#these men are two sides of the same coin

[brave-and-gentle]

Girl dad!Jean Kirstein - Halloween Party Edition

Look I know it’s not the season but I need to infect everyone with these images *right now*

Eren and Mikasa have invited everyone to their annual Halloween party.

Your 4-year-old daughter’s latest obsession is Toy Story, so she dresses up as Jesse and asks Jean to dress up as, well, her horse, Bullseye.

Jean doesn’t bat an eye at this request. He’s fully embraced it. He gets one of those stupid horse masks and everything.

Ironically, your daughter has no inkling of the horse face nickname Eren bestowed upon him back in college.

Your daughter requests that you and Sasha dress up as her other obsession, Anna and Elsa from Frozen. You and your best friend happily oblige.

When you arrive at the party, Eren busts out laughing at Jean and points out that he doesn’t need the horse mask. For once, Jean takes it in stride and calmly tells Eren to shove it.

At the party, you and Sasha sip margaritas and giggle at Jean crawling around the floor with your daughter on his back. This man has committed to the bit and he is proud!

Jean gives Eren the side eye because his two boys, dressed as Power Rangers, are rough housing a bit too close to your daughter for his comfort.

Jean and Reiner give each other a respectful nod. Reiner is dressed up as Appa and his daughter is Katara.

After a couple of hours, your daughter and Reiner’s daughter are both passed out on the couch. “How much candy did you let her have??” You demand as Jean picks her up ever so gently to keep her asleep. He gives you a sheepish look and says “I couldn’t tell her no!”

On the car ride home, Jean places a hand on your inner thigh and slowly slides up. “So, how’d you like to ride this horse when we get home?”

[yourfavecharacterisqueer]

friendly reminder that merlin only was born because of arthur’s birth (and how he couldn’t control fate) and arthur’s death was only because of merlin (and how he couldn’t control fate).

[aleclighttwd]

Truly love the aspect that Neil is jealous of Kevin (wether that be because of his talent, his safety, or his family) but it’s not the type of jealousy that makes you resent the person — it’s the type that makes you gravitate towards them with the goal of attracting it. For Neil’s entire life he had to fake it till he made it and even during his time at Palmetto State, he yearned for what Kevin had but that never made Neil hate him. Instead, it made him work harder and want to learn. It was a jealousy that makes you admire a person and not only want what they have, but be inspired to make it yourself.

[historicalfictionenthusiast]

If not gay why two sides of the same coin? Why attempt to die for each other in the first week? Why narrative parallels? Why metaphor for homosexuality? WHY ASK IF HE KNOWS HOW TO WALK ON HIS KNEES??? THE FIRST TIME YOU MEET HIM????

[animentality]

In response to your post about radfems and men, a few years ago I started going down the radfem rabbit hole, a lot of this came from being in a community of men who actually /were/ psychopaths, along with having a father and grandfather who were too. I have PPD as well, so seeing these men act this way and having radfems whispering in my ear "All men want to kill you, all men want to kill you" was DETERIORATING me like acid. I cannot describe to you the hell I was living in each day due to paranoia eating away at me. It felt like my own spirit was a chain link fence turning into rust.

Then I met my husband, and he completely changed my life. And yes I know women can save themselves, we aren't all damsels in distress, but I honestly /was/ too bad off to just pull myself out of it. Since fear of men was the biggest thing killing me from the inside out, a man coming along and showing me that I can both trust people AND at least some men, seriously subdued a massive chunk of my rage, hatred and fear. And he really goes above and beyond too! Every problem I have had he has helped me to fix, along with showing me how to do things myself. Some people may not like that it was a man who "rescued" me, but I don't owe it to anyone to be an idyllic girl power success story, I owe it to myself and to our son to not be a terrified wreck.

I mean I have always suspected that radfems and terfs were like this.

Like my going theory is that if you believe men are irredeemable monsters who can only hurt other people all the time, you clearly don't have good relationships, with anyone at all.

That kind of mistrust of your fellow human beings comes from a well of hurt and paranoia that you're not addressing properly.

I'm glad you found someone to help and love you, though. And I don't think it's anti feminist to need someone to rescue you either.

what's so wrong with being saved, no matter who or what does it?

nice metaphor with the chain link fence btw. that'll live on in my mind for a bit.

[boatswainer]

I’m scared He was gone all along.

[illconceiveddesigns]

i'll love you forever simarkus.

[firecooking]

Something something parallel

[1800naveen]

Men ain't shit.

Tamlin locked Feyre up in the manor because he thought he was protecting her.

Rhysand hid an important secret from Feyre which almost killed her, him, and the baby because he thought he was protecting her. (Death pact will never not be dumb). That is reproductive abuse.

You ever wonder why people say that they're two sides of the same coin?

Here we go for Cassian, this is a long one:

Took a suicidal Nesta on a hike and didn't even look back at her for a while (or was it an hour?)

Followed her home after she left solstice (wasn't even doing anything bad) and said to her that everyone hates her

Heard how she was groomed by her mother from Elain and went "oh, she wants a prince! Not a bastard like me!"

Laughed at Nesta when she fell down the stairs in the house of winds

Sexualized her body when she was in Illyrian leather (she was going through an eating disorder and was quite skinny at the time)

HE NEVER SAID THAT HE LOVES HER IN HIS POV OR NESTA'S.

Doesn't even defend her when it comes to his precious high lord

Didn't understand why she kicked him in the balls in her father's home even though he tried to look through her skirts to see what she was hiding and put his hands on her. He literally figured out that she was assaulted (happened in wings and embers)

Azriel jerked himself off because Elain gave him headache medicine (what the fuck is wrong with him?), thinks that he'll get with Elain because his brothers has her two other sisters, and didn't he refer to her as the third sister? Not her name, the third sister.

If I were to meet a Rhysand, Cassian, or Azriel in real life, I'm shooting them. If I meet a Tamlin, I'm putting him into therapy or some psych ward.

At the end of the day, men ain't shit.

Got this comment on a post I made about rather chilling in Tamlin's manor than going to war and respectfully, I know you mean well and I get/respect that. You said I'll have Tamlin and you get a bat boy, babes I don't think we should get either of them. I hope you find a guy who will treat you like a queen but maybe not a bat boy (unless you really want that then by all means, go for it.) I like Tamlin but I don't want that man in real life, he needs some therapy.

I don't mean any rudeness or disrespect towards the person that commented and wish you a good day/evening/night🥰

[is-this-really--life]

Men being feminine isn't men LARPing as women or men having "woman face" that's literally just a man with a feminine style. Which isn't innately a female thing, it's just gendered marketing. God y'all can be annoying sometimes.

[iceyrukia]

Women’s self-image is as negative as ever despite the “body positivity” wave of choice feminism. Why?

I think one of the biggest reasons as to why women’s beauty standards and self-image are worse than even is because you can preach about unfair beauty standards all you want and tell women not to make fun of another woman’s looks but you can’t take away the social status and praise that women who are “beautiful” get from society (both men and women). You give them clout and praise them. Something both “body positivity” and “body neutrality” feminists do btw despite all the talk about acceptance.

It’s like saying you don’t support the ethics behind a product and yet still consume and buy it. In this case “beauty” being a luxury achieved via consumerism where women become the products (objects) that other women admire and obsess over. There is a demand so there is a supply PERIOD.

Women might not directly pursue beauty (“I do it for myself”) for men but nonetheless it’s definitely ingrained as a sign of status and that’s enough to cause a negative self-image in women who don’t participate. Men might have been the original perpetrators of installing unrealistic beauty standards for women but the victims (women) have also turned into perpetrators who can’t let go of the misogynistic status symbol of having value from appearances because it’s considered “culture”.

[duvall-adjaniblog]

Anya and Wendy Torrance would be friends i think

[21stcenturyschizoidfag]

thinking hard about relationships where gender really never factored into the equation at all in its conception but the roles have become something fun to play at fulfilling, or some sort of ritualistic performance done out of devotion and dedication.. "i'll be your man if you'll be my woman"... "i wish you were a girl"... the deep seated craving for a framework that inextricably links you to one another even if and especially if you would be a nontraditional fit.. GREAT GOOGLY MOOGLY 😭

[koithebastard]

when I see art of pretty men I simply fold like a lawnchair and screech.

[prettyfuckinhot]

I need to go through my following because I'm getting really exhausted of finding out I'm following terfs/baeddel sympathizers

[ruskayas]

there’s a big, big difference between the KGB & the GRU when it comes to yelena’s upbringing before defecting— and it can be blamed in comic writers having no idea how to represent history, foreign institutions and a severe lack of interest to educate themselves.

just as natasha and yelena were part of different ‘red rooms’ and widow ops programs, they were trained by essentially separate branches of the soviet government since history kept unfolding. confusion is understandable as comics deeply fail in contrasting their own separare experiences — one tends to believe they were partners, coworkers, etc; and this could not be further from the facts.

i’ll make a whole post (eventually) attempting to untether and dissect each aspect apart but in short; yelena was trained by the GRU (main intelligence doctorate), not the KGB. she is the post-soviet poster child for young, inexperienced & power hungry, while natasha is the cautionary tale, the wise leader.