#or at least choosing between them

[the-starry-lycan]

I love Iconoclasts. The game by Konjak, I mean. It is such a beautiful game and it needs so much more appreciation, with how much hard work and love were put into it!

I have been thinking about (and writing WIPs for) an AU where Royal survives, and Robin doesn't have to leave him behind on the moon station. Because that moment was beyond heartbreaking, and I need an AU where Royal, the sweet boy that he is, survives and gets to see how everything ends. I made a couple names for the AU, and am torn between the two below.

And because I'm indecisive with naming my AUs and fics, (as some would know), I'm gonna poll it out again! So pick whichever one sounds the better! :)

#iconoclasts #konjak #iconoclasts game #alternate universe #my stars I need to be better at naming hehe #or at least choosing between them

[kaidanalenkosprmanager]

THE VIRMIRE SURVIVOR SURVIVORS

Spectre Ashley Williams & Spectre Kaidan Alenko "Not a lot of other people have had my back since the beginning..." Mass Effect: Legendary Edition (2021)

#mira makes gifs ✨ #kaidan alenko #ashley williams #mass effect #mass effect legendary edition #dailygaming #this set has literally been cooking in my project files since before i started priority: mars and i finally figured out how to edit it!! 🥹 #i swear i think i had at least 8-9 different drafts trying to figure out how to organize the video in the frames #i hated like every draft i had bc none of it looked like the picture i had in my head and my original plan was just not gonna work lol #but ya know if bioware and EA won't give my faves any content then i'll do it myself! #and they can tell me only one survives virmire as many times as they want and i will continue to ✨not listen✨ #no one could ever make me choose between them #kaidan alenko and ashley williams you are EVERYTHING #they could NEVER make me hate you #if the world is against y'all then i am against the world

[rebellum]

I feel like... Perhaps... Arguing that transphobia is defined by murder and that anything other than murder doesn't even matter... May NOT be conducive to fighting for trans rights.

Like... people want the right to exist as they are. They want to have access to hrt and surgeries and prosthetics. People want access to clothes that fit them and reflect how they want to be seen. People want access to medical care (eg. Getting screened and treated for sex-based forms of cancer can be impossible if you have the "wrong" sex listed to receive those tests). People want to be respected and treated well. People want to not be sexually assaulted and beaten and abused. People want to have access to housing and jobs, and the protection to not lose those things for being trans. People want access to shelters for homeless people or survivors of domestic abuse. People want name changes.

Acting like all of those things don't matter because at least they weren't murderered by an individual (and instead die of suicide or state violence, or survive and suffer) isn't okay.

#'hey people are forcibly detransitioning you and raping and beating you and you lost your job and are going to be homeless and #probably die of infection from being stabbed for trying to go to the bathroom. but at least you arent part of a demographic that has a #higher murder victim rate! shhh just ignore that we dont actually have data on the murder rate of your group.' #do ppl like. forget state based violence exists. and that thats most violence minorities face. #idk man im just. mad about people on here acting like youre only oppressed if youre a perisex trans woman who was AMAB. #cause i exist at the intersection of multiple minorities and being told hey u experience violence but at least you wont be murdered by an #individual feels like a slap in the face. #like it doesnt matter if i have to mask my neurodivergent behaviour bc if people see they could assume im on drugs and call the police and #i could potentially be really hurt but not die but hey at least i wont die just be horrifically traumatized by police brutality! #there are millions of people with mental illnesses similar to my own around the world who are institutionalized and forcibly medicated or #living on the streets or dependant on horrifically abusive caregivers #but hey at least they arent being murdered! #like. the way the transphobia discussion on tumblr rn discusses (and doesnt discuss) race and ability and class and health makes me #feel very invisible. #like if people had to choose who to believe about my experiences between listening to me a black/mixed mentally ill maybe disabled (used to #be disabled) hella nd trans nonbinary person #or listen to a white middle class trans woman's take on my experiences that theyd choose her. its such a weird weird microcosm. #its like a monkeys paw like people are finally listening to trans fems and finally recognising the violence they experience and finally #actually caring about them but for some reason decide that in order to do that its necessary to throw every other minority under the bus #like fuck man have you seen how 'anti transandrophobia truthers' discuss race? its NOT okay #we all matter we all are so similar and are part of the same groups and same communities we need to stick together #stop using trans fems as a battering ram to hurt other minorities challenge #cause like. yes its some trans fems. but its mostly NOT? #like its non trans fems telling other non trans fems that they arent oppressed #and even when many trans fems are like what the fuck dude of course other trans ppl matter whats wrong with you #the group of like 80% non trans fems 20% trans fems are like 'hmm if you are defending other trans people you must not really be trans fem' #like. denying trans fems their identity bc they disagree with them?? dude someone doesnt stop being a trans fem cause they recognise #people other than trans fems matter and exist #its just all so WEIRD its a weird little tumblr microcosm #i wanna stress. for those of you who dont have access to other lgbtq+ communities. how much it seems to be primarily a tumblr thing. to

[whos-hotter-jjba]

Hottest JoJo Character Bracket - Match 3-4

#i am going to die. #no seriously i'm about to be so dramatic in the tags THESE ARE MY SHITTY BABIES AND I LOVE THEM BOTH SO MUCH #I CAN'T CHOOSE THEY'RE MY POOKIES MY WORST BLORBOS #joseph's shitty bisexual stereotype fuckboy vibes and rohan's insane messed up artist vibes #i can't pick between them #i need to ask someone which of them is losing and vote for the other so at least one of them will come back in the second chances #i can't do this they're my babies #joseph joestar #kishibe rohan #rohan kishibe #battle tendency #diamond is unbreakable #jojo no kimyou na bouken #jojo's bizarre adventure #jjba #who's hotter jjba #hottest jjba character bracket

[truth-01001001-liar]

Ok ok ok ok I know someone may have asked this before….but like I want to know what characters are rotting in everyone else’s brain.

Reblog (if you want to) and put in the tags what your favorite elder scrolls character/characters are. If you want to say why go for it!

#tes #i’ll go first #personally it’s got to be a near tie between Lorkhan and Vivec #for me #i just - they’re terrible and I love them #i just love the ‘it could be true… but it PROBABLY ISNT thing going on with both of them #i just think their trickery and their lies are fun #if I have to choose one or the other I’d go with vivec but I think that’s because there just more to interact with as far as the games go #because #at the very least you get to talk to vivec at some point #i thoughts and thinks

[lunian]

idk how it happened but after second gameplay in Hades I realized

Thanatos annoys me, man

he is so salty and emo about nothing, it's not even sexy anymore

#why zag cant just get laid by ares or dio #ngl it would be cooler #... did i tell you i love olympians for all their being binches and stuff #at least they are entertaining and hot #and sound more grateful idk #also i just ignore all rooms where i should choose between two gods #so i pretend they are not so easy going to kill me if i upset them a bit #mystuff

[sonknuxadow]

i know that sonic being my favorite sonic character makes me basic as hell but i dont care . hes my specialest little guy forever

#i feel like theres a big difference between being somebody who knows ntohing about sonic who says sonic is their favorite #and being somebody whos super invested and knows a lot about the franchise who says sonic is their favorite though #because the second person would have a deeper understanding of sonic as a character . and the cast in general . #and choose sonic as their favorite based on that. while the first person is just picking one of the only characters they know #also i would argue that the actual most basic option for favorite sonic character. or at least one of them. is shadow #i mean hes cool hes one of my favorites too. but im just saying.

[redladydeath]

Five bucks says that Lucifer is going to be written out of large chunks of season two because the power imbalance that'd be created by pitting the Vees (three former humans, only one of which has displayed any particularly impressive powers) against a team that includes the literal Devil From The Bible would just be too big to overcome.

#like. you can't convince me that lucifer doesn't have the power to absolutely annihilate sinners if he so chooses #once the vees start stepping to the hotel #the crew's gonna have to come up with a really good reason as to why he doesn't immediately just grind them to dust for charlie's sake #like. the conflict isn't gonna stay solely between the vees and alastor for long #the hotel crew *will* get involved and they're gonna be in real danger once they are #and if lucifer's really living there full-time now he's gonna need a nerf in order for that part of the story to retain a feeling of urgenc #like. maybe you can have vox *also* make a deal with lilith in order to get on alastor's level power-wise or something #but imo it'd be easier to just have lucifer be preoccupied with heaven-related stuff in order to keep him out of the the vee plot #at least once things come to blows #redlady speaks #hazbin hotel #lucifer #hazbin posting

[talaricula]

a rly underrated thing about crazy ex girlfriend imo is that it's one of the rare shows i know of that really spends time on exploring what the process of having children is like for queer ppl/for those who go about it "non-normatively". it's not even rly a main storyline but i still find it rly well-handled and touching.

#idk i feel like in the general consciousness (deciding to) having kids as a queer person is either treated as impossible #(which is true to an extent in some jurisdictions tbf - at least if you want the legal status of parents) #or is imo way oversimplified #like yeah most ppl know ivf is A Fucking Process but many ppl still seem to underestimate iui for example #or there's an assumption that all couples with no sperm between them choose to use a sperm bank and that that process is easy #and doesn't require any reflection (which it isn't and it does) #or that if you choose to go with a known donor finding a donor is an easy process (which it also rly isn't) #or for couples where no one can get pregnant that surrogacy goes without saying (in addition to the fact that surrogacy is banned #in Many Places where other MAR techniques aren't #finding a surrogate is also orders of magnitude more difficult than finding a gamete donor) #or that adoption is an obvious solution - idk if those ppl know any gay couples who are trying to adopt but i do #they've been in the process for SIX psychologically excruciating years and it will likely be another year before they actually have a child #and that's for white college-educated materially comfortable ppl #and idk but cxg does a rly good job with the storyline - from Darryl and White Josh's disagreement about whether to have kids #to Darryl's decision to have a kid alone #to him asking Heather and Rebecca for help with that process #to the fact that Heather and Rebecca's feelings about Hebecca are v realistic and nuanced atm #not at all maternal bc that's never what they wanted or planned for (being a mother to this child) but also not indifferent #for example the 'hello nice to meet you' reprise - i legit think that's the only time i've ever seen a known donor's attitude and feelings #about the child they helped create but in no way consider 'theirs' being explored. even in thirty seconds. #or even just the fact that Darryl is a lawyer and requests help from both a gamete donor and a gestational carrier - yes! #as far as i understand in the us 'surrogacy' (one person being pregnant with their own ovule) gives the pregnant person legal parental stat #and thus requires giving up those rights and sometimes adoption after birth #while 'splitting things up' between a donor and a carrier also cuts through that 'biological' link for the purposes of legal recognition #i might be wrong in my understanding of this but if not it's cool to see it handled realistically including wrt how the legal consequences #influences decisions about which choices you make #reproduction cw #children cw #adoption cw

[catgirljaneway]

everytime i see something about tuvix i am filled with inhumane rage ngl

#trek thoughts #shut the fuck UP about tuvix #i'm unconvinced anyone genuinely cared about him or wanted him to live #my conspiracy theory is that the “janeway bad because she killed tuvix” thing was started by weak little men who didn't like there being #a female captain #i can't prove this but i believe it firmly and i if someone brings up tuvix to me i will kill them with the same amount of hesitation with #which janeway killed tuvix #Read: none #so what if she killed him? if my best friend was fused into a different entity and I had to choose between her or stupid smug little tuvix #creature i'd take the creature out back and shoot it with not a moment to spare #also tuvix is fucking annoying i'm not sorry #he's a smug little bastard and I hate him and want to bite him so bad #i hate him so much and i am a lover at heart it is rare for me to hate but i hate that bastard #star trek captains have done FAR worse than this but will people shut the fuck up about him? NO #he's been dead for years get over it losers #remember when janeway made a deal with the borg? now THAT was fucked up (love her for it tho) if you're going to critizise my wife at least #do it for the actual crimes she comitted #she was right to kill tuvix #but seriously i had heard tons about tuvix before watching the episode and when i finally did i was like ??? this is what people were cryin #about??? thought it would be a bigger deal lmao

[talietikasero]

i should draw them more

#i still say we could've had a sisterly dynamic between them #oh well. at least i'm writing it because nobody else will #both modern and rewrite aus #nat.csp #my art and doodles #wip #art for my fic #if you're reading the tags go check my fics out #this is the start of art for arcade route b #now i have to figure out what i want to do for route c #honestly why choose just aria or jack-o when you can have both #tagging for filing purposes #guilty gear #aria hale #jack-o valentine

[kariachi]

Sorry-not-sorry I'm back on my normal 'Kevin and Argit were so small' bullshittery.

Because they fucking were. Kevin was twelve when Servantis tossed everybody, and Argit couldn't have been far off. They were middle school aged. 'Puberty would be starting about now if we weren't wandering the Null Void and therefor likely not eating near enough' aged.

A pair of children, with minimal education, no paperwork, no homes, no guardians. Wandering the Null Void and then the Milky Way, on their own. One a prime target for the slave trade, both prime targets for adults looking to take advantage of them (*coughcoughOttocoughcough*). With only as much security as they could provide themselves and each other. Only able to rely on themselves for the basic necessities of life.

And then this show has the audacity to try to tell me that they turned to crime due to poor morality. That they're money focused because they're just naturally greedy. That they don't trust people and look out for themselves because they're bad people that either will always be bad people or will only improve because of the power of Tennysons.

What options were there for them? What jobs are there in the Null Void? What jobs are there in the galaxy that'll hire barely-teens, if even that, with no paperwork or educations, that wouldn't ruin them as badly and pay worse than the crime they already had experience with? Will keep them fed and clothed and sheltered? When one of them already has a criminal record, for violent crimes at that? When there's nobody there to stop even the 'good' adults from taking advantage of them?

The show will sit there and tell you that Kevin's violent crimes were the result of a rough childhood, but he and Argit's non-violent ones? Totally on them, no excuse, wholly a matter of greed and not giving a shit about other people. Fucking bullshit. This is a pair of kids who had to grow up way too fast, up against an existence that saw at least one of them as easy profit, with nothing but themselves and each other, and no opportunities. They're a pair of traumatized kids who grabbed the opportunities available to them with both hands and were molded by the problems they faced.

Of course they're money-focused, unlike the Tennysons they don't and haven't had anybody making sure they had enough to get by. They've had to support themselves and live with the constant worry that something is going to go pear-shaped and they'll have nothing.

They spent years with anybody and everybody being a potential threat (even between the two of them, Argit's noting that Kevin's snapping while he worked for the Rooters was the worst he'd seen 'before or since' makes it quite clear he's seen him on and passed the edge at least as much if not more than we have), of course they're going to be slow to trust, quick to toss people aside, and unwilling to help their enemies without some sort of payout, they've been burned before.

Just- Damnit these two come from some shitty fucking situations, the effects they had on them are obvious if you bother to fucking look, and they both deserved better than the series just going "oh yeah they're assholes what do you expect they're criminals" and moving the fuck on. Like, for fuck's sake at least acknowledge that they're like this because life was a fucking lead pipe to the teeth to them! We know Kevin's situation was shit even before they met, we got to see it, but even if Argit had a perfectly good life beforehand (unlikely) the earliest we see him is being held captive for illegal experimentation purposes by law enforcement! These two have been through shit! At least acknowledge it!

Fuck, they could've replaced Color of Monkey with that, hitting on the differences between how Kevin and Argit adapted to their circumstances, give us upfront the Tennysons being a safety net that let Kevin heal (rather than just 'oh the Tennysons taught him morals because they're the Good People') while Argit's issues and lack of security kept him stagnant. It would go better with what we see of him over the course of OV leading up to the Rooters arc, and what we're shown in the Rooters arc. Give us him still being far from great or on the up-and-up but improving with the stability that comes with his 'hero' status, a repairing relationship with Kevin after that arc, and a flourishing, above-board business. Rather than backpedaling on any good the writers had thrown at him like they'd realized they were coming up against a cliff.

Shit that makes you want to get the writers by the shoulders and shake them mercilessly.

#the fact kevin's willingness to leave his enemies to their fates is treated as a character flaw resulting from his being immoral #rather than a result of the traumatic-ass shit he's been though and these enemies continue to put him through #we *really* needed a scene between him and gwen where it's made clear that just because she and ben choose to forgive people #doesn't mean kevin has to and that his desire not to help people who only want to hurt him is entirely reasonable #argit has gone through so much shit too and it was understandable it didn't get touched on in UAF because it hadn't been established #but OV has no fucking excuse #bastards really went 'argit is a more accepting partner than rook and selflessly saved a lot of people's lives at least once- #-and cares about kevin and went through so much trauma alongside him and is the wielder of the omnitrix in at least one parallel universe' #and then turned around and went 'but also he is actually an even worse person than UAF showed- #-no really we know we just showed him being the type to selflessly save lives- #-but he's totally down with kidnapping and selling small children to be eaten' #these boys deserve better #honest to fuck they had argit selling children as food directly after showing us how he was treated as a thing by adults as a child #when we know kevin was a victim of the same shit and that argit held it against at least servantis #when we could have had an episode where kids are going missing in Undertown and the heroes learn because Argit called them about it #when we could've had something hitting on he and kevin's trauma from the shit they went through alongside argit growth #as he at the very least refuses to let other little kids go through shit like he and kevin did #which would play well with what we see of him in the rooters arc #*and* what we see in The Purge when he's the one who responds to the FK bullshit not by fleeing the planet but by informing Team Tennyson #despite being shown to have the *ability* to flee #we'd even still get to see scary post-rooters 'don't fuck with me' argit it'd be great #missed fucking opportunities all over the damn place doing these boys dirty

[flameswallower]

I'm genuinely very sad that twitter is slowly dying. There just aren't good alternatives for me-- this website and blue sky are the closest, but not only will trying to build a following be pretty exhausting, the culture on both sites is terminally square. Sorry, but it's true! In different ways; still, nevertheless.

The culture on twitter, conversely, was always a toxic waste pit, but in ways I generally found/find it easier to evade or ignore than most people seem to. Some of that is luck; some of it's that I'm white and not a woman or someone who reads to most people as a woman, and I don't get into direct arguments with transphobes, and so I evade the worst harassment brigades.

But I think a lot of it comes down to the same reason I prefer to hang out with overtly "mean" and "scary" people than with "nice" people sometimes. I would rather be in a situation where

1.) I know others can stand up to me and won't take any bullshit if I accidentally make them uncomfortable, overstep boundaries, etc.;

2.) conflict and disagreement will not be perceived as abusive or as The End Of the World, ditto if I have an Oops! It's the Autism/ADHD! moment and respond in a socially inappropriate way because I misunderstood a situation or couldn't control my impulse to say something/laugh at something I found funny;

3.) I need not fear that anybody will clutch their pearls and get on my case for being a little *~**edgy**~*, for existing as a sexual being, for using drugs, for describing things that have happened to me in the past, for writing horror fiction that sometimes deals with extreme or taboo subject matter, for not keeping myself scrupulously PG-rated the way I would around children when I'm with other adults, and/or for inadvertently saying something insensitive/ignorant that I later apologize for;

4.) my contrarianism gets to manifest as being kind and considerate and unusually patient/open/compassionate with people who are being jagoffs or are clearly disturbed or whatever, as opposed to manifesting in argumentative behavior, pushing boundaries, and telling people to go fuck themselves

Basically, I need to find the social media platform or subsection thereof that's equivalent to a group of goths and punks in a condemned building imbibing unwise chemical combinations and giving each other terrible stick-and-pokes of cartoon characters smoking weed or doing tijuana bible shit. One of the punks named himself a slur (it's okay, he can reclaim it). Several of the goths are sex workers. Practically everybody has been to the psych ward, jail, or both. A few people use it/its pronouns specifically as a fuck you to normies. One girl's clothes are filled with rats.

#also like #i can handle being made fun of pretty well #i can handle an implicit 'you're stupid if you think that' from anyone not a close friend/partner well #i canNOT handle implicit 'you're A Bad Person if you think/do/don't do...' nearly as well #anyway in life i've learned i can choose between #in the millennial's proverbial lexicon #being the sweetest cinnamon roll in the hive of scum and villainy #or being like. an unspeakable cosmic horror among Care Bears #i prefer the first one! i like being a breath of sunshine and fresh air! #i like being a LITTLE tricky and i like freaking out people who are happy to be freaked out! #i'm like that mute guy with the dog in nightbreed! #i'm just hanging out with my friends who eat people #and technically i'm one of them but it's like the least badass possible version

[theygender]

Finally recruited Karlach and I need Larian to release a patch that lets you have endgame polyamory between origin characters like yesterday 😭

#like i love shadowheart and shes already like established as my pc's love interest and i am GOING to complete her romance arc #but also ive had karlach for all of 5 minutes and if anything happened to her i would kill everyone in this room and then myself #and shadowheart ALSO expresses interest in karach like openly right there in front of you #and i know if you ask her she'll be okay with bringing karlach into the relationship at least for the first part of the game #which i may still do. maybe #but i NEED larian to take out the bit where the love interests ask you to choose between them further down the line 😭 #like you can be endgame poly with halsin. and other non-origin companions too i believe #pls let me be endgame poly with shadowheart and karlach 😭 this is lesbophobic #rambling

[thievesandtraitors]

If I had to do a rough guess of my top 10 taylor songs i think the list would look something like this:

Getaway Car

Maroon

invisible string

State of Grace

my tears ricochet

Would've Could've Should've

Last Kiss

Clean

Carolina

King of My Heart

#number 10 changes constantly #on any given day i bounce between like 7 other songs #but if i had to choose at least 9 songs of hers to listen to for the rest of my life this would be them #taylor swift #top 10 list

[pnkrathian]

a lot of parts of fandom can be awful but tbh I think even the worst depths of the most awful tumblr fandom doesnt even come close to how fucking insufferable right-wing guy anime fans are

#if I had the choice in between choosing to hang out with a fandom mom and one of them I’d choose the fandom mom no question #at least they have like. a sliver of being cool in them ffhfdbn