WHO COULD HAVE GUESSED THAT HAVING A SAFE, PRIVATE SPACE FOR YOURSELF WITHOUT CONSTANT STRESS AND GUILT, YOU WOULD FLOURISH AS A PERSON

All perfect on Jojo's order sre you kidding

I don't know you but I'll try to do Anything that gets me closer to you ,

This is all you're getting out of me btw BUT HEY HEY HEYYYY!!!! MONSTER TOM YAY!! Hellhounds dont all look the same, so this design is for Tom's form only. Originally, in this form he has six eyes, but now all are blind except for the one that perceives heat signatures. He also has a stinger that injects a necrosis/rot inducing toxin. Skeletal study and link to AK's monster form [+ its lore] below

AK monster form and lore

spidersona, a small but hardy acrobat

this is so funny out of context help

A while back, when there was concurrent ship discourse on Twitter and Tumblr, I started looking at the AO3 statistics for OFMD to get a sense of what the actual proportions are of different ships. The basic stats are pretty clear from the sorting sidebar:

Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet (12321)

Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Israel Hands (2269)

Black Pete/Lucius Spriggs (1561)

Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet/Israel Hands (1411)

Oluwande Boodhari/Jim Jimenez (1394)

Stede Bonnet/Israel Hands (976)

Israel Hands/Lucius Spriggs (839)

Blackbeard | Edward Teach & Israel Hands (677)

Israel Hands/"Calico" Jack Rackham (474)

Minor or Background Relationships (283) (label not appearing in pie chart)

However! There's a significant amount of overlap with some of these. Pete/Lucius and Jim/Olu are common side ships to Ed/Stede, for instance - 327 fics are tagged with only Ed/Stede and Pete/Lucius (23% of the Pete/Lucius tag), 195 fics are tagged with only Ed/Stede and Olu/Jim (14% of the Olu/Jim tag), and 749 fics are tagged with Ed/Stede, Pete/Lucius, and Olu/Jim (48% of the Pete/Lucius tag and 54% of the Olu/Jim tag).

It's also common for fics with Ed/Stede/Izzy to tag one or more of the two-person ships that make up the triad - 378 (27% of the Steddyhands total) include all four ships, and each of the side ships have 600-700 fics that overlap with Steddyhands in some way. As best as I can tell from careful inclusions and exclusions in the filters, there are 11,106 fics that are just Ed/Stede and not the other three, 1,113 that are just Ed/Izzy, 456 that are just Ed/Stede/Izzy, and 248 that are just Stede/Izzy.

So then I went in and tried to find the data for fics with each of the ships as the only pairing out of the group (italics indicate that the label wouldn't generate because the slice was so small, but this is the order they appear in in the chart):

Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet (9294)

Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Israel Hands (898)

Black Pete/Lucius Spriggs (214)

Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet/Israel Hands (426)

Oluwande Boodhari/Jim Jimenez (320)

Stede Bonnet/Israel Hands (236)

Israel Hands/Lucius Spriggs (411)

Blackbeard | Edward Teach & Israel Hands (160)

Israel Hands/"Calico" Jack Rackham (279)

Minor or Background Relationships (31)

This isn't perfect - there's no way to filter main vs. background ships, so there's no way for me to differentiate between an Ed/Stede fic with Lucius/Pete and Olu/Jim tagged for background mentions and an Olu/Jim fic with Lucius Pete and Ed/Stede tagged for background mentions; there are also even smaller ships that come into play once I cropped out the heavy hitters. However, I think this data gives a clearer picture of authorial priorities on AO3.

thinking more about how gender scripts, gender expression, and theories like hegemonic masculinity interact with how Richards defined emo as "a response to the tumultuous everything-else that exists outside our heads", as an "expression of the innermost self" and ultimately as emotional and vulnerable music.

approaching an understanding of masculinity and femininity with a western theoretical lens, it would subvert expectations of traditional (hegemonic) masculinity for men to be emotional and vulnerable, which is a hallmark of the scene. however, it's hard to argue that the scene overall subverted (or was working towards the subversion of) many other traditional masculine gender roles, and it was (is) rife with misogyny.

I guess I am thinking about...who benefited (and profited) from creating emotional and vulnerable music (for men, performing what some masculinity scholars refer to as alternate masculinities). and how does that performance (both of the music and of gender) and the value & acclaim of that performance differ for women, for trans men and trans women, and nonbinary and gender nonconforming artists

I know Bill's the big bad demon everyone is afraid of and he will protect his husband at all costs (when no one's looking), but I think it's also worth mentioning that Dipper, even being the dorky, squishy human that he is, also cares about his dumb demon hubby and wants to keep him safe, even if it annoys Bill, and really, he doesn't need protecting the way Dipper does. He isn't going to puff out his chest and get in someone's face like some macho man, but I think Dipper knee-jerk reaction when Bill's in "danger" isn't to just shrug because he's an all-powerful demon who can handle it. If a blast that could level a whole town was aimed at Bill's head (for him, this just means a bad hair day and a new body), Dipper's immediate impulse is to push him out of the way or defend him against whatever wants to kill his familiar. Because he's not thinking "Bill could literally end this match in .3 seconds." He's thinking "if you touch even one hair on that asshole's head, I'm going to knock yours clean off your shoulders." I don't know what the point even is in this post, just that Dipper is this nerdy, unassuming guy who ends up being viciously protective under the right conditions. Like I think Dipper pulls off the bloody and vengeful look SO well that Bill immediately melts and just lets him handle the situation, even though it's not really Dipper's fight to begin with. He's beating the guy to a pulp with zero reserve, and Bill's off to the side swooning and twirling his hair over his man for getting his hands dirty for him.

It's true! While Bill's not the type to enjoy being underestimated, he has to admit! Seeing his adorable husband all riled up on his behalf is a hell of a sight.

The thing is, Dipper's a good guy! He can't help but put himself in danger over others. Even when all reason and logic say that Bill would be absolutely fine if he got his head exploded or a shiv in his kidney, Dipper's instinct is to fully and immediately get in the way of that. To, in fact, be protective.

Mostly this is only evident when Dipper has to stand up to Ford. Yes, yes, Bill's a vile horrible monstrosity, but he didn't do that particular thing you're accusing him of. Watching him stand up to his uncle is a particular treat!

For bigger threats, though - Well. Bill's gonna be absolutely fine, no matter what happens, thank you very much. But he's definitely not opposed to seeing some guy who was about to literally stab him in the back get a few of his teeth knocked out.

in case anyone still holds Mason on a pedastal and thinks they're doing Super Duper Okay in the current political climate, there was a moment in the Panzy Craze while they were singing that their voice cracked and their eyes filled with tears and I saw them almost lose composure

so like

reminder that if someone as publicly and openly queer as Mason Alexander fuckin Park can keep pushing and experiencing and spreading queer joy, so can you

pls i need to provide updates

current wips that give me serotonin

There's something so lovely about the fact that even though ramon is almost a year old now (however long that correlates in baby egg years), fit still sings him his lullaby every night without fail, and ramon still gets excited for it. It's such a sweet tradition between the two of them that has carried over from the very beginning where so much has changed and yet one thing stays forever the same:

That kid loves his dad and boy does his dad love him.

every so often when i feel like i’ve made progress w my art i paint a tubbo portrait to track it- except i don’t even have twitter installed anymore so i’m putting it here instead haha. previous versions under the cut

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