That's the shape of love

A blog for lonely wizards. He/They | Late Twenties | Queer | Certified Flag Hag

[edwardteachswombtattoo]

A side blog for anything and everything that doesn't fit on my main blog. Currently suffering from Our Flag Means Death brainrot.

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[aropride]

i think when actors need to leave a show for whatever reason but the character is important and doesnt need to be written off / writing them off would make the story worse i think they should just hire a new actor for the character but, and this is the crucial bit, hire a similar-looking actor of a different gender. Yeppp they look different bc they transitioned between seasons. Obviously

[illusion-of-death]

Revolutionary idea: imagine [character I like] with [disability I have]. More people should get on this!

[follows-the-bees]

I absolutely love the parallel of the "you wear fine things well" moment. Cause these words are not really as surface as looks but are entirely about seeing each other's souls. And both Ed and Stede have not had people before who have seen each other's souls so clearly. It is a beautiful moment of friendship, romance, and overall just really seeing someone and telling them how beautiful you think their soul is.

[questions-about-blorbos]

Has your Blorbo ever deliberately killed someone?

Yes. It was justified

Yes. It was not justified

Yes. Some were justified. Some were not justified

Not deliberately. They’ve killed someone. But it was an accident

No. They’ve never killed anyone

Remaining time: 4 days 4 hours

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[sherlockig]

[stedesparasol]

The Ol' Captain Stede Spin (aka life imitates art)

[nemoentwhistle]

Stede saying "balls for days!" with that far away look on his face, like someone just asked him to picture his perfect Sunday

[snake-snack-stede]

stede’s proud hands after two equally successful raids

[420technoblazeit]

being a poc sucks because sometimes a movie comes out about discrimination and they'll have The Racist Guy, a character who's clearly meant to embody oppression and prejudice against minorities. and then you open up tumblr and everybody's like omg i could totally fix Racist Guy trust me guys!!! Racist Guy x reader 20k spicy slowburn #canoniswhatimakeit here's a massive gifset for Racist Guy he's just soooooooooooooo hot. you guys look like this

[420technoblazeit]

also if you say anything about it they'll be like omg just let people enjoy things!!!!!! like sure ok yeah. but this character does not exist in a vacuum, they exist in a piece of media that is making political commentary, commentary that you are pretending doesn't exist by blorbofying him. it's still weird

[yesterdayiwrote]

The irony of this new breed of self-righteous AI hunters on AO3 is that they're all just copy and pasting peoples fics into AI detectors, which are all operated by AI and therefore THEY are feeding people's work into the algorithm without their consent and in some cases no doubt circumventing the locks people put on to avoid getting scraped...

Don't copy and paste anyone's AO3 work into third party websites, you're not the good guys in this situation?

[zaziki1412]

Reblog cause FACTS

[notthewriteryourelookingfor]

If someone feeds your work (fan fic or otherwise) into an AI you should be allowed to hunt them for sport

[blackfandom]

Racism in fandom spaces is actually insanely bad and if you ever try to downplay or avoid conversations about it because "fandom is supposed to be fun" then I'm not sorry to say this: You're adding on to the problem.

[blackfandom]

If POC speaking up about a fandom's racism issue offends you more than the racism itself, you need to think about that. You need to think about how POC fighting racism offends you more than the racism.

[murfpersonalblog]

Apathy is the death of humanity, the sibling of hatred, and the child of PRIVILEGE. It must be so nice seeing discourse about racism as an inconvenience ruining your fun. Imagine having to actually LIVE within a racist system, and see evidence perpetuating that system everywhere you go, even in fandom spaces. Imagine how inconvenienced us racial minorities are--trying to speak up about oppression & discrimination & exploitation within media projecting subliminal or explicit messages that shape and mold the minds of audiences by triggering emotional responses based on LIVED experiences & dynamics--as you and all of your supporters gaslight everyone into thinking it's no big deal, it's not that deep, it's not about race, we're just sucking the fun out of the fandom. Imagine how much fun we're having being told our feelings & struggles & lives don't matter! Gosh, ignorance sure is bliss!

[shaneposting]

some of you need to get more weird and some of you need to get more normal and i fear you guys are not good at realising which group you’re in

[shaneposting]

guys having a preference for one character interpretation/dynamic over another does not make you cooler/cleverer/morally superior/more interesting/uniquely oppressed/more progressive/anything else

it just means you have a preference

[byoldervine]

Fanfic is a great way to practice self-indulgence while writing. It doesn’t even have to be good, it just exists purely for your pleasure, be a little freak about it. Worry about quality and what other people think when it comes to works you intend to publish in a formal setting

[ripley-stark]

fandom about some mf (is a man): you might dislike this character but you have to admit he's very interesting. even if you don't like him, he's a very well-written character. he's very complex. so even if you dislike him you should maybe reconsider that. because he's complex and interesting. and i think deep down he cares so much. there's a lot to analyze about his decisions, which he was force to make due to the terrible position he was put in. and if you don't like him you don't really understand the show tbh.

same fandom about a woman who has done comparable or much tamer things, with a much smaller fraction of fans: this may be a hot take but no one else has said this and i have to get this off my chest. some of you might like her but she is a TERRIBLE PERSON! she didn't have to do any of those things she did. she put herself into a bad situation, inconveniencing everyone around her and showing no remorse for it whatsoever. you may like her but i just don't get it!! if you like her or defend any of her actions, you are probably a real life abuser and hate women. so even if you do like her, maybe think about that. you can like her but you have to admit her flaws. otherwise you are encouraging women in real life to murder others and commit crimes, which is ignorant and wrong. her sympathetic scenes are not even canon because they're so manipulative, performative, and trite. such a waste of screen time very obviously trying to get us to feel bad for a MONSTER! she clearly didn't actually mean any of the good things she's done. deep down she is just a rotten human being with no motive but to make other people's lives miserable. i'm sorry but that's the truth.

[hgedits]

Stede + the head-cradling thing