#idk what their shorthand is im sorry

[rebo-chan]

Some of my fellow reborn fans have to explain Reborn/Skull to me. I didn't see it at any point in consuming reborn but everyone ships it, I FEEL LEFT OUT. GUYS HELP

[cockringhoratio]

im not gonna lie i expected wendell and wild to be,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, better,,,,,,,

[ganondoodle]

im pretty sure i mentioned all these things before but its too late to start drawing anything and each time i see someone talk about totk i just get sad and frustrated again

literally by FAR the biggest problem about totk is that it REFUSES to connect to botw in any way beyond reusing the same map and character models, and even taking the things botw had established and ruin them entirely

ancient hero? BAM weird sonau dog thing that remains completely unexplained and out of nowhere eight heroine myster- BAM just some guy long gone sonau peopl- BAM here they are and they have zero connection to the ones of botw mystical dragons gracing the skies with their presence- BAM probably some dude who ate a magic pebble once strange mystical nature god you could rarely encounter in one specific spot and the area was made to feel utteraly unsettling but also divine- BAM now hes everywhere and only serves you as a shorthand for man pointing at cave the strange energy all shiekah tech was powered with with certain locations being ones where alot of it was concentrated including beneath hyrule castle clearly stating that somethings up with that- welp theres evil guy donw there but he has zero connection to all that lol

the whole shiekah tech thing, i just- WHY???? LIKE THAT??? there was so much stuff in botw that seemed deliberately placed that there IS more to it and now it all vanished and nothing of that mattered??? i saw a video of someone comparing certain places directly and on some where towers literally broke away tons of debris where just like .. sanded back down like nothing ever happened???; the fuking mechanism of how the towers and shrines and the pillars around the castle worked AND WHAT THE BOTW BOSS ARENA WAS ACTUALLY FOR?? its all gone and replaced with dirt; tHE ANCIENT FUCKING FURNANCES UTTERLY GONE AND REPLACED WITH ROCKS HUH???? so nothing of all that talk about their mystery and mechanism mattered???? the luminous stoens and its connection to spirits and how concentrated spiritual energy might have been what powered the tech- like you could connect things, and they made SENSE, so much sense that that seemed like it was intentionally setting up- only for it all to be just GONE?? to literally say lol it all vanished and that we shouldnt worry about it- like what the FUCK (and it also AGAIN doesnt make sense in itself bc WE SEE GUARDIAN PARTS in the towers, and some parts of them too are made of clearly shiekah tech stuff so it cant all have vanished- all their mystery doesnt matter bc idk it just works i guess lol and its not even called shiekah tech at any point either its just there and also not lol-)

(and even the smaller things like .. where the fuck does link live if everyone treats him like a goddamn stranger in the town you had to buy a house in botw for it to not be demolished and now that house is there but its not yours and noone knows you??? sth i personalyl found strange too that dumsda, the guy you help build an entire town, taburasa, had a very specific talking quirk i loved, and its all just gone in totk too, he talks like any other person all of the sudden

also at the end of botw finally being reunited with zelda and giving you the taste of being in the game WITH her at the same time in the intro to totk- WOOP away she goes! shes your pretty prize at the end and nothing more, what a way to disrespect her and her character..)

imagine if majoras mask didnt have the opening like it has and it otherwise stayed the same and they tried to tell you that its a direct sequel happening exactly where ocarina of time happened in the same world, zelda who?? ganondorf who??? things seem weird and off? lol dont worry about that :)) that would be weird and not make any sense at all now would it??

... sorry going on another rant again, ill just never be able to accept everything from botw didnt actually matter, and despite what some people might say, its pretty hard to ignore totk bc i LOVE botw, and as much as i hate it, they are connected in canon, even if it makes no sense

[psychesetra]

child of red

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HIIIII HAHAHSGAGGS

this is literally the first fanfic i will EVER post so like,, hope you guys like it

this is inspired by @6esiree 's imagine (don't imagine lmao) bit about human alastor with a daughter rhhrrhrhr

i wanna make it multichapter, so,, this is sorta a prologue or chap 1 ?? idk idk idk

tell me in the replies if u wanna be added to the taglist since no one's in it 😭

okay i will stop stalling the fic is below

word count: 549 (iM SO SORRY I DONT KNOW WHAT ELSE TO PUT OKAY I DONT KNOWWWW)

PART I: rotten roses

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rosette.

they had named their child rosette.

alastor’s love for the color red, of course, extended to many things. including the flowers he would often buy for his wife.

she had taken a look at the roses on their bedside table one night, and asked him, “rosette would be a pretty name for a daughter, don’t you think?”

he agreed, of course. roses were gorgeous, and a child named so would be just as wonderful.

so on the day he fell to hell, everything around a shade of red, it reminded him of the two people he’d left on the mortal plane.

𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘦, he thought. 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘮𝘺 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺? 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘪 𝘥𝘪𝘥? 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘪 𝘬𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥?

he had never been as terrified as he had been when he heard that shot ring and the bullet strike him.

his own form had to taunt him, too. a deer. a prey animal. he had been mistaken for one in the forest, that evening. he was conscious enough to hear the hunter order his dogs to look for the body.

(sometimes, when he’s at his lowest, he thinks it’s fitting. a prey cannot protect itself or its loved ones, and he didn’t, did he?)

and then he met rosie.

she wasn’t a bad person, at least by his standards. almost exactly like him, but a little less insane, maybe? he’s not quite sure, they are both cannibals.

it was really her name that bothered him.

oftentimes, if he’s not distracted by a good fight or that screen demon rising in the ranks, he finds himself thinking of his wife and their daughter.

even more often, that, any time he thinks of his daughter, he wonders how he would’ve raised her.

his ego had lessened a little after the day he died. of course it had, when such a failure had occurred. what father leaves his wife and child?

(his father did. his father did, and he doesn’t want to be like him.)

but when he thinks about how to raise her, he thinks of rosie.

it may be that they likely share a name (although rosie never told him if rosie was her given name or just a shorthand), but he never fails to be reminded of his daughter when talking to rosie, or vice versa.

it’s funny, he thinks. and a little cruel. his daughter wasn’t even a few months old, and here he is, imagining and thinking of her as one of his only friends.

when he meets charlie is when he becomes less conscious of his mindset.

he also thought of her as a daughter, somewhat, because of her traits reminding him of the innocence of children.

the kind of innocence his daughter would’ve grown up with if he didn’t leave her behind.

it inspires him to work for the hotel a little, maybe. put in a little more effort with fixing, better managing of their needs. he even believes in redemption a little, now.

or is it his selfish wish to see his daughter and wife in heaven that makes him believe it?

ah, well. a man can dream.

(but a man can only dream if he does not already have nightmares, no?)

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i wrote this in 30 minutes and lost motivation afterward im sorry

[kivaember]

for the choose violence ask game: #2, 15, and 18!

Answers under the cut! Bc I know some ppl may not want to see criticism of things they may like... so if you click the read more you agree to read opinions that may run counter to yours!

2. a compelling argument for why your fave would never top or bottom.

oh man I'm like, switch rights all the way dfhhdffh I don't think I'm bothered about any of my faves being top or bottom? For Armored Core 6, I definitely have a preference for 621 being dom with Rusty being sub, but I'm happy with it being reversed too. I'M TOO LAIDBACK... IM SORRY...

tbh, this actually links to my earlier ask where I said I left the P5 fandom. People got waaaaaaaay too invested and militant about top/bottom positioning in a ship and I find it extremely off putting. It's perfectly fine to have a preference and avoid that which you don't like, that's fine, that's curating your fandom space, but you get some people who take it to the extreme and try imposing their views on others (or being really belligerent about it).

the top/bottom shipwars, the discourse... I'm too old for that now... I've done my time in the shipwar trenches in the early 2000s...

anyway tl;dr, switch rights all the way and Rusty is definitely a sub. OKAY NEXT.

15. that one thing you see in fanart all the time

hmm, well, admittedly, I am a bit nitpicky when it comes to scarring in ac6 character designs. I know people use it as a shorthand to say "THIS PERSON'S BEEN IN SOME WARS... THEIR BODY IS DAMAGED...." and visually they do look very cool and nice! I do enjoy a good scar showcase, but I suppose on the other hand, I feel like a lot of the time they seem very... window dressing.

How did they get those scars? Why do they have them? What're their feelings about them? Idk if it's bc I'm a writer so I think a bit too much about these things, but an example would be with Rusty where I gave him very extensive burn scars and these play a foundational role in his personality and backstory, even if Rusty himself doesn't think overly much about them. When you get characters that have scars kinda. there. i usually sit there and wonder how they got them, their thoughts and feelings, if they feel nothing? was it traumatic? etc

BUT PEOPLE CAN DO WHAT THEY WANT. They can make their characters scar city I'll lap it up all the same. It's more of a nitpick than an outright criticism, because I make judicious use of the block/mute/unfollow button whenever I encounter fanart stuff I dislike, so I geniunely can't think of anything that stands out to me as smth I see often that I dislike or have criticism towards :ua

18. it's absolutely criminal that the fandom has been sleeping on...

the possibility of a c-wave body snatching an augmented human's body via the augmented human suffering a "death of the self" and the c-wave managing to take over by their coral implants but the c-wave not realising this bc the whole experience was very traumatic so the c-wave thinks they're the human and anyway i think that's a very interesting scenario don't you think (kicks apv under the bed)

[ispyspookymansion]

no idea why u’d know better than i do but i’m thinking about changing my name to october or morte (french for death my mom does not like this one Lol) and i need a second opinion like my friends are too broadly supportive 4 me to trust them i guess

idk like i’m getting it legally changed soon (tboy reasons) and i’m just not sure it’s just a white boy name i chose really quickly after coming out rn i dunno im just torn

sorry if this is weird to ask i guess i’m asking cuz ur name is cool and you seem worldly and like honest :/

hope ur having like a nice day sorry again lol

dont be sorry!!! first of all congrats thats super exciting <3 i think both of those are really awesome tbh if i met someone with either of those names first thought Would be oh fucking cool. i think that whatever you do the first most important thing is that youre happy with it! i hate to say this also but realistically think a bit about your chosen field as well and weigh the benefits of sickass name like october against that being your name professionally (in some cases that might not matter ie if youre going into any creative field! and ideally it wouldnt matter for any fields and i hate to be like ohhhh appease Society but its worth thinking about for yr success n safety ! ). i think morte is more of a Name name because it would be said like mort which is i think an established name (derivative of mordecai or morton in some cases?). but october is very very cool and you could always shorten that to like. oc or toby or something else if you also wanted to have a more simple and “normal” sounding shorthand name.

BUT this all being said. you can always have your new legal name be whatever white boy name you chose as long as you like it, and still have october or morte as a nickname! i get that it might feel like a copout, but lots of cis people have fun nicknames like that too, so its very normal, yk. at the end of the day its all about your comfort and what will help you thrive so just try to listen to yourself and feel out what it will be like to live in that name for five, ten, fifty years. AND remember you can change it again, legally or not, so nothing is forever and if it changes later thats fine too! this is just the first hurdle: to get rid of a name you never chose and replace it with one you did, which will be better no matter which one you opt for right now

[patchdotexe]

@wybienova replied to your post “examining the joy we receive whenever we see...”:

YEAH ive always thought it a little weird how thats like. The Thing. that everyone does . like especially with headcanons for existing characters and stuff if theyre making them transmasc or even just like.. a bit more gnc ?? theres always top surgery . and im not transmasc specifically but as another trans person who just does not really care abt The Boobs its kinda weird how its like. the expectation?? anyways sorry for writing an essay in ur notifs summer

​the essay is appreciated!! and yea describing it as The Expectation is kinda what pins it i think. you're Expected to have it and it ends up as the Goal when that's just.. not the case for some people, me included. like uhh we don't want top surgery but we still feel like we Have to draw our transmasc ocs flat chested (like, either w scars or Complete Boob Deletion) bc that's The Expectation for "ok this is a Transgender. he is Trans Man. this is how you Indicate". it's become Shorthand

and im not like, saying its a bad thing people draw/hc transmasc characters with top surgery scars, good on em for it, love seein trans hcs in any form, it's just.. there is very little Outside of that. like this whole train of thought was kicked off by seein the dingo art you rb'd and going "!!!!" bc Explicitly Stated No-Op Trans Man Holy Shit. like it's a Notable Event to encounter. idk man the trans experience is varied and itd be cool to see more stuff thats similar to how we are ig

[lowlyroach]

611) pantry goblin

ok now im a small goblin in a pantry

tech support mom and dad above me

"why are women so.. "

I stare at your name

"beautiful" I say.

"y'know what i mean?"

my smile leaps from my skin

three seconds later

"nevermind. women are so stupid."

Rebecca chimes in

she's looking at tik toks i guess of food

the way she says caramel.. something or other sounded cute

and comfy

anyway

she chimes in-

awww

listen, you got to be on top for a second

now we're back to baseline

women are dumb!!!!

women are stupid!!!!

tech support parents bicker and then

okay check this folder

make sure this matches this .dll file

me, a grape, a small pantry goblin

stares at pathfinder rules tom is looking at

while they look at files

i keep asking

'do you guys think i can make it to the fridge and back?

i can probably make it to the fridge and back.

do you think i could get water and make it back?

fuck im out of water every minute i wait its going to get harder

i should have got the water earlier!

do you think i can make it?'

right now, I'm doubting it

every once in a while tom will

pass a note in class over to me

okay but look at this rule

yeah i can fucking try but do you see what the words on your screen are doing?

anyone else blasting through serotonin right now?

fuck

yeah, whatever, it works like that

okay now you're a sorcerer with a wizard fucking spellbook?

just play a wizard, but alright..

i guess it makes sense

yeah i can barely read any of this

okay so that matches, ch ch ch, let's go back a folder and check documents, oh where's your game saved? can we go to the game directory, okay back a folder. No. three up. No, back where you were"

Austin is doing a great job

Grant is just.. this poor guy

i look over at what they're doing

BIG MISTAKE

too many letters and they're so small

go back to Tom it's comfy here

And I'm listening and feeling like I'm in a small pantry

smiling and staring at your name

what season of tech support anime is this?

how many arcs do we have to go through?

im so invested in this storyline are my friends

going to be able to play elden ring randomized mod together

is elden ring seamless coop folder going to get a happy ending?

this feels anything but seamless

i giggle in fits as i hear them talk about where to put things

gods i really hope this season is better

the classic fatalerror.dll twist! who could have seen it coming

cant wait for next season

please! it's been a thousand episodes! i need to know the ending!

okay, jacob but look at

bro whyyy did you wait till i took three tabs of acid before

you wanted to make this character!!!!

okay i can try to read but your letters keep dancing dude

sorry, i know but okay look at recognize spell and then quick recognition, isn't this one just better.. so why would i..?

idk man, oh it's a prerequisite! solved. easy, keep these easy ones coming

okay get all this wizard shit out of heeeeeeere get rid of it! it's getting in the way

okay now read magical shorthand

bro anything but magical shorthand i can't

it's so many leterrrrrs

okay but now that im basically a wizard this should work, right?

oh. yeah!

finally

oh my god

anything but magical shorthand again

he really wanted that to work

it just has like.. words in it

so your folder looks the same as mine.. maybe it's the crash text logs or something, that'd be STUPID but maybe??

okay it's still not launching

okay i know youre going to hate this but, we might just want to start from scratch

okay.. Grant i think starting from season 1 is probably best this story is way too convoluted

oh my god it's finally launching!

and i think they gave up they couldnt get it to work together

the seeds weren't working

but they should have been

i got up to go to the fridge but i

didn't make it back

Tom was in here till 4am clicking through things but

at least Austin could play

i had to go sit on the bed

why was your name doing that

with all its beautiful letters?

i couldnt keep my smile contained

i tried to catch it

but it kept leaping out of my face

[catboybatman]

Finally read detective comics #1000.... shits disappointing tbh.

Maybe its bc it ended on Tom King's part idk (i had already read the arkham knight part so for me it ended there). Idk.

Its just okay i guess. (Clenches fists)

Also it reeks is sexist writing tbh like. Jason and Duke get this fun moment (yea. I kinda liked that part. Just like seeing Duke.) Dick and Damian had this conversation that,, sure happened. What do the girls get?

Steph just wants to make out with Tim (in front of the entire gang, mind you).

Selina says 2 whole things: a meow and a greeting, just calling Bruce "Bat", in typical Tom King fashion. (He has ruined those nicknames for them for me.) Literally could just have been Alfred the Cat. At least then the panel with the two of them would have been neat then.

And Cass and Helena have a conversation thats okay i guess? I just dont think Cass would fuck with Helena that much actually idk (might have missed stuff that proves otherwise) its not really saying much about them other than "hrm the boys are loud and dumb" (shorthand for funny girl writing) like ok. See me care.

And Kate and Babs have the most ridiculous, borderline stereotypical "men writing feminism but 'accidentaly' making it sexist" conversation in recent comic history. Im not sorry but Neo-batgirl Babs annoys the shit out of me and Tom Kings writing made it worse.

"Have you been to war?" (<- kate) "ive dated dick grayson" ma'am your spine got reconstructed by the joker, your brother is a serial killer, etc. You have had bigger issues. Also the whole thing about "why are you -woman and i -girl?"

A) BECAUSE BABS CHOSE IT WHEN SHE WAS A GIRL (and to yk, entice younger readers/viewers. In this case also bc it was a callback to Betty Kane, from when there was a Batwoman and a Batgirl, bc they differed in age. Its not that deep tbh. So many comic book discussions could be solved by realizing the context in which the characters were created/written in)

AND B) BC THE MANTLE SHOULDNT BE HERS ANYMORE. You're literally proving why she should not be wearing the cowl. (Simplifying it ofc but like. Cmon.) (Even tho she is acting like a child nowadays. God.)

Also maybe its bc im slowly making my way through the Batman Bronze Age (peak era) and bc im most familiar with Babs as Oracle through 90s comics and Batgirl (2000) but this neo-babs batgirl is so annoying!! She's so immature!

How to fix this? (Pspsp DC pspsps Its free psps)

Option A) Read: Oracle Code (or any other proper run but im assuming the writers dont wanna so im giving them a good and easy option) -> adapt into moderately mature arc for mainstream Babs where she grows and changes as a person -> breathe easy. Balance restored, etc.

Option B) keep her as Batgirl (bad choice) and just write her like a damn adult that doesnt create feelings of extreme violence in me (easy option) or

Option C) just reboot all of this (perfect choice) and create something based on pre-52. Entirety of DC tbh.

[lostacelonnie]

Gotta keep that hope around for sure i will keep my fingers crossed for you. Oh that is a win win i gotta remember that, i say as if adhd wont make me forget. I usually just look for em to see like. What kinds are around. Whole ones. Broken ones. Weird shapes. Its interesting. Dont take any with me though. That. Makes me wonder how they teach english over there. Honestly yeah i look for a name in the bio or just. Shorthand the username somehow because i gotta have some way to refer to people. I havent used a bio in years so people use my username all the time. Oooh norway i have always wanted to go there. I dont camp as much as id like to but i should more tbh. I have seen her stacks & i gotta say. Clara is wild cant believe i let her sit unused. I dunno how much ill get but im gonna for sure be savin as i can. I think that one is last yeah. I am always interested at the start but fade by the end because the new stuff always slows down. Same ive been playing indies more like gris & obra dinn. To try & branch out. Good story annoying exploration is chasm in a nutshell yeah. True big cities be like that. I live in a smaller one now so very little happens. Mine hold dye decently well which i appreciate. Just wish we had true permanent dye. Maybe one day. Thats how i am with nail polish i always get it on the sides & mess up but ive gotta just. Be patient & let myself learn. Happy 1.2 star rail update

sorry for the late reply shfjglk i truly have no excuse other than "i was holed up in my room in an attempt to avoid interaction with my grandma but i accidentally also avoided interaction with Everyone Else" so im. So sorry ab that. COMING BACK hehe thankies!! if things go wrong i guess ill just move out for a while and then come back Suspiciously A Different Gender. nobodys gonna know. but yeah good luck on remembering that shdjfk!! and ahh thats fair i just usually visit pretty big beaches so theres not many around by the time i get there. english is taught just so you know the language but following the education system without external classes will get you a2 knowledge At Best and its getting worse with each year so. lol. and yeah frfr i use usernames as names alllll the time...... norway is very fun i recommend it!! esp if you prefer colder climates like i do. ahhh understandable!! i dont actually. own a tent but as i said, maybe one day. id rather go with friends tho which is a problem in on itself cos i dont have that many friends that actually know each other. unless i go with my photo camp friends. thats an Idea actually. YEAH CLARA IS GREAT.... i unfortunately dont have her quite built [terrible relic luck...... plus ive been more focused on trying to prepare for kafka recently] but seeing as shes my main [despite having jing yuan] i Will get her better stuff someday. i have 140 pulls rn so im equally nervous as i am excited. yeah it really Is like that bc im always paranoid ab spoilers so i always do at least the new story as fast as i can. except for right now as i still havent played the new honkai chapter [but tbf my game only managed to download the update yesterday, 3 days after the launch of 6.8] and i honestly dont have the energy to do it today so maybe tomorrow. ah that sounds fun!! i came back to minecraft recently idk why but ive been having a Great time. after 130 in-game days i am finally no longer homeless. and oh when i get older id like to move to a smaller city [since i like having things close but dont like having drama all the time] but im still thinking ab where. ah thats cool...... i tried looking for the dye that i used on camp but couldnt find it. rip. and yeah same tbh thats why i never paint my nails. and yeah happy star rail 1.2 o)-( i like the double planar ornament event since thats the only thing im missing for kafkas things......

[communistkenobi]

I think that one thing that makes the MCU different from past franchises like SW is how much it's relying on its conglomerate of Marvel source materials across various mediums. The MCU does not need to establish Peter Parker's Spider-Man or the values that went into creating the character and his canon (as in his comics/cartoons/shows as a whole, not in-universe character continuity) bc its target audience already has a rough concept of the character due to prior exposure to Spider-Man canon/media in pop culture—which means there's just enough of a foundation for the MCU Spider-Man to be widely recognizable as Spider-Man without portraying what makes Peter Parker Peter Parker (poor financial situation from childhood to adulthood, low self-esteem, learning up to stand up to his bullies and his boss, survivor's guilt, etc.) on-screen. But it's like the franchise is then relying primarily on the audience's concept of the character of Spider-Man from exposure to other (including both subjectively and objectively better) versions in other mediums to establish their iteration of the charracter and by extension those films. And that's how adaptations work, of course, but I think the MCU as a whole fails to capitalize on the benefits of adapting into another medium, so all that's left for the critical audience are elements like the military propaganda, the racism and whitewashing, the imperialism apologism, and so on that are consequences of franchising decisions rather than creative decisions.

Like yeah, franchises and fandom aren't new and are direct results of capitalism and mass-media consumption, but the MCU feels like its own special blend within the Marvel franchise (as a whole) in how much it relies on this idea of The Brand and being just recognizable enough that it doesn't (and won't) go further than surface level. It's insular to a degree that I don't know what I can compare it to. I think SW has started to shift toward this template(????) with the D+ shows (well really since Solo), but I don't know how to explain where this shift occurred or where it falls between MCU and traditional franchise media????? Even the DCEU differs enough despite still imo having the mass-produced/soulless/lacking in substance feel. It's like you said, we don't have any specific term that quite defines this yet, and not to be a snob but I really really REALLY hate that I added a yet there even though I know it's only a matter of time.

(Sorry for the rambling, I just really like your analyses, especially where capitalism and fascism intersect even tho I didn't really bring those points up bc I'm not sure what I could contribute in that area lol)

sorry for the late reply i know this was like two days ago now lol

anyway i think my framing of the mcu as uniquely bad is incorrect in the sense of what you said, which is that fandoms and mass media are not new. mcu is just a good shorthand to refer to mass media because its the most glaring and obnoxious example of it.

i also don't want to be ahistorical about it because the first marvel movies weren't like the recent ones, they felt more real in the sense that there was more to them than simple reference. @sashacore made a good point about not categorising art into low/high categories because you can quickly get into reactionary territory. which i don't want to do, obviously, but i'm coming up short on language that describes what im trying to articulate. and i dont think im being reactionary when i say the mcu is devoid of meaning

agh idk i guess i just have a motivated desire to call the mcu uniquely bad in a way. like when scorsese said that the mcu isn't art i want to agree with him. like it literally just feels like an infomercial for capital and empire. if you wanted to point to something as the logical endpoint to art produced with the sole goal of capital accumulation i would point to the mcu. but it's not unique in that sense. the difference is of degree, not kind

[jayflrt]

ouu let's go with 8, 10, 11, and 13 <33

VIV LMAOFJF that’s so funny bc those were the ones i was gonna choose for you but i saw ppl already asked you a few of them already 🤧 AND IM SORRY FOR GETTING TO THIS SO LATE life has been so hectic 😵‍💫 also pfp .. concerned

8. if you could create something and knew beforehand it would end up being a thing you were satisfied with the quality of, what would you create? describe it, whether it’s a poem or building or clothing or machine or painting, etc.

this is a hard one omg :o not to be basic but i think i’d want to create a novel HAHAH one that i’m rlly rlly proud of bc one of my little bucket list things for life is to write something (not fanfiction) that might not necessarily be for publishing but just for my personal happiness :’)) or i’d lowkey want to create hologram technology but that’s a lot to get into LMFAO

10. share an anecdote of a time you surprised yourself.

hmm probably the first time i got a skating medal !! i think ppl like to think about their big achievements, and i could talk about when i won nationals, but i think the time i most surprised myself was when i got my first medal ever. i had a losing streak for about a year until that one contest that flipped my confidence completely around and started my winning streak :’)) ♡

11. what do you find the most fun (lighthearted) shorthand method of categorising people (ex. astrology, dungeons and dragons classes, character tropes, style types, etc) and do you have a favourite type of person within that system?

hmmm IDK WHY IM HAVING A HARD TIME THINKING OF THIS ONE but i think i tend to categorize ppl based on what they wear ?? like guys who wear their caps backward, guys who actually know how to dress, guys who wear khaki pants, women who dress in floral, women who can pull off jumpsuits, women who have rlly rlly good style, etc. especially with the men i feel like i get a good idea of someone based on their style 😭 you just know how those engineering dads dress LOL 🥲 but i think my fav is girls who wear heels so confidently !!! don’t even care ab anyone else and just click click along the streets 🤩

13. write something that life has taught you that you’re willing to share, because you really do believe it.

idk if this is good advice but this is just something i personally have formulated myself from experiences and observations, but i’ve just learned that we beat ourselves up over education to receive more education, and then with that, we work for the rest of our lives. so appreciate the little things and make the most of what you can because we live in a world where we’ve created currency and economy to force us to work to maintain stability, so we should at least enjoy the moments where we can unwind and relax 💞

[whentherewerebicycles]

hey ummm im tipsy too because it's my flatmate's birthday and I'm literally a lesbian woman but sometimes I worry I might not be lesbian and it scares me because I'm scared of men but sometimes I think a man is attractive (like my flatmate) and idk why I'm msging you about that, sorry if it's weird. but you seem to have very valuable insights about life that not many others have (somehow?? idk?) and I respect and appreciate that.

oh it’s not weird! i think one thing i have learned is that it is 100% okay and healthy to hold your own sense of who you are lightly, and to not feel so attached to a particular label that you don’t allow yourself lots of space to grow and change as you have new experiences or meet new people who bring out different facets of yourself. to me the label of ‘lesbian’ is not an Essential and Immutable Truth about who i am (ie something that can never shift or change over time). instead, using that label speaks to a decision i’ve made about how i want to orient myself in the world, how i want others to perceive and interact with me, and where i choose to channel my energy & attention.

when i first came out i spent many, many years feeling like i had to justify and “prove” that i was “really” a lesbian and that i was ~~~pure~~~ of any flickers of attraction or interest in men (there’s a conversation about internalized biphobia to be had there, but we’ll save it!!). i have described this phase (which i think characterizes many young or newly out lgbtq people’s experiences) as “the push,” because for me it was basically like, to get myself emotionally, intellectually, and socially free of the rigid constraints of compulsory heterosexuality, i had to PUSH really, really hard, to get enough distance between myself and all of that stuff. i had to shove it as far away from me as possible to lessen the chance that it would suck me back in. that was a normal and necessary part of moving into a more openly queer identity, and for many women who identify as lesbian the “push” involves completely disavowing any past interest in men or relationships with men or emotional attachments to men.

the push isn’t a bad thing! like i said, i think it is quite necessary at first, especially since women are subject to even more of the “are you sure? i mean, you’re not really gay, right? maybe you just haven’t met the right guy / maybe it’s just a phase / maybe you just couldn’t get a guy to like you / maybe you’re just afraid of men so you’re pretending you like women” bullshit than gay men are. but it’s a phase that i think most people eventually are ready to move out of (well, unless you are on twitter, and then you just live in the wake of the push forever and ever i guess). and that’s because it can be quite an intense and anxious headspace to live in, as you often feel a lot of pressure to “figure yourself out” (ie pin down what exactly you are -- are you a “real” lesbian or not?), as well as a lot of pressure to prove to yourself as much as to other people that you are who you say you are, or whatever. so it’s stressful to live there, and it also requires you to draw a lot of really hard-and-fast lines (like, “this is what a REAL lesbian is, and i’m only REAL if i follow all of these rules or check off all of these boxes all the time, and if i slip up maybe i’m not actually a lesbian, and i’m lying to myself and everyone else”).

over time i’ve come to hold my own identity more lightly, and to demand less certainty and fewer fixed answers of myself (and of others, too!). the identity label i use doesn’t really matter all that much to me - what matters is 1) that i am able to arrange my life and relationships in a way that makes me happy, and 2) that others respect the choices i make (something that’s not always within our control). right now, “lesbian” is the word that i like best as a descriptor, but i also know that labels are very, very generic categories that almost have to be emptied of specificity and nuance in order to encompass a very wide range of people. to borrow & repurpose a phrase from the transfeminist theorist emi koyama: there are as many ways of being a lesbian as there are lesbians. lesbian is just a general catchall umbrella category for an incredibly diverse range of lived experiences, histories, self-understandings, sexual and romantic choices, life narratives, etc etc.

if lesbian is the word that works for you or feels like the closest approximation to how you want to identify & be perceived by others, then call yourself a lesbian! it is completely and totally fine to be a lesbian who sometimes finds men attractive, or who finds herself attracted to a specific male friend. there’s nothing wrong with that! personally, i am a lesbian who has had important emotional and physical relationships with men in the past, and it’s possible that in the future maybe i’ll meet someone who i really click with who happens to be a man. it’s not maybe something that i would go looking for, and if it did happen, it would certainly prompt some soul-searching, as does any new experience that surprises us or complicates the stories we tell ourselves about who we are and what we want. but holding my identity labels and my sense of self loosely means that i don’t have to feel as threatened by the possibility of changing desires or a shifting understanding of who i am & how i want to arrange my life.

my real true belief is that the vast majority of people are probably capable of forming deep emotional and physical attachments to any kind of person, if the circumstances were right and the person was the right person at the right time and we were open to the possibility of an attachment. i think that very few human traits or preferences are ‘hardwired’ into us in fixed and unchangeable ways. in general, most of our traits are influenced by a combination of nature and nurture, or genetics + experience. so like, idk, maybe some of us who are born cis women are slightly more predisposed than other people to find other women attractive. but nurture, lived experiences, environment, social and culture influences, and the stories we tell ourselves about who we are all play a much, much more important role in determining how we make sense of that predisposition, and whether we come to use words like “lesbian” to identify ourselves. so the type of rigid, stridently defended boundaries or definitions we often feel the need to invoke & defend during the "push” are even less useful here, because how could a fixed set of black-and-white labels (which, btw, only emerged in the last 100-130 years) possibly encompass or account for the wonderful heterogeneity of human experience?

anyway i guess this is all a very long way of saying that i think your worry is completely understandable, and certainly something i spent many years of my own life feeling! but i also think it can be nice to hear from other queer women that there’s a place a little further beyond that, which is basically just this realization: i am who i am, and i accept myself as i am right now, while also understanding that “who i am” will continue to evolve & change my whole life long. you are a lesbian if you say you are a lesbian, and if you want to have a crush on your male flatmate or find a male celebrity attractive or even try pursuing something with a male partner, that’s okay: it doesn’t mean your lesbianism isn’t real, or that you are now going to be pulled back into a compulsory heterosexuality you worked hard to push yourself away from.

but it also doesn’t mean that lesbianism is where you have to stay forever, just because that’s where you’ve landed or what has felt right for you up until now. it’s completely okay, normal, and healthy to allow yourself that space to change. maybe you’ll move into a phase of your life where “bisexual” or “queer” or “pan” will feel like a closer approximation or a better shorthand for how you understand yourself & want others to understand you. or maybe you’ll come to find some other word that you like better, or maybe you’ll decide that you don’t even want or need a word to live your life the way you want. the point is that you aren’t fixed in place. you are free to explore and to experiment and to try out different ways of orienting yourself in the world. and you should do so, in ways that feel exciting and affirming and right for you.

[erenscherub]

Hello beautiful! I’m here to thank you for such a beautiful work in “seasons” i’m in love with your story and the way you write it. Please keep going on. I’m dying to see what follows in the next episodes. I have one question, how is the sexual life between Eren and reader? Are they still into that part? Pd: i know that he is a little piece of sh**, but i still love him and have hope that maybe he’ll change because he’ll realize what the fuck is he doing.

When will you post the next chapter honey? 🥺

Thank u so much for being so perfect ❤️✨ im waitingggg, i’m so excited.

Hi, bubz. I can’t put into words how happy reading this ask made me. It really made my day. Thank you so much for taking the time to leave a review 🥺 I love you, anon. I hope you’re doing well and your week is as wonderful as you are.

Oh god, I feel like such a dumbass for asking this, but what does Pd stand for? 😂😂 Ok I’m gonna guess it might be an abbreviation for period. But urban dictionary wasn’t really that helpful. I got an entire range of answers including pussy destroyer, professional development, public defender, and Peruvian dick.

I’m only 21, but I haven’t been active on my other social media besides tumblr. So it takes me so long to pick up on the slang and shorthand everyone uses nowadays. It’s a great reminder and just really amazing to me to see how language is dynamic. Idk if that makes sense.

Ok sorry for the unrelated rambling. As for when the next chapter comes out, I want to estimate within the next two weeks. It’s technically already done. But with uni starting soon, it’s gonna limit my time to write and winter was the only arc I had prewritten chapters for before I published them. So sorry to say this but chapters will probably be coming out slower and slower.

Here’s a little snippet though of the next chapter. It’s not angst like my usual style but it’s one of my favorite scenes:

You sigh in disappointment and rub circles into your temples. Calista this year had decided to “lovingly” give you a pastel green vibrator.

Mikasa pats Amanda’s knee as she whispers, “Told you it’s gonna be us and the kids that win the top three this year. Last year, (Y/N) had a pretty hard time trying to convince the two kids that the 10-inch dildo was a paperweight or a toilet brush cleaner.”

Amanda and Annie rub comforting circles on your back. “Oh, Calista. You really, really shouldn’t have. I always wonder what exactly goes on in that brain of yours.” You take a deep breath and shake your head. “If there’s anything at all.” You grimace as you wrap her gift back in the tissue paper and place it back in the gift bag.

Calista doesn’t register your sarcasm or your displeased expression.

She’s all smiles as she clasps her hands together. “Oh angel!” she squeals, “You know self-care is important. I couldn’t help but overhear you talking with Mikasa, Annie, and Petra that lately you’ve been faking your orgasms.” You release another sigh and your eyebrows elevate. “I know that all four of you rate how good your partners are in bed on a weekly basis. Nothing wrong with having a little extra help in the bedroom.”

She nudges your shoulder and then makes her way to her husband with a bright smile on her face.

Both Jean and Eren cry out in unison, “YOU RANK US?”

Eren continues to exclaim, “Baby, what do you mean you’ve been faking them? Your pleasure is always my first priority!”

You hand the gift bag to Petra to place back on the console table and turn to Jean to state, “Calm down, seven.” Jean seems to sigh in relief as he settles back down next to Connie.

Then you direct your attention to your husband. “And relax, four.” Eren is wide-eyed and gaping at you like a fish. “Usually, it’s a weekly rating. But I gave you an overall score for the past two months since you’ve been so busy with work as of late.”

You give one final shrug to your husband who has a venomous glare directed at Calista.

Thankfully, your three Cubs are still rapidly blinking with their heads all cocked to the right after your spiel. Falco does tug on Eliza’s hand and peers at her questioningly.

“The grown-ups are probably talking about when they exercise,” Eliza shrugs, explaining as best as she can, “Uncle Armin, Daddy, and Uncle Jean seem to be bad at it because they’re the ones that are always screaming so loudly at night time.”

[criticalrolo]

IDK if you want to actually talk about this more, but my sister identifies as a Bi Lesbian, and the way she describes it is that she is attracted to women and nonbinary people. I think saying that bi people HAVE to be attracted to men is off-base and ignores the nonbinary part of "more than one gender" - and as soon as you include nb people it is no longer mutually exclusive. ALSO fuck terfs getting to take an id away from people cause theyre shitty, I respect the people who id as that more 1/3

2/3 Of course Bi and Lesbians are full identities, but if people find a label like Bi Lesbian useful, not as a watering down but as a way to speak their truth, then I think it should be respected. It doesn't have to be a scale - maybe if anything a modifier? And it certainly doesn't make Bi or Lesbian less of an identity than the split attraction model makes Ace less of a thing. IDK I'd just rather be extremely inclusive over saying that an ID is bad. IDK about the Bipoc tho as Im white

3/3 one final aside, is I've seen it described as an easy way to explain that they are into multiple genders but not into men. And I think if its useful and easily understood, a useful shorthand, then let people use it. Fuck anyone (esp terfs) who apply it to other people, but I think we dont have to conflate all the ways people are awful to queer people with an Identity itself being fucked up. Anyway sorry to ramble right back, and I hope you have a nice night and Ill see you in the cr tag lol

Hey there! So, to address your points, I do want to say first of all that I totally find it admirable that, given the option, you’d rather stray towards overly inclusive as opposed to Not Inclusive Enough. I totally agree with that sentiment, and think that you’re absolutely coming at this from a good angle.

The things I find difficult about the “bi lesbian” label kind of come from your second ask mainly. So the thing is, all sexualities can potentially include nonbinary people. “Nonbinary” is not a separate Third Gender Option, it’s an enormous array of different identities. People can be nonbinary but man or woman-aligned, completely agender, all the genders at once, etc. etc. etc.... basically the format that you’re thinking of conforms the nonbinary experience into an all encompassing “third gender” when in fact it’s a broad spectrum of experiences and identities that can be extremely similar or dissimilar. 

Because yeah... there are nb lesbians out there. Who are attracted to women, and other nb lesbian/bisexual people who identify with being sapphic or wlw. You’re actually talking to one right now ;) My experience with gender is All Over The Place and I’m not very good at defining it right now, but I definitely identify very strongly as a lesbian who is attracted to women/women-aligned people. Gender Is Lesbian for me personally right now lol

The issue comes when, as you said, you start to use “lesbian” as a modifying term. It’s not a modifier. It’s a full term that exclusively means women who are not attracted to men. I know you bring up the split attraction model here, but I’ve found that that is WAY more useful for asexual identities without getting into some of the sticky areas like this one where IDing as something actually is harmful/doesn’t make sense. I know that the term “exclusive” does bring up some bad associations but in this case, that’s because we have terms for people who experience attraction to Women/NB people who ID as sapphic (basically ur NB lesbians/people comfy with calling themselves NB bisexual women) and for people who identify as being attracted to men and women (and man-aligned etc. etc.)

LIke, see how long those descriptions got once I started including some of the many, MANY different experiences of being nonbinary...? Basically there’s just no single way to define Every Nonbinary Person for Every Single Sexuality since it’s such a broad spectrum of experience, which is why a lot of sexualities might sound pretty binary (like defining lesbian as Woman Who Loves Only Women) but in fact is because there’s no way to include every single nonbinary experience and categorize them into a neat little box, you know? 

So from there, you’ve gotta ALSO consider the points I made earlier about how the identity of “bisexual lesbian” also comes across as lesbophobic, biphobic, and transphobic in ways that harm all of those identities instead of bringing them together. Like, obviously your sister is a Valid Human Being, and it feels weird to be saying an identity is NOT valid... but like. Forcing two mutually exclusive identities together (one that explicitly does not include men and one that does) just ends up hurting the people who ID with those identities in the long run, like how I outlined in my other post. Essentially, it takes away from the overall meaning of What It Means To Be A Lesbian and What It Means To Be Bisexual by trying to force the two of them together. They’re different experiences, and that’s something to be celebrated and something to find commonalities over while discussing our differences instead of trying to mash them together, you know? Like there’s a reason why they became defined as separate identities in the first place.

Anyway, this is probably too long but I hope you can see where I’m coming from here. I’m obviously not going to tell your sister How To Identify, but there’s my thoughts some points you might want to consider showing her while she’s figuring out her identity, you know? So yeah, that’s all I’ve got. Hope you have a good day, and get hyped for the CR episode tonight!! <3

[raedas]

YOU'RE SO EPIC PLEASE OH MY GOD ??

ducks!!!! i'm in canada so they're just like. very common?? here?? like i live a few minutes from this lake thing and it's always SWARMED by ducks it's terrifying

STOP OH MY GOD THAT GOAT SEEMS SO ADORABLE PLEASE OH MY GOD???? how many goats have you encountered in your life asking for Science. WAIT I'M SORRY AHHH my mind just short-circuted and thought jules was a shorthand for julie ?? but YO THAT SOUNDS SO INTRIGUING OH MY GOD YOOO what are your other favourite ships/dynamics asking bc your taste appears to be impeccable

SKDJGHKSFLA HELP SAYS YOU ???

that is amazing i would very much say hello to the ducks (but also ?? terrifying ???? i would like to say hello to the ducks from a distance actually)

THE GOATS ARE SO ADORABLE !!! okay okay hang on let me do. let me do some math. so pretty much every year of my life we get these goats near our house (normally they’re like a few minutes walk but today you could literally see them right across from our driveway) and theres maybe 100 ??? 200 ??? idk im bad at math so multiply that by my age and you get definitely over a 1000, 2000 maybe even ?? wow that is a lot of goats 

(to be fair. it is entirely possible they are the same goats every year) 

FDSLKFKLA DONT BE SORRY IT WAS HILARIOUS /pos and yeah im pretty sure jules is a nickname for both julie and julia?? but yEAH THEYRE ICONIC YOU SHOULD WATCH CARMEN SANDIEGO AAAH oohh let me think. dynamics i feel like it depends more on the individual characters if that makes sense? but some ships... uhh... curaday, kanej, flarrie, patrochilles, zoyalai, nahrali (??? is that their ship name ???? city of brass has next to no fandom its a curse) and firstprince are the first ones that came to mind 👀  but literally there’s so many. julethief are the ones that currently own my heart though SLKDFHFLKSA and 🥺🥺🥺 thank you-