#appreciation post

[lilawritesangst]

As much as I enjoy a ship focused fanfic, can we please appreciate the plot driven fics. Seriously. I’ve read some of the most passionate, beautiful fics purely made for the plot and they need more credit form the fanfic community <3

[this-is-antiarab]

We see a lot of queer arab erasure, almost as if we don’t exist. Not only are we hated and murdered within our own countries for being different, but we are also invisible and forgotten in our own communities.

So this is an appreciation posts to all the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, questioning, intersex and A-spectrum Arabs! And lets not forget our non-binary cousins You aren’t forgotten!

Sincerely, someone who has also experienced said erasure (achillean gay) ^^

[phmthoughts]

So i know that first contact jumpscare was fun and tonally totally appropriate for the scary dark tunnel moment and the genre (even if just to play with us the audience, since ultimately this is not that kind of movie). But I also like to think it had a narrative / character purpose / meaning - either Rocky was so damn excited and eager (and maybe desperate) that he couldn't contain himself and just wailed on the xenoglass way too hard before he got himself under control, or maybe he wasn't sure how good Grace's hearing was (especially since his side wasn't pressurized) so he wanted to make damn sure Grace would hear him and know he was there. The only gripe I have is the screeching noise - that does not seem like a sound Rocky would make, based on everything we hear from him in the rest of the film. BUT - maybe it is the sound Grace's American-cultured sci-fi-filled brain interpolates for that moment? Anyway, it's a fun and effective moment and I love that he immediately goes right back to the xenoglass as soon as he gathers himself. And I LOVE that Rocky is so gentle the second time - he's like "oh shit I scared the alien I didn't mean to crap crap crap be gentle be gentle". What a great moment that fleshes out both their characters' personalities without even a word.

[savagesnikt]

Why is he so pretty 😭😭😭😭😭

[that1ceilingfan]

Can we all disconnect sex from always having a romantic connection tied to it

I'm super fucking sure we owe that to our aroallo fellas

If friends want to have sex , let them for fucks sake , they can still be friends . There's nothing wrong with that , and it's actually incredibly great you trust them to do that with you !!!

If it's just a sexual relationship then let it be just sexual . No need to slutshame anyone for wanting a basic need every single species that reproduces like we do has (the intensity varies depending on person of course !!) in form of a relationship

A lot of people also think "relationship" always has a romantic connection to it . No !!!! "Relationship" can be platonic , family , sexual and so many more !!!! Let's not water it down to one use

We owe that to our aroallo fellas

[daughtersofc6in]

adrian chase’s neck appreciation post

[wildhorizon]

One thing I appreciate a lot about Wild Kratts is the lack of toxic masculinity. 

Both Bros seem perfectly comfortable wearing female creature power suits (like in the kangaroo episode where Chris used a pouch which only female roos have, in the bird of paradise episode where Martin was a female Lawes Parotia bc all the males were gone, in the mudskipper episode where Martin pretended to be a female mudskipper to get into a male’s burrow, in the opossum episode they had pouches which only female opossums have, etc.)

In the aardvark episode when Aviva was starting to work on an aardvark power suit, she jokingly said the bros were gonna have the most gorgeous nails around, and Martin said “Gorgeous nails? Don’t you mean digging power?”, but he didn’t seem offended, cus he was still smiling, and Chris didn’t even react at all.

↑”Don’t you mean digging power?”

In the osprey episode Chris was trying to touch a hummingbird, but tripped over some potted plants and ended up getting flowers in his hair, which attracted the hummingbird, and he seemed to be perfectly fine with that. He even laughed and said “Perfect!”

The Bros will put their arms around each other, climb on each other, and will physically comfort each other when they’re sad with no judgement. They even slept on each other in the monarch butterfly episode. They have no reservations about physical affection.

They can be very soft and gentle towards animals, like how Martin cared for Plato the platypus and Chris for Gabby the chimpanzee.

The only instance of even a whiff of toxic masculinity I ever remember seeing was in the zebra episode when Aviva said she wanted to make their crew jackets pink and the Bros didn’t like that idea. However, they seem to grow out of this eventually as a few seasons later Martin wore a pink bandana in the Aya-Aye episode, and then later both he and Chris were very excited to be pink as a flamingo and even fought over who got to use the single disk.

↑”So you’re using stripes and pink?”

“I can’t remember the last time I wore pink.”

“I can. Never!”

(in Spongebob narrator voice) A few seasons later:

”I’m pink, you’re pink, we’re all pink! Pink, pink, pink, pink, pink!”

↑Now that’s what I call character development, lol.

They don’t make fun of or look down on “girly” things, because they don’t see being “girly” as a bad thing. They don’t feel threatened by traditionally feminine things, because they know that they don’t have to present masculinity all the time. They are men, and having a flower in their hair or wearing pink won’t change that. Even when they transform into female animals, they still feel fully secure in who they are, because they know that their identity is not dependent on what they look like. You don’t have to “prove” who you are. 

This is healthy masculinity. And I love it.