#you can do whatever you want

[fluffyartbl0g]

I can't wait to see just how much Law remembers in the Speedrun AU! I'm also wondering if you had to change plans for certain characters after 1079 and 1080?

ooooo I also can’t wait to see how much Law remembers!!! Just thinking about the speedrun potential within his fruit is so funny to me!!! And no I’m not changing any plans for certain characters cause,,, ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ I had no concrete plans in the first place LOL.

I’ve had to change plans for like some mechanics though (well atleast in my head). Like I’ve been rereading the whole one piece manga cause I blazed through reading it within two weeks my first time and didn’t absorb as much of it as I would’ve liked. It was in the tags of one of my earlier speedrun posts so I doubt many people caught it, but I talked about me headcannoning haki being a completely spiritual thing so the crew could skip over training haki and just train like, idk their muscles or something. This is cause I wanted them to be stupidly op for my speedrun au ofc, but I’m rereading canon and Rayleigh is like, u cant train conquerers haki like the other 2 hakis, it’s more of a measure of ur character. SO BASICALLY, luffy and zoro wudnt have to train their conquerer’s haki to get back to it’s original strength, but the others would.

And then I literally just finished rereading through dressrosa and I can’t believe i missed doflamingo talking about awakening but I DID and I was so hyped when rereading that. But watching that battle and also remembering all the limits in the enies lobby battle is making me think about how weak luffy was. Idk if 15 yr old luffy could reeaaaallly handle doing this much… BASICALLY IM WORRIED ABOUT THE POWER SCALINGS OF EVERYTHING URGEHEHEHHEHEH!!!!

but then I realise that this is a SPEEDRUN au so like who cares amirite.

They all do this ^^^^ kind of running whenever theres danger. BOOM, powerscalings solved.

#ask #speedrun au #time travel au #ig ill just have to have my strawhats come up with a bunch of clever solutiosn to speedrun the grandline without being stupidly op #man i was kinda just imagining them powering through in my head ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ #YOU MIGHT BE THINKING. hey this is ur au #you can do whatever you want #AND ID BE LIKE: NO YOU DONT UNDERSTAND #I GOTTA FOLLOW CANON MECHANICS OTHERWISE ITS LIKE A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT UNIVERSE #me: having a war in my head about the logistics of the speedrun au #OH BTW I WAS SO PLEASED WHEN I SAW THAT RUNNING IN PUNK HAZARD #BAHAHAHAHAHA LUFFY’S NOT THE ONLY TOONY STRAWHAT BAHAHAHAHAH

[arliedraws]

Reminder, everyone, that queerness is not a personality trait. It can be an essential part of your identity and representation fucking matters, but your personality does NOT define your gender or sexuality.

The point of this post is not to call anyone out in particular for perpetuating harmful stereotypes about queerness/gender, but to ask people to be more reflective about why we tend to base our understanding of queerness in particular around stereotypical ideas of femininity and masculinity. Hypermasculinity harms all of us. If you are a trans woman, there is no RIGHT/CORRECT way to be a woman. If you are a trans man, you should NOT feel like you are less of a man because you embrace qualities our heteronormative society deems “feminine.” Obviously, right? Well, if you were to observe fandom and shipping dynamics, these values become…murky.

I say this out of the kindness of my heart and with all the love in the world, but folks gotta be more careful when they say, “I can’t believe people think THIS character is straight!!!!” with 100% sincerity particularly regarding a narrative where the author very obviously did not intend to make characters gay. (You’re excused if you say it because you’re just passionate and having a good time and I respect you for that.)

I am bothered by these statements because…upon what exactly are you basing this argument? The problem is, because the author (derogatory) did not intend for people to interpret particular characters as gay/queer, there is a strong likelihood this statement is based on stereotypical ideas of what queerness looks like. “He is dramatic/emotional” is…uh…not a good reason to think someone is gay. A man with stereotypical feminine qualities does not necessarily mean they are gay. A woman with traits associated with hypermasculinity does not necessarily mean they are gay.

Do I think Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks are gay? YES. Do I think Tonks could probably be gender fluid? Yes! Do I adamantly believe that Sirius is a bisexual semi-aro superstar? Also very much Yes. So it’s not like I don’t have opinions or feelings about this. However, there is SO MUCH HARM in believing that men who embrace softness, beauty, and vulnerability MUST be queer. Okay, you say. But in MY mlm ship, one guy is SUPER DUPER masculine and the other one is feminine. Right. That’s part of my point. Hypermasculinity is so pervasive even in queer spaces that ships are often reduced to “this is the top/masculine person in the relationship, and this is the bottom/feminine person.” So…uhhhh…what does this sound like?

Yesterday, I had a conversation with my students (teenagers) to explain why “she wears the pants in the relationship” is an extremely harmful idea. I asked them, “Okay, so what does that mean when you say that?” Students responded that it meant that the woman was the “boss” in her heterosexual relationship—that she was the controlling one.

“So when you say ‘she wears THE pants,’ are you suggesting that one person wears the ‘traditionally masculine’ article of clothing and the other should wear the traditionally ‘feminine’ article of clothing?” I prompted. They could see where I was going with this. So I went on, “Think about what we’re insinuating here. We’re saying that men are leaders—or at least, they SHOULD be. Masculinity is being a leader, and femininity is being a follower. Making a snide remark that ‘she wears the pants’ suggests that she is NOT assuming proper gender roles and it might strike some of us as funny. But do we see the problem with this? What does that sound like to you? And for that matter, should ANY partnership be so unbalanced that ONE person controls it?”

Kids were shaking their heads, but one student was really troubled by this. “But in every relationship, there’s got to be the person in charge and the person who is just…” He didn’t really finish the sentence. I’m pleased to say that most of my students immediately recognized the glaring issue with this. Most of the class shot this kiddo very horrified looks, and he was so shocked that people weren’t on his side (goodhearted kid, but clearly some messed up gender roles going on at his house). I let them discuss a bit more and finished with, “Be reflective in your relationships, friends. Dynamics like this can sometimes point to power imbalances—and generally, people shouldn’t feel inferior in their partnerships.”

Fandom is SO LIKE THIS. We equate personality with sexuality and gender so hard!!!! We try to inject hypermasculinity into queer spaces SO HARD. At some point, your desire to be ‘subversive’ just turns into toxic heteronormativity. When you make Remus hypermasculine and Sirius hyperfeminine because it “just feels right” - consider WHY this feels right to you when there really is not a lot in canon that points to these things. Why does it feel right to you that one person should “be a top” and one should “be a bottom”? This is not to say this is ILLEGAL or you shouldn’t make Sirius feminine—it’s just…think about the underlying message here when it’s in contrast to very very masculine Remus.

My point here is NOT “stop making characters gay/feminine!!!” My point is, hell yeah, the characters who are canonically straight could be gay, but also I really recommend avoiding basing this on stereotypes. “I can’t believe people think this overly dramatic/emotional/fashionable/soft man is straight!” Unpack that. Really think about it. What are you really saying? Just…be reflective, folks. You are not immune to the heteronormative agenda.

TL;DR // softness, aggressiveness, beauty, love, gentleness, competitiveness, etc. belong to everyone, every gender, every sexuality.

#taking a bit of a risk with this #this is coming from someone who is uhhhh heavily into fucked up ships #i love fucked up dynamics #it’s hot #i am personally into playing with power dynamics in a kink way #but not in my regular life #disclaimer #you can do whatever you want #whatever floats your boat #but be aware of spreading harmful stereotypes #don’t just reinvent toxic heteronormativity lol

[wayslidecool]

being a fan of a smaller team after blaseball ended is such a weird experience like. hi! i am The committed georgias fan. there weren't a lot of us to begin with and the vast majority of us have more-or-less moved on from blaseball so it's mostly just me now. hello!

#blaseball #atlantis georgias #having the whole playground to yourself is kinda fun #you can do whatever you want #but sometimes you just are like #man. wish i had someone to play with in here

[allmyfriendsareheathens]

I get nightmares whenever I see Stan being taller than Kyle in Post Covid fanart.

#stan marsh #kyle broflovski #pcov #south park #also whenever stan is made skinnier #you can do whatever you want #but just saying

[roguemonsterfucker]

“I’m just following the canon!”

Well I have good news: if the canon of something is bigoted, you can change it in your own writing! It’s all fiction. It’s all flexible. You don’t have to write bigoted things just because the canon was fucked up.

#you can do whatever you want #but I don’t have to see it #so unfollowed

[bull-shit-suji]

What we need is more reaper ocs of colour

you are so absolutely right and to add to that we need more canon nonwhite characters in the manga itself. it'd be interesting to see an east asian or south asian branch of shinigami since it's already been established that different factions exist based on location (aka the german branch). the reapers we are familiar with have a very modern and VERY western style of clothing and culture, WHICH begs the question of if that's just the standard throughout the entire system or does each faction base its reapers' appearance on the human traditions of its location?

#i think the second option would be way cooler #also hypothetically u could just choose a branch from anywhere in the world #i immediately thought of south and east asia because kuro has indian and chinese characters #so the introduction of those branches would make sense but! #you can do whatever you want #fuck it south pole branch #australia branch #you get the idea #ask

[newbiealliance]

But virtually everyone you meet on the street is by definition proship because they support ao3, libraries, etc? I don't understand why you can say the majority of them make you uncomfortable when you can't even tell most people are proship, people only outwardly say it on tumblr and yeah most people who like dirty stuff will have it but that's just an extension of the fact they personally happen to like dirty fics

virtually everyone i meet in the street doesnt know what proshippers are because they are human adults with jobs and if i showed them this message they would look at me like i had two heads

im not going to say this again: stop sending me messages. you aren't doing yourself or your argument any favors by harassing abuse survivors for having boundaries. my boundaries are not up for debate, least of all with people who very clearly do not respect me as a human being

#you can do whatever you want #but i dont want any part of it #if i found out someone i knew was one i would probably distance myself from them because #must i remind you #ITS EXTREMELY TRIGGERING FOR ME!!! #please stop making me have to air out my trauma just to prove my point #leave me alone #and also look up nuance in the dictionary #not everyone who supports libraries is okay with certain ships or certain things being romanticized like SOME (read: not all) are #it isnt as black and white as youre implying #i support literary freedom but i xant in good conscience condone people who normalize and romanticize things like rape and pedohpilia

[crimsonrosee]

❥︎ Not going to respond any cielizzy hate asks over here. My blog is a personal safe spot for my beloved ship 🥺❤️ Especially from sebaciels shippers pls stay away from my blog 🚫💢

❥︎ ᴅᴏ ɴᴏᴛ ʀᴇ��ʟᴏɢ ᴛʜᴀɴᴋ ʏᴏᴜ.

#i dont want to read any discourse of my children here 🥺💗 #you can do whatever you want #but dont interact with my blog 😑 #cielizzy #kuroshitsuji #emma rambles

[aneenasevla]

Some Raian Shitpost

Enjoy

#LOL #kengan ashura #kengan omega #kenganverse #raian kure #kure raian #kengan memes #gif #shitpost #you can do whatever you want #my art #animation

[multi-babii]

just fyi, if you want to play that game that's your choice. you can do whatever you want. just please don't say that you are trans allay or support trans people and stop saying that you don't support antisemitism. because clearly people's rights are not enough important to you to not play that game.

thanks

(also next time jkr supports and funds an anti trans/queer law in uk, remember she can do it thanks to your money)

#hogwarts legacy #you can do whatever you want #but your actions have consequences that endangere real people #over a stupid game #trans rights

[bingiraffe]

You can just put yourself into a polycule with your favorite character. Congrats that’s canon now!

#this is canon #blorbo #blorbo from your shows #you can do whatever you want #i’m so sleepy

[randomnow]

I will say my favorite discourse on the elden ring reddit is the Radahn vs Malenia beef

bc one of the loudest points of contention (from what I've seen) is their fight during the war, where both sides keep trying to go "well it technically a draw BUT-" and try to say that their fav came out on top

my friends. debate away but a DRAW is a DRAW. no winners, no losers, both were completely unable to continue the battle. Malenia is not lying when she say's she's never lost, she didn't lose against Radahn, she just also didn't win

but also why pit two badass bitches against each other when it comes to popularity, have we not enough room in our hearts for both? (jk i love that some of these fans loath the other guy lmao)

#elden ring #this is half joking ok #you can do whatever you want #i just think its funny bc everything about that fight in game says 'no winners here!' #also like #out of his mind with rot he was able to fight so she didn't like #put him permanently down #elden ring spoilers

[violaflorentina]

Um ein erfülltes, wahrhaftiges, munteres und mutiges sowie leichtes Leben leben zu können, müssen wir anfangen uns mit uns selbst zu beschäftigen. Denn wir schöpfen Kraft aus uns selbst, aus unseren Gedanken, Taten, Erwartungen und Wünschen. Wir sind selbst dafür verantwortlich zu fühlen. In welche Richtung dieses Gefühl geht entscheidest einzig und alleine du selbst. Also lass uns anfangen unser Leben mit positiven Gedanken in die richtige Richtung zu lenken. Aber mach dich gefasst, dieser Prozess wird nicht immer einfach sein. Es ist ein langer Weg. Aber am Ende zeichnen sich die Bemühungen IMMER aus.

#self love #mentalhealth #self esteem #self improvement #self healing #journey #mind #experiences #peace #live happily #happy #you can do no wrong #you can do whatever you want #youcandoit #you can do all things #creative writing #writing #lovelife #positivity #positive vibes #positive mindset #nachdenken #zitat #liebe #selbstwert #selbstliebe #heilung #philosophy #wir schaffen das #du schaffst das

[sovereign-skyy]

I love the new trend of people saying "you can do whatever you want forever"

Like that's such a powerful and precious statement and we could all use a little more doing whatever we want forever, and not worrying so much about boxes & labels

It switches the focus from "being valid" in the eyes of others and says "fuck it, you decide" and I adore that

#lgbt #queer #and for the ones in the back #YOU CAN DO WHATEVER YOU WANT FOREVER!!!! #<3

[wp100]

i love it when people ship their wow characters with canon wow characters. it's so fun. i have done it in my head with khadgar

#i wanna do it with bolvar now lmfao #there's endless possibilities #you can do whatever you want #it's not like your headcanon will become the canon at all so other people shouldnt even worry about oc x canon #because it will never officially happen anyway it's just people having fun man