Sometimes I Pretend To Be Normal

F/Finland 🏳️‍🌈

[jeaniefranklins]

Sex scene as character study is so good. What is your relationship to your body? What is your relationship to your partner? What lessons have you absorbed from the culture about yourself as a sexual being? How much do you have to trust someone before being comfortable with intimacy? What fears and insecurities come to the fore for you when you take your clothes off? It's so good.

[susiephone]

obsessed with characters who snapped because their circumstances were so fucked that losing it was literally the sanest response

[theconcealedweapon]

[sawed-on-shotgun]

people say twink like they wanna say faggot a lot im noticing

[guiltfactory]

most of the best yaoi is written by sadistic lesbians

[guiltfactory]

or straight men who don't know they're writing yaoi

[sighinastorm]

Fascinating. Who writes the best yuri?

[guiltfactory]

also sadistic lesbians

[guiltfactory]

most of the best yaoi is written by sadistic lesbians

[guiltfactory]

or straight men who don't know they're writing yaoi

[sighinastorm]

Fascinating. Who writes the best yuri?

[guiltfactory]

also sadistic lesbians

[happilyhadesbound]

underrated ship dynamic is 'they deserve each other /derogatory'

[thesluts2004]

don’t care didn’t ask + you’ve projected onto this character to the point that your characterisation is unrecognisable to the source material

[fluencca]

and it shuts down any further conversation. Your projection is so powerful that any criticism of the character at that point becomes "so you think that about me????" and any differing analysis becomes "so you think I shouldn't exist as a person?????" and man. I'm too tired to hold your hand through that crisis. Go away.

[kuttenberg-gauntlets]

true love for The Character shows itself when you imagine them suicidal with grief

[mikkeneko]

Y'know, one of the things I like about Tumblr compared to other social media sites is that old content is still in circulation. Which means that however much AI generated content is out there, at least I can glance at a post's timestamp and conclude that the cute cat video from 2017 is unlikely to be fake

[darkspaceboytoy]

Incredibly violent take of mine but I actually don’t think you need to relate to a story in any way to enjoy it. You can enjoy a story even if you can’t point at a character and insert some aspect of your personality or identity into them. In fact I would argue the need for a character like that to be present in every single story you experience is a sign of stunted growth.

[buddie-romance]

thank you ao3 for being an archive and not an algorithm. thank you for letting me like things without consequences, thank you for being free with no ads, thank you for having lawyers to defend our freedom of speech. thank you tag wranglers. thank you to all authors and thank you ao3

[fishgummy]

this made me laugh so hard i started coughing

[ch4nn3l4st4tic]

[therisingking]

[gaytanic-panic]

[inthefallofasparrow]

Love the fact that in any other time period or country, a presidential assassination attempt is constant headline news worldwide, but at this point it's like, "oh, someone took another shot at trump? ... he dead?... no, then why are you bothering me?... Let me know when he's dead."

[maidenvault]

Not “Only my reading of canon is correct” or “Interpretations are subjective and all valid” but a secret third thing, “More than one interpretation can be valid but there’s a reason your English teacher had you cite quotes and examples in your papers, you have to have a strong argument that your interpretation is actually supported by the text or it is just wrong and I’m fine with telling you it’s wrong, actually.”

[mooncustafer]

If the text says the curtains are blue you can argue about what that means; but if you’re going to claim they’re actually yellow you’d better have a really good argument.

[xwilltruman]

i know the curtains better than the author. thank you for coming to my ted talk

[maidenvault]

Fandom has such unresolved mommy/daddy issues about authors. If you apply a little reading comprehension skills to my original post you’ll see I didn’t say anything at all about the author. You guys always make “interpretation” about your beef with the author. You’re all obsessed with the author. This post is just about deciphering what is there in canon. Figuring out what is being communicated by the canon itself with all the words and images and basic formal elements that are there in canon. That’s all it’s about. It really doesn’t matter if the author intentionally put all those things there in a pattern that might support the idea that this one character’s queer. That’s not what this is about. What matters is if you can compellingly argue there’s a pattern of evidence there. Or not. Everyone is conspiring together to make me go insane still adding shit about authorial intent on my post.