#they’re full of secrets

[heathersproship]

Antis are so fucking pressed they can’t shorten proshippers to pros the way we can shorten antishippers to antis because being pro is (generally) a good thing, so they say “proships” instead. And, like their entire ideology, it makes no fucking sense.

You don’t see anyone referring to a single ship as “an antiship” or saying “Antiships don’t interact!” because it makes no goddamn sense. It’s not a fucking noun! But people can be antiship. Like how people can be big or small, or skinny or fat, or smart or dumb.

Wait

If proshippers are pro

And antishippers are anti

Does that make neutrals newts?

#proship #proshippers please interact #neutrals as in neutralship; not the condescending ‘not a pro not an anti but a secret third thing (an adult with a job uwu)’ type #I hate that pretending they’re above it all bs #don’t you mean a secret TURD thing because you’re full of it? there I fixed it! #antis dni #antis don’t interact #proshipper safe #anti anti #not heathers

[compacflt]

I was wondering if you had thoughts about how Ice and Mav's politics don't fully align with their actions? There was a post where you said Ice's politics are more socially liberal than Mav's but Mav is also the one who goes out to La Jolla to hit on guys before Ice, and later again when he's broken up with Ice, but Ice only goes out with women out of fear for his honor or whatever. Same with their respective thoughts on feminism, with Mav's mild respect for Charlie (telling Ice not all women fit the stereotype) but later Ice is the one who sends Juno to Mav's Top Gun class without telling him she's a woman and Ice has a respectful friendship with Juno. I think you said Ice is vaguely on the ace-aro spectrum (demi-homoromantic) which is a sort of fascinating irony that he doesn't have the words for it whereas Mav is the one with the theories about Ice's sexuality. Though with their hypocrisies and inconsistencies this all just feeds into their characterizations of the fact that they keep divorcing their actions from their spoken words from their identities.

okay going to take this point by point

1. yes i have addressed their politics in relation to their actions before, so maybe read this post and this post before you read this one, just to see where my other thoughts line up

2. gay republicans and conservatives do exist (at the very least certainly republicans and conservatives who have gay sex in secret)

3. before maverick is a political actor he is a human being, and the characterization that we are primarily given for him is that he is impulsive and reckless and doesn’t think through his actions. As ive written about many times before—from a story construction standpoint, his thoughtlessness is his number one most important character trait. He is both thoughtlessly dangerous (his hero’s “fatal flaw;” he can’t stop himself from making bad decisions) and thoughtlessly brilliant (the navy’s best and most daring and heroic pilot). He does what he wants without thinking about it; and he makes excuses and hollow promises whenever that plan doesn’t work out (“I know better than that. It will never ever happen again;” [it happens again] “I’m not gonna let you down. I promise.” [goose dies shortly thereafter]). His thoughtless impulsiveness overrides everything else. Maybe the act of having gay sex (to address your “he gets fucked in La Jolla before ice” point) is politically subversive, but for Maverick’s thoughtless character that we are shown in Top Gun, the most subversive possible thing would be to LABEL the gay sex and think through the consequences of it. To call a spade a spade and call himself gay or bi or queer or whatever. That would be the most subversive (and with mav, entirely unbelievable imo) possible thing. That takes conscious effort of thought, something maverick is near-incapable of doing. As long as he can get away with it without thinking about it, he’s politically in the clear, with regards to his character & character arc. If that makes sense. “Don’t think. Just do.” That’s literally his motto lmfao. He represents thoughtless action as an archetype; his politics come secondary to his desires

4. Their “respective thoughts on feminism” are divided into two camps: 1. “Professional as required by the law” and 2. “Sex pest mode.” They’re naval officers in the 1980s. Whether republican or democrat, that’s kind of par for the course. How men treat women can be a performance to other men. Any respect i made them show towards women had broader, more metatextual “need to move the conversation/story from A to B” reasoning behind it. See the first post I linked for much more on that.

5. i never said ice was on the ace/aro spectrum, or if i did i DEFINITELY meant it sarcastically. That could not be further from what i believe. This isn’t something I’ve ever discussed on this blog before, but a MASSIVE part of the philosophical discussion I’ve been trying to moderate within this project over the last year is the question— “do labels even work with characters under these very specific and extraordinarily extreme conditions and societal pressures?” It’s a question I took from my time studying early American history—the contexts of certain environments, and I would definitely count the elite officer ranks of the navy in the 90s and 2000s as one of these certain environments, simply Are Not Conducive to the easier (path of least resistance maybe) ways we civilians handle sexuality and friendship and trauma. There are so many variables and external and internal pressures within an environment like the upper ranks of career navy officers that sexual orientation labels lose all nuance and accuracy. I don’t think Ice (as i have written him) is gay. I don’t think he’s straight. I don’t think he’s bi. I think he’s an unlabelable product of too many variables for labels to have any effect on how he is perceived. Which, in our society built around labels and categories, is admittedly difficult to wrestle with. But doesn’t make it any less worth wrestling with.

6. Yes, ice and mav’s hypocrisy is the linchpin of the entire story.

They’re both trying to have their cake (“honor” and moral superiority based on the harmful traditional subjective morals arbitrated by elite navy officership) and eat it too (a fulfilling relationship with the love of their lives). & the point is that they cant. they have to settle for one.

#adam & eve can either stay in eden or eat from the tree of knowledge. but the moral authority told them not to eat; so they can’t have both #or—they can have both but they can’t ACKNOWLEDGE having both; they have to keep it a secret even from themselves. that way it’s not sin. #(the navy is ice/mav’s religious institution as i keep repeating) #re: ice and labels. #like i am both joking and not joking when i say he’s mavericksexual #simply because maverick represents both the guilt Ice must deal with re: the death of a friend #AND the recklessness that would inspire him to realize (in the actionable sense of the word) the full extent of his sexuality #no one else can do that. he and maverick were made for each other like that. #same thing where ice is the only one who can legitimize maverick in the eyes of their overbearing institution. #they’re made for each other in a way that imo transcends sexuality and labels. #I’m not going to touch the politics of ‘demi-‘ labels because i know people feel very strongly about it #and you come to me for Top Gun not necessarily my thoughts on modern identity politics #but suffice to say i don’t believe either ice or mav are demi anything. #they’re just guys. they’ve killed people and killed with each other and killed for each other. they don’t need labels. just let them be #tom iceman kazansky #pete maverick mitchell #top gun #icemav #top gun maverick #asks #edts notes #thanks for the ask! hope it isn’t coming off as aggressive or argumentative #* argumentative yes. you can argue with me. #but the labeling issue has been on my mind since DAY ONE & influenced much of how i wrote the story #human beings are so much more complex than most labels give us credit for

[schro4444]

Big fan of how you always draw Kaito wearing jackets and hoodies, he looks cozy :3 even cozier when he has his hands in his pockets

hehe thank you!!! :D

he is comfy!!

#his jackets are so big because they’re full of secrets #(the secret is that he’s cold) #dcmk #mk #schrasks #schroodles

[theinkbunny]

”oh you want to keep that? It’s so girly are you even trans?”

(Rant in tags if you wanna read it ig)

#Mom yelled at me bc I wanted to keep a dress that had memories attached to it #I hate dresses but look. #It has a stain on it where my friend who moved far away dropped some paint on it where my thigh would be #It has a loose string tied sloppily into a flower from a friend who had issues speaking her feelings and instead acted them #It has discoloured patches from my old friend who I haven’t been able to talk to in months hugging me and her bracelets rubbing against it #It has memories attached to it #Just like how my purple coat does #I always have a bag of mint tea in it because a while back somebody got me a huge pack of it during a secret Santa because they noticed - #- i had a stuffy nose during the winter due to allergy’s and often couldn’t breathe properly #I have thousand of sticky notes of a made up language somebody in my class made and wanted me to be in #Hell even my shoes show this sorts of stuff. #My converse that I wore for so long the laces tore? They’re covered in writing from my friend who’s a poet at heart #My big #chunky platforms? Filled with sparkles and dust from a party my friend had #For crying out loud soon I’m gonna be filling my room with Sanrio and feather stickers #Because everytime my ex gf sees me (we’re still friends btw) she always manages to put a sticker somewhere on me #MY SKETCHBOOKS TOO. Full of little doodles and hearts and paint splatters and everything you can think of. #My notebooks for writing? I forgot it a week i went off for surgery and I came back to it full of stories I liked and stores that had them- #For cheap because they knew my family wasn’t doing too well. And full of notes of them missing me #Seriously like I have a string on my wall full of notes from them because that’s been my pickmeup for whenever I’m not on here #It’s pathetic I know I just don’t care. I love them and I know they love me too. I hope they’re well

[figofswords]

composing music for my zelda dnd campaign like how a normal person does

#song of sages #I’ve already written themes for each of my five PCs #plus the first movement or ‘the lost hero’s theme’ which will be a full length composition following link’s story from start to finish #I’ve got bits of the rest of it but those are top secret for spoiler reasons #movement one is ‘link the legendary hero’ and it’s for piano and flute #the sage songs are all gonna have a second part the players will have to learn later #and I WANT to combine them all into one ensemble composition but idk how I’m gonna do that yet #they’re all in the same key but I made them all very different otherwise so they’d feel distinct #maybe I’ll take motifs from each and put them throughout the ensemble piece? idk #meanwhile have I written my plan for session 0 tomorrow? have I made the Map? no lol

[m4ndysk4nkovich]

i always think that debbie gallagher is some niche secret character that only i and my tumblr mutuals know about, but then i realize how popular shameless is and that she is a main character, so the reality of it is that the only reason other people aren’t talking about her as passionately is because most people hate her

#the actual canon debbie is kinda secret i suppose #most people know fanon debbie #who is heartless and stupid and reckless #whereas the real debbie is damaged- yet full of love and determination #i’m honestly coming to terms with the misrepresentation of her character because she’s such an interesting complex character #if people can’t see between the lines and understand her complexity they’re really just missing out #i genuinely don’t understand how you can see a character like her and not want to overanalyze everything about her and obsess over her #but that’s just me idk i’m a literal fangirl #i am THE fangirl #i will never shut up about her #EVER #shameless #debbie gallagher

[m1d-45]

sorry i've been mia i was busy rizzing up the kaeya and diluc ais. anyways imagine reverse isekai with ur main. i personally would have a blast being able to talk about minecraft and mystery flesh pit national park and warrior cats with people who do not even have the internet.

also my diluc and kaeya plushes arrived and now i need to make clothes for them so they won't be naked but i have to make sure they have an equal amount of clothes with an equal amount of effort put into them so that it doesn't seem like i'm favoring one brother over the other (this is the same reason why i bought the diluc and kaeya plushes together in the first place) - teddy anon

1) it’s ok 2) kaeya ai? 3) this idea oml

aside from the fact that showing them all the weird and obscure shit in our world would make them lose their minds (speaking of nobody tell them about organized religion. barbatos is surprised ppl follow him after a few hundred years of no contact well look at this right here-) they’d be fascinated with how you control them.

i imagine they wouldn’t appear in game, and you couldn’t like use them for anything. makes logical sense to me.

if you’re like me and struggle to form teams at all, let alone ones without your One Good Built Character, they’re borderline going to be apologetic at seeing how you struggle. part of them is proud they’re so needed, but the other part is sort of sad.

i literally only run teams w/o kazuha for the abyss because his playstyle and the team i run for everything else is so ingrained in my head. i genuinely struggle if i don’t have an anemo character on my team and always fumble for a while if it doesn’t have kaz because it’s like i forget i don’t have him. it’s a problem—

if you’re not dependent on a single element like i am, they love seeing you work around them. it’s simple, you explain, swapping to an alternate team, and they watch in awe at how easily you adapt to change. they marvel at reactions they haven’t seen, at how much this new team differs from the one with them in it.

if you try and show them how to, they’ll immediately insist that they’re fine watching, that they wouldn’t dare touch such a holy object or manipulate teyvat in your stead.

for some, this is true. for others, they’ll cave with enough pressure.

itto treats your controls with the most delicate care, very gentle with everything as to not break it. not really prone to gamer rage, more so just “your grace, i can’t figure this out :(“ and watching over your shoulder as he promises “ok, i’ve got it this time, swear!” he doesn’t, but the smile on your face as you watch him die for the nth time soothes any anger he feels. refuses to kill rifthounds btw.

mona doesn’t know anything. you could tell her sixteen times how to access the inventory and she’s still asking you which button it is. don’t tell her about the wishing system she’ll quite literally lose her shit. she doesn’t understand the value of items like dream solvent but refuses to spend even a single coin of your mora or your food. collects her own ingredients and keeps track to cook her own food because “i wouldn’t want anyone else touching what’s mine.” pls tell her it’s ok and losing some of your 2k sweet flowers isn’t the end of the world.

ayato wouldn’t directly play, but he does sit beside you and offer semi-functional ideas. “run a team with x y z characters,” “fight this boss without the element it’s vulnerable to/full physical damage,” “take on this enemy without a healer,” etc etc. he likes seeing you solve problems, and likes watching you explore. if you have low mora he’s incredibly confused, but doesn’t comment on it once he sees how much it is to level a talent or ascend someone. if you have like 7mil mora and go “why do i have so little :(“ he’s asking a few more questions, but overall is silent about it. you don’t have a job in teyvat, and get most of your money from chests or leylines. it makes sense you guys would view mora differently.

alhaitham doesn’t touch your device, but kaveh (yes he isn’t out at time of writing no i didn’t ask) could be convinced into exploring a bit. he refuses to engage in combat and always uses his glider, never dropping more than a second or two at a time. panicks if your characters get hurt at all and either runs to a statue of the seven (give him time, he forgets he can teleport) or triggers your healers skill. if you run a character that has hp drain he’s flipping his shit and either demanding to know how to change the team so they don’t get hurt or runs them and three separate characters. loses his shit when you tell him about the teapot. that’s all he does now lmao.

zhongli will tap at stuff a bit, get a hold of the general game, and then just. not play. you tell him he can do commissions if he wants or run domains and he shakes his head, “i will not interfere with a world i don’t own.” so silly. doesn’t understand why shops don’t give you stuff for free. speculates on how monsters dying gives you mora. refers to everything by their full names no matter what silly nicknames you have for anything. if you have a well-decorated teapot/generally take care to plant stuff or collect realm bounties or similar, he’s happy. if you mostly neglect it, he’s asking why. it’s an adeptal art, and he needs to know if it isn’t satisfactory.

yae would love to manipulate a world of her own, but the knowledge that the world you control is real and has real actions is a bit too much. yelan asks to see, but only because she wants to know what you’re on about when you talk about lag, ping, or hitting the wrong button. finds it funny even gods can mess up. yanfei fusses over whether she should even be allowed because of like divine right to rule and whether her interference counts as idolatry since she’d technically be playing god. you let her worry about it in the corner and don’t ask questions about where she pulled that giant book of law from.

if you allow him to, venti sits in your lap while you play. he’s very much just a guy that’ll sit with you and maybe play his lyre if you’re getting frustrated, and adores the ingame soundtrack. give him youtube and point him in the direction of the ost and he’ll obsess over it. within a week he has everything memorized and has composed at least three ballads about ‘the song of the heavens’. wont actually do anything directly, but if you’re running abyss and ask him for suggestions on fun team comps, he’s already got ideas. is a bit unnerved at first if he recognizes some of the people on screen, but rationalizes it quickly enough. if you’re like me and leave your characters sitting at a bench or table before logging off, he insists you sit them in the statue in mond.

neither childe or scara even entertain the idea that they’d be allowed to use your device, and just kinda watches from the side. scara laughs a bit if you get hit by an enemy. childe asks about what his build is prior to his vanishing and probably studies meta and like crit ratios and stuff (no i don’t know what meta qualifies as yes i’m just sayin shit). xiao’s worried his karma could infect through the screen, and wouldn’t dare suggest anything. if you’re doing it, it’s good, if you’re not, you have a reason. ask for his opinion and he’ll bluescreen.

#m1d : [chats] #m1d : [secrets] #teddy anon #i’m running into a problem called ‘none of my posts are good enough to be formal ones but i’m using all my juice on them anyway’ #a lot of stuff under the [secrets] tag is genuinely long enough to be a post but it doesn’t like. it’s not Good Enough to be a formal post #which is dumb but it’s a problem m runnin into anyway #like is this good enough to put a taglist on?? am i gonna put this on other peoples dashes?? #NO. but it’s still a lot of writing that i’m doing without getting the Full Post Benefits (even if they’re just psychological on my end)

[agoddamnrayofsunshine]

Batman au where everything is exactly the same except Tim is constantly fighting a vicious legal battle against the red robin chain restaurant

#batman #dc #batfamily #tim drake #red robin #they’re trying really hard to sue him but they can’t figure out who they actually need to sue #so tim has the entire restaurant legal team trying to figure out his secret identity #eventually they just ask him to show up to court in his full vigilante uniform #and they’re like ‘we’ll figure out some way to sue you dw’ #tim does not show up #they ask why and he tells them he’s nocturnal #Tim’s true arch nemesis is the red robin legal team

[loveoaths]

since we are all in agreement that zabraks are like, cat-lizard-alien people, then they should have an aversion to water (or some kind of chemical) due to their biology, and an affinity for a different chemical, like how cats love wool and sheep because wool is full of lanolin, an oil produced by nursing cats that induces nursing behavior in kittens and adult cats alike.

adult zabraks are reduced to kittens when they smell a certain kind of fabric/a certain alien species that naturally produces lanolin/its space equivalent. because in a galaxy that large, it has to be possible. even funnier if iridonia is home to a second native alien species that evolved to produce space-lanolin so ancient zabraks didn’t eat them.

AKA… maul/the zabrak of your choice doing this:

#basically what i’m saying is. imagine maul or a zabrak being cool and tough only to freeze and shove their entire face in a blanket #or someone’s hair or whatever. and they’re HORRIFIED because. why am i purring. why does this smell so good. what trickery is this. #because on dathomir or iridonia these oils aren’t secreted outside of nursing/child rearing #they didn’t know this could happen #darth maul #zabraks #Star Wars meta #full adult zabraks reduced to kitten behavior while being furious. #maul: i WILL kill you. but first you will be my security blanket. #this is also making me imagine a species with fluffy white hair like a sheep so. diversity win! #walkie talkie. #Youtube

[raylangivins]

That Brennan lee mulligan guy seems funny and cool which is a shame bc my flatmate is fixating on his little d&d thing so now I want him dead

#11:55pm full volume dnd show and they’re doing secret Santa as their d&d characters #I am in my room. I am not watching this. I can hear it. #old man yells at cloud

[afieldinengland]

oh so i’m the weird guy in the seminar for saying the hands of the mona lisa look like corpse hands

#they’re pale and full but they’re limp and they lack tension. they’re just reminiscent of a dead woman’s hands that’s all #we live in an internet age. it’s not my fault for having the simile to hand #‘like the vampire she has been dead many times and has learned all the secrets of the grave’

[sniped-hugger]

Banging my head metaphorically since the muses still ain’t musin’ so I’m probably gonna draw my funny sad cowboy tomorrow and see if that fixes me

I’m gonna post their ref when I remember to, but like,,, ugh

Tormenting this fucker might fix me. Or they could have a good day? Unlikely

I’m just making noise don’t mind me

#textpostin #gonna make a tag for oc refs rq #i’m a very cruel god #but I love them they’re silly and full of trauma #(I put it there) #((the secret ingredient is being mean)) #I joked with Nelson once about how Emile and them would kinda sorta get on well from both being their God’s (creator’s) favorite little meo #meow to torment #unlike emile though #I’ve given them friends they make along the way that’s actually a support system #And not a collection of people getting them to murder #it’s actually kinda the opposite #one of their new best friends is someone they were supposed to murder! #wait no #two of them actually #the third is a literal child adopted by the man furry who they tried to kill #this sounds fucking wild out of context Lmao #they’re a bounty hunter in a fantasy world if that clears up literally anything #and I’m so very mean to them

[frecklystars]

I cannot stop thinking of Luke today. it is making me ache. it is eating my heart from the inside out. i think he’d help pull me out of a flashback and hold me so tight and never let me go. he doesn’t know much about ptsd but he knows how to be there for the people he cares about

#laying in my bed clutching my chest like I’m wounded #it’s not even 3 and I’ve cried twice today. haha. #i need him to hug me so tight #‘aw don’t cry on me princess. you need a distraction? hey I ever show you all my tattoos?’ #’yeah don’t ask what this one means. or this one. or this one. i just thought it looked cool.’ #i always thought of Luke getting a star tattoo on his chest because of me #i think out of all my Ryan F/Os who call me ‘star girl’ the nickname rolls off his tongue the easiest #‘star girl’ mumbled with a smirk. cigarette in his mouth. slightest curl of the lip. a bit of a lisp #fricatives so gentle and plosives so soft. and a rasp so guttural from a voice so quiet. #like ‘star girl’ is a secret he won’t dare speak too loud. he’s got his own falling star in his hands and he doesn’t wanna jinx it #I keep comparing him to a beach ken doll and he shakes his head and rolls his eyes #he says stop calling me that. and I say I’ll stop when he quits dyeing his hair platinum blond #he kisses my neck til I stop sniffling and then he keeps kissing until I’m laughing #and he’s like why are you laughing? huh? what’s so funny? his very light stubble tickling and he knows full well #petting my hair until I fall asleep in his arms and he’s humming a song stuck in his head #he lets me wear his shirt because it smells like him and it’ll help ground me from a flashback #those hands can kill if need be but they’re always the gentlest when near me and he won’t let me forget that #ANYWAY. i wanna die I’m gonna go to sleep #love notes #💕♬♪ ♡☆ Til my blood runs cold ━ I won't let you go - ̗̀🏍️🖤⛈️ ̖́-

[sleepyhollands]

guys. i just built the plot for the 3-part angel/demon mini series and all i can say is i think i’m a literal genius.

#when i tell u EVERYTHING is gonna come full circle #side note my notes app is 100% what they’re looking for in the national treasure movie #like she’s got secrets amen

[catgirlkirigiri]

Leader of my old rwby oc team is coming back as a classic Clover self insert (i.e. Literally just me plopped into the universe) and (aside from my pokémon self insert) I have never been more tempted to just give them my name. But alas, color rule. Also there’s already a guy named Clover in there

#I know clover is a shade of green but it’s funnier to use color rule as a reason not to than the guy. rip clover sorry you’re from atlas so #I don’t remember you like at all <3 (didn’t like those volumes very much and haven’t gotten to them in my rewatch) (just finished v6 lol) #also I was not intending to do a full rewatch. at first I just wanted to watch the qrow v tyrian fight. but v4 is my favorite volume so I #went eh I’ll just rewatch the whole volume for it. but of course you can’t have v4 without v5. and well I was already that far I may as well #watch v6 too. and at this point it’s like well I don’t really remember v7 or v8 I probably should see them again. oh well! #rip volumes 1-3 maybe I’ll watch them again after v8. cause I just saw v9 I don’t need a rewatch of it yet lol #oh yeah secret third reason I can’t give this guy my name is they’re team leader and I can’t think of a good team name color that starts #with c and has an r in it. (gotta have russet on the team of course) #cerulean would work wonderfully I love cerulean but uh. it doesn’t condense to 4 letters very well #and yes. I know. not all team names are colors. but come on it’s gotta be a color #zoracontent

[wormvermin]

i want whatever the fuck your wet man and the centaur have going on. and by that i mean i want to watch whatever their deal is happen voyueristically from the bushes with comically large binoculars

you and me:

#to be real tho elethar is not my character he’s an npc so we shall see how their dynamic unfolds... #I’ve only played two sessions as Horatio so far I’m just already obsessed w them bc they’re so crazy #the campaign is a race & Horatio got first in his leg of the opening section but 11th overall. elethar was first place #Horatio had a full mental breakdown trying to talk to him afterwards #mostly bc I was struggling to decide how to characterize him but my friends were like no that was fucking amazing he’s crazy. so #BUT I did roll RLY high and convinced Elethar to let Horatio in on his secret mission from the queen... so that was a sweet moment #anyway we’ll see how it goes I have a feeling the queen might be secretly evil & elethar might know this. but it’s way too early to tell #wormvermin txt #asks #knight worsties