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allastoredeer · 14 hours

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manlyman al/uwu lucifer, buff al/skinny lucifer, lucifer in a drag with al dressed in a suit - all the same crap, it's also very noticeable how much of luci in dress with al in a suit there is and how little the other way around or when they both in dresses and also luci in dress? 10000+ likes, while rare alastor in dress? well, barely 1000 or 2000. Same with any reverse of usual fandom versions of them. Very telling if you ask me. Blond, short, goofy, did a sad face few times? Of course it's the one who's we gonna make a girly girl here and there's can be only one in our mlm ship 🙄 People want fanon charlastor but without charlie in it because she's actually a female

Damn, you came in swinging.

But, like...I see no lies here. It is kind of funny that people put Lucifer in dresses more than Alastor when Alastor literally wore a nun outfit in the show. It's such a shame too because with Al's long legs and slim waist, DAMN he'd look so good in dresses.

It is very telling that in every fandom space, with at least one pairing - usually a very popular one - one of two becomes a girly girl and the other a darker, menacing, and more intimidating manly man. There's nothing wrong with feminine male characters, nor them being in mlm relationship, but when it happens to every. Single. Ship. where the characters are stripped down to basic archetypes.... ಠ_ಠ

It really is funny, because going by what we've seen in the show, Alastor is so much more of a girly pop than Lucifer is. Him and all his little wrist flicks and sassy remarks.

I mean

Look at this guy

Look at him

LOOK AT HIM

LOOOOOOK AT HIMMMMMMMM

How can people see this man as a super serious big bad muscle daddy? I don't understand. He's so unserious. So full of whimsy. He's a clowning troll. And I'm telling you, look at that thin waist and those long legs. He'd look amazing in a dress.

This actually reminds me of a previous ask I got a while back. The topic was centered around some fans saying that Alastor would never bottom and the over all characterizations of him and Lucifer, and this line here sums it up perfectly:

"shows such a patriarchal-ly drenched heterosexual view of sex, that they then apply to a MLM ship that drives me INSANE."

Particularly, the drenched in a patriarchally heterosexual view. Having one man in a mlm relationship be more feminine than the other is totally okay, there is nothing wrong with that, and there are a lot gay relationships like that.

But the way a lot of radioapple is depicted feels weirdly heterosexual, and it's because of the behaviors and archetypes that get assigned to them. Lucifer becomes this teeny tiny, wide-eyed, awkward little waif and Alastor this big dark possessive boyfriend who's always looming over his shoulder and glaring at anyone who looks at Lucifer. It reads like every other cringy straight romance I've read. Add in the trope of Alastor drinking Lucifer's blood and it's basically "Twilight" set in Hell.

Okay, not to derail, but there was this one AU that I was obsessed with. It's a Hades/Peresphone AU for radioapple, and it sounded amazing, but there were so many depictions of Alastor as Hades and Lucifer as Persephone and I was just...

I was flabbergasted.

You have Lucifer, the king of Hell, the DEVIL himself, be the goddess of spring instead of the Lord of the Underworld. I'm....whut?!!?!?! Alastor is literally a deer, he would be perfect to play Persephone. That guy would be hunting down all the people poaching and harming his domain and making them suffer, and I can totally see Niffty as a psycho little nymph that tags along on his "hunting trips."

I've seen one or two au's where Alastor is Persephone and Lucifer is Hades, and they are glorious, but every time I see the opposite I feel like I'm taking psychic damage. A year of my life gets taken away. I fear I'll be on my death bed soon.

Also this line "People want fanon charlastor but without charlie in it because she's actually a female" it's so true to fandom it hurts, but it's so fucking funny, I'm wheezing

You ate with this ask 🤌

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actual-corpse · 2 months

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Saw a YT vid with the title, "Fandom Can't Handle Asexuality"

You're right, they can't... Because it doesn't fucking exist to them.

#aroace #asexual #enby people arent real either #we're told to stop using neopronouns and to stop being aroace bc 'nobody will take LGBT seriously'#keep being exclusionary #i dont want to be your friend if you're gonna act like that #I'm a genderqueer aroace person who's pronouns are it/its and you're gonna fucking respect that or be called a bigot #this shit has got to stop #also... because it matters #dont be ableist #ever. just dont #one of the main reasons i hate Alastor so much... is the fandom's treatment of him as a character #most of them completely erase his sexuality in favor of shitty crack ships.#I think a QPR with Lucifer or Rosie is a cute idea! but that's it #keep Vox pining for Alastor... that's great too #its like when I tried to erase Porter Gage's Bisexuality.... It was wrong and I've changed (Fallout 4's romanceable companions are cannonic #cannonically bisexual... I don't make the rules) I was just mad because someone had MY BLORBO in a disgusting ship and I got sick of seeing #it... And THEN I learned how to block tags!!!#idk where this is going #i'm just upset that aros and aces and enbys are erased #maybe it's a confirmation bias and i've just spent too long doing demographic research #i HATE demographic research #it takes me to disgusting places #i need to find my sewing patterns so I can refocus my energy into something good

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sylphwing · 2 months

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hm. i do not like chilshi 🤔

#sylph.txt #everyone likes to joke abt how much of an epic divorce man chilchuck is #but i dont think he ever even refers to her as his ex-wife. i could b wrong bc it's been a while since i read it tho #idk a lot of his arc is him learning to b more open w others (which is essentially what ended his relationship)#and u can see how much he's grown in the chapter where senshi goes into his past #to me it would b a lot sweeter for him to take on these lessons and go back to her and make things work #it's been 4 years but he's remained loyal to her depite their issues. idk to me it rlly does feel like he still loves her he's just a fool #it's made p clear that he's a coward and that he's quick to run away so actually committing to her would b a nice way to wrap things up #we don't get to see much of his wife so i get y ppl r quick to put him w the only other man in the party #but like senshi knows abt his wife too like i do not think he's gnna b making any moves here bc he has morals lmao #(*only other older man in the party. laios doesn't qualify for old man yaoi to most chilshi likers)#(even tho chilchuck isn't old either but shh they don't care abt that)#when it comes to senshi the changeling chapter def helped him w understanding how old the rest of the party is #but he clearly still views them as significantly younger than him #i don't think he views chil as a child anymore but for the majority of their time together he did #and so going from that to in a relationship is uhh rlly weird to me!#senshi has always taken a sort of parental role upon himself #w him romance is no where as interesting as the platonic bonds he has w the rest of the party #similar to how romance is entirely unimportant to izutsumi in the succubus chapter #idk i def don't hate the pairing and there r some takes on it that i find funny #but for me i just don't see anything between them i think ppl just want an m/m ship to play with #that ao3 gap is only gnna get bigger lmao

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eggmansplatformboots · 11 months

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theyre that couple that say goofy lovely dovey things like ‘marry me?’ before making important decisions as like their ‘i love you’ or whatever and then will fight to the nondeath over small inconsequential things eg sonic put shadows eyeliner in the wrong fucking cabinet!!

#shadow proposed first btw #they both almost died and lost their legs (shadow right sonic left)#and so when he woke up one of the first things he said to sonic was ‘you’re alive!’#and immediately after ‘marry me!’#hes gay like that #btw i am so very aroace and theyre like. dubiously romantically involved #theyre more like queerplatonic with some romance but also not like their relationship is romantic #theyre partners theyre rivals theyre married they hate each other they love each other more than anything in the world #they will travel the universe together until the end of time #theyve buried all of their friends together #they have fought on every planet they landed on #yes they kiss but its just to reassure that they love each other #they hold hands and hug they will also claw each other apart #they are so very gun song coded idk #i love them and they are partners until the end of time #rivals to lovers but make it nonexclusively romantic #i hate romance where its just romance give me complicated entanglement #i also love sonadow when theyre just romance dont take this the wrong way make them love each other HOWEVER #i dont understand writing romantic relationships like that!#ok ive talked too much in the tags #sonic #sth #shadow the hedgehog #sonadow #immortal au tag #art tag

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grinchwrapsupreme · 6 months

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book runs based on tv shows are usually mediocre at best, like star trek, torchwood, doctor who, etc etc, but i would give anything to get a book run of the BBC Ghosts hotel i need to know what shenanigans those guys get up to in there

#bbc ghosts #bbc ghosts spoilers #six idiots #i think a hotel would be so fun for them #like enrichment #absolutely nothing that happens in there matters in the slightest but they all care so much about everything so really #the weight of any hypothetical plot does not matter #a short story series for example would be great #give me 5 pages of the captain deriding robin about the mouse family he follows and then stalking off to go watch his ants #give me 20 pages of fanny and julian watching something unsavoury going down in one of the rooms only to discover they were wrong #and actually what's happening is totally innocent #give me 15 pages of julian battling for TV remote control with a guest who can't figure out why the remote is malfunctioning #give me fanny accidentally getting in a teenager's selfie and the teen facetiming with her friends about the haunted room she's stuck in #while her parents are on this dumb golf trip #and kitty is jealous that fanny is getting all the attention because this is supposed to be girls night with the teens she's decided #captain and julian watching golfers out on the green #thomas cooing over a blossoming romance and subsequent breakup like its his new personal soap opera #pat sitting in on games out on the lawn and getting way too into it prompting julian to start making bets with him on lawn darts #fanny snooping in guests' luggage and being scandalized by perfectly normal things she considers risque #give a book deal to ben and larry they'd have a ball with it i just know it

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sinni-ok-sessi · 28 days

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the thing about watching bridgerton is that my taste in romance novels leads me to expect some very specific things in a historical romance. by which I mean that I keep being surprised when Benedict's bisexual awakening doesn't happen

#the signs are all there! meaningful talks with your sibling about being Different!#his induction into a bohemian lifestyle! all the hot artistic men he's hanging out with!including the one in a lavender marriage!#I am way too aroace for this show really. I just want one single main character to *not* end up in a monogamous heterosexual marriage #to someone they're madly in love with. is that so much to ask (yes. it's a romance and I understand the genre conventions.#but still i would love to see Literally Any Main(ish) Character going 'no this is not for me' and *not* being proven wrong about that #though it *is* getting funnier and funnier the more characters get tacked onto the 'a love match like you and father had is rare' speech #'a love match like you and father and anthony and colin and daphne and probably francesca had is rare! honest!'

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forcedhesitation · 14 days

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every time I get jumpscared by a survivor with voicelines, I remember that steve and nancy don't have voicelines... I wish so badly that was something they could add. I think steve should be able to lose his shit season 1 style seeing killers like oni, knight, or nemesis.

#dbd #thoughts about media #it would even be cool if they just got a unique lobby theme like pretty much every new survivor is getting.#but dialogue would be everything to me.#the lore for steve & nancy doesn't imply any romance between them so fortunately I think their hypothetical dialogue would be safe.#and I just knooow steve would have smart ass remarks for certain killers like legion or ghostface.#myers too. since myers is a movie character in his world.#could picture him yelling “wrong babysitter!” or something silly like that at myers lol.

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wren-kitchens · 6 months

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fellow romance favourable aroaces who spent a while trying to figure out if they were bi or aroace who likes the idea of romance wya

#I THINK!!! I FIGURED IT OUT #which makes the fact me and the only straight person in my irl friendship group dated even funnier #we both find it so funny that was a thing that happened #I had a jaiden animation moment #but like. several months after the video came out #with a lot of doubt #but yeah turns out people are attractive i’m just not attracted to people HKFHDK #average fanfic writer moment (I have never seen this happen to anyone else aside from one of my irls)#(and they don’t write they draw)#aroace #aromantic #asexual too but like I already figured that part out tbh #so I won’t maintag #romance favorable #queer #aspec people are queer I will fight you if you disagree you are wrong #wren wrambles #I always write so much in the tags of posts that are like one sentence long

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splorpo · 2 months

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#i will delete this later but i’m having a bit of a crisis over how much i dislike romantic physical affection and idk where else #to throw it out there #i deeply dislike it in platonic contexts too i just thought it would be different in a romantic context and it isn’t :[#and yeah i know talk to a therapist etc.#i just feel so isolated bc only one person i know feels the same way and i can’t tell if there’s something wrong with me #the way i think and feel about romance is just not the same as the majority of people and i can’t figure out why

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eldragon-x · 3 months

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Maybe I should actually read that specific part of the g5 comics before I make judgements but knowing that Discords is sad and depressed long after Fluttershy dies grates me sooo much. Girl let him be friends with Twilight.

#sorry I just dont like ''the immortal characters have to watch all their loved ones die'' angst for mlp specifically #and also the idea that discord ties himself so much to fluttershy alone #especially with them having romantic implications in canon really rubs me the wrong way #I mean to an extend it makes sense bc she was his first friend but the s4 finale set him up to be friends with twilight too #+ you need to understand I'm aromantic and haaate romance being put on a pedestal okay sorry #mlp #fluttershy tag #discord tag

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a-master-procrastinator · 5 months

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oh boy

not me replaying the traitor arc and starting to appreciate it...

#weird times indeed #don't get me wrong - it's as flawed as kotfe/et (if not more flawed) but also has potential #just very underexplored #and the drama... especially if you have the romance... i just can't pass up #swtor #tbh i never hated it but also didn't like it #it was mostly 'get through and be done with it' for me #uuugghhhh i wanna talk abt it so much but to do that i'd need to post so much backstory and all that leads there #and there is too much of it

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creative-shine · 1 year

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"black shadow figure and their partner they love and protect" is my favorite genre of media

#what the fuck is wrong with me i cant escape whatever this trope is #these types of media are always about platonic love too so maybe thats why it appeals to me so much LMAO #no romance type love just i want to protect and care for you love. superior #shine speaks #deemo #the girl from the other side #shadows house

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plushiehamuko · 10 months

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there is something so specifically demiromantic about being willing to give up your right to find love on your own for the sake of convenience without a fuss until you connect with someone so deeply that it's irreversibly changed you

#squishy talks too much #MITSURU'S SOCIAL LINK IS AN AROMANTIC ROMANCE ARC!!!!#mitsuru is so aroace to me that it's crazy #for her romantic feelings only develop when she has already connected closely with someone #and she has very low interest in sex. it's a negligible part of a relationship to her #demiromantic and demisexual with just a low interest in sex even when she does develop that connection. DO YOU GET ME #mitsuham is an AROACE SAPPHIC RELATIONSHIP or you're doing it wrong (joking but it's just so real to me)#about mitsuru <3

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hexados-on-a-string · 8 months

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spectragus dont get enough credit for being a sun and moon ship but like. destructive sun and moon ship. sun and moon ship but they're the forces of nature the sun and moon actually are. the sun is harsh and relentless and unpredictable in its evil but also it's kindness, the moon is sharp and cold and cruel, a harsh light that doesn't allow you peace, but can also guide you, a light in the darkness. even on nights with a new moon, with no light in the sky, the moon is always reflecting the sun, and it'll be that way until they come to their end.

#spectragus give me a dopamine high that any sort of drug couldn't even come close to giving me #its the loyalty. its the seeing each other at their worst and still staying.#its the being the only person still around who knows and understands what youve been through #its the being so important to each other's characters that u cant mention one without recognising the impact the other has on them #i dont rlly do shipping unless its funny but also im a huge gus fan so like. yea. plus my view on romance is a bit all over the place anyway #something something my skrunkles deserve complicated relationships that are more than romantic but something else #its the trust thats the most important thing to me. trust and loyalty and devotion and #im sorry but i would have exploded if i like. didn't write down these thoughts #anyways fucked up gay people who are a package deal and that is a threat thats them #ik the majority of my posts are hee hee funnie and i usually dont take things too seriously #but these two have taken up part of my brain permanently since i was 8. like. they just live there. rent free.#i am like rabid rn. i am feral and i am insane and i am crazy and there are so many things wrong with me #i cant even write down all my fuckin thoughts there's so many my brain is going to Explode pray for me #idk if u understand how important it is to me the times they show kindness even while at their worst #they're not good people but they have people they care about and they care abt each other and that matters SO much #i take 0 criticism on my posts i only take cash. however there is no possible criticism to be made bc i am RIGHT #also this all kinda sparked from me getting obsessed with a certain kh character who has a connection to the moon #who is also one of my favourite characters ever #and if u know who it is and u also like him ur very cool #im not tagging this w character tags. im like. very shy. but #i love gus i love spectra i love spectragus #anyways see u next time where i should hopefully have art maybe potentially #i found the brushes i used to use back when i did lineless art so i am rlly happy

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lanafemme · 11 days

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#personal #ngl its still really alienating for me to see sooo much of stone sexuality on this site revolve around strap #dont get me wrong im all for enjoying what you like #and the t*rfy pushback against strap is stupid #its just alienating to me personally cause penetration rly scares me cause of trauma + vaginismus #its horrifying to me on a psychological AND physical level #so the number of sex acts im even comfortable thinking about are super limited lol #and i dont like the attitude that taking strap is what marks you as femme. tbh #again. not dissing what other people like in the slightest. just wish there was more room for me too lol #my sexuality is so limited that its easy to give up and decide that well sex just isnt for me! i am a more romance focused person anyway #but sigh………..#at the end of the day it doesnt matter what ppl on tumblr think what matters is anyone i might screw around with someday #baaaaasically got confirmation that the girl i got my eye on is a stone top so im 👀#cant wait to be like dwww babe i have super weird boundaries too #just remembered she PHYSICALLY cannot finger me because of disability. thank gd.

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crunchycrystals · 28 days

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fall guy brain rot time !!!!!!! i was wondering why i enjoyed this more than free guy despite me thinking objectively free guy's plot has less holes in it so i do consider the plot objectively better, but then i realized like fall guy just feels so much more sincere to me. every aspect of it is coated in this love for film and tv making and the medium as a whole

#crunchyposts #movies #i love them both dont get me wrong im just having a fall guy moment rn !!!!!#i left the theater and realized damn none of the jokes i could really remember punched down on anyone #meanwhile cough cough gamer sock joke in free guy. i hate that joke lol #i think free guy's a pretty sincere movie too just like. you know what im getting at right #the emotional beats of fall guy just feel so much more intense than free guy thats a bit of a trade off for reynolds' sarcasm and stuff #like i do not buy his more dramatic moments but guy's one of his more sincere characters !!!!!! its all just kinda coated in #this vibe that like. corporational???? the love is for original and creative art and general #but not really video games specifically the way fall guy is to movies #i love free guy btw i just cant really express my thoughts well rn #also bc free guy fumbled the romance bag at the end a bit lol its a good ending just not as well executed as it couldve been imo #meanwhile it is the Heart and Soul of fall guy no matter what its the most important part of the movie #the free guy soul is like clearly the outside world scenes w keys and millie but reynolds is the main guy so like. they have to #take a bit of a backseat #am i making sense sorry lol im turning of rbs of this my thoughts are not in order #ill rewatch both at some point and get it together !!!!!! ive planned on rewatching both anyways #maybe im a bit biased rn bc im in the midst of a minor fall guy hyperfixation but to be fair i was also in a free guy hyperfixation #briefly #post over this will go forever if i dont stop rn lol

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