#reject gender roles

[eros-elove4]

I highly recommend that fellow queer people try out Robert smith’s makeup because I did and I feel very androgynous! Doesn’t even matter if you listen to the cure or not.

[celebrate-lesbianism]

"Beauty is pain"

I'll stick to being handsome then

[osm2]

[nantokanarusaa]

Ao no Flag (SERIES FINALE SPOILERS!!)

Seriously, don’t read this if you are planning to read Ao no Flag. That being said, go read the manga now!!

Finally finished reading Ao no Flag and I have so many feelings. Non-coherent, rambly, messy feelings. I was looking at reactions online and what mainly boggles me about the reactions to the final 2 chapters is people being “how is Taichi suddenly gay??” My friend living on this big planet he never was (he’s bi). He most likely just realized it later in life. Did the events of his 3rd HS year help him figure it out? Heck yes. Is he suddenly bi? No.

Not all queer people pop out into this world and instantly know they are queer. Heck, it took me 23 years to figure that out. It’s not like Taichi instantly realized he likes Touma and started dating him. He knew Touma mattered to him somehow, but it took him multiple years to realize how, as evident by him maybe starting his relationship with Touma after 5 years when Touma contacted them all. He gained life experience and grew.

People go through a lot of learning, unlearning and growing. Especially if you are outside of societal expectations and norms. Taichi grew up learning to and wanting to blend in with society. “Be normal, don’t stand out too much”. Add to that low self-confidence and you feel stuck. Feel like there is only black and white. only one right answer to life. It can be very difficult to look out of this dark box, trust me, I had a tough time and sometimes still do. But it feels like Taichi thought and thought and pondered even back in high school and came to the decisions that he did.

And isn’t that what the series is about? growing as a person, making mistakes, learning, allowing yourself to be visible and vulnerable, and eventually, making choices, even if they don’t make sense to anyone else, and continuing to do so?

These two pages really hit me hard and I was wondering why. And then it hit me. This is possibly the happiest I’ve seen Taichi be since his childhood. Like genuinely happy. He’s reached max happiness points and is sharing those with Touma. He’s made his choices, and he’s happy. You can and are allowed to choose what or who makes you happy.

That’s all that matters.

[myhousewifedreams]

A PSA to everyone, but mostly men:

I am not on here to find a husband. I am not on here to encourage the sexualization of traditional values.

I just enjoy posting about femininity and homemaking, neither of which are inherently sexual. If you'd like to message me to chat about those topics, I welcome the conversation! Otherwise, don't bother.

[banished-away]

feeling slightly vindicated watching an RAS interview bc keep getting this feeling from the drizzt books that theyre very italian-american (as in, i see a lot of things i recognize from italian culture in it, but influenced and changed by american culture) and he said that he based off the culture of menzo partly on his hometown and then the sopranos/godfather which confirmed it to me

also he pronounces menzoberranzan the way i used to before someone else corrected me JKNDSKJFKDS

[letheslullaby]

Coping mechanisms for the mentally disturbed: debating on writing out several academic-style mla-cited explorations of various fanfic tropes that people either 1) don't really care about or 2) are aware of because everyone only ever hears about that trope for the absolute batshit insane kink shit

[clove-pinks]

Pictures I use to scare Javert after the Flamin' Hot Cheetos fail to have an effect on him

[unpleasant-angel]

ARE YOU FEMINIST ICON GIRLYPOP YES OR NO????!?!??!!

-🧠🎧

i won't comment on the girlypopness of my existence but i can tell you

every gender is to be pranked equally

[musings-by-rae]

I've spent years feeling more and more uncomfortable with the identity I've been assigned. There are many labels that might be a better fit. I might use all of them. I might use one. But I need somewhere to get my thoughts out. So here I am.

[maddy-ferguson]

i think the reframing of girls disliking pink and other stereotypically feminine things as internalized misogyny that you should overcome by the time you're an adult woman is an immense feminist loss

[deathbringer]

maybe this is too niche an idea, but it seems a shame to me that no ex-Protestant TMG fan here on tumblr (as far as I can tell) has ever used held under these smothering waves / by your strong and thick-veined hand / but one of these days / I am gonna wriggle up on dry land for an art piece about leaving the church. I know I am not the only one whose baptism did not sit right in their soul.

(if anyone suddenly decides the idea is up their alley to use, well, you're welcome.)

[toytulini]

thinking about my oc Bytte. and. her gender is Aro. her Aromanticism is inextricable from her gender experience.

[osm2]

[sammygender]

the thing thats always missing in conversations about gender in general is the fact that 'cis', as an identity, is not a innate Thing Some People Are, but rather a state of acceptance society grooms us into from birth

[elliesbelle]

not every masculine women likes to be complimented with masculine terms, there are many that likes to be called ‘pretty’, ‘beautiful’ and ‘gorgeous’ too. i know you didn’t say otherwise but i just thought it needed to be said.

women are going to be forcefully feminized, regardless if they’re masc or not, so pointing something out that is not rejection or subversion of gender roles does not necessarily need to be said