#fuck societal expectations

[fortunatelyenchantingtaco]

Obsessed with the fact that Robin’s splash art is a broken golden bird cage. And she attacks with birds. My girl is TAKING CONTROL

[scentofpines]

have you ever considered...that identifying out of woman/girlhood because you don't relate to the societal implications, expectations, etc... contributes to making womanhood (feel) even more restrictive? maybe you feel better when thinking of yourself as anything but a girl/woman because you do not feel like a woman (what does that even mean?) but in my opinion you just added another brick into the prisonwall that is gender.

[vanilla-poisons]

Jamil has definitely told Kalim to hold his hand sometimes so he “doesn’t get lost” but also if anyone else does it it’s “not appropriate for Kalim as an heir to be seen holding hands with random people” or some shit

[albatris]

I can't wait for the Reuben March Fancy Gala scene

[rubiatinctorum]

I get where people are coming from when they say Diaspro in Winx lost the plot for the sake of being turned into a minor villain and that's all once Valtor enabled her to do what she did in S3, but I feel like that was a reasonable narrative choice. It's only a love potion at that point (while I could go on all day about the ethics of love potions, of course, a later season has her straight up trying to do direct murder). She's a noble, guards will do her dirty work, and I understand that she would feel like getting revenge on Bloom while getting back together with Sky. She was promised a position — romantic AND political — she nearly had and then it was taken from under her by a random fairy who wasn't even "supposed" to be in the running. I don't think what she did was nice, but it makes sense for the story and for her character for her to want to reclaim her position in the way she did. Sky's love was an accessory, in part, to her political ascension, and thus he is again rendered accessory and accomplice by the love spell. And, sending guards after threats seems to be the thing to do in the magical universe if you're a disgruntled noble, so it's probably not unfamiliar for Diaspro to have seen occur before or want to do. It's not a uniquely rotten response any more than Radius' behaviour towards the monster (who, he didn't know it, was Stella). If we fault her for this action rather than only the intention behind it, we need to examine how the worlds in Winx Club deal with threats to their monarchs in general, which sounds interesting but I frankly don't have time for tonight. Diaspro did wrong, but she didn't do uniquely wrong there, and Eraklyon has the punitive security structures in place to have enabled that.

Diaspro's later appearances seem to flatten her motives and the symbolism behind why her relationship with Sky was important and what she does about it (who cares what Diaspro's political aims are and how her status might reflect how she deals with problems, the audience needs to see Bloom thrown into fire I guess), but I feel like seasons 4-8 weren't really that good anyway, so I can't even claim this as a fault of the writers doing Diaspro specifically wrong instead of them just doing the whole show wrong at that point. It might be related, and it might be a coincidence, but a lot of the writing choices seemed to become more flat to me right around when the art shifted to that lifeless godawful Flash simulacrum of S1-3's art.

Also like... idk but if some long-haired hottie wizard in a sick coat and contemplative eyeshadow told me he could help me get my promised chance at both romantic and political success back, I'd at least hear him out, yknow, see what he had to say (<- don't trust me I simp for Valtor)

[mejomonster]

I need to find someone who worded this better but. This is your friendly reminder that a woman can be as masculine as she wants. A man can be as feminine as he wants. A nonbinary person can be feminine and masculine and androgynous and whatever they want: everyone can! Your expression and appearance and hobbies etc do not have to conform within a box to be allowed to exist, do not have to match those rigid lines of societys expectation of gender roles in any way at all for you to Be the Gender you Are. You are the gender you feel you are. Your expression can be and is whatever you want, and does not have to match up to expectations.

[infectiouspiss]

when boys take an everything shower we spend 5 minutes washing and 40 minutes fighting the shower demons

[loudmound]

that "when you were a woman" quote from that fucking article pisses me off so goddamn much because if you asked me a question with that phrase in it i'd pop you in the jaw bcs I WAS NEVER A WOMAN IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[moe-broey]

Realization.

[kumakuma-circus]

i love how persona 4 golden.

[thevoidlovesglitter]

big brained moment, aromantic arthur AND aromantic bella

[mqueerlife]

but the sexuality journey was 2nd??

i rarely see this talked about but i had my gender crisis before ever thinking much of anything on my sexuality...i knew i was queer somehow at the time i thought ah yea im probably bi or something

turns out looking back most of the 'crushes' i had were different but i didn't realise that...not until i stumbled upon a fic where one of the characters was demisexual

i probably should thank that fic because it prompted me to research demisexual and then subsequently realise ✨asexuality✨oh that's how i feel

i questioned around identifying as asexual and bi romantic for a while because yk I'm already asexual (and non-binary!) i cant possibly defy yet another societal norm right? WRONG when i finally put the two parts together and realized OH SHIT i can actually be BOTH aro and ace I've barely looked back on that

but hey defying 3 separate societal norms just another part of meeeeee

[ticklepinions]

Me: appreciator of dad bods

Also me: *has the slightest chub on my tummy* suddenly I am upset.

[irbcallmefynn]

They should invent a my back that doesn't hurt after I sit there drawing for an hour straight

Or invent a my desk that actually has room so I can have my drawing tablet not awkwardly off to the side at a weird angle

And while they're at it they should invent a society where I can just draw and love and have fun for the rest of my life without consideration of money or responsibility.

[yonpote]

most of the things i write and draw and yap about arent really about phan, phan is simply the medium with which i create my art :)

[psychiatricwarfare]

"hobie wouldn't listen to [insert band here], he's punk that's not a punk band" hobie brown is taking gwen and pav to see the barbie movie and blasting barbie girl on the way there