We are manifesting

Let's get through this, together. Ace/bi-romantic they/he

[spongelll]

me walking to the bathroom at 3am in a massively oversized shirt, using gay fanfic on my phone to light the way

[ot3]

the catch 22 of being a femslash fan is that when you try and get anyone else to care or talk about media that has a heavy slant towards female characters and relationships between them you will be met by a bunch of people who tell you to stop whining about the things you like or make being unpopular and just focus on supporting or creating these things. but then if you actually go out and do this and fully commit to that and say that you're not interested in m/m or m/f centric stuff people will act like you are smug, narrowminded, pretentious, or even just straight up bigoted.

there really is no winning because what people actually want is to never have to think about why relationships between two women or female-dominated casts are so proportionately rare in popular or culturally relevant media. they can't outright say they think its because these types of work matter less or are across the board lower in quality than the things they like, but a lot of people do clearly believe that on some level. because that version of affairs is the one that lets misogyny be something happening on the back end that they are just responding to, rather than something they are participating in by "just not really being able to get into f/f" for whatever Mysterious Reasons.

[kaban-bang]

[softgrlfriend]

I have been nothing but elusive and difficult to you and this is how you treat me

[str8aura-no-not-that-one]

the system has detected that you are running a pirated copy of this game on illegal software. wow! supser awesome and badass!!!! have funnn!!!!!!

[targetedknowledge]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

a lot of stuff happened but i'm choosing to remember 2025 as the year i found out people with green eyes exist irl

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

couple things:

yes i spent my entire life until a few months ago assuming green eyes were an urban legend

"what about all the fictional characters with green eyes" thought it was a trope like with anime protagonists having naturally purple hair

i found out by watching Desperate Housewives (one of the actors has green eyes and it threw me off)

(i had never watched Desperate Housewives until that point bc i assumed it was reality tv, of the same genre as Real Housewives Of Metropolitan Areas franchise)

i still haven't seen green eyes irl, i am simply aware now that they actually exist

"have you really never met a person with green eyes." i didn't say that. it's possible I've met dozens. my autistic ass has spent decades elevating eye contact avoidance to a sublime art form.

[two-wizards-in-a-trench-coat]

baby sis (5) learned that I'm transgender this holiday season because she found pictures of kid me in dresses and questioned my mother about it who said "well [Wiz] used to be a girl but now he's a boy" and it sounded a bit like it Happened to me which is funny. anyways It means that baby sis has been doing this incredible bit where anytime she draws someone she asks them if they want to be drawn as "a boy or a girl"

[two-wizards-in-a-trench-coat]

you would think that makes her woke but no because she keeps drawing my regular brother as a girl to piss him off. chat she's forcefemming him

[ot3]

i dont know that sounds pretty woke to me. i think this kid is going places

[two-wizards-in-a-trench-coat]

I mostly call him that because for a long time he was the irregular brother for being autistic but ever since I got my diagnosis he's lost his special boy privileges

[prokopetz]

"Fuck canon" has its virtues as an interpretive stance, but you've gotta know what the canon is before you can fuck it.

[prokopetz]

This isn't a "you have to learn the rules before you can break them" thing. It's a "making yourself out to be some kind of edgy rebel while unwittingly replicating all the flaws of the very thing you claim to be rebelling against makes you look like a dumbass" thing.

[mrsterlingeverything]

Lets just take our armor off and see what happens

[atapi]

the angel sings of salvation

[sonandheirofnothinginparticular]

[pilferingapples]

MAY ALL YOUR OBSTACLES COLLAPSE IN THE YEAR TO COME LIKE UNTO A GIANT STRAW GOAT IN THE WIND

[transboysgetknives]

"fuck it we ball" (shaking from the sleep deprivation, wild eyed, hallucinating, dehydrated, on the verge of insanity)

[amanitahouses]

it's not optional

[luulapants]

Got into a discussion about emergency response at a professional retreat recently and everyone was going on and on about agility, and I was like, "Okay but what about contingency?"

And they were like "What?"

And I was like, "Agility isn't the ultimate form of preparedness. Contingency is. Agility still requires you to flounder and figure out a solution in the moment, but if you have a contingency plan, all you have to do is implement it."

And they were like "But you can't make contingency plans for every situation!"

And I was like, "Yeah, you basically can if you just identify all of your basic dependencies and contingency plan around the loss of any dependency," and then I gave a few examples.

And they all stared at me like I'm an alien.

Anyway, that's how I figured out I'm Batman-coded and also learned how Batman must feel talking to supposedly professional superheroes who never bothered to run disaster scenarios until I pointed out that it's insane that they don't already have a plan for if Superman turns evil.

[ymutate]

Untitled, 'Not defined by what I lack (2023), one of the surreal images from the inner world of Russian painter, performance artist, and photographer, Ellen Sheidlin (née Elena Viktorovna Lyalina in 1994)

[orchid-purple]