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reblog blog for @oneepichermit - pfp by me and banner photo by a friend

[whitmore]

love is stored in the found family trope

[nonexistentnull]

CHALLENGE FOR THIS PRIDE MONTH, if someone says they’re aromantic/has an aro flag accessory, don’t assume they’re also asexual by default. I wish you all luck

[morally-earl-gray]

so many characters with potential to be aromantic bisexual and yet so few exist. write more aro-bi characters you cowards.

[theloverislost]

as we are rapidly approaching pride month, here’s an obligatory reminder!

AROMANTIC PEOPLE

ASEXUAL PEOPLE

AND AROACE PEOPLE

ALL BELONG IN THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY

I WILL REMOVE EVERY BONE IN YOUR BODY IF YOU SAY OTHERWISE

[cloudabserk]

just watched an interview with james ortiz (rocky’s puppeteer) where he’s like “they were torturing ryan gosling for this movie. it was killing him. he was developing isolation sickness in real life from being the only actor on set for 6 months. i needed to be there for him even when rocky wasn’t in frame to serve as his guiding light and the sole thread tethering him to the concept of love. i was kneeling at the altar” and what

[oneepichermit]

GeminiTay!! I love drawing her sm

[theotheronez]

Had a vision of Simon in a wedding gown and decided to make it about bloodymary

[stillhereandstillqueer]

Nonbinary people are so cool I wish our rights were taken seriously haha

[endcrys-art]

This pride month I need every aromantic to get more annoying about being aromantic

[stereosonicanimatronic]

ryland grace is aroace. however he is also stratt’s dead wife, rocky’s red string of fate starcrossed soulmate, & intensely violently homosexual for mark “simon iron lung” iplier. all things are true & all things can coexist. peace & love on planet erid

[variousfandomdevotion]

Jupiter North is a dog person raising two cat children and that’s not where his problems end but it’s certainly where they begin.

[thereareotherways-ofpersuasion]

i love how everyone's opinion of ryland grace's sexuality is

completely aroace

gay for rock

gay for rock x2

gay for markiplier

gay for the antagonist of his (headcannoned) twin brother's movie

boytoy for Eva Stratt

edit: and also

gay for his bodyguard turned bestfriend

gay for tony fucking stark

gay for david tennant (dr. who edition)

gay for david tennant (good omens edition)

[shnowyfox]

it would be so awesome

it would be so cool

[nebulonvoid]

One thing that I've noticed and appreciate about the PHM fandom is how much Grace gets passed around like a blunt.

That man is every color of the rainbow.

The man gets taken out of his fandom just to be passed around like a blunt in other fandoms.

He is the most aroace and pansexual agender man I have ever seen.

So far the running list that I've seen:

Rocky

Simon

Adrian

Carl

Rocky and Adrian

Stratt

Dubois and Shapiro (do not separate them, they come as a pair)

Ilyukhina

Yáo

Dimitri

Dr. Lokken

Tom Ryder

Driver from Drive (2011)???

Engineer Mark from In Space With Markiplier?

Din Djarin????????

Rocky again, but instead he looks like James Ortiz (i love seeing this one actually lol) (it's also good if human!Adrian looks like Meryl Streep)

More Markiplier????

Mark Watney

The 9th Doctor???

The 10th Doctor???

The 12th Doctor as well???

Like, let the man breathe 😭😭😭 he's practically just stumbling around, dazed, with a crazy amount of comical lipstick marks covering his face at this point lol

Edit: I've been told to add Tony Stark to the list. I don't know how this man got here, and I hate that I can see it

Edit 2: apparently I should also add Superman to this list??? Where are you all getting these ideas from??? (But, please, continue. I like wherever your crazy little brain's at)

Edit 3: okay, yeah, I guess Armando's on this list now. Didn't know that this guy was that freaky. (Also, apparently I need to add the three Captain Americas (Steve, John, Sam) which is kind crazy ngl. Where are all getting all these ideas from??? Please continue making Grace the fandom blunt, this is entertaining)

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[sprinkledsalt]

I was reading a really long essay recently about the sheer incomprehensible scale of violence that happened during World War II, and among other things, it reminded me that this isn’t the worst time to be alive for the general human population. I can very much picture people during WWII thinking it was the end of days, and for millions of people, it was. Up to 60-75 million people died during WWII, and that doesn’t count those who survived injuries, starvation, occupation, bombings, etc. Millions upon millions of people killed or mentally fucked up for the rest of their lives, and this was after the first World War! Imagine the psychological toll of going through two world wars. None of us really can, nor can we comprehend that body count. WWII was so bad that, just in terms of numbers regarding the death count, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were a drop in the bucket. Even the Holocaust didn't make up the majority of the death count, despite killing an insanely high amount of people at an insanely fast pace. It's hard to quantify the worst events in human history, but WWII has to be up there.

Obviously, a shit ton of scholarship has been written on the long-term effects of WWII both on individual societies and the world as a whole, so it's not like the war ended and then everything was fine and dandy, but the fact that human society continued to exist after that at all, and even thrive in some cases, is insane. It's just something to keep in mind as you're inundated with a constant stream of "nothing will ever get better" posts from people clinical depression posting on main. Things were so, so, so much worse not even 100 years ago.

[sprinkledsalt]

The anniversary of D-Day passed recently. It made me think of this post and the essay that inspired it:

World War II has faded into movies, anecdotes, and archives that nobody cares about anymore. Are we finally losing the war?

Despite being one of the most talked-about events from history, I still don't think we talk about WWII enough. I think it's partly because it's hard for us to conceptualize the amount of violence and destruction, and I think, as suggested by the essay, it was partly a trauma response. The general population didn't want to talk about it after it was over, they wanted to move on. Now I think people either don't believe things were that bad (because the mindset is "if things were that bad, wouldn't we be talking about them more?"), or they don't want to grapple with what the end result of letting fascism and authoritarianism (and Jew hatred) run rampant actually looked like. But forgetting does two things: makes it easier to bring the world closer to destruction by repeating mistakes of the past, and gives people a false sense of the past and present. I think it becomes more difficult to prevent things from getting to that worst case scenario endpoint if you incorrectly convince people that they're already there and there's no point in fighting.

Anyway, I really feel like with WWII, no matter how bad you imagine it was, things were worse.

[rat-boyy]

YES Ryland Grace is a freak

YES he is aroace just like me fr

YES he is in a platonic and/or romantic polycule with rocky and adrian

YES he is in a vaguely monster-fuckery relationship with simon iron lung

and YES he is also my male wife who I lost in the war