#like not even the fictional man

[starrynightsxo]

cardan thinking he's being clever "exiling" jude:

jude questioning her whole judgement of character and life choices due to this:

the fandom watching it all pan out:

#it was PAIN #cos what was that #i was so annoyed at cardan tho #like i remember just hating on men even more than I do #like not even the fictional man #and the actual reason 😭😭 #hes a cutie omg #but bro what 💀 #books #bookish #the cruel prince #booklr #cardan greenbriar #jude duarte #tfota #cardan #jude #the folk of the air #jurdan #jude x cardan #cardan x jude #incorrect tfota #tfota memes #the wicked king #the stolen heir #the queen of nothing #the prisoners throne #judecardan #memes #meme source: pinterest

[botanautical]

'We all yearn for the woods. That's why every fellow on this island wants to settle down near a tree - just one will do.'

#dazai osamu #bsd dazai #bungou stray dogs #bungo stray dogs #bsd #bsd fanart #it's dazai day!! #i wish this insufferable fictional man weren't so beloved to me #but as somebody plagued by silly brain issues he is oddly comforting and makes me feel less alone #and bsd introduced me to actual dazai osamu whose writing is honestly groundbreaking to me and i've barely even scratched the surface #it's something about the confluence of humour and tragedy... the desire to exist to bring joy to others at the expense of one's own #i feel like asagiri imparted this notion well onto bsd dazai - i know a lot of people dislike dazai and question his motivations #but i have faith in him and believe he's pursuing good #anyway excuse the ramble! the caption is from dazai's short story 'monkey island'! thank you to my dear partner for finding it for me!! #i'm really very happy with how this piece turned out - i wanted to depict bsd dazai but really pay suitable homage to his namesake #it's been a while since i've had fun drawing but this one and other recent pieces this month have really brought me back into it #happy birthday dazai #botanautical

[prwlnglthr]

I like the King a little snaggletooth'd and scruffy

#dimitri alexandre blaiddyd #fe3h #fire emblem #spx art #spx digishit #spx femblem #spx fanart #just a one-off this evening bc I felt like figuring out how ridiculous and goofy I want his teeth to be in my Mind Palace #I love all mityas in the range of delicate pretty boy to busted looking rat but it is my personal god-given mission #to de-bishie every anime-and-adjacent man who doesn't give off the appropriate bishie vibes yet is given the flawless pretty face of one #I enjoy the Reality Of A Man too much to deny even my favourite fictional men #ergo my mimis steer snaggletooth tastefully scarred genuinely disfigured in the eye socket and scruffy

[imaybe5tupid]

Traveling alone is quite dangerous for a girl.

(my toshiro overcompensating trans man hc)

bonus 1

bonus 2 ft. toshiyuki (middle brother) grown up a little but still a menace

#toshiro nakamoto #shuro dungeon meshi #my comics #i feel like when he announced himself everyone in the household was really excited his dad especially #1) now there’s an heir 2) cause he finally thought his kid was starting to be interesting and for a short time it was kind of novel #he thought it was so cool and edgy to have a son like that but then that quickly wore off #since toshiro didn’t start becoming like him or stop being a boring person to him #and lowkey the little inheritance competition where toshiros peers are like. a bratty 14yo and an 8yo. #is his way to walk it back that he should be the heir #even though he already got acknowledged and everything #meanwhile hien trying to be a woke affirming queen and just feeding his insecurities unintentionally “you’re a man aren’t you” #their friendship changes and they try to slot each other more into their gendered expectations and drift apart #toshiro compulsively works out and trains and carries himself and acts in certain ways #to be masculine in this very conventional way to affirm himself as a man and as the heir of a samurai family #and as a counterpoint to his wastrel layabout father #he becomes the kind of stealth trans guy who lives in constant state of fear and stress. to the point his little brothers have no idea #-> creates that distance emotionally from them #dungeon meshi #i think his relationship with his dad is absolutely horrendous hes a scummy guy through and through #but i personally enjoy bad relationships in fiction where there was something good to lose in the first place #and despite everything he does still care like in the first comic hes genuinely trying to be mindful #in his own condescending thoughtless way which like confirms all of toshiros worst fears about how his father sees him #like he really got assigned the retainers who are 1) 2 teenage girls one who wants to escape the other whos lowkey scared of him #3) his ex childhood best friend who things are weird with currently 4) random woman whos never even met him ONCE before #5) his smothering nanny/teacher ALL OF WHOM dont really respect him as a leader at all or have a professional rapport with him even😭 #in his dads pov he was like okay ill assign women retainers so he won’t hide from them (wrong). also ones who wont intimidate him (wrong) #damn im smart! meanwhile toshiro having a breakdown over it

[popponn]

why sae is kinda

#i know sae looks good #like who in bllk is ugly like yes there are some but u got the point it's like 90% cuties #but anyway i really forgot like he is t h a t good looking #brother we are not even in the same dimension i will cry what is this m4k0t0 sh1nk41 movie #you 🫵🫵 fictional man who plays soccer #and kind of emotionally constipated #what are you why are you like that this is so offending what is your number #sae pls pls appear again in the manga pls one panel is okay #rin what did they feed your brother (and you) #babblings #looking at him for inspo only to fall in love #sigh oh underlashes senior

[clown-owo]

Guardian of the Eastern Gate and the One Entrusted with a Flaming Sword by God: Principality Aziraphale

#good omens spoilers #gos2spoilers #good omens season 2 #good omens #good omens 2 #aziraphale #goodomensedit #gifs #og post #i can't stop thinking about aziraphale so confident and badass saying “i'm prepared to take defensive measures” #and then just. being so useless #my guy says that and then 10 seconds later is like. well that won't hold forever. whats my plan? that was it. #it didn't even last you thirty goddamned seconds aziraphale??? #what were the candles for? nothing. to look threatening i guess #shout out to nina for being like. hey. what the fuck man #but still having the kindness to go. well obviously we won't throw fiction #king couldn't hold off more than 10 lowest level demons on his own without committing a war crime #needed humans to come up with plans for him #anyway. this is my first time making a gifset #sorry if it sucks. i don't know what the standards are for gifsets. i followed a tutorial #and reused the same color adjustments for every gif <- lazy

[marzipanandminutiae]

what do we want?

a canon F/F Gothic romance where both leads are actually, truly, "I enjoy this" feminine-presenting and not just "performing socially expected baseline levels of femininity for her society, but she doesn't REALLY like it and she'd TOTALLY be wearing trousers if she could but she CAN'T so that's why we CAN'T MAKE HER PROPERLY MASC EITHER!!!!"

when do we want it?

fucking yesterday tbh

#like sorry does ANYONE feel represented by that? #at least the masc/masc or masc/fem stories are usually written by sapphists because it's what they're into #I can respect that even while I wish more of My Thing existed #but the whole She IS Fem but She Doesn't LIKE It but She Can't Be Androgynous or Masc Even Though This Is Fiction thing is so played out #not everything is for or about me and that's fine but there was one book I was really enjoying on this level #thinking 'oh hey finally a book where both of the sapphists actually LIKE wearing dresses for a change! cool!' #and then one of them cast an illusion to make herself look like a man and the other one was into it and I was like 'oh. okay.' #(some people like that and that's fine! it just lessened my personal enjoyment of the sex scene in question!)

[nitro502]

Girl help I went on Facebook and there are people there who think Eddie Munson is straight

#eddie munson #steddie #that is a queer man if I ever saw one #I legit always forget most people assume all fictional characters are straight and cis until proven otherwise #even people in the community :/ #they’re like ‘where’s your proof?’ #and like first of all I absolutely do have proof #but why do we need any? #these are my dollies I play with in my head #fiction isn’t real! have fun with it!

[hephaestuscrew]

I do think there's something special about the way that audio drama creators seem to love including cameos of voice actors from other popular audio dramas. Obviously, part of the reason why actors from one show might pop up in another is because the audio drama creator community is relatively small and interconnected, and also because those actors are very talented.

But there's also often such a sense that creators are having fun with these cameos. Like Greater Boston casting audio drama heavyweights Briggon Snow, Zach Valenti, and Felix Trench as famous film actors Matt Daemon, Ben Affleck, and Mark Wahlberg respectively. Or Faux and Stallion having Tom Crowley (who plays a Victorian detective in Victoriocity) pop up as Dr Watson. Or Unseen casting Beth Eyre and Felix Trench as characters who are twins. Or Arden getting Emma Sherr-Ziarko to play an actor impersonating a character played by her former Wolf 359 costar Michelle Agresti (with Michaela Swee also appearing as an actor impersonating the other main Arden lead).

In these cases, it's not just that there's a cameo, but that the cameo is given particular (often comedic) significance to those who are aware of the featured actor's other work. The vast majority of people wouldn't recognise any of these voices. But by doing these very intentional cameos, these creators show confidence that a fair chunk of their audience will know these actors and enjoy the link. There's an awareness that listeners of one audio drama are fairly likely to listen to (or at least be aware of) other fiction podcasts, even when the shows in question aren't of particularly similar genres. Recognising these cameos feels like being in on a secret. It feels like these shows are giving a little nod to listeners to say that we're part of the same club.

#It'd be fun if you reblogged with your favourite audio drama cameos #I know most of my examples are Wooden Overcoats actors #but those are just the ones that have stuck in my head the most #This has been in my drafts since the Greater Boston S4 finale #If you think I didn't squeal to myself at the Gabriel Urbina & Sarah Shachat cameo #you are wrong #and they aren't even known as actors?! #But I feel like the GB creators were confident that some people would do a double-take there #I'm pretty sure that's not even the first cameo I've heard them do in an unrelated show #Anyway I am definitely the target audience for things like this #It brings me so much joy #I have never cared at all about recognising an actually famous actor in a film #but recognising someone in an audio drama just hits different #One day I do want to make a complicated infographic to show how all the podcasts I've listened to are interconnected #I have a conspiracy wall about it in my mind #the empty man posteth #audio fiction #podcasts #fiction podcasts #audio drama

[skunkes]

guy liker moment

#a doodley #once again very difficult times for the has never been touched community #also recently some fictional men have me questioning things further and its making me sooo miserable #in the sense of like. it wouldnt be enough to t**** a beautiful man i want to be one. too. #i want someone to feel the same way ykwim. eager excited. witnessing beauty. crawling into each others skin. #i want you and i want to wear your face and be desired too. #ugh ugh ugh ugh #i probably wont ever even draw it but the lino piece i want to try making is based off of like. lately... #my skin burns when i see even the imitation of a human body. When i think of it. its so dire #or like i love the human body in general i love studying it bc its so beautiful and interesting no matter what #but i do studies and its like ahh i wanna get closer i wanna get closer im at the zoo i want to jump into the enclosure and get clawed apar #t. (saying this as metaphor bc obviously humans are not things to be owned) but i want my own model to pose and study #closer. and closer. look and touch and examine. #<- 3 seconds away from drawing nefarious shit with talon in this nature but i didnt say that #talkys #🌺

[vaguely-concerned]

It was worse, when I was a kid. I remember the time you caught me telling her 'I love you'. And I can't even remember what you said, but I remember that I had you on your back -- I put you straight on the fucking ground. I was always so much bigger and so much stronger. I got on top of you and choked you 'til your eyes bugged out. I told you that my mother had probably loved me a lot more than yours loved you. . . . Were you ten, Harrow? Was I eleven? Was that the day you decided you wanted to die?

You remember how the fuck-off great aunts always used to say, 'Suffer and learn'? If they were right, Nonagesimus, how much more can we take until you and me achieve omniscience?

I'm never not thinking about this part of harrow the ninth. what a fucking perfectly distilled microcosm of gideon's and harrow's childhood. two children clawing at and choking the life out of each other over the entirely fictional premise that either of their mothers ever loved them.

#the last fourth of harrow the ninth has probably the greatest concentration of moments that permanently changed my brain chemistry #of any work of fiction ever made. it's just like getting profoundly punched in the face over and over again #the locked tomb #griddlehark #harrow the ninth #the fact that gideon has spent all those years not only thinking she killed harrow's parents -- she thinks she made harrow want to die #the simultaneous horrified guilt and... intimacy? care? of 'I was always so much bigger and so much stronger'. #any time either of them thinks of any power they had in their relationship it's so achingly interwoven #with how they only ever used that power to hurt each other #even the rare times when they didn't really mean to #I mean. man. well. what do you. what do you do with this. hurt and grieve forever probably

[murdrdocs]

sometimes i’m like “maybe i would benefit from antipsychotics”

#like the delusions #the parasocial relationship #w a fictional man #like is this even possible

[demadogs]

as a gay swiftie i need to say it i fucking hate gaylors so much. the news of the split of her 7 year relationship came out yesterday and gaylor is already trending on twitter. it doesnt matter how huge of a status a person has STOP READING INTO THE SEXUALITY OF REAL HUMAN BEINGS!!!!!!

#if a real person comes out then woohoo celebrate thats so fun but STOP OBSESSING OVER THAT VISION THIS GOES FOR SO MANY CELEBRITIES #ARE FICTIONAL GAYS NOT ENOUGH FOR YOU???? #also i dont understand bc its just way more fun when its fiction??? like this shit was written intentionally its MEANT for analyzing #there was someone on tiktok i saw a while ago that would not shut up about her being a lesbian not even bi a lesbian- #as if she wasnt (at the time) in a happy relationship with a man #it makes me so mad like yes its possible she could be queer but she doesnt owe us a coming out or anything like that #stop being fucking weird #taylor swift #gaylor

[grayisblogging]

season 10 daryl >>>

#daryl brainrot has been so bad to me lately i can’t even sit down to watch the show bc i need to be there so bad like yall don’t get it #really been trying to keep this to myself but i can’t help it anymore #i deserve to be in that show man put me in that universe that’s my FAMILYYYYYY #save me long haired fictional man SAVE MEEEEEE #daryl dixon #twd #mine

[mxtxfanatic]

Interesting commentary about how most people will identify with victims/victimhood while feeling discomfort when others identify with perpetrators, especially given the fact we live in societies (at least the one I’m in and the one that book was written in) that habitually materially revile victims on every level while championing and supporting perpetrators of certain violence.

#human reads time limited hunt #this convo comes up cause jiang lian is explaining to shi shanyan #how he wishes yan junxun would get at least one case wrong #because his ability to empathize with serial killers to this degree #unsettles ‘normal folks’ #but at the same time #is anyone *really* indentifying with the victims? #because the only reason why the crimes in this book happened #are because neither people nor institutions helped ANY actual victims #in fact they were using actual victims’ stories for prestige and ego boosts #even the victim-turned-serial-killer is using revenge killing *other* people’s assaulters #to make herself feel better #and because of that she ends up fucking up #and murdering an innocent man! #anyways reminds me of that study on kids #that said that showing bullying in kids shows #actually doesn’t prevent bullying #because bullies identify with the victims in shows #while adopting the fictional bullies’ tactics irl #so no lessons were learned #because nobody identified themselves as having the capacity to harm #or at least to harm the ‘undeserving’ #weaponization of victimhood and the aesthetics of innocence and docileness #or something like that #time limited hunt

[andi-o-geyser]

hey, sorry um. bad news i called the Kansas Regulatory Board on your boyfriend. yeah, the one who started dating you and is now taking you on a trip to Paris after spending over a year with you for individual treatment and then couples counselling with your ex-husband. i'm then going to personally throw a football at his head for being such a piece of shit therapist. sorry.

#can you tell i have beef with this man #everything about his choices are so wrong on so many levels and his license for practice should be fucking GONE #like if i had 15 hours i could not even BEGIN to tell you all the ways he's being unethical and failing at his job #dr jacob come fight me in a denny's parking lot i fucking DARE you #i see your “ill take my gf on a romantic trip to paris while i leave her son with his father who's trust i have completely betrayed” #and i raise you “meet me on pont neuf at sunset so we can duel to death you curdled cup of milk of a man” #you don't DESERVE to eat crepes in paris #FUCK YOU #hhhhhnnnnng this fictional character has got me in such a rage you don't even understand #it is so hard to live laugh love in these dr jacob conflict episode economies smh #i wish ted a very nice kill him pls :) #ted lasso #ted lasso spoilers #ted lasso season 3 #andis thought geyser