#for EVERY survivor

[bionicboxes]

this is the dynamic they have going on in my head.

[rad-roche]

It's Valentine's day! You there, browsing the tag. Have you ever thought 'I like Nick Valentine, but I wish he starred in two novels lovingly written in the prose style of a detective noir from 1943, and so help me God, I don't want to pay a cent for it?' No! Nobody has! What an unusually specific dream!

But it's too late, I've already written them.

More than that, I've filled them with art, too.

If this sounds like something you'd like, you can find the full series (the two books and two small side stories) here.

[shentheauthor]

I love my son

[chipthekeeper]

lately i have been a bit miffed by the lack of awareness when it comes to queer characters, and more specifically sapphic characters, in the Star Wars canon. so, in my capacity as the patron saint of lesbian visibility, i've decided to quit whining about it and be the one to spread some knowledge

without further ado.....a very long and obnoxious lesson

now let me tell you about them. in detail. through very specific categories

you don't have anything else to do, right?

CATEGORY ONE: GAY. ON. SCREEN.

they're gay. on screen.

CATEGORY TWO: THE A WORD

Doctor Aphra and her web of lesbianity

CATEGORY THREE: HANDGAYDENS

Padme Amidala and her gay handmaidens

CATEGORY FOUR: THE HIGHLY GAY REPUBLIC

all the many, many queers of the golden age of the jedi

CATEGORY FIVE: VIDEO GAYMES

queers from the Jedi games and related media

CATEGORY SIX: GAY FROM A CERTAIN POINT OF VIEW

characters created for or made queer in the From a Certain Point of View books

CATEGORY SEVEN: COMICALLY QUEER

wlws from comics not involved with Aphra

CATEGORY EIGHT: BOOKED AND GAY

characters who are gay in books, even if nowhere else

whew. still here?

thank you for scrolling all the way through this. if you are interested in talking about any of these people or want to know how to learn more about them on your own, my inbox is always open!!

and seriously folks, if you’re interested in any of them i implore you: read their stories, write fic, make art!!! the more we show that these characters are appreciated and talked about, the more likely we are to get more like them, and hopefully more that are even better and more visible rep

that’s all from me. have a gay day

[zer0point5ive]

[medi-bee]

[holly-bearie]

first kiss??? right in front of greez's salad????

[smeraldo-heart]

How it feels to be a Cal Kestis fan when Star Wars makes almost 0 merch of him or anything from his games:

[metaben]

idk why this fandom has such an issue with acknowledging abuse when it isn't Astarion but Gale was pretty obviously abused and groomed and I would rather people in denial of this unfollow me :|

grooming is also not a minor-specific act so trying to use his age as a reason he wasn't abused is pretty dumb and shows both your ignorance and that you don't take abuse on adults seriously. like suddenly cults and brainwashing and power imbalances and human trafficking doesn't exist because you just don't want to see Gale as a survivor of abuse himself lol?

it basically comes down to people being ignorant about what grooming is in wider terms. and even if you want to ignore the actual definition of grooming and how adult survivors are impacted, Mystra is still a GODDESS. if anyone is able to exact a power imbalance on someone equivalent to the traditional child-grooming that you think is the only type to exist, it would be a Goddess to her Chosen

this is also ignoring the fact that he started discovering his powers around 8 and Mystra would have been aware of him immediately?

also-also ignoring Minsc outright describing how magical boys in his village were hidden away from Mystra?

just how is this even an argument? you are simply wrong...

[crypticthumbs]

one struggling boy who is trying his best, for your consideration.

[sbeep]

Unfortunate news: Eden Shepard is british. 

[dootznbootz]

You can horny post and thirst for Circe and Calypso without making fun of Odysseus, a victim of both, btw. 👍

[seniorcitizenyaoi]

I think it is unironically funny how much meteor has progressed from being protagboy stand-in (see: stormbloods trailers) and moved to truly become the devs oc to the point of having facial features not available in-game. Also it is really obvious how much of a personality they’ve been giving him with recent promotional material (like the items released in the fanfest having him as the model and not just a random group of characters as usual.)

Adding onto this, my gf hyper-focusing on making her meteor alt perfect has made us learn a couple things:

White boy has a custom face in the benchmark that gives him slightly more defined brows, but not his official art scar.

White boy also has a custom skintone in the benchmark, its a slight reddish tannish skintone compared to the regular ones in the UI.

This is the first time his hair has been dyed from his regular brown to a slightly darker, purpler brown with the old lighter brown as highlights. You can see it more clearly in the launch trailer as well.

They also brought back ardbert to voice him in the trailer. His singular voiceline. I like that they keep doing this.

The benchmark also makes the meteor and the ardbert faces vastly different, now the one with the five-o-clock shadow is also more visibly aged.

Also, in general, this is the first time he shows a purely confident, cocky smile and is truly enjoying himself. The trailer puts a lot of emphasis on him. He hasnt truly smiled like that since stormblood! And he had a horrible haircut in that one!

Anyways yeah, hes a full character now :D im so excited for dawntrail im sick in the head

[scumvillainess]

the thing about og shen qingqiu that i love so much is that out of all the horrible things he’s done, the only thing that he’s done that you can’t defend at all is the child abuse, lol.

he killed a bunch of men and burned their estate down to the ground? well, he can’t be blamed because he was only following the kam agenda as a true man-hater should.

oh, he abused multiple children under his care? yikes, is nobody going to call cps on this man?

[beedeewun]

*launches a care package into space for cal kestis specifically*

[inniave]

and another thing

even if kendrick *had* been molested, how does that make the allegations any lesser? kendrick has every fucking right to be angry about this regardless of his own history with the subject. like what the fuck????