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Soul Secrets
Word count: 2.9K
Summary: the not so typical soulmate mark AU. You own a bakery, and your mark goes famous without you having no idea why or even who has it.
Warnings: bad writing. That’s it.
Pairing: Jenna Ortega X Fem!Reader
Started writing this a month and a half ago and finished it now on my laptop, I think it came out good? Idk you guys let me know!
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Having a bakery was by far one of the hardest things you’ve ever had to do in your life. You had inherited this shop after your parents died in a tragic accident, and ever since you had been struggling quite a lot. Your shop was famous in Los Angeles, you had a lot of orders from celebrities and famous people, and you had enough money to pay the shop bills and pay for your nice dream house where you lived on your own. You also worked on your own, the shop had always been handled by the family, so you had to keep going on your own. It wasn’t a simple bakery where people come and go just to buy orders, you also offered bar services, where you wold sell donuts, cake pieces and whatever you could come up with.
Your parents always told you ‘when you find your soulmate, you’re gonna work here together and continue the family’s legacy’ and you were always up to that, if it wasn’t for the fact that you had one of the rarest soulmate marks in the whole world. A piece of braided hair on your right collarbone, just under your visible bone. Usually your soulmate mark represents a part of you, a part of your life… but you couldn’t find it a meaning, no matter how hard you tried. You never hid it, but you weren’t trying to show it either, and your friends… well, you didn’t have any. You dedicated yourself to your shop, it was the only thing you had left from your parents and you wanted to make it worth it, you wanted to keep the name high. So you never knew if there were other people around with your same soulmate mark.
On this particular day where the bakery has been less busy than usual, you were turned around listening to some music on the radio and singing along, when the door to the shop opened. “Hello and good afternoon! How can I help you today?” You said turning around and looking at who had just entered, it was a short brunette, shoulder-length hair and chocolate colored eyes, freckles all over her nose and cheeks… she was marvelous. You gulped as you met her eyes, silently gay panicking as you waited for her to speak. She smiled at you before speaking. “Hey there, I would like-“ she stopped when her eyes travelled from yours to your collarbone, where she saw your soulmate mark. Her shoulders slumped, and you gave her a confused look.
“You’re one of those people.” She sighed and looked away. “…what people?” You asked, “yeah I have a rare soulmate mark, is that weird?” You asked her again and she chuckled, was she mad? You didn’t know. She shook her head. “A lot of people had that soulmate mark tattooed because it is incredibly famous. Can’t believe there’s someone that would get to this point just for attentions” she seemed upset, but you weren’t gonna let a complete stranger talk to you like that. “Uhm excuse me? I have no Idea what you’re talking about. I was born with this mark, I’ve had it for as long as I can remember, hell I even have baby pictures of me with it! I don’t have social medias, I don’t go to the movies and I definitely don’t know why it even is famous. If you came here just to talk to me like that, then there’s the door, turn around and leave”
You pointed to the door, and the girl in front of you, who didn’t even introduce herself, looked at the door before moving to sit down at one of the tables, waiting for you to go get her order. You sighed and shook your head, you were about to close up actually because it was closing time, but something inside of you told you not to. Something inside of you told you to wait, get her order, her name and just get to know her. So you finished up what you were doing, and headed towards her, to take her order. “Sorry about… that. I just don’t like when people talk to me like they know me or they have an idea about me” you said and she nodded, seemingly understanding but she seemed distraught. However you didn’t know her, so you couldn’t interrogate her about that. “What can I get for you?” You asked, notepad and pen in hand as you flashed her a smile.
“What have you got? I’ve had a lot of coworkers tell me about this place and how good they eat whenever they come here” she said and that made you smile brightly. “That’s really good to know” you said “uhm, I don’t have anything fresh out of the oven, but if you wait a bit more I’m actually working on a new recipe fresh out of my mind” you said, “that is… if you’re not in a rush” you said and shrugged “isn’t it closing time?” You nodded “yes it is, I can still close and let you stay to try it?” You watched the girl think about it for a moment before she nodded, and you nearly jumped excitedly and went back to the kitchen. To the girl… this was actually really weird. You didn’t know who she was, you didn’t know that she was Jenna Ortega and that she was a famous actress and that she was your soulmate. You didn’t know that she had the same mark as you and that it was leaked in her new upcoming movie’s trailer.
She wanted to get to know you.
Soon enough you were back at her table, a piece of cake in a plate and the whole dish itself looked amazing. It was perfectly done, perfectly decorated… and she knew that it would taste just the same. Perfect.
And it did, it was perfect. You sat on the chair directly in front of her, watching for any sign of a reaction. The girl let out a grunt/moan of pleasure, and you couldn’t help the smile that forced its way on your mouth. “How is it?” No reply came out of her yet, but she took another bite. “God, this is amazing” she said and kept on eating it “what are the ingredients?” She asked and you smiled “it’s a vegan cake actually. I’ve had people ask me some but I’ve never tried anything, until now.” You said and watched as she went wide eyed “you’re telling me that this is not actually made out of milk and stuff?” She watched as you nodded “damn. You must be a really good chef” she said and smiled “thank you thank you. I uhm… I Don’t think I caught your name?” You said smiling.
“I’m Jenna” she said and held out her hand. “Well nice to meet you Jenna, I’m (Y/N)”
That, is how you met your mother- no wait. That is how you met your soulmate. Only… you didn’t know it was her. The more time passed, the more you two got to know each other and let me tell you, there was a connection that both of you felt immediately. You were just so at ease with each other, you made each other feel safe and happy and it was by far the best you’ve felt after your parents’s death. You had learned about her that she was an actress, that she had a new movie coming out soon and that she was now having a break, just being with her family and making time to relax, coming to your bakery especially at closing time and you let her. You knew how hard it must be being famous, if she ever came during the day she would be surrounded by fans so you let her come past closing time, you closed the shop and let her stay in so she could relax and try your new recipes.
It had now been a couple months and On this other day you had closed the shop, waiting for Jenna as you sat down at her usual table, managing the bills while a new recipe was cooking in the oven when you heard a knock on the door. You smiled brightly when you saw Jenna, unlocking the door to let her inside. She immediately smelled around before sitting down where you were just sitting. “Making me something new?” She asked and you smiled, nodding. “Yep! You seem like the cinnamon kind of girl so I’m making something cinnamon based” you said as you made your way to the kitchen, where a sweet cinnamon cake had just finished getting ready. “You know me well” she giggled and sat down, soon you brought her the sweet before sitting back down in front of her, eyes on the bills again.
“Managing bills?” She asked as she saw you nod and sigh, hands in your hair. “Yeah. I’m not really good at this stuff. It takes me hours and I’m glad I have company now” you said and tapped your pen on the table “don’t you have anyone to help you? Parents, friends, soulmate…” she said as she looked at you “well,” you sighed “parents are dead and I inherited this shop, friends I don’t really have any and soulmate… unknown” you shrugged “soulmate marks usually have a meaning in your life, but what does a piece of braided hair mean? I’ve never even braided my hair!” You chuckled at yourself before going back on your bills. “Random question uh, you remember that I told you I have a movie coming out?” You nodded at her. It was the movie where her mark was leaked, the same mark you had on your collarbone and that you didn’t know she had.
“Do you want to come with me to the premiere?”
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Unlike your expectations you agreed. You were going to a Movie premiere, Jenna’s new movie. You didn’t usually get out of your eyes if not to go open your shop, you didn’t go to the movies as you had no one to go with but now you had her… and it wasn’t just a movie night… it was a freaking premiere. That day Jenna had her stylists and after you were given your dress for the night, make up artists started working on you, and you noticed that the first thing they did was use a really dense and strong foundation to cover your mark. “Why are you covering it?” You asked, looking at the woman holding the sponge. “Trust me, you don’t want anyone to see it” you didn’t know why that would be a problem, so you decided to stay quiet and not argue back. It took them A LOT both to cover the mark and actually apply normal make up, you had a very light skin color so it was hard finding a foundation color that even matched your skin.
When you were all ready and you got out of your apartment, you found a car that was already waiting for you, you were confused at first, but then you remembered Jenna telling you that she would come pick you up, so you quickly got in the car, where you saw her already smiling at you. Your Jaw nearly dropped seeing how pretty she looked, and you could see a small blush forming on her cheeks “you look… gorgeous” you said and took in her appearance and she giggled, gently punching your shoulder “shut up, have you seen yourself?” She said, making you blush “yeah I know I’m very pretty” you smiled and soon enough you had arrived at the premiere. You were about to get off the car when Jenna stopped you. “Wait, did the make up artists cover your mark?” She asked slightly moving your dress away from your shoulder so she could see if it was covered.
“Yeah yeah, they covered it, why is it so important?” Jenna wanted to reply, and you saw her hesitate, her mouth opening and closing continuously before she eventually sighed and shook her head. “Nothing, you’ll see later” you nodded in confusion and got off the car with her, flashes and cameras immediately pointed at the both of you as pictures were being taken. Surprisingly enough, you didn’t mind all this attention. You knew that this would be a great occasion to sponsor your bakery, even though it was already known pretty well. A few of the actors recognized you from your shop and form the TV spot and instagram posts about your bakery, you were more than happy to hear their opinion on your shop and you politely invited them to come over some times to try your specialties for a lower price. You were thriving anyway, so a lower price would mean nothing.
After Jenna was taken A LOT of pictures, it was finally time for you to get into the theatre and actually watch the movie. It started off amazing, Jenna’s acting was fantastic and you were stunned by both her beauty and how good she was at acting. She often turned around to see you with your jaw dropped open at her job, or maybe at how pretty she looked, or maybe both?
However, at one particular point of the movie, Jenna pur her hand on your arm, her eyes not trailing away from the screen. “Here it comes, look look” she said, it was the scene where her soulmate mark was getting revealed. A piece of braided hair on her right collarbone… same as you. As soon as it was revealed, she looked at you, only to see you… asleep. You had fallen asleep, and Jenna didn’t know how to react. You didn’t see her mark, you didn’t know she was your soulmate.
Jenna woke you up at the end of the movie, she didn’t speak a word to you if not just to tell you “we’re leaving” and “get in the car.” Admit it, you were kinda scared and felt like you were a kid who had just gotten in trouble and waiting for your mother to scold you. You didn’t know where you were going but you assumed you were going back to her apartment when she took out the keys to it from her purse. “Jenna, will you tell me what’s going on?” You asked her for the thousand time in 15 minutes. “Will you be quiet for just a minute?” Jenna asked, she was mad, but still being polite. “Are you seriously mad because I fell asleep? Jeez, I was exhausted! It’s not like I decided to fall asleep” you chuckled and didn’t even realize that you had gotten into her apartment.
You tried to complain yet once more after she didn’t give you a reply, but suddenly you were in her arms and you felt her lips on yours, it was all so sudden, so fast. You liked her that way, you really did but she never gave you any sign of liking you back… well, until now. “Jen-“ you said in between kisses, your hands on her waist and you didn’t know if you should bring her closer or push her away, ask her for some kind of explanation. You had questions, you really did and that’s why you pushed her away. “Jen, what’s the meaning of this?” You asked, you were still relatively close and the smell of her perfume was filling your nostrils, “(Y/N)… you’re my soulmate” she nearly whispered, and you looked at her in confusion. “What? But in the movie you had another mark-“ “the movie, (Y/N)” she interrupted you “there was a scene that you didn’t see, because you had fallen asleep, where my real mark was revealed”
You were even more confused now, your thoughts weren’t making any sense, and the only wan that had some was “show me” you said, in a few seconds Jenna took your hand and brought you to her bathroom, she took some lotion and wipes and cleaned the make up away from her collarbone, a piece of braided hair appearing as a soulmate mark. You were shocked, you were processing too many things at once and you were confused, considering that you had woken up not too long before.
“You’re my-“ you gulped. “I’m your…” Jenna giggled and you furrowed your brows. “Yes, we are soulmates” you took a few more seconds to process the new pieve of information, but when you did you walked closer to her, brought her close to you from her hips and pressed your lips against hers, and you felt a really satisfying cry come out from her. You were finally hers… she was finally yours. Nothing else mattered now, just the two of you.
You wished that the kiss could last forever, but eventually air was needed and you pulled away, being just a few inches away from each other you just smiled lovingly. “Why a piece of braided hair, tho?” You asked, your hand gently caressing her cheek. “I didn’t know until a few days before I met you… I got a new role, for a Netflix show” she whispered and looked at you. “And what is it?” You asked her.
“Wednesday Addams”
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aziraphales-library · 11 months
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Heyy, thanks for the reply!!! I read all of the recommendation and loved them all.
I'm here to return the favor and ask for some more. Recently I read "He liked it so he put a ring on it" by aesthetic_warning, it's a 4+1 fic where Zira and Crowley have been married for a while and the rest (anathema, newt and the them) didn't know. — https://archiveofourown.org/works/19379116 —
I was wandering if you know any fic with that same concept? An established relationship where people around them is slowly figuring that these two are, in fact, together.
Ps: this blog is a godsend 💕
Hello. You'll want to check our #secret relationship tag for more fics along these lines. Here are more to add to the collection...
Five Times Gabriel Almost Caught Aziraphale and Crowley Fraternizing and One Time He Did by AtoTimber (G)
The angel didn’t move. He was lost in thought, stuck staring where the Bentley once was. At least they still had the picnic. “Aziraphale?” A voice rang out across the street. It was then that Aziraphale realized he was staring at a pair of gray slacks. “Oh dear.”
between the lines by midnightfreeway (T)
Aziraphale and Crowley are afraid of Heaven and Hell finding out about their relationship. Crowley thinks they should communicate with letters—and burn them to get rid of the evidence. In theory, it’s the perfect plan, so Aziraphale has no choice but to go along with it.
It turns out to be more difficult than either of them imagined.
Would I Lie to You? by FeralTuxedo & TawnyOwl95 (E)
Anthony Crowley and Aziraphale Fell are rival team captains on popular comedy panel show Don't Lie To Me, where they exchange insults and banter to an audience of millions. But behind the scenes, a whole other game of truth and lies is being played.
A comedy panel show AU
Turn of the Fates by KaytheJay & SparklyTears (M)
Aziraphale was born into a very rich family. However, he is the shame of the family for a number of reasons, though the biggest one is that he is a male carrier. Aziraphale had accepted his fate of being married off to some girl in the name of preserving the Fell family legacy until he bumps into someone who changes his life forever.
South Downs by summerofspock (E)
Blackballed from the industry ten years ago, Anthony Crowley jumps at the chance to star in a new Regency romance miniseries with well-known gay actor Aziraphale Fell in the hopes that it will help him restart his career.
The trouble is, Crowley has played all sorts of characters and for the life of him, he can't figure out why he's struggling to play the romantic lead opposite a man.
Bigger Than Us by Caedmon (E)
Aziraphale Fell is the widowed minister of a progressive little church in Tadfield. He's settled into a comfortable life since his wife died six years ago, but his world is rocked on its side when he meets Anthony Crowley, who just moved to town and took over a landscaping business.
And the one you mentioned...
He liked it so he put a ring on it by aesthetic_warning (T)
~"Raise your hand if you didn't know we were together,"
Unsurprisingly, almost every hand in the room shot up. ~
Or:
Crowley and Aziraphale help plan a wedding, and along the way find out something very interesting...
- Mod D
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tremendouskoalachild · 2 months
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10 Fandoms, 10 Characters, 10 Tags
Thanks for the tag @bluntblade! We're pretending star wars isn't a thing because it would get really monothematic otherwise lol
1. The Last of Us - Ellie Williams
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(thanks so much for this gif! the trailer it's from still gives me chills)
l love Ellie so much. She's my daughter and she's literally me. She has hella PTSD and survivor's guilt and she will get more of both! Witty, talented and so good. She loves so much. She's so fucked up. She's even gay 🌈
2. His Dark Materials - Lyra Silvertongue
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Pretty sure Lyra's character development rewired my brain as a kid! She's a lovable child with many flaws and grows into a wonderful girl striving to make herself and the world better. She loves so much.
3. A Song of Ice and Fire - Daenerys Targaryen
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(I mean her book character but I wanted to keep the gifs on theme a bit lol)
Dany beloved... She's a child she's a mother she's a conqueror. She inherited such a weighty legacy but all she herself wants to do is protect other girls. She loves so much. Her last chapter was 🔥🔥🔥 and she's gonna be so fucked up if we ever get the next installment.
4. Dune - Lady Jessica
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She has so much interiority and agency for the story she's in! So much intelligence, control and POWER! She loves so much!
5. Blade Runner - Luv
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Love my fucked up replicant murder daughter. She wants recognition! She wants love!! She's the best angel of all!!!
6. Red vs Blue - Agent Texas
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She's so fucking tragic y'all. Saving the universe and having existential crises entangled with extremely fucked up family drama. And still finds the time to kick Grif in the balls. Most badass character in her show by far. SHE LOVES SO MUCH
7. Alien - Ellen Ripley
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Do i even need to say anything. She's Ellen Ripley.
8. Harley Quinn - Poison Ivy
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Social anxiety queen!! Protects the environment! Very fucked up but considering the cast of this show she's well-adjusted actually. Supportive friend to Harley. Then supportive girlfriend to Harley. Love my girl.
9. Spiderverse movies - Miles Morales
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We've all been crazy about him for half a year now. I love him and so do you.
10. The Traitor Baru Cormorant - Baru Cormorant
Cheating a bit since I haven't finished the book let alone the series but she's so!!!!!!!
no-pressure tags: @gaymothperson, @kaleidoscope1967eyes, @system-of-cells-interlinked, @my-last-brain-cell-is-socrates, @laz-laz-ace-pilot, @voidcat-senket, @ireallyamabear, @the-force-awakens, @drpepperfucker, @ct-hardcase
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tilynation · 1 year
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“So Scarlet, It Was Maroon”
Let me start by saying “Maroon” could easily fit Karlie. There’s also a Ruby Rose literal reference in the last lines of verse 2. I think at most Ruby could have been a hookup, not a great love or a “legacy,” but could be referenced in this song to symbolize a wlw relationship since Ruby is openly gay or to symbolize a red rose like the English Rose, Lily’s nickname in the modeling industry. The song could even be a nod to Emma Stone since she starred in a movie about the Scarlet Letter, “Easy A.” Taylor was Emma’s date for the premiere and Emma had maroon hair that night back in 2010. I doubt Emma is a “legacy” love of Taylor’s, but you get the picture the song could be about other women. Now on to the Tily interpretation . . .
The Scarlet Letter
Taylor first referenced The Scarlet Letter in “New Romantics.” “We show off our different scarlet letters trust me, mine is better.” The scarlet letter is initially meant to be a symbol of shame whose meaning changes as time passes. It becomes a powerful symbol of identity. When a meteor traces out an “A” in the night sky, the community thinks the scarlet letter now represents an Angel. Hey, there’s some Angels in Taylor’s life who she danced with in New York!
Lily Loves Her Vinyls - “We were cleaning incense off your vinyl shelf”
Photo of Lily’s East Village apartment with her vinyls taken off the shelf. Posted on July 18, 2015, one day before Taylor brought Lily on stage at the 1989 tour.
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Other posts of Lily loving her vinyls.
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“How’d we end up on the floor, anyway?”
Looks like they had fun on the floor. Taylor wearing the golden tattoo. Lily with her lips painted maroon. Burgundy wine on the table. And of course the red heart and British flag emojis because this was the early phase of the London lover.
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“Your roommate” / Cara Delevingne / Autumn 2016 / “I see you everyday now”
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“The one I was dancing with in New York, no shoes” / “Barefoot in the kitchen, sacred new beginnings”
Ah, a “Cornelia Street” reference. This helps place the time, the Tily Autumn of 2016.
“Looked up at the sky and it was burgundy” / “With all these nights we’re spending up on the roof with a schoolgirl crush”
Lily and the roommate Cara up on Taylor’s roof at night in October 2016. Cara is wearing the same clothes as the pap photo above leaving Cornelia Street. All the British references in “King of My Heart,” including the boys not being able to take Taylor where “you” do.
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“The lips I used to call home, so scarlet is was maroon” / The English Rose
The lips being maroon is a sign Taylor is likely describing a woman. Lily is famously known as the English Rose in the modeling world. English Rose is traditionally berry-stained lips.
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dear-indies · 6 months
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Hi hello! I hope you’re having a good day. I was wondering if you could help me with finding a male fc in their 20s that would work for a trickster god type of character? I apologize if that’s too vague and can try elaborating if it would be helpful! Thank you!
Assad Zaman (1990) Bangladeshi.
Richard Harmon (1991) English, French-Canadian, Italian, Mi’kmaq.
John Boyega (1992) Yoruba Nigerian.
Barry Keoghan (1992)
Avan Jogia (1992) Gujarati Indian / English, Welsh, some German, Irish, French-Canadian/French.
Emilien Vekemans (1992) - in Halfbad.
Freddy Carter (1992)
Ncuti Gatwa (1992) Rwandan.
John Harlan Kim (1993) Korean - is gay and has bipolar disorder.
Seo Kang Joon (1993) Korean.
Omari Douglas (1994) Jamaican - is gay.
Aaron Pierre (1994) Jamaican, Curaçaoan, Sierra Leonean.
Alejandro Speitzer (1995) Mexican.
Brandon Perea (1995) Filipino and Puerto Rican.
Taz Skylar (1995) Lebanese / British.
Daniel Padilla (1995) Filipino (mostly Waray, about ¼ Iloko, Bikol) and most likely some white.
Angel Bismark Curiel (1995) Afro-Dominican - has asthma and a heart murmur.
Thomas Doherty (1995)
Luke Ishikawa Plowden (1995) Japanese, possibly other.
Cody Christian (1995) English, Penobscot and Passamaquody.
Jeff Satur (1995) Thai.
Mason Gooding (1996) African-American, Afro-Barbadian / European.
Mackenyu (1996) Japanese.
Niko Terho (1996) Bajan and Finnish.
Aria Shahghasemi (1996) Iranian - in Legacies.
Tony Revolori (1996) Guatemalan [Spanish, Unspecified Indigenous, possibly other].
George Sear (1997)
Herman Tømmeraas (1997)
Archie Renaux (1997) Indian and British.
Luka Sabbat (1997) Afro-Haitian / English, Irish, German.
Diego Tinoco (1997) Colombian and Mexican.
Evan Mock (1997) Bisaya Filipino / Unspecified American.
Murakami Nijiro (1997) Japanese - in Alice in Borderland.
Christopher Briney (1998)
Aramis Knight (1999) Pakistani, Indian / English, Irish, German - in Ms Marvel.
Jonathan Daviss (2000) African-American.
D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai (2001) Ojibwe, Cree, Chinese Guyanese, Afro Guyanese, White.
Here you go anon! Feel free to send a more specific ask if none of these work out for you.
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the-queer-bong-boy · 9 months
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Pride Month: A History
Today is the 28th of June. For most people, this day is nothing special(unless they have a birthday, anniversary or any event along those lines). But as a queer individual, this day is of utmost importance to me. Today marks 54 years of the Stonewall riots in New York and the rise of queer activism.
For those of you, who are clueless about what I am talking about, June is celebrated as International Pride Month for celebrating LGBTQIAP+ folks.
And although I say the word "celebration", there is much more history to it than just a mere celebration. The celebrations are about legends like Harvey Milk and Marsha P. Johnson who dedicated their lives to fight for LGBT liberation rights.
I will not go too much into the history of queer folks because spoilers alert- they have always existed. We didn't pop up in the last few decades. The ancient Romans and Greeks accepted homosexuality without any hatred. It is only homophobia that has sprung up in recent times.
But let's keep ancient history aside and focus on Pride Month.
The history of June being celebrated as pride month dates back to 28th June 1969 in New York.
Sexual acts between two consenting adults of the same gender were considered illegal at the time. Not only that, queer people had to always be on the run for their lives because of the police. Police raids were pretty common in gay bars and restaurants.
But those raids didn't stop queer lives from existing. People still went to these bars to hang out.
On the night of 27th June 1969, the New York City police raided the Stonewall Inn, a famous gay bar in the city. As expected, the bar was a safe space for queer folks to hang out and that night was no exception.
There were gays and lesbians and Trans folks and Drag Queens just being themselves and celebrating life there. But the heteronormative society couldn't bear that. The police raided Stonewall and brutally attacked the people who were there.
What followed is the revolt that led to modern-day pride.
The queer people there refused to give up their safe space and fought back against the police. They got beaten up, some got killed and some were seriously injured. But not a single soul gave up. Not only the people from the bar but also other gay residents of Greenwich Village participated in the fight that went on for the following few weeks.
This event led to a rise in protests for crimes against LGBT people and made a rise in general awareness about LGBT people.
To mark this historic event, on 28th June 1970, a year after the riots the first pride marches took place in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco. And that is how the Pride Walks started. In June 1999, U.S. President Bill Clinton declared the anniversary of the Stonewall riots every June in America as Gay and Lesbian Pride Month and in 2011, President Barack Obama expanded the officially recognized Pride Month to include the whole of the LGBT community.
The legacy of pride spread across the globe and on 2nd July 1999, South East Asia's first pride walk took place in Kolkata making Kolkata the first Indian city to engage in fights for LGBT rights. ("What Bengal thinks today, India thinks tomorrow")
My main point here in this post is that Pride Month is more than just a celebration. It is about remembering all those innocent lives who sacrificed themselves to make the world a safer place for us to live in.
Pride Today also talks of inclusivity and intersectionality. Pride doesn't stay confined to one section of society but includes every person from every section of the world.
Pride is about Gays
Pride is about Lesbians
Pride is about Transgenders
Pride is about Hijras
Pride is about Kinnars
Pride is about Non-binaries
Pride is about Intersex people
Pride is about Black queer folks
Pride is about Gender Non-confirming Women
Pride is about Neurodivergent Non-binary folks
Pride is about Transgender Migrating Labours
Pride is a celebration of love
Pride includes all.
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hqissodelicate · 9 months
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Hihihihi uhhhh top 5 a3! plays?
FRIEND IN THE ASKBOX!! 💖 i was kinda anticipating this one so i'm glad i got it <3 answer is under the cut bc as always i'll probably be rambling (update: it is disgustingly long,,, im sorry ajkndjks)
NO. 5: sympathy for the angel
i ugly cry every time i watch it every medium it exists in,, in the game, in the anime, in mankai stage ;; i deadass made a whole ppt about the inherent homeroticism of michael and raphael's relationship THAT'S how badly this play has rotted my brain. plus i like that the mankai stage version made michael's death more dramatic with him saving the woman from a car crash i think it really helped to up the tension. normally i'm not one for sad tragic endings but there's something beautiful and strangely,, cathartic about 'sympathy for the angel' i think i put it best in the final slide of my gay angels propaganda
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i'm not an expert on tragedies but i think for his first attempt tsuzuru wrote a beautiful tragedy, bc it was always going to end that way there's no other way around it. it was in michael's very own nature to have a love so pure and selfless he would sacrifice himself for it, and it was in raphael's nature to love michael so dearly he wouldn't stop him despite wanting to bc that would be erasing a core part of who michael was. and i kinda had a feeling from the start michael would end up dying as it was stated right from the very beginning, but the ending still got me in my feels with RAPHAEL being THE one to be with michael in his final moments, and michael entrusting his memory and legacy to raphael ;; (also raphael saying "i lost not only my love but my best friend"??? i mean sure 'my love' could be referring to the human he loved but given the homoerotic undertones in their friendship and the phrasing,,, it also really REALLY sounds like michael was also 'his love' yk)
one last thing before i move on to no. 4: i really like the mankai stage 4 seasons live version of 'sympathy for the angel' where muku played michael and juza played raphael. it has a completely different feel; the original fruitiness between michael and raphael is completely gone and it feels more like raphael is a protective older brother trying to save his idealistic naive younger brother from a tragic fate,, and it really hits different 🥲 muku and juza were perfect for the roles bc muku is one of the company's healing angels, and juza perfectly encapsulates raphael's awkward clumsy but nonetheless sincere way of caring for the one he loves, and obviously their relationship as cousins packs an extra punch in the gut
NO. 4: fallen blood
okay first i need to say: the OST for fallen blood absolutely FUCKS i'm obsessed with it
on to the actual play: i really love the story of the unsung, misunderstood hero. it really is the perfect play for juza who throughout his life was mistaken for a bully and a bad guy all bc of his face and size, when he's actually the sweetest nicest guy you could ever meet. the role of blood the janitor who works when everyone else has left, doesn't draw attention to himself, stays out of the spotlight, and does good in the shadows only to be mistaken for the bad guy is perfect for juza. i can't wait to see the mankai stage version of it in autumn 2023 bc i KNOW it will fuck me up so bad
and i like that it's set in our world and era bc it feels easier to relate to blood and it feels more grounded in our reality compared to the other larger-than-life autumn troupe plays that have happened up until fallen blood (i think mantou fist is also set in our world and era but the cheesy names for their attacks and the comedic setting, while enjoyable, does make it a little less grounded in our reality). and i emphasise our reality bc we have so many unsung heroes taken for granted in the world. there are so many bloods in our world who go unsung and unnoticed simply bc they do their work out of people's attention while people are busy fawning over and gossiping about the hueys, while there are too many dusts actively trying to make a world a worse place to be in. fallen blood is a dark gritty presentation and reflection of our reality—but even then, it still ends on a hopeful note, a slight glimmer at the end of the tunnel, bc even if publicly huey is lauded as the hero, huey and max know it was blood who really saved the day, and i think that's all blood really needed: someone who saw him and believed in him, which in turn reflects juza too
NO. 3: welcome to akebono-so!
it's so different from the other autumn troupe plays bc for the first time EVERYONE is fighting on the same side as opposed to fighting each other,, idk it was just really sweet and refreshing to me. in a similar vein to fallen blood, i like that it's largely grounded in our reality... well other than the border guards from the alternate world, that is. but even with that fantastical element, i like that it still has our reality in it with riku starting out kinda jaded and bored and apathetic with everything but gradually starting to care about others and growing attached to akebono-so, as well as the subplot with eita running away from home being a sort of callback to azami's introductory arc
another thing i like: while most of the cast's roles seem pretty similar to their actual selves (riku=omi, or the omi that tsuzuru had first met at yousei; camilo having shades of taichi's silly goofiness; klaus having sakyo's seriousness taken to comedic levels; eita sharing azami's rebellious energy and awkward way of not-expressing his true feelings), banri and juza's roles are so really different from their real selves. juza's character, takumi, is bookish and nerdy and no good in fights and is a strict by-the-book kind of guy; while mita (banri)... well let's just say when mita first opened his mouth my brain kind of broke KNSDKDJK i was like "THIS IS BANRI'S FACE WHY IS HE TALKING LIKE KAZUNARI 😭" he's a host which is pretty different from banri's previous roles but it was fun seeing him tackle it! banri's backstage where he played host to the neighbourhood kids in the mankai dorm was really cute and funny + mita's costume is one of my favourite looks on banri
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it's not the best, not when senri and luciano exist, but i like how his hair is done and the fruity lil pose and the,, tiddy,,, mm (I NEED TO SEE THIS LOOK ON THE STAGE I KNOW IT'LL TAKE LIKE 3 YEARS PROBABLY BUT PRETTY PLEASE MANKAI STAGE AND MIZUKEN 🙏🏻)
i mentioned this briefly in (ahem self-plug ahem) chapter 13 of the director's muted group chat notifications where the autumn troupe, izumi, and tsuzuru are brainstorming ideas for autumn's 10th play (a canon divergence btw) and i had banri mention that akebono-so kinda had spring troupe vibes, which is how i feel about akebono-so bc it's a lot lighter and softer compared to the other gritty stuff that was the autumn troupe's trademark like the stranger, DEAD/UNDEAD, fallen blood, and such. not to mention the fantasy elements, and also how the main cast gradually became a found family with akebono-so the diner being the catalyst and core of it. i think this play helped to round out the autumn troupe's repertoire and showcased a different side of their acting that the other plays hadn't really brought out so yeah!
NO. 2: KNIROUND IV
honestly kniround is just... everything. from the event story to the actual play, everything about it is immaculate. this play makes me wish so badly that kniround was a real game i could play bc i love adventure RPGs 🥲 the plot is amazing and immersive and i like that even in the game text it doesn't skim over as many details compared to the other plays so i really felt like i was watching an actual play unfold before my eyes. and on a meta level i like how KNIROUND tests and stretches the spring troupe's acting chops. for citron he had to revisit and tap on his experiences being raised to be the heir to the throne of zahra; tsuzuru had to play the overarching villain which means mr supposedly npc had to really up his stage presence in order to really embody how terrifying and terrible merlin really is; gareth kinda has kumon and taichi's earnest puppy-like nature which is pretty different from how masumi is, yet his fixation on becoming a knight is similar to how masumi is fixated on winning izumi's love; mordred is kinda similar to sakuya in that he's Just A Little Guy (affectionate) until merlin's brainwashing happens* and he becomes a bad guy for like 3 minutes in game time (mankai stage elevated this scene even more by given mordred actual fight scenes which was a brilliant choice imo); gawain is loud and brash which is really different from chikage's nature (but his revenge arc was very chikage-coded indeed); and lancelot is the MC meaning itaru had to delicately balance between capturing lancelot's relatability as the MC (e.g. the generic pure heart of gold goody-goodness typical of RPG MCs /affectionate) while still making lancelot a distinct character of his own and giving him presence on the stage. also having to 'talk' to gwen who wasn't actually a physical entity onstage definitely helped to stretch itaru's acting abilities (tho i guess toshi and the others are used to this bc in mankai stage the director isn't an actual presence on the stage lmao)
(*speaking of mordred, one of the backstage stories i think it was the one where they played a tabletop RPG together, one of them said mordred was a 'bad guy' and that really confused me bc i'm pretty sure the only villainous thing mordred did was try to stage a coup while under merlin's influence?? granted he wasn't particularly friendly to lancelot when lancelot first arrived but i think that's fairly understandable since he had other things on his mind like his uncle the king being ill??)
a small aside but i think it's really funny that other than styling everyone's hair differently and giving chikage red contact lenses, nothing much about the actors' appearances changed?? and normally in 2.5D adaptations the actors wear wholeass wigs and contact lenses and heavy makeup so they look like the character they're playing bc real people don't naturally have bright pink or green hair?? which kinda implies to me that the KNIROUND characters already look like the spring troupe guys which is just funny to me. the real reason why tonooka scouted the mankai company wasn't bc of their size or diversity of plays or taruchi but bc it conveniently already had a red-eyed blondie to play lancelot and a green-haired guy to play gawain /j
honourable mentions:
clockwork heartbeat (the steampunk aesthetic is 🤌🏻 and it made me cry as hard if not harder as sympathy for the angel 🥲)
ssr family (HARUGUMI FAMILY!! CITOITA!! THE COLOURS!!)
water me! (i'm a tenyuki shipper so ali baba and scherazade getting married at the end had me 👀 also in the summer troupe live 2021 tenma/ali baba aLMOST KISSED SCHERAZADE/YUKI AT THE END WHAT??? istg in every run of water me! ali baba gets more and more down bad for scherazade and i'm here for it)
sardine search (CATBOYS CATBOYS CATBOYS i love tsuzuru's versatility like this guy wrote a heartwrenching tragedy about an angel falling in love with a human,,, and then a silly catboy play i love him kissing him so hard rn)
captain sky's pirates (i love how cringefail sky's crew is)
the floral prince (MUKKUN AS A PRINCE!! THE FAIRYTALE VIBES!!)
shinobi adventures (so silly and fun) (also can you tell i'm a natsu stan lmao if it wasn't obvious already HI it's me i'm the natsu stan it's me)
sky gallery (i think it's interesting that both of kazu's lead roles captured different sides of him. kiichi was his fun silly side, while aoumi captured his kind caring nature and his passion for the arts. also i like that the play has a more grown-up feel compared to the other summer plays, which is a reflection of how kazu's gonna be graduating from uni soon AAAAAH)
the stranger (ZERO ZERO ZERO!! also i've had a fascination with human experimentation as a fictional theme for a while i've written a few fics with that theme, so the stranger helped to scratch that specific spot in my brain)
how wonderfully picaresque (THE COSTUMES ARE SO GOOD and i like the buddy vibes of it, and how the mankai stage production really made it kinda old-timey broadway-ish in a way?)
DEAD/UNDEAD (zombies!! ivan and abel's friendship is really cute, and whatever the fuck is going on between ivan and doggie has me all 👀 and the father-son drama between abel and bill just,, gutted me man 🥲)
fiery mantou fist (the shounen anime vibes!! also that ending was funny as hell good job sakyo)
nocturnality (gay vampire x human make my brain go brr. it's even better in mankai stage bc you really get to see how Just A Guy kota is in contrast to reo's otherworldliness,,, and reo biting kota at the end mmmmmmmmmmmmmm fruity)
the luminous circus (i just think it's really fun and cute. idk if mankai stage plans on adapting the mixed troupe plays but i think it'd be fun to see the luminous circus on the stage)
stray devil blues (it's really dark so i need to be in a specific mood to enjoy it, but i like the story for what it is and the ending,,,, auggggh gutted me 🥲)
trump the phantom thief (it's just so Snazzy,, like they're thieves but they make it look so cool and stylish. king is such a different role for muku too but he pulled it off so well!)
NO. 1: love out of left field/first crush baseball & +3GHOSTS!
i really tried but in the end i just can't pick between either one of these. i know i've said this like a gajillion times but this blog started out as a sports anime blog (the genre still has a special place in my heart) and left field and +3GHOSTS just hit the spot perfectly for me 🤌🏻
let's talk left field first. THE NAME IN THE ENGLISH LOCALISATION ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT IT'S THE ALLITERATION AND PUN ON 'LEFT FIELD' FOR ME (like how 'left field' is a baseball term and the phrase 'out of left field' also means that something was unexpected and unforeseen)
the story!! it follows the classic sports anime formula: the protagonist is passionate about the titular sport but has some struggles he needs to overcome (in akiyama's case it's his nerves which cause him to rush to the toilet in the middle of a game), and the protagonist 'team' is pretty much scraped together from the dumpster and they're the underdogs who have to brave their giant indomitable foes in order to reach their goal. bonus points if there's a falling-out or conflict of sorts with the second lead who is the protagonist's partner and foil, and they have some homoerotic undertones in their relationship. oh and another bonus point if they have a cute female manager and the guys are struck stupid silly by her beauty. 'love out of left field' follows the formula down to the letter but i don't hate it. on the contrary i actually really like it; sure it's cookie-cutter as hell but damn if the batter isn't delicious 😩🤌🏻that said, i like that it didn't end with them making it to nationals, but it's okay bc they got over the biggest hurdle which was akiyama's nerves! and they still have next year to aim for nationals so there's still hope for them (and potential for a sequel 👀)
similar to what i said about fallen blood, i like how left field is more grounded in our world and reality compared to the previous summer plays. it helped to show a different side of their acting while helping kumon ease into acting by giving him a setting that's familiar to him, and i love that kumon grew together with akiyama in that kumon overcame his real-life challenges with his nerves through akiyama i just 🥹🥹😭😭 thank you tsuzuru and juza for this 🥹🥹
now on to +3GHOSTS! it's kinda similar to left field bc once again it's a high school play centered around another sport: dance! i think dance is really neat and fun, and it suits the summer troupe's youthful energetic image too! that said, the vibe of the whole play is really different bc unlike akiyama, kousei was tired and jaded bc of his injury that put his dance career on pause. but then he meets the titular 3 ghosts who want to dance and that gradually reignites his passion for dance and just living in general (kinda ironic tho considering they're... well... ghosts 💀). it has summer troupe's classic comedy with kousei somehow not realising his 3 new friends are in fact ghosts and them being like "oh oopsie the awkward moment u forget gravity is a thing lmao right??" and kousei's insistence on getting sora and his dad to meet despite not really understanding the full situation was really touching and an important part in kousei's character development bc here we get to see how much he's grown from apathy to genuinely caring for his 3 new friends
and i like that it's just a tad bit darker than summer's usual plays. the very premise that there are 3 ghosts lingering around a hospital bc they can't move on until they get to participate in the dance competition, as funny as their ghost shenanigans are, is also really sad bc they're all so young, probably high school age at the oldest which is kousei's age. and of course the ending, it's the first summer play that doesn't end on a 100% happy note (i personally still count left field as a happy ending despite them not making it to nationals bc they overcame the main hurdle which was akiyama's confidence and nerves issues) bc immediately after the performance the 3 ghosts just disappear and move on without giving kousei a warning or chance to say goodbye 🥲 it really does have that 'the summer of our youth is ending' vibe, and i think it's fitting that misumi played the lead bc he's the oldest in the troupe
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Is Twin Peaks like the NGE for Americans? Sad gay traumatized twinks in horror monster series with iconic opening themes and evil dad figure looming over the main protagonist
I'm sorry I can't always tell if someone is joking or being sarcastic esp in writing so my default response is to take things seriously.
I'm not American but close enough to answer this question. I could probably find lots of similarities if I thought about it seriously and they might actually be fun to compare, but I'm inclined to say no for a few reasons:
Cut for references to CSA and rape. nothing beyond what actually takes place in both shows.
- NGE was far more popular than Twin Peaks and I think also more influential
- the saddest and most traumatized person in Twin Peaks is a teenaged girl and that's very relevant to the plot of the show and its legacy (whereas I think it's more incidental when it comes to Asuka, though there are instances of it being more pronounced such as the adam/eve thing in EoE)
- "horror monster" hmm I wonder if that's a fair way to characterize the angels in NGE even to someone who hasn't seen it, and that's including the lilin. whereas the big bad of Twin Peaks is a manifestation of evil, even though they + the angels probably both qualify as eldritch abominations.
- they both deal heavily with themes like depression, isolation, teen angst to the power of a billion and "adults are useless" but "child soldiers" doesn't really apply to Twin Peaks as it does in NGE imo because while NGE has a messiah (Shinji), the messiah of Twin Peaks (Laura Palmer) is very much on her own, no other eva pilots/holy soldiers in it with her. Her story plays out the way it does because she is utterly forsaken by everyone. By the time someone intercedes on Laura's behalf (Dale) it's too late.
- the other main theme of Twin Peaks is sexual abuse. NGE does play with that (Asuka's mind rape, all the fucked up stuff that happens to Rei, the metaphor of "using" children's bodies like that, the overall sense that no one not even the adults are in healthy relationships and everyone is being somehow coerced and manipulated) but it's more explicit in Twin Peaks and treated seriously. A major criticism I have of NGE is how Asuka's sexuality is portrayed, her abuse to me seems almost decorative or used for shock value.
- I can't think of an NGE equivalent to Twin Peaks' protag, Dale Cooper. Like Misato might be the closest thing but she's far too complicit whereas Dale fights tooth and nail to save his Shinji. This is really where the comparison fails - without Dale there is no Twin Peaks story
- in an even bigger way than with Dale, there is no Twin Peaks without Laura Palmer and it is so important that she's a teen girl. If the protag of NGE was Asuka (and in my heart, it is) then I might be more inclined to see a parallel because Asuka and Laura have a lot of similarities. But Asuka, though she's a major character, still doesn't carry the weight of NGE the way Laura does for Twin Peaks
- I think you are picking up on smth re: the parallel of the isolation of growing up in a small town in semi-rural america vs the isolation of being a Japanese youth in the 1980s - 1990s and it is worth mentioning that both series are from the same era and Lynch and Anno are both curious about loneliness and fraught familial relationships... but I suspect there are elements of Japanese that don't carry over well to Twin Peaks. I'd have to think about it more and do a lot more research to see what kind of line I can draw, if there is even a line to be drawn. I'm saying this because I don't think it's completely bonkers to see similarities
- gay stuff [all cheering]: the plot-relevant homoerotic relationship in NGE is Shinji/Kaworu and in Twin Peaks it's Laura/Donna. Shinji and Laura have some similarities (but also major differences like, Shinji ultimately survives his story) but Kaworu and Donna are completely different. Donna is helpless where it comes to Laura's eventual fate - in fact I would argue Laura's love for Donna has more of an impact on Laura's actions than anything Donna actually does. Kaworu meanwhile directly fucks the passive Shinji up.
- the biggest similarity I personally see (aside from the doomed homoerotic relationships lol) is that both stories try to impart that ultimately love endures, humanity endures, even after all hope is lost. but in spite of that audiences do tend to resonate more with the darker themes and motifs.
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my darling angel damian for ask game <3
Sexuality Headcanon: i think he is gay. the reason? he is nice and i like him :)
Gender Headcanon: hmmm i havent thought deeply about this but i do think that he has some Emotions about being a boy, in terms of being an heir to two great legacies...
A ship I have with said character: tbh i don't have a romantic ship for him! so i will talk about his family <3 i think he and talia are close he is a moms boy. i think of him and dick a Lot. i think he and cass have a lot in common and can be comfortable around each other.
A BROTP I have with said character: damian and lian harper! i have so many thoughts on them from the dickroy server. i think they would be very antagonistic and bother each other but also be great friends. they should be around the same age! (also damian, maya, and suren.... sobbing forever at what could have been)
A NOTP I have with said character: damian/raven again, i will add that the idea that they are like a demon/angel couple with DAMIAN as the demon? people who ship them don't even do it right smh
A random headcanon: IF damian listened to kpop (and that's a big if), i think he would like stray kids and his favorite song would be side effects. because of my main headcanon which is that damian likes music that sounds bad and is noise
General opinion over said character: my baby who i will never be normal about, EVER!!!!
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wistfulwisp · 5 months
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And lastly, some words on why I think shows like good omens are important.
I really like the movie ratatouille. It’s a little funky movie about a funky little rat, and I loved that as a kid. As I grew older, what I was able to appreciate is all of the commentary that a movie like ratatouille has on creativity and of the idea that is a collective we are taking on a responsibility in a creative world to protect new ideas. Now, good omens is not a new idea necessarily — the book itself has been around for quite a while. However, queer representation, queer media, religious trauma, and the complexities of human life (the ability to be curious, the ability to find love and protection in the world around us, and the ability to be accepted no matter how ruined we feel) all being wrapped up into a funky little bow is a relatively new idea. I think this show is one of many of these small new ideas that represent a turning point in media, more particularly in the stories we tell. I think the hype around shows that it’s worthy to discuss matters like these in an accessible way, in a universal way, and in a way that gives these people a voice.
And, yeah, it’s a fragile idea. It’s something that’s just starting out, which is why I feel like I need to tell people to go out and watch the show if you haven’t. You’ll notice that, yeah it’s about funky little demons and funky little angels, and it’s cute and gay and we love to see it, but once you let it sit with you you’ll find this real weight to what Pratchett and Gaiman are trying to say. Theres something so magical about experiencing a piece of media and not only finding it fun and entertaining, but being able to see the weight and the importance and the passion that’s carried through with the artist’s vision. I find with all the checkboxes that have to be filled with bigger corporations, it’s easier to find myself loving smaller indie films and shows, and it’s rarer to find something as big budget as this being done so creatively and freely. Plus, even if it was easy to please the big cheese, it’s a damn hard thing to become an artist. The world is often against you and the work you make. There’s an importance to a story like this being told, and I’ll do my best to play a part in our collective responsibility to protect stories like these as they emerge. It’s essential that stories of acceptance and love, a love for humanity and a love for shades of grey, and the gift and drive to create change no matter the cost exist in our world. The world is better for it.
The best storytellers give other people the space to become storytellers themselves. The best storytellers give people the space to breathe so they can paint their own picture and draw their own conclusions. And, this story and this show have really inspired me to get back into writing, and to indulge in stories once again. So, in that sense it’s been a bit of a pillar for me recently. And, I’d like to thank @neil-gaiman for that vision and for being part of that. His work is something that’s inspired me over and over, and just when I find I’ve lost my sense or spark he’s found his way back to me. If you haven’t seen the show, it’s a part of the legacy. You should watch it. Absolutely ineffable.
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cruelsister-moved2 · 11 months
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also worth saying that anecdotally lesbians have done a better job of removing transphobic lesbians from our community as a whole, especially in comparison to gay men. and look at how long it took trans men to grapple with kalvin garrah and his legacy as a community... if you don't judge trans men by buck angel then don't judge lesbians by the equivalent figures from our community that we all condemn.
there is a huge amount of insidious transphobia that is still completely normalised in the majority of gay male spaces, meanwhile if you look at the change in lesbian spaces from ten years ago compared to now, it's immediately obvious how how many lesbians have intentionally mobilised to do better and genuinely care about whether our community is a safe place to be trans
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albrechtstarkarm · 9 months
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I’m sick of what whiny hypocritical candyasses modern self-described Christians are.
How can a faith implode from And God loved humanity so much They sent Their only begotten Son to earth that Jesus might die as the Lamb of God to redeem it forever to UwU scawwy enbys and twans confuwse me sooow muwch God muwst be huwt by ur dwess, Miwstew Fewwow Cweation of da Aww-Powewfuw.
This is a living spirituality of faith and fury, of struggle and disappointment and pain and sacrifice, of shouldering your neighbor’s weight when they are too weak and giving your last cloak to the pauper in the coldest winter and feeding and housing the starving and homeless and loving the leper and being the sword of righteousness.
Sacrifice is supposed to be surrendering something meaningful to you.  Not because it’s What You Do but because it gives you empathy for those for whom it is not a volitional sacrifice.  You are supposed to feel your stomach stick to your spine because there are people who do not have food.  You are supposed to know what it is to go through the day dirty because there are people without clean water.  You are supposed to forego comforts because there are people without roofs over their heads.  My mother gave up chocolate every fucking year for Lent because she didn’t eat it.  Sometimes she’d say- tee-hee- I’m giving up smoking.  She hadn’t smoked for ten years before I was born.
And you’re not supposed to like or make a lifestyle out of being miserable, either.  Self-mortification, monasticism, renunciation, sacrificial traditions- all of those are acts of protest by solidarity, moral exons showing not their adoration of these things but their hatred of them by willingly enduring them alongside those who have no choice.  We are supposed to obliterate misery from the world; not accept it as inevitable and celebrate those on whom it’s inflicted as saints.
Christianity is not a vending machine where you plunk in idle sacrament and some easy pious lipservice and get theurgical miracles back.  The Manifestation and Prosperity Gospel bullshit are all just part of a lengthy legacy of secularizing the divine and theologizing the secular and muddling everything in this right-wing knockoff Disney without in-betweens dead of nuance and fearing everything that should not be feared and smiling in the presence of literal demons.
Good expiation and sacrifice are supposed to be like good rough sex and masochism: They’re supposed to hurt in their honesty and burn you clean.
You’re supposed to be able to be proud of yourself as a Christian not because you’re an arrogant judgmental bastard who’s made others’ lives worse, not because you’ve Won One for your team, but because there are no teams.  The world is God’s Creation, literal or figurative, but that isn’t even why.
It isn’t piety.  It’s love of self.  It’s love of others.  It’s about morality- the love of doing the right thing.  It’s folly to say there’s no selfishness.  There is no conceitedness.  Of course there’s selfishness.  It’s selfish to do the right thing because it will make your life better in the end.
If you’re using your faith to troll others, basing its successful practice on how many “heathens” and “sinners” you seem to be upsetting, you’re Doing It Wrong.  If you talk more about negativity than positivity, if you want more exclusion than inclusion, you’re Doing It Wrong.
You know what’s a sin?
What hurts others.  Not in the “here’s some casuistry from an insanely convoluted misreading of a fifty-times translated and mistranslated epistle written by a guy who lived a hundred years after Jesus might have walked in Galilee and it says being gay makes God’s tummy hurt” sense of harm.
I mean causes imminent injury to life, moral integrity, and emotional well-being.
Christianity is supposed to be a living faith.  There are supposed to be angels and demons walking alongside you.  You are not supposed to make appeals to Iron Age infallibilities.
You have evolved reason for a reason- use it.
You have evolved empathy for a reason- use it.
End homelessness.  End scarcity.  End want.  End division.  End hatred.  End pain.  End abuse.  End exploitation.  Immanentize the Eschaton on earth.  If someone laughs at you for that, you can be sure they have been seduced by evil.
Christians must not let themselves be seduced by the idea of eternal reward into making their faith a dead religion caged in death cult obsession with suffering and black dread.  Calvinism has a horrible legacy that must be combated.  So do all of Christianity’s other sects and digressions.  People have had horrible ideas.  You don’t need to base your life on them.
If it feels wrong, it probably is.  Learn about something- if it still makes you morally uncomfortable, then there’s likely something wrong with it.
Christendom was one of the centers of human learning for more than a thousand years.  It was not a Dark Age.  It was hardly perfect.  It was corrupt and fouled by worldly vice and wickedness, as institutions were and still are.  The Crusades did polarize and ravage this, much as happened with Islam- it turned those open curious faiths inward-looking and afraid and scarred by so much blood and violence, made them wary of the outsider, made them hostile to alien ideas.
I’m happy to be a Christian.  I want to be filled with love.  I’m tired of hatred and pain.  Life is too hard as it is.
Here’s the one commandment that matters: If it causes harm, it is a sin; if it uplifts and brings joy and fulfillment, it is a virtue.  That’s it.  Christianity on a cocktail napkin.  Everything else is intellectual and historical enrichment.
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Headcanon of Super smash Bros and Others Pt 1
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Yuki part 1
She is Japanese American
She is very kind and very elegant brave and brave
She is Asexual and nonbinary
She is Scared of Death and Betrayed
She is Fan of Anime and Manga also
Comic , Video games and TV series
Her favorite video game is Pokémon Scarlet , Super smash bros ultimate , Pokémon Shield , Kingdom Hearts 3 Persona 5 , Pokemon Black , Pokémon White 2 , SpongeBob Cosmic shake , Multiverse and Danganronpa
She is a demon angel hybrid but she is immortal
She have Alternate Forms :
A Dragon forms like Eastern dragon or western dragon or dragonling
Octoling Form
Human form she very similar of meggy
Animatronic form is Fox
Werewolf form , Weredragon form and werecow form
Pokemon form is Reshiram , White Kyurem , Goodra , Koraidon , Arceus , Delphox , Latias (Mega latias) and Sylveon and Flygon
Ultra Instinct form
Super Form
And Velociraptor Form
She trying to win to get rank X and She will win next time
She have Magic powers and spells she looks reminds me she became the mage
She have pet Smallfry
She is Neo Agent 3
She have Husband is Sora
She has have Inner Rage and Reshiram corrupted form by corrupted Reshiram like Fnf corruption
She has Nightmare form like fnf indie cross
She has spiky hair and fluffy hair similar of super smash Bros and splatoon
She is Waterproof inkling
She is omnivores
She is main character on Delta Stars
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Nate part 1
• He is American
He is Fallen Angel and he is immortal
He is Gay and bisexual
He have Husband is Ani he is Demon boy
He favorite video game is Pokémon Violet , Multiverse , Super smash bros ultimate , Nick All Star Brawl , Henry Stickman collection , Pokémon Moon , Pokemon White , Jump Forces , Mario kart 8 , Kingdom Hearts and Fire emblem engage
He have scars case on during on World of Light
He have Alternate Forms:
A Dragon form
Octoling Form
Elf from
Werewolf form , Werecrocodile form and weredragon form
Human form
Animatronic form Kitsune
Kitsune Furry form
Nightmare form
Wendigo form
Monster Goat form
Omega Blue Beast form
Pokemon forms like Zekrom , Latios (Mega latios) , Miraidon , hisuian typhlosion ,Typhlosion , Rayquaza (Mega Rayquaza) , Umbreon , zoroark , Hisuian Zoroark, Cobalion , Lugia and Black Kyurem
Protogen Form
He have problems of inner Rage and out of control became monster
He is Fan of Anime , manga and comic also video games and TV series
He favorite TV series is The Simpsons , SpongeBob , Loud House , pokemon ultimate Journey , Teen Titans Go , sword Art Online and Inside job
He has Magic powers and spells He was mage
He has Spiky hair and ponytail he was similar to inkling boy in smash bros and mario kart 8
He is a Wholesome dad
he waterproof Inkling
He is omnivores
He main character on Smash bros Delta stars
Super smash Bros ultimate Delta Stars is based of Anime and cartoon :
Steven Universe
My Hero Academia
One Piece
Dragon Ball Super
Blue exorcist
Tokyo Ghoul
Owl House
super smash Bros
Sword Art Online
Powerpuff Girls Z
Yuki and Nate They are protagonist character on super smash bros ultimate Delta stars
Plot Story :
After of World of Light and Dark defeat by Galeem and Dharkon they are peace of world Until A awaken of multiverse And universe A beyond venomous and one chaotic villain who case of Revenge and vengeance attack on the universe But when a hero to use a light of the elements The elements of Delta stars They use a light against using a power of darkness and chaos The one true hero to be a Delta great hero Became the Legendary heroic Path of Legacy.
This about is Inkling girl named Yuki Who became a brave hero Is she to be the legend The legacy of the hero On super smash bros ultimate Delta Stars
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This Headcanon about Super smash bros ultimate and multifandom
This doing characters on Headcanon Super smash bros ultimate Delta Stars include Crossovers and Part 2 will be later.
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I’m getting slightly confused about what all can count as a “Spidersona”, considering I thought a core element was them being a “Spider Totem”, but if that’s not required well, here’s the breakdown:
In the PbtA TTRPG “Masks: A New Generation”, you play as teenage to young adult superheroes, inspired by Teen Titans and Young Justice. As many other PbtA games its classes function as “playbooks”, little booklets with everything your character can do that have a theme to them. In PbtA, it’s Superhero types, so you got someone like The Legacy who functions as the child of famous superheroes, or The Mutant who is Hulkling or however that green gay dude is called.
One of these Masks, as the playbooks are called, is The Janus. The Janus is Spider-Man. Plain and simple, that’s the mood and theme behind the character: A Superhero with a life split between in and out of mask, a secret identity kept close at heart, and conflict between those two sides of yourself.
This is where Angel Gust comes in. I’ve so far had a chance to play her twice, in two different games, with two different DMs, at two very different points in my life. The second game had an Artist who Drew Her.
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Angel Gust’s powers are twofold: She can grow and ungrow a pair of feathery wings mostly at will. When said wings are grown, she gains Wind Control, be that blowing gusts of wind or making small cyclones or sucking the air from fires. As is expected of me making a superhero self insert, she’s a trans woman. A closeted pre-transition trans woman whose suit is made to help her pass. A Mask that is Almost Her, over a mask hiding the real Her. It has some subtle gadgets like a voice changer and padding to both protect her as well as give her breasts before she can grow them.
The Family Dynamic is that her dad is the J. Jonah Jameson equivalent of her world. And he hates the guts of her superhero identity. And the identity she keeps closeted from him.
The issue is that because she is a TTRPG character, fundamentally, she requires other players to go off of story wise and character development wise.
So you can consider this post my application to be part of a Masks campaign.
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Inside Billie Jean King’s medicine cabinet hangs an index card. She affixed it there with Scotch tape so that she sees it every day when she goes to get her Listerine or face cream. In her handwriting is a quote from Coretta Scott King: “Struggle is a never-ending process. Freedom is never really won. You earn it and win it in every generation.”
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In the article naming SI’s ’72 Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year—King shared the honor with UCLA men’s basketball coach John Wooden—she noted that many people consider her radical “but 10 years from now my ideas will seem antiquated.” (One of them regarded the playing of the national anthem at sporting events: “If the song offends some people, it is their privilege not to stand or acknowledge it.”) King was SI’s first female honoree, though in her telling she might not have been chosen if her sexuality had been known.
In All In, King describes an exchange with SI writer Frank Deford over dinner some 30 years after the honor. Deford said that when she was being considered for Sportswoman, managing editor Andre Laguerre asked him, “What’s this I hear about Billie Jean King being a lesbian?” Deford recalled saying, “Oh, Andre, they say that about all women athletes.” King writes, “Had Laguerre’s suspicions been confirmed, I never would have had a share of the 1972 award.” (Neither Deford nor Laguerre is still alive; Curry Kirkpatrick, who wrote the ’72 SOTY story, says he wasn’t involved in the selection of the winner.)
Whether or not Laguerre wanted a gay athlete on the cover of his magazine, he got one. Though she was then married to tennis promoter Larry King, Billie Jean was grappling with her own identity. She says she probably thought of herself as bisexual in 1972, noting, “We’re much more fluid than we think.” Seven years later she began her 42-year relationship with Ilana Kloss, now her wife, a former professional tennis player from South Africa (and King’s doubles partner). In 1981 the pair returned to their room at a resort in Florida and saw the door covered in pink phone message slips—which is how they found out King had been outed.
“Life was miserable then if you were gay,” King recalls, “and I was trying to figure out who I am.” She dismissed the advice of her lawyer and publicist and chose to acknowledge that she had had an extramarital relationship with a woman, her former secretary. King estimates she lost half a million dollars in endorsements and marketing deals in the first two months and millions overall, delaying her retirement plans. Not until she was 51, after an inpatient stay at a Renfrew Center for Eating Disorders that involved family and couples therapy, did King become truly comfortable with her sexual identity.
Around that time, King says Deford shared with her the discussion before the 1972 award. “I’m glad it’s not that way anymore,” King says, pointing to SI’s 2019 Sportsperson, World Cup champion Megan Rapinoe, the fourth standalone woman winner and an out gay athlete. King finds both validation and irony in being recognized again by SI a half century later.
“She’s very fortunate that she has actually gotten to experience that cycle,” Kloss says. “She’s said that when you read history, it feels so quick, but when you live it, it’s so much slower and harder. And boy, has she lived it.”
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She actively works to make sure it does get passed down. The Women’s Sports Foundation, which King started shortly after the passage of Title IX, has invested around $100 million into ensuring girls have access to sports, conducting research about girls’ sports participation and serving as what King calls “guardian angels” for the landmark law. And she has helped others do for their sports what she did for tennis.
In the mid-’90s, Julie Foudy, then co-captain of the U.S. national soccer team, crossed paths with King at an event that brought together women leaders from different sports. As she heard King talk about the Original Nine and their fight for equal prize money, Foudy remembers thinking, This is our story! She and her teammates were frustrated: Even after winning the ’91 World Cup, the U.S. Soccer Federation was paying them $10 a day. So King challenged Foudy: What are you doing about it? You have the power!
Foudy was flying straight from the event to meet her teammates, who were about to sign another lowball contract. But she told them what King had said: that they needed to leverage their success and demand more, both in wages and investment in the sport. That’s how the USWNT has gone from those $10 per diems to six-figure salaries to suing the federation for equal pay.
“In women’s sports, for so long, you were told to shut up and just be grateful,” Foudy says. “And then we stopped shutting up, in large part because Billie’s like, No, it’s on you. You make the change. You as players demand better. . . . She really was the catalyst.”
In early 2019, King gave similar advice to Coyne Schofield and her colleagues. Speaking on a conference call, she urged 200 women’s hockey players to stick together as one. It was not all that different from the message King had delivered in a hotel ballroom in 1973, the week before Wimbledon, when she got 65 of her peers to vote unanimously to create the Women’s Tennis Association, uniting them in one tour that in 2019 awarded $179 million in prize money. (“I was in the room,” Kloss recalls, “and all I knew was that if it was good enough for her, it was certainly good enough for us.”)
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Like King in the ’70s, there are days when Coyne Schofield, who is training for a third Olympics, feels exhausted both by the work she’s doing for the future of the sport and by playing at the highest level. But she thinks back to the summer of 2019, when she and four other hockey Olympians attended the U.S. Open with King. They sat in the Queens tennis center named for King by the same organization that once threatened her career. They saw the equal crowds and equal prize money for men and women, which King first secured in 1973 by negotiating directly with the tournament director and lining up a sponsor to make up the difference.
“Everything is so equal and no one questions it, no one thinks about it. That’s just how it is,” Coyne Schofield says. “That was such a motivating moment, sitting in the empire that Billie Jean built and knowing that we have the opportunity to help create that in women’s hockey.”
Billie Jean King has been fighting the same fights for most of her 78 years.
“That’s where I go back to Coretta,” she says, referencing the quote in her bathroom cabinet. “It never ends. But each person hopefully helps. And allows a stepping stone.”
Kloss describes her wife as “a tree with thousands of branches.” King wants to go everywhere, help everyone, champion every worthwhile cause. Such as: After the U.S. Open’s tennis complex was renamed for her in 2006, she took steps to reduce its environmental footprint, and since ’08 the tournament has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 37,000 metric tons. (In 2019, the Green Sports Alliance recognized King as a “true Green-Sports pioneer.”) In recent years, she has vocally backed athletes protesting police brutality and denounced laws banning transgender and intersex kids from participating in sports.
She often talks about an epiphany she had at age 12 at the Los Angeles Tennis Club, where she noticed that everything was white: white clothes, white balls, white people. She wondered, where is everybody else? Decades later she still sees so much inequity—like in the results of a recent survey co-sponsored by Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative, her nonprofit, showing that a majority of women of color in the workplace feel that stereotypes have hurt their careers, and that they are less likely to feel valued than white women. Disparities like these are why King still feels a daily urgency and worries, Kloss says, “that she is running out of time.”
After the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, when King’s travel schedule was necessarily halted, Kloss suggested they return to the tennis court. King hadn’t really played for the better part of two decades, during which she had a double knee-joint replacement. The joy immediately came rushing back. Kloss says she’s never seen anybody more excited than King about the feel of a tennis ball on her racket. That feeling set the course of her life.
The day she turned 78, that’s where King was: on a court, doing a few extra drills, still working on that forehand. As a champion, King was always trying to hit the perfect shot, though she knew it was an elusive goal. But she kept trying, getting better, getting closer, just as she has in her pursuit of equality, her life’s work, her legacy.
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I listened to a podcast talking about Title IX and Billie Jean King and again got emotional and thankful that it was BJK and not Margaret Court who emerged as the icon, legend, and cultural force from tennis.
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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Wednesday, June 29 – Thursday, June 30
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