#unlike some cough cough

[shadow0-1]

Wonder why he'd want to track his shipments :')

[suja-janee]

Bireena request: 2/5 (request from anonymous)

Uhh slight boobie warning under the cut vvv

The titan versions get along a little TOO well hehehehehehehhehehe

[starsinboots]

the woman ever ❤️ leia how i love you,,,,,,,

[puppetmaster13u]

You know what @f4nd0m-fun I literally finished this last night, so here, have the lil baby hydra. From several prompts.

They're still mostly baby colors, which is all monochrome, but are juuust starting to get more colors like their underbellies and their heads are starting to lighten up, but will start shifting color eventually.

Which makes me wonder what kind of thing might happen if someone tries to study the realm hydras....

(Also have a prompt in the tags lol)

[wimbledonstrawberry]

Holger unfollowing Carlos for like 5 minutes and then following him back is the most Holger thing to do

[merrysithmas]

the best thing about zukaang is that the creators MADE IT as deep and meaningful and intentional as it seems

[oldmisfortune]

MC is meant to be "inconsistent" with the boys because she has a different relationship dynamic with each one. It took a long time for her to be "nice" to Rafayel, and even now there are options to tease and bully him. The people who say MC is mean and want her to be worried about him are misogynists who believe women owe men who show affection or sacrifice anything. If Sylus was ugly and they thought him cringe, they would not be saying she owes him any kindness for his feelings or choices to save her. In fact, they would see it as him being disrespectful of her boundaries when she already said "no." Let's not forget she blocked him from socials but he still saw her posts through Luke and Kieran. This behavior would NOT fly if Sylus were the men these people might have faced IRL who don't take no for an answer and expect reciprocation and pursue women to exhaust them into a relationship on the excuse that it's "courtship."

Hi, anon!

Long reply ahead because I think your opinion is incorrect. I wish to simply debate your statement and it is by no means an attack towards you or your opinions but simply a discussion of it.

Firstly, about the MC’s change in personality, I don’t really know, as I mentioned, because I didn’t look too deeply at MC’s dialogue and I’m still relatively new to the game. It’s just a vibe I got and I thought it was worth noting. Your argument does stand. She could simply be reacting differently depending on the boy but again, I haven’t looked into it.

As for the rest:

Let me rephrase your statement so we’re sure we’re on the same page. You believe that people think MC should be nicer to Sylus because of misogyny. Misogyny is the dislike and prejudice against women, meaning you believe that these people have a level of engrained hate/prejudice that makes them favor a man over the MC, a women. Specifically because he’s conventionally attractive. And if he wasn’t conventionally attractive, people wouldn’t want MC to be nice to him, they would even go as far as to hate him for his behaviors. Correct?

I don’t personally think you are correct.

I hope that you were simply trying to educate me on the matter and not accusing me, because if you were, we need to have a different conversation all together. I’ll still reassure you and say that it’s not the case for me. I wasn’t condemning her behavior in my post, nor was I condoning it. I even stated that MC has the right to be mean, and honestly, I considered her too kind at first.

And I agree that some of his behavior is terrifying in real life. I would even venture to say that it shouldn’t be romanticized and that Infold shouldn’t have taken so much inspiration from dark romance to begin with. I’ll never excuse his behavior nor should anyone. HOWEVER, this is a fictional character. As long as these behaviors remain fictional and aren’t being accepted or sought or romanticized IRL, I think people should like what they like even if we don’t understand why they like it.

But I’m diverging.

We're trying to understand the answer to this question: Why are people upset enough by how mean MC can seem towards Sylus? And let’s not focus on the game but on the fandom.

I believe that it’s far more simple than misogyny. Players like Sylus. MC is supposed to be an insert for the players. MC perceived as mean to Sylus. Players don’t want to be mean to Sylus because they like his character. Thus, MC is no longer a proper self-insert for the players. The immersion is broken. Players are angry.

I think that the players would be just as angry if MC was mean to any of the other LIs in a way that they didn’t see as fair. And I’m not talking about teasing. I’m talking mean enough to break the immersion. And I think that for a lot of people, at least those complaining, this breaks their immersion and dampens their enjoyment of the game. I could be incorrect but I've seen this happen in other fandom for other games.

From now on, I’m just babbling but I think it’s worth mentioning. What I do believe is misogyny is more fandom on fandom hate rather than hate for MC. Let me explain. I’ve seen on tiktok creators getting harassed for not liking certain LIs, mischaracterizing the LIs, and for out of character headcanons. The creators that were harassed and that I know of are women and they were attacked by other women for the sake of a fictional male character. That can be argued to be misogyny and this is where we should direct our focus towards instead, making this fandom a community a safe space for everyone even if we don’t agree on certain things or like the same characters.

[propheticclown]

Crazy realization I had about Kankri Vantas

So most people who play Openbound usually skip his dialogue (which isn't entirely unfair because he loves to 6lah) and this is on top of some optional dialogue so I don't doubt most people skipping this. But something really interesting I noticed is when he's having this conversation with Latula

A LOT of people will most likely chalk this conversation up to Kankri being a misogynist, considering he lists all these traits and then goes "all while 6eing a girl, n9 less."

But if you take this conversation along with the context of Latula's conversation with Porrim.

We find out that Latula's whole "Gamer girl" thing is a facade to try and show that "girls can be cool too". But what does this have to do with Kankri?

Well, considering that Kankri is a Seer of Blood, then it's actually likely that Kankri knows about this facade of Latula and her insecurities involving her gender. Thus his "all while 6eing a girl, n9 less." is actually Kankri attempting to give Latula validation about her own gender struggles and that he does genuinely care about gender on Beforus (if he didn't, he really wouldn't bring up Latula being a girl), and only acts like he doesn't care because of his disdain for Porrim. Not to mention that he does canonically have flushed feelings for Latula and makes more or less weird observations about her, so him knowing her struggles involving image and gender wouldn't be too far of a stretch. I love observing the dynamics between the Dancestors and discovering new things about them. This is why I read EVERY PIECE OF DIALOGUE IN OPENBOUND!!!

[haunting-hufflepuffs-basement]

Guys. Guys. Jily is just Anne of Green Gables and Gilbert Blythe.

Like, it's obviously not exactly the same, but the one-sided hatred and the academic rivalry and the "enemies to friends to lovers" and the "Oh my god I can't be in love with HIM, I've TOLD him I'm not in love with him, wtf!"

It's the vibes, the vibes are the same.

[harukakitous]

I won't allow my siblings to continue robbing humans of their happiness! I want to keep their happiness safe, and I will! That's my role in the human world from now on.

[hatchetdollie]

Why do Izzy and Steven seem so forgotten to most GNR fans? Most of them are only interested in Axl and Slash and maybe Duff will come soon after. Right, I understand that each person can identify more with certain members but it’s as if the others do not exist or as if it is not interesting enough to have your attention. Sorry to say this, but Steven is much better than Sorum and Izzy is as important as Axl. He has the greatest compositions of the band and I agree with everything Alan said about him, he was and always will be the heart of that band.

It’s not really surprising, it happens all the time and it will keep happening in every band that exists. The one who is conventionally attractive gets all the praise, and people suddenly forget everyone else. Unfortunately, the talent isn’t always as important as the looks of the members. It’s pretty sad but what can i say? Pretty privilege, am i right?

It’s really disappointing to see people talk shit about Izzy and Steven, i mean even if you don’t like their skills or their ways, how can you be such an asshole? Steven is literally the sweetest soul ever. He has been through a lot and i don’t think he deserves the hate he gets. That man survived 28 ODs, three failed suicide attempts, two heart attacks, and a debilitating stroke, and god knows what else, he spent his whole life struggling, but not many of the so called “fans” are interested in this, why should they research the other band members? Who gives a shit!!!

They also forget that Izzy was the co-founder of the band, the one who practically kept them together, the most creative one (at least from my perspective). He was an incredible songwriter, a player and also a friend. Without him gnr wouldn’t be what it is today. Be fucking thankful.

[averbaldumpingground]

"Cosmic Ballet" Sarah Slean

You really are The Worst. But I suppose I can work with this one. I am continuing to refuse to tag this properly. I have faith in you. Edit: Adding tags now. My faith was misplaced.

The quiet of the night is gentle: the steady falling of the rain, the infomercials turned to TV static. The damp, warm breath against his neck, it overwhelms him too.

He wishes for infinities like this. More eons than he's seen to breathe him in, to sit what he's been told's too close, and offer up his shoulder as a pillow.

It's so unbearably easy, to love him, this man. To chart the constellations of his freckles. To wonder at the twitching of his fingers, so beautifully calloused, where they're loosely curled in his shirt. It's such a foolish, selfish thing to want.

Perhaps the humanity of his own longing should startle him, as unused to it all as he is. Be not afraid, he softly laughs to himself.

[velichorus-k]

Just finished watching squid game s1 and I didn't realize the two old ladies were different people (I don't think they ever share a scene even though they seem to be coworkers?) so the entire time I thought Gi hun and Sang Woo were brothers and was confused when they said 'your mom' instead of 'our mom' (thought maybe it was a translation error in the subtitles since I wasn't watching on netflix cough cough) and it only clicked when Sang woo's mom talked about Gi hun's mom and. I just had the whole show recontextualized for me at 1am. Thought this was a moses and ramesses situation

[oxygenbefore1775]

I guess that's my favorite message that ReiJean brings to the table — everyone is worthy of love and understanding

[goldpilot22]

Your tags on the sacrificial virgin post make me want to know everything about your OCs, especially this Ivy Rose! What's Ivy Rose like? What story holds them?

ok so! Ivy Rose Lohaun is from my story Red Eyes Take Warning, which is..... a lot. it's actually an in-universe comic series in my Eldritchverse setting, and it starts out as a parody of those generic isekai mangas, before gettting Weird as the author is unknowingly long-term exposed to eldritch horrors a little bit.

I don't have any proper art of Ivy Rose but here's what I do have... most of the RETW characters were inspired by ai gen images (*BACK WHEN AI WAS A WEIRD EXPERIMENTAL TYPEA THING) so this is his

and also this is an Arknights au version of him (he is not normally snakeboy)

and I am still sort of figuring out his lore but what I've currently got is that he inherited some sorta really rare special powers (according to my notes he is a witch, something different from mages. but I think I'm going to make it specialer than just that) and there is some sort of curse or prophecy on his family, that anyone born with those powers will die in some circumstances, and trying to evade this always results in things going really bad (possibly involving said powers?) but the curse/prophecy/whatever is vague enough that when he transes his gender, it manages to fulfill the prophecy / neutralize the curse / whatever.

anyway most of that is kind of just background lore, his actual role in the story is that. he starts out as a 'girl' in disguise as a guy (he is closeted/eggmode at this point) and under the name Lohaun he joins Gavin's party (Gavin is the classic isekai hero guy. he's also just a massive jerk) to go adventuring and stuff and also to get away from the gilded cage of richgirl life. then he gets 'found out' as a girl (this is a trope that happens sometimes where the 'crossdressing' character gets found out and then goes back to their 'real' gender like they're fine with it. I don't like this trope very much so he's like a deconstruction or subversion or smth of it.) and briefly tries just going back to girlhood, before deciding that, actually, he'd rather be a guy. so he tries out a couple different combinations of gender terms + presentations, before eventually settling on using he/they, presenting femininely, and using his firstnames and his surname interchangeably. Gavin, being the asshole he is, at first is disappointed by Lohaun deciding to identify as a boy (because the rest* of the party is sort of harem-adjacent, as tends to happen in these isekais)but then they're like "well I'm still pretty and here so does my gender really matter that much" (they don't want him to ditch them) and so he's like "alright I guess I'm 'straight with an exception' now"

*that is, the rest of the party except for 1. Emery (too beefy for Gavin's tastes, as well as too aroace and autistic to fawn over some asshole guy) and 2. Enzo/Elodie (it is 10 years old.)

[deus-ex-mona]

when the lip differs from the lip