lucy, from the kitchen: NEVER BACK DOWN NEVER WHAT? lockwood, from the basement: NEVER GIVE UP! george and skull: *sighs*

hey y'all, quick PSA to help out another friend who succumbed to tumblrs annoying interface and accidentally deleted their blog:

if anyone comes across any of @mrsklockwood 's old posts, it would be lovely if you could tag them on the post so they can have some old posts back

thanks babes <3

Hi, this is salem from @foronceididntlookback  , we all know I get bored and I made this blog ages ago (previously @/dps-via-perchance) but I'm redoing some pf it cos why not :)

this is a dumpzone for mostly incorrect quotes at the time of writing this (1.12.23), but I'm going to expand on that :)

I am growing increasingly tired of the way certain sections of the MCYT fandom treats QPRs and non-romantic relationships as if they're inherently within Creator Boundaries. This is both ignorant of what QPRs are, and willfully avoids considering boundaries as anything beyond a useful checklist to bludgeon other fans with.

QPRs can look like friendships, friends with benefits, kink relationships, life partners, and a million other things. They can appear identical to romantic relationships from the outside. They can include sex. It's frustrating seeing QPRs morphed into Schrodinger's Platonic Relationship in fandom, where people write what is functionally just traditional romantic ship fic but still get to yell at other people for Breaking Creator Boundaries.

It feels like the assumption is "Romance might upset creators, but as long as it's platonic it's fine." As if a QPR fic where characters spend the whole time cuddling, or even a fic where they're assigned as family and are written to have a non-existent sibling relationship, wouldn't also be deeply weird & off-putting to creators. (I know many people don't approach creating fan content with creators in mind, but for those who evidently do it seems deeply odd to pretend that romance is taboo but cuddling/whump/etc are inherently unobjectionable.)

A fic where someone gets Overcome By Instincts and kidnaps another character to (platonically!!1!1!) force them to cuddle is way weirder than just having them kiss. Which is fine! It's fine to be weird! The problem is assuming that an ABO fic w/ the serial numbers filed off is inherently More Pure and palatable to creators just because it uses an & instead of a /, and in incorrectly redefining an entire complex relationship category to 'sexless off-brand romance that won't get me cancelled on Twitter'.

i need to watch rwby volume 6 for the first time again that was such a fucking cultural reset for me

“So are we like…Gay Superheroes now?”

“Don’t let our haters back in the anime community know DC Comics has “gone woke”!!!”

listening isnt enough i need to get the song under my skin and absorb it into my being.

Ngl the story progression of RWBY never fails to make me laugh like volume 1 was like "look at this cool world! We're gonna be hunters/huntresses! We're gonna fight evil" and now it's like "I have personal beef with god"

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Jester partypooper :(

apollo kids would have deadly aim (at least most of them)

like im talking someone wakes them up early in the morning and before the other person realises it they get hit with a shoe to the chest of something

haha having a fun time writing what was supposed to be cute fluff and turned into angst

ooc ; 👉👈 so I may or may not have been thinking all day about making a discord server for all of us to hang out and chat and plot if someone else hasn't already done that. I just think it'd be neat.

Yes? No?

My boyfriend

greatest decision crwby ever made was giving salem that boob window.

“NEVER in my 30 years of teaching have I had a class SO DISRUPTIVE…”