#the journey is what really brings

[luxmoogle]

The first draft/idea vs. the finished piece

[lunarharp]

pretty & cute witch men

[cannibaleather]

YOU MAKE ME PERFECT

[witsserviceablesubstitute]

Thank you, I feel like I'm the only one who is ambivalent about the Cat King. I know he was supposed to be sketchy but it leaned a little too far into creeper for me haha.

Call me Cat King neutral. Which is what he is, a chaotic neutral god with all the mercurial self centered behavior that this typically entails.

His first punishment was fair (in the ways gods understand fairness), Edwin leashed one of his cats with magic and now Edwin is leashed. His bold pursuit of Edwin was, well, Edwin was receptive and it wasn't a matter of the Cat King having no basis for believing Edwin wanted to be seduced.

His punishment became less fair, and his pushiness became less excusable ("I'm a consensual Cat King" my butt), as the season progressed. Their dynamic became that of a cat and mouse game.

Ultimately I think the Cat King was supposed to represent Edwin's sexual desire; its awakening, it less manageable and ignorable over time, the shame and secrecy, the desperate gatekeeping of it. Until, that is, Edwin embraced who he was. Edwin understands himself better because of the Cat King and now he's the one with power over his own desires. Which is what that last scene between them was supposed to be, I believe, Edwin having become the cat and not the mouse. (Notice how the Cat King is more pathetic the more Edwin is self aware and self accepting?)

There is a big big problem with any display of sexual desire or propositioning being considered predatory when applied to queer characters. A long sad history of any queer sexual forthrightness being a defense for murder in the real world. A long sad history of any queer sexual self realizations being considered a reasonable reason to kill off characters in fictional works. Edwin was essentially grappling with 'the love that dare not speak its name' and he embraced it, embraced himself, now he has a name for how he feels and so he's the one in control of his desires.

However, they mirrored Edwin and Crystal a lot in the first season. Which means they mirrored the intentionally signposted abusive and coercive relationship she had with David with that of the manipulations the Cat King subjected Edwin to. That's why I can see where so many are getting the abuse reading from. You're really not alone there 🙂.

[bacchuschucklefuck]

oh fuck I got class swap fabian I think. I kiiinda know what I want him to look like now

[lacnunga]

In the wake of the IA situation, I've seen a lot more posts circulating about using your local library and I just. Sigh

[thewhizzyhead]

one day I wish I could actually like understand songwriting especially for theatre so that I can I dunno actually put to use the random tunes I have in my head that just spontaneously appear while I'm doing the most mundane of shit. anyways patron has the concept of an opening number now

[annamaryllis]

I would like to know exactly how luke asking annabeth to run away with him went down.

[hikeyzz]

today i learned there are only two doctors in my entire state that specialize in my very common nervous system disorder, and one actually had to close his waitlist because it was over two years long. so best of LUCK to me trying to actually get a formal diagnosis or any sort of treatment. meanwhile my health deteriorates every single day so cooooooooooooool 👍

[gumy-shark]

as a sex-repulsed aroace myself, it's perfectly normal to get a little horny/turned on/whatever you wanna call it about fictional stuff/stuff not happening to you.

and. well. i didn't have the same kind of 'pee thing' you did, but i did have *a* 'pee thing' (crossing my legs and squeezing to 'hold it') that i realized a decade later was actually masturbatory in nature. so.

good luck on your journey of self discovery? sorry for tmi?

ok so anon. 1) thank you for the reassurance and clarification. 2) this sheds a hilarious and mortifying light on a conversation i had with my younger siblings once and i think i have to revisit it now

[h-doodles]

boy the sudden outpour of angst ideas for larissa weems x reader in my brain got me weeping so bad i feel a fever coming on

[cube-cumb3r]

im gonna be completely honest man all this donna noble posting is getting to me. ive watched maybe max 3 episodes of doctor who 6 years ago but youre convincing me a little bit to watch more. youve made me insane about these two characters i know very little about outside of what you put on my dash. what are you doing to me

This is the highest honor anyone could've ever bestowed upon me,Laying down on the floor i've reached self-actualization god put me on this earth to make other people on tumblr unwell about donna noble and i've succeeded at long last. go watch 2006 christmas special runaway bride now

[juniperhillpatient]

some people are like like the walking embodiment of a headache & I say this with so much love & light I’m doing great accepting that I can’t change other people & I need to work internally on how I handle situations instead

[imeminemp3]

wasim wearing a "trust black women" shirt while questioning bisma for wanting to figure out what she wants, who she wants to be, outside of what she's already made herself..... dude if you're gonna wear that then u need to practice it

[keylimejuice]

dragon ball gt rocked, y’all were just haters :(

[mydaroga]

You're really drawing out a lot of quotes that center on or allude to Paul's complex relationship with masculinity. I really appreciate it! Do you feel like they're confirming things you already knew about Paul or are they reshaping your perspective?

Oh man. (So to speak.) I'm glad you asked, because I think this is a really interesting topic. I think I wrote a lot so you might not be glad! But I welcome your thoughts.

It's mostly confirming what I already knew or suspected, which is that as you say, Paul has a complex relationship with masculinity. I noticed pretty early in my time with him (whatever this is) that he over-determines his gender in some ways. What I mean is, he has a tendency to assert that he's a man or has manly traits when no one has suggested otherwise. He talks a LOT about the danger/his fear of seeming "soft." Which has a few connotations in his lexicon but can mean something like "unmanly."

I think initially (and in my first throes of "what ARE those two doing?" while watching Get Back) I wanted to connect this to his sexuality, but if my perspective has changed it's that I think this is actually not really about that. I mean it could be. It's possible. But I think it far more likely that, like countless men of his generation and beyond, he struggled with how to BE a man. Especially, and this is just a guess, because his physical features tend to the feminine and that might have been a point of tension in his social life. It is actually more interesting to me to see this from the point of view of his formation of masculinity, not sexuality. As I said, those can be related but they don't have to be.

So no, my view is the same, but this is just more information. And the more I read, the more I think these quotes are more about gender identity* than anything else.

* I want to be really really clear that I'm not the arbiter of anyone's identity but given his statements this is where I am. I'm not here to declare anyone is this that or the other, and I think he and everyone else is actually more complicated than any one label, but all I can do is offer the view that makes most sense to me.