#thats irrelevant

[beddybug]

i do actually believe that if i was in the thing (1982) that everything would be okay and normal and cool. the dog would transform and id tell it that i love it in any form it decides to take so it just chills. id give it maternal love. alexa play i bet on losing dogs by mitski

[dick-chugger]

Stereotypical Ken wants to fuck Rival Ken so bad

[hotdogcabbagesausage]

so i started voltron on april 14th, right? i’ve cried over it 68 times. sixty-eight times /srs

[angelsofsmalld3ath]

UMMM WTF

[statementlou]

Hope it's okay to ask you this, really wanted to know WHY there's a label of being unlabeled? Like doesn't that defeats the purpose of having a label? Cuz when you say queer, you can be anything you want to be but when youre unlabeled, youre either straight or gay... right?

Definitely okay, and glad to ramble about it all! But first and most importantly, "unlabeled" IS NOT A LABEL! So yes it absolutely defeats the purpose of having a label and like that's the idea? It simply says nothing. [EDIT: wait there's an 'unlabeled flag'?? and apparently this is about discourse about that? I... whatever. I still feel this answer is valid and covers it fuck it. But also not claiming labels and claiming a flag are IMO opposite things so like- whut? Just... don't wave a flag? Tada you are unlabeled!]

I agree that queer is a wonderful catchall word that allows you to say, "I am not straight but anything beyond that is detail that I don't feel the need to list right now"- but saying you are queer does very much mean saying out loud "I am not straight." Whereas saying you do not wish to be labelled is instead a way of dodging the question, of saying "I don't want to talk to you about that. I'm not telling you that I'm gay or straight or questioning or anything else, because it's none of your business." Mostly I assume you are asking me about why Harry has said that he prefers not to label himself and my first answer would be that the difference between Harry saying that and Harry saying "I identify as queer" is just HUGE and that's probably the biggest reason. Like SO DIFFERENT in terms of impact and headlines and repercussions! There's a scene in the movie 'I'm Not There' where they are reenacting the drama of a famous moment where Bob Dylan shocked the world by playing an electric guitar at a folk festival, which without the context of the time and the cultural moment seems kind of silly now, like what's the big deal, so how to convey to the modern audience what it felt like at the time? Filmmaker Todd Haynes does it by having the actor playing Dylan (Cate Blanchett!) slowly open the guitar case, pull out a machine gun, and turn around and spray the audience with bullets as they scream in shock and betrayal. As I see it, that's pretty much what it would be like if Harry were to say he was queer at this moment. And it would change everything for him forever and it would be a media and discourse storm like I can barely imagine. It would be NOTHING like him simply refusing to answer the question by saying unlabeled which causes some online discourse and feels pretty obvious for those of us who already know he's queer, but doesn't really change anything.

So no, I don't really think it needs to be looked at too hard, why Harry might say such a thing: but as it happens I personally kind of believe that he meant it more than just as a way to dodge questions. And while I can't possibly say if that's true or what he really feels because how could I or any of us know, since I do sort of identify with that I can say something about my feelings and why even I, a person who isn't closeted, might say such a thing if people were asking me those questions, which is naturally very specific to me, but I can see where there might be some kind of parallels.

I've been out and comfortable with the idea of myself as a queer person for as long as I've been old enough to have any identity at all in that sense. So I just went ahead living my life and taking it for granted that nothing would ever change (literally always a mistake)… but the wonderful thing about having stability and a sense of safety is that it allows you to actually develop and grow and as a result of that things do change, because flux is a part of life. Like one thing I have seen a lot of over the years in queer communities, for example, is people growing into different gender identities at various stages of life. There are definitely lots of trans people who know for sure very young, or who aren't exposed to those ideas until later but as soon as they are they know; but there are also a lot of people who grow into new identities over time, whose relationship to gender changes. Where it absolutely isn't a case of always having been a man or a woman but simply constrained by society, but of things evolving and shifting. Or of desires shifting, people who have been very very end-of-the-spectrum only gay or only straight experiencing different attractions for the first time very late in life. I myself have experienced some of this stuff. And it feels as confusing and destabilizing as I imagine it is for many people to initially realize they are queer, having to rewrite my whole sense of the things about me that I thought I knew for sure. And relevant to this discussion: as a result I DON'T KNOW what my labels are now! I simply avoid talking about my specifics of identity because the long winded and confusing answers to those simple questions is just like… not anyone's business?? I don't want to talk about it outside of like, therapy? It feels intimate and private, not to mention how vulnerable it would feel to share this unfinished process and all the confusion it entails. So "queer" is great and handy and I claim it because I'm not closeted so I can and it makes things simple but what if I weren't out? And the paper was asking me? Yeah I would also decline to state.

idk I mean tl:dr most likely Harry said that mostly as a way to dodge the question but for simply one possible hypothetical, let's say for example that he has identified as gay since his early teens (likely imo) but in his 20s began to grapple with the idea that he may not identify as A Man, is attraction to men still "gay", is it something else, what is the right label… everything gets muddled and confusing and I think there are a million variants of this that could cause someone to question what exactly their labels would be and to prefer not to use any, that's all

[kailoros-spam]

Need to figure out my favourite pokemon, it feels like im missing an essential in not knowing what my favourite pokemon is

[peggyrose19]

what i wouldn't do for a nap right now

[valtsv]

this is definitely an intersection of my aromanticism and my pedantic nature, but i do enjoy it so much when it's emphasised that it wasn't (usually romantic) love that "fixed" someone or made them "complete", nor was it love that they were missing, but instead comfort, or safety, or a sense of purpose, or simply an opportunity to stop and rest for a while. when far more basic, animal desires take precedence, and are acknowledged to be no less meaningful or worthwhile to pursue. and perhaps love was there, and perhaps it helped to facilitate their fulfilment, but it was never a necessary condition, and its recipients wouldn't have been any less deserving of having their needs met if they weren't loved.

[crawthornsharkinson]

It is FOUR THIRTY NINE AM

WHY IS THE DAWN CHORUS STARTING

GO BACK TO SLEEP, BIRDS

[beautysnake]

YEP!! And He crouches A BUNCH in the new volume when addressing the lamb too!! It's def not just a one off thing:

I used to draw Narinder very stout w bad posture cause of the image from the wiki but it turns out he's rly fuckin tall, even for a god.

He just... crouches whenever he sees the lamb cause they're just a lil guy

[ohgreat-moretapes]

-Tim

[vamp-bites]

Started rewatching soul eater last week just to make a jjk au

[amid-fandoms]

let's have some fun this beat is sick

[grizarts]

Sketching my favourite AOT short king✨

[feralforbeanix]

Phoenix and Franziska's relationship is honestly so underrated because people forget that Phoenix is just as petty as Franziska. If not more.

Like it's such a missed opportunity when (mostly wrightworth) fanfics act like Franziska completely hates Phoenix or that Phoenix fears Franziska when their canon relationship is way funnier than that.

Like when he beats her for the first time, he really thought gloating and taunting her was a good idea. Nevermind that she has a whip and has already used it on him several times before.

Phoenix gets on her level when it comes to pettiness and immaturity. In fact he's arguably worse.

And people forget that their antagonism towards each other in JFA mostly stems from their grief of Miles. Once Edgeworth returns and they can't resent each other for that anymore, their relationship in T&T is a lot more lighthearted.

Franziska whips him now more as a defense mechanism or to wipe that smug grin off his face and teases him for "Your American methods" and Phoenix thinks Pearl telling her off is hilarious and even finds Franziska almost cute at times.

Like, I know Miles is Franziska's brother and I don't want to take away from that, but you know the big brother who throws his young sibling across the room? That's what Phoenix and Franziska's relationship feels like to me.

[jascurka]

ok last one drunk hatori and shimazaki

working through a painting, brain turned itself off and I woke up to this in ms paint