#ALSO I AM VERY MUCH A LESBIAN AND THESE DUDES HAVE MY DAD IN THEM SO I AM VERY MUCH NOT INTO THEM

[nevermore-selfship]

EDITED A LITTLE SOMETHING SOMETHING FOR YOU GOGETA SSJ4 AND VEGITO SIMPS OUT THERE >:DDDD ANDIDON’TWANNAOUTRIGHTADMITHOWLONGITTOOKMETODOTHISKAYTHANKS *coughs* *stares especially hard at @honeybeeblush and @emmacornell*

#ALSO I AM VERY MUCH A LESBIAN AND THESE DUDES HAVE MY DAD IN THEM SO I AM VERY MUCH NOT INTO THEM #D #DON'T GET FOOLED BY THE CAPTIONS IN THE FIRST CLIPS I LITERALLY COULD NOT FIND AN UNEDITED VERSION OF IT I TRIED MAN BELIEVE ME #video #my video #edit #edits #my edit #gogeta #gogeta ssj4 #ssj4 gogeta #vegito #vegito blue #ssgss vegito #dragon ball gt #dragon ball super #db gt #dbs #dbgt #selfship #selfshipping #selfshipping community #DID IT TAKE ME AN HOUR TO MAKE THIS 15 SECOND EDIT #**IDON'TWANNATALKABOUTITBUTICAMEOUTGOOD:DDDD**

[pyxaperson]

I am procrastinating on my uni assignments so here’s the 2012!TMNT main cast ranked on who would be homophobic/transphobic

1 being the most and 6 being the least

this is my opinion and my interpretation. i will fight people for one of these rankings if they disagree with me

6 - April

You cannot convince me she isn’t a 2012 Tumblr girl like… look at her. She spent most of her teenage years debating with homophobes on the internet. She would 100% watch supernatural and 100% ship Castiel.

"Would she fetishise mlm relationships?" NO. She would also watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer and ship Fuffy. She reads yaoi AND yuri in her spare time.

If she swoons over a mutant and an alien getting together, she will 100% do the same for a gay couple.

Probably taught the others not to be homophobic (mostly the top 3).

If you believe she hates the LGBT+ community, I am sorry but you are objectively wrong I will be hunting you for sport right now. I am outside your house with the episode "Karai's Vendetta" playing loudly on my laptop.

5 - Donnie

“Erm actually, homosexual behaviour has been heavily documented in animals such as penguins, bats and hyenas. It’s very much natural.“

While I cannot imagine him ever being homophobic, I can imagine him being transphobic when he was younger.

BUT I only think that because the primary school biology textbook was his bible when he was five.

As soon as he had access to a more “advanced” biology book, he learnt his mistakes.

Had a deep understanding of gender before his brother understood the differences between them as a result of this.

4 - Mikey

Thinks LGBT+ people are awesome, however his only exposure to gay people is rupaul drag race so his views on them are stereotypical.

He would probably be taken aback if you introduced him to a gay man who isn’t flamboyant, but he would adjust after a bit.

He would definitely say “You don’t look gay” though.

Aside from April, he would be the most angry when hearing homophobic/transphobic comments.

3 - Leo

The middle point between homophobic and not homophobic for the group (even though she's seconds lmao, the group is just not really homophobic).

I headcanon her as a trans lesbian so any homophobic/transphobic thoughts she would have are a mixture of her sheltered life and internalised issues.

Nothing extreme though, but her mind would get hung up on two girls holding hands on the street for multiple days.

She would also go through the 5 stages of grief for every unprompted homophobic thought she gets.

Everyone helps her overcome this, especially after she discovers herself and comes out.

2 - Raph

I am sorry, but he would probably use homophobic language before meeting April.

However, that’s due to him not understanding what he was saying. He probably thought gay was a synonym for stupid.

Once he understands who LGBT+ people are and what they face (AKA being scolded by April), he would probably feel really bad about it.

He wouldn’t really apologise for it verbally, but he would 100% kill a homophobe after that so everyone understands he’s changed.

Mikey would then make fun of him for being homophobic which would get him really mad. It's revenge for Raph calling him gay to insult him and brushing his genuine anger off.

“At least I’m not-“ “I’M NOT HOMOPHOBIC MIKEY!”

1 - Casey

I am not sorry, this dude was definitely homophobic before meeting the Turtles + April. Like, actually homophobic.

His dad is homophobic so it comes from that.

He called Donnie the f-slur behind his back to the rest of the group. To put it lightly, they were not impressed.

The first moment where he questions his behaviour is when April rips him to shreds over it, but it’s not until Raph pulls him aside to express disappointment that he realises how bad his behaviour is.

Probably goes MIA for a couple of days undergoing serious reflection on his life and beliefs. He then comes back to apologise for his behaviour.

He takes some time to truly overcome his bigotry, but he gets there eventually. Like Raph, he'll kill a homophobe after the ordeal.

#tmnt 2012 #tmnt #teenage mutant ninja turtles #2012 leo #2012 donnie #2012 raph #2012 mikey #2012 april #2012 casey #please don't take this too seriously this is just for fun #i had this ranking brewing in my brain for months #thats why i had deep reasonings for this joke idea

[chipistrate]

AN ASK ABOUT DR RABBIT AND VANNY YAYYY

anyways I know you’ve done some art before but what do you think their dynamic is like?? Do you think they get along well or is it more like vanny being goofy and doc having to put up with her bs lmao.

that’s all I wanted to ask also your art is amazing and your dr rabbit design is everything to me he’s such a goofball 🫶

OKAY I KNOW I SAID THEY HATE EACH OTHER AND THEY DO But genuinely after getting used to each other I think they actually get along decently,,,, at least they bounce off each other well<3

On the topic of Vanny being goofy and Rab having to deal with it though- specifically one detail about their dynamic rotates in my mind a lot- and that's Vanny trying to flirt with ALL OF VANESSA'S FEMALE COWORKERS. ALL THE TIME. Part of it is cause she's a lesbian but also a huge part of it is just annoying Dr. Rabbit LMAO She goes up to him a lot like "hey what do you think about [insert female coworker]" and Rab's always so bothered. "Vanny I am begging you to shut the fuck UP we have WORK to do, PLEASE stop trying to flirt with Vanessa's coworkers for FIVE SECONDS" "...I think I'm gonna ask her out for coffee" "YOU BETTER FUCKING NOT"

They also gossip about everyone in the building and even the elusive higher ups- they have eyes practically everywhere and know practically everything, so they have plenty of gossip material<3 They think the higher ups are so lame btw they alwaysss shit talk them

They also complain about Vanessa and Gregory's normal lives that they have to keep up (until Rab just abandons his and makes Gregory go missing), Vanny thinks Vanessa's job is such a pain in the ass and she hates it, while Rab is more indifferent on school- but loves to shit talk bullies and the two will make fun of them together for being cheesy or the most stereotypical bully, etc etc. They also LOVE shit talking Vanessa's dad they hate him so much they think he's a fucking dick even by their standards and they bully him alllll the time. Some times they'll toy with like- "lmao yknow we could just go kill him like. Right now." and they never do it cause he's too far away but it'd be a lie if they said they never genuinely considered it

They also cover for each other sometimes- like if Glitchtrap wants them to go do something but one of them wants to take a snack break, they'll sneak off to the kitchen while the other covers for them<3 Or if Vanessa is supposed to be at a certain place during her shift but isn't cause Vanny is busy, Rab will just pretend he's Gregory/Greg and distract her coworkers by saying he needs help or messing with the animatronics- whatever he can to make them busy and not realize Vanessa is gone until she's back. They've got each others backs forever and ever

They have a very silly dynamic essentially- like they want each other dead but they love each other and their dynamic can be wholesome sometimes<3

ALSO ERHUSJGHUESIRJDL THAKN YOU!!!!! He IS such a goofball the goofiest dude ever<33333

#Chip Chatter

[losergendered]

!! NOT A REQUEST !!

I saw you're a total drama fan,, do you have any headcanons? I like seeing other folks headcanons ^__^ /nf

oh you KNOW I DO BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! im probably gonna make a followup post like. actually making the icons but. yes here they are (its just the gen 1 cast cause. theyre the best. and also i havent seen roti or pahkitew or the reboot)

Ezekiel is a genderqueer transmasc bisexual and uses he/they!

Sadie is a biaesthetic lesbian, Katie is a transfem omni lesbian, and they're dating!

Eva is an acespec demiplatonic unlabeled sapphic! She's also Sephardic!(one of my fave random hcs is that all of team escope is jewish but from different disporas :D)

Noah is a Mizrahi gnc gay guy! (ik that sometimes people consider mizrahi to be a subterm of sephardic but im making the distinction lol)

Izzy is an Ashkenazi genderfucked abrosexual aroace demihuman xenogirl who uses any pronouns!

Justin is a flamboric cupiospec arospec gay guy!

Beth is a nonbinary weirdgirlpunk bi lesbian who uses they/she!

Owen is. well i'll be so real with you i dont really care about him (IM SORRY OWEN FANS. I JUST DIDNT LIKE HIS JOKES VERY MUCH. his friendship w noah was cute tho) but like. literally i interpret him as canonically bisexual. like he was literally so in love with justin like that wasnt even subtext that just. was a fact

Geoff i also lowkey dont care about (SORRY) but i also find him bisexual. hes so in love with bridgette and hes so in love with brody. two hands <3

Bridgette doesn't label her sexuality, but has had feelings for multiple genders before!

DJ is questioning his sexuality, but thinks that he's somewhere on the aroace spectrum! He also considers himself a cisgender demiboy!

Leshawna is a bipan girl, and her girlboyfriend, Harold, is a bigender transfem genderqueer genderfluid bisexual boygirl!

Lindsay is a bi straight lesbian, and her partner, Tyler, is a cusper straight lesbian transfem boy who switches between identifying as a cishet man and a trans butch lesbian and uses he/she pronouns! (also this is because i like both headcanons for her lmao)

Trent is an ace bisexual with an aesthetic lean towards girls and a romantic lean towards boys! He leans more towards the cis man side of the gender spectrum, but likes to get a little funky with it u know. like he listens to arctic monkeys. u know.

Gwen is a bi lesbian/shadowlesbian trans girl who defaults to she/her, but doesn't mind neopronouns! Also gwourtney is real to me

Cody is a bisexual trans guy!

Sierra is an intersex trisfem paradoxibinary arospec bordersexual first-quarter/third-quarter neaptide mspec lesbian who prefers she/her, but also likes they/them and neos!

Duncan is a bisexual guy with a preference for girls! also i am still a duncney believer. who else still part of duncney nation in 2023.

Blaineley is an aphrodite bi lesbian and shes dating ME SHES DATING ME SHES MY WIFE ILY MS STACEY ANDREWS OHALLORAN. i actually made a whole oc to ship her with lmao. i guess i can include that um shes dating jules who's a lesbian and is my oc <3

Heather is a bisexual girl with a preference for girls and she's dating Alejandro, who is also bisexual! their romance was cute argue with the wall

Courtney is a bisexual girl and she's also a cit <3

Chris and Chef are both gay men and are married! gay wrongs

uhh random other hcs i have for non gen 1 chcs are bi trans girl kitty, bi straight emma, uh that little swagless kid from rr who competed with his dad uh hes a trans boy, jo is a butch bisexual girlboy & is dating brick, a gnc bisexual man, scott is bisexual and dating courtney, sam is a nonbinary bigender transfem straight lesbian who uses all pronouns & is dating dakota who is a bi trans girl, um that one dude who had the name reveal is ofc trans, svetlana is a transgender bi lesbian, vito is hypersexual and bi, uh my hcs for mal are. long so keep an eye out for a mogai-headcanons post in a few months, shawn (?? is that his name) is a transhet guy and is dating jasmine (??? i do not know these chcs at ALL) who is bisexual.

#my personal faves are noah alejandro heather courtney blaineley cody sierra harold and lindsay!! #bro this just devolved into me dropping my td opinions. lmao. #long post #oh also unlisted relationships i enjoy are alenoah aletyler trody beth/lindsay and bridgette/courtney!! and probably more #enjoy those random non gen 1 hcs i have never actually watched any of their seasons <3 #any total trauma readers in the audience tonight? i was on my period and about to move out and i was rereading it #and heathers part made me ugly cry. anyway #thank you anon i LOVE YOU i love yousomuch. i am so so so so deep into the td hyperfixation right now #andis headcanons #save #<- so i can come back and make the edits #asks

[my-castles-crumbling]

Hey Cas! So I'm a queer teenage girl, but I'm homeschooled, so I have no clue if my friends would be accepting or not. There has never been an opportunity to bring up LGBTQIA+ rights, to see how they react , and I know for sure that at least one of my friends has no clue what gay people even are, because I mentioned that I could ship Sirius and Remus, and she said "Wait, but they're both dudes? And dudes cut marry each other?" But not even in a homophobic way, she was legit confused. Ive only told two people. The first is my BFF, who've I've known since I was 5 days old. She was the first person I told. I've also told my mom, and she's been super supportive, but I don't know how or when to tell my dad. He has a gay brother, but the relationship there is pretty much none (My uncle just moved away and never visits) , so I don't know how hell react. I was thinking of writing a letter, but I don't think that would work.

I'm know I'm attracted to multiple genders, because even before I knew what sexualities were, I wrote a story about two lesbian spies. I also get that happy feeling when I see queer people out in public. I have fantasized about both men and women before, so I do know I'm attracted to both men and women (And possibly non-binary people), but I don't know if that makes me Bi, or Omni, or Pan?

Oh, and I LOVE your blog. I get so exited when I see you post something, because Microfics are the perfect length for my ADHD brain to actually focus on. I hope you have a great gay!

P.S. Drink some water :)

Hi! <3

I'm so glad your mom is supportive!

For your friends, I'd try to warm them up to the idea a bit first, lol, especially since they genuinely don't know a lot. Bring up some queer ships, talk about LGBTQIA+ people in the media, that type of thing. Then ease into it.

As far as your dad, I think a letter is a great idea! It can be scary to tell someone big news like that, so getting all your thoughts down in a letter is super smart. It also gives him time to think about his reactions.

As far as your sexuality, have you researched each of those identities? They're very similar (though different in some ways as well), so it might help to look them up and really think about which one makes the most sense to you. Also remember that you're young, and you don't necessarily need to label yourself! Knowing who you're attracted to is a great start! As you get older and start dating more and more, you'll start to realize your preferences and it'll help you figure that out as well.

Let me know if you ever need to talk!

(Also I am naming all the anons who write to me in case they want to write in the future, and I am using a random positive affirmation generator to do so. So I dub thee: sincere anon. Enjoy your free tag!)

(also you made me drink water. so rude 😋)

#ask #asks #ask cas #sincere anon

[peachiime]

my persona 4 ships (some spoilers)

im a yansim blog (mostly) but i am currently more into persona. i wanted to make this kind of post with my ys ships but i have like 23 not counting the 1980s mode ones and that is way too many so!?!?!? agh no

but persona 4 is more bitesized. so YAY!!!!!!!!!

souyo (yu (i like calling him yu) x yosuke!!!!!) - theyre very popular but its for good reason - loser4loser - they are homies. homos. homo homies. - 2 bi bfs (and yu is genderfluid cough cough)

kannao (kanji x naoto) - only comfortable with it if naoto is not female - bc kanji..... youre a little weird to the poor fella - seperately, theyre sharper than knives. together, they shed their braincells like very hairy dogs. - bi kanji!!! bi + asexual nb naoto!!

chidai (chie x daisuke) - sorry team balls/yukichie shippers - two idiots running wildly around a room and somehow smacking their faces together in the process - i actually have a much deeper reason for why i think this couple would be healthy but it's much too long for me to put in this silly little post - the only two straight people in inaba (but daisuke is a demiboy)

yukirise (yukiko x rise) - BUT ONLY QUEERPLATONICALLY!!!!!! NO ROMANCE NO KISSING NO NO NO!!!!!!! - messy chaos (rise) and organized chaos (yukiko) - the actual mischief and shenanigans these two get up to are much too silly for the world to handle. - bigender aroace rise! nonbinary aro lesbian yukiko!

tedmitsu (t. t. tedide. teidield. teddie. teddie x mitsuonlkmf,s.) - im so sorry but they bring me lots of joy (its also only in this one au of mine where mitsuo gets mental assistance and teddie is a human) - autism bfs. they never stop talking once they start. - the aggressive x affectionate dynamic has always made me so happy - pan nb teddie. and mitsuo is mitsuo idfk but hes a he/it alright

adajima (adachi x dojima) - THEM i was in denial about shipping this for like a month straight b4 - its the giving each other the love neither of them think they deserve and learning how to grow as people both separately and together for me - im doing it for nanako. give her two dads. pls. - bi dojima is real ok. most of inaba is bi. even the local murderer! diversity wins!

kounaoki (kou x naoki!!!!!) - you might think theyre normal dudes... but little did you know... they took TWO candies instead of ONE!!!!! - they also get up to mischief and shenanigans. i hc that they snuck out together one time and that was their gay awakening. - also aggressive x affectionate but kou cannot flirt if his life depended on it - kou looooves them balls. naoki does too!! also hes boyspike bc why not

aihana (ai x hanako) - ok its mostly out of spite bc atlus gave ai confidence issues right? and some of those manifested in body image problems right? and she overcame her self hatred and learned how to love? not other people? but herself? right? - and then they make hanako a walking fat joke which completely nullifies the message they were trying to get across with ai - anyways they call each other beautiful 24/7 and then roast the shit out of any bitch they hate - so pan4pan.

#persona #persona 4 #p4 #i. i dont want to tag this mannnnnnn #yu narukami #souji seta #yosuke hanamura #souyo #kanji tatsumi #naoto shirogane #kannao #chie satonaka #daisuke nagase #chidai #i made up some of these ship names kjdsknsf #yukiko amagi #rise kujikawa #persona 4 teddie #mitsuo kubo #tedmitsu #tohru adachi #ryotaro dojima #adajima #kou ichijo #naoki konishi #kounaoki #ai ebihara #hanako ohtani #pain #aihana

[strangesmallbard]

okay here are my thoughts on most of the kassandra romances in ac odyssey:

odessa: incredible friends with benefits energy. she’s also shady and overly confident, traits i love in a woman. nothing much here, but a solid first romance. 6/10

roxana: their scene on the mountain is SO sweet and fun, also peak friends with benefits vibes with a hint of something more. 7/10

lykaon: if you’re into soft dudes, he’s pretty soft. not my cuppa, but not offensive. 5/10

daphnae: the sheer concept of a daughter of artemis falling for the warrior woman destined to take her place is fucking incredible, but i was craving more relationship development onscreen. 6/10

anais: childhood best friends to lovers to friends with history because our differences are irreconcilable my BELOVED! i loved how regular and grounded this romance felt. it was nice to see someone love kassandra for who she is, and accept that she can’t be everything too. and kassandra is SUCH a dad. 10/10

those two brothers added later on: in my lesbian onion, these quests are much funnier if you don’t like either of them. kassandra is just like “oh sweet, free brothers!” followed by “oh brother” when they declare their love.

alkibiades: he’s the only dude i had kassandra sleep with because there is nothing heterosexual about this relationship. bisexual 4 bisexual energy is off the CHARTS. men get pegged, etc. 8/10

diona: she could not have been less subtle about being a cultist, but she was very hot. this is the exact mental process i gave kassandra. 7/10

kyra: holy shit, i am devastated by this romance and the entire mykonos arc. when kyra throws a KNIFE at her head, and kassandra immediately falls in love. i think she’s one of the few options where kassandra clearly has romantic feelings, so the ending hits like a sack of bricks. 10/10

thaletas: i killed this man. 0/10

brasidas: not an actual romance, but an honorable mention because of the popularity. idk guys i don’t see it at all! they give me major siblings or uncle & niece vibes. i think kassandra trauma dumps because every older spartan guy is dadcoded to her. 0/10

natakas: look, i don’t hate natakas. he’s fine out of context. perfectly inoffensive. he has a nice face. however, i cannot get over the forced heterosexuality and birth situation! it leaves the worst taste in my mouth! i literally haven’t played ac odyssey since i found out! -5/10, i’m sorry natakas you’re very nice but get out of my house right now

aspasia: the biggest missed opportunity of this entire game. i am so disappointed by the last scene in the cult arc because like, aspasia disappears! we have no emotional connection to her! imagine if they had several run-ins during the main quest. imagine if aspasia actively helped you hunt the other cultists. imagine if ubisoft committed to her gaslight gatekeep girlbossing. i wanted unhealthy emotional attachment! i wanted manipulation! that kiss at the end should have HIT. anyway 10/10 the concept in my head, 2/10 the actual romance

#ac odyssey #yell.txt

[alexcaninnit]

DRAGÓN PRINCE SEASON FOUR LIVE BLOG BUT ITS ALL ONE POST BECAUSE IM WRITING THIS WHILE ON POST LIMIT SPOILERS

Dude i- claudia- (i think that’s her name) is so damn pretty hfhhgghh

I love the colors in this show bro. The style of this is gorgeous.

I WILL SAY IT AGAIN ARAVOS IS THE SEXIST MAN.

C-CALLUM- HOW DID YOU BECOME EVEN MORE OF A TWINK MY GOD

Is that haircut required for all high mages????

Soren and corvus are…. so pretty. my god.

Crow lord. Did- Did you mean crollo with a good haircut.

Why does the run cycle look so floaty.

Callum looks like a 14 year old lesbian-

HOLY SHIT EZRAN?! NO FUCKINH SHIT WHY IS HE TALL OH MY GOD HES SO TALL SND HABDSOME SND REHAL MY GOD MY BITI

ITS OUR FACORURE DESF LESBIAN LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOO

Once again. The fucking colors.

Why does amaya look like vi and caitlyn’s love child.

Ezran’s voice has NOT change my GOD HES STILL MY SMALL SON

ZYMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!

Callum you are literally just white sokka my god.

The expressions are a little off but that’s understandable. Expressions are hard as shit.

Claudia nooooo my babyyyyy

my GOD THE FALL SCENERY

Oooo fire elves their weapons are so cool

The fight scenes in this are so cool

oh nooooo she just wanted to do sumn fun nooo

soren you big himbo.

AWWWWWWWWWWWWW SHE WAS JUST TRYNA PROPOSE MY GOD THIS IS ADOEABLE DGHDFHHCGHJTHEY!!!!!!!!!!! THE GAY COUPLES IN THIS SHOW ARE EVERYTGING RAYLAS DADS WERE LITERALLY A FORMATIVE EXPERIENCE FOR ME AND NOW WE HAVE ADOEABKE LESVIANS

There’s a surprise party isn’t there. My god. I love them. These himbos.

God i wusy i had wings

AAAAAA BIRTHDAY PARTY??!!!!!!!!!! I KNEW IT

Claudia is an optimist if nothing else!

AWWWWWWWWWW TERRY MY BELOVED HES SU CUTEWE DGGGDG LOVE HIM MY NEW BOYO FR FR

Ezran does his hair like his dad….. eueueueueueueuuee

my handsome boyos

i love the credit sketches dude TERRY DOING THE ANIME GLASES THING AAA I LOVE HIMMMMMMMM

dude this opening is cool as hell fr fr

TERRY MY BOY IS BACK!!! I love him so much.

Why is crow lord like that. fr fr.

Callum is like magicky belle fr fr

zappy lil cheeks bzz bzz bz!

Good. have trauma, racist old man.

ZYM IS SO BIG MY BIG BOYO!!!!!!! HES SO BIG NOW !!!!!!!!!

Dragon queen my beloved. Her voice actor has such a smooth voice it’s so satiny

TRANS PLANT TRANS PLANT TRANS PLANT

Terry beloved

Terry and claudia are literally me and my gf fr fr

FLAPPY HANDS FLAPPY HANDS FLAPPY HANDS FOR THE GAYS

Lil brother is giving very homophobic energy right now.

Terry is giving very Todd from Rise energy right now.

Callum honey you gotta calm yo self fr fr

I hope the old man falls off the edge.

Terry is so real for this but also i could not give a singular fuck about whether viren lives or dies. This is the one time i have no sympathy.

Bait is such a smart boyo!!!!

“Am i about to vandalize an ancient book?” That line delivery KILLED me.

Dude you don’t want to show strength between your allies???

Dude this mans is giving such strong Historical Straight Guy Energy.

Aw, he’s not dead :(

BITCH WHAT ABOUT YOUR SON YOU HAVE A WHOLE SON AND YOU HAVE NOT ASKED OR TALKED ABOUT HIM ONCE.

God the clouds…..

Her hair looks REALLY flat in that one hug shot lmao

THERE AINT NO WAY SHES LISTENING TI HER KID BROTHER.

Little guy??? A little guy did i see?

RAYLA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MY BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

She’s so prettyyyyyyyyyy

Damn callum you bein salty for NO reason.

Stella beloved.

She’s got a lot more pink in her scheme now.

THE FUCKING CLOUDS.

Terry Regukar Guy and his goth gf i love them so much.

Rayla!!!! is best girl!!!! Aaand she’s leaving again.

Ezran just wants to heal things man. Wants to fix his ancestors problems. Why is that so bad.

Dude queenie is HUGE.

TACKLE THE BOYO! TACKLE FRIEN!

Woagh… staircase

Soren. I am literally begging you to get a singular brain cell. my god even your boyfriend is cringing.

Awwwwwww queen thinks he’s funny!!

AWWWWWW SHES SO GOOD SPIRITED SHES SO. LOVE HER. QUEEN BELOVED.

[vamptoll]

Ok,so... Very long post incoming about an old feminist theory term.

There's this really weird experience when you know a lot of context for some technical term that starts to get big and well known?

So comphet was a thing all the gay gals were talking about last year, which cool, it's a good term, good way of thinking about things, but then leads to people saying "Not only lesbians experience comphet, ALL women experience comphet".

Which ... Is kinda silly on the face of it to say "All women have to deal with the pressure to feel attraction to dudes" cause if the lady is attracted to dudes... Who cares? It's like if I complained about how trans women have to be good at video games. Well, I am - it really isn't such a cross to bear.

But Adrienne Rich, who invented the term, meant for it to relate to all women, so obviously you can say comphet applies to all women. But the author thinks all women are lesbians. Like the same article that introduces comphet also says it's related to the lesbian continuum - the idea that anytime two women interact, they're being in lesbian with each other.

That girl holding your hair back when you puke? Lesbianism. The grocery clerk you ask where the tofu is? Lesbianism. An actual example in the article is any baby sucking her mother's milk is enacting lesbianism. And of course, when your two straight friends in high school stop talking to you and call you a dyke behind your back? Yep, thats them being lesbians.

And comphet is the same way- you wave to your male neighbor? That's comphet baby! See your dad for Thanksgiving? Comphet. Go to an Aids memorial? If any dudes died it's comphet. Hang out with a trans lady and play Mario kart? Compet depending on Adrienne Rich's mood.

Oh, I mean, in case you couldn't tell this is all like radfem shit. And I don't mean "Doesn't like men" radfem- I mean Rich helped out in the writing of Janice Raymond's Transsexual Empire book. Which is not shocking in the slightest if you spent any time reading the article she wrote.

It's about Lesbian Separatism at it's core, with a big focus on political lesbianism- the belief that lesbianism is unrelated to those dirty male fags because lesbians don't fuck- they just kinda hang out together and also write the occasional manifesto. Rich is the height of the cliche of some gay person who posts on Tumblr without having seemingly seen a homosexual in real life, considering she argues no lesbian has ever had anonymous sex- come on girl you were allowed to go to Michfest, you should know better.

But I do still think comphet has some value. It's a wonderful way to understand the common themes of Trans Lesbian experience! Sure Rich probably thinks I'm desecrating the female body with my gaudy parody or whatever, but I honestly can't muster much ire over a radfem who never even had the guts to use her name when she wrote about the transgenders.

But like- none of that context REALLY matters anyway? Adrienne Rich isn't the new hotness, it's the Lesbian Masterdoc or whatever that really matters. There's a grand total of like 100 people on Tumblr who would care about this post- half are going to call me a TIM, a dozen of them are currently writing an article on Tumblr Feminist Discourse and know well enough not to include the transgender ex-grad student's post in their sample, and the reminder left when the porn ban happened.

I just wish Tumblr had nerds I guess - I think it's interesting damn it! People obviously care about the term but don't care about what it means. Leading me to be filled with the impotent nerd rage that leads to posting a 2000 word essay on 40 year old essay.

#adrienne rich #compulsory heterosexuality #comphet #feminist theory #god I wish i was into like warhammar or something instead of Feminists who would spit on me if they ever saw me in real life #grad school things #anyway dont worry #its gonna be back to anime and trans sex joke reblogging soon enough

[friskarm]

lizard post

haha YES im going to talk about my LIZARD from ff14 here she is look at her!!!!!

this is anri!!! my lizard!!!!!!! i am going to talk so much about her under the cut. if you read it i love you

so normally when i made OCs i try to keep them... idk grounded and non-stereotypical but this time i really wanted to have a very.... stereotypical ‘hero’ character who was designed to fit within the narrow bounds of a typical rpg hero and yet somehow humanise her beyond how boring characters normally get humanised. and what i ended up with is probably my favourite oc i’ve ever written? the nature and constraints under which i wrote her meant that almost every story beat within ff14 really hit for her which is something that was absolutely otherworldly to experience. not every, but almost

anyway. anri hyllmhuswyn is not a xaela name and anri herself unfortunately has very little connection to the steppes and other xaela until she physically goes there in stormblood. her parents Fuckin Found Her in the black shroud and went around looking for her real folks before being like. shit. lets be dads when they realised they couldn’t find any xaela in the entire shroud

her dads are mikh’a tamzuun and hyllmhus doenhyndswyn, a trans-dude moon miqo and a masc-nb sea wolf roegadyn. mikh’a has an identical twin, mihza tamzuun, a cisgirl miqo and anri also has a non-blood related aunt and uncle each; karya belkin, a transgirl hrothgar, and theo morningstar, a cis bunboy.

why the five-person family unit? well, anri’s parents are the original, 1.0-era warriors of light. our story begins with karya, who grew up in sharlayan to well-respected scholarly parents. she was a peer of papalymo totolymo, and the two of them graduated together, with him later introducing her to louisoix leveilleur. karya would join the circle of knowing and later travel to aldenard with him and the other members of the circle of knowing in an attempt to prevent the seventh umbral calamity.

firstly, though, karya would meet a young viera man, freshly out of his tribe, who upon seeing her immediately asked her to dinner. karya, being a lesbian, turns him down, but he takes it in good stride and the two of them become fast friends. theo is not his original name, but one he adopted after leaving the forest. he found the name on the id card of a corpse he found lying on the side of the road, and figured it was as good as any name. his surname, however, comes from karya. their first long conversation, karya spent hours talking about astrology. a lot of it went over theo’s head, but he remembers the passions with which she talked about it, and decides to take the name ‘morningstar’ as his surname. the two quickly became best friends, with theo acting as her bodyguard when karya left sharlayan to do field research. he also joins her for this reason when she travels to aldenard.

upon arriving in limsa lominsa alongside y’shtola, karya makes for the arcanist’s guild, eager to hire a local specialist. while y’shtola will cover relations with the city of limsa lominsa proper, karya is tasked with understanding the flow of aether and looking for signs of trouble throughout wider la noscea. to this end, she hires hyllmhus doenhyndswyn, a high-ranking arcanist.

following that, the party of three are accosted by a pair of miqo’te twins, who overheard their conversation with hyllmhyus, and wish to offer their services as bodyguards -- this is how mihza and mikh’a enter the group.

to make a long story short, the five of them become fast friends and form an official adventuring party, though a lot of this adventuring is done less for profit and more for benefiting karya’s research.

their party grows in renown, and after a few years of adventuring together, they unofficially disband, to allow each of them to pursue other goals. hyllmhus and mikh’a decide to settle down together in the black shroud after a slow-burn romance; karya and mihza are on their fourth break-up and look to be getting back together soon, and theo is busy training and trying to keep the peace.

hyllmhus and mikh’a discover anri in the woods, and the rest is history. the five of them still go adventuring together, but excursions are day-length at most, and often enough either hyllmhus or mikh’a will stay home to look after their child.

it’s a happy little family, and their whole adventuring party really adores anri -- she’s a cute kid, and well-behaved, though she does hate being left alone. normally this isn’t an issue, but when called upon to act by the circle of knowing, sometimes her parents have no choice but to leave her in an inn room. the innkeepers are good about checking in on her, but this is lonely existence for a child.

growing up in gridania as a au’ra is no piece of cake, either. her father is a moon miqo’te, not looked upon too fondly by the people of gridania, and the border to ishgard is just close enough to allow some of the anti-dragon sentiment to seep through. it doesn’t take long for anri to understand, on some level, that she is a step below welcome in gridania.

at some point during a dungeon crawl, the five of them awake to their echo. the circle of knowing introduces them to minfilia and the walkers of the path, hidden away in the center of ul’dah. they begin to fight primals, and spend less and less time at home, as the continent hurtles into chaos.

and then, the moon starts falling.

as the warriors of light, anri’s family is honour-bound to fight as dalamud falls. to make a long story short, they don’t survive the encounter. anri is twelve years old when her family leaves for carteneau, and she is thirteen years old when she accepts they’re really not coming back.

she is fourteen years old when she hatches a plan for revenge.

if not for the circle of knowing, her parents would never have left her. if not for lousoix leveilleur and the others forcing her parents to fight, they’d still be here to look after her. really, it’s their fault her parents are dead. so, she’ll kill them. an eye for an eye.

this is... very clearly the logic of a fourteen year old, but it does keep her going. geva of the leatherworking guild notes her work at a local market, and hires her into the guild as an apprentice. through geva anri is able to start supporting herself; rather than subsisting off of trapped rabbits and scavenged herbs, she’s able to scrape together enough coin for proper nutrition -- and after two years of labour, she’s bringing in decent income to the guild, too.

when anri turns seventeen, she’s satisfied with the coin she’s made, and applies for a leave of absence from the guild. geva is uneasy; but has no grounds to complain.

anri leaves for ul’dah, the city of commerce. the closest city to carteneau, where she’ll pose as an adventurer, pick up a combat art or two, and hunt down the members of the circle of knowing.

thancred waters. y’shtola rhul. urianger augerelt. papalymo totolymo. yda hext. and, most importantly of all, louisoix leveilleur.

and then, well... the plot of ARR starts. she’s found by thancred, and everything spirals from there.

hmhm i will start with how she proceeds through ARR next time i have juice to write!!! thank u for reading this if u got this far :>

#ffxiv #anriposting

[teddy-feathers]

i think my problem is. im always going to like some feminine things. like i saw a sweater vest today that was black with skulls. its for girls. i liked it and if it were much much bigger id wear it.

and its not just. one off items. as much as i do enjoy dressing like a 90s dude i like colorful shirts and heavy sweaters and things. i like my hair long though i think im getting to the cut it all off again stage.

because like

i want to be perceived as a man. and im not on t so like. that not going to happen.

i get that.

but its worse when i just. look at myself and doubt. like not if this is what i want but that ill ever look at myself and see a man.

im not going to give up liking stuff just to fit in a box i dont want to be in in the first place. ive never wanted to be a hyper masculine man or liked much that was stereotypically mens things.

but at the same time its hard not to think "then what can i point to and say im a guy? there theres the proof"

like im constantly looking for the proof that i am even though this is what i want, what ive always wanted. but like. thats not good enough.

i can look back and say "here are anecdotes that were signs" but i cant say. i always knew.

i can say this is what i want but i cant say that the whole package is something im ready for or even sure i want. like. you get very hairy and sweaty. and my hygiene regiment probably isnt up to the task of keeping up with it. like ive already got acne how much worse will i get it? and like my voice will change which would be awesome but also what if i hate it? theres no going back on that one. and like top surgery would be wonderful but its a painful experience to heal from and you might have to go through it twice. bottom surgery is like. sure if i could just magically have a dick thatd be convenient but actually going through surgery seems like. a hassle.

and like i could go on. but even if i said yeah sure im ready lets do this lets get on t and change and never be mistaken for a girl again because ill look just like my dad because i already do... like. then theres the social aspect of it.

id at some point have to tell my family which. i dont have the answers theyd want. i cant expalin to them why id want to be a guy especially when i dont fit into the guy binary perfectly. im not a very masculine person.

but even saying that wasnt a consideration... changing over is.. uh. a trial. it shouldnt be but it is. applying to jobs? working at jobs? just. its a trail when youre obviously transitioning.

ans like. just socially transitioning to friends would be fine enough to me to start. but like. i live with my family and i cant have it getting back to them. so i wait till i move out. baby steps.

but moving out is always a year away. or more.

and like im fine. im always fine. i honestly forget im upset or worried about things after a while but. i keep looking in the mirror and going. i look like a girl with my hair down and not a pretty man. and i know t would fix that but. i cant do t right now.

so i put my hair up and it helps. it really does but. i know if i cut my hair id be sad because short hair and also because id look like a lesbian and not a dude. which would be fine but i dont want to look like a girl. ... on the flip side having short hair is SO much easier to care for.

sorry for rambling i just need to get this off my chest.

#trans man

[tibby]

can i bother u for more stonathan (preferably modern day stonathan. modern day teenagers or 50 yr old gay dads is fine <3)

of COURSE i am ALWAYS willing to be bothered about stonathan, even if i don't really post much about them anymore. as always i have no idea what i've previously shared on this blog but here is a collection of random thoughts:

steve wearing glasses is a very important hc to me and i will cling to it until the day i die. he wears contacts for years but then gets together with jonathan and jonathan thinks he's even sexier with glasses on so steve is like. okay wearing these for the rest of my life! he tends to misplace them a lot as if he hasn't been wearing them for decades and jonathan will sigh and put them back on steve, all faux annoyance and reminders of you're supposed to wear them, honey, as if he isn't blushing like mad as steve looks at him over the top of his frames.

steve IS one of those people that makes their significant other his phone background. meanwhile jonathan somehow has a nokia brick in 2022 regardless of how old he is.

steve is, also, the kind of married gay dad who makes his wedding photos his profile pictures and posts facebook statuses like a middle aged wine mom. thankfully jonathan is not on facebook and therefore doesn't have to contemplate divorce because his husband insists on posting stuff like "nobody likes a small....glass of wine!"

instagram (and letterboxd) are really the only social medias that jonathan has and he only uses instagram for photography. this gives modern au teenage steve something to cyberstalk, even if jonathan is never actually in the photos. however one time he likes something that jonathan posted two years earlier and throws his phone across the room in shame, almost hitting robin in the head with it.

post s1 steve and jonathan texting in a modern au:

i think at the big ~family reunions~ that the gang have, everyone gets together and smokes weed, even though they're all like fifty and their kids are around. (the kids are also getting high it's just a separate thing. stonathan's son will get all paranoid high and think he'll be in trouble and dustin's daughter has to be like. dude. your dads are BAKED in the next room.) also one year steve got wayyyy too wine drunk and started crying over how he was mean to jonathan in high school and jonathan has to be like that was forty years ago. steve. we are gay married.

not Modern Modern as it would've taken place in 2010 but at steve's 25 year high school reunion (during which he and jonathan absolutely sneak off so steve can give him a blowjob in a bathroom stall), tommy h makes some snarky comment about steve being with a man and jonathan punches him in the face. something something circle of life.

steve is a middle school english teacher (he found out he had dyslexia after a conversation with joyce and once he learned how to cope with it he discovered that he actually enjoys reading and writing and he loves working with kids so like. no brainer) and he's truly The popular teacher at their school which just increases tenfold when his students find out he has a husband, because this is 2022 and youths are like that.

jonathan continues to make steve mixtapes the old fashioned way regardless of what year they're in. modern au teen jonathan gives steve a cd of songs and steve is like what the fuck is this.

not explicitly stonathan but childless married lesbians robin and nancy live like five minutes away from them because steve and robin are annoying and codependent and also so ronance can help out with stonathan's kids without ever having any of their own. they are all annoying middle aged gay best friends. jonathan and nancy will go to art shows and wine tours together, steve and robin will indulge in the chaos their spouses don't care for together, steve and nancy will go on spa trips together, and jonathan and robin will go to arthouse films and indie concerts together and continue to pretend they're only hanging out for the sake of steve and nancy.

in a modern world where they're actually able to openly date in high school, jonathan DOES wear steve's letterman jacket. he pretends it's just out of convenience because steve left it in his car and jonathan was really cold one day but that's a LIE he loves having an obnoxious jock boyfriend and he WILL show off about it.

steve is always inviting the other families on their block to join them for dinner and is like "my husband and i would LOVE to have you over!", knowing full well that jonathan would rather die than have near strangers in his house while he's forced to cook for them and make small talk.

they have a pinboard in their kitchen/dining room where they stick up all these reminders and important notices but it's also filled with like, photobooth pictures from when they were kids in love in the 1980s next to invitations referring to them as mr and mr byers.

(and one of my all encompassing hcs is that steve DOES take jonathan's name, because jonathan and joyce and will feel more like a family to him than his own parents ever did and also they want to make the name theirs, erase lonnie from the books).

they leave post it notes with declarations of love and compliments EVERYWHERE for each other to find and their kids hate it. their daughter is just trying to pour herself a bowl of lucky charms why the fuck is she being subjected to a note saying did you know geese mate for life? you're my goose! stuck to the box. jonathan doesn't even EAT lucky charms what is steve doing.

jonathan has photos of steve hanging up in his lil office at the photography studio and sometimes clients will be like "oh wow what a handsome model :))))" and jonathan will be like Haha That's My Husband. cue the shock at this rat man (affectionate) somehow managing to score the ultimate dilf.

modern au jonathan takes a photo of their intertwined hands and posts it on instagram and it ends up going viral and being put on interest and being used in a million gay love aesthetic posts/fanmix covers/etc etc.

steve has a CRISIS the day he discovers his first grey hair and jonathan has to sit there like babe. babe. please. you're still hot. your hair is fine. you are still very sexy. thankfully steve eventually embraces the silver fox look otherwise jonathan might have lost his mind.

modern au steve logs on twitter and is like "MY boyfriend got into nyu because of his photography skills...what is YOUR flop boyfriend doing" and it gets three likes. one of which is his own.

modern au steve in his stupid plastic prom king crown slow dancing with his lame boyfriend who came to prom just because he knew it would make steve happy. that is all.

#stonathan #headcanons #ask #palmvioletstan #i hope this is what you were after!!!!! always happy 2 do more either way #also love the url. so true.

[youknow-igetit]

welcome to... another tiktok au because that apps controls my life but what’s new

- Kevin's verified and posts his exy highlights and his workout routines. Most of his comments are of people asking him to step on them

- Matt and Dan have a joint account and most of it is povs of them being accepting parents/being Very Attractive (think of the lesbian mob moms, the deity parents, and the cowboy dads). Most of their followers are queer teens

- Allison is one of the more chaotic posters, half of her posts are crazy storytimes and the other half is a mix of thirst traps and answering questions about her clothing company

- Renee posts mini tutorial videos about how to properly handle a knife, block and attack, etc. It's linked to her YouTube account, which is more in depth. she also has videos where she bakes bread and cookies like the cottagecore lesbian she is. Most of her comments are similar to Kevin's (especially in the breadmaking videos because... hh pretty woman strong arms)

- Neil is famous on plant tiktok, for many reasons, but mostly because he's attractive, he's queer, and he's funny (for a while his most liked tiktok was of him standing in his kitchen, holding one of those mini microphones and saying “my therapist said it would be good for me to get a pet but i’m not ready for that kind of commitment despite the fact that i’m married. so” *hauls in a very large ficus* “this is linda”)(it became his second liked tiktok after someone commented asking him if he would wear a maid outfit and cat ears and he was bored so he was like "fuck it: sure.")

- Nicky is living his best life. Most of his comments are people saying "it's hard to see someone else living your dreams" because all he does is post about his weird pets and his hot husband (he has 32 pets. Of those pets there are two dogs, three foxes, a sugar glider, and multiple snakes). Of the foxes, he has the most followers and got verified first

- Aaron's is strange in the sense that he answers a lot of questions on science and stuff, but he also posts thirst traps sometimes, which get millions of likes. He's verified and he has more followers than Kevin and Kevin's kinda bitter about it. (he’s like the sexy young adult version of hank green)

- Andrews is by far the most chaotic. He got a lot of followers initially because of the video he posted where he was trying to befriend the possums in his yard at 3 am when it’s raining by offering them cheerios and singing wap but replacing the word “pussy” with “possum” (most of his comment are " everyone: 'did you see that new dance?' my fyp:")

- despite their vastly different content, most people who follow Andrew also follow Aaron. one could be scrolling through their for you page and find a video of Aaron explaining cloning and then scroll down and find Andrew interviewing his cat about climate change

“what do you think about climate change”

*silence, because it is a cat*

“really? no comment?”

*a mrrp, a tiny meow mayhaps*

“are you trying to get me canceled or something? those are not the views i have been teaching you, young lady”

- Andrew: “i currently live in a long-distance relationship with my husband because of our jobs and contracts and such, and i miss him quite a lot, but i can’t see him, so i bought sixteen three-wick candles from bath and body works. they were having a sale.”

- andrew also has a lot of videos that look like they were taken at three am either in a forest or in a bathroom with the lights turned off

- andrew and neil still have their weird rivalry thing on twitter, so after they make a video together about neil finally moving in, all of the comments are like “i thought you guys hated each other???”, so they make a response video that’s just “oh no, i’m married to this asshole” and half of the comments are “!!!>??!” wheras the other half is like “i mcfuckin knew it”

- all of the foxes post at least one video when they’re all together for the winter holidays and all of the comments are like “the most daring collab ever” and they’re just like “nah bro, this is just christmas”

- there's multiple videos on multiple accounts of the foxes (minus aaron and nicky) all hiking in the middle of the woods, but for some reason it's at night and very very cursed (similar to Andrew's own content)

"how much do you bet me that I can't jump off this cliff" "fucking ZERO"

"theoretically, I could run off and live in the forest like a bog witch" "but you wouldn't have internet connection" "fuck. Nevermind"

neil jumps down from a tree out of nowhere and scares the shit out of everyone

“okay so we’re kinda lost but neil claims he can read the stars or some shit so”

“okay so we lost neil”

"I swear this is going to be a story from the magnus archive dude, like I'm pretty sure that one of us is going to be kidnapped by a supernatural being"

(they didn't end up being kidnapped. They'd been roaming the same three hundred yards of trees for two hours because they're idiots)

- most of allison, dan, matt, andrew, and neil’s followers don’t even know that they play exy (I didn't say Kevin because: duh). they post fun traveling videos for the olympics and the comments are like “lucky!!! i wish i could watch the olympics in person” and they’re like “no, i don’t think you understand, we’re playing in the olympics” and everyone’s like “w h a t”

- alternatively, followers are watching the olympics and finding the funky gay tiktok people on the exy court and are very very confused

(also i forgot to mention this earlier but all of them caption every single one of their videos) (also none of them can be found on straight tiktok)

#love is stored in the tiktok au #andreil #aftg hc #andreil hc #dan wilds #kevin day #andrew minyard #matt boyd #aaron minyard #allison reynolds #nicky hemmick #renee walker #neil josten #matt boyd x dan wilds #Also I mentioned the magnus archives please dont talk to me about it I'm still on season one

[forasecondtherewedwon]

Runaway Ride

Fandom: Never Have I Ever Pairing: Devi/Paxton Rating: T Word Count: 4889

Summary: Kamala gets herself into a pickle, Devi needs to go to her, and Paxton has a car. Problem-solving has never been so simple, but that's how it is when your new boyfriend is Paxton Hall-Yoshida. Throw in a little hand-holding on the highway and this family crisis might just be the best date Devi will ever have.

When they finally took a break from dancing—disconnecting hands from hips and shoulders, lips from lips—Devi stepped away in a dreamy headspace. She almost collided with Jonah, but he didn’t tell her to look where she was going, only offered a shrewd, indulgent smile.

Actually, everybody was treating her like that; every eye that caught hers on her way to the table where she’d left her stuff was unjudgmental, admiring, straight up fairy-godmotherly. Devi hadn’t received this much notice since her dad’s death and her subsequent paralysis. And those looks had been pitying, freaked out. Positive attention was new and cool and she wondered, as she grabbed her phone out of her turquoise clutch, whether her socials would show more of the same when she opened them. Would people have snapped stealthy pics of her and Paxton dancing now that she’d been vaulted into the pseudo-celebrity strata of the high school hierarchy? Would the Insta posts be captioned with hashtags of their ship name? Paxi? Daxton? Vishwall-Yoshumar?

Devi never got to check.

Unlocking her phone, she found two missed calls from her mother. Maybe two wouldn’t have seemed like a whole lot to someone else, but Devi knew that, in order for her mom to risk rudeness by stepping away from the company she was hosting at home not once but twice, she’d need to be pretty frantic. Two missed calls from Nalini Vishwakumar were the equivalent of six or seven from any other mother.

Skirting the edges of the gym as she headed away from DJ Humanoid—that nit-witted saboteur of slow dances—Devi was about to call her mom back when her screen changed to an incoming call from Kamala. She pressed her other hand to her ear and answered it.

“Hey. Do you know what’s going on with my mom? She called me twice and, honestly, she knows I’m at the d—”

“Devi, shut up. Sorry,” Kamala sighed. “But I may have kidnapped your history teacher and now I’m panicking a little.”

Devi stopped in her tracks.

“You did what? Why is the sound weird?”

As she was trying to identify the background noise coming from Kamala’s end, her eyes swept over the crowd of her classmates and landed on Fabiola’s. Her friend had been smiling, mid-sway as she held Eve from behind and chatted with Sasha, but it fell off her face like Devi off Dr. Jackson’s roof. Fab disentangled herself from her girlfriend and crossed the room to stand with Devi. She was frowning, silently asking for an explanation for Devi’s distress, but Devi didn’t really have one yet.

“We’re in his car on the highway,” her cousin was saying. “He was a little drunk, so I’m driving.”

Devi had imagined that Kamala was exaggerating, but no, this was really starting to sound like a kidnapping.

“You better be on hands-free right now,” she lectured. Then, because she wasn’t exactly a paragon of road safety herself—barely an hour ago, she’d walked right out in front of Paxton’s jeep—didn’t wait for confirmation. “What the hell happened? Context, Kamala!”

“Well, as soon as I snuck out of the house—”

“But why did you sneak out?!”

“Devi, I can’t talk about that right now!” Devi’s eyebrows shot up at the clear and abnormal hysteria in her cousin’s voice. “I ran out of the house,” Kamala continued, “totally directionless, and the first thing that popped into my head was Manish’s invitation for me to come to karaoke…”

“Ew, what the fuck, don’t call Mr. K that.”

What? Fab mouthed at her, but Devi shook her head.

“That is his name and what he asked me to call him. Anyway,” Kamala said, sounding strained, “I went to your school and met up with him and now I’m driving his car and I think I might have shut my sari in the car door, but I’m scared to pull over and check because if I stop the car, I’m going to have to confront things and I think I’d rather not do that yet.”

“Kamala,” Devi said in a heavy, careful voice. “You have to pull over. I totally get what you’re saying because it sounds like something I might do—minus the part where you kidnapped Mr. K—” Fabiola’s eyes went dramatically wide as she was adjusting her tiara. “—but this isn’t you. You don’t run away from your obligations and elope with my teachers!”

“Manish and I didn’t elope. It isn’t in any way romantic.”

“For sure though? It’s not?” Devi heard another voice in the car ask.

“Mr. K, back off! Kamala’s in the middle of a crisis!” she shouted. “And please be drunk enough to forget that I yelled at you.”

“Devi, what should I do?” Kamala asked, sounding desperate in a sad way now.

“Where are you?”

“I’m not sure.”

“Ok, well, which direction are you heading in?”

“Um, either north or south.”

“You’re a disaster,” Devi muttered.

“What was that?”

“Uh… I said, don’t drive any faster. Try to read the next sign you pass so you can tell me where you are.”

“Alright,” Kamala said.

Devi tilted her phone away from her mouth so her cousin wouldn’t hear her frustrated sigh. She locked eyes with Fabiola.

“Kamala panicked at her engagement dinner and ran off with Mr. K. They’re either headed for Mexico or Canada, but I’ll know more in a minute.”

Fab blinked.

“Wow.”

“I know. It’s a lot. And this is me talking,” Devi emphasized.

“I don’t know if you would do anything this big. Mainly because you don’t have a driver’s license.”

“True.”

“Santa Barbara in twenty-six miles,” Kamala said in her ear.

“Damn, you made good time.”

“The traffic was quite manageable.”

“Try to calm down a little and get off the highway when you can. Don’t go past Santa Barbara. I’m coming to talk you down in person,” Devi said. “Oh, and don’t answer any of my mom’s calls; she’ll just stress you out.”

“That doesn’t seem very responsible. How about I send her a text when I stop to let her know I’m ok?”

Devi rolled her eyes.

“Suit yourself.”

“Thank you, Devi. But how will you get here?”

“Let me worry about that. Text me when you stop so I know exactly where I’m going.”

“I will.”

“’K. I’ll see you in a bit.”

Devi hung up and sighed massively, slumping into the wall and feeling a streamer crumple against her back. She and Fabiola stared at each other.

“What are you gonna do?” Fab asked.

“Be the hero my family needs, but not the one they deserve.”

“Are you misquoting Batman to justify doing something reckless?”

“First of all, rescuing Kamala isn’t reckless, and second of all, the movie isn’t called Batman, it’s The Dark Knight. Young-ish Christian Bale, hello.”

Fabiola pointed a finger at her own face.

“Young-ish out-of-touch lesbian, hello. At least I was close.”

Devi sighed again while Fab smiled sadly at her in obvious sympathy.

“It’s after ten at night. How am I gonna get to Santa Barbara?”

“Assuming you’re not going to ask your mom—”

“No.”

“Then you need a ride.”

“You need a ride? I’ll drive you.”

It was Paxton, walking up and tentatively taking Devi’s hand while darting uncertain glances at Fabiola. Devi felt her entire face light up.

“You don’t want to know where or why?” she teased.

His expression said those were insignificant details. Wow. Devi’d never had a fantasy where Paxton joined forces with her, bounty hunter-style, to track down a flighty Kamala, but this felt oddly romantic. Passionate even? They’d see where the night took them.

“You wouldn’t wanna leave the dance unless it was serious,” Paxton reasoned. “So, I’ll drive you. You wanna go now?”

“I guess we better. Lemme just grab my…”

“I’ll get it,” Fab said, raising a hand like the nerd she was as she volunteered.

She darted back through the dancers to grab Devi’s things and Devi watched their classmates part for their Cricket Queen. She was so proud of Fab. Also, she felt kinda bad for ditching such a momentous occasion. But Kamala needed her, and would totally do the same for her if she ever went off the deep end and kidnapped a dude while fleeing a proposal. Not that Devi could see herself fleeing a proposal (she glanced at Paxton as she thought this, then quickly away, thinking, Way too soon!). Carrying out a kidnapping? With a sufficiently convincing pro-and-con list, anything was possible.

“Basically, Kamala freaked and drove to Santa Barbara with a drunken Mr. K,” Devi said, because Paxton might not have asked to be informed, but she wanted him to know what he was getting himself into. Beyond that, she wanted to give him the chance to say, No way, Devi. I came here to look hot and dance up on you, nothing more.

“Oh shit,” was what he said.

“Damn right, oh shit. You still want to drive? This is going to take a while.”

She should probably have felt guilty about trying to subtly persuade him with her eyes, but not only was Paxton the least complicated option, he was also her first choice. If she maintained eye contact long enough, Devi figured it might trigger some kind of boyfriend override that made going for a long drive at night just as appealing as staying here and dancing with her butt pressed thrillingly to his groin when the teacher-chaperones weren’t looking.

“As long as we can hit up the bathrooms first. I was going to, but then I got talking to Trent, and then Marcus was doing a handstand…”

“Definitely,” Devi assured him. “Good call. Empty the tank. Oh, actually, that reminds me… how much gas do you have in your jeep? If we need to stop at a gas station, I’ll have to factor that in to the ETA I give Kamala.”

Paxton shook his head at her, smiling in what she liked to think was affectionate amusement.

“I filled it up on the way here. I needed a minute to, uh…” To her epic astonishment, he ducked his head self-consciously, cheeks pinking. “You know. Get my shit together. Up here.” He tapped his temple with his index finger. “I wanted to show up for you, like, completely. You know?”

Right as Devi was at dangerously high risk of sagging to the floor in blissful bonelessness, Fabiola sprang to her side, shoving the rest of her possessions at her.

“Ok, ok!” Devi said, harried.

She had to dump it all on the bathroom counter a minute later anyway, but after she’d done her pre-road trip pee, she came out and gave Fab a better thank-you.

“Your Highness,” Paxton told Fabiola with a nod.

Fab nodded back, smiling wryly.

“Prosecutor.”

“I think this is the start of a beautiful friendship,” Devi assessed, “but we gotta go! Say congrats to Eve for me again!”

“Sure. Drive safe!”

Devi and Paxton pushed through the doors together, striding quickly with his hand wrapped around hers. In the parking lot, she glanced sideways to see him digging his keychain out of his front pocket.

“Oh,” she said, “so I wasn’t just feeling that you were very happy to dance with me.”

Until they got into the jeep, it was too dark to see whether she’d gotten him to blush again, but she liked to think that she had. He was definitely smiling.

They got in and Devi carefully tucked her skirt around her legs, mind on Kamala’s cautionary tale. At least it was until Paxton leaned forward to shrug out of his jacket and she saw his shoulder muscles jump beneath his fitted button-down, his narrow black tie swinging forward. Dang. Fifty shades of Hall-Yoshida.

“Santa Barbara?” Paxton double-checked once he was settled behind the wheel, steering out of the student lot.

“Santa Barbara.”

Until they were on the highway and heading out of Los Angeles, Devi did her best to keep her worry about Kamala’s situation contained to the way she flapped her phone against her thigh. Usually, she was stressing about the problems right in front of her (when she wasn’t blatantly ignoring them, only to have that approach bite her in the ass later), but with whatever was going on with Kamala, she kinda had to look ahead.

Had she wanted Kamala to get engaged to Prashant that badly? Well, the best thing about Prashant was that you never knew when having additional hot relatives would be to your benefit. (Devi was already hoping that Mr. K would get over the more nerve-wracking elements of this night and just remember having fun with her stunning cousin… and that this could possibly translate into at least a month of generous grades, if she could somehow spin these shenanigans as an intentional blind date arranged by herself.) However, an engaged Kamala was wholly different from a married Kamala. She wouldn’t be around to watch nonsensical episodes of Riverdale, or be duped into hijinks, or listen to Devi when her mom was too tired, or bitch about her shitty lab-mates in exchange for sitting through Devi bitching about her complicated feelings on the subject of Aneesa dating her ex. She wouldn’t live with them anymore, and the family that had begun to miraculously fill out after her dad had died would be back down to three. And the other two members of it would be old (Sorry, Mom, she thought) and not at all prepared to champion her dating life or the cleavage-accentuating formal dress currently buoying it.

So, yeah, Devi was looking ahead—eyes glazed over as the yellow lights of cars slipped around them to prevent her vision from fully adjusting to the blue-black sky—and feeling more than a little nervous and scared of the Kamala-shaped hole she’d have in her life if her dazzling, dorky cousin left her house for one she might eventually fill with the most beautiful children the world had ever seen.

Thankfully, Paxton was there. It startled her when he took one hand off the wheel and felt across her lap to grab hers, loosely interlacing their fingers. Devi quit hitting her phone against her leg. She sent off their updated location to Kamala and then let her phone fall flat.

“Did she say where she was?” Her boyfriend’s voice was quiet in the car and she realized for the first time that her head had been too crammed with thoughts to put on any music.

“Carpinteria State Beach. Do you know the exit?”

“We’ll find it.”

“And if you want me to drive while you rest on the way back…”

Paxton laughed.

“No way. Safety first.”

“Says the guy driving one-handed,” Devi countered, not that she was eager to surrender the hand warming hers.

He turned his head just long enough to shoot her a look.

“Whoa, pal, eyes on the road!” she said. (She had a half-baked plan to call her boyfriend ‘pal’ a few times and thereby de-weaponize the word in a memory that still felt like a fading bruise, an almost-gone sore spot in who she and Paxton were before they were openly a them.)

“Sorry,” he said, staring out the windshield again. He grinned. “You look gorgeous.”

“Really?”

“So gorgeous.” Paxton’s voice was softer this time, the underlying laugh it had carried since she’d offered to drive his jeep drained out of it. It was nearly a sigh.

“Thanks. So do you.”

“You know, I feel fucking awful for hitting you with my car, but I still think I mighta felt worse if I’d walked in and seen you dancing with somebody else.”

Devi twisted their hands, touching the back of his to her thigh so she was sandwiching it between leg and palm for a moment, aiming for reassuring.

“I wanna say I would never be that flaky, but my previous offenses speak for themselves.”

“So does doing this with me.”

“Uh,” she droned, “to recap, you left a fun thing to do a huge favour for me. You’re talking about it like this is my act of redemption. I feel like if you examine it for a sec, you’ll see how I’m actually kind of a dick for accepting your help.”

“I want us to be together,” he said bluntly. “Here we are. Together.”

“It’s that simple?”

“I don’t see why it can’t be.”

“Huh. I think you’re really gonna be good for my tendency to overcomplicate a situation.”

Paxton laughed and unthreaded his fingers from Devi’s. But it wasn’t to release her for pointing out that this date was, in actual fact, the coordinated response to a family crisis; his fingertips moved lightly over her palm, momentarily trapped when her fingers flinched inward in reaction to how it tickled, then traced along the thin skin of her inner wrist. He wasn’t trying to pull away. He was lingering. Though his touch when he sunk his hand into her hair or drew her closer by her waist had always been fairly gentle, it had often had the faint aggression of hastiness to it, clutching her as they made out in her room, always listening for footsteps in the hallway. How Paxton touched her now was pure, exploratory tenderness. It made the hairs on the back of Devi’s neck stand up as a wave of shivers rushed up her spine and crested somewhere around the nape of her neck.

He must’ve felt that wave break, the foamy aftereffects in some tic of her arm or quickening of her pulse while his fingers skimmed gradually up the inside of her arm towards her elbow, because he chanced another quick glance at her.

“That feels good,” she explained.

Paxton looked forward, nodding slowly, and shifted in the driver’s seat.

“Good.”

She thought it must have felt good for him too, knowing he’d made her shiver.

—

The miles were flicking past for Paxton—another, another, another, as fast and steady as the dashed lines painted between the lanes, his arms cutting the water on the front crawl. He wanted Devi, beside him, to believe that he was paying attention to his driving, but he was honestly kinda zoned out. Like that time he’d swum to San Diego, he let his body go through the motions (in this case, twitching the wheel, putting on cruise control when traffic thinned so he didn’t have to focus on the pedals) while his mind floated freely.

Where it floated was to his girlfriend.

At ten years old, he’d been the last kid in his swim class to jump off the 10m board. It was optional—a treat after getting water up their noses turning somersaults below the surface and doing egg-beater legs in between—but all the other boys in the group had done it eagerly, shrieking on their way down to sloppy pencil dives. Paxton had climbed the stairs all the way to the top easily enough, even stepped onto the wide platform, bordered by metal railings and rough under his bare feet. He’d walked out to the end and frozen to find himself so high above the pool.

He hadn’t feared the water, he’d feared the air. Being so exposed on his own at the end of the diving board. Eventually, he’d retreated, then surprised the coach waiting down at the poolside by turning around and taking the jump at a run. Few memories felt as good as the sensation of giving himself back to gravity and letting it reunite him with the water. He’d just had to get past the exposure.

Same thing tonight, going to find Devi at the dance. Holding her hand in his had been him reaching the platform, but when they stood together, just inside the school’s doors, Paxton hadn’t known for sure whether he would take the leap or retreat. And not just for a running start this time, but in a way that turned his sixteen-year-old present self back into one of those nervous ten-year-olds who wimped out and had to take the coward’s way down—descending each step they’d climbed. He might not have run, and yet he hadn’t needed to back up and race into their relationship either. Momentum hadn’t carried them inside for everyone they knew to see them. It had been a calm approach, even if he’d been shaking on the inside when he saw Trent staring at them.

So maybe Paxton had learned something in the last six years, or maybe it was harder to feel exposed with somebody right next to you.

She really did look gorgeous, like he’d said, and because he didn’t want her to worry about his focus if she spotted him gazing at the side of her face while she texted her cousin, the glances he stole were of the knee region. Her dress’s overlay sparkled when the high lights of eighteen-wheelers passed them and the specific teal of the dress itself reminded him of a river he’d swum in once during an out-of-state family vacation. Natural and deep and fresh, and exasperating for his parents because he’d accidentally doggy-paddled himself all the way to a small waterfall and hadn’t heard them calling him back for dinner around the campfire. He felt all that about Devi, except for hoping for a different reaction from his parents when they met her.

Holy shit. He was going to have to introduce his girlfriend to his embarrassing hippy parents. But then, she’d already met Rebecca, so maybe they were set? A sister’s approval should count for a ton.

No, no, no, Devi would have to meet his parents. He was doing this. The two of them were doing this. Paxton exhaled determinedly through his nose and made himself concentrate on the remaining miles he needed to cover. His mind, anyway. His hand continued to stroke and search, covering his girlfriend’s hand with his until he had her fingers tucked away protectively under his own, and then caressing all the way up to the crook of her elbow so suddenly that she made a noise between a laugh and a yelp because he’d unintentionally tickled her. Man, she was cute.

The very end of their journey required the most concentration from Paxton; he finally took back his hand to have both on the wheel as he steered them off the highway and Devi’s got lonely or something, because it chased across to where he was sitting and landed on his thigh. His jaw clenched. He could feel the heat of her palm through his pantleg and congratulated himself on being a driving legend for driving smoothly to where they needed to park for beach access.

Devi had a pink sweater that she put on, but Paxton grabbed his jacket out of the back as well in case she needed it. It was almost midnight and a breeze rolled up off the water, rippling his tie and swishing Devi’s dress. He didn’t have to ask what they should do next—there was just one other car parked nearby and Devi’s cousin was already standing outside of it, raising a hand to wave sheepishly as they got out of his jeep.

“Here,” he said, holding out his jacket for his girlfriend to put her arms through the sleeves. “You guys talk. I’ll be down at the beach.”

Devi turned her back to him as she accepted the jacket, but she glanced over her shoulder with a look of concern.

“Are you sure?”

“Yeah. You’ll want privacy. I need to stretch my legs anyway.”

“Just don’t swim away, ok?” she requested. “I don’t think I can handle more than one rescue mission per night.”

Paxton could tell by her expression that it wasn’t entirely a joke. He grinned and gripped his lapels, now on Devi, reeling her in.

“I promise. You’d probably take the opportunity to try to drive the jeep home, and I don’t want to risk that.”

“Me committing grand theft auto or me getting hurt?”

“I bet they tested you for smartness,” he said, “but you think they have a test for being a smartass? You’d score high, Vishwakumar.”

“I know, I know, you don’t want me to get hurt.”

She was so infuriatingly flippant, rolling her big brown eyes at him.

“That’s right,” Paxton said plainly. There he was, up on the platform again.

Devi straightened his tie and let her hand rest flat on his chest. He remembered how overwhelmed she’d looked the first time he’d placed her palm there, right on his skin. Even now, it almost made him laugh.

“Ok,” she said, and he was surrendering himself to the sweet strength of gravity, propelled down to the beach while Devi stayed to talk to Kamala.

—

Devi had heard that there were tidepools here, and she was nervous about stepping into one and spearing some aquatic animal on her high heel. Well, she couldn’t magically improve her night vision, but she could take her shoes off and remove the possibility of impalement. They dangled from her fingers as she picked her way down to the beach.

Her boyfriend was sitting in the sand, staring out at the ocean. It just looked so romantic—with the stars the sky was too bright to see at home, and the waves, and the back of Paxton’s white shirt in the moonlight—that Devi decided to slip into the scene without saying anything at all.

A mistake. Paxton gasped and jumped. Apparently, he hadn’t heard her over the noise of the water.

“Sorry, sorry!” she said.

He sighed and smiled, getting to his feet.

“How’d it go?”

“I think it went well. She was feeling calm enough to drive, so she’s on her way home now. She’s gonna cover for me until we get back.”

“That’s good… but what about Mr. Kulkarni?”

“He was passed out in the passenger’s seat,” Devi stated. “I guess he’s kind of a lightweight? Kamala said she’s going to drive back to our school and leave him and his car in the parking lot. She’s planning to call my mom for a ride home. If it were me, I think I’d take the bus and try to sneak back into the house as quietly as possible, but Kamala still has a lot to learn about how to thoroughly dodge your problems.”

“And maybe about how to climb to the second floor of your house from the outside?” Paxton suggested with a meaningful smirk.

She did her best to return it, but the odds were that it didn’t look nearly as sexy on her. Then again, she had moonlight and midnight and well-displayed cleavage on her side.

“How’d you learn to do that so quietly anyway?” Devi asked, tossing her shoes to the sand and stepping forward to boldly wrap her arms around Paxton’s waist.

He’d had his hands in his pockets, but as soon as she’d begun to move towards him, he’d pulled them out. His arms encircled her, his hands on the back of his own black jacket. Although Devi wanted to offer him the jacket back—he felt slightly chilly through his shirt—she didn’t want the two of them to separate. Besides, body heat was a thing. This was practically what it was for. So Devi just pressed herself closer, breathing the scent of the ocean and Paxton’s fading cologne.

“Trent,” he said.

“Yeah, actually, that checks out.”

Were there boundaries between warming someone up while having a conversation and just hugging them? It wasn’t clear to Devi, but it felt good when they both went quiet for a while. She stood unevenly on the cold sand and listened to the thud of Paxton’s heart.

“You never said yes,” he said eventually, quietly.

“Yes to what?”

“I told you I came to the dance as your boyfriend and you never actually agreed to be my girlfriend. We kinda just started making out.”

Devi lifted her cheek from his chest so she could look at him. He didn’t appear disappointed, more like he was making an observation. Maybe he’d been reflecting, out here in the dark, while she and Kamala had talked.

“In my books, that’s an obvious yes,” she said, grinning. “What more do you need?”

She could see him trying not to smile.

“A little atmosphere would be nice,” Paxton said. “Maybe a long drive, or the beach. A full moon. Romance me, Vishwakumar.”

Devi vibrated with silent laughter. Or her heart was just beating really, really freaking hard.

“Sounds like you’ve got some pretty big expectations there.”

“And stars,” he added. “There should be a shitload of stars.”

With that, he took one hand off her back to point far above them. Devi tipped her head back, the light of the stars a friendly blur as she tried to pick one to settle on, just one. Paxton’s face coming forward to hover over hers blotted them out. Her boyfriend kissed her, light and ghosting and then firm and slow.

“On the other hand,” he said, pulling back a little, “I think we were onto something with the making out.”

Devi smiled and dug her toes into the sand to make herself taller, lips at the ready and realigned with his.

“We did set a precedent.”

#my writing #Never Have I Ever #Never Have I Ever spoilers #NHIE #NHIE spoilers #Devi Vishwakumar #Paxton Hall-Yoshida #Devi x Paxton #Daxton #Fabiola Torres #Kamala Nandiwadal #couldn't find a gif I wanted and then all of a sudden I was making a moodboard

[spookierdeer]

here’s the mane 6 all together. i went through a couple edits of them until i was happy with them and i think i’m finally set on them now!

fun facts below the cut

when they move in together, fluttershy stocks up on lint rollers. not for fur or dust that you’d expect to see due to her veterinary practice, but because pinkie tends to leave a trail of glitter and confetti. this is especially noticable when she’s bouncing around.

pinkie is an earth pony born with latent chaos magic. this is really rare and exhibited itself in strange ways when she was a foal. as a grown mare, she can control it better, even if it still catches people off guard on occasion.

fluttershy is a flutter pony purely because i heard jenny nicholson talk about it once and i got it stuck in my head. she’s very tall however, super willowy compared to earth ponies (as are most flutter ponies).

fluttershy is taller than both rarity and starlight glimmer, but it’s hard to tell as she keeps her head down and this makes her appear slightly smaller.

fluttershy runs the ponyville vet clinic and is an animal whisperer. she also patches up her more rambunctious friends from time to time.

fluttershy is the begrudging midwife to her friends because some of them are ridiculous and don’t go to the doctor when they should. she is very tired and deserves every cup of coffee she makes them buy her after the fact.

the flutter pony gene is more dominant than most other species genes, so if any non flutter pony and a flutter pony have a foal, it usually ends up being a flutter pony. the only exception are kirin.

rainbow dash is a trans mare

rainbow is the second shortest of the mane 6, barely taller than pinkie. don’t mention it or she’ll destroy your knee caps.

rainbow can also pack away calories like nopony else. do not challenge her to an eating contest or you’ll end up sick and regretting it.

apple jack is average earth pony height which means she’s dwarfed by her flutter and unicorn friends. twilight is on the smaller side of unicorns (as sunset shimmer).

aj is a disaster lesbian. she’s tripped into mud quite a few times around pretty mares. no, she does not want to talk about it.

aj is also well known in ponyville and beyond for being one of the best no holds barred wrestlers around. before she became a mom, she also did some mud wrestling. once she had her foals, she put that behind her if only because it took time away from farm work she didn’t have; she’s still jacked, however.

twilight sparkle is a hornless unicorn, a very rare birth defect. she had to deal with a lot of bullying growing up because of how mules and donkies tend to be the butt of the joke to the average pony. she also had to deal with her tail being stepped on a lot, so as an adult she keeps it tucked to her side.

despite her lack of horn, twilight still has magic abilities. they can be very wild and hard to control due to not having a horn conduit. she spends most of her young life learning how to handle this and becomes one of the most learned unicorns of her time.

twilight is asexual/demiromantic.

rarity is 1/4th mule and gets her long ears from her dad’s side of the family. this has been a topic of rumor amongst the other fashion moguls and like of manehatten. some have even gone so far as to say her horn is fake and other ridiculous claims. rarity would originally just scoff and act as if she couldn’t possibly be related to a mule, but eventually learns her lesson friendship story style after hearing similar rumors about twilight.

the two go on to help stop uhh fuckin discrimination against mules and donkies i guess?? holy shit i didn’t mean to make it a racial allegory but here i am fuck dude, anyway

on a different note, twilight is in a polyam relationship with rainbow dash and tempest shadow. she loves both her girls very much.

rarity is a disaster bi, but in a different way than apple jack. rarity is accidentally an embarrassing asshole to cute ponies and this is what lead to a lot of fights between rarity and other members of the mane 6. the only one who almost never took it to heart was pinkie because she could tell just how embarrassed rarity felt and that she wasn’t doing rude things intentionally. pinkie and eventually fluttershy help rarity stop being such a dunce around cute ponies.

rarity eventually stops dying her grey hair away. she does it out of anxiety, but eventually aj and her friends help her relax a little and understand that going grey isn’t going to mean she isn’t beautiful.

bonus fun facts about other characters i’ve drawn, but haven’t listed here:

tempest shadow is blind in one eye.

lyra and bonbon are happily married.

angel has a love/hate relationship with pinkie. she’s so nice and knows how to brush angel just right, but the mare is taking cuddle time with fluttershy away >:(

starlight glimmer is the only voice i have a headcanon for and it’s heather mcnamara from the off broadway production of heathers. (example)

sunset shimmer is the shortest unicorn i’ve designed so far. she’s shorter than pinkie pie and is an absolute bitch. (i love her.) she is also married to starlight glimmer; they are the bitchy moms at PTA meetings who will destroy you <3

derpy hooves is named ditzy doo in my au. she’s a postpony and scrunchie collector.

dr hooves is named tick turner and he makes and repairs watches and clocks.

bulk biceps is a personal trainer. he breaks his coffee mugs a lot.

ditzy, tick, and bulk biceps are all dating each other in a polyam relationship. for their anniversary, ditzy and tick bought bulk some super nice metal cast mugs; bulk ended up crying a little because he’s a big emotional baby. they love him.

if uve read it this far thank u for listening 2 me. plz talk to me about my ponies i love them <3

#pinkie pie #fluttershy #rainbow dash #applejack #twilight sparkle #rarity #rarity belle #mlp redesign #mlp gen 4 #mlp next gen #mlp au #pinkieshy #twidash #tempestlight #tempestlightdash #rarijack #spooky draws

[sanchoyo]

ok some Free Range bnha thoughts. I think I left off around 300 when I paused reading it week to week so I started at 290 to Refresh. obviously, spoilers below the cut , but I'm not saying anything that hasnt been said b4 probably. just My Thoughts. turns out I wasn't like, 80 chapters behind but roughly 30-40, which is. A lot less thank GOD. but yes these are my thoughts (mostly typed as I went, borderline liveblogging lol) as I just binged and caught up completely ✌

-afo needs to Not Be a BodySnatching DICKBAG!!!! love spinners lil moment of wtf. youre not who im following </3 same bestie get your boyfriend and run!!! or pick up ur sword and Stab afo. whichever.

-I really have mixed feelings on the whole todoroki situation that im reserving to talk in depth about until the manga finishes because, im not sure if this is true but ive heard its near its end, and I'd like to see how they tie it up and 'resolve' that situation before being too harsh. but for now: rei was brave to go in the hospital room and talk to endeavor. I think bb touya is SUCH a sad situation. I just feel bad for all of them UGH. my kids now.

-the talk w the ofa users in dekus mind had me kinda laughing, it looks like a kingdom hearts cutscene w the THRONES. also deku quitting school, oof. the series is called my hero ACADEMIA NOT MY HERO DROPOUT!!! (i can make this joke as a dropout. deku 🤝me dropping out I guess) Nana asking if he could kill shigaraki HURT I KNOW SHE DOESNT WANT HIM TO EITHER BUT STILL. READING IT HAD ME LIKE NOO!!! NO!!!!! very happy with dekus answer tho. good egg. u better not. trusting u deku. dont

-first ofa user Pretty. they said his name and I immediately forgot it <3

-dekus vigilante look is SOOO SICK THE EYES MAN!!! obsessed. also all might basically acting as support/sidekick is SOOO good. making him eat n stuff. Dad Alert.

-im glad they brought back some of the villains in the jail break!! it was a rly nice way of showing dekus progress, like the muscular fight was so hard for him way way back when and he just basically took him out super fast/easily now..the Progress!!! I love to see it.

-lady nagant top 10 girlbosses. hawks wishes he was her. chad nagant vs virgin hawks etc etc shes what I wanted his character to be (im not...super disappointed w hawks bc I never 100% believed hed go bad fr like some ppl did, but I loved the fanworks that explored it, and shes basically the Defected Ex Hero I wanted...and shes VERY PRETTY and I am very much a lesbian, so I love her. Her colors too!! are cotton candy colors!!!! and shes got the Guns (literally and also Muscles!!!) she looked afo in the face without flinching and was like oh why Should I Help u U Bastard, no fear at all. even if she ended up working for him or whatever for a few chapters. still A Queen <3 a very small screentime queen but. women in shonen mangas. u know.

-class 1A literally Fighting To Get Deku to Come Home and Bathe. is touching and very sad. the power of friendship plots always GET ME. URGH. BAKUGO!!!!!!! APOLOGIZING!!!!!!! ITS FINE THIS IS F I N E "SAVING PEOPLE IS HOW WE WIN" GOD THE CHARACTER DEVOLPMENT!!! BAKUGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;O;

-I know we've seen it before (or partially) but thirteen has an incredibly cute face. it has to be said

-NAME a more iconic duo than uraraka and that bigass megaphone

-ragdoll SPOTTED. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-and the guy from the very first chapter!!! this dude has always been the real mvp. hes stll being nice and supportive. king. give him a spinoff

-im glad they explained why kurogiri(and, bc we havent seen them, im assuming also gigantomachia and compress?? are also there or somewhere thats kept private??) werent in the jailbreak (that they carted them off elsewhere) I was wondering abt that...

-all the callbacks really makes this arc feel FINAL. my god, even the woman all might saved from kamino is back!!! I knew abt stain coming back (tho I didnt know exactly what hed do) but seeing HER got me for some reason. anyway. gay icon stain . also feminist ally stain (slitting the 'woman collector' guys throat) we have no choice but to stan

-tsukauchi stubble???? ok??? its a look I guess. is all might into it

-'shigaraki tomura will be a Complete Vessel in three days time' NO THE FUCK HE WONT!!!! STOP THAT. THATS ILLEGAL

-THE WAY STARS AND STRIPES IS DRAWN MORE LIKE A WESTERN COMIC IS SUCH A NICE TOUCH LMAOOO SHES SO AMERICAN. HER QUIRK IS INSANE ALSO. ALSO SHES FROM THE MOVIE WHAT?? I REMEMBER HER. god they really are bringing every nameless minor character back im EMO

-...has spinner just been stuck in a cave with afo. stuck with him, sassing him. this is hilarious to me for some reason god I would be at my fucking limit. spinner stay strong you amazing wonderful funky guy. wheres the rest of the league. LOOK at spinners face, hes so done with this I cant. this is the Most Important Thing.

-'the one who SPINS this tale' look I know its a line from afo but that RULES and hes right. spinner is SO important. stan spinner or Die

-god, the league members basically being promoted to being cult leaders/borderline WORSHIPPED 'hold them sacred, endow them with divinity' thats SO RAW I'm!!!! losing it like they all came from nothing now theyre SYMBOLS. my god. spinner doesnt even seem happy about it, none of the league members they were showing looked remotely happy. Makes U Think...

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hot. next question (wait is it weird to simp when hes partially afo. hm.) (also that HAIR GROWTH!!!!!! NEVER CUT IT NEVER NEVER NEVER.) it spontaneously grew after I typed that, so consider ME pleased

-YESSS MR WORLDWIDE COME TAG AMERICA WE LOVE U HERE. ABSOLUTE JOY. sorry about the fact ur fused with afo rn and will possibly have uhh. identity related crisises and traumas from this later but. glad u look like ur havin fun :')

-damn america getting his ass. im so sorry :( (but also, kicking afo ass which is a good thing?? SOO conflicted I dont want tomura to die but afos gotta GO)

-again, hot, which is conflicting bc afo is very much also present, but, cmon, its tomuras body and face....n probably at least 25-50% tomura still...:/

-im...glad?? they delayed the complete fusion?? but owchie. at what cost to my boy :(

-the scene with afo patting shigaraki (who is thrashing around on the floor) parallels the scene of that happening when afo had taken in shigaraki at first and he was on the floor crying and wanting to kill those random alley thugs!!! that has to be intentionally calling that back, right? the imagery is very similar. again, loving the callbacks

-I rly thought they were gonna make invigirl the traitor and i was like ok who Cares abt that tho. then they did a lil switcharoo and made it MY BOY AOYAMA?? MY SWEET SON WHO I SHARE A BIRTHDAY WITH??? WHAT THE FUCK!!! HOW DID I NOT GET SPOILED ON THIS?? I remember the cheese stuff and being like haha good red herring. FUCK!!! NO!!!! hes such a good boy im WEEPING. HE WAS ORIGINALLY QUIRKLESS TOOOOO NOOOO!!! baby. babyboy. hes never done anything wrong in his life, ever, and omg invisible girls FACEEEE SHES SO CUTE. but god. aoyama. and dekus reaction to his whole story and still reaching out to him I AM. EMO. the drama of it alllllll . hes literally one of my fav student characters in this class and HAS BEEN FOREVER bc I love his whole knightly costume and SPARKLES and this just made him SKYROCKET FURTHER ON MY LIST OF CHARACTERS OF ALL TIME. hes so so so good. I need everyone to take a moment to just. Appreciate him.

now

appreciate

HER

-THIS is what absolute perrfection looks like. look at her!!! her belt is a cat. cat girls always win and save the day.

-toga sucks her own blood as a ?? comfort thing?? thats. should I say cute?? would it be weird to call that cute. would it be weird to say dabi burning her house down was also very cute, and nice, because she said it too, so like. very nice of him. top 10 reasons hes not Totally Lost: hes Nice to His Friends :)

-spinner being the...new symbol/leader in redestros place is SO???? UGH. UGHHH. HES ALWAYS BEEN A FOLLOWER AND NOW HES JUST BLINDLY FOLLOWING ORDERS TO BE MADE A SYMBOL, OR WHATEVER, I GUESS. very sad and I feel like him saying 'it doesnt matter what I think, this cant be stopped' are u implying u want to stop it. u can. u gotta. reach out to him man u HAVE TO BE THE ONE!!! its the bakugo/kiri kamino situation all over again. even if deku has to guide u it HAS TO BE U!!!! STOP FOLLOWING AND THINK FOR URSELF!!! U CAN DO IT!!!!!! 'anyone can become someone elses hero' YEAH HES GONNA. U BET HES GONNA. I BELIEVE IN HIM!!!

-....YOU NAMED YOUR STRONGHOLD TROY???...ALRIGHT. SURE. THATS FINE AND NOT WORRYING. I mean we already KNOW the war is gonna Go Down But. cmon man. CMON.

-togachako REAL

-shouto is too good for this world he wants to go to dinner w his big bro :( DABI COME HOME 2K22

-im sure ppl have figured out theories about this before but, something about the way they phrased it when they were wondering why afo needed tomuras rage (and why he was always smiling, implying smth is Fucking Wrong with Him, besides all the Murder and Crimes) had me like. hm. are we.. actually going to get more afo backstory at all or an in depth explanation for that? I'd kind of like to, even if I think its fine if we don't because we Get The Gist and idk how much the creator wants us to sympathize/understand his character beyond the ~evil demon king~ (and thats not me saying he needs anything beyond that, tbh not every villain needs it and esp not the big bad in a lot of cases) but. this story, esp in this last arc has us AND the main characters sympathizing with the villains a Lot and exploring why theyre like that, and it makes me wonder if theyll extend that to him at all, or just, keep trying to Get His Ass. And we do know togas quirk is the reason shes Like That, so it doesnt feel like a stretch to say afos quirk is why hes Like That also. (NOT ME SAYING HE NEEDS ANYTHING LIKE REDEMPTION DEAR GOD. AFTER WHAT HES PUTTING MY BOY THRU. ARGH. deku would have to be a SAINT. which he is, but...) actually, proof of this is also just. him going after star and stripes quirk KNOWING tomuras body wasnt finished, even saying it was a risk but basically being like. 'well..but... I WANT it. even if i know its dangerous to get it Right Now. But I want it Right Now.' as a reason KJDSHKJASNJ its very likely thats the case. quirks being a very literal nurture vs nature exploration I guess?

-very glad I typed all the above out WHILE reading bc if I wouldve waited, I wouldnt have had a coherent thought. its almost 5 AM but I am...caught up. And about to look at leaks before I sleep >:")

#this got SOOOO LONG HSDFAKJDSH TURNED INTO A LIVEBLOG HALFWAY THRU I THINK #again im sure its all been said before but not by ME and i like documenting my thoughts (tm) so i can come back to them #when the series is further in/over and see if my opinions or thoughts change at all #also a lot of this is me being 'omg spinner omg tomura omg ragdoll' so. this isnt exactly well thought out meta post or whatever its just #me . reacting to things and getting back into bnha #i want to see. the new movie.... #when can i pirate. yargh #i havent checked actually. is it online??? ill look later today i guess #i will probably end up getting very very attached to minor movie only characters. rip </3 #sanchoyorambles #bnha #bnha manga spoilers