Later, after the students and faculty have all gone and it’s just the two of them, Gojo finally gets to the point of the field trip. He tells the sunset, “I’m in love with a dead man. How fucked up is it that he didn’t know?”
Hiromi cannot imagine someone being unaware of Gojo’s feelings. “He knew.”
Nighthawks Dreaming - Rated G - Mistaken Identity
No Curses/Powers, Fluff, Banter banter banter banter
Just two workaholic insomniacs at the Pancake House.
If You Call - Rated T - Accidentally Crashed a Baby Shower
No Curses/Powers, Fluff, FWB
The worst thing about baby showers? Dry bar.
The KÄNGSLEBODA Maneuver - Rated T - Idiots in Love
No Curses/Powers, Fluff, FWB, more banter
Higuruma lost a twenty-minute battle versus his patience standing next to the LÄTTSAM baby bath: Splish splash! Available in white or green! It was a fitting locale because Higuruma constantly did this thing where he’d get mad and sulk in the bathtub for hours whenever he lost an argument, and also because he was being a huge baby.
HiguNanaGo:
Been Waiting - Rated T - Didn't Know They Were Dating
AU - No Curses/Powers, QPRs, Nonsexual Intimacy
"Your boyfriend gave me more socks today."
KusaHigu:
Unpinned - Rated T - Old Man Yaoi
Canon Compliant, Future Fic, HEA (finally)
Hiromi has a good thing going.
9 Bottles - Rated T - What Ifs & Strangers to Lovers Besties
Canon Divergence, Slice of Life, After Work Drinks
A moment later, Higuruma reappears. He offers an unopened bottle. “I’ll trade you. For the other day,” he finishes his thought from earlier with a breathless smile playing at the corner of his mouth.
Atsuya takes the bottle. It’s nothing outrageous: a fairly popular microbrew. It’s respectable to a degree both Atsuya and his convenience mart beer are not. “Don’t know if I’d call it fair.”
“Oh, no,” Higuruma says, sounding deathly serious despite his airy tone. “Don’t start keeping score, I’m the type who can’t call a draw so we can stop.”
let’s settle this shit but do NOT reblog if you’re gonna be modest about it like a little BITCH. anyway privilege check tell me which ones apply to you: hot, funny, can dance, can do math, can spell, can drive, can cook
sex-repulsed people are fully within our rights to be cranky and blunt about not liking sex and how it's fucking everywhere btw. we shouldn't have to tiptoe around and make sure our phrasing is perfectly squeaky clean because people interpret any criticism of sex and sexualization as puritanism. venting about compulsory sexuality is not purity culture. maybe you could stand to learn a thing or two from us.
Listen, marketing-as-exploitation discussions aside, Rainbow Capitalism is, has been, and continues to be the canary in the coal mine of social acceptance for the queer community.
If you’ll all pardon my Americentrism for a moment, the amount, visibility, and flamboyance of Pride merch available in clothing, home goods, and comestibles stores is a DIRECT reflection of how safe it is to be queer in public in the United States.
How? Simple. Out groups aren’t profitable. If you’re not “acceptable” in the current social climate, big franchise businesses will not market to you. (Prime example - Look how quickly Target dropped all their Pride merch after having been wall-to-wall rainbows every June for almost a decade prior.)
Sure, capitalism sucks and being viewed as an exploitable marketing demographic isn’t a fun concept.
HOWEVER.
The grim truth is that being normalized enough to be considered profitable by corporations IS A GOOD THING in terms of the barometer of social acceptance.
Same thing goes for smaller businesses that throw kitschy Pride events or even just put a token rainbow flag in the window or somewhere inside the shop. That’s a level of acceptance that DID NOT EXIST thirty years ago, and I can tell you because I was there.
The fact that we can scoff and bitch about being an exploitable marketing demographic nowadays means we have made GIGANTIC strides since the 1990s. It also speaks to the fact that the drive and the conversation surrounding LGBTQ+ rights and acceptance are continuing. And getting louder.
You can be cynical about it if you want. But I will take a store that puts out lip-service rainbow merch over a world that pretends we don’t exist any day of the week. Because that will always mean something.
As another Elder Queer, I just want to vehemently agree, and also add that capitalism pride is the only pride some kids and young adults ever see in their whole year.
Even when it’s disingenuous, even when it’s rainbow capitalism, even when you’re being marketed to… it still matters. It’s still important because it’s not just about us who are grown and out and want to party. It’s also about the ten year old who feels wrong in their body, shopping with their conservative parent at the local big box store. It’s also about the 18 y.o. at college and away from their religious family for the first time, getting to buy and wear a silly rainbow tshirt they always wanted. It’s about people who have had to shut up and endure getting to see pride flags and stickers like it’s normal and expected. It’s June! It’s Pride! It’s everyone and everywhere, so not being able to stand out as yourself is less lonely.
Pride is about US. All of us. Just because it’s not tailored to you, just because its rainbow capitalism, just because it gets packed up in July bc marketing to gays season is over, does not make it worthless.
All pride, even capitalism pride, is a net positive.
❌ Does this ship make any sense whatsoever by any reasonable metric
✅ Does the thought of these characters standing next to each other make you want to chew concrete and then break apart a nearby automobile with your bare hands
The thing is nobody at pride is evaluating you to determine if you’re queer enough to be there because they’re too busy thinking “it’s so hot out” and “why is this lemonade 12 dollars?”
you have permission to pick that 2 year old "abandoned" project back up. it's not mad at you for setting it aside. and maybe time and distance have helped ease or erase the things that made you put it down in the first place.
the idea that restrooms, locker rooms, etc need to be single-sex spaces in order for women to be safe is patriarchy's way of signalling to men & boys that society doesn't expect them to behave themselves around women. it is directly antifeminist. it would be antifeminist even if trans people did not exist. a feminist society would demand that women should be safe in all spaces even when there are men there.
btw this is maybe the single most key distinguishing feature of the terfy strains of radical feminism, the seed all the rest of it springs out of: they have absolutely no faith in the ability of feminism to actually destroy patriarchy. they do not think feminism can truly build a better world. they cannot really even imagine that possibility. they think patriarchy is an inevitable natural consequence of unchangeable biological facts, and therefore the goal of feminism can only be to mitigate the worst effects of patriarchy, not to get rid of it.
they can imagine a society where women get some designated safe spaces without men around. they cannot imagine a society where the presence of men is not inherently a danger to women.
“Frances and I were considering attending a Lesbian/Feminist conference this summer, when we were notified that no boys over ten were allowed. This presented logistic as well as philosophical problems for us, and we sent the following letter:
Sisters: Ten years as an interracial lesbian couple has taught us both the dangers of an oversimplified approach to the nature and solutions of any oppression, as well as the danger inherent in an incomplete vision.
Our thirteen-year-old son represents as much hope for our future world as does our fifteen-year-old daughter, and we are not willing to abandon him to the killing streets of New York City while we journey west to help form a Lesbian-Feminist vision of the future world in which we can all survive and flourish.”
— Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: “Man Child: A Black Lesbian Feminist’s Response." (This essay in particular was apparently first published in 19-fucking-79, which is how long this conversation's been going on.)
For those who don't know: Ikumi Nakamura is the woman who was senior artist on Bayonetta, and designed the titular character along with Hideki Kamiya. Their greatest moment of bonding was over their insistence that Bayonetta keep her glasses on at all times.
Nakamura cannot go to horny jail. She is the warden.
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