dean0rin0

Just a guy. Am 18+, but most if not all my content will be sfw. He/him only.

[winchester-reload]

The world is an absolute cesspool of shit. If the idea of two fictional characters smooching makes you happy, you should absolutely write, draw, and consume all of it, proudly.

[spiteyote-resurrected]

oh yeah reminder not to give the evil fucking scum who run this website a goddamn cent this month when they inevitably roll out whatever theyre selling for it. Find a trans woman to pay instead

[redstonebug]

hello everyone welcome to my very serious presentation on which god i think pantheon!Legs is gonna be the champion of. I totally have very solid reasoning for all of these.

[banchie]

i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges

[satan-offical]

whenever I watch a movie where people are like dismembering someone alive and they're all chanting "hail satan hail satan" I always think "WOAH WOAH WOAHH GUY'S I NEVER ASKED YOU TO DO THIS! I DON'T NEED YOU TO DO THIS! I HAVE A TUMBLR ACCOUNT YOU CAN FOLLOW ME ON!"

[the-actual-jesus-h-christ]

I kind of don’t want to believe you, but at the same time I know what it’s like to have a toxic fandom.

[rox-and-prose]

Stop Making Psychosis A Villainous Trait Challenge

[rox-and-prose]

Stop Making Scars A Sign Of Evil Challenge

[rox-and-prose]

Actually, you know what? Stop Using Disability As A Shorthand For Evil Challenge

[alyaofthenumenorians]

Stop using autistic as a shorthand for naive challenge

[suncaptor]

linked tree (includes options to donate to Ghanaian projects)

petition to show support

[orteil42]

given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that

[tanblaque]

[coast-modern]

I was 12 years old in 2011.... you could NEVER make me hate stomp clap hey music

[coast-modern]

How it feels to be 10 years old and hear Little Lion Man for the first time

[caspercryptid]

And it was

NOT YOUR FAULT BUT MINE

And it was

YOUR HEART ON THE LINE

I really

FUCKED IT UP THIS TIME

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[drarry]

Imagine being the gays at a pride event in 2004 living their lives when someone grabs the microphone and announces to the room that Ronald Reagan was pronounced dead. Can you even imagine the hype, the celebration, the pure elation

[drarry]

This is the Pride Month that It will happen. I feel it in my gay bones

[broken-horn-of-equius]

[life-gives-you-lemons]

I think people need to understand that everyone has to unlearn misogynistic behaviors and thinking patterns. Cis women and trans women and cis men and trans men and anyone who doesn’t fall under those categories are all completely capable of being misogynistic and actively hurtful to women. Trans men are included in this, obviously, but when you only call for trans men to unlearn this mindset, you are no longer being progressive and fair. You are singling out a minority.

[drpepperwhoree]

remember that pride is still a protest

[inclusive-youth-liberation]

I hate how every time a kid-friendly game that includes romance comes out (recent example: Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream), and fans express a desire for polyamory in the game, polyamphobic people come out of the wood works to say "Don't do that, that's a game kids play!"

Minors can be polyamorous. Minors can have polyamorous parents or other relatives. Minors are not harmed in any way by exposure of polyamory. I knew I was polyamorous by the age of 12. I felt extraordinarily othered by the lack of representation.

Polyamory isn't inherently some super explicit NSFW thing.

It's literally no different from the "don't let same-gender relationships exist in video games!" argument.

-Mod Arwen (he/him)

[inclusive-youth-liberation]

"But polyamory is sexual!" It can be, yes. But so can monogamy. A person can have a monogamous sexual relationship. Just like how not all monogamy is sexual, not all polyamory is sexual.

People act like group sex, swinging, and sexual open relationships are all that exist. But polyamory can occur in non-sexual manners (romantic, queerplatonic, etc), and monogamy can occur in purely sexual manners. Neither are "inherently" sexual.

How great would it be to have characters tell you "I want to pursue [insert character]. Should I talk to [current partners] about it?" and then you can encourage or discourage them, and if you encourage them, then you get a little cutscene of them talking to their current partners about wanting to add a new member to the relationship?

It would teach children and uneducated people SO MUCH about consent and communication in polyamory.

"Well, I wouldn't want my miis to be polyamorous" then make them monogamous? In a hypothetical like this, the options would be:

-Closed monogamous (wants a monogamous partner)

-Open monogamous (doesn't mind having a polyamorous partner)

-Ambiamorous (fine with polyamory or monogamy. Add a partner amount or a "no limit" option for the possibility of polyamory occuring.)

-Polyamorous (and then you'd select how many partners the character is interested in having, or a "no limit" option.)

Its literally no different from having the "what genders will they date" option.

"But I like the cutscenes of them fighting over the person!" That could still happen, if the miis dislike each other, or one of them has the "closed monogamy" setting on.

(Also, it would be nice if the game had a "don't date this person" option in the "real life connection" settings, so you wouldn't have to make everyone you don't want to date into "family" and play mind games with the system to try and avoid unwanted partnering.)

And before you get on my ass about how this would be hard to program in the game now - I know. I'm talking about FUTURE representation. I'm talking about how nice it would be if games started to actually think about us! I know it's likely not even possible in the game with how it was programmed, but it would be WONDERFUL to be thought of in the future.

As other queer rights progress, people with non-monogamous orientations still get left in the dust.

[inclusive-youth-liberation]

The game has a lot of progress compared to its previous installments. I really appreciate that it allows you to make characters nonbinary and allows you to make characters gay, m-spec, and non-partnering. But there's still mononormativity and heteronormativity rooted that needs to be torn out from the ground, and there's still a limited perspective within the game of what it means to be non-binary, male, and female.

Other queer issues with the game:

1- You can only have a character be nonbinary in the creation menu. None of the babies of miis are nonbinary unless you edit their profiles - they reinforce the idea that everyone is born either a "girl" or "boy", and that non-binary is something that comes "later." And while that may be true for some enben, a lot of enben also feel they were *born* nonbinary!

2- All babies are born straight and gender conforming, unless edited in their mii menu.

3- When you select a mii as "male" it automatically selects their dating preferences as female, and vice versa for when you select a mii as female. When you select a mii as nonbinary, it leaves their dating preferences blank. Yes, you can change their dating preferences, but it's weird of them to have a heteronormative "default." Same thing happens with pronouns and clothes worn during events.

4- There's no ability to select multiple sets of pronouns. There's no it/its pronouns. And worst of all, there's no customizable pronouns! That especially pisses me off, because they literally have customizable sentences throughout the game! Its not unfounded for the games programming! How hard would it be to have a menu where you type three words (ie; xe/xem/xers) and it inputs the pronouns in the correct places? The game is so close already with the customized phrases!

5- You cannot select multiple genders for a character. You cannot make a character female and nonbinary, male and nonbinary, female & male & nonbinary, etc. I get that they probably did this because they wanted an easier time determining what characters would be attracted to who, but I pose that if a character is attracted to women, and another character has "woman" as one of their genders, let them get a crush! (Or if you're so worried about it, have it where only people attracted to both women & enben can get a crush on someone with both those options selected.)

6- There is no "don't date this person" option. They have tons of relative options (mom, dad, sibling, etc), and they obviously don't allow characters who are related to date each other, but there is no option that just says "don't date." I can't always set everyone as siblings or related, because sometimes that fucks up the family tree in ways where it won't let certain miis I *do* want to date to get together, because they become categorized as step/half siblings (ie; if I say person A is siblings to both person B and person C, because I don't want A to date either of them, B and C won't date each other because they think they're related.)

[this-is-amato-heteronormativity]

@thisisexorsexism @this-is-multigenderphobia

[its-emimi]

Happy Pride month! 🌈

[itgetsbetter]

thank u clippy

[hacash]

Much is made in LOTR of the Tooks being absolute madlads, but I would like to point out that the maddest lad of them all, arguably, was Big Bandobras 'Grow Taller Than Everyone Else & Beat The Shit Out Of Some Goblins And Invent The Game Of Golf Simultaneously' 'Bullroarer' Took: who took off to Long Cleeve and became the forefather of the North-Took branch. Given their illustrious ancestor, it's not an unfair assumption that however ridiculous the rest of the Shire find the Tooks, the Tooks themselves consider the North-Tooks to be the irresponsible madlads of the clan. I would also like to point out that Pippin's eventual wife, Diamond, comes from the North-Took offshoot.

I therefore present to you this possibility: a marriage in which Pippin is the sensible and restrained one.