#it’s as simple as that folks

[asukiess]

adrien and marinette deserve each other because they’re two popped collar dorks

[sorrel-the-kabbage]

@blackholeca More old art. These hurt, but in the way that makes me want to make like Reo and give Izuku a hug

[alevens]

zolu is maybe one of the easiest ships i've ever liked. they're dating, except when they're not, they're best friends even when they're kissing and they're still captain and first mate when they aren't. they hold hands, they hug. they have sex. they don't.

Luffy can hold Zoro's katanas and Zoro can hold Luffy's strawhat and no one bats an eye. one says "You're so cool!" and the other says "You're strong" and it's just another way to say "I see you, this is why I follow you/this is why I trust you". it's not seeing each other for a long time and still knowing how the other's steps sound like against wood and sand. the captain runs and the first mate follows. it's always "Zoro and the others" and "Where's Luffy?"

if they're just friends, if they're something more, if they don't have a label for it, at its core, it's just about how they get each other. they understand how the other's mind works. however you view them, it doesn't erase they fact that they love each other in a way they don't love other people.

[morallyinept]

Make love, not war... 🖤

[nerdybluephoenix]

Alien: You need technology to correct your written language?

Human: Our grammar, yes. Spelling too.

Alien: But it's your language. Can't you just write it correctly the first time?

Human (offended): I'm trying. I was never great in school, okay?

Alien: I didn't realize this could be a problem. Does the technology help, at least?

Human: *sigh* no.

[godmerlin]

Colin Morgan as Merlin

1x12 - To Kill The King

[goobygnarp]

i just wanted to complain about a music player app throwing screen-covering ads at me, and I guess Santa also disliked the change as well.

[giantkillerjack]

Me: I don't like when shows queerbait me.

Other Fans: Well then just watch other shows, dummy!!!!

Me: 👍👍👍 wow what a tidy way to dismiss and invalidate a legitimate reaction to homophobic story tropes! 👍👍👍

The "just leave then" response to people wanting more inclusivity from the stories they love is not just emotionally invalidating - it is also one of the things that keeps storytellers from feeling that they need to improve in the future by making fans feel stupid for demanding better representation in the first place.

This kind of response doesn't just make you sound like a conservative (since this is a VERY popular response that conservatives have when confronted with leftist media criticism), it also fundamentally ignores the fact that there may not BE an equivalent story with good rep to go to after leaving the queerbait-y one behind.

Delicious in Dungeon is special and unique; that's why I genuinely love it. It is that love that makes me want it to do better.

When I see that Shuro is allowed to openly express romantic love for Falin, but Marcille/Falin is relegated to mere implication, it makes me really sad. It may not be a romance manga, but there ARE straight couples, and hetero desire IS on display - which makes the lack of open queerness all the more noticeable.

So when people say "just go watch something else" in response to my genuine sadness and irritation that a beloved story is excluding people like me..... Are you telling me there's a nearly identical queer show - with a similarly active fandom - all about found family learning to cook beautiful foods in a dungeon? Is my favorite-guy-ever Senshi going to be there? Is there actually a place for me to go to??

OR is there only one Delicious in Dungeon, and that's what makes it great?

I think actually folks who respond this way just want me to leave, and they don't really care where I go, so long as their favorite thing doesn't have to stand up to criticism.

Because I don't want lesbian media elsewhere. I want it here, with my friend Marcille. Here, where the seeds of queer romance were purposely planted to hook my attention. What's so wrong with being disappointed if those seeds never grow to bear fruit??

We can like good art and still demand it does better. And we can validate people who are sad it isn't doing better without getting defensive. Critical analysis is healthy and important. It's how good and bad stories are fully understood, and it's how better stories get made.

And while I will try to enjoy the plentiful delicious crumbs I am being served (since it is more than most shows give me), just because I CAN squish a bunch of crumbs together into the approximate shape of a muffin, that doesn't mean I've been served a meal.

More on this topic because I love a good analogy

My original post about queerbaiting in Dungeon Meshi (that inspired this one with the replies I got from it)

[emberglowfox]

sundance

blender eevee render + photoshop touchups

[hedgewitchshit]

Happy Autumn Equinox! The shrine got a visitor this evening 💫

[marbleboa]

Get squished!! Idiot!!!!

[ID: A digital drawing of Sakurai and Koyama from Mob Psycho 100, done in colored linework. The main focus is a portrait shot of Sakurai with a displeased expression. Only Koyama's hands are in view, smushing Sakurai's cheeks around. The former says "...huh. Looks like our scars are gone. I don't feel weird or anything, do you?" Sakurai shortly answers "No. And this is not necessary". Koyama only chuckles in reply. In the corner is a sketch of Sakurai turning the tables and grabbing Koyama's face to shove him away. Koyama lifts up his hands in surrender but maintains his shiteating grin. End ID]

[snakemoltsiren]

You want stars? I got a skyfull. Put a quarter in the slot, you'll get an eyefull.

[chirpsythismorning]

I rest easy knowing that the planted milkvan roof pap photos will be referenced on the straight-baiting Wikipedia page soon enough.

[carlyraejepsans]

i don't think I've ever enjoyed a birthday party with friends as much as today i am genuinely getting a bit teary eyed

[angel-archivist]

It's so interesting and so exceedingly frustrating how agab is being utilized now within the queer community as a way to isolate and sort nonbinary and genderqueer folks into binary boxes that determine their moral purity levels, and their authority to do and write and exist.

The way nonbinary writers are being put under accusation of fetishizing gay men while their AGAB is continually brought up in a way that feels like queer-space-approved misgendering.

The way feminist circles that are supposedly trans-inclusive will use the word AFAB in a way that implicitly but intentionally isolates nonbinary people who aren't AFAB from joining. It's for women*.

The way the language is already flawed and leaves out intersex folks from the conversations while focusing on a binary of sex that isn't truthful.

The constant obsessing over whether someone is AFAB or AMAB and whether or not that gives them the privilege to join, do, write, or be present in certain spaces really really concerns me. How are we supposed to dismantle a binary system of gender if we can't even move past forcibly assigning and focusing on people's genders assigned at birth?

[moonpaw]

luffy CAN read, we rarely ever see it but he can at least read short and simple things

(but there's several scenes of him asking nami to read something more complex like a newspaper, nolands journal, ect, so he probably can't read more complex or longer sentences?)