#doom them

[blackbird-brewster]

We're currently watching Star Trek: Voyager and I don't know what I'm enjoying more - the nostalgia of seeing characters who feel more like old friends, or the giddy second-hand excitement I get from my partner who is experiencing this show for the very first time.

Sharing my lifelong love of Kathryn Janeway with my forever love is very very special to me.

But, I would also be lying to say I didn't enjoy every fucking minute of their progressively horrified reaction as we watched 'Threshold' the other night 🤣🙏

[nathaniacolver]

arcane ships be like

i love a show that teaches equality (😭😭😭)

[roz-ani]

NOT MY ENEMIES TO LOVERS

GIVE THEM BACK TO MEEEEE 😭😭😭

[cupidliquor]

but my best enemy is you

[ketzzzel]

lunch

[clownsuu]

God I love the insane amounts of d r i p Stanley just casually wears

[vendetta06]

happy pride to the founding fathers. I hope they know it’s legal now

[rainydrawstuff]

lab vs. forge: cool or warm setting/atmosphere?

[ratsoupee]

Friends in every universe

[blackbird-brewster]

We were at a family get together last night and there was a group photo being taken with the 'women' of the family. And T (age 7) went 'Kit! You're in the photo too, it's all the girls!'

And before I even had a chance to say 'Well I'm not actually a girl'... T's mum (my partner's cousin) took him aside to have a quiet chat about it. She hadn't even hesitated to step in and help educate her son.

I overheard her reminding him about the book 'My Shadow is Purple' and how some people aren't boys or girls, but neither or both.

I choked up from both gratitude that she saw the opportunity to talk to T about it AND the fact they'd obviously already read him books featuring nonbinary characters as a learning tool.

Afterwards, I told my partner what happened and they hadn't read 'My Shadow is Purple', so I read it to them this morning over breakfast and I barely got 2 pages in before crying with joy. By the end, we were both crying.

Kids books featuring LGBTQA+ themes are SO SO SO important for ALL kids to read. It's important for queer kids to see themselves represented, but it's also important for kids to learn about how other people might navigate the world differently than they do.

[bridgekc]

yeah so i’m actually never recovering 💔

they picked out each other’s outfits…😖🥲

[bixels]

The final TF2 issue really got to me. Spoilers, but it’s the reveal that all of this suffering and murder and war over gravel and shitty land was for nothing but senseless, bottomless hatred. That the administrator can’t even remember where this revenge plot started as she flashes through different false memories of her parents’ deaths. There was never a tragic backstory or justification, only terrible people doing despicable things. And despite how crass and stupid and unserious TF2 is, the story subverts every expectation by showing the survivors and inheritors willingly breaking the cycle. Ms. Pauling lies to the administrator and chooses not to save her, and finally lets her die. (Hurts even more if you read into the subtext that Ms. Pauling is in love with the administrator.) She lets the final cache of Australium go and walks away from the burden and legacy of a century-old bloodfeud. Hale lets Gray’s daughter go and live her life freely. Spy is the first to arrive at Scout’s house and meet his big family, finally takes off his mask, and helps with the kids. Even Merasmus exhaustedly makes peace with himself and Soldier and chooses not to curse him or something. There’s nothing to finish, no promises to keep, and no one to avenge. The only thing to do is break the cycle and walk away.

It feels odd how happy and warm everything is, but it feels so right and earned. These bloodthirsty, awful, violent men were expendable cogs in a machine of endless violence, and they found a way out. It’s a genuinely great message about letting go the past that burdens you and finding the will and a way to hit the bricks, change, and be happy. Maybe they don’t technically deserve happiness, but they’ve got it nonetheless, and they’re not gonna let it go to waste. They’re still all crazy and violent, but on their own terms now and with people who love them! Smiles.

[jdslushie]

we almost got away, we cut it close

[blackbird-brewster]

1. My partner and I created sports-caster personass for giving play-by-play commentary when we play Mario Party. It's the funniest bit we've ever done and always leaves us in hysterics

2. We recently found a position to lay in on the couch where I lay on top of my partner (my back on their chest, legs over the side of the couch) and then our cat sits on top of me to complete our cuddle puddle. It's such a delight

3. Before I go to sleep, I always tuck my partner back into the covers bc they always fall asleep first and kick them off. The other night they were sleeping and refused to put their leg back under the blanket and very sleepily giggled and told me 'I stick my leggy out real far!'. I laughed so hard I woke them up 😅

4. We just got a heat pump installed in the media room that doubles as my office. It's now perfectly temp controlled in there and I have never been more content

5. I'm re-reading my favourite comfort fic for the 100th time right now. It's one I wrote and each time I read it it makes me so proud, like 'Holy shit I wrote this and it's so good?!?!'

trans and intersex people in my phone, please tell me about the little pleasures of your life right now. anything from something sweet your partner did to a delicious snack to seeing a cool bug. humans tend to be good at remembering the bad and bad at remembering the good so we need to put effort into making the happy moments feel as real as the sad ones.

[chloesimaginationthings]

The next game in the FNAF security breach era..

[paintedcrows]

Evening in the Lab