Hah… Guess I Shotcha

ángel • 25 • ze/zir tme • butch bi • nonblack mixed mexican • sorry, i dont have a carrd

[snapcracklepop-myjoints]

i think the common rhetoric that you shouldnt smoke because it doesnt look sexy is weird because firstly. many many people do think its sexy and pretending otherwise wont get us anywhere. but secondly and more crucially you shouldnt decide what to do and not do based on sex appeal maybe actually

[rosesgray]

Lupita Nyong’o for Elle Magazine

[sioltach]

I looove when food is in a bowl. Frequently plates are being brought out and I'm thinking this could've been a bowl meal but nobody gets it

[glowcowboy]

had a great time being bisexual today i think i will keep doing so tomorrow and the next day and the next day and the next day and the next day and th

[caniborrowurlighter]

do u want to play Love eachother forever with me

[aliiiiiiice]

akane from zero escape is such a great character because when you first meet her she falls on top of you and junpei goes "oh it's akane we were so close in elementary school" and you think to yourself "oh alright i get it, shes gonna be like the generic boring childhood friend love interest character with no personality" but then literally the first room you go into with her she infodumps to you about how the titanic sunk because it was cursed by an ancient egyptian mummy that was brought on board whose body was perfectly preserved because she was frozen and didn't thaw out even at room temperature and you find out that she's just like this all time time. she talks about new conspiracy theories literally every chance she gets including when you are locked in a freezer trying to escape before you die of hypothermia

[aliiiiiiice]

[mbharestuff]

excellent. very nice.

now.

show me Tomodachi Death.

[notjusthespongenextdoor]

we joke about the cubus in amaurot but honestly if a new yorker made a simulacrum of new york 10,000 years in the future and someone was like "why are there fucking rats" they Would react like that one tweet

[stjohnstarling]

I think the battle is long since lost on what the “-coded” suffix means, but I (old movie guy specifically invested in queer coding) seem to be unable to let go of how annoying I find the fuzzy popular use of the term. This is probably a flaw in my character.

[stjohnstarling]

Coding is intentional, it’s a way of communicating indirectly with the audience through a shared language of signs. That’s why it’s called coding, because it’s communicating in code. It isn’t when a thing reminds you of another thing.

[tritoch]

one of the places I think the writing for FFXIV has generally missed an opportunity is to explore in more depth how krile feels about the events of stormblood and shadowbringers (edit: I meant endwalker) vis-a-vis zenos and the resonant experimentation.

like, stormblood is in part a story about the gendered impacts of imperialism, which is why two of its leads include a woman sold into marriage at a young age and later forced into sex work and a woman whose unflinching loyalty to empire explicitly does not shield her from misogyny. the scene where zenos grabs yotsuyu by the hair is just straightforwardly a scene of gendered violence to the greatest extent the animations and the mores of the writers allow. depending on your wol's gender stormblood is either the story of how zenos exploits and abuses three women (two of them textually colonial subjects) on his way to do the thing that really matters, fight a man or The Woman He Has Decided Is Exceptional. and the third of the women violently exploited in this way is krile!

like the violence zenos does to yotsuyu and fordola is desexualized to the extent images of gender-based violence can be desexualized under current conditions (and I think it could easily be argued that square-enix's decision to be like And It Wasn't Sexual in the stormblood side stories is kind of a cowardly ass-covering move), which imo is why it matters that the violence done to krile is explicitly to violate her bodily autonomy! human experimentation, particularly performed in the service of empire, is very obviously meant to be a vile and horrifying thing to contemplate! zenos in the text deploys the metaphor of animal butchery: "[S]ilence that mewling little piglet. I would not hear another sound pass her lips...until I strip the fat from her." we are very explicitly invoking ideas of dehumanization, of women as objects of consumption, etc. and this pretty shocking culmination of this theme in the stormblood main quest...doesn't really get paid off and 100% just turns into a genre power up for the endgame, and stormblood's themes about gendered violence don't get any payoff in the text until fordola and yotsuyu's patch stories.

even just in writing this I can actually sort of immediately see why they couldn't explore it. it's gonna be pretty important that krile not be read by the audience as a victim in relation to zenos if endwalker's finale hinges on her having the ultimate say-so on the mothercrystal-shinryu situation. If it's at all about krile as a victim of his violence, it can read really horrendously to have her deciding "yeah I believe in zenos enough for this" as a factor of the finale. and it's conceptually cool for her to have the decisionmaking power here at all, zenos involvement or no. I like the idea that she specifically gets to make a dramatic gamble here at the end. but the idea that it only works because they pretty explicitly overlook what he does to her is....pretty bad! and it's not like it removes these implications from the text! they don't get undone by ignoring them! there are perhaps drawbacks to trying to have a character pull double duty as the Existentialism Understander and the Avatar Of Imperial Violence And You Better Believe That Includes Gender And Race-based Violence

just a bummer to me that they seem generally disinterested in fleshing out krile's understanding of the hydaelyn and zodiark saga, which is pretty disappointing given she's literally getting possessed by hydaelyn and making that choice with the mothercrystal. would love to be proven wrong and for the next expansion to get much more interested in her!

[akimojo]

i just realized I forgot to post my new magnum opus

[the-dracologist]

The fact that the reblogs were turned off is a travesty

[probuccalfat]

i’m also like not to swing right at a hornet’s nest but i’m frustrated with how many people analyze sexuality to a point of fracturing it into so many pieces that it starts to feel nebulous because it lost its shape and it’s almost always to skirt around bisexuality like are we ever going to take bisexuality and biphobia seriously while respecting the line of upholding people’s right to self-determination

[fruitalitie]

honestly i really hate coming ont his webstite and clicking like on a few visual novel posts because i like visual novels and immediately, my for you page is full of "i want to kill all transgender men and im going to say this every day in increasingly serious tones and using more and more insults tailored to transgender men's anatomy and insecurities but if you think i'm not joking then maybe it is you who is the bigot" type posts.

[probuccalfat]

people will describe their incredibly nebulous sexuality to you that they’ve never been able to define and the whole time you’re thinking that sounds like bisexuality brother

[eternallysluggish]

"Everyone's chronically ill nowadays.. surely this means everyone is faking"

Are you forgetting that COVID was a mass disabling event? That COVID never "ended"? That COVID severely impacted millions?

It's like.. you're so close. You're so close to the point. Please just think a little bit more instead of throwing logic out of the closest window and making ableist assumptions

[caesarsaladinn]

romanticizing your life is such a powerful tool and it’s a shame that it’s mostly used by people on tiktok to justify the purchase of expensive breakfast smoothies when there are few better ways to force oneself through unpleasant shit than imagining a cinematic backstory for your extremely quotidian suffering

[caesarsaladinn]

finding the strength to walk home from the library at 3am in the freezing rain by imagining yourself as a Napoleonic soldier hightailing it from Moscow in 1813