#MOTHERS 💕

[crystal-loveart-1]

[quazart]

Lookit these babies!!!😭😆🥰💕💕💕

More thoughts with my fren @heckinconfusedparade 💗💕

[prettybambifemme]

I 🩷 being a hairy femme

I 🩷 having hairy legs

I 🩷 having hairy armpits

I 🩷 confidence and beauty and embracing my body for what it is instead of conforming to the societal expectations of what feminity should look like

I LOVE YOU HAIRY FEMMES!!! I FUCKING LOVE YOU!!! MWWWAAAH 💋💋💋

[jane-fonda]

MICHELLE YEOH & CATE BLANCHETT, Film Independent Spirit Awards, 2023

[sysig]

Gasp I wanna see your Spamton! Maybe hanging out with some Mr. Saturns playing the ladder game or going birdie fishing or something, hehehe

Day 5 - Pop-up

[ghostwnby]

There is a thin line between serving MOTHER and being maternal and I think Lewis Hamilton resides on that line 💀

Like am I the only who thinks this?? Maybe its the genderfluidity in me but something about him is so??? I don't want to be one of those people but I was GENUINELY shocked when I found out that he only uses he/him pronouns.

Like he's so beautifully handsome. He's literally the perfect mix of feminine and masculine. Ugh I love him.

[oliviatexts]

ive listened to so many tma episodes today that my internal monologue voice switched to that of jonathan sims and started narrating my fears

[my-fancy-hat]

Most romance novels follows an scheme of what love should it goes, how people have to meet and follow a certain path and archetypes to correctly fall in or out of love, that what's makes this kind of stories predictable and boring to some people, but what about love that evolves? love that exists despite the desire for romance/selfishness? what about friendship? family? what if we choose to love ourselves too? to love the path we choose? I think that what Ao no Flag is majoritary about, romance as we know in a love triangle it's just the surface the tip of the iceberg of what this story is about, series of choices where we pray for them to make us happy, to make our loved ones happy, because we want to be brave about the things we love.

The four cour characters are put in one of the most troublesome and chaotic times of every person who had access to the system education can experience: final year of high-school, the deadline between childhood and adulthood, to accept reality on how it approaches us, the fear of rejection and failure of what we are of what we do. Many people incluided me had wished to have been more wise, more patient, more accepting yet strong about our chosen path, and that's what Ichinose, Touma and Futaba had to learn and eventually guided them toward their happy end. Not just that, but the experience many queer people had to endure avoiding the social suicide of showing to the world who we are, this ilustrated with Touma and Masumi's characters, and (subtly yet quite importantly) Ichinose. How can I exists in their world if I live like this? will my parents accept me? they will still think about me as someone successful and worth of their last name? will they disown me? hate me? will my best friend who I am in love with reject me in disgust? It's so easy and understandable to succumb to a hatred that you think you deserve, because at the time it was less painful to play along lying to your loved ones about this secret than "revealing the truth", they deserved to know yet you failed, and this loneliness is what you get. If this is how the enviorment wants you to feel, then isn't it expected that the individual would desire for freedom of it? that's what Touma wished for his future to be, not concrete answer more than to exists without regrets.

The desire for romance can be rightfully observed by its selfish nature, to own the right, the demand for them to love us back, but it can be the exercise to accept ourselves as well. Touma wanted to show Taichi his heart without fears, despite if he would love him back or not, in doing so, he would be walking toward the ideal happiness he dreamed of. To openly love is the call for the indifferent cruel world to see in us the desire for goodness, that in this place can exists kindness too.: Touma most than anything, wanted for Ichinose and (by extention) Futaba, to be happy, to share their 1000+ points of best friend power and make everyone happy. That is, the core of love, to wish the best for your dears, and see them smile.

But accepting and not to, can be actually be the same. Masumi had to constantly fight with herself, with the inavility to change what she can't, to live with the fabricated idea of what she is supposed to be and what she is supposed to do, and what other people would react about it. That's why that, even if I have my reservations about her ending, I find it really meta for Masumi end to end up in a het marriage, making us conclude that at some point she gave up on Futaba, but paradoxically, accepted herself and her reality by coming out as bi. Us readers expected and rotted for her to confess to her crush and end up in similar terms like Touma and Taichi did, but this ending make us putting the lesson she learned though her character arc into practice: what people may think or not about our decisions, is their problem, not ours. Life can be so treacky and unfair, but no matter the circunstances, we can still find and make our place. We deserve it.

A friend or a lover, what is the difference if you just want to share our happiness with them?

That's how you humanize your characters, by expossing through them the good, the bad and the absurd, to tell a story in each how the circunstances molds them, but to oppose what damage us is quite a brave thing to do, even if it's our own mind, and that's what Futaba character speaks to me. The desire for wanting to change, to (once again) accept and not-to-accept. She's a weakling, clumsy girl loaded on self-hatred for her unability to live just as the others do. The fear of have reached your maximum potential and there's nothing else for you to do about it, that you born to live like this for the rest of your life. But she sees in Touma an example of hard work and due to her admiration (mistaked at first for a crush), wants to prove herself that life can be something else. To break our self-stablished limits and see what's beyond, to surpass your limits and try to understand what scares you. To be confident enough to think you have the right to live too. Failure reafims the truth that you are better off muted; what bother trying if it will end up in misery anyways? but the beauty of humankind is the unbeatable hope that things will change, to not give up, and without noticing, we'll feel blessed for have born in this time, in this place.

This as a result inspires Taichi's way of viewing life without him realizing too, just as how Touma's pure-lover heart expeled his sincere feelings ever since they started talking again, to the point to even sacrifice his leg and career for Ichinose: How can I exists and make it up for such people like you? what can I do? It's easy to fill your heart with resentment for the things you couldn't live, to feel prideful as consolation for a lonely life you didn't choose, as the left overs. But what we think makes what we are, if you keep on your days thinking you exists for the things you believe you deserve, to live in the imaginary unbreakable rules you made for yourself, then nothing will change. Touma, Futaba and Masumi changed Taichi's life forever, in the driving force of his spirit to pursue a better version of himself, to live driven by the desire for freedom, for love, and not care of what other people may see this choices.

That's why I think the final chapter is such a piece of art that makes the pay off so satisfying. What tortured him when Touma confessed wasn't that his best friend was gay, or that he lied to him about the nature of their friendship (he didn't): it was the though of losing him, so he chose both options at the end (if the analogy can't be more in the face). But as Yorkie said, it part of the course of life to most likely break up with your first gf, more less if they go to different universities, so them going their separate ways wasn't a surprise, but what made me happy about it that they still ended up in good terms and respected each other deeply for what they lived together. The surprise though comes from the actual realize of which POV we're following at the end, that reveals that Taichi had become Touma's husband. This is where I think Ichinose teach to the audience the lesson he learned from his former classmates, where he reaches for Touma above the lines that divides panels, to reach his husband's hand, the hand he shouldn't hold, and walk together toward home: he surpassed his own limits, his barriers and knew where his happiness lied.

A lot of queer people had *the realization* in their 20s (me included as nb), finally giving an explanation of all our past behaviour. I know before-hand most people got shocked for Ichinose to get reveal as bisexual, but isn't the story already gave us an idea this would happen eventually? when Futaba and Ichinose confess to each other, it's Touma's (and Masumi's) heartbreak that it's on spotlight overlaying their conversation, how Taichi and Touma hand-holding is such a central element for the story telling (literally it ends with them holding hands), and much more? Even Futaba suspected it before himself realized years later.

(it happened twice that when Taichi thinks about Touma what crosses his mind is his well-build chest/cleavage area like, ok)

But what makes the different between friendship and love? can a boy and a girl be friends? can a gay boy have male friends? can I be friends of someone I love and viseversa? can I forgive and maitain what we have? The only certainty I have right now, in this moment, is that I love you so much. I'm so happy to have meet you.

This got too long so to grap my final thoughs and make myself more loose right at the end, I'm so happy for have read this story FULL BLIND OMG I was so conviced that no one would end up together lol the only thing I knew of it is that it talked about queer drama and, textually: "had the ending it deserves". It genuinely made my perspective on some things change for the better. I actually loved so much how this story handles with such maturity a pretty much easy-target for comedy and bitter angst (bury your gays) the premise of "bff is gay and in love with the main character since they were kids". Not only that, but not picking sides of "who deserves who" taking leads between Touma vs Futaba, is quite refreshing for the genre: it humanize and treats fairly each member of the cast, giving proper space for them to explain themselves (worth mentioning Mami I loved her character so much you have no idea). Most of the drama in romance comes from missunderstandings or the lack of dialogue, when everything can be solved if the characters can actually sit and talk their feelings and thoughts out! and Ao no Flag is a masterclass on this manner. The explanation, exposition and introspection of every character struggle, the script, monologues, are so compelling and to the bone, I can't choose which interaction of the cast is my favorite. The pay-off is spectacular because we can actually follow each person train of thoughts and choices in which these end up in, with the faith that this path will make themselves and his loved ones happy, because even if we aren't certain about anything we do, we'll still find meaning in the absudity of destiny (or the lack of it?).

[coincasual]

a queen, a misplaced princess, and a little hero

[jessiicalange]

Made for Her

Jessica Lange's haunting role in Mother Play, like so much of her work, is one only she could perform.

New York magazine|February 26 - March 10, 2024 Read more at:https://www.magzter.com/stories/lifestyle/New-York-magazine/MADE-FOR-HER

[simplymanuela]

People are always saying you can’t. That you shouldn’t. That you’re not... smart enough, not good enough. This world, it... it beats you up again and again until eventually, I... Most people, they just... they just stop trying. But you’re not like that.

Stranger Things (2016—)

[quazart]

Silly little scenes after some conversations with @nights-nonsensical-ramblings & @heckinconfusedparade 💕💕💖

[arewecoolio]

U, W, X, & Z — for Mother Miranda and Alcina!

Mother Miranda first bestie!

U = Unique (What makes them unique as a partner?)

Generally having a vengeful god as a partner is surely hopefully a first for most people. She’s not the type to ease you into her lifestyle, it’s very much a sink or swim with Miranda.

W = Whole (Would they feel incomplete without you?)

She feels incomplete without Eva, once she has her back she’ll feel complete. After that there may be moments where she feels something is missing (aka you) but knows it’s not the incompleteness she felt with Eva. Assuming you had been together at one point, she won’t take a lover after you.

X = Xtra (A random headcanon for them.)

Doesn’t drink, with the regenerative powers it’s harder to get drunk unless it’s some of Alcina’s wine, but either way she won’t tolerate an addled mind when she’s trying to bring Eva back. After she has Eva back she can’t see the enjoyment in it when it would reduce her ability to protect her daughter.

Z = Zzz (What is a sleep habit of theirs?)

Her wings make it difficult to sleep haphazardly, she is a stomach sleeper or more accurately a ‘Was reading a scientific journal and passed tf out at her desk’ kinda sleeper.

Alcina:

U = Unique (What makes them unique as a partner?)

Unlike Miranda she’s willing to change many things about your environment to ease you into a relationship with her. It’s so subtle with her that you don’t realize it until suddenly it hits you months possibly a year or two into your relationship that she played the long-game with you.

W = Whole (Would they feel incomplete without you?)

God so much. She will look for you in any and every person that passes through the castle’s doors, no one will ever achieve what you were in Alcina’s eyes.

X = Xtra (A random headcanon for them.)

Still has the record from her jazz days, it’s kept in the library away from most other records but every so often she dusts it off and listens to it when she’s feeling nostalgic. It’s not necessarily kept a secret, she simply has put away her pre-cadou memories.

Z = Zzz (What is a sleep habit of theirs?)

To set you on top of her before bed, keep a hand on you, arm wrapped around you, etc. Very rarely does she ever stir in her sleep, but that doesn’t keep the anxiety at bay that she could crush you accidentally one night.

[jingle-jangle-spurs]

[scopophobia-polaris]

Happy birthday! Hope you have a good day ^^

[lunastars21]

I LOVE FANG THE SNIPER SO MUCH!!!