[mollyjames]

Actually, I rather like being trans

[mollyjames]

I suppose being cis would be nice and all, but it doesn’t quite have the same “I will sieze Destiny by the throat and force it into the shape of my choosing” kind of verve

[moldavite]

i naively keep thinking chatgpt is an exclusively boomer feature but no. this thing really does have people my age and younger by the bush

[majestictortoise]

we all have mutuals who are no longer in the same fandoms, and mutuals who have gone into fandoms where we cannot follow, and mutuals who have never been in the same fandoms

but what about those mutuals in fandoms that we don't even recognize. none of the names and gifs and meta and tags mean anything. we aren't even sure what type of media it is. maybe it's anime. maybe it's a sport team. maybe it's a television show from the '90s. we don't know. we will never ask. we're glad they're having fun.

[sleepyrogues]

Pro hag, anti ai

[valtsv]

microdosing on catharsis by watching a fictional character or persona i relate to have an emotional breakdown until my chest starts to ache from the amount i've repressed

[valtsv]

[arnieinthesky]

Visit Original Link

[drill-teeth]

Something I really struggle to get people to understand is that like. Sometimes there was no intentional homoerotic subtext, the author was just extremely misogynistic. Sometimes the author wasn't "secretly shipping" those two men, the author literally just hates women so much that they see them as being literally incapable of relationships with depth. Like this is kind of a big thing with misogyny actually. A lot of extremely misogynistic people truly believe that a man can only have meaningful and complex relationships with other men because they literally just think women are so inferior they only exist to birth children and clean the house. It's like when people say along the lines of "no one worships exclusively men quite like straight men do". It's just that phenomenon actually. That happens to be manifesting in a raging misogynist's writing. Writing a man character who literally only puts effort into his friendships with other men while completely ignoring his literal girlfriend or wife is actually an extremely straight thing to write. And that doesn't mean you can't ship those men or that there are no stories with actual intentional homoerotic subtext. I just think it's important to be able to recognize extreme misogyny in writing and acknowledge it without brushing it off and assuming good intentions when literally all evidence is screaming that this was a misogynistic writing choice and not a representing gay men choice.

[crabussy]

when a man and a woman in a piece of fiction get to keep having a delightful friendship dynamic instead of losing all their interesting traits to become the 580000th het couple ever

[beaft]

i am not a psychiatrist but i do find it really weird how autism checklists are so often focused on "outward" signs of autism rather than what is going on internally. i don't know how to explain it but "do you make eye contact with other people" feels like a much less relevant question than "how does it feel when you have to make eye contact with other people?"

[beaft]

while i'm here, the other one that always pisses me off is "do you interpret idioms literally, for example 'bull in a china shop'?"

well, no, obviously. i know what "bull in a china shop" means because that is a popular phrase with a clearly defined meaning. and if i hadn't heard it before, then i would still not interpret it literally, because it has the cadence of an idiom and i would probably be able to work out from context what it meant. what is the point of this question

[beaft]

third and final complaint: "are you good at noticing subtext?"

i feel like the problem with this question is best illustrated by a conversation i had with a friend a while back, where i said something like, "i feel very safe with you because you don't do subtle hints and you are always very straight-up with me about what you are thinking and feeling."

and he laid a hand on my shoulder and was like, look dude i'm gonna be straight up here. i am subtle with you constantly and you simply do not notice <3

[beaft]

@luckyybones hope you don't mind me screenshotting but you are actually so correct

[fuckoffantitrash]

I'd like to remind fandom of this once again today

[shmadas]

An addition, if you don't mind

[voidsweirdthoughts]

I don’t know if we’re actually wrong in this one, but may I add

[the-haiku-bot]

I don’t know if we’re

actually wrong in this

one, but may I add

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[azulagirlboss]

girl who is capable of being normal about characters (lying)

[krismasdreemurr00]

[witheringsapphic-deactivated202]

please reblog this until i find my true love. i am so alone

[tables-but-with-a-very-long-name]

Made it poly friendly

[witheringsapphic-deactivated202]

oh hell yeah even better

[courtjester69420]

Made one for aromantic trans people 👍

[queen-mihai]

Reblogging for poly people, mono people, and people who need their keys

[inkanddragons]

I wouldn’t wanna leave a trans polycule/ monogamy/ key chain incomplete

[null-the-void-monarch-offical]

i lost my fucking keys

[emhidesart]

First meetings <3

[gender-queery]

Adrian and the leaky space blob they didn't want

[emhidesart]

First meetings <3

[s0l4r-3cl1ps3-th3styx]

this blog is Catholic or any other Christian denomination but still respects LGBTQ+ (as long as they respect us back)

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

Andy Weir's subgenre of science fiction being "what if everything works out despite the odds and caring for others is the thing that saves the world?" makes so much sense when you find out he's a diehard Doctor Who fan

[teathattast]

Happy Pride!