#do as i say not as i do and whatnot

[uncanny-tranny]

The whole "breasts shouldn't be politicized because the primary purpose of breasts is to feed babies!" can be a fine jumping-off point, but I really wish people thought deeper than that when we talk about the ways in which bodies are politicized and restricted.

Like, why's it that when we talk about breasts, they must have some Higher Purpose? It's true that breasts aren't inherently sexual, but they aren't valuable solely because they can potentially feed a baby. A human body doesn't have to serve a Higher Purpose in order for it to not be legislated against or policed, and I just wish people would remember it isn't always about babies, about other people, about anything else other than the people who have that body.

#feminism #dysphoria tw #your body doesn't need to have an Intrinsic Worthwhile Purpose so that you can live without fear #and it is fine if people say this to criticize the way breasts are overly sexualized and fetishized or what have you... #...but i encourage people to not see this as an end-all-be-all argument #because this opens discussions about how we politicize bodies and how we interpret them #i see overlap between this and the way trans bodies are politicized and policed honestly #and i guess personally i'm just so tired of the idea that to be safe your body Must Have A Good Reason To Be #and i fear this may reinforce the idea that we Must Serve Purposes and Be Useful and Used #ask to tag (genuine) #and what would this say for childless people? or people who cannot bear children? if they have breasts are they 'useless bodies' #because i have seen the ways some people's bodies are treated when they do not 'work PROPERLY' and that scares me #it scares me to potentially start treating people with different bodies as Defective and Unworthy and Unproductive #and i don't always trust when people latch onto purpose-driven arguments for human bodies that it stops at that y'know #have seen some discussion amd whatnot so 👍 #is it now time to clock put and be a silly goose yet?

[lazycranberrydoodles]

ughhhhh so probably the tgcf scene i think the most about is in the final battle when hua cheng is holding xie lian and backwards gripping eming with his other hand i . god. this is referenced off of The Fallen Angel by Alexandre Cabanel (i’m pretty sure everyone has seen it by this point) which is surprisingly pretty topical for tgcf.

#all the stuff about falling from heaven and losing your humanity and whatnot #has anyone done this before #also #idk if anybody is keeping track of the lazycranberrydoodles lore but in high school we read paradise lost #and i blorbofied satan #girl who was rotating the devil from the bible in her head for a month #for the final project i ended up accidentally writing twice the required word count. lmao #what does this say about me? doesnt matter. more importantly what does it say about how satan was written 🤨 #what do YOU think milton intended by making satan the most complex compelling and competent character in the book #also also #YIPPEEEEE NEW PFP #pride month is over .... #lesbian hua cheng is still real in our hearts #tgcf #hua cheng #tian guan ci fu #heaven official's blessing #sketch #doodle #hualian #mxtx #art #digital art #my art

[sleepinglionhearts]

Libra, Libra, I'm always thinking of you 😊

#doodles #fire emblem #libra #fe art tag #what can i say i still love him so much #so like I'm starting to feel more like. energetic again #it's still on and off like a good energy day means I'm tired the next but! #the tired isn't as intense #I'm like.. able to do stuff #I've been able to draw a little more and I've been cleaning up my desk #apologies again to those who are waiting on commissions I'm getting there #i just got my desk cleaned (again) and i bought a TON of organizing thingies #so hopefully it STAYS CLEAN #anyway getting myself back into drawing slowly and whatnot #and i drew these at work over lunch and i feel like they look very nice #so onto the tumblr they go #pls enjoy

[piosplayhouse]

Thinking about it considering both binghe and liu qingge (shen yuan's most canonically ideal men) are described as feminine in text, you could for sure make the case that fem yuan has a Hugeee thing for butch girls that she just does not examine ever

#shen yuan goes through her life leaving a constant trail of utterly heartbroken butches she was in a situationship with without knowing #sorry scum villain got me thinking of gender presentation and queerness again.. because i do like it #even though people usually draw binghe as pretty stereotypically 'masculine' in eng fandom id say it is interesting to note in the book #how he is explicitly somewhat androgynous. as airplane says in his extra #and likewise lqgs femininity is pretty heavily commented on #i think the only character who's really described as undeniably masculine is mbj. because sqh is a certified gay ass man 5 on the kinsey #or whatnot. #anyway gender presentation and performance and adherence and queering everything up in a world that loves you!!!! #things to think about #svsss #sqq #shen qingqiu #shen yuan #genderbend tw #tw genderbend

[hrokkall]

Incredibly hilarious that, according to the console ARG, the one time the Scrybes successfully worked together (outside of undoing a takeover) was to eviscerate some guy.

#Inscryption #James Cobb #Stoat Speak #I’ll make a full post on the ARG and my thoughts and whatnot later but for now this is my shitpost #I like this ARG a LOT better than the last one needless to say #But it still leaves a lot open-ended so I’ll give my interpretation on it if people want it #Or if people don’t. This is my blog and I get to do whatever

[designernishiki]

it’s so weird to think that ryuji was only a major character in one canon game. like he’s such a strong character with such a strong personality it doesn’t feel like he was only prominent in one canon game at ALL. he feels almost as ever-present and beloved as someone like daigo and yet he’s basically never even mentioned after kiwami 2. that’s so crazy to me.

#am I saying bring ryuji back? yes. end of statement #same goes for mine to a slightly lesser degree. and somehow yokoyama agrees with me on both of these I think #I am biased in a way because I am one of the few who has been lucky enough to play dead souls but. yeah #those two are also just good examples of antagonists that are almost comically malicious but still somehow have depth under the surface #and redeemability. in a way. not saying mine bulldozing an orphanage is Forgivable im saying he Did start to have a change of heart at the #end of y3 so he’s Capable of change and whatnot. and ryuji’s just a bully who takes his feelings out on other people usually physically #like he’s very much a teenage bully in the body of a gigantic adult man. #cause he never had to grow out of that. no one challenged him/his views/etc enough to do so. until the end of yk2 #AND IN DEAD SOULS ITS JUST A FACT THAT HES GROWN AS A PERSON AND MATURED. #it’s somehow a DRASTIC difference in personality from him in yk2 and yet still believable because of how much in his life had to change #and because he is like. the adult version of the previous ryuji. I know ryuji was already 30 in yk2 but you get my point. he wasn’t grown up #not really. (same goes for daigo- they’re such obvious foils for one another it’s so interesting and I wish it was explored more but ANYWAY) #ryuji #yk2 #rambling

[some-pers0n]

Me reading after the 6.02x10²³th Qinter fic where Moon is written so violently out of character and is just seen as an overly jealous and manipulative person because the author hates how Moonbli messed up their cute wholesome dragon yaoi ship

#It's actually wild how horribly women get treated by fans of MLM ships #Especially with love triangles and whatnot where the gay ship is clearly one of the more popular options #It's just so tiring seeing it happen all the time #I know that Moonbli is canon and they don't like it but just...c'mon man Moon wouldn't do or say any of this #She's not a gaslighting manipulative monster who wants Qibli all to herself #I know that it's mostly younger authors writing this sort of stuff but it still wears me down #wof #wings of fire #qinter wof #moon wof #qibli wof #winter wof #sp-rambles

[gayestpiano]

okay this is version 3 of my given names that are also words euler diagram

#NOT doing another one #probably #names #linguistics #euler diagram #diagram #charts #mine #venn diagram #given names #onomastics #the first version keeps getting notes and nobody's seeing the updated versions :( #oh well say lavee and whatnot #just two little updates this time #first one to find them gets 50 points! #i didn't include months because they are proper nouns

[flashhwing]

a little bit mad that the Expensive Korean Skincare Product I purchased on a whim is actually making my skin noticeably clearer. me insisting for years that skincare is a sham and cheap facewash and moisturizer is all you need and now look at me. it comes with a tiny little shovel to scoop out the correct amount. I feel like an annoying YouTuber every time I wash my face. my face which has never felt better because of this stupid Expensive Korean Skincare Product

#no I will not tell you what it’s called mostly because it doesn’t say on the bottle and I threw away the little box it came in #this has been a post #okay the like. the fact that my skin looks better isn’t nothing because I do live in the world #but genuinely. my skin is soft and not oily or dry #which has been such an issue for me #I’ve tried. everything that is less than $15 in the drugstore #I’ve tried stuff for oily skin for dry skin for combination skin #I’ve tried stuff from the natural section I’ve tried stuff with all the right acids and whatnot #n like the toner and moisturizer I’m using is still the cheap drugstore stuff the only difference is Expensive Korean Cleanser #I don’t even remember how expensive it was I just know it was more than I would normally spend on skin stuff #starting to wonder if I should be paying $30 for shampoo. my hair is nice but it could be nicer …….

[cleromancy]

it drives me so crazy when people say like such and such male character has like a female characters kind of narrative bc like 95% of the time they're completely wrong... like its not as annoying as the "girl coded" shit but it Is annoying because a lot of the time like. insisting scrimblo scrungus is treated by the narrative the way it would treat a female character 1) is bullshit bc there are female characters RIGHT THERE in that same narrative and the difference in how the narrative treats them is like in your face stupid obvious and 2) the vast vast majority of the time doing this means people ignore the gender stuff thats ACTUALLY going on in the story?? im not saying u have to care about characters' relationship to masculinity but when thats a point of a story ur reading and it whizzes right over ur head thats not a good look!! get better at reading get better at analysis n stop doing this shit

#like i have almost never encountered a male character ppl do this shit about who was actually like #like there are absolutely tropes and whatnot that are heavily associated with female characters and even yeah narrative approaches bbbbuuuut #LMAO its just really truly almost never the case when ppl start saying this in fandom #its just like 'lancelot du lac girl coded? 🤔🤔' while an entire pile of elaines next 2 him r just like are we a joke to u

[worstloki]

people fr are like "do you expect Loki to always be in armour? 🤨" and I'm here to answer that Yes! Yes I do! In fight situations, at the very least! Take a look at Thor! Take a look at Loki in Thor 1! Or either of them in Avengers 1! Or even - dare I say - Thor 2! Loki's got LOTS of outfits, switching pieces between them and across scenes, even. He goes through the most outfit changes, and they were all cool and detailed and suited to the situations! Even when not armour! So Yes! I either expect him to reflect such bombardment of clothing in the series as well (within bounds of what is reasonable) or armour when he's fighting. Or at the very least for him to be wearing some green.

#'why is it BROWN' 'omg you can't just ask why it's brown...' 'ok. why is he working with the timeline brainwashing genocide fascists?' 'um' #the Loki show #is the mcu for real like we're not going to put loki in his signature colours in a show with his name on it #what kind of clownery #my dude he was in green when he was in a cell on asgard #he got away from thanos in green - albeit hastily modified and a bit worn down - armour #bestie he didn't don a single horned helm in the entire season #my guy that is not loki if he cannot summon a new outfit even when the exact topic is broached in a conversation #my friends please consider that he has inexplicably not been able to get a single dagger of his own to himself in the show #his magic looks like goop and is used twice maybe three times in the series #he calls enchanting an amateur thing and then 3 episodes later needs to be taught by Sylvie and struggles #WHAT IS GOING ON #Thor 1 is shaking in Loki's custom made baby seal leather boots rn #L-Loki can't even do mag-- I can't say it 🤢 #THOR has recently done more actual proper magic than Loki #my goodness the lad can't even fight well #what happened to his ridiculously accurate dagger aim and the whole mastery of magic and whatnot #AND THEN THEY ALSO WON'T LET HIM HAVE DECENT CLOTHES? #im losing it #are we sure this is Loki? as in LOKI Loki? #''do you expect Loki to always be in armour'' NO BUT IT WOULD BE NICE FOR HIM TO RESEMBLE THE CHARACTER #don't tell me it's Loki being out of his element he did that in Thor 1 Avengers 1 Thor 2 Thor 3 and Infinity War already #don't tell me they needed to strip him down to build him back up. Thor went through that in Thor 1 and it was respectful #it's not even that it's office wear that bothers me it's that it's BORING office it's unsuited to the character #his whole thing is breaking boxes what do you mean he's worn grey and brown the entire show #Wanda got a glow up and Sam got a glowup and Kate and Clint got new fits #man... Loki got a glow down #and that's saying a LOT since he started the series at the end of Avengers 1 after Thanos and getting beat by the Hulk/Avengers #if Loki being a good guy means everyone keeps calling him evil and he's gotta dress down and get beat up constantly... let him be a bad guy #he's literally got nothing to lose here but a shirt that will expose every blood vessel in his abdomen if attacked with 1 glass of water

[maryoliverdotcom]

the cannibalism community is too whitewashed for a brown butch like me :(

#i don't rly like interacting w mainstream horror anymore because damn u only get white long haired girls #if there's wlw romance it's almost always fem4fem #& most of the “cannibalism + horror + weird girl” blogs r just. white girls w long hair kissing other white girls. covered in blood #no place for a brown butch like me #anywho i have a lot of Thoughts on this. esp because some of the main horror blogs i follow aren't even vocal abt palestine #even when their evidently large fanbase could make a difference w their reblogs & whatnot #cannibalism has turned fun & quirky. smth “weird” girls do. everyone's the final girl. everyone loves cannibals #where are the themes n motifs?? everyone says “inherent eroticism” w/o meaning it nowadays #idk i feel like it's been so overused on tumblr y'all have milked it dry #🫀

[piosplayhouse]

This artfight "discourse" goes around every year and it's seriously like beating a dead (disk)horse at this point but truly if you get FREE art of your OCs that someone made you in their free time and you purposefully ignore or even worse shittalk it because it's not "quality" enough for you you are truly a miserable person! I would rather take 1 headshot done in crayon by an artist trying their best than a million professionally rendered pieces done by a popular artist drawing with no passion just because they want a ton of free art in return

#atp i almost treasure captions more than i do the actual art #fanart can be rendered outdated after a redesign but a 'i loved your character so much i really wanted to draw them' is eternal #not to say the art isnt also important though i love art !! and im not trying to say that like if youre more skilled your art is worth less #or anything like that obviously . just that human intent behind art is so hugely important to the impact of a piece #beyond just the boundaries of the canvas . the feefees and whatnot #whatever your skill level if youre authentic and passionate and appreciative and understanding it will come thru #and you and your work are loved #artfight #art fight

[masonjarcollector]

(New DW 2023 spoilers) I'm finally getting around to watching DW and the Meep's pronouns scene is both equal parts wholesome, as I get both euphoria and comfort from knowing the Doctor would respect my pronouns, and hysterical because why/how would this alien know to say "my chosen pronoun is the definite article"

#I tend to cringe a shoehorned attempts at representation in an endeavor to seem With The Kids and whatnot #but I was so caught off-guard at this line that I can't even be mad at it #We stan the Meep #(Do we? I haven't finished the episode yet) #DW #dw spoilers #doctor who #doctor who 60th anniversary #The doctor says “he or she or they?” which such softness and kindness I can't illuminate enough how comforting it is for no reason at all

[rowan-guerrins]

people on tiktok well on all social media sites actually will loudly critique the fact some people (especially those who only watched the movies) “didn’t get the point of the hunger games” and then turn around and say gale is the worst person in the universe and treat him like he’s a monster, and that all these traits are innate characteristics completely isolated from the circumstances in which he lived and the people around him. like girlie i think maybe YOU didn’t get the point here either.

#obviously this isn’t to say you need to or were “supposed to” like gale #there are a lot of good reasons to criticize him. esp wrt his sense of entitlement to katniss. #but he’s not supposed to be a Villain™️ #like he’s a poor traumatized (brown coded) boy whose very valid anger was used to groom him into a perfect soldier. #kind of almost like it’s a critique on the militarization of young boys. esp those who are underprivileged. #which doesn’t excuse his actions & it doesn’t mean you have to like him #but it’s enraging when people act like he is a heartless monster who is unredeemable or whatever. like. oh that’s not…. #bonus points if they babygirlify cato and clove (and marvel and glimmer) and cry about how they’re just kids #+ “they were only the way they are bc of the capitol 🥺”. #like yes it’s a big point that they were kids groomed to be child soldiers because the capitol pressured and “rewarded” career districts #to churn out child soldiers and whatnot. but that. ok. #truly just how do you hold the belief that to an extent excuses them or at least makes them sympathetic— #—but then not extend that empathy to gale. side eye. #esp bc a lot of the stuff is taking potshots at gale to uplift peeta/everlark. #like. uh! okay! #obligatory disclaimer i don’t actually like gale. however i am at my limit on weird and bad and inconsistent takes on him. #yeah he sucks. almost like that’s because he was horrifically oppressed by the captiol + then was groomed to be the ideal soldier by coin. #crazy how that’s the point. #and AGAIN. doesn’t EXCUSE what he does. but it’s important to acknowledge bc it v much contextualizes who and what he is and does. #the hunger games #gale hawthorne #i don’t think i need to tag this in the anti tag but lmk

[bo0bydrake]

i have got to emphasise on the fact that this is huge actually- gay rights in football is something that's just barely discussed. during the world cup in qatar, captains were banned from wearing a one love captain's band because it was too political (it was just a band with a rainbow heart on it), homophobia and racism is practically rooted in the songs sung during matches and there are no out players in the premier league, or more generally, there is only one (1) out player in the top leagues. having a character simply just,, be with another man and also a footballer in the premier league is a huge statement and will hopefully aid in trying to make football a better space.

#i listened to a podcast about why there are no out players in sports last year #and the conclusion was that it had to do with a lot of different factors #among them: the fans #take for example in the netherlands there's a hooligan group that roots for feyenoord. they threatened a fellow supporter who - #- started a supporter's group for lgbt+ fans. and also tried to light the man's place of business on fire #and in an away game to (albania i wanna say??) they brought banners that said they wanted him to die of hiv #mind you this is a FELLOW SUPPORTER #for the same club #and the songs supporters sing are a hell of a lot less tame than in ted lasso #homophobic racist antisemetic or islamophobic chants are just regular business in football matches #and in addition to that: locker room culture! #locker room culture in football and many other sports (with the men mostly) is toxic as hell! #there have been some efforts to try and nip this in the bud with trainings and seminars on diversity being given at youth clubs #but it's an issue in society as a whole that a lot of young men are just homophobic as FUCK #and i mean having a character on an acclaimed and popular show on tv/streaming right now could have a huge impact #esp on all the young ppl who'll see this thru fk tiktok and whatnot #im just really excited for what this will bring. and i hope it might do some good in football as a whole #ted lasso #colin hughes #ted lasso season 3