#where's the middle tho

[sgkjd]

it bothers me that I cant just say "im gay" or something short and my preferences are clear. no, i have to be like "i do love sex in a recreational way and also rather than romantically, i still do tend to get platonically attached. moreover, i also like to perform behaviors usually associated with romantic attraction but extremely casually, without giving them any special meaning. i look at each relationship in individual light, seek out where mine and another person's needs meet, then seek to fulfill those needs for each other." do u see my problem here. what's the short version of this. or maybe the question i should be asking is how do i introduce relationship anarchy to ppl in a quick and casual-friendly way without getting too philosophical or political.....

#but like no i also wouldn't have sex w anyone just bc it's fun for me bc as with any other recreational activity it's important who you're #spending time with and wether we vibe #like going to some art gallery together with someone that i know won't appreciate delving into what associations each artwork gives rise to #u know ...... #i feel like ppl either undervalue intimate/sexual relationships big time or make some sort of holy grail out of it #where's the middle tho #; words generated by me #asexual #aromantic #relationship anarchy

[brother-emperors]

TRY AGAIN LATER

it's like. well. its several things.

(Plutarch's Crassus, trans. Warner)

and also this

(ibid.)

that compliment sounds like an insult, baby.

anyway, there's a fun kind of eroticism in being given everything, in taking things that aren't yours without any real consequence, in climbing towards becoming a Roman Alexander, only for one man to deny you, over and over and over again, at every turn. Sulla tried, Crassus did it better. who would put a butcher in their place? who else knows you well enough to do it? who else can match you step for step like this? doesn't it feel like a kind of intimacy, a kind of—

it's also about the 'even sulla kissed my sword/so you want me on my knees too?' innuendo was too good to pass up. that was actually the first line I wrote, I figured out the rest of this to justify making a comic with it

and finally! the sword line is referencing/playing off of Lucan's Pharsalia a little bit because it fucks hard

(Lucan's Pharsalia, trans. Jane Wilson Joyce)

EDIT: oh, and that's a public domain anatomical illustration of a heart. you know how it is with love and hate.

#marcus licinius crassus #gnaeus pompeius magnus #tris homines #komiks tag #roman republic tag #drawing tag #its about how many ways i can create situations where i have crassus call pompey a brat #the subtext going on here is that pompey and sulla are in the middle of their political falling out #and pompey is like. okay motherfucker. and crassus is something that sulla had under his hand #but uhhhhhh. its not going that well for pompey. because sulla got there first #and left his mark #dont worry tho pompey you'll get him in the end. your descendants are going to marry each other #and name two of their sons directly after both of you!! fucking wild. LOVE it #can't get much closer than that! altho pompey did try something when he married publius crassus' widow #crassus himself however holds true to his statement of 'no one is ever going to touch me ever again.' #he's like. not alive right either so it'd be hard to pin him down anyway #too haunted. your ghosts your dead your ancestors have escaped your family house buddy

[robertseanleonardthinker]

one thing i can't see house and wilson doing as a couple is using pet names. they've known each other for, what, the better part of 2 decades? and still always call each other by their last names. i know part of that is because they're doctors, and that's the way they're normally referred to, but i also just think that's the way they are. the furthest i think they'd go in terms of endearing names is dear, and even then, i think that'd be mostly from wilson. they'd call each other their first names, and house would occasionally use jimmy, but that's about it. the only time you'd hear a pet name in their household is when house is trying to be obnoxious and calls wilson something like "pookie wookie schnookums boo boo bear blah blah blah" (and while wilson would roll his eyes, he would deep down love hearing those words come out of house's mouth in reference to him. even if it's just to annoy him)

#i say they'd maybe use dear because that's just what i associate with middle aged people #you would not catch house and wilson calling eachother babe or sweetie #that's just my opinion tho #i'm perfectly fine with reading fics and stuff where the author decided otherwise #house md #james wilson #greg house #hilson #house/wilson #house x wilson

[thym3y]

cecil gender palmer, #1 tumblr sexyman <3 <3 <3 <3

commissions open :]

#cecilsweep #wtnv #wtnv fanart #cecil palmer #cecil fanart #cecil gershwin palmer #cecil palmer fanart #illustraion #artists on tumblr #digital art #this is gonna get me back into my middle school wtnv phase istg #i have no idea in what season i stopped listening tho so idk where to pick back uppppp

[sysig]

Take care of him (Patreon)

#Doodles #Wander Over Yonder #Commander Peepers #Watchdogs #Lord Hater #Wander #He's very important don't you know ♪ #I may or may not have been reading sickfics where the Watchdogs take care of Peepers in his moment of weakness hehe #The Watchdogs really swing between brutally competent and hilariously frivolous they have no middle slider haha #I really like them <3 They're such a cute bunch! #Never getting over all the Watchdogs all stuffed into that one carnival ride on Bingleborp lol #So many eyes and all single-seeing there's just something Very about them hm ♪ #I can't decide which I like more - the Watchdogs kinda just putting up with Peepers or actually admiring him #I can have both since there's so many! A Peepers fanclub? Haha ♫ #I don't think he'd be comfortable with it tho - at times his actions make me wonder if he even considers himself a Watchdog #He does a lot of bullying and gets bullied in return - The Cartoon as an example of the latter haha #He truly is more competent than the average foot soldier which is y'know - why he's a Commander in the first place lol #But to the point of comedy (and yes of course I know it's a comedy show lol) - the divide is very stark! He feels very separated #I like that about him :) He has visual differences and spacial differences - his own room - and competence and just ah! He's interesting! #He rises to meet his desires!! I like him very much ♪♫ #More on the sickfic train lol a bit of a role reversal - a careful Hater and a lackadaisical Wander haha #Peepers is so small and breakable in Hater's arms! Treat him gently! Whereas he's barely smaller than Wander lol #Maybe they went out drinking together and he needed to return him to his room haha - so many identical doors #Normally he'd know but it's funnier to drag him around lol #The usual sleepy doodle <3 Gotta do it haha #A couple silly ones - I wanted to try the X eye shape but I didn't want it to stick haha though they do use it when they fall down sometimes #Almost X-shaped when he squints really hard! How cute haha

[loki-ioki]

"Why do they think I'm you?"

#splatoon #splatoon 3 #side order #side order spoilers #(not fully but i've been tagging every side order thing with spoilers to be safe) #splatoon oc #Agent 8 #agent eight #agent 8? (oc) #octoling in the middle is named Agent 8..? or just 8? #she is not the real 8. she is an imposter (not a malicious one tho). Everyone's memories of the real 8 are scrambled and they all think #8? is her. thus why they keep calling her 8. #where's the real one? well. if you've played the game then i bet u can guess #loki's art

[esoomris]

fun thing about dredge is like. the familiarity of the unknown. like sure the various Horrors are scary when you first encounter them, but soon enough you learn where they are and how to avoid them and like, sure they’re dangerous and sure you don’t fully comprehend them but like. give them a wide berth you’ll probably be fine. which is exactly the mindset that any person who was hired to go fishing for a living in the eldritch nightmare town would end up in. yeah the anglerfish have come up to the surface and their lures are clearly designed for me but like. i’ve got bills.

#dredge #i went from being scared of the big cliffs monster to exclusively referring to it as ''this fucker'' in like. 2 in-game weeks #forreal tho this game has some real incredible gut-drop moments #like the aforementioned anglerfish and also the bit where the science lady tells you there's a creature in the middle of the coral reef #and you look down and see its fuckin tendrils and are like. oh. oh fuck you're way bigger than the other guy #but like you get used to it all in a way that kinda adds to the immersion #i can picture my fisherman on his little boat muttering to himself all the same thing i mutter to myself during gameplay #''fucking snitch fish calling their damn mom on me. get boiled idiots'' - he would fucking say that #Moose Talks

[xero013]

Summer Time 🌴⛱️☀️

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#nimbasa trio #submas #nimbasabattleshipping #conductorshipping #subway boss ingo #subway boss emmet #gym leader elesa #subway boss nobori #subway boss kudari #elesa #thirdrailshipping #summer #i know im late but i already accepted it #bringing summer time vibes at the middle of august where fall is approaching #idk i live in a region where we only get two seasns thats dry af and wet af #ingo and emmet wouldve had train prints instead of ferns but i got lazy #(they have so many of ghem tho that Elesa couldn't even be bothered by it anymore *affectionate*) #elesa's earrings are giant chamomiles not daisies #if you know then your also a simp like me #aNYWAY #look at them

[bonefall]

do you ever worry your own writing might come off as misogynistic though? it seems deceptively easy

When you have anxiety, PTSD, OCD, or multiple of these things, every move you make is something you will self-doubt. It can become endless if you let it, and you can be frozen by absolute indescision.

Embrace the void and reach enlightenment with me; There are many ways to read a story, and no writer can pre-empt every possible interpretation. Not even myself.

If they think my work comes across as misogynistic? Let them. Salty amoebas are often wrong on the internet, but the block button and xkit are beautiful transwomen who are also my friends.

#Honestly tho the existence of terfs is enough to make you realize #That theres some dumb assholes out there who will cynically leverage powerful phrases to try and intimidate you into silence #I think you would need to have some salty coconuts or do an ooo biiiigggg stretch to think BB is misogynistic #This is the melting down about women blog #This is the blog where I regularly take canon books and make them about women instead #I saw a vaguepost about me just wanting one dimensional softgirls #While I was in the middle of showing Fern how to get away with murder by burying two bodies in one grave #And writing her obsessive and unhinged justifications as she digs her claws into her little brother's shoulders desperate to make her- #-senseless violence. The WASTING of her sister's sacrifice. Into something with meaning #If it's wrong to write girliemurder then I don't want to be right <3 #Bone babble

[dizzybizz]

(clenching my fist so hard) someone stop me from making a fourth stardew valley farmer (reaching for my puter) someone st-

#someone stop me someone restrain me someone confiscate sdv from me someone help.... #listen i have a thing w viddy games where early game is just. all i ever want..... like i long for early game.. i love starting new shit #just to play for a while and then be like... what if i started a new one tho...... #and i keep thinking up new dynamics and stupid farmers i wanna make and uaghhh..... #stardew valley #someone stop me omfg im still in the middle of playing through tgaa i cant handle this .... #i also started yakuza but i dont want to talk about it ok we dont have to address all of my simultaneous hyperfixations and whatnot ok thx..

[drenched-in-sunlight]

I gotta say I did not expect I’d love Miles this much, enough to look up shit like Secret War and Civil War II reading order, and worse, subject myself to Bendis’ writing of all things (he’s the reason why I stopped being a comic stan 5 years ago. I were a DC/ Superfam fan. You know the beef was BEEFING). Like, my tolerance of that dude now only stops at him being one of Miles’ creators. So that better writers can do the kid justice years later. That’s it.

Like, why is the “r u and Ganke together haha” a whole shtick that comes up multiple times during his run? It’s so annoying and painful to read. Miles can go around being paired up with different girls but the moment THAT question came up you know he gonna be super defensive and >:( about it which, eh, just does not line up with anything else happening in whatever story is happening at the time. At all.

The only silver of light is that Miles actually never says he doesn’t like boys, he just denies ever dating Ganke. Like, he could just say he doesn’t swing that way and the question would have stopped, but he doesn’t. So I know he be running around kissing the punk-est boy in the whole spider verse, ha!

Idk I’m near the end of Bendis’ run and some of it r good but a lot of them put me thru excruciating pain (cringe) so I have to complain about it.

Did I mention I were a DC stan 6 years ago? I were a DC stan 6 years ago so this isn’t even my first rodeo with white dudes writing weirdest things in American comic, but I just can’t believe I got dragged into this again because Miles blinks his bambi eyes on screen and makes me want to rotate him in my brain so I need to know the lore of him in every medium, apparently.

#A POST COMPLAINING ABOUT COMIC? ON THIS BLOG?? AFTER 6 YEARS?? #anyway #it’s so insane like I could actually go haha I know this trope i know these fucked up issues numbering I know how to skim through #an entire event I know how to make sense of these reading order like my comic nerd self is not dead it’s still there #this is all Hobie and MiIes’ fault I tell you #terrible terrible #but at least I get to pull out the i actually read the comics card if anyone ever lords over me about drawing fanarts of the movie #ha! #personal #genuinely think miles’ origin in the comic is so fucked up tho Aaron is a real piece of work there #and by that I mean a gaslighting horrible jerk #still dunno what’s worse being chased around by whole ass adults yelling he’s a mistake #or being in a middle of a civil WAR where again grown ass adults fighting OVER him and making his choice for him #wow dat was crazy #but Miles’ current writer is really good and I also enjoy reading him when he’s with the Champions #also b3ndis’ 2016 run is SO WEIRD like there are dialogues that just make you go #“yep a white man wrote this

[spookyprime]

They’re bad :)

#doodles #young justice #Tim drake #kon el #bart allen #cassandra sandsmark #every song is only 45 seconds long #except one where Tim says some weird spoken word poetry thing in the middle and it’s long and noodley it’s like nine mins #that’s bad as well tho

[deusluxuria]

anyone else have this problem where you're not really an anime person but you love jojo's bizarre adventure, so you go into the anime store looking for jjba stuff and you're like "excuse me where am i"

#i was an anime enjoyer in middle school tho i guess #maybe a lil bit in high school as well #but the u.s. culture around anime has changed so much since then and im like #i dont recognize any of this...... where is joj #jojo's bizarre adventure #jjba #THE joj : the final boss

[veveisveryuncool]

get in losers we're going brush shopping in patch land

#CRAYON BRUSH CRAYON BRUSH CRAYON BRUSH #the middle one is so fun ti blend tho #pince fuck #i love him a lot i miss him where is my baby boy #where did you lock him up hal laboratories #i want my baby boy back #-said in an emotional parent voice in a war film #also if anyone asks ill give the qr code brushes for these bc i made none of them #got em off tumblr or google lol #kirby series #kirby #prince fluff #veves ultra cool art

[nashvillethotchicken]

They need to give my bitch some volume at the root or keep the side part cus this is giving...

#just threw taht bicth on his head #its giving the actual results of just for me #its giving homemade relaxer #its giving big ass forehead why they have to make his forehead so big jesus where his curls at? #everytime i have to see bone straight hair on lestat yall do too. shits nasty at least backtease the root! #its giving founding father. its giving he went to turkey for a hairline transplant and it hasnt taken yet #they really shoulda just backteased his hair them it wouldnt look like this #or giving him a couple of framing pieces or even a side part #that hard middle part tho? its giving guillotine. its giving slave owner like maybe thats the point ion know but this aint it #interview with the vampire #iwtv #amc iwtv #lestat de lioncourt #iwtv 2022

[liquidstar]

the goddamn show came out

#no actual hate tbf i dont think its BAD but. very annoying on a personal level if youre greek sorry 💀 #i think the past couple weeks have been horrible for a lot of reasons and i do not have the energy to like #be reminded of dull takes on our mythos every 3 seconds esp when they hardly even acknowledge greece exists its just fandom blorbo shit #its annoyingggg its annoying i dont wanna see it i want it Gone #i actually think pj itself is a pretty middling example of this though. again its not bad esp compared to like booktok shit #a lot of it is often the /fandom/ but even still i find it annoying #at the very least the show does have jason mantzoukas which is more than the books did w like. acknowledging greece lol #to be clear tho i dont think all the characters have to be greek or played by greek ppl i think its cool to have a diverse cast play gods #and their kids and whatnot. its mostly just abt like somekinda nod to where youre taking it from i guess? acknowledging the culture #that still exists! in the books they go to fucking italy ffs whats the deal #basically i have complaints and find it annoying bc it doesnt care about greece like most things about.... greek mythos #so im not excited to see it all over my dash i just think its very annoying personally sorry #ppl can still like it and have fun with it idc abt that but doesnt mean i have to like it either 🤷‍♂️ #ergo. blacklist my best friend do your thing and get it away from me. and we will all be at peace again