#that are ACTUAL queer icons??

[punktasstic]

FUCK harry styles

[me-sploh-rada-imas]

jan and nace with a bi flag [x]

[daily-hanamura]

[which-qsmp-egg-would]

Which egg would be the most likely to not realize straight people are a thing?

(Remember, this is being scheduled in early May! If an egg is missing, just vote Other/Combo!)

[epiphainie]

all this talk about tommy's favorite (queer) movies when it's obviously the birdcage

[bacchuschucklefuck]

Can you expand on what you mean by Baron being "too cool" to really fit a horror monster? It's a very interesting concept and I'd love to hear your thoughts. Is it that they're too active/involved/tangible and it detracts from their scariness?

I feel like I should preface this with a wall of disclaimers lmao 1/I am a hardcore, down-to-the-marrow, avid, deeply sincere horror enthusiast, esp. horror creatures. this usually means my mileage is vastly different from the average populace's, and my scaredy bone has been disintegrated by longterm exposure. most things in a piece of horror media won't scare me! so I practically never use that on its own as the scale to talk abt horror experiences, but when something does scare me it's always a special occasion to be treasured. 2/canon d20 is never really meant to be horror horror, and for good reasons: it doesn't fit the company's output, it takes a kind of carelessness in production estimation that is always a huge risk, it's often vulnerable in a way that kinda goes against how TTRPGs usually facilitates vulnerability, and for most people it's just! stressful! d20, even with the "horror-themed" seasons, generally just plays with horror tropes and stays focused in its goal of being a comedy improv tabletop theater show. 3/fantasy high's chosen system is DnD, which as I've mentioned before is before all a combat-based game system, which means the magic circle of play is drawn based on stats that facilitate and prioritize combat. want or not this affects every interaction you have in the game, and given fantasy high's concept from the ground up (everyone's going to school of DnD stuff to get better at DnD) it's doubly relevant. 4/This Is Fine I have no quarrel with this. my meters are internal, I do not ask this show to be anything it doesn't advertise itself to be, and what it is is fucking great! I like it! when I expand on this ask's question it will be like a physicist going insane in a lab. that's the mindset we're going in with.

disclaimers done. my stance on horror as a genre is that it's a utility genre rather than a content genre or a demographic genre; it is the discard of narratives. it's the trash pile. horror, above being scary, is about being ugly and messy, it's the cracks on the ground any story inevitably steps over to stay a genre that isn't horror. the genre's been around long enough to develop a codex and a general language that medias and makers and enthusiasts of the genre can use to talk about and build onto, but if you go into individual pieces there's really no unifying Horror Story. one person's beautiful life can be another's horror story, it's just how it is.

this makes The Monster a deeply intriguing piece of the genre. thing is a monster is in a decent percentage of any story - it's just when the antagonist force steps into something past a certain line traced out in the story's world. monstrousness is in pretty much every western fantasy story, it's in any story with a hero and something to vanquish or win; more than anything it's a proxy of that thing up there. the line in a narrative's world. the monster is the guard of the unknown lands, where heroic, civilized people don't tread.

what does this mean in the context of horror? the genre is about that perceived lawlessness, that "unknown land" so to say. we're in the monster's home. that's the literary context that we often walk into a horror piece with; the monster knows more than you about where you are. it may not understand you, but it holds more information than you, and with that it moves swifter than you, has more covered than you, and is more assured in its existence in this context than you. it's a struggle to catch up to it, it's nigh impossible to get one over it, and you're never sure it'll 100% work, because you just don't have the information necessary to.

with that framing you can kinda see where I'm coming from here: horror's often about the breaking of rules. I always think a monster's most effective when it breaks well-established rules of both existence and visual storytelling. think Possum (2018) or Undertale's Omega Flowey or the Xenomorph Queen - unique change in medium, unique change in graphic, unique change in design language, etc. in that sense I actually really like how canon baron plays out: they don't really function like anything else in the fantasy high universe, the bad kids have not managed to kill them when they've felled literal gods, their domain in fhjy literally introduces new mechanics to encompass their existence! from an experience design standpoint they slap mad shit. BUT! I can't help finding their character, like as a character riz (and the other bad kids, eventually) interact with, to be very... coherent? in design. this is kinda hard for me to articulate in words, it's more often a sense you get once you've looked at enough of these scrumptious fuckers, their general design and the way they show up is just kinda too clean, so to say. always kinda newly made? fresh unboxed. it, once again, makes sense for their lore - they are looking for more about themself from riz - and their function - they're an antagonist in a game experience, they're meant to be interacted with in a way that produces results and meshes with the existing magic circle - but that shininess takes away from the implied history they should have dominion over and the person they're haunting doesn't.

from another angle there is kinda something there about how put-together canon baron is as a concept; the domain they call home is riz's deep-seeded fears, extremely vulnerable things he's drawn borders around to quarantine and refused to walk into. things that from his perspective would irreversibly shatter certain pleasant fictions his world is built on top of. canon baron, While Extremely Cool, I feel is kinda too neat to connect with and signify the apocalyticized mess that'd result from this paradigm shift. the part where they're in riz's briefcase and looking through every mirror is Very Cool And Fucked Up! but ultimately the show draws a line around them as well, by making game-physical, tangible spaces they're in (the mirrors and the haunted mordred manor) and put riz and the bad kids there only when they need to confront stuff. riz is meaningfully narratively away from baron's unknown land for most of fantasy high.

with that and all of my disclaimers in mind my conclusion here is if canon baron wants to be a Horror Monster they'd have to cross way more lines. be a Lot more invasive. hence (holds up my class swap baron like a long cat)

[carry-on-my-wayward-gays]

Uhhh happy Pride take my In Star and Time headcanons!!!!! Obsessed w this game currently.

[randomalistic]

LOOK AT THIS MAN. I just had my queer awakening for the 2nd time

[astal-art]

Wanted to do a piece related to Mika’s music for a while :) he’s definitely one of my all time favorite artists 

[arachniasbride]

"I put that son of a bitch through med school." Maryann Thorpe: best moments | Cybill (S01E02)

[panikkar]

see okay on one hand i was not expecting buck to go bi tonight but on the other hand i was thinking that abc was gonna add some queerness to 911!!! maybe i’m biased bc i watched greys anatomy but especially in that show they’ve never been shy about writing queer stories! they literally introduced a bi character back in 2009. and not in like a “she’s bi and she’s gonna date one (1) woman and then never talk about it again” way it was straight up like “hey this character is gonna have serious queer relationships and then they’ll both have their own storylines and identities and then we’re gonna create a web of fictional queer doctors in this show and even have several different queer relationships at once and not just a few that all date each other” when literally the bar for the time wasn’t just low it literally didn’t exist. idk. anyways abc shows are for the queers!!!

[syrinq]

aka sy has to sit there for 5 minutes thinking about story-gameplay disparity related to warframe jade shadows moment

you're telling me stalker's wife (warframe, pregnant) fucking died and all he got left was a warframe baby. hence the ''can warframes get pregnant?'' was met with an ''uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh maybe maybe not'' 6 months ago on a devstream

and now we can just go off and collect parts to rebuild a copy of his dead wife to control in battle and fight space enemies. HUH. WAIT HOLD UP THAT'S FUCKED UP CAN WE AT LEAST SUPPORT HIM IN HIS FATHERLY TROUBLES

i know some people were hoping for something lgbt-related due to its june release eg. stalker becoming transjade. but man. the second you see a polar opposite to someone else they're either 1) sworn enemies or 2) opposites attract lovers. that's How It Goes with that trope. either way what the fuck warframe pregnancy canon & ballas continues to be the worst scum in existence (unsurprising)

anyway semi-related anecdote years ago (~2018) i wanted to make an oc out of my trinity prime. right. and incorporate that into my oc worldbuilding shit, completely separated lore-wise from warframe. i end up redesigning this oc into some angel-esque themed space alien & eventually it gets to a point she's the first to ever shit out biological offspring with her regular humanoid magic-wielding husband knight. husband dies in essentially a series of unfortunate events & at present in my oc world she is a widow with fresh baby twins.

i came up with this shit in like 2018-19 that went far far off from og warframe lore. and then the fiasco of ''angel-themed space warrior shits out the first biological offspring ever and this shit insane'' hits me in the fucking ass in 2024. WARFRAME PREGNANCY CANON

[hirakiyois]

do you think ryan's eye started twitching when he moved from the episode 13 script to the episode 14 script knowing damn well he was going to whorify eddie in 13

[venjamin-kingdomhearts]

dreamworks jack frost. disney peter pan. they're both aro in my mind.

[rexscanonwife]

I made my partner listen to some Chappell Roan and they said something along the lines of "this is like if Taylor Swift was good" 😂😂😂

[flaticeball]

the idea of a Gayest Player In The NHL bracket at all is already in poor taste to some degree bc i get everyone loves to make the “they’re so gay for each other fr” jokes but the condition of the actual league and its actions right now is like. you do understand why calling these people Gay Icons (Positive) for funny haha jokes is just. at best inappropriate timing, yes? but the idea of literally including one of the guys who got pride nights cancelled with his homophobia is just. can we take a minute to realize that hockey fandom doesn’t take place in a void completely unconnected to reality and see that this is just. a Really Bad Look. at best.