#ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh ug

[muckyschmuck]

ew nasty terf bitch get away from me

[caracello]

awwwww. my guy who glares.

[sparkerinparadise]

THE SPECIAL INTEREST.

[cupophrogs]

Em sorry for not drawing forever but here’s my first Pathfinder character

His name’s Airwyn Coldach, and he’s a Fleshwarp Wizard :]

He really likes purple

Same pic but green

Lmao I hate how this turned out

[lunasilvis]

It's a Sunday October noon and I wonder if the missing and the loving will ever completely stop... asking 4 a friend

[miodiodavinci]

undergoing self-immolation from stress

[fawn-paws]

The dolly trans women are honestly gonna have to get comfortable with the fact that some trans women are just Some Guy

[corpusdekay]

so tired...

[nonbinarygamzee]

need to like. deactualize. uncracking the shell and all.

[mysticdragon3md3]

Oh gawd... I saw that argument again...but in another fandom this time!

"Why are you complaining that gay relationship options aren't available with this character? Their canon is to be straight, so just accept it, like in real life, when someone isn't a compatible orientation with you."

My dude…. This is a VIDEO GAME. A FICTIONAL FANTASY FULFILLMENT. The whole point is for the player, whomever that may be, to be able to play at whatever fantasies they want, ESPECIALLY scenarios UNREALISTIC TO REAL LIFE.

Today's rant was inspired by comments I saw on a Fire Emblem post (https://www.tumblr.com/losebetter/186897517231), but I'm bringing back my same argument from when Persona 5 made all the female characters romancable, but none of the male characters, and dudes came out of the fandom woodwork to complain about our complaints that there were no gay romance options: It's REALLY SUSPICIOUSLY heteronormative, with homophobic implications, if only the straight romance options are available. And it also suspiciously echoes the realistic misogyny, happening everyday AND throughout most of history, if the female cast is treated as this menagerie of options to choose from, like objects on a shelf, all ready and waiting for you, but none (or barely any) of the male cast is. If you really want to play the "true to real life" card of "each character has a canon orientation and you have to respect that, regardless of whatever fantasies you want to play and expect the game to cater to", then why are ALL the girls available to date? If you want realistic, then some of the girls shouldn't be interested, even if "gloriously irresistible protagonist-kun" chooses them. (jfc As if protag-kun being irresistible to everyone wasn't enough of a hint that the whole point is fantasy/wish fulfillment.) Some of the girls should turn him down because they're lesbians or aroace. Some should turn him down because they've already got a crush on someone else. Some, because they're really just not interested in protag-kun, regardless of having compatible sexual orientations. (BTW Supergiant Games' Hades did this well with Dusa.)

This whole, "we shouldn't get upset that gay romance options aren't available, because that's also how it is in real life sometimes", is RIDICULOUS. It denies that the ENTIRE POINT of videogames, ESPECIALLY OF DATING SIM aspects, are for fantasy fulfillment. Why do only straight guys and occasionally straight girls get their fantasies catered to? Letting games get away with no gay romance options, is just perpetuating queerphobia and heteronormativity. We shouldn't put up with it, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE it's a fictional world, where people CAN make up ANYTHING. So why stay limited, especially to reality?

If you want to advocate for "not enough memory space" or "not enough production time for the studio", then just make a later DLC or alternate version. Like Persona 3 Portable's female protagonist option, to supplement Persona 3's male-only protagonist route. Although, that was 14 years ago. Nowadays, we have things like Assassin's Creed Odyssey, where the gender change is just a skin swap. (Not that AC Odyssey's writing is an example of how to represent queer routes well, from what I've heard.)

[rt-lots]

i wish i wasnt sad forever

[supermanshield]

Superman #314

[bnnuyguts]

kiss me touch me i want to feel worth something

[bunrotten]

bedrot so bad the sleep inertia still hitting me from when i woke up 2 hours ago. maybe hitting my thc pen will help

[raspberrysmoon]

PINTEREST WONT LET ME COPY LINKS ANYMORE?????? WTF 😭😭😭😭

[heart-bones]

truly so upset I couldn't make it until 10pm to see House Of Harm but I had a triple threat of Swollen Legs + Lower Back Agony, 25% phone battery, and it being Fuck Ass Hot Outside