way Tk kissed Buck to ~shut him up~ but I’m a bit of a hypocrite here because I don’t entirely hate this trope usually, but only when it’s between two well established characters who know each other well. At this point, Tk is still new to Buck so it did bother me a little. But, we move.

Then… the first date. I fucking hated this date, Tk almost outed Buck and then left him on the pavement like an a class ASS. I lost all interest in this relationship at this exact moment.

In this episode, on this date, we see Buck opening up about his relationship with Bobby as a father figure (WIN!! Let’s appreciate our small victories!!). Tk then gives us “but your fathers alive” which ?? What’s your point?? Why aren’t you comforting your partner right now?

And shared his own experience with having a shitty dad. We then get the daddy issues joke.

To detour for a moment; we all remember when Buck went to therapy and opened up about his sex addiction, right? How he was being vulnerable about his trauma/mental health, to the point that he was in actual tears… and then his therapist came onto him and slept with him. The show brushes this under the rug and even later makes a joke about it. We’ve all expressed our distaste for this in the past and rightly so. Aside from how morally wrong it was, it was also incredibly distasteful in a very real way.

We’re given a very close repeat of this situation in the finale. Tommy sexualising Bucks trauma is not only unfair on bucks character, but also a shitty slap in the face to real people in the real world too. How many times have we been sexualised for having “daddy issues”? The answer is a lot. This scene was Downright Offensive.

It’s so disappointing because in some ways this show is so progressive, and has handled some sensitive topics in such a great way in the past. But it’s really fumbled the bag with this one.

A large and hopeful part of me thinks all these tense/awkward/unhappy/unsatisfying BT scenes are a setup for BT bones in S8. If they wanted us to like Tk and be invested in this relationship, SURELY they’d make him more likeable & more supportive of Buck?

The awfulness of his character and the stilted scenes between him and Buck do feel intentional. And I reaaallly hope this is the case.

S8 - preferably, BT Bones off screen before the season even begins, Natalia style.

More likely, BT bones within 8a, due to Gerard’s return and the tension this will cause between him and Tk.

Most likely, BT bones by the end of 8b. I truly truly truly, with all my heart and head and hands, do not believe BT is surviving to season 9.

BUCK

just wanted to put in a little paragraph here about Buck specially, piggybacking off of what I’ve said about his trauma being sexualised etc.

They have consistently missed opportunities to flesh out Bucks trauma, and he has MANY to choose from. If they continue to ignore this aspect of Buck, it will be a great disservice to his character. I know we all joke about wanting Buck to go through more shit situations for the angst, and how we want him to have a big breakdown at some point but honestly - it really is overdue. I don’t just want him to suffer for funsies, I want his character to make sense, I want him to continue to be massively relatable, I want him to address his trauma and work through it and move on etc. etc. etc.

Here’s hoping we get the single Eddie and Buck arcs in S8/maybe 9 and both of them get therapy, properly.

RAVI

My boooyyy!!! The framing of that last shot, I do reckon Ravi will main soon. They didn’t drop his insane childhood lore, and built on him as a character (while Chim was at the academy with him) for no reason.

I am personally really looking forward to seeing him get a lot more screentime in S8. It’s what the people want!!!!!!

GERRARD

Why did they act like this was such a major twist?? Like why else would they have shown him last episode..

I don’t really understand how he can have been made captain of the same firehouse he was removed from for bullying a crew that is literally still there.. but for the plot I guess we’ll go with it!

I look forward to him finally getting his comeuppance in season 8, but the asshole he’s going to be to everyone sounds less fun.

Let’s look at what we might have in store, hm?

-Racist to Chim, Hen and now probably Ravi too.

-Homophobic to Buck.

-If Bobby is around, no doubt he’ll be demeaning to him.

-And, i fear, if he somehow knows about Eddies current situation, will he make snide remarks about him as a father? Idk, I wouldn’t put anything past the bastard.

I’d really like to see the team take a stand against him though, I know he’s their captain for now and they will, to an extent, respect him (or at least do as he says). But it would be nice to see some firefam crew solidarity the face of his bigotry and bullying. It won’t be realistic if any of them just stand by and listen/watch while he makes shitty racism/homophobic jokes to their family.

Going to be a fun (🫠) few episodes!

FINAL THOUGHTS

As an episode, this wasn’t horrendous, but certainly not great. As a finale, it was terrible. Underwhelming sums it up, disappointing emphasises it nicely.

I look forward to getting back to a full length season that has hopefully will be written a little more in advance than this one was. Let’s be optimistic, or this hiatus won’t be too enjoyable.

Can’t wait to spend the next few months binging Buddie fics and reading all your theories!! And don’t forget we get S8 BTS pics in just a few weeks 😭🫶🏻

Feel free to send me any asks if there’s something I’ve forgotten to mention that you’d like my thoughts on - or if you have any theories etc. I love to get asks from your guys 💛

[vikugnavikugna]

A really rough sketch for the Worm/One Piece au I've been Ponderin' for a while now. Some random ideas for the main crew under the cut:

Let's start by making things clear: this is not for any kind of fanfic or anything of the sort. I have been known to write those when I was 14 and very into RWBY, but I still struggle to write anything too complex in english and I have since given up on the hobby anyway. I just like rotating Worm characters in my head and combining them with any other brainrot I am going through at any point of my life, y'know.

As for how the au actually works, I simply deleted all the characters from the One Piece universe from existance and then tried to apply every Worm character to the preexisting societal structures and dynamics of the Three Great Powers, whilst staying as close to the currently established canon and with making up as few new Devil Fruits as possible (currently on just 1, but I haven't gone through many side characters).

Now, as evidenced by the use of Haki and presence of Imp, this fanart portrays the crew at quite a later stage of their journey - I imagine the Underside Pirates (it is a butt joke, to be clear) started off somewhere in South Blue openly working for the mysterious Captain Coil, a man trying to make a name for himself before moving to the Grand Line. What the Underside Pirates didn't actually know is that they were slowly being set up for betrayal from the very start - Captain Coil is Thomas Calvert, a retired Marine, who works under a pseudonym solely so that he can build up the persona of Captain Coil as a threat to the World Government, fake arresting himself and gain the title of a Shichibukai (and with it, the entrance to the Holy Land Mary Geoise).

For the actual crew, let's go through them one by one:

Taylor D Hebert - newest recruit of the crew, starts off as quartermaster, before being promoted to the first mate and eventually captain further down the line. The user of Jou-Jou no Mi (shamefully, the only original Fruit I made up for this au so far - it possesses about the same capabilities as Taylor's powers do in canon). Not a lot to say here - take her Worm backstory, substitute being into heroes for being inspired to join the Marines and bosh, done. After the discovery of Haki I imagine she would start gathering bugs into shapes of objects and covering the entire swarm in armament Haki for some improvised weapons (she's doing that very thing and forming a katana in the art, coincidentally). Her attack name are references to english literature (I am polish so I cannot think of an example). Possibly gay for Rachel but, since Oda writes both romance and queer people weird, it's this very anime kind of crush where she acts normal 90% of the time, but then turns into a blushing mumbling idiot when Rachel is too close. Kind of like Kuroko from Railgun but with 100% less sexual assault, y'know.

Rachel Lindt - a dogfish fishman raised outside of Fishman Island, Rachel had a pretty tough life travelling the seas alone, always narrowly avoiding whichever slave hunting crew that confused her for a mermaid at any given moment. She has no fruit powers and minimal Fishman Karate skills due to never having a proper teacher. In combat she always relied mostly on various marine life companions she gathered throughout the years of travelling the sea - in many ways, her only family. Works as the crew's helmsman. Her attack names are hilariously simple and straightforward, often said after she delivers them, rather than during action (eg. she'll just calmly punch her opponent into the ground as they are mid screaming their attack name, dust herself off and calmly say 'Right Punch' before walking off). Mostly inspired by the fact, that it always annoyed me horribly how few female fishmen there were in the series. Completely unaware Taylor has a crush on her.

Alec Vasil - son of a Yonko and an ex-Celestial Dragon, Alec was one of the many children Nikos Vasil has produced with his various mistresses. There isn't much information about the Heartbreaker in Worm proper, but I imagine him as a Doflamingo kind of figure in this au - his connections and information about the Holy Land stops the Marines from ever attacking him directly and the powers of Ito Ito no Mi, whilst limited, let him marionette people around however he wishes to fulfill his various schemes. Alec himself is no Fruit user but, due to his mother being a Mink, can use Electro. Thanks to years of experimentation with the fighting style, he developed a technique which allows him a limited control over the electricity in his enemies' muscles, purposefully mimiquing the powers of his father - both to get his father's attention and to mock his abilities ('I can do everything you can and more without being a Celestial Dragon or a Fruit user' type deal). No one really knows what his job on the ship is supposed to be and, when asked, he just usually makes up whatever lie let's him laze off some more at any given moment (usually, 'Oh, yeah, I'm on permament Lookout duty, actually'). At first I thought his attack names should be in french, but nah, this dude is just screaming the most atrocious pun attack names known to mankind probably. Responsible for making up the crew's name.

Lisa Wilbourn - the crew's de facto unofficial captain in the early days, she also doubles as a navigator. A noble of a small kingdom in South Blue, her story plays out very similarly to the canon Lisa. At some point of it all she accidently gets her hands on Giro Giro no Mi and, when her family wants to exploit her mind reading abilities for business when she's still in mourning over her brother, she escapes her home island and gets scouted by Coil. I think that a lot of the time snipers are done real dirty in One Piece, so Lisa mainly uses long range weaponry (and later Observation Haki) during combat - she simply never puts any time into mastering Armament. Honestly not much to say here, I think she was one of the most obvious Devil Fruit fits in the entire crew. Out of every person in this drawing, I am the most disatissfied with her design and thus will probably do something about it shortly.

Brian Laborn - fills the role of a first mate, cook, quartermaster, doctor, canon master, shipwright and sometimes also a ship, if need be. My friend and I discussed whether to give him a Fruit power, as the only one that fits him - that being Yami Yami no Mi, which not only visually mimics Brian's power, but also makes the user literally suffer more in combat - is way too powerful for a small ass crew. So eventually I settled for just amking him the crew's boringman Haki user and martial artist. I mean, someone does need to fish out all these dumbasses from the ocean and Rachel isn't always around, I guess. A not zero chance he steals Yami Yami no Mi from Jack's crew later on or something of the like. He may use fullbody Armament at some point, purely because I think it gets REAL bad rep in One Piece and he would make it work, I bet. His attack names are all references to real life boxing history.

Aisha Laborn - there was much debate in my head whether Aisha should be the user of Memo Memo no Mi or Suke Suke no Mi - the latter eventually won out, because I believe Aisha going unnoticed by both foes and allies is more important than actually referencing the memory aspect of her powers. She got her hands on the Devil Fruit due to one of his mother's boyfriends, who was a pirate and robbed it off of someone on sea. Aisha ate the Fruit, angering her mother's boyfriend and, after being severly beaten up, managed to activate the Fruit's abilities to become invisible and call for Brian. The following sequence plays out similarly as in canon. Aisha would be on the ship from the very beginning, but Brian usually leaves her in some town when the Underside Pirates go on any kind of mission and it's not until later that she actually joins them as crew (or rather she sneaks onto their ship claiming to be their second permanent Lookout so many times that it just became easier letting her stay).

Ship - considering the crew's size, most likely a caravel. I'm firting with it being named Atlas, but are not sold on it. Jokingly referred to is as Shrugging Atlas in my head once. I think Atlas should be their second ship, something they gain after Taylor becomes a more prominent member of the crew, and they should start off with something else. No clue what tho.

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Hallo! Ek het jou blog gevind van die ou leer-afrikaans blog (ek vergeet die precis naam) en ek is baie gelukkig om te find dat jy nogsteeds hier is! Ek is Afrikaans, maar ek woon in die VK en hiedie dae my familie praat Engels by die huis so ek is altyd bly om 'n kaans te kry om my Afrikaans te oefen en verbeter. Ek het 'n ou ask gesien wat iemand vir jou gestuur het waar hulle gepraat het oor 'n post van queer Afrikaanse worde – is dit nogsteeds iewers waar jy dit kan vind? Ek het lang gewonder hoe mense they/them pronouns in Afrikaans se – dit is a baie gendered taal maar ek will oor my friende wat daai pronouns gebruik praat en ek is seker dat my ouers het geen ideë wat die consensus is.

(Jammer as my spelling 'n biekie sleg is – ek raai half die tyd lol)

hallo hallo ! die LGBT-woordeskat post is hier, en ek het dit pas weer herblog so jy behoort dit maklik op my blog te vind

in terme van geslagsneutrale voornaamwoorde, is die standaard opsies "hulle/hulle" en "hul/hulle". soos in Engels, is hierdie die normale 3de persoon meervoud voornaamwoorde wat nou ook in die enkelvoud gebruik kan word. persoonlik verkies ek "hul/hulle" ("hul" is 'n ouerige poëtiese afkorting van 'hulle', maar deesdae is dit 'n handige manier om dit van die meervoudsvorm te onderskei)

hul/hulle bring later die boek = they are bringing the book later

gee die boek vir hulle = give the book to them

dis hul/hulle boek, daai = that there is their book

daardie boek is hulle s'n = that book is theirs

[reliablejoukido]

my feelings on The Beginning. I welcome discourse and dissenting opinions, but I do NOT welcome hate. Also I'm going to bed literally right after publishing this, so I will talk to y'all tomorrow.

I loved Fullmetal Alchemist: Digimon The Beginning a lot. Seeing the English dub was a wonderful experience and it brought me back to the reason why 02 was my favorite season in the first place. I also appreciated seeing the subbed version tonight, as it helped solidify the plot in my head.

I adored Daisuke especially. I loved Daisuke's emotions and his dialogue and his ability to strike friendship into the heart of anyone. I loved his adorable interactions with Ken, his chaotic interactions with Miyako, and his extremely ship-worthy interactions with Lui. And that scene where Ken pointed out how calm he was? Extremely powerful. Also Daisuke's queer energy was off the charts in this film, just saying. That alone means so much to me.

Also Takeru was SO in character when he was like "I know there is the possibility of Digimon partner-induced nuclear war, but hello??? Patamon might die????" I realize that's an oversimplification of his point, but it felt so right for him.

So like... I don't want to get into arguments about this, because I always feel like I'm wrong about lore and people yell at me just for thinking things they think are "wrong". So these are just my personal opinions which are obviously in no way accurate.

But in my opinion, Lui wasn't the first person to partner with a Digimon. I felt that Ukkomon was unreliable and untrustworthy and unstable, so I don't trust anything he claimed was true. I don't trust Ukkomon's concept of being the reason for Digimon and human partnerships to be accurate. I mean, I could bring Hiroki Hida and Oikawa into the mix. Or Maki and Daigo (if you try to tell me tri isn't canon just because of some interview, I'm going to block you just fyi).

I also don't entirely buy Ukkomon to be the reason the Chosen Children were even Chosen. Wouldn't Lui have been part of their adventure if that was the case? There are so many reasons the Digital World needed the Chosen Children that had absolutely nothing to do with Lui and Ukkomon. The whole Digital World's existence wasn't even mentioned regarding Ukkomon.

I really just don't trust anything Ukkomon did or said. He litterally brainwashed, manipulated, and eventually killed Lui's parents, so forgive me if I find what he says hard to believe. But I seriously loved that Ukkomon was chaotic and untrustworthy. It made for a fascinating "villain". I loved that we were lead to believe some new lore that may or may not be true, depending on how much you believe Ukkomon and Lui.

I also want to believe that now that the digivices are gone (which already happened to Sora, Taichi, Yamato, and implied Mimi, Jou, and Koushiro), that they will receive Digi-eggs soon, perhaps after they go through more important situations in their adult lives. If you know me, then you know I'm not the biggest fan of the ending of Kizuna, because I felt like it was a personal attack on my adulthood. I want more than anything for there to be a reason for Taichi and the others to see their Digimon again. I believe the ending of The Beginning gave us hope that Taichi's bond with Agumon transcends his own broken digivice.

So that's it, mostly. You can all stay tuned for when the movie is available on streaming/blu-ray, because you KNOW I'll be photoshopping ponytails onto Ken again. Also I'm planning a Daisuke/Lui fic at some point.

[corvidcrowned]

Ummm hiii :3 reko is a trans woman #real #true

Reko always sorta felt. Not like a boy. Just didn’t really have the words for it … felt vaguely off most of her childhood. Esp with being forced into the music industry, she was just. Not having fun

then Alice came out as trans and she was like woah! You can do that! Started looking into things… woah! Transgender!

she first like… came out to the world when she started samurai yaiba with alice! Hence the costume’s colors. She sorta… felt like she had to look feminine to . “Prove” she was trans… but that soon wore off because Ursheen Stronghold (and Alice) were like ermmm you don’t have to be super gender conforming if you wan t to…and she was like ohh holy shit i don’t….

well look at her. She/he/it. She’s got insane gender. Gnc as hell trust me.

she originally wasn’t gonna medically transition bc Alice was complaining about the bad parts very dramatically and also she was.scaaared. but she realized. She could have a voice that was truly hers. One that sounds like her. One that her father didn’t profit off of for years. So she went on E and when she started sounding different she was like HOLY FUCK….. cause you know when you’ve just been tolerating something and suddenly.you have what you’ve actually wanted all this time… she was so happy.

well after Alice’s arrest she kind of.forgot to take her hrt sometimes bc she was VERY depressed…but regardless she’s been on estrogen for 3 years now and yippie !! She’s gender as hell. Alice taught her how to do makeup in Yaiba era and ursheen and stronghold were very encouraging the whole time . And now her band skullnutz is entirely trans people and she is so many people’s queer awakening. (Points at jou) and also just,, Reko rediscovering masculinity through femininity is . So much to me. Now that she’s comfortable in her gender as a woman she can play around a lot more,, be butch as all hell and still feel like a woman. Anyway did you know i love her

also I think. Naoreko are severely t4t.

[taiyami]

1, 3, 4 and 5 for both Jounouchi and Yugi please!

!! YES CHEF RIGHT AWAY !

My darling Jounouchi Gnocci and Yugi Boogie..

1. Okay yall are going to kill me. I never watched pokemon and I played like 2% of platinum growing up. I also never watched Digimon. SO! I'm going to do what I do best and assign them a BIRD ! ! !

I was kind of torn on Yugi, I really want him to be a belted kingfisher because they're one of my childhood favorites (and to me? Fit his energy?) They don't really stand out with any extraordinary behaviors though, so I'm also placing him with a parrotlet.

Parrotlets are the smallest parrot species and they're mischievous little birds that are SO sweet and extremely smart, they fit him very well. I hope to own one some day ^_^

-> Jou was SUCH an easy choice for me, what immediately came to mind was some kind of corvidae family member. I think he could be a jackdaw, but Scrub Jay's are soo him to me <3 They're pretty smart, playful, have big barks and are very under-appreciated birds! Just like our Jou.

3. Favorite Canon Looks?

-> This question haunts me because I love pretty much all of Yugi's outfits, including the stupid capsule monster filler arc armor suits 😭 Yugi was one of my biggest fashion idols growing up as a queer emo kid. I'd have to say his classic DK/S0 outfit is truly my favorite if I had to pick one. The symbolism of his thick leather vest that connects to his choker underneath his normal school uniform has always been eye catching for me. I also much preferred the rope on the puzzle compared to his silver chains. Very nostalgic look for me. (CLOSE TIE WITH HIS ANZU DATE OUTFIT <3)

-> Joey baby.. okay so I'm kind of lame, I LOVE. His battle city fit, I think it's so him. The sneakers, the baggy T-shirt, I also think the colors of this palette suit him well. I also like his wtd arc outfit, which is kind of similar vibes.

4. What movie(s) do you think they would not be able to stand?

This is so difficult.. I'm going to say Jounouchi isn't much of a fan when it comes to musicals or psychological thrillers. He seems like the warrior of the week film guy. He might groan about them in front of Honda but he will watch any chick flick with Shizuka. Hes surprisingly thoughtful about them too!

Yugi .... oh man, I don't know. He seems like he'd be a really big film nerd but at the same time he's not? He enjoys movies that have all sorts of twists and turns and also ones that are bold and not very subtle (FANTASY FAN). I think he'd have problems with very Film Bro movies? He doesn't understand the appeal of them and almost always finds plot holes within them that can never be explained.

5. What is a gentle memory they might have?

-> I personally think Yugi has SO many sweet memories of himself and his grandpa when he was growing up. He is such a grandpa's boy.. he remembers so many times that Grandpa was tucking him into bed at night and telling him stories of magic and fantastical creatures and adventures in his younger days.

-> And we know Jou has SO many memories of him and his sister as a kid. I doubt all of them were entirely gentle and more bittersweet leaning. Coming from a big brother like myself, I could see Jounouchi distracting her from their parents fighting by coloring with her or playing outside. But after they get reunited as teenagers, I bet they have all sorts of fun new memories together like finding the BEST spot to get pizza or biking to the beach every now and then together 🥹💓

YOUR HONOR. I LOVE THEM SO MUCH?

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[arsenic-the-fae]

Heya!

I wrote a free verse poem in my fral class today and think it's pretty cool :)

(I have to translate it to English, so it might sound a lil funky)

It talks about my experience of theater and assimilating to neurotypical life, then finding a queer space where I felt welcome

Masks

All of my hobbies are ones where I pretend to be someone else

People like to tell me this says something about me

I agree with their observations

I play a marketeer, a waiter, a goblin

I can be an enchantress, an evil soldier, and a theif

I wear the mask of my desires

When I enter the stage, or sit at the table, I am no longer restricted by the expectations of society

I am not expected to conform to the expectations of others

I use hundreds of costumes, and millions of personalities

I wear the mask of my desires

I leave the stage

I am surrounded by support and friends

My classmates and our crew

I am filled with joy, it feels real and welcoming

I don't need a mask

Then I leave the theater

Strangers surround me

I've spoiled the moment of euphoria

I begin to drown in regular life

Work, responsibilities, the standard life

I become a worker for society

I wear the mask of their desires

It's not normal to jump with joy, to infuse your life with magic

They tell me to stop, that I am a stranger if I do that

They make me what they want

For me to wear their mask

I hate these masks

We are meant to be different and beautiful

I go to a masquerade

There is hundreds of masks of every color, shape and size

They are beautiful

I pass a mirror and see my own mask

The gray has cracked, and beneath I see rainbows and feathers

I see sequins and music

I am beautiful

I wear my own mask

Bonus: the original French version

(It's my second language so it may not have the best grammar)

Les Masques

Tous mes loisirs sont les choses ou je jou comme un autre personne

Les personnes m'ont dis que ca dit quelque chose à propos de moi

Je suis d'accord avec cet observation

Je joue un marketeur, un serveur, un magicien, un lutin.

Je pouvais être un chanteur magique, un soldat maléfique,  un voleur

Je porte un masque de mes desires

Quand j’entre l'étage, ou le table, je n’ont pas besoin d’etre restricter par les expectations de société

C’est pas expecter de conformer a les expectations des autres

J'utilise les centains de costumes, les milliers de personnalités

Je porte un masque de mes desires

Je quitte l'étage

Je suis entouré du support et les amis

Mes camarades de classe, notre équipe d'étage,

Le joi m’en remplis, c’est vrai et accueillant

Je n’ont pas besoin d’un masque

Je quitte le théâtre

Les étrangers m'entourent

Je gâche le moment d’euphorie

Je commence à noyer en le vie standarde

Le travaille, les responsibilities, la vie

Je devenir un travailleur pour le societe

Je porte le masque de leurs désires

C’est pas normale de saute avec joi, d’enfuse le magique en ton vie

Ils me dit d’arrete, que je suis un etranger si je fait ca

Ils me forment a ce qu’ils veulent

D’avoir les masques identiques

Je deteste les masques comme ca

Les masques devrait être différent et beau

J’entre un bal masquer

Il y a des centains de masques de chaque couleur, taille, et forme

Ils sont beaus

Je passe un miroire et voire mon masque

Le gris est craquer, et dessous je vois les couleurs et les plumes

Je vois les paillettes et la musique

C’est beau

Je porte ma propre masque

[chaoscheebs]

A headcanon:

Jounouchi 100000% clocked Yugi as queer all on his own way early in the friendship and hadn't said a word because bros don't out bros, dude.

By the time, years later, after high school, Yugi actually feels comfortable telling other people about it (he feels no shame about it, but he knew being out about that in THAT high school would get him hit even more), Jou's like, "yeah, obvs, your weird Kaiba crush was visible from the moon, bruh. You can do better, by the way."

(Yugi is holding his head in shock, was he THAT obvious the entire time?!?!?!?!? Also thank god Jou didn't seem to notice the obvious crush on HIM that he never acted on because he didn't wanna ruin their friendship??!?!?!)

[okkottsus]

Angie I saw your ask post for fandom otp, pair etc etc - anyway see this as your sign to go absolutely ballistic. Name your first fandom or current favorite fandom - gimme the good and bad otp feels 🙌 I'm ready for the pain

omggg this gives me too much freedom idk if im capable enough 🤧🤧🤧

my first fandom was yugioh and when i tell u i shipped literally (almost) anything and everything akjsjk no cause the relationships in ygo are all so good ????? u can ship yugi with anzu, they are best friends and yugi in canon has a crush on her and she develops feelings for him gradually too but you can also ship him with jou cause they are the most adorable besties/dorks u will ever see and they care SO much abt each other. yugi straight up telling him that he loves him in the japanese dub wont ever make me not cry....he also has such a good dynamic with atem and kaiba and even less prominent characters like ryou. and yugi isnt the only character u can have multiple pairs u like with....ygo i'd say is a paradise for multishippers, nothing really becomes def canon in the end and everyone is happy akjsjk. also not one of the characters is straight. idk how they managed to make everyone so queer coded in a show abt card games but they did bye

my current and forever fav fandom will probs be snk so i wont go into this rabbit hole most of u know i live and breathe eremika already 😭😭 another recent fav fandom is banana fish!! asheiji broke my heart into a million pieces idk why i get so attached to doomed love stories 💔💔

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Episode 25: The Sleeping Tyrant! TonosamaGeckomon

Ha! An entire month later, I'm back! I don't know when the next episode will be done, but I am here (kinda queer), so fear not!

Taichi crossed the two hour mark, while Palmon and Gomamon just crossed the hour mark! I'm guessing by next episode Gabumon, Patamon, and certainly Piyomon will be finally crossing the hour mark as well.

There was LOTS of staging Palmon away from Mimi in this one. She spends more screentime next to Taichi, Agumon, Jou and Gomamon than next to Mimi. I just find it interesting considering how Mimi was allowing herself to lose herself, it's like a symbolism of how disconnected she was becoming in this episode.

Also, this should have been the episode Lilimon made her debut. The novel knew it. Change my mind.

Evolution sequences screentime: 20,54 seconds for Agumon, 05,18 seconds for Palmon Total character screentime: 13:15,70 Full group screentime: 01:00,10 (sans Sora)

[drrogerjou]

CASY Cultural Autism Studies at Yale (the ethnography project led by Dr. Dawn Prince-Hughes) is delighted to welcome autistic poet and author Nathan Spoon on Thursday, December 5, 7-8 p.m. EST (4-5 p.m. PST). There is no cost to attend, and international participants are welcome. RSVP online https://tinyurl.com/yejrxzrh

DESCRIPTION: Poems and Papers. Nathan Spoon will be reading his poems and discussing his papers and essays on neurodivergent poetics. He will also discuss the work he has done editing for literary journals, organizing panels, and creating other opportunities for neurodivergent writers (mostly femme and queer).

BRIEF BIO: Nathan Spoon is an autistic poet with learning disabilities. The author of The Importance of Being Feeble-Minded (forthcoming from Nine Mile Books), his poems and essays have appeared in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, American Poetry Review, Bennington Review, Gulf Coast, Poetry, The Southern Review, and swamp pink, as well as the anthologies The American Sonnet: An Anthology of Poems and Essays, How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope, Mid/South Sonnets: A Belle Point Press Anthology, and The Wonder of Small Things: Poems of Peace and Renewal. He is editor of Queerly. More information available online at https://nathanspoon.com/

About CASY Cultural Autism Studies at Yale (the ethnography project led by Dr. Dawn Prince-Hughes). An 'ethnography' is an exploration of how a group of people express themselves in a cultural way. Autistic people have a growing kind of culture, and each autistic experience is a vital part of it. Dr. Dawn Prince-Hughes is an anthropologist, ethnographer, primatologist, and author who is autistic. Join her for an exploration of the importance of autistic self-expression and the culture that grows from it. Those who wish to share their content are free to do so on our private Facebook group (see below), organically contributing to a growing autistic culture.

Links to online events will also be shared on these private Facebook groups: SOCIAL CONNECTIVITY FOR AUTISM (http://tinyurl.com/mrxnxmnc) or CASY Cultural Autism Studies at Yale (http://tinyurl.com/4ckbyut7).

CREDITS: The preparation of this material was financed under an agreement with the Connecticut Council on Developmental Disabilities (CTCDD). CASY Sparks membership, activities and events are free. CASY Sparks is sponsored in part by The Daniel Jordan Fiddle Foundation Adult Autism Research Fund, and a generous gift from the Rosen family, and the research of Dr. Roger Jou.

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’n ander mens van suid-afrika? ek’s baie gelukkig- ek hou van wanneer ek mense van my land op die hellsite vind! en- dankie vir jou post op afrikaans lgbtq woorde. my vriendin het dit vir ‘n projek gebruik en ek’s altyd gelukking om suid-afrikaanse queer dinge te vind. (ek’s jammer vir foute- ek het afrikaans by skool geleer, maar ek hou van dit praat.)

awêêê〜 dis inderdaad lekker om nog 'n suid-afrikaner hier te ontmoet ! en ek's bly om te hoor jy en jou vriendin het daai post hulpvaardig gevind.

ek moet sê, vir iemand wat die taal op skool geleer het, skryf jy dit heel goed ! jy kom duidelik nie van Durban af nie ltl