go on, and love the twilight

millennial, she/they, bi/ace/nb. vixus brainrot patient zero and evelyn vectern's travel agent/divorce lawyer. full time suzevangelist. i queue cat posts. this is a female character appreciation zone. please don't follow if you're under 18.

[poetikat]

new pinned post, hey!

I'm Kate, but nbd if you call me Kat. I write fanfic sometimes and I post about my cat a lot. I cycle in and out of fandoms so don't expect much in the way of consistency here.

Current fandom is Suzerain (Rizia DLC), forever fandom is Witcher (books and games). Whatever else I'm fond of gets a reblog as well. Caves of Qud, Rogue Trader, Pathfinder WOTR, Pillars of Eternity, Lancer RPG, Tolkien, DoS2, Black Sails, Leverage, The Expanse.

sideblogs:

@vinatoras (shifting all things suzerain and rizia and all three to a marriage updates here) @theresaruggedroad (sideblog for ocs and oc x canon fanworks - mutuals' oc art and fics get reblogged here) @gustfields (ciri and von everecs side blog, rarely sees use)

I'm neither pro nor anti but a secret third thing (critical of systemic issues in fandom spaces). I talk about it sometimes, reblog posts about it more.

like it says in the bio, this is a female character appreciation zone, and that is trans inclusive.

here's my cat :-)

[monstermonger]

He's worried about stepping on flowers. He loves nature.

[extratragic]

i stole this from twitter

[im-somewhere-in-the-stratosphere]

To all my mutuals whether we talk much or not I love you all

[kosmogrl]

[cloverstellar]

thinking (-1) about characters is so fun gu(-1)ys trust

[passion-of-l0vers]

how victorian <- is referring to the tv show victorious

[sheherlockholmes]

how edwardian <- is referring to the tv show ed edd n eddy

[passion-of-l0vers]

i’m in love with u

[homunculus-argument]

Not book smart or street smart but a secret third thing.

[luckyletd0wn]

supid

[homunculus-argument]

supid.

[wizardnaturalist]

a book should be $5 a little drink should be $2 and museum access should be free and all hours

[poetikat]

the sleepy starer

[spiribia]

do you want a warm, weighted, vibrating plushie that acts like a heat seeking missile and intermittently stabs you? What I have just described to you is Felis catus and there is a dark secret to it

[worsecats]

Come closer... learn my secret...

[casgirl]

This disclaimer pops up whenever I start talking

[poetikat]

i bring a real “generative ai is disastrous for the environment and a leading contributor to environmental racism and has led to rampant disinformation online and is the favorite tool of modern day fascists and gen ai companies are being sued for wrongful deaths caused by ai psychosis and for mass intellectual property theft and using it isn’t an ethically neutral choice” to the conversation that my parents really don’t like

[tacticalgrandma]

Also like. Astarion would not be getting two books and all the merch and whatever the fuck if fandom had not blown up around him. If fandom had reacted the same way to Wyll, do you think Larian would have kept neglecting him? Again, don’t want to absolve creators—especially corporate ones—of responsibility here. But a lot of fandom rhetoric calls them out in ways that passively shirk our own role in erasure.

Preemptive not saying you’re obligated to stan Wyll and ignore Astarion or that that would be at all productive or helpful. Fandom is not charity work, you should engage with the characters it’s fun to engage with. But I don’t think this uneven spread of engagement that occurs in fandom after fandom after fandom is natural or objective. Especially when it occurs in societies where people have been socialized to have low expectations of poc, and to minimize their personhood. What could be useful is being introspective on what kind of characters we fixate on and why, and actually incorporating those insights into how we consume media going forward.

[midnightportals]

[rainbowgaez]

let the bodies hit the floor is such a scary song. usually bodies hitting the floor isn’t a good thing but this guy wants it to happen anyway.

[rainbowgaez]

and yet he insists there’s nothing wrong with him. haunting

[maidthings]

material circumstances guide my blade

[neshatriumphs]

Juneteenth is about Black people who were officially technically supposed to be freed from enslavement. Nobody else. Nothing else. It's not a POC day. It's not a "freedom for all" day. It's Black folk, Black culture, Black emancipation, SPECIFICALLY. Any other observation for Juneteenth is gentrification.

[neshatriumphs]

Your Juneteenth reminder that just because they made it a "national holiday," it's still not. It's for the celebration of Black Americans being freed from slavery, finally.

It's from Texas. We been welcoming other descendants of the enslaved. But we close the gate and draw the line with "everybody."

[neshatriumphs]

Bringing this back on Juneteenth because making Black observations a national holiday didn't and doesn't end racism and the nonblacks are more insufferable than they have been in my lifetime about Black American people and our things.

Happy Juneteenth to those whose lives would not be actively free without the day happening. See the rest of you tomorrow.