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[drooling-trnnyfg]

it's the gentlemanly thing to do to let her choke you with her unwashed girlcock, so how about you man up and get on your knees

[sunflower-spots]

The dog in my brain has zoomies!!! I need enrichment in my enclosure!!! I need to bite and be bitten!!!

My mind is so friggin fuzzy right now but. Breeding. I wanna be stuffed full soooo badly!! Desperately want someone to fuck my throat purely for the sensory aspect. Mouth full, brain empty.

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GENSHIN IMPACT - FAVORITE TEAM COMPS [3 / ∞]

exploration

[starkaabii]

It's 1 am and I am desperately attempting to 1v1 fistfight artblock in the Denny's parking lot. Save me random kirbandee doodles

[restinslices]

Kid: Bàba look!

Bi-Han: I'm looking

Kid: *Spins in a circle*

Bi-Han:

[pathetic-tboy]

im autistic and experienced profound social difficulty all my life and somehow my ass ended up with a boyfriend (also autistic) my freshman year of high school. but i didnt actually know how to romantically interact with another person so there were often times i defaulted to treating him like a dog (petting his head, saying "whos a good boy?" ect). anyway i'm into puppyplay now

[idiotsonlyevent]

ai coleman and transmasculinity: (don't) let rage consume you

now that i've reread dorohedoro, i can more clearly articulate my thoughts about ai as an allegory for transmasculinity (initially mentioned in the tags on this post).

i want to start off by saying this is not a post about looking for 'evidence' that ai is a trans man, nor is it a post focusing on what hayashida 'intended' to do with ai. while authorial intent is important, it is not the end-all be-all of literary analysis; allegories do not have to be intentional or 'perfect'. this post seeks to explain how reading ai as a trans man can enrich his character, regardless of intentionality or canonicity. with that out of the way, let's get started! (spoilers through the end of the manga under the cut.)

the thing that really solidified this reading for me was how ai talked about his life and why he wants to become a sorcerer. ai sees becoming a sorcerer as 'gaining power' or privilege, and he feels that the only way for him to do so is to change his physical body. he wants to become a sorcerer to become someone totally different, erasing his old identity; in his opinion, there is nothing for him in a life as a human, only a sorcerer's life is worth living.

ai's goal of 'becoming a sorcerer' is not just to change his body, it is to change his body and gain the abilities or 'privileges' that such a change entails - it is in part about external validation, especially from the sorcerers that oppress humans. this is a very straightforward way of depicting negative perceptions of transmasculine transition: the transmedicalist belief that medical transition is the only 'valid' way to be trans, the transphobic view that trans men are women 'gaming the system' to 'gain male privilege,' and the idea that 'erasing' one's past identity as a woman will award them male privilege unconditionally.

in reality, though, transition is powerful because it is an assertion of ownership of one's own body, and i think this dissonance is key. this is not something that ai recognizes as 'valid.' you could even say ai wants control over how he is perceived and he thinks becoming a sorcerer will give that to him.

so, ai compiles and develops the research for this surgery on his own, reflecting the ways trans people often have to advocate for themselves in medical contexts.

after kasukabe completes the surgery, ai survives! the recovery period is long and brutal, but ai seems to be completely fine. except . . . kasukabe later goes on to describe that ai was 'different' - he's presented as violent and unstable. this is reminiscent of how, especially after beginning medical transition, transmasculine people are often characterized as more dangerous, aggressive, or emotionless, even by the doctors that are supposed to care for them.

even after becoming a sorcerer, ai doesn't get the privilege he wanted. he's essentially clocked by other sorcerers, because he can't produce smoke, and then they kill him. he doesn't 'pass' as a sorcerer successfully.

in this reading, hole could be read as trans rage: at ostracization, at lack of acceptance, at the unjust hierarchies that plague society - especially capitalist society - at assigning value to and making assumptions about people based on aspects of their physical bodies that they have no control over and that are difficult to change. ai's body being puppeted by hole could represent both how masculinity is associated with violence, as well as the expectation that trans men need to be the 'protectors' of other queer people due to their supposed access to male privilege.

this is why caiman's acceptance of ai, aikawa, and kai is so important; it is an assertion of ownership over his body and identity, regardless of how others perceive him. he doesn't need to ignore or forget his fear and desperation or his rage. he was a scared kid, he was consumed with anger at the way the world treated him, and he can - and in fact he deserves to - live a happy life where he is loved and cared for.

caiman's eventual status as a sorcerer is conditionally granted to him by those who have that privilege, it comes at the cost of his 'true' face, and it will be lost. this mirrors how access to male privilege for trans people is also conditional, requires denying facets of one's identity, and is fragile - subject to being revoked at any time.

after defeating hole, caiman ends up right where ai started, but his circumstances are not identical. even if the physical location of hole is the same, it has changed. caiman kept his face, but now he knows who he is and that he doesn't need external validation of his worth and identity.

ai's story - caiman's story - is about coming of age in a society that systematically treats certain classes of people poorly and about struggling with and accepting one's identity. obviously these experiences are not exclusive to transgender people; however, the ways in which dorohedoro discusses and portrays the body and body modification in my opinion easily lends itself to trans readings, and i find this reading of ai's struggle to be particularly compelling.

[nolongerapileofashprobably]

Sometimes I see people bag on Botw/Totk about how they aren’t real ‘Zelda’ games. Because they don’t follow the same format repeated since OoT. But when we think about it, OoT was ALSO a change from previous Zelda games. It was insanely different from the 2D games, having mastered linearity and adding a whole new piece to the story— time travel. We saw a sliver of this before but the way it was utilized was brand new.

Ocarina of Time introduced so many iconic moments, lore, and characters that have gone on to affect the series even now. It was DIFFERENT yet similar with its dungeon format.

Now, with BoTW and ToTK, we have a different format— a non-linear game with an open concept world. The dungeons are there but we all know they lack the same feel as the old ones, this was due to choice of developing the world over one-stop dungeons (at least in botw). We got a much more advanced version of these dungeons in ToTK, with more of a long form dungeon crawl that adds a better balance between the development of the world and these dungeons that we do get to go back to if we so choose.

Now, I’m now saying that these dungeons are the same as they used to be. They aren’t! But we have a world that I have not gotten sick of, in either game, despite this Hyrule being seven years old. This large expansive world is unlike ANY of the games.

BoTW & ToTK are transition games— they mark a new era of Zelda games. They have echoes of old games but are venturing into new plots and lore we have not seen. You see, these games are not a copy and paste of the lore and format we have gotten for literal decades. It’s something new, something that requires a transition.

If they had been copy and pasted formats, we would have haters calling it repetitive, a series long overdue for something different, etc. That’s just the way of the world haha

But these games are an exploration into a new era, a new set of lore and stories for us to enjoy. It’s something we can criticize but it isn’t something we can claim isn’t a Zelda game. It is. It’s just new, introducing new plot points and new mechanics. The series will have a plethora of new lore to delve into THANKS to BoTW/ToTK.

I’m excited to see where the story goes. No matter how much I wanted MORE I’m still quite content with what we have. It’s all the more reason to appreciate what we have and be excited for what’s to come.

[hua-fei-hua]

really glad that i'm, like, mostly normal abt my ao3 stats now bc it means i can just shrug it off when people don't pay as much attn to my fics as i'd like. it's just like "damn well i guess there's no accounting for bad taste" and moving on

[jasperyourmutt]

Anyone want to be this puppy’s valentine 🥺 I can do tricks real good like sit (on your cock) and shake (my ass) and speak (and whine and moan) and I learn really quickly!!!

All you gotta do is scratch behind my ears and tell me how I’m such a good boy for listening and obeying and I’m all heart eyes for you

[pochapal]

my only submarine hot take is that i think there's something weirdly fascinating about the way that everyone knows they obviously imploded on that first day but there's been this make believe kind of funeral march towards the inevitable minute zero of the oxygen supply. everyone has been obsessing over these imagined people in this imagined space and it's been a totally ineffective conjuration since nobody really believed these people have been trapped on the ocean floor for the best part of four days and yet so many people have been talking and operating in this pretend realm. the Posts aren't about the implosion the posts are all about this imagined dragged out slow death by asphyxiation and i think it's just interesting how this blatantly unreal narrative is what everyone glommed onto as their mode of expression for this event. i can't really think of any other time people so readily leaned into the pretend version of events like this?

[spngirlpolls]

poll idea: spngirls with the best takes -- samgirls vs deangirls vs casgirls. or, alternatively, if you want to stir shit up, spngirls with the WORST takes >:)

“hey op would you like to be assassinated?”

there’s no way to make polls like this where it doesn’t just boil down to anarchy HOWEVER i think we as a collective can agree doesn’t matter if you’re a casgirl, samgirl, deangirl, heller, wincestie, or anything in between: we are superior to the losers on reddit who think this show is about three heterosexual men

[durn4h]

In high school we had this weird old substitute teacher that was ex-military or at least liked to pretend it, and one time he just so happened to be there during a lockdown drill, then after the drill he made us practice these different absurd scenarios and at one point he said “if there’s ever a school shooter, never run in a zigzag, always run in a straight line, you know why?” And I jokingly said “because if you zigzag then you’ll run into the bullets” and he said “exactly, if you zigzag, he just has to shoot straight down the hallway and doesn’t even need to aim and you’ll eventually run in front of his gun, but if you run in a straight line then he at least has to aim it at you to be able to hit you” and that’s something that’s always stuck in my head as the dumbest shit I’ve ever heard

[greyias]

I have been stuck in an infinite chat hell loop with Norton's non-existence customer service for the last fifteen minutes, and my slowly devolving boredom and simmering annoyance has me googling misremembered tumblrspeak phrases that the search results that are coming up would probably be concerning if anyone else saw them

[huginsmemory]

All I can think of when I see law carrying his sword is that if he owned a car he 100% would have one of those fuzzy coverings for his steering wheel. Like have you not seen that man's hat either.

[alectoperdita]

the "stop whitewashing the Kaiba brothers (and Yugi)" art challenge 2024