#(and NONE OF THIS is outside possibility

[broken-risk-assessment-module]

looking at fanart of the presaux team together is so funny because you'll be like omg look at them all!!! there's mensah, that one's pin-lee, and that's ratthi of course. and there's arada and overse, you can tell it's them cus they're posed together, probably also next to ratthi, no clue which one's which but they look great,

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

if people were fundamentally good, we would not need Christ

[tenisperfection]

The key to surviving any fandom, especially the big ones, is to follow about ten people, try and use your brain, don’t be a bigoted dick, make the filter and block button your best friend, and most of all remember to leave it behind when you exit out of the app, and if it leaves you fuming instead of happy more often than not, then leave it behind completely. I promise no fandom or media is worth losing your sense of reality.

[e-louise-bates]

My mother brought my childhood set of The Chronicles of Narnia with her on this visit. As you can see from the spines, I literally read these books to pieces. They are getting a place of honor on my bookshelves now!

[solradguy]

There's a cursed sword in the GGXAC volume that looks suspiciously like Sol's Gear dick in the Battery H doujinshi but it seems to just be a coincidence. A very curious coincidence...

Hmm....

Hmmmm.....

[olymphianblood]

ok guys its not funny anymore when is d&p hard lauching im starting to getting anxious /hj

[unproduciblesmackdown]

getting gnc with it out & about at math meetup (or wherever)

[daisyachain]

Convinced dad to accompany me to Orville Peck as a social experiment. Not an artist I’m that familiar with but hey I know a few songs and he’s a good enough performer on a technical level that it’s entertaining just to watch him and the supporting band do their thing. Kept half an ear on the lyrics out of curiosity as to how identifiably non-heterosexual they were, since it’s kind of part of the (cattle) brand and dad went in with no prior knowledge.

What was interesting is that many of them weren’t strictly clockable and many of those were intuitively clockable. Heterosexuality is so intensely mediated by gender roles that a song about a love interest who drives a rig isn’t as easy to (mis)read as m -> f as a song about a love interest who serves coffee. A song that positions the narrator as a hanger-on or a side piece reads as m -> f when the the narrator is angry or vengeful and less so when the narrator is quietly sarcastic. A love interest that provides comfort or security doesn’t read as female even when a male singer can’t possibly be referring to anything but.

Logically there would be about as many woman truck drivers as gay, but both of them are equally hard to fit into our schema of a truck driver. It’s difficult to imagine a model of heterosexuality not intensely mediated by misogyny; it’s hard to imagine a pop culture narrative or even my real life friends’ relationships position a woman as solid, smart, reliable, or protective. Like with the doctor-fishing accident puzzle, there is a push and pull between misogyny and homophobia in trying to interpret songs/stories that don’t match the societal mold.

Given the historical roots of homophobia in misogyny—homophobia as a violent reaction to relationships with no clear superior in the cases of Edward II(?) and James I, four-thousand-year-old European top/bottom discourse, the conflation of trans women, crossdressing men, drag artists, and gay men as well as the (euro/Anglo but also present elsewhere) societal fixation on that image—I love to wonder if heterosexuality exists.

One common thread through studies of specifically male gay history is that superior/inferior male relationships (distinctions of age, position, or class, cf badgays episode I thiiiiink Qutbuddin Mubarak Shah on slaves being considered boys no matter what age) exist on a different level of social acceptability compared to what we in the present day consider a gay relationship. Superior/inferior relationships aren’t enshrined as heterosexual marriage is and are marginalized as frivolity/peccadillo/improper behaviour, but these still generally have a level of acceptability or at least widespread acknowledgement. Romantic or sexual entanglement between two men of equal status, on the other hand, creates a formal uncertainty where neither is guaranteed to be the superior, where class or position is called into question, where the laws of a patriarchal society cannot apply because the prerequisite does not exist.

Following that thread, a ‘real’ gay relationship is between two men of equal standing. So it goes with the modern conception of lesbian relationships, which have not historically fallen under the same level of scrutiny wrt woman-woman power dynamics because that would require historical writers to consider women having thoughts, and the modern heterosexual relationships.

Except, historically the m/f relationship has been considered (by men) (in many but not all societies) to be a superior/inferior relationship. Many if not most men in the most gender-equal societies today consider it to be superior/inferior, a very real affection born from protectiveness/benevolence/patronage/cuteness aggression as a teacher might feel for a student or an aristocrat for a valet + that just also happens to have a sexual component for reasons of whatever biology. Again, looking at real life people who I know and their rancid dating histories, a lot of men approach dating as a Roman emperor might approach a handsome young house slave.

Following this train of logic: it’s commonly accepted today that the superior/inferior m/m model (often expressed as pederasty) is not strictly ‘gay’ in the modern sense. It’s its own form of relationship that doesn’t really exist in the current conception of love (For Good Reason) but does exist in the current conception of abuse (be it boss/employee sexual harassment or child abuse). Many m/f relationships are conceived of as superior/inferior by the participants. Many, not most, m/f relationships do exist as abusive structures and can only be conceived of as abusive.

Therefore, due to whatever misogyny, historical baggage, and social constraints, ‘real’ heterosexuality is a rare phenomenon, and we have only just recently witnessed its birth as a culturally understood idea. Only with the reform of divorce laws and property ownership in the mid-20th century in a very few countries did real heterosexuality become possible. Most men have not yet achieved it. Straight Men Are Our Smallest Minority Group.

[ardentpoop]

‘it gets better’ and other lies we tell ourselves to cope with the crushing hopelessness of living in a world that makes us earn the right to stay alive title of my autobiography

[moe-broey]

GOD. HELP. PLEASE FORNTHE LOVE OF GOD. HELP ME <- is slightly self-conscious and extremely worried about doing something Incorrectly

[keelanrosa]

terfs when a study shows literally anything positive about trans people/transitioning: 'hm i think this requires some fact-checking. Were those researchers REALLY unbiased? Because if they were biased this doesn't count and if they weren't knowingly biased they probably were unconsciously biased, woke media affects so much these days. Have there been any other studies on this? Because if there haven't been this could be an outlier and if there have been and they all agree that's a bit odd, why aren't there any outliers, and if there have been and any disagree we really won't know the truth until we very thoroughly analyze them all, will we? Were there enough subjects for a good sample size? Did every single subject involved stay involved through the whole study because if they didn't we should be sure nothing shady was going on resulting in people dropping out. Are we 110% sure all the subjects were fully honest and at no point were embarrassed or afraid to admit they didn't love transitioning to the people in charge of their transition? Are we 110% sure none of the subjects were manipulated into thinking they were happy with their transition? In fact we should double-check what they think with their parents, because if the subjects and their parents disagree it's probably because they've been manipulated but their cis parents have not and are very unbiased. How many autistic subjects were there because if there weren't enough then this doesn't really study the overlap between autistic and trans and if there were too many then we just don't know enough about what causes that overlap to be sure this study really explains being trans and isn't just about being autistic. How many AFAB subjects were there because if there weren't enough this is just another example of prioritizing AMAB people and ignoring the different struggles of girls and women and if there were too many how do we know sexism didn't affect the results. Was the study double-blinded? We all know double-blinded is the most reliable so if this one wasn't that's a point against it even if the thesis literally physically could not be double-blinded. Look i'm not being transphobic, i want what's best for trans people! Really! But as a person who is not trans and therefore objective in a way they cannot possibly be, i just think we should only take into account Good Science here. You want to be following science and not being manipulated or experimented upon by something unscientific, right?'

terfs when they see a study of 45 subjects so old it predates modern criteria for gender dysphoria and basically uses 'idk her parents think she's too butch', run by a guy who practiced conversion therapy, 'confirmed' by a guy who treated the significant portion of subjects who didn't follow up as all desisting, definitely in the category of 'physically cannot double-blind this', completely contradicted by multiple other studies done on actual transgender subjects, but can be kinda cited as evidence against transitioning if you ignore everything else about it: 'oOOH SEE THIS IS WHAT WE'RE TALKIN BOUT. SCIENCE. Just good ol' unbiased thorough analysis. I see absolutely no reason to dig any deeper on this and if you think it's wrong you're the one being unscientific. It's really a shame you've been so thoroughly brainwashed by the trans agenda and can't even accept science when you see it. Maybe now that someone has finally uncovered this long-lost study from 1985, we can make some actual progress on the whole trans problem.'

[bobzora]

biggest skill issue ever but confession my number one issue in star rail right now is i cannot beat that fucking. bug thing in when the stars of ingenuity shine. so i can’t unlock that echo of war so i can’t unlock the bonus traces for my sparkle or acheron. lol. lmao

[fiberflxwer]

"Look, it’s okay. Not everyone has to be friends, right?" for the quote prompt!

[ setting the scene | Still accepting! ]

[ Taken from Faye's B Support with Silque!

Ignoring how disappointingly short SoV's supports are, trying to look at Faye's negligence toward Silque's friendship beyond an "ALMALMALM" standpoint is rather interesting!

While they are similar in age, Faye in this moment knows she couldn't be any more different from Silque. In the C Support, Silque tries to bring up womanly gossip as a method of bonding, but Faye is quick to shoot that down. Likewise, Faye immediately refuses talking about Alm in this instance, claiming:

Faye: Talking about Alm isn’t fun unless Alm himself is there. [SoV Faye/Silque B Support]

While I doubt her village-based childhood was void of any female friends, it is clear that Faye's main friend group is with the boys, perhaps being the children Faye was the closest to age-wise in the village. Even if she is 18 years old during the events of SoV, she has no desire in speaking about gossip that isn't "for the ears of men," as Silque puts it. The point of Alm being in the conversation isn't because Alm is the topic, but because Alm is someone she enjoys being with.

On top of being from a lifestyle unfamiliar to Faye, the way Silque attempts to insert herself into Faye's life gets to the village girl, and even if she tries to sound nice about it, her quickness in dismissing Silque makes her intentions clear. She has no interest in being her friend...until she feels lonely in their A Support, at least. Either way, Faye will more often than not have a slow-burn relationship when it comes to making friends of the same gender.

As a bonus, I would like to mention that Sacred Echoes, the GBA demake of SoV, changes this B Support to instead focus on Silque asking Faye about her village life only for the same line of dismissal to occur. This supports my own viewing of this support, where Faye just does not connect to Silque and tries to make it clear that Silque should quit while she's ahead, while adding to the fact that Faye is not really comfortable with sharing her background to outsiders. ]

[shatterthefragments]

Fuck. The biggest highs always have the hardest comedowns. This isn’t fucking worth it. Except it is. It has to be.

[thousand-winters]

I was gonna go to bed to be a reasonable person for once bc I gotta wake up early tomorrow but. That's not happening so I guess writing it is

[carbonateddelusion]

just found out that Lord Bung is dropping off the face of the internet... that SUCKS. I found them when them they were beginning their channel, and I was super into Confiement

also idfk what happened with Dr. Bright and I don't care to learn more because it'll bum me out but things like this make me happy I'm not emotionally attached to fandoms anymore