#octopus.txt

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CD projekt red: Geralt dresses like a normal person

Netflix: fuck it he's goth now

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“Oh what a nice nap! I feel so refreshed now!”

“...”

“It’s been how long?!”

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me: *breaks down crying in the privacy of my own home*

my brain: you’re faking your emotions for attention. you’re just doing this because you think it makes for a cool personal narrative

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One of the things I really dig about Invader Zim is that Zim wears a pink dress, but literally nobody comments on it. It's never joked about, and nobody makes fun of him for it. In other kids' cartoons like Fairly Odd Parents, Timmy wears his signature pink hat and shirt, is made fun of frequently for it, and it's later revealed that he wears pink because his parents were expecting a girl. For Zim though, his invader uniform is just...not a subject for discussion, even from the school bullies.

And even more generally, the way pink is used in IZ is different, especially when you consider the prevalence of the color among Irkens in general. Pink is not associated with softness/emotion as it is in Steven Universe, nor does it serve to contrast the violence of the Irken empire, like the way Professor Umbridge from Harry Potter is deliberately soft and pink to contrast her vile personality. In fact, there's no femininity/softness/elegance associated with pink in IZ whatsoever. The Massive is magenta, the fleet is pink, their uniforms are pink, they fire pink lasers to eradicate all organic life on a planet. There's no beauty in it despite the destruction; pink is fully incorporated into the violence. Pink is powerful.

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trans witcher headcanons:

The witcher trials include both T (for strength) and E (for slower aging and other health benefits), regardless of gender or AGAB, which is partially why why witchers are sterile. (In the books, Triss protests the witchers putting Ciri though the non magic portion of trials, which includes "hormones", because it changes fat distribution and inhibits development of female secondary sex markers, and she worries that Ciri might resent them in the future for doing that.)

The reason everybody thinks there are no female witchers is that female witchers are usually incorrectly read as male by outsiders.

Within witcher schools, everybody knows that appearance is completely nonindicative of gender. Because of their seclusion, they are hardly influenced by external gender norms, and their concept of gender is radically different from the rest of the population. Most witchers prefer the company of other witchers for this reason.

Witchers don't like explaining the intricacies of Witcher Genders to outsiders because they're already shunned enough; why give them more ammo?

Before the decline of monsters, becoming a witcher was a really common career path for trans people (not just trans men, but trans women and nonbinary folks as well) because of how inherently trans friendly they are.

70% of all witchers are trans

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jaskier after getting punched by geralt: 😍😍😍😍

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remember this for pride month

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when is michael sheen going to tell us which good omens fanfic on ao3 is his

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geralt and jaskier's first meeting is just the breadsticks meme but in reverse

jaskier: *shoves bread into his pants*

jaskier, noticing geralt across the room and deciding he HAS to talk to him: so what did you think of my song?

geralt: you're annoying and your music sucks

jaskier: amazing. i'm going to follow you forever

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i will never tire of zim consistently protecting the earth because only he’s allowed to destroy it

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half life is really great because you can play both halves of a ship

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me, 8, trying to prove that I'm the superior sibling:

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sometimes i think about the time snufkin ate a dirty ass carrot straight out of the ground. didn’t even rinse it or anything. just straight up eats dirt

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when benrey sat on the barrel and gordon was like "he's always gotta sit on something" I was like hell yeah gay rights