#frankly beside the point.

[steelycunt]

ok but what if you ran into both r and S at a lil welsh shop what then.......

well if i ran into both r and s at my local greengrocers in the little welsh village in which i live i would at first cheerfully greet r and immediately begin to affectionately fuss over him (initially oblivious to his awkward and embarrassed blush and the presence of a second boy beside him) including commenting on how he was just a little dwt of a boy the last time i remember seeing him and his mother in the village and my how he's grown! shot up like a bean sprout he has! though still far too skinny mind you. and how is his mother? and how is the school going? because yes now i recall hope mentioning how he was up at that boarding school...are they feeding him enough? he's a growing boy remember! look at him! and then i would have to smooth his hair down because it has gotten so shaggy and unruly! is that the style for boys these days? (he would politely answer each of my questions and allow me to fret over him in this way without pointing out that his scruffy mop of hair is in fact a deliberate style choice). but then! as i am patting his fringe down i realise he is not here alone! there is another young boy standing in the queue with him! and so well of course i apologise and acknowledge him and ask if he is one of r's little friends from the boarding school and what is his name and how is he? and his little friend--he's wearing an earring! how very fun!--introduces himself and my what an accent! an english boy! it's like i'm talking to the queen! but he's a very polite boy and in fact he tells me he is not only one of r's little friends--he is r's boyfriend! fancy that! two young sweethearts! and well r is blushing furiously now poor lad but i think that is just delightful, and i tell this s boy well i tell him now i've known r since he came up to my knee and now i'm meeting his boyfriend! well i never! and well i happen to have a nephew who is also gay do they know him maybe? his name is gethin he's a very sweet boy--dating a rugby player! can you believe it? and the greengrocer's queue is moving now and it's nearly my turn (the two boys are very aware that we are holding other people up and are glancing around at the other waiting customers every now and then during our conversation but are far too well-mannered to point this out to me) but before i go i have to tell s dear how nice it was to meet him! and i have to turn to r and loudly stage-whisper he's lovely isn't he? he's very handsome! such long hair! like a rockstar! and before r can wish for the ground to swallow him whole i have to tell him to of course give all my love to his mother and tell her i've been growing strawberries in my garden this summer and would she like some? i've got too many! she could make a jam! and that reminds me! i will dig furiously in my massive handbag for far too long to be a comfortable period of time and eventually i will produce two more boiled sweeties for them! one each for you boys! and i will make them promise to be good and take care now before i finally proceed with purchasing the fruits and veg that i set out to buy xx

[comradekatara]

okay be honest. if someone as hot as sokka (is constantly established to be by other characters within the text) said these exact words to you, you would also fall in love with them on the spot and/or be overwhelmed with uncontrollable horniness. yue is valid

[shepscapades]

I do have to ask. Was the docsuma ever planed or did they force themselves into exsistence. did you go into this expecting them to have so much homoerotic energy or did it just spawn b4 bc of how other people went insane over doc and Xisuma (separately)

it was 100% completely genuinely unplanned.

I went from a diehard rendoc shipper expecting them to be lowkey The Ship for dbhc doc (or not making doc a focus character at all, really), to thinking it would make a lot of sense/would be funny if Doc ended up being an android mechanic, to thinking it would be cool if Doc and X were close in this au because they both do android tech, to then being like... oh they can be research partners.... to then planning the [REDACTED] comic to then thinking... oh... what if they cared a lot about each other :(((( and the dynamic kinda stole my heart tbh

BUT IT WAS ALWAYS SUPPOSED TO BE LOWKEY bc i know docsuma is... Very Rarepair-y even though doc and xisuma have been good friends for aaaages hehe

THAT BEING SAID I DON'T PLAN ON SHOVING THIS SHIP IN ANYONES FACES LOL they ended up being kinda downbad for each other in a few of my unposted side-drawings but i don't want to make it a central thing unless people really wanna see it LKDFJGLKDJFG

[aisul-art]

They're all Watching fireworks! Well...some. How nice.

I do have a Version where you Can see The Firework light Illuminating on Them but I'm Not Too sure if I'm gonna Post it.

[mzminola]

Saw someone claim that canon Stephanie Brown has the character arc / development that "fanon [redacted]" has and buddy I hate to break it to you, but Preboot era Stephanie has the character development of a flat tire.

Stephanie starts out as a decently rounded supporting character who acts as a foil & peer to first Tim and then Cass. She's abrasive, pushy, and impulsive, which works for the narrative role she's in. She has some interesting moments of minor growth and glimpses of potential for more that unfortunately don't really go anywhere.

Then she gets screwed over by editorial's desire for grimdark edginess, dies, turns out not to be dead, and comes back having learned absolutely nothing from her mistakes (including, frankly, the mistake of thinking Bruce Wayne knows what he's doing).

Her following solo title insults other women characters to prop her up, acts like her past mistakes which got people killed are just a minor whoopsie that doesn't need to be addressed, and by the end of the run she's in the exact same narrative place she started.

I suspect if Stephanie hadn't died, or even if she'd died in a different way, she'd have continued to be a decently rounded character. Maybe she wouldn't have learned from her mistakes, but she'd have been allowed to be wrong. Maybe some of those glimpses of potential growth would have finally been followed up!

As-is, it feels like once she came back, DC didn't want to let the narrative criticize her at all, in case they be accused of victim blaming.

Which makes for a very flat character.

[kaftan]

No one is talking enough about cherie finding herself an insane woman who thinks her tattoos are sexy and this. well. this has to change

[hellcatsandcars]

boycott list for israel supporters

source: islamic human rights commission

[susansontag]

the reason it matters for feminism when bad things happen to female celebrities is because it’s just happening to them because they are in the spotlight. this is how men feel about women they just use the women who are accessible and cared about to make that point in a very public way. if you were in the spotlight they’d do it to you as well

[olivine-rain]

The day humanity decided our names, our pronouns, our clothes, our PERSONALITY had to be based on genitals we HIDE it all went downhill, I stg You don't need to be reminded what's between my legs every time you refer to me, holy shit

"But I NEEEEED to know whats between their legs so I know if they're an equal or something that only exists for MY sexual gratification!!!"

Like STOOOP I am NOT designed for ANYONE'S pleasure I'm a FREAK and ABERRATION OF NATURE I exist only for CHAOS

[floorpancakes]

ppl will be like omgggg lesbian yaoi when and not know about rei x kaoru

[ravenkings]

having rewatched both recently, i think phantom thread and stoker are two movies about the intersection between love, sex, and violence that actually benefit greatly from having no onscreen sex

[the-tzimisce]

They didn't even leave me good pillows

But then again if I was in the lightless subterranean tomb I would have to lie on a slab of stone with the moth-ridden remnants of my cloak folded under my head (all skeleton soldiers are issued a moth-ridden cloak, obviously, everyone knows this) and stifle my cries of despair lest the act of speech break whatever protocol compels them to treat me as a fellow skeleton. So I should probably count my blessings

[abnerkrill]

no ❤️

[rigil-kentauris]

also, and perhaps a bit more touchy and heavy, i am mad they took an openly suicidal character and ended his narrative by having him kill himself. i dont think about that a lot because its easier to just be sad that My Favorite Guy got killed off but way back when it the first time id seen a character getting to just admit that openly and clearly and without euphemism or anything. it just was. and certainly there were problems with the entire narrative at that point that i wont rehash because the feh part of my heart is full of craters, but, man it did not feel great that after four years of struggling with that they just wrote him killing himself off. like self sacrifice is still. uh. self.

[angryducktimemachine]

When will my mother learn to use he/him pronouns for me like... Ma'am, it's been almost a year. The "I just have to get used to it" excuse is slowly getting old.