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Where I keep everything that I didn't post on main @radladrobin

[radrobsgarage]

Heinrich in German Memes pt 2

[sidetrek]

more fragmented dept q doodles, some nsfwish and longer stuff under the cut:

just wanna see them rescue each other 🥺 a couple are soft inspired by a fic i'll link in comments and the rest are just me getting delusional

[sidetrek]

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[jelliedlimes]

UGH They're SO CUTE WHEN THEY'RE SUFFERING

[wanderingpen]

Rambles about Arthur Lester and Aromanticism

Okay full disclosure, I have only listened up to episode 45 of Malevolent as of now (we're getting there) but I wanted to talk a bit about Arthur Lester. I haven't been in/interacted with the fandom long enough to know what's canon (if anything) when it comes to sexualities and such, but Arthur gives me SUCH aromantic vibes it's actually insane.

I know he's from the 1930s-ish so he probably thinks he has a dysfunction instead of having a different sexuality.

But the way he felt so uncomfortable in his relationship with Bella and KNEW he didn't love her the way he was "supposed" to, even after having an entire child with her, feels so aromantic coded. Many aro people get into relationships they don't really want and then feel conflicted because they're supposed to feel a certain way and simply can't.

He doesn't seem to have had any romantic attraction to people that we know of (again, at least by episode 45, unless I'm forgetting something) and he seems to think he's broken because of it, which is such a common aro experience.

His strongest and most loving relationships (besides his child) seem to be his friendships with some of the men around him. John is the most obvious one, and for someone who was born before Prohibition (?), Arthur sure doesn't seem to have a problem with saying that he loves him, over and over again.

Love feels very different and very complicated for people who don't know they're aro, at least in my experience. Arthur seems to have a very strange relationship with it, both from trauma and what I read as a potential romance-repulsion.

I know that Jarthur is a massive ship in this fandom, and more power to y'all if you read them that way, but I adore that the creator confirmed that they are FRIENDS. Because friendship is not lesser than romance, but sometimes I feel like fandom treats it as such.

John and Arthur are just as close as friends as they would be if they were in a romantic relationship. The nature of the relationship doesn't change the importance of the love that they share. Because they certainly, canonically, DO love each other, but they are not in love.

The way that Malevolent goes against the grain of what allo society pushes is phenomenal. John and Arthur do not need to be in a romantic relationship - in fact, I think it would hurt them in the long run, especially on Arthur's side.

[xadeone]

This. Always this. I may ship them often (and as qpr anyway) but I would be so disappointed if they were more than friends in canon. I live for aroallo Arthur but any flavor of aro/aroace works for him too. That man cherishes his friendships to the point of fucking dying for them that's just how it is

[pangur-and-grim]

I'm so close to having a coherent thought about this, but I find it very interesting how violent behaviour is viewed in characters, versus other sorts of antisocial behaviour (-phobias, -isms, etc). maybe it's the perceived separation from reality? because if you're lucky, nobody in your life will ever slit anyone's throat, so you get to view it as an abstract and fantastical action. it's pure play! whereas if a character says something like "you look fat in those jeans", BAM! instant hatred, because now you can link it to painful moments in your own life. even though the people you've heard those words from (moms, aunties, grandmas) are probably people that you still love.

which is why you get all these books that embrace hyper violence but flinch away from any -phobias and -isms, because that would be uncomfortable.

what makes the dissonance especially jarring is that viewing violence as abstract is a privilege. in Canada and the States, we get to sit comfortably in our homes while our governments fund weapons and send troops to inflict violence overseas. and sure, we can watch a genocide live-streamed on social media, but it still feels distant.

don't confuse this as me saying violence shouldn't be written about! everything should be written about! it's more me wondering why violence feels comfortable to write about, when arguably milder social offences do not.

[pangur-and-grim]

[vampantheon]

does anyone else get fomo about being a furry. i've made literal active attempts to be a furry but it just hasn't worked out for me. anthro just doesn't click in my brain really. all of my happiest friends have been furries

[vampantheon]

maybe it's because you have to either have the darkest of hearts or the purest of souls to be a furry and i'm sitting somewhere in-between

[vampantheon]

watching furries interact online feels like this

[allgremlinart]

Does anyone else want to give Sarek a Pyaari...? I want to give Sarek a Pyaari.

I like to think she was a gift from Earth for Amanda to make her feel more at home, but Sarek ended up loving her more than his own son.

[opens-up-4-nobody]

:-]

[glina197]

a small self-indulgent comic about jim suddenly growing wings and spock being drawn to them

[coffeebrownn]

[artaudmatic]

Love it when these two refuse to be team players and just go on vacation <3

[sprimes]

Storm Incoming

[wbbuser0727]

[razberry-slice]

God's gift to woman ova' here

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also without text:

[radrobsgarage]

Are you the one who made the tma version of the “it’s pride month. You know what that means.”

I’ve been searching your blog and can’t seem to find it, but i remember Jon being in your style.

Yep that's me! Thanks for reminding me to reblog it haha ^^

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[voidsetup1]

and out of the darkness - you you you you you