#he was a private man! let him be!!

[clarabowmp3]

I’m sorry I genuinely cannotttttt understand how some ppl bash joe even in a joking manner. Like the poor guy did nothing wrong (that we know of) but so many ppl are making such snide remarks by comparing him to Travis which is not only condescending but actually kind of mean! HELLO did we listen to the same reputation album??? You can’t praise Travis for letting Taylor bejeweled and then rip joe to shreds in the same breath when joe was the one there for her in a clearly difficult and trying time in her life

[frownyalfred]

If you ever feel stupid, remember you’re not the guy in Man of Steel who put handcuffs on Superman

[batsarebetterthanpeople]

And another thing! Literally any queer story that takes place during the colonial age would have a huge gaping hole in it if it didn't have anticolonialism as a theme. Especially one that centers indigenous people. Like the reason that every culture had their own concepts of gender until something happened and then suddenly the gender binary was ubiquitous is because western European colonial powers made their view of gender the only acceptable one as part of christianizing and colonizing the world. You're not gonna have a show set in 1717 in the Caribbean where the love interest is a gay Maori man and the main deuteragonist is a non-binary mestizo catholic and just skip over colonialism. Like these are exactly the people who western gender roles are being forced on at fucking gun point during this era. Jim and Ed are both mixed race characters who's gender and sexual identities are in active defiance of the colonial powers that be. And this is the fucking Stede Ed and Jim show.

And there's something to be said for the fact that Stede's toxic masculinity plot line is internalized and Ed's struggle with toxic masculinity is largely external in the form a white guy who rubs elbows with the British Navy when Ed doesn't behave to his standard of masculinity. That choice didn't come out of nowhere and it shows a deep understanding of where homophobia comes from. That's not to say that precolonial communities of color were paradise for people that we today would consider queer but the rich tapestry of sexual and gender expressions that existed in those communities were erased in the name of colonialism. That's going to affect literally any queer person at the time when OFMD is set. These two things are inextricably linked.

Like when David Jenkins says a lot of what we're taught about being men is wrong, motherfucker who taught us what a man was. Who taught Ed what a man was? Who taught Stede what a man was for that matter? It's the white dad with the English accent who is violent (derogatory) and overbearing.

Like you get what I'm saying right? Like it's a silly little rom com but also it must necessarily be that deep because of who these characters are and when and where they exist.

[sunmoontruth-stiles]

I need a completely rewritten teen wolf series with Derek Hale as the main character. I think it would heal me.

[pedropascallme]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5SD3RBr2it/?igsh=NmViYTZiaGZmaGUy in case you still haven't seen :D

Thank you!! I hadn’t seen the full thing this is wonderful <3 posting this so everybody else who might’ve missed it can see!

(Also leaving my personal opinions in the tags just to clarify where I stand because I’m so tired of everybody being weird about Damien specifically throughout this whole thing)

[spearxwind]

feeling solidarity these holidays with everyone not allowed to talk about their partner with the family

[8o8o8o8o8]

The weird-out factor was too high to introduce it this early into the fic, so this has been nixed (for now), but we could've had minosmail

[bigsnorp]

the thing about the 'was aaron bushnell trans' discourse is that like

that's the point. we'll never know. because he gave his entire life up. he point blank refused to be complicit in genocide and he expressed that in one of the most brutal and tragic ways possible. he quite literally decided that the extreme act of protest against the actions of his government against palestine was more important than his life.

he chose to identify himself as a man in his final moments. he chose to quite literally destroy his life for the palestinian cause, and no other action expressed that enough in his mind. if you care about him at all, the least you can do is fucking listen to what he wanted to say so desperately that he set himself on fire in front of the world just to be heard.

[evilmageclub]

suffering under the burden of the fatt characters i think are sexiest not being submitted to sexy poll (i didnt submit them either) because theyre i think too sexy on some sort of cosmological level. theres no intrigue theres no argument to make in submitting hieron gods . i wouldnt even know what to submit for propaganda just fucking look

[thrumugnyr]

nosy horse

[elenadoeslife]

your first love hits different

[pretty-dianxia]

[ 1.9k • Rated E • Not Archive Warnings • Status: complete • Relationships: Jing Beiyuan/Wu Xi ]

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Tags: Canon Compliant, Making Out, Jealousy, Possessive Behavior, dirty talk (or sort of,) First Kiss, Wu Xi is a seductress and is drunk… but NOT THAT drunk

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Read it in English // Read it in Spanish

💌 Many thanks to my partner in crime and beta Moth!! // @lesbi-lan 💌

[yeonjun4beagles]

well if youre judging him for going clubbing, please get off my blog. that man is finally 21, that is probably one of his first few times in a club, let the man have the time of his life. he deserves it and anyone thinking otherwise can gladly fuck off.

[chamerionwrites]

Back on my bullshit (by which I mean, in this case, both "Skyrim" and "being unhinged about fraught father figure relationships even when they're not all that central to the narrative") but. Occasionally I think about how what we see of Arngeir's characterization beyond generic mystical mentor type is basically that of a guy with a naturally hot temper who, over the course of a long life spent meditating in a monastery, has painstakingly learned (though not mastered!) the art of chilling the fuck out or at least graciously apologizing (even as that same cloistered religious lifestyle has probably also fueled a bit of a stubborn/dogmatic streak).

And then I think about what this potentially suggests re: his feelings toward noted local stubborn intemperate hothead Ulfric Stormcloak (y'know, the guy who broke all their previously-shared religious vows yet still deferentially refers to him as "Master Arngeir") and go ever so slightly insane

[emcads]

i’m too keyed up to sleep so i’m going to continue posting random thoughts. james' death in awe is so unsatisfying BECAUSE he’s already grown as a character and has abandoned  the ideal of the individual death functioning as justice that he held in ( the majority of ) cotbp.  we have a whole film where he’s fallen from grace but instead seeks the promise of redemption. the end to his arc, rather than paying for his sins with his life,  should be applying redemptive justice and issuing the pardons as governor i said what i said.

[cutevirgo]

eun-gi is such a good girlfriend girlie bestie when he sets aside his masculine inferiority complexes