veeples

30s • they/them butch lesbian • fan shit

[veeples]

hey so this is my *new* veeples blog!

short story: i think i got sh*dowb*nned there (for some reason), so here we are. the old veeples blog, @veeples-archive is there, but i won't be interacting from there. otherwise, not much will change.

i'll make a better pinned post later, but for now this will do! my main is still @veeteeshirt so i like/follow from there. i have an OC blog @gildedlover. i also have an old art blog i'll revamp one day!

[veeples]

i'm bored i'm gonna think about halyse neck kisses

[horrorlesbians]

I wanna start an argument- can you be a fan of a video game if you’ve never actually played it yourself?

no

yes

boring nuance button

Remaining time: 20 hours 34 minutes

[moodymoody]

she got a soft belly and soft titties and soft thighs and a soft ass and a soft heart

[shivapvoid]

since a certain someone seems convinced that there are absolutely no queer creators in this fandom, prove him wrong by promoting yourself in reblogs <3 ill go first - i'm a trans nb aroace artist that draws mostly my wol and fanart, and i have an ongoing webcomic for my wolcanon as well, but it's updating very slowly i fear...! here's my ko-fi and vgen!

here's some recent art i've done:

[ofdarklands]

hello. i come from the gender-is-not-my-thing department. i draw dis cat:

i do commissions, and also have some prints that might interest ff14 fans

[lilas]

hi hello :)

I fell out of drawing but sloooowwly getting back on the wagon

I am not taking comms and I don’t sell prints. Just chilling and exorcising the demons visions from my head

[w0nderland42]

i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is “international” pride month just because something happened in the united states.

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1986. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

anyway, happy pride, americans. i’m truly sorry that most of you don’t see the negative impact your nation’s culture has on the rest of the world. and to the rest of the world reading this, try searching for your own country and culture’s queer history, don’t accept the american narratives as your own. we deserve our own histories divorced from the cultural hegemony of the USA.

[anneapocalypse]

I love bisexual fans and bisexual characters and bisexual OCs and bisexual headcanons and bisexual ships and bisexual stories and bisexual friends and bisexual art and being bisexual. 💙💜💗

[lilas]

Anyway

What’s your favorite queer headcanon about your WoL or any NPCs? (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

ALL queer interpretations welcome! ( ˘ ³˘)♥

[nights-at-crystarium]

hey i just want to say i find it so wonderful and relieving when other xiv fans also see emet selch as a gay man. from the very first moment he walked on screen, the energy of “bitter old Hollywood theater queen” was so strong and such blatant coding i never even had to consciously think about it, it was just a given. but lo and behold, i got into the fandom after catching up on the story, and found much to my shock that TONS of people are shipping him with their female wols??? i allow that fans in japan (and maybe other places, idk) might see him differently because the cultural tells for queerness are totally different there, but i have to raise my eyebrows at the americans playing the english version and still missing it. he’s literally an aging theater enthusiast in a fur-lined robe who quotes Lauren Bacall and wears noticeable makeup, whose signature body language is either a snap or a limp-wristed wave over the shoulder, and they’re somehow seeing someone who might like women? i just have to laugh. and yes, insert mandatory caveat that it isn’t that serious and there’s nothing wrong with how they’re playing barbies, but at the same time i genuinely don’t get how they aren’t seeing it. which is an extremely long winded way to say, thank you for seeing the obvious with me. i don’t necessarily expect you to publish this because it IS kind of swinging a bat at a hornet’s nest and i doubt you want that kind of attention, but i just want you to know some of us also get it. happy pride 🏳️‍🌈

Signing under every word. I hate to admit that I have to tone myself down and hold back on talking about something I have extremely strong, bottled up feelings about, just hope one day I grow "big" enough to stop giving a shit, and finally speak my heart out. For now keeping on my gay grind and trying to gather more people that agree with the above.

And sure, I'll post it. It's tumblr, so I expect people to behave, but my block button's ready anyway.

Fandom (in general, fandom spaces) used to be the pink people in this comic. It used to be predominantly queer before 2020s. I used to feel safe and at home. Then this happened. I still could not make my peace with it.

[birues]

Hey so. I am speaking as a bi brown person from west asia (since anon is so sure everyone is american here), this is incredibly saddening disappointing to see an artist i have admired and followed for so long to engage with such blantant biphobia.

This is not me saying headcanoning him as gay is invalid. Quite the opposite. His sexuality is a blank page that we can fill out like most of other ffxiv npcs. I do follow many artists who headcanon him as gay and i cheer for them. I have just reblogged your art of them as I do quite often. I follow fragments. His portrayal as a queer person is important to me whether as a gay, bi and/or trans person, I celebrate it all. But your claims here are quite problematic on two fronts:

implying emet can only be queer by the virtue of being gay and therefore bisexuality is not a valid headcanon for him

implying that both gay and bi men has to act "visibly queer enough" to be accepted as queer (as if flamboyant theatratical make-up wearing villain can't be bi as well)

implying there aren't people who ship him with hyth AND fem wol/azem at once

implying bi4bi m/f couples are basically same as het couples and our bisexuality is only valid when we date the same gender

Everyday i have to face with a very homophobic society irl and it is very tiring and dangerous for us here. Our rights and freedom is being taken away if our existence is not a crime already. Then i log into tumblr, thinking that i am accepted and safe in ffxiv community, and then I see this absolute bullshit from fellow queer folks who should be walking by my side. Homophobes are spewing poison at us for headcanoning him as bi, y'all are saying "if you hc him as bi, you're basically homophobic." at us. And let me tell you, my fellow queer people's hatred hurts a lot worse. Because it is a betrayal.

We are both pink ones but you are pushing us out, you have the audacity to categorize us as the same as straight homophobes in the fandom, you're denying our bisexuality, acting like we, bi folks are grey ones. And then you're doing this in Pride Month.

If you can't extend basic decency to your fellow queers and if you make them feel unsafe and unwelcomed, well. You should be ashamed of yourself.

[eesirachs]

summer reading list—unconventional critical religious theory

catherine keller; face of the deep

minnie khumalo; "judges 19 and non-con: sado-kantian aesthetics of violence in the tale of an unnamed woman," in rape culture and religious studies

griselda pollock; "femininity: aporia or difference," in the matrixial borderspace

monica r. miller, "i am a nappy-headed ho: (re)signifying 'deviance' in the haraam of religious respectability," in ain't i a womanist too

avivah zornberg, the murmuring deep: reflections on the biblical unconsious

saidiya hartman, "venus in two acts"

avgi saketopoulou, sexuality beyond consent: risk, race, traumatophilia

rhiannon graybill, are we not men? unstable masculinity in the hebrew prophets

vanessa sinclair, the queerness of psychoanalysis

sigmund freud, introductory lectures

alphonso lingis, excesses

kristeva, revolution in poetic language

elizabeth grosz, volatile bodies: toward a corporal feminism

luis menéndez-antuña, bridging the interpretive abyss

griselda pollock, psychoanalysis and the image

kristen neumann, the routledge handbook of senses in the ancient near east

elizabeth wright, psychoanalytic criticism

mieke bal, death and dissymmetry: the politics of coherence in the book of judges

reed calrson, unfamiliar selves: possession and other spirit phenomena

marcella althaus-reid, indecent theology: perversions in sex, gender, and politics

black and koosed, reading with feeling: affect theory and the bible

papenberg and zarzycka, carnal aesthetics: transgressive imagery and feminist politics

[gaywill]

i should be allowed to kill people based on how they talk about lesbians

[catchymemes]

[teathattast]

[petewentzisblack1312]

we do have to contend with the fact that the reason there is this like perpetual conflation funnel that turns aave and other black dialects into 'gen z slang' and memes and the reason non black performers keep putting on blaccents and the reason pictures of black people just existing gets turned into memes is the same and its because its all minstrelsy.

[veeples]

i was thinking about hal's gender since i saw kels's post about cori's gender (very good <3) and i do think she's somewhere in the vicinity of "i'm probably nonbinary but i have a job" but i think the identify of woman feels like a vestigial organ, but one she sort of likes and wants to keep for a while longer

[shadandrews]

Besties........ :)

[wavelette]

like, the most compelling ships for me always stem out of one thing: the characters have a profound, ongoing effect on each other’s senses of selves. when they are apart, the characters’ actions are still affected by each other. the way they approach the world changes because of the other. 

which is this deeply Austenian view of ideal romantic relationships as mechanisms by which we come to know ourselves better and become better versions of ourselves. good romance, for me, is always tied in with a sense of self-actualization, and the way in which a beloved partner allows a person to know themselves better.