#and somehow even more gay than that

[tracedinairlwa]

IT’S LIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE! I’m so proud to be able to share the finished version of FLOWERS OF STARLIGHT with you all! This is a yuri visual novel that I’ve been working on in collaboration with several close friends for the last few months, it’s about a gay as heck uni girl who’s not addicted to MMOs, but just might be addicted to the cute nerdy girl she plays them with.

If you’re a fan of my fics, or any of the work of the wonderful people who helped bring this project to life, I can pretty much guarantee you’re going to love this game almost as much as Maristela loves nerding out about space. With that said, I’d like to extend some HUGE thanks to the people who made this game possible:

@suntann​ - Programming / UI Design / SFX / Additional Background Art / Game Assembly

@arjyles​ - Character Art

@vhalesa​ - Character Art / Additional Background Art / Programming / Game Assembly / Additional SFX

@tanuki-pyon​ - Background Art / Insert Art

@shintorikhazumi​ - Music Composition

ty ily all so much and ily anyone who plays this game, thanks so much!

#flowers of starlight #yuri #yuri game jam #visual novel #storygame #aster #maristela #liontooth #starsiren #neurodivergent characters #lgbt #seriously these girls be nd as heck #and somehow even more gay than that

[caruliaa]

its so fucking funny how in season 1 vile kidnapped chase bc they thought he was working with carmen to trap her on the bases of assuming they where close and carmen would recuse him for that reason and carmen was like Im Going To Rescue Him I Have A Duty To Protect Any Bystanders Vile Hurts like the least personal shit ever then in season 4 vile kidnap julia def in part to trap carmen but mostly bc shes the one tht knows what the puzzle thing means and both carmens reaction comparatively and how the episode frames it is like her fiancee was kidnapped the day before their wedding and she has to choose between rescusing her beloved and stopping the evil

#LIKE. SORRY. BUT GAY AS HELL !!! #still need to rewatch cs btw my beuatiful wife. ill do it after i finish tgp. but regardless this is so so real. and gay #one thing abt carulia is that its as canon as it can be without actually bieng canon and somehow even more canon than that #carulia #cs #julethief #carmen sandiego #flappy rambles

[spicyraeman]

dungeon meshi good...

#just caught up on the latest eps #I went into it knowing it was gay a hell and somehow it was even more gay than I expected

[grahamcore]

remembering that will was canonically a cop at one point is genuinely so baffling because what the fuck do you mean the insane rabies guy was writing speeding tickets and doing drug busts? imagine getting pulled over by a man who looks one inconvenience away from a psychotic break. how did he even get hired

#somehow will as a teacher is so much more threatening than will as a cop. i think he’d look silly in the uniform #also psa i KNOW he was technically a homicide detective i am just being a little silly #anyways #do they even hire gay people as police officers #how did he manage to sneak under the radar like that #bisexuality? straight passing privilege? i don’t buy it buddy #hannibal #hannibal nbc #will graham

[sonknuxadow]

sorry mild hater moment incoming but . idk what it is with s/onadow fans (not all of them. just a very loud subsection) specifically and making every little thing shadow does about s/onadow even if its the biggest reach imaginable and immediately going "omg s/onadow" every time hes confirmed to be in some upcoming thing . or being so obsessed with the ship and letting it warp their perceptions of things so much to the point where they act like every little thing is a hint from sega that theyre in love for real. and they cant admit that its not canon or that just because they choose to interpret certain things romantically doesnt mean that thats actually what sega/the writers intended even if theres an obvious non so/nadow explanation for it

before people take this the wrong way i dont hate the ship i dont think that its completely baseless or that everyone who likes it is wrong and annoying or anything . but some of you look like this if im being honest

#and this isnt all s/onadow exclusive problems for example amy cant be in anything without people making it about so/namy #which is just as annoying. but on tumblr i see the most of this sort of thing from so/nadow fans #and when it comes to gay pairings specifically its ONLY so/nadow i see people act this way over #for example. and im NOT trying to argue over which pairing is better this is just an example. #son/knux is probably the second most popular gay ship involving sonic #and if we're talking the franchise as a whole not just sonic prime. sonic and knuckles interact more than sonic and shadow #and they also have a lot of moments like knuckles blushing over sonic touching his shoulder or sonic bridal carrying him or whatever #but i dont see people try to argue that theyre canon because of any of those moments. #or try to make everything knuckles does about so/nknux even if its a massive reach #(AGAIN im not trying to argue over which is better i was just giving an example. before people misinterpret that) #so what is it about sonic and shadow that makes people do this . do they just not care about sonic and/or shadow outside of the ship ? #are they only into sonic for so/nadow and nothing else ?? hello what is going On here #people will be like ''so/nadow fans are being fed so good'' and theres a 60 percent chance the food is just them standing near eachother #like ive literally seen people take certain sonic moments or shadow art or whatever that have Nothing to do with the other character #and couldnt reasonably be made about them . but still somehow find a way to make it about that anyway #and then go on to unironically use the stuff that they literally made up as proof that its canon #ive also seen people just spread blatantly false information as evidence the ship is canon #like hello. what are we doing #whatever happened to just liking a non canon ship and being able to admit that its not canon but still have fun with it anyway #this wasnt prompted by any one specific person/post btw just a pattern of behavior ive noticed

[waugh-bao]

#I honestly don’t know what’s funnier here #the person who is somehow still ‘on the fence’ about Liberace being gay #or the Jerry Lewis/Dean Martin stan #I can definitely tell you who is more annoying #(who gives a shit that Jerry came first. Frank was with him five times as long as Jerry. And it was always a healthy fruitful and mutually #supportive relationship. also Dean 100% kissed Frank on the lips more than once) #not the stones #youtube comments #dean martin #frank sinatra #((I can just feel the angry comments from the jerry lewis people coming. I had to block someone last time I posted a gifset of Dean and #Frank that had nothing even to do with Jerry))

[rubberduckyrye]

I still can't believe people misinterpret this to be Kaito being homophobic when he's upset because he thinks Shuichi came out of the closet and never told him.

In Kaito's FTEs, he says communication is the most important thing for an astronaut. Communication. You know what isn't communication? Not telling your bestie you're kinda gay.

His reaction isn't displaying anything like "WOAH EW NO NOT THE GAY FOR ME" he's literally upset because he thinks Shuichi kept his sexual orientation a secret form him.

Anyway biting the haters for trying to say Kaito's homophobic because that's just fucking wrong.

(And if I remember correctly his LSE was VERY "Rivals to lovers" gay coded so SUCK IT ANTIS.)

#Plus the fact that Kaito never developed romantic feelings for Maki in canon and instead let her down gently when she confessed #Like I know that could mean he just didn't like HER like that specifically #But......... I mean #in the library dates Kaito is more than willing to read a dirty book with Shuichi #Idk maybe he's Gay Guys #I personally like him being a hopeless bisexual but also #I can see the HC of him just being flat out gay like there is Reason and Evidence for it #Like I think he's so far in the closet that he's not even aware of his own sexuality #but he kisses a boy and boy howdy is he full hog gay/bi after that #I... spitefully kind of want to make him a peacock gay for queer events #Boy wears full ass rainbow or bi colors at Pride you Cannot Stop Him #You tell him he's wearing too many rainbows and he somehow adds MORE RAINBOWS.

[heftbyjapanesebreakfast]

god my coworker is cool but they like constantly try to one up everything i say. i forget what exactly we were talking about but i mentioned how my family is irish and mexican and there's lots of alcoholism/ addiction. and they were like "yeah my dad's addiction is scary. he loves smoking and adds mint essential oil bc they don't sell menthols" or whatever and like um. well my dad's addiction killed him so

#i didn't tell them about my dad but i should. just to ruin the mood #but knowing them they would have made it about themself somehow🙄 #i'm sorry but i wanted to laugh in their face #like you're talking about cigarettes..... and then they said their mom is addicted to shopping #like you've got to be fucking kidding me.... #m #also today i jokingly was like being a bi woman is so hard i'm only into gay guys #and they were like well dating a nonbinary person is even harder i don't even know who is into me #like okay well i was fucking joking first of all and they way they phrased it was so weird and combative #and completely just ignoring how actually scary and dangerous it can saying a woman esp a fat woman & we have more things in common than no #i want to make it clear and i recognize what they're saying and its true. i'm just saying we experience very similar things #whatever i was just so annoyed

[desi-lgbt-fest]

As a young sapphic who's still in high school and coming into her identity, it gives me chills sometimes when my mom laughs and talks of a possible near future where she hopes to marry me to a boy(and goes on to talk of how he must be from the same community and I should be glad I'm not marrying my cousin). It makes me wanna work harder and get a scholarship to go abroad as far as I can. Any advice or hope?

Hey anon, first of all, thank you so much for sharing, and know that you're not the only one who feels this way.

This is a bit anecdotal but let me tell you a story of how, literally two days ago, I went to this local south asian pride event. In hindsight, there weren't a lot of people there. Maybe upwards to about 80 to 100 people? However, when I arrived, I was overwhelmed by the sheer amount of queer desi people just present. And I'm talking trans people, genderqueers, asexuals, people in poly relationships, and people of all genders in lehengas and kurtas and rainbow saris. There were people out to their parents and even more not out, preferring to live freely and safely.

Even as a queer person myself, I could not comprehend how many people there were like me and different from me. And I am fortunate to live in a very tolerant country. I remember saying out loud "Oh my god there are so many people here," and someone replying "Yeah, we exist outside of the screen too." I think it occurred to me then that maybe it's not a matter of me being alone, but me choosing to be because I'm always overwhelmed, shy, or terrified of the consequences of not meeting expectations.

Basically, anon, I'm trying to say that there is always hope. And often, community is much closer to you than you think. There are many of us living in similar circumstances. However, just like you, we fight in our own little ways. Some of us push back marriage to "focus on our careers", some might indoctrinate their parents in tiny ways until they are a little more tolerant than before, and others straight up come out after they have established themselves independently (these people are braver than any soldier to me). Either way, no matter the circumstance, we are always fighting.

Study hard, and go to a college far away. Or study hard and go to a college close by. Stay with your parents or don't stay with them. Get a job, or don't. Either way one day you will be an adult and you will find that community, and you will learn how to fight even harder than before.

#mod navi #by the way #it it's any consolation #i commute from my parent's house to college and somehow still found desi gay people everywhere #more common than you think and it's kind of scary #like boo where were you in my most formative years #now its gay people everywhere #ALSO #MY MOM TOLD ME THE SAME THING ABT MARRYING COUSINS #im pretty sure she was trying to scare me bc she's jealous of how much freedom i have at my age that she didn't #i straight up told her she was being weird and gross like no one does that not even people living in the motherland #that shut her up and put some perspective i think lmao

[matthoopergay]

I feel like my personal reading of Quint is just completely incomprehensible and no longer connected to canon at all but like… what’s more fun. Canon Quint or canon Quint with the backstory of him having been a little twink in his youth who went on to experience severe twink death post-Indianapolis and then blossomed into a very crotchety old queen. I mean there’s nothing in canon that technically directly contradicts that and he DOES have those slaying little boots… He definitely used to do drag I’m sorry but you can’t convince me otherwise. My gay king 5ever.

#i supply so much of the current jaws content sorry you have to put up with nonbinary old queen quint<3 im right tho #i am a queer quint defender FIRST and a person SECOND #quint #jaws 1975 #sorry main tag but you need to experience him the way i do #tbh i am somehow more invested in quint being a little fag than i am with hooper being trans OR GAY even tho hooper is literally me irl #sharkspeak

[cassmouse]

i am so so very gay for ramona flowers

#marry me ramona #I love her so much #like I somehow love her even more in the series than I did in the film #absolutely legendary character I adore her #ramona flowers #scott pilgram takes off #scott pilgrim #scott pilgram vs the world #yk “I am sad so very very sad” from the film?? #me but so gay

[quietwingsinthesky]

i thought. im sorry but i thought we were all collectively partaking in yet another mass hallucination, a thing which would never be actually touched upon in canon beyond the two of them being insane about each other in ways that can plausibly read to an audience as romantic but be excused by the writers as platonic childhood-friends-now-enemies shit. what the fuck do you mean they’ve actually kissed in canon and we can just watch that happen. that’s not supposed to happen!!! what do you mean they acknowledged it!!! THEY KISSED??!?!?!!?!

#i cannot emphasize enough that this reaction is not me thinking that them kissing is somehow more deranged than even half the shit that wen #on between the master & the doctor before. #but instead me trying to wrap my head around. someone writing kissing between them into the show. #and its twelve and missy so yes it looks straight now so its allowed but like. they did very much just make them kiss. they can’t ungay the #last 40 ish years of gay rivalry just because theyre straight-presenting when they kiss. they can’t. #they kiss…. in canon………… what the fuck. #i feel like im in a revolving door. this doesn’t compute. they can’t just do that.

[magentagalaxies]

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#this might be both oversharing and being too vague rn but it's 2am and i'm emotionally exhausted #i can't believe during one of the most traumatic moments i've had in the past year i was lucky enough to have scott as my biggest supporter #the entire time as i was going through it he was so supportive giving me space to process shit and always having my back #and yet there are some people in my life who are always going to villainize him for one comment he said during that time out of context #or even if they're not ''villainizing'' him i now feel like i have to begin every sentence about scott with #''yeah we don't agree on everything but we're still friends and isn't that amazing!'' #which yeah that is true and i do genuinely enjoy when scott and i disagree and are respectful about it #BUT WHY DOES THAT HAVE TO BE THE FIRST THING I SAY ABOUT HIM???? #and honestly that whole experience made me agree with scott on way more than i started out with #i'm proud of how i was able to grow as a person and for the fact that it brought me and scott much closer together #but that shit i went through at my college was still traumatic. and it did change me as a person #it completely changed my relationship to activism in a way i'm not happy about bc i want to be more of an activist #but when i had someone use social justice language to justify horrible things against me it's hard not to be wary #of how hollow and performative a lot of conversations can be #and like i'll even say it. like people might get mad at me for admitting it #but that whole traumatic situation has irrevocably changed my relationship to gender as well #or at least how i label myself and how i move through these conversations #and in some ways i'm grateful for it bc i do feel like i know myself more and like i don't have to worry about what others' think #or even what other people understand #but it shouldn't have had to go down like that. and as much as the time i got to spend with scott during that time was so much fun #and such a great experience and he was truly the perfect support system during that time #he shouldn't have had to deal with that and neither should i #and the fact that scott somehow got villainized in some people's minds while the person who actually caused that trauma #is instead treated like ''yeah he was a bit misguided and made a mistake but he was probably anxious about it!! he's just a person!!'' #that's never going to stop being painful. especially the idea that with the importance people put on labels #i would supposedly have more ''community solidarity'' with that asshole than a cis gay man like scott #idk i think i'm past the timeframe of that traumatic experience bc it's not consuming every day like it used to a few weeks back #but something triggered it tonight so i just need to process it. anyway shoutout to scott for being there for me i really needed it

[here-there-were-dragons]

every time i think the "staff can do no wrong and any form of complaining or expressing literally anything other than "yaaay love it <3" with no further comments is bashing and literally evil we should never say anything that could even potentially be interpreted as mildly critical ever because ~some artist who worked hard on this is probably reading the forums and might feel bad if we ever express anything but praise~ also we must be constantly positive at all times unless we're passive-aggressively shaming someone for having an extremely polite and apologetically worded criticism and if you ask the staff for literally anything you had better be prepared to preface it with 3 paragraphs of apologizing for breathing air" attitude is bad on tumblr, i take one look at the forums, and holy fucking hell is it SO much worse on site

#i go for years at a time without ever bothering to look at fr forums #and then every time i do i remember why i stopped #it feels like a goddamned cult on there and every time i dip my toes i come out feeling slimy and sick #as if i just spent an hour being aggressively gaslit by my extremely manipulative grandmother #what the fuck is wrong with everyone #i'm glad i decided to keep this creepy fucking fandom at arm's length and mostly just lurk years ago #that place is not a healthy environment for anyone to be in #flight rising #legitimately the single worst fandom i've ever had the misfortune of being adjacent to #and in such a creepy and insidious way too #they'll call you an entitled whiny baby to your face and then convince you it's your fault and you're a horrible person for feeling offende #it feels like being neck deep in the absolute worst kind of preformative sj spaces #you know the ones where everyone interacts primarily via callout posts and there's discourse over if crossdressing is cultural appropriatio #that kind of toxic sj space type energy #but somehow combined with like this weird feeling of being in a mormon church in a deep south town #where all the “nice grandmas” will try to put poison in your food if they find out you're gay or voted blue even one time #and it's somehow gotten SO much worse since the last time i looked on there #they've got people literally apologizing for existing what the fuck how is this normal to any of you people #this is so far beyond toxic positivity it's like. crossbred with passive-aggression and shaming and metastatized into something new entirel #it's terrifying. i hope flight rising never shuts down just so that whatever the fuck this is can stay semi-contained. #pro tip: the more a fandom is universally convinced it's Wonderful and Welcoming the faster you should run the other way #actually good fandoms don't have to constantly reassure themselves and everyone that they're great and perfect and toxicity-free #nor do they react with immediate borderline violence to the slightest suggestion there might be anything wrong with the fandom culture #anything wrong other than “people like you who think there's something wrong with our perfect community” anyway #on that note also any fandom that insistently calls itself a “community” just. yeah. no. #get out while you still can. #fandoms work on corporate logic if they're trying to convince you they're your family or friend that's not just a red flag #that's a whole damn red fabric store

[moony-to-ur-pads]

regulus was given the middle name arcturus at birth and arcturus is the fourth brightest star in the night sky and THIS MAKES SO MUCH SENSE BECAUSE as a trans man, he was the fourth in his generation to be afab and so they were essentially like ‘oh shit. we have another one ig’ because sexism, and this absolute bottom-of-the-black-house-barrel situation that regulus found himself in was what eventually turned him into such a strong slytherin, and then into a power-hungry death eater, going so far as to turn his back on the brother he loved for the sake of reputation and duty and most importantly the power he was never given, AND IN CONCLUSION basically trans!regulus makes more sense to me than the canon one in every way shape and form so thank you and good night <3

#poor regulus in his childhood was never first never brightest never best :( #im so obsessed with #trans regulus black #rn #regulus black #trans!regulus #marauders headcannon #regulus black headcanons #im sure this isn’t even news to most people but i felt like a genius putting it together #(i’ve connected the dots / you haven’t connected shit!) #to be clear im certainly not excusing death eater regulus i just love exploring character motivations and how they end up where they do and #regulus black’s moral greyness is so interesting to me #and this makes more sense to me than canon :) #im meant to be writing theses for King Lear rn somebody save me #this paragraph I wrote about a dead gay wizard from the 70s is somehow stronger than anything I have ever produced for my English teacher

[yeonban]

★ - for Aha & Akivili!

Send me a ★ and I’ll bold what applies to your muse.

I like you / I hate you / I dislike you/ I love you / You are family / I would take a bullet for you / I would shoot you / I would lie to your face / I would say something cruel to you on purpose / I would say something cruel to you accidentally / I would cheat on you / I would physically hurt you / You annoy me / You amuse me / I’d laugh at you / I’d laugh with you / I’d manipulate you / You scare me / You confuse me / I wish I knew you better / I trust you / I don’t trust you / You inspire me / I consider you an equal / You are beneath me / You’re better than me / I would trust you with my life / I think you’re mean / I think you’re petty / I think you’re childish / I think you’re smart / I think you’re stupid / I think you’re a bad person / I think you’re a good person / I’m not sure what kind of person you are / I wish you would listen to me / I want to make you proud / I wish you would notice me / I want to impress you / I would hurt other people for you / I’m not sure how to make you happy / I’m a bad GREAT! influence on you / You deserve better than me / We make a great team / I’d have a one night stand with you / I’d have a relationship with you / I would marry you / I fantasize about our life together / I would trust you with my most treasured belonging / I would tell you my darkest secrets / You disgust me / You intimidate me / I hope I intimidate you / I’d hug you / I’d let you hug me / I’m scared of losing you The world wouldn't be as fun without you in it / I don’t think you like me / I want to be better for you / I respect you / I don’t respect you / You’re my mentor / You’re my friend / You’re my best friend / I have a crush on you / I could easily watch you die / I’d get drunk drink with you / I’d party with you / I’d comfort you / I’d prank you / I’d spike your drink / I’d act behind your back / I’d abandon you / I’d hurt you to get what I want / I would choose my happiness over yours / I would choose your happiness over mine / I despise how much I care for you / I need you / I’m dependent on you / I don’t know what I’d do without you / I’m scared of you leaving me / I’d give my life for you / You frustrate me / I’d call for you in a time of need / I would protect you / I’d visit you in the hospital if you were weakened / I’d carry you if you were hurt / I’d feel guilty if I hurt you / I’d let you be near me when I am vulnerable / I’d ignore a phone call from you / I’d call you at 3am / I’d break you out of jail / I’d get angry at you / I would shout at you / You’re too loud / You’re too quiet / You’re too sensitive / You can’t take a joke / You embarrass me / I feel nothing for you / You’re reckless / You’re bossy / You bore me / I would ask your advice / I would blame you for something I did / I would cry in your arms / You have the power to hurt affect me more than anyone else /

#muse: aha. #ascendedstar #...They are down more horrendously for Akivili than I previously thought I fear. and it's terminal too. #like some of these I did NOT expect to be bolded but their gay ass proved me wrong... to live is to learn I guess </3 #also... 'the world wouldn't be as fun without you in it' absolutely obliterated me. Aha just decided that no phrase from this template #fits what they're feeling well enough so they went ahead and CREATED one that'll fit better. an Akivili special if you will #It's so odd to look at Aha's dynamic w Akivili bc they're SO incredibly fond of Akivili. words can't even begin to describe it #but at the same time being an aeon is such a tragic thing? bc you're forever bound to the concept you ascended with #and in Aha's case that's elation... which limits their emotions to happiness & theatrics. which is TERRIBLE for bonding w others #I think on this front Aha is one of the more limited aeons... bc others /are/ free to feel whatever emotions they want to if they so wish #(I think the only one that's also limited in this sense might be Yaoshi? bc they wouldn't exactly be allowed to feel or act on hatred) #BUT YEAH Aha is very attached to Akivili but in such a fucked up twisted sense of the word. and it really Shows in their interactions #They're glued to Akivili's side and talking w hearts and saying they want to hug Akivili and giving them their entire attention for a year #...only for them to next blow up the thing Akivili treasures most (the Express and its Nameless) not long after to grab Akivili's attention #The INSANE duality drives me wild... Aha can be so sweet to them one moment and then so ??? the very next #and I feel bad for Akivili for having somehow piqued Aha's... affections; but it's SOOO interesting to watch them unfold #bc as confusing as their actions might be; Aha's fondness for Akivili really IS the genuine thing. They miss Akivili soso badly