The Lonely Gay

She/her. 24. Australian. Messages are appreciated

[endlessvoid319]

“Lucien and Elain are mates.”

Okay what’s your point? It’s an imperfect system of matching and HOFAS confirmed the cauldron is corrupt. Why are people still acting as though two characters sharing a mating bond means they are endgame?

Especially when the author has written other pairings that aren’t mates and questioned the Elucien mating bond multiple times?

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Just because two characters are mates does not mean they are compatible. Can anyone even give me a scene where Elain and Lucien aren’t awkward/uncomfortable around each other? Where both characters want to spend time together and are able to carry a conversation without it being weird? Where it doesn’t feel forced?

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Why is it that on page Elain has more chemistry with Azriel than her mate? Why does she gravitate towards him and not Lucien? Why is she more comfortable around him?

It doesn’t matter if Elain ends up with her mate. What matters is that she ends up with the person that makes her feel seen and loved.

And if we are not talking hypotheticals, Azriel is the obvious choice.

Who figured out Elain was a seer?

Azriel.

Who took Elain out to the gardens and spent time with her?

Azriel.

Who did Elain buy thoughtful gifts for? Who bought her the necklace that she wanted to put on right away?

Azriel.

Who put his life on the line to save Elain when she was captured?

Azriel.

Who has Elain shown interest in? Who does she have unresolved romantic/sexual tension with? Who did she almost kiss??

AZRIEL.

Elriel is the ship with the most buildup/chemistry. And could they also be mates? Maybe.

But they wouldn’t be good together because they are mates, they would be good together because they have shown that they care for each other. They mutually understand each other and have a solid foundation for a relationship.

Can the same be said for Elucien? Based off these two characters’ interactions can you confidently say they both want each other? If there wasn’t a mating bond, would Lucien even want anything to do with Elain?

[uovoc]

"exercise will give you more energy" gets said a lot as a common piece of health advice but I think it needs to be expanded into "exercising will make you tired while you do it, and you will continue to be tired immediately afterwards, sometimes even the next day too, but over months of consistent exercise, your muscles will get stronger and therefore get less tired out by everyday activities, making you feel like day-to-day life takes less physical energy than it used to"

[homunculus-argument]

Y'all know what? I actually actively hate the type of people who refuse to communicate what they want, need or prefer because they think that doing that shit is cute. I pride myself with being adaptible and flexible and down to being anywhere, doing anything and eating anything at least once, and it's 100% no hair off my ass to do exactly whatever it is that someone else especially prefers.

But if someone is like "no I'm ok with whatever u want uwu" and what that really means is "I am capable and willing of like 3 things and I don't want to tell you what they are, you have to guess", I can assure you I am so much closer to slapping you than either of us would like. You're not being accommodating, you're refusing to cooperate. If you actually honest to god think it's more reasonable of you to expect other people to read your mind, than using words to communicate what you'd actually want, I hope you have some sort of a sudden epiphany about how batshit that is.

Like I don't care how heroic you think you're being with going "I'm happy with anything uwu" and then making it a fucking guessing game puzzle mystery to figure out why you're sad (while you keep insisting that you're ok and fine and nobody has to care about you boo hoo and you actively fight every single step of the investigation), you are being a fucking nuisance.

"But using words to say things is haaaard QmQ" well unfortunately life is fucking hard. And you are actively choosing to make it harder for everyone else. If you think that acting like this is cute, I hope the next time you'd literally rather die than verbally set a boundary, someone takes you to a seafood restaurant because you didn't want to tell them you're lethally allergic to fish.

[avatarena]

Surprise!

[m-ushroomtale]

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[themushroomtree]

[pathos-logical]

[VD: An incredibly well-edited beauty edit by user 宽宽Kwan of Chinese woman using rapid-paced and seamless transitions to flip through complex and elaborate makeup routines that result in multiple impressive cosplays including different traditional hanfu, Miao silver headdresses, and a warrior's armor. There are humorous beats in the video, and the woman sings to the Chinese pop song in the background. End VD]

[ID: A meme of Sailor J applying contour and saying, "If the men find out we can shapeshift, they're going to tell the church." End ID]

[cobwebkitten-deactivated2020101]

reblog if you’d like one of these in your inbox

- ask me things you want to know about me

- why you follow me

- what’s on your mind/what you’re thinking about

- a compliment

- make me choose between two things

- ask for advice

- tell me a secret

- things you associate me with

- anything!!!!

[fromxxthexxashes]

being a buddie fan is like watching a cake being made. Tim and his fellow writers are baking up a storm in the kitchen. and you’re just watching. they have all these ingredients, and they’re putting them in a bowl and mixing it up. and you can see it all happening. you can smell it baking when it’s in the oven. you watch as they whip up the frosting and decorate that in good old roy g biv. They slide that shit right in front of you. it smells delicious. it looks gorgeous. and right on top in big piped on letters is the word ‘Cake’.

Like any person would, you assume it’s cake because what else would it fucking be?

but you got tim minear in his little chefs hat, going “now i won’t say this is a cake or not. if you choose to see it as a cake, i’m all here for it. i will say that, yes, i did intend to make a cake, but is it a cake? that’s up for interpretation”.

and you got oliver stark, with his pr trained smile on, next to you going “i don’t bake, so i can’t tell you if this cake or not, but i can totally understand why you’d think it’s cake. and if it is cake? i’m all here for it, as long as it’s a good cake”.

and then you got ryan guzman across from you going “cake? idk. how about this granola bar i got from by pocket?”

and then when you ask to eat the cake, tim comes over with a hammer smashes the shit out of it and then leaves behind a messy ass kitchen, and oliver has disappeared into the mountains and ryan is still across from you taking about fucking granola. and the fucking peanut gallery is behind you telling you there never was any cake in the first place, and that the “real cake” is the bowl with left over frosting soaking in dish water in the sink.

and yk what? you’re gonna sit back down in that kitchen come september, and watch them bake that cake again using those same ingredients that they set out in plain view, that have been sitting there for years, and hope they don’t fuck it up this time.

[yotzuyu]

[arachnerd-8-legs]

prev: #u forgot the best part#the artist figured out the gig and was like#i draw for u for the rest of my life#these chinese netizens are having shojou level romances

[tevyaa]

[letmegrabyourcuteass]

Crackfic where part of the 118 get robbed at gunpoint. They tied them to chairs and shit while raiding the ambulance outside.

They ran out of chairs so they make Buck sit on top of Eddie, whose already tied to the chair and then tie Buck up as well. What's even more humiliating is Buck tied face to face with Eddie. His legs are tied around Eddie's waist, wrists bound behind his own back.

"Buck stop squirming."

"Im trying not to put all my weight on top of you."

"You're not heavy at all, just stop-" a noise dies in Eddie's throat when Buck still won't listen to him and the blonde is still squirming. Eddie hisses to Buck, low enough that only Buck could listen. "You're making me hard," he glares at Buck.

Buck's face turns red when he feels Eddie chubbing up. He stills instantly. "S-sorry."

Eddie groans and lays his head back. "Y-you’re fine," he grits out. "Just...stay still."

"Im surprised that chair is holding both of you up," Chim says. "How long til someone finds us?"

Hen glances outside. The three men have raided and left. She then glances back at Eddie and Buck’s amusing predicament. Then, a thought. "Wait, Buck. Eddie's radio. You think you can nudge it?"

Eddie makes another noise.

"Diaz, have your crisis later when we're not all tied up!"

"Christ, fine, just...hnng-hurry."

So Buck wiggles and leans forward, Eddie also using his cheek to hold the radio in place and Buck using his chin to finally press and hold the call button down.

By the time the LAPD come, both Eddie and Buck are hard and will probably have a talk about this later. The police have their fun and take photos. 'For evidence'.

[maddieee0415]

PLEASE SOMEONE WRITE IT

[what-even-is-thiss]

You know for the first 18-ish years of your life everyone your age is mostly doing the same things and then all of a sudden every year for the rest of your life somebody your age is getting divorced while somebody else just learned what a leaf is and you have no idea what’s going on or what you’re supposed to be doing

[and-fishing-equipment]

daily affirmations:

i am kind

i am in control of my emotions

it does not bother me when someone is in the kitchen while i was planning to be in there alone

everyone in the house has the right to be in the kitchen

i am kind and in control of my emotions even when someone is in the kitchen while i was planning to be in there alone

[homunculus-argument]

Sometimes it feels like you've lived your whole life in a house that's always a little bit on fire. Like it's usually just in one room and you make sure to wet the walls around it so it doesn't spread and that usually works. You were expected to take more responsibility over fire containment when you were like seven because it's not like you can expect your parents to always be 100% on guard about making sure the whole house doesn't catch fire, and you figure that's just how things are like.

And sometimes as a kid you visit your friends' homes and some of then whisper to you - grimacing with embarrassment - about how they're not supposed to tell anyone this, but there's a whole room in their house that's currently on fire. And you're like yeah it's ok I'm not supposed to tell people about the way our house is a little bit on fire all the time, too. And then you visit some other friend's house and there's no trace of fire anywhere, and you think "wow, these people are really good at hiding their house fire."

And one day you show up to work like "hey sorry I'm late, I forgot to wet the walls before going to bed last night and my whole house burned down", and you're startled by the way people react, acting like that must be the worst thing that has ever happened to you. And you're just like "chill, it's been years since the last time this happened, and it wasn't even that bad this time", and that just makes people more shocked, acting like that's the weirdest and most concerning thing they've ever heard anyone say, which only confuses you more.

And then someone tries to explain to you that people aren't supposed to have an ongoing house fire. Most people actually never experience a house fire in their lives. Like not even once. Not even a little bit. The normal amount of having your house be currently on fire is zero.

[homunculus-argument]

Add realism to your fantasy stories by having characters from different backgrounds struggle to pronounce each others' names.

"My name is [low guttural sound] but I don't want to hear you butcher it. So you may call me She Who Arises With The Cold Mountain Sun."

"...Is that what your name really means? All that in just one word?"

"Yes. If you stress the wrong syllable it comes out as 'She Who Coldly Wakes Up The Mountain Sun', or 'The Cold Woman Who Wakes The Mountain Sun', and you will not call me that."

"Oh, huh. Could we just call you Mountain Sun, for short?"

"Hmh. It's boastful, almost bordering on blasphemy, but it is flattering. I accept it."

[beemovieerotica]

[moonchild311]

"people who stay up at night are either insomniac or In love" people who stay up at night read gay fanfiction on AO3 what are you on about?

[kendallroy-deactivated20210425]

people on this website be like “it’s actually school’s fault that i don’t know how to read because i wanted to write my essay on the divergent trilogy and that BITCH mrs. clarkson made us study 1984 instead. anyway here’s a 10 tweet thread of easily disproven misinformation about a 3 year old news story and btw, who is toni morrison?”

[kendallroy-deactivated20210425]

i KNOW most of y’all are lying about being in the gifted program as children because none of you could pass the basic reading comprehension assessment they give third graders today

[themself]

this post is mean and I never read divergent or whatever the fuck but 1984 sucks and is rape apologism so if somebody wanted to write about divergent or whatever good for them

[westenra]

this reply is like literally exactly what op is talking about lol. like firstly ops point isn’t “1984 is good”, ops point is that analysing complex stories teaches you how to form opinions and think for yourself. and like secondly in 1984 you’re supposed to think damn it’s fucked up that he’s thinking that way about her, i wonder if this ties in with the central theme of “a society like this will fuck you in the head”? (this is the thinking for yourself part). like do you think orwell just put that in for fun? do you think that just because winston is the protagonist you’re supposed to agree with everything he does?

[lunaescribe]

You know I feel like this post just gave me an epiphany for what is wrong with how Tumblr Fandom/Internet Fandom responds to media-or not *wrong* but makes it very hard to respond to anything but a morally correct, and heroic protagonist. 

When an English teacher, or reader, taught or picked up 1984, it wasn’t with the intention they were going to love the protagonist. They picked it up with the intention of reading a whole story and trying to grasp the theme or catharsis from the story. If the protagonist was a *shitty* person it played into the the themes or the story, because it wasn’t about morally judging the book or *liking* or feeling attachment to the protagonist. Sometimes and often times, books were just about gaining another perspective. 

No one read Lolita expecting to endear, or like, or be inspired by Humbert. You are supposed to be upset by his behavior, you don’t read Lolita with the intention of being inspired. You read it to learn more about what the fuck is going on inside someone’s head when they behave like that. How children get sucked into abusive situations. Or read “The Great Gatsby” not because they want to fall in love with Gatsby or Nick, but to better understand and analyze the experience of the 1920s or destitution of the American Dream. 

A lot of internet and fandom culture has changed that though. When we say something like “I love the Great Gatsby” it comes with the idea or association that means you must *love* or relate to one of the characters. And maybe you do, but the first assumption is not longer about the quality of the work or themes, or cathartic impact-it’s about character admiration. And with that character admiration, in tumblr stan culture, or kin culture, or exalting characters with fanart/romance/so on you don’t just ‘admire’ or find that character ‘compelling’ it now translates to ‘you LOVE that character’ or you ‘DIRECTLY relate to that character.’ 

You can’t say “I love how Humbert is written, it’s so fascinating and dark”, without it directly translating you somehow relate to a child abuser or condone his actions. Taking in media has become an act of worship and connection. We no longer watch meant to just see the story as a whole, we watch expecting to connect to a character and if we offer them our “worship” as it’s become, as opposed to just attention or interest study as it traditionally was, it means we are condoning the character or saying we directly empathize with all their actions. 

I think that’s why there is often now so much fuss over *toxic* characters or not. Or whether that classical novel is showing good or bad things anymore. We’re treating the characters as people we should love or want to draw or write about. Sometimes a story is just about getting the the theme or catharsis or learning another perspective. We don’t NEED to like the character. Or we don’t HAVE to like a character to be impressed by how they’re written or intrigued by their behavior. 

I think if internet culture could learn to view stories as small insights into other lives or single takes of one perspective instead of purposeful moral inspirations we’d be a lot less worried about how toxic or not toxic they are. 

[sayahastoomanyblogs]

Tldr piss poor reading comprehension comes from the assumption that all works are the sum of their parts, so in a ‘good’ piece of literature all characters and events must be ‘good’ and anything unpalatable or disagreeable is proof enough that the work as a whole is ‘bad’

[thebreakfastgenie]

I do actually care marginally about the guy in that reddit screenshot who voted for Trump and is now worried that he might lose his medicaid funding because I did not fucking stutter when I said healthcare is a human right but the people losing their internships and job offers to the hiring freeze are straight up hilarious.

[sprinkledsalt]

My mom was telling me about this YouTube video she watched (I can't remember the name, sorry) where the person shared a screenshot of some MAGA voter from Florida asking for help, because his wife had been hired for a nursing job with the VA in Texas, so they sold their house and were preparing to move. But they rescinded her job offer after Trump's executive order. The post from the guy was basically like "I already contacted Senator Ted Cruz's office, and they said they couldn't do anything about this. Please help me get this story to President Trump, we love him! We voted for him 3 times! And we know this was just a mistake and he'd help us!"

Just.................a part of me laughs, and another part of me thinks about how cult followers genuinely believe that the cult leader cares about them

[kalessinsdaughter]

This is the part about believing in universal human rights that can be a bit difficult: they're universal, and should never be denied anyone, no matter who they are or what they have done.

You can be – you should be – furious with people who voted for Trump, for wilfully trying to sabotage those rights and make them conditional, a privilege for the "deserving", a privilege they can deny the "wrong" kind of people.

And when the MAGA crowd are hit by the consequences of their actions, and denied basic human rights because it turns out their Great Leader doesn't actually include his followers among the privileged, it's tempting to say that they deserve to be denied those rights, because that's what they wanted to do to others.

But if you do that, you don't truly believe that those rights should be universal; you just have a different idea than the MAGA crowd about who should be included among the privileged.

You can still tell the MAGA who's crying that the leopards ate there face that you're angry with them for letting the face-eating leopards loose. But you shouldn't be fine with their face being eaten.

[pocket-size-cthulhu]

It took me ages to find this post again but. Yeah. Same energy

[thebreakfastgenie]

This is exactly it, thank you!!

[vaspider]

If your values don't extend to people you don't like, they're not your values. They're just a favor you're doing for the people you like.