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explain your gender in 10 words or less without using boring words like “male”, “female”, “nonbinary”, “masculine”, “feminine” or “androgynous”.

go!

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Finding out this was a Flight Rising post that broke containment is absolutely hilarious. But damn if that's gonna fuck with the results. XD Sorry OP.

Okay you guys.

IF YOU PRIMARILY DO NOT SPEAK ENGLISH reply with what you mentally call it, if you have a nickname for it or something

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Alastor's Pride Education month | saga Masterpost

All parts below cut:

It's gay people month again

He's not alone but there can be only one

It's called friendship

Aroace overlord

New flags

Coming out..?

How gays work

Pans

Bipolar disorder

Who?!

Side comic: Husk is traumatised

Not a flag

Vox being an asshole

Epilogue - Gaslight

Series complete!!

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"You don't have to fight alone."

i'm. SOOOOOOO obsessed with them.

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bol

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honestly a pity that Luke & Leia being siblings was so tacked on to the original trilogy bcos i think retroactively Leia being Anakin's daughter really beefs up some aspects of A New Hope, namely:

taking the prequels into account, the fact that Anakin fell to the dark side bcos he was trying to protect Padme and their unborn child and then his first on screen atrocity in the OT being unknowingly torturing his own daughter has a delicious irony to it. especially given extent to which Leia and Padme are parallel characters. love that.

the fact that Vader correctly predicts that Tarkin's plan to get the location of the rebel base out of Leia won't work. he's presumably there like 'well she'll just lie. that's what I'd do' and he's right bcos Leia does think the same way as him.

father scolding teenaged daughter lol

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hermann : I usually don't like people but uh... I guess you're ok

newt :

newt : honey, we're married

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Ive come up with the phrase "blorbo-in-law" which is a fictional character who isn't, like, YOUR blorbo from YOUR shows but it is your mutual's blorbo who you nevertheless have developed strong opinions about due to long term dash exposure

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The OT3: Hitter, Hacker, Thief.

"Live together. Lots of touching. Emotionally entangled. Doesn't sound like they're coworkers."

Co-created with @laser-tripwires

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bellara being neve's #1 fan is so stinkin cute

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extremely self-indulgent core four x star trek aos crossover

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I desperately need all 124 people that voted yes to explain to me how this isn't stalking.

Hey all! I’m conducting some… research… and I want to get a general consensus about a topic! I would love for you all to help me! 🫶

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I see posts go by periodically about how modern audiences are impatient or unwilling to trust the creator. And I agree that that's true. What the posts almost never mention, though, is that this didn't happen in a vacuum. Audiences have had their patience and trust beaten out of them by the popular media of the past few decades.

J J Abrams is famous for making stories that raise questions he never figures out how to answer. He's also the guy with some weird story about a present he never opened and how that's better than presents you open--failing to see that there's a difference between choosing not to open a present and being forbidden from opening one.

You've got lengthy media franchises where installments undo character development or satisfying resolutions from previous installments. Worse, there are media franchises with "trilogies" that are weird slap fights between the makers of each installment.

You've got wildly popular TV shows that end so poorly and unsatisfyingly that no one speaks of them again.

On top of that, a lot of the media actively punishes people for engaging thoughtfully with it. Creators panic and change their stories if the audience properly reacts to foreshadowing. Emotional parts of storytelling are trampled by jokes. Shocking the audience has become the go to, rather than providing a solid story.

Of course audiences have gotten cynical and untrusting! Of course they're unwilling to form their own expectations of what's coming! Of course they make the worst assumptions based on what's in front of them! The media they've been consuming has trained them well.