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[greet-the-bloodless-dawn]

shadowheart talks a lot of shit but in her first romance scene, she is so shy about wanting to get kissed that the pc has to make a passive insight check. and she disapproves by 5 if they don't get it. she's so funny i adore her

[kirbymybeloved]

I can't believe my dislike for romantic gestures was just aromanticism the whole time

[rackartyg]

amazing things happening on r/butchlesbians right now: a post with a poem that mentioned trans man lesbians got removed for transphobia, which eventually led to the subreddit moderator responsible for the removal, a trans woman, saying that the term transmisogyny is “extremely transphobic” because it implies trans and cis women have “inherently different life experiences”

[warpolomewdarkmatter]

my preview to the super awesome blosc fashion zine!! https://pythonmelon.itch.io/star-command-catwalk it was so nice to get a chance to draw warp hihi. go check my full pic + everyones contribution out! its FREE!!!

[dcuquarantinezone]

clark holding a sleeping infant jon in his arms and having the thought, i have no idea how my biological parents ever put me on that ship alone and also at the same time, i know exactly how my parents put me on that ship alone

[ottosuwuen]

You know what's the funniest thing about arc 7-8 to me?

It's revealed that Vincent has never bedded a woman nor had children.

When the rumors of Vincent's illegitimate son spread, Chisha, Vincent's closest servant since their teenage years, who spent quite a lot of time with him, refuses to believe them, and acts defensive when Berstetz suggests that there may be things about Vincent that Chisha doesn't know. After all, Vincent always made sure to never even share a bedroom with a woman so that no one could create such rumors. There's no way Vincent could have had children without Chisha knowing.

Serena, who has unsuccessfully tried seducing Vincent before, explicitly mentions the possibility of his being gay to his face, even though she already knows the reason is something else. Vincent doesn't deny that (nor react to it in any way for that matter), by the way.

Only 3-4 chapters after that conversation with Serena happens, we're shown Chisha's backstory and motives. Surprise, what we thought was betrayal at first is actually part of a secret, elaborate plan to save Vincent from his prophesied death. They face each other "at a distance so close their eyelashes could touch" right before Chisha sacrifices himself while gazing one last time at his beloved liege with a "decadent smile" on his lips.

"Why?" Vincent asks the corpse more than once, well aware that it won't reply. This is Vincent, the man who'd rather keep his mouth shut if he has nothing useful to say. And what's more useless than directing a question to a corpse?

Later, Vincent, on the verge of a breakdown, asks Subaru, whom he suspects to be a Stargazer, why he let Chisha die instead of him. Vincent had accepted his death. But that's not what Chisha wanted. "He was angry that fate intended to kill you, and also angry at you for surrendering to fate." Now it's Vincent's turn to stand up to fate. That's what Chisha would've loved to see.

Then Tappei introduces an arranged marriage plot between Vincent and Medium to pretend he didn't just write the gayest thing in Re:Zero.

[the-air-itself-rent-asunder]

i don't think all of fen'harel's poor reputation is propaganda. consider how opaquely he structured his faction: "you have already divided your group's membership. that is wise. no one cell can betray all your secrets." he tells an inquisitor who accuses him of having given up, "you do not win a war by fighting to the death in every battle. pick the fights you can win, remember your goals, and do nothing that does not further them."

"fen'harel is said to have never been particularly fond of the elven people, only interacting with them for sport and imparting dark wisdom as the whim took him."

even sans propaganda, i'll bet that's exactly how a desperately outmatched, secretive, burnt-out, big picture revolutionary, said to be a god, comes across to the common man.

[lexicalizer]

Formerly @combat-epistemologist; my account was deactivated for no reason apparent to me after more years on here than I’d care to admit. Feel free to follow for literally any reason but particularly if we were previously mutuals. I will also be remaking my gardening shitposting sideblog, @meta-sequoia, as @object-level-sequoia.

Hopefully this is temporary and I can get my former account back, particularly since I assume @staff would like to continue to accept my money, in the format of my presumably-also-discontinued Tumblr Premium. (Pretty funny, actually. In Soviet Russia, subscription cancels you!)