#Western looks fun as fuck

[softshuji]

yk what people don't talk about enough but probably should? yk when you grow up and people tell you, and make a concerted effort to do so- that you're not pretty, not beautiful, that someone else is always better looking than you, that you're second or even third or anything to someone else, and even go so far as to say you're ugly or whatnot, being bullied for it, humiliated because you don't look a certain way and then growing up and hitting adulthood and now people tell you you're pretty or cute or beautiful or sexy or hot and all you can feel is that they either see something that isn't there or that they're lying and trying to save your feelings and don't actually believe it cos there's no way it could be true when you've been told for so long that you are just not any of those things. cos that's what i think every day.

[shatouto]

why would you talk like this on someone's art. that is explicitly tagged narumitsu. did you think i wouldn't see it? am i a joke to you?

[monstrouscrew]

February and Aromantic Awareness Week are closer and closer... and you know what it means...

if our favourite local Japanese street food restaurant announces a vday themed menu, going there with our witch comrade and eating tasty and kawaii looking food in addition to nabe :3 hehehehe 😈

no art promises, still may happen though 🙃

[ardentpoop]

last year i couldnt enjoy october bc i was exhausted and overwhelmed w/ tasks and very lonely. this year i cant enjoy october bc .

[autisticmight]

getting into the source material of my hyperfixation so i can at least be weird about it faithfully

[guardsbian]

I'm upset about angel misinformation again.

[yugocar]

meeting other slavs abroad is simultaneously the best and worst experience

[therealmnemo]

forever taking psychic damage at posts trying to take a dig at leftists when it's quite actually neo/liberals they're talking about.

[time-to-write-and-suffer]

Ooooh suuure, when the girlies romanticize cannibalism and talk about how it's a metaphor for desire or love or possession it's all fine and good and sexy, but when I start talking about Armin Meiwes and how he consensually ate another man's penis, I'm suddenly "making everyone uncomfortable" and "creating a weird atmosphere in the group chat" 🙄

[planet4546b]

wagh no i wanna talk about june actually i care her so much. means the world 2 me. anyways my dear young wolf has like a deeply fucked up sense of identity from being The Hero essentially since the first day they were rezzed, feels as is everyone who considers them a friend only understands a part of their personality that may not even be real and like. really badly needs a hobby and or a day off perhaps. they use they/them and will not give a name to 99.9% of the people they know, but she goes by she/her and june to ghost (this is like. the one shred of identity she feels she can hold onto, which is why she keeps it to herself). both her and her ghost (similarly, he only goes by julius to her and no one else) named themselves after dragonflies. her nightmare is the black garden. she <3s stasis. she is my close personal friend.

[ghoul-haunted]

throwing arcane!Viktor into a blender with LoL's Machine Herald, Dishonored, the version of Dishonored 2 that is in my head, FFVII world building re: Midgar and ShinRa, the version of Thief 4 that could have been good (that elevator sequence before the Great Vault? should have been at the start of the game), and also Vampyr into a blender and calling the resulting smoothie a plot: My Creative Process

[monstertsunami]

maybe i get a little angry when Dragons or other fantasy reptiles with limbs have snakelike belly scales. maybe i do get a little bit upset.

[returning-spring]

I might get prime next month to watch good omens 2, and I'll be super honest, I did enjoy season 1, but the main reason I'd be getting prime is just so I can rewatch interview with the vampire lmao

[moki-dokie]

been seeing some stuff on blue eye samurai and big yikes to nearly everyone pushing extremely western ideals onto these characters.

this is early edo period. 1600s. the japan you know now did not exist yet.

yall. please. there was NO concept of sexuality in pre-modern japan. that came with both the influx of christianity and western influence very very late in history. like, mid-1800s. (yes, there was christianity pre-1800s but it was not a widespread idea yet and wouldn't be until about the 1800s since, y'know, missionaries were routinely murdered before then)

"so and so is either bi and hasn't figured it out yet or..." no. that isn't how it worked then. nobody gave a shit what was between your legs. anyone could be attracted to anyone else. it was a little more common for male homosexual relationships to be between an adult and younger male - like many other places around the world - but two adult men could bang and love each other just as easily. relationships between women were quite common - especially since so many men were often away at war. there's tons of pornographic prints from the time depicting all manner of fun queer relationships. sex itself had absolutely no moral assignment to it. good sex was good health. it didn't matter who with. (well, social class/caste mattered more than anything else tbh but that didn't stop upper and lower class from fucking.) that isn't to say people didn't have preferences. of course they did. that is human nature. preferences arose more from physical appearance, caste, and circumstances with gender being about the last thing one would look for in a partner - romantic, casual, or otherwise. the only role in sex where gender actually mattered was for procreation.

there would be no queer awakening moment, no sudden switch flipped, no stigma to have internal conflicts about because it simply did not exist as a concept whatsoever. you were either attracted to a person or you weren't, it was that simple. gender played no role when it came to sex and sexual attraction. the japanese were lightyears ahead of western cultures in this particular area - like most cultures were before christianity came in and ruined everything with its backwards morals and strict good/evil dichotomy.

yall have got to realize queer rep will not and should not always adhere by modern western standards. there was no straight, gay, bi, or anything else of the sort. the closest they ever got was referring to roles during sex - as in who is giving and who is receiving.

i know this is mostly a made up story but it is still set within a very specific time period and culture, which should be honored and respected by not making it fit into our box. tons of research went into making this show historically accurate (albeit with some discrepancies but tbh they aren't really that huge) right down to the calligraphy writing. please please please don't whitewash the culture from these characters.

i say this mainly because without this knowledge, so many of you are going to build these characters up on a foundation they aren't meant to be on and then you'll rage about queerbaiting and bad queer rep if it isn't somehow super explicitly stated, if it doesn't match your very modern, very western ideal of what queer looks like. don't try to force this plot and narrative and characters into something they canonically and historically aren't. headcanons are a thing, AUs are a thing, fanfiction is a thing - leave your western thinking for those and let these characters simply exist as they should otherwise. this is one of those times where the queerness really does not need to be examined at all beyond what we get.

i know it can be hard to wrap your head around - sexuality is such a huge part of our identity in the western world and has slowly started to spread amongst other parts of the world in importance. but just keep in mind with these particular characters, that concept would be so very alien to them.

[lostjulys]

actively electing 2 set down trigun for now because i know if i keep reading it. it will sneak up behind me & punch me in the gut & i do NOT have the emotional room for that currently.

[sweatervest-obsessed]

Hangovers and Hickeys

Pairing: Spencer Reid x Reader

WC: no idea rn lmao probably like 700

A/N: some Spence content before the new year (on the western calendar). Hope you all get to enjoy the day!

“Good morning sunshine.”

You winced at the sheer volume of his voice. “If I could, id shove you off of the roof Derek Morgan.”

“Fun night?”

You snorted and finally lifted your head off of the desk. “You should be a profiler.”

That caused Derek to laugh, which made you wince and close your eyes. The sunglasses perched on your nose were supposed to be helping. They weren’t.

“That’s a nice hickey you got there.”

You grunted in response and tried to adjust your sweater collar so it would cover the hickey you missed this morning when you didn’t look in the mirror. You had basically rolled out of bed, and into your car to make sure you got to work on time.

“Who gave it to you?” “Why don’t you use your super duper profiling skills to deduce it or whatever Sherlock shit you wanna do.”

Derek snorted and shook his head. ”or you could just….tell me.”

“Don’t worry about it Derek.” You grumbled.

When Derek realized he wasn’t going to get any answers out of you about it, he decided he was going to change tactics.

“Moving on from Boy Wonder?” It was no secret that you had a crush on a certain nerdy doctor. And so Derek tried to use this knowledge to his advantage.

You crossed your arms and just raised your eyebrows. “I’m not dignifying that with a response,”

“Pretty sure that was my answer.” He chuckled, sitting down in his chair and swiveling to look at you.

When you decided to just ignore Derek, and face your desk, he piped up again. “Where is he anyways?” “No idea.”

It was like he was waiting for his cue from you. Spencer pushed open the doors to the bull pen and strolled in. He had his purple scarf around his neck, over his new coat that Henry (JJ) had gotten him for Christmas. It was a beautiful grey pea coat that kept him warm during these freezing winter months. Spender was carrying a tray with two coffees on it and what seemed like a bag from McDonalds, which seemed to be for you, since he was headed in your direction.

The smell of the food caused you to groan with joy and smile at the man walking towards you.

“My knight in shining armor.” You muttered as he placed the whole tray in front of you. You placed a kiss on his cheek hasilty, causing him to blush a little.

“I got hashbrowns from both McDonald’s and Dunkin’, a little smorgasbord of grease for your pallet.” He whispered before taking one of the cups out of the tray.

“I’m going to marry you Doctor Spencer Reid.” You muttered, digging into the bag and pulling out one of the McDonald’s hash browns and biting into it. The groan you let out leaned a little on the pornographic side, which made Derek raise his eyebrows at the sound you let out, and then at tinge of pink on Spencer’s cheeks.

You continued eating, clueless about the silent interrogation happening to your left, enjoying every single bite and sip of your hangover cure.

“Derek I can hear you thinking and it’s making my head throb.”

Derek’s eyes snapped back to you, as your figure swiveled in the chair to face him, casually munching on some of the fries, in a completely different mood then from two minutes ago before Spencer had walked in the room.

“Sorry your highness. I’m just curious as to why Boy Genius here is bringing you hangover cures.”

“Well it’s his fault I’m this fucked up so he owes me.” You grumbled, swiveling around in your chair to face your desk. You pulled your lap top out of your canvas bag and started to set up for your work day.

“Wha-how is it his fault.”

That’s when Spencer turned bright red and tried to change the conversation, or at least get out of it. “I—well it’s not…I….hotch is…”

Spencer basically ran across the bullpen and up the stairs to Hotch’s office, avoiding the conversation he almost just had.

“I don’t think you wanna know.” You smirked and bit into the muffin from Dunks that Spencer had got you, not looking at the man behind you.

“I’m starting to think that too.” His eyes narrowed and he looked between where Spencer had run off to, and you.

Something was going on between the two of you, and Derek Morgan was going to figure it out.