#she's okay I GUESS

[audioletter]

i like my wife

she takes care of me and the house post surgery, she listens to my excited hyperfixations including hours about Genshin, she braves Animate for me, she skeezes when I'm in pain, she doesn't hog the blanket (unless she's weirdly diagonal), she listens to me, she thinks I'm the funniest person in the world (weirdo), she's the most beautiful person on earth inside and out, she's fashionable af, she brings me coffee if I say "please" in a disarming voice, she sings "do you know this cat", she writes amazingly well, she stays home to work if I am having a bad day, she loves me unconditionally and I don't understand why but I like her quite a bit. thank you wife @spurious.

#mah wyfe #lgbtq #plus she even has faves in genshin which means BY OSMOSIS she's grown to love it #and she lets me lust after others #but i let her too #she's okay i guess #her birthday isn't even yet i just needed to say this so there you go

[scribbling-punk]

She’s Okay, I Guess.

Prompt Fill: Confident Morgana, flustered Kara, jealous Lena.

Lena blinks awake at the sound of a familiar theme song, her features instantly wrinkling when looking towards the TV feels a lot like staring into the sun. She grumbles, nuzzling her cheek against Kara’s shoulder without really meaning to and smiling when a warm arm settles around her waist.

“Sorry,” Kara murmurs, kissing the top of Lena’s head. “I didn’t mean to wake you, but the movie you picked was making me lose the will to live. I hope you don’t mind.”

“S’fine.” Lena peers around the darkened living room, surprised to see that the kids have already gone to bed. “What time is it?”

“A little after eleven. I guess you really needed some rest, huh?” Kara chuckles softly and tilts her head to rest it against Lena’s, “I found this weird show on Netflix. There’s way too many men and every single one of them is boring, but there’s this woman who looks a lot like you,” she says. “Pretty eyes, cute accent, doesn’t take any crap from anyone…. Sound familiar?”

“If you want something, just say it,” Lena smiles tiredly. “I’m too exhausted to tease you.”

“Just take the compliment.” Kara’s arm squeezes her gently and she turns her head to kiss Lena’s head again. “Oh, look, here she is!” Kara points towards the screen, “that’s Morgana. She’s the King’s ward and disagrees with everything he does and always looks amazing.”

Lena lifts her head and watches Kara carefully, frowning at the way bright blue eyes light up, unblinking as they stare at the younger woman on the screen.

“No,” Lena shakes her head, “she looks nothing like me.”

Read She’s Okay, I Guess early on Patreon.

#She's Okay I Guess #Kara x Lena #Supercorp #Fluff #Early Access

[egophiliac]

starting off with an amuse-bouche of some of my initial favorite bits! y'all, this update was WILD.

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers #we really got it all in this update huh #we got flashbacks! backstory! shocking twists! cgs?! #we got the silver breakdown to end all silver breakdowns #the boy does not emote for 6 episodes straight and now it's POURING out and i am shoving my face directly into it #not to mention my favorite: action scenes represented by intensely wiggling the sprites around #and OF COURSE meleanor my beloved. your highness. ma'am. holy shit. #i guess it's mel instead of mal? hey she can spell her name however she wants #meleanor can do whatever she wants about anything. who is going to stop her. #meleanor: hold on baby. mommy wants to make a point. (yeets malleus' egg across the room into liia's face) #man though i am so afraid that crowley really might turn out to have been revaan this whole time #because this means we live in a world where dire fucking crowley managed to pull BOTH meleanor and lilia and i cannot accept that #briar valley are you okay. is it something in the water. #mrs. zigvolt took all the good taste and left none for anyone else

[qalrey]

feminity (in a transgender way!!!)

#trans people are so important btw!! #art #digital art #mlp #mlp art #mlp g4 #mlp fanart #mlp fim #my little pony #friendship is magic #my little pony friendship is magic #rarity #mlp rarity #rarity mlp #also can mascara be applied to false lashes? #she did do exactly that in the show so i guess it's okay? #oh who cares it's a show about magical talking horses everything is allowed!

[deadmaidclub]

ive never read chainsaw man but i think shes neat (horrible)

#deadmaidart #chainsaw man #csm #makima #does she have a last name. lmao #okay i guess not

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 168

So. Apparently halfas are like phoenixes or something, which Danny would’ve really liked to know. 

See, usually with ghosts if they’re forced to retreat to their cores they reform as was, but apparently, since they’re still partially living, schrodinger's people and all that, halfas have to regrow their body from scratch. At least that’s what he’s understanding from Frostbite. 

But how come he has to deal with it? It’s Dan’s fault for trying to pull such a stunt! Oh, it’s either him or Vlad? Well fuck, he might have calmed down and is going to therapy in both the living realm and the Zone, but he’s waaay not equipped to raise a child except for like, monetarily wise. 

Well dammit, how long will this core incubation thing last, he has his new job in… let him check which offer he accepted again… He has his new job in Coast City that he needs to finish packing for and then all the rest of the stuff to do. 

What do you mean it’ll take months?! He doesn’t have months?! Urgh, fine. At least being a mortician isn’t that exciting, nor dangerous. Just hand him Dan’s core and he’ll figure things out for the living side of things. He’s sure Tucker and Sam wouldn’t be against helping, if only to try and claim favorite aunt or uncle spots. 

#dcxdp #dpxdc #prompts #Coast City is where Hal Jordan lives hilarious enough #I just chose a random city but honestly a green lantern city is hilariously on brand for where Danny would choose to move #He’s just a cheerful space core dude who is glaring down several ghosts & helping others move on while he’s working #He’s also slightly uncanny valley to people outside of Amity & doesn’t realize it #He runs into a reporter Wes at some point & okay the fact he looks like the lady doing math meme when seeing Dan? #Utterly hilarious #Danny holding a newborn with matching slightly pointy ears and claws :) #Wes who is *pretty sure* Danny is cis but is second guessing everything now: #Danny is going to do his best to avoid any hero BS #He’s trying to do his JOB #Who cares if he brings his baby to work he needs to eat and he isn’t going to hire a babysitter #Bby Jordan tried to set the house on fire during his last tantrum do you THINK anyone else can deal with him? That’s what he thought now ou #Ellie visits as well & straight up melts out of the wall sometimes like a horror movie #She has weaponized her goo powers and is also excited to show her dad her new gravity ones #Space Core Danny + Fire Core Vlad = Sun Core Dan #Ellie has a Moon core (something something phases of the moon & travelling across the night sky) #Danny is encountering so many rogues and heroes and just doesn’t acknowledge it because he has a literal BABY who can destroy the entire JL #He’s very tired and would like a nap now

[delizbin]

One step, not much

#This is basically canon right? #like… that must be it right #movie canon just let so many things implicit #like… yeah… okay #hayffie fanart #haymitch x effie #haymitch abernathy #effie trinket #hayffie #thg fanart #yeah I’m going to stop one day I guess #haymitch jumping from one addiction to another like a yoyo #that’s my guy #she’s the one that initiated it I said what I said #song: you’re in love by ts. you’re welcome #I wiped my heart out #last drawing of 2023 I think #happy new things to you #i’m going to enter 2024 as it was 2014 still apparently yippy ay yey

[comradekatara]

it’s actually really funny that toph’s original design (that was thankfully pretty immediately scrapped) was a big, buff, strong, abled dude who makes sokka feel insecure wrt his masculinity. like they literally looked at this model and were like, “wow this sucks. what if we made it the exact opposite though,” and in doing so created one of the greatest characters of all time.

#toph #inverted her in all significant aspects and suddenly she rules tremendously #i guess a general rule of thumb for when u need to make ur character more interesting is simply to make her a disabled girl. always works #(i am not biased btw if you’re thinking that i am you’re wrong it’s simply a fact that everyone knows OKAY!!!)

[sparebutton]

Frozen friends going apple picking🍎

#Ryder and Bruni aren’t really helping but they’re okay with that #I’m not sure how well you could actually climb an apple tree but I guess Honeymaren figured it out #i tried to piece Anna’s outfit together with things she already has #the skirt/bodice is her from her F1 epilogue outfit and her jacket is from her F2 prologue outfit and the belt is from her F2 travel outfit #kinda surprised I never drew something like this before going apple picking is such a Fall activity #drew a lot of this while listening to the Frozen podcast #frozen 2 #frozen #elsa #anna #Kristoff #Olaf #bruni #Ryder #honeymaren #Gale #frohana #elsamaren #Kristanna #my art

[eddiezpaghetti]

It has come to my attention that SOME OF YOU who read my last Byler post remain UNCONVINCED. So I'm gonna tack onto it this:

I'm older than fucking God and air, and I've been out and proud since 2007. Yes, I know what homophobia is, and yes, I know what queerbaiting is. I know about Supernatural and Teen Wolf and Sherlock and blahdyblahdyblah. No new ground is being covered here. I thought I made that clear in the original post, but, clearly, I did not.

I am aware of queerbaiting and homophobia, and I'm still wholeheartedly certain in Byler being canon anyway.

Okay, so there are three types of relationship I want to discuss when it comes to queerbaiting. They're all, like, "queer relationships that could have happened, but didn't".

First off, queer-coding. This isn't really a thing so much anymore, but it still crops up every once in a while. I'd argue it probably happens most with male-male relationships in family shows these days. First example that comes to mind is Mr. Smiley and Mr. Frowny from Steven Universe. You can't make a relationship canon because some shitty overhead bastard overhead said no, so you get as close as you can without compromising the show. Can't make someone gay? Well, now their comedy routine is a blatant allegory for a romantic relationship. Boom-shaka-laka. This is something I don't see being a problem with regards to Stranger Things, but I want it to be there as contrast, a demonstration of one of many things queerbaiting is not. However, one could argue that, thus far, Will Byers is, canonically, queer-coded. It's pretty fucking heavily implied in the show, and the creators have confirmed it, and you're gonna be able to see it if you're not FUCKING BLIND, but word of god is not technically canon which means that interviews don't technically make something canon, blahdyblahdyblahdyblah, technicalities, Robin has been explicitly stated in the text to be queer while Will has, thus far, not, outside of good ol' Show-Don't-Tell. Of course, anyone with two brain cells to rub together can tell that that's going to change by the end of Season 5, but, hey, for what it's worth, I'm throwing this out there.

Alrighty, Thingamajingama Number Two: "Oops, I accidentally made the greatest love story known to man." AKA, a genuine, honest-to-goodness mistake. Unfortunately, we do live in a heteronormative society. Sometimes people who don't think about being gay much write a friendship that's incredibly compelling and don't even consider the possibility that it could have been read as romantic. Something something Top Gun something. This is, again, not queerbaiting. This is Steddie, this is Ronance, this is Elmax, this is your favorite flavor of non-canon ship this week, this is not Byler. The creators know DAMN well what they're doing. They've talked about it. We know this. Nothing new here.

Which brings us to the topic of discussion here. Actual queerbaiting. This usually starts out as an "accidental greatest love story", and then reacts to fan response. And when I say "reacts", I mean like a goddamn chemical reaction. Like bleach and ammonia, bitch. It's noxious and it's gonna kick your fucking ass without mercy. This is when a creator is like, "Hey, let's get our queer audience invested, but we're not actually going to give them what they want because our straight audience isn't here for that/we personally think it's gross/we don't give enough of a shit to want to research a goddamn thing to write a real gay character," blah blah blah whatever excuse they want to come up with this time.

And when you think "queerbaiting", I want you to think "bullying". Because that's what it is. It's lucrative bullying, like beating us up and taking our lunch money, but it's bullying all the same. And it's a real goddamn thing, even if people misuse the word a lot, often when they mean one of the two above, sometimes when they mean "bury your gays", which is another homophobic thing entirely that I'm not going to get into here. Queerbaiting is the thing we're focused on, and it's real, and it's bullying. And here's the reason I want you to think of it as bullying:

They

Think

It's

Funny.

They are actively making fun of us.

That's why Dean had the "Cas, get out of my ass," line in Supernatural. It's why the "Do you like boys?" line happened in Teen Wolf. It's why "Lie with me, Watson," happened in the RDJ Sherlock Holmes movies. Because "It's just a joke, mate." "It was just a prank, bro." "You didn't really think it would happen, did you?" "You should see your face."

So here's probably the biggest reason I don't think it's specifically queerbaiting in this specific instance of Will Byers and Mike Wheeler.

Stranger Things has never, not once, made a gay joke. Ever.

Every single time queerness comes up, it's dead serious.

Lonnie calls Will a fag, and the show is not at all reluctant to show what a goddamn horrible person he is. And when Hopper latches onto that, it's not as "Hahah, is he gay, though?" It's because he's trying to determine a potential motive for Will's disappearance, and even if someone had interpreted it as a joke, Joyce immediately has a line that functions as snapping her fingers in front of the audience's face and yelling "FOCUS" when she says "He's MISSING." Basically outright saying "This isn't funny!"

Troy calls him a fairy, along with targeting Lucas and Dustin for their skin color and disability respectively, and Mike gets damn near murderous. Troy is portrayed as a goddamn monster and the show portrays it as justice when El makes him piss his pants and later breaks his arm.

Steve calls Jonathan "queer" as a slur and gets the shit beat out of him for it.

Billy's father is revealed to be homophobic and abusive in the same breath.

Mike says "It's not my fault you don't like girls!" and we're shown how devastated Will is and Mike immediately follows him to beg for forgiveness.

There is a joke in Robin's coming-out scene, but it's not at Robin's expense. It's at Steve's. Specifically for being heteronormative.

Jonathan has multiple scenes where he's trying so hard to tell Will that he's always going to love him as he is, whether he's gay or not, without pressuring him to come out before he's ready.

Even when there's a little bit of ribbing at Robin's expense, it's always because she's an awkward nerd who's nervous around pretty girls, just the same as Lucas and Dustin are teased when they both first develop crushes on Max, and even then, even then, it always comes as a package deal where they make fun of Steve's girl problems at the same time.

Stranger Things is an emphatically pro-gay show. It may not be the core point of the show the way it is in, say, Our Flag Means Death, but there is nothing less than respect for its queer characters. Its queer characters are always taken completely seriously. No one is making fun of us. They never have. That's why I have serious doubts that this is queerbaiting. It would come completely out of left field for the bullying to start in Stranger Things' final season.

So it's not at all likely to be queerbaiting because queerness is taken completely seriously. The creators have talked about Will's queerness, at least, so it's not an accident. And queer-coding would be silly to expect from this show when it's already on its final season. Like, what is Netflix gonna do? Cancel it? Not to mention all the explicit queerness that's in there already. And no one's gonna "What about the children?" a show that's had sex scenes in it since the first season.

There's no fakeout here. It's gonna happen. Breathe.

#byler #Part 2 I fucking guess. #Wasn't planning on making a Part 2 but here we are. #I seriously just want you guys to feel safe. #I'm not naive. I do not say any of this shit lightly. #But I've been around the block long enough to know what queerbaiting looks like and this ain't it. Promise. #Will's already been confirmed as in love with Mike for fuck's sake. You don't think the other half of the equation's gonna follow through? #There has only ever been one other situation where I've gone 'Okay this is going in gay places' with no doubt whatsoever without being told #And that was with Daja in Tamora Pierce's 'Will of the Empress' when I read it at like sixteen or whatever #and she wound up having whole-ass fuckin' gay sex. #I was right then and I'm right now. I swear.

[milksetters]

amen!

#okay . #this is . a femstars izuleo au. #I KNOW THEY LOOK LIKE MY OCS AT THIS POINT BUT. THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE FEMSTARS IZULEO JKLDFGUKDLFSHDFGHH #senas the matriarch/head nun for the nuns in training #except shes not rly a nun. turns into a demon at night or somesort #yeay!! #should i even tag them . i guess #izuleo #izumi sena #leo tsukinaga #femstars #ensemble stars #IM SORRY I KNOW THEY LOOK LIKE MY OCS AT THIS POINT HELP? #my art #oh also. the 9pm sharp bedtime was implemented for a reason #ofc leo breaks it. its leo #got out of her room only to find something. that looks like her matriarch. the head nun. but not quite. #chaos ensues

[aroaceleovaldez]

HoO is so funny to me when you actually think about the ages of all the characters. Octavian is 18. Percy and Annabeth are 16, almost 17. Reyna is presumably 16. Frank just turned 16, Jason’s about to turn 16. Leo and Piper are like 15. Hazel’s like 14 and a half, and Nico is 13.

The Death Sibs are both the youngest and oldest on the Argo II. Octavian is a college freshman getting into petty drama with a bunch of high schoolers. He gets told to shut up at one point by a random 8th grader. Everyone is scared of the 8th grader. We Sent A 13 Year Old To Superhell and he came back weirder, Just Like Middle School. TLH was just three high school sophomores being sent to do a task and it going Exactly Like You’d Expect. Percy’s the only demigod on the ship who can legally drive (though Reyna gets her drivers license at some point before TOA). What Is Happening.

#pjo #hoo #heroes of olympus #riordanverse #my second favorite thing related to this is like every time Hazel references someone's age especially in SoN it's just. blatantly incorrect. #she goes into very specific detail about how she's 14. detailing like exactly how many months it had been since her birthday #and when she died and when she was brought back. just like ''okay. im 14 and a half. got that? good.'' #''anyways here's Frank. he's 3 years older than me'' like literal next chapter. we are told Frank is not 3 years older than her. #Hazel: Here's my older brother! [Nico is younger than her in literally every way feasible] #ive just decided Hazel is an unreliable narrator who is just really bad at guessing/remembering how old people are #which like. adhd mood. forgetting how old everybody is. #and she has the bonus excuse of saying her sense of time is skewed from being a ghost for so long #but it's just so funny every time she's just. with the upmost confidence. blatantly the wrong answer. #i want a scene of Hazel looking at Percy and just going ''hm. I bet he's like 20.'' and then learns he's 16 #and she's just [surprised pikachu] #also we know it isn't an error that she's 14 cause in TOA she's like ''oh yeah im learning to drive!'' #so she's 15 by then #it is however an error that *Nico* is said to be 14 in hoo cause he's 12 in TLO and 14 in TOA #but we know in HoO the reason that error was made was cause Rick hadn't figured out Nico's birthday yet #and he was flipping it between January or March #so he just forgot how old Nico is for a series and then we went back to normal

[booasaur]

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters - 1x04

#mlomedit #monarchlegacyofmonstersedit #monarch: legacy of monsters #monarch legacy of monsters #cate randa #may olowe-hewitt #anna sawai #kiersey clemons #monarch legacy of monsters 1x04 #cate x may #femslash related stuff #but subtext #so I spent the first half of the ep going oh okay never mind my first post #this is clearly setting up a may/kentaro reunion #but this?? was??? extremely unnecessary? #tbh it doesn't fit with their (current) relationship at all? #I mean I guess cate looking after may might have affected her #and the ''one of us has to make it out of here'' meaning to get word to her sister perhaps #which she so easily told cate about and not kentaro >_> #but like...the framing...I'm not wrong right #the last gif

[emptyjunior]

oh no I think Cassandra is the older friend you had on Kik, messaging a teenager saying "I will DIE without you" at midnight and then you gotta convince a stranger not to die before your big maths test tomorrow

#except I guess she isn't bluffing so I guess maybe it's okay #Maybe Its Okay #fantasy high #fhjy #dimension 20 #kristen applebees #d20

[lucy-ghoul]

can't believe a show based on a videogame (usually games adaptations are notoriously bad, which isn't the case here tho) gave me the beauty and the beast/twisted mirrors/enemies to traveling companions/ruthless antihero+optmistic but still badass heroine who takes none of his shit/age gap but make it sexy dynamic of my dreams. as much as i love maximus and i think he deserves the best writing ever because 1. he's a clever deconstruction of the aspiring Knight bro who's actually a bit of a loser and, as much as lucy, sees the world in black&white at first and then doesn't get what he thought he wanted but what he needs (or at least i hope he'll eventually get it), and 2. he's a cutie and i want an epic love story for him too, it's very funny how they tried to give us a puppy kind of romance and the tumblr girlies still fixated on the "toxic ~she bites his finger off and he cuts hers off and sews it on his hand in what we'll pretend it's a symbolic marriage rings exchange or whatever~ asshole who used to be a nice guy/good girl™ with a lot of spunk and hidden anger but unshakeable morals" kind of relationship.

#mind you idt the writers will ever have the guts to go for this pair or anything and i'm perfectly okay with the maximus/lucy romance #but still. they tried to give us the wholesome love story between two cuties with a killer side #and the fandom went ~mmmh we kinda want for that girl and the noseless radioactive ghoul to fuck nasty actually #shhdhdhf i'm sorry but this was so predictable to me. conosco i miei polli #also. i don't fully understand those who see it as a father/daughter thing? just because it worked on tlos #doesn't mean we need the same kind of dynamic here #1. despite him being an actual father (or at least. he was 200+ years ago) i've never seen a less paternal character than the ghoul lmao #2. lucy is an adult woman. young but in her mid twenties i guess? cooper had (and maybe still has) a daughter but the kid was like. 6 or 7? #lucy doesn't need a daddy she's a grown up. stop infantilizing women all the freaking time #let them be fully equals!! let them be bickering road trip companions/a killer squad/tentative allies who eventually form a real bond #i SWEAR if the writers go full parent/child bs with them in s2 because they're more popular #(at least on ao3. i don't expect the same level of insanity from the general audience) #than the canon ship i'll riot. idt they will but still #..... maybe they should go for a hot max/lucy/coop polycule instead. that would be interesting lmao #vaultghoul #fallout #val rambles in the tags #val speaks #txt

[seasinkarnadine]

Should've been a bit after the scry where Prism or Deni$e was like "She's beautiful. I can see why you love her." and Laudna's all soft and squishy as usual "Of course. She's very capable." and the guests are now like oh okay they're together cool. And later on they're trying to be positive and upbeat "Don't worry we are gonna get your wife back" and Laudna gets excited but is equally confused "I have a wife?? When do I get to meet her??"

#laudna #cr3 #critical role #i just think this would be fun okay #laudna would be so jazzed to have a wife #i mean she already does but like #legally i guess lol #imodna #cr spoilers #but only kinda #because most of this is wishful thinking