#so is flag discourse

[mallowsweetie]

I think its so funny how people clutch their pearls when others use a label they havent heard of before. Like instead of asking "hey what does this mean?" or even looking it up, they're all like

"HOW DARE YOU MAKE UP A NEW WORD OR PHRASE THAT DEFINES YOUR OWN EXPERIENCE AND HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ME????"

and then when said person defends themselves or simply says like "its my life this is how i identify get over it."

Suddenly they're chronically online

but whats more chronically online than being bothered by how other people label themselves and their relationship? Like clearly you're unhappy if thats all you can think of to do in your spare time.

[matcha-omega]

EVIL TRANSMASC

A flag for when you're EVIL and transmasc

EVIL Color meanings:

Red: The BLOOD of transandrophobes. also for EVIL gnc transmascs yay yippee yay :3

Cyan: Our TWISTED agenda (supporting our fellow transmascs and the trans community as a whole)

Navy Blue: Our SCARY masculinity/manhood

Blueish Black: Our DARK brotherhood

[ourflagmeansgayrights]

actually can we stop talking about “deserve” when it comes to characters dying in fiction. not everything is a fable with a moral lesson to be learned. romeo and juliet didn’t “deserve” to die. bambi’s mom didn’t “deserve” to die. izzy dying in the finale doesn’t mean ofmd is saying that certain types of queer people “deserve” to die. fictional death can serve more narrative purposes than just punishment for the character doing the dying.

[caughtafishie]

saw art yesterday that pmo so bad. im not trying to put anyone on blast or anything but i need to rant about this bc it truly rubbed me the wrong way.

i'll just start by saying that i dont mean any malice toward this artist nor do i want ppl jumping down their throat but i do think we need to have a conversation about why ed is being interpreted like this. (also sorry if someone has made a similar post, i saw this art for the first time yesterday)

...like where do i begin. the racial implications? the izzy victimization? sorry but why are we portraying a brown man as this crazed, red eyed beast whose totally inevitable violence has to be taken on by some white martyr who "takes it for the team"? i kind of can't even begin to understand where this line of thinking comes from when we literally never see ed in a state like this in the show.

its like literally kind of a huge plot point that ed isn't murderous, and is only violent to those extremes when he is pushed. and izzy is usually the one pushing him, so yeah he faced the brunt of the violence ed inflicted. but we honestly really only see ed physically harm izzy, not the rest of the crew, during blackbeard 2.0 era.

like lets think about it. ed harms the rest of the crew in very indirect ways i.e. making them fight each other or sailing them into a storm. he doesn't ever pull a knife or gun nor does he throw a punch. the most he really does is push lucius off the ship, which is bad of course, but not something i'd call a super violent attempt on someone's life. even though he did think he killed him, it's still passive, letting the sea take care of it. the only other people we really see ed beat or kill are colonizers and his abusive father.

and then there's izzy. i wrote a post before about izzy and ed's dynamic during this era, and oh boy am i not done. people have a hard time understanding that their cycle of abuse and retaliation is perpetuated by izzy, not ed. ed isn't this feral wild animal going around harming everyone he sees. he's not an inherently violent person. i feel like the show does so much to make that clear. izzy, however, thrives on violence, specifically blackbeard's violence. which is why he pushes ed, he's a sadist and a masochist. he is putting ed through suffering to gain his own suffering, and that's what he wants. and he wants to keep ed right there with him, even though he acknowledges that ed has moved on.

as for the racial implications, i think maybe we steer clear of drawing poc as big scary monsters who you are inherently unsafe around? so much so that a white man feels the need to take on his rampant violence so no one else has to? sorry but we did not watch the same show if that's how you view ed.

like i said, ed is not a violent person. ed is an emotional person. he doesnt get any more angry than he does sad or happy, he just feels his emotions intensely. and if a mentally ill brown man having emotions screams "danger" to you, especially when he is otherwise shown to pose no physical threat to those around him, im gonna need you to think about why. why would he be any more dangerous than izzy, who has put the crew in more precarious situations than ed did? who has killed more people? the only person on the ship ed ever tried to actively kill during this era is himself, everything else was collateral. but no yeah, lets demonize him and make his abuser the white savior here..

[nartblartmallcop]

every now and then a few relics from the old world wind up in the gaslight district, usually brought back and put up for sale by deep sea divers. Older Rotlings can get pretty nostalic about it too, allthough memories tend to get fuzzy after several millenia

AKA queer headcanon stuff

[roobylavender]

[microwave noises]

[menlove]

there are people on here who reblog from terfs, do not have their pronouns in their bio, constantly post Carefully Worded takes about feminism that would fit right in on a terf's blog if they were 5% more transparent, and they'll still have a huge following including trans people bc they get the benefit of the doubt and asks like "did u mean to reblog from a terf queen 🥺" and yk what i am sickkkkk to bastard death of it. kys.

[kiyomitakada]

Taylor Swift discourse but it’s about Misa Amane

oh god paging @ai-the-broccoli

[vampupzi]

headcanonssssssssssssssssssssss

[ajdbsjsbsisbfc]

everyone mad and confused dnp didn't know there was a gay man flag is forgetting they are actually old men (millennials)

[akkivee]

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[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

good lord.

they even acknowledge that this was catra's reaction to scorpia basically drugging adora and rendering her unconscious.

are we supposed to find this cute?

[torchickentacos]

I have found myself in a strange reverse coming-out issue where my mother made an offhand remark about how she's relieved to have a gay daughter (we were talking about the rise of violent misogyny in certain groups of young men) and I think my mom thinks I'm a lesbian? 😭 in a strange turn of events, I am going to eventually have to disappoint her by coming out and saying that I like men too, actually.

[batsarebetterthanpeople]

Izzy doesn't even have a coming to terms with his sexuality arc in season 2 it's much closer to gender, and I've seen a similar gender expression journey to Izzy in season 2 on the middle aged straight dads of queer children. I'm gonna gear my description of what happens towards a father and son example because Izzy's hang ups are very much about toxic masculinity, but I'm a transgender man and I'm on the journey I'm about to describe with my formerly borderline terf mom, so it can apply to other genders.

Anyway: At first the dad who I'm positing is like Izzy punishes his son for putting on a skirt or holding hands with a boy, then he realizes how badly trying to suppress his kid's sexuality is hurting his kid, who he loves in spite of the way he's treating him, so he does his best to change his mind and learn about the queer community and then eventually he goes to a pride event in an I love my gay son shirt and then the son feels like he can finally bring his boyfriend over for dinner and maybe someday the dad apologizes even though its awkward or maybe they let it go unspoken. I've even had a friend who put his reformed homophobic dad in drag makeup for TikTok content.

I'm not saying that's exactly what happened to Izzy, I suppose if we mapped this onto Izzy's journey Ed would be the son but a big part of Izzy getting better was him having a bunch of gay coworkers do something nice for him in a way that had nothing to do with Ed, which doesnt usually happen with the reformed parents, or maybe it does idk I've only experienced it as the queer child or as friend of the queer child so I wouldn't know. Also they usually don't perform in drag shows. But I would also say that they aren't usually pirates on boats where every single other person is queer in some way. The places where Izzy diverges off this path have nothing to do with Izzy coming to terms with any lust for men he may or may not have and everything to do with the setting he's in.

Also to be clear I'm not saying Izzy is straight, I'm just saying the jury is still out. He could have been out the whole time or he could have come out in 2.02 when he said "I have love for you" or he could have meant that platonically and died in the closet or he could have meant that completely platonically and been straight or aro/ace, but whatever way you slice that his season 2 arc is way less about coming out and coming to terms with his own sexuality and way more about learning to accept Ed for who he is and every other queer person around him by proxy.

[ingravinoveritas]

Your opinion on why DT got that tattoo?

Hello, Anon. Well, I think that people get tattoos for a lot of different reasons, but sometimes it's not always for the reason you think. I think that if it makes David happy and he likes it, that's great. It was also a bit surprising to me, however, as David has reportedly said in past interviews that he hates needles and would never get a tattoo (in contrast to Michael, who has talked at length about wanting tattoos).

And I also think that when people start suddenly doing things that seem wildly out of character, it is usually for a reason. Even if we don't yet know (or may never know) what that reason is. But...

[divinecreations]

✦ㅤ— rouaffin

Rouaffin - A term for Beings who show affection in a Rough way, Roughhouse affectionately, or are physically affectionate in a way considered Rough at all

⸺ for : day Four of The CQC Event(link) / a new identity term

⸺ rou(gh) + (aff)ect(i)o(n)

⸺ made with Neurodivergence in mind, but is not Exclusive. Affection of Any kind

TAGGING : @radiomogai @miscellaneous-id @creaturesthathoard @obscurian @chronicallyqueercoining2

COPYABLE ID : an Eleven stripe flag. The first, second, tenth and eleventh strips are scalloped inwards, the sixth is significantly larger. Top to bottom the colours are red, bright red, dark red, muted red, wine red, bright red, wine red, muted red, dark red, bright red, red. In the centre is a wine red heart outlined in dark red, inside of it is a light red fist outlined in dark red