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Please reblog if you vote!

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grunt does some mental math

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We must beat the Americans

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Like a spider over a fly

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"Look at me. You don't have to protect everyone all the time."

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"I'll take his hand and try to pull him inside with me."

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Dorian & Orym, Episode 95

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+ Live Laura Reaction

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actually curious about this

OVER ALL!!!! your favourite game can be from mass effect but still prefer playing dragon age over all (as an example). i am considering the 3 main games for EACH.

rbs appreciated

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Nominations are open!

The Hatboy Exchange has opened nominations! So what's a nomination and how do you make them?

A nomination is when you request pairings (romantic, platonic, etc) that will be available for use in the exchange's tag set. Say you want to request 'Jeff "Joker" Moreau/Female Shepard' for one of your pairings.

Click on the link to nominations page. You will see a page that looks like this:

You will see a list of relationships and fandoms. You are NOT required to fill in the fandom portion of the form. Only the relationship form.

If you want to request a specific pairing, try to browse the tag set prior to nominations to see if the pairing you want to request is already part of the tag set.

You only have 10 nominations available so use them to the best of your ability. Once nominations are open, I will go in once a day to approve or deny requests.

ALL OF YOUR REQUESTS MUST HAVE JOKER IN THEM.

Once you've chosen your relationship, it will look like this:

Continue searching for the ships you want to add until you're happy with your nominations list (up to 10 pairings). You can choose familial, romantic, platonic, any combination of pairings or trios or multiships that you'd like.

When you click submit, you should get a list like this:

A green checkmark means that the pairing is approved or already in the tagset. A red checkmark means it must be approved by a moderator.

If you can't find a specific pairings (in many cases of a rare pair), let me or @kyratittyfish know asap and we will manually add the pairing for you.

You can edit your pairings until the cutoff date of May 26th, 2024.

If you have questions, please send an ask and I will clarify what I can.

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Note from Anon:

“Please say your opinion in the tags! I’m asking cuz I have two oc ships and I’m afraid that the age differences might be a problem, the first is a 28 year old x a 31 year old the other is a 41 year old x a 46 year old.”

-submit your poll!-

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i’d like to personally thank aimee and aabria for being voices for all of us this four sided dive 💕💕

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The Hatboy Exchange Important Dates

Welcome to the Mass Effect Hatboy Exchange, where we celebrate the Normandy's pilot, Joker "Jeff" Moreau, and the relationships he has. This is an 18+ only gift exchange and can be for platonic or romantic relationships involving Joker.

Any questions should be sent to this blog or the mods, @commander-krios and @kyratittyfish

Exchange Info- AO3 Collection | Tagset | Sign-up Form | FAQ  

2024 Schedule

Nominations open: May 19, 2024 Nominations close: May 26, 2024 Sign-ups open: June 2, 2024 Sign-ups close: June 16, 2024 Assignments go out: June 18 2024 Works due: August 11, 2024 Works revealed: August 18, 2024 Creators revealed: August 25, 2024

Minimum Requirements:

- 1000 word piece of fanfiction of a quality you would be happy to receive

- a clean lineart drawing, of good resolution, on unlined paper (or digital) and of a quality you would be happy to receive.

More updates will be coming soon, so be on the lookout! Follow this page for easy access to the updates.

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On Discomfort and Morality

My father finds gay men uncomfortable.

He's told me before that it's like a knee-jerk for him. Something he doesn't consciously control. He sees two men behaving romantically, and his body reacts with mild discomfort.

In the 1960s, when he was in high school, most of the boys in his form thought he was gay on the simple fact that he wasn't homophobic. He wouldn't participate in insulting queer people, he didn't care if someone was gay, he wouldn't have a problem hanging out with gay people. So people thought he was gay. That's how prevalent homophobia was in his formative years.

When I was 10, my dad told me very seriously that Holmes and Watson were gay. That it was obvious from the literature and the time period that they were meant to be a gay couple. When I was 14 and I came out to my parents as bi, when my mum was upset my dad ripped into her for it. Told her that she was being stupid, that it was my life to live how I wanted to and that she needed to get over herself.

My dad formed my views on censorship: that being that it was completely ridiculous and thoroughly evil. He didn't believe in censorship of any kind. If I asked him a question about sex, he answered it honestly. When I was 12 and I asked him about homosexuality, still young and uncertain, he told me that there was nothing wrong with it. That it was just how some people were. That there was likely an evolutionary reason for it. And that for some people it was uncomfortable on an instinctual level.

He taught me that just because you're uncomfortable with something, doesn't make it wrong. He also taught me that most people don't understand this.

I see a lot of this on the internet as of the last few years. The anti shipping movement, the terf movement, the anti ace movement. It all stems from discomfort that people have crossed wires into believing means wrong. Really every -ism and -phobia out there stems from this same fundamental aspect of humanity.

The next time you see something and you automatically think it's disgusting, or wrong, or immoral, I invite you to ask yourself: is this actually wrong or does this just make me uncomfortable?

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The DAO/DA2 poll can be found clicking here!

I'd be interested to hear if they're the same person as your inky romances or not if you'd like to share!