#I MEAN ITTTT

[kyurochurro]

simon dobbles :DD

[faerie-goddess]

playlist rec of the weeeek

:+:+: serenity now :+:+:

been a rough few weeks im finna chill :)

vacay next weeek!! :D

[b1dl0]

[ofj-art]

[painted-bees]

we've all vividly imagined our blorbos singing our favorite bangers, why not draw 'em? The expressions are always the funnest part lmao

[charcubed]

I NEEEED people—especially those with unfathomably large platforms???—to start doing just a tiny bit of internal evaluation before they log onto a blue website and say “I don’t want these queer characters to fuck in canon” or “I’d be fine if these characters never kissed again” or whatever.

This is a post about Good Omens and the prospect of Aziraphale and Crowley potentially having sex in season 3. It's a response to a tweet that I'm crossposting, but let it be known the above statement and this topic applies broadly across multiple fandoms too.

But anyway, in regards to Good Omens specifically:

I am seeing this take that essentially boils down to "Canon has now made it clear that these characters want to have sex with each other through subtext (i.e. Aziraphale and the ox), but I don’t want that to reach narrative completion because the idea of them having sex makes me uncomfortable or isn’t my personal preference” and it is, to put it mildly and delicately, A Very Bad Take.

This is rhetorical (and I do not expect or particularly want an answer), but: explain to me how and why queer characters who are unavoidably visibly queer (aka 2 "man-shaped beings") fucking on screen wouldn’t be a net positive, especially when you can indicate how canon has set it up.

Presumably, some people say things like this because ~they want to see them as visibly ace.~ Okay. But by some of these people’s own admission, there IS more evidence in canon now to indicate these characters crave sex with each other (vs arguing otherwise)... yet people would rather that be ignored/erased all for the sake of them feeling comfortable or feeling better about what canon shows or doesn’t show explicitly??

I’m sorry, but—speaking as an ace person, to be clear—your personal preferences for the story shouldn’t / don’t affect anything here. There’s too much in this.

Yeah, I understand on a personal level not having “representation.” I almost never see myself or my unique experiences and identity reflected in stories. And yet, I also understand that that doesn’t change any story or the world in which we live. Things like this are not said in a vacuum.

Any queer characters having sex on screen IS a net positive. It is rare and impactful, and openly calling for or hoping for otherwise when canon points to its potential is a detrimental alliance with purity culture, whether intentionally or accidentally. Because we live in a Goddamn society!

Who knows (other than Neil Gaiman) whether Aziraphale and Crowley ARE going to fuck on international TV. None of us do! But the subtext right now blatantly says they’re starving for it. And you don’t have to like the prospect of that, but honestly? We SHOULD get to see it play out. There’s no truly legitimate reason we shouldn’t ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Whether you "prefer" it or not.

And my ultimate hot take is… if someone balks at the idea of that or doesn’t understand the importance of it, despite even seeing the subtext… then they should perhaps unpack that? Just a thought.

Truly the way fandoms are managing to hit either “subtext doesn’t count :/ ” or “let’s keep it to subtext so it’s ‘open to interpretation’ :) ” nowadays depending on what corner one visits is MADDENING. Whiplash-inducing. Surreal. And so much nonsense you can’t pick where to start.

So! I do genuinely hope I'm not kicking off discourse but I felt this Needed To Be Said (and on more than one site). Because posts like “even if they never kiss again, we’ve won <3 “ make me want to be like…

These characters are YEARNING. Do not doom them and us to it. For once, we can reach for the stars and maybe–against all odds–pull them down. Embrace it!

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[Update: after more discourse has occurred, I have somewhat elaborated on this further, from the POV of the significance of the queer themes in Good Omens and more specifically how they center illicit pleasure/desire]

[rapidhighway]

Everyone's talking under my Nine screenshots ab how the Paradox Prism made him insane or whatever no noooo stop don't you think that the fact that what is basically a dissection of the characters splitting them into different parts of each other is just unhinged and capable of doing unspeakable things because he thinks it's right or deserved or is just seeking justice and revenge through violence don't you think it's more interesting dont you think this is so much better

[pup-pee]

jokes @ night r not funny in the morning,,,

originally the blue was green but then i decided 2 b pan

[vriska]

oough u know ur truly an adult when ur greatest dream in life is simply to have at least a little disposable income

[buriedintheflesh]

Sometimes stuff gets a bit much

[nulltune]

wip from months ago that i will complete someday maybe 🥴 (delusional) BUT UNTIL THEN- i'm a self indulgent binch i want a witchy hakuno for a general fantasy verse so badddd it makes me look stupid <3 /this was rlly inspired by "wait by the shooting star falls" btw 🥺🫶

[kokitschi]

there's probably fanfics like this but imagine if the monopads had a chat function. it would be disasterous. monokuma would have to disable the image sending function just because of miu. kokichi gets reported en masse only for monokuma to be like "if u want him to stop, you just need to murder him". he's this 🤏 close to irl block him himself tho. korekiyo always sends in massive blocks of text, ryoma only answers with 👍. kaito would be like "another day of training! working towards those dreams 💪💯💯" and maki would send in a picture of kaito sleeping on the grass without comment. shuichi is seemingly forever typing because he's slow at it and the topic keeps changing before he can reply so he deletes the message and starts again x100.

a more serious approach could be really fun too though. like, they could pull up whats been said in the chats during the trial. or maybe there'd be videos and they could reconstruct what happened and where everyone was during this and that time.

[autiacorart]

i may have fallen in love with some gay pirates

[infizero]

i forgot to post these but anyways here's a frankly excessive compilation of amy screenshots i took while reading that one issue bcuz she is everything to me (ft. knuckles)

[whumpasaurus101]

Niko + Co Masterlist

Chapters:

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

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[mummer]

ten needs to be trapped in a torture chamber forever for what he does to martha. I hope jakey the time lord fucking dies