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narrator who's terrible at social cues & describes every facial expression as "unreadable"

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Underrated cause of excessive agreeableness: your own desires are experienced as ambiguous, vague, sometimes confused, in perpetual flux and hard to pin down in words even when they do seem to point in a clear direction. By contrast, very easy to conceive another person's desire as something definite, complete, decided and unmoving and having exactly the shape indicated by their expression of it.

Even granting that your preferences are worth the same as theirs--only makes sense to give more weight to what's more solid, no?

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Wooper :)

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what will it be, boss? the comfort of misery or the pain of change?

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@riotbrrrd you're so right I'm a little embarrassed. Is lesbian THK the lovechild of Bound and D.E.B.S, two of the greatest movies of all time?

...is lesbian thk just evil charlie's angels?

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...is lesbian thk just evil charlie's angels?

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Oh this is fascinating because I was workshoping a post that came to very different conclusions (except for Style. but also i feel like Style could wear mini-skirts).

Like, as much as I love butch Fadel (and boy, do I love butch Fadel) I keep coming back to the idea of that character not wanting to be noticed. And gender non-comformity gets you noticed. But "too much" femininity also does. So I see Fadel as carefully avoiding both, but in a way where you can see she'd like being gnc but doesn't dare? And she'd get more butch by the end?

Bison I would dress pretty much exactly the same unless she's on a honeypot mission (and even then I would go for "cute" rather than "sexy"). That's a character with a strong sense of self and wants, and those could be the outfit of a slightly cheeky tomboy. I feel that it translates well.

I get the idea of a more fem presentation for Kant in theory (he leans into what's expected of him, it would suit that aspect of his character) but in practice it feels wrong to me. I think I imagine her as presenting more fem when she has to, but not being comfortable with it. Cue the captain making pointed remarks about her masculine outfits.

while i joke about them being all masc lesbians now, i Do think gender presentation would def be different if they were all actually written as lesbians. like as much as i love Butch Kant, i do think a more femme presentation would work, same with bison as i think the whole femme fatale/honeypot situations would lend to that. fadel however would be Full Butch to the point most people assume she’s a man at first glance (and thats how she likes it, both for #transmasc reasons and it also means men mostly leave her tf alone). style… honestly dk. feel like she’d be kind of fluid. crop tops are still a staple tho. of course.

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mama gogo, episodes 8 and 9

the claim that tina's club is selling something that annie's lacks (loosely, romance vs sex) is fascinating to me given that the whole point of the hosts is that there are aspects beyond literally hot men dancing on stage. the thing that prince club is selling is specifically this very….idealized/fantasy version of romance. it literally references specific lakorns! which of these is more fake or more real?

first of all "tell moodang to go back to service my wife" is a crazy line. but beyond that this idea does keep coming up where people's insecurities are phrased as losing the beauty of youth but that’s not the point, the thing he’s actually lost here is….the ability to make his wife happy, maybe, or more to the point the belief that he can.

did think chen's body language here was very cute. also enjoyed him just sort of waiting for her to tell his mother off while going '...hot.' yeah me too chen.

wahh the like. bickering they do about her age (killing him for 'who's britney spears?') and then him trying to do a bit like ‘who said anything about a relationship?’ and her for once not playing along and just straight up saying directly look we both know what’s going on here are you flirting or not? don’t waste my time.

man i don't even know what to say about these except that it's alwayyyys about sex work even when it’s not. annie pointing out explicitly that their relationship has potential undertones of coercion given that she very much still owes him money, fifa asking mikhael if this is how he gets good tips when he flirts with her, mikhael offering to dance for her for free....just this constant question of what it means for money to be attached to intimacy and to affection, of where you draw the lines and how they get blurred, of the distinctions between what is paid for (and traded willingly!) and what is offered freely.

i'm not entirely sure what to make of both annie and tina's clubs bouncing back and forth over what they think their target market really wants (seduction! romance! boy bands! sexy car wash!) except to say that Eye think they're both overlooking a major market segment here.

and i'm a sucker for scenes that play with the question of what is false or true; chen and annie having a fairly direct conversation about how they feel about one another as annie's crying ('what would you do if i fell in love?') and then him offering her the eye drops so she can fake cry. i just think it's neat!

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Thinking about lesbian THK again (it's liz's fault this time) and realising it would have to make the captain a woman too if it kept the same plotlines because I simply would not stomach a man sending my beautiful butches to jail. If the captain stays a man he dies, yes I do make the rules.

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guy with a degradation kink x guy who just hates him

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Part 4! Any woman who says they wouldn't leave you immediately for the ocean is lying

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[Critical Role 2x13 minor spoilers] I made a small Mighty Nein comic! This one was in the wip folder forever, probably since this episode aired even! 1/4, more to come!

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i miss u when ur not posting

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I will admit that there is also something quite poignant about Jim being someone people look up to and go to for advice or help, this (mostly) respected and caring parental figure for Li Ming and arguably Saleng and Praew, but for the audience to see glimpses of a rather young man, lost and struggling.

...fine, Aof. You win.

I kinda do still have slightly mixed feelings on Earth's casting as Jim, not because it's Earth specifically but because I think that the insult of (for exemple) a young asshole in a suit and tie talking to him like that would land even harder if the age difference was more visible.

At the same time, Earth's youth emphasizes his vulnerability in scenes like the ones where he talks to Heart's parents. You win some you lose some I guess.

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I kinda do still have slightly mixed feelings on Earth's casting as Jim, not because it's Earth specifically but because I think that the insult of (for exemple) a young asshole in a suit and tie talking to him like that would land even harder if the age difference was more visible.

At the same time, Earth's youth emphasizes his vulnerability in scenes like the ones where he talks to Heart's parents. You win some you lose some I guess.

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Blue Stadtbad Mitte "James Simon"  -   Eline Brontsema

Dutch, b. 1988 -

Woodcut, 68.2 x 51.3 cm