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[bewitchingbloom]

(art by @/sbeep and @/ashsktchm respectively!)

Hello! I'm Ash (she/they), a 30-something person who likes to play video games and read in my free time. I also occasionally write fanfic, though not as often as I used to.

Blog primarily runs on a queue. If I liked your art but didn't reblog it, it's very likely in my queue. Queue tag is take me with queue.

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[bewitchingbloom]

Anyways, I meant to share this screenshot the other day

I've talked before about how RPGs sometimes have "they would not say that" dialogue options and you just have to suck it up and take the least bad option for your OC, but I also want to say sometimes there's just...the perfect dialogue option. The "yes they absolutely would say that" option. And this is the first one FFXIV has given me lol

[leac-art]

I'm trying to hard reboot my brain by painting Princess Mononoke studies. I can't say if it will work, but it is a really nice way to meditate if nothing else 🌱

[bewitchingbloom]

Raining ⛈️☔😊

[bewitchingbloom]

HAIL 😳

[bewitchingbloom]

It's past time I've shared what's become some of my favorite headcanons - genderfluid Daeran and Ariadne's side-hustle brewing Serums of Sex Shift for reasonable prices.

I've shared before that I do think both Ariadne and Daeran have used magic to change their gender, usually for sex. Transmutation is Ariadne's favorite school of magic, and while for her it's just a fun experiment and she decides to go back to her true form at the end of the day, for Daeran it ultimately ended up unlocking something deeper. He'd wait longer and longer before asking to be changed back, sometimes riding out the spell or potion's effect for their entirety. Eventually he came clean to Ari that while he does like his original body, he also likes how being a woman looks and feels too. So, Ariadne started studying, and eventually learned how to brew up batches of Serum of Sex-Shift.

Originally it was just for her spouse, but after talking with Anevia, Elias, and some of her other trans friends, Ariadne started asking them to spread the word around Kenabres or wherever they were at the time that there was an alchemist who was willing to brew these potions at a reasonable price. Please note it wasn't a set price either - Ariadne does have a problem with turning away people in need, namely she doesn't, and sometimes she was willing to go very low. Sometimes...even free, or in return for a favor to be paid at a later date.

She also doles out Calistria's Kindness, Anderos salve and mulibrous tincture, and other various useful potions at bargain rates. And of course, there's her soft-drink side-business. And her ultimate goal - the good tasting healing potion!

[bewitchingbloom]

Raining ⛈️☔😊

[bewitchingbloom]

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happy pride it's time to be reminded that some people think bi/pan men don't exist and that I'm wrong for shipping my female-presenting ocs with bi/pan male characters bc they headcanon them as gay because...mannerisms I guess?

[bewitchingbloom]

I just want to add something to this, because I made the mistake of digging a bit further and of course there are people conveniently not getting how the post that sparked this was biphobic, misogynistic, and racist.

As I said in the tags I added onto my original post, there is nothing wrong with headcanoning a character as gay. The problem, and this has happened every single time I've seen posts like this, is people never just say 'I headcanon this character as gay.' If the original anon ask that this person signed off on had just said 'I headcanon Emet-Selch as a gay man because he's overly theatrical and flamboyant', it still wouldn't have been great because it's relying on stereotypes but ultimately no one would be calling it out. It's because they went the extra mile with being dismissive of people who ship the guy with female-presenting OCs, as well as made some pretty big assumptions about Japanese people and their ability to "understand" American queer subcultures, that they're getting called out. Or more accurately, since they "signed off on everything" the anon said (some people are also trying to play the technicality card on the fact the creator in question didn't actually say the words themselves.)

Like I said, I have seen this every time something like this happens. It's never about the gay headcanon, it's about being dismissive and belittling to bi/pan men and women. You do not have to put others down to lift yourself up, ffs.

[alaskanay]

American Kestrel | Raptors of North America

[shesgonnachangetheworld]

people have this tendency to believe that fandom discourse exists because people in fandoms are Stupid Nerdy Losers, but in fact fandom discourse exists because anytime you get a group of more than 100 people together, they will start creating interpersonal bullshit. fandom is not special in this regard

[lyricwritesprose]

There is sports discourse. There is yarn discourse. There is food discourse. There is academic discourse (dear sweet god is there academic discourse). If there are people out there collecting brass buttons specifically from 1921, they are going to have discourse about which buttons are trash and whether Person A cheated person B. To be human is to engage in pointless wankery sometimes.

[bundaskifli]

help me budget this, my family's dying

[bewitchingbloom]

It's past time I've shared what's become some of my favorite headcanons - genderfluid Daeran and Ariadne's side-hustle brewing Serums of Sex Shift for reasonable prices.

I've shared before that I do think both Ariadne and Daeran have used magic to change their gender, usually for sex. Transmutation is Ariadne's favorite school of magic, and while for her it's just a fun experiment and she decides to go back to her true form at the end of the day, for Daeran it ultimately ended up unlocking something deeper. He'd wait longer and longer before asking to be changed back, sometimes riding out the spell or potion's effect for their entirety. Eventually he came clean to Ari that while he does like his original body, he also likes how being a woman looks and feels too. So, Ariadne started studying, and eventually learned how to brew up batches of Serum of Sex-Shift.

Originally it was just for her spouse, but after talking with Anevia, Elias, and some of her other trans friends, Ariadne started asking them to spread the word around Kenabres or wherever they were at the time that there was an alchemist who was willing to brew these potions at a reasonable price. Please note it wasn't a set price either - Ariadne does have a problem with turning away people in need, namely she doesn't, and sometimes she was willing to go very low. Sometimes...even free, or in return for a favor to be paid at a later date.

She also doles out Calistria's Kindness, Anderos salve and mulibrous tincture, and other various useful potions at bargain rates. And of course, there's her soft-drink side-business. And her ultimate goal - the good tasting healing potion!

[prinnay]

Moving On.

[knighthearts]

happy pride month for it/its users, polyamorous people, xenogenders, non-transitioning trans people, and other "weird" identities. btw

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[smadsel]

would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.

[smadsel]

that’s not the whole flag, now is it

[manuciruja]

hey staff what the fuck

[villainessbian]

hey staff don't you think you're being too on-the-nose

[shrodingers-catgirl]

HEY STAFF DONT YOU THINK YOU'RE BEING TOO ON-THE-NOSE

[389]

[itskarmaart]

Jester Lavorre drawing I did while on a plane with a guy asking abt this “drawing sorcery” (procreate) that got popular on instagram and I forgot to post anywhere else LOL

[ruffled-serpent]

._____. |—ō—| |_____| open the chest

._____. |vvōvv| /^👅^\ |______| it's a mimic!