These arms are worth a lot @rogue-ishly - Tumblr Blog

you can really tell when a guy character has become a tumblr popularboy because everything about him that can be wrung dry for overwrought angst is wrung dry for overwrought angst to the point of making him sound like a dog that's going to die at the end of a children's movie

shovelwareyaoi

cultofthewyrm

1st Legion Dark Angels Ironwing - Warhammer 30k / 40k by Brian Valeza

ispyspookymansion

i like a trans headcanon as much as the next guy but sometimes it really boils down to “that character has not had enough agency and/or introspective freedom in their life to have transitioned by the time we meet them in their story”

inkeyjay

The Hanged Man ⚡️

voidevoyager

Who told you I want to be "cured"?

subzeroparade

my elden brain still high on @nohaijiachi‘s Mimic Veiled twins concept. so here’s more.

edit: fixed saturation and quality issues

vyvilha

i think i don't really vibe with most other fans of my favorite male characters is because they usually depict them too much of a man, and i am not interested in men, i am interested in The Character. and i am not saying that they should depict them as women, or nonbinary, or should depict them as feminine, no, not at all. but there's like, you know, you can depict a male character as The Character, and you can depict them as The Man. do you get me? like, i go to the fandom looking for art and fics, and it's just, regardless of his actual characterization, it's all just fantasizing about some kind of an abstract dominant patriarch, wearing my favorite character's face. it may be the most totally-wouldnt-have-normal-relationships (and sometimes even would-literally-abuse-you) kind of guy, and you join a dedicated space for his fans, and all they talk about is how they want to marry and start a tradcore 50s style nuclear family with him. it can be a guy who's arrogance and attempts of domination are explicitly shown to be a facade that hide the fact that he's actually kind of a massive pathetic wet loser, and you go to his fics, and they're all depicting him as a caricaturish daddy dom. at this point it's like, do you even like the character at all, or do you just like The Man, and project this man onto whatever character you find visually attractive? and these people kind of, really really poison actual discussion of the character, who is kind of a fucked up evil person (i only like *those* types, so im talking about them) because they see analysis of the actual character as an attack on their fantasized daddy dom husband, who is actually isn't The Character at all, and is simply a face of the day for The Man

#favorite #very well said

turtle-brownie

⚔️GLORY, MASTER AVENGER OF THE MORNWALKER PALADINS⚔️

izuris

doodles of Hazel! ✨ ⌛️

sinizade

Warden

Champion

Inquisidor

Remake of an old drawing

wyvernscales

Idk, I just think it’s interesting that every Qunari companion’s personal quest revolves around their decision to be ‘Qunari’ or not.

#bioware critical

cryptotheism

I just felt someone Z-target me

search-queery

[clearly circle-strafing you] don't be ridiculous

$fractangle blog's avatar$

fractangle

Pride month vest project, a patch a day #29: Wheat But Not Bread, Fruit But Not Wine

gelbgelbgelb

As my friend Julian puts it, only half winkingly: "God blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason God made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine, so that humanity might share in the act of creation."

-- Daniel Mallory Ortberg

technologistrevolution

This has been driving me insane because this quote is so incredibly Jewish but every time I saw it was completely divorced from Judaism in the version applying it to 'transsexual'.

The original concept that humans complete the act of creation by making bread from wheat is from the Talmud! And the specific "wheat but not bread, grapes but not wine" phrasing is from Jewish theologian Abraham Heschel but it is missing "clay but not bricks".

And among trans Jews the sentiment was already popular before I ever started seeing this specific phrasing so I knew, knew, knew a Jew and likely a trans Jew was involved.

As it happens, Ortberg's friend Julian is Jewish and they have strongly negative feelings about the way the quote has been removed from the context of their life as someone trans and Jewish. They used to have a thread up on xwitter about it but have since made their account private and only have a very terse FAQ online from which you can glean the treatment they likely received when being more open about their Jewishness, relationship to transness, and the interaction of both.