#Names are very important to me okay?

[redrobin-detective]

In the "all the Batkids are gender-swapped" version of "Wayne Girls", is Duke included in the swapping? If not, what's his dynamic like with each of the girls (and Carter and Stephen) and if he is, what are the dynamics with "Duchess" and the other Batkids?

Duke wasn't really apart of the batfam when I first made the AU (He was still doing We Are Robin stuff which honestly I kinda miss). I will admit I have been negligent in adding him partially because I still haven't read much of his more recent work and still struggle to conceptualize him as he is much less a complete swap.

Also super embarrassing is I've struggled with finding a name for girl Duke. I want that same short, sharp, commanding energy that Duke provides and a lack of name kind of stops the process. I'm very familiar with baby name websites, not just for Duke but other characters. It took me a long time to settle on Damira for Damian as well. I have Thea (greek for goddess) as my placeholder right now and I like the energy of it but I'm still not entirely settled with it. Other options I've played with are Dela, Cleo, Rhea.

I guess I'll use Thea for now, is often seen as the calm normal one in the setting of the rest of the batfam's shenanigans. She's the only one who had a relatively normal upbringing so she's often seen as the "normal" one but she has her own quirks. She's open, friendly and game for some good back and forth but will not hesitate to put anyone in their place when it gets too far. She engages in feminine things like but not to the extent of Beth but not with the disdain of Janis. She's pretty independent, loves to help others but hesistant to ask for it in return. Honestly tries to avoid a lot of the bigger drama and not get too involved with the Bats. Still sees her placement (both on the team and with the fam) as temporary so treats them all like really weird roommates. The morning bird of the family, she, Alfred and Damira will sip their morning beverages while the rest of the Bats grumble about the sun.

#wayne girls au #please do not ask me how many searches Ive done over the years for strong girls names that start with D #Names are very important to me okay? #Duke has mainly been appearing in comics I havent read so I'm still searching for my footing for his canon characterization #I still really liked him and his role in we are Robin #a batfam member who fought with them but also served as an intermediary with Gothams restless youth looking for power and change? #I loved it #I want to carry that energy over #make them indpendent but connected in the know but seeing the batfam as a bit of a stepping stone to their ultimate goal of connection #idk I think Duke's character and position was So interesting and just making him another team member only power this time is... #idk I miss the We Are Robin era despite the actual stories being eh #bring back Maps and the other kids as lil Baker Street Irregulars for the Bats with Duke in charge #i've gone off topic sorry

[strangeterrain]

truly believe gabe should have had a cameo in jennifers body . i also believe he should have been in a series of bad low budget horror movies . i dont think any of this because i think hes a good actor its mostly coz i want to see him covered in blood but also because i think he has the right energy for it

#the jennifers body cameo i think should literally have been him just like . in the background being gabe saporta #but bc hes so tall it doesnt matter hes in the background hes just instantly recognisable and also wearing like . eyeblistering neons #someone says . okay then gabe saporta with his full name idk #also . vampire gabe really very important #anyway . put chew me up and spit me out on spotify now #i didnt think this one thru bvery much im just having thoughts

[sinhasfluffyheadfur]

I totally have something to say here

#grim draws #I’m sleepy I’m not coming up with a caption for this #all that’s important is look at my beast I made. look at my tree beast flomping it’s head down #and also look at the other cute critters #trolls are totally critters guys #okay serious tags .I’m a serious guy a very normal serious guy #trolls band together #totally didn’t have to google the name of the movie I wacthed just hours ago #shfhhshfbe #floyd trolls #trolls fanart #poppy trolls #queen poppy #guys I’m not stupid I know how to tag please believe me #I’m just thinking about how I could make those eyes look more woody bc they’re hollow wood holes yknow #skrunkle the poppy #hrmmmmm #the sizing is totally not consistent there but whatever man I don’t care #(lying

[bikerboyfriend]

screenshot dump

#dino.png #myV: léo-vincent valentine #cyberpunk 2077 #léo-vincent infodump of the day #ermmmmmm lets do a big one #oh yeah. here's some lore from the 10k word docu i have #léo-vin's mother was a joytoy. completely unplanned pregnancy & he was born prematurely. he was born in some random motel bathroom #miracle birth but they expected him to die soon anyw. bc otherwise she thought she'd mercy-kill him #bc she believed nothing was crueler than having a child in NC. and she also didnt want one #but he survives somehow and so hes just kind of there. she doesnt rlly.. idk...its very complicated but- #-from his memories he thinks she didnt really like him #oh yeah important note: his mother's 'friend' who assisted giving birth to him was padre's late ex wife #they were estranged but she picked up when she called #so hes like...a godfather in a way #his mother didnt want to name him bc she didnt want to grow attached to him. so léo never actually is never named. #they essentially started calling him 'baby valentine' (his mothers 'stage name' was valentine) #he starts going by V later and then when he meets jackie and mama welles #she wants to get his name incase anything happens to him and they wanna memorialise him. and shes like #even if you dont want to tell me just write it on a piece of paper and i wont look until then #he tells her she doesnt have a name. all three parts of his name (léo-vincent valentine) #are like...hand-picked. but that is all for the infodump. Okay bye

[libraryleopard]

Young adult contemporary coming-of-age story (releases 4/16, I read an early copy from Netgalley)

Follows two first-year students at Wellesley College who run dueling anonymous advice columns and befriend each other in real life as they bonded over both being aroace, unaware of the other's internet identity

Platonic love story

Explores themes like aroace identity, finding community, being the queer child of immigrants, and trying to find your place in the world as a young adult looking towards the future

Love letter to platonic/familial love and finding community

Aromantic asexual Chinese American protagonist; aromantic asexual gender-questioning/nonbinary (she/they) protagonist; lots of QPOC side characters

#i got an arc of this and read in basically one day while on a road trip! #i found it very engaging/easy to read #the feud between the main characters is very petty but they're both still quite likable #sophie is very relatable to me as someone who until recently was also a type-a student at a liberal arts college #i think the characters balance each other out very well also #like sophie is very organized and jo is a bit more of a mess #but jo is also less confident in her identity #this talks a lot about aroace identity and i hope that will make a lot of people feel seen #personally i really loved seeing a college coming-of-age story about friendship #because the friendships i formed in college were personally wayyy more important to me than dating #so even though i don't identify as aroace part of me still felt very seen #(that and i knew a lot of aspec people in college) #their feud is kind of petty and terminally online but that's kind of the point in the end #okay i do have to say though #jo's music taste as a dj is SO basic #also this comped to loveless and the half of it so it did amuse me that those are name-dropped in the story #actually there are some aro/ace books that are mentioned though not by name #i think i caught a reference to elatsoe and another one to fire becomes her? #that was cute ngl #dear wendy #ann zhao #2023 reads #lulu speaks #lulu reads #lulu reads dear wendy #books

[nerosdayinanime]

"Im worried what people would think of you then, that you're just a personal whore or something- i don't want to ruin your reputation.."

"Are you kidding? 'My dick was so good i got promoted-' Thats the biggest flex i can think of!"

"Well, you're certaintly enthusiastic about this."

#ive been thinking of the au from @planethoneybee's tags in that writing prompts post #on the topic of giyuu wanting sabito to have political power in case something happens or someone tries to pull shit- #him & shinobu debating the pros and cons of giving him title of concubine before giyuu brings up the social aspect #so shino calls sab in to get his thoughts on the matter directly and it made me laugh #another bit w sanemi- theyre at a meeting talking abt finances and theyre talking of cutting sanemi's beetle funding- #G: i can pay for it /Sane: what? /G: keep as much funding to the project as possible- i'll finance the rest of it out of my #own allowance. that works doesnt it? /Shino: i suppose. ..but you'd do that for beetles? /G: i see importance in it. /Shino: very well- #sanemi doesnt thank him or even mention it but he definitly looks at giyuu differently after that- he used his own shit to keep #the project going full blast? damn. he did that for sanemi's beetles. man. #somethn somethn giyuu bringing up the idea for shinobu to have a personal guard(/helper) as well #shinobu 'i know what you are' @ giyuu before he hurriedly explains he doesnt mean get a side hoe hes genuinely just #offering to find her a trusted guard/helper whos sole purpose is to do errands n shit specifically for her 'oh! that sounds nice actually' #'sab has someone in mind for you- says shes one of the best in the forces and a pleasant personality' 'ill see that for myself first' #'okay [thumbs up]' #im imaginging a mix between european kingdoms & east asian/chinese/japanese empires except i dont know shit about either #only thing i vaguely know is theres advisors & like sub-royalty & in traditional japanese more (/complex) layers of clothing = rich/royal #the 'sub royalty' has a name im p sure. i forgor. fuckiinnn. #nope its just not there. oh well. giyuu w the fingerless sleeve-gloves my FUCKING beloved #also vague thought of sabito & mitsuri wearing helmets that utilize their pink hair as fuckin. yk the european knights #w the stupid ponytail thing/romans w the gold helm/red mohawk thing. somethn like that #they wouldnt wear like full Heavy Armor like knights do their fighting styles & w the close-quarters they wouldnt need it #but like for Show at Fancy Pantsy Time theyd dress up similarly #loserboy giyuu posting #loverboy sabito posting #sabigiyuu #of all the shit i have for this au THATS the scene that gets front page. dick joke funniee #(in case its not clear text goes Giyuu-Sabito-Shinobu talking)

[michyeosseo]

So based on the interview going around twitter, the whole semi plot was phoebe's idea of a common MIL fantasy of your DIL loving and craving your approval? But the actual execution... yikes. it seems more like something Ted Bundy would dream. Like it was just the wish-fullfillment that the person who has been indifferent to you for years, hurting your feelings, is actually deeply obsessively in love with you! Then you get to be the cold and indifferent one to hurt them back.

P U T A N G I N A M O K A

*pinches my nose bridge* not you, anon. who deigned that psycho interview-worthy? get help asap

do click on that db write-up i linked, before you proceed please and thank you

flinched as soon as i saw @suika28 tweet that about 30 (?) minutes before the finale aired. that's me who admittedly has known her WILD history. the nerve to admit queerbaiting:

“they don’t have mutual liking of each other but rather, the mother-in-law hates the daughter-in-law’s affections. […] the homosexual story didn’t develop, don’t worry.”

i guess that's the one consistency im sunghan has. she does not care.

after all, when the production was still <durian fairy>, streets were saying it's a romance between the two and she put out a statement definitely disavowing that. the third teaser came out and, well, the seas parted; the sun was rising in the west! in a stilted ensemble, jang semi was the only one consistently getting to show development... and by that, i meant baek doyi was considering her confession every waking moment.

despite south korea being its usual meninist self, ~the couple with the epic love story~ from my perspective was thriving. such unconventional yet ardent affection resonating with its found audience. garnering international attention & support for the actresses who are both generous with the fanservice. fun times.

then, the nightmare aka the second half came out to be.

you already said it, doyi's tragedy / comphet heel turn 'twas all to hurt [semi] back. to insult decades of feeling unlovable. i'll walk it off, eventually, but that nasty backhand might as well be directed at me.

to be clear: i do not blame the characters, they were used as mouthpiece - puppets to im sunghan's innate, did-not-even-have-to-think-about-twice hatred of not just lesbians but women in general. nor do i blame the leads, they've evidently shown more enthusiasm to go beyond for semidoyi; how could they have foreseen the first half was just a sick dare?

makjangs are Not the place to go to if one wants some moralizing from a kdrama but who thinks funding sweeping harmful generalizations is all okay???????

#ratings spiked to 8 and i am side-eyeing tvchosun if they're that desperate to cave to her nonending #never calling that hag by that pen name/nickname #more than automatic distrust #she ought to be disrespected wherever she goes #in the interest of disclosure no i did not mean to indirectly cause heartache #i didn't even expect y'all would be sharing around my gifs #so i apologize but i also do not regret #despite the evil writing intentions #jang semi is a beacon and so representative #VERY MUCH LOVED AND IMPORTANT TO ME AND MANY OTHER WLW #and that i shall credit to yoon haeyoung (her commitment to the dyke agenda!) #i know it was a terrible lot but choi myunggil is nothing if not a seasoned pro she'll be okay and still beloved too #ok but do you understand? ​they were in the same friends’ circle and HAS THAT KIND OF CHEMISTRY #only to fall victims to gendered violence #i took long replying because i was at the hospital to check the wreckage left by this kind of drama #unaliving postponed for i have a week's worth of 아씨발두리안 sets to be queued

[agentark]

"I would not want a memorium"

the more you learn about R Verner, the more this line makes you want to write a multi page essay

#...........I want to talk about R Verner until I'm hoarse #if snippets #wait I was just looking in my screenshot folder for another verner quote & I had already snipped this once before LMAO queen of consistency #the first time you read this you might think 'huh interesting thing for the rich powerful kid to say' and even MC is like 'really?' #and then you learn more about them and also about their family and you're like Ah Okay #I am just so entranced by the way they wear the Verner name and then the glimpses you get of the R who exists beyond that #it's very important to me that 'Oh No!' by Marina is on the R Verner playlist #idk if these tags even make sense in conjunction w/ this screenshot but whatever #r verner #every single one of the core characters wears some kind of mask but R is exceptionally good at wearing theirs #trying to speed through this replay so I can get back to the alpha content but the brain worms are distracting me

[floral-hex]

I saw her and she looked so lonely! I just couldn’t leave her! She’s a baby!

#would you just leave this little baby all on her lonesome?? in this big scary world??? #she was only $5! okay! that’s less than a large iced coffee! #her name is Luna and her wings sparkle so I mean you can understand why I had to help her #don’t judge me JUDGE JUDY #unfortunately for my bank account I have a bad habit of imprinting on sad looking stuffies #this isn’t important #…to you. to me it’s very important. #porble batty baby #mine

[maddy-ferguson]

fun fact about me: i'm insecure about so many random things that i've never flipped anyone off in my 22 years of life because i think my middle finger looks awkward and ugly by itself

#and like i say: brf slt #i felt like this especially when i would have been likely to do it semi-regularly like in middle school. but like i was thinking about this #the other day and i did it in front of a mirror just to check and it looked as bad as i remember like it's just not for me #i have a story abour middle fingers though or just about what one would call the finger #when i was in what an american would call the 5th grade (i can never do when i was x years old because it's not an accurate representation #of the class i was in since i skipped a grade and the grade is what matters more to me. when i was 9 and my friends were 10 i was saying) #we would always play this game called girls catch guys or guys catch girls where the girls would run after the guys and like tap them on #the shoulder and then they would go to prison and they would line up and another guy could set them free by like touching one of the #prisoners it was a very fun game except it's way more fun to be like the ones getting caught than to be the ones catching and we would #ALWAYS play girls catching guys and it was very unfair we would be like okay in the morning we do guys catching girls in the afternoon #girls catching guys so it's fair like normal system but the guys NEVER wanted to do it (and we would always give in because like we still #wanted to play ig and idk guys. female socialization) they never wanted to be the ones doing the catching it was so unfair because we also #didn't like it as much and we did it all the time? #and i remember this one morning we were fighting about this we had literally all agreed that it was fair this way but they didn't want to #do it and my second best male friend flipped me and my best (female) friend off and (very #important detail) he did it with both of his hands so like two middle fingers and i don't know why because i'm not even sure that that's a #thing but one middle finger meant fuck you and two middle fingers meant go fuck yourself and to us that was very different? and i remember #my friend and i we like knew what it meant but for some reason we were like. he did do the one finger before doing the two does this mean #he...loves us because it literally means he wants to have sex with us #but what's funny is we never talked to him again after that and i don't even know why that was our last straw because i remember i #genuinely liked him before that like i said he was my second best male friend! so like maybe sixth best friend overall that's not bad #and he's not the only guy friend who flipped us off that year like it was so random to stop talking to him after that😭 #like he was an actual enemy we really did not like him we talked about him in letters we'd give each other using a nickname etc #and what's even funnier is in our last year of middle schoold FOUR YEARS AFTER THIS a friend of a friend told him he should become friends #with well my friend and he was like hm i don't think so have you seen who she hangs out with? marianne *last name* like why do YOU hate #me😭 it was so funny like wdym it was mutual this whole time. i had literally moved on by then i didn't even care about hating him #anymore like wow...i think he's the only person i hated who actually hated me back

[kathrynmjaneway]

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#boyfriend update?? boyfriend update. #im still so so obsessed with him #he is just the kindest person out there #he just /does/ things for me #acts of service anyone??? hhhhh #hes taking me out for dinner for my birthday on thursday #i also got a cold and then promptly infected him #i warned him and he was like i dont care i probably already have it anyway and kissed me #im also a good 60hrs into playing elden ring now with him as a my backseater and personal cheerleader #its still so much fun and its the best #im about to enter the endgame part according to him #im in the snowy area (i cant remember names lmao) #stats are like im level 103 or smth #im a battle mage so im bumping up my intelligence as my highest stat #im so so close to have int 60 so i can use renallas staff #and i got the moon smth catana which i LOVE #and another sword that might be slightly better in damage and looks cool but i dont wanna part with the catana yet bc of its special attacks #i have both equiled anyway #also! bc this was about him and now my elden ring journey #i introduced him to my parents aaaaaahhhh #and it went really well!!!! #so that's a milestone right there i guess! #personal #my parents said i looked very happy with him and that thats the most important thing and i am so ridiculously happy with him #still wild to me that i said okay i wanna have a romantic partner and a relationship and then went out and got that for myself

[whence-the-woody]

I have lots of thoughts, mostly positive, but I have to say the lack of "Love" and "Baby" is criminal

#rwrb #pet names are very important to me okay #and it was such a thing in the book #and in these actors voices my god it shouldve been constant #red white and royal blue

[misfitmiska]

Been SUPER busy these past few weeks so stress relief Minamana doodles it is! :D

They are very smart but they share a brain cell. Also they r in luv

#ina11 #inazuma eleven #inazuma eleven go #minamana #minaho kazuto #manabe jinichirou #demisexual minaho is very important to me okay #queer headcanons #also first name basis minamana because yes #i think they deserve it #manamina #art

[dirt-str1der]

Trans kiryu is a genuinely funny hc because like trans majima is like oohh angst ohh she has to fight to be accepted she has to deal with people making fun of her for being a man in a dress she has to take into account her position and social standing and kiryu is literally just kiryu forever because the universe loves him too much to ever force him into a situation unless its to go to prison in which case hes like yayyy i love jail yayy yayyy

#Yakzua loveblog #im just talking to myself you guys dont need to read anything #in fact dont read this im going to talk about transphobic nishiki again anyway #my transphobic nishiki hc is the most important one to me because. like we all need to have some transphobic people in our lives #i do think that nishiki calls him ‘kiryu’ even though theyre best friends forever because when nishiki will always accidentally say his #deadname instead of ‘kazuma’ even though i know that nishiki is literally the one who gave him the name kazuma to make fun of kiryu for #thinking hes a boy and it just kind of stuck but nishiki eventually stuck. with calling him kiryu because thats how he prefers to be called #they are bestfriends for a reason .... and nishiki is the only one kiryu will let be transphobic towards him because theyve known each other #for forever and he knows he means no harm by it like he will still hit him but nishiki takes it in stride because its their thing and its #never not funny to make kiryu annoyed like for anyone else its an uncrossable line but once a month nishiki will lead kiryu into the womens #section to shop for new clothes and kiryus like Somehow i always knew you wore womens jeans and nishikis like HEY !!!! #but as kids they were always very cute because theyre always together and you can never really tell whos following who because it seems like #theyre on the same wavelength until nishiki realises that life is so much easier when youre working smart so he went to work on his INT stat #while kiryu never stopped being a wild animal like hes literally some sort of monkey to me sorry for dehumanising him because of his autism #like i adore his ‘own little bubble’ way of life as long as he’s physically okay kiryus not going to complain about anything. like when he #said ‘i decide to do things based on whether i love it or hate it’ im like Yeah i bet you do. he sits outside the orphanage all day playing #with rocks until nishiki comes finds him then they both go outside to smash open windows with the rocks kiryu has gathered and kiryus in his #little skirt and he always uses it to carry things in you know how it is and he stopped going to school to be a bigger menace than everyone #anyway did i mention that the universe loves kiryu. especially his genes he was very lucky because he never had a big chest or nothing he #was always going to get tall and thick in the shoulders and beefy and when he cut his hair it just sealed the deal he passed with flying #colours like young children are indistinguishable by gender unless they have a big pink bow in their hair but kiryu radiated masculinity #from a young age and his aggressive way of life didnt help. well it helped a lot actually. a lot of people were scared of him and nishikis #like dont be scared of kiryu shes nice when you get to know her and everyones like ?? thats a girl ??? #in fact it made more sense for kiryu to be a boy at that point so he went to kazama and told him and kazama was like ok lets make it happen #like kiryu and nishiki are so special because there is nobody in the universe more transphobic to kiryu than his own brother but also nishik #was the one helping kiryu shop for boy clothes when he was clueless about it like hes not stupid but he really doesnt know about fashion and #he trusts nishiki to not make him look stupid and nishiki is of course like 😏 well well well youre having a girl moment arent you #nishiki is okay with kiryu being a guy because this means that now whenever kiryu hits him he can fight back without being misogynistic #okay im done talking my noodles are getting cold but kiryu as a kid would have been a veritable nightmare #oh yeah my trans beam extended to nishitani as well because just look at him. everybody majima wants to sex is trans

[iwantyoursexmp3]

a new lesbian character has entered the dallon literary universe/lover boy sphere

#the lover boy lesbian and gay solidarity is very important to me #i need to read more on lesbian + butch history in sf just generally but i can see beau finding a lot of connection with his lesbian besties #esp w his own identity as a leather gay man + bonding over shared experiences and same feelings experienced differently #i love solidarity i love community etc! #also not to briefly and vaguely comment on tumblr queer discourse but it annoys me how some posts i see take the whole idea of #'blending' within queer identities and how the lines are actually really blurred if ur not chronically online!!! #when its like...when you look at the history you see a lot of really beautiful instances of solidarity and community and sharing culture #that still do that with an understanding of boundaries and differences #but like to me its about how the ways different groups can come together! and the ways they don't! #especially as like. a transmasc who still feels closely connected to their time as a lesbian but doesnt want to be seen AS one anymore #and believes i can have that connection without needing to stay in a space that i no longer see myself a part of. which is okay! #that was a tangent but its been on my mind both w RR/lover boy and my own personal experiences LOL #anyway i think their name is ximena! love when i think about how lovely a name is and then a whole person materialises in my head #thats how half of my character creations go....

[theghostofashton]

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#kinda hate the way people have started using 'sanitized' to describe any nonsexual gay rep #like.....sanitized means something that was specifically created to be palatable to a specific group of people #and calling things like heartstopper sanitized just makes me :/ like that's......not what it is? #it is based off a comic series and a very close adaptation to those comics which have been around for years now #the creator is queer #i've read the comics and the show actually stays very true to them it doesn't ~sanitize~ shit #like stop using the word sanitize when you just mean you want a different kind of queer rep #it's so easy for people to throw heartstopper under the bus and it's like. okay name me other examples of shows like this one #how many do we truly have? really think about that #bc it really feels like people are just interested in shitting on this show rather than actually making a point #about the kinds of rep they want #bc psa: you can do that without shitting on heartstopper lol #heartstopper may not be for you or your cup of tea but diminishing its importance isn't how you get more things to your taste