#anywaaaaay

[laidenbreecatchall]

Somebody’s jealous…

[whatimdoing-here]

WARRIOR NUN | 2.04

Could you look at each other any more intensely I don't think I've properly imploded yet.

[rachelfoleyisntdead]

Nah, the fact that Mileena had the audacity to be all, "who told you?" when Kitana called her out about Tanya. Like, my empress in Christ, you are openly eye-fucking your bodyguard in front of a live audience consisting of your subjects. Neither of the two of you are being subtle. Tanya can explain away her antics as Just Bodyguard Things™, but what would be Mileena's excuse?

Plus,why was she even keeping it secret from Kitana of all people? Bitch,that's your twin. Y'all shared a whole womb. I'm sure Kitana's no snitch. Acting like Kitana couldn't figure it out by herself. Realistically,what could Kitana really do,besides maybe tell Sindel?

(It's giving "And you did it at my birthday dinner!" )

Kitana seeing Mileena flirt with Tanya in front of the Gods and all of Outworld:

Mileena being like "WHO SNITCHED" is top 10 MK1 moments tho

[mittenlady]

i am once again dropping klavquill crumbs and vanishing

[lheautontimoroumenos]

maybe the thing that irks me the most about the saltburn discourse is saying oliver/barry and felix/jacob are "unconventionally attractive". like what fucking world do you live in? they're two really fit white dudes what's unconventional about that?

[beedreamscape]

I know it's funny and girlboss-like behavior Laerryn subscribes to

But listen to me, and I will not back away from this opinion,

If someone were to "seduce" Laerryn into even more hubristic behavior, that person would be Ludinus bc despite his social standing or importance, if he ever reached her, he would've said all the right things to feed her ego and her ambition.

She has Patia and Nydas, but they're no stand-in for what Evandrin was and there'll always be a gap in this area of support, of just as enthusiastic ambition and excitement. And Ludinus would maybe try to give her just that.

But just for a while.

I do agree there would be a point, she would've noticed that "Oh, this guy has issues. No, I don't want to break the order like that. I have people that love me and I love them too much for that. I've found religionless devotion in ways this man could never." bc Ludinus, at the end of the day, feels like a man that's been lonely and selfish all his life and Laerryn isn't like him.

Laerryn knows love and, in the end, that made all the difference.

[kingofmeatballs]

My loyal followers...

My beloved mutuals...

I came here today to make a confession...

I'm afraid after this you won't be able to see me as you did before...so remember me as i was at my best...

So

The thing is

Every time i draw tiddies i add this cursed thing at the end literally every time and giggle like a maniac i'm so sorry you had to find out this way im an addict this is getting out of control-

[sunfollows]

:3

just a lil gif i made for a muse doc ...

just .. for fun ..

[fizzseed]

[regardingjenmish]

bless you for this post tbh. because you’re right! it’s one thing to have fun and clown and keep it lighthearted, it’s another thing to take something a certain way and start speaking for someone else.

Yesterday was full of jokes and just normal cockles dumpster posting but today I woke up to stuff that were kind of uncomfortable to read ngl. It’s all fun and games and clownery but in the end of the day there’s still a certain line that we don’t really cross. And saying that someone came out (when they didn’t) also lowkey saying they came out as poly and I don’t know what else about it, can do so much damage and you’d think that after last year nj con this fandom would know not to do that.

[mermaidsirennikita]

I mean yeah it all comes back to her being a reylo, the way people still talk about them shocks me. Idk if i've ever seen shippers from such a mainstream popular ship get treated this way when honestly....reylo isn't even that problematic. I would argue something like darklina is more problematic and those shippers don't get 1/3 of the shit reylos get. Hell I could name you other more problematic ships where the shippers don't get nearly as much hate as reylos.

Well, to be very fair a lot of reylos said a lot of out of pocket, racist (and specifically antiblack) shit about John Boyega and Finn. I don't want to downplay the shit John Boyega went through making those movies.

And in turn, a lot of finnreys said some really fucked up, racist (specifically anti-Asian) shit about Kelly Marie Tran and Rose... and I do think that gets downplayed a LOT. Like, if we're going to talk about racist fandom antics in SW, and there are a lot of them, then let's talk about all of it. Obviously, all of this goes beyond shipping, but the interesting phenomenon that did happen with the reylo stuff is that because they didn't want Rey with Finn, many of them did support Finnrose (and by the way, lol--I'm not into Finnrey because in general I don't like Rey outside of TLJ and I frankly though Finn deserved better on every level, and I wouldn't consider myself a Reylo, but I AM into Finnrose, and to a lesser extent Finnpoe). For some, I do think that was a "get Finn out of Rey's path" thing, for sure--but also, setting Finn up with a cool pretty girl to get him away from Rey is... not the worst thing lol. And I would also say that many did seem to genuinely like that ship, and a lot of the reylo fic authors I saw back in the day used to write some good Finnrose shit.

(Also: Roselo? Let's get into it. I would kill for Rian to cast Adam and Kelly in a Benoit Blanc movie, the chances that Adam would do it are MIDDLING but still.)

I think the main reason why the reylo thing got much bigger, tbh, is that it's Star Wars. Darklina is in theory more problematic (though to me it's very much a draw because while I personally do not find Kylo Ren as like, threatening as the Darkling, he's still a prominent cog in a dictatorial fascist-aligned regime and he did kill a lot of innocent people, so, you know, fair) but S&B is NOTHING compared to SW. I think in general shippers are loathed by a lot of old school SW die-hards because Shipping = Kissing and Kissing is Gross, and Bad People Bad, except for Vader because Vader Cool. They make exceptions for Han and Leia because they still jerk it to Leia to this day and it's a part of the old lore, and a lot of them just want to be Han Solo in a way I don't think a lot of them wanted to be Kylo Ren.

And then you combine that with the morality police who really just like. Didn't like reylo for whatever reason, but decided to take on the idea that it's HORRRRRIIIIIBLEEEE to ship a bad guy with someone (when like--I personally cannot STAND Anidala, but you would have no SW if a bad guy hadn't fucked someone back in the day... tepidly, I imagine, but it happened). The idea of using moral righteousness to justify your ship has always been a thing, right? (If we're keeping it real here: while I do think that a lot of reylo antis were genuinely concerned about racism with that ship, I also think that many of the white antis.... were only concerned with racism when it suited them. I mean, where were they when Kelly was getting death threats? Care about it for everyone, you know?) But I think it became a much bigger thing when it was reylo.

Then in turn, the reylos reacted by becoming more cultlike, because that's what happens when you vilify people for wanting to ship something. And they became wackier, and the lore became more kNOWN. Like, again--I don't personally ship reylo. I find the dynamic compelling in TLJ; I think Adam and Daisy have great chemistry in that movie; I think that he and Rian pulled her best work in the trilogy out of her; and I think that that movie is the only one where Rey feels like an actual human being, versus a girlboss cypher. She's human, she idolizes Luke and then realizes he's only human, she experiences disappointment, she experiences DOUBT about morality, she is, I believe, genuinely pretty horny for Kylo Ren in that movie (imo, Rey probably has like, zero sexual experience lol, but I also doubt that he has much either), and the idea of her wanting to be SOMETHING only to find out she's NOT THAT is really interesting. I find the idea of her being tempted to become his Dark Empress or whatever, and the idea of him being both an incredibly weird, dark, amoral person who's all about assuaging his own Feelings because mommy and daddy didn't love him the way he wanted them to... and someone who else wants this girl to bounce on it as his Dark Empress.... really interests me.

I didn't want to see them have babies. I didn't want to see them be happily ever after. I wanted to see her kill him while kissing him or something. Which I don't think was what a lot of reylos wanted, right? So it kind of made that ship inaccessible to me, and I imagine a lot of people who might've otherwise been into it. And I think things like "grey force babies" or whatever naturally made it seem more ridic, which of course happens with any ship (BOATBABY.......) but the size of the fandom and the ship made it seem bigger.

But because that ship was so archetypal (big bad man, girl onto which you could project whatever you wanted because she has like zero personality in 2/3 movies) it was easier for allll of these fic writers to do whatever they wanted with the dynamic, to pass the fic around, to do weird shit with it. And I think that tends to happen with bad/good ships. The fic writers have something very iconic to cling to, and they can do more with it, and therefore the fic is better, and that makes the ship bigger. The ship evolves into the fanon version, and then everyone who hates it hates it more because that ship is getting what they want. It reminds me of Darklina, Dramione (and for the record Dramione is something like... Go with God, but I do nOT. GET. THE DRAMIONE RENAISSANCE LOL.), Haladriel. Because reylo was again, so big though, there were more writers and more types of fic and it just got More More More.

So yeah, I think it's all kind of a snake eating its own tail thing. And now everyone who hated reylo anyway hates it even more because of all these reylo authors getting book deals, and often having solid success (or better). You can make a lot of critiques about why that's happening with a white ship versus a ship featuring poc, but that's beyond reylo and gets into fandom racism and racism in publishing AT LARGE. It's a bigger thing than just "the reylos did this".

But yeah, I personally don't really find Reylo all that shocking or perverse a ship. I've shipped worse lol. I just think there are a lot of really complicated things that have less to do with the SHIP than the shipping culture. Some of those things are super valid. However, I also think that this narrative occurred wherein it was like "the only toxic ones are the reylos" and... Yeah dude, there were plenty of toxic reylos. However... The Kelly Marie Tran of it all is where I really start getting bugged, because what happened to her and her character was one of the grossest things that happened in that franchise, and LET US BE REAL, the driving force behind that was not the reylos. (Nor do I want to imply that it was all finnreys--a lot of the SW fandom in general is super fucked re: basically any people of color in prominent roles.)

[discworldwitches]

not that dating should be “all about sex” but it does make me laugh in hist of sex when people complain that “dating is all about sex these days”.

[albonium]

☺️

[agreatandhonorablesoldier]

i'm dc adjacent on my tiktok fyp and there's been a lot of videos abt the fl.ash flopping and so many comments are like "man not even the snyder bros went hard for this movie." and like.... why would they?

this is exactly why i don't fuck with dceu fandom spaces on other platforms because the basic concept of not caring what dc does when they've already said they're erasing snyder's films from the current continuity goes over their heads way too often.

[flyingspicerack]

hi hi~~ 👋👋 hoping you're doing alright there aero :33 I saw your text post and I'm!!! 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺😭😭 so touched like wah and I am so so sorry to leave ya there like that!!! Just been feeling guilty and also been busy with family stuff sooo there's just a lot yknow 'w';; but anywayss I'll be with ya when I can, love your posts, LOVE your art (honestly you've inspired to finally make my i/s/oc for osomats andd hoping ya the best as always!!! See ya another day~ -from ❤🧡💛💚💙💜💗💖 heart anon

Ah! Heart anon! Pls don't apologize, u didn't even have to come do this... Ur very sweet ;n; i hope ur doing well!! And im so glad u feel inspired thats AMAZING!!!!

Ur a very sweet and kind soul as always

[ami-chat]

Hi my name’s Ami, I’m sad and tipsy rn and shockingly I’m lee