#these stories matter

[escapingreality101]

I just love seeing people finding themselves later in life. Be that characters on tv and in movies or people in real life. It's so nice and comforting to see that you don't have to have it all figured out when your young and that there's a whole other world out there for you. Where you can be happy and find yourself in your 30s, 40s, 50s, etc. This isn't all there is. Life is a journey and we're all going at our own pace.

[destroy-some-evil]

I was just talking to someone the other day about how much it matters to me that not all queer media is about how hard life is when you are queer.

It matters so much that there are stories that are just about people living their life. Who's characters have happy endings. Who's characters get to be a bit a boring. Where the story doesn't have to be centered around the person coming out and dealing with their family being shocked about the fact they are queer.

See, I might not like how certain relationships develop in QLs, or how the script isn't polished, or how some characters are toxic or problematic, etc. But I'll deffend the existence of those shows first, as queer media, before criticing them as television shows.

I'm working on my thesis, and the main topic that sparkled my investigation was the disinformation/predjuice against lgbt people in my country. And the more info I look, the more sad I get at the overall news and perceptions about being queer in México.

It's ironic because this is one of the countries with the biggest Queer-to-non-queer radio population, yet we're also ranked on the top in the list of countries with more hate crimes against lgbt people.

I see how we're discussed everyday. I see how people talk about being queer as if it was some strange, othered reality, somehow imposed by the media and the gay agenda.

I saw people laughing and saying they couldn't take a murder seriously because the person that had been killed used neutral pronouns for themselves. The magistrade. A person in a political position. Someone who could fight for more just laws and help people in a more direct way. Murdered.

And people were discussing whether or not it had been a "passion crime" because "You know how it it's with those peoples. They're more emotional, and jealous... Not normal, rational, like us."

I saw people discussing how should someone go in those cases, if your gender was recognized as nonbinary, and you were killed.

Would you be labeled as female or male? Could you organs be donated to men or women? You're already dead so what does it matter, right?

They don't know every word and speculation they throw was about me. And people that are like me.

Because they think we don't exist. We're few. We're just an invention of the news.

And how could they believe anything else, when every media that depicts us comes from the outside? There's no such thing as a consistent queer representation in our media.

And when it is, it's done poorly. It's done once or thrice. And then nothing.

And then I will have to discuss with people whether or not "the jotos" in Nimona are forced representation because they don't provide anything to the plot. I will have to discuss with people how drag queens and trans people are the same and both just confused men. How flamboyant people are ridiculous and just putting themselves out there on purpose to be humiliated.

My degree is in Communication's Scienes. I study media, journalism, language, psychology, marketing, and everything that involves the act of interacting with others (because every thing we do, it's communication).

And when I tell you that having queer productions, queer media, even if toxic, even if badly acted, even if half assed, would help improve the way society accepts queer people... It's because it would.

Fiction is not reality. A show where everyone's gay won't turn every watcher into a walking rainbow. But it would generate visibility. It would raise discussions. And hopefully normalization.

If it's normal, even if it's not accepted, it's an improvement.

I'm not saying countries with QL productions are the pinnacle of queer safety.

But they're actively helping queer people, even if in the messiest way, to be more normal. To be seen. Slowly, steadily.

And the media itself evolves and becomes better, more nuanced, better written, better directed, better filmed.

Isn't that great? That we get to see the evolution of a whole genre and its impact in the real world, in real time?

I think it is.

I hope these productions get to my country. I hope México and Latinoamérica starts creating media with queer protagonists.

I hope we get a telenovela where the 2 male love interests end up with each other and the main girl character marries the villain. I hope we get drag queens hosting a talent show. I hope we stop being the butt of the joke. I hope people don't laugh when we're murdered. I hope no one feels such hatred towards our existence they feel they have to end it. I hope we star in more Rosa de Guadalupe episodes, just as people, not as the main theme.

I hope we get our own Triages and School Presidents and GAPs and Last Twilights and Only Friends and Playboyys and KinnPorsches and Semantic Errors and HIStory's Sagas and Untameds and Takara and Amagis.

Because even with their faults, they all portray queer people in a light that's different to just. Pain or mockery.

I hope the television industry in this and every latino country improves.

I hope we get more queer stories in our media that don't end in tragedy just for being queer. I hope we get happier coverage news.

So yeah. I will defend queer media's existence. Always. Until it's no longer necessary for me to justify our existence in real life.

[taco-rambles]

DC XDP prompt: Danny falls out of a portal literally into Batmans arms in a JL meeting.

Feel free to play with this. I probably will write more, but I'm STUCK and don't know how to write the JL or anyone else for that matter.

XXX

The Justice League meeting had gone very well. For once there were no major crisis from anyone attending, and all of the regular members of the league were in attendance. A few of the second row hero’s had begged off for one reason or another, but nothing that was a threat of any real kind.

Batman was wary, and on edge as the meeting wrapped up. It was never this simple, it just couldn’t be. There was always some kind of threat to keep an eye on, but the worst thing that had come up during the meeting were routine security updates.

No one else seemed to be on edge from the far too calm, routine meeting, and Bruce had just about convinced himself that it was really just one of those meetings where nothing outrageous would happen. It was ideal even…

Then the alarms went off, in the specific modulation that indicated a magical incursion.

Batman wasn’t the only one who’s hands went to weapons when the portal materialized above the meeting room table only a moment after the alarm went off. Swirling lazarus green had him ready for the fight even as the rest of the league went into defensive positions around the incursion.

“What…” Flash started to ask about a minute later when nothing had happened yet, the alarms still blaring.

That’s when something came flying out of the portal, at speed, back first.

Batman had a split second to decide to attack… or not. A split second to try to process the impressions and decide if this was an attack.

The portal closed as he cradled the small body that had crashed into his arms, the alarms silencing a moment later as the rest of the league tried to catch up, all of them wondering if this was some new threat.

Batman looked down at the child in his arms, a boy in his mid teens and small for his age, with white hair framing a frighteningly familiar looking face, gently pointed ears, and fangs in a mouth that gasped for breath against pain. The eyes were closed, twisted tight as the child clutched at his chest and belly, holding together severed flesh that leaked lazarus green blood from a clinical and too regular wound. Fingers tipped with small claws spasmed, tears coming from closed eyes.

“Batman?” Wonder Woman asked, Diana’s voice filled with concern as Bruce wrapped the child in his arms and stood up from where he had been knocked on his ass catching said child.

“Call down to medical. Severely wounded unknown,” he snapped, moving towards the door, only to stop as there was a flash of light in his arms, and the child suddenly gained a solid weight that was closer to human. The blood dripping from passed out hands was now brilliant red, fingertips blunt with chewed nails, the boy’s skin going from pale white to… a healthier tone.

Bruce consciously stopped cataloging his observations then, swiftly making his way to medical. Whatever this boy was, whether he intended to tug at Batman’s heart the way he was or not, was severely wounded and needed medical attention immediately.

He could process it all, and wonder why a child looking exactly like Damian Wayne had been thrown into his arms through a lazarus portal later.

XXXXX

An hour later, after a discreet call to his youngest just to be sure, Bruce watched the now sedated child in the medical cot, working on trying to face match the databases and find out if the child came from earth or not.

The searches primarily turned up Damian Wayne. Bruce knew for certain this child was not his son, but he was also running a DNA analysis because this Might be his son. It made a disheartening amount of sense for this boy to be another version of Damien, perhaps from another dimension, or some manner of clone, or perhaps Talia had simply hidden another child of his away… Bruce needed to narrow down the possibilities, to find the truth.

Of course, it was equally possible that this boy was some manner of mimic, taking on a form that would ensure his safety in unknown environment, a shape shifter intentionally injuring himself in order to infiltrate the Watchtower. Though that last theory didn’t make sense for a number of reasons. Most shape shifters would be secure enough in their abilities to simply try to mimic someone who already had access to the watch tower, to say nothing of the boy’s dramatic entrance.

Batman wasn’t thinking logically. Bruce couldn’t simply leave the boy here though. Not until he knew more, everything relevant by preference. The thought that this might be his son in any way was enough to keep him near, but he could already tell he was compromised.

He had already informed Diana and Clark, and both of them had agreed that he should stay nearby until they had the situation sorted out.

Bruce had been stuck in a circular though pattern for about fifteen minutes when a green form came into the room, J’onn looking at him calmly.

“Can you find anything out?” Batman asked without preamble, unable to bring himself to observe polite pleasantries when he was so unsettled.

“Nothing beyond surface thoughts. The boy’s mind is static and pain of the emotional kind,” J’onn stated after a moment.

Batman nodded, accepting the answer. J’onn’s abilities weren’t always the answer to everything, could indeed often be a crutch that led to the wrong answers. But they could also give the Justice League a starting point often enough.

“You should rest friend. It is unlikely that the boy will awaken soon…” J’onn cut himself off with a quiet look at the boy. “Or not. He’s coming around.”

Batman watched as the child’s eyes blinked open, drowsy expression turning to the two heros without much recognition. Bruce didn’t let himself react, kept himself in a calm pose even as his mind once more went into overdrive.

The boy had blue eyes, not green like Damian's.

[giarossin]

istg the moment i saw jayce d**th threats i realised how much i overestimated cognitive abilities of this fandom. they were just happy to jump on a hate train without taking a second to comprehend what even happened. "his mind [fucking] suffered", viktor told y'all himself. not to mention what horrors he saw in arcane backrooms. not to mention viktor literally wanted him to destroy the hexcore before he became jesus and literally dumped him because he didn't do it.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I know those eyes.

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[cosmicredcadet]

Soulmates are inherently amatonormative and it's so wild how many people refuse to acknowledge that and instead go around trying to "make it more inclusive" which mostly just leads to then forcing aspec characters into a amatonormative narrative.

[venux777]

everytime somebody talks about the big three kids and excludes thalia and hazel an angel loses their wings

[akanemnon]

Intermission... (Quickly cobbled together this mini-comic to make the next one not seem as abrupt)

FIRST - PREVIOUS - NEXT

MASTERPOST (for the full series / FAQ / reference sheets)

[peachsukii]

The shower is a safe space for you to cry, to drain all of the pent up emotion you've held onto. Plus, it's the best place to hide this side of you from your roommate, Bakugo, whom you've had a crush on for ages. You did your damndest to hide your sorrow from him, not because you're ashamed, but you didn't want to sour the mood of the apartment. You two were good friends, you didn't need to bring down the vibe by whining about how sad you are.

You don't hear the front door to your apartment open and him announcing he's home like usual. He's not supposed to be home for hours, but unexpectedly got off of work early. The sound of the water hides his presence from you; however, it doesn't mute the sobs coming from the other side of the bathroom door.

His heart drops into his stomach, he's never heard you cry like that before.

Bakugo rushes to the door and hesitates. Maybe you wanted to be alone, but he couldn't just sit in the apartment and wait for you to stop crying. Would it be better to sit on the couch and wait it out? For you to come to him?

Logically, yes.

But he wasn't thinking logically.

He taps his knuckles against the door a few times.

"Hey, y'okay?" Bakugo calls out, waiting for your answer with baited breath. He hears you gasp, sniffling and coughing before composing yourself.

"Oh...I didn't think you'd be home, Kat. I'm fine."

"You're a shit liar, y'know," he teases, but you don't laugh. "Seriously, though. Are you okay?"

You hold your breath, debating on whether or not to tell him the truth. Your answer slips out before you could stop yourself.

"...No."

It's a split second decision, but Bakugo opens the door and barges into the bathroom. He's rips back the shower curtain and carefully steps in behind you in a hurry, fully clothed, ignoring your obvious shock to his assertiveness. You're trying to shield yourself from him seeing you naked, but that all fades away when you feel his body engulf yours, holding you close against him under the stream of water.

He's so...warm.

"You can always tell me when somethin's wrong. Don't think I can't tell, or that I don't hear you cryin' at night. I don't want ya to hide from me," Bakugo whispers above you, hand holding the back of your head against his chest. "You're not alone, sweetheart."

You have no control over the tears rushing down your cheeks, mixing with the hot water and soaking into his clothes. You're shaking as you snake your arms around his waist and grip onto him for dear life.

No one's ever shown you this kind of support before - this kind of love.

"I got ya," he assures as he squeezes you tightly. "I'll stay as long as you want me to."

[naturecalls111]

WIN CONDITION/LOSE CONDITION

narusasu, 6k, rated m

Sasuke's never really babysat anyone before, but he's pretty sure it doesn't usually involve being taunted by a kid in front of your crush.

or: Sasuke Uchiha vs. the World, where Sasuke must defeat Naruto's 7 evil board games to get into his pants.

[fuckmeyer]

the choice between Edward & Jacob is not a question of which relationship is healthier or which partner is best suitable for Bella. neither is correct. neither is best. neither produces a happy ending for Bella. at the end of the day this is still a vampire novel. any choice Bella could make would yield, at best, a bittersweet happily ever after.

if she chooses Edward, she gets the terrifying Breaking Dawn ending: a girl who rejected her call to grow up has hung her love & her eternity on an emotionally stunted partner who hates himself marginally less than he loves her. she's a teen mom with a kid she never wanted who perpetuates the generational trauma passed down from her parents. by keeping this child, the Cullens have set the stage for an uprising/cold war against the Volturi who are likely to take revenge in order to maintain power. Bella is living in a tenuous "dream come true" wrapped in a nightmare & doesn't realize it.

choosing Jacob is the true coming-of-age ending that rips the stitches out of a wound that never fully healed. even if we ignore the fact that she ends up with a man who sexually assaulted her (we must bear in mind Jacob's character is influenced by smeyer's racism, but it did happen), they can't have a secure romantic relationship. based on the high imprinting rate of the pack, Jacob will likely find his imprint in his lifetime & will lose himself to the imprintee. he will no longer be her Jacob. he will inevitably abandon her (whether he wants to or not), & she must reconcile with the reality that she will always be inadequate to Jacob's imprint. & say he never manages to escape the vampires? he will presumably not age for a long time, meaning the relationship Bella always feared with Edward (her being an old grandmother while he stays forever young) remains a possibility. this is the story of a girl who slaps a Band Aid on an open wound & calls herself healed while flinching every time she sees the shadow of the knife that cut her.

if she chooses neither (team therapy), her healing requires her to lose or be at least partially disconnected from everyone she cares about. Bella must spend the rest of her life shut out from one world while never fully existing in her human world ever again. she must always keep secrets. she can never go back home. even in the unlikely event that she manages to escape the Volturi, the threat of being hunted by vampires will never leave her. in addition, she must face her worst fears (aging, losing Edward) while always keeping in mind the immortal life that could have been hers, if only.

even the "healthiest" option produces scars that will never quite heal.

Twilight is a horror. Twilight is a vampire novel. Twilight is gothic. Twilight is fiction. neither Edward nor Jacob is a "bad" choice because neither will give Bella her happily ever after. the choice between Edward & Jacob is simply a matter of which horror story you prefer to read.

[offonaherosjourney]

The Barbie movie looks AMAZING and I'm down for whatever it is they are planning to release into the world. It's campy. It's kitsch. It's earnest. It's pink. IT'S PERFECT. And the only thing that would make it even more perfect would be a post-credits scene where it's revealed that the whole plot was play-acted by an 8-year old child playing with their dolls.

[edorazzi]

Page 46 of my Miraculous Mentor AU comic A Matter of Trust! In which the last four years of Felix's life come to a single realisation... 💓🌹

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[ramadan90s]

Palestine will be free

[soul-collectors]

Do Charas that come back to life in au count as anomaly souls.

'Haunting' [Ask]

Yes, An 'Anomaly SOUL' Chara *can* happen, but it's much rarer than the usual Captured human Anomaly SOULs.

But any Chara that's "supposed" to be brought back from the dead in the timeline's storyline wouldn't count as an Anomaly SOUL, since it's SUPPOSED to happen and isn't a glitch.

(basic info on 'Anomaly SOULs' for newcomers )

More info/sketches:

This is just a random Timeline that was affected So I can showcase the idea :]

This Chara is currently around phase 4 > (Appears similar to their original self, can speak, memories somewhat regained)

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Behold, a Bunny!

(for @alliechickfic on twitter)