#only straight guy in group

[noirandchocolate]

The Yiga Clan isn’t a cult in my honest opinion.

They’re more like a crime syndicate.

If a crime syndicate was also an oppressed minority group subjected to a genocide in the distant past and continued marginalization in the present as they’re forced to lurk at the edges of and mostly outside society to eke out a living through theft and violence while the “good” members of the same minority who accepted the harsh terms of cultural genocide at the hands of the very people they served get to stand next to every other race that reviles them and call them “evil” and “traitors” because they seek justice against the divine-right monarchy that betrayed them first and have forsworn the goddess who never once deigned to help them.

They're not monsters to be mowed down, they're people. People who engage in genuine and understandable strife against authority figures who uphold systems of inequality.

...

Anyway, that's what I think.

(Edit: For even more of me rambling, see the notes.)

[cmbdragon98]

Oh nooo... wlw are kinda eyerolling and sighing that a show got wrongfully marketed as "queerest Star Wars ever" and is now just, essentially, R/ylo 2.0... After a Lot of really potentially interesting women have been ganked over and over again, within the show.

And now a number of us wlw are a lil tongue and cheek about how we saw the objectification and hyper-sexualization going on with Yord within fandom, only for it to now morph over to Qimir... Oh, bro, what are we gonna Do?

[hwajin]

it's so weird seeing every person around you develop complete different interests than yours

[moeblob]

Windy at my house + power flickering = no comm work = quick laptop doodle

[wereshrew-admirer]

conflicting desires for lyke and duvall in sangfielle season 2:

-duvall low-key resenting lyke over the chine thing

-lyke high-key resenting duvall over the oratorio thing and EXPECTING duvall to resent him over chine but instead it's the same one-sided tension that they had on the jade moon

i want them to be involuntary friends. I want it to look like a huge 8ft tall straight* guy calling his obviously gay best friend a wretched bitch and everyone is a little uncomfortable about it except for duvall, who may or may not be behind lyke's bizarrely bad luck when it comes to flies landing in his drinks.

(*i don't think lyke is straight but i do think he's the type of bisexual man that people assume is straight)

[tomurakii]

This may get me legit doxxed but I cannot believe Astarion is the fan favourite bg3 companion. The racist??? The racist old man who frequently and explicitly confirms that he is racist and will continue to be racist?? And it isn't even like. Goblin racism or something like Wyll where it's because they're "evil". He's racist against indigenous people and dehumanises short people. Which are also actual real human groups. And he explicitly refuses to change that behaviour.

[skid-the-mighty-poet]

[ofsunhillow]

THEYRE FINALLY DONE...... ranyart olias qoquaq in that order. i had to do them for my peace of mind

[bitchthefuck1]

We as a society need to acknowledge the psychological toll of being the only woman in a friend group willing to argue back when the guys start saying sexist shit. I deserve financial compensation.

[glassfullofsass]

I don't have the time right now or the mental focus & energy long term to do this thought justice or even explain properly, but I am convinced that drag is going to save our society.

It is *not* the responsibility of queer people to fix the ills of patriarchy and, more generally, straight culture, but queer art (and specifically drag) has so much power.

Even for queer people, I think engaging in drag is important. For one thing, when you tip your performers you are materially assisting your community (thereby making your community stronger & more stable). For another, drag is loudly, unapologetically queer. Purity culture and the idea that we could possibly assimilate into a form that would appease those in power have *nothing* on the joyous expression on queerness that is drag.

And for straight people, engaging in queer culture (in this case by attending drag performances) offers the opportunity to *disengage* from the hegemonic ideals of patriarchy. Queer culture is a big enough space that straight people can (and should) engage. The more people who engage in queer culture, the more people who refute the expectations of heteronormativity, the more people who undo the harm of toxic masculinity, the better our society as a whole can be.

[horrorwebs]

why are men literally the fucking worst

[gender-euphowrya]

damn the ''queer kids can sniff each other out'' thing is so true fr my entire middle school friend group is gay

[crying-over-ocs]

So I wrote a post (or rather, comment) on YT about my aromantic headcanons for Marcos but I don’t feel like restating them rn. Anyway. Aro Marcos brainrot.

I imagined a scenario where Venus ended up in a casual chat with him (somehow). She’s lovingly talking about Yuri and about love in general…and absolutely nothing is resonating with Marcos, who is getting increasingly bored. Like he doesn’t already know who everyone is into already; he doesn’t need the gory details. He has nowhere to go at the moment though so he decides to entertain the conversation and earnestly ask Venus about her crush(es).

Venus starts to pick up on this. His inquiries and responses sound distinctly genuine this time in contrast to his usual sarcastic, mocking tone.

“How do you even know when you have a crush?”

“Oh that’s easy. It’s a feeling, but a strong one…(she goes on for a while)…like a big dumb bitch but you get better at these things as you mature 💅 But it’s kinda different for everyone. A friend of mine looks like he’s sick…sicker when he’s into someone. You just start feeling and acting different around them, but you can’t help it y’know?”

“Uh…huh.”

It’s a much better explanation than what others have given in the past (as expected of Venus, The Romance Guru) but again. Nothing was resonating with Mercury, which means for Venus, The Romance Guru, that this was a Catastrophe. Then she comes to a shocking realization.

“Marcos, are you telling me you’ve NEVER been in love? Not even a tiny little crush?”

“Based on the list of symptoms you gave me, no. And honestly, I’m kinda glad I haven’t. At least now I know why everyone acts like such an idiot when they’re ‘in love’.”

This is shattering Venus’s world. She never considered someone could simply never fall in love. How could this be? Alec is going to hear all about this tonight, that’s for sure.

“I guess I’m just built different.” And Mercury walks off, leaving a devastated Venus behind.

[maidstew]

would love to hear your take on the friend group as parents!

i’m sorry i keep trying to come up with a good answer for this but i’m just envisioning this scenario:

the girls go out for a much-needed night out without the kids so the guys stay behind and watch them. they return home to all of the guys dressed up and having a tea party with the girls.

aelia has done felix & festus’s makeup because she gave them puppy dog eyes and felix wasn’t able to say no. festus tried to say no and felix made him let her do it.

athena is painting hilarius’s nails while he drinks fake tea and pretends to gossip with Mr. Octopus (“Mrs. Bear said what!”)

june ruby is off in another room painting livia’s expensive white couch because it needed some color (liv & arachne volunteered to let the guys watch the kids at their place since they were both going out- never again.)

[incidentalblr]

guys in very very exciting news my mom found an art therapist in our area who is apparently over the moon to work with me. she wants to take me to a museum as my first appointment

[un-pearable]

illadvisedly been reading LU fic again and boy has the fic scene only gotten weirder about the leader thing