#not exclusively by any means

[gigglingauspice]

Love is too imprecise a word.

"I love you" I would follow you like a hound into hell if you didn't forbid it, and even then, i would want to walk beside you anyways "I love you" I want you to come home to me. I want to keep your home warm with food on the stove that you can eat. "I love you" I will hold you when sorrow finds you "I love you" I want to be held "I love you" I hunger for you like an animal; isn't it funny how carnal has two meanings? "I love you" I have heard you laugh and it sounds the way sunlight feels "I love you" I want to keep you with me. "I love you" If you are hurt I will tend to your injuries and kill what injured you. "I love you" come watch the stars with me "I love you" I'm making this for you so you won't feel the winter's chill. "I love you" I want to kiss you wearing sticky lipgloss to make it your problem too. "I love you" I would grieve with you. "I love you" I wrote down your favorites so I wouldn't forget them "I love you" I know you.

[edit: I know this is a love poem, but please do not comment “<3” or leave heart emojis on this post. thank you in advance!]

[thatdykepunkslut]

Taylors wift is just elon musk for horse girls and gays who are afraid of faggots

[egophiliac]

Have you heard of the "Crowley is Malleus' dad" theory going around? Where Prince Levan (or whatever his name is) didn't actually die and just went out to get some milk and is now known as Dire Crowley, the silly man? The implications of that theory is absolutely hilarious when you think about it

hold on, we can figure this out, we just need LISTS

PROS THAT CROWLEY IS SECRETLY REVAAN/LEVAN/LAVERNE/WHATEVER:

unspecified fae of some kind, with similar coloring to Mal

the animal masks are apparently a Briar Valley thing

has some kind of big blackmailable secret that was alluded to in episode 4, and then as far as I know never brought up again

(unless this was just Azul bullshitting, which is extremely possible)

based on Diablo, which...maybe means something?

has canonically worn Dad Shorts

CONS:

(gestures to Crowley's entire personality)

NO LISTEN Revaan was the guy they sent off on diplomatic missions and to take care of delicate political situations, and...look, I love this dweeb, but would you trust Crowley to be in charge of negotiating your war treaties

despite my brain insisting on reading his name as "Raven", Revaan's title does imply that he was also a dragon (or super into longan berries, I'm not ruling that out)

currently unclear why Lilia "my closest friend Revaan...he is no longer with us...I used to make fun of him for being kind of a priss about eating jerky..." Vanrouge has somehow not noticed or said anything

Malleus' Aloof Anime ~Aristocrat~ vibe had to come from somewhere, and by all accounts it was NOT his mom's side of the family

???:

turns into a bird in the opening, I don't know if that means anything but it's kinda cool, I guess

all that aside, if Malleus and Yuu are any indication, then the Draconias have...questionable taste in their social choices. so anything is possible!

[front-facing-pokemon]

[river-taxbird]

Reminder that I am a homosexual, and that is always the case no matter what I'm doing.

[blueskittlesart]

deeply refreshing to see someone critical of Swift who also like, genuinely likes her. Like i'm neutral to positive on her, but the online discourse has been absolutely rancid. flipping between "Taylor Swift has never done anything wrong ever and she's a fucking genius" and "Taylor Swift is the worst lyricist of all time and also a bad person" is exhausting, so thank you for like. nuance or something lmao

not to make it serious for a sec but i genuinely think that being able to like things that are bad is really important. like I think that it's an important skill to be able to look at something and see what you personally enjoy about it and then take a step back and acknowledge that objectively it's flawed. and to also be able to acknowledge that liking something isn't necessarily an identity or a moral stance. and i think that fandom space in general could really benefit from more people taking the time to learn how to do that. it's okay to like things that are bad

[doginprogress]

Azula’s grooming service is very exclusive but worth every penny

[anistarrose]

there's a type of tumblr funnyperson who's never posted explicit hate/exclusionism towards asexuals and other a-specs... and yet, they like to make up a guy. where the type of guy they always make up undermines any trust a-specs might've otherwise had for them. for example, a common post format is making up a hypothetical tumblr user's bio that's obviously just so cringe, according to the sensibilities of everyone reading — wherein the implied joke is how we've all seen someone in the wild who's cringe like this, right?

these posts always feel the need to slide some a-spec microlabel in there. a lot of the time, it's specifically an ace-spec microlabel plus "heteroromantic," especially if they think that the guy they're making up is trying to be a real special snowflake. to round out the "cringe," they usually pepper in at least one element from the set of: neopronouns, a namedropped mental illness, and a piece of media that's targeted at children/popular for tumblr to hate at the time.

then a zillion people reblog that post, all agreeing haha that's so cringe, and a million a-spec people (and nonbinary and autistic people) shudder — because are they the butt of the joke, to the people reblogging it? or are the people reblogging just laughing about a different element, like a comically long DNI or something, which has distracted them from noticing the fact that OP clearly associates a-spec identities with "cringe"?

if any a-spec people point this out about OP, or ask a reblogger if they support ace people, they are inevitably accused of overreacting — which is great for the aphobes, because they get a new "cringe" a-spec person to point and laugh at. it's just such a nasty cycle, and even people who wouldn't consider themselves aphobes aren't great at noticing and interrogating it.

[pocketramblr]

see if Yoichi is trans, then i think AfO is too, not because they're identical but because one of the following things would happen:

Yoichi would say he's trans, AfO would say he can't be because they weren't even given names at birth, let alone assigned gender. They're cis guys they just got it later. Yoichi decides its not worth an argument as long as AfO uses the right pronouns and thinks absolutely nothing of calling him big brother now. AfO doesn't care about switching anything as long as he can be the winner of whatever conversation is happening.

Yoichi would say she's trans and AfO would get offended about being abandoned as a brother, Yoichi would explain that has nothing to do with it its a personal identity thing, AfO figures that Yoichi's the one that carries the emotions between them so if his first possession and heart says they're women, then they're both women now. Yoichi is happy to share that and AfO doesn't care as long as she's not being abandoned or argued with.

Yoichi would have no gender identity and his pronoun usage got picked up exclusively from reading comics, not interacting with and having conversations with actual people, so he gets more of the literary sense behind each pronoun use rather than personal identity, and he liked Captain Hero best so he just used the same personal pronouns CH did. AfO learned language the same way and did eventually figure out more of what gender is but doesn't care because he has a cult to run and a quirk to track down.

[cryptidjeepers]

Just putting this out there, i would absolutely be okay with paying to be a memeber of watchers youtube like i do with dropout, if it meant all their NEW content was now behind a paywall that allowed them to make bigger and better projects. Putting your entire content library behind a paywall on another site is just insulting to the fans that have supported the channel the last few years.

Youtube sucks and their monetization and predatory advertisers are awful and i respect any decision to get away from that, even if it means paid content. But this isnt it. My main complaint is how Watcher has only existed for 4 years, i truly do not think it's been around long enough to make this kind of move with stability.

[jasontoddenthusiastt]

Batman Annual #25

Before Talia took him in, before he was dunked in the pit to have his memories restored, even when operating purely on survival instinct, he always split a meal with the other homeless people. It may not have been essential to his survival, but caring about and helping other people when he couldn’t even help himself was just always such an intrinsic part of Jason’s core.

[booksandpaperss]

every now and then I’ll remember that it is in fact not canon that max is bisexual and it shocks me to my core

[demynom]

Why does everyone to feel the need to prove Their Girl is the canon ship in ffvii. I think the narrative is a lot richer if you acknowledge cloud has deep feelings for both Aerith and Tifa, just like they have for him and each other.

[liesmyth]

by the way. there's no conceivable universe in which the FTL fleet that left Earth in NtN didn't have it incredibly rough.

I've said this before, but it bears reminding: they jumped blind, using untested technology, with NO supply lines back to earth and no concrete plans for a colony. they took ships that were supposed to stack 11 billion people canned in like sardines and nothing else and stocked them full with enough resources to live on for generations and somehow found a settlement, and that was before they had to rush the schedule because John was making noise about transparency and mask their actual launch as a trial run.

it wasn't a comfortable journey. I'd be very, very surprised if the total passenger count was higher than 10k people, for space/resources allocation reasons as well as for secrecy reasons. Every person on board was a mouth to feed, and their descendants, and their descendants. I've seen some people in fandom say stuff like "Of course they'd bring along servants! Rich wouldn't do chores!" and IMO that fundamentally misses the point.

This wasn't the space equivalent of a cruise liner, or the Titanic crossing the Atlantic with first-class quarters and third-class decks. This is the space equivalent of climate refugees crammed in 500 in a tiny fishboat crossing the sea with a non-insignificant chance of dying en route, after emptying their savings to pay for the trip. The fact that the people on board the FTL ships were once insanely rich doesn't mean they travelled in comfort.

This was a desperate last-chance trip, destination "anywhere but here", chances of survival unknown. Their privilege got them on the ships, but the moment they left Earth, that privilege ceased to exist; there was no way to enforce an existing social structure. This is why, again, I think there were no luxuries on board and absolutely definitely no servants - if you're about to willingly enter into complete social collapse, you don't WANT to bring people you regard as less than yourself, knowing that they will be your equals tomorrow.

I'm still convinced that half the fleet at least didn't make it out, and those who managed to found settlements were nearly wiped out multiple times at different points in history.

[alliluyevas]

are the period drama fan pseudo-monarchists still part of the tumblr ecosystem. I feel like I don’t see them anymore. Is it just that we haven’t got a new royalty related period drama in a while.

[lady-dulcinea]

Jessica De Gouw as Mina Murray from the 2013 NBC series Dracula