#she is absolutely doing it on purpose

[realityhelixcreates]

If all the riddlers got together to play a dnd session, what class amd race do you think they would choose? Including Helix of course.

HA! I love this! Well, first off, I'm not even going to speculate on who's DMing. Harley, probably. They're also a bunch of nerd-ass losers, who would play obvious self inserts, and would have to be physically restrained from being massive rules lawyers. Here's how I think it would break down.

Arkham-Human Rogue/Ranger, he would choose other humans as his racial enemy, put an unnecessary amount of points into Intimidate, and constantly be out 'scouting' (Stealing things).

Detective- Aasimar Mage, Divination Specialization. Puzzles complains constantly about that being the most useless kind of wizard. Detective goes all out, with individualized, tarot-themed spell cards, and is very obnoxious about them.

Swag-Half Elf Bard, makes up his own bawdy poetry. It's awful.

Unswag-Half Elf Rogue/Mage, rarely talks, other than to declare his actions. Jealously protective of his dice.

YJ-Human Paladin, long-suffering leader of the group, on the verge of oath breaking at all times.

Puzzles-Human Fighter/Rogue, likes to punch people and take their stuff. Second biggest troublemaker in the group.

Narci-Drow Monk/Mage, has a hard time maintaining alignment requirements.

Nash-Tiefling Warlock, surprisingly adaptive, consistently rakes in the most xp per session. Has to eventually ask Lust to stop making commentary on how hellish pacts actually work.

Helix-Human Wild Mage, the only one who knows how this game is actually meant to be played, constantly accused of intentionally botching her wild surge checks in order to deliberately 'accidentally' turn her teammates into squirrels.

[mxtxfanatic]

Fandom Gripe #23: I know that fandom is in some deep denial about its treatment of female characters that are canonically involved with fan favorite m/m ships, but do y’all realize that when you disappear female characters from the narrative wholesale to push the idea that your canonically straight fav was “secretly gay all along!” you’re making several bad implications? That 1) bi men don’t exist, 2) bi men do exist, but those who have genuinely loved a woman before cannot genuinely love a man after that (therefore bi men don’t exist in practice), 3) women cannot inspire genuine love and devotion in men, therefore any relationship with a woman is “lesser” than the one they later have a man (see previous parenthesis), or 4) to acknowledge the existence of a lovable woman who isn’t a terrible person, where if a relationship previously existed, it did not end because of “incompatibility,” is enough to destabilize the present relationship between two queer men?

Because why is the tgcf fandom allergic to acknowledging that He Xuan had a whole ass fiancée that he loved? Why does no one ever seem to remember that the kidnappings and murders of He Xuan’s sister and fiancée were the final straws that sent him on his rampage, and he still keeps a shrine to them in the present-day of the story? Why is her entire existence and significance to He Xuan as a man, character, and to his character arc disappeared in favor of pushing Shi Qingxuan—the brother of the man responsible for his fiancée’s death—into that same role, as if to say that her impact on He Xuan is significant... just not when it's from her? Why does He Xuan’s life in fandom essentially begin not just after her death but because of it?

[hamofjustice]

nemona feels like an obscure blorbo instead of the main rival character from the latest pokemon game because to get to her really good content from people who really get it, you first have to wade through the ocean of yandere pervert obsessive stalker annoying punchable bimbo amazon goddess interpretations of...

... a neurodivergent and possibly disabled high schooler who's desperately trying to make any friends or get any support from her rich neglectful family - while everyone in her school is jealous of their own imagined version of a privileged asshole version of her they made up - who deeply and platonically loves and supports the one new kid who agreed to take the time to get to know and respect her and her special interest without having to hold back her true self

unlike her, it's not great!

kinda feels like she has the same problem in our world that she does in hers.

[trappedinafantasy37]

Oathbreaker

[oobbbear]

This Clara, she’s Dolus’ coworker they both work at the postal office :]

[sluttyhenley]

Carmy's stuck in the walk-in? Alright. So what are we gonna do?

THE BEAR | 2x10 The Bear

[jaxihammer]

I love Wolf 359 trans headcanons those motherfuckers are all trans I love it nom nom nom

However

I will explode you with my mind (/bit) if you exclusively and consistently headcanon BOTH Lovelace and Jacobi and ONLY Lovelace and Jacobi as trans

And Here's Why

The available reasons for singling out these two and only these two are thus:

1. Lovelace is loud, authoritative, and controlling.

2. Jacobi is often depicted in fanon as Kepler's smaller, sassier, more flamboyant counterpart.

Whether it's intentional or not, headcanoning only Lovelace and Jacobi as trans plays heavily into stereotypes. Lovelace is considered the most "masculine" woman on the show, and Jacobi is usually considered the most "feminine" man. They get these headcanons more often because they're assigned traditional roles for the opposite gender. It kind of follows the logic that trans women are all loud and manly, while trans men are flamboyant and small. (Plus, fan art often shows Lovelace as tall, muscular and butch, while Jacobi is often thin and conventionally attractive.)

Am I saying trans headcanons for Lovelace and Jacobi are bad?

Absolutely not!

Jacobi staring down an externalization of himself, then being constantly unsure about his identity and uncomfortable with the way others perceive him? THAT'S A TRANS MOOD

Lovelace being biologically different from her peers, trying desperately to find comfort in a body that isn't her own while attempting to pass as "normal" for the comfort of others? ALLEGORY ALLEGORY ALLEGORY PLEASE GIVE ME MORE

I swear. I am not trying to shit on anyone. I adore trans hcs for all my Lil Guys. Just please please please I'm begging you to reflect on why you're assigning these headcanons to these particular people. Think about it

[hauntingofhouses]

mizutaigen is literally like. the first "toxic" m/f ship i've ever cared for. cuz like usually my taste in m/f ships is basically "unhinged baddie" x "badass wifeguy" *

* (see:yen/geralt. trevor/sypha. adolin/shallan. kataang but katara is sane and they're literally so wholesome like theyre traumatised kids in love who are each other's emblem of hope in a war-torn world! so basically they don't count. anyway. i'm rambling.)

and to that end my friend called mizutaigen yaoi-adjacent and im like. yeah you're right actually cuz like hell yeah non-binary mizu and bisexual taigen rights and all the gender fuckery in the show in general

but also like.

theres just SOMETHING else about mizutaigen that just GETS me. like there's a special secret sauce like the pheromones in that one sephora lotion attracting spiders and i am the silly spider!!! there's just something about it!!! it's not even the enemies to lovers trope cuz i personally am not even usually into that (obv it's fine if you are. but yk.)

so as i keep rotating these thoughts around i thiiink it's the fact that, yknow, theyre so similar. like i honestly truly think they could be besties in another universe: a kinder universe where taigen was not taught to hate. a universe where mizu was not born a girl in a deeply misogynistic society or half-white in a xenophobic homogeneous society.

yeah now that i think about it that really just might be THE secret sauce!!! like the fact that they COULD be perfect and happy together, if only things were different, if only they werent themselves.

smth v bittersweet about that's just driving me insane and makes me want to root for them to overcome all those obstacles, to say "fuck all that" (re:the world and all its fucked up shit) and find each other in the end. to eventually become each other's fav person and confidant. who obv still bicker and tease and insult each other all the time but they dont really mean any of it and over time it just becomes a running gag between them and no one else has to get it because it's just between the two of them.

[tragicvampireromanceisland]

Okay the main reasons i like lemonlime are because. 1) the concept of joy being kinda mean to someone On Purpose is SO funny 2) this makes the most sense for her to do with disgust, i would say, because she's the only one who can dish it back to joy properly, and thus cause a feedback loop of them both being shitheads to one another endlessly 3) as much as canon shows they deeply respect one another, so much of their canon interactions are ALSO them just bickering with each other 4) disgust is in desperate need of both more whimsy and f/f pairings in her life and 5) the ship name kinda slay.

[moregraceful]

it was once observed by a dear friend that the hours in which i am most alert are like 7pm to 2am which probably explains a lot about how my posts get worse throughout the evening. but also sometimes i look at today where i was just sort of gnawing the couch all day until about 5pm when i wrote an entire fic in two hours and then another entire post about kaapo which to be clear took another two hours bc i had to chase links and explain my passions in a kind way and this was in addition to a church meeting. i would excel as the person who lights and then extinguishes lamps in the night

[camgoloud]

you ever just. become overwhelmed by a sudden out-of-nowhere wave of tenderness and affection and longing for reconnection directed towards someone to whom you no longer speak for Very Good Reasons

[constantvariations]

Probably one of the worst aspects of the Abusive Adam subplot is how it’s a deeply ignorant person’s idea of what an abuser looks like

To quote Lundy Bancroft’s Why Does He Do That? Into the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men:

An abuser is a human being, not an evil monster... The common view of abusive men as evil, calculating brutes can make it difficult for a woman to recognize her partner’s problem... She doesn’t realize that he can have all these positive qualities and still have an abuse problem.

They don’t pop out the gate screaming and swinging, like Adam did at Beacon. Abusers know how to be charming, how to play to the crowd, how to twist someone’s reality until they don’t know which way is up. Lots of folk don’t even realize they’re being abused because they’ve been so thoroughly convinced that the problem lies with them rather than their partner. What else are they supposed to think when their partner is so kind and generous and loving to everyone but them?

By writing Adam as a purely evil monster with no redeeming qualities, ShawLuna are contributing to the misconceptions surrounding abuse, making it harder for people to understand their situations or be able to recognize when someone they love is in trouble

If you want to read more of the book, which I highly recommend, here’s a link to an online copy. You can also download it as a free pdf

[proudfreakmetarusonikku]

all the robotniks have autism I think. it’s not even a genetic thing half of them are adopted they’re just all autistic

[tennco]

i like to believe mima's still around but no one ever meets her. all they have are sightings of what seemed to be a ghost with a strange hat floating about. not even the tengu have managed to get a clear look at this entity, or that's what they want you to think. she's a cryptid among cryptids.

[waywardsalt]

bc its been bouncing around in my head i think another little tiny grievance i had with totk is that i got to the end and just felt a sense of ‘well what the hell was that all for then’

[lloydfrontera]

i think it fucks immensely that bk moon went out of his way to 1) establish rakiel wished to live a long life and eventually pass away of old age, 2) have him very briefly envy an immortal being only to be told very clearly to be careful what he wishes for by that very same person because living forever isn't all it's cracked up to be, 3) make the main antagonist be another immortal being who is so desperate to die he's willing to destroy the universe just to finally rest and 4) have said antagonist psychologically torture rakiel with the threat of making him live for a thousand years as everyone he loves and knows eventually grows old and dies and becomes nothing but forgotten memories.

only to then end the novel by making rakiel also immortal

like. god. it's so fucking good i love it. i'm not being sarcastic i genuinely think it fucks and it's one of the best ways bk moon could've wrapped up the plot.

it's a happy ending by all means but it has consequences and through the entire novel we've been shown and told over and over again just how heavy the consequences are and/or will be on rakiel.

he got his happy ending but it was at a price and by the last time we see him he's only just starting to pay for it.

it's great i love it