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naayewolf · 3 months

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Male BSD Preferences [Smut]

Summary: This is basically what some of the characters prefer on their S/O (Ass, Tits, Etc.) TW: Explicit Sexual descriptions and implications, READ AT OWN RISK!! Notes: Whenever I see anime characters, men specifically, I'm always just trying to figure this out straight up from the get-go.. and while some of them are quite easy to decipher, others you have to dig deep to come up with something. Therefore some of these I immediately just HC from the get-go, and others I had to genuinely think about.

Jōno Saigiku:

He's blind, so he can't necessarily have preferences for anything visual.. But, he does love to sense you and your body. Whether it be squeezing your body or just smelling your perfume/natural smell, he loves it.. He loves to randomly touch you and does so a lot, though not in public, he can't afford for his reputation to be tarnished by squeezing your ass in front of his comrades..

Instead, he settles for coming into your barracks after a long day of work and hugging you from behind while you continue your daily tasks. He'll talk to you while he stuffs his face into your neck, talking about his daily mission, ranting about Tetchō and his food preferences, or just scenting you as he holds onto you in silence.. He'll never admit it because of his ego.. But he does love you, and is he won't say he loves you out loud, he'll just have to show you in more small, affectionate ways.

Tetchō Suehiro

Ass.. All day, there's no way this man ain't all about the ass.. But man is also stupidly obsessed with training, so he rarely gets his days off to come meet you..

Sometimes he doesn't even have to be hurt and he'll stop by the infirmary to squeeze your ass and rub his face into your neck while he tells you about his day..

He loves to fuck you into the mattress, squeezing your sides as his hips pound into your ass. It makes him happy to see the plap of his hips as he fucked you in either off your holes.. He doesn't care, he just wants to hold your face into the mattress as he makes you arch your back up into his dick while it pounds you stupid

Dazai Osamu

This is Dazai-"I love all women"- Osamu.. So you bet your ass he's all about any part of your body!-

He's constantly slacking off in the agency, so he's all the time in the world to play with you during the work day..

Whether it be light squeezes to your body or hugs that lead to him biting into your neck.. He's constantly coming up to touch you. He'll be all over you in the most simplest ways so that no one can tell you're being naughty but he can still tease you all day until he finally brings you home to shake the foundations of your work dorm..

Mori Ougai (S/O is 18+)

Tits.. He's all about them.. And you have the perfect size to deliver.

He's always calling you to his office just to get a taste of them.. He'll make you sit on his lap and send of all the guards to wait outside canceling all his meetings until later. He'll have you on his lap in his office as he undoes the buttons off your shirt with his teeth, rutting his hips up into you to get friction..

He'll suck your breasts for hours, rubbing all over your body as he leaves hickeys and bites all across your chest.. He just can't get enough!

Sigma

Thighs.. He loves some thighs. He's rather shy about it, but after all of the patrons in the sky casino are taken care of and the day is over, he'll cuddle you up as you watch some Netflix show on the TV and squeeze your thighs.

He sometimes brings you to his office so he can have you sit in his lap while he does paperwork, the feeling of your plush thighs against his lap making him calm while he deals with stressful work..

But he also likes to have his dick between your thighs as he fucks them after a hard day of work. He'll hold his arms around your waist and hold you tight to his chest as he ruts up between your thighs, whimpering into your neck or hair

Nikolai Gogol

He doesn't care. What he likes doing.. Is using his ability to dick you down while you're away.. You'll be in your office working on some case and suddenly a portal opens underneath your bra, Nikolai's tongue flicking or to nurse on your nipples as another portal opens to fuck his large dick into your helpless pussy.. He's not against doing it in front of other people.. And he's embarrassed you a few times in front of Fyodor by randomly pressing his dick into you and fucking you HARD against the nearest surface your body lays on. Needless to say, Fyodor wasn't very amused..

#smut!#bsd smut #prefrences #BSD Smut HCs

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olderthannetfic · 8 months

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/726901861182996480/ a lot of the Richard Siken response is honestly so homophobic, trying to come up with some sinister reason for why a gay man would be interested in writing or reading sexy fanfic about attractive men in a TV show. There was a viral post going around here by some person with a Stranger Things username (not insinuating that fandom is especially weird or anything, just that I remember this person had one of the characters from that show as their username) that suggested he was a creep or groomer or something because he had not responded well to a teenager basically wanting him to do her homework for her, but “he happily writes fanfic of shows for her age demographic” (or something like that) which is both a truly bizarre description of Supernatural, a show that’s always been aimed at adults even if it also has a fair number of teenage fans, but also is really clearly trying to invoke some sort of Groomer Panic in a time when that’s rising as a form of violent homophobia toward LGBTQ+ people especially those who are AMAB. And it’s just such a bizarre statement: even if we were talking about a drama that was aimed at teenagers, in what ways is it “groomer” for an adult to watch this show (lol, on the website that is full of adults freaking out over kids’ shows) or for that adult to find the adult characters played by adult actors attractive enough to write sexy fanfic about them? It’s just really obviously reaching for an excuse to call a gay man a groomer.

In general, I feel like this website has a serious problem (it’s been the case at the very least since the panic over CMBYN, and before anyone gets pissy, I’m not talking about anyone taking issue with the content of the film itself, but the people making weird insinuations about gay/bi men for liking it or “the gay community” for embracing it or over the bi male novel author’s own sexuality or reasons for writing it, etc.) where a lot of people who are not gay/bi men think it’s okay for them to make weird homophobic assertions about it, and generally not bother to question their homophobic beliefs about gay and bi men, because they themselves are some other kind of LGBTQ+. I’m a cis lesbian and a lot of this particular seems to come from cis lesbians and bi women, often trying to couch it in a general sort of skepticism that women as a marginalized group might have toward men as a privileged group, but then it only ever seems to be directed at men who are also marginalized such as gay/bi men (and also MOC) and specifically for things that are a result of those marginalized identities and that don’t affect women — NOT a situation where a man is using his marginalized identity as an excuse for misogyny or anything like that. Anyway, people need to knock that shit off. Not every person in the LGBTQ+ community has the same experience, and being, say, a cis woman who is queer doesn’t necessarily make you any better of an authority on gay or bi men’s lives than cishet people if you aren’t making an effort to talk to them or read stuff by them or learn about their lives, and certainly doesn’t mean you can’t be homophobic toward them — just like how in turn, queer men can be bigoted toward lesbians and/or bi women. I don’t understand how people can be aware of other kinds of intra-LGBTQ+ bigotry — cis gay or bi people being transphobic, gay people being biphobic, etc. — and not be aware that this is also a thing that can happen from other LGBTQ+ people toward gay men.

And being ANY kind of queer absolutely does not give you a get out of jail free card for buying into and disseminating the moral panics about groomers, “kink at pride,” “drag is problematic and always sexual” etc. which are used by the right wing to hurt all of us. This was bad enough in like 2018 as part of the perennial brain worms people on this website have about Pride (that are because way too many of them don’t leave their houses and actually go to a Pride parade) or when people could plausibly believe that “groomer” was purely about shipping discourse and maybe the occasional actually kind of creepy older adult in fandom spaces who spends a little too much time glomming onto teens specifically. But in 2023 you don’t really have any excuse for not being aware of how those terms have broken containment and are now part of regular right-wing propaganda, and particularly a concerted right-wing campaign to try to re-mainstream homophobia in places where it had become socially taboo. Your discomfort around a real adult gay man just enjoying fanfiction, which does not affect you, is not justified and you need to work through that. Using terms like “groomer” for fucking fandom discourse when it’s come to mean what it does in the broader culture is just completely morally reprehensible. Get a fucking grip

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power-handmaiden · 3 months

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Day 35: Angry Man Pounded By The Fear Of His Latent Gayness Over A Dinosaur Transitioning Into A Unicorn

I love how much contempt for its characters this tingler starts off with. We have the iconic man/woman couple who are always the subject of conservative boomer humor about relationships, the emotionally unavailable man and his overbearing shrill wife, who don't even like each other, let alone love or show any attraction to each other. It feels like a caricature but it actually makes more sense when the man turns out to not actually be attracted to women, honestly.

This tingler aged... interestingly. The protagonist's crisis of sexuality is brought on by his attraction to Bort Jenkins, a unicorn athlete and reality TV star who was born as a dinosaur and recently transitioned to a unicorn. Clearly a stand-in for Caitlyn Jenner. (If my rudimentary research is correct, Bort's resemblance to her deadname is because this was written in that specific time period where she had come out as trans, but not publicly revealed her name yet.) She's a controversial figure for many reasons that I'm not going to get into now, but this comes from a time when people were pretty much just laser-focused on the trans thing. Bort isn't really a character who does anything in this story anyway, more of a news item for characters to discuss.

Another present day context that really changes how I read this story is the conservative furry panic of the past few years. Yes, the "if people can identify as other genders, what if they start identifying as ANIMALS?" dumbfuck made-up problem is much older, but it's really having a moment now. This story was an absurd concept when it was written but now we have real elected officials in the USA freaking out over the idea of people "identifying as" different species, bringing this story a whole lot closer to realism than anyone would've expected in 2015. To me, the message of this one feels closer to the conservative furry strawman than it does to real trans issues, especially with the whole "you're gay regardless of whether you're into human, unicorn or dinosaur men" thing; we're dealing with an issue of species transition where gender is static. (Truth be told, I don't think it was the best move to make a comparison to a real-life trans woman and make this point in association because I've seen how people misinterpret such things... but I'm sure Tingler readers in particular understand the abstraction and that this isn't applicable directly to the real person) I feel like a version of this story could be written today with the message of "what if the conservative strawman version of the furry fandom was real and not just a way of targeting queer people without saying you're targeting queer people? Would it really be that bad or even different of a world to live in?"

I'm interested to see how Dr. Tingle tackles trans issues in the future. Despite a couple things that read as dated to me I see a good foundation here from someone who is still working through his own feelings about gender identity. I know that future tinglers will have explicitly trans characters and the perspective of a trans author who has explored and introspected on his own gender identity more thoroughly.

(Also there's a tingleverse connection in this one: mention of the "first human player in the UFL" refers to the events of "Pounded By The Gay Unicorn Football Squad")

#chuck tingle #2024 tingles my butt #Every time I bring up Dr. Tingle's trans identity I have a little ??? moment on the pronouns I'm using #If I understood his post on preferred pronouns correctly then he/him is what he prefers still #It just. Feels like I'm doing something wrong when I'm explicitly referring to someone's transfem identity #But that's a me problem.

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girl4music · 5 months

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Captain Marvel is terrible. Wonder Woman is terrible. She-Hulk is terrible. Black Cat is terrible.

Any Marvel/DC superheroine female character is terrible. These characters do not have development. They’re all flash and no soul. They have no personality. I may as well be watching cardboard cut outs for all the dimension these “strong women” have to them.

They’re given superheroine abilities out of nowhere and basically believe if they don’t use them all the time - they’re weak-willed. They’re not “strong enough”. It’s completely the wrong way to do this. It’s toxic and dogmatic and can be very dangerous to naive and impressionable eyes and ears - to the young. To whom this superhero media is targeted.

Their true strength is when their superheroism is taken away and they’re able to survive regardless.

Like the fucking rest of us. Then they’re just like us.

This is why I don’t watch superheroine TV shows or movies. I can’t stand how they characterize gender. It’s not just female characters where they do this. The male characters suffer as well from the poor writing. Everything has to be specific and “by-the-book”. Some random book of rules and laws no one’s seen on how to write “strong” or “heroic” characters. And it’s just not it. That’s not what I pay attention to or spend my energy on. I know what a truly strong character is.

I’ve watched and engaged with truly strong characters all my life. Male and female. And it was never like the load of shite we get now in superhero-focused media.

I’m calling out this garbage writing once and for all.

You want a truly strong female heroine character?

She has bouts in her arc where she thinks she has to disregard love to remain powerful. Where if she gives up for even one second - she’s already lost the battle.

But she overcomes these bouts. She realizes they’re not what make her “strong” or “powerful” at all.

She even believes that she should go at it alone because she deserves to be alone. Guess what? The narrative doesn’t let her because that’s not what makes her strong or heroic or powerful or capable.

The writing is always “you need help and it’s okay”. That’s not to say that she doesn’t and can’t do things on her own. She does and she can. But it’s not the point. The point is that she allows herself the help.

And in allowing it - that’s what makes her STRONG. Opening her heart is what makes her worthy of love. Whether it be love from a romantic partner, her family or even the audience that watch and engage with her.

They see her and they see that’s what strength truly is.

It’s not because she wields a sword. It’s not because she can do insane kicks and acrobatics. It’s not because she is physically strong what makes her that.

It’s because she allows herself to be vulnerable when she otherwise believes she can’t and shouldn’t be.

A running gag is that she has “the strength of ten men” and yet she doesn’t look like a man. She possesses the traits and skills of a man, yes, but she’s not characterized as “male” for it because she has masculine energy. It’s because SHE IS a woman. The God of War himself acknowledges this about her. Even says “sometimes the only man for the job is a woman.”

Now they’re not saying this to throw men under the bus. They’re saying that “this too is completely fine.” It’s completely fine for a woman to lead an army of men. To wage war, to be a commander in the battle.

And all the while - this character expresses femininity. She doesn’t have to express masculinity to do any of this - to do it well - because a woman is just as valid.

There are times when the most powerful thing you see on the screen is Xena using her feminine wiles on men. And it’s powerful because they don’t ever shame her. They might say it’s wrong for her to do this but it’s not because it’s sexual or hedonistic or anything like that.

But because she’s using it as a manipulation tactic. The only reason why it’s wrong is because it’s literally not right to do it to someone. That’s it. Nothing about her being a woman doing it. She’s not a “slut” for it etc… in fact… they’re very heavily pro sex-worker in this show. There’s another character played by Lucy Lawless that is a sex-worker and even though she feels ashamed for it at times - the narrative does not let her. It’s constantly in her favour - in her corner. This is just a recurring character. Not even a main one. Still - the writing is always showing what true strength is.

And it’s never that Xena is a warrior.

It’s that’s she’s a woman AND a warrior.

There’s so many different ways to characterize this. The only wrong way is to not give a shit in trying to and instead just slap male characteristics on them until all people ever think “true strength” is is male.

And don’t get me wrong. It’s not that males or men aren’t truly strong. They are. But it’s not a requirement of being entirely physically powerful and brute force. This is what ruins a man. What makes them feel bad.

You make true strength all and only about physical power and force and you make a monster. Not a man.

So as I said. It’s not just with female characters where the writing in superhero TV shows and movies is fucked up beyond all recognition. It’s every gender. True strength is something made out to be enforced and not already what lies within. It’s FUCKED UP!

I’ll rant about this forever if I have to because I know better. I’ve learned better. And I’ve been given better.

My inspiration all my life has been Xena. It’s never been just the portrayal of the character that’s the reason why she means so much to me. It’s the writing as well. It’s the way they didn’t just write the character but the entire Universe in which the character lived in. The environment was realistic in that it was hard and brutal and predominantly harsh. But the writing was always saying “This isn’t what makes it truly strong. This is actually what makes it weak and fragile.” You have battle-hardened male warriors in this show come out of the war a shell of the man - character - they used to be. Including WAR himself. It’s powerful emotionally. It hits the heart. A palpable impact. The way these people - characters - lose themselves in the violence. In what’s often regarded as what “physical strength” is. But in this show it tears them down. Breaks them apart. They’re weaker because of it. Both male and female characters suffer this destruction. Have to grapple with the serious implications of it. What it makes of them to put power and force first. Or to make violence the only thing that matters at all.

It’s the way it’s written. It’s always the way it is written.

If you write a warrior as nothing but a warrior - you’re not depicting “true strength”. You’re destroying them. But I suppose it doesn’t matter because they’re not human in superhero media right? They might be humanoid in appearance but they’re supernatural so it shouldn’t make a difference, right? Well, it does.

It just fucking does. Because true strength isn’t about being “strong”. It’s about being weak but enduring anyway because life goes on regardless.

You can still show this with superhero characters. Have them still keep all of their superhero abilities.

You just have to care to write them the right way.

Rant over.

#strong characters #superhero #no #that’s not it #strong female characters have took a real dive since the age of xena and buffy #i’m not putting up with it #xena warrior princess #xena #lucy lawless #gabrielle #renee o’connor #true strength

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robotlesbianjavert · 7 months

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Ten headcanons about spinner please

well you asked so nicely. okay!

10) i think i've already mentioned this in the past and some fics but despite what you expect from someone with reptile associations he's not anymore affected by the cold than any other warm-blooded person. and he knows it's a silly thing to get sensitive about but well when people assume he gets a bit heated!! so to say!!

9) he first learned how to use a knife, and in particular knife throwing tricks, from his mom, who is most of the born and bred country rep in his family and grew up with very little else to do and really needed a cool party trick. between her and toga, knife-throwing is his only surefire way to bond with women.

8) who is the biggest bara rep in league of legends. idk mordekaiser looks promising. in any case spinner's first glimmer of realizing that he is gay was accidentally stumbling upon LoL bara doujinshi, on the internet. somehow the continuing fascination for bara did not translate to real life where he keeps going gaga for weird skinny weirdos with disappointing t&a (UNTIL shigaraki's ujiko-provided glow-up)

7) his backup plan for going to the city after seeing stain on tv if he failed to find and join the league of villains was just to hit all the clubs and get laid. but as a virgin and hikkikomori he was very nervous about this option and was kind of relieved that he could just join a terrorist group instead.

6) i used this one in a fic too lmao. as a kid his claws were filed down regularly so that other kids and the rest of the town didn't freak out and think he was gonna gut them. cuz they're evil. as part of the headcanon of it all he does have weird hang-ups and

5) backseat gamer. like, pathological. much like myself as a child watching my stepbrothers play zelda or conker's bad fur day, he will sit over shigaraki's shoulder (and anyone else's i guess but he's literally so under-socialized he doesn't know anyone else who plays videogames irl. sad!) and be like i wouldn't have done that. you're supposed to go over there. why aren't you using all these cheat codes that i know (they don't work). thankfully shigaraki is cool with this cuz he loves to argue. i actually consider this canon enough given that we have now seen spinner hanging over shigaraki's shoulder as he's playing games.

4) were a tumblr equivalent to exist in bnhaverse spinner would have an account and he would try to be crazy stealth and not have it associated to any other social accounts ever and he would be a hater on it and you could not pay him to commit voter fraud for something against his morals (shipping polls) (he would have voted destiel!! he knows he is cas-coded!!) but he would create so many dummy accounts manually by hand HIMSELF like a hard worker to influence results as much as he could. without paying people. or getting bots. he has a pure hater soul.

3) related to the above spinner is a constant hater online. people ask him what does he ever like and he just regurgitates whatever video essay he watched recently that had a nice thing to say. but his hater stances are 100% original. not to say that he never Likes something about anything but he's dogshit at expressing it.

2) part of his issues is that he was very unintentionally detached from any other of his heteromorph-related family that he could relate to (a lot of the family was probably located in cities) aside from whatever parents or siblings, which contributed further to his feelings of isolation from the community he grew up in, and his heteromorphic traits were just enough more apparent compared to the immediate family that he was more targeted by the community he grew up in. so he's both discriminated and marginalized by the community, and has a harder time finding solace in his family to cope.

1 ) i must once again stand by spinner's hybistrophilia. like really specifically his true fantasy is a cool suave older man who does a lot of serial killing and is willing to take spinner under his wing and say ah i see you have a lot of potential. but then he fell in love with shigaraki. that's how you know it's true love. i guess you can argue that shigaraki is an old soul.

#sorry this took so long i was waylaid by a Cough and also wanted to put thought into these.#bnha #spinner #shuichi iguchi #iguchi shuuichi #spinaraki #bnha bloggin

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charlieconwayy · 7 months

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Top 5 Freela moments?

this is truly like choosing a favorite child

i HAVE to go with the ending of TWOF, but rly did you expect anything less? just the most satisfying moment i have ever experienced in my tv viewing experience. the set up, the execution - fry literally walking into the frame and leela's face when he hands her the flower. aside from it being their first legit kiss (that i count anyway), it's SO important to their development. leela realizing that success/status/someone looking great on paper does not make someone the ideal partner, but what does is the feeling of relief you get when you see them and the way they make you feel special. i love how fry doesn't even remember nibbler saying he'll help him out w leela, so this was truly just a genuine moment of him being thoughtful. also fry's "yes!" when they fade to black is so sweet

okay i thought for a while about the number two slot and i think i have to pick "no matter what happens, you'll always be leela, the woman i love." fry was so frickin immature and lowkey sexist at the start of the series, which we see a ton of in i was a crustacean in love specifically or even in amazon women in the mood ("is she hot?" "she is all knowing" "in other words, no") and we've gradually seen him mature (my fav "zapp's not the only one becoming marriage material" "you're getting there" <3). leela's biggest fear w fry has always been his commitment issues and him getting bored of her. we've also seen her insecurities ab the way she looks throughout the show, so for him to confirm to her (when she's like entirely squid, mind you) that no matter how she looks, he will always love her is so special. it was the culmination of 7 seasons of development for both fry and their relationship, and i love leela's reaction (and her tentacles doing the princess diaries foot pop when they kiss lol).

i could just put moments from s4 on here and this entire list would be complete tbh....the best season, nothing is ever topping it. the sting is just a special moment and i can't even imagine watching it when it first aired. while we'd gotten little hints here and there that leela had feelings for fry, this episode just confirms the extent of those feelings. we know fry would rather die than be without leela, but this ep confirms that leela would rather die than be without fry. the whole ending segment is great, w leela trying to unalive herself so that she can "feel alright with him" and fry talking her out of it (first real "i love you" :') ) but GOD the feeling when they show the hospital room. the details that we see from all the things fry said to leela in her dream. amy's "they said you'd never wake up, fry never left your side for a second." leela holding her heart when she realizes that him talking to her is what inspired her to wake up!! the hug <3 it's so crazy to me that an animated show can show the intimacy and physicality between them so perfectly.

"dear fry, our time together was short but it was the best time of my life. - leela." for similar reasons to the one above, i love an ep that does a deep dive into leela's love for fry. this one, man. this one. leela marrying CUBERT just bc he resembles fry says it all. "i used to think there was someone for me." just her rage at fry and heartbreak that she will never see him again, while managing to create the successful future she had always wanted but ultimately realizing it's pointless without someone to share it with. that video card hits me so deeply when he says i love you the look on her face actually destroys me.....but what gets me most out of everything is the cavern on the green. leela has no idea where fry is. he could be in the past for all that she knows. but leela knows in her heart that if she leaves a message, somehow, somewhere, fry will see it and he will know how she feels. and he does. that to me is so beautiful, their love is fated no matter what universe or timeline that they're in.

this is a relatively new fav scene for me but "you're lonely and i'm lonely, but together, we're lonely together." freela had kind of just been bickering besties up until this episode, but this was the first time we'd really seen them connect on an intimate level since 102. fry is upset ab spending xmas alone for the first time, leela is upset ab spending her life alone. he's alone in the year 3000 and leela has spent a lifetime alone. we see fry so upset that he hurt leela, that he goes out of his way to buy her a gift and apologize (massive development in fry's emotional intelligence, esp if you compare this to 103 w bender) but leela ends up being okay. she holds his hand and tells him that they can be lonely together and it's such a gamechanging moment, you can just see the chemistry and the connection between the two of them.

#freela #futurama

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knickynoo · 15 days

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Hi there! Me again.

I’ve been rewatching Family Ties (thanks again for showing me where!) and noticed something about Alex’s character that i don’t care for/think you have touched upon.

What are your thoughts on his views of women?The advice he gave Jeff on his date with Mallory appalled me. Do you think it’s just a product of the time- how right leaning people were expected/did to treat women? Or is it something deeper? I don’t understand how he thinks this way after seeing how amazing Steven and Elyse are toward each other. (Even if the kids are disgusted every time they kiss lol)

I would love to hear your opinion!

Hello! Nice to hear from you again :)

Yeah, so, a lot of the words that come out of Alex's mouth regarding women are 😬😬😬

I can't recall the exact advice you're referring to, but I do know it's bonkers. Something about how women want a man to make all her decisions or something? Boss her around and take charge? It's honestly not only some of his worst advice, but I also think it's one of the more outrageous things he says in regards to women out of the whole series.

It's especially weird considering he's giving advice on how his sister should be treated by Jeff! And we know that, while Alex isn't always the nicest to Mallory, he loves her very much and wants to protect her. I mean, there's an entire first season episode centered around Alex losing his mind over Mallory going out with a guy who Alex doesn't like or trust. He's so worried about this guy taking advantage of Mallory and not treating her right, then he goes and gives bananas advice to Jeff. So...what's the deal?

Honestly, I don't know, lol. If I had to guess, there are probably several different factors at play that contribute to those moments Alex says Horrible Things.

1. He operates with a set of standards and values from way before his time. The thing is that Alex isn't even a product of his time—a lot of the opinions he holds would be considered outdated in the 80s by the majority of people, regardless of political leaning.

I can't for the life of me remember the episode or the exact quote, so I'm going to butcher it I'm sure, but there's a scene where Alex is lamenting how no one holds the same values he does, and he and Steven have an exchange like this:

Alex: "I should have been born in the 40s."

Steven: "Even then, you'd be a little conservative."

Alex: "The 1740s."

Steven: "....Even then, you'd be a little conservative."

It's something like that. If anyone knows what episode this is from or what the exact line is, lmk because it's one of my favorites.

2. Alex is an extreme black and white thinker. I think this is the number one trait of his that impacts him the most across the board. So many of his problems boil down to him just not seeing nuance. It's not that he's unwilling to. The guy just can't.

It makes Alex very rigid in his thoughts on things, and that absolutely spills over into situations like when he gives advice to Jeff or voices any other wild opinion. He's going to automatically go to the extremes because that's all he can wrap his head around. In a relationship, men should have all the control. They should make the decisions and say specific things and so on. It then leads him to make generalizations about women and their roles.

I think he also finds some security in these thoughts, honestly. Alex clings to facts and things that he feels are concrete and reliable. We also know that he has a very hard time processing and acknowledging his emotions. Putting people into two neat piles is comfortable for him, and anything that doesn't fit into either of those piles is too overwhelming. Alex's world needs rules for it to feel stable to him. Unfortunately, a lot of those rules are...not so great.

3. Shock-value: This is more about Alex the TV show character rather than the "real life" in-universe Alex Keaton, but still. A good deal of his character, especially in the earlier seasons, hinged on him saying or doing things that got a reaction from the audience. You can't have a show about ex-hippy, progressive parents without someone for them to knock heads against. The early episodes in particular seemed to really lean into this, and I feel like he gets toned down slightly as the series goes on? Don't get me wrong, it doesn't go away, but he does grow.

• The "Ladies Man" episode has him realizing that, while he may not support a particular movement, he absolutely respects the rights of the women in the movement. Him jumping up to defend the woman being heckled by a guy, and then his little speech to the women at the end are two of my favorite Alex moments.

• After a very difficult adjustment period when he gets a new job and learns his boss is a woman, Alex ends up really respecting her and becoming friends with her. (Wow, this ep is uncomfortable for the first half, though!)

• Ellen in particular has an impact on helping Alex to see those "in-between" areas, in my opinion. Some heart to hearts with Elyse help as well, and it's clear through the series that Alex loves and respects his mother a great deal.

Idk if this response was coherent, but there you go, haha. Alex is such a complicated character, and whenever I write about him, I feel like I'm trying to untangle a gigantic mess of yarn. But I do love him! Sometimes he is a menace, though!! He should, perhaps, simply keep his mouth shut a lot of the time.

(Also, Steven and Elyse don't discipline him ever, so it's partly their fault if we're being real here)

What? Who said that?

Thanks for the ask!

#asks #family ties #alex p keaton #apk

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Maxine’s Baby: The Tyler Perry Story

Perry’s legacy in film, in Black American culture is imprinted. Generationally. What he’s done in the industry is groundbreaking. His non-traditional approach and method to all he’s accomplished is a testament to what we’ve always done as Black Americans when it comes to everything — having a seat at our own table we built. He broke the mold and shattered the glass ceiling. He truly has the Black American, ancestral lineage of perseverance running through his blood!

I also learned so much more about him and his relationship with his mother and his mother in general that I hadn’t known. Also, parts of him speaking about his mother connected a lot of why he has certain perspectives on life and relationships. The Black women in his life (his mother and aunt who is hero-like in my opinion for the type of action of love) truly played the biggest roles in his shaping as a young boy to becoming a man. We got an inside view of his mind and the journey of him becoming who he is.

Seeing the enormity of his success just is positively moving and stirring. I found myself super proud with the scenes of the grand opening of his ultimate studio! Those parts of the docu had me feeling like I could conquer anything. All of the studio grand opening touched my heart and made me smile tears of joy in the simple fact that he is the embodiment of our ancestors’ love, hope and courage. He built on what they started and I can feel them saying, “Well done.”

It’s moving and emotionally charging.

He also allowed us into the parts of his life as a father to his son. You can tell all that he does and is doing is to be able to give out the love he wished he could’ve gotten from the father-figure in now life. His relationship with his son is so beautiful.

The intimate portrait, bio styled documentary was a great watch. I definitely recommend.

Now….I must speak on the issues that I took with aspects of his footprint on the landscape of film.

Perry loses me when he says things like, “…what we’ve done to each other as Black people who are successful…”. He referenced the boycotting Amos ‘N’ Andy had received in its time along with Alice Walker’s The Color Purple. Amos ‘N’ Andy’s controversy: this show (was a TV adaptation of the radio sitcom of two white men who “adopted stereotypical dialect, intonations, and character traits that had been established in the blackface minstrel tradition in the 1800s”) came out in the midst of the Jim Crow era. An era we all know served to present imagery of Black Americans in racist propaganda replete with racist stereotypes and tropes. And the actors weren’t white men in blackface but actual Black men in these roles. Which is also the similar criticisms Perry’s Madea character receives.

The two shouldn’t be paralleled. Amos ‘N’ Andy was clearly stereotypical mockery (and no condemning the actors at the time) while Walker’s book is “inspired, in part, by a story that Walker's sister told her, about a love triangle involving their grandfather.” It is an account of real life experiences—a real depiction of what Black people, specifically Black women, were going through in the early 1900s in the Deep South. On the heels of freedom (this is post American slavery with the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation) yet still facing the aftershocks of “ending” slavery (racism has never ended), Black women still faced slave-like treatment from former plantation & slave owners and now sexism & patriarchal treatment from their partners (I say now not in a sense of this being completely new). All while gaining more freedom in their outspokenness for the domestic plights they faced with their significant others and demanding equal rights.

Walker’s book and the following film adaptation received backlash on account of the increasing fracture between Black women and Black men in a post “free” society.

Perry also mentioned the not so pleasant views Langston Hughes had with Zora Neale Hurston and her usage of the Black Southern dialect in her writings. That too is incomparable because again, she conveyed real life. These were not caricatures she fictionalized for comic relief.

(please leave Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston’s works alone in correlation to yours)

Or in an appearance from Killer Mike (in Perry’s documentary) alluding to the fact that other groups of people don’t take issue with the negative depictions of their people in film.

One — yes they have and do. Has he spoken to any other ethnic group to ask?

Two — yes, your core demographic, who is Black, will have the most dialogue regarding your work. Who else would? White people? No, because you don’t make art for them. Your work is rooted through the lens of Black Americans. Of course the biggest critique will come from us.

We have a very different relationship with our own country and the world at large. Centuries of ridicule in minstrel shows with not Black (because yes, it wasn’t only white people performing in blackface to mock us) people donning blackface or in film with dangerous propaganda that single-handedly created a racist, terrorist group (k k k). We are still dealing with the aftermath of these harmful depictions and are in constant corrective mode. It’s a continual action.

He spoke about intention as well. And while I don’t believe Perry’s intention of the Madea character (or any of his characters in his films, shows or plays—that’s a different conversation…among other talking points surrounding him can be discussed in an entirely separate talk) was to be problematic it is very damaging to the representation of Black American women — two things can exist. Especially considering all the negative portrayals and images of us over the many, many, many years in all forms of media that the character fits into (again no condemnation on any of the actresses at the time).

But with everything I’ve said, Madea will just always have a kindred connection with me.

I was first introduced to Tyler Perry years ago from a cousin who lent me a VHS of both “Madea’s Family Reunion: The Play” and “Diary of a Mad Black Woman: The Play”. And when Madea came across my screen in that loud shiny red funeral squirt suit, there was an instant likability! I laughed more than I had from anything scripted — in fact, his plays were the first time I had ever watched a stage play. And from then, I have always had a special place in my heart for his plays and for Madea! I purchased 6 DVDs of his plays afterwards and the “Diary” film while I was in my freshman year in college and those plays got me through my first year.

I am glad he’s since retired the character and opened a new chapter of the work he’s putting out but I can acknowledge that Madea and the work pre-Madea’s retirement has been and is a source of joy for me.

And I think that’s what Tyler wants to do with all that he does.

Bring us joy.

#Maxine’s Baby: The Tyler Perry Story #Tyler Perry #cinema #Black America #film talk #Black American cinema #film industry #Southern culture #Black tumblr #Black American culture #might be typos

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could ur zine review some new music by justin pierre so i can understand if it's good or im just down bad for old man pussy

i hate music reviews i have been paid to do it and i have done it but i wanted to kill myself the entire time every time and also the idea that you can judge if music is bad or not fundamentally pisses me off so much

ALSO totally not related to your question at all but related to the zine, i am like 9k words deep into an essay about burger and swmrs and i dont know how much ill get into this in the essay because its swmrs focused but. shortly before they got canceled pitchfork had given this band called the orwells a bad review that hinged on the idea that they were "harmless" to the point of being "wholesome" and that the violence discussed on their record was a laughable joke.

when members of the orwells were accused of like raping/sexually assaulting multiple women until they bled like 2 months later and had been slamming the faces of female audience members into the stage and choking them at their shows

and like the violence on their record was largely inspired by breaking bad which the pitchfork article did not seem to pick up on at all. i havent even seen breaking bad but i noticed it. the article seemed to insinuate that because the orwells were middle class white kids from chicago they did not know anything about violence and were just parroting black people on tv (sorry to be crass lol)

specifically they use the word "federales" in a song which sounds a bit out of place on the record but its slang for feds and was popularized by breaking bad, lol, so they put it in so people would know this was about breaking bad. theres a bunch of other stuff too

the orwells were definitely pretty racist but the fact that it was so breaking bad and not just mimicking like "gangs" or whatever is very critical to the record and what ultimately became of the band. like again i havent seen BB but its about a white middle class educated guy that refuses help when he needs in it in favor of insane amounts of drugs and violence under the guise of "being a man and providing" and ultimately completely destroys many people in the process and ruins their lives due to his own selfishness

and the fact that they would kin this guy is SOOOOOO and the fact that such a major publication failed to notice it is SOOOOO

anyway the article was so focused on infantilizing and trashing them as a shitty rock band that were just kids and didnt know any better it failed to notice the premise it was based on-- that the orwells were not capable of violence or doing drugs because they were young and white and middle class-- was fundamentally and so egregiously false.

i do think the critical reception of the record played a role in their demise but the review does not acknowledge the gender stuff on at all (multiple references to underage girls beating women openly assaulting them at shows etc) which was ultimately what ended the orwells. the article does acknowledge the stuff that would happen at shows but does it in a deliberately non gendered way when it was 200% about hitting girls, i think because the writer didnt care but also doing so would have interrupted the argument

anyway i dont know where i was going with this but i guess trashing art you dont fundamentally understand because you have to for your job and being so categorically wrong about it but having people believe you is a part of why i dont like music journalism at all and dont want to do it as a career even though i definitely participate in this. also a lot of it is definitely personal and about politics which sucks, i dont think the record is that bad but i think they gave it a bad rating because the band was unbelievably horrible and like thats kind of fair but also saying a song is bad because you dont like how someone acts is kind of weird when youre ranking things out of 10 because then youre pretending like its about the music and objective when its clearly not

#i actually think that album is one of my favorites of all time lol #its called terrible human beings #a couple of the members and someone who did their music videos has the same last name as the person who produced fobs first record #and that and chicago makes me raise an eyebrow but i dont know for sure lol

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I am so sad that these past 7 days ruined a lot of things for me personally. That thread anon tagged was my final straw (it's not anon's fault btw. If anything I am thankful I saw it and knew the exact kind of person he was). I can't look at things related to tour without feeling a lot. And I am feeling things beyond ick. I am actually angry at her. It ruined speak now(something I was waiting for) for me. Long live doesn't feel the same after knowing everything. I want to steal zoe's tag and tag everything as #midnights disconnect after this.

I am sorry for unleashing all this on you. And thankyou for understanding. This is the first time I have experienced this. I don't know how to process this

no i understand what you mean - anon and the OP who shared it were doing so for a reason, and not a defamatory one, but an informational one. i personally don't consider something someone said out loud on the record off-limits to share or criticize, and since he himself made that reference publicly, it warrants that. it's vile. as she said in the post, "that information altered my perception of him permanently." we're not shaming private behavior by condemning that either, it's about the specific content. as someone commented, "Absolutely horrifying. Note that even Matty says the woman was being "brutalized". That's his own word choice. And he still openly admits to getting off to this shit." tbh, i realize that sub doesn't like her, but a lot of the comments in that thread are being completely fair. if she doesn't know, she's being intentionally ignorant, and if she does know, she's being complicit. but frankly, she should be concerned about herself in this - any man who'd openly admit to getting off on violence and racism towards women is not someone i'd trust to not turn on me in a relationship. maybe he worships her now, but calvin did initially too, and we know what happened. being beautiful, wealthy, and white doesn't insulate you from the latent misogyny of a man you choose to involve yourself with. i...just find that admission from him really telling and disturbing.

it's also very hard because this tour is a celebration of her entire career, she's had such triumph and ascent, and we've collectively been awaiting speak now tv for a long time. we ought to be nothing but excited and celebratory right now. maybe many fans can separate it, but others won't be able to, and that's a valid response. and again, impact matters more than intent - if fans are hurt, that does matter. it won't change anything, it doesn't dictate what she does, but i can't ignore it when some of you are coming directly to me in distress.

please don't be sorry, love, i'm sorry this is all going on and you're feeling like this. it's difficult to process and i understand why it's hard. i can't tell you how to carry on from here, i've always tried to support her and i cherish her art, but even i'm gauging this day-by-day and having a tough time processing and figuring out how best to approach or deal with this going forward.

#anonymous #letterbox #thrown out speeches #the comments being shared in that thread regarding how bad certain abuses have gotten are making me want to cry for humanity #NOT being overdramatic the things women are talking about regarding violence they're afraid of experiencing...

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TEATG isn't some obscure fanfic that only a few people actually read; it's being actively updated and is, by AO3 statistics, one of the most popular 3H fanfics. It even has its own page on TV Tropes (the only other big ones I can think of are "An Eagle Among Lions" and "Wear Your Colours"). It's big enough to be critiqued.

I think there are a few more 3H fics on TVTropes but yeah, there aren't that many of them to be sure.

And it's like, I'm not asking for the fic to be taken down or anything drastic like that. It's just that there are so many things that are genuinely just bad that have become a core of the fic's structure: victim blaming, racism, misandry, benevolent sexism towards women, infantilization, manipulation, hypocrisy, imperialism, so many things that are just a part of the casual reading experience of this fic, and it seems like Cap'n and his audience just... don't notice any of it.

Like, when Ficleth is going on about how much being a mix of human and Nabatean is rotting her soul because she, to quote, "doesn't belong anywhere" and (per Chapter 58) "has to choose"? When any man that steps even slightly out of a woman's line gets assaulted? When the genocide survivors are groveling at the feet of the people who'd just tried to kill them because they, the genocide survivors, didn't do enough to help their almost-killers? When a grown ass woman who's lived the first 20-21 years of her life as a hardened mercenary gets consistently likened to a child? When almost all of the women are just broken flowers that can only be fixed by love? When "let me conquer you and if you don't you're to blame for the suffering I cause" is an unironic, genuine message the fic's narrative legitimately stands by?

Yeah that doesn't pass the vibe check.

Not to mention all of the things it gets objectively wrong. No, Byleth does not become more expressive on CF; they become the least expressive, even has it pointed out by Edelgard herself in her A support with them. No, Edelgard does not see herself as an ugly monster unworthy of company; literally nothing in the game supports that. No, Rhea wasn't "sacrificing Byleth" in her mind during the Holy Tomb; she thought she was just getting Sothis back her memories, hence her seeing Byleth as their own person when Sothis doesn't return. No, Marianne never thought her Crest was cursed because of the Church's teachings; she says herself that it was her father that told her about being wary of her Crest. No, Petra doesn't stop seeing herself as a hostage on CF; it is specifically on CF where she will still feel like a hostage, as she says in her CF-specific A support with Byleth.

Plus all of the "translation errors" that Cap'n """"""""""fixes"""""""""" in his fic - and all of the genuine mistakes that he conveniently leaves in. Ionius getting rid of the consort system entirely - wrong, he just wanted to get rid of the power given to the consort kin. Dimitri is far ruder in the JPN version - wrong, Cap'n just doesn't understand how the Japanese language works on a cultural level. Edelgard setting out to destroy the Crest Stones - a mistake he left in, the JPN version makes it clear that she planned on using them for herself. The "Unless such acts are committed under the will of the goddess" (or something along those lines) tenet - arguably one of the backbones as to why Woobiegard thinks Church Bad, and it's based on a translation error (a more accurate reading is "for no good reason").

All of this misinformation and not the best messages all crammed into one of the most popular 3H fics to date and which is also passed around as "basically canon" and must-read material to understand Edelgard. Yeah, not really gonna feel that bad for critiquing it lol, though I will again reiterate that me critiquing this fic here is not grounds for anyone to go to the fic and leave any unsavory comments

#ask #exqueuese me princess #o captain my captain #also all of the aforementioned ass in the fic is like. 90% of the reason it takes so long to get through lmao so yeah

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Top 10 Character Essence Tag

Tagged by @leighvalentin in a new-to-me tag! See their post here!

Rules:

A challenge to give your Top 10 favourite characters, based on their ESSENCE. They have to be favourite characters that also have a deeper literary value, where you enjoy their specific role in the story, and this means that the list also should exclude characters that would normally count as favourites if for purely nostalgic reasons. They can be from film, tv, or written media, anything.

Alright I have to admit, I dragged my feet on this one because I had to think very hard about all of these!

Tagging (gently): @sam-glade @elshells @mariahwritesstuff @autumnalwalker and anyone else who'd like to do this!

10. Skeeter - The Help

Skeeter is the epitome of how blind someone can become in the face of morality. She constantly asserts that she is doing right by the maids she interviews for her book and believes she is above her peers and family because of her more 'modern' outlook. The film frames her as a hero for these aspects, but if you look deeper, this heroism doesn't really exist. She's just lauded for being a hero because everyone else lacks any sort of decency. I enjoy the take on perspective this brings to the table and also the bitter taste her character leaves in my mouth. Proof that anyone can be the hero of their own story and how that view can easily become flawed.

9. Sophie - Howl's Moving Castle

Sophie is on this list because she is the epitome of an arc I love in any character: self-discovery and self-acceptance. The way her age fluctuates throughout the film is a subtle and clever way of demonstrating this progression! That aside, what is more compelling to me about that and her as a character is how often she goes through that change and doesn't even realize it. She is a beautiful representation of how someone who can be considered inherently 'good' and 'humble' can still wrestle with their own identity and perceived worth. She's also a great representation of how coming to that realization often takes a lot of work, and the progress is most definitely NOT linear.

8. Miranda - The Devil Wears Prada

Aside from being played by one of my favorite actresses of all time, Miranda is a favorite of mine because of a line that Andy says in the movie: "If Miranda were a man, no one would notice anything about her except how good she is at her job." She's set up to be the obvious antagonist of the story from the start (and rightfully so because, objectively, she treats Andy like trash), but I think she highlights how important gender is as part of perception (both IRL and in media). Sure, it's entertaining (to a degree) to watch her dunk on Andy the whole time and maybe to even start hating her somewhere along the way because she's just SO much, but I think the ire her character elicits is absolutely far greater than it would have been were she a man. And I realize this is a VERY narrow take on the discussion of gender as a whole and probably pretty basic compared to other depictions of it, but it's accessible and direct, which I believe is valuable if only to stir the mind to become more curious and engaged with the subject.

7. Betty - Mad Men

A character whom I adore because she is the tragic product of her times. She is the quintessential American housewife, with the two kids, the white picket fence, money, and every comfort imaginable laid at her feet. Despite this, she is so SO unhappy, and I FEEL for her. She often laments her own loneliness and how she has no one who will listen to her. She feels no sense of belonging, nor does she feel she has refuge in the place she should consider home. She is portrayed as combative and childish, often dismissed, and it is often implied that she is stupid. I think she highlights exceptionally well how the caged nature of life, and more specifically, the traditionally caged life of women, is the source of undying anguish and of a one-dimensional, inaccurate, and cold representation of the self in the eyes of onlookers.

6. Joan - Mad Men

If I could put all of the ladies from Mad Men on this list, I would! But Joan is on here because she's tragic in a different way from Betty. Yes, I said tragic, and I stand by that because, despite her relatively happy ending, she has to endure loss and disillusionment, all while pretending that it's not happening. She works so hard to portray this outward appearance of a life that isn't falling apart or miserable. And this is not me ragging on her choices; her life is made miserable by the people, specifically the men around her, forcing her to be complacent in the system that is keeping her in check to cover their own asses. The episode that hits me the hardest is when she is having her going away party, and she is telling everyone how she is going to move out to the country with her doctor husband only to burst out crying because just the night before, he's told her that he didn't get the residency and she can't quit her job. But it's too late, and now, instead of saying anything about it, she bites the bullet in favor of protecting her husband's reputation. I think she perfectly represents the effects of sustained sacrifice of the self for the sake of survival.

5. Elisa - The Shape of Water

Oh, my dear Elisa! She is a huge inspiration for Mariel, but that is not why she's here. She's here because I think her character does an excellent job of avoiding a lot of common (and frankly rather gross) ableist tropes. It's not overlooked that she's mute, and many characters in the film comment on it, explicitly bringing it to the viewer's attention. She is seen as being uncomfortable and even disturbed by the attention placed on it at times (Strickland, I'm looking at you), and openly expresses the desire to be seen for more than her disability. I think the film does an excellent job of highlighting how actually weird it is that we (collective/societal we) fixate on disabilities in general and gives weight to the view that many abled folks ignore in favor of being overly aware of a disability should it be apparent (Let's not even get to the levels of weird/3d chess abled people play with unseen disabilities). This is not to say that we should all hold hands and pretend that people with disabilities just need to 'try harder' or that they can 'do anything'. It's more important and not a 'bad' or 'taboo' thing to acknowledge limitations when they exist. Offering a helping hand when needed, and more specifically, wanted by the individual, is okay, but they're people dammit. Treat them as such.

4. Lenore - Castlevania

I liked Lenore's character from the start for the more surface-level reasons. I thought she was clever, witty, and fun, but the more I got to know her, and especially when I saw how her story ended, she quickly became one of my all-time favorites. She is the epitome of a slow-born realization that things are quickly spiraling out of control, and is horrified by her circumstances. I remember reading that a lot of people really hated her ending, but I was not among those who did. I believe that it was her way of choosing freedom, especially after her world had been shattered and forever changed. While sad, I think it was appropriate, and I remember feeling at peace along with her. Ultimately, I think it demonstrates that the decisions made by others don't need to make sense to us, and often won't, because we have not lived their experience and may not fully understand the impact those experiences may have had on them.

3. Fane - Divinity Original Sin II

I fully realize that Fane falls into the trope of sad immortal and a little into the territory of robot learning to love, but what captivates me the most about him is how we have the opportunity to grieve with him throughout the game. He initially comes off as very on his high horse and is pretty obtuse in his complaints about humanity, but as you befriend him, he grows to see the beauty in the world as it is and even begins to care for it. His story, I think, provides a really interesting take on perspective and circumstances, specifically how impactful these are to behavior and disposition. Anyone can become a hero/villain given the right circumstances type beat.

2. Waymond Wang - Everything, Everywhere, All At Once

Waymond is arguably one of the more low-key characters in Everything, Everywhere, but it's for that reason that he's my favorite. He doesn't go through major growing pains like some of the other cast does, and he seems to be mostly the same, no matter what universe Evelyn jumps to, and it's for this reason, I like him so much. I wouldn't venture to say that his ideal of unyielding kindness and compassion is the 'right' way to be, but I think it makes the more important point that when you are authentically yourself, no matter what life throws at you, you will be able to make something of it. Just as growth is important, so too is the ability to stick to your true self and live in a way that makes you feel fulfilled, even if others do not understand it or would argue that it makes you weak.

1. Alma - Phantom Thread

I will admit I didn't like Phantom Thread when I watched it the first few times. I thought it was strange, disorienting, and a little disturbing, and I was particularly confused by Alma's character. I'm still figuring her out, but I'm absolutely enchanted by her, not just because of her mannerisms but because I think she functions as a very cleverly disguised form of rage. It's so quiet you almost don't notice, and that subtlety is what is so satisfying about her, even if what she is doing is something you might not approve of and does an excellent job of making a successful commentary of the nuances of dysfunctional and abusive relationships. She is brilliantly written and nuanced for so many reasons. That makes her my all-time fave!

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So listen babes, yall know your girl ABHORS gossip but the LORD has intervened BOLDLY.

He loves these two men and he loves you too!!!

Now I wanted to say three other things:

1. God showed us Characters from Reboot for a reason and one of them was to confirm what I already suspected. Some of you may not know that someone put a hex on you all. Specifically to “end” things in your life and quite possibly to end YOU 🫵🏾 hence the drama. This may be someone you know personally or another person who goes around and does this to celebrities. Justice is coming for these people. I once again saw something about two women. Recall the she-bears and the curse with Elisha.

2. Some men don’t play about their wives or wives-to-be. These wives have done things for their husbands not even their “boys” would do. Iykyk. A man that knows he has a good woman doesn’t play about her. There was once a time (especially during the mob days) when women and children were off limits but it doesn’t seem that way today.

3. I heard something about Kendrick helping the “youth” and that’s something God wanted me to share as I try to do his work and be a peacemaker. Some of you know God has saved your life here. Iykyk.

Other names:

Sherri, Kym (yes with the y), Tony, the letter E, Whitley, Jay, Daisy and Diva TV 📺 (YouTube)

Interestingly, I saw a woman today with a TV tattooed on the back of her calf something I have never seen before 👁️

The LORD also wants me to remind you all of the Fat Joe prophecy I shared last year about someone going to a voodoo priest and the outcome of that 👀 Do you remember???

The scripture:

⤴️ God has BIG plans. This is a promise.

My job as an umpire and peacemaker is getting harder 😭😅⚾️ but God is in the business of saving LIVES 🛟 I don’t make the rules.

With Love,

Your Oracle.

PS. Pix: ⤵️

There will be so much (unnecessary) blood 🩸 spilled if anything happens to these men. I promise you. Just being very clear about this.

This is coming from God babes.

The numbers 25 and 11 are important to remember. Also the month of July.

PPS. God reminded me to share that I saw something invisible 🫥 trying to pull Drake’s jersey off him like an elastic band. It was wild. I prayed and whatever it was let him go but it was a fight chileeee 👀 He had on a dark blue basketball jersey.

Omgosh as I finished typing this and was about to hit SAVE, I heard “it was something evil” 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀‼️

Oh my word!!!!! Thank you God for divine intervention and protection because wow! 🤯

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LA also stands for Louisiana 👀 which makes so much sense as to why I saw Kevin Gates but that’s also Lil Wayne’s state.

I did see Rick as well.

Lastly, ReBoot = a Reset which is what the LORD has been saying is coming.

Sherri’s ex-husband’s name is LAMAR and so is Khloe’s how could I forget that. 🤦🏾‍♀️

Good day fellow BELIEVERS.

#that’s all I’m going to say about this #God’s Plan #Drake vs. Kendrick #battle rap use to be just that when did it get super personal? 👀#nobody wins when the family feuds #I love you 🥰#K-dot #T-dot #hexes

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Hi! I have a legit question: Do you think someone's sexual orientation can change during their lifetime?? (And just so I'm clear, I don't mean "conversion therapy" or an “off/on switch” or anything like that.)

When I was a teenager/young adult, I thought I was bi: crushed on boys, but mostly fantasized about intimacy with girls. But years later, after a head over heels/gave me stomachaches I was so nervous/I wanted to be her everything crush on a female coworker lol, I slowly came to terms with my lesbian identity. I remember feeling lots of imposter syndrome because I didn't feel like I was gay since birth like so many stories I'd heard from other gays/lesbians. Bisexuality was even more frowned upon back then, and I remember really NOT wanting to be bi. But I waited for the "other shoe to drop" on crushing on a bunch of guys which, aside from a couple "comphet crushes" (a married guy who was "nice" to me, and a male coworker who paid attention to me that all the other women in the office thought was hot) never really happened. I sure started crushing hard on women though! Lol. And after a breakup with my only boyfriend, I remember craving a relationship with a woman at the time.

Now I'm older and legit feel like I can't stand the idea of being with a man. My long term partner is a woman, but even if we ever broke up, I see myself seeking only women or other sapphics. Sure, I find a few men (mostly on TV, from a specific demographic) attractive, but I don't really feel anything when I see them in the wild. I'm only questioning myself after now seeing all the updated discourse on lesbianism (in my day “lesbian” meant “mostly or only attracted to women”) and want to make sure I'm properly communicating and naming my identity.

I feel like I went from “secretly bi" to "publicly identifying as straight but suppressing my physical attraction to women” to “lesbian” without looking back. It could’ve been comphet, I’m not entirely sure. Do you think it’s possible for sexual orientation to shift like this though?

I think Ricky Martin said something about genuinely having loved the women he used to date, but he stands firmly in his gay identity today.... I can somewhat relate. Anyway, thanks for your thoughts!

Hi friend! Your question is something I think a lot of people wonder about and I guess it can also be quite polarizing in online queer spaces.

I want to start off by saying that "lesbian" can mean a lot of things to a lot of different people, but the main thing I think most people agree with is that it excludes attraction to men. I want to follow that up with this: online discourse is online discourse, and real life people in the community are more real than any online discourse will ever be. If you currently feel zero attraction to men, and have zero desire to ever be with a man romantically and sexually, then in my mind you are a lesbian unless you specifically tell me otherwise.

In terms of shifting sexual orientation; I think anything is possible when it comes to human emotions and experiences. That's actually one of the main features of being human; we change, and grow, and adapt. There are as many queer experiences in the queer community as there are people. Also regarding Ricky Martin saying he genuinely loved the women he dated in the past; love is not necessarily always romantic or sexual, he could have loved these women as people, he could love them platonically, that doesn't make him less gay somehow.

I will conclude with this: why does it matter how you felt in the past vs now? No one else can tell you how you feel or how to identify, that's not anyone else's business but your own. There is no LGBTQ+ police, and if someone is saying you technically can't be a lesbian because you sincerely feel like you used to be bisexual, maybe you can tell them to kindly kill the cop in their mind. We don't police eachother in the queer community; we respect and uplift eachother.

As always, the queer community loves you <3

#ask response #be warned if you are going to hate on this post I will block you #I hope this helps #this is a very complex and nuanced topic tbh so it's hard to answer in one ask like this

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magicinaframe-part2 · 9 months

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Have You Dreamed, Recently?

Bloggers, here, at Tumblr, will agree when I say that this society -- the U. S. -- is filled with many stressful jobs.

From the time I started working in New York City, in June of 1979, to the end of 2010, I worked in a number of stressful jobs. Two, immediately, come to mind. I worked as a messenger for a number of years and I worked as a secretary in a child welfare agency; also, for a number of years.

In both cases, I do not remember whether or not I ever dreamed about these jobs, while I was employed. In my spare time, I did think about both of them, but I do not remember dreaming about either one.

And...because I don't remember whether I dreamed about the job while I was employed, then it follows that I did not dream about them. If I had such a dream, I would have written down as many details as I could remember. That is to say, if a dream -- any dream -- is so impressive that I wake up, I try to write down as many details as I can. I've been doing that for many years, starting in the 1990s.

I bring up the subject because the movie that I watched recently -- a movie listed at the Internet Movie Database with a running time of 85 minutes -- is, in my humble opinion, a visualization of a dream of the main character.

And what does the main character in this movie do for work? She's a freelance news reporter who lives and works in Rome, Italy. Sometimes, she writes for a newspaper and, sometimes, she works for a TV channel.

Is that a recipe for a busy life? Is that a recipe for a stressful life?

It's a recipe for a good movie script, with the main character either a man or a woman. The idea for this movie that I've watched originated with a man and, then, two women and one man worked on the script.

I have to add that a news reporter, working in Rome, throughout the 1970s, would undoubtedly have been dealing with a stressful job. Perhaps the scriptwriters knew news reporters working in Italy's best known city?

This movie that I'm thinking of is a European co-production. It takes place in Rome, with Italian language dialog. It's a movie that did not get theatrical distribution, in the U. S.

And it's another example of a movie that should be thoroughly researched...

A student protest is in progress, in the daytime, outside the entrance gate of a Church-affiliated college in Rome. Students, in formation, are quick-stepping and chanting "Worker power," over and over. A police car drives past the formation. In the car's backseat, a Commissioner and a detective make an on-the-spot appraisal of the situation and the car, then, moves past the demonstrators and out of view.

As the protest continues, a beautiful- looking woman, older than the students, stylishly dressed, is introduced, talking to people on the street -- people who are much older than the students. She asks the people what they think about the demonstration. She uses a tape recorder with an over-the-shoulder strap and tells several of the passers-by that her questions are for television.

This character -- the first character formally introduced in this movie -- is named Barbara. Her family name is never mentioned in the dialog, nor anything specific about her past life. The scenes play out, one after the other, with no reference to past events in Barbara's life, until late in the plot, in dialog with another important character, when she decides that she and her new boyfriend should leave Rome (She mentions two locations she enjoyed travelling to, when she was younger.).

In a matter of minutes, once the movie gets going, a perceptive viewer might start noticing some unusual details, as scene after scene takes place. For one thing, Barbara is in the habit of thinking to herself, wherever she is -- whether she's covering a news story, or she's at home, or she's arriving at a police station -- and she often has a conversation in her mind with her mother, whose voice is heard on the soundtrack.

Other characters are introduced who also have on-going conversations with themselves, with family members, with lovers, in their mind.

As the demonstration makes its way through the entrance gate onto the grounds of the College, a group of young adult males are introduced. They are behaving oddly, as if they're observing the demonstration and planning to do something. One of the group, suddenly, for no apparent reason, picks a fight with another young adult male in the group, gets hit in the head, and collapses to the ground.

Barbara sees this and tries to revive the young adult male, thinking to herself as she does so, but the young adult male quickly comes to, springs to his feet, and proceeds to play cat and mouse with the reporter -- who becomes more and more uneasy, as she tries to back away from the young adult male. As she backs away, the others in the group join in the cat and mouse game.

One of this group, in particular, moves about in a threatening manner. His physical appearance, his facial features, the clothes he wears, all combine in a way that is deliberately intimidating.

In short order, the group forces Barbara to give up the keys to her car. The car is, then, moved from its parking spot and its engine is set on fire.

The group, now, with an added young adult female, dances off into the distance. They're triumphant about what they did.

The group, then, enlists another young adult male, named Michele (pronounced 'mee-KAY-leh'), to assassinate someone that they will designate and to also befriend Barbara.

When Michele shows up the following morning, hanging around Barbara's unusual-looking, modernistic home, her anxiety from the events of the previous day intensifies, and the remainder of the plot becomes a steady progression, ending in tragedy.

On a large movie theater screen, the dream-like images and situations would be unforgettable. The impact is less on a laptop screen or on my 29-inch flatscreen television.

The name of the movie is THE PACIFIST. The movie debuted in theaters in Italy, late in December of 1970. If any of what I have written sounds interesting, THE PACIFIST is available on DVD, with English subtitles. THE PACIFIST can also be viewed, with English subtitles, at You Tube, where it is shown with commercials.

-- Drew Simels

#Movies and dreams

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