Slipping the trap

Hi, I'm polytropic, though most people call me "please stop talking." My pronouns are they/them and he/him. I blog about things I like: speculative fiction, bright colors, queerness, subversive masculinity, theory. I used to blog about activism and current events: now I'm a movement lawyer in my daily life, so I don't use this blog for that any more, because boundaries are important. I welcome messages, including if you're struggling with gender feelings and want some support or advice. Please don't message me for legal advice. I'm a lawyer, not your lawyer.

[souperluminal]

05.11 - The Red Star Jelly

[withoutzeuzey]

Yeah im bingqiu pilled rn so here are some sketches

[herpsandbirds]

Speckled Racer (Drymobius margaritiferus), family Colubridae, South TX, USA

photograph by Saopan Idris

[dykearchived]

Chloe Atkins’ portraits of lesbians at San Francisco’s Club Q featured in her published collection Girls Night Out (1998)

[lady-potato-ninja]

My first illustration for my typesetting of the amazing fic I wish you were my husband 🤭

I went out of my comfort zone with this one but I'm glad I persevered and got it done !

[ekmerald4]

Yue Qingyuan assumes that people hold him in such high regard simply because they don't know him. Shen Qingqiu sees right through him and that is why he looks down on him (as he should, in Yue Qingyuan's humble opinion); their history is part of why his negative judgment of Yue Qingyuan is much more accurate. When really, what Shen Qingqiu finds fucking infuriating is that Yue Qingyuan grew up to be so perfect that it's fucking ridiculous.

[keingleichgewicht]

sometimes a family can be a surgeon and a corpse and a blood-magician. sometimes a family is two boys who have died before and their still-living sister the doctor who wasn't there to save them. sometimes a family can be you and your baby brother and a man whose ribcage you have opened up in order to put your hands inside him and cut out his heart, on his request, because he begged you to, in repayment for which two years later he put his hands on your brother's naked soul and dragged him through that dark gate backwards and sealed him again in his own dead gutted body so he wouldn't ever leave you. and somehow im supposed to be normal about it

[lizardsfromspace]

Imagine washing up on Dinotopia and getting a talk saying "unfortunately, you can't escape this island! You'll never go home or see your loved ones ever again" & then while you're crying they say "I'm sorry, you'll just have to live on the island of dinosaur communism for the rest of your life" and you look up through your bleary eyes and go. Wait what

[othersharkss]

I did this for mermay but I forgot to post here!

[doyoulikethissong-poll]

Do you like this song? #823

Yes I like it, I already know it

Yes I like it, first time listening

No I don't like it, I already know it

No I don't like it, first time listening

Remaining time: 5 days 9 hours

✨ Please reblog the polls to make them reach out to as many people as possible, but KEEP IT SPOILER-FREE to make people listen to the music with an open mind 💖

✨ Artists and titles will be revealed with the full song after the poll's conclusion, check the original post for an update!

⚠️➡️ Yes, spoilers includes posting the lyrics. Please don't spoil. There are other ways to have fun with the post if you reblog it, maybe be sneaky/witty about it with obscure references. Have fun while following the rules! 😄💖 Fandom blogs/communities are welcome to reblog, but please keep that as far as it goes with spoilers!

[poxychoo]

not my usual stuff but the One Piece LA crew are so cute😭😭😭

[voltairinedecl3yre]

Avery with some alocasia! This was such a blast to paint <3

[vithcy]

I got my copy of Persepolis second hand probably almost a decade ago and was delighted at how much the previous owner had notated it. I treasure this book as one of the most poignant pieces of illustrated storytelling but also as a small bridge that connects me to an unknown girl named Natalie and to the magic of Marjane's life & work, all three of us with incredibly different backgrounds.

Here are some of my favorite notations by Natalie:

"She wants to help people + make them feel equal"

"Everyone involved with those fighting for freedom had it rough"

"Conflict: GOV vs the people"

"She wants people to live equally"

"Friendship is key"

Rest in peace Marjane Satrapi, your humanity will live forever 🤍

[projectorthus]

X Men Red if the writers weren’t cowards.

Happy pride month!

[rythyme]

A few people have been asking me about the Thai Goncharov remake so I figured I’d share some quick facts to get y’all started! Let me know if you have questions :) (Image descriptions included as alt text.)

Watch it today on iQiyi!

Bonus:

[polytropic-liar]

if I had a nickel for every time chen duling's character had an extremely sapphic, emotionally intimate relationship with a woman who presented about as butch as a woman is allowed to be in xianxia, had some kind of weird thing going on with puppets, and who got zero storyline or speaking lines outside of her one brief arc about how much she loves her little brother, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it's happened twice so far

[moosopp-art]

[OC] 🌈

The poses are kinda cheesy cuz I was listening to this while drawing it.