#but. Yeah

[voidbugs]

ok this one made me laugh

[majimaisms]

queer icon majima is very strange to me DS actually really gets into how he views gender overall so it's weird ? lol

literally so true. a LOT of rambling under the cut because i have sooo many thoughts about majima's queerness and its portrayal in the games. youve opened a whole can of worms with this one

majima could not be a queer icon if his life depended on it i will die on this hill. even if he came out or even if she transitioned or Anything like his worldview and politics are so fundamentally conservative on so many crucial points and hes literally so repressed about sexuality like he could never. he could neverrrrrrrr. he needs to hashtag liberate your mind and stop basing his entire mental model of society and human relationships on The Nuclear Family and honestly completely revolutionize his thinking before he can even begin to take any of the steps necessary to becoming anything resembling a queer icon, or in fact a queer person capable of inspiring and being a positive example for literally anyone*. bro did drag once and it was with the full intention of getting hatecrimed so he'd have an excuse to get into a fight with a man he ASSUMED would be transphobic and he thinks its "demeaning" and "funny" for men to crossdress like give me a breakkkkkk. assigning him 1000 hours in the forcefem dungeon

if im being completely real with you i dont think his understanding of sexuality ever Really went beyond "romantic love is something that happens between a man and a woman" to begin with. i am however planning to use this against him in my fic but i really do think the best we're getting with majima is like. "in a queer romantic relationship but deeply heteronormative about it" im afraid. and the sad thing is he literally cant Afford to move past this even if he wanted to because the position he has situated himself in in society is an active, material obstacle to this, in some ways even more than heternormative society is for queer people in general, because hes responsible for so many people who depend on him. this is how the patriarchy (or any oppressive systemic structure) works, this is why people don't question things; there are real, material consequences to "realizing" things about yourself and society, and to revolutionizing your thinking, and the system is designed that way on purpose. majima is not in a place where he has a strong incentive to do so, the risks far outweigh the benefits for him, and he has so many coping mechanisms set in place to prevent him from looking at mirrors (wow, i wonder why that is !)

also look at how he acts with civilians vs. other yakuza. the ds substory with daigo is him treating a fellow yakuza (outranking him!) this way but the is way more open minded about "unconventional" sexuality when it comes to civilians and women -- first example that comes to mind is kaho (minato girl) from pirates, but he also displays generally open minded attitudes about gender identity and presentation in that game on other occasions. he was even like this in y0, his hostess conversations have plenty of examples of him not subscribing to social norms especially in things like "gender equality". what i mean to say is i think him being in the yakuza IS the biggest obstacle to majima developing a healthier, queerer outlook on sexuality and gender. because its structure is so fundamentally patriarchal that misogyny, transphobia, homohpobia necessarily characterize the bonds between its members. him treating daigo the way he did in that substory is an example of this, but i dont think he would approach a civilian the same way. the yakuza is interesting in this way because it creates a patriarchy within a patriarchy -- like, we do often see this behavior between men who are regular civilians, where daigo and majima couldve been any two guys you know, because its the rules of the "club" -- the social club that is "manhood" as patriarchal society defines it. but the way yakuza place themselves Above civil society creates a different, more exclusive club and it has the same rules, and this means they are not exactly in the same social class as civilian men. so i do think majima might be more open minded re: civilian queer people in general, which is an interesting cognitive dissonance

not that there havent been queer icons who were FAR from being paragons of socially progressive thinking btw (plenty!! thanks to how rampant misogyny is even in queer spaces) but if we're talking about whether or not he would "deserve" the title of "queer icon".... *like i understand majima has helped many many rgg fans come to terms with their own transness, but i think its important not to project our own political beliefs and worldviews onto characters who frankly just. do not share them. reminder that majima is, CANONICALLY, a cis man who was born in ✨1964✨ who divorced his 18 year old wife after hitting her because she ABORTED HIS BABY. he thinks getting het married and having kids is like, the pinnacle of human happiness, forever inaccessible to him -- or he at least believes that's a morally correct thing to believe, but his double standards on this go SO deep that i Have to read it as internalized shame on his part. the cognitive dissonance is insane. you do NOT want to be het married with kids! its just a "dream" hes been sold that he couldnt really let go of because theres nothing else to replace it. because. again. cant afford to come to terms with his queerness

and while im at it i do think a lot of the fandoms revering goromi as some kind of like... paragon of transfem visibility or something (yes, even some of the people who just read this and went "well i definitely dont do that!") is also a result of this "projection" because theyre assuming majima is doing things in a way they personally find agreeable or understandable. but the fact of the matter is that goromi IS a transmisogynistic caricature, and even if shes the transmisogynistic caricature of the writers, technically, she is also majima's as far as in-universe analysis goes. it was not an exploration of gender in good faith on his part at all, and i really do think the fandom's unquestioning treatment of her (and majima) as a "queer icon" is nothing more than transphobia and homophobia and misogyny coming from the queer community itself, which, unfortunately, happens all the time. this is not meant to shit on anyone btw but i do urge everyone to not uncritically accept portrayals of queerness in media -- just because *you* have progressive ideas and can read things from that lens doesn't mean the majority of the people who engage with the same source material will, or that it was intended to be read that way. for most fans, a lot of the portrayals of queerness in rgg will do nothing more than reinforce pre-existing transphobic (especially transmisogynistic!) and homophobic attitudes of the audience. sure, you CAN read everything majima does in a way that *would* qualify him as a queer icon, but also, like, what if the world was made of pudding?

[otrtbs]

the best dinner i ever had was a vanilla milkshake and 2 cigs on a rainy cold night and that’s the truth

[amygdalae]

People being horny for vicar amelia will always he so funny to me sorry. Yeah i think her design is super cool looking but also she just looks like a big borzoi with hands to me lmao

[residentmara]

full body idea, the first outfit youd see him in before whatever happens.

i have an idea for his new story? but again im still taking feed back/ criticism because im def not the biggest "the before" expert or anything

i have a loose idea that icarus would just be an aimless soul (heh) getting by until he becomes friends with FIF!jash , then meeting his two brothers along the way and then icarus becomes like. the fourth brother /silly but thats just a loose bastardization because icarus is Not a Good Person, or atleast at first.

he struggles with codependency, abandonment and negligence, but at the same time is harsh , apathetic and destructive. icarus doesnt want to push anyone away, he just wants a stable relationship with someone, Anyone, but hes self aware. he knows his flaws, and as a defense mechanism to "protect" himself from everyone, he isolates himself. and yeah, it's bad, but thats all hes ever known. hes never met someone like the solo brothers, where they actually give him room to improve and take the time of day to help him out any way they can, because thats what friends do.

so he also tries helping them, doing small gestures in return. he doesnt understand that their (platonic) love is unconditional, so because he doesnt want to feel like a burden, he tries understanding and also mirroring their patterns.

[starstruckodysseys]

it’s been almost five years (???? crazy) but the mcelroy family stream where griffin hunts the easter bunny in animal crossing n then justin n travis show up is. so woodward sibling coded. esp bc of this comment

[vaa1]

i find it really funny that some people get mad about gendering monsters like mizutsune. she can be a beautiful transgender woman if she wants to be, thank you

[casinoquartet]

saw a post about glados!ash x chell!red and all i'm saying is that ash is 100% the kinda guy to sing a love song in a language he doesn't think red would know after letting him go from the evil murder trap he put him in . that's all i'm saying

[fruitypieq]

I honestly ship Sabrina and Zoe so hard if I'm honest

[montygatorguy]

im not even really mad or anything about charli d’amelio being cast in &j broadway, like i know she had a dancing background and all that and i bet she’ll be good. it’s just, idk. i don’t really know how to feel about it.

[victimeyez]

yay tommy oh noo tommy

He’s doing great!

[monstermoviedean]

it's funny to think that reading is one of the only skills i have ever consistently had and yet this website makes me question daily whether or not i can, in fact, read

[callmehere-iwillappear]

coming soon(...ish) to an ao3 account near you: the idiot's guide to blindfold chess

in the meantime, the full piece of this ^^ is on patreon!

[raayllum]

I am wondering if Janai will be put in a place of like, addressing her issues with hesitation and uncertainty. Not per se that it's a strict character flaw — she's compassionate and quite decisive when it matters, and her brother's foolhardy, absolute certainty is his undoing every time — but I do wonder if it in typical TDP fashion it's gonna come back and bite her in the ass (more than it already has, of course)

[r1caner]

Does dnpblr do fic/art exchanges. I want to write dan and or Phil with sternum tattoo and for someone to draw it. its all I think about having one myself and so maybe my dan and Phil sickness will resolve my personal sickness