peach lily

18 / she-her / queer

[hundredthousandmillionfaces]

Potentially a hot take:

Erik is completely valid to keep making Damien and Huxley be The RA Pride Month BA Couple™.

They are (as far as I know) the only current, canon, exclusive, openly, consistent LGBTQ+ couple currently in the RedactedVerse. Every other Lad who you (the plural, abstract edition of ‘you’) picture as being in a gay relationship with the Listener, two other fans picture them as having a partner who does not identify as male.

All of Erik’s characters are pansexual and panromantic. He makes M4A audios. He is incredibly supportive of LGBTQ+ rights and validations. The issue with being this supportive and catering to his audience all year round is that when it comes to Pride Month, maybe it’s hard to think of how he can do something different than the rest of his BA’s.

Is Damien and Huxley being the BA for June predictable? Absolutely. I don’t think a single person was shocked to see it was them.

Could he do it in other ways? Also yes. Flashback with Gavin and Lasko. Non-Canon or Alt!Canon Relationships (FL/Gavin/Lasko non-canon again; Imp!David and Imp!Asher; Guy x Blake crackship) would also work.

But does this work, and is within Erik’s comfort zone, especially after he’s went through some stuff in his personal life as of late, and also he’s clearly building up to something in the MAAM Crew and Dahlia Vamps and Wolves storylines and probably has a lot on his plate as is? Yes.

There’s nothing wrong with tried and true.

[tootiredtobekind]

[k1tk4ttt]

How it feel to finally accept and embrace the cringe of reading x reader fics

[chanafehs]

Palestinian Lesbians, happy pride to my Palesbians !

[sandersstudies]

@ every parent in the world: yes your kid is special because every child is special but they are not specialer than every other child so please be normal about them

[sandersstudies]

Some parents have done what I can only describe as fandomize their child where they’ve taken the child and altered it in their mind to make a cooler version that fits their specific interests, and now sometimes I have to remind them of the canon material.

[sandersstudies]

For those of you who don’t know, I’m a youth theater director and teacher. Every audition season is a personal ordeal.

[sandersstudies]

Giving people whiplash with this one.

[cruel-hiraeth]

if you build “community” around hating other people, just know that the second you step out of line—regardless of your moral uprightness or the hypocrisy on their part—you’re the next person they’re going to tear to pieces.

[prof-grace-aspen]

And by the way it doesn’t matter if you claim your community is “pro” something if the main actual behavior of the group is hating the thing labeled as the enemy of the thing you are “in support” of.

As an example, a lot of groups claim to be “pro-women”, when in reality they are actually anti-trans. Their goal is not to uplift women, it’s to harass and criminalize trans people.

So inspect the groups you’re in. Ignore the name of the movement. What are the people in your group actually DOING?

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

bringing a sort of "slavery is still alive and well in US prisons" vibe to the office Juneteenth post that my higher ups don't really like

[hunter-gratzner]

From what I understand slavery was never actually abolished in the us. It is still legal and all.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

the amendment that "ended" slavery specifically left permission for slave labor as punishment for convinced criminals and our inmates have been legally exploited ever since, yes

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

not a bummer, say it louder

[linski-kips]

why is there an aguará guazú on a subway

[vampirefabio]

i think one of the worst things the left wing internet ever did was push the idea that oppression is basically a virtue, and being oppressed is a sign of your morality. it has made it like…impossible for some of you to hold the idea that most people are privileged in some ways and oppressed in others. AND a lot of you seem to have it in your mind that terrible people cannot be oppressed, and that oppressed people cannot do terrible things, which is a dangerous rhetoric to hold imo.

[girlcodedhamlet]

it's very frustrating seeing otherwise well-structured posts about media literacy and critical thinking bookended with statements about "nowadays", "nobody has literacy anymore", "this generation is so anti-intellectual", and the like, unquestioningly falling into better past fallacies.

Do we really think the 80s and its Satanic Panic were better at critical thinking? what about the 40s? the Victorian era? societies have always had problems with critical thinking and literacy, because most societies have dealt with propaganda, corrupt leadership, difficulty providing education (due to poverty or discrimination or other issues), and/or people who resist critical thinking (due to privilege or circumstance or what have you). we can criticize media trends without pulling a "well back in the GOOD OLD DAYS" about it.

[annabelle--cane]

if damian thirteenstoreys has a million fans, then I am one of them. if damian thirteenstoreys has ten fans, then I am one of them. if damian thirteenstoreys has only one fan then that is me. if damian thirteenstoreys has no fans, then that means I am no longer on earth. if the world is against damian thirteenstoreys, then I am against the world.

[sel-jpg]

The Ballroom

[vetckkie]

girl get off that c.ai and embrace the 'x reader'

[escapedaudios]

I was thinking about my notorious disrespect for the yandere trope, which is weird because I have written yandere audios before (as a script writer on behalf of other VAs) and enjoyed writing them. Sometimes I'm just like "ok do I hate this trope in audios or not".

And I think I realized that I just hated how watered-down it was by people who fundamentally misunderstand the point of that trope. It was really, really popular in the early 2020s, so tons of people jumped on it as a trend but fucked it up. Audios are usually based around romance to some degree, especially one-shot boyfriend/girlfriend ASMR roleplay, which kind of conflicts with the point of the yandere.

One problem is that yandere is a character trope, not a genre, but it gets treated like a genre and therefore has no direction for plot. The other problem is that the yandere is not *supposed* to be appealing, I see the appeal of wanting to imagine yourself desired by someone so obsessed that they'd do horrible things to have you, but that appeal is supposed to be IN SPITE of the mega-creepiness at the surface. Yandere is not a romance trope, it's a horror trope, and writing them as romantic love interests will clash with writing them as yanderes.

Some people who like the trope will say "oh well my yanderes are softer" or "my yanderes aren't toxic". My liege, the toxicity is what makes them yanderes. When you try to make them sympathetic, soft, or non-toxic you hollow them out into a husk. You didn't improve the trope by making them good people, they're supposed to be fundamentally frightening and immoral.

I see a lot of eagerness among VAs/writers to use bad guy tropes (ex: mafia bosses, monsters, supervillains, delinquents, etc) but a lot of hesitancy to actually make them bad. The mafia bosses actually have a code of honor and won't victimize innocent people, the monsters behave indistinguishably from regular people, the villains and delinquents are just misunderstood well-meaning people. It's actually so whack.

Let them be bad, I promise you, it won't damage their appeal. People salivate over pure fucking evil fictional bad guys all the time. The listeners who pick your video hoping for monsters, yandere freaks, and villainy are there for it, otherwise they wouldn't have chosen to watch it. Don't worry about making them non toxic. This is all fiction, there's tons of stuff that would ve horrifying and wrong in real life that is appealing and fun in fiction.

Anyway, I'm hoping for a classic yandere comeback one day where they are just god damn terrible people with no regard for being non-toxic soft yandere bullshit characters.

[bloomingpeachlilies]

you would love obsession my guy

[pangur-and-grim]

I'm so close to having a coherent thought about this, but I find it very interesting how violent behaviour is viewed in characters, versus other sorts of antisocial behaviour (-phobias, -isms, etc). maybe it's the perceived separation from reality? because if you're lucky, nobody in your life will ever slit anyone's throat, so you get to view it as an abstract and fantastical action. it's pure play! whereas if a character says something like "you look fat in those jeans", BAM! instant hatred, because now you can link it to painful moments in your own life. even though the people you've heard those words from (moms, aunties, grandmas) are probably people that you still love.

which is why you get all these books that embrace hyper violence but flinch away from any -phobias and -isms, because that would be uncomfortable.

what makes the dissonance especially jarring is that viewing violence as abstract is a privilege. in Canada and the States, we get to sit comfortably in our homes while our governments fund weapons and send troops to inflict violence overseas. and sure, we can watch a genocide live-streamed on social media, but it still feels distant.

don't confuse this as me saying violence shouldn't be written about! everything should be written about! it's more me wondering why violence feels comfortable to write about, when arguably milder social offences do not.

[pangur-and-grim]

[starflesh-angel]

[calico-mia]

someone should give me 400 dollars so i can repair my computer i hate being disabled and making like No money and it BROKE from a power surge

[calico-mia]

like i mean fuck bottom surgery fundraising for now this is more important. im a disabled trans girl who works from home most of the time and my pc got zapped by a power surge bcos of my towns old wiring. it needs repairs. i dont make enough in 3 months to cover it and im so fucking. gaaaah. i play games to destress and self regulate and now i just Cant anymore??? fuck.

[calico-mia]

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