#queer on queer violence 😔

[somanywips]

Zoro comes to learn, after years of living together and fighting besides eachother, that Sanji loves in a quiet way. The flirting and the worshiping he does is mostly part of a persona he puts up, and also to make the girls laugh. When Sanji's in love he's.... Softer, gentle. He didn't really notice at first, thought that both of them had just mellowed out as they grew older, but waking up to Sanji brushing the swordsman hair with his fingers, smiling that little smile he only has when he's really proud of something, Zoro realizes that Sanji's quiet love is something he couldn't live without.

(Nami: so, explain to me again how you didn't realize you were married to Sanji for the past uhh let me thiink fucking decade?!!!

Zoro: how was I supposed to know that?!!?

Nami: YOU SLEEP IN THE SAME BED! YOU STARTED WAKING EARLY TO MAKE HIM COFFEE AND KEEP HIM COMPANY!!

Zoro: THAT'S- okay, well, I just wanted to help him-

Nami: YOU KISS HIM. ON THE LIPS. WITH TONGUE.

Zoro: YOU DO THAT TO VIVI TOO! THAT'S JUST NORMAL NAKAMA STUFF

Nami: normal nakama- I'M MARRIED TO VIVI YOU FUCKING IDIOT

A little further from them, Sanji and Vivi are just sipping tea.

Sanji: so how long did it take for Nami to realize she was married to you?

Vivi: oh like 7 years, she thought we were best friends for at least 5 tho)

[trans-boytoy]

You know what would absolutely destroy me?

If my dom came over at the end of the day, lifted up my small body without preamble to carry me to the bed and throw me onto it, not saying a word; I would ask what they wanted, terrified of the dangerous look in their eyes, and they'd tell me to shut the fuck up, while tearing both of our clothes off. Then they would climb on top of me to hold me down, force my thighs apart with enough strength to bruise my skin already; then they would bury themself in my dripping wet boycunt, starting to fuck me so hard like I was not an actual fragile person but a mere object to take out their anger and frustration on. They would use my holes like this for hours, making me cum over and over again, not for my own pleasure but to amuse themself with my pathetic whimpers and expressions ans trembles when I orgasm, and to gradually turn it into torture, to make me beg for them to stop when I can't take it anymore, but they won't, not until they filled me with so much cum it's flowing out from my holes in streams. By the time they stopped, I would be barely conscious, hurting all over, marked with bruises and hickeys, my eyes red from crying. I'd be just lying there, looking up at them with a clouded gaze, not believing they finally stopped and I'm still in one piece more or less.....and then they'd lean in and kiss me on the lips with such gentleness, my stomach would flutter despite the pain and exhaustion. They would lie down next to me and cuddle my small, half-ruined body; I would wrap my weak, shaking arms around them; they would rest their head on my chest, falling asleep there. Because they know that is what will end me completely.

[houseofwolvess]

my brother's been trying to get me into COD so he'll have someone to play it with, which hasn't been working bc i don't wanna fixate on blatant fuckin military propaganda, but like. hooooly fucking shit könig is hot

[theladyvalkyrieskyeart]

Mignon is a lovely and independently made queer Korean anime that can be found in the link below. First three episodes are free, but the rest is $1 USD each and all together will take an hour of your time to watch, but maaaaaan is it worth it.

The premise is a young man who's a boxer in an underground fight ring who falls for the rings doctor but discovers the doctor is a vampire.

The animation is great, the soundtrack is very heavy 80's synth vibes which I love (and you can find on spotify)

TW: abuse, blood, violence, and one graphic sex scene.

Link to watch here: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/mignon

Here's the trailer. Again, its worth your time

UPDATE 8/29/23: I'm seeing the original post gain traction so I'm gonna make an edited update to the original post

due to some issues with the creator's former production company, ABJ had to take Mignon down from Vimeo on Demand so sadly unless you know someone who has purchased the episodes and can give you their Vimeo login info or you just happen to stumble on a pirated version you cannot watch this anymore until the legal shit gets sorted out 😔

I posted about it here

[thebibliosphere]

My body woke up and chose violence (sleep didn't fix my migraine 😔).

So now I'm just sitting here feeling sad that out of all the cookie-cutter trad pub het romances that they could have chosen to single out for using targeted marketing techniques they don't like, they chose the queer, disabled polyamorous book written by a queer disabled ambi/polyam indie author with zero marketing budget just trying to reach their target audience.

Namely, other queer, disabled, polyamorous people.

Also, my head hurts.

[birdmitosis]

Voice of the Cold for the ask game, i hope I got here first D:

[ask game here]

OMG, you did! :D And I am so happy to answer about Cold.

First impression

Pretty sure my first impression was of him in the Spectre route, and I was curious, a bit positively inclined, mostly on the strengths of how well he fit how we got him and also how hot his voice was. 😔 Yeah, I'll admit it. I looked forward to seeing more from him and was intrigued by the seeming discrepancy between his "emotionless" claims and his blatant grudge against the Narrator.

Impression now

I LOVE COLD SO MUCH. Ohhh, he is as much of a trauma response as the rest of them and is both driven to keep himself safe and also experience something new (which is itself not safe) and also not care about safety... He is dismissive and deeply caring and he can't stand stagnancy and yet he feels at home when everything unravels into the Long Quiet. One of my Top 3 faves I think.

Favorite moment

There are a lot of moments I could choose here but I think I still have to give it to my bias: Cold in the Wraith chapter alongside Paranoid. Especially this sequence:

This has lived rent-free in my head since I first saw it, it just hits me so hard in a "none of them are fully wrong but none are fully right either" way and says so much about Cold in the context of other things... Especially the absolutely wild "If you can tolerate joy, you can tolerate pain" line, like UM EXCUSE ME?

(But the whole chapter is great, with Cheated as well as with Paranoid, but I have a bias for so many moments with the Paranoid version, like the "you think you are brave" line from Wraith and the fact that Cold must have helped with the efforts to toss the body into the void... Wraith is a severely underrated chapter, I feel!)

Idea for a story

Look, because of the way I fandom, all my ideas are for shipfic and ParaCold is 1000% my OTP, soooo...

That said, a specific idea I've actually had that I still kinda want to use with something, that I may have mentioned before, is Hunted making a point that they need each other (as a group) and at their best they cover each others' blind spots and shore up each others' weak points.

When Cold pulls something along the lines of his "I'm special" thing, Hunted ends up challenging him to a "play" fight (no actual wounds being left, "wounds" marked with something like chalk or berry juice or something, fake blade, etc.). And by the time Cold calls that he's "killed" Hunted (and so obviously he's right that he doesn't need help/he has no weak spots that actually matter), Hunted can point out that he's managed to land enough "minor" blows that Cold would be bleeding out by now too, because he doesn't guard himself at all.

(I also kinda want to look more into a super queer TTRPG called Moonlight on Roseville Beach because I wanna play around a bit with an AU for it where the six possible player character "origin stories" are filled by Hero, Contrarian, Cold, Paranoid, the Princess, and the Narrator... "[In] Moonlight on Roseville Beach, it's the summer of 1979 and you work in the village by day while protecting yourself, your housemates, and your neighbors from supernatural monstrosities and occult horrors by night," and it's in a queernorm setting where LGBTQIA+ characters are considered the norm, with a "focus on queer people succeeding at keeping themselves and their communities safe (at least for a time).")

Unpopular opinion

TBH I also agree that Cold isn't all that edgy. I think he's quite straightforward most of the time and definitely has some issues -- I think he likes prodding at some of the other characters more than some people realize but also less than some people act like, he really does jump to "we could stab" very quickly as a response, he seems happy to encourage potential violence against himself if he finds it interesting in some way, he has a surprisingly big ego -- but also blatantly cares despite how he often talks, is curious and wants new things, and seems to like connecting with the other voices and even, sometimes, the vessels.

I also think he isn't as hard to get along with as some people think, in the sense of, I think he has like three different "modes" when it comes to interacting with people:

He vibes with how you do things, in which case he goes along quite well, is agreeable and calm, and seems to like you. (Skeptic in the Drowned Grey chapter is a clear example, but so is Cheated in the Wraith I think; IMO Hero and Hunted would go here as well.)

There's enough push-and-pull there that he finds you interesting, in which case he can get a bit intense, prod you some just to see the push back, might sometimes go along just to see what you'll do, and it's a bit harder to tell if he likes you (but honestly he does). (IMO Paranoid would go here, and I do actually think Smitten goes here as well.)

Neither of the above apply, in which case he's just bored of you, and if forced into constant proximity with you, annoyed. (Stubborn in MOC is the most blatant example; IMO Broken would go here as well, ironically outside of if you somehow managed to get Cold alongside him in the Tower route.)

(The first two can be true simultaneously for some people; I feel like Contrarian would be in both. Weirdly, I feel like Opportunist is somehow in both #2 and #3? Stubborn could eventually go into #2, under better circumstances. And the Narrator fits a special category of "fuck you" where He doesn't quite fit #2 but there are some similarities, Cold just doesn't like Him.)

...This got a bit weird and long and out of Unpopular Opinion territory, huh. WELL, TL;DR Cold isn't edgy and actually likes a good number of the other voices.

Favorite relationship

I mean, y'all can guess this one, right? >_>

No, but honestly, as a ship it's definitely ParaCold. But in a totally platonic way, I also really love his dynamic with Hero in the Spectre route, especially if you free Her, and with Skeptic in the Drowned Grey chapter (okay, okay, I can see that one as either platonic or shippy). And his dynamic with the Narrator fascinates me but I can't ever see them getting along.

Favorite headcanon

I love the idea that Cold picks up new things all the time, and whether he sticks with them or not he gets surprisingly good at them first. Skills, hobbies, other languages. I can imagine his handwriting getting better more quickly than a lot of the other voices because of this, and him also managing to bond with the others over doing their hobbies with them.

[austinslounge]

It's funny that they think Austin is gay, when it's Kaia who has openly said she is queer and has been seen many times kissing other women. I think people hate Austin and even question his sexuality because of the big toxic masculinity the world is immersed in. Society refuses to believe that a straight white man is a good man, a good person. Society is so determined to put the discourse that “not all men” when talking about issues such as sexual violence, gender disparity, etc. and when society actually sees a man (Austin) who is not like the rest of men, they refuse to believe it and invent all kinds of things against him. Austin is the definition of a man written by a woman (that woman being his mother). Austin's gay fans don't be discouraged, you have Jonathan Bailey and we women have Austin. We all win and lose in some way (It makes me laugh to think that without being gay, Austin has a better chance with Jonathan than I do) 😂😂😂

It's funny that they think Austin is gay, when it's Kaia who has openly said she is queer and has been seen many times kissing other women.

😂 Girl, fr tho.

I honestly don't see people thinking Austin is gay lol, so again, it could just be wishful thinking on some people's parts.

I think people hate Austin and even question his sexuality because of the big toxic masculinity the world is immersed in. Society refuses to believe that a straight, good-looking, white man is a good man, a good person.

I had to add in the phrase "good-looking" to your sentence, because I think women these days are more suspicious of good-looking guys just in general. It's the good-looking part that some people don't trust, not the other stuff.

I kind of feel like some women have this "there must be something wrong with him", or, "he seems too good to be true" mentality with Austin because he's so good-looking.

If Austin were kind, smart, down-to-earth, well-mannered (basically, everything he already is now), and just average-looking, I think that more women, believe it or not, would trust him more, because he's got some type of "flaw".

I think that when women see a guy who's not only kind, sweet, extremely humble, a regular guy, AND he's also intensely good-looking, they automatically don't trust it. They feel that it's too good to be true. 😔

Society is so determined to put the discourse that “not all men” when talking about issues such as sexual violence, gender disparity, etc. and when society actually sees a man (Austin) who is not like the rest of men, they refuse to believe it and invent all kinds of things against him.

Austin is the definition of a man written by a woman (that woman being his mother).

He truly is 🥹🥰

Austin's gay fans don't be discouraged, you have Jonathan Bailey and we women have Austin. We all win and lose in some way (It makes me laugh to think that without being gay, Austin has a better chance with Jonathan than I do) 😂😂😂

Haha yep, that's true! 😂 Jonathan Bailey is pretty handsome too. They have Jonathan, Matt Bomer, Taylor Zakhar Perez, etc. Like, let us women have Austin please! 😅

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

I'm really curious about ur naoya fic, since I hc him as gay myself👀 I have nothing against naoya with a female reader, but those fics lowkey feel like a win to misogyny for me lol

ANON !!!!!!! tysm for asking about this fic…… he makes me feel very ill 😔😔😔……………

GAY NAOYA IS REAL TO ME . i have absolutely nothing against fem!reader inserts for him either, but when i thought about what kind of fic to write for him it felt natural for reader to be a man. since naoya’s treatment of you would be soooo different depending on your gender…….. misogyny in fics is one thing i simply Cannot handle lmao, and i also don’t like the idea of a fem!reader ’fixing’ him….

it felt most natural to pair him with a man that he actually respects and values, because i think that opens up a lot of possibilities for the dynamic!!!! in the case of this fic reader is his childhood friend <3 the only person who’s opinion he values. my favorite book has this pair of childhood friends, one of which is fucking awful while the other is kind + respects women, and one of the scenes that moved me most is when he makes the choice to leave his awful best friend behind, & support the woman he traumatized.

so i picture this fic being something like that…….. reader snapping at naoya over his misogyny. realizing that he’s not somebody they want around anymore. it’ll be full of longing and pining and violence and other queer things <3333 naoya is probably in love with you but deeply closeted . he doesn’t understand why he feels so empty when you leave ……

ask me about my wips !! <33

[starryroe]

Hey im an aspec follower of urs and im really grateful for your aro post mourning aro people. This is gonna be a long vent post, so… im sorry for dumping this on you 😔

All the world views us as disposable and tragic fables and constantly gaslights us about our own lived truths. The goalpost for acceptance in the queer community doesnt even exist because so much of it is just built on a reappropriation of amatanormative standards and it really feels like there’s simply nowhere to go and nobody to turn to because no one thinks of us. Anyone who cant understand the language of desire is exiled from its community of speakers, and to me each day feels like ive been doomed to drift through some kind of purgatorial void for my entire life. We cant have our own language, culture, or history. People say oppression of aro and ace people isnt “as bad”, but that’s the thing, we’re not even allowed to describe our exclusion and silencing and erasure and abuse and tokenizing as “violence” at all. Perhaps due to a certain assumption of inevitability, or some belief that amatormativity is natural to an extent. And im really tired of being ridiculed and dismissed and of being pressured into relationships that would make me miserable. Im really tired of no one thinking it is worth their time or energy to understand my perspective on relationships and desire. Im really tired of being the butt of jokes about being single. Im really tired of being my friends’ second or third priority. Im really tired of feeling worthless and stupid. And mostly im just Tired. And i wish when people saw me they saw my pain and hurt for what they are instead of painting their own colors over it to fix me.

🫶

I hope you could find some solace in venting out your feelings to me. I understand a lot of this. I have had multiple wonderful relationships almost if not fully fall apart because I would not give someone the security of having a partner, and I have in the past gotten myself in relationships with the sole scope of not losing someone like that. Don't even have to say it but it didn't end well for anyone.

Our struggles are silent to the rest of the world. Most people don't know we exist and so could not even begin to think about how we're feeling. To the people to whom we exist we still can't be doing that bad because obviously the whole world doesn't know us. It is a struggle every identity who faces in invisibility knows.

But I don't think it's hopeless. Asexual activism has done great steps in the last few years and I am extremely hopeful that we aromantic can take the same. And together we can show ourselves to the whole world and be free.

[heesulovebot]

i just finished eps 7 + 8 and just some quick thoughts:

i knew i was coming into pain but them gaslighting us for almost 20 mins tryna make us think jihyun had d worded............... werner du pussies i’m under ur bed 🔪

aeri willing to throw hands for her bestie is such a mood if i didn’t know she was from seoul i’d say she was from the streets of daegu yoongi was from dsfjndskfn

tbh......... the scene of taehyung getting his shit rocked by jaewon was cut tew short for my liking :// like i wanted jaewon to WAIL on a bitch i had my popcorn rdy and everything 😭😭😭

like i get why jaewon is avoiding jihyun and retreating into himself further but.... it still hurts :(( 

ok i know y’all found junpyo annoying first few eps but i always liked him and these episodes he SHONE!!!!! JUNPYO MY SWEET BABY!!!!! like his and jihyun’s friendship runs so deep they’re literally brothers the way he took care of jihyun throughout this whole thing :(((( also when he chews his lil snacks he’s so cute :(((( 

& I ADORE SAJANG-NIM when she called herself noona later i yelled they’re all so cute!! love the country bumpkin solidarity now that she’s adopted junpyo as well dkjfnk (or more like he barged in and never left loool)

ok i do have criticism for this week and: what the fUCK was the point of that class presentation scene with the kid in drag????????? like there was absolutely NO reason for it narratively, it was just—yet again—placing queer femininity as the butt of the joke. and then it got WORSE like it was already such an unfunny moment in the classroom (when i said i loved sassy gay and bitchy bi besties i didn’t mean like this 🥲) but they continued this already unfunny ‘joke’ outside and i was just cringing the entire time. not even t8s is free from harmful stereotypes, i fear 😔

anyways: jihyun coming to the school violence hearing or w.e it’s called and saving his man iktr 😌

and onto my favourite scene this week: that coming out scene?????? THE WAY I HELD MY BREATH WHEN JUNPYO WAS READING THE TEXTS AND HIS FACE DROPPED WHEN HE REALIZED WHO THEY WERE FOR... but junpyo sweetie i never doubted you I HAD TEARS IN MY EYES WHEN JUNPYO SAID IDC IF U LIKE GUYS OR GIRLS HOW COULD U KEEP THIS FROM ME but ofc he didn’t stay mad and he looked genuinely SO happy for jihyun THE WAY HE HUGGED HIM AND GIGGLED ABOUT HIS CRUSH AAAAAAAAAH also i did the math and junpyo and jihyun have been besties since they were SIX like...... that bond truly runs so deep i hope now that jihyun is coming into himself as a person he’s more open with junpyo now i love them sm :(💕

& JIHYUN RLLY SAID: I’M GONNA GET MY MAN BACK IKTR!!!!!!! 

eunji.......... girl....... *nella rose voice* are you not eMBARRASSED? anyways jihyun ate her UP

that rooftop ending scene..... guess i’ll die ¯\_(ツ)_/¯      

[jetwhenitsmidnight]

Skater Boy by Anthony Nerada

Source: Audiobook ARC from NetGalley

Release date: 6 February

Genre: young adult contemporary romance

If you like: queer coming of age, explorations of toxic masculinity, pop-punk, flawed protagonists trying to be better, Sk8ter Boy by Avril Lavigne but gay

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Synopsis

Stonebridge High’s resident bad boy, Wesley “Big Mac” Mackenzie, is failing senior year—thanks to his unchecked anger, rowdy friends, and a tendency to ditch his homework for skateboarding and a secret photography obsession. So when his mom drags him to a production of The Nutcracker, Wes isn’t interested at all . . . until he sees Tristan Monroe. Mr. Nutcracker himself.

Wes knows he shouldn’t like Tristan; after all, he’s a ballet dancer, and Wes is as closeted as they come. But when they start spending time together, Wes can’t seem to get Tristan out of his head. Driven by a new sense of purpose, Wes begins to think that—despite every authority figure telling him otherwise—maybe he can change for the better and graduate on time.

As a falling out with his friends becomes inevitable, Wes realizes that being himself means taking a stand—and blowing up the bad-boy reputation he never wanted in the first place.

Content warnings

Explicit language

Bullying

Alcoholism

Underage drinking

Racism (as experienced by a Black love interest)

Past domestic abuse

Childhood trauma

Smoking (cigarettes + weed)

Homophobia

Physical violence

Review

Why'd Wes have to go and make things so complicated 😔🤘

I hadn't expected to, but I found myself relating to Wes quite a bit. His experience of being labelled as a bad kid, and then only being seen as such without being given the chance to break that expectation, as well as his feelings of anger and fear and powerlessness, that no one wants to listen to him, that he can't open up to people, that he's inferior and will never amount to anything, took me right back to primary and secondary school lmao. (I'm so glad I'm not a teenager anymore.)

I also empathise with how awkward Wes feels around Tristan, or when he's trying to talk to people who aren't his friends; not knowing the right thing to say, or when he says something that comes off as angrier or meaner than he intends—that's literally me, baby!

A part I don't relate to is the bullying. Wes is like, a legit bully, like pushing kids into the lockers like in american high school movies kind of bully. While he's not the main aggressor among his friends, it still kind of hurt to read about how he hurt people in the past. I liked how his character arc developed, with him facing up to his actions and apologising to his victims, although I do think he was forgiven pretty easily; I personally would have held a grudge until I died, but good for them!

At the start of the book I was worried that this would be a whole "find a bf and magically all your problems are fixed!" kind of story, but while Tristan is definitely a motivating factor for Wes to improve himself, I really appreciate that Wes was the one who decided to take initiative and begin the first steps to becoming better.

There's layers of complexity to Wes and Tristan's relationship, because (a) Tristan is Black, and so deals with racism that Wes could never understand, (b) Tristan is out and Wes is not, (c) Tristan is a perfectionist and has a goal and life plans, while Wes is flunking high school with no plans to apply for college, (d) Wes had an abusive childhood, and Tristan has loving supportive parents, and (e) Wes is poor and Tristan is wealthy.

These are a lot of issues to handle in one book, and while I feel like the author does a good job discussing and resolving most of these elements, there's one point that I feel didn't get fully resolved, and that's the wealth disparity between them. Wes is super aware of this, he constantly notices the differences between the way they live, which makes him feel self-conscious around Tristan.

Spoiler warning, but at one point Tristan dresses Wes up in like a pricey cardigan and a polo shirt to meet his parents, and later Wes is furious and leaves early because he feels out of place and insecure, and that Tristan is trying to change who he is. Later, they talk and Wes comes to the conclusion that he was over-reacting, which, yeah, he was. But Tristan never apologises and is like "you know I would never have made you change your clothes if I knew it would make you feel bad!" He also makes fun of one of Wes's friends, and Wes wonders if part of the reason why he doesn't want to introduce Tristan to his friends was because he felt embarrassed.

I feel like this is a pretty big deal, and an obvious source of tension, that doesn't seem to get fully resolved. Most of Wes and Tristan's discussions about their relationship revolve around Wes apologising, but Tristan, even though he never does so intentionally, never apologises for making Wes feel inferior in this aspect.

I also feel that Tristan was kind of one-dimensional. From Wes's perspective, Tristan is perfect and flawless, and he puts him on a pedestal, while Wes is the one messing up. Tristan's only flaw, as far is I can tell, is that he struggles with anxiety, but he never seems to show it to Wes, for all that he encourages Wes to be emotionally vulnerable with him. I would have liked it if Tristan messed-up, or needed Wes to support him or comfort him in some way (Wes does support him, at near the ending, but that doesn't really count), to balance out their relationship a bit, instead of always having Tristan encouraging him, and having Wes mess up and make up for it.

The climax of this book gets really chaotic, huge shit goes down, like life-ruining shit. He manages to work it all out in the end, but I feel that it came way too easily, especially the problems he had with his friends. I feel like it got dismissed as some sort of misunderstanding, like Wes was the one making a big deal out of nothing. Afterwards, he and his friends talk it out very maturely, but where was all that maturity when shit was going down!!

I realise that a lot of my review sounds like I'm complaining, but this is really worth a read! The way this book discusses toxic masculinity, emotional vulnerability, dealing with trauma (because Wes is very clearly traumatised) is so well-done, and you can tell from the author's note that he put a lot of love and thought into this book. I would discuss this more but this review would get very spoilery.

To finish off this review, here are some nitpicks! These are minor details and do not affect the overall story! Some of these are purely personal issues I have that may not apply to other people!

Wes is stated to be a punk, and a lot of this book (the title, the chapter titles, the marketing) is about pop-punk, or scene music in general. But Wes doesn't seem to listen to pop-punk? The only band he mentions listening to is Metallica, which, last I checked, is a metal band. He wears a Linkin Park t-shirt once (huge slay) and mentions the My Chemical Romance reunion (double slay), but that's about it. He seems to be more of a metalhead tbh, which there's nothing wrong with, but I was hoping for more pop-punk references. (This sounds greedy, since almost every chapter title is a pop-punk reference, and I did appreciate that, but I wanted more!!)

I didn't vibe with the audiobook narrator. I'm kind of (very) picky about audiobooks, so the fact that I didn't dnf shows that he did a decent job at least, but I feel like he missed the mark on narrating the dialogue. Sometimes I couldn't tell the difference between Wes's internal narration and when he was actually speaking which was confusing, and the narrator also read everything in this sad, hesitant sort of voice, which works for the overall vibe of the story, but makes the happy, lighthearted moments in the book feel sad as well.

Minor spoiler, Wes's mom got him and his friends tickets to see Metallica, but later they start growing apart and the concert is never mentioned again (unless I somehow missed it?), so its unclear if they did go to the Metallica concert. I need to know if they went, because if they skipped out on it due to their beef, I will be very sad on their behalf.

[max--phillips]

It’s always them damn Germans

He looks like he could be related to Ben Stiller

That seems a bit unfair don’t u think . They don’t have fancy catapults and horses n shit :/ imperialism never changes

Yeah I’d wanna go home too if I was stuck in snowy mud surrounded by dead bodies in Germany and home was [checks notes] Spain

Anyway I don’t like Commodus . Joaquin Phoenix is good at playing assholes with the worst possible vibes

This dude just wants to go see his wife and kid he doesn’t need all this goodness gracious

That was a terrible interaction

Oof lmao

OOF

LMAO BITCH

yikes

SICK

Very samurai-movie esque

This guy is having a terrible time

Oof. OOF

That’s a monkey on a leash?

Maximus is like “I think I’m in hell actually”

Nothing worse than queer giraffes

Casual bondage in the background?

He’s like . This is lame basic bullshit and I refuse to participate

Love his weird umbrella

I love that this was the height of entertainment . If it wasn’t deemed unethical at some indeterminate point it probably still would be

Rip Scribe

Not a bad team they got goin there eh

Ah, questionable late 90s/early 00s CG

This dude is in over his head lmao

Lucila deserves to throttle this guy tbh.

Does anyone at all know his deal yet

Already seeing some parallels with the trailer we got lmao

Maximus is like . Can’t wait to ruin the emperor’s whole fucking year. Despite the Sisyphean torture I’m being subjected to

I wonder how truly historically accurate this is. Like we already know the shirtless thing but anyway

Why are you so close to his face. I don’t like that

Lead! Maybe? Probably. The Romans loved lead

Commodus: 🥺 / Lucila: 😒

That actress must tell that story all the time. “Yeah I licked Gerard Butler’s face once”

Holy Eyebrows

Ooooo a lady! Titty armor tho :/

Rip lady 😔

Ooooooh SNAP

The people have spoken Commodus

“It vexes me. I’m terribly vexed.”

Now that is a fucking shot

Snake?????

LMAO

Nothing better than free bread and violence

Oh that guy!

That’s a damn tiger

That is one unhappy baby

Rip tiger :(

I love that Maximus breathes and the praetorian guards appear to threaten him

LMAO THE BOOING AT COMMODUS

Oh omg

I know this is deliberate but GOD I fucking hate Commodus

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm these vibes are terrible

There is a bizarre tension between Lucila and Commodus that I do not like. It is beyond jealousy or anger or contempt it’s just weird.

Well that would explain that. Anyways

Amen sister

This kid is like “shit just got awkward and I would like to leave”

SNAKE

Considering Hans Zimmer worked on both of these. This feels very proto-Pirates of the Caribbean

I’ve been in one of those very tight spiral staircases and gotta say? Not a fan. Didn’t like it

Aw man Hagen :(

This poor fucking woman

Did you though? Did you really?

Oh my god. Oh my god holy shit LMAO HOLY SHIT

Dude he fucking did it. Even poisoned and on the brink of death that little freak didn’t stand a goddamn chance

Lucila I think this would be a great time to take power for yourself . Tbh. Just a little. As a treat. Like yeah Republic etc etc but yknow.

Aw man Juba!!

[rosalineandrosemary]

for the choose violence ask game: 6, 7, 14 & 24

thank you for asking <33

6. which ship fans are the most annoying?

that varies wildly depending on what fandom we’re talking about. the j//marts drive me insane, like i love some of yall but at the same time they are Not like that.

na//lu is so. please let them exist as characters outside of each other. please please please please please please please. not everything is nalu yes they’re cute but also. please

xiao//lumi is great and i love them however trying to find any sort of in character xiao content is miserable.

7. what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them?

martin. just a bit. i enjoy canon martin and i think he’s compelling i just think fanon martin is like a 2d version of himself.

fandom has also made me dislike natsu a bit too cause i am a certified Lucy Girlie and im so tired of people not letting lucy exist without natsu

14. that one thing you see in fics all the time

mdom 😔

24. topic that brings up the most rancid discourse

age and gender dynamics. some people do not understand what can make age gaps problematic and just think “ah yes if people are not the same age that is bad” that’s not how it works. and some of the most horrific takes i’ve ever seen are related to age and maturity and all that.

gender dynamics is one that just pisses me off as a gender studies major, a queer person, and a femdom enjoyer. why is femdom a kink and mdom natural. why don’t yall tag your mdom. why doesn’t anyone analyze their internalized misogyny. and transmisogyny. and lesbophobia. and just all of it.

[mummer]

which barry s4 arcs do you not have glowing things to say about im curious

i feel bad saying this because he was literally my favorite part of s3 and i thought it was so transcendent but.. hank 😔😔😔😔😔 hank my best friend hank. i just thought in the end (and especially after the timeskip) his s4 arc wasnt really saying anything more complex than bog standard “doing violence is bad” which i think the show explores in like ten other more interesting ways already. i dont understand why him and fuches had to have a final showdown because these characters dont really care that much about each other so it did not land. like i just for real didnt get what they were trying to DO with him in the finale. i also thought it was a really weird decision to sort of forget about the homophobia/queer horror angle that was more explicit in s3 and i feel like it still couldve been worked in to what we got…. timeskip didnt really change him in an interesting way…. and maybe getting rid of cristobal as early as ep 4 was a mistake??? just feels like there were countless potential angles to explore with him that were wasted which SUUUCCKKSS :(((((((( because he’s so great :(((((( but it’s okay….;-;

[harkentheenigma]

𝓗𝓪𝓻𝓴𝓮𝓷’𝓼 𝓦𝓻𝓲𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓑𝓵𝓸𝓰

𝔾𝔼ℕ𝔼ℝ𝔸𝕃 ℝ𝕌𝕃𝔼𝕊:

-You may send requests

-Do not push me to write something I’m uncomfortable with

-Most stories Will be ��X reader” or Ships (for certain fandoms) so more people can enjoy them

-If you’re curious about something not in this Post; ask, and I’ll answer (then I’ll probably add it if it’s important)

𝔼𝕄𝕆𝕁𝕀 𝕊𝕀𝔾ℕ𝔸𝕃 𝕂𝔼𝕐:

Multiple Emojis will be attached to each story, bc more than one of these apply to any given story

General Tags:

💜 = self indulgent and/or author OCs

💖 = Fandom/Media Character

👀 = IRL peeps (ex: Content creators, less common tho)

🫵 = X reader

🩵 = platonic (romantic stuff might be in the background tho, but it’s not focused on)

💖 = fluff! Dopamine! :D

❤️‍🔥 = Romance

🏳️‍🌈 = Queer focus (ex: coming out)

AU:

👽 = aliens

🧜 = Sea Folk and/or subnautica

🦄 = fantasy/magic/D&D

🪰 = fae/Cryptids/Monster

📋 = SCP

⛓️ = Yandere

Warnings:

💔 = Angst

🧠 = Psychological Horror

🍋 = Smut/Lemon

👹 = Kinky stuff

🖤 = DEAD DOVE, DO NOT EAT {DDDNE}

🩶 = Dubious consent, Questionable consent, NonCon/R@pe

💀 = major character Death

🔪 = serious violence

🩸 = Gore/Severe injury/Whump (why is it called that??)

𝔽𝔸ℕ𝔻𝕆𝕄𝕊 & 𝔸𝕌𝕤:

-DSMP/OSMP/QSMP (I know many CCs are problematic, but I’m only writing for the characters, & they give me brain rot bruh 😔)

-MHA/BNHA

-FNAF + TSAMS

-Creepypasta + Marble Hornets

-Changed: special edition (I acknowledge the problems with ppl in the community & accusations against the creator, but I still like it ok-)

-Cult of the Lamb (cult game go brrr)

-SCP

-SCP AU

-SeaFolk/Subnautica AU (PLSSSSS I LOVE DOING THESE)

-fantasy AU (dragons, sea folk, fae, etc)

-Cryptid AU

-YANDERE AU

-Character design deviation (anthro scps, more expressive animatronics, etc)

𝕊𝕋𝕆ℝ𝕐 𝕃𝕀𝕊𝕋:

Author OCs:

Scientist!Reydarr & SCP!Child!Reader💜🩵💖🫵📋

Minecraft:

FNAF:

MHA/BNHA:

Creepypasta:

SCP:

Changed:

[vibrantfangz]

Wam-Bam!!!

You’re one of my favorite artists, so I hit you with the alphabet of

Questions

A- Are you feeling ok?

B- Barnacles! (What makes you the most peeved?)

C- Color scheme (What’s your favorite color scheme?)

D- Dashing (What fictional character are you most attracted to?)

E- Effortless (What’s your go to hairstyle?)

F- Favorite fantasy world?

G- Girls or boys or neither?

H- Hate (Who do you hate the most?)

I- Intern (If you could be an intern for anyone in the entire world, who would it be?)

J- Jokes (What’s your type of humor?)

K- Kids (How do you feel about kids? Annoying or endearing?)

L- Love (Have you ever been in looooooove?)

M- Movie (What’s your favorite movie?)

N- Nightmare (What’s your worst nightmare?)

O- Obviously 🙄 (What’s a random fun fact that you know?)

P- Powers (If you could have any power, what would it be?)

Q- Q-T-Pie (What’s the cutest thing on earth, would you say?)

R- Really ugly (What is the ugliest feature of a person?)

S- Sad (What’s something that makes you sad?)

T- Tiktoktiktok (What do you like to do in your free time?)

U- Understanding (What’s the most redeeming quality someone can have?)

V- Violence (How much do you traumatize your ocs?)

W- Weather (What’s your favorite type of weather?)

X- IDK WHAT TO DO FOR X I’M SORRY 😔🙍🏻‍♀️

Y- Your biggest hyperfixation rn

Z- Zoopals! (Favorite animal?)

OHHH THOS IS SO SWEET IVE NEVER GOTTEN ASKS LIKE THIS <333 TYSM

A- absolutely! I'm doing fantastic :] how about yourself?

B- Eugh that's a hard one, even though I get peeved easily haha... in terms of art, something that irks me is Art Drama and artists gaining clout over mean trends

C- OOOH pastels!! Rn my favorite combo of colors are yellow, pink and blue!! Aka my signature colors haha

D- Tech from the Bad Batch is the first to top my mind, but when I was younger, I had a huge crush on Darth Vader LOL

E- Oftentimes in a ponytail!! But I used to wear braids ALL the time in middle school

F- OOOH that's a hard one, but probably strange and whimsical ones like the World of Studio Ghibli and The Wizard of Oz, as well as Genshin Impact!

G- If this is about sexuality, I'm currently unlabeled! I know I'm queer and I like everyone, but I don't quite care for labels. Although I did go through a pansexual, omnisexual and lesbian phase haha

H- Definitely 'pray the gay away' conservatives and just unaccepting people in general. Also weirdos like MAPs and Zoos, blegh

I- I've never thought about this!! It's something I'll save for later

J- Humor? Probably really random things LOL, but I find all types of humor unique!

K- Annoying and endearing at the same time. It depends. But I've met some really sweet ones at work! They make my work experience pretty funny sometimes

L- I've been in love a few times! I think- im still figuring out how feelings work haha. Of course, I've had a few childhood crushes, but the most notable was probably with an online friend I sadly cut off. We dated for a few weeks back in 2022 I think?? Ever since I cut them off I've sworn not to online date ever again LOL

M- OOOOH right now it's The Wild Robot, but I also like anything Studio Ghibli!!

N- I've had worse ones than this, but I like to tell this story a lot - when I was little I had a dream that the Cat in the Hat made my toys cone to life, and when I told my parents about it he got mad and made my toys turn on me with pitchforks LOL

O- the insides of figs are lined with dead wasps (yummy)

P- The ability to draw worlds and make them come to life!

Q- CATS!!! I have five, I love them dearly

R- I don't like to say any physical feature is ugly! The only ugly thing about anyone is the evil in their hearts.

S- Probably the thought of those i love passing away, especially my cats and mom </3

T- Draw, daydream, talk with my friends online and browse social media!

U- Learning from their past and choosing to grow from it.

V- A lot, haha :,) but I also love wholesomeness so I add in a good balance! Fret not, my ocs are in good hands!

W- FALL WEATHERRR <33 it's so cozy!!

X- LOLLL DW X IS A HARD ONE

Y- Probably SCAD... its silly but I've been researching Savannah College of Art and Design all week nonstop, and it's my first thought in the mornings

Z- Cats, hehe!! Like I said, I've got five of em!!

Wow, that was a lot- thanks for asking!!! I love to interact with my community ^0^