not to do discourse or anything. but one of the things that is very funny to me about the whole "soft fantasy escapism world with no homophobia" trend is that they all wind up looking the same, while books that genuinely seriously engage with the ways in which queer people respond to repression are more likely to go in wildly divergent specific directions. The response to stories that uncritically replicated modern models of homophobia in settings where they made no sense was to uncritically replicate models of queer 'normalcy' in settings where they make no sense. whereas actually engaging with the nuances of living in those systems gives you access to the wide variety of specific experience that exists in real life. something here also about how writers in the imperial core attempt to imagine a world without the colonial spread of homophobia as a tool of empire but don't actually know anything about the diversity of sexual and gender structures that exists in pre-, post-, and noncolonial communities. and so have a thing that their settings Aren't, but not a thing that they Are
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hi hello I thought I'd share some of my sketches/unfinished sketches of ice and mav cuz they can't leave my head. (GET OUT! GET OUT! GET OUT!)
Idk why I made him say hello sexy. and idk how to make the picture smaller... ice right in your face!
and the other unfinished guy on the left is supposed to be mav. but he will most likely remain indescribable pencil marks until the end of time.
AND! thank you for my mutual @woodsywingman for reminding me that unfinished sketches are cool and awesome in their own right!
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you know the new season of doctor who is off to a great start when an episode i thought was pretty good comes out, only for fans to proclaim it's singlehandedly killed the franchise, then a week later an episode I'm more lukewarm about has saved all television lol
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your kindness is a beacon in a very dark world
anon, I caught site of your ask the other day, and I was so touched and surprised and grateful and embarassed and guilty and amazed and floored that it changed the tightness of my chest and then made me feel warm-on-the-emotional-inside and I went and did some meditation about it lol. This was so kind. I wish I had better words for it, but you taking the time to think of me and think of this and come and type the message in my ask box just because you felt like it was worth it to send it to me is just flabbergasting and delightful and I'm trying to accept all the emotions I have about it in turn. You are so kind. This was such a lovely thing. You're so kind.
this was a beautiful beautiful message written in a beautiful beautiful sentence and it was a double joy to read!!! this is going in my little folder of saved messages and ao3 comments and other kind things to remind me from other people that I'm not unlovable and that people care a lot and love is a thing that bounds between us like a deer jumping from heart to heart :')
thank you <3
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attempted to replicate the graffiti style in rw
RB's not doing too good :( i think he might require a bit more than one bandaid
like maybe two bandaids
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Any of y’all wanna seem some conceptual ramblings from my eventual HTTYD fic?
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