didnt think I'd be drawing anythjng today but i saw this one tweet by @/crying_anabell about a ship dynamic and it inmediately reminded me of these two so i blinked and this happened .
ive been posting a lot lately it makes me a bit dizzy but rhe brainrot tells me to go cook something up and i must obey making sure we all well fed/lh
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(one of) the most frustrating parts about the portrayal of drow society is that it wants to create Reverse Sexism without uncoupling itself from some. pretty foundational patriarchal ideas. it ascribes to the (tired, essentialist) notion that men are inherently good at certain things, and women are inherently suited for different things
but rather than the basic subversion of “women are warriors and men are the homemakers” or even early feminist thought experiments like “traditionally ‘women’s priorities’ are given importance over ‘men’s’ (ie things are governed by council, importance is placed on childrearing, etc)”, menzoberranzan is “this society still holds to patriarchal values and women are not as good at these things which is why it’s demonstrably worse”.
the biggest tell is that they have to control the male population to maintain female dominance, the implication being that in a fair fight, men would easily overpower them. it assumes the misogynist ideas as fact that “women are inherently weaker” and also “women are duplicitous” so the drow fighting style is based on stealth and sabotage rather than “”honorable”” face- to-face combat (letting lie also the assumption that the only avenue for ambition is through military violence, and therefore still making it so that they are reliant on men, even as disposable shock troops, for their success).
the only things that keep women in charge are by stacking the numbers on a systematic level, and through sexual domination on the individual level (because clearly the only real power a woman can have over men is her sexuality).
it is a society where “men act like men” but women don’t act like women; it is evil because an act of god created an aberration against the “natural order” of things, and there is no one to tend the hearth (because if the women won’t do it, no one will)
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Hi! Huge fan of your fics, kinda new to Tumblr. Do you ship any of the engines (if you don’t mind me asking?)
Hey, thanks for dropping a line!
I was a non-shipper for quite a while, then I started dabbling. I'm open to lots of different (and conflicting) ships but some of the ones that I'm most committed to are:
Thomas/Bertie
Edward/BoCo
Henry/Bear
Percy/Harold
Duck/Donald
Douglas/Toad/Oliver
Mavis/Salty
Also, if you trawl my archives long enough, you’ll see occasional references to Toby/Diesel and James/Porter. And you might wonder: Wait, are they f***in' serious? The official answer is that the former is just for a lark (specifically, for a dare)… but the latter I am indeed pretty serious about. ;)
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I have a question about "Spread your wings and fly". Reginald calls Randy "papa" in it, is Randy his biological father or do vampires have a family-esque hierarchy?
Randy and Terrence adopted Reginald when he was a child, the two of them finding the young boy abandoned in an alleyway and on the brink of death due to snowstorm, with Randy being the one to turn Reg to save his life.
Randy is a pure blooded vampire, born from the union between Sir Wilford IV and his (currently unamed) wife who didn't make it, with Terrence being his human husband that was turned by Randy after a bad run in with Grigori.
I haven't really thought too much into stuff like heirs for the Vampire Trio AU, I do have it that Jaques Kensington had to give up the throne because the vampire turned himself into a ghost due to a potion experiment, with Billy G taking the chance to lay claim to the throne before eventually being slain by Wilford in a call to action against his younger brother.
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I pretend that I am hoping for love and friendship and money and all of that but that's not true. actually I am holding out for having my own little house or apartment which has an oven and a stovetop. and I will make muffins. and I will decorate the walls. and I will not worry about bothering others, because it will be my space. and I will play video games while sitting in the living room. and I will sew in the kitchen while I wait for my water to boil. and I will dye my hair and lounge around with my shirt off while I water plants because there will be nobody around to judge. and it will be nice.
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