Also with regards to what I said abt straight trans people in that comphet ask, I also think that regardless of how transphobes talk about them, gay trans people are not allowed entry to the system of heterosexuality either. Quite simply, trans lesbians are not treated like heterosexual men and trans gay guys are not treated like heterosexual women. To be trans is to inherently fall outside the bounds of heterosexual hegemony, regardless of how you define your sexual orientation, because the mainstream idea of heterosexuality necessitates cisgender-ness. People talk about misgendering, but I also think that trans people are regularly degendered, treated as neither men nor women but as a bestial half-and-half which is routinely fetishized, villified, or both. Transitioning immediately makes you fall outside of the realm of acceptable heterosexuality, and the way trans people are treated by transphobes makes it clear that although they claim that it's about "biology", that gender and therefore sexuality are unchangeable, the reality of both the system of the gender binary and the system of heterosexuality are about performance and conformity above anything else (see: "you were born as a man and you'll be a man forever" often coexisting with "the left is teaching our boys to become failed men", that kind of thing)
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',:) Requests??? HEH. Well there's like ten million in my head but actually Rat since you've already blessed the world with yassified Sparrow, how about some yassified Lark? (I remember you mentioning that Lark is your jewelry model! I'm dying to see him!!!) 💜💜💜
I hope this is what you meant by yassified
pov you get dragged into playing mermaids with your best friend's 5 year old daughter who will not stop talking about fish
(requests are open <;3)
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today my husband and i were talking about the rich tapestry of captain-lieutenant relationships in Bleach, and out of our rambles my husband suddenly came out with "I can see Akon becoming a captain before I could see Nemu" and my brain is now overcome with the idea of Akon-taichou. His tired captain energy would so immaculate. He would never agree to do anything and then he would do it anyway. He would explain stuff in so much extraneous detail that people would start talking over him but he would keep talking. He would get shat on even more than Hitsugaya. I want this. I want this more than I have every wanted anything.
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It's mostly horror stories which are the ones who actually get Told so I'm definitely confirmation biased, but just like ... Minors sneaking into the Adult channel. Adults being inappropriate in not-adult channels. Some Big Drama going down while you're asleep and everyone blames you because it's YOUR server and you weren't around to stop it. General drama at all in what's supposed to be a fun space but also you can't really say "good vibes only" when it's something Serious. Being responsible for minors in general. Just thinking about it is making me not wanna share anything ever lmao
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one thing that did stand out to me while i was going back through cry for blood is how often we don't get to see helena's face.
it's a little thing, but there are so many panels -- especially when she's just received news of something, or is in emotional turmoil -- where she hides herself. she turns away, she bows her head. it's interesting, particularly because comics do so often show us those big dramatic facial expressions. but helena curls inward when upset. i think about these two panels a lot:
there's a note from stephanie hans in the backmatter of an issue of die that i think of -- about how in comics, how much space something takes up indicates how important it is -- and yet, somehow, whenever some new information comes up, helena makes herself small, minimizes her own emotional displays.
now, given, she does hold herself in a very particular way as a default state. head tilted down, no eye contact, etc:
but that's exaggerated when she's upset. often, she even takes the pose of a prayer. like the specific thing i'm referring to is either sitting with her head bent toward her clasped hands as if she's praying, or turned away toward a window or mirror that frames her like an altar. like so:
there is, in fact, an entire page where we don't see her face. while she's recuperating after all of the drama of the first half of the arc, she won't look anyone in the eye at all. instead, the framing moves around her and shows her, bent forward and hidden, from different angles:
i just think it's a nice little touch. a good display of who she is and how she responds to troubling situations, which makes perfect sense given what we learn about her during this arc. like, you know, if you're always at least somewhat at someone else's mercy -- be it batman, the other families, the people training her -- you'll want to minimize the outbursts and hide vulnerabilities, and she has a specific way of doing that. it often resembles prayer, because of course it does. she doesn't compare herself to a nun for nothing.
also, for a fun (?) bonus. this doesn't happen as often in the huntress costume… unless she's confronted with family. and then it creeps right back in:
anyway. helena bertinelli i care you.
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