Maple's various interests

☆Just a Desk trying to survive. ☆ ☆He/him ☆ ☆ I mostly just replog fanart☆ ☆Love POTP, Trigun, reanimator, and MCR☆

[whump-in-the-closet]

whumpee characterizations ? and what it takes to break them

thief whumpee: silver-tongued/ can't keep still/ uses humor as a coping mechanism-> gagged/ stress positions/ a casual whumper whose indifference immobilizes whumpee

royal whumpee: stoic/ proud/ seeks revenge after their imprisonment-> forced to kneel/ public humiliation, dragged around like a trophy, collared, branded etc/ enough scars to look like a constellation on their skin

healer whumpee: kind/ keeps up an image for the sake of others/ skilled in their trade-> pushed to the edge/ others have to take care of them/ hands or fingers so badly damaged they'll never be able to help anyone else again

innocent whumpee: naive/ trusting/ hopeful-> "no one is coming for you"/ left to die/ a whumper who twists whumpee's anger against their friends

bitter whumpee: apathetic/ shrugs off what they've been through/ exhausted-> "I'm fine." followed by collapsing/ vivid flashbacks where they wake up screaming/ refuses to fall asleep after their ordeal

leader whumpee: independent to the point of isolation/ tries to protect everyone/ mentally well-adjusted (mostly)-> set up to fail/ forced to hurt their teammates/ they come back changed, and everyone avoids them

villain whumpee: defiant/ insults whumper every chance they get/ so many failed escape attempts-> non-con drugging, left a shadow of their past selves/ conditioned to obey/ kneeling next to whumper at a press conferences

[the-muppet-joker]

I'm going to go out in public and growl at strangers just to feel something. Grrrr. There's Normies out there. They'll never understand me. I'm FUCKED in the MIND!!! I'M FUCKED IN THE MIND!!!! Also happy pride month everybody :)

[dartmoorpixie]

[orisnitsa]

[thetragicallynerdy]

[ID: the Bugs Bunny in a tux meme, edited to say “I wish all LGBT+ folk who live in countries where pride is banned, illegal, or unwelcomed a very I love you, stay safe, Happy Pride (red, orange, yellow, green, blue heart emoji). The edited text is in all caps, with LGBT+ in rainbow lettering. End ID.]

[1five1two]

Dora Abodi.

[skullvis]

First time watching Obsession 2026 (dir. Curry Barker) moodboard

[skullvis]

*Minor Spoilers for Obsession 2026*

So I did go see Obsession again last night and made sure to pay extra attention to Bear’s little opening monologue when he’s practicing his love confession to Nikki.

Bear doesn’t say a single thing about Nikki as a person in his speech. He doesn’t say that he loves her kindness and how she cares for others, he doesn’t talk about how he loves her creativity or care-free spirit, he doesn’t talk about what he likes about her.

He talks about nice things she’s done for him. He talks about what she means to him. He talks about her being there for him, and how he likes how she’s treated him.

And while I won’t pretend that those things aren’t important, they are the only things Bear mentions in his big vulnerable romantic speech.

Bear’s “confession” tells us literally nothing about Nikki other than that she’s been nice to Bear in the past.

But in a subtle way, his “love confession” tells us a LOT about Bear and his actual feelings for Nikki.

He likes that she’s been nice to him. That’s it.

He likes that she’s been nice to him, and whether it was an unconscious process or not, Bear has responded to Nikki’s being nice to him by becoming obsessed and infatuated with her.

To the point that, once he’s (albeit initially unwittingly) in a position of power over her, he completely disregards her personhood and begins to feel entitled to her and her body.

That’s another layer to Obsession that I find absolutely chilling. That so often just being nice or polite to someone won’t lead to them showing you that same kindness in return, but will instead lead them to feeling entitled to you.

[iwasbored777]

I think that Obsession portrays toxic and manipulative relationships where the abuser is manipulating people around them to make the victim look like the toxic one in the relationship - the way Bear looks innocent to their friends and they're all worried about him and they think that Nikki is crazy, while Nikki is actually the one being used and abused here without her consent, but they can't see that from their perspective. Usually, abusers are sweet and nice to everyone except their family/romantic partner, and most people find it hard to believe that someone who is so kind can be capable of hurting anyone so they think that the victim is falsely accusing them.

Sarah represents the third person's perspective. She cares deeply about Bear, and Nikki's scary behaviour makes Sarah sympathise with Bear and try to help him. But by helping him, she ends up being murdered by Nikki and Nikki immediately tells Bear "it's your fault for this. You wanted this". Nikki's words in that scene sounded almost as if the real Nikki was saying that to Bear because her actions were the result of his wish and she wasn't responsible for them - he was. Usually when a third person tries to help the manipulator and connects with them they soon end up a victim of their manipulative actions because they didn't know what the manipulator was capable of until they got closer to them, just like Sarah suffered the consequences of Bear's wish here even though she was just as innocent as Nikki. And if Bear had a crush on Sarah and not Nikki, he would have done the same thing to Sarah.

The title goes both ways - Nikki was obsessed with him because of the spell, while Bear was already obsessed with her.

[cafenervosa]

One Wish Willow 💥

[ID in alt text]

[ai-em-maes]

[drwinters]

Since all LGBTQ+ people get significantly stronger during this month, i need to find and track down the champions of each LGBT denomination and defeat them in battle to prove myself

[couchmushroom]

I've been seeing a bunch of funny "It's pride month Grace" "What do you want me to do? Make gay astrophage?" posts, and they're lovely. But it keeps reminding me of the translation for astrophage in my native language and I have to share at this point.

[rybajek]

Vash as the wanted brimmed cap, and Wolfwood as a different branch of the Knights Moralis!

[sporesgalaxy]

of course it goes without saying that I am hopelessly dependant on the orb

[undead-queer55]

pondering the orb

[maplewooddesk]

Lets ponder together

[strawberrycartt]

Foolproof plan for sure

[sporesgalaxy]

of course it goes without saying that I am hopelessly dependant on the orb

[undead-queer55]

pondering the orb

[maplewooddesk]

Lets ponder together

[maplewooddesk]

Saw some terfs (specifically lesbian terfs) on here this morning and it scared me. I forget theyre on here??? Any queer person who is also transphobic confuses me so much (￣^￣)

Also they were saying the usual "ooo all the lesbians are being shot by the trans beam!!!" Complaining theyre disappearing as if they werent invalidating their own community by saying dating a Trans woman makes you not a lesbian (T_T)