wear your damn coif

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[bad-system]

[night-springs]

I'M GONNA GET YOU!

[bad-system]

all these new rumours saying the new expansion will be about elves. DO YOU KNOW WHO ELSE WAS AN ELF

[night-springs]

i miss him (my henry of skalitz mod)

[night-springs]

you all went crazy for this so im working on his textures even more now for an update

[blacksmiths-boy]

WITCHER 3 DLC ANNOUJCED WHEJE IS THAT GIF OF DUDE TWEAKING HIS NIPPLES

[eraharel-art]

I like when people make Erik insane in fanfics and hunt Hans and Henry down to the ends of the earth

links

[pansyfemme]

close your eyes and imagine freshly roasted root vegetables perfectly seasoned and crispy as far as the eye can see

[nighttimepatrons]

Sam trying to get Frodo to take one more step

[nighttimepatrons]

Sam psychologically tormenting Gollum

[bobdylanyaoi]

“Subverting” Catholic art? Oh, okay. I see, you think this has nothing to do with you. You log onto the internet and you post about how “Wound of Christ” from Psalter and Prayer Book of Bonne de Luxembourg, attributed to Jean le Noir, c.1349, for instance, looks like a vulva because you're trying to tell the world that you enjoy Catholic art and imagery in an alternative, queer, risqué way that challenges Christian beliefs. But what you don't know is that that stigma isn’t just a vulva. It's not just a mandorla. It's not just yonic. It's actually intentionally erotic. And you're also blithely unaware of the fact that around 1297, Saint Angela of Foligno experienced a vision of Christ himself, who called her to put her mouth to the wound in his side and lick the freshly flowing blood. And then I think it was Saint Catherine of Siena who drank blood and a clear liquid from the wound before receiving a ring made from Christ’s foreskin? And then graphically erotic encounters with the side wound of Christ quickly showed up in the writings of eight different mystics. And then the yonic interpretation of the stigmata filtered down through the illuminated manuscripts and then trickled on down into some pseudo-intellectual corner of the internet…where you, no doubt, fished it out of some Pinterest board. However, that interpretation represents hundreds of years and countless visions of religious ecstasy. And it's sort of comical how you think that you've come up with an idea that exempts you from Christian theology when, in fact…you're posting an image that was sexualized for you by the very Medieval saints you think you’re so different than…from “subverted” Catholic art.

[komorebian]

the head cradling

[rennerei]

room for one more

[kocourovina]

one has to ponder all the possible outcomes

[kocourovina]

all possibilities...

[rednightmare18]

kind of dismal to realize the racists in the kcd fandom didn't actually leave; they just transformed from the kind that shat razor blades on reddit over Musa of Mali to the kind that shits out fan content like "Henry ran his dark brutish hands over Hans's delicate, flawless pale skin"

[manatiemtesun]

Rather long reblog, I sadly feel like part of this is just due heteronormativity and how intersectionality it intersects with racism.

Persuming that the demographic of the people who write Hansry mirrors the general demograpic of people who write romantic fanfic between two men, then the majority of this population are white women, who most likely haven't had any experience being in a queer relationship.

Additionally, multiple studies have shown that the majority of these women writing mlm romance fics mainly write, not because they are interested inactually writing about the experience of queer men, but because they actually want to write/read about a romantic relationship without sexism (plus the fetishization, but that is another story).

This means that, because the lack of understanding/experience of queer romance and the lack of interest/desire to investigate how sex & gender interact with romance, they don't actually write a gay romance. They write a straight romance, where both of the characters are of the same sex.

But in doing so, they inject a lot of heteronormative values and fantasies into these romantic dynamics. And these heteronormative ideas are, due to the intersectionality of bigotry, ripe with abelism, racism, orientalism, classism and, ironically, sexism.

And the bad part is, that most people don't seem to realise this. We think that when we write ideas based on our fantasies and desires (cause that is at the core of romance stories), that these are only our own. But we forget that those fantasies and desires are shaped by the society and systems we live in.

So maybe, when writing a romantic fic, examine your fantasies and choices you make. Where do they come from? Isn't it weird how you always make the blond chraracter submissive, even tho in canon they show they aren't? Why do you always make one person in the pairing more physically imposing than the other?

the solution to not needing to read about sexism isn't by writing queer relationships in ways that make them more straight. It's by writing straight relationships in ways that make them more queer.

[rednightmare18]

I appreciate the great commentary! <3

Not to preach to the choir, and I may be more of a hardliner when I propose: Since these heteronormative values are only normalized because they serve the power structures we live in, we are not writing a "straight romance" when we do this, but a noxious cookie-cutter formula of a patriarchal romance operating through the lens of a white master-class. The sexism, racism, essentialism are all still present and accounted for in the depiction of two men; it still relies on the belief that traits associated with women are inferior and passive and white femininity represents the epitome of romantic desirability. We don't actually escape reading/writing about sexism; the sexism is simply obfuscated by the male body so we can pretend we don't see it, even while we enact and continue to worship at its altar! But it's a poor smokescreen.

From a craft perspective and a human one, I'm less convinced of the existence of a gay romance type and a straight romance type --especially in historical fiction, where our understanding of these designations is centuries removed from the characters in question; and because the existence of these type-classes necessitates the belief that there is a "correct" way to write gay couples (i.e., a standard way gay couples love that is inherently different from the way straight couples do, which in and of itself often relies on an existentialist belief about how men are v. how women are) and a "correct" way to write straight couples, and that this would be fixed if we chose the right type rather than reconceptualized our understanding of what relationships are. I tend to think that what we're witnessing is an effect of the universal depersonalization created by the power structures we all live in: a belief that romantic love exists first as a formulaic organizational block of society with inflexible roles that must be served (woman/man, master/servant) instead of a personal dynamic that is unique to two individuals.

[the-vampire-poet]

The skalitz boy and his dog

Full page done

[reformedwolfgirl]

sure the hans romance is optional however it is NOT optional to lay down your life for him and risk everything over and over just to keep him by your side<3

[maxbegone]

WHAT A THING TO WAKE UP TO!!!!!

[secretdazedragon]

another one

part I part II

[beergunk-art]

thieves with guns