#y’know?)

[angellwingss]

Wasn’t going to go on a big rant but you know what since that other post is gaining traction yeah I think I will. So big long rant under the cut. Lolll

I feel like. A lot of people might tell me ‘it’s not that deep’ but to me it is that deep.

I don’t have a problem with JayVik or it’s shippers like. At all. I just think some of them are à really good demonstration of like. Every bad thing when it comes to fandom ever LMAO.

Once again I am (supposed to be) writing a whole big long essay about this already so I will try and keep this kind of short and sweet and it might be a bit lacking but wtvr.

I think a lot of JayVik fans tend to be white queer people. Someone left a tag on my OG post that said basically ‘my take is I’m a faggot and I don’t have to care about a character if I don’t want to’ and no hate to that person cuz you’re right, but this is exactly the kind of stuff that made me make that first post.

I feel like a lot of white queer people have an issue with seeing outside their own identity? If that makes sense? This is seen time and time again with the way some of them behave when big movements happen online, some have a tendency to centre themselves and whatnot so i think it’s kind of the same thing.

It makes total sense that a queer person would prefer queer ships and would prefer JayVik over MelJay, that is not a crime. But I do think part of that is because they can’t relate/identify with Mel or see themselves in her like they can with Jayce or Viktor.

I hate to also make it about feminism but i think a lot of you guys are super like. Male centred, like just in your attraction which once again, not the issue not a crime. But i think it’s also why CaitVi, which is a canon queer ship, although popular is still not quite as popular as JayVik despite being canon. Women fetishizing gay men in fandom is not something new, which I think might play a small part in it- I’ve seen a lot of people especially back in s1 infantilizing Viktor and acting like he had no agency or independence and that he NEEDS Jayce to take care of him (that’s another thing. Ableism(looks at you with my eyes)) and they also do the same thing with Jayce where they act like he had 0 agency with any decisions he makes and that he’s like a big dumb baby who doesn’t know anything politics. Hey, guys. That’s a grown man.

My main issue isn’t that people prefer JayVik over MelJay it’s just that some shippers demonize Mel to an insane degree, blame her for getting in the way of their ship (this is also happening right now with Maddie- there’s a leak going around saying that she gets with Caitlyn and people are so upset that this character is getting some INSANE hate and I feel like that’s the same thing going on.)

they blame her for ‘stealing’ Jayce etc etc like. Idk. You don’t have to ship MelJay but I wish more people would appreciate Mel just as a character- imo she is super interesting and has a great story but she’s only ever seen and ‘the other woman’. I’ve seen people say she isn’t like, well characterized and that her story entirely revolves around Jayce which. Yeah she’s definitely heavily involved with him in s1 but she’s clearly got a lot more going on than just that and you would know that if you GAF 🗣️🗣️

for just being. Who she is. I think Mel deserves more attention just in the fandom and it’s just frustrating. People making memes about Jayce going insane over Viktor leaving but like. Mel also just got fucking kidnapped guys. His lover has just vanished without a trace why is nobody also talking about that !!!! Why can’t he care about both these people at the same time !!!!!!!

Anyway I’m not nearly well equipped enough to talk more in-depth about like. Any of this but I do think the demonization of Mel and refusal to see her relationship with Jayce as it is can often times be boiled down to racism like straight up. And also things like the fetishization of gay men in fandom and just things like that are sometimes what can lead to female characters- even the well written ones to be shelved and pushed aside in favour of their male counterparts.

Obligatory ‘not all JayVik fans’ obviously a lot of you are awesome, shouldn’t have to say this. If I’m not aiming for you, you shouldn’t be getting shot.

[brainman1987]

Even more legends of Avantris bullshiticus!

The pile is like… Gideon on the floor, while Frost Kremy and Torbek all lay as close as they can to tThe Heat Source (TM) and Hootsie and Gricko sleep a lil off to the side because they’re a feed back loop of warmth I guess?

[darlingpeasant]

Nothing hit harder than:

1. The painful and raw delivery of that line, “I knew something was wrong”, the slight break in his voice, the pauses, swallowing the lump in his throat, it was *chefs kiss* 🤌✨

2. That single tear. A paid actor in itself

I will forever be in awe of how fucking good Luke N is. These little subtleties can so often be overlooked but I will lap that shit every time 🤌

[antleredweirdo]

Danny is like that one feral stray cat that follows Waylon around and I will stand by that fact

[questionably-audhd-oracle]

This may or may not be a hot take: I think if given the serious opportunity, Sam would try therapy (and maybe even like it!)

Dean would NOT. He would NEVER. at least of his own volition, you’d have to drag him kicking and screaming into that office and chain him to the chair. And then, after like A WHILE and after the therapist tricks him into talking like a person crushing pills into cat treats- THEN he starts talking. And he goes

“Oh. You know. That was nice actually.”

But he’d never do the assigned therapy homework after

[spineless-lobster]

“It’s odd to see a father so involved…”

Captain, captain sweetie, my love my darling my heart my pride and my joy, cap… be honest now, you have daddy issues, don’t you? No shame but like we all guessed from the start. He hated you and then sent you off to boarding school didn’t he? He was an army officer and you were pressured to follow in his footsteps weren’t you? It’s alright captain you can talk about it…

[prepare4trouble]

Does it bug anybody else how people seem to consider Ed and Stede to be old? I mean, they’re not kids, but Taika and Rhys are in their 40s. They aren’t ‘old men’. They’re at the beginning part of what most people would consider to be middle aged.

And maybe this is just a me thing, since I’m not that much younger than them, as I approach my 42nd birthday next week, but I’m not old. I mean, I’m not a kid, but I barely even feel like an adult most days.

And yes, I do know that for a pirate in those days, 48 or so would have been considered ancient. I know the real Blackbeard died in his mid to late 30s and Stede Bonnet at 30. But that’s reality, and OFMD is not supposed to resemble reality. If it did, it would be a very different show.

Anyway, I’m not having a go here, and maybe to younger fans they really do look like two decrepit, ancient, old men, or maybe people are just joking around, but more likely this just seems a bit like a byproduct of the film and TV industry’s obsession with youth. I think people are surprised (not in a bad way, just pleasantly surprised) to see people not in their 20s depicted as being in love, and having sex, and all those things that we’ve been indirectly told for years can only happen up to a certain age. And then to see it in a queer romance too, that just makes it stand out all the more, and compared to a lot of the other media people see, these characters do seem older. Because they are.

So I think what I’m saying isn’t, “Hey, stop calling them old!”, which I guess you’re welcome to do if you really must, it’s more something along the lines of, “It shouldn’t be unusual to see these kinds of relationships, and if it was more normalised then maybe people wouldn’t think they were old.”

But it’s also to remind people that calling them old perpetuates that idea that romance in your 40s and beyond is unusual, and that’s not a good thing to be telling people, even by accident.

[casukaga]

finished playing a dnd one-shot three-shot recently, so here’s my character: a scourge aasimar / aberrant mind sorcerer named kane (he/they)!!

they ended up being doomed by the narrative, but he’s a bitch, so i guess he had it coming 💔

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[goldensunset]

all i really need from khml is for player2 to return to ephemer’s statue once in a while and just sit quietly by the fountain and reflect. both before and after they inevitably get their memories back- i want them to be drawn back to this spot again and again, just something tugging at their heartstrings, feeling comfortable there…

[fishyfarms]

I know this is like WAY too late to post but whatever it’s FINE!!!! /silly

I was feeling a bit overwhelmed when planning for different Inktober prompts. The thought of drawing everyday just seemed like a lot. But I also didn’t want to limit myself to drawing just one thing a week bc I normally draw more than that! Then I realized that ACTUALLY I can do whatever I want and decided to make my own prompt list with its own structure! It’s 3 prompts per week with each week having some sort of theme in case people want to draw more or less. Please feel free to use this list and participate it would make me so happy! But also no pressure :)

Typed up prompt list below the divider:

Fishtober 2024 Prompts

Week 1

New Beginning

First Meeting

Connections

Week 2

Family

Animal Friends

Festivities

Week 3

Discovery

Adventure

Folk Tales

Week 4

Late Night

Early Morning

Work Day

Week 5

Fond Memory

In The Moment

Bright Future

[santaricotta]

Heyyy I’m not dead I promise lol. I had a bit of a burn out with art (and some irl stuff in general) and that caused me to take a break from drawing Luca stuff for a while.

But I’m back now! AND I’m working on the next few pages of Festa Del Mare, too! I want to start getting back into drawing these fish again lol. So while I get back in the groove of things, have these very, VERY rough doodles of them, ‘cause why not?

[snailsfall]

[darlingpeasant]

If I don’t see Colin and Pen sharing their own little writing room, either his desk on one end, hers on the other OR side by side OR they each have their own little room for themselves but they always just end up together in one, probably at the same desk, Pen on Colin’s lap, probably always leads to insane desk sex… in S4? Then what’s the point

[anteomnia]

biggest tragedy in bg3 is not being able to at the very least have a fwb relationship with every companion. like, i guess i can understand polyamory is a bit harder to cover, but let me be a WHORE, larian, i want ALL KISSES. ALL KISSES NOW.

[whewchilly]

Carlos Sainz Jr., Scuderia Ferrari (2024) // The Thinker, Auguste Rodin (1904)

[tightjeansjavi]

Sometimes when I’m bored at work I daydream and think about how in an alternate universe, Joel Miller has both of his girls and he’s never in pain (only sometimes bc old man back problems) and he only knows happiness, love and all the good soft things in the world <3 and—and he’s never alone! He’s never sad! He never loses anyone he loves because—

AND his hair gets all the greys in it and same with his beard!! He’s got crows feet by his eyes from all the times that he’s laughed so hard he squints! And he’s got smile lines because he smiles so much!