a hex girl

i am physically incapable of liking anything normally

[pinkiyall]

If Tim and Steph had a Letterboxd… i feel very passionately about this.

They like to get high & watch movies together when they have the time. :)

honorable mentions:

Tim would also love movies like Rushmore, Bladerunner, Scott Pilgrim, Inception, etc. (He’s very annoying about them, too.)

Steph would be obsessed with movies like Alien, Booksmart, Jennifer’s Body, Pulp Fiction (just for Mia Wallace), 10 Things I Hate About You, and of course a bunch of shitty rom-coms.

[omegaversereloaded]

ilove when someone posts about an issue that's supposedly plaguing society and it's painfully obvious that said issue is not a thing that matters if youre not on tiktok

[json-derulo]

I'm not gonna articulate this well, but there's this phenomenon I keep seeing on the left that I'll call "bean soup rhetoric," wherein someone fails to understand that they are not the target audience for a particular message, or just can't conceptualize why a speaker would craft their message differently to resonate with a target audience that doesn't already completely agree with them.

"The 'God Made Trans People' billboard is stupid! God didn't make me! I'm an atheist!" Okay. The billboard sits along a major highway in Kansas. We can deduce that the target audience is not you—it's the centrist evangelical Christians driving along that road who could probably be persuaded to become allies as long as we choose our words carefully and don't make them feel attacked for not already knowing everything about trans rights issues. Another one I see a lot is, "We shouldn't be talking about how right-wing legislation catches [privileged in-group] in the crossfire when [marginalized out-group] suffers far more!" I know. I agree with you. Which is why you and I are not the intended audience of this argument!

The entire point of rhetoric is to win over someone who doesn't already fully agree with you. In this case, let's say that someone is Jennifer, the moderate center-right mom in your neighborhood who doesn't really know or care about transgender issues but would be absolutely horrified by the idea of her teenage daughter having to submit to an invasive inspection of her body just to be allowed to play soccer. Tell her, "Banning trans students from sports will inevitably subject all student athletes to invasive gender-policing," or "Legal restrictions on gender-affirming care will make it harder for you to access the hormone replacement therapy you take to treat menopause symptoms," and she is more likely to question her existing beliefs and listen to the rest of what you have to say than if you lead with leftist talking points that she already has a calcified opinion about or which she thinks do not personally affect her.

Tailoring the argument to the things she already cares about does not mean we're forgetting that she has more privilege than most—entirely the opposite, in fact. A privileged ally can be extremely valuable. Jennifer votes in every election. And so do all the other ladies at her book club, and church, and in the PTA, and those folks listen to Jennifer. There's a reason both parties were courting suburban women so hard in the last election cycle! If we can find common ground with her on this, if we can get her calling her representatives and talking to her friends and phone-banking and door-knocking and making a stink, that's how the needle starts to move. If I can convince her to take her support away from the candidates who are actively restricting my rights and throw it toward those who want to restore and expand those rights...then I'm sorry, but Jennifer is a more valuable ally to me than the people who agree that the legal boundaries of gender ought to be abolished altogether but refuse to actually do anything except complain online about how both sides are equally bad because the right is trying to force everyone to drink the cyanide kool-aid while the left keeps serving bean soup and they don't like bean soup

[witchdisk]

age regressing but I was a precocious child so I act pretty much the same

[mgs5]

[pinkiyall]

I started writing a TimKon fic 2 years ago, completely forgot about it, and then decided to finish it this past week. Here's that :)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/87506381

Title: Why are you treating me like someone that you never loved?

Summary:

“We see each other like, every week,” Tim responds.

“Yeah, but I feel like we haven’t really talked in a while,” Kon says. Tim goes silent long enough for Kon to add on, “I don’t want to feel like I only see you when someone’s in danger. We’re closer than that.”

Tim’s hackles rise at the implication of Kon’s words. This was a confrontation, his brain whispers to him. One likely fueled by 500-proof moonshine.

“I’ve been busy,” Tim says.

“Can’t be that busy. I see you on Steph’s Close Friends story pretty much every other night,” Kon asserts, an ounce of annoyance sneaking into his voice.

***

Tim has been avoiding Kon since he came back to life, as he is incapable of handling anything in a normal way. Kon confronts him about it at Cassie's Big Fat Lesbian Housewarming Rager. They're both drunk and mad. They kiss about it.

[razzmothazz]

woah this character is so cool i wish they were covered in blood their whole body trembling with a look of absolute horror on their face as theyre struggling to breathe in panic

[feyburner]

Having a normal one :)

Text:

Steph: Say, Tim…

Tim: mm.

Steph: Would you fuck your clone?

Tim: Wh—What?! Why would you even—WHAT? He’s not MY—I mean. He’s his own clone. Yknow? I—I mean he’s Superman and Luthor’s clone. But he’s his own. Yknow? Anyway what?? Why would you even ask that?? That’s such a random question Steph haha jeez what are you even thinking about haha

Steph: “Your clone” as in a clone of you, Tim Drake, a clone of Tim Drake.

Tim: oh.

Tim: no.

Steph: Really because I would fuck mine no question

[3rabbit]

daughter (non-practicing)

[3rabbit]

sister (deadbeat)

[sourcreammachine]

children are annoying but you have to forgive them. like they just got here

[darkspaceboytoy]

Male characters who would work better as butch women stretch as far as the eye can see

[2886beaconstreet]

ao3 asking if i want to see mature content. do i want to see birds in the sky. do i want to feel the wind in my hair and the grass under my feet

[spookyboywhump]

Guy who never feels like his problems are “bad enough” to be taken seriously: what if I hurt the character so horrifically that everyone around them could not possibly deny the severity of their pain even if the character themself tries to downplay it.

[milfmaekar]

starting some kind of collection

[blond-shell]

[piedpip3rrr]

Prey

[ameyumm]

Lescleradin! 🔮