#again jic

[scruffedknife]

Cough, have you drawn box x suitcase ii (boxcase)

^ this one from last night (design by friend)

and a quick one for ya !

[infizero]

Opinions on c!dream being jealous towards c!tubbo cause of his relationship/closeness towards Tommy? I think it’s pretty interesting to explore but what do you think?:3

huh that's an interesting thought. i don't think jealous is the term i'd use cause that implies that c!dream desires that closeness and i personally don't think that's the case. dream doesn't want to be friends with tommy or be close to him in a normal way like that, he wants tommy to be like. his weird little pet thing. i've said this before but although im vehement on there being a romantic/sexual element to his obsession with tommy (and as i was alluding to in some of my recent posts, Has unfortunately acted upon) it's purely a power thing for him. i mean i think he might be attracted to tommy physically at least somewhat but none of his treatment of him stems from a "normal" desire to be close, he just wants control over him and physical intimacy is just another way to do that for him

i dont think he views tubbo as someone to be jealous of, but more of just an annoyance. as he makes clear in the disc finale, tubbo is nothing but a pawn to him. dream does not care about him at all and does not take him seriously in the slightest. the only purpose tubbo serves to him is getting to tommy, or otherwise manipulating him for his own benefit.

so i don't think dream rlly thinks about tubbo much at all honestly, outside of Plotting or whatever. obviously he very deliberately drove a wedge between tommy and tubbo but i think that came from just his general goal of isolating tommy from Everyone rather than specifically because he didnt like tubbo being close with tommy. that and this: (hate to use a tweet from cc!dream but it's good insight into c!dream's character)

he enjoyed making tubbo exile tommy because it hurt tommy so much more, gave him a scapegoat to shift the blame to when manipulating tommy, AND ruining their friendship gave him that thrill from being able to manipulate others and basically do whatever he wanted. (their relationship changed so drastically all because of him)

so yea i guess in conclusion i dont see him as being Jealous of tubbo but rather just seeing him as like. a mildly annoying bug he needs to squash. something to use as leverage against tommy, and then throw away when he's outlived his usefulness. tubbo only exists as an extension of tommy in dream's mind so i don't think he'd even consider him as someone to BE jealous of. he views him as so weak and easily controlled that he's not even a threat in his mind. and also just again i don't see dream as really feeling "jealousy" towards others when it comes to tommy. annoyance for getting in the way of his plans maybe, but not that desire to be in their shoes.

i was kinda talking mainly about s1 and s2 here but same thing goes for everything beyond that. by the time he's in the prison and then out he's gotten even Worse and even more Solely fixated on tommy, so his attitude of viewing other people only as tools or obstacles in the way of that only got worse as well

[wereh0gz]

Actually while we're on the subject of terfs

As an afab person, who grew up as a girl and only started identifying as genderqueer relatively recently

What the fuck is the 'girlhood' and 'womanhood' they're so adamant in defending supposed to be?

Because I grew up supposedly knowing, intrinsically, what that is. But all I got is that women are just ppl who wear certain clothes and makeup, and have boobies and a uterus and periods (some 'biological' women don't but y'know it's something I was taught Every woman has). Women are supposed to marry a man and have kids and stay in the house. They can choose to not do that, but they will for sure be gossiped about and be pressured into doing it anyway. Among other things, many of them worse.

But that isn't exactly all there is to being a woman, is it?

Is womanhood really JUST being female? Is it just having periods and cramps? Is it just being able to have babies? I never got cramps with my periods, and I've never wanted to have babies. Does that make me any less of a woman? Does that make any woman who physically can't get pregnant or doesn't get periods for whatever reason any less of a woman? What about intersex women? (Also, I thought we Didn't want to be defined solely based on our genitalia?)

Is it a set of experiences? So many women have different lived experiences depending on how or where they were raised, and in what culture and religion they grew up with. A latina woman will have very different experiences with womanhood from a white woman, or a muslim woman, or an asian woman, or an african woman. And that's not going into the variance Within any of those categories, and within any subcategories from those categories. There may be similarities, but women's experiences aren't a monolith.

Is it just a set of expectations? Stuff forced upon you based on what parts you have? Cos that just sounds like a chore! And there's no One set of expectations, just as with experiences. There's isn't a monolith here either.

Is it... an innate feeling?

If it is, then I must not be a woman because I don't know what that feels like.

Honestly, I only ever thought of myself as a girl because that's what I was told. I didn't really question it until recently. To me it just felt like being a girl or a woman was just a label put on you based on what parts you have, and a bunch of rules that don't really make sense.

It felt like a performance, one that I wasn't very connected to, nor did I want to take part in, really.

My point is, it's literally impossible for girlhood and womanhood to be defined as just one thing. It's more like a giant umbrella encompassing millions of different experiences that have some similarities. It's a little bit of everything I just talked about.

So, with womanhood encompassing so much, why can't trans people be a part of that too?

What is it with this obsession with giving an inherently fluid concept such rigid definitions that end up excluding the very people they're trying to protect?

I don't know, it's just confusing.

[kos-mos]

trying to kiss for the first time is already hard, it's extra hard when you got a big dragon snoot

[bubbleheadnurse-remaking]

If you have something like vomit/guts/whatever in your url I think you should be arrested

[missbrunettebarbie]

Maybe it's been too long since I've read Nothing but Shadows (James is a pretty annoying narrator there, so that's why I don't feel like going to search for it and reread it), but everyone is being way more chill with Alastair than I would have been.

Especially Thomas. Like, yeah, Alastair can't bully you anymore and he does seem like a decent person when he is not actively bullying you, but wasn't he also the ringleader behind a prank that got someone killed? (And could have gotten a lot more someones killed in other circumstances). He's the equivalent of a school shooter's enabler to me, with his one saving grace being 'I didn't think anyone would really be hurt'.

[karnakas]

[lexicals]

Meanest but funniest thing I like to do in this game is fire an arrow in between where you get the zonai mech and moblin camps next to each other and then watch them fight to the death before coming in to finish off the winner ^^