NOT INVENCIBLLE

31, He/Him, A little tired of being a bird in a hat

[idrawsnoopyeveryday]

174.

[ray-okumura]

[mousegirlheart]

If you are having trouble catching that mouse, then perhaps it is not meant to be. Perhaps try something else? Maybe a cockroach, or a lizard. Mice do not taste that good, regardless. I recommend abandoning pursuit of mice altogether. Meow.

[fandom-man]

[scholarlypidgeot]

@moethh don't hide this in the tags

[questbedhead]

I love me a pseudo-historical arranged marriage au but it always nudges my suspension of disbelief when the author has to dance around the implicit expectation that an arranged marriage should lead to children, which a cis gay couple can't provide.

I know for a lot of people that's irrelevant to what they want from an Arranged Marriage plot, but personally I like playing in the weird and uncomfortable implications.

So, I've been thinking about how you would justify an obviously barren marriage in That Kind of fantasy world, and I thought it'd be interesting if gay marriage in Ye Old Fantasy Land was a form of soft disinheritance/abdication.

Like, "Oh, God, I don't want to be in this position of power please just find me a boy to marry", or, "I know you should inherit after you father passes but as your stepmother/legal guardian I think it'd make more sense if my kids got everything, so maybe consider lesbianism?", or "Look, we both know neither of our families has enough money to support that many grandkids, so let's just pair some spares and save both our treasuries the trouble".

Obviously this brings in some very different dynamics that I know not everyone would be pinged by, but I just think it'd be neat.

[kyraneko]

This is actually a really cool variant solution to a real historical problem, wherein either primogeniture or other profoundly shitty customs led to wealthy parents having insufficient resources to provide for all of their children in a manner consistent with their station.

Historically, the Church and its widespread monastic structure functioned as a dumping ground for second/third/etc sons and all the daughters one can't afford to marry off adequately, with the military eventually picking up the slack for the former post-Reformation to the point where it's been argued that the need for something to occupy these dispossessed sons played a role in Europe's ongoing conflicts between its nations and the eventual push of imperialism and colonization over the rest of the world.

In a world where homosexuality were more accepted, it would offer a new option: spare a comparatively-small outlay of resources from the main family fortune to equip a house and accoutrements, which would be reabsorbed into the family as a return inheritance in a few decades, and contract a marriage which would be deliberately unable to produce legitimate offspring.

You get the advantages of creating marital ties with another wealthy family, the people married therein have a spouse and the status achievements that go with marriage, and the risk that your child goes off and marries someone unsuitable or inconvenient is removed entirely, as is the risk that they could marry someone and have legitimate, inheritance-claiming children with them. Sure, they can have affairs and thus get children if they're married to a same-sex spouse, but those children cannot be passed off as legitimate issue of the marriage, and so they pose less of a threat to the the main body of the family's wealth.

And, thus: perfectly reasonable reason why your pseudohistorical fictional characters can find themselves in a same-sex arranged marriage!

[aqueerkettleofish]

"Nicholas, we've arranged for you to marry Eric, in the neighboring kingdom."

"But father, I'm not...."

"I'm well aware. I've just decided that you shouldn't reproduce."

[the-uss-premise]

Console buttons from Star Trek: The Original Series (1966-69)

[catluvr985]

[luxiomahariel]

[literalliterature]

The potato battery is a kind of Creature that can only be befriended by kind-hearted children trying to do their fourth-grade science projects

[ID copied from alt: A colored sketch depicting a creature based on a potato battery science experiment. It has a potato for a body, and its ears are a zinc plate and copper plate sticking out of the potato, with black and red wires attached to them with alligator clips. The wires wrap around the back half of its body and twist together to form a tail with a small, lit lightbulb at the end. Its legs are also made of wire. There is a patch of blue behind it against a background that looks like lined notebook paper. End ID.]

[literalliterature]

It occurred to me that I had in fact created a Little Guy so I mapped it on the chart from @littleguysdaily

[ID copied from alt: A stats sheet featuring the potato battery creature. Its skill is listed as "science fair." It has 3 out of 3 stars in the Chuckability category, 3 in Engaging, 1 in Squishiness, 0 in Slorpability, 0 in Bones, and 1 in Media Literacy. End ID.]

[kej-art]

happy pride to these idiots 🌈

(I'm thinking about drawing Ianthe and Camilla as well? we will see, we will see)

[outofcontextgarf]

[nv3ncill]

Dear Legendlark Podcast, this cute deer was not on my Bingo Card

[epicsause-official]

since its june i wanted to admit that about 3 years ago i made what is probably my biggest contribution to the internet

[dogpuppy]

[amuseoffyre]

One of my favourite photos from my trip to Warsaw in 2006

[parakeet]

damn 2 of my miis were happily sweethearts for 20 days before getting married, one of them has just told me they want a divorce, apparently theyre not getting along. only married for 6 days as well. dire. took sooo long for them to get married too despite being happy the whole time, all my other miis got married within like 4 days of dating lmao, none of them have asked for a divorce (i remember 1 having 'making it work' for a bit there but they bounced back.)

never seen a divorce before. lets see how this goes

[parakeet]

he said he was moving out and I was thinking hmm this is the first time I’ve had to pick a place for someone to live on such a sour note and I did fleetingly wonder if it would potentially just plop him down somewhere random instead… but i thought surely not… BUT!!

It did 😭😭😭 the entire right side of this island might as well be a field and you’ve moved into the 6x5 space inside the ice owls ice castle with no entrance or exit… First of all isolating yourself post divorce isn’t good for you but more importantly… You can’t live there!!! Though I do begrudgingly respect the audacity. Very bold

[eisenkrahe]

Yes!

[herrmit]

prequel to the harrowhark collage. we love you gideon nav

[phantomrose96]

Personally? I would never deny Hiromu Arakawa her right to a short bratty braided blond character in a kickass red coat

[phantomrose96]

Invent a look this iconic and I think you should get to use it in every series.

[phantomrose96]

[kaban-bang]

It was actually her assistants conspiring lmao

[shantechni]

The funniest part to me is the way that she doesn't even believe her assistants are responsible for this. She 100% blames Edward "fictional character who can't directly affect the real world unless made to do so" Elric.