#but we do love a disaster bi short king

[myfaveisfuckable]

Apollo:

This is the transest non canon trans man to ever exist. There are so many trans men in this fandom and a signifucant portion of us latched on to Apollo Justice and his rockstar dodging pussy. Klavier Gavin rockstar prosecutor canon disaster bi? Wants him. Can't have him, but he wants him so, so bad. Look the trans autism pussy hits different, ok? He shows up to work and he works, do not talk to him about non work related things he will not answer you. Very easy to fluster though if you flirt with him even a little. He'll get annoyed at you for it though, he's so insecure. Would love to get in his ass. He's probably memorized every law ever and could recite them while you blow him he's so hot. He is literally so dense, mans can tell when you're lying and still will not put two and two together unless it's in a court room. May or may not have been involved with his dead best friend but they were at the very least codependent. He straight up does not talk about himself ever and it makes for some interesting reveals. He would get right up to the point where you're taking him home for the first time to tell you it's all puss down there. He's also like very short. Ignore canon heights, they're wrong and do not make nay sense. He's 5'5" max, likely shorter. Short King we love you. Idk how much of that was actually relevant.

Perry:

his body can sweat milk and phin & ferb didn't question it when they thought he laid an egg. so that's canon. to me.

and he is dating heiz and also sometimes in a weird polycule with peter and all of them are trans. love and peace on planet pussy

[jaesrri]

So idk if anyone cares much, but I just gotta throw this out there-

DND Tumblr, send us some luck. I beg of you.

We open session tomorrow with initiative rolls and the facts are these:

We are level 8

Our playgroup is insane-we have a fully homebrew world, run Valda's Spire of Secrets from Mage Hand Press alongside most official 5e content and any other shiny bits that suit us

No really we're nuts. We have 1.6 conlangs (one full, a dialect thereof, and a few extra phrases) This campaign has already spawned a prequel novel, two prequel one-shots, thousands of words of prequel and concurrent text roleplay, an in-universe romance novella, and at least the threat of a prequel detective fiction-of-some-length. Plus assorted art, and an intro and an outro vid, and many, many playlists

The party consists of:

a 13 year old half drow necromancer who isn't exactly an orphan. Raised by the third of her mom's poly triad (terrorist cell leader, jealous AF, sus). Recently chosen as high priestess of Drow goddess of Death we.... May have released/awakened.

A playboy human guardsman (short king, twink, disaster bi) witch/fighter with two souls and royal blood. Also a very good loving mom and stepdad and lotsa excellent (vulnerable) siblings. Recently discovered blood dad and niece rather more questionable

A big (very strong, bit fat, busty) human Magani (oppressed desert culture- the conlang is theirs) fighter/cleric (battle master/twilight) and reluctant Prophet. Her boyfriend (secretly husband (secret wedding 4 in-game days ago)) is Magani by blood but not culture and also a state official (now rogue but not yet officially caught) ((Me!!!))

A Magani amethyst dragonborn aberrant mind sorcerer with a taste for gossip and a successful shop (girlfriend is half-orc craftsman smith- super sweet n talented, shit at finances). Incapable of minding her own buisness

Fairy mad bomber alchemist with a history as an expert fireworks maker and family back home in another country. Here investigating/troubleshooting fuckery in the Dreaming (existential threat to our world). In over their head (we all are)

Human warmage rebel/spy with serious history and beef with the imperial establishment. Recently reunited after 10 years with her sister. Things are rather tense, since said sister is now a warlock of a powerful member of the government (not quite as bad as it sounds, but very awkward)

We have 2 allied NPCs for this encounter, our fighter/cleric's boyfriend (husband), an eloquence bard (9th, poss 10th lvl), and one of the two high government officials that's been trying to make nice with us (sus, but we're pretty desperate) (sister's patron) who is a 20th level Wizard

Our opposition:

one equivalent government official who is absolutely opposed to everything we care about, is genocidal (Magani are probably next), and may infact be some sort of planar horror stuck here for reasons not yet understood. Also a slimy bastard.

And his pet horror who is strongly theorized to be our necromancer's dad, transformed and magically leashed. TBD if there's any of him left

Also of interest

None of us are full up on spells, including our npcs

Being caught doing magic by anyone but our friendly govt guy would be bad

I, (fighter/cleric) gave our witch/fighter my steel sword to hold onto, for I am in possession of the hilt of my ancestor's Thoughtblade which was broken in his last stand. I have learned that in order to reforge I I must simply (not easy) believe. So if I don't believe sufficiently I have no weapon

My steel sword is the only weapon our witch/fighter has, having given his rapier to his younger brother on parting and accidentally left his whip hanging in the coat-closet of the burlesque club we just left.

Our warmage is low-key actively plotting to throw the govt wizard NPC to the creature

Once again, the creature might be our teen necromancer's long lost dad

We have no idea what the super villain govt guy is packing. Wizard? Sorcerer? Horrible abomination? We just don't know

Things we (meta) know

The Dm has said the creature's statblock is unfair

That we should remember running away is an option

That the 20th lvl Wizard would find this challenging

There are five battle maps prepared "In case you do the smart thing and run"

"If you guys play this smart, you may all live to escape. If you guys are very smart, you may even defeat it. If you guys run in like a bunch of idiots, you *are* going to lose PCs. Maybe even permadeath, or very hard to cure death at least."

My character's whole deal is protecting people

We are *not* smart

Several of us are very adverse to allowing collateral damage. Others don't care much

This is a big city. Most of us don't know it well.

We should remember running away is an option

Thank you and I'll update on the fallout after. Hopefully without a blank character sheet in hand.

[absolutebl]

forgive me if you've gotten this question before, but i'm watching love by chance for the first time and aepete are absolutely adorable. i love their height difference and even more so that it's pete that's taller than ae. do you know of any other bls with a reversed height difference like this (seme is shorter than uke, basically)? thank you!!

Shows where height difference is flipped 

Ooo, I haven't had this question before, but it's pretty rare and I can't recall many off the top of my head. (I am so glad you like AePete, they remain one of my favorite couples of all time.) 

Any places with a weak seme/uke is gonna just ignore mostly ignore height difference, so most Taiwanese stuff. The main couple in H4: the one doing the pursuing is shorter than the guy he is after, but it's not very seme uke, more semiuke... if you get what I mean. Mark is shorter the Ouwen in Love Is Science, but yeah, their dynamic is more confident gay + disaster bi himbo who becomes confident gay... or something. 

I LOVE THEM. 

I gotta make a BL cut of this damn show. 

erm, where was I? 

Pure is shorter than pretty much all his lovers in My Gear and Your Gown including Folk, of course. Au is petty darn tall for a Thai actor, and Fiat is short. 

I wouldn’t be surprised is Jeff is shorter than both Barcode (KinnPorsche) and Gameplay (Ingredients - no seme/uke tho). Speaking of, the guy Gameplay was paired with in that awful office romance last year that shall remain nameless (because I cannot remember the title), he was shorter than Game. 

FrankDrake whenever Drake is in the seme roll, so 2gether series. 

Dunk is def taller than Joon (Sky in My Mind).

Akk & Aye if you count Aye as the seme, which I am not sure I do. (The Eclipse)

Sea is a bit taller than Jimmy in Vice Versa.

SeaTin maybe? (Friend Forever) 

I Am Your King, but, yeah.... 

Mork is shorter than Tawan in My Ride, same crossing of the tracks as AePete, but no seme/uke. 

Probably about the same height: 

2gether, Bright might be slightly shorter than Win. 

Tay might also be slightly shorter than New (Dark Blue Kiss). 

And Singto shorter than Krist (SOTUS). 

Phuwin might actually be a bit taller than Pond at this juncture too (FUTS, NLMG). We’ve been watching him grow since My Tee. Speaking of, he’s certainly taller than Neo (did you forget they were once paired?), and I think Luis is also a bit taller than Neo (FUTS, Eclipse). 

Karn might be slightly shorter than Nut, but like MaxTul (Together with Me, Manner of Death) that’s just never been a thing with their dynamic. (Grey Rainbow, Dear Doctor)

Forgotten Plumbing, maybe too? Those two seemed about the same height, with Yoon maybe a little shorter. 

And a note,

Tinted with You, would we call the ACE boy the seme? Then it ranks too. 

[batfam-my-beloved]

Peak Batfam Character Design Headcannons

Bruce Wayne

• Jewish/Japanese/English (Idk where I saw it but someone drew Martha and Thomas Wayne and headcannon Martha as a Jewish Polish immigrant and Thomas as half Japanese half English and I really really love that headcannon) [Edit: it was @not-another-robin ]

• Stubbly scratchy

• Thicc thighs (save lives 🙏🥵)

• Under bite

• Scars all over

• Sharp features/high cheek bones

• 5ft 5in (we support a short king 🙌)

• Wide set sholders/back muscles of the ✨️gods✨️

• Has a scar right that goes through his left brow

• Pierced ears that he got when he was a teenager and going through his "goth" faze (let's be honest it still hasn't ended)

• Mainly sticks to wearing classic black/diamond studs

• Secretly misses his long dangling edgy earings

• Panromantic demisexual

• Autistic /OCD/PTSD

• Pls let him ramble about his special interests 🥺👉👈

• Romanian descent

Dick Grayson

• Built but lean

• Very flexible

• Lovely tan skin

• Cute dimples

• The prettiest dark blue eyes you ever did see

• ✨️Nice ass✨️ (obviously)

• Long leggedy legs

• Floofy mullet hair

• Tall boi 6ft 3in (exactly 1 whole inch taller than Jason and it infuriates him 😋)

• He had to get braces at one point and it was the worst time of his life (drama queen 🤭)

• Low key a fuck boi

• He still sweet tho 😘

• His stomach is an endless black hole

• This ain't no lie this boi is bi bi bi

• Adhd go brr 💨

Jason Todd

• Latino Jason for the win baby! Specifically Mexican because I'm projecting 😋

• Built like a shit brick house

• Sturdy but soft like a weight lifter

• No six pack only tum tum 😤

• 6ft 2in (1 inch shorter then Dick and hates it 🤣)

• Stubbly scratchy (like his dad 🥺)

• Thicc thighs that can crush heads (also like his dad 😅)

• Also is riddled with scars as well, mainly bullet wounds

• End the debate: he has heterochromia one blue and one green eye

• Crooked nose from constantly being broken

• J scar on the cheek (do NOT mention it)

• His eye sight is shit but he refuses to get glasses

• He caved once started have trouble reading without getting a headache 🤓

• Panromantic asexual

• PTSD cuz this boi gots ✨️trauma✨️

Tim Drake

• Vietnamese/Irish (cuz I said so 😤)

• Long lean Built

• Floppy hair with a middle part

• Tooth gap ❤️

• Has one (1) singular dimple on his right cheek

• When not on the clock as Robin he is clumsy and always covered in bandages

• Scraped knees and elbows

• Cuz he was a Skater boi and said no I ain't wearing a helmet

• ✨️Skater boi aesthetic✨️

• Also a gamer boi

• Yes he got the cat ear headphones 🐈 😻 🐈‍⬛️

• His eye sight turns to shit over time cuz he's always on the computer

• Yes he got the hipster glasses 🤓

• Bi disaster

• OCD go brr 💨

Damian Wayne

• Arabic

• Lean muscle like an MMA fighter

• Hopes to hit a growth spurt soon but he will still end up short just like his daddy 😈

• Lovely dark skin

• Very sharp features (like his dad)

• Beautiful green eyes (like his mom)

• Long slender nose

• Teeth and ears are slightly pointed due to his demon blood

• Under bite (it's genetic at this point 😋)

• Neat clipped spiky hair

• Prides himself in not having as many scars as the rest (sign of strength in combat)

• Nonbinary/Gender Queer

• Asperger's Syndrome

• His special interests are anime, animals, and swords

Cassandra Cain

• Chinese decent

• Ballerina body with a bit more muscle around the arms

• Ballerina feet (they hurt 🥺)

• Nice olive skin

• Cute round face

• Hands have lots of little scars and bruises

• Selective mute

• ASL and Chinese sign language✌️

• Bob hair cut with an under cut

• Wanted to peirce her ears when she saw that Bruce had his pierced

• They get matching earings ❤️

• Pan 💖💛💙

• Joining Jason in the PTSD and trauma club 😗✌️

Stephanie Brown

• Hungarian decent

• More square around the shoulders

• Stacked like a classic boxer

• 3 ears piercings on each ear

• Dirty blond hair reaches a little passed her shoulder blades

• Also has had braces at one point

• Nail polish is always chipped

• Has fought several people at 3am behind a Waffle house

• Bi icon

• Low key has anger issues but is going to therapy for that now 😗✌️

Duke Thomas

• African American

• Classic athletic build (like dorito)

• Large thick hands (so that he may hold the people he loves 🥺❤️)

• Square jaw line but also soft around the edges

• Short clipped hair with his little zig zaggies shaved on the side, sometimes he changes up the design when he feels daring 😘

• Ears stick out a little (very cute 😍)

• Also has pierced ear that he's had since he was 8yrs

• He to gets a matching set with Bruce and Cass ❤️

• Over bite

• He is an ally and very supportive 💕

• His lips are chapped cuz our boi gots ✨️Anxiety✨️ and is always chewing on them

[dontbesoevil]

tia’s CQL fanvid recs - wei wuxian #2

After some sad wangxian fanvids, what do you say about some wwx is a gremlin and other fun videos about this boy?

(If you want more information on the project, you can find that here.)

Please go and give some love to the videos on youtube (and to the vidders on tumblr for those for which i could find a tumblr) and leave a comment.

Wei Wuxian | Revel Just For Kicks by Spring Child Music: Feel It Still - Portugal Mood: wwx is a badass and a gremlin Strength(s): Some reframing of the image to give a more cinematic feel with a vibrant colouring and a great sense of timing both with which moments to go with which lyrics (wwx’ enemy being Fairy, very on brand) and which moments are the funniest and work well together, a very happy song and a very happy vid to go with it Notes: I had a big smile on my face the entire time. (Also check Spring Child’s entire channel if you like great fanvids)

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[Wei Wuxian] Pardon Me by Onceuponavideo Music: Pardon Me - DION Mood: Forgive my arrogance, oh wait. Strength(s): Editing on the beat, very dynamic. A first life vid that focuses on wwx in his first life and the choices he’s made to a more upbeat song than usual and I have to say, it does work well too. Notes: tw flashing lights.

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wei wuxian ─ boss b°tch by orphicvis Music: Boss Bitch – Doja Cat Mood: a badass entered the room Strength(s): A very short, instagram-style fanvid with some nice colour and video effect and what you would expect from a good fanvid on boss bitch. Notes: Everyone and their mother in this show has a vid set to boss bitch, but you know, it does work really well.

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wei wuxian / wei ying; BI BI BI by nothingbutstardust Music: Bye Bye Bye - *NSYNC Mood: Happy pride month! Strength(s): Bi disaster wwx has arrived, and we love it. Nice muted colouring with a dynamic editing, a bi flag during the chorus, and all of the moments when wwx showed his true bi self. Notes: You love to see it, please watch it, it’s great.

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Wei Wuxian “Can we just start killing each other?” by PetitPapillon Music: Lex - Ratatat Mood: wwx is a gremlin and we love him Strength(s): A nice editing with a lot of parallels, but no knives this time, only wwx being a gremlin, touching his nose, running because of dogs (#relatable), and making lqr faint. Notes: no *claps* more *claps* sad *claps* wwx *claps* fanvids *claps* only *claps* fun *claps* and *claps* games

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Wei Wuxian (魏无羡) | Dance Monkey | FMV by Dynahstia Music: Dance Monkey by Tones and I Mood: wwx being like “and so what?” Strength(s): A Instagram-style edit with a strong blue and pink colouring, text effects, and video effects. It’s fun and short. Notes: This is video is nice and also uses a song that is just haunting my dreams because primary school kids love it and kept asking to dance on it when we were doing dance.

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wei wuxian is a SPOOKY BOY by Juu Music: Spooky Boy - Danny Gonzalez Mood: It’s Halloween and here’s its king Strength(s): Very fun editing! Notes: Both CQL and MDZS

[libraryleopard]

Icebreaker by A.L. Graziadei

YA contemporary novel

Follows the youngest son in a family of hockey champions as he navigates his first semester of college, the pressure of the upcoming NHL draft, and falling for the guy who should be his his biggest rival for the draft

Bisexual protagonist with anxiety and depression, Black gay love interest

Explores mental healthy, familial expectations, and picking your own path in life 

[hugh-lauries-bald-spot]

Ohohohoho for the character ask Conseil and/or Ned >:)

I'm doing both because theyre both so blorbo

Ned -

How i feel about the character: hes so great, such a toughie on the outside and an absolute soft marshmallow of a man for the people he loves, i love my dense himbo man your honor hes just swell

All the people I ship romantically with this character: Ned x Conseil for the win!!! I love this pairing they make me unwell (affectionate)!!! the no chill x all chill, braincell x no braincell, THE can-class-fish-but-cant-indentify-them x can-identify-fish-but-cant-class-them, truly a superb ship

My non romantic OTP for this character: the ned-nemo hostility gets me every time they hate each other so much its so funny, like theres no respect here and i live for it

My unpopular opinion about this character: hes VERY SOFT when conseil is affectionate!!! also hes bi!!! (also conseil needs to be added to whale of a tale asap just saying)

One thing i wish would happen/had happened with this character in canon: just "i want to see more of this miserable little man" in general, and it never would have happened cause it was like the 1800s but i want to see him slow dance with conseil let me dream

Conseil -

How i feel about the character: LITERALLY BLORBO FROM MY BOOKS I LOVE HIM HES MY FAVE <3 hes so serious but also just so curious and cute and im in love with him and hes me

All the people I ship romantically with this character: again, NED x CONSEIL FTW TOP TIER YOU GUYS, they always show up everywhere together, and if youre me, theres an adorable and perfect height difference, they share a room DESPITE NO ACTUAL NEED TO DO SO THERES LIKE 200 SPARES??? AND THE FISH IDENTIFICATION if you havent read this book do it read 20000 leagues right now do it

My non romantic OTP for this character: his friendship with the gay adhd disaster himself pierre aronnax, i picture him just patiently listening like "mhm" as he goes on about nemo, gossiping about their serious ocean-men bfs, all of it their dynamic is awesome BROest of TPs (also no shit to people who ship them romantically. this is a small fandom we gotta support each other despite our differences <3)

My unpopular opinion about this character: SHORT KING CONSEIL FOR THE WIN HES A LIL GUY BOTH SPIRITUALLY AND PHYSICALLY i imagine him as like 5'8". Also when i was first reading the book my brain went "hes a short lil black guy" and i literally never looked back it just happened and i ran with it

One thing i wish would happen/had happened with this character in canon: i think ned should have taught him to play go fish or something and he needed it explained a few times cause i headcanon him as the books smart kind but kinda dense about everything else (this is pure projection)

[u-look-beautiful-today]

Owl House Gang Zodiac Signs

Okay so, keep in mind these are my opinions and I really don't know much about zodiac signs. This all comes from basic knowledge and from people I've met. Considering we only have 11 episodes out, we really don't know much about some characters' personalities. So some of these are possibly going to change, but this is just at a first look. Also, Zodiac signs do not define a person. People are complex and can fit into multiple Zodiac traits. With all this in mind, enjoy my ramble!

Luz: For the love of GOD, this bi disaster is an Aries. I feel like I don't need to explain it. If you know an Aries, you KNOW I'm right. Aries are usually courageous, determined, confident, enthusiastic, optimistic, honest, and passionate. While they are also Impatient, moody, short-tempered, impulsive, and aggressive. Aries are known to act before they think (don’t we know). They are also considered the most active sign and have youthful energy about them, no matter their age.

Amity: Scorpio. Hands down, this little bean is a Scorpio. Again, I really don't need to explain. Scorpios are resourceful, brave, passionate, hardworking, and a true friend (interesting!). While they are also distrusting, jealous, secretive, stubborn, violent. They are one of the most misunderstood signs. While mysterious and often seen as cold-hearted, they are also excellent leaders and they hate dishonesty. They value the truth and fairness (sound familiar?). If a Scorpio allows you into their life, they will be loyal and protective over you.

King: This lovable little guy is a Leo. Leos are creative, passionate, generous, warm-hearted, cheerful, and humorous. While also being arrogant, stubborn, self-centered, lazy, and inflexible. Leos have very high self-esteem and have no problem praising themselves. Leos are known to put themselves first, but if a Leo puts you first, it is genuine and because they want to. Leos are lions, known as the “King of the Jungle” (very fitting for King!).

Willow: I was struggling to find her sign. But after much thought and 3am Ted Talks to myself, Willow is a Virgo. Virgos are loyal, analytical, kind, hardworking, practical. On the flip side, they are shy, worry, overly critical of self and others, all work, and no play. When you first meet a Virgo, they may seem shy at first but are amazing friends. Always willing to lend a hand or advice. They hate being let down, but they never want to disappoint others and will wear themselves thin.

Gus: Oh Gus! Most would expect him to be a Cancer however, I feel as though he fits more like a Pisces. Pisces are compassionate, artistic, intuitive, gentle, wise, musical. They can also be fearful, overly trusting, sad, desire to escape reality, and can be a victim. They are never judgemental and always forgiving. Pisces are known for having the best gut feelings, almost being psychic. However, they can get stuck in their heads and have a hard time asking for help. Pisces can also be very friendly and thrive in small groups of people.

Eda: So Eda, at first I thought Scorpio, however, I believe that she might be a Sagittarius. They are generous, idealistic, and have a great sense of humor. While being selfish, blunt, impatient, and can promise more than they can deliver. Sagittarius is known as travelers and doesn’t mind going about it alone. They will step away from the crowd and do as they please. They are leaders and will go after whatever they want, no matter what others think.

Honorable Mentions:

Emira and Edric: Leos. I mean COME ON.

Lilith: Gemini. Only because it is the opposite of a Sagittarius.

Boscha: Capricorn. Only because every Capricorn I’ve met are DICKS.

Hooty: Cancer. I really have no idea why. It just feels right.

Again, these are just my opinions and hold no real facts. If you have other thoughts please let me know!! Especially if you are more well educated in Zodiac signs! I can’t wait for more episodes to give us more character depth into everyone.

Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk

[phoebehalliwell]

Yo et’s talk next gen fashion like let’s go!!! I’m sorry but if Warren and Sheridan aren’t fashion disaster I can’t 😂 Also for some reason I see Dency as a Hawaiian/vintage print shirt kinda gal

okay okay okay so warren is bi and definitely dresses in a way that is just like. insanely bisexual i am talking those printed button up shirts but like you wear em tits out y’all know what i’m talking about he looks very california for the record like he’s got the long blond hair the print shirts definitely has like those sweatpant shorts shorts that are sweatpants i would say warren is simultaneously big on color but like also like. all his kind of jackets and stuff are going to be like monotone pullover hoodies in like white and grey and black. he’s wearing a super loud pattern underneath, but it’s giant hoodie, so you can’t really tell. and it’s not like he’s fashion conscious or whatever it’s mainly like the rule of thumb you look in the mirror and say okay do i look fuckable today and if the answer is yes u r ready to go!! he’s also definitely 100% worn this outfit before

like beat for beat sunglasses included wood bead necklace included. there was a brief period somewhere in high school when he found jack and jeff’s old clothes from the 90s and they were all like o shit yeah we should give them away and warrens like u don’t understand i will 100% take all of these

sheridan on the other hand is definitely more boring because warren is ready to take these fashion risks dress 90s vintage tacky go into the world tits out a force to be reckoned with and sheridan’s like what. what. what. like he does not get it he does not do bright colors he entire wardrobe is gonna be like grayscale blues and then like band t shirts. he doesn’t even julie and the phantoms then where he slices them into fun slutty tank tops because the thought does not even cross his mind because he is Not a fashionista. also he didn’t watch julie and the phantoms : ( warren did and then immediately got an old t shirt and scissors king. and then the one true wardrobe staple for sheridan halliwell is an oversized denim jacket i am telling y’all denim jackets are so slept on i am tired of guy in a rock band in a leather jacket it is too easy but denim jackets. the oversized ones got the largest pockets known to man you can transport like. five deli sammies in those bad boys And imo it is the perfect norcal outerwear bc like its warm enough that you can wear it in the winter (tho u might want to like layer a zip up hoodie under it) but also cool enough that you can wear it into the summer. like, yes, once it it’s a hundo you’ll be toasty but like you can still swing it you can not do a hundred degrees in leather it is sweaty it is uncomfy and the outside of your jacket will burn anything it touches this is my longwinded way of saying: oversized denim jackets ♥. also i feel like it’s very 90′s/aughts to do denim on denim so we’re paying homage to the origins of charmed not consciously tho because you know sheridan has never heard the phrase denim on denim in his life

dency i have so many thoughts on dency okay because so let’s talk like. like!! for starters she’s phoebe halliwell’s daughter okay Thee Phoebe Halliwell who brought us looks like 

like!! so i feel like dency should dress absolutely nutz obvi she’s gotta have low rise jeans obvi But! i feel like there’s a whole nother added element bc she is the source’s heir right she’s half demon so she’s never really fit into the magical world bc she’s you know. a demon. so there’s definitely an element of self-ostracization here like dressing in a way that denotes her as separate from the magical community isolating herself before they can isolate her i’m loving the idea of hawaiian/vintage prints something where she’s just like i’m weird i’m a weirdo i don’t fit in and i don’t want to fit in like that vibe but i also really really love the idea of punk dency like um lost boys. lost boys the movie from the 80s. big moment fashion wise for dency. she’s like yes im a freak im gonna dress like that. where it’s like. kinda like. it’s punk fashion it’s still bright and colorful and ridiculous because she’s phoebe halliwells daughter

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

as someone more well versed in Shakespeare than I, what would you recommend for someone who wants to get into Shakespeare for the first time?

hey hey anon!!! I am by no means among the most well-versed in Shakespeare- I still haven't actually read any of the histories in full, for example- but I'll let you know from my humble experience what's good for first-timers.

My first-ever Shakespeare was Othello, as a precocious ten-year-old who bought a copy of the play and read it during a family vacation one year. For both ten-year-olds and the general public, I do not recommend this. Did I like it? Yes. Did it start me on the Shakespeare path? Also yes. Did I understand what the fuck was going on? Not really. Is Othello a good first Shakespeare play at any age? Probably not. Definitely worth reading/seeing, but not as an introduction to Shakespeare.

The two parts of my recommendations to Shakespeare first-timers:

1. watch plays first, then read them. it will make your life so much easier and the plays so much more enjoyable. shortly after reading Othello, I went through my (independent private day) school's Shakespeare in Film summer class, where we watched a few different adaptations, including the Zeffirelli Hamlet, The Lion King (yeah...), West Side Story (to this day the only time I have ever seen the film in full, although I love both it and the musical), and a couple other films I don't remember. Did I understand them? Still not really, but a heck of a lot more than if I had just read the plays. Eight years later, this still holds up.

2. As for good starter plays: Macbeth is short, snappy, filled with action, and a hell of a lot of fun, plus there's so much amazing lore. Romeo and Juliet seems cliché, but it's a classic for a reason and it's a damn good play. Plus, you at the very least will know the basics of the plot. Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and The Merry Wives of Windsor are all deliciously witty comedies, each with their own styles (tragicomedy vs. Disaster Bi Angst Avec Shenanigans vs. Magic and Metatheatrical Poly Shenanigans vs. Feminist Fun). Hamlet is not a great starter either but it's honestly a lot of fun with all the intrigue and personally I think it's much easier to keep track of than King Lear, which I still cannot quite get all the workings of that plot down.

Anyway, that's my two cents.

[myfaveisfuckable]

Apollo:

This is the transest non canon trans man to ever exist. There are so many trans men in this fandom and a signifucant portion of us latched on to Apollo Justice and his rockstar dodging pussy. Klavier Gavin rockstar prosecutor canon disaster bi? Wants him. Can't have him, but he wants him so, so bad. Look the trans autism pussy hits different, ok? He shows up to work and he works, do not talk to him about non work related things he will not answer you. Very easy to fluster though if you flirt with him even a little. He'll get annoyed at you for it though, he's so insecure. Would love to get in his ass. He's probably memorized every law ever and could recite them while you blow him he's so hot. He is literally so dense, mans can tell when you're lying and still will not put two and two together unless it's in a court room. May or may not have been involved with his dead best friend but they were at the very least codependent. He straight up does not talk about himself ever and it makes for some interesting reveals. He would get right up to the point where you're taking him home for the first time to tell you it's all puss down there. He's also like very short. Ignore canon heights, they're wrong and do not make nay sense. He's 5'5" max, likely shorter. Short King we love you. Idk how much of that was actually relevant.

* I know bc I ate him behind a defunct dennys

Chuuya:

1. Have you seen this man?? His pussy poppeth severely

2. GOD this man has me in a chokehold.

The collar. The crop jacket. The flexibility. The noisiness. The wine mom milf coding. You just KNOW he could ride you silly.

I want him so bad it's not even funny. He's only tiddy height on me and I do not give a damn

* not proven to not have one* I know bc I ate him behind a defunct dennys* canon in my heart

[ofbarreras]

hey everyone ! first of all, i am SO excited to finally get to write with you all ! i’m a, and i write eddie barrera aka ritenuto ! i’m 23, est, she / her. currently, when i’m not watching way too much tv or reading, i’m in college. thankfully, i’m technically on winter break now. below is eddie’s intro, but his full bio can be found here. his connections page is here, but it’s empty because i want to plot stuff out with people. lastly, here is a list of headcanons that is being regularly updated. all of the ones on his intro can be found there. 

stats

full name: eduardo barrera

nickname: eddie

gender & pronouns: cis male, he / him

orientation: bisexual / biromantic

age: twenty-two

occupation: none

status: deceased

history

tw: anxiety, mentions of a panic attack, death

growing up, eddie’s parents had very high expectations for him. he really does believe in his heart that they just wanted what was best for him, but always having to be the perfect son did a number on him. even now, he tries so hard to please others that he forgets to put himself first.

for a.... very long time he was a popular jock ( rip ), except he was the quiet, nice jock who just sits with the douchebags. he played soccer and hated it.

he taught himself to play the piano when he was eight, and it’s his favorite thing, honestly. any time he’s stressed or upset, catch him jamming out on the piano.

eddie’s always known he was an anxious person, but it wasn’t until his first panic attack when he was fifteen that he realized how bad it was. playing the piano definitely helps, but he still has his rough days.

being in the band helped too, of course. joining a rock band wasn’t something his parents loved, but it made eddie happy. he loved his time with the band - it was the best part of his life. 

eddie went to ucla on a partial academic scholarship. the rest of the money came from his parents, as well as the part time job he had to help cover his own rent. because his parents paid for things, he really didn’t have many options with what he majored in, so he technically has an econ degree ( y i k e s ). 

dying hasn’t been easy on him. he’s coping...somewhat. he’s just really lost right now. i don’t think he knows whether or not he wants to move on, or whether he wants to try to keep the band going. i think he’s really struggling with what to do next in general. 

headcanons

eddie has a little sister, isabel aka izzy. they used to get on each other’s last nerves, but he did love her. she was about three years younger than him, and he’s so weirded out by the idea of her now being in her mid 30s. if he ever did decide to go see a member of his family, it would probably be her. but also he’s really unsure as to whether he wants to see any of them, or if that would just hurt too much.

used to be a classical pianist only sort of guy but obviously branched out once he joined killer conclusions. still, i feel like he may not have had quite the impressive musical taste as some of his bandmates. he absolutely loved backstreet boys and britney spears. sorry dali !!! but also he’s a big fan of fleetwood mac.

disaster bi. literally anyone at all flirts with him and he’s like “is this love ?” he had terrible luck with love when he was alive, and i’m not sure it’s much better now that he’s dead, honestly. but who knows. not me.

eddie is third generation. he’s colombian on his mother’s side and mexican on his dad’s, and he’s bilingual. around the house, the barrera’s mostly spoke spanish, unless they had guests over. they made sure that eddie and izzy still felt connected to both colombian and mexican culture.

he was raised catholic, but he stopped going to church after he moved out. he considered himself to be more agnostic at the time of his death, and at this point is like “that’s too much to process on top of everything else, thanks.” 

as much as i love classical pianist eddie barrera, a part of me would love for him to learn a second instrument at some point. give him some musical range !!!!

he was such an absolute teacher’s pet in school, oh my god. like he doesn’t mean to be a suck up, but he likes rules and being liked. so he ended up often being the kid that adults trusted.

eddie is a short king. he’s only 5′7′’ but we love that for him. 

he’s gone by eddie for as long as he can remember, but i think it would be excellent for someone to call him eduardo at least once.

he sings harmony sometimes and that is it !!! well maybe the occasional duet, but nothing more than little solos here and there. the thought of singing a full song by himself is terrifying.

if he had been able to chose his own major, i think he would have picked music tbh.

eddie can absolutely chicken out of things. he does it often. if he has enough time to talk himself out of doing something, he will - which is why he needs people to push him. 

team mom, now and forever. 100% the friend who has to be like “this is the dumbest idea you’ve never had.” definitely the voice of reason. also, once he’s close to you, he can be a bit snarky. like, i think he definitely calls people dumbass very affectionately. 

he can come across as distant and almost maybe even a little bit aloof at first ? he’s just not great at letting people in right away, it takes him some time usually. but if you manage to get past that, he’s the sweetest guy. he has such a big heart and he’s absolutely so loyal to his friends. he would do anything for the people he cares about, almost to the point of being self-sacrificing. again, he puts his own needs last, so he would give up anything for his friends in a heartbeat. 

[rapeculturerealities]

“BUTCH” HAS LONG been the name we’ve given a certain kind — that kind — of lesbian. The old adage applies: You know her when you see her. She wears men’s clothing, short hair, no makeup. Butch is an aesthetic, but it also conveys an attitude and energy. Both a gender and a sexuality, butchness is about the body but also transcends it: “We exist in this realm of masculinity that has nothing to do with cis men — that’s the part only we [butches] know how to talk about,” says the 42-year-old writer, former Olympic swimmer and men’s wear model Casey Legler. “Many people don’t even know how to ask questions about who we are, or about what it means to be us.”

Many of us wear the butch label with a certain self-consciousness, fearing the term doesn’t quite fit — like a new pair of jeans, it’s either too loose or too tight. The graphic novelist Alison Bechdel, 59, doesn’t refer to herself as butch but understands why others do. “It’s a lovely word, ‘butch’: I’ll take it, if you give it to me,” she says. “But I’m afraid I’m not butch enough to really claim it. Because part of being butch is owning it, the whole aura around it.”

What does owning it look like? Decades before genderless fashion became its own style, butches were wearing denim and white tees, leather jackets and work boots, wallet chains and gold necklaces. It isn’t just about what you’re wearing, though, but how: Butchness embodies a certain swagger, a 1950s-inspired “Rebel Without a Cause” confidence. In doing so, these women — and butches who don’t identify as women — created something new and distinct, an identity you could recognize even if you didn’t know what to call it.

By refuting conventionally gendered aesthetics, butchness expands the possibilities for women of all sizes, races, ethnicities and abilities. “I always think of the first butch lesbian I ever saw,” says the 33-year-old actor Roberta Colindrez. “This beautiful butch came into the grocery store and she was built like a brick house. Short hair, polo shirt, cargo pants and that ring of keys … It was the first time I saw the possibility of who I was.” And yet, to many people, “butch style” remains an oxymoron: There’s a prevalent assumption that we’re all fat, frumpy fashion disasters — our baseball caps and baggy pants suggest to others that we don’t care about self-presentation. But it’s not that we’re careless; it’s that unlike, say, the gay white men who have been given all too much credit for influencing contemporary visual culture, we’re simply not out to appease the male gaze. We disregard and reject the confines of a sexualized and commodified femininity.

ETYMOLOGICALLY, “butch” is believed to be an abbreviation of “butcher,” American slang for “tough kid” in the early 20th century and likely inspired by the outlaw Butch Cassidy. By the early 1940s, the word was used as a pejorative to describe “aggressive” or “macho” women, but lesbians reclaimed it almost immediately, using it with pride at 1950s-era bars such as Manhattan’s Pony Stable Inn and Peg’s Place in San Francisco. At these spots, where cocktails cost 10 cents and police raids were a regular occurrence, identifying yourself as either butch or femme was a prerequisite for participating in the scene.

These butches were, in part, inspired by 19th-century cross-dressers — then called male impersonators or transvestites — who presented and lived fully as men in an era when passing was a crucial survival tactic. We can also trace butchness back to the androgynous female artists of early 20th-century Paris, including the writer Gertrude Stein and the painter Romaine Brooks. But it wasn’t until the 1960s and early 1970s that butches, themselves at the intersection of the burgeoning civil, gay and women’s rights movements, became a more visible and viable community.

From their earliest incarnations, butches faced brutal discrimination and oppression, not only from outside their community but also from within. A certain brand of (mostly white) lesbian feminism dominant in the late ’70s and early ’80s marginalized certain sorts of “otherness” — working-class lesbians, lesbians of color and masculine-of-center women. They pilloried butchness as inextricably misogynist and butch-femme relationships as dangerous replications of heteronormative roles. (Such rhetoric has resurfaced, as trans men are regularly accused of being anti-feminist in their desire to become the so-called enemy.) Challenged yet again to defend their existence and further define themselves, butches emerged from this debate emboldened, thriving in the late ’80s and early ’90s as women’s studies programs — and, later, gender and queer studies departments — gained traction on North American and European college campuses.

The ’90s were in fact a transformative decade for the butch community. In 1990, the American philosopher Judith Butler published her groundbreaking “Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity,” and her theories about gender were soon translated and popularized for the masses. In her academic work, Butler argues that gender and sexuality are both constructed and performative; butch identity, as female masculinity, subverts the notion that masculinity is the natural and exclusive purview of the male body. Soon after, butch imagery infiltrated the culture at large. The August 1993 issue of Vanity Fair featured the straight supermodel Cindy Crawford, in a black maillot, straddling and shaving the butch icon K.D. Lang. That same year, the writer Leslie Feinberg published “Stone Butch Blues,” a now classic novel about butch life in 1970s-era New York. In Manhattan, comedians such as Lea DeLaria and drag kings such as Murray Hill took to the stage; it was also the heyday of Bechdel’s “Dykes to Watch Out For,” the serialized comic strip she started in 1983. In 1997, Ellen DeGeneres, still the most famous of butches, came out. Two years later, Judith “Jack” Halberstam and Del LaGrace Volcano published “The Drag King Book” and the director Kimberly Peirce released her breakthrough film, “Boys Don’t Cry”; its straight cisgender star, Hilary Swank, went on to win an Oscar for her portrayal of Brandon Teena, a role that still incites contentious debates about the nebulous boundaries between butch and trans identity. These artists and their legacies are the cornerstones of our community. As Legler says, “This is where we’ve come from, and the folks we look back to. If you identify with that lineage, then we’d love to have you.”

LIKE ANY QUEER subculture, butchness is vastly different now than it was three decades ago — though the codes have been tweaked and refined over the years, younger butches continue to take them in new and varied directions: They may experiment with their personas from day to day, switching fluidly between masculine and feminine presentation. There are “stone butches,” a label that doesn’t refer to coldness, as is often assumed, but to a desire to touch rather than to be touched — to give rather than receive — and is considered slightly more masculine than “soft butch” on the Futch Scale, a meme born in 2018 that attempted to parse the gradations from “high femme” to “stone butch.” (“Futch,” for “femme/butch,” is square in the middle.) And while there remains some truth to butch stereotypes — give us a plaid flannel shirt any day of the week — that once-static portrait falls apart under scrutiny and reflection. Not every butch has short hair, can change a tire, desires a femme. Some butches are bottoms. Some butches are bi. Some butches are boys.

Different bodies own their butchness differently, but even a singular body might do or be butch differently over time. We move between poles as our feelings about — and language for — ourselves change. “In my early 20s, I identified as a stone butch,” says the 45-year-old writer Roxane Gay. “In adulthood, I’ve come back to butch in terms of how I see myself in the world and in my relationship, so I think of myself as soft butch now.” Peirce, 52, adds that this continuum is as much an internal as an external sliding scale: “I’ve never aspired to a binary,” she says. “From day one, the idea of being a boy or a girl never made sense. The ever-shifting signifiers of neither or both are what create meaning and complexity.”

Indeed, butch fluidity is especially resonant in our era of widespread transphobia. Legler, who uses they/them pronouns, is a “trans-butch identified person — no surgery, no hormones.” Today, the interconnected spectrums of gender and queerness are as vibrant and diverse in language as they are in expression — genderqueer, transmasc, nonbinary, gender-nonconforming. Yet butches have always called themselves and been called by many names: bull dyke, diesel dyke, bulldagger, boi, daddy and so on. Language evolves, “flowing in time and changing constantly as new generations come along and social structures shift,” Bechdel says.

If it’s necessary to think historically, it’s also imperative to think contextually. Compounding the usual homophobia and misogyny, black and brown butches must contend with racist assumptions: “Black women often get read as butch whether they are butch or not,” Gay says. “Black women in general are not seen, so black butchness tends to be doubly invisible. Except for studs: They’re very visible,” she adds, referring to a separate but related term used predominantly by black or Latinx butches (though, unsurprisingly, white butches have appropriated it) who are seen as “harder” in their heightened masculinity and attitude. Gay notes that “people tend to assume if you’re a black butch, you’re a stud and that’s it,” which is ultimately untrue. Still, butch legibility remains a paradox: As the most identifiable of lesbians — femmes often “pass” as straight, whether they want to or not — we are nonetheless maligned and erased for our failure of femininity, our refusal to be the right kind of woman.

ANOTHER LINGERING stereotype, one born from “Stone Butch Blues” and its more coded literary forebears, particularly Radclyffe Hall’s “The Well of Loneliness” (1928), is the butch as a tragic and isolated figure. She is either cast out by a dominant society that does not — will not — ever see her or accept her, or she self-isolates as a protective response to a world that continually and unrelentingly disparages her.

When a butch woman does appear in mainstream culture, it’s usually alongside her other: the femme lesbian. Without the femme and the contrast she underscores, the butch is “inherently uncommodifiable,” Bechdel says, since two butches together is just a step “too queer.” We rarely see butches depicted in or as community, an especially sobering observation given the closure of so many lesbian bars over the past two decades. But when you talk to butches, a more nuanced story emerges, one of deep and abiding camaraderie and connection. Despite the dearth of representation, butch love thrives — in the anonymous, knowing glances across the subway platform when we recognize someone like us, and in the bedroom, too. “Many of my longest friendships are with people who register somewhere on the butch scale,” Peirce says. “We’re like married couples who fell in love with each other as friends.”

Legler, for their part, recognizes a “lone wolf” effect, one in which some young queers initially love “being the only butch in the room.” In organizing the group portrait that accompanies this essay over the past months, Legler was curious “what it would be like for butches to just show up together and to be able to display all of their power, all of their sexiness, all of their charisma, without having it be mitigated in some way.” And not only for butches of an older generation, but for those still figuring things out, transforming the scene in ways that both defy and inspire their elders. “It’s been centuries in the making, the fact that we are all O.K.,” Legler adds. “That our bodies get to exist: We have to celebrate that. You can do more than just survive. You can contribute.”

[yutaya]

The thing is -

The thing is -

I still love the Magicians.

I love all of my characters.

Quentin the disaster bi, stumbling his way through learning and growing and a lifetime’s worth of maturing.

Julia our goddess, who keeps a spark through all the darkness and uses it to help people wherever she can.

Eliot, whose greatest creative project was his overly sophisticated snarky self and whose most difficult project is his compassionate loyal brave self.

Penny, who cares so much and fails horribly at keeping anyone from knowing about it.

Margo our high king, the tough bitch, super loving, not so secretly nerdy feminist icon.

Alice and her journey with all its ups and downs and losing her faith and learning how to rebuild her belief on new foundations.

Kady our tough ass best bitch who gets shit done and just altered the course of all of magic.

Josh the soft pacifist foodie who just wants to tend to his vegetable garden, bake and cook for his found family, and probably be featured in food magazines.

Fen the ray of sunshine with her knife collection, ready to fight to death at a moment’s notice if it means protecting her people.

I love all the big storylines that we all believed in. I love all the little moments. I love Alice’s jaw clench head tilt tick with her mother and Penny rolling his eyes when Eliot strips off his jacket to quote Patrick Swayze and Fen with her crab knife gifs. I love Life in a Day and Home Improvement and Six Short Stories About Magic and The Side Effect. I love tacos on the Muntjac and drawing little faces on eggs and signature cocktails for every friend and teasing each other about love lives.

I love Quentin facing down that fourth key and Eliot promising to be brave.

And I - what do I do with that?

“Shouldn’t loving the idea of Fillory be enough?”

[thisiswhatwereupagainst]

The Forgotten LGBT Characters of 1990s Marvel Comics

Hey X-Men fans! It’s still June, still Pride month, so I wanted to talk about three lesser-known LGBT Marvel characters. They’re very obscure, and they’re all also all from the early 1990s. Like Mystique, one might consider them pioneers of Marvel becoming inclusive of LGBT people. Unlike Mystique, no one really knows about them, as they never became major players (far from it, in fact) Be warned, two of them are villains and very much products of their time and the unfortunate way that society was still treating LGBT people; Marvel was starting to include them, sure, but in very demonized, stereotyped ways. But problematic or not, they existed and they’re close to my heart, and I’d like them to be remembered by a greater amount of fandom. Who knows, if enough people like them, maybe they will come back in canon one day and be treated with greater sensitivity!

Shinobi Shaw (bisexual) - Shinobi Shaw appeared as the young estranged son of Sebastian Shaw, who abused him terribly as a child. While he looked pretty badass at first by killing his father (it turned out not to take, alas) he spent the rest of his time being pretty much a joke as a villain. He preferred to just get drunk and hang out with a bevvy of hot men and women than really do any villainy, and what villainy he did commit was largely limited to trying to get X-Men he liked (Warren and Storm) to join him. Seriously, he sent Warren an invitation to a Hellfire Club party on a PERFUMED card with a LACEY border written in LOOPY PINK INK, and wanted him to be his White King. He totally had a crush on him. Jubilee drives it home with a “Liberace” comparison just in case that was all too subtle for readers. And of course he was attracted to Storm because...STORM. All bad guys like Storm! That’s not where the hints of bisexuality end, though. And by “hints” I mean “on more than one occasion he’s surrounded by men and women who are in various states of undress” like basically the art is trying to tell us that he’s in the middle of an orgy at any given time. At one point, his butler asks him if he’s having oysters or snails tonight, which is an old-timey way of saying “women or men”, and Shinobi replies he thinks he’ll have dinner first, just so the readers are sure he AIN’T talking about food here. Also he dresses in a purple pirate coat and lilac pinstripe pants. I don’t like stereotyping but COME ON GUYS. Fashion bicon right here! Shinobi is definitely and blatantly depicted as bisexual, but he’s really not what could be called good bisexual representation. He’s not only a villain, he’s played up as simultaneously despicable and ineffective, as too effeminate and damaged (his status as an abuse survivor is not treated sympathetically either) to be any real threat, but still as disgusting nonetheless. He’s also depicted as something of an attempted sexual predator, but also as, again, not really enough of a “real man” for it to be scary, just gross. He’s also played up a LOT as a decadent hedonist obsessed only with pleasure, which is an age-old stereotype of gay people and bi people both, but especially bi people. There’s a lot of problems with Shinobi. But he’s still a lot of fun as a character, at least to me, and the hints of how emotionally damaged he is from aforementioned abuse and the implication he may have a substance abuse problem and that all this decadence might just be his only way of coping because he’s clearly unable to connect with people but WANTS to somehow...there’s a great character arc here waiting to happen, if some writer only sees it. Those familiar with the far more famous Daken might notice some similarities in design; both are the eastranged predatory  bisexual abused half-Japanese son of a burlier, hairier, pre-established white male character. Of course, Daken was far more competent and became a much more major, complex character. Maybe Shinobi was sort of his first draft? Who knows! All I know is that as of June 19, Shinobi has finally re-appeared alive in Uncanny X-Men #20, and I’m hoping for more shenanigans--preferably in the flamboyant bisexual disaster Shinobi style! Mindmeld (transgender) - Mindmeld appears solely in X-Force #62 as a bodyguard in the employ of Shinobi Shaw. No alternative name is given for her, and it’s my headcanon that “Mindmeld” is her chosen name as both a mutant and a trans woman. How do we know she’s a trans woman? Well, we don’t. But she’s drawn with the same body type and facial shape as all the male characters are, because this is comics and there’s one mold for guys, one for ladies. However, despite big muscles, a strong jaw, and a distinct lack of breasts, she presents pretty feminine, with makeup and a lot of jewelry. The other characters (the heroes, no less) express confusion about her gender, saying things like “Now, Mr. or Mrs. Mindmeld...” and “What is your real name? Pat? Chris?” (get it? those are unisex/androgynous names?) However, only “she” pronouns are ever used for her. Given all this, I think it’s fair to say that these jabs along with her physical appearance are meant to hint to the audience that she’s a transgender woman. She could fall into some other trans category, such as non-binary or genderqueer, but considering this was the 90s (when those identities were less known) and being written by straight cis guys (the least likely to know about said identities) I think that her being a pre-op/non-op/non-passing trans woman is a safe guess. My bet is that her presence was meant to add some shock value and play up Shinobi’s own bisexuality (since it’s a common misconception that a straight man couldn’t possibly be into a trans woman) In any case, she was short-lived and ill-treated by both the story and the other characters, but I find her intriguing. She’s also very important despite her obscurity, as she’s the first representation of a transgender mutant that I’m aware of that didn’t involve something like shapeshiting or or bodyswapping (though her powers could swap the brains of other people!) or being an alien with no knowledge of gender norms, or any other “explanation” that accounted for being trans that had no real-world equivalent. She just seems to have been trans in the way REAL people are trans, something that thus far no mutant I’m aware of (save for another one-time character, Jessie Drake) has been. And I think she damn well deserves some love for that. Plus look at her, she’s just cool! Nocturne (wlw) - Nocturne aka Angela Cairn (no, not TJ Wagner, this is a different Nocturne) is the only non-villain on this list, and the only one whose sexuality was treated sympathetically, perhaps because it was only hinted at and her story was told largely in metaphor. Ironically, she’s also the only chracter here who is not a mutant or an X-Men character, despite X-Men being the publication that’s supposed to be all about embracing the different and downtrodden. She first appears in the 1993 Spectacular Spider-Man Annual #13, and had a few subsequent appearances before disappearing from the page altogether. Angela Cairn was a police officer of Black, Cuban, and Native American (tribe unspecified) heritage. As a lifelong victim of prejudice, she joined the police in hopes of using the law to protect others from being victimized. She is implied to have been in a romantic relationship with a fellow female officer, Jackie Kessler, and the two may have co-habited. After Jackie is murdered in the line of duty, Angela went on the trail of a serial killer who she believed was the same supervillain that killed Jackie. Following a false lead, she was lured to a warehouse where she was trapped and experimented on by one of the nameless mutates created from humans by Baron Zemo. Unlike the other monstrous mutates, this one did not seek to return to human form, and, for reasons unknown, wanted Angela to become like her. As a result, Angela was transformed in the mute, winged, vampire-like being called Nocturne. No longer able to live in human society or even explain to others that she’s Angela, Nocturne becomes homeless and protects those who also live on the fringes of society, including a boy who is the victim of a gay-bashing. Her journey ends up being not a typical superhero tale, but an introspective single-issue saga of pain and self-acceptance. It’s told largely in what I interpret to be metaphor for coming to terms with being open about her sexuality only after she lost her partner, which I write more extensively about HERE, and I personally find it to be a surprisingly deep and nuanced story---especially for comics, which are usually about as subtle as an anvil when it comes to whatever social commentary they’re trying to get across (not that this is always a bad thing either!) Anyway, if you read this far, I’d very much appreciate it if you would reblog! I think these characters deserve to be more well-known, and I think a lot of people will enjoy seeing their representation, flawed and dated though it may be.

[black-water-simping-ships]

fuckin’ love The Way of Kings and will do my best to get my smol hands on any other Sanderson novels. so have a love stream though i am not yet through with it. i’m at like 750 of 1200 or so

- illustrations!!!

- Kaladin my mysterious depressed hero who manages not to be annoying 80% of the time which is refreshing to see in a main male special gifted to-be-leader character

- Shallan. give me an entire book that’s just this bi disaster sassing everyone in the vicinity. i might laugh too hard to survive it but it’d be worth it. my life needs 300% more shallan. why does she have so few chapters

- Dalinar - i am not sure what to think about you my good dude but you sure are interesting. fuck’s sake is up with your wife though? (ohhh oh my GOD did you lose all memory of her in exchange for the visions or shit like that? there was just the Art Destruction chapter...)

- ...the shin assassin whose name i constantly forget because he has only had like 3 chapters so far, the last of which was HOPEFULLY not him killing dal?? god the ANGST is really exhausting. love the fighting scenes though

- WORLDBUILDING. i love it. at first it was really overwhelming to have so much difference heaped on in such a short time but. everything’s crustaceans and hydrotropism and i LOVE. the fuck are highstorms?! hnnnngh so many concepts!! lil’ chapters with glimpses of fascinating stories like the lake or the art destroyers

- generally speaking p much everyone is really loveable though so very flawed. even you, Jam Priest. i’m still unable to remember anyone’s names

- palindromes!!!!!!!! PALINDROMES!!!!!!!!

- the fuck alethi gender diffferences though??? “hey how about women only use 1 hand because ?????? - how about we eat different FOODS?” the fuuuuck. also how is safe/freehand determined - always left/right or non-dominant/dominant?

- hey. the things chasing shallan and how she perceives them? fucken’ A. i will NEVER sleep again but i love it. this is a very awesome and very frightening concept

- i LIVE for the death-glimpses and other fragments at the beginnings of chapters

EDIT: - i am CONSTANTLY wondering whether syl will turn out dal’s forgotten wife!!! whatever the fuck is up with syl. otherwise it gets again fucking filed under “kal is spehshul” which is getting kinda exhausting