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Type stuff you do with bro after he fashions a form-fitting exosuit

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[tearsofmilky]

Your theories: Why is Ikra upset about the male dancer? She didn't have that look on her face with the female one 🤔

Does she wish Jack was in his place?

And, yeah, Jack doesn't care about who's dancing.

Interestingly, ever since I was a child, I’ve remembered this scene in such a way that it was Jack—not Ikra—who was surprised and embarrassed. So I was a little surprised myself by how inaccurate my memories were

[ckret2]

Okay I've got two theories about Ikra's reaction.

The Doylist explanation:

This episode aired in 2001, when cartoons assumed everyone was straight, and the show sure wasn't attempting to break any new ground there.

So I think the artistic intent was to foreshadow that Ikra was Aku. Because Aku is a guy and so he'd be happy to see a female dancer and he'd dislike seeing a male dancer. Because all guys like girls, obviously.

Now, this would be dumb as hell for a multitude of reasons. It'd be the only time in the entire show Aku shows an "interest" in a woman or repulsion at a man rather than being indifferent; and "OBVIOUSLY a guy would hate watching a guy dance!" is undermined by the fact that they didn't make Jack care about it.

Nevertheless, even though it's dumb, I think it's most likely what they were actually trying to do.

The Watsonian explanation:

to hell with canon and its weird assumptions, in my heart aku is gay af.

My headcanon is that Jack was fine with both performances because he was just like "oh this lady is a lovely and attractive dancer and this man is talented too, what a nice show." Being normal about it.

But meanwhile Ikra was like "the girl's a good dancer, who's next—? OHHH NO HE'S HOT and he's shirtless and it looks like his biceps are about to snap through those armbands nope nope nope nope I'm here on a mission i CANNOT get distracted do NOT look at the beefcake with the ruby belly button piercing stay focused on jack FOCUS ON JACK do NOT get distracted—oh fuck i can see straight through his pants. i can see everything. I'm making direct eye contact with his dong. STOP LOOKING AT IT. oh thank goodness he turned away—OH no now i can see his buttocks that's not better. im in SO much trouble. this is torture. if we don't get out of here ASAP I'm going to do something incredibly undignified. just focus on your drink, aku. i've never been so thirsty in my life."

this is what i choose to believe was happening

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when the dying place is lonely

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sad version if you’re nasty

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whenever i follow someone from the dash and i later read their bio to see they softblock new followers BUT i don't get softblocked i feel realllllll special ☺️

[willgrahamscock]

shoutout to all the amazing aborted fics inside some mentally ill guys head rn, I would have loved to give it kudos

[nephilot]

last night was watching a youtube video w my boyfriend where this woman was talking abt how it's ok to depict rape in fiction obviously but it has to be distressing for the reader and v clear that the rape is not in any way being romanticized i mean i know i talk abt this all the time on here but sometimes you just want to settle in with your romanticized depiction of rape. sometimes you want to have fun with it and you don't want to be reminded THIS IS WRONG by the author every page you want to be like awwww when the rapist and the victim fall in love <3 when the victim has to enjoy it bc there's no choice <3 like sorry We Live in a Society where rape is inescapable for many ppl ofc there are going to be cultural artifacts that reflect that inescapability by romanticizing the cage

[nephilot]

i've been reading a lot of speculative fiction lately esp from nightmare magazine. here are some hits i've read in the past few days:

57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides by Sam J. Miller

i love the list format of this story! i've been looking for stories that play with form, and the way this narrative loops around to the title thru a numbered list was very satisfying. the ending also kind of felt like a gut punch.

We, the Girls Who Did Not Make It by EA Petricone

a choral voice of a group of women murdered by two serial killers. i've noticed that this is a common mode for stories abt the victims of misogynistic violence - to bring them together into a group and have them speak almost as one. it works here, partially bc the story is so careful to individualize the women within the group even as they speak together. also was holding my breath for a lot of this story.

Bleed for Me, Bro by Sharang Biswas

what if you could reanimate ppl... what would that do for s&m.... i loved the premise omg.

The Sound of Children Screaming by Rachael K. Jones

gun violence portal fantasy. classrooms have portals that take hiding children to a magical world. really adored this one. kind of gave me chills if i'm being honest.

Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather by Sarah Pinsker

unconventional formats my beloved!! told through an entry on a website abt folk songs, with the different users arguing and sharing lore and researching the song.

Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island by Nibedita Sen

another unconventional format and my FAVORITE on this list. about a girl who's taken from her home by british colonizers who massacred her island. it's told through an annotated bibliography, and it's such a sharp story that plays with the idea of the Other and historical reality and how history is formed. it's beautifully written too. i read it twice and then sent it to my boyfriend to read.

Chew by Tamsyn Muir

takes place in germany after wwii and has maybe my favorite zombie i've ever come across. i'm not really into zombies so that's both saying a lot and very little.

The Life and Times of Alavira the Great as Written by Titos Pavlou and Reviewed by Two Lifelong Friends by Eugenia Triantafyllou

two friends duel it out thru what are basically goodreads reviews for a strange fantasy series. once again unconventional formats my beloved <3 <3 <3

Fandom for Robots by Vina Jie-Mae Prasad

such a sweet story about a robot who gets into an anime. i love stories abt fandom bc i'm so tumblr ig. IDC. i'm free.

Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers by Alyssa Wong

a woman goes on a terrible tinder date and turns the tables on her serial killer date. it gets crazier and more fun and more upsetting from there! another gut punch ending.

Angel, Monster, Man by Sam J. Miller

a group of gay men during the aids crisis invent a man using the writings of their dead friends and colleagues. he takes on a life of his own. it was a story filled with the rage and grief of its characters. also realizing this is the second sam j. miller on the list!

[orpheuslament]

i will personally never understand that thing people do when theyre like "i thought this was a good piece of art until i realised its fetish/pornographic" like why does art lose value if the artist was a little horny when they made it. why is that so scary. im sure a lot of the old masters were doing portraits of their lovers slightly bricked up & theyre still displayed in museums. why is sexual arousal not an acceptable source of inspiration when like every other emotion is. well i mean i know why sadly but i do not like it so i'll continue to complain about it

[sharkfiinn]

grocky is really good because they dont really want to Have Sex with each other as much as they want to sort of crawl into each others insides and live there forever .

weird notsex but definitely horny activity they do is rocky makes grace watch thriller or scary movies so he can be a pervert about the sound of graces heart and lungs going fucking crazy and being very Viscerally alive next to him in a controlled environment. he constantly complains about how sloshy and wet grace is all the time but privately he is so deeply traumatized and he needs to be glued to this guys obscenely exposed heartbeat and rushing blood noises at all times

also something somethinng the eridian equivalent of a vibrator being a tuning fork and they. experiment . with that. its not necessarily Sexual stimulation it doesnt really engage the reproductive organs but it DOES very much engage the pleasure sensors in their crystalbrains and involves a disgusting amount of trust because if something is resonating Directly against their carapace loud enough theyre functionally blind. grace then tries hooking it up to the frequencies of wonderwall and loses all privilages forever

anyway. i love when two characters love each other so so much in such a complicated way that they dont have sex but instead do something MUCH weirder

THEYRE SO GODDAMN WEIRD!!!!!!!

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[annabelle--cane]

so The Thing about classic metaphors for hunting-as-romantic-pursuit is that the figure of the male hunter presents a different threat to his female prey than the figure of the female huntress does to her male prey. when a man is hunting a woman, the danger is presented as being that he is going to kill her. she will run, he will give chase, but eventually he's catching up to her and all this build up will resolve in a carnal culmination. when a woman is hunting a man, the danger is presented as being that she'll wound him without killing him. the huntress is figured as diana the maiden, so even if the man is chased the woman will still be chaste. the hunter tells his prey that he's going to finish her off and rip into her flesh with his teeth, but the huntress tells her prey that she'll strike him with an arrow, set her dogs on him, and leave him bleeding and wanting and alive without even deigning to lay a finger on him herself. the hunted man is left hurt and feeling like that was just a sport to her and that she doesn't even care about him; all he has is this awful pain, the shame of how easily he lost to her, and no way to get resolution. in his eyes the huntress is diana, the moon, a goddess, so he's obviously not even a blip on her horizon.

which really is just a long-winded way for me to say that I think we as a collective could do with giving stratt more silvery moon imagery to match with grace's bright yellow sunshine aesthetics.

[annabelle--cane]

now, is the huntress actually the cruel, chaste, inhuman diana? I mean, she is at least sometimes, diana pretty famously did hunt some people, that was a significant thing that happened, but also this narrative relies more on what the hunted man feels than what the huntress actually did. he feels rejected and brushed off so thinks she must have rejected him and brushed him off, but, alas, how one feels about a situation often doesn't match up with with how it really played out.

in the shakespeare play as you like it, prettyboy orlando has a meet-cute with prettygirl rosalind, gets separated from her by circumstance, and starts writing poems about how his beloved is a chaste diana who doesn't want him. what actually happened is that orlando did one (1) impressive thing in front of her, rosalind flirted with him a little about it, he got so flustered that he entirely lost the ability to speak, and rosalind assumed he didn't want to continue their conversation so moved on while feeling a tad disappointed. he doesn't think about it from her perspective and gets her motivation all wrong; he ascribes her a degree of coldness that isn't there and doesn't understand that she only walked away because he got scared, dropped the ball, and gave her nothing to work with. he doesn't understand that she also feels like he let her down. rosalind isn't diana, she was seriously into that singular impressive thing he did, it's just that the brave man she was attracted to seemed to fizzle out into nothing the moment she gave him a compliment.

and, again: a similar thing happened to my friend eva stratt.

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god the Bratz boy characters (Boyz) were so funny. there's so much gender going on here. these five utterly swagless men were as good as it got in the early 2000s.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

loving this confirmation that da boys were all wearing the same pair of shoes. there was a buy one get four at the old navy and the lads had to get in on it.

[brightmouth-deactivated20230417]

My spouse and I just had one of those “wait your brain works HOW?” exchanges, and now I am BURNING TO KNOW HOW IT WORKS FOR OTHER PEOPLE:

Fellow speakers of this feral bastard language (English), rb and tell me in the tags: what is the delineation for you, if any, between evening and night?

[cowardsexual]

there's so much focus on rocky being exposed to oxygen while sacrificing himself to save grace and then "oh yeah and the 29 atm difference must've also been bad" gets thrown in at the end when like. eridian bodies have no immune system so they are very likely hermetically sealed from the outside to protect themselves from deadly pathogens. you know what happens to a water balloon in a vacuum?

"his internal organs caught fire" brother in christ he imploded. eridians got water in em, and that water probably boiled him alive. in-shell space crab instant hotpot style.