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marinacourage · 11 months ago

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isn’t it kinda funny how the smell as one of the secondary gender manifestations was mentioned once (1) in the show and then it disappeared completely like wait a second i wanna know if charlie finds babe’s smell alluring if jeff as the only omega around smells completely different from the rest if enigmas have any smell at all and how the fuck didn’t they recognise each other as the same species from the get go do they use smell suppressants or something???

#pit babe the series #pit babe #real questions for the real ones #if you’ve read even one omegaverse you’d know they don’t shut up about alphas smelling like thunder and smoke GIMME DAT #way smells like jasmine tea and honey whiskey #pete smells like insides of a new car and forest after the rain #tell me your takes

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lunarwednesday · 4 months ago

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Kindly Miquella... I see you've thrown away... Something you should not have... Under any circumstances.

#elden ring #elden ring shadow of the erdtree #elden ring fanart #miquella #st trina #finished the dlc...perchance... i am gamer?#i really liked miquella as a villain or rather his journey into becoming one #loved that as a player you follow his traces and slowly come to realize that he's losing sight of who he was and what he was striving for #how can you save others if you cannot save yourself? god that old guy at the cross was asking the real questions

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tylersayscool · 8 months ago

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#asking the real questions #the way my jaw dropped cause i was doing SERIOUS research #brocedes #nico rosberg #lewis hamilton #formula one #formula 1 #f1 #reddit

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formulanni · 1 month ago

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Father, Son, and the Holy Goat

Tag list: @st-leclerc @rubywingsracing @saviour-of-lord @three-days-time @the-wall-is-my-goal @albonoooo @ch3rubd0lls @brawngp2009 @Mandy23b

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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 1 month ago

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Out of sight, out of - wait.

[First] Prev <–-> Next

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #granny wen #a-yuan #It's always fascinating how colours translate from the page to the screen.#It would probably surprise a lot of people to see what some of these comics actually look like in physical form.#My lighter colours takes about 3-4 washes before it shows up on scan which means it tends to ripple the page.#And my yellows and oranges are drastically different colours when scanned compared to the ink colour.#There's about 20 or so comics where everyone's hair is purple - because it scanned in the exact same colour as my light grey.#Wait my book is right here in front of me so I can...yeah...Comics 57-77 were indeed purple.#This is all to say - is it not fascinating how what we see is often not the full truth of what the subject truly is?#Is it not fascinating to open another episode that reminds us that despite everyone's claims they could totally spot the evil YLLZ-#-The man walks around among them for months as no more than a man haggling for deals like the rest.#It's almost as if he's just a person. It's almost as if none of us - no matter what we do are really anything more than just a person.#Your good acts will be overtaken by how other's interpret you in negative light.#Just as easily are people willing to forgive crueler actions if they hold you in high esteem.#But what's real? Is the page I hold the real version of this comic? Is it the one you look at?#Is the man known as Wuxian the most himself when he is alone or on the battlefield?#Perhaps he is and has always been a scared orphan boy lost in the market.#I think there is no good answer to any of these questions.#But I do know that panic rising in WWX as he frantically looks for A-yuan was for more than one boy.#To be human is to have layers around a delicate center. We only really grow around our wounds from childhood.#In other words; Donkey from Shrek would also probably call Wei Wuxian an onion. I'll see myself out now.

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linkcharacter · 1 month ago

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Oh I have so many thoughts on aroace Curly, I think it brings so much on the table when analyzing the game's story.

Amanormativity ties in with the reoccurring mentions of the nuclear family, from Wrong Organ making 1950s mock advert posters, to Swansea talking about how getting a wife and kids didn't bring him any fulfillment in life.

In the cake cutting nightmare sequence, where Jimmy talks with Dream Curly about the mediocre cake, Dream Curly begins to talk about how sometimes you can only get the subpar stuff in live. Sometimes he'll get promoted, buy a house, fall in love. But other times he'll just have some awful fucking cake with his friend.

I think there is that subtle implication that Jimmy does buy into Amanormativity, with him projecting his beliefs on Dream Curly that a platonic relationship is lesser then a romantic one. But we never see Curly suggesting that he wants such a thing in the pre-crash.

With Jimmy thinking that Curly has everything in life, except for the desire (although I think Jimmy would view it as Curly not having the skills for it) to get a romantic partner, he would heavily lean into getting the one thing that Curly couldn't get in life to one up him.

THATS EXACTLY WHAT IM THINKING!!! AMATONORMATIVITY BE DAMNED!!!!

Looking at Mouthwashing through an aroace lens is interesting

"Jimmy thinking that Curly has everything in life, except for the desire", well said, well said! And references to the nuclear family fit in very cleanly thematically for Mouthwashing.

Jimmy leaning into amatonormativity is a smart observation. Jim internalizes all the social norms and standards on what you have to do to have a normal and desirable life, who sees everything Curly has and what Jimmy wishes he had, and is offended that Curly isn't satisfied, that he has the "audacity" to be unhappy. Curly meanwhile only wishes for his life to be something he doesn't have to run from, because by all means, he has already reached a point where he should feel accomplished, but isn't. Curly doesn't want to be a freighter captain his whole life, he doesn't want to settle with his sustainable position, he just wants to be happy. Like Swansea who has reached the "ideal" outcome of his life, having a wife, kids and a good career, it will never feel as good as embracing all what society deems undesirable yet right for you.

Jimmy does imply to seeing himself as lesser as a friend, "fall in love" being a goal and a "cake with a friend" being something he "has to settle for", it's all in the subtleties with underlying themes of "what you're "supposed to want" by society's expectations" against "what feels right for you". Jimmy is frustrated that Curly is going to "leave the dirt behind him", when in actuality, letting the crew and him go is the last thing Curly wants. Curly wants to be with his friends, he deeply cares about his crew, and about his close friend.

Mouthwashing as a whole reads to me as platonic through and through. Swansea and Daisuke having such a meaningful familial bond, Curly and Anya being sweet, playful and caring without romance, Anya and Daisuke having something of a siblings dynamic are dear to me. Also it's really rare to get to see representations of "toxic friendship" in media. Its always toxic romance this, toxic yaoi that, toxic family there, however in reality, friendships aren't excluded from being as rotten and abusive as the others, yet they're often overlooked. Jim and Curly are especially unique in this way. It's very impressive how they managed to showcase Jimmy's mistreatment of Curly in such a platonic way (at least that how I read it). Jim too, like Curly, in general avoids hints at romance and attraction explicitly related to him during his gameplay, not with Curly, nor with Anya (dear god thanks for that at least). It's all spite, annoyance and parasitizing off of these two. (That man's dry and lowkey hates everyone and everything) No attraction attached, no desires except hoping it hurts.

Curly to me is very much aroace, or at least on the spectrum. Like, the trivia fact that one of Curly's fondest memories is that of his friends putting in effort to make a shitty awful cake, tells us all we need to know on how dear his friends are to him. Platonic relationships mean so much to Curly, even when it's Jimmy fucking Mouthwashing, the worst friend ever imaginable.

#apologies I'm gonna rant a bit too #amatonormativity runs rampant within this fandom as well it seems tho #looking at you jimcurlers who think #“there's no way Curly and Jimmy were ”JUST“ friends there has to be something ”MORE“ to their relationship”#“because obviously two guys can't be close and toxic and NOT be having say gex with each other”#on the other side there's people who undermine or dismiss their friendship entirely #on this note I wanna say that as long as the ship isn't romanticizing abuse and consent is present it's not that much of a crime #and harassment of real people is worse than questionable fictional saygex #i just think it's heavyy mischaracterization of at least one of them #like swinging and missing the mark #I'm saying this to curlya enjoyers too despite me being one #they care for each other they're playful they're teasing #but they don't have to be in a romantic relationship to be just as friendly or doomed #but i don't get to judge on which is the correct way to enjoy characters #I love these characters #hooollyy yapp #would you guys also hear me out on demiromantic demisexual anya #mouthwashing #curly mouthwashing #jimmy mouthwashing #asks

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schemelin · 4 months ago

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Palmer and Altairus

#i'm coming up with a little self-indulgent story :3 #Where this woman‚ Palmer‚ was brought to the Land Of The Dead by mistake after a relative's passing #Death's Assistant rescued her from losing contact with her dimension by bringing her to the Limbo‚ an intermediary between the two worlds #Her main goal was to return home‚ until local conflicts and unexpected meetings with previously assumed imaginary friends #led her to question the real reason to be there ---#It feels right to create stories for these characters :o #and not just leave them hanging in an empty blank space (which is a constant pattern in most backgrounds of my art)#there are also other characters that show up but I haven't thought of their role yet #and I really like this idea of simplistic designs changing over time (10+ bonus points if it follows character development)#while really complex ones usually remain the same #so ig there's more to come??? unless I come up with yet ANOTHER self-indulgent story lmao #sbahdabwhdbahdhwqbadnwanwsm #starbsart

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knifearo · 10 months ago

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ultimately when it comes to shipping and fandom space treatment of aspec characters i just don't accept "aro/ace people can still date/have sex" as an answer from nonaspecs. like yeah. mhm. okay. now i think we both know that you're not saying that out of real interest in the diversity of aspec experiences. so you can turn in your seventeen-page essay on why and how you plan to examine this character's aspec identity within the context of a romantic or sexual relationship complete with evidence from canon and peer reviews from multiple aspec people within the next week or i'm putting you in the pit from the edgar allen poe story

#you know. the one with the pendulum #'hey. why are you as an allo person shipping this aspec character like this'#'oh aspec people can still date/have sex!'#'yeah. now can you answer the question that i actually asked you'#like goddamn just say you don't care they're aspec and you want to fulfill a sexual/romantic fantasy with them. that's Fine #it like. sucks. for sure. lotta aspec people will be unhappy with you. but everyone is entitled to their own wants and experiences.#but i'd prefer you just be honest with it rather than using our community's conversation points as retroactive justification #and ONCE AGAIN. you guys are real fucking cavalier with this shit and it shows a real fundamental lack of respect for aspecs #when most of you would NEVER ship a canonically gay character with the 'other' gender. cause again. it would suck.#you can do it. nobody's Stopping you. but it would suck.#and we understand that putting a queer character in situations that erase that queerness is shitty! until it comes to aspec characters!#and whoa... there it is again... people don't consider aspec identities to be queer... crazy how it always comes back to that #anyway. you all know what i'm talking about. have seen many posts about this lately #it is [ long sigh ] unfortunately a very hot button issue with the advent lately of alastor hazbinhotel #which. again. god i wish there were other canon aspec characters to be having this conversation about.#but we'll have to do our best with what we have #aromantic #aromanticism #arospec #aroace #talking #aspec #asexual #asexuality

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raining-anonymously · 5 months ago

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why did he handwrite this

#bill cipher #billford #gravity falls #ford pines #stanford pines #one sixer please #the book of bill #the book of bill spoilers #tbob #book of bill #aita #writing anonymously #the T is for Triangle #but is the S for Stanford or Sixer?#these are the real questions.#ford gravity falls #stanford gravity falls #bill ci the triangle guy

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fluentisonus · 6 months ago

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(typing this as I walk to work so this is not articulate but) thinking a lot abt how les mis w javert sort of. hm. questions? problematizes? the Idea of dogs & the domestication of dogs (metaphorically ofc) like it sort of looks past the 'man's best friend' angle entirely & makes you think things like. kind of fucked up of humans [the social order] to domesticate the wolf [person outside of society for whatever reason] expressly to turn against & cause harm to other wolves in order to keep them out [away from respectable society] & keep themselves safe but never truly consider it an equal [it'll always just be a dog]. kind of fucked up that the dog finds enjoyment & life's purpose in this

#this is NOT to absolve him of responsibility tbc like He Did All That. but it's just soo #idk i think like i said the dog metaphors are way more interesting than in a lot of other stuff bc a lot of stuff is simply unwilling to #question the fundamental idea of a dog if that makes sense. they want it to be a fundamental good thing that can be perverted #but idk 'dogs are good. people and dogs are meant to be together. in a good way' gets conceptually boring really quick #<- to be clear this is not about dogs in real life. i very much like dogs in real life. just abt literary dog metaphors & motifs #thoughts #les mis #i will say though the metaphor in the book is varied & situational so you can't develop a single framework from it this is just one aspect #anyways where's that comic about wolves seeing a dog & thinking 'what a scary fucked up creature'. javert to me sort of

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faunandfloraas · 1 month ago

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