#yes i blacklist them

[morgana-ren]

Mate, if you unironically say things like 'corn' instead of porn, 'spicy time' or 'smex' instead of sex, or anything like 'unalive' on here, you're probably too young or emotionally immature to be engaging in any sort of content or conversations around those topics.

[shopwitchvamp]

me the absolute first split second people are acting up in the shop

[dreamofbecoming]

i’ve seen conflicting opinions on whether eddie would listen to springsteen, but i feel like the answer should be obvious. i mean, the guy painted a woody guthrie reference onto his first guitar, you can’t tell me he doesn’t have a soft spot for the johnny cashes and the willie nelsons and yes, the bruce springsteens of the world. guys with gravelly voices who sing about loss and disillusionment and being left behind, by life or the government or the girl they love. add in that springsteen openly made out with another man on stage (a black man no less) and you can’t tell me eddie wouldn’t be hooked. queer guy sings about being stuck in a small town and doomed love and hating the man? that’s his fucking shit right there. maybe he wouldn’t admit to liking him in public to protect his metalhead cred, but eddie values music, he values sincerity, he values bravery.

anyway my point is that in the 90s/00s eddie is absolutely a closet dixie chicks fan and i will die on this hill

[sanchoyoscribbles]

maybe link should consider that I filled my inventory with salted milky smoothies right before the fight and spent all that time leveling up the sword and energy gauges tho ...🥲

[allmyandroids]

"Mr. Reddington."

"I'm here to pay my debt to you, Aram."

"You're back."

"Strap on your bike helmet. We're going to work"

[just-french-me-up]

Perhaps some of yall should go to the devil sacrament once or twice, actually, see the sights, loosen up a bit

[selfship-confession-box]

to be quite honest. shipping with CANON (not headcanoned) exclusively gay/lesbian characters as someone of the gender they are explicitly not attracted to is a form of erasure and lowkey homophobic. 'just make them bi' is a bad take. bi people are amazing and valid but not everyone is bisexual??? 'theyre not real' is a bad take bc representation matters and i feel like that doesnt really need to be said. obviously the character isnt real and isnt offended but gay/lesbian selfshippers can see how much you dont gaf abt their identities. gay people exist in real life too!!! homophobia is still so acceptable in fandom spaces and its kinda wild.

Actually this one gets to skip the queue because we just had another anon push their luck about this. I WAS originally going to leave this in queue but now feels like a better time to nip this in the bud.

This is the LAST thing I'm saying about this topic because frankly it's the majority of what we've been getting recently and it's exhausting. All future asks about this topic WILL be deleted. AS STATED ABOVE. DO WHAT YOU WANT FOREVER. YOUR EXPERIENCE IS YOURS AND YOURS ALONE.

TAKING POTSHOTS AT EACH OTHER IS NOT A CONFESSION.

THAT'S CALLED BEING AN ASSHOLE.

k thanks bye

[criminal-sen]

Ranting about terminally online queers below the cut (tw misgendering and um. Idk I guess transmisandry? Is the word? Or maybe just misandry idfk but there's some terfy man hating is all I'm trying to convey here)

Hsvsgshshwh so my partner, who for the purpose of this post I will admit looks like a big, imposing cis male (they are very much nonbinary and fucking HATE being he/him'd, but it's relevant to point this out) keeps getting into these fucking.. pickles??? with the local queers, specifically those of the transmasc variety? (Well okay that's not quite true, as one was a cis woman whose variety of queerness I can't fn remember rn, and she's undoubtedly, by FAR, caused the most harm in this whole debacle, to the point where i dont even feel comfortable discussing it, and wont, but I digress) and it's varied from person to person, but the constant is that they basically meet my partner on whatever fuckin dating platform, IMMEDIATELY mark them as 'dangerous and potentially predatory man', yet this marking is seemingly *just* far back enough in their subconscious that they engage in anything from.. flirty/sexual msging with them, all the way to actual physical hookups

and then, in HINDSIGHT, long after the fact, decide that their consent has been breached in some nebulous way and they've been harmed??? And this would be one thing if they were going to my partner and saying this, but no they're going around saying it everywhere else!

And let me be perfectly fucking clear: consent and boundaries are very important things! And to feel like those have been encroached upon feels shitty! But when you're talking about shit so fucking TEPID and IN YOUR HEAD as 'we were having a discussion via text about BDSM and after we were done, I felt icky, so I'm going to tell ppl I was harmed' then guess what! The only harm that's being done here is to my partner, by spreading around your stupid, EXTREMELY online understanding of what these terms are and why they exist in the first place

Like I know my partner pretty well at this point. And I know they're 1) always sober, at least from substances like booze that might cause one to be overly flirty and miss cues. Like they literally jist smoke weed avshsbdv and 2) extremely read-up on current language/discussion around How To Behave within the queer community, and yes this includes COPIOUS checking of the other person's mental state and whether they're still into whatever is being done

Like the only thing they're 'doing wrong' in the eyes of the ppl saying this shit is looking like a spooky scary cis man. Which they're not. But they can't fucking help how they look, especially when they're over 6 ft tall and fucking bald:/

And like. All of this is super frustrating to hear about, like it just keeps HAPPENING. And the part of me that's salty about the polyamorous nature of our relationship (not from a jealousy standpoint per say its just. a whole can of very insecure worms) wants to tell them, with all my heart, that maybe they should stop fucking around with Sensitive Queers they've barely (if at all) even met. And jist keep it in their fuckin pants for fucks sake, at least until they know the person on even the barest level. Because some of these ppl are fucking tar pits, I'm sorry. And the t4t hookup scene in this city reeks of terminally online AND small town bullshit, and they're already getting a very quiet but definitely non-zero Reputation. Like I can't even tell my transmasc group (who I finally met in person the other day btw) who I'm dating bc they're the ones doing this shit like oh my fucking god how Exhausting

But that's not a suggestion that can come from my mouth without sounding um. very shitty. so I make a post about it instead:)

[kaiserouo]

wip

i like that side look eye too much i need to spread this to the world

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

the worst thing about Lonely Woman Christmas Movies is that the premises are actually very compelling, it's just that the execution occurs at the lowest level of potential possible

[eggdoodles]

Bulla Bulla Bulla Bulla Bulla

[kah-way-loh]

Everyone jokes about Americans using everything except the metric system to measure things. Anyway a Furby Baby is as tall as two Snowball marshmallow cakes

Amyl acetate (AH-mill as-eh-tate) is a chemical compound used as a flavoring agent in candy, notably bubblegum! I thought it was a cool name for a Crystal Furby Baby

[Image description: Amyl Acetate is a pink Crystal Furby Baby with multicolor tinsel in her fur. She is wearing a beaded necklace spelling her name. Next to her is a pack of two pink marshmallow cakes under the branding of Mrs. Freshley's, which is leaning against a metal stand as a height comparison. End ID.]

[unsettlingcreature]

I need like a personal shinigami eyes to mark people who haven't necessarily done anything wrong but I can mark as annoying to me personally so if I see their post cross my dashboard, I know it's probably bait/trolling. nobody else would see it apart from me btw.

[eternitas]

[Choose any character you want!] ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼ "Do you want to make a contract with me to become a magical girl? I can grant you any wish your heart desires!"

@einsatzzz (in case your notifications aren't triggered- happens to me sometimes)

EIN WHAT HAVE U DONE TO ME THIS ANSWER HAS CONSUMED SO MANY DAYS OF MY LIFE

But it also gave me am lot of ways to improve on my art and learn to work with digital art so thank you for sending this in! I actually treated this as a life advice question for squad 4 because it was the funniest in my head! Hope you like the answer!

Trigger warning for blood, guns and creepy imagery

Referenced and partially traced with the help of @kyuji

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Today too Squad 4 continues to pursue their goals through their own strength. (And Today too, Sergey is very protective of his best friend.)

[moongothic]

i would love trans crocodile but im very cynical that oda would write him in a respectful manner. thats not even thinking of how horrible that one portion of the one piece fandom would treat him

Yeah the fandom sucks and I'm going to strangle everyone (including the cishets who claim to be trans allies and then use "Crocomom")

But with Oda it's weird because like. The more I think about it, the more I'm like... 50/50 about Oda being able to actually deliver good, respectful trans masc rep.

Like I've posted about this before but One Piece does have this on-going theme of having characters "stuck in wrong bodies" or "having one's body changed" (sometimes reversably, sometimes irreversably; sometimes against their will, sometimes consentually). Which, in theory, in my mind, does kind of signal that on some level Oda understands the idea of being "the wrong sex" (whether or not that's a good way to explain The Trans Experience™ is a whole different subject but it's an old fashioned explanation that Oda would probably be/is familiar with) But at the same time, while the concept pops up again and again in One Piece, Oda doesn't really dwell too deep into the idea of what that's like. Like, emotionally. How it feels like to like, get turned into a toy or be a child who gets aged 20 years or to get turned into a cyborg or a giant child or have parts of your body permanently turned into animal parts (sometimes with a will of their own) etc

And like. Part of me understands why, Oda does tend to want to focus on writing a story he thinks teenaged boys would be interested in reading, and he has often stated he wants to have fun with his story too (like that's partially why Luffy's a Rubber Man, because Oda thought giving Luffy a ridiculous ability would make him more fun to write and draw long-term, which is valid as hell) This is why for example Oda has avoided doing any romances in OP, and while there are dark themes in the story, often he has done his best to avoid making them too blatant, as some things would be too mature for his youngest readers (like, for example until Kuma's backstory, it was never explicitly stated what would happen to the slave wives of the Tenryuubito, even saying it was "implied" would be pushing how that subject had been treated until now)

So like. Because of that, I understand why Oda hasn't dwelled into The Feelings™ part much/at all despite the "stuck in the wrong body" narrative appearing time and time again

Either Oda thinks it'd be too boring either for himself or his readers, or he hasn't dwelled into it because he doesn't really understand gender dysphoria and can't relate to the experience (despite how often it shows its face in OP). Or it could be both, even

The thing is though, as OP has gone on, while I wouldn't say Oda has "broken his writing rules", Kuma's backstory alone has pushed them to a new limit with the love-that-never-was story and the all-but-explicitly-stated storytelling.

So a part of me wonders, if Crocodile is trans, could Oda actually like... take a slightly deeper look into his feelings and explore his queer experience? ('Cause god knows, if Crocodad Real, then there really would be a literal coming out-story built into his backstory that would be extremely unavoidable, and as I've mentioned before, the fact that we haven't gotten to learn almost anything about his backstory yet is Kinda Fucking Sus)

Also I do want to mention how... like Oda gets a lot of bad rap when it comes to queer rep in One Piece, but the more I think about it, I think it's more an issue with the terminology and how translators have gone about either localizing it, or more often than not, leaving it unlocalized 'Cause like. Yes the "okama" would be horrible trans rep but... really... they're not trans representation. They're representation for draq queens. Piss poor draq rep, but still, they're draq queens. And just like our very real life drag performers; some of them are cishets. Some of them are gender non-conforming gay men. Some of them are nonbinary*. Some of them are trans women. Obviously lumping all of these people into one group is kinda offensive (which is why "okama" is (as far as I understand it) such an unpopular term even amongst queer people in Japan), and the way Oda often chooses to draw these characters looks no different to how gender criticals choose to present trans women in their propaganda.

*Like Bon-chan, who explicitly states they are both male and female. And Iva-chan, who switches between boy-mode and girl-mode from time to time, could arguably be called genderfluid (though any specific terminology is up to debate). Both are nonbinary draq queens.

And yet, despite all that. It can not be understated how if you put aside the nameless background gag-characters, Oda does treat the actual, proper queer characters with respect. Everyone would agree that Bon-chan is an absolute hero, we would all die for them. Iva-chan (and Inazuma too) is explicitly presented in a heroic light, seen as someone who helps people and fights for justice (with the Revs)

And then there's the first binary trans characters we've actually gotten, Okiku and Yamato. And I'm pretty sure we would all agree Okiku is 10/10 perfect trans fem representation (I am not entirely serious, I'm not trans fem so I can't speak for trans women here, it's just that I can't see anything Horrendously Wrong with how Okiku is presented within the story- not actually perfect but all things considdered, damn good). She is stunning, people around her (INCLUDING SANJI!!) don't just view her as a woman but would go out of their way to date her (as in, she is seen as "desirable", and not as some kind of a disgusting freak to avoid), she is heroic and sweet and kind and just. IDK I love her And while I'm sure many trans mascs would agree Yamato may not be how they want to be seen by the world (though having Yamato ID as a man while having the biggest moobs is surely validating for a lot of people, including anybody who might not want or be able to get top surgery and/or HRT), again, he is only presented as heroic within the narrative and respected by the characters around him, Luffy especially, which is by far the most important part; the protagonist going out of his way to be respectful of trans characters does represent the values of the story.

And like.

Think about how Oda has treated Crocodile so far.

Like, although we're all having a bit of a laugh over the whole Cross Guild thing, Oda is still treating him as a cool character whom he presents seriously and treats with respect. Like Oda wants the readers to see Crocodile as at least a little bit cool. So I can't imagine him pulling a full 180 with how Croc would be treated in the story if he was revealed to be trans, especially when the potential foreshadowing for that was laid out in the story years ago already.

All this to say; Oda is not perfect at all, but considdering the things he has gotten right so far, I think there is hope he could pull it off. Because Oda is for Queer Liberation.

Really, my only concerns would be whether or not there's a risk Crocodile could get somehow detrans'd during the story (I'm praying the Haki theory isn't an option, really Doc Q might be the only true risk here), if he's stealth and that got presented as "a wrong thing to do" (which I'd hope not, like our previous queer characters have been okay with being openly queer but that may have been more for the readers than anything else. At least, I hope, god knows if Crocodile is and wants to be stealth trans then that's his right and he shouldn't have to out if he doesn't want to, and yeah, I don't want him to be demonized within the narrative for being stealth (if he's stealth, for all we know he could be out)) and like, most importantly, what'd end up being Crocodile's "motivation" for transitioning in the first place

Like. God. I just. I don't want there to be a twist where Crocodile transitioned because "being a woman was weak" or because he "wanted to be acknowledged by Whitebeard" ('cause WB doesn't take women into his crew) or "the scar in his face made him so ugly he decided he should be a man instead" (seen unironic Redditors suggest that. Almost lost my mind) or something

Like I hope someone's at least tried to explain gender dysphoria to Oda. Like the man does have actual queer friends in real life (some of whom inspired characters in OP), so I'm hoping at least someone's tried to explain the feelings that come with The Trans Experience™ to him so that, if Crocodile's trans, then Oda can actually try to base his reasoning to transition on those feelings instead of any stupid "reasons" that no actual queer person would relate to

But it all just boils down to... Is Oda willing to actually dwell into those feelings and explore them in the story.

It... it really could go either way with Oda

So yeah. Anon, I'm with you, I'd be lying if I didn't admit I was at least A Little Worried. But also... I want to be hopeful. Because I do believe there is reason to be hopeful.

Only time will tell how it'll go

[alongtidesoflight]

they're gonna bonk solas over the head together (and likely regret it)!