#they were all the same guy

[dukeofriven]

Normalize non-binary characters who don't dress like total dorks. Normalize non-binary characters who don't remind you of the most exhausting person you knew in drama class. Normalize non-binary characters who look like they'd be happiest bombing around rugged terrain in a 1987 Ford Ranger Bigfoot Cruiser they restored themselves.

Normalize non-binary characters who've never painted so much as a toenail and have no inclination to do so.

Normalize non-binary characters who are hairy, heavy, sweaty, and whose favourite musical group is The California Raisins. Normalize non-binary characters who you can't identify from the other side of a warehouse by sight.

Normalize non-binary characters who look and act like a diverse group of people you might meet in your everyday life because god damn am I sick to death of shows getting praised for 'representation' that never stops feeling like a caricatured Other.

#non-binary #queer #enby #characters #yes I am watching Star Trek Discovery #yes its version of queer feels like it had to pass through six comittees of studio execs #yes its cringey as hell and no amount of 'but isn't it GOOD to see ourselves on screen at all' can makeup for how false it feels #I'm old enough to remember the 90s/00s and the first gay characters we were supposed to applaud for breaking barriers #they were all the same guy #the same catty sexless asshole #(Remember Second City's 'Sassy Gay Friend'? No? Man I'm old) #and it honestly did more harm than good because The Gay was always The Other #and rather than teach the lesson that 'a gay can be anyone around you' #it instead taught the world 'how to recognize a gay' #and even within the queer community we still internalize those fucking paradigms today #see: every self-doubt post going 'am I really [x] if I don't [y] #imagine how much freer the queer community would be if we hadn't internalized that sense of checklist gatekeeping #Am I really gay if i'm not an enormous tool like Kurt Hummel? #and so on #we don't take a lot of steps forward #we take a lot of steps sideways and call it progress because there's technically movement

[goldiipond]

if there's anything i've learned from the current state of social media it's that this is one of the worst possible notifications you can receive upon opening an app

#skye's ramblings #i thought you guys were exaggerating how ass-ugly the discord update is. why isn't this optional. what if we all died #big thanks to discord and tumblr for both making bad layout changes to their apps in the same week. i love complaining <3

[olibensstuff]

MUTANT MAYHEM SPOILERS!!!

I want to talk about his polo shirt with someone

#HE WAS MY FAVORITE AND I WASNT EXPECTING HIM TO BE #it’s his 2012 Donnie tendencies #His shirt is so goofy i like it a lot #But all the people I know that play golf wear the same one #so I’m giving him The Curse #art #mutant mayhem #mutant mayhem spoilers #leonardo #mm leo #mm leonardo #tmnt #I don’t know how to draw the mutant mayhem guys yet so he looks a little funky #Silly guy💗💗💗 #All the poses in the last drawings were draw overs of tiger woods #🤭

[homosexualslug]

if I had a nickel for every time seth green played the nice boyfriend of the bookish, nerdy girl who fights supernatural beings with her group of friends (called the scooby gang) led by her pretty but badass best friend (played by sarah michelle gellar) before she eventually came out as a lesbian, I'd have two nickels.

#it's just SO funny #btvs #buffy the vampire slayer #scooby doo #trick or treat scooby doo #scooby doo 2022 #velma #velma scooby doo #lesbian velma #willow rosenberg #seth green #willow and oz #willow x tara #fun fact almost all of the girls in this nerdy student org I was in in college crushed on the same nerdy nice red haired guy too #and most of them were bi/pan/ace or came out as lesbian later on #what an enigma #velma dinkley

[artgletic]

case study of the self-identified god

#obsessed with the fact that rain world is a game about survival #yet every character we meet has the express goal of trying to optimize killing themselves #every creature in game seems perfectly content fulfilling their role in the ecosystem no matter how many cycles they do the same thing #(rly obvious with gourmand's entire route. guy who lives their life to the fullest without the slightest hint of resentment) #it was really only the ancients who thought they were above it and thought of it as something to escape from #5pebbles is so interesting because the only reason hes “”“godlike”“” is because of his vast knowledge. if he was in any slugcats shoes he #would die instantly which is ironically what hes been trying to do this whole time #this comic was kind of exploring the idea of awareness (divinity) as something that drags down ones enjoyment of life (walking). #if 5p would humble himself down enough to walk around like any other creature #he would a) be much happier in life and b) achieve the ascension he's been gunning for for millennia like all the slugcats did #but he never will. #getting rid of all his work on the problem or even his awareness of it entirely #would just be a trick of convenience that steals away his godhood #and him calling himself godlike is kind of a cope LOL #a cope being faced with a problem he was never meant to solve #a cope being faced with what he did to moon #a cope being faced with the rot inside him #oh well. #anyway fuck 5 pebbles i hate that guy #rain world #rain world fanart #rw five pebbles #rain world five pebbles #rw gourmand #rain world gourmand #five pebbles #rain world void worm #rain world ancients #also JUST KIDDING ilu 5p. you suck but i💛u

[morganbritton132]

Eddie’s live-streaming in his studio when Robin asks if he wants the rest of her milkshake. He’s like ‘yeah’ and she says, “Woooow, look at that. Once again, Eddie Munson gets my sloppy seconds.”

Eddie, playing along: Hate to break it to you, Rob, but Steve was with me before he married you, and during, and after.

Robin: Yeah, but I put a ring on it first.

Eddie: Actually, you didn’t.

Robin: In the eyes of the law, I did.

Eddie: Well, I slept with him

Robin: Ew. He confessed his love to me first

Nancy, not even looking up from her laptop: I don’t know about that…

#This is an ongoing bit that Eddie and Robin do #It’s the most fun you can have if you’re gay and you were married to the same guy #Nancy is there just to remind them that she got there first #Meanwhile Steve isn’t there at all. he’s at a school function #eddie munson tiktok saga #eddie munson #robin buckley #nancy wheeler

[hajihiko]

Trainwreck in double speed

#Fuyuhiko kuzuryu #Peko pekoyama #kuzupeko #super danganronpa 2 #sdr2 #an art #Fuyuhiko ruining himself with the pressure and violence and fitting into shoes he neither fits nor wants #Peko ruining herself by erasing herself and falling into a role she hates for someone she loves #Both of them shaving off bits of themselves until they're just not the same people at all in a bad way. Together through it all! #Both of them hate it but are powerless to change what they were sculpted into! #Anyway. How are we feeling tonight guys. I'm having weird feelings about family (not found but obligatory) #(Hiko and Peko aren't found family they actually are. Enforced obligatory family that's barely even family.) #(That's NOT as in they dont care about each other they care so much. But they didnt grow up as family or friends) #(They grew up through obligation) #OKAY time to stop talking

[feenixmork]

A couple quick drawings of my faves during ongoing Utena watching (have not drawn the actual best character yet (Chuchu))

#utena #revolutionary girl utena #juri arisugawa #wakaba shinohara #utena spoilers #revolutionary girl utena spoilers #i art 👍 #loving it very much so far #except black rose arc #was not a fan #maybe upon rewatch i'll like it but fuck man #what a slog #no one does anything #while traumatic shit happens to them constantly #it's all in the end about Some Guy #wakaba episodes were mostly good though #same for juri and shiori's #like they were all good im concept #but ugh the execution

[uncanny-tranny]

I just have to say that it's so weird reading how transphobes think of trans bodies as mutilated and gross when they never would have thought my body pre-transition was worthy. The "argument" of mutilated beauty that transphobes have tossed around is just a fear mongering tactic, because they don't tend to actually love or appreciate and see value in bodies that don't "neatly" fit into male and female, with no overlap and no nuances.

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #i saw so many transphobes agonizing about a trans guy who developed acne from transition... #...they were agonizing about how he ruined his skin and beauty and how *they* didn't find him attractive anymore (how sad /s) #i read that and i realized... pre-transition i had a ton of acne (it's not gotten worse at all so far) #pre-transition i had very broad shoulders (to the point i was made fun of for how i'd act because of my broadness) #pre-transition i inherented most of the traits of the males in my family... #...and if i didn't transition - if i were cis? those same transphobes would think of me just as poorly and they'd hate my body and my soul #because it isn't about 'saving people'. it's about control. it's about manipulating the human experience into two neat boxes #and that excludes people like me. it excludes intersexness and natural variation in human bodies. #transphobia #transphobia tw #like this is shit i knew ever since i first interacted with a transphobe but it to this day blows me away

[ba1laur]

we are just normal men

#is that how you hold a gun. i dont fuckinbg Know dont ask me #i was rewatching the 98 dub n remembered the bit where ww just keeps vashs gun wit him for like two years mhm.*scream* *fade to black* #i missed this style i htink. very freeing and fun to draw but much more limited than the dot pen style one. soryy guys #if none of my drawings look like they were made by the same person. get used to it #can i confess something real quick.i think im dogshit at drawing ppl im sorry i drew critters all my life but something changed in me #trgn has been pushing me to step out of my comfort zone and its great. awesome even #rejoice #trimax #trigun maximum #vash the stampede #wolfwood #wolfwood d nicholas #lovee aaaand penis. #fanart tag #trigun #art tag

[ramblings-of-a-coward]

Philza: Sorry I wasn't home

Tubbo: Too busy hitting the town

Chat:

#Glad we were all on the same page guys #qsmp #qsmp liveblog #liveblogging #qsmp philza #philza minecraft #philza #qsmp tubbo

[valeovalairs]

Finished early in my photoshop class, ended up drawing Albatrio

#I saw people saying they liked the shapes in my last albatrio drawing so here you go #being honest these guys were the ones who helped me get out of same face syndrome lol #i wanted all of them to look different and so in my stylized way of drawing they wind up having these shapes #jrwi #jrwi riptide #jrwi fanart #albatrio #chip nolastname #chip jrwi #jay ferin #gillion tidestrider

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

You're mine now, old man.

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #a-qing #xiao xingchen #A-qing's story kicks off so strong. You really get a sense that she feels strongly attached to xxc during the pre-empathy scenes #and that she has a strong sense of loyalty and perseverance with strong survival instinct #but then you see her before all the tragedy and you *immediately* learn she is a clever trickster! #She follows xxc not out of gratitude but out of a sense that this guy is her meal ticket. #xxc is kind and strong but most importantly *noble* #she can smell the self-sacrificing bright eyed hope on this stranger. She knows the mere fact she's a young blind girl means #he will protect her. The fact he gives her a little money doesn't hurt her justification but tbh she would have followed all the same #a-qing is *the* catgirl of all time actually. Follows you for the fact you provide food and shelter. Opportunistic. May grow to be loyal. #That's not even getting into the parallels here between these two characters and wwx (who is seeing these events play out) #the yi city trio are arguably the three split aspects of wwx: who he feels like (a-qing the opportunist) who he wants to be (xxc the noble) #and who he feels seen as (xy the vengeful). #one day I'll write a more robust analysis on that. prob in the tags though #(His a-qing parallels are also tied with the fact they both were street rat orphans who learned how to code-switch to be whoever #they need to be to feel safe. I have a lot more thoughts to share but augh another time...another time)

[see-arcane]

Jack: Van Helsing and I, the definitely-for sure canniest minds of the team, are keeping a close watch on Mina for signs of too much visible vampiritis. If her teeth get too pointy we'll sadly have to break out the stake and saw maneuver, as his been discussed and demonstrated to the entire group via Lucy and our Dracula plans. Thank goodness Harker is totally oblivious to our suspicions! Isn't that right, Harker?

Jonathan 'Spent Two Months in Vampire Hell, Fresh from Watching All His Allies Swear to Murder His Wife If She Got Too Dracula'd, Has Been Sleeping with Said Wife Every Day/Night, Has Not Let Go of His Giant Fuckoff Knife Since October 3rd' Harker, whetting the kukri until it's an atom wide as he casually takes stock of everyone's throats: No sir :) Haven't even the tiniest inkling :)

Jack: Excellent, you just keep those cold hands steadily sharpening that knife and stay ignorant to our tragic-wise machinations

Jonathan: Will do :)

#Quincey; in his laconic mental journal: 'So Jack and the professor are gonna fucking die if I don't keep an eye on this shit' #I said it last year I'll say it again #Jack would be the first one to die in a horror movie #'Harker would lose his nerve if he knew what we were considering!' #MY GUY HE WAS FUCKING SITTING THERE IN RAGE-GRIEF TEARS WHEN YOU ALL PROMISED TO KILL HER #HE IS IN THE SAME ROOM/BED AS HER 99% OF THE TIME #RENFIELD IS WHEEZE-LAUGHING AT YOU IN THE AFTERLIFE #THIIIIIIIIIIINK! #jack seward #jonathan harker #mina harker #dracula #re: dracula #dracula daily

[chessb0r3d]

i cracked the code.

#believing dirk is the worst guy because its what dirk thinks of himself #ignoring daves bisexuality and think hes a gay man in denial even when he explained hes bisexual #believing john 'im not a homosexual' egbert is explicitly straight while he makes out with his mcconahey and cameron posters more #than he kissed women(literally only once) #believing that rose is an edgy psyhcotic little bitch when she was neglected. she speaks elegantly to cover that shes silly and a total ner #and how did people forget that rose also writes gay wizard fanfiction. reads Wikipedia. and her beautiful artstyle as a result of neglect #(and by neglect meaning having SO MUCH TIME to draw) #jake wasnt into dirk. he also told di that he didnt like how brobot getting touchy with him during strifes #but as part of the repression 4(prospit kids). he refused on changing the bot settings #what jane said about roxy being better when she was drunk. it was fucking sarcasm. its the least insane shit you could say to a best friend #all the kids have issues and of course people get mad over a girl being sarcastic. #when KARKAT said THE SAME THING to rose when she was drunk on the meteor nobody bats an eye #trolls are just grey humans that are bugs. he doesnt get an excuse for being an alien. humans were made from KARKATS BLOOD #jade isnt all silly girl and is so FULL OF HATE towards the trolls. she called karkat a fuckass (VERY FUNNY) to do her a favor #“jade would rather have punched karkat in the fact then had a pleasent conversation with him.” #“she viewed the trolls as rude mean and cruel. and even thought that nepeta was just making fun of her. #despite it being that nepeta just wanted to roleplay and have fun." #dred.loki #I HAVE YET TO ADD MORE. THESE ARE JUST NOTES #homestuck #chss

[skateironicallycantskate]

local man discovers brian david gilbert, more at 8

#my silly little memes #brian david gilbert #pumpkin cowboy #winter king #so was no one gonna tell me it was all the same guy or were you just gonna let me figure it out myself…