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If you're defending Kit Connor but then going back and saying "wait, but it's okay to harass this unlabled person because they are CLEARLY straight" please just shut the fuck up. That's the same exact thing people were saying about Kit and the only reason you care about what happened to him now is because he happens to be queer.
#just say you hate cishet people and go#or people you perceive to be that way#also 'queer culture' is not a fucking thing oh my god#you wouldn't tell a straight/unlabled woman with a short haircut and masculine clothes that she's 'using lesbian culture'#so just let men wear dressed jesus fucking christ#you don't need to be openly queer in order to dress gnc#the double standard is ridiculous#no one and I repeat no. one.#owes you a coming out#that is not for you#they don't exist to be your 'rep'#they are P E O P L E#you don't getvto make exceptions for people you dislike#har rambles#heartstopper#kit connor
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Kinda got a love/hate relationship with the history of K/S because it's like. Can I please have a queer discussion about this 1960s television show without it being reduced to "shipper discourse". I thought Spock and Kirk were homo long before I knew that their characters spawned a fanfiction counterculture. The bisexual dude who wrote the episode that really kick-started the movement didn't know it was going to coalesce into the fan phenomenon that it did, he was just writing what he knew how to write best: the repression of burning male desire, and two dudes doing homoerotic shit. Can I just talk about the repressed burning male desire please, and the implications of a gay angle to Kirk and Spock's story, without it being referred to as shipper discourse. Can I do that. Does this make sense
#yes queer men write fanfiction but the subculture itself wasnt really centered around us or around closeted male desire which is the part#i related to#and I don't always think it gets to be talked about in a way thats ever fully divorced from that context if that makes sense?#one could argue it never WILL be divorced from that context but I believe said subtext existed before k/s was invented so#anyway this is one if my most autistic posts to date#historic moment#i hope this makes sense#k/s#star trek#the premise#like i just feel like glossing it over as ship discourse is demeaning to the actual GAY part of the discussion. this was even seen when#Gay-Gay Abrams was making his reboots and people brought up the subtext as a possibility#and creators were like “grrrrr you shippers just want your two favs to kiss onscreen” which downplays the significance of two men#being INTIMATE ONSCREEN#and is a lazy way to sweep queer male rep under the rug idk idk Im tired#Kirk and Spock will always be dismissed as a possibility and thats the excuse thats always used#its just so tied up in that fandom culture#i mean its interesting its just also frustrating at times
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thinking about my last reblog as representation has been on my mind a lot lately. this is by no means a phenomenon unique to aros nor is it unique to the queer community at large but it's definitely an issue that we have to deal with a lot by virtue of not having a lot of representation to the contrary.
a lot of probably well-meaning writers/artists will "include" aromantic characters in their work, but it's often a side character in a large ensemble cast of different queer characters, and even if the character is referred to explicitly as aro in canon it often rings very hollow when they are an unimportant character or their aromanticism has absolutely no bearing on their existence whatsoever.
don't get me wrong: i am all for representing characters whose story is not ABOUT them being aromantic. i don't need nor particularly want every canon aro's story to be an aro story. but the truth is we don't have many aro stories at all. in fact, most of the time the only people willing to tell our stories is... us, and while i certainly have reservations about alloromantic people writing aro narratives without the proper research, it would be nice if more people cared about us enough to put us in their stories in anything more than an extremely trivial, tokenizing way.
i think a lot of it stems from people's extremely basic, trivial, and oftentimes patronizing view of aromanticism. so many people think they can just say "aros are valid!" or write a shipper-on-deck aro side character who loves their friends and they've, like, solved arophobia or something. most people don't want to listen to us or our stories and so they don't think there is anything deep or meaningful about aromanticism worth exploring. that's a separate rant for another time i think but the point is people will toss in a throwaway canon aro for representation brownie points and they think it makes them a hero. and unless they're written by an actual aromantic or someone who at least has done a LOT of research they tend to be pretty mediocre anyway.
this is probably a hot take but honestly if you made me choose between a tokenized side character confirmed as aro on-page/on-screen and an aro main character with a solid character arc that actually reflects what being aro is like but isn't ever called aromantic in the source material, i would choose the second. obviously in a perfect world we'd have it all. aromantics deserve stories written for and about us and our identities by creators who are unashamed and unafraid to use the word aromantic and represent us authentically. but if people think all it takes to do good representation is to use the word, well... the word isn't everything. aro representation is not an arcade token you can trade in for a prize.
#sorry this is kind of disjointed#but idk someone had to say it and i'm glad we're starting to talk about this!#aro rep is not some one size fits all thing you can squeeze into a meaningless side character...#...and then use to promote your work as having Aro Characters when it's like. straight up a romance novel and the mc has like an aro friend#i don't have a real life example of that one it just seems like it probably exists#i think perhaps koisenu futari made me greedy and you know what GOOD#i want good aro rep and i want it plastered across tv screens worldwide#i'm tired of begging and scraping what little i can off of accidental aro coding#sigh. anyway#aro#aromantic#aro representation#aro characters#long post#op
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Idk why the fucken... Divide between "it was alternate universes" & "Paul is just trans" ideas for Petscop has to be torn into a cavern. Paul being trans DOES make sense, but requires you to ignore huge details that immediately make it not work. The alternate universes DO kind of make sense, but require you to extrapolate out a lot of info purposefully left unshown.
It's hard to describe what i want to say, here -- i do think Paul being trans makes sense, 'splains why he & Care "look eeriely similar," you could argue he's just thoroughly blocked out that part of his life enough to have forgotten Care entirely, etc. I like it, & i keep it as i also say "Yeah, it's that & the universes theory." It's not two switches that demand you can only flip on one of them -- you can have both. You can have neither. Do whatever
#em.txt#petscop#i think my big thing is just that. I don't think it was intended#& it is not my job as a queer person to sweep up crumbs from under the rug for proof that is not there#if a creator wished to create a trans character i would enjoy if they would say as such. but mr. petscop has not said as such#& while i love the theory. if i see one more mfer say 'this is OBVIOUSLY canon & if u say otherwise ur LYING'#or 'omg ppl gotta make up crazy theories before they believe a queer story is queer 🙄' i will bite you.#i understand you are used to no queer rep so you take these scraps of dust as truth.#but do not mock people that don't agree with the plate of nothing you're serving.#discourse#yeah i think I'm being petty enough to deserve this tag. i am sorry for being mean#paul transgender is inherently based but u r stretching as much as me#I don't think the universe theory is canon or intended. I don't think there is an answer to petscop#i think it just exists & doesn't matter what it was abf#the plot of it is chasing windmills & ending up nowhere forever & ever to waste your time & be miserable#why do we want a conclusive answer from that? the explanation of petscop is this:#idk wtf was going on here. but i sure am glad Paul got tf outta there
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Shipping real people is so gross TF get a life
sending anon hate is so gross TF get a life
#anon#listen babes i have to wake up at 6am on mondays and i am NOT a morning person#so you decided to fuck with exactly the wrong person today#could i just delete this? oh yes and in fact i almost did#i have no need or desire to justify myself to you 🤷♂️#but like i mentioned... i am NOT a morning person. in fact i hate everyone and everything in the mornings#and you've just given me the chance to take it out on you xx#so here goes#the thing about rpf is that it gets a really bad rep but in all honesty it's not *that* different to any other fandom culture#i say this because rpf = real person FICTION. it is inspired by the versions of public figures that we get to see on our screens#(exactly like other fanfic/shipping is about fictional characters portrayed by actors)#in neither case do the characters we are 'shipping' actually exist - and most people are perfectly aware of that#(YOU anon are probably not! but let me tell you this: the versions of celebrities *we* get to see are their public selves and#almost certainly not the same versions as who they are behind closed doors and with no cameras. AND THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT)#it's still a character of sorts who people are taking inspiration from. and as long as it's never brought to the attention of the real#real person in question; then there is absolutely NO harm to it#let people find joy and inspiration wherever they want; anon!#but you probably don't understand either concept ('joy' or 'inspiration')#because your idea of 'fun' is coming into other people's private fandom spaces and attempting to bring them down#like the worst kind of high school bully except that you are even more fucking cowardly because you don't even have the grace to#say anything directly to our faces. nooooo you have to hide behind the anon function because you KNOW what you're doing is wrong#dickhead.#that is all i have to say to you!#hope you have a properly awful Monday anon - as joyless and inspirationless as you evidently are xx
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me trying to be a welcoming person in a fandom space vs feeling like a little gatekeeping would solve damn near every problem in a specific fandom actually.
#like you can like something off the barest brush w it idc i think the fact t*kt*k girlies claimed colla dooty for themselves is fantastic fr#but also i feel like if your only brush with a narrative is a scene clip#and you not only have not but refuse to either play or watch the media or even skim a wiki#bc you don't want to 'back propaganda' while still generating content and attention for said propaganda#then maybe don't speak as an authority about what's wrong with a story? or claim it's harmful in ways that don't exist?#crying homophobia about characters that are literally never framed as romantic except in fandom doesn't make you an ally.#deriding an entire product w actual gay rep and queer creators attached isn't it.#by all means be critical of the product/narrative/etc but stop. talking like a authority when you saw three frames w an eth*l cain song#played over the top of it.#get in your lil clown car and go back to the big top lakelynn#out of stories#vent //#negative //
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i understand that if you’re sapphic and also incredibly and unironically into the mcu like i was a few years ago then the hand kiss from love and thunder might seem like a big deal and might make you feel really good but. it’s nothing. it’s literally fucking nothing. it’s a few seconds with an unnamed character and then valkyrie talks about her dead, also unnamed girlfriend for a bit. there are movies and television shows and books and idk podcasts that actually feature sapphic characters and/or relationships. you cannot, should not, and do not have to rely on the fucking marvel cinematic universe for queer representation. and the mcu should not be praised for “steps in the right direction” or whatever when we have actual representation elsewhere, and they are the ones lagging behind.
#yes this is somewhat paraphrasing another post (that i already reblogged) but#idk its just that as someone who used to be an mcu stannie who wanted gay rep from it i understand where the people#who are hyped about love and thunder are coming from but also like. they're really just deluding yourselves.#and if you just love popcorn entertainment so much there's stuff that isnt 'pretentious' bc i know some tumblr folks hate art /hj#like there's but i'm a cheerleader (a cultural reset) more recently there's first kill#i promise you that there is actual tangible sapphic representation that will fit your tastes you do not have to rely on the fucking mcu#for your queer rep#and you also SHOULDNT#anyway this is why i feel a similar way about baymax cartoon trans man like. there's actual trans representation elsewhere#yes there isn't a lot but it exists and its better than this#we don't have to give disney this much credit when they want us dead#people act like this is the first time trans characters/queer characters in general have been done when it isnt#its just the first time DISNEY has done it#disney does not care about us and just wants our money i stg get that in your heads before you freak out over#the next disney's first gay character that comes around#also side note that i already said in the tags of another post but#a character doesn't have to be actively in a queer relationship to be 'good queer representation' but#that doesnt mean that valkyrie is good queer representation#especially compared to everything else that's available#like besties maybe val would be good sapphic rep fifteen years ago??? 🤨#i speak#mcu#mcu critical#thor love and thunder
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Ohhh my goddd I read the notes on that damn post and I shouldn't have
'It's just a stranger in her hair and it dying is symbolic of how neurotypicals feel social neglect when dealing with autistic people' shut up shut up shut upppp
#symbiotic is meant to imply a MUTUAL relationship firstly#secondly you're just slapping your own projection filter on here to uwu-ify what again comes across as animal abuse wtf???#blablablah#yes I know anemones don't have to do more than exist to benefit their clownfish yes I know they don't Ask the clownfish to live there#but this is not a real anemone and clownfish they are Sentient beings and this is being written as a reflection on Harmony!!#whether that's accurate or not the splatoon team is very obviously linking its physical dying to Harmony's behavior that's NOT 'good rep'!!#that's bad!! that's an awful correlation to make for a character being coded as nd when the creator is NOT nd!!!#wtf is wrong with you?????#dont you DARE say autism#gripegripegripe#ask to tag#edit: ignore the symbiotic tag thats incorrect. im just really heated rn
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So apparently an angry splatoon fan spent $3500 (maybe more) on Nintendo shares in order to be in an official shareholders meeting just so he could rant about how female inklings & octolings get better treatment than males ones. Bro at that point just ask for cuttletavio content they will take it more seriously than whatever u just said
#this is a joke. please don't try to harass higher ups over a silly ship <3#from all the problems he could have talked he talked about non existant misogyny#the best part was when the Nintendo president went: ''😐 ok um anyway''#sometimes your male rep is in your heart (dissonant melody shaped)#believe me guys everything you want will follow once they become canon. maps: fixed. update schedule: fixed. old man yaoi: yes
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been seeing some stuff on blue eye samurai and big yikes to nearly everyone pushing extremely western ideals onto these characters.
this is early edo period. 1600s. the japan you know now did not exist yet.
yall. please. there was NO concept of sexuality in pre-modern japan. that came with both the influx of christianity and western influence very very late in history. like, mid-1800s. (yes, there was christianity pre-1800s but it was not a widespread idea yet and wouldn't be until about the 1800s since, y'know, missionaries were routinely murdered before then)
"so and so is either bi and hasn't figured it out yet or..." no. that isn't how it worked then. nobody gave a shit what was between your legs. anyone could be attracted to anyone else. it was a little more common for male homosexual relationships to be between an adult and younger male - like many other places around the world - but two adult men could bang and love each other just as easily. relationships between women were quite common - especially since so many men were often away at war. there's tons of pornographic prints from the time depicting all manner of fun queer relationships. sex itself had absolutely no moral assignment to it. good sex was good health. it didn't matter who with. (well, social class/caste mattered more than anything else tbh but that didn't stop upper and lower class from fucking.)
that isn't to say people didn't have preferences. of course they did. that is human nature. preferences arose more from physical appearance, caste, and circumstances with gender being about the last thing one would look for in a partner - romantic, casual, or otherwise. the only role in sex where gender actually mattered was for procreation.
there would be no queer awakening moment, no sudden switch flipped, no stigma to have internal conflicts about because it simply did not exist as a concept whatsoever. you were either attracted to a person or you weren't, it was that simple. gender played no role when it came to sex and sexual attraction. the japanese were lightyears ahead of western cultures in this particular area - like most cultures were before christianity came in and ruined everything with its backwards morals and strict good/evil dichotomy.
yall have got to realize queer rep will not and should not always adhere by modern western standards.
there was no straight, gay, bi, or anything else of the sort. the closest they ever got was referring to roles during sex - as in who is giving and who is receiving.
i know this is mostly a made up story but it is still set within a very specific time period and culture, which should be honored and respected by not making it fit into our box. tons of research went into making this show historically accurate (albeit with some discrepancies but tbh they aren't really that huge) right down to the calligraphy writing. please please please don't whitewash the culture from these characters.
i say this mainly because without this knowledge, so many of you are going to build these characters up on a foundation they aren't meant to be on and then you'll rage about queerbaiting and bad queer rep if it isn't somehow super explicitly stated, if it doesn't match your very modern, very western ideal of what queer looks like. don't try to force this plot and narrative and characters into something they canonically and historically aren't. headcanons are a thing, AUs are a thing, fanfiction is a thing - leave your western thinking for those and let these characters simply exist as they should otherwise. this is one of those times where the queerness really does not need to be examined at all beyond what we get.
i know it can be hard to wrap your head around - sexuality is such a huge part of our identity in the western world and has slowly started to spread amongst other parts of the world in importance. but just keep in mind with these particular characters, that concept would be so very alien to them.
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cl16 | salute to me, i'm your american queen
pairing: charles leclerc x f!sargeant!reader
summary: [ social media au ] what the fuck is a kilometer?!?! or: charles and his girlfriend's adventures
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author's note: i can't explain this except that it was funny in my head. i should probably be working on the next part of deep blue but ehhhhhh. enjoy!
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charles_leclerc so this is why you couldn't come to monza? 😨
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user damn tiffany's marketing department really popped off with choosing THE y/n sargeant to rep this line 💅
↪ user like if you think about it it's really smart, y/n isn't just one of the most popular models rn, she's also directly connected to the sport bc of logan and charles
↪ user she is literally all i want to be in the best way 😤
logansargeant where's my charger y/n? i know you have it
↪ yourusername this could've been a text message logie boy
↪ logansargeant wtf don't call me that
↪ logansargeant also you haven't unblocked me yet from that time i stole your life-size cardboard cutout of charles and brought it to williams hospitality
↪ yourusername you're not helping your case here 😒
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user uhhh why isn't she in the williams garage???
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I need u guys to understand that repulsed ppl and non-partnering ppl asking for rep is not erasing or ignoring favorable and partnering ppl. You don't have to respond to every repulsed or non-partnering post asking for rep with "not all aspecs are repulsed" "some aspecs feel attraction" or "aspecs can be partnering"
Us asking for rep is not a generalization of the community. It's not erasing partnering or favorable aspecs. We don't have more rep than you do in the media - if anything we are non-existent - so stop getting upset when we ask for it. Our rep existing does not stop yours from existing. It doesn't erase your rep. Stop hating repulsed and non-partnering aspecs.
#text#aspec#asexual#ace#aromantic#aro#aroace#sex repulsed#romance repulsed#non-partnering#non partnering#representation
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How many makes of rig are there? Like, major manufacturers? Are they regional, or continent-wise, or maybe even global? Or is it like early in the car industry where they're all made in garages and if you go 200 miles nobody's heard of your rig's maker?
Rigsmiths are sort of like 15th century armorers combined with independent car repair garages. There aren't major manufacturers, but at least in septentrinas, there's a guild system.
Rigs are reverse engineered from hyper advanced old world rigs reclaimed from the teleths. But modern rigs don't need to be too complex. Theyre mostly used for farm work.
If you bust up your rig digging a new well or whatever, most people can fix it themselves, but you can haul it into town for repairs. Most small towns will have a garage. That's generally where you go to get your implant surgery. (Which needs to be done by a machine.)
But let's say your the mayor of a city, and you need new rigs for the city watch, or a trade caravaneer who needs to outfit your escorts. You contract with the local armorers guild.
You go to them and say "I need 300 rigs for the night watch. These guys stand around all day, and might occasionally take blows. So they need to be cheap, easy to maintain, comfortable, and lightly armored"
The guild rep will tell you: "I represent the DeLeon shop, we have an existing model that might work for you called the DeLeon M-240. But if that doesn't work, you can pay us to custom design a new frame for you."
So, it's rare that rigs are entirely custom made by a single person. They're usually produced by on commission by guild shops.
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hi so im scrolling through your blog bc i am a SUCKER for cross dimensional found family when i suddenly find myself ascending for your BASED AS HELL idea that frank and eddie are married but crushing on howdy. polyam people don't get good rep in media and it sucks!!! but thank YOU for making my whole day with your existence!!!!!!
WAHHH I'm so touched!!! ;0; as a poly person, I try to rep my own community as much as I can!!
#welcome home#welcome home au#frank frankly#eddie dear#howdy pillar#frank x eddie x howdy#real world au#I love them with all my heart!!!!!!#also I agree w you anon on the cross dimensional found family trope#found family is what drives me in life!!!
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Happy pride, include asexual people in your fandom more often! Make ace headcanons, include asexual characters in your stories, support ace fans, don't erase existing ace rep, call out aphobic or amatonormative writing on your shows and make ace people feel welcome! Specially if you're allo, because it really boosts our voices!
#fandom is one of my biggest hobbies and I like when my hobbies are supportive of me#this is not a deep post#asexuality#asexual#aspec#ace#pride month#pride#happy pride#happy pride month
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I appreciate how you write Astarion so, SO much. I feel like way too many fic writers infantilize him to a point where I honestly start wondering if I'm the one who misinterpreted him so badly.
I'd love to know more about what you think of his character and his arc. Personally I saw him and immediately went "oh god this guy is gonna be the irritating tumblr sexyman of the year🙄" and it took me until Araj basically to warm up to him. What were your initial thoughts and did they change much while playing the game?
OH thank you so much!!! That's a shame if it's the case, and a little surprising to me, to be honest! While he's definitely written be an aloof jerk a lot of the time, I always found him to be surprisingly mature and introspective whenever he's not dishing out witty remarks. He comes off to me as the kind of person who learned to benefit from seeming dumber than he actually is, overall.
HAHA I had a VERY similar experience, not just towards Astarion but all the characters, really (I really disliked Shadowheart at the beginning, too). I had only seen pictures of him and pretty much expected a vapid character that was being carried to stardom because of a talented VA - and because people go nuts for anne rice style vampires lol.
While I was definitely enjoying his voice lines from the start (Again kudos to Neil) I definitely wasn't expecting much else. He piqued my interest after so devastatingly turning my character down at the tiefling party without me even having inquired, and that's when I, the gamer, was like "well, alright, I GOTTA fuck this guy now" (this is also where DU drow's personality began to come out as you can probably guess)
Obviously, if you have two neurons to rub together you can gather pretty quickly that he's not trying to woo you because you're so interesting and wonderful, so I started getting curious! With that dynamic being so different from what you usually expect of romances in these types of games, plus the charming way in which he is written, I started being won over.
I think what really did it was how gradually his attitude changed when responding to new, mostly trivial dialogue options and doing his greetings as you earned his trust, and ESPECIALLY with how he responds to your tav when you express any kind of fear or insecurity during his romance - which was with a lot of sincerity and confidence in his resolve to support you, and in you as a person, a complete 180 from his usual front - Which, again, makes me all the more surprised to hear that he's often painted with such an immature brush.
And obviously he has a DEEPLY ugly side to him (if you've read ANE, hopefully it's clear that I know this, and that I like to explore it just as much as anything else lmao) but it's very interesting to me how it seem to always come in the form of outbursts, rather than a constant evil-streak, usually followed by a glimpse of self-awareness. It feels very much in line with someone who's actually making a great deal of effort to manage their RAMPANT emotions and going through a lot of internal conflict in the process.
GAH. Yeah if you can't tell by this friggin' thesis I just wrote, I love the way they wrote this character a lot and I was definitely proven PROFOUNDLY wrong in my first impression of him - which, if that's not irony at it's finest I don't know what is.
And as an aside! I also very much appreciate that he's a "queer" coded character who's effeminate (in the Old Homo kind of way, but I digress) and flamboyant, but taken Dead Fucking Seriously. With as much progress as we've made in LGBT rep in media, I still often feel like gay men will only get that kind of treatment for as long as they "Aren't That Gay" (I know Astarion doesn't have a set sexuality - But lets not mince words: stereotypes exist, and he fits into most of them) and as a thin-wristed gay guy who's a little too found of linen shirts, I can honestly say that experiencing a character like that helped me with my own confidence.
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