#dancing is literally sex but doesn't need to be censored

[th-xeno]

when I think about snowbird I think about passionate tango. it's the law and it wasn't me who made it up!

#rwby #snowbird #winter schnee #qrow branwen #rwby fanart #my art #dancing is so beautiful #dancing is literally sex but doesn't need to be censored

[party-gilmore]

Hot take maybe? Don't think it SHOULD be, but like

Just saw a TikTok that, is summary, was saying "people who say they're 'straight' but willing to date [other gender/s] if somebody's interesting enough arent ACTUALLY straight. You're bi, just admit it" and I'm like... no?

No, they're not necessarily bi. Maybe they could be, I know a lot of people do repress it, but that's not necessarily true.

"Being willing to date -" does not mean "Has sexual attraction for -" It's just open-mindedness and being willing to accept the POSSIBILITY that you might a) not be, and that sexuality is a spectrum and fluid, and you're not restricting yourself to belief you'll be the same forever, and b) you may not be sexually attracted to your partner, and that's okay. That may not be important to you.

The EXTENT of what this means is the person is open minded enough to consider that sex with a person isn't as important as having a relationship with them. ESPECIALLY if the person in question is saying "I am ___” you need to respect that identity. You don't get to tell them they're "wrong" about themselves. For WHATEVER reason. Even if you're SO SURE they're just in denial.

Also, romantic and sexual attraction can develop differently, or even one after the other. They may be bi, or the may be on the demi spectrum, or they may genuinely BE straight and are HELLA attracted to (in the TikTok guy example) women. But there's like. There's this one guy. This one fucking guy. That's just so cool and they like him so much and it's literally no other guy ever just... Just like. Todd. They kinda want to date Todd. They still aren't sexually attracted to men. Like at all. They look at other men and feel NOTHING.

But they like Todd so damn much that they're excited to do anything with him, and that may even include sex, because it does feel good and also they trust and love Todd and that adds a layer of Want to the equation.

But they're still only sexually attracted to women. They're still straight.

Just like how if a girl says she's bi, but doesn't date at ALL, for whatever reason. Time money work life balance whatever, she's still bi. Or has only ever really connected with and decided to date people who've shared the sam gender. She's still ATTRACTED to multiple genders. They still rev her engine up equally. Her sexuality isnt determined by her date life or how easily she can connect and feel comfortable with [specific gender].

And don't fucking act up about this in the comments either this isnt a debate this is me telling you that when I see comments like that, I - a bisexual who's only ever dated one girl and it felt WEIRD and so it was only the single date (although it probably didn't help that she was a lesbian who told me straight up over dinner that she doesn't normally date bi girls because all her friends said bi girls were "hard" to date because of all the cheating) and have never really been able to mesh well romantically with other women but still think they're fucking hot and love dancing with and making out with and [CENSORED] etc. etc. so and so forth - get really really fucking defensive.

I've been made to feel invalidated so many times in my sexuality, that it just enrages me to see other people talking over someone and saying "no, youre just confused, here's what you REALLY are."

It's not more "okay" just because it's about somebody saying they're straight.

#ranting #personal #not even gonna bother engaging woth any replies to this one #just outright blocking any clowns

[cookierun-daily-diary]

(Personal thoughts about representation in crk)

May I just say that being an Asian myself and knowing that Cookie Run is originally from Korea makes me appreciate what this game does even more. Like, it's definitely not hell on Earth here by any means, and we've been steadily making progress in the last few decades or so, but there are still some deep-rooted prejudices that are hard to completely remove. I personally still have to double check whenever encountering an LGBT+ rep in Western medias because "did they really do that? That's just a thing they did?" as the concept of anything different from cisgender heterosexual simply doesn't exist in mainstream media here. (Unless it's for fetishizing or filling certain stereotypes. Ugh.)

So having characters canonically using they/them pronouns? Same-sex couples who constantly appear on the game's media platforms and queer-coded characters expressing romantic feelings towards other same-sex characters? Seeing a healthy relationship in a matriarchal household? That was new to me. And the fact that it's all in a children's game about literal cookies just makes it even better. Like, because it is meant for a younger audience, the way the game approaches everything is just so... light-hearted. There's no "it's okay if you're this and this, be yourself bla bla bla but we will still make a big deal out of it", no "omg queerphobia in a different form", it's just cookies being cookies. Masculine she/her cookies, feminine he/him cookies, gnc cookies, two sapphic cookies dancing in the background, a cakehound (not even a cookie) shows up in a dress at a cookie's princess competition,... Anything flies, in the cookie world. It's honestly a healthy break from the other LGBT+ medias' constant need to emphasize rights and activism within the community to the point of slightly "preaching". (I know they have very good reasons to do so, and knowing others are out there fighting the good fight is reassuring, but once in a while I just want to escape to a utopia where my only worry is getting that two goddamn cuckoo clocks for the train.)

(Of course, this is not to say Cookie Run is perfect by any means. The NFT thingy is still super weird and the fanbase in my country still constantly misgenders cookies and gives every personified fanart the same pale skintone. God these people are denser than a rock.)

Oh, and if anyone asks, no, I don't think what CR did is queer-baiting. They never bother to confirm any heterosexual relationship in the game either (that I know of), save for maybe some NPCs, so I'm pretty sure it's just the same reason why Vampire gets drunk on grape juice: it's a kid game. And also for the record, in some countries here in Asia, that's about as far as you can get hinting at same-sex relationships in non-LGBT+ centric media without being boycotted to hell or heavily censored/restricted. (That is not to say queer-baiting doesn't exist here, though: see every K//-//P//o//p boyband with "bromance" between their members.)

#cookie run kingdom #crk #also the pale skintone here is probably not 'whitewashing' in the same meaning as the western one? #more like 'anime effect where everyone has the same skintone except gyarus'-washing #also the lack of diversity in the sinosphere makes us dense as hell when it comes to racial issues #diary talks