#like... this could totally be a polycule

[winterspiderpurrs]

"Have you been wearing my shirts?"

Bucky paused and then turned to Tony, raising an eyebrow.

" Babe I would end up ripping it if I tried it on. And yes before you start you have muscle too. Delicious too. But I'm definitely too bulky for your shirts."

Tony frowns and tugs a little on his shirt. " My clothes are tailored to fit me... they shouldn't be this loose"

Bucky looks Tony over, " Well you have lost weight... not enough thats unhealthy though."

" I have noticed I have been more energized lately... but you know Cap makes sure I eat. I should be gaining weight with all the meals he keeps bringing me..."

Tony finishes buttoning up his shirt, tucking his gun in his waistband. Natasha laughs at the door and states, " I'm surprised you're just now noticing... Pepper hired a new chef who is actually making you heart healthy meals."

Tony scoughs moving to slide his arm into the jacket that Bucky is holding out for him. Giving him a quick peck on the lips. " I think I would know if we had someone living in my house cooking"

Natasha stares before moving to check the time on her watch. " Yes, well, he doesn't live here. He lives in the townhouse next door. The buildings share a basement, you know. Food gets deposited there. He has no access here. He has been vouched."

" I didn't vouch him. "

" Captain did. Even though he doesn't know it. He knows the chef as Queens"

Bucky almost tripped as they headed out the door. " Our chef is Queens? Awe shit that punk is gonna be tripping over himself. "

" Why? "

Bucky smirks " You know how Stevie got that Brooklyn tattoo on his abs and refuses to say why he decided to get it?"

" Yeah?"

" Apperantly... he met this Twink at his gym, and they started callin' each other those names... and well ... Queens challenged him to get one, and if he did, he would too....Punk can't say no to a dare"

" Cute so they got their nicknames tatted in the same place"

" Well... Queens got his just under his ass cheeks...and Steve said his ass rivals his own."

" Damn"

"Language Boss"

They turn to see Steve coming into the room holding a brief case. " What's got you cussing this early in the morning?"

Tony chuckled before clapping his hands together, clasping his hands to rub them together with THAT smirk on his face.

" Well I have lost weight since I've been tricked into having healthy but delicious home cooked meals. So now WE are off to meet this chef and see about setting a tailor appointment so I can get re-measured. "

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Hope yall like it! I may or may not continue this ( if someone wants to pick it up lemme know!) I kinda like a mob polycule for this but doesn't have to be.

[oceanwithouthermoon]

ehh um ummm.. hairo+kuboyasu+saiki polycule..

saiki being really into muscular guys is just so silly to me.. i think he would just enjoy knowing that even though he's technically the stronger one, his partner is very much capable of taking care of him even if he doesnt need it

all three of them have very low self preservation skills and a very high need to protect others before themselves(yea yea saiki too, he refuses to admit it but literally reread it if you dont think its true), so their dynamic would be really fun and silly and theyd be really protective of each other..

[coolauntlilith]

So I finally watched Sense8. I regret not watching it sooner for a couple reasons. But I'm so glad I finally watched it.

[arthurtaylorlester]

i just want to shout out texas!michael and outlaw!ty for singlehandedly almost saving the timeline and then making it 10x worse and then dying technically because no one knows they even exist to bring them back. like ik realistically they are NEVER coming back but that doesn't stop them from being my favourite woe.begone duo ever

[astromechs]

it's always weird to me when people have space societies automatically take on patriarchal/heteronormative norms, like. they're in space! they can be whatever

[ilackallhonour]

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[emile-hides]

Sorry I can’t get into Goncharov I’m busy thinking about a black panther that’s so full of Autism

[wheucto]

im so normal

[oakskull]

did I just spend almost 300 dollars at the watcher merch shop? maybe. in my defense, I saw the paranormal badboys hoodie and I Had to get me and my partners matching hoodies. I had too.

[iron-sides]

actually this does deserve its own post. marvin trina and whizzer in the first half of act 1 are if not actually in terms of how they view each other then functionally in terms of the actual mechanics and actions of their relationships a unhealthy fucking polycule which of part of why marvin is acting like trina just dumped him. bc in his mind they were still together even tho he literally divorced her

[godheadjones]

Wasn’t that because they’d been promising Cole Sprouse for years that they’d let him play asexual Jughead in the finale, and he hated the polycule? The compromise being him playing that god Jughead with the acest vibes of the acest ace guy U’ve ever seen?

honestly i don’t even know tbh. i didn’t really look up the lore before making that post like i just was like “wow no jarchie kiss because cole contract” as a joke, and decided to write a fake conversation about it. it totally could be, i just haven’t looked up articles in forever. i do love aro/ace jughead and i remember one interview he did when the show started about ace/aro jughead in the comics and this seems like a fun, perfect way to send off ace/aro jughead

[rowenablade]

Okay. I’m going to wait to do a second watch before I articulate most of my other feelings here, but I want to address one thing.

I’m seeing a lot of posts like, “I related to Izzy because I am also queer and older/disabled/depressed. By killing him off, the writers are saying that I deserve to die.”

Guys.

I’m not saying your feelings aren’t valid. I totally understand grieving a character that you relate to. But speaking as a writer, I just want to point out that trying to write with the shadow of “what is the absolute worst and most harmful way a reader can interpret this” will smother your ability to create. Twisting yourself in knots, trying to think up the worst-faith takes possible and scotch-guarding all your writing decisions against them is exhausting to the point of making you just not want to write anymore.

And we’ve seen the writers deliberately choose not to do this in Season 1. Remember all those terrible “Izzy is racist” takes that the writers and cast seemed completely blindsided by? That happened because the writers and directors and actors weren’t going over every scene with a fine tooth comb, ferreting out every shot or line of dialogue or micro expression that could possibly be interpreted as racist, and scrubbing it off. Because there comes a point where your story is what it needs to be, and you have to accept that some people will interpret it in ways you didn’t intend them to. And if you can’t accept that, you’ll never find the courage to put your work out there.

The point of diverse casts and writing teams isn’t to achieve a state of, “Nothing bad ever happens to a character from a marginalized demographic ever again.” It’s to achieve a status quo of these types of characters just being people in the world of the story. Not symbols, not representation boxes to tick, not tokens that you can point to so that you can say, “Here, we acknowledged this type of person exists, now where’s our woke points?”

OFMD is full of characters of color, queer characters, older characters, characters of differing body types. And in stories, things happen to characters. Some fall in love. Some make the same mistakes over and over. Some turn into birds. Some die.

Izzy’s character represents a lot of things, but he does not represent every older, disabled fan or fan who has struggled with suicide, any more than Jim represents all genderqueer fans, or Olu represents all black fans. That’s not how the writers were handling him. They were handling him like a character, because that’s what you have to do.

Again, I understand being sad. I am so, so fucking sad. But this idea of, “Any time something bad happens to a character I relate to means that the writer thinks I deserve these bad things to happen to me,” will poison everything you engage with eventually. Because stories are full of things happening to characters, and they won’t all be good things. And the more representation we get, the more often bad things will happen to characters we relate to.

But good things will happen too.

Queer couples get married. Disabled women run off with their favorite husbands. Middle-aged characters change careers. A multiracial polycule finds a home at sea. A fat man covered in tattoos stars in a drag show and all his friends cheer. All these things happened in the same show as Izzy’s death. This is what this world is.

Anyway. I know emotions are running high and I’ll probably get blocked or unfollowed by a few people for this. But I’m just trying to find my peace where I can, and if anyone else finds this useful, cheers.

[anthurak]

Continuing on the topic of the possibility of a Charlie/Vaggie/Emily polycule*, I thought I’d discuss a few other thoughts on why these three could totally work together:

Assuming that Vaggie was originally human, and perhaps has even ‘become’ human again in a way with the removal of her wings, then these three together could represent an interesting thematic ‘trinity’ bridging Hell and Heaven: We have a Demon (Charlie), a Human (Vaggie) and an Angel (Emily) all coming together.

Next, and this could have some interesting implications for the next two episodes if we get a B-plot focused on Vaggie, given just how SIMILAR Charlie and Emily are, if Vaggie had to spend any amount of time with Emily, you can’t tell me she wouldn’t start falling for Emily too. Or that Vaggie trying to stay angry/jealous of Emily and failing miserably wouldn’t be completely hilarious.

Additionally, you know how Charlie’s and Vaggie’s character designs are clearly meant to subvert a lot of traditional gender norms? Like how Charlie is has a lot traditionally feminine/‘girly’ personality traits like being super upbeat, cheerful, friendly and kind, yet dresses exclusively in masculine clothes and is taller than her partner, while Vaggie has a lot of traditionally masculine/butch personality traits yet wears much more feminine clothing and is the shorter of the pair? Well imagine if Emily ends up following this trend if/when she joins Charlie and Vaggie in Hell?

Like say, Fallen-Angel!Emily ends up going PURE emo/goth/punk look, while of course remaining exactly the same upbeat, cheerful cinnamon roll just like Charlie that she was before. And maybe cheerfully dropping f-bombs left and right because she can swear now and thinks cussing is really fun!

*Speaking of which, have we settled on a ship name for these three yet? I realize ‘Chaggiem’ works well enough (and sounds amusingly similar to ‘requiem’ of all things) but personally I think ‘Unholy Trinity’ is pretty good. Alternatively, ‘Two and a Half Halos’.

[cupcakestreets]

Shadow milk would totally try to rizz up clotted cream to just make his boyfriends jealous or might end up in the polycule.

I think if you ship Clotted Cream Cookie and Shadow Milk Cookie you really love Toxic Yaoi because Clotted Cream would hate Shadow Milk Cookie the most. I feel that with my whole heart. /LH

Literally he had to deal with liars and deceivers at work every day with them elders. Shadow Milk Cookie would add on to that bullshit and my boy Clotted already doesn’t get enough sleep.

But those who do like toxic yaoi read the undercut below I will feed you an idea. |:)

Shadow Milk Cookie becoming absolutely obsessed with Clotted Cream Cookie visage. His stance, his walk, his words, that smile… Someone who can embody Deceit~ He can see how Clotted Cream Cookie puts on an act for the Elders, hiding his secret resentment. Shadow Milk Cookie knows that he could rule them all and yet he holds himself back. He admires Clotted Cream Cookie and must have him join his side. Clotted Cream Cookie hates him. He hates this attention and refuses his advances. Shadow Milk starts to meddle in his life, trying to isolate him by puppeteering those close to Clotted Cream Cookie. He weathers him down… Clotted Cream’s well practiced smile is beginning to crack. Shadow Milk Cookie starts love bombing him, Clotted Cream knows what he is doing… He hates this jester but he is currently all he has and maybe he can do something on the inside as the other heroes will stop him… He puts on a new act; lover to the jester.

[voidpacifist]

things I loved about season four of sex ed (spoilers ahead)

the amount of representation present this season. the disability rep, the queer and trans rep, how not shy the writers were confronting different trans and disability rights issues head on.

eric's arc with his religion and his gayness and how he was able to reconcile the two. this one really hit home for me as someone who is both queer and a person of faith. I love getting to see gayness have a place within faith, it just healed something for me, okay?

otis was so classically otis but he finally (FINALLY) acknowledged his own idiosyncrasies without just writing them off as being the fault of wounds in his life. by the end of ep 8 he was dedicated to making things better for himself and for other people and I'm actually so proud of him for that.

aimee's journey with healing from her SA trauma and how she navigated a new relationship with that. also I know it probably wasn't intentional but she's a very autistic coded character to me and watching her flourish as herself with isaac just did something so special to my heart. I would level cities for her.

and adam too!! him finally getting the closure he needed with eric and them communicating !!!! the scene at erin wiley's funeral when eric is able to tell adam how genuinely proud of him he is, just,,,my heart I love it when people get to heal !! also again with the unintentional neurodivergent rep, like come on - sitting undiagnosed by yourself, handsome? he's just like me fr.

I was worried the writers wouldn't do isaac's character justice, even though he was given a good arc in season three I was still anxious about where they would take it now that maeve was overseas and honestly, they didn't give him very much of a story outside of his history and who he was when he was with maeve. similar to aimee with him, I really liked watching more of his artistic traits pop out and I loved seeing him have a healthy friendship with someone. even better, I love it when the feelings he harbored for that person were mutual with no strings attached. I wasn't expecting him and aimee to be endgame but I'm absolutely not disappointed about it (you can tell he's my fav because I've written the longest paragraph about him so far).

cal and aisha and pk. need I say anything more? my only gripe is that I wish we could have had a glimpse of the three of them on a date or even see if there were other people in the polycule but that's okay !! I also just really loved cal's journey with themself and I loved getting to see them supported for their identity it meant so very much to me.

lastly but certainly not the least, I loved that otis and o ended on mutually agreeable terms with each other, it just really added to the whole theme of trying to heal and open new doors and be okay with things not being in control all the time. it was especially touching that he gave his position as therapist to her because he knew and acknowledged he had work to do on himself like !!! very rare otis w but totally welcomed. had the show continued I would have loved to see more development w him.

[caligvlasaqvarivm]

ok im not going to tag this but i need you guys to know that my endgame ships for eridan and karkat are

eridan ♦️ karkat

eridan ♥️ roxy

roxy ♦️ calliope

eridan ♠️ calliope

karkat ♥️ calliope

i call it "the polycule only a blood player could love" and although it manages to be perfectly healthy, from the outside, everyone looks like they're cheating on everyone else. nepeta is staring at it going ":33 < dodged a fucking bullet!!!"

Eridan ♦️ Karkat

the ship with the most canon backing. this ship needs to be true before all other ships can be true because it keeps the two of them normal enough to have a shot at romancing anybody else. nobody realized they were pale for each other for an embarrasingly long time because their regular day to day conversations feature slurs and death threats. sometimes looks pitch or flushed from the outside because karkat is a mess who can't stop yelling at people he's trying to romance in the red quads, and because eridan gets really needy sometimes.

Eridan ♥️ Roxy

They get together within five minutes of knowing each other and, despite Rose's protests, never ever break up. Eridan is into cute, pink, bubbly, nice girls, and Roxy is into eccentric troubled princes. Not to mention she fucking loves wizards, and Eridan is a wizard, and that they're both hipsters who use rifles. Also Eridan is weird as hell and Roxy thinks he's hilarious for it. Despite the fact that he puts on this unpleasant, nasty act, he'll pretty much do anything Roxy tells him to, and she likes that. She thinks he has himbo energy. Everyone else thinks she's deranged. Like girl that guy is an insane murderer. Girl he will not stop saying slurs

also their specific abilities are diametrically opposed in an interesting way? prince of hope = can destroy anything he believes he can destroy, rogue of void = can create anything by stealing away its nonexistence. neat!

Roxy ♦️ Calliope

since they aren't trolls and don't need to calm each other down, it's not really a proper moirallegiance, but they're bffffffs and the kinds of silly fun-loving gals who would call their friendship a moirallegiance even if it doesn't have the biological components or serve the social function of one. Two girls that just love each other.

Eridan ♠️ Calliope

biologically, cherubs only engage in pitch romances and are attracted to other cherubs that remind them of the other half they lost in predomination. what i'm saying is that calliope - unfortunately for her - has brother issues. initially put off by eridan's superficial similarities to caliborn - his bluster, his riflekind, his insane logic and thick skull, and how damn often he talks about murder - as they get to know each other, the feeling becomes mutual. eridan is generally totally ok with outright hostility, but calliope's faux-nice smugness when taunting an opponent would drive him nuts, as would the earnestness with which she approaches magic (what kind of POSER needs to RELOAD their WAND), and in general, i think he'd take her genuine well-wishes toward other people as a personal affront, a la "i didn't ever need anybody to look after me!"

they somehow have a 50/50 win ratio at the board games they play, which drives calliope nuts. "believing in your pieces" is not a valid chess strategy!!!!!!!!!

also i think it's fun and thematic, the angel killer and the cherub, whose adult form features hope-shaped wings.

Karkat ♥️ Calliope

We know two things from his crush on terezi: the first is that karkat is into clever, cunning gals, and the second is that he's really fucking messy, the kind of guy who would tell his flushed crush to "set the table on his bone bulge for their candle light hate date." Fortunately, or unfortunately??? for calliope, the fact that he will scream obscenities at her is kind of what she's into. everybody, please, a moment of silence for calliope, who somehow manages to have worse taste in men than roxy.

but yeah more seriously, karkat has a big and loving heart, and so does calliope, while calliope maintains a cleverness and intellect that karkat would be into.

normally, it would be a huge problem for your moirail to be pitch for your matesprit, and we have that both ways here. however, a few factors are mitigating that here. first, eridan will always prioritize karkat or roxy over calliope when they're around. this actually does kind of piss her off, although she feels annoyed that it does. second, calliope is generally mature enough to compartmentalize. third, karkat WILL auspicetize if they aren't careful, and nobody wants that. and fourth, everybody wants to keep roxy happy.

but yeah everyone else watching it is like. are you guys okay? blink if you need help

ofc ship what you want to ship this is not at all me telling you what you should be into. im just saying that these ships have been calculated for Maximum Funnyness, which as we know, is the only objective measure for what makes a good homestuck ship