ThatBigWitchBitch

Ignore me I’m psychotic (I am an adult, go away small children, they/she/he/zhey/fuck/it/any/all/what/ever) also. I draw. I write. I crochet. I bead. I enjoy fandom. And I have opinions. Behold, the rolling hills of fucks I give about random shit.

[sharkfiinn]

artfight attack on @twiggyart6 's eridian grace design :)

[aughtpunk]

To Observe Soft Flesh - By AughtPunk

While waiting for her mate to return Adrian spends her days studying the various soft flesh creatures on Erid. It's her job, her passion, and is almost enough to fill the emptiness that's been lurking inside her for over forty years. But during a normal day out in the field Erid government agents whisk her away to help solve a problem of theirs: A strange soft flesh being from another world that's missing an arm and clearly dying. What starts as what can best be described as a 'mild kidnapping' turns into so much more as Adrian decides that studying this strange alien creature also means befriending it. Assuming it wants to be befriended.

Chapter Twenty-seven: In Which Adrian Is Rather Busy With Rocky

Good news guys! After two doctors, a bunch of blood tests, and a WHOLE LOTTA STEROIDS my blood has been declared good enough to not have to go back to the hospital! So let's celebrate with Simon being unable to escape his fate of being a future Twitch Streamer.

Grace has a worse time of it.

Mind the new tags, my dears.

[so1987-deactivated20230102]

who’s gonna tell tumblr that executive dysfunction is more than Not Doing Things?

[so1987-deactivated20230102]

okay

these are the executive functions. impairment of these functions is executive dysfunction

[dailypattondoodles]

Oh.

OH

[lurlur]

Girl, help. None of my executives are functioning

[pris-cas]

Lesson #19 Throw pt.2

Cause pt. 1 was kinda eh here is another

Credit to whomever came out with shaded stick figure Rocky I couldn’t find the og creator

First lesson Previous lesson Next lesson

Thank you to my awsome beta readers!

@xushibeetle

@the-asexual-winter

@stelosia

[chernozemm]

Grace Rocky save stars. Grace Rocky explore each other's bodies for science.

[apricops]

'disembowel' is such a good word. y'know your bowels? they are GONE

[the-haiku-bot]

‘disembowel’ is

such a good word. y'know your

bowels? they are GONE

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[argumate]

you can visualise ye olde homophobic masculinity as a linear spectrum ranging from “men” to “fags”, with Arnold Schwarzenegger types at one extreme and lisping limp wristed queers at the other, but even then it wasn’t that simple was it, you didn’t have to be gay to be a fag and you certainly didn’t need to be straight to be a bodybuilder!

the official acceptance of homosexuality in modern times both complicates and simplifies this masculine spectrum, bending it into a horseshoe where the two ends are now alpha straight and alpha gay, two muscular bros clasping hands and offering respectful brojobs in jocular solidarity, while the slumped middle of the horseshoe collects the beta cucks, the simps, the soyboys, the incels, the gender nonconformists who don’t quite make it work and the gays who aren’t hot enough for grindr.

the whole thing is still fake as hell of course, where does Bill Gates fit on this horseshoe? who separates the based from the autists? does it really make sense to describe a financially secure man with a wife and two kids as a sexually unsuccessful soyboy simply because he owns a Nintendo Switch? would it be better or worse if he owned a PS4? and is irony more manly than sincerity, or merely a pathetic attempt at compensating for low testosterone? the sages still ruminate upon these mysteries.

[argumate]

back in the day where you could put an oiled up bodybuilder in a leather bikini and say this is what a straight man should look like!

[who-canceled-roger-rabbit]

Currently trying to spin a thesis about the elevation of Freddie Mercury above Justin Bieber among (heavily male) nostalgia geeks and memebros in the early 2010s, and what that says about men preferring homosocial masculine signaling and hating men who appeal to female audiences

Like. Ten to fifteen years ago, back when I was a teenager, my first association with Queen (beyond “shit they play at sporting events at pep rallies”) was NOT “campy dad rock icons beloved by gay people” but rather “sophisticated dad rock icons beloved by nostalgic chauvinists who like to dunk on Justin Bieber by insisting Freddie was so much more talented and manly”

[who-canceled-roger-rabbit]

Additional thoughts:

What did dudebros back in the ‘70s and ‘80s think of Queen? Okay, I know Freddie came in for a bit of homophobic ribbing in pop culture (I would say “biphobic” but I doubt people making these jokes had even heard of bisexuality), and there was a sense in the ‘80s that Queen was past their prime (even though Freddie’s stache in the ‘80s turned out to be one of his most enduring looks, in retrospect). But did guys like to dunk on Queen the way they would later dunk on Justin Bieber and One Direction?

I wonder how much of the laser-focused hate for Justin Bieber and One Direction in particular came from a place of jealousy among straight men? Same reason they bashed the Twilight Saga so hard.

[argumate]

I feel like the ‘80s equivalent of dunking on One Direction would be dunking on Wham!

[failure-artist]

actually “bodybuilders are gay” is as old as the 1960s

[who-canceled-roger-rabbit]

Also the difference with Wham! is that I’m pretty sure George Michael was gay, whereas when I mentioned the Biebs and 1D (and the guys from Twilight), I was talking about how men will often view straight male celebrities beloved by female audiences as “gayer” than, like, Freddie Mercury, or a bodybuilder who fucks dudes

[who-canceled-roger-rabbit]

Though wait, have Bieber or any of the 1D guys come out as queer? I don’t keep up with the celebrity gossip, at least not about those guys in particular.

For that matter, did any of the Twilight guys come out? I mean, come on, starring in The Lighthouse has gotta come for SOMETHING.

[argumate]

George Michael wasn’t out in the Wham! days, ironically Harry Styles of One Direction “has been repeatedly asked about his sexual orientation in interviews since he was 19 years old”, damn.

[who-canceled-roger-rabbit]

Another interesting case to consider here is David Bowie, who

was famous for his androgynous aesthetic and bicuriosity (not sure whether I should say “bisexuality”; he repeatedly flipflopped on the matter)

definitely leaned more toward women (and, infamously, the occasional underage girl—as has unfortunately been the case for a lot of famous guys, especially back in the ‘70s at the peak of Bowie’s career)

was considered a heartthrob among straight female audiences AND considered cool among male audiences

It’s also interesting to compare Twilight to Labyrinth; the latter is at least as much of a Toxic Supernatural Romantic Fantasy for straight women as Twilight is (complete with the whole “immortal prettyboy stalks teen protagonist whose actress can’t emote when given such hokey dialogue to work with” setup), but if you were a(n ostensibly) straight guy in the late ‘00s or early ‘10s and you mentioned liking Labyrinth, I doubt the other guys would laugh you out of the room like they would if you mentioned liking Twilight.

I figure the saving grace with Labyrinth would be that it a) was associated with other cool things like Henson’s impressive practical effects and the aforementioned Bowie, and b) had acquired a nostalgic quality by the time the Twilight Saga got big. Apparently the reception was a lot more mixed when Labyrinth first came out, though I have no idea whether het dudebros in particular wrote it off as girly fluff the way they did with Twilight.

Disclaimer: I had barely heard of Labyrinth when Twilightmania was at its height, so my impression of Labyrinth’s reputation in the late ‘00s and early ‘10s could easily be mistaken!

[argumate]

perhaps young straight guys could watch Labyrinth because Jennifer Connelly was hot and vivacious and Bowie was (tamely) predatory, while I feel that in Twilight (which I still haven’t actually seen in entirety yet it seems incredibly familiar) they were attempting to frame Kristen Stewart as a blank canvas for hot guys to pose against.

[centrally-unplanned]

I feel like you can’t have this discourse without some level of the “reality” coming in a bit - David Bowie didn’t get bashed as much as Justin Bieber because he is way cooler and more talented than Justin Bieber is (or was at the teeny-bop phase we are discussing here, I have no clue what he is doing today). Bowie certainly did get bashed, but between that bashing was an at-minimum grudging respect for man of obvious musical talent & stylistic creativity. Meanwhile, unless you are the target demo for Beiber or OD - they suck. Their music is derivative and basic, their ~vibe is cookie-cutter, etc. I am not making some grand claim to objectivity here btw, you can totally like them - the point is just that most people don’t.

Twilight has a similar dynamic going on - the books are not that bad, they are not the sin-against-literature that they were portrayed as in the years when The Harry Potter Fandom thought they were Way Cooler than the Twilight dorks (yikes on that one guys). But they are still quite bad! They are not even good for their genre; Bella is boring and difficult to relate to, Edward’s drama is cardboard-levels of uncompelling, there are like grammar errors and weird sentence structures all over the place like what were these books even edited? All of this just made it very easy to make fun of. You can’t make fun of the Hunger Games like this! Those are competent books, there just isn’t a lot of jokes to be found.

None of this is contradicting any of the above; I would be writing the above posts if y'all didn’t already! It is also true that people weaponized the “soft” aesthetic of boybands to make gay jokes out of kneejerk hostility to deviant masculinity, or that the jokes about Twilight came in part out of a generalized disdain for the desires of feminine teen girls. But you know what? People also disdain the desires of teen guys! And alt girls! And middle-aged men! I could list a million tv shows or whatever taking the piss out of every single one of those demos. In the 2000’s people did not need an excuse to call you a little gayboy. They called everything that.

But Twilight or w/e was compelling to make fun of in a way David Bowie was not because its popularity was completely out of whack from its quality. This is why, when boys started bashing Twilight or One Direction as simp nonsense, the alt nerd girls joined in. Yeah yeah internalized misogyny nerd culture dynamics etc etc; but those girls would never bash Sylvia Plath just to be Part Of The Guys in the same way. They just authentically did not like these pieces of media, and definitely did not like the “implications” of this media being “for them”. Because it was bad.

(Also Labyrinth was a box office bomb, I don’t think we need to explain why watching it was okay? No one did! And ofc watching it as a campy, retro cult classic just is not the same thing as watching something as the brand new hotness.

But I do agree that the way it is a film “for girls” plays very second fiddle to the way it is a silly adventure movie with good-looking muppets, so it isn’t going to invoke the same issue)

[argumate]

*nodding* because it was bad (although now I feel remiss for not bringing up the way young men wanted to fight Elvis at every town he played at, kontextmaschine would have mentioned that, peace be upon him).

[centrally-unplanned]

The English language needs a way to express “rough boys in leather jackets want to fight you in every town (complimentary)” and “"rough boys in leather jackets want to fight you in every town (derogatory)” in a single word-pair - they are related but still distinct phenomenon!

[argumate]

fellas why do you, a man, want to give another pretty man a sweaty pounding, etc.

[torstherapy]

[jiiin22]

the bravest human

[thatbigwitchbitch]

Aaaaarrrgggghhh PLEASE- did you at least kiss the brick before you threw it?

I’m crying

[clowns-ofthesame-circus]

so many people irl are so anti furry and therian. i’ve heard so many people say “ewww they identify as a wolf!! that’s so weird” without any second thought. and it’s like. are they hurting anyone? no? of course they aren’t. now let’s find an actual bone to pick, lord knows we have enough of them.

[thatbigwitchbitch]

Wrote a poem called “why I don’t hate furries” and it was literally just “furries haven’t done (insert things people in the church/the church at large have done to me/people in my communities)” without ever explicitly saying “I hate churches far, far more than furries” but like. It’s very obvious that’s exactly what I’m saying. I can share it if you’d like. I’d have to go digging tho so I won’t if nobody cares but if anyone wants it I’ll gladly go lookin for it :)

Anyway furries are legit cool people and not once has a furry told me I’ll rot in hell so. Yeah pretty chill folks if I’m being honest

[bi-files]

I’m a patron of the arts (I leave nice comments on aO3).

[byler-alarmist]

I'm a patron of the arts (I reblog on Tumblr dot com)

[howling-wizard2]

carnivore on carnivore ccomfort

[jaybjrd]

stupid shitty grace rocky pride comic

~~ ignore that i posted this 4 days after pride ended ~~

[masao-micchi]

side effect of watching james cameron’s avatar and sharing one very smart brain cell.

no touching happened that day bahaHAHA

My other PHM art here

[hailmarysuggest]

Okay so none of this is blatantly stated but implicated in the movie, but when Grace mentioned something about the weather in his dome, Rocky said he’d contact Adrian and ask them to adjust that.

So it’s clear that Adrian is part of the teams working to keep Grace alive.

But. What if Adrian is on this team because he was already a part of a bigger team working on domes across the planet to protect the live that Erid has with their dimming star making the world colder.

What if Grace wasn’t some special one-time dome user and there are so many towns and nature preserves locked away in these controlled domes to keep the contents safe and cared for.

Rocky saves the stars. Adrian saves Erid. Grace saves the stars and Rocky, Rocky saves Grace and brings him home, Adrian keeps their partner and pet alien safe and happy and cared for in the same way he’s been caring for their planet for over four hundred Eridian years now.

Adrian saves the world too, I think.

[walmartnoodle]

Wdym you hate Stratt? Without her you don’t get a story

[its-too-many-fandoms]

Omg I love this piece. Grace the hanging man, content with his life but cannot avoid the changes coming; the ship his noose, the rope that binds him to his fate; the blood red stars beside him, Olesya and Yáo the angels haunting him in the background. Eva Stratt, the one who holds it all on her back, the world is literally on her shoulders, the Petrova line on her neck. She will not falter, cannot afford to move, and yet still she glares at us. Eva challenges us, daring us to ask if we could do better, if we could hold her burden for even a fraction of the time.

Eve, the mother of sin, who held the world in her hands and was cursed for not knowing.

Eva, director of the task force, who now holds the world, and still must curse man to save it.

In the end, it always falls on a woman. I could never hate you Eva Stratt

[buy-more-oranges]

I don't know what this is