#especially the women of got <3

[blueskittlesart]

deeply refreshing to see someone critical of Swift who also like, genuinely likes her. Like i'm neutral to positive on her, but the online discourse has been absolutely rancid. flipping between "Taylor Swift has never done anything wrong ever and she's a fucking genius" and "Taylor Swift is the worst lyricist of all time and also a bad person" is exhausting, so thank you for like. nuance or something lmao

not to make it serious for a sec but i genuinely think that being able to like things that are bad is really important. like I think that it's an important skill to be able to look at something and see what you personally enjoy about it and then take a step back and acknowledge that objectively it's flawed. and to also be able to acknowledge that liking something isn't necessarily an identity or a moral stance. and i think that fandom space in general could really benefit from more people taking the time to learn how to do that. it's okay to like things that are bad

#people ask me sometimes why ill occasionally talk about something i like and then go 'but it's bad' and the answer is usually because it is #i love teen wolf. i love genshin impact. i love detective conan. and i fucking LOVE taylor swift. that doesnt mean theyre good #it just means i like them. and recognizing their flaws actually helps me better identify what i like about them! #it's like. in my mind bad > good is the x axis and i like it > i dont like it is the y axis yk. they're not mutually exclusive #tldr it's not that serious. we can all relax a little #irt taylor swift i do also think she has done some real harm to her fans in enabling them to deflect all criticism of her as misogyny #and i don't think it's fully the fault of these people who are parroting that response bc so much of her marketing has deliberately #reinforced this idea that to be a swiftie is to be a part of a sisterhood and that any attack on taylor is an attack on all of those women #who are in that in-group. when that's obviously not the case. but she's marketed herself as. for lack of a better term. 'girl music' #to the point where it makes her fans feel as though any criticism of the music or the woman responsible for it is an attack on their #personal experience of womanhood/girlhood/sisterhood/etc. and that's how you get all of thess bad-faith accusations of misogyny #i don't necessarily think this was her deliberate goal with her marketing tho because like. on first glance such a strong sense of communit #among fans sounds like a great thing. the friendship bracelets i got at the eras tour movie are really genuinely special to me. #but it does present a problem when your fans are unable to separate how they feel about the community and experience your music has fostere #from how they feel about you as a person. especially when you are a billionaire who absolutely CANNOT be above criticism in this economy #anyway. tldr i love taylor's music and i don't think swiftie hivemind is as deliberately malicious as it may seem #but it's obviously necessary to be able to take a step back and look objectively at what you're participating in. #anyway stream ttpd or don't idc <3 #taylor swift

[webcxre]

more kidpix art bc im getting a kick out of it

#kinito #kinitopet #kinito the axolotl #transgender #trans women #my art #TO ANYONE WONDERING. what about trans men/nb/etc? PLEASE REMEMBER that celebration of one isn't exclusion of the other! #especially rn with tumblr itself having pushback against trans women its the time to raise trans womens' voices #...also i just wanted to draw tbh kinito #he's got more trans dude/nb energy but he supports trans women too <3

[bumblingbabooshka]

Voyager's obsession with every female character being a mother either literally or metaphorically is so dire like even SESKA got pregnant. Someone put a planned parenthood in the Delta Quadrant PLEASE. Someone start handing out condoms, this is an EMERGENCY.

#Kes barely got out of there alive #Janeway also got out in CANON but in FANDOM she's liiiike everyone's mom <3 like the ship's mommy <3 Hey. C'MON NOW. #I (in general - not in every case) hate when people say 'well X is like a mom/dad to Y' bc more often than not it's just left at that #as if being a parent is just like an uncomplicated and homogenous thing that lets you not have to think about that relationship #in any more depth #ESPECIALLY with mothers and motherhood which I assume is from the notion that motherhood is 'natural' for women. #Like a fish to water!!! Yaaay yippee!!!! #I find it hard to describe my frustration with this both in fandom and in mainstream media but it deeply deeply frustrates me

[roomy-ghosted]

My feelings towards ao3 this morning.

#baldurs gate 3 #astarion #bg3 astarion #like-i get it. but- #please. please for the love of god. just fluff or non-sexual fics. #for five seconds. #please. #I can only handle so much corn. especially when it's almost all geared just towards women. #this is all /lh i dont actually care all that much- but there comes a point where theres too much and all a man wants to do #is hold another man close. or go on perfume dates or pottery lessons with another man. #small things to help healing or gentle things or silly playful things. #hell- even taking care of all the spawn with Astarion in the bad ending- #why are all the bad ending fics ive seen corn btw? I've seen like- zero non-corn ones. #i get it. I get the vibe. but like- also. consider. like- maybe I wanna read angst with. with no corn?? please? #I've got 4 unposted fluffy fics im working on. One being hurt-comfort with some extra hurt #which i had to stop writing for a bit today because it was hurting a bit TOO much. #but yea. a little less corn for Astarion? for those who aren't horndogs? please? or just don't wanna fuck him because they #dont wanna hurt him more- (im not at the point in game where he's comfy with sex again yet-) #BESIDES GALE IN THE WAVEMOTHER ROBES IS RIGHT THERE PEOPLE- #LIKE COME ON. IF YOU'RE GONNA SEXUALISE A MAN HE'S RIGHT THERE WITH HIS PUPPY DOG EYES AN HAIRY CHEST. #There needs to be more sexualisation of Gale. NO I don't take no for an answer (Astarion is still my favourite though-)

[kaidanalenkosprmanager]

THE BEST OF THE NORMANDY SUMMIT

Featuring: Cmdr. Sophie Shepard, Primarch Adrien Victus, Dalatrass Linron, and Urdnot Wrex With: Comm. Specialist Samantha Traynor Commander, you need to keep Cerberus at bay- I can't overstate what a victory a treaty between the Turians and the Krogan would be for the Alliance. We need all the help we can get... Mass Effect 3: Legendary Edition (2021)

#mira makes gifs ✨ #sophie shepard #urdnot wrex #samantha traynor #mass effect #mass effect 3 #me3 #mass effect legendary edition #dailygaming #finally got around to gif'ing the sur'kesh footage and i ended up splitting it in half bc the summit just had too many good wrex moments #by best of: the normandy summit i really just mean best of: wrex bc this is literally just every wrex moment from the summit LMAO #i was gonna stuff this in with the priority sur'kesh set but literally when i had like 10 gifs of just the summit i was like #sur'kesh is getting the mars split bc wrex has too many good moments to just start cutting half of them out tbh #also victus in his fancy primarch robes with THAT VOICE??? i'm not down bad for most turians but DAMN victus #maybe we talk about how fucking real he was for hearing wrex say that the krogan were the ones who spilled their blood to stop the rachni #and immediately looked at the dalatrass and said that wrex was fucking right #and then said that the dalatrass was helping wrex or she'd never see another friendly turian again?? like he's a fucking ICON for that tbh #and soph in the dress blues????? HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT (mass effect women in uniforms and armor 😍) #her angy face coming back at the dalatrass to defend wrex is everything to me #and wrex's expressions during the summit are so fucking good #there's so much raw emotion on his face that you can see and you can tell how like angry and frustrated he is with the dalatrass and victus #and how much he's holding back!! especially when linron insults him!! when she basically calls his people useless!! #like there's just a thousand+ years of pent up krogan rage about the genophage just boiling behind wrex's eyes #and he somehow manages to keep somewhat cool during the summit? like obvi wrex isn't a thousand+ years old but he's his people's rep #he's such a fucking interesting character especially during this scene when you think about a thousand+ years of the genophage #bc you get to watch him balance keeping his cool in a political situation he's a leader in #vs. remembering he's a krogan in the presence of the leadership of the people who literally created a sterility plague for his people?? #and the raw emotions of that for him??? #wrex my love you deserve the world for dealing with the summit in the cool-headed way that you did bc it was 100% bullshit for you #canon soph would have thrown the dalatrass off the normandy so fucking fast for insulting wrex and his people and you cannot change my mind

[cancerian-woman]

Barolena was really supposed to be the main-trio. Yet all of the girls best friendships/relationships are with males (even then those have their own issues.)

#and that’s because the series prioritized the males vs everybody #especially the women. #yeah yeah Nina left and all that but can y’all name many barolena moments in season 6? #when did they do girl things like sleepovers etc. #and yes i also know Bonnie’s mistreatment factors a lot into barolena becomes but season 1-2 will always be different from 3-8 lol #bonnie bennett #Elena gilbert #Caroline Forbes #barolena #i say all of this to imply that we should’ve seen more of them in the later seasons instead of wtf we got #Baroline #carolena #bonlena #tvd #the vampire diaires

[7-7-cherry]

Ichiro day!!

#hypmic #hypnosis mic #ichiro yamada #happy birthday to our poster boy :D #oh my god finally i've made a bday card for each hypmic character over the past year i am FREE #(main male characters. unfortunately i've forgotten how to draw women so no chuohku cards for now </3) #never doing this again gshhshd 18 drawings per year doesn't sound like a lot but. it is to me #the good thing is the bdays kept me drawing at least once per month so i couldn't ever truly slack off #another good thing is i learned a lot! and got to know the character designs of everyone better #but hoo boy am i excited to finally not have to think abt these. maybe i'll get back to drawing personal ideas again now #anyway i was surprised by how well this turned out cuz i've been struggling so much with drawing lately (especially faces) #and i had never rly drawn ichiro before so i was worried but!! it's fine wooo!! #or like. i'm moderately happy at least #7-7-cherry drawingz

[glitterdustcyclops]

love that i'm slowly convincing da fandom to check out baldur's gate 3 by pointing out the (true!) fact that the main characters are a bunch of bisexual disasters who become a found family reluctantly i'm so glad we're all on the same page here

#you're welcome larian #lmao #i feel like such a poser cuz i didn't even play during early access #but i know what da fandom is about i know who we are as people #seriously tho if you've been on the fence check it out!!! #especially DAO fans because it really does capture the heart and spirit of tabletop that game does #its got the mechanics of origins with the level of story writing from da2 and da:i #AND CANONICAL POLY RELATIONSHIPS!!! #and multiple strong complicated horrible women #and you can be nonbinary!!!! #baldur's gate 3

[bobzora]

yeah femc has some really solid romance routes but i just cannot be assed to care too much because there are some crazy level yuri goings on in this game

#bobtalk #yeah i’ll max shinji and ryoji of course. ryoji especially he’s my bestfriend. akihiko…sorry lmao. #maxed saori and put my head in my hands. PEAK. i wonder what she’ll say in march. letter like temperance? #i feel like she’d really benefit from watching r/gu. by the way. she started talking about princes and princesses #p3pposting #anyway every girl you spoke more than 2 sentences to in male route was inexplicably madly in love with you. but femc has Charisma. #(still very funny how people line up outside your classroom to speak to you btw. lmao) #i want to do more junpei link cuz it’s been Very good but he’s occupied by the plot rn. sad! started shinji though (september) #anyway. every time i play portable i’m reminded how much girls rule. i love you girls. i finally got megido on my mothman. #i’m also reminded how sad i am about reload. WE DONT GET VOICED OR MODELLED SAORI……..THEY HATE WOMEN!!! #by the way yukari peak as fuck. shes so good. i’m trying 2 like mitsuru more because the student council type personality #never really appeals to me that much. <- im also trying to hack my brain to like makoto more. for feminism. i’m sorry women i’m working oni #she’s really pretty in arena btw. <3<3<3 #i also don’t especially care for akihiko i KNOW i’m SORRY. he’s fine. i like his dynamic with shinji and ken. sorry. lol #but yeah. i need aigis SL NOW!!!! #(theodore sucks btw. maybe that’s just because i don’t like men but i miss liz so bad. sigh.) #when my laptop works again maybe i’ll post some screenshots. <- playing on vita btw #good game. #(oh yeah i’ve maxed all social stats except i’m two from max on knowledge. whoops! at least it’s enough for Dying Young Man.)

[willosword]

aerith my dearly beloved.... my darling star. let me save you from amanormativity <3

#just got to her weird ass comments about jessie at the golden saucer ghhkjikghjhk #very strange thing to tease about when cloud is clearly mourning his dead friend like.......... girlie #all these comments are very /pos btw i LOVE when women are allowed to be abrasive and socially awkward #it did hit me in my aro funny bone a bit. especially the implication that cloud is too immature to understand his own relationships #but i'm letting it go for the sake of rich aerith characterization <3 peace and love on planet gaia babey <3 #willow whispers #final fantasy vii #rebirth spoilers

[malistaires]

learning that mellori betrays the wizard now makes a lot of (mostly reddit) opinions ive seen of her make sense lmfao. like ppl not liking her or saying that her character was “ruined”. idk im of the opinion that writing characters to make choices i dont necessarily like doesnt constitute "ruin." it just makes them a character.

#disclaimer: this is my opinion and i havent even got to this part in arc 3 so who am i to talk. #sorry that characters (and ESPECIALLY female characters) make choices that you dont like. kindly get over it and see the bigger story. #i have very strong feelings abt good-turned-traitorous women who are mistreated by the audience (i am reccoa londe's number 1 fan) #soup.txt

[peggycatrerr]

like sure as a feminist of course i support women’s sport becoming as respected and well-paid and popular as men’s sport. but as someone who fucking hates afl and cricket and who is sick of how intense this country gets over them and how angry people get when you express your personal dislike of them (which of course only makes you hate them even more because now it’s really personal) and who is also very disheartened by this country’s absolute lack of effort to support its local film and television industries and the fact that what little original programming there is other than reality shows gets replaced by The Big Sports whenever they’re currently happening because god forbid we get in the way of the big sports and who also would be sick of the inescapability and pervasiveness of the annoying as shit advertising for these sports even if she wasn’t distinctly not a fan of the sports in question, i’m not liking the fact that the rise of aflw and the womens cricket are causing the stupid ass afl and cricket to get even more stupid ass screentime this year. Like if we’re gonna promote women’s sports we need to cut down on the men’s sports on tv a bit to keep the amount of sports on tv even.

#steph’s post tag #i also really hated the way that they used the womens world cup to advertise the aflw. #like a large part of this country has never respected soccer and especially not women’s soccer and then they only jump on the matildas #bandwagon because the world cup got hosted here and then they act all special for it like they weren’t just making fun of it #and they act the same way they would for afl games and then they put goddamn aflw ads in every single ad break #afl fans be like ‘can’t stand sports that don’t give me constant instant gratification’ (ten minutes later) ‘ME AND THE MATILDAAAAS <3’

[strangefable]

🖤 for an oc of your choosing 👀

send 🖤 and my character will answer about yours.

micah making eyes at fade? maybe

attractiveness:

repulsive / hideous / ugly / not attractive / unappealing / not unattractive / meh / no preference / ok / mildly attractive / nice looking / cute / adorable / attractive / pleasant on the eyes / good looking / hot / sexy / beautiful / gorgeous / hot damn / would tap that / perfect / godlike / holy fuck there are no words.

personality:

grating / irritating / frustrating / boring / confusing at best / awkward / unreasonable / psychotic / disturbing / interesting / engaging / affectionate / aggressive / ambitious / anxious / artistic / bad tempered / bossy / charismatic / appealing / unappealing / creative / courageous / dependable / unreliable / unpredictable / predictable / devious / dim / extroverted / introverted / egotistical / gregarious / fabulous / impulsive / intelligent / sympathetic / talkative / up beat / peaceful / calming / badass / flexible.

how likely they would have sex with them:

not if they were the last person on earth and the world was ending / fuck no! / never / no way / not likely / not sure / indifferent / I’m asexual / maybe / probably / it depends / fairly likely / likely / yeah sure / yes / would tap that / hell yes / fuck yes! / wishing that could happen right now / as many times as possible / we are already having sex.

level of friendship:

never in a million years / worst of enemies / enemies / rivals / indifferent / neutral / acquaintance / friendly toward each other / casual friends / friends / good friends / best friends / fuck buddies / bosom buddies / practically the same person / would die for them / true friends / my only friend.

first impression of them:

i hate them so much / i don’t like them / i don’t trust them / they annoy me / they’re weird / I’m indifferent / meh / they seem alright / they’re growing on me / truce / I think I like them / I like them / I’m not sure if I trust them / I trust them / they’re cool / they’re genuine / I think we’re going to get along / I really like them / I think I’m in love / oh fuck they’re hot / I love them.

current impression of them:

i hate them so much / i don’t like them / i don’t trust them / they annoy me / they’re weird / I’m indifferent / meh / they seem alright / they’re growing on me / truce / I think I like them / I like them / I’m not sure if I trust them / I trust them / they’re cool / they’re genuine / I think we’re going to get along / I really like them / I think I’m in love / oh fuck they’re hot / I love them.

#thank you for asking! <3 #micah hale #fade #micah would ten thousand percent be into that #but also they would likely suck at communication and trust #they both got too many walls #but micah has a severe weakness for badass women #and very little sense of self-preservation anyhow #especially when presented with such a woman #the girl is The Bisexual Disaster stereotype and loses her shit over women regularly (despite the john of it all) #fade would absolutely be her type and make micah SO STUPID <3 #p.s. she would also fall apart for most of your girls tbh #i just chose fade first cause they're in the same universe

[surpriserose]

So im watching this playlist of a bunch of youtubers reviewing the last decade of goodreads awards winner by genre because i love people rightfully shitting on goodreads but like? One of the ones i watched was romance because yeah obviously and the woman who reviewed was like really into the romance genre and im geniunely not trying to be a cunt but i dont understand how someone can be geniunely into the romance genre like!!!! You like books where nothing fucking happens? And a lot of her criticisms were like there wasnt enough romance because it was just a subplot or there was too much stuff from other genres and like.....yeah? You have to like you cant carry an entire book on one relationship like sure thats an opinion because i literally dont understand romance books but like????? Like idk im not trying to be a cunt but like WHAT is appealing about a pure romance book???

#Like obviously im influenced by being a lesbian and LOL LMAO AS IF THATS GONNA FUCKING SELL IN MAINSTREAM ROMANCE a genre dominated by #Cishet women like of course of the 10 books 8 were straight relationships and 2 were mlm gay relationships because cishet women hate wlw #But like even if wlw romance books were everywhere im still like....how can you enjoy something thats just so ...nothing!!! How do you #Enjoy the literary equivalent of your friend talking about their new annoying boyfriend nonstop #Like even if i think about the lesbian relationships in media i enjoy its not in romance books like #I like sarah waters books because theyre historical thrillers not because its just a lesbian relationship existing and then i wait 8 books #For them to fuck like #Like maybe tipping the velvet is the closet waters got to a romance book but theres so much more explored in it like i dont understand the #Appeal of ....just romance like that shit is usually a subplot for a reason!!!!!! #Idk why i wrote all of this but well idk i just...dont understand romance like #ESPECIALLY SINCE THIS REVIEWER had to read 3 coho books and was like??? For it ends with us she said it wasnt a romance book because it #Romance books require a happy ending???????? Like huh????? What is coho if not the worlds worst romance author who is occasionally the #Worlds wost thriller/romance writer??? #Like if one of your constraints for the genre is a happy ending like what the fuck thats so restrictive for no reason??? Why would you read #It if you know wow this couple? Who the whole book is about only? Gets together and HAS to be happily ever aftered or else its...suddenly #Not a romance book????? #Like huh?????????????????

[theophagie-remade]

"Not actually out but also no one who sees me doesn't think that there's something going on" is a fun state to be in

#not out *except to my two friends. partially. but in general y'know #it's generally a very negative thing and something that frustrates me and makes me feel awful etc etc etc especially because i'm very #limited in what i can do/wear/etc as it is and this. suspension. is incredibly annoying #but every so often i try to look at the funny side. even though there's quite a lot of frustration in there too #(--_--) #mytext #like. fuck me for having so many issues with my mother but it is what it is. and idk i cannot even begin to imagine living your life #without ever questioning things like ''common sense'' or the reasoning behind ''how things are'' #and without getting into the sexuality bit (she thinks that i'm a lesbian but still clings in terror to the hope that i'm not. that's it) #one of our most common convos is ''women shouldn't [x]'' ''who decided that women shouldn't >x]?'' ''*evades the question*'' #and it drives me craaazy craaaaaazyyyyy. ''have you ever once in your life not assumed that you were an inherently inferior human?'' ''no'' #and that's one half of it the other half of it is me being constantly forced into these pointless arguments when i'm just doing whatever #and want to be whoever. like idgaf that you can't possibly begin to imagine gender being anything but Pussy Girl Pink and Dick Boy Blue #but let me live my life at least #i think if i one day straight up told her that my not so strong connection to womanhood partially if not mainly has to do with me being #okay with lesbians being attracted to me than it has with whatever else she would explode #on that matter it's a shame that uoma isn't one of the fun slurs that got/are getting reclaimed but instead kinda disappeared and wasn't #that common to begin with overall because coincidentally i like it a lot ^_^ <3