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hobohobgoblim · 19 days

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inkskinned · 9 months

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you're grabbing lunch with a nice man and he gives you that strange grimace-smile that's popular right now; an almost sardonic "twist" of his mouth while he looks literally down on you. it looks like he practiced the move as he leans back, arms folded. he just finished reciting the details of NFTs to you and explaining Oppenheimer even though he only watched a youtube about it and hasn't actually seen it. you are at the bottom of your wine glass.

you ask the man across from you if he has siblings, desperately looking for a topic. literally anything else.

he says i don't like small talk. and then he smiles again, watching you.

a few years ago, you probably would have said you're above celebrity gossip, but honestly, you've been kind of enjoying the dumb shit of it these days. with the rest of the earth burning, there's something familiar and banal about dragging ariana grande through the mud. you think about jeanette mccurdy, who has often times gently warned the world she's not as nice as she appears. you liked i'm glad my mom died but it made you cry a lot.

he doesn't like small talk, figure out something to say.

you want to talk about responsibility, and how ariana grande is only like 6 days older than you are - which means she just turned 30 and still dresses and acts like a 13 year old, but like sexy. there's something in there about the whole thing - about insecurity, and never growing up, and being sexualized from a young age.

people have been saying that gay people are groomers. like, that's something that's come back into the public. you have even said yourself that it's just ... easier to date men sometimes. you would identify as whatever the opposite of "heteroflexible" is, but here you are again, across from a man. you like every woman, and 3 people on tv. and not this guy. but you're trying. your mother is worried about you. she thinks it's not okay you're single. and honestly this guy was better before you met, back when you were just texting.

wait, shit. are you doing the same thing as ariana grande? are you looking for male validation in order to appease some internalized promise of heteronormativity? do you conform to the idea that your happiness must result in heterosexuality? do you believe that you can resolve your internal loneliness by being accepted into the patriarchy? is there a reason dating men is easier? why are you so scared of fucking it up with women? why don't you reach out to more of them? you have a good sense of humor and a big ol' brain, you could have done a better job at online dating.

also. jesus christ. why can't you just get a drink with somebody without your internal feminism meter pinging. although - in your favor (and judgement aside) in the case of your ariana grande deposition: you have been in enough therapy you probably wouldn't date anyone who had just broken up with their wife of many years (and who has a young child). you'd be like - maybe take some personal time before you begin this journey. like, grande has been on broadway, you'd think she would have heard of the plot of hamlet.

he leans forward and taps two fingers to the table. "i'm not, like an andrew tate guy," he's saying, "but i do think partnership is about two people knowing their place. i like order."

you knew it was going to be hard. being non-straight in any particular way is like, always hard. these days you kind of like answering the question what's your sexuality? with a shrug and a smile - it's fine - is your most common response. like they asked you how your life is going and not to reveal your identity. you like not being straight. you like kissing girls. some days you know you're into men, and sometimes you're sitting across from a man, and you're thinking about the power of compulsory heterosexuality. are you into men, or are you just into the safety that comes from being seen with them? after all, everyone knows you're failing in life unless you have a husband. it almost feels like a gradebook - people see "straight married" as being "all A's", and anything else even vaguely noncompliant as being ... like you dropped out of the school system. you cannot just ignore years of that kind of conditioning, of course you like attention from men.

"so let's talk boundaries." he orders more wine for you, gesturing with one hand like he's rousing an orchestra. sir, this is a fucking chain restaurant. "I am not gonna date someone who still has male friends. also, i don't care about your little friends, i care about me. whatever stupid girls night things - those are lower priority. if i want you there, you're there."

he wasn't like this over text, right? you wouldn't have been even in the building if he was like this. you squint at him. in another version of yourself, you'd be running. you'd just get up and go. that's what happens on the internet - people get annoyed, and they just leave. you are locked in place, almost frozen. you need to go to the bathroom and text someone to call you so you have an excuse, like it's rude to just-leave. like he already kind of owns you. rudeness implies a power paradigm, though. see, even your social anxiety allows the patriarchy to get to you.

you take a sip of the new glass of wine. maybe this will be a funny story. maybe you can write about it on your blog. maybe you can meet ariana grande and ask her if she just maybe needs to take some time to sit and think about her happiness and how she measures her own success.

is this settling down? is this all that's left in your dating pool? just accepting that someone will eventually love you, and you have to stop being picky about who "makes" you a wife?

you look down to your hand, clutching the knife.

#writeblr #this is a mashup of like 3 dates i accidentally went on lol #by that i mean that i was out with a woman on a date in 2 of these situations #and a man just. joined us. and we were too awkward to say anything while he tried to ''date'' me #& one was a longterm friend that i was like. you what????#like he's nice he's a doctor and my mom was SO happy she was like raquel think about it #''it's a perfect love story you grew up together and reconnected as adults and like the same things and he's friends with ur brother #and his sister is one of ur close friends!!!''#yes but alas. he is a boy . she only likes girls. can i make it any more obvious #anyway im tryna write about like the force of male attention being actually incredibly ingrained to women like we are SUPPOSED to like it #it's seen as the only important thing #even if ur gay #and it's a nuanced thing idk #and while rn i i.d. as lesbian #like .... it wouldn't be UNTRUE to say i am probably like ''cusp bisexual'' bc i CAN experience attraction to men bc like .#sexuality is fluid...#don't tell straight ppl tho bc they do not understand the concept that ppl don't necessarily need a solid everlasting label #they're like GET in the BOX #if ur gay & in boston i'm 30 and pretty please come kiss me.#(i usually only date older ppl sorry in advance tho)

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s0up1ta · 2 years

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my favorite girlboss and her skrunkly bf finally getting the happiness they deserve

#and then they went on a date and the credits rolled and life was good and everything was perfect #please for the love of god let them be happy dana #they deserve to be happy #this is now canon.#come get your daily dose of huntlow content toh nation #huntlow #winter #willow park #hunter noceda #toh hunter #toh willow #the owl house #toh #toh fanart #toh s3 #s0up1tart

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crispywizardtale · 3 months

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decarbry · 1 year

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Yabureme 1-1

#boku no hero academia fanart #shouta aizawa #nomu aizawa #eraser head #Yabureme Aizawa AU #Yabureme Comic #well here it is #part one of.. chapter??? one????#I guess this is my set-up #a handful of pages per part and a handful of parts per chapter depending on the chapter content #I went way too hard on this but I kept dragging my feet on starting this comic because I wanted it to be perfect #which is dumb and this is NOT perfect but I'm happy with it #so at least I have a baseline to continue with that appeals to me #xoxoxoxo #tw blood #my drive to do this comic is strong so hopefully it won't be long between parts #but I'm also not going to promise delivery dates HAHA #they'll come when I finish them and that's as accurate as I'll be #I hope you guys like ittttt

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cc-kote · 11 months

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There's a huge abandoned building just outside my city where you're allowed to paint on the walls so my girlfriend and I went on a little date there today! ❤️

#my art #it was the best day ever and a perfect way to end our little vacation before she went home #its one of my favorite places in the world #and I was so happy that i got to take her there it was one if the coolest dates we've gone on so far #she saw what i painted and told me i had brain worms but jokes on her because she gave them to me #this is what happens when you sit an autistic bitch down and go through (almost) the entire star wars franchise #and fall asleep almost every night to videos explaining the lore and shit #i am what you made me #cope #the bad batch #the clone wars #fives #echo #commander Cody #codywan

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inuamaru · 8 months

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punbeam · 8 months

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Not to assign cartoon characters mental illnesses like some sort of Youtube Clickbaiter, but the way Simon is treated in Fionna and Cake feels specifically reminiscent of how our society is hypocritical about bipolar/manic depressive people.

I don't think this is controversial to say, but in the original Adventure Time Simon-as-Ice-King just felt like a general mental illness allegory. Not to say it was executed perfectly, since again it was a generalized allegory and often focused on the people around Simon VS him, but it did manage to cover a fair amount of nuances: acknowledging when Ice King's behavior was a reflection of the mental illness Crown and not Simon; the conflicting dynamic of growing up with a mentally ill Magically Cursed parental figure; Treat People Who Are Mentally Ill Cursed As People.

But in Fionna and Cake where Simon isn't Ice King anymore? And everyone is going on about how cooler and more fun and more creative Ice King was compared to Simon? It just seems like the fantasy equivalent to people fetishizing manic depression in creatives and saying stuff like "The pills will kill your creativity" and "What if Van Gogh wasn't depressed, wouldn't his art be so much worse?"

And in the show we see Simon internalize all these comments! Over and over again people are saying he's pathetic as Simon and can't do anything special as Simon, unlike Ice King. So between all of that and his own warped nostalgia of the past, he uses the slimmest opportunity to volunteer to be Ice King again, even if it hurts him!

The worst part is we know that rn Simon is damned either way. Depressed as Simon, the people of Ooo avoid him and don't try to connect with him, and he is too afraid of being a burden and reaching out to Marcy for help. And if he relapses turns fully back into Ice King? They'll treat him like a party toy for a while before discarding him when he gets "too crazy" and the novelty wears off, and he'll probably lose his only support network.

That being said at this point (Episode 4) it's hard to tell which direction all of this will go. Tom Kenny has mentioned how this show features the most emotional VA work he's ever done, so it's fair to say that whatever happens next in the series with Simon will be intense and even heavier than it already has been.

#fionna and cake #fionna and cake spoilers #adventure time #at #Like I said #the original show's allegory isn't perfect. Mental illnesses are complex and can't just be cleanly wiped away #and there's a lot more nuance that I'm not equipped to fully discuss #(specifically regarding medication; reasons why someone might not medicate/seek treatment ; etc)#and honestly I haven't watched every episode of AT so I don't clearly remember how happy Ice King was when people stopped beating him up #like I remember the dinner with him Marcy and PB where he internally seemed unhappy as Ice King and still wanted to be free #though I also remember the episode where he and Magic Betty went on a date but clashed bc she was angry he was Ice King/not neurotypical #which partially feels like a big downfall to Betty with her not being willing to cope with who Simon/Ice King was now

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adorkabletwilightandfriends · 1 year

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Adorkable Twilight & Friends - “The Perfect Date”

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sketchy-pieces · 2 years

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woe, tech boy be upon you

#seto kaiba #happy birthday scorpio icon #yugioh #yugioh dm #i thought his bday was last month but i still left this so late to the date #Yugioh Duel Monsters #anime #Fanart #this was a perfect excuse to listen to the dsod soundtrack on repeat its the best #im back from holiday with my favourite colour scheme and fave pathetic guy

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theawkwardanglophile · 1 year

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HAPPY FIVE MONTHS OF CANON CHENFORD!!

(I know in the show they've been together longer, but I'm sticking to our calendar, and Dec. 4)

I still practically have to pinch myself. Five months, and it BLOWS MY MIND that these two beloved characters are together, dating, happy, and in a really beautiful place.

They still give me butterflies. ❤

#chenford #the rookie #tim x lucy #tim bradford #lucy chen #the rookie season 5 #my babies are canon!!#they are DATING #they are happy and dating and adorable and omg #they are so perfect together

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feliciamontagues · 3 months

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Was anyone going to tell me that there was a Sister Boniface Christmas special last year, or was I just supposed to happen upon that information while trying to find out when S3 comes out?

#father brown #father brown cinematic universe #sister boniface mysteries #sister boniface #and sister peter my beloved is in it #to answer your question: no #S3 release date hasn't been announced yet #but like I am thinking father brown is still airing live rn and i imagine that it would probably take their slot #but like... how did i not know about the christmas special?#also the christmas special plot sounds so good i'm hyped to watch it #objectively; yes i probably would've preferred a fr brown one instead #but we already have two perfect ones and the sister boniface spinoff is so cute #they deserve this and i'm so happy for them

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just-avocado · 1 year

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Guapoduo stay winning