#this is my problematic era

[viivdle]

baby cardan:

[venusiansilk]

toxic ex!satoru who breaks up with you but isn't sure why you think just because he doesn't want you anymore, you don't still belong to him. you try to date other people and he shows up at your door, face flushed with rage and seething because who do you think you are trying to give the love that belongs to him away? he wants to know why you think breaking up means you're allowed to put your pretty lips on another man without his consent.

that's gojo "you're allowed to be heartbroken over me. sick of me. pissed off. but you’re fucking insane if you think you’re allowed to get over me" satoru for you.

[ihopeucomehomesoon]

the perfect crush to me is someone who i can admire from afar but never talk to bc it ruins the idea i have of them in my head

[blood-orange-juice]

You are all going to block me but I just realised that I do low-key ship Aether/Lumine.

Hear me out.

It's the plot of so many myths. The best known is, of course, Izanami and Izanagi's story (the whole reason why siblingcest is so popular in Japan. same level of cultural importance as the madonna/whore complex for Christians), but there are also Fu Xi and Nuwa, Sun and Moon gods of the Inuit mythology, a bunch of Greek gods, a bunch of Egyptian gods too iirc.

Old cultures that had god-kings (some dynasties in Egypt and, as we discovered recently, Ancient Ireland) considered marriages between siblings a norm for them specifically and something to be frowned upon or at least unusual for everyone else.

You can't convince me the twins were not god-rulers in some faraway world (they also found it so boring that they don't do it anymore. actually, I'll stand by this headcanon even without shipping them).

Celestial beings that already are one and the same in some sense. Twin stars.

The symbolism just does something to me.

I wish I could say this is not about boring human sex (they are interstellar eldritch beings anyway. merge your photons my funky little sibcons, as Ray says) but nope, I think their interactions can easily take the form of boring human sex too.

(it's just not the main thing they have going on)

I'll show myself out.

P.S. there's also a bonus: all Traveler ships are now threesomes

[darkcrowprincess]

(Don't like don't read. Post hate and I'll block you)

Controversial opinion: love the Percy Jackson series. But I hate the Fandom using it to dunk on Harry Potter series and their fans now. Jk Rowling sucks no question. But I still love the books, I love the movies and the fics. They are my childhood. And Harry, Hermione, Luna, Draco, snape, the marauders, Voldemort. I love these characters and this world. Even if it's super problematic. And to me Harry is just as good as a hero as Percy Jackson. I rather go to hogwarts any day than be a demigod.

[emblazonet]

Dragonflight

I read that beat up old copy of Dragonflight, a book published 55 years ago, and I truly enjoyed it. Spoilers for an old book follow, so be warned.

Like yeah there's a real 'not like other girls' vibe going on, somewhat mitigated at the beginning by Lessa feeling shame over how she misjudged Gemma, and then made worse by whatever the fuck is going on with that Kylara character. She's never on screen but everyone hates her because she's promiscuous or something? Dunno what's up with that. So like, yeah, gender stuff's weird, but also Pern's entire politics and economy rotate around telepathic dragons and evil spores, so, you know, it's a wacky fantasy. Whatever.

So many people, on telling them I found some battered Pern books in a Little Free Library, warned me that there's Bad Sex in these books, watch out! Well, I've read exactly one (1) Pern book, and I loved whatever the hell was happening. The dragons get horny so now their telepathic humans are horny? So now the two main characters who can't stand each other are fucking because telepathy? UH YES SIGN ME THE FUCK UP. I am so fucking here for this batshit scenario. It's not hatesex but it borders it. It's sex pollen by way of adorable dragons who fuck. I'm eating it up with a spoon. Now, sure, F'lar is like 'wtf I think I raped her' but in Lessa's pov she pretty much never dwells on it, so I think McCaffrey's actual intent was to give you the impression that F'lar is overreacting a bit because he has Feelings he won't admit, and while he's a smug jerk but he's not that bad, he's worried. You could if you want read this as textual rape? But I don't. I view this as Lessa being a practical and unlikeable bitch(affectionate) of a character, for whom sex is just not high on her priority list. She certainly wants to bang him later on. And because it wasn't a standard romance and the focus wasn't really on their courtship but rather the silly time travel plot, I actually enjoyed Lessa and F'lar as a couple. If I knew them IRL, I'd probably want to smack them, they're horribly emotionally stunted. But I got really invested in their slow reluctant growing respect for each other. Honestly so far Pern has the energy of a child making up a giant war for their toys, and incidentally smacking whatever figures they're using for their protagonists together and going, 'haha, they're kissing!'. Also, dragons. 9/10 can't wait to read more.

[whysamwhy123]

Hmmm. What if I attempted to write a piece of Trash and posted it anonymously?

[limepigeon]

clothes I want but wouldn’t be able to wear in public

1. Pissf****t jacket

2. shirt that says “f*****s love it in the dick”

[made-nondescript]

do not watch too many historical fashion youtube videos you'll be getting mad at misinfo propagated by the cottage core and modern fashion crowd for the rest of time

[nabexis]

Speedpaint and Artist notes under the cut

If you recognize this fandom send me fic recs, please!!

Decided to try a bit more of a painting style instead of my usual cell-shaded style with this one. I started tracing trying to get a feel for the character's poses, but go with more my style for the actual drawing.

Look, I Binged and rewatched the 10th Kingdom all in one day and while it is definitely early 2000s hashtag problematic I will always have a soft spot for it.

I hadn't watched this all the way through in probably… 20 years now? jesus, I'm old And I realized upon rewatch that I'd watched it FAR too young. Wolf is SO FREAKING HORNY OMFG. I hadn't remembered that but like. JESUS CHRIST.

Also Idk if it's because I watched it at double speed, but Wolf was more like a puppy than what we now think of as "wolfish" character archetypes? He's more like the old Looney Tunes caricature of a wolf, rather than the "lone wolf" archetype that's more popular in fantasy nowadays. Really interesting characterization when compared to modern film tropes.

Also the immediate turn around having ONE (1) session of Therapy was played for laughs but it made me get plot bunnies about how it could be rewritten today. Because ultimately it seemed like a relatively healthy thing he was doing, reading self help books and taking them to heart (even when they gave bad advice, unfortunately). Anyway, I'm fascinated and Virginia and Wolf are just gonna live rent free in my head for a while, I think.

[msookyspooky]

Stu Macher would have loved 3OH!3 😔

[sick-sad-little-world]

"We had two things we said we'd never do.  One was play when the sun was out, which we've now done, and the other was live TV.  But, Jim Carrey said he wouldn't do the program unless we were on, so we relented." (x)

(via @bearcub81212)

[ssaalexblake]

the life of a 13 era dw fan who doesn't like doing negative fandom things, as in, spending my time going on about what i dislike about it and would rather discuss positive or neural things about it, and how this genuinely Genuinely bothers some people lol

[foxglves]

the booing when they said matthew's name lmaooo you're just making him stronger!!!!

[warlordfelwinter]

"The Outer Planes. This is where gods dwell. Where they observe us from afar. Where they make playthings of us... But what if we didn't need them?"

[rewritingcanon]

if you guys wont take problematic sirius black then i will