Forever curious

The blog of a scatter-brain. I read and watch a lot of things and then post about them.

[danmei-trash]

@a-confusedmess and I having three different matching pfps in three different socials 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

may we have many more years of matching pfps

[crimson-chains]

Playing with colors for these two ^^

[nerdycosplayaddict]

[fruitgravies]

the failure(s); the many loves of the vampire lestat

prints • insta • twt

[userlesbian]

🥺

[thebookluvrr1816]

I think I've seen this film before and I didn't like the ending You're not my homeland anymore so, what am I defending now? Taylor Swift - Exile for @merthurmicrofic | prompt: exile

[theside-b]

I will be yours, forever and ever.

THE EDGE OF HORIZON • อรุณรุ่ง (2026)

[tanrak]

I don’t care if it will be months or years or all my life. I will wait for you and you only.

[phuwins]

I care about you. You're my friend. If you don't like him, how could I like him? Gelboys (2025) dir. Boss Kuno

[melonalemonade]

they’re just babies and deserve the world

[pharawee]

—GELBOYS · สถานะกั๊กใจ · 8 February 2025

[embersinthefirelight]

Favorite Ships Pride Project 2026: Day 3 - Bua x Baabin (Gelboys)

[sarahmgellar]

gelboys bedrooms

[melonalemonade]

gelboys studies

[calefies]

"There are those who say he is the greatest sorcerer ever to walk the earth."

[specialagentartemis]

my petty gripe about anachronism in historical/fantasy/spec-fic worlds is attraction language.

We’ve all heard the “should you use modern queer labels or not” argument but honestly even when people go “true, they wouldn’t use the labels ‘aromantic’ or ‘asexual,’” so often the characters describe their experiences as “I never felt romantic attraction” or “I don’t feel attracted to anyone” in ways that makes me go. You are stilllllll thinking about this in an extraordinarily modern online way. That 19th century steampunk detective man will NOT be angsting about having never felt romantic attraction, he would be angsting about being unable to feel moved by the beauty or charm of a woman, or something. And I do think that “attractiveness” language is different from the identity-level idea of experiencing attraction—Sherlock Holmes does not talk about not experiencing attraction, but when Watson says “What a very attractive woman!” Holmes responds “Is she? I did not observe.” (And then Watson calls him an inhuman automaton and calculating-machine and Holmes calls Watson’s judgement biased). Never swayed by the attractiveness of a man or woman, never desirous of marriage, never charmed by the delights of love, all of these feel like some of the variety of ways that someone in this milieu might describe an ace- or aro-spectrum identity more than “never felt attraction” does. Mostly because, like the terms for aromantic and asexual themselves, nailing down an exclusively attraction-based definition of a-spec identities is a relatively new and extremely post-AVEN thing. And yet in fiction everybody knows to articulate their experience as feeling sexual/romantic attraction. And I always want to go nooo how would THIS character think about it?? Not how you think this character SHOULD think about it, how would THIS person in THIS context articulate their feelings?

[manorinthewoods]

Our notions of queerness are extremely modern. After all, they're still in active development! Queer people have undeniably existed throughout history, but not remotely in the way we'd define them nowadays. It does, alas, require research to try to create accuracy in that way, but not using any modern terminology is a start.

Of course, in a fantastic history, anything goes. You can say that the stars, who are actually the ghosts of potatoes, descended to the earth, a landscape of dark blue crags, crystal cities, and rifts to other realms, and gave unto the people the Pride Wiki, telling them of the natures and heraldry of the queer. I personally wouldn't.

[callonpeevesie]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

summary:

Tintin is repulsed at the thought of a normal life trajectory. There are other options, though. They are happy in their shared life.