#the gender envy is EXTREME

[helen-high-water]

It's so unfair that Hoyoverse made this lady because I can never look like her

[coloradosnumber1dad]

when bitches bring up Donnie Darko and now everyone knows you’re autistic 😔

[seeminglydark]

A fella for your consideration aka living vicariously through Johnnys gender.

[nymph1e]

Mizu's gender is insane. She's a cis woman who uses he/him pronouns. She's a trans man who uses she/her pronouns. She's both a man and a woman at the same time, like schrodinger's trans. She has homoerotic tension with both men and women, she has heteroerotic tension with both men and women. She's a strong female character, she's been raised and forced into the mold of man and masculinity like an amab would be. She chose it, it was forced upon her, she can let it go, but she can't let it go. She is a man, she is a woman. She exists outside of a time period or cultural sphere that would allow her to express her gender, so it will likely never get codified for us or for her.

[completeoveranalysis]

[1]

*appreciative gay sounds*

Ooooooh!

See now this fucks. 

It’s a bit of a treat to get a cover like this that’s so BEAUTIFUL and DELICATE and actually include characters not directly involved in the plot anymore. It’s like BONUS ART: Fai and Kamui in a tender and deadly gothic vampire embrace for no particular reason :D 

And we LOVE to see it!

I love the fragile looking archway behind them. It looks very Art Nouveau (I say, guessing. Please correct me) and the pose between Fai and Kamui could EASILY be on a romance novel. And in fact it SHOULD be!

We get some stunning visual contrasts, like the dark sweep of Kamui’s cape looking demonic in nature, like bat wings - which, like, vampire - but the thin white arch behind him ALSO spreads out behind him like it could be wings. Or even better, it forms more of a halo - a complete circle above his head in thin white lines. The contrast in the angelic and the demonic really speak to his role in the narrative a couple of times over; he protected Acid Tokyo but purely out of self interest; he's a dick to everyone, which is frowned upon, but he does it to protect Subaru, which is understandable; he killed Syaoran but he saved Fai; even the act of saving Fai was technically a bad thing, turning him into a vampire, but it was the only way he would stay alive, which was what we wanted! 

That contrast continues into Fai’s pose here as well. He’s within the circle of Kamui’s arms, which is traditionally a place of affection or protection, but here it’s almost predatory with Fai as the prey. There's a clear indication of danger laced throughout every inch of it. Kamui’s nails stretch out in front of Fai in a way that COULD be protective, but also form a cage he will never be able to escape from, and the nail of his index finger trails SO CLOSE to Fai’s throat it could kill him with a slight twitch. The nails of his left hand also trail across the wing of his coat, becoming the traditional veins that you would see in bat wings and completing the metaphor of the monstrous. Fai, too, plays with this dichotomy - his head is tilted upwards towards Kamui, neck exposed, in a pose natural for a lover, or for someone giving access to their neck, like the vampire’s victim he is. The clear shadow across his neck (The ONLY shadow in the cover) shows just how close he is to harm, indicates the exact danger this pose puts him in, and yet we can also see him clutching at Kamui’s arm - not hard but gently, coaxing, guiding. Then again the closer I look I think the line of Kamui’s arm is actually a little bit further to the left, which might indicate that Fai is actually holding his waist, which is even more intimate again. 

All in all it’s FANTASTIC, it’s GORGEOUS, I want this as a gothic creepy tapestry I hang in a castle somewhere while lightning strikes somewhere in the distance.

Oh and the splash text, where is that.

The flowing blood whispered

even if you'll defy your own destiny

protect that person --

Which slams home the theme on BOTH of these two - how much of their own intended fate they sacrifice for the people they choose to devote themselves to. But, when combined with the art, just how much this devotion and protection can actually add it's own inherent form of danger, even if they aren't aware. Kamui's protectiveness of Subaru is HARDLY balanced after all, and Fai's devotion to Sakura leads his curse to killing her. Then again, you could easily say the same thing for Sakura, who chose to put herself INTO that danger DELIBERATELY to save the people she cared for.

And so the complicated feelings and consequences that come from "protecting" someone continue to swirl around in the moral grey.

[ranticore]

pascal (in both forms) looks like he was laser-precision designed to give me incredible unending gender envy

A+ character cant wait to see him being the worst

oh that's fun... without giving too much away, pascal designed himself to look like an 'improved' '''hotter'' version of félix (to piss him off) right down to his height which, while variable, is always at least an inch taller. that is to say, he intentionally provokes gender envy in félix. a little bit of psychological warfare between two extreme haters

[agentcricket-art]

lol finally posting my tristamp oc almost a literal year after when i first sketched it up

they're non-binary and poly, their prosthetic leg doubles as a gun, they have an undercut, they like to tinker with explosives, they have two boyfriends, what more do you need to know?

[7thqstreet]

"Brenda. Brenda, Uppercrust, the III."

I've been overly obsessed with Bradley Uppercrust the III since mid September of last year and HOLY DOES HE HAVE A STRONG AUTISTIC CHOKEHOLD ON ME I TELL YA!!

One look at this man brought me into LITERAL. TEARS. Of both unspeakable joy and VEERRYY INTENSE GENDER ENVY. You can say he left a big impact on me and my personal life....

And thanks to this newfound influx of Maxley shippers and Goofy Movie fanart that's just seemingly came outta the blue, it's best to believe that my Goofy Movie and Bradley hyperfixation has officially come back from the dead and I very much doubt it's going anywhere anytime soon!

......................

Also my gayness got the better of me...... damn you gay demons......

[huecycles]

i'd just like to leave a lil reminder about how i strongly headcanon both spamton and jevil as transmasc and that makes me super happy. ok bye

[acekestis]

I have never felt as much gender envy towards someone as I do currently about david tennant

[agaypanic]

I fr wanted to be friends with max goof I thought he was so cool in that movie. Amd beret girl too

bruh when i was younger i was SO obsessed with max goof, i wanted to both be him and be with him. he made me wish i knew how to skate

AND BERET GIRL WAS SO FINE i loved her and pj

[ford-mustang-1969]

chat

gender crisis in tags

[mellotronmkll]

Seriously what was in the water in the mid 90s that made john linnell go okay enough fucking around I need to dress like a trans guy right fucking now. Where is my men's 3xl shirt and jeans that are way fucking too baggy

[starredpoet]

Id kill for that side profile

[soybeenss]

drew my octoling based off of this picture of justin bieber