#using that as an umbrella term

[swiftiesbuddie]

This gotta be one of my favorite genre of characters…

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[mayvette]

ijbol

[crispyliza]

When people say "I don't want my child to be exposed to LGBTQ+ media because it will turn them gay" they actually mean "I don't want my child to be exposed to LGBTQ+ media because it might help them realize that they're gay".

[zackstriker]

i think my fav dnp lore is that phil is canonically a psychic. like. what a fun little twist to throw into the gay youtuber fandom.

[beeceit]

Dick: I was one of the flying Graysons once. ...Now I'm one of the flying gay sons Bruce: ...Chum is there something you'd like to tell me? Dick: Oh my god, I forgot to come out

[bixels]

Jesus man, relax.

[sluglore]

Some Thoughts on Karma, the Natural Journey of Ascension, and Why the Ancients/Benefactors were Kind of Wrong

I'd like to address the community-wide misconception that you can only gain karma through "shedding your urges" when both in game and within the text of the game, we see this isn't true! the whole "shedding urges in order to ascend" stuff was only really a thing before the void fluid revolution, as Moon states in the bright red farm arrays pearl. The discovery of void fluid entirely trivialized needing to completely shed your urges by providing a much more natural method of ascension, and we see this play out within Rain World's story and gameplay.

In-game, we gain karma by directly engaging with our urges, whether it be sustaining our hunger, holding treasured items close or just survival in itself. From the beginning we are deeply ensnared within the struggles of living, "caught in the net" as the ancients/benefactors say. However, over the course of our gameplay, (I'm using survivor as a baseline, since their campaign illustrates the core of this) as we learn and grow and become more knowledged, living becomes easier, the struggle is not as harsh as it was before, and surely but slowly we die less and less as time goes on.

Simultaneously, this is reflected in our karma, as by dying less, we now hold higher karma more frequently. This coincides with the natural gameplay loop of rain world; the more we explore and learn new things, the more we grow and learn about the world and our place within it, we tread further and further away from the struggles of life, and become closer to enlightenment.

Ascension is the natural culmination of this journey of enlightenment, the next step on the path beyond. It's not inherently the right or wrong choice to make, its a step into the unknown, in search of something greater, of answers to our own existence, true spiritual self-fulfillment. This is how the ancients/benefactors saw it, but you could say they still got parts of it pretty wrong...

This is treading more into personal headcanon territory now, so bear with me, but I believe the issue lies within the great problem that the ancients built the iterators to solve. They wanted to find a means of evicting all life, material, the entire world from the cycles entirely, eliminating the personal struggle tied to ascension, taking away the choice and the journey that are so unbelievably crucial to it. This is also why I personally believe that a solution to the great problem doesn't or can't exist, as it would go against the fabric of their universe, from which the cycles are built upon. (LTTM describes the group behind this ideology as "triangulators"; they believed a solution was dangerous and had to be inferred rather than solved)

Ironically, in their desire to become effortless, by creating the iterators to make living easier, and to detach themselves from the struggles of the cycles, (just as we do within our own journey to ascension as the slugcat) this could also only be achieved through massive effort, so they even weren't truly "effortless" in the end, as nothing can be. Of course though, the few echoes in-game demonstrate that same ideology slipping through. Those ancients/benefactors became echoes because they hadn't experienced the personal journey paramount to ascension, or maybe they just didn't want to leave, but regardless, they weren't able to let go of their place in the universe and move on, and thus, they stayed behind.

TLDR: The ancients/benefactors were wrong about ascension because as a society they didn't fully recognize how important personal struggle, journey, and choice is for ascension, and sought to remove that struggle entirely.

[cookies-in-chees]

[anomura]

i really can't stop thinking about how haussmann managed to insult bucky for being a whore And for being gay saying "married? from what i hear, definitely not" like damn he got him fr. double homicide

[slothxio]

my favorite genre of men is gay, depraved, and covered in blood

[glitterfairy-21225]

Is this anything?

[willgrahamscock]

Reblog to solve the mystery

[somethingaboutfirefly]

Wether you like it or not, Tommy Kinard is a queer character and Eddie isn't. It's canonically a fact.

[dwelt-in-a-tent]

Someone tell Dale G Renlund that his nitroglycerin opener was a big hit with the Mormon gays

[our-lesboy-experience]

Exclusionists try to use their common sense and search up the definitions of the labels before shitting on them challenge (impossible).

''Lesboys r just cishet men trying to infiltrate lesbian spaces'' I've never seen a single lesboy who identify as a binary cis man. It is a term mostly used by multigender/genderfluid lesbians.

''Straightbians r just straight ppl who claim to like the lesbian aesthetic'' Their definition comes from s bunch of ragebait who was spreading misinformation about it. It is a term mostly used by multigender/genderfluid lesbians.

''Gaybians are just bisexuals,you cannot be both WLW and MLM,at the same time it makes no sense'' This term is used by genderfluid abrosexual ppl who are WLW when they identify as woman/woman-alligned genders and MLM when they identify as man/man-alligned genders. Them using the term bisexual doesn't make sense since it implys that they feels attraction to two or more genders AT THE SAME TIME.

I can go on,but I don't wanna lose braincells. I just hope one day exclusionists will start using critical thinking skills and start researching abt the labels before spreading false information on them.

Also,notice how all of these labels r used by multigender/genderfluid lesbians? hmm,I wonder why...is it maybe that even if exclusionists claim to support us,they don't really do and see us as dangerous predatory people trying to invade cis lesbian's spaces? 🤔

-⭐️ anon

yeah it's because they don't really care. they'd try to understand, and it's actually typically easy to understand, if they had an open mind

[deadtiredghost]