#and falling to facism

[the-brain-rats]

[whyismangososour]

Random billford shippers on the internet: just because I enjoy the toxicity of this ship doesn’t mean I think it’s okay!!! I don’t think they’re cute or should end up together!!!! I just think they’re interesting!!!!!! please don’t kill me !!!!!

Me, a very tired person who has laundry to do and job applications to fill out: haha the evil triangle and the old man are so terrible for each other it’s so adorable I hope they kiss about it forever and there’s nothing anyone can do about it

[shortnailsforfuntimes]

the woke mind virus… you mean compassion? empathy?

[nullfier]

strange behaviour from the arcane fandom when a woman that has relations with another woman goes down a darker path and people condemn her whereas if she was a man in love with another man this would be lapppped up as “toxic yaoi”. please get a grip

[lerios]

best takes on time lord sex ever, also you're one of the people most closely associated with Brax in my mind

i don't know what i did to deserve that title, but i appreciate that that's a very high bar, so thank you lmao <3 and yesssssss brax my beloved beloathed silly little war criminal 😍✨

actually you know what, i've decided that the most important time lord sex take ever is narvin's Very Real Extremely Canon It Definitely Happens In The Text humiliation kink, so i'll assume it's that 😇 #TheTruthIsOutThere

[wheremymindgoeswandering]

[maxgicalgirl]

Oh we are so fucked guys

[bytefriend]

that facists in DnD post is so annoying seeing people in the notes going 'oh so we can't play mean characters? we can't play the villain?' because it's like. Not really what the post is about but also like... idk. You ccan play a baddie you can plsy a fantasyy facist Wahtever but like. you have to be equiepped to recognize where the facism came frpm but also follwo it to its natural conclusion (which is compelte ruin. it's an ideology that only ends in ruining yoursel fand others. there is no victory there). adn so many people susceptible to facism (Privileged:tm:) get so caught up in the 'wehre did this character get their facist beliefs? well...' and lose sight of the fact taht like, yeah, however this character became a facist, they're still Evil. they're still doing bad and bringing about harm to the world. they just build symapthy into their heads becasue well, it's not Character's fault tehy want to eliminate an entire race or slaughter all magic users idkf i don't play DnD i get laid. but it doesn't really matter fi they were tricked into it or they're truamatized:tm: and Fucked up:tm: or brainwahsed whatever. They're still doing bad shit. does any of this make sense doe snayone hear me (*tapping mic*) is this thing on

[shr0mwzrd]

Fuckkkkk can you all stop being libs and/or exclusionary for 5 seconds PLEASE

[c0rinarii]

anyone who hates reimu is always a red flag and that is fact

[peachesofteal]

No night mother not the Coke product😖😖😖

listen I do what I can but we all must have our vices and I'm not perfect

[kleptozoology]

Its really concerning that young queers are being brainwashed into useful idiots by the right wing. This is one of the times where slippery slopes are real. You very quickly go from "No Kink at Pride" and "I didnt concent to witnessing fetishists in public" to "certain gender representations make me uncomfortable and should thus be kept out of public view." 0 to Trans people being made illegal. We can see it in florida and texas. Young people don't realize that the people telling them that anything that makes you uncomfortable should be outlawed are the same people trying to outlaw THEM. That's how it used to be. Being gay was seen as unnatural, so gay people were jailed or executed for coming out. Kissing a man in public as a man could get you murdered, and two women kissing in public would be sent to insane asylums or convents. Queer people were lobotomized because people found them icky. This type of talk leads to only one destination, and its a mass grave of queer people past and future who were murdered for the sake of "public decency."

so even gross stuff like foot fetishes and armpit fetishes are okay????

This has to be a joke no way do you have to ask me whether it’s ethical just to like toes.

[roetheninth]

i find the clave’s near frequent fall into facism fascinating, especially since the reasoning behind it is kind of summarized by kit

“Am I the only one who’s read X-Men and realises why this is a bad idea?”

because. yeah. kit is the only one to have read x-men because the clave is so shut off from the outside world they don’t recognise the signs!!!

a registry??? come on everyone knows that is horrible oppression that will get worse. but the clave don’t because their history is built on oppression in the first place, and they aren’t exposed to other examples of it because of how cut off shadowhunters are to the rest of humanity!!!

[andyofspades]

Look at me. Look at me right now.

We need to prepare for the worst, which means you need to determine if you are going to stay and fight or if you are going to flee. There is no shame in fleeing, its a natural response to your life being literally endangered and make no mistake, if Trump wins if you are any variety of person who is not a cishet white man, you are in danger.

That being said, if you are fighting remember the posts. Stay in small cells, fight guerilla, if you cannot physically fight, you are now a stop on the modern underground railroad, provide relief where you can and make their lives difficult, fuck with their shipments, lose papers, make it hard to get the awful things they want to get done done.

This nation cannot fall to facism without a fight.

[icouldntthinkofabetternamesook]

my brain made so connections

I'm not sure how pictures work here so this is gonna be formatted goofy but these two polycules/love angles have far to much in common and I need to share

Mel Medarda and Hazel Levesque

beautiful terrifying black women with mommy issues, gold, an association with wealth, prodigious magic powers, artistic pursuits and a distant brother. in a position of power in a system that will always see them as outsiders to some extent. big kindhearted boyfriend. terrible relationship with mother who is in many ways the antagonist of the entire piece and they never get a satisfying conclusion to their relationship(I see Gaea as Hazel's mom in this comparison). deeply and seriously underserved by a narrative that treats getting magic powers as the same thing as getting character development. I once again cannot overstate the shared connection to gold and wealth, especially gold. in many ways responsible for the events of the series but she did it for her mother's love so I can't blame her. Mels love of painting and Hazels love of drawing. A deep, loving, if damaged heart. if they came from anywhere near the same social strata they would be the same character

these two characters are defiantly cross universe variants of each other and their massive similarities kicked off this entire thought process

Viktor and Leo Valdez

scrappy, messy inventors with low self esteem, resurrections, a weird thing going on with a magical entity, and they both die to save the world. in weird sorta love triangle with the above. Leo has that pre arcane Machine herald vibe. they both push people away and are in a self inflicted cycle of loneliness despite being full of love. died for your sins and only got hate and pain in response

Jayce Tales and Frank Zhang

probably the least similar of the polycules. absolute puppies of men, tendencies to fail upwards, get put at the very top of a system of authority of a kinda fascist organization, magic totem of some form, come from some level of legacy in their systems though Frank has far more. most importantly in a weird polycule, love angle with the other two, officially dating the golden girl and has weird thing happening with the resurrected one.

these are both utterly delightful polycules were the boys should go make out so the girl can self actualize

a few more arcane riordan parallels under the cut with more thematic exploration

Caitlyn Kiramman and Reyna Ramirez-Arellano

queer woman of color who got pulled into the facism despite their good intentions

Vi and Piper McClean

a bit of a stretch, but messy haired lesbians in conflict with a lot of the existing order and pressure of family legacy. I kinda have it divided with Piltover=Rome, Zaun=greece. which leads me to another connection. their both very close to the next person on my list

Jinx and Annabeth Chase

now this is definitely a hear me out, but I love my girl geniuses who after a falling out with their family ran into an older male figure who loved them like family but nonetheless was horribly toxic and wound up falling into even through their genuine dedication to their righteous crusade being soured after a falling out with another figure who also acted in a similar capacity to the girl they took in and the story ends with the little girl standing over their corpse they are various levels of responsible for after choose their devotion to another over their toxic semi parental love who spends their last breaths reaffirming their relationship and ultimately winning a more centrist version of their cause after death. I just love when little girls wind up alone, and desperate to prove themselves because the system cares about them as weapons over children to be protected.

Silco and Luke Castellan

was right. bitchin scars. fallen hero figures who care deeply for the people they sent out to protect but ultimately became what they feared most and got corrupted by power. leftist hero's in a centrist narrative. this does not change the immense harm they did specifically to the young girl in their care they have weird semi sexual/romantic subtext with despite ultimately having a familial bond. they also have an antagonist relationship with

Ekko and Percy Jackson

the boy savior, far to much on their shoulders to early, leaders in their community, truly look out for the people, will spit in authorities eye but is also pretty close to some specific people in power, in love with the victim/adopted family of the villain/fallen hero. the one who breaks the cycle and saves the day

I managed to get most of the Arcane characters and the tip of the ice berg for riordan. this obviously has Thalia as Vander in the Luke/Silco, Annabeth/Jinx trio, as well as an association with wolves and dying in a heroic sacrifice to protect a little girl in their charge and ultimately coming back from the dead after being saved against their will. I think Vi might actually be the closest to Jason in this dynamic, especially after making Reyna/Caitlyn, but they don't have that much more in common. serious complexes about being what others need and a lack of internal stability? amnesia if you take vi's old league lore into account? I still prefer Piper I think they have more similar vibes and I'm trying to make the camps and city's line up

this also has Gaea as Ambessa and Calypso as Hexcore Sky. no one really lines up with singed or Sevika and no one lines up with Nico. Sevika works as Clarisse, as in utterly amazing butches

this might all just be similar tropes lining up in similar ways but I kinda like it

[just-an-enby-lemon]

My one Wicked AU is the one where the Wizard decides to secretly send Tip into Elphabas life.

Not as a good action but because he realizes that if Elphaba gets close to this child there's two perfect out comes.

N1. People never find out Tip is the lost princess. If anything Tip becames public enemy number two and is saw as the Evil Witch's aprencetice. He can finally stop worring about this one lost thread and keep his facistic dictatorship.

N2. People do find out Tip is Ozma but he can frame if as Elphabas plan (no matter if it does not fit the timeline). With that in hand he can keep Ozma as a prisioner claiming the princess was traumatized and brainwashed by the years of forced servituted and he is helping her while actually keeping her under his tumb and giving another reason for people to be against Elphaba.

He fully expects them to be dysphunctional. It is a teen/20yo and a child. Both very traumatized. He also doesn't really care.

Except earlier than it should a tornado brings a young girl into Oz and she can expose him. But the house falled into Nessarosa and it made the girl a hero. So he can't vilanize her nor get rid of her. Well she is a kid. They can handle a kid.

No one knows how to bring her back home. She misses her family and her dog. Glinda sees the baby and goes "I could be a mom". She is more of a mentor but it works out.

But they are kids and they don't always follow rules and their hearts are in the right places and somehow someway as they always do Ozma and Dorothy fall in love. Except this time their mentors are complicated exes who are now forced together by the narrative.

The world is still as grimdark and full of facism as ever but they try to make it better.