you know, in certain ways I am disappointed by the fact that clothing is no longer as gendered as it used to be—don’t get me wrong, I think this is a great thing, and it definitely is still more gendered than it should be—but it means that people’s perceptions of you now have this additional emphasis on the way that you physically look, which is to say, the unchangeable aspects of your appearance. in the sense that, like, gender is based not on the way you present yourself but on the way you are. and if you don’t physically match to people’s perceptions of what “is” male or female or whatever, then to them you just aren’t.
throughout history, and in some extent today, so much of gender was how you presented yourself and how you performed your gender—which is a problem in itself, of course, but it also kind of gave you the option to “reject” one gender by choosing to present and act as the other, even if it came at a great cost, because people would generally take this outward expression at such face value. in a paradoxical sense, the rigidity of, say, victorian gender expectations made it easier for one to “not achieve,” or even outright reject, their assigned gender, and in that sense, made it easier to transform it. and you can’t do that in the same way anymore, which, as I said, is a double edged sword, but like… I don’t know. it’s a feeling mostly from personal experience, arising from my own historical fantasies as a history-oriented person—a hundred years ago, if i wore men’s clothes as a woman, I’d be told that would undermine my assigned gender and make me “too masculine,” which, you know, would have been the goal. nowadays if I dress entirely masculine I’m just a girl wearing boys’ clothes because people can’t ever see anything else. I don’t know. I guess I’ll just sit here daydreaming about running off in the 18th century to join the british army by “disguising myself as a man” instead of being given one look at a reenactment event and observed with the remark that “the british units tend to have really good female impressions.”
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both of the piano mashups are making me wonder if it’s harder for her to be in dublin rn than it was to be in london. in london she had so many distractions and close family / friends to support her and might’ve felt like she had something to prove. but based on its reference in sweet nothing, ireland seems like a place where they took more personal / private trips and dublin specifically is also where a lot of conversations with friends was filmed so i wonder if she associates ireland with joe more consumingly….because london has A LOT of other things going on and other memories and people associated with it while ireland might not
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Parents will treat you like a doll in a dollhouse completely stripping you of your agency and any say in your life and how you want to live it — refuting your individuality by saying “you are not your own person nothing is ‘yours’ everything you have is from US your home your furniture your food your things your accomplishments your body all belong to US you have what we want to do with your life comes FIRST while you live under OUR house you live under OUR rules” — but when you start showing no interest in your life and become a ghost in your own home because it has been drilled into you that nothing in your life is actually yours to the point that being alive feels wholly unbearable they yell and ask “why do you never contribute to YOUR house why do you never get involved in YOUR home this house is YOURS too why don’t you treat it like YOUR house” as if they never did any of the former
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If your ocs were in a TOH coven(s)/specialized magic track(s) which would they pick? I feel like as fucked as Anton’s methods are, he would be in Potions and Healing :3
-@vidawhump
alright i haven’t watched TOH since it ended and i’m gonna be honest i thought all the hexside stuff was boring and i didn’t pay much attention to the coven stuff. oops
BUT!!!! i think Anton would be like Eda and just say fuck it to all the specialized magic tracks and just use wild magic. he’d probably like making abominations and beastkeeping, cuz he’d like interacting with all the magic creatures and palismen and stuff. he’d also like potions and healing too :) and he’d be best friends with King because of course he would
Dew would like illusions maybe? or healing? tbh i’m not sure. maybe he’d like beastkeeping too (honestly everyone from tllr would like beastkeeping they all love animals). you know what? he’d be like Luz. the main character and undecided on what magic to use. maybe he’d be a human and use glyphs
Layla would like plant magic, Hayden would also like beastkeeping and maybe illusions, Sawyer would be into potions or healing. the three of them would be friends at hexside, Layla and Hayden would have a similar role as Willow and Gus, and Sawyer would be similar to Amity. Aspen would be a wild magic guy, he doesn’t follow the rules either. Silas wouldn’t even be a witch he’d just be an evil monster they’d have to kill
Pierce would straight up be Belos in this scenario. fuck that guy
and that’d make Anton hunter in That scenario and now i’m thinking of a whole au that i’ll most likely do nothing with
OHHHHHH MY GOD i know who the mystery character would be. but i shan’t say. take a wild guess :)
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Lil dyspraxia symbol tattoo :)
Got this here because 1) unapologetic identification with dyspraxia bc it affects every part of me and 2) no one appears to know where the dyspraxia symbol came from or what it means and that just feels so fitting bc we don’t get to know much about our condition or our history and community so we have to just like. Create our own community. And so part of the meaning of this tattoo is that we don’t know what it means, so we get the chance to choose what we think it means. I see a lil guy jumping for joy (dyspraxically) hbu
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post the fursona!!!
Anon you know what you are so right. I haven’t posted art in so long…
Anyway here’s her…she has like three names that are all silly little nature names I would go by. I love moon symbols sm 🌙 her middle pair of eyes are the only ones that need glasses <3 I literally need to draw her again soooo bad she’s so epic
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