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frosteee-variation · 1 year

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new character for a friend's campaign that I got invited to! I'll probably draw some smaller doodles and/or a better reference sometime soon, but I was figuring out colors and design and thought this looked good so. eh.

The whole gimmick of the campaign is that everyone is from a different timeline/universe/dimension/all that jazz and is kind of scattered across space-time, so this here's my lizardfolk warlock, Skip! I figured that since other people were probably going to go for deals that were geared towards fantasy, I went for an interstellar pilot from a rickety old cargo ship called The Rascal. It's technically an artificer, but it's a bit hard to get advanced tech when you're thrown back millions of centuries.

The campaign itself is probably going to happen sometime in January, so for now I've just been trying to flesh out Skip itself a bit more!

Which admittedly I have done, uh. A lot.

It's mostly been the rest of its crew, The Rascal itself, and superstitions, though. Like how members of The Rascal can be identified by the trinkets that they wear, which they pick up whenever they stop at a new location! It's both a way to catch stowaways (by being able to track what locations they've been to and catching inconsistencies using their own souvenirs) and see how long crewmates have been on the ship. Fun!

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lungsandlips · 8 months

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who: dimitri. literal child of sleep himself. a dream. currently in a bad mood. open to: mutuals who wanna play in his world (gender doesn't matter here, 'family' welcome), men and male identifying persons

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"Yeah, sure, just make yourself at home. Couldn't sleep anyway." The bitterness in his voice said that was the real problem, not that the other had just come right in. Of all things, he couldn't sleep. Karma, he supposed. Sleep was an integral part of who he was and for the last few nights it escaped him entirely. Not once in his life had he ever had this problem and it was really starting to get under his skin. "Unless you know some sneaky trick to knock me out."

#indie gay rp #gay rp #greek myth rp #open starter #i hate trying to come up with tags

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donghuamuqing · 11 months

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Mike is an immortal god-prince that falls in love with will, who is a poor mortal artist, after seeing a painting done by him depicting mike not as a chiseled statue of fierce stoicism and perfection, but the most like a human mike has ever seen before.

It looks like mike and it feels like mike and he demands to see the artist. They go into the friendship (though they both wish it was something more) knowing mike is a god but he was planning to make will a god alongside him or raise him up as a divine patron of the arts like a muse. However, somehow, will dies. He dies away from mike, either traveling towards him or meeting him somewhere. Mike catches glimpses of his ghost, sees him in the masters’ art studios, markets, arenas, theaters, and dance halls. He sees him everywhere but they never speak. Mike chases and chases after him wanting to be together again since will is technically still here, however will knows hes only still around because he has unfinished business with mike. He knows that if they talk, they reconcile and confess, wills reason for staying is no longer tying him down and he can “move on,” so to say. He knows that if they speak, he’ll never see mike again and he cant stand to let that happen.

And so the chase continues.

#my post #i come up with my best content in the shower bc thats Thinking time and boy. do i think #there are tales of the king and the ghost sad and powerful ballads of forbidden love #or even how one can become two and friendship and turn into discord because they dont understand the reason for will staying away #after centuries the story gets so confusing mike barely remembers what happened but he makes sure to write down what he remembers in noteboo #notebooks using his previous one as a reference #sees byler: hey i can make a fable out of this #whats the difference between a fairtytale and a fable is a fable teaching a lesson?#ill try again. sees byler: hey i can make a myth out of this #byler #denise dont be mad. enjoy the angst. savor the angst

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redbootsindoriath · 10 months

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I remembered today that if I want to continue my accidental Bilbo and the troll tradition I need to get cracking on a new drawing before I wake up in 2024 having missed my chance.

2023 Bert stole 2020 Bert’s hair and put it all over his face. That’s why 2020 Bert was bald. I just didn’t know that at the time.

#bilbo #the man the myth the legends #beowulf except everybody is short #my trash #/end classification tags #bilbo continues his 2020 aspirations of becoming a contortionist #hear me out though: it's a bit difficult to have two characters have a non-awkward-looking conversation when #one is a hobbit #and the other is a troll #and the other is suspending the one in the air by holding the one's toes #let's at least admire bilbo's core strength in this drawing anyway #trying to form a sentence while holding yourself halfway through a hanging sit-up is not the easiest task in the world #for a 50-year-old hobbit he's doing remarkably well in that area #no but this one took like THREE HOURS #(maybe more?? i wasn't keeping exact track of time for it)#and i still somehow managed to get the perspective wrong #rip me #but hey this art tablet is such a lifesaver #also just so y'all know #i've got a moderately notable and time-consuming life change coming up in august #one which will require a decent amount of preparation beforehand #so i don't know if i'll be posting much during july or august #but then again who knows #i might #(also happy belated insufferable yank day to my american followers)#(sorry i didn't get a drawing done in time)#(i have been on the road for a MONTH and only got back last week)

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mossytrashcan · 7 months

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Unrelated but I was thinking about Koschei for reasons (I was reading about proto indo European pantheon and it turns out 'Fire God formed in water' is a myth researchers think they mightve had and it remonded me of Vassa) and am I allowed to say how funny it is that like, Koschei is so directly named after a myth. Like Bone Carvers his own thing and Stryga is technically got like The Three Fates/The Witch in Hansel and Gretel vibes, and then there's Koschei who is basically just the guy from the myth including the title. ALSO protoindoeuropean pantheon speculation is dope BTW you should research it its fascinating

Bold of you to assume I haven’t already researched it. I fucking loved anything protoindoeuropean as a kid, the folklore FUCKS

Anyways, personally I would’ve loved it if SJM combined Lanthys and Koschei together into one character. I think (no shade to ACOSF and it’s enthusiasts) instead of the rehab/whatever plot we got, we could’ve gotten to see a little brief corruption arc w Nesta and Koschei

Cuz like imagine a story where this deathless death god found out about cauldrongate and was like psychologically manipulating Nesta into gathering all of the troves (his soul bits) so that she could 1) become his queen/weapon, 2) make him all powerful, and 3) become a literal shield for him because the gang would have to kill her to kill him

(gonna unprofessionally ramble in the tags because I need to brainstorm about this lol)

#this probably sucks ass but I genuinely love the Koschei the Deathless myths sauuur much #like how fucking dare you throw him in there casually #anyways I need to work out the wrinkles in this hmmm #I know I’m bomb at pitching stories but there’s stuff missing and I need to work it out yknow #but yeah drop the mortal queen who’s evil thing cuz honestly who gives a fuck #also no shade to the rehab thing it was v relatable but also clearly a background for super sex #it could’ve been set up in the christmas special too #like oooo look something’s weird with nesta what could it be #and then also instead of there being too much free time for cassian to come off as an asshole #maybe he’s like trying to get thru to her or something #maybe it could be a literal retelling of the koschei story where the guy fucks his ass up for his lover #yeah that’s good see I just need to brainstorm in live time #sjm critical #THIS ISNT ABOUT HER I SWEAR IM JUST PITCHING #also also you could tie in nesta’s grooming for grooming #like in a sick way this is what she was raised to do #her wacky grandmother who def existed to make her story more sad laid the foundation for this #and now she has to like break that cycle and reaffirm that NO she doesn’t need to exist for old men #she deserves something better and epic #idk man I’m going crazy sorry

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valyrfia · 7 months

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f1 tiktok has been slacking because where is my f1 edit to i know the end

#it is a small qualm but has stuck with me #f1 in general gives quite dystopian vibes....young kids abandoned on karting tracks in europe with no guarantee of future etc.#the crazy money and spectacle involved in it #the bridge literally begins with the lyrics “driving out into the sun let the ultraviolet cover me up” COME ON #formula 1 #i might have to fic this #oh dear #the acceptance of death you have to have to drive one of those cars #the fact that so many drivers are trying to live up to a legacy #“went looking for a creation myth ended up with a pair of cracked lips” is every driver with a WDC father ever #i have many thoughts! and feelings!#f1 literature thoughts #fr

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extrasfromthevoid · 2 months

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Oracle Trance -- Caught in The Moirai's Threads

I haven’t talked a lot about Milo’s power of clairvoyance yet, which is as shame because it’s such an integral part of her character! So many of her choices and so much of her personality are informed by this power, for better or worse

So.

Milo has foreseen the return of The Shredder since she was a literal infant. And as a literal infant, Milo couldn’t exactly articulate what it was about her “dreams” that distressed her so much. She woke up crying a lot, which her birth parents hated greatly because to an outside perspective, it seemed like she cried for no reason.

Those visions got graphic. As in, “experience the brutal deaths of yourself, your loved ones, and the entire world” levels of graphic. Her visions are primarily visual and tactile (you know how sometimes if you get hurt in a dream, you not only feel it in the dream but you get this weird phantom feeling where you got hurt when you wake up ? It’s basically that). When Milo was young, the content of the visions were poorly defined. Anything but the MAIN subject of the vision would be hazy shapes and blobs of color. This changes as she grows older and grows more in tune with her power.

The way it works is that Milo can perceive the unwoven threads of time and chance. Each thread represents a possible outcome and is made up of hundreds of thousands of variables. The aesthetic for time that I'm going for is--obviously--that of woven fabric.

The past is the pattern that's already been woven.

The present is what is currently being added to the overall fabric.

The future is the threads that have yet to be added and incorporated.

For her part, Milo can only see the unwoven threads.

Since there's so many loose threads and possibilities, it's easy for Milo to get "snagged" in them and have to view these futures continuously until she untangles her consciousness from these endless possible futures. This is what a waking vision (or an oracle trance) ultimately is. While in this state, if people ask Milo questions pertaining to the future, the threads with the answers to those questions become magnetized to her (like static, really), and only serves to entangle her further and make it harder and more difficult for Milo to separate her consciousness from her power. In fact, it would be insanely easy for Milo to get permanently stuck in this state because the threads of possibility she gets entangled in are unbreakable, so the only way out is to untangle herself (and anyone who's ever worked with thread or yarn knows how easily a Gordian Knot can form when you least want it).

What's more, being in a waking vision/oracle trance is not unlike having sleep paralysis. She's still somewhat conscious, her visions projecting themselves to her on her surroundings, but her thoughts outside her visions are sluggish--unable to fully divorce the visions from reality as she would normally--and her body is fully paralyzed.

(Eternity trapped in a waking vision is an unfortunate fate that many oracles have fallen prey to as in most cases, the people around them would value access to their power over them as people.)

The best way to deal with waking visions is for Milo to be left alone with minimal stimulation, so she can untangle herself in peace. The process can still take a while depending on how tangled she is, but it usually takes at least two days.

Milo gets her visions when she sleeps, though they don't happen every time she sleeps. She generally can sense when a vision is coming, especially if it's going to be very intense (those ones are proceeded with what Milo has dubbed "prelude migraines"). She doesn't have much control over what her visions show her, but the things that she thinks of most can influence them. And since Milo thinks a lot about The Shredder's return and keeping her family safe, these things feature frequently.

Being exposed to abrupt stimulus during these visions is what triggers a waking vision/oracle trance.

(Her brothers learned that the hard way when they were young. After experiencing one of Milo's waking visions for the first time, they collectively became pretty protective of her when they know she's having visions now that they are aware of just how vulnerable she is during this time)

ALSO

I've finally decided on what Milo's true origins (i.e. pre-Draxum origins) are! I've mostly been defaulting to my crossover origins, but I figured one out that is no crossover required!

(I'm still keeping Milo's universe DC adjacent because I have some very specific funny references I want to include)

So. Where did Milo come from? Why does she have such a frankly OP/meta power from birth?

Well...what race of people do we know of from the TMNT universe that collectively have mystical time powers and mysterious origins?

Time Masters, babyyy~~

#void's art #rottmnt oc: milo hamato #rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #teenage mutant ninja turtles #holy multiple light sources batman #i...honestly didnt even know how to BEGIN to shade and highlight this piece so i kind of gave up and did my best #the fact that I put Milo in a blue totk!zelda-style dress is VERY intentional :)#blue is the color that time masters' power takes and time masters have powers related to the past #milo on the other hand is an outlier w her golden yellow future powers #I’ve ended up assigning the time masters a greco-zonai aesthetic style bc every time I think of Milo’s powers I think oracle of delphi #and the fates (and maybe the norns). and i just...instinctively put milo in a totk!zelda dress so theres also that #even tho the time masters aren’t JUST a bunch of crusty European dudes (they are a bunch of arrogant past-obsessed jerks tho)#anyway. milo’s dress #it’s meant to be a nod towards her heritage as a time master so whenever she’s in her oracle mind space she’ll be wearing that #milo doesn’t know what time masters are let alone that she IS one bc she was a literal toddler when she was abandoned in nyc by her father #her father had been trying to get rid of his ‘’defective’’ offspring for a while but she kept coming back #another reason I conflated the time masters w Greek myth is bc Milo’s father tried to do w her what all greek kings did w unwanted kids:#abandon them in the wilderness to die from exposure so they didnt have to do DIRECT infanticide #yeah...milo's birth father is a real piece of work #also the transparent blue crown thing w the yellow eye-dots is supposed to be a time master head piece #i somehow conflated the helmet renet wore in 12!tmnt w a jack kirby galactus helmet lmao #(i actually like this design tho so i dont think i'll change it. maybe i'll design a few alternates but i'll stick w this one :3)#for a regular time master like milo's sperm donor it would be plain blue...but she's got the 'yellow impurity' so it shows through #my time masters are all about the orderly preservation and curation of the past. they have no patience or reverence for the chaotic future #hence why milo was deemed 'defective' and cast out #tag rambles

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solcarow · 8 months

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#mayb for yhk week i should draw that painting au that’s been stewing in my mind for a while …..#zulmiro if you see this dont look there’s some major spoilers in here ->#not much story to it tho i just really like the idea of kdj being into painting restoration #it fits really well with his love for abandoned stories ..#yjh could be some forgotten myth whose history’s been lost to time that hsy used as her muse ….#kdj finds all these battered paintings and recognized there was a story being told so he starts trying to piece together thousands of #artworks wishing to see what the original artist saw ..#i’m making no sense but do yuou see my vision …………….#unfortunately this means hsy had to have lived in like . ye olden times for this but COME ONN #love that transcends time ?? understanding that comes too late ???? it’s just so very hankim ……….#the image of kdj being surrounded by a bunch of torn up paintings of yjh has been haunting me for ages o(~<#but damn i dont think i have the time to make it #if anyone wants to steal this idea from me PLEASEE steal this idea from me but only if you show me whatever you make with it 💥💥💥💥#solar-talks #also !! the repetition that goes into restoring paintings .. got some orv thoughts on that for sure …….

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solvicrafts · 3 months

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I'm terrible at remembering Hellenic holidays and legit didn't even realize Theogamia was coming up until today, which honestly explains so much

#hellenic polytheism #Zeus is one of the few deities I really haven't had much interaction with and tbh one of the reasons #is because I still have some lingering religious trauma that is too personal to talk about here #tbf Zeus himself never did anything to me. it's actually much more strongly related to some followers of his from my later childhood #from back when I was just starting out. so I've kept up a bit of an emotional barrier between us this whole time #and finally broke it down this week after he reached out to me #I feel a tad guilty now that I decided to start my Theoi plush line with Artemis since I already had most of the supplies #but I plan on covering all of the gods including Zeus #I just can't afford to make ALL of them right now #I wish people in the pagan community didn't interpret myths so literally and come away from them with the absolute worst interpretations #of the gods. I guess this falls into UPG territory but Zeus is actually really patient and chill #he's the one god out of the entire pantheon that I've been consciously avoiding and trying not to be noticed by due to that past trauma #and he's actually been extremely understanding and forgiving of me for that

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persephonaae · 1 year

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Too many people arguing about if Demeter or Hades is the better person, not enough people ditching that argument and discussing how Persephone might feel trapped in her endless cycle

#I’m trying to write an essay to post on tumblr about the Homeric hymn to Demeter one day bc. I see a lot of bad takes but I also see a lot #a lot of people why just. don’t understand mythological storytelling.#everybody is wrong and also everybody is right. and a lot of people don’t wanna hear that they don’t want someone telling them that they can #can be both right and wrong when it comes to their interpretation or analysis of mythological texts #and mind you many of these people only get educated in myth through tumblr and have never picked up an actual book on mythological analysis #and by hell I really wanna write this essay to at least provide some light education #my credentials include some university level research my autism and my Greek heritage #anyway these tags are unrelated to the post sorta! topically similar but the tags and the post are not saying the same things

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ganseybois · 1 year

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off that gothic lit note, we need to start casting cillian murphy in more gothic films

#just my two cents as with the right lighting and hair he can be the most uncomfortable man to look at #in a nice way #every time i try to give him a compliment it comes out as an insult but i truly mean this in a sexy way lmao #hes a skull man but in a cute greek myth kind of way #a hamlet kind of way #anyway ill shut up this only makes perfect sense in my head

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phoenixcatch7 · 1 year

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Why aren't there more shazam x Percy Jackson crossovers. They slap incredibly.

#Batfam this Batfam that #Give Billy camp half-blood and he would die for all of them within 24 hours #They're ALL like him!#like. come on #That was be so good #Percy teaching him to wield a sword! Annabeth researching old myths of him and getting wiggled out #Chiron and cap discussing philosophy and sharing memories of ancient times #Thalia trying so hard to remember that this kid isn't technically a half sibling Jason delighted to ruffle his hair n share lightning trick #Bulky sharing stories of wonder women with reyna who looks up to her #I KNOW Jason especially would sibling adopt so fast #Nico breaking into his sleeping spot regularly with food and stuff Sally gave him for them both #SALLY JACKSON OKAY #older camp kids sharing stories of homelessness. Challenging Billy - not cap - to get to the top of the lava wall #Cap chaperoning visits to the mortal world and reading signs for the dyslexic peeps #Percy and Annabeth tell him they carried atlas burden and he is in AWE #Monsters start causing drama and when the jl are freaking out cap steps up like nah I know some guys #*summons swarm of slightly ratty teens with Greek armour and weapons* GO FORTH MY WARRIORS #Batman asks if Jason is caps kid and they're both SO offended #Frank suggests Billy go to camp jupiter for uni and they're super accommodating for hero shenanigans and Billy cries #Cap and pjo would do each other SO MUCH GOOD #shazam #captain marvel #Pjo #percy jackson #pjo hoo toa #Dc #justice league #The potential FLUFF. The potential ANGST. The FOUND FAMILY #shazamily #dp x dc

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redbootsindoriath · 1 year

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Fëanorian Week 2023, Day 4: Caranthir

Oh, Caranthir, what do I do with you? Every year I get to him and go “Oh crap not this guy again” because we really don’t know what his interests or motivations were. I gave him short hair for visual variety (since his complexion doesn’t come across in monochrome stone) and left it with that.

#feanorianweek #caranthir #the man the myth the legends #three shinies #my trash #/end classification tags #one year i decided maybe he liked horses and that's about the most effort i've ever put into trying to figure him out #i doff my hat to those who are able to come up with headcanons because i'm afraid to say i have next to no interest in him #and i really don't know why #i wonder if tolkien had the same problem because he didn't tell us much about him #''this guy was angry at everyone about everything and that's his entire personality and he has no other ambitions in life'' geez...okay

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visd3stele · 2 years

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i find the old tales alluring. they may be grimmer, they may be unfiltered, but the roughness in them makes them all the more beautiful. like gems in the walls of caves, uncut, unshaped, unpolished by human hands. sure, the jewels that come from them are stunning, but can't compare with the breathtaking shine of gems where they belong to.

they're still magical, the old fairytales. the original versions, as we call them now. it's just a different kind of magic. closer. of this world. earthgrounded. while the ones disney, for example, stream, are otherwordly, the folk tales take inspiration from the world around, make it seem like we could walk outside and live in one of them.

#2 am ramblings #ramblings #spilled thoughts #unpopular opinion #my opinion #my thoughts #3 am nonsense #this isn't to say you can't like the kid's friendly ones #i grew up with cinderella's sisters cutting their toes and fingers to fit in the s #shoes*#the ariel that walked on sharp glass and turned into sea foam by the end #the snow white that sees the evil queen trapped in her mirror for eternity #the beauty and the beast where belle's sisters try to get the beast to hurt her #the sleeping beauty surrounded by a forest of thorns her story turned into myth in 100 yrs until a believer prince didn't give up #(not the one where he rapes her though)#the princess and the frog where she lost a golden ball into a well and the frog asked for a kiss to give it back #etc...#this is just to put my two cents here bcs people forget that humans aren't as original as we pride ourselves to he #be*#and come up with retellings of old stories all the time #some so changed we don't even recognize the source material (which isn't a bad thing. humans create and always will)#and spare some love to the creepier stories that made children centuries ago happy that children now would find creepy #but i think they're beautiful and deserve some love #some more love* lol #fairy tales

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ianthedreams · 9 months

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Something something you need to unlearn some of the christian way of thinking you were brought up with while approaching paganism

#I know not everyone was brought up christian before approaching paganism but I know a lot come from there #And I think some ways people try to understand myths and how they relate to deity worship comes from that upbringing #I know because I thought the same things at the beginning

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asteralien · 2 years

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being bi has nothing to do with sexuality or romance and everything to do with feeling torn during the "these two characters are acting Very Queer with each other, i love their flirting, they're so in love" VS "friendship is just as good as romance, shipper goggles is not the only lens through which to view these characters, there's a lack of good friendships in media" debates

#por que no los dos. o tres. o quatres.#like. idk. useless argument actually bc non-canon relationships are schrodinger's relationships. It Doesn't Matter #i looooove the Strong Friendships Are Good argument because they are #but also when a youtube comment talking about a ship is immediately bombarded with 'BUT THEY CAN JUST BE FRIENDS THEY DONT HAVE TO BE GAY'#i get a little. meh. about it all.#like if you're trying to Prove that this character is not gay or is at least gay in a more stereotypical way #then idk i don't vibe with that your honor #(yes i AM watching community videos yes it WAS a comment about jeff/abed yes multiple people DID say #that abed was 'almost certainly asexual and/or aro' and therefore couldn't be bi)#(i should definitely be asleep but here i am aggressively arguing against one of my fav chars being one of my own orientations)#(bc it feels very reductive and unthinking and also disproven by canon. like. come on.)#(also even if he WAS ace. he could still be bi. and he could still be in a relationship with allo jeff.)#(i love the idea that ppl know about aspec identities but i dont love how stereotypically ppl talk about them. it feels dismissive)#anyway #shut up myth

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