#mage-mlm

[hollowb0ned]

ok i know this is two youtubers being fake gay but im yearning rn...

#supermega #matt watson #ryan magee #help #mlm #mlm yearning #boneposting

[nicstylus]

They're adorable, your honor

#gay #look how gay they are #bunch of noobs #oc #original character #mage #magic #mortal #lgbt #mlm #stylus #art #digital art #nic stylus

[carcharodontosaurus-enthusiast]

mlm stands for mages loving mages and wlw stands for wizards loving wizards

#wizards #mages #mlm #wlw #queer #fantasy

[lumilasi]

UPDATE: No wonder Azul's lumpy chest bothered me; aside from it looking bad, I realized when looking at his ref that He Doesn't Even Have visible six pack lmao. Also fixed his hand because it looked awkward

-------- OG descr. below

More mermay stuff. This time I decided to draw one of my OG favorite pairs, Diojas(the blond) and Azul (the blue-haired one). I have been neglecting this group so badly lmao (and probably keep neglecting it....OTL)

This was fun to do, maybe I should do a series of my favorite ships themed after mermay. Problem is many of them currently don't have up-to-date designs for both characters. Ah well...

(These two aren't normally mermen btw, IDK what kinda fever dream Diojas is having lmao. And yes he's the one more likely to have those, Azul is more resilient with, well, everything.)

#mermay 2023 #merfolk #mermay #merman #oc couple #mlm love #lgbtqia #lumi's chaotic creations #lumi's art scribbles #lumi’s chaotic creations #lumi’s art scribbles #Samaros brothers #Azul Samaros #Diojas vermonte #oc ship #my ocs #digital art #The mage and the mobster

[oftachancer]

So awesome and gratified to have one of my favorite authors enjoy our book! Can you hear me squealing from there? 🥹

#Eli Easton #spirits and sunflowers #maligned magic series #new books #lgbtq reading #paranormal romance #mages for the win #cozy romance #mlm stories

[adodysey]

they bring the worst out of each other

#ffxiv #ff14 #caine #x'rhun tia #oc #npc #npc x oc #red mage #miqo'te #viera #mlm #my art

[luciif3r]

Are there terms for gay/bi men other than butch/femme

#like whenever i try to look for some i just can't find any???? #if u use butch/femme cool #but i don't like using them for myself personally #ik there's knight/mage for bisexual men but for some reason people don't like them??? #bi tag #bisexual #mlm #achillean #queer #lgbtq+

[bi-sapphics]

hi! do u know any terms for bi mlm/nbylm that are like “otter bear twink cub” doesn’t have to be specific for bi but just inclusive .. idk what to call myself :[

i've answered a similar question before, regarding terms that were recently coined on tumblr within the past decade. they don't have much depth like the ones you mentioned, but plenty of people love them anyway.

other than that i don't really, unless the ones i linked work for you (which is fine! i use one myself on the side). you listed otter/bear/twink/cub already and those are probably the best options in that category available, as far as i know.

you should also remember that you can use butch/femme if you want to, as they were never even exclusive to sapphics in the first place. i have a couple mutuals identifying as butch or femme who are mlm/nblm and they're totally valid!!

at the end of the day, if you don't like any of these terms, you can just... not use them. they don't fit everybody by design, after all. you can coin your own if you still desire something to use, or ask someone else to (not me though, since i'm not achillean). you have the freedom to do whatever you want with your identity, and that's the beauty of queerness!!

#chase answers #bi tag #bi terms #bi mlm #bi nblm #mage/druid/knight #butch tag #butch/femme #butch bi #femme bi

[itachi86]

“Luella raised her glass at Bastion, then nodded, a silent toast. Then a sharp sort of smile found its way to her lips, a wicked gleam playing in her eyes. “Now Bastion, why are you strutting around in just a towel? I saw you not five minutes ago and you were fully clothed. Next thing I knew,” she purred, tilting her head to one side, “you were rushing to the second floor guest bath, tearing off your clothes and spritzing yourself with water.” Her lips parted, her teeth bared as she stared him down like a jungle cat. “Why – are you trying to impress someone? Is it Dustin, perhaps?”

#book things #darkling mage book 8 #scenes #haha #bastion has a thing for dustin doesn't he #the mlm drama dude #i love it

[vendettasfanfictioning]

you can't convince me dean wasn't already in love with castiel by s11 like. what do you mean on the episode where dean is hung up, nay, borderline desperate to find a way to get castiel back, the case they land just so happens to be handled by a hunter couple (a romantic! mlm! couple!!!!!)

dean dead ass asks them how it's like to settle down with these big green eyes just so full of longing and understanding.

LIKE TELL ME THIS ISN'T HOW DEAN STARES AT CAS !!!!!!!

and this ending, don't even get me started on this ending

THEY GET TO RETIRE!!!! THIS IS DEAN FINALLY SEEING A HAPPY ENDING FOR HUNTERS!!!!! THIS IS DEAN REALIZING AND ACCEPTING THAT IT'S POSSIBLE!!!!!!

they got me in the first half, not gonna lie, with jesse's "they killed my brother" revenge story and cesar's ride-or-die support but then. this sealed the deal.

horses???? hello mr. dean cowboy fetish winchester????? and emt???? when castiel's a whole ass healer mage with his angel mojo???? TELL ME I'M NOT DELUSIONAL

The narrative is giving, "see? this can happen. happiness does exist in this universe, but only from a far enough distance that dean and sam can yearn for it without really getting it."

#gonna be one of my new faves #LOOK AT THEM THEY'RE SO IN LOVE im getting toothaches #watching spn #supernatural #s11e19 #11x19 #spn meta #??? #spn dean #spn sam #spn castiel #spn parallels #dean winchester #castiel #sam winchester #destiel #deancas #dean x castiel

[makingqueerhistory]

idk if this has been asked already but do you know of any mlm fantasy novels that arent ya or coming-of-age? ive already read the last herald-mage trilogy and am part of the way through the luck in the shadows trilogy. i love fantasy, esp high fantasy, SO much, but i havent found anything that really scratches that itch yet. oh bonus points if the protag and love interest are over 23-25 but i do know im probably being too picky ^^; ty for doing what you do!

Yes, I absolutely do! Here are my recommendations:

(Affiliate links below)

The Monster of Elendhaven

Jennifer Giesbrecht

The Route of Ice and Salt

José Luis Zárate (Author) David Bowles (Translator)

Silver Under Nightfall

Rin Chupeco

I hope you find something here to enjoy!

#answered #queer books

[victimsofyaoipoll]

Round 3

Propaganda Under Cut

Casca

She is part of a weird fucked up love triangle with two dudes. All three of them are honestly kind of terrible for each other but she gets shoved aside in favor of the two dudes in most fics and is not allowed to grow past the toxic relationships of her past. Also she’s a cis woman who dresses pretty masculinely (because she’s in a mercenary band) so she gets type casted as the mean lesbian friend, when she’s straight in canon

I've seen more than one Yaoi Shipper say that Casca should have died during this one big canon event as opposed to being assaulted by one of the people in the Yaoi Ship, which of course conveniently would remove her from the narrative and as an obstacle to said Yaoi Ship. Aside from that specifically, though, I think it's particularly cruel to imply that being killed is a better outcome than being a victim of SA, and is an example of the contempt fandom on the whole has for female characters who act traumatized - particularly when both male characters in the ship have similar trauma and its never implied they should have died rather than be assaulted.

She's an incredibly interesting character in her own right with really good dynamics and parallels to Griffith and Guts, and the way those three play off of each other is integral to the story, but most of what I've seen completely ignores her in favor of focusing on only Griffith and Guts

Yennefer

Constantly villainized because one way or another she gets in the way of a MLM ship (though at least one of them would probably be fine with a poly relationship). In the show version of her, her love interest bound her to him via magic, never told her until someone else brought it up despite it the bond causing them to meet over and over, her love interest didn’t understand why this upset her and brushed it off and still has never apologized for it because apparently it was the only way to save her life, she had better chemistry with Jaskier (the other half of the MLM ship) and had a semi-decent rivals to frenemies thing going on, the show took away her powers (which never happened in the books) to have her go on a pointless quest to get them back that worsened her relationship with her love interest because they had her try to kill her love interest’s adopted child (which now justifies why he doesn’t need to apologize of course), and all of that was after she’d already had an arc regarding sacrifice and how power wasn’t really what she wanted.

she's an incredibly powerful mage and drop dead gorgeous and deserved so much better!!! justice for yen

God forbid women do anything. She either gets hate or is ignored, really classic stuff. And she's Geralt's gf but you know, *gestures at geraskier*

#round 3 #poll #casca #casca berserk #berserk #yennefer of vengerberg #the witcher #the witcher netflix

[dailyadventureprompts]

Hello Mr. Dapper! Love this blog and your many reimaginings of classic dnd deities and creatures. I was curious about something: Considering your dislike of purely evil gods and DnDs future focusing on the guy, what are your thoughts on Vecna?

Deity: Vecna, the Whispered One

My task of overhauling d&d’s villanous pantheon was started by a simple critique:  that if god was evil, there still needed to be a reason for people to worship it. To go with one example,  So many of the death gods in d&d want to kill everything that lives, yet they’re still presented as having legions of followers who are happy to die for them in opposition to the party.   You can say “Oh they’re just brainwashed, crazy cultists” but that’s just bad writing and thematically empty, neither of which I want for the sort of games I run. 

Vecna is actually an interesting case study in that he’s an outwardly wicked deity that has a theme which people would actively want to follow:   As a god of secrets, Vecna is the patron of any who will sacrifice anything to learn the answer to their problems, or conversely, the ones desperate to ensure their own secrets will never be known.  The story of Vecna as a mortal mage who attained first lichdom, then godhood is an aspirational one for all those power mad occultists out there, a common enough demographic in the d&d world both as villains and as player characters. 

Cults of Vecna worshippers likewise make sense as the whole point behind the historical practice of mystery cults was that those at the upper levels maintained their power through control of information and access to secret learnings.  You want to learn how to do magic? To speak to the dead? To protect your secrets from being known? Put on this ominous robe, learn the secret handshake, and don’t forget to drop your tithe intto the altar’s collection skull. Think of it like a forbidden knowledge based MLM. 

 Here’s some adventure hooks: 

While many of the whispered one’s acolytes dedicate themselves to discovering to the delving of arcane mysteries, others focus their attention on more worldly secrets. A powerful noblewoman is being blackmailed by a worshipper of Vecna not only for personal enrichment but also as an act of devotion, after he uncovered proof of indiscretions that would ruin her reputation.  While she’s too afraid to go for help herself and risk exposure, a devoted servant has seen her hidden suffering and has contacted the party for aid. 

Barely disguising its fiendish nature, a devil in service to Vecna approaches the party with an offer to reveal the secret intents or weaknesses of their enemies, if only they will deign to meet its terrible price.  While this information could do great good, or even save lives, just how low are the heroes willing to stoop? 

Seeking out the aid of a powerful mage, the party discover the old man on the brink of nervous collapse, having looked to deeply into the void and filled his mind with visions best left unmentioned.  Haunted by nightmares both real and imagined, he needs their help in quieting his mind through the gathering of rare ingredients and the distillation of a potent elixir. The process is not without risk however, are the party willing to help if it means erasing the information they need from his head, to say nothing of potentially lobotomizing the poor wizard? 

Art

#deity #vecna #divinity: knowledge #divinity: death #divinity: magic #divinity: madness #spy #fiend #lich #cultists

[vigilskeep]

wait when were zev and anders called slurs? :o i haven't played any mlm romance!

homophobia banter highlight reel i guess. shoutout to seb for making it on here because varric has something deeply wrong with him and is exclusively homophobic to the one of like two not openly bisexual people in his friend group

in general my point is that like. this was homophobic. if people didnt. uh. clock that oghren’s violent reactions and references to manskirt-wearing freaks were that. i’m using oghren as my main example because he’s the most overt. (generally orzammar’s dedication to lineage throughout the castes seems to give it more rigid gender and sexuality roles; there’s also significantly more overt sexism.) with zev and anders, it’s also compounded by fantasy racism and prejudice, in particular that male elves and male mages are both seen as effeminate in southern thedas. this isn’t just oghren. uh, for example, if a male hawke romances anders or fenris, gamlen, who iirc is as directly homophobic as it gets in da2, will make the comment “i guess i don’t have to ask which one of you’s the girl”. he’ll also make a fetishising comment about female hawke and isabela

otherwise. uh what might people not have clocked. zevran only flirts with a female warden in his introductory scene, due to his real, not unfounded concern that it will make a male warden more uncomfortable with him and, let’s not put too fine a point on it, thus more likely to kill him. zevran’s discussion of being bisexual himself is incredibly loaded and as i recall involves a fair bit of internalised something. from my delvings into the toolset, if you romance him as a man, you seem to have countless opportunities to break off the relationship specifically saying it’s because you’re both men and you can’t do this, including as late as the second time he offers you the earring. generally the male warden romancing zevran has a lot of internalised homophobia coded dialogue options when you ask him about his sexuality and when others ask you about the relationship—you can express dismay that zevran has told anyone, for example, while asking leliana not to say anything—and it’s fairly heavily implied that you’re likely to be more unfamiliar with such things

with anders, the most glaring example off the top of my head is that he doesn’t tell female hawkes about karl. a lot of the gendered differences in the anders romances are from homophobia/biphobia on a writing level as well, but considering that we’re not buying into “playersexual” nonsense i think it’s also fair to read this in-world as anders choosing not to bring that up to a woman who’s interested in him/someone he doesn’t know he has this in common with. the dialogue again treats anders as more experienced and gives male hawkes the opportunity to act surprised/uncertain even when they are the one to flirt first

this is basically just. if you didn’t clock that, that’s going on here! in general, heterosexuality is an assumed norm in thedas, and particularly characters coded as andrastian and fairly naive/inexperienced like alistair or bethany will express surprise or confusion about it and not pick up on implications. particularly noble characters will be expected to continue bloodlines and make political unions, for example, the inability of a female warden to marry anora or a male warden to marry alistair, even though it’s possible to do the m/f version of those political marriages without any kind of romance. that’s a pragmatic concern about the succession in a world that values bloodlines and thus comes with a certain heteronormativity. at the same time, there’s not so deep a stigma as you might expect if directly translating from our world, so to speak; it’s much more about the hope of continuing families and the importance of that in this world than there seeming to be any kind of explicit religious stigma? although it should be noted that the andrastian story focuses on andraste and the maker in what is treated as an m/f marriage and might be considered an ideal

for example, leandra will make an offhand, semi-teasing comment about finding hawke an opposite gender spouse, which i think is her hope of hawke managing to settle into kirkwall noble society and continue the family line when there is, in most worldstates, little to no hope of the other surviving hawke sibling having children. but at the same time, she’s casually accepting of hawke being in a queer relationship, will lightly mention it in dialogue, and makes no comment about anders or merrill moving in. i’d take that as kind of a baseline level of understanding for southern thedas, though it also varies from nation to nation, culture to culture, person to person, and class to class

i hope that makes it clearer ??

#tw homophobia

[kirby-rarepair-tourney]

Round 2, Set 2, Poll 2!

MLM-WLW Hostility: Metaranza VS Flamsoos!

Which one's rarer, and which one's pairer? Vote now, for your favourite rarepair!

Propaganda:

Metaranza

Will always be so normal about two gay nerds kissing. They’re both a mix of chaos and calmness, and I can see them both talk a lot about books and history together. They also have shared trauma about being controlled/hurt by a form of authority so that’s a big plus 🥰

Flamsoos

I think they're cute. Flamberge is the Mage Sister that would most help Susie get out of her comfort zone and grow, IMO

#poll #tournament poll #kirby #kirby series #kirby ships #metaranza #flamsoos

[brineffxiv]

This thing... I've seen somebody riding a version of this thing as a mount before.

(This post is stupid long, it covers 2/3rds of the Eden raids)

Huh. The person in armor wasn't part of the sin eater/voidsent/whatever that was?

Yeah, summoning voidsent on the First is an interesting ability. They don't have those here normally.

No... You're not suggesting...

BUT IT TURNS OUT HE WAS! It's our turn to summon primals!

Holy shit. The water came back!

I did both of Leviathan and Titan fights as a Bard, but I don't know how they expect you to do them as, say, a Black Mage. Because, like, I think that must be impossible. All the moving around... how the heck do you get a cast off?

Urianger, master of "I-keep-secrets-for-the-greater-good."

Hwhut.

That's a unique face. Terribly impractical shoes for walking on sand as well. Sometimes six-inch heels are not the answer.

Thancred, that's a terrible idea. We aren't even telling the other Scions what we're up to in the Empty and you've just decided to tell this random girl who I already had one boss fight with.

This "faerie" sounds like bad news to me.

*gasp* You bitch! Making Thancred carry your luggage is one thing (he's a big boy, he can say "no" if he wants to) but don't you dare insult Urianger! If you want on my bad side that's a damn fine way to get there.

Aww. I'm proud of you, Ryne.

And now you're being rude to Ryne? I know you've got your own traumatic shit going on, Gaia, but you're really not endearing yourself to me.

On a date?

Ah! It is a date!

Gaia you are SO rude.

I love me being so disheartened that Ryne got turned down for her date. That's some real mlm and wlw solidarity.

You can't go backward, so focus on going forward. Make new connections in there here and now. Like with Ryne.

Uh-oh.

...

Some of this stuff sounds like a metaphor for depression to me. But, I might be reading too much into that. Still, the sinking into darkness while wishing for the pain to stop is familiar.

Aww Ryne...

Hugs!

I think I support this ship. It's cute.

What. No. Absolutely not. That's the worst idea. The worst.

I told you! I told you this was a bad idea!

Gaia comes to her new girlfriend's rescue! Nice hammer.

Yay! Ryne gets her date!

...and I've got to advance the MSQ before I can find out how that goes for them.

#ffxiv liveblog #rhesh'a tag #ryne #gaia ffxiv #urianger augurelt #thancred waters #shipping goggles firmly in place #eden raids