#tw; liquor

[zoomingupthathilla]

sometimes max catches herself just staring at susans liquor cabinet. & sometimes she's not sure if it is bc she wants to follow in her footsteps and drink herself into oblivion, forgetting every bad thing that has ever happened--- even if it is only for a few hours. or if she is just judging susan for the weakling, for the coward that she is.. or maybe she feels sorry for her. if this is the only way she can survive.-- max isn't enough, but she still feels sorry for her mother, and she still loves her unconditionally. there might be times where she hates her mother, but she'll always love her-- always do whatever she can for her.

[souraesthetics]

What girls want

[crybaby-bkg]

drunk Bakugou that keeps blinking big wet eyes up at you while you help him get undressed and brush his teeth and wash his face. he’s slurring the whole time about how much he loves you and how pretty you are and how you’re the better part of him and how he’s gonna marry you and give you two and a half kids and a dog and a cat. muffles half of his confessions into your stomach where he keeps resting his heavy head, and doesn’t care about the tears and and toothpaste he’s getting on you in the process. no, he doesn’t remember everything when he wakes up, but he has an idea of what he’s said when you wake up with a grin, ready and armed to tease him.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

For my birthday we went to the liquor store and I got a whole shopping cart full of wine and whiskey.

[cranberrybogmummy]

Booze poll

C'mon people let's see

[invinciblerodent]

yknow, no, i'm not done thinking/posting/being deeply angry about the whole "bbuuuhhh Astarion is gay and was made playersexual as a game mechanic bbbuuuhhhhhhh" garbage some people still spout.

like this type of sentiment is always annoying and wrong, but it's specifically this character for whom it's especially annoying to me, just because on top of all the regular host of issues, it also deeply contradicts what I believe is the central theme of his whole goddamn story.

(excuse the rant please.)

Like, my skin already crawls at that term, "playersexual". I hate it, and find its use either vaguely ignorant at best, or blatantly pan/biphobic at worst. but even just besides that....

This character is a man whose narrative intentionally shows his presentation of himself, and of his masculinity, as being contradictory with convention. This character is one whose entire arc is about discovering who he is beyond the boxes he was assigned: a spawn, a monster, a seducer, a tool, a predator, a plaything, a victim, a sexual object... these are all identities that were forced onto him. And if he's given space to discover them, turns out, none of them are things that he actually wants to be. if you give him space, and affection (romantic or otherwise), and acceptance, and help him attain closure and catharsis, he expresses desire to be... an adventurer, a lover, a friend, a protector, so many things, but all of them in his own way. That's the point of his story, control vs. autonomy.

How.... myopic does one have to be to see that story, to play that story, to play an active, participatory role in that subversion, that search for the self beneath the masks, and declare that actually, they made him this other box for him to fit into, so... it's fine, i guess, to ignore what he says?????? it's fine if they pick and choose among his expressed traits which ones to use and which to disregard, because they decided (based on frankly homophobic and rather misogynistic stereotypes) that he cannot be different from their perception, despite him literally saying otherwise????????

Astarion's entire figure is a succession of trope-subversions. I could write essays about all the ways in which, in the romanced spawn game, the narrative sets up tropes (primarily in act 1), only to then purposefully knock them down and contradict them as the game progresses.

Like..... He was to take revenge by taking power for himself (like he thought he wanted, like Cazador did to Vellioth): ended up taking his revenge and rejecting the power that could have come with it, and despite that having a price, being content and grateful for it (and realizing that the alternative would have had an even greater price he would have paid unknowingly). He starts out using sex and sexuality as a weapon, and a tool of manipulation, like he did for many decades: ends up expressing discomfort with being seen as a sex object, resuming his sex life by saying "I love you" before his partner would have, and proposing sex with them as a beautiful metaphor for his own rebirth.

His whole story starts out with him thinking he requires protection from the player and that the only way to get that is through using his body and looks as a bargaining chip: later he discovers in himself a desire to be the protector himself, which he talks about more than once, and expresses varying degrees of discomfort at the thoughts of both using his body to gain something, and needing a protector.

There's the "this is what I'm good for" type of attitude towards sex morphing into "I am so much more than a thing to be used". There's the whole thing about how important his looks were to both him and his "usefulness" back then, despite him not being able to even fucking see them, (which also kind of includes that silly lovely gremlin-face he sometimes makes), but those are just the ones off the top of my head.

The story, and the romance plot, is about... it's about him regaining ownership of himself, it's about autonomy, his whole recurring "what do you want" line is about respecting his choices and letting him find his way to them, it's about letting him show you who he is, believing him, and loving the man behind the facade.

how absolutely fucking short-sighted does one have to be to then take that incredibly reductive stereotype of "femme-leaning man with theatrical mannerisms who cares about his looks; must be exclusively homosexual and any attraction he shows to women is just a mechanic/fanservice/flattery" (which, that's so fucking insulting to gay men, and bi/pan men, an any man who might express masculinity in a less than conventional way, and to the women who may love them [eta: and of course nonbinary people, and the people to whom masculinity means something wholly different]), and assign it to this character on their own accord, despite him literally telling the player otherwise? despite him verbally expressing attraction to multiple women, and contradicting that stereotypical interpretation wholly and out of pocket??????

like, hello??????? did we play the same game????????? did we play the same fucking game??????????

like don't think for one second that it isn't the pan/biphobia that annoys me more, it absolutely is, but this character is such a particularly egregious example, it's almost fucking poetic.

[medicore-alt]

sorry but im never forgiving people for excusing actual bigotry and assault because it was against someone they didn’t like

[beanghostprincess]

I know Luffy technically doesn't drink alcohol but there's a Spanish liquor called 43 and it's extremely sweet and barely tastes like alcohol at all and it's SO good and I think that's the way to make Luffy drunk

[honeypothowell]

I am very fucking drunk despite my lack of typos (thank you autocorrect) and Dan's voice is the voice in my head and idk why and it's really fucking me up

[didnt-hear-cold-as-you-live]

I think the greatest challenge of my life has become being an absolute goblin for alcohol but not in an alcoholic way, in a “I’m fascinated by the history and science and flavor spectrum and tastes and mixology from an intellectual standpoint” and not being able to talk about it al ALL without sounding like the former

[desiderium-eden]

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[faiththesinfulslayer]

//4 tornadoes touched down here in tuesday, one travelled along the ground for 17 miles. I was literally smack between the two most fierce tornadoes and the carnage is unreal. I don't live in the middle of nowhere but in a tiny, shitty "suburb" right outside a major metropolitan city. There is still no electricity, no internet and a lot of stores are closed or out of everything. It is also crazy hot and humid. Mobile internet is pretty much non- existent unless you catch it at just the right moment and then it's gone just as fast. I went to a "charging station" today to charge my phone and had a 4 hour wait.

I also can't work since there is no electricity and internet and my beloved senior kitty, Penny, passed away in my arms this morning. I never could take her to the vet to get "put to sleep" - they're closed due to no power. 😮‍💨

Estimate time for restoration - Wednesday, Aug 14th

[etheral-moon]

I sympathize with people who rely on substances to have fun. Either when they're like completely drunk or high or any type of substance. I'm not hating I'm being fr. It's not about judging; I know some of them are trying to fill a void or cope with mental health issues by seeking euphoria or relaxation through substances. It's just sad. Like lately my friend did something foolish while she was drunk, embarrassing both of us and leaving me feeling disappointed so i feel the need to address this.

[kyunu-kun]

“Come have a drink!” 

( my favorite genshin lesbians )