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mcd-incorrect-quotes · 7 months
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𝐈𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤: 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐝𝐨 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐲𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐫𝐨𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐉𝐅𝐊 𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐈’𝐝 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐨𝐨 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐢𝐭.
𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐨: 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭- 𝐡𝐨𝐰?
𝐈𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤: 𝐘𝐨𝐮’𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 “𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞𝐝 … 𝐌𝐫. 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭” 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈’𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞, “𝐈 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐝𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐕𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐧𝐚𝐦 𝐛𝐲 𝐚 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝟏𝟖.”
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daenerysies · 4 months
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someone sent me an anon ask about the anti rhaenyra agenda most rhaenicent shippers have and like a dumbass i accidently deleted it so i'm just going to try my best to re-answer it here (yes i wrote a whole spiel about it and now it's gone forever and i'm upset.)
from what i can tell there are only two reasons as to why people can't stand rhaenyra but love rhaenicent; and it's because they either have some heavy internalized misogyny OR that's the only way to continue and keep their uwu sad lesbian alicent headcanons semi-tethered in reality. alicent is a character that has next to no positive interactions with other characters, least of all any women. she has a 'good' (and i say that lightly) relationship with rhaenyra for 2 episodes in hotd, and then they are adversaries for the rest of the show. the only other women we see her interact with are helaena and her lady in waiting talya ( who regularly spied on her for mysaria) and minus talya, those are the same female relationships she has in f&b. she doesn't really have a good track record with anyone.
in the book she terrorized rhaenyra from aegon's birth up until rhaenyra's death. rather than teaching her son to rule and raising him to be an upstanding prince of the realm she instead spent her time calling rhaenyra, a literal child, a slut, she accepted criston into her service as her own personal protector in spite of his predatory behavior towards rhaenyra (which she acknowledges), and continuously tries to have rhaenyra and her sons disinherited and killed due to her own spreading of the bastard rumors. not to mention that she was eighteen when she married viserys to rhaenyra's nine. there's really nothing romantic about it. in the show almost everything is still the same except for her being the one to arrange helaena's marriage to her known degenerate and rapist son (in f&b viserys is the one who had them marry) and most likely told her the same rhetoric of rhaenyra killing them to secure her claim that she told her sons from when they were babies up until the coup. with rhaenyra she still antagonizes her because she (lemme check again, told alicent she didn't sleep with daemon and got otto fired because he was working against the crown to install his grandson as heir over her). don't even get me started on the villainization of rhaenyra in order to uphold alicent's constant victimization storyline. alicent is the one who abused rhaenyra, not the other way around, and the age changes in the show (which are so stupid omg) only serve to make alicent more sympathetic and rhaenyra an apparent privileged brat who doesn't understand what it's like to suffer because of the men in her life and therefore deserves her fate (i can literally see the entire galaxy with how far back my eyes are rolled rn.)
if the show wanted to include or focus on two women who were torn apart by the patriarchy and the men around them, helaena's blank character was right there for the taking (and would've been even juicier with the sister vs sister, queen consort vs queen regnant debacle.) she has no personality in the book or any relevance besides losing her children in violent ways and going mad, they definitely could have made her a more present character on screen in a manner that adds an actual emotional connection to her but alas, rhaenicent is top priority. furthering that, if the show wanted to include queer representation with their leading lady, laena had more hints in the text for that type of relationship than anything the show has given us for the rhaenyra/alicent dynamic, even with how hard they're trying to force it down our throats.
the entire relationship has made the story go completely off kilter because the show won't just let it be, and it's affected almost all of their other relationships. they're not going to convince me that rhaenyra cares about alicent more than her own children or even vice versa (though in an entirely different manner) and that reconciliation is possible in spite of aemond murdering luke. it makes both the characters and the writers look like delusional idiots. there's absolutely no reason for these types of glaring mistakes in a series where characterization and the relationships that revolve from them are the reason it's so popular amongst the masses. this lack of proper relationship building has caused hotd to feel a lot more shallow and lackluster than what you'd expect with how massive it's budget was when they created it, the amount of talented actors they casted, and the literal blueprint laid out of what not to do that got season eight is. someone should have taken accountability for these dumb decisions and realized how quickly they're streamlining straight towards what ruined game of thrones in the first place.
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gorbalsvampire · 6 months
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V:tM at the Movies: a film rec list
THE UR–EXAMPLES
The Hunger is about as close to the Platonic ideal of Vampire: the Masquerade as you can get. Nightclubs! Gratuitous Bauhaus! Lesbian kiss! The aesthetic is spot on: it looks and feels like early Vampire art, or rather early Vampire art looks and feels like this film. V:tM may have come out in 1991 but it's rooted firmly in the 1980s and the vampire chic this film defined. The Hunger will dump the vibe of the game right between the eyes and it's as close as I dare come to "must-watch."
V:tM's Gehenna concept is heavily mirrored/inspired by the novel Queen of the Damned, which was filmed around the time Gehenna was actually happening and the line was coming to a close. The Hunger defines where V:tM came from, all Eighties post-punk writhing - this chuggy post-industrial apocalypse-glam perfectly sums up where it's going.
Although they have no real connection to each other besides parallel evolution, Night Teeth absolutely nails the "rival conspiracies" energy of Hunter: the Reckoning and Vampire: the Masquerade, as well as the burnout, the irony, the neon and the party-at-the-end-of-the-world vibe of V5.
THE META TAKE
Shadow of the Vampire is about a vampire playing a vampire in the first vampire movie ever made. In a weird way I think that's perfect for the sense of the Masquerade, hiding in plain sight, preying on the worst instincts of humanity and encouraging them to let you get away with all the awful things you want to do. In microcosm, it's the perfect analogy for the "vampires secretly run society" vibe.
YOUR FLAVOUR OF BASTARD
Depending on what type of vampire you want to be (and I'm going with V5's categories here), I recommend at least one of the following:
Thinbloods lend themselves well to the What We Do In The Shadows conceit of vampire flatmates (or The Carmilla Movie, I guess, but I haven't seen that one). They're millennial vampires; all the power and resources are concentrated in the hands of previous generations, so they pretty much have to bind together and find something else to enjoy in life, 'cause they're never going to be powerful in the conventional sense. Thinblood games are low power, a bit domestic, and often the closest to "normal life but we happen to be vampires and bigger vampires try to kick our heads in occasionally."
Neonates are your classic Gen X eighties/nineties vampire movie - The Lost Boys. Still weak enough that they're better off standing together, strong enough that they can afford to be a bit cocky around humans. Probably share a sire, mentor, authority figure of some sort and should probably be working on his agenda once they've finished prowling the boardwalks and clubland at night. They're a step further removed from society, but they can pretend to be human for an hour or two if they really try. Also, this is the other one that was in the air and influential when V:tM first came to be - along with The Hunger, I'd recommend it as the closest to a must-watch.
Ancillae (the upper reaches of age and power offered by the V5 corebook) are more your Interview With The Vampire  kind of deal. You've lived a long life, your adventuring days are behind you, and now you're something of a mover and a shaker - you're probably permitted or at least not prevented from siring and you're looking to give someone the choice you never had. Modernity gives you a headache but at least you can work a smartphone four times out of five. Ancillae games are a nice balance between "you're powerful" and "you still have to answer to someone".
If you're extending into Elder territory, settle down with a small glass of something and enjoy one of my favourite films ever, Only Lovers Left Alive. It's a slow story, and not a lot happens, but that's elders for you. They become introverted. They fall into a groove. They keep to each others' company. It's beautiful and haunting until some clueless childe comes along and screws it all up for them and they have to admit what they really are.
Want to figure out the Sabbat? Watch 30 Days of Night and thank me later. The vampires there are getting away with something horrible because they've fallen through the cracks in the world. They act alpha-predator but they still live on the fringe or civilisation, the little savages. (I am told that Near Dark is basically Sabbat: the Movie, but I haven't seen it, so I'm going to have to take that on trust.)
REFLEXIVE ACTION
It would be deeply remiss of me not to talk about Underworld, the film series transparently inspired by V:tM,.to the point where White Wolf as was took the producers of the original to court over it. Underworld reflects V:tM at its most "gamery" – all custom weapons, trenchcoats and corsets, fighting werewolves in the dark, flashing back to the Middle/Dark Ages and preoccupied with impenetrable why-does-this-matter world-building. It sits at the end of that unfortunate tendency toward Desert Eagles, katanas, Dragonsbreath rounds and C4 appearing on every character sheet that found its way into V:tM's DNA from Shadowrun, along with the penchant for double handfuls of d10s and wearing sunglasses indoors. I dislike that sort of game and I'm not mad keen on Underworld either, but I'd be lying if I didn't admit that this sort of thing is also peak Vampire.
WAIT, THIS ISN'T VAMPIRES!
V:tM is synonymous with politics and backstabbing, and there isn't in my opinion a vampire movie that really hits that. Thing is, Rein-Hagen also loves Mafia movie and cites them as an influence. Vampires exist as organised criminals, after all, and the concept of omerta is atomic to that of the Masquerade. This is why, to grasp how a Prince or Baron holds court and influences people, you really should just sit down and watch The Godfather. Pretty basic recommendation, granted, but I don't know if anyone else is here for my "Guy Ritchie's V:tM" style of action storytelling...
YOUR OWN PERSONAL JESUS TASTE
What are your top three movies? Why? That'll give you an idea of what you, as Storyteller, are most interested in running. Now grab some friends and ask them the same question. Wherever you find an overlap in your tastes, that's something that's worth focusing on in your actual game. Try to make sure there's a couple of vampire-themed answers in there, but also something else, because "being a vampire" in and of itself doesn't make a story (unless it's a quiet, short one like Only Lovers Left Alive, but that's a one-off, not a chronicle). 
People often expect an RPG to come ready-made and ready-to-go ("We're playing the Lost Mines of Phandelver") and Vampire, at its best, is a bit more bespoke. Asking players about their taste in media is one way to start that tailoring process, making your V:tM something a bit different from everyone else's and getting into that transformative stuff that makes RPGs so gosh-darn amazing.
Mine, discounting the one I've already gushed about up the line, are a nebulous "pick one from Guy Ritchie's early career" and Franklyn. My games run on generally have a couple of seemingly indestructible SPCs nobody likes and a dark secret that can absolutely take them down, someone WILL have an impenetrable regional accent, but there's also a layer of exaggerated Gothickry over everything, neuratypical characters will perceive the world very differently, vengeance and trauma will drive the major players and love may conquer all but you'll have to lose a lot to get there. None of this is essential to V:tM but it's what makes my V:tM different from A. N. Other Storyteller's.
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digitalcockroach · 6 months
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Hang on hang on your tags on "reverse queerbaiting" are excellent, please if you have the energy go into more detail on them doing "fanfic" romance tropes vs true romance tropes bc I think that's Exactly what I haven't been able to put into words
for context: POST: “I feel like we're almost in an era of like, reverse queerbaiting. Used to be that you'd be tricked into watching a show because the story implied there'd be gay rep, but now they're using gay rep to trick you into thinking there'll be a story.” TAGS: #tbh :/ #all the gay shows are pandering to like not even regular romance tropes but FANFIC tropes #and it's hollow af
Ok let me see if I can get my thoughts into some kind of order on this lol 
I mean to use the most egregious offender as an example, let’s talk about Good Omens s2. Like we come from s1 and the book which operate on a huge scale of time and across the globe with world ending stakes, even when it’s focused on Tadfield or London. There is a whole cast of characters outside of Aziraphael and Crowly with their own motives and agendas that intersect with each other and you can imagine existing before and after the story being told. Then we enter s2 and they’re all gone. God is gone. It’s Aziraphael and Crowley, Gabriel (and Beelzebub), and their neighbors who exist purely to be a Functional Couple oppose A+Cs dysfunctionality. This is kind of the first sin of fanfiction in this case, the world gets smaller and shallower and so do the characters within it. It’s all just feels like props and dressing to get two characters together. The whole Gabe and Beelzebub thing? The only reason I didn’t “see it coming” is because I thought there was no way they would just rip straight from the crackships of AO3 because I have READ THAT PLOT BETWEEN THESE CHARACTERS TWENTY TIMES JUST LIKE THIS. 
Gomens s2 and also the other big recent Gay Shows, Our Flag Means Death and What We Do In The Shadows, really fuckin abuse fanfic tropes to death in more specific ways too though like - a sassy lesbian couple to set the oblivious gays straight, a will-they-wont-they with completely forgone conclusion, everyone is a shy sensitive guy even when they’re ruthless killers everyone is kind of stupid and woobie and seconds from crying all over their soft little love interest, everyone talking in this self actualized therapy speak - SO much very direct TELLING and the SHOWING is just eyecandy, fanservice. The second sin the formulaic predictability and the third is prioritizing fanservice/shipping over storytelling. 
Because that’s the main thing I think? These shows - which I wanna be clear I liked at least at some point but have gotten really disappointed by as they continue - feel like they don’t have a story to tell. They’re just vehicles to get a Gay Couple together, regardless of character consistency or the way more interesting things implied going on in the world around them, and they just shed more and more detail and quality and idk variety? as the main ship’s relationship progresses and the world narrows further and further. It becomes boring, one-note. 
And to cover my bases here I don’t want to be misconstrued as believing these things can’t be or aren’t also true of straight romance shows (or movies, books, whatever) because I think we’ve all seen plenty of Boring Straight Romance, and I am being somewhat generalizing for the sake of what brevity I can accomplish here. But I think the noticeable thing with specifically these new queer romance shows is that they are being aimed at and HEAVILY pandering to yknow 18 - 30 year old chronically online fandom queers because people like Niel Gaiman and Taika Waititi and whathaveyou have witnessed first hand (and made a lot of money from) the absolute frenzy this AO3 donating demographic with go into over this exact kind of content. 
In short, people figured out you can make more money off of really dedicated weirdos with bad taste than you can writing something with depth and substance.
Not everything can be as good as Homestuck I guess!
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filmstudentrambles · 2 months
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Love Lies Bleeding and queer stories for those of us out of the closet
If All of Us Strangers (2023) was a gay coming out film, Love Lies Bleeding (2024) is the opposite of that. As cathartic as a well-done coming out story can be, it becomes tiring when that one of the few queer stories Hollywood tells. It’s a nice change of pace to find an explicitly queer film that doesn’t get hung up on the whole coming out arch. Some of us have been out. 
Love Lies Bleeding is a lesbian thriller and romance. Kristen Stewart plays Lou, a gym manager at a small town in nowhere, New Mexico. Katy M. O’Brien plays the new-to-town, competitive body builder Jackie. O’Brien and Stewart give great performances and have strong chemistry. Their romance builds into something that neither are capable of controlling. The relationship moves quickly, reminiscent of the ‘u-haul lesbian’ trope, but the film is careful to avoid satirizing queer relationships too aggressively. The characters are both deeply troubled, resulting in a somewhat toxic relationship dynamic, but the film offers redemption for the characters that feels well-earned and realistic. 
Some viewers may be turned off to the surreal elements. The ending in particular might annoy viewers who are expecting a very grounded story. The gritty atmosphere and cringe-inducing body horror sets the expectation for a very realistic thriller. The film subverts those expectations with a whimsical surreal ending. This lends to the shocking sequences throughout the film. The whimsy does not take away from the intensity of the earlier scenes. Director Rose Glass seems to lean into the dark Americana elements. The setting of the film as a forgotten small town USA, which so often serves as the location for supernatural, paranormal, and unexplained events in popular media offers the opportunity to lean into surreal elements without subverting audience expectations too greatly. Of course, the town is weird and haunted, of course everyone has a dark past, of course unexplainable things happen- that’s just what it’s like to live in the middle of nowhere. 
At the core, the film’s focus is on the body. The views of O’Brien’s character Jackie lifting weights and injecting steroids emphasizes the diversity of queer female beauty and subvert heterosexual notions of femininity. The film incorporates body horror with visceral gore and truly wet ambience. The film is so so wet. The sweat, the blood, the fucking, the violence. The vulgarity of it all provides further representation of queer bodies and the joy and the horror that comes from having a body. 
The film balances playfulness and grittiness in a fun queer thriller. It provides queer representation that doesn’t feel like a therapy session or homosexual diplomacy for the straights. The performances are solid and the plot is interesting. The surreal ending is fun and continues the film’s agenda for shock.
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characteroulette · 1 year
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DIRECTOR'S CUT! give me the rundown on Lemon Boy!
Oh god uhh. That is three whole chapters lol it's gonna be a bit long oof
Okay so like. The concept started from this Cavetown Album (called Lemon Boy, fittingly) and me singing Lemon Boy to myself one day and going, "huh. Apollo and Snufkin both fit this song. I should do something with that." (I pretty easily spiraled into shipping the two help)
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I wanna be ten feet tall!! I wanna grow big red horns!! I wanna eat fire and snow!! And scare everyone!!
Uhh yeah go listen to Ten Feet Tall it's a good song. Very Apollo vibes.
(I love to write to music, if you couldn't tell. Sprinkling in the motifs or imagery of them is like my fave thing to do it's so much fun.)
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It is very important to me that you understand that Apollo's love language is to shove. This is my headcanon and I will go to the grave pushing this agenda. XD
The concept of Apollo tracking down one of his old foster caretakers was actually something I came up with while jamming out a different story with Tega. It was a nice little heartbreaking thing to include in Apollo's backstory and so I put it here. Shit's fucked, my boy, I'm sorry.
(Maple and Ginger were purely named for food. Also lesbian couple because idk I will also die on this hill that Apollo is gay and had a lot of gay in his life.)
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I am pushing an Agenda and y'all will have to live with it. XD
But for real, I just like the concept of a young Snufkin, not really knowing any other way to console his friend, kissing him first and explaining it after. Snufkin and Apollo can understand each other in a way not a lot of the other kids around them could, so of course they'd also have a bit of a different relationship than those others.
This was also a good setup for the final chapter but it's really the entire reason I wrote this fic, I wanted this scene where Snufkin kisses Apollo and then Apollo pays it forward later in his life.
so uh I wrote the Clay chapter *after* finishing the first and last chapters!! I was originally just not gonna include a Clay segment (he was giving me too much trouble), but then I had a burst of inspiration and slammed it out so hey Clay gets to be in this lol.
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Also furthering my Apollo will bite agenda. I love the idea of Apollo not actually getting bullied because he fought back, but getting ignored and avoided actually because, again, he fought back. I think it fits his character pretty well to have that in his background, considering how desperate he is for validation.
Clay is also weird to me. Like, he's such a blank slate for characterisation that I end up not knowing what to do with him half the time and that kinda makes him boring to me. He's only fun because *I* made him fun, which can be nice but like. The Ace Attorney roster is filled with too many good characters for him to stand out at all. Dual Destinies made Clay an important fixture in Apollo's backstory, though, so fuck me I guess.
Finally, Klavier chapter!! I got to start off with Apollo just buying the concert tickets Klavier sent, which as you know is my favourite little detail. Klavier sending these tickets is such an unhinged move but Apollo then buying them without a second thought is just as unhinged, these two are dumbasses and perfect for one another. XD
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IT'S ME I'M STILL MAD ABOUT THIS. Phoenix goddamn Wright you cannot make Apollo present two (two!!) pieces of forged evidence and then never apologise for it!!! And then Spirit of Justice rolls around with Dhurke's whole deal and!!! Makes everything worse!!!
I have a whole ten or so rants about how AJ's ending is made worse actually by SoJ's inclusion (because how could Apollo be "too new" to law when he grew up with a literal disgraced defence attorney?? How could he have nothing to say on the poisoned system when he's known Dhurke and Khura'in's whole deal for all his life??? I'm upsetti I am so upsetti about this) but I'll save that for another time >T
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I just really like this bit. Absolutely added this scene it does not exist in canon, but. I like Apollo's last line. Maybe one day you won't be such a coward, Klavier. Maybe one day you'll stop running from the truth.
And agh. The whole conversation scene in the lobby is just. Catharsis but not. I ended up playing the comfortable-but-also-not mood the two got stuck in, Apollo reaching out and Klavier dodging his advances (like the coward he is lol) until Klavier finally does accept that offer. I just like their dynamic, two men touched by ruin and reacting to it in vastly different ways. Klavier runs until he sees someone else in need and Apollo reaches out against all of his better instincts. They're my faves <3
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*screaming from the rooftops* IT'S ABOUT TRUST!! IT'S ABOUT TRUSTING SOMEONE WHOM YOU SHOULD ABSOLUTELY UNDER NORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES NEVER THINK ABOUT TRUSTING!!! BUT YOU TRUST THEM ANYWAY!! AND THEY TRUST YOU IN RETURN!!! agh
I like the whole scene of them talking outside the car (and fun fact, I have an actual location in mind for them to be at; it's near the Conejo Boulders, which isn't LA whoops but is a view ingrained into my mind), but particularly this bit (of course) --
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YEAH KISS!! it's a parallel (or rhyme??) to the one Snufkin gave him in the first chapter!! It's Apollo internalizing that lesson and paying it forward!! Yeah.
The end bit is funny specifically to me. Like yeah Apollo just spent a whole day making out and talking with Klavier and only when Klavier is like, taking care of him (making breakfast) does Apollo go "oh. Shit. I might desire this man romantically." Like lol amazing my fave. XD
ANYWAY YEAH LEMON BOY. I LIKE IT. At some point I'll finish the two sequel stories I've got in the works....
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jancys-blue-bayou · 2 years
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I dislike Robin on principle of her being both annoying and pushing Stancy (why?? Bitch, you don’t even know Jonathan OR Nancy what’s your agenda??) but making her gay in s3 was the worst decision. Her and Steve could be happily shacked up by now, doing their own shit and leaving Nancy the hell alone. I think s3 Robin (s4 Robin has had a personality transplant apparently) and Steve would have made a really good couple. But Maya said jump and the Duffers said how high and now she’s the annoying rambling pointless sidekick pushing her bff back towards his ex and taking up valuable screen time from OGs and I haaaate it all.
But you can’t say that making Robin a lesbian was a poor choice from a narrative pov or you’ll get ripped to shreds.
Hmm I mean, Maya's decision to make Robin gay was the only slightly interesting thing about the character I think though. Like I actually didn't see that coming in s3. She really seemed like a total Mary Sue type girlfriend for Steve (she was still a Mary Sue just not Steve's gf then). It was so boring watching the "oh smart girl who doesn't like dumbass Steve will eventually warm up to him. That's still what happened but Robin being gay and it thus only being a platonic thing was at least unexpected. But still the main purpose of her character is to prop up Steve, she's just around to remark what a swell guy Steve is and further the meme-ification of Steve. And them changing the character around completely in s4 based off of Maya is really weird.
But at the same time I thought the characterization was worse in s3 when she was a perfect Mary Sue and also made no sense. The whole Robin can translate Russian to English because she... knows French is the single most ridiculous piece of writing detail I can remember, it's just bananas how completely severed from reality that is (yes it's a show about monster but the actual based in reality part of the show needs... to be based in reality), the closeted small town lesbian feeling comfortable coming out to the alpha male dumbass cishet jock was also kinda ?? and it ofc completely glossed over that Steve in s1 was blatantly homophobic. Yes Steve's chaaanged and all now but still, it's still the 80s and that's never been adressed, just bc Steve realized he was being an asshole to Nancy and Jonathan doesn't mean he also had some epiphany about his homophobia (which I doubt he'd ever even consider really, it was just the norm for a cishet guy like him in the 80s to be like that).
It also makes no sense when they all meet up in s3 and Nancy is like "who are you?" to Robin, they're supposed to be in the same grade in the same high school in the same small ass town, they'd definitely know each other (obv this isn't against Robin, just an aside I thought of).
So yeah, I mean my real problem is with how they've completely overstuffed the show with waaaaay too many characters, shoving important OG characters into the background, and Robin is one of those new characters that is part of this problem. With her specifically I have to above mentioned problems of the writing for her making no sense, her being a Mary Sue in s3, completely different character in s4. But yeah mostly that her main purpose is to prop up Steve, to walk around and talk about how great Steve is, to push Nancy towards Steve, and Steve looking good through their friendship. So even if she didn't end up being the love interest for Steve she was slated to be she still mostly exists to prop up Steve.
Finally just want to be clear, please note that none of my issues with Robin is about her sexuality ofc, just with how the Duffers write her and her role on the show. You gotta be able criticize the writing of LGBT characters also,
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florallylly · 4 months
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warning: i rant
imo fanfic and shipping is FANTASY and wish fulfillment which is SO okay and valid. and i an avid consumer of fanfic am obviously not going to disagree with people fulfilling their fantasies bc that's literally what fanfiction and fandom spaces are for.
HOWEVER putting your opinions online opens you up to criticism and it's also completely valid for other fans to point out discrepancies according to the canon work. bc at some point, fanfic becomes a completely different thing and the characters are unrecognizable.
and that's fine but understandably something people would find issue with, especially people who hold canon dear to heart. there's like two camps (with people in between but) which are like those who take the bare bones and IMAGE of the characters and setting and those who try to adhere to canonical depictions.
to also be noted, it can be frustrating for those who want to read canonical depictions to be having to comb through pages and pages of fic to find one that isn't pure wish fulfillment. neither camp really has an excuse to criticize the act of putting those fantasies out there, but criticism regarding characterization and the lack of recognition for the source material MAKES SENSE. so keep that in mind
though once again pointing out media literacy and how every interpretation is different and built on the viewer's personal experience and perceptions.
i do notice that in mlm ships, there is a lot of feminization of the bottom. it makes sense BC it's wish fulfillment. maybe it might not seem like it, but it's the fantasy of having two hot guys and often the bottom is more of a surrogate for the author/reader. bc a lot of mlm fic is written by straight women. to reiterate WISH FULFILLMENT
and also, a lot of media does prioritize the characterization of male characters over female ones which means it's a lot easier to analyze and theorize more in depth.
now my gripes: this doesn't mean that female characters should be villainized. i get how people want to make canon love interests no longer an option or up the angst, but why not include a completely new character. you could relegate the love interest to simply a friend or someone who used to have a crush on them. there's so many possibilities other than writing out a female character to have some kind of vendetta for being rejected.
not going to say that sometimes people aren't vengeful bc i certainly am, but if a character is so far off from their canon depiction... once again, it's open to criticism.
and making the love interest a lesbian or wlw can be valid, but at least make it make sense rather than just having two attractive women together to keep them out of the way. DOES THIS EVEN MAKE SENSE
like yeah i'm talking about ro//nance bc i have opinions on it. (not invalidating people who ship it, just stating my personal opinion on it) and i do prefer canon over some fanon
so either way, respect people's choices BUT also respect people's right to comment their views on your work, obviously, do provide constructive criticism or your own commentary in a respectful way, or just block people that don't agree with you.
personally, i choose to not comment on other people's work bc i KNOW i have harsh words, so i'll make my own post which others can ignore. at that point, it's their choice whether or not to block me and my content.
so don't try to police other people's content. UNLESS. they are being profoundly misogynistic, racist, transphobic, etc etc. which is in fact prevalent within the mlm fanfic community and it's UNDENIABLE. and it's further pushing the agenda that coed friendships aren't possible unless they aren't attracted to each other.
bc in doing so, you're not just pushing an agenda that makes no canonical sense, but you're also degrading the character that you claim to love so much.
again again these are my opinions and what i choose not to consume. i won't complain about it in fics i read bc i CHOOSE to read them DESPITE my hang ups. that's on me (but also bc i'd lose a good chunk of content) note: it's also possible to simply skip over the parts that you don't like. no one is going to crucify you for that
here's the thing though. taking your opinion and then twisting canon and posting it as your reasoning behind your fic and headcanons. OBVIOUSLY there's going to be criticism.
and i'm not counting subtext and actual chemistry between actors bc that's Proof. that's something that can be seen and felt and happened in canon.
just like. just like. a consideration into how you treat women in mlm fan spaces and how they're either villains or wlw. there's so rarely an in between and . idk that's sad to me.
this is also prevalent in other media, so i'm not going to say it's not a societal issue bc it is and smth smth sociological theory i won't go into. i know AND i consume as a woman, but i'm able to actually reflect and say "that's not right" i am under no illusions that media is unable to be criticized
like even this ! it can be criticized it can be skipped it can be ignored. and idc about being flamed bc TRUST me when i say i've had worse. it's my personal opinion i'm putting out into the world and that's the consequence
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You know Cass being a lesbian is canon, right? And so is Cassunzel.
I hate to break it to you, Anon, but neither of those things are canon. The closest Cassandra ever came to being a lesbian in canon was one of the show's artists headcanoning Cass as gay. And even if Cassunzel was canon, I still wouldn't ship it for a number of reasons.
(Disclaimer: I want to make it clear that I don't have anything against the shippers themselves. I've met a couple that are actually really nice people and totally chill. This is just why I myself don't ship it)
First off, a large part of Cassunzel is based on a lie. For a long time, a lot of the TTS crew had no idea about the sisters twist, because Chris Sonnenburg just refused to tell them and led them on. He liked the attention Cassandra was getting from Cassunzel shippers, and led everyone on to further his own agenda
Second, Cassunzel ARE HALF SISTERS. I say half-sisters because although Cass doesn't see Rapunzel as a sister, Rapunzel does. She's said so twice. And on top of that, they were raised by a woman whom they both view as their mother. Abusive or not, she's still their mother.
And thirdly, Cassunzel is toxic as hell in its canon form. Rapunzel constantly gaslights and ignores Cassandra multiple times in both the show and the books. She corners Cass into talking about her feelings before she's ready to, invades her boundaries, ignores her emotions even when they're very clear, humiliates her publically, and mutilates her and doesn't lose an ounce of sleep over it. Cassandra has sacrificed her happiness, dream job, future, and even her own body for Rapunzel and hasn't gotten squat in return. That isn't love.
And then there's Eugene to consider, Rapunzel's love interest and CANON BOYFRIEND/HUSBAND. No matter what Eugene is pretty much the only one that ever matters to Rapunzel. She tells him Cassandra's secrets both behind her back and within earshot, drops everything to save Eugene even when there's a safer way. She ALWAYS chooses Eugene. Rapunzel makes it painfully clear that between Eugene and Cassandra, she will always choose Eugene. She has proven to Cass time and time again that in the face of her relationship with Eugene, Cassandra doesn't matter.
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Speaking as an asexual here, if you haven’t found asexual relationships in media it’s because you’re not looking hard enough, yes they’re rare but they do exist, stop using asexuality to further conservatism’s infighting agenda, it’s a bad look. (Not addressed to you, obviously, I hope it goes without saying. I’m just ranting!)
i think like, yes ace rep exists - but it’s not common; and often it’s not very mainstream. so i understand the desire for more of it specifically on the mainstream media side of it all. However. i do still think it’s kinda idk. Hrm. i don’t want to say self centered but like.. kind of self centered to look at a media portraying gay men who are sexually attracted to each other and say that taking that part of their relationship away would make it more inclusive or more progressive because some ace ppl would relate more… because that applies to any other part of their identities too. you could make them women to make it more relatable to lesbians. you could make them nonbinary. you could do any number of changes and it would appeal to someone but why is it that like. the demographic that Does relate to it already is not. Idk. deemed you be Important here… i don’t know how to explain this lol like it pissed me off in the tma fandom when people tried to pretend that jon wasn’t ace (not about him having sex; about him being ace) bc it was more inclusive for him to be allo - it’s not even about “taking away rep” as much as it’s like, okay, so YOU want to relate to them. by changing this thing about them. what about the people who already related to them by that same token? why relatability important to you but not others. like do you know what i mean.
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@finalghosts​ sent:  🖊🖊🖊🖊🖊🖊🖊🖊🖊🖊🖊
under the cut thats like 3 dash pages LKTFGNKJNKTRJNJHTR
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addie was the first character i ever played in a twitter group like she was made specifically for the group and ive adored her since day one . shes the biggest mess because everyone was in 2014 and i had to take the biggest hiatus writing her because i could never find a fc that fit her and worked on indie until i started s2 of euphoria and went omg wait maude would work so well for her ??? like shes the only one of my muses that has a full bio and stats page because she’s my favourite. shes literally my best friend. 
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henry is so based off villanelle it isn’t even funny. like she wasn’t to begin with because i hadn’t seen killing eve but i was watching it like omg this funky littl blonde bitch IS henry and the parallels are so wild. but she’s a contract killer and really good at her job and tries to be heartless but she has a really huge heart and sometimes it gets in the way and also i love them
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i hate to say it ............ wybie was also created for twitter rp and in their twitter verse canonically fucked best friends bc she was bored :/ she’s a youtuber and really into film like . film school graduate and uses that to further her yt career because now she doesn’t know if she really wants to work in the film industry as a woc who has a short temper kfjgnbkjdgnd. has never been in a real relationship and doesn’t know if she even wants to be, has a pet bird, LOVE of my life
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lilith was also a twitter rp character on hiatus because i just COULDNT find an indie fc to work for them. she’s a trained and accredited body piercer and loves her job sm, but she also loves unconventional pets like she has snakes and spiders and is scared of dogs. her parents held her to such high standards growing up that she never felt like she was really good enough for them which lead to her leaving home at 17 to try and start her own life where she only answered to herself and now she’s fully self sufficient because her worst nightmare is having to rely on her parents again. biggest fan of music on earth, hockey fan (derogatory) and is both closed off AND a hopeless romantic
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XANTHE IS MY PRINCESSSSSS she can come across as a maddy carbon copy but it’s just that she never thinks and is the BIGGEST idiot. she isnt malicious or mean she just geta caught up in her emotions a lot. canonically ghosted the same girl twice because she kept forgetting to get her number, is still in love with everyone she’s ever dated, has a pop culture podcast because everyone was doing true crime and she went hmmmm y’all weird i’m gonna talk about my favourite tv shows 
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unlike some of my other muses, lydia IS mean. mean lesbians written by lesbians is my favourite trope and i had to give in ? she’s a lil bit of a misandrist, puts herself first before everyone else and had two separate relationships fail because of how close to her male best friend she was, both women assuming she wasn’t actually a lesbian and was secretly in love with him. her brother named his cat after her, because she suggested it as a joke and he followed through. she won’t bite her tongue to spare anyones feelings
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joey started as a little bit of a wishful self insert. sometimes i project my interests onto characters so i can stop annoying my friends and he got sharks. working as a shark biologist, he since retired from that work and is now a biology teacher at a high school, hoping to shape the minds of his students to further his agenda of protecting marine life, but also just really loving his job. he watches every single marine docu or docuseires and wishes he had those jobs, knowing not much could possibly tear him away from his teaching job. 
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primrose is my second film school graduate, but she does work in the film industry. while her original dream was to become a director, she fell in love with the props department and now works as a prop manager, working towards becoming a prop master and getting to be entirely in charge of the whole department. shes ambitious and hardworking and only dates the wrong people <3
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all you really need to know about grey is they used to lie about being a virgin and heavily relate to 21 questions by waterparks. filmmaker but they didn’t go to film school, they just did it for fun on the side and then kept at it enough that they get to just make short films now, accidentally inspired by the movie home again even though i’ve been writing them for years
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im convinced orla is actually evil to an extent. she cares so little about what people think of her that she just does anything, says anything, and doesn’t worry about the consequences. if she loves you, she loves you with her whole being. but if she doesn’t you’re just another face and you don’t matter too much to her. she has two verses, artist and medic, and in both she’s basically the same. in her artist verse she does comic work and is respected in the field, in her medic verse she does her job well but isn’t the nicest to everyone because she mostly gets hired by sports teams and honestly ? they can handle it
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tell me you’re really into film ooc without telling me. arizona is a film reviewer KJNGFBJKNJ she’s also a mean lesbian BUT i wrote her as a mean lesbian before the show came out so :/ she was born into a twitter rp and absolutely shamed the men that annoyed her. she was still closeted and came out so a man would stop hitting on her, absolute whore but living her best life, doesn’t believe in astrology, biggest ego you’ll ever see
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No More Secrets
@tomurasprincess​ said: Congratulations on 500! Can I get Shigaraki, secrets, and omega verse? Smut please? 👀
Woohoo! First request for the event done and dusted. Thank you so much hun, I never thought I’d make it to 500 but I’m stoked that I have. I honestly have to thank you for throwing the Crusty Dusty Man my way, it was my first time writing for him and I honestly had a blast! I don’t think I should be allowed to write for him because I think I went a little feral in there somewhere. whoops... Well, without further delay here is your scenario and I hope I did the man justice. Enjoy and let me know what you think of it.
~Lesbian peanut
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“Where the hell is, she? It’s been three days since we last saw her and she’s been putting off joining us for movie night damn it!”
Tomura turned his head in the direction of the agitated voice, his eyes falling on Dabi’s back as he sat at the bar and mindlessly drummed his fingers against the wooden top. Tomura wasn’t known for his patience when it came to waiting on people, but the other Alpha was far more impatient than he was. He sighed as he hoisted himself up off of the beanbag he had been settled into for the past hour and strode across the room.
“Shigaraki, don’t tell me you’re abandoning us too…” Toga’s whiny voice cut through the air towards the Alpha as he headed towards the door.
“No idiot, I’m going to check on (Name). She’s been with us for a while but you know damn well how I found her.” He muttered as he looked over his shoulder at the rest of his pack.
Dabi hummed as he turned around on the bar stool before pushing himself off of it, moving over to sit beside Toga and pet her head. “He’s right, the little thing might just need some more time to adjust to being here with us.”
Tomura rolled his eyes as he pushed the door open and walked out of the front area of the hideout. The passageway leading down into the rest of the hideout was narrow and somewhat dark, it was the way that the Alpha liked it. He would never admit it to the rest of the pack but he was worried about you, it hadn’t exactly been the best circumstances he had found you under but he was glad he had found you when he did. You had been being harassed by a couple of so-called Alpha Heroes, you were much smaller than them and he had just happened to stumble across all of you at that exact moment. Something in the Alpha had snapped when he had heard your cry for help, safe to say society lost a couple of scumbag Heroes that day but you had been saved.
He scratched at his neck as he trudged down the passageway, the patch covering his scent gland was starting to irritate him and honestly, he wished he didn’t have to wear the damn thing. The bright white patch had caught his attention when he noticed it against your neck when he had brought you back to the hideout and so he had asked Kurogiri to acquire more for the rest of the pack to wear. Tomura wanted you to feel safe, if that meant he had to put up with the irritating feeling then he would endure it; for now. There had been a few members to complain about the change but Toga had been the one to talk, or rather threaten them into complying.
Tomura stopped dead in his tracks as a low-pitched whine reached his ears, his head snapping up and his eyes landed on the door to your room. His eyes narrowed as his instincts took over, his body moving without needing encouragement and he threw your bedroom door wide open. “(Name), what the hell…”
It hit him like a tidal wave, your scent washing over him as it burst out of your open door. It was powerful and overbearing, hard for the Alpha to ignore when it was so suffocating. Tomura’s eyes blew wide as he caught sight of you, spread out over your bed as your fingers pumped relentlessly between your thighs. Your back was arched up off the bed and you had your shirt gripped between your teeth in a pitiful attempt to silence your cries of pleasure. He knew he should have turned away, backed up out of your room and shut the door for good but the Alpha in him was entranced with the sight before him.
“Tomura…” His name slipped from your lips followed by a high pitched keen as you curled your toes.
His pupils slit as he stepped further into your room, his instincts urging him to go to your side as he let the door slip shut. “(Name)…”
Your head lolled to the left at the sound of his voice, your clouded mind giving you a moment's clarity as your eyes locked with his crimson ones. A needy whimper left your lips for him as you pumped your fingers harder, your slick pooling over your fingers as the thought of your Alpha watching you aroused you further. You didn’t care that he could see you, it didn’t matter that he could clearly smell you and it was too late to care about him knowing your secret. You wanted him, since the day he had saved you in that alley and brought you back to the hideout; thoughts of him as your Alpha plagued your mind constantly. Whines filled the room as you keened towards your Alpha, an invitation for him to join you; wanting nothing more than to have his hands on your body.
“Seems someone was keeping a secret…” Tomura hummed low as he extended a hand, pressing his palm against your stomach as he pushed your body back down onto the bed. He was careful in making sure that his thumb never touched your skin, despite how much his instincts were screaming for him to be rough with you; causing you actual pain wasn’t on his agenda. “An Omega here in the Den, that could have caused quite some problems.”
“M’ sorry…” You mumbled as you thrust your fingers roughly, curling them against your spot as you cried out in need.
“Perhaps, I can help you out there.” He rumbled, a low growl building in his chest as he let his eyes roam over your body and his fingers raked lower over your stomach.
“Please… please?” You pleaded as you rocked your hips up into his touch.
“Ask properly.” Tomura ordered as he removed his hand from your stomach, removing his shirt before throwing it to the other side of your room.
“Please, Alpha!”
A wicked smirk formed over Tomura’s face as he pushed his pants and boxers down, kicking them aside as they fell to his ankles. You watched him heatedly as you pumped your fingers harder, your eyes slipping down to his cock where it stood at attention and a soft whine slipped from your lips. He was thick, the bulge at the base of his dick causing slick to gush from your folds as you imagined what it’d be like to have him knotted inside of you. You reached a hand out for him as you pulled your right hand out from between your thighs, looking up into his eyes and freezing as you got caught in his primal gaze.
“Roll.”
There was no room for argument with that singular word, it held all the weight of the world as your Alpha commanded you to obey him. Your body moved on instinct, rolling over onto your stomach as you buried your head into your pillows. Slick was dripping from your folds, soaking into the sheets beneath you as your cunt clenched with the need to be filled. A cry was ripped from your throat as four fingers and a palm made contact with your left cheek, leaving a stinging sensation in their wake. You cooed when the bed dipped as he positioned himself behind you, his arm coming to snake around your stomach and his body pressed down against yours. The unnatural heat radiating off of his body, enveloped yours as the head of his cock pressed against your soaked folds.
“No more secrets, (Name).” Tomura’s voice was husky as he spoke the words, sending a violent shiver down your spine.
Tomura watched you as he ripped the patch off the side of his neck, throwing it aside as he let his scent roll off of him in waves and mix with your own. Inhaling deeply, his cock ached as the overwhelming aroma of your heat filled his senses, every fibre of his being calling for him to claim you there and then. He groaned as he rolled his hips forwards roughly, his cock sliding between your folds before prodding against your stomach. Your soft whimpers of need had his cock twitching as he continued his motion, rocking his hips forwards and getting faster with each thrust.
“Alpha, please…”
He smirked as you begged him, pulling his hips back as he moved from over you and sat back on his knees. Hungry eyes drank you up as he slid his hands down over your thighs, his pinkie fingers sticking out as he gripped your thighs harshly. Tomura pulled your body back, the head of his cock pressing between your folds and spreading them as he pushed into your soaked cunt. He groaned, bucking his hips at the heat that enveloped his throbbing member as he pushed deeper inside of you. Nails broke skin as fingers tightened against your thighs and he buried the head of his cock into your heat, pressing his deflated knot up against your folds.
You couldn’t contain the moan that left your lips as your cunt was stretched out around his cock, filling you to the point your Omega was content. Happy mewls sounded through the room as you clenched down around him, pulling a choked groan from your Alpha as his hips bucked in response to your action. Hips pulled back, causing you to whimper in protest as the head of his cock threatened to leave your aching cunt. You reached a hand back for Tomura only to be forced to grip the edge of the bed with it as he thrust his hips forward viciously, burying the length of his cock back inside your heat. Moans and whimpers fell from your lips as Tomura kicked up a steady pace, taking his time to find a rhythm that had your body rocking with each thrust.
Tomura relished in the sounds of your cries of pleasure, the hot moans spilling uncontrolled as he thrust his hips relentlessly. His Alpha was pleased with your responses, he watched you as he continued to bury his cock inside of your throbbing cunt and you drank him in with each thrust. Growls sounded from his throat as you buried your head into your pillows, your moans and whimpers becoming muffled by the material covering your mouth. He lunged forwards, pressing deeper inside of you as his fingers grasped roughly at your hair and yanked your head right back.
“No.” His voice was low and menacing as his lips pressed against your ear, his teeth grazing against your skin. “You will not hide from me; I want to hear you as I fuck you. I want to be able to hear how crazy I drive you, how much you need me and want me to fuck you senseless.”
Your eyes widened as you choked back a moan, back arching as you looked back at him and rocked your hips back in response. “Y-yes Alpha…” You whispered in response to his words, which despite sounding harsh; carried such gentle nature to them.
“Good girl, such a good Omega.”
You practically keened at the notion of his praise, his comments hitting right with your Omega as he spoke those precious words. Eyes fluttered closed as moans slipped past your lips, his hips moving harder as he continued to thrust into you and push your body ever closer to orgasm. Your eyes flew open as Tomura’s teeth sunk into your neck, biting down onto your scent gland as he moved his hips harder. A cry of pleasure made its way out of your mouth as you pushed your hips back against his, choking on a moan and his fingers dug deeper into your thigh.
He groaned as he thrust his hips harder and faster, his cock easily moving inside of your cunt with the aid of all your slick. Teeth chewed at your neck as he closed his eyes, his hand slipping from your hair and pressing into the mattress as he pushed your body lower to the bed. Tomura’s fingers slipped up along your thigh, his thumb tracing the inside of your leg as his hand moved towards your stomach. He sucked and chewed on your neck, marking you as his finger dipped between your folds and pressed against your clitoris. You cried out as your hips bucked into his hand, your walls clamping down around his cock as he thrust his hips harder and faster; quickening his pace.
Tomura wanted nothing more than to fuck you until you were left a drooling and whimpering mess, wanting you to beg him to stop. He wanted you to submit to him, both in body and in soul. There was nothing more fulfilling to an Alpha than to have the Omega he claimed as his own, than to have them whole-heartedly submit to their urges. His hips bucked harshly, his cock throbbing at the mere thought of having you submit to him completely. Tomura sunk his teeth deeper into your neck, the iron taste across his tongue no deterrent as he continued to chew on the spot.
Moans and whines were spilling from your lips uncontrolled as his hips connected with yours relentlessly. His knot began to inflate as it pressed against your folds, threatening to push inside of them and bury itself into your heat. You clenched around his throbbing cock as your hips bucked back, moving your hand down over your stomach before grabbing a hold of his where it was buried between your thighs. A moan was choked off as he pinched your clitoris, your eyes popping wide as you leaned into the bed further and pressed your breasts into the mattress firmly. Your hand dropped down to the bed, twisting the sheet between your fingers as heat pooled in the pit of your stomach.
“Alpha…” You whined as you turned your head to look back at him, thankful then he let go of your neck and licked his lips clean of your blood.
“Beg for it. (Name), I want you to beg for it.” He grunted as he moved his hips harder, his knot pressing against your folds firmer as he teased you with it.
“Please Alpha, please! Please, knot me Alpha! I need you to knot me, Please?” You begged, whimpering as tears pricked at the corners of your eyes and threatened to spill over.
Tomura smirked as he moved both of his hands to your hips, his pinkies sticking up as he pulled his hips all the way back. Your pitiful whimper of need reaching his ears as the head of his cock sat nestled sweetly between your folds, keeping them spread but not enough for his Omega. He growled as he teased you by rolling his hips mere inches, pushing the head of his cock forward before pulling it right back to the entrance of your heat.
“Tomura, please? Please Alpha, I want you…” You whimpered as you rocked your hips back, trying to push the head of his cock deeper into your aching cunt. “I want you! Please knot me, my Alpha!”
His eyes flicked up to your face as a soft sound vibrated from your throat, the sound of pure submission as your body pressed into the mattress more and your hips raised more to meet his. That was it, you were his. “MINE!” He snarled as his fingers dug into your hips and his hips thrust forward harshly, pushing his cock into your soaked cunt before pushing his knot inside with a satisfying pop.
The cry that should have left your lips was strangled in your throat as your eyes blew wide and you threw your head back. You closed your eyes as Tomura picked up his brutal pace again, slamming into you as he pushed his knot deeper and you felt it catching with each thrust. Wanton moans and breathless pleas were all that left your lips as your stomach coiled tighter. You could feel his dick throbbing inside of you, his knot growing bigger as he continued to thrust his hips harder and faster.
Tomura ground his teeth, growling around them as he thrust his hips harder and his fingers dug deeper into your hips. His body pressed down over yours, his forehead coming to rest against the back of your head as he closed his eyes. He could smell how close you were to your orgasm; your scent was changing and your cunt was convulsing around his cock as it tried desperately to milk him for everything he had. Your lips failed to contain his name allowing it to spill from them in a loud cry as your body tensed up before spasming under him, your orgasm rocking through your body and clamping around his cock. He groaned as he thrust his hips viciously, his knot swelling until it was completely caught inside of you and he snarled as his orgasm hit. Teeth sank viciously into the back of your neck as his seed spilled forth into your womb, filling you as his cock throbbed violently.
Warmth filled your stomach as he came, his seed filling you as you rolled your hips lazily and your Alpha’s knot caught inside of you. The two of you lay there, your Alpha atop you as you panted heavily and found sanctuary being surrounded by his scent. It took time for Tomura’s knot to subside and return to normal, you shuddered when he released the back of your neck; pulling out of your body. You felt empty without your Alpha inside of you but you knew that there would be more to come from him, especially now that you were his!
Tomura smirked as he moved instantly, flipping you over onto your back as his hand wrapped around your throat and he pressed your body into the bed; his knees pressing heavily into your thighs. He could see the surprise in your eyes as they shot up to lock with his, your pupils blew wide as your heart accelerated.
“No more secrets, (Name).” He warned as he leaned in close to your face, his fingers tight to your throat as his pinkie hung precariously above your skin. “I won’t warn you again.”
The purr that left your lips wasn’t intentional, though it did take your Alpha by surprise enough for you to lean up and close the distance between your lips. You gave him a chaste kiss before dropping your head back into your pillows. “Yes Alpha, I promise.” You whispered in compliance as you smiled up at him.
Tomura huffed as he let go of your throat, diving down between your legs and lapping at your folds. He made sure to lick up all of your juices, cleaning you out thoroughly before sitting back and offering to take you for a hot bath. He thought you might like one to help your muscles relax and to feel a bit cleaner; you did not. You wanted nothing more than to lay in the arms of your Alpha, to have him hold you to his body and he was in no mind to deny you that request. You watched him as he rolled you onto your side and moved to lay down next to you. You hummed in content as he pulled you in close to his chest, his arms encircling your body as he buried his nose into the crown of your hair. He listened to you as you purred against his chest, he would let you rest for now because later he was going to fuck you all over this damn room. He smirked as he nuzzled your hair and closed his eyes, allowing himself to get lost in your scent; he was going to enjoy breaking you!
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antiterf · 3 years
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TERFs using lesbians, trans AFAB people, and sexual trauma as rhetoric pisses me off so much as a lesbian trans AFAB person with a shit ton of sexual trauma. like. fuck off i never agreed to be your pawn. i’m tired of being used to further peoples agendas.
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deaddruid · 3 years
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people are really trying to erase this article from the internet so here’s a link on the wayback machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20190209001540/https://medium.com/@sue.donym1984/inauthentic-selves-the-modern-lgbtq-movement-is-run-by-philanthropic-astroturf-and-based-on-junk-d08eb6aa1a4b
it’s an hour long read but it covers all the horrible science in the modern lgbtq movement, particularly with regards to bad trans statistics and hormones. it also covers how large pharmaceutical companies are astroturfing smaller trans lobby groups for their agenda.
astroturfing is basically when larger companies (with an agenda) mask their donations/involvement with a particular cause to make it look like this is what smaller grassroots organizations are supporting. this is exactly what large pharmaceutical companies are doing with trans non-profit groups, and if you follow the money (as the author does) it’s not even very well-hidden.
this is what radfems have been saying all along: suppressing puberty permanently and committing to being a sterile, lifelong medical patient at 13 is insane. however, it’s insanely profitable for big pharmaceutical companies looking to supply off-label drugs to treat gender dysphoria.
these trans astroturf organizations want it so that every kid showing any type of opposite gender inclination is on lupron until they can “decide what gender is right for them.” they want it so that any attempt to treat gender dysphoria instead of immediately affirming a gender-non conforming child as the opposite sex. interestingly enough, most gender non-conforming children grow up to be homosexual. i’m not making this up, you can find these statements on the websites of GLAAD and other trans rights organizations.
and this isn’t the first time medications have been prescribed entirely on bad science. the article covers another HRT craze in the 20th century used to treat menopause. the author states “42% of American women between the ages of 50 and 72 were on some form of HRT in 1999.” overnight, however, “the number of prescriptions of one of Wyeth’s most profitable medications dropped 66%.” why? because they found it caused breast cancer and strokes!
gay, lesbian and bisexual people are being pushed out of their own movement by much more powerful, much wealthier organizations they have no chance of competing with. even small town bills fighting to maintain sex separated spaces cannot compete against the financial power of these huge corporations, so the local groups just give up.
it’s a long read but it’s incredibly illuminating and quite honestly frightening. i truly believe that many people in the modern trans movement are just young people with gender dysphoria being taken advantage of by pharmaceutical companies, astroturf lobby groups and autogynephiles. but we cannot let this go any further.
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Could I ask what your sexuality headcanons are? I love comparing mine with other peoples’!
Ok second half of this; this is just like. non-students who i Actually have thought about HJBAFV not at all a comprehensive list. Again disclaimer i write all these chars as bi in my fics, also i am bi myself so the vast majority are also bi, and also leaving a lot of these vague so u can imagine ur favorite ship or urself or w/ever
ok lets start this off with Aizawa. I think....... hes another one who's rlly unlabelled, doesnt super care to think it through and define it, but calls himself gay bc his interest in women is very, very rare and it's just way easier to say than explain all that. Definitely do buy into the idea that he had a crush on Oboro in hs but i do NOT buy into the easermic agenda sorry. Definitely not someone who goes looking for dates, but doesn't say no if someone asks him and hes interested (also im not gonna give her a whole section but i saw a hc a while back that the Ms. Joke stuff is literally that shes a lesbian and hes gay and shes fucking with him and i love that so much i just wanted to put it out there)
on the topic of the erasermic agenda: Hizashi's pan and knew it before HS, had a sudden & intense crush on Aizawa for the first month they knew each other and then immediately got over it in favor of a similar sudden, intense, and then immediately fading crush on Midnight. Hizashi and Aizawa r just rlly good friends imo; maybe they messed around for a bit in their twenties but it never went anywhere serious. He dates around a lot, not even necessarily to settle down just to have some fun
Midnight is aro/ace but does get in qprs & gravitates towards women wrt that. Most people dont read vigilantes but theres a woman in that, Kazuho, who i imagine she's been in a long-term qpr with; her relationship with aizawa and hizashi leans a little more towards a qpr than a normal friendship, too, but it's not rlly defined that way
All Might is married to justice queer but v much not interested in relationships. He and that one guy from the first movie are ABSOLUTELY exes and i won't hear otherwise; it's the only relationship he's ever had, and they broke up bc he had to go back to japan. He was heartbroken but did eventually get over him; his lack of romance afterwards is from genuine disinterest and not being hung up on his past. I can see him finding someone else in his later years, after he's retired. Definitely feels like he's not worthy of it tho
Hawks is bi but unfortunately didn't get to figure that out until like Now in the timeline...... if youll let my dabihawks history shine through i think dabi was the reason JHBASFGJHB he was basically brainwashed by the commission to become a hero so he didnt have time to Figure That Shit Out; he knew he was into women bc that was easy & what the commission expected from him but then he started this undercover assignment and met dabi and realized Oh...... Fuck. Hawks is hard tbh, bc i think between the control that the commission has over him and his own convictions as a hero he doesn't pursue any romance (tho he does get crushes or find people attractive) and most of his flings are done to keep up his prettyboy act, not out of genuine interest in being a fuckboy. Can't imagine him having a relationship until well after canon but I do see him being interested eventually
Onto the villains, Shigaraki is unlabelled but probably would call himself queer if asked. Definitely admires women more but isn't very interested in romance; AFO actively encourages him to pursue the things interested in so imo if he were he'd talk abt it more lmfao. I kinda see him as demi as well, not the type to fall immediately but requiring a friendship beforehand; tho unlike Bakugo as i said in my last post I dont think it happens suddenly but rather slowly. Y'all know im a big fan of shigaraki being absolutely whipped for his s/o so i do thing hes a big piner, tho he's also pretty bold and unashamed of his affections. I'm a big fan of him falling for a member of the league or a civilian; definitely can't see him falling for a hero unless the hero was already halfway to turning sides already. I think he's also attracted to intelligence and someone who pushes him to think more abt his ideology...... maybe im just projecting at this point JSHDFBVAJKSHD but my point is that the gender of his partner is definitely the least of what he considers/notices
Dabi is bi and, here's my bold take, demisexual; not interested in sex unless its with someone he loves. Absolutely doesn't even think abt romance for most of the years where he's on his own. He's got revenge to plan. By the time he joins the league that hasn't changed much, and he's demi so he's not interested in sleeping around, plus he rlly denies any attachment to people at all. As I said in that other ask tho I do rlly like the idea of him with Magne, so I think they have a fling for a bit before her death :( it's one of the things that leads him to isolate himself further, unfortunately, even from Jin and the other League members with whom his relationships aren't romantic. I can see him dating someone post-canon bc i think hes gonna be redeemed lol. It could be someone he knew before but they probably didnt date again bc he was v guarded; i think magne was rlly the only person he dated
Magne is pan and heres the kicker: I think shes t4t, which led to a little moment just before she and dabi got together where he was like "she wouldnt be into me :/" but she was into him anyway so all was good. She got around in her circles, mostly casual stuff tho she yearned for something more serious.
Spinner's bi & trends towards women but does occasionally get things for men and they're almost always intense. He thought he was straight for a while even once he joined the league and then suddenly got a crush on Shigaraki (around the time of MVA) and realized otherwise LMFAO he's definitely a hopeless romantic type, the whole mutant prejudice thing makes it rlly hard for him and i can see him being rlly happy with another mutant-type; i feel like as he matures he starts to gravitate towards them
Toga is canonically pan to my understanding, iirc her interest in Uraraka and Deku is the same (and romantic) in canon tho i might be wrong. Poor girl just needs therapy. I like the idea of the two of them becoming her friends over her being involved with them but i totally can get behind her having a thing with Uraraka (and maybe Tsu) at some point post-canon (presuming she gets redeemed), tho I think a qpr between the two/three of them would be longer lasting. And again presuming she gets therapy i can see her settling down with someone, gender irrelevant
Jin is unlabelled bc he hasn't much thought abt it, definitely had a thing for dabi and for hawks which does make me sad on both counts. I think he likes women slightly more abstractly/aesthetically and gets crushes more on men,. The dabi thing fades as they get closer and start to view each other as brothers. In his later years he doesn't rlly care about romance, I think he enjoys the experience of crushing but doesnt like dating people; his found family in the League is far more important to him. But i can see him falling head-over-heels for someone quite suddenly and having a bit of a whirlwind romance. Also someone for whom gender isn't much of a factor
Mr Compress is also queer and also hasn't rlly thought abt it. Definitely leans more towards women; he's like 30 but i like to think he also goes for older partners, 10 or 15 years his senior KJBADSJFHB idk he just has that Vibe with the way he calls himself an old man etc. A lot of the league i cant see sleeping or dating around much, i feel like they prioritize each other, but I do think mr compress gets around more than the others. i can see him having a bit of a fuckbuddy who he catches feelings for
Kurogiri is fun; as Oboro I do think Aizawa's crush was reciprocated, tho he wasn't around long enough for them to act on it :( he's bi, tho kurogiri isn't supposed to have personal interests. I like to imagine the brainwashing isnt as good as AFO wants it to be tho so I like the idea of him falling for someone anyway. I also like the idea of the heroes managing to undo the nomufication and I 100% can see him, aizawa, and someone else (someone he was involved with as Kurogiri) ending up in a triad as a result of aizawa and the third partner helping him through the aftermath of all that shit
Lady Nagant is a manga-only minor character but im in love with her so imma talk abt it. Shes bi and leans VERY heavily towards women, probably spent years questioning whether she was rlly bi or a lesbian before finally having a fling with a guy that she genuinely enjoyed. Has only ever been in long-term relationships with women and I v much think she has a gf at home who stayed even when she was arrested 🥺
Finally imma talk abt Natsuo bc i love that boy. He's one of the few unmarried chars with a love interest and he canonically has a gf. I do see him as IDing straight in canon ngl, but the kind of straight where he might actually be bi but his preference leans so heavily towards women and he grew up in a bad home so he just doesnt rlly think abt it bc hes v happy with women anyway. In shiganatsu thoughts shigaraki is the first man he has a thing for; i rlly can see the two of them in a triad with a woman specifically, who helps the two of them find each other and is the one who initiates bc its definitely a weird situation for natsuo
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Dracula and the Queer History of Vampires
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Last year, Dracula got yet another retelling in BBC’s revolutionary named new show, Dracula. Many fans were excited to see Dracula brought to life as a gay or bisexual character, mirroring the queer subtext of his namesake novel, but when the show came out, it was notably lacking in LGBT representation. Steven Moffat, the show’s creator, went as far as to say that Dracula is “bi-homicidal, it's not the same thing. He's killing them, not dating them.”
Comments like this reflect a lot of backlashes that proponents of canonically queering Dracula received. Many opponents claimed that having Dracula be canonically queer would inject an “SJW agenda” into a classic, but that couldn’t be further from the truth.
The queerness has always been present in Dracula and, in fact, the entire vampire subculture as a whole. For a long time, the dangerous, secret societies of vampires that met secretly in the cover of the darkness to do “sinful” things represented what society thought of queer people. In most, if not all, of the early vampire literature/media pictured below, the relationship between the vampire and the object of their desires was predatory.
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For example, in Carmilla, there is strong subtextual evidence to support that Carmilla is in fact a lesbian. From her choice to only prey on women to her animal form (a large black cat--a representation of female sexuality), Carmilla is shown as a character that exists outside of the confines of the staunchly traditional Victorian sexuality of the time period of the book written in. By writing her as a monster, who eventually gets hunted down, Sheridan Le Fanu--consciously or subconsciously--tied lesbian relationships to predatory behavior. It is important to note that Le Fanu may not even have done this on purpose, but rather when exploring the dangers of embracing female sexuality (a scandalous concept at the time), he simply defaulted to what he saw as the “most other”--lesbian relationships. This reflects another way that authors, especially from centuries ago, used queer coding as a way to further deviance. When writing horror stories, much of the suspense is subtextual--using methods of explicitly stating something and implying others to build tension. Because of this, authors would use subtle queer subtext to further emphasize that there is something that is subtly off about their character because queerness was denoted as something wrong.
Vampires have always reflected the queer community--its trials and tribulations, its successes and stigmas--and it is almost impossible to separate our idea of the modern vampire from that. The fact that queerness has become so intertwined with vampires, who were until very recently exclusively the villains of most stories, is indicative of how deep the demonization of queer people goes. And even today, it persists. For example, when Moffat called Dracula “bi-homicidal”, he is implying that Dracula’s attraction to men and women is predatory.
By allowing characters like Dracula to be unabashedly queer on the screen, writers are allowing the queer community to reclaim a part of their history they were previously denied.
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Sources/further reading:
To read an article unpacking BBC's Dracula, read this: https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a30415965/dracula-bbc-tv-gay-lgbtq-queer-netflix/
To read about a more in-depth history of vampires, try this: https://culturedvultures.com/lgbt-vampire-media/
To read about the origin of the predatory lesbian vampire trope, try this: https://www.ihorror.com/sheridan-le-fanus-carmilla-and-the-birth-of-the-predatory-lesbian-vampire/
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