carmine's: a place for steaks

im the real life charlie. this is a sideblog, i follow back from my main @celadondaze.

[illiteracyspaghetti]

[loontattoo]

I'm allowed to be a little parasocial because I am famously normal

[acquired-stardust]

Spyro 2: Season of Flame Gameboy Advance 2002

[ratcoffin69]

[kiophen]

solo jazz suicune

[ralzei1997]

this feels like an early homestuck gag. like this is the type of weird object dave strider would ironically display, unopened

[hannahlockillustration]

Will Psyduck pass his driving test??

[sideburnsbrigade-blog]

[poketcg-art]

Totodile -- Miki Tanaka

[kosmogrl]

how it feels when one of your hyperfixations comes back and stronger than ever

[ilynpilled]

how it feels when one of your hyperfixations comes back and stronger than ever

[pulim-v]

how it feels when one of your hyperfixations comes back and stronger than ever

[macdenlover]

this is what i want the next phase of cricket’s evolution to be

[hp-up]

VINTAGE POKÉMON ART BY NAOYO KIMURA

[lovely-v]

Being crazy about a piece of media for any amount of time will leave a weird mark on you forever because years later you’ll see someone posting something about it like “can we talk about this frame” and you’ll be like “ah that frame. i know all about that frame. I was once a scholar of that frame.”

[aphel1on]

never stop being obnoxious about fictional character online. you will find like-minded people and it will literally save you

[sn15y]

⭐️

[renthony]

I see so many arguments over what is and isn't "good queer representation" that really just boil down to "y'all are actually arguing over matters of taste and genre preference, which is incredibly subjective and personal."

Worldbuilding where being queer is normalized and queerphobia has no impact on the plot? THAT'S FINE. Worldbuilding that includes queerphobia and tackles the effects of it as part of the story? THAT'S ALSO FINE.

Low-stakes queer romcom where the characters are fluffy and cute? THAT'S COOL. Messy queer drama with toxic people who fuck each other over and clash repeatedly? THAT'S ALSO COOL.

Stories that center the characters' queerness, show a trans character's transition, and are about the queerness as much as the rest of the plot? AWESOME. Stories where the characters' queerness isn't treated as a big deal, and have trans characters whose transition happened before the story entirely? ALSO AWESOME.

You may PREFER one thing or another, but it is actually good to have all these things. It's about variety. It's about queer characters being allowed to exist without censorship. It's about queer artists getting to make things without being told we're a "niche issue" or "adult content." It's about having as many goddamn cakes as the bakery can produce.

At the end of the day, I'd prefer a media landscape with fifty pieces of problematic queer representation over a media landscape with one single piece of queer representation that's trying (and usually failing) to be 100% perfect for everything and everyone.

[inber]

hate it when you see something in media that has great kink potential so you skedoodle post-haste to ao3 only to discover there's none fic left beef and then you have to sit there going oh I see I'M the pervert weirdo I'M the problem with society and everyone else in the world is going to heaven with a hundred innocence dollars preloaded onto their ole fashioned wholesome funtimes themepark fast pass card like fuckin oath man