I'm so tired. And Frustrated.
I'm tired of characters needing to be "in love" every time they love each other. Especially when the media goes out of the way to make it clear that they love each other without ever trying to define that as "in love". They love each other. That is just as valuable. That is Just as worthy. They can be partners without romance. They can be partners without sex.
They Can Be Partners Without Romance.
I am so Sick of not only the idea that for some god forsaken reason, Every single queer relationship needs to be labeled and categorizable to "count" as explicitly queer, but the idea that it needs to be romantic. The notion that characters and stories cannot be queer until you get to see a kiss or people are declared "boyfriends" or something else like that. We are Woefully shy of queer representation on the whole— I'm not saying you can't interpret media however you like. Do what you want.
But I am so sick of characters that Clearly mirror aromantic stories or stories about queerness that just don't focus on romance be called "not good enough" or "homophobic". Not every story is about romance. Not every partnership is romantic.
That doesn't make them not queer. That doesn't make them not important. I can promise you, those of us who don't or can't center romance in our lives? We Are living a queer experience. We are antithetical to amatonormative allonormative expectations for how life "should" be lead.
We get to see ourselves in those stories you're calling "not queer enough". Queerness is complex and weird and Fucking Queer. It's not an analog of straightness or cisness. We're not playing opposite to straightness or cisness. We're not operating in the same Framework— that's what makes us so goddamn queer. We aren't easily definable, and when we try to force ourselves to find one definitive way to be queer, we leave community behind.
So yes. We need more queer stories. We need more queer stories of all kinds that are messy and weird and romantic and aromantic and trans and ace and nonbinary and all over the place because every single story about queerness is going to be different. And that's good.
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DJ's head is done! For his headband/strap (idk what the actual term is) I used two pieces of felt fabric glued together, then ironed to make the corners. If I were to do this again, I would probably put the strap on before the earpieces so it'd be more firmly attached.
Next step...arms! Still deciding if I'm going to use the pipe cleaners (left) or the needle felted pieces (right). I'd work on the needle felted piece to make it a bit thinner and shorter, then do another segment.
The needle felted ones would be less poseable but it would be easier to get his purple joints (I have to either call them joints or balls so I'm going with joints, sorry fam) attached. I'm not sure how I'd fix them into the pipe cleaners.
The other thing about the pipe cleaners is I'd probably want to remake his body so the pipe cleaner can go through it instead of trying to attach the end of the pipe cleaner to his sides.
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i dont have credentials in many areas. but ill be damned if i let some commentary youtuber try and lecture to me about the history of mlp horror aus. oh you know what cupcakes is through cultural osmosis but didn’t even bother to read it? you think its sooo wild and strange that people would write about this children’s cartoon but Dark and Spooky? you’re going to stop every five minutes to remind the audience how you would Never support the topics discussed in this Zombie Infection Tik Tok Series About Ponies™️? im going to hit you with a vacuum cleaner.
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List of... Business Partners.
A list of people that Azul talks to - as well as their tag! Feel free to request to be added here ^^ Also, please let me know if you'd like to be removed from this.
Romantic Partners
@blanketorghost - Yuu (Yuu Fujisaki)
Yuu, please stop putting yourself in danger. I love you, but it's not safe. I do not want you to get hurt.
General - Canon
@floydleechrp - Floyd
@halfafishandawholehuman - Floyd
@rook-hunt-chasseur-damour - Rook-san
Rook-san is intriguing... I enjoy talking to him.
@idya-shroud - Idia-san
General - OCs/Anons/etc
@blanketorghost - Ghost-san
Please stop trying to blackmail and guilt-trip me. I will not have you spreading lies about me to Yuu.
@incorrectmementomoriquotes - clownfish-san; kantokusei-san clownfish (old)
Why do you always do the craziest - pardon, oddest things?
@blind0raven - Kibby-san
I would appreciate if you did not continue to steal items from Mostro Lounge. And do not go whining to Jade.
@blind0raven - Ravey-san
I enjoy talking to you. Please do not get a bad influence from Kibby-san.
@blind0raven - Yuuki-san
@quartzztwst - Quartz-san
Where do I even begin...
@ggrocks - Sunny-san (new), kantokusei-san 🌻 (old)
No, you are not getting out of working at Mostro Lounge.
Pomefiore Student (L/N) 🪺, Pomefiore Student-san 🪆
How do I get him to perform at... Pardon me, I was just talking to myself.
@gummysharksorbet - Yuuto-san (Yuuto Watson)
@thehollowwriter - Quinn-san
��-san
🦊-san
🪸-san
🐬-san
🌹🪴-san
jar-san
comb-san
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after UDAD right before they blew up the acharon the mechs performed a purely self indulgent concert broadcast across the entire city with as many dramatic reveals as they can fit in, as by this point they're well known as individuals one way or another in pretty much every level of society
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not gonna lie I sometimes feel strange posting baldi art in 2023. Like I know is not my fault that I didn't know about fandoms and stuff but seeing some old posts of fans having fun when baldis basics was so popular and posting arts and stuff and seeing people interacting with each other with their baldi blogs and...i don't know. I feel like I missed so much fun. I feel like a fake fan because I didn't join the fandom sooner and when I see people mention some events that happened in the fandom I just. can't say anything because I wasn't there (or either I don't remember that much?)
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Why I revoiced Kaidan for Cary Interactions
So, I didn't really want to bring this up as I feel almost, foolish, I guess, I'm not sure of the right word. This isn't something I wanted to bring up, but I've been hearing confusions at to why I hired a new VA to voice Kaidan in the Caryalind interactions and people talking about me because I would revoice Dan. I will place a TLDR at the end of this post for those that don't want to read the whole thing. But I do hope to make this mostly quick as the whole situation makes me icky and don't want to type about it for too long.
Originally, I made the Caryalind interactions through spliced dialogue. However, after some thought, decided that there's a chance it could be like AI voice acting and didn't seem fair keeping it up unless I got Dan's blessing. Seeing as this dialogue was made with old dialogue, I didn't see a reason to email the EE team and just Dan for a simple "Can I use this since it's your voice?" (I also know the EE team doesn't like me and I feared I wouldn't get a response from them.)
After a few days with no response from Dan, I got the lines revoiced. It wasn't until after talks of an entire revoice came up that I got an email back from Dan stating that he owns Kaidan's IP and dialogue and that I was infringing on his copyright by revocing the spliced dialogue. After receiving the email I asked him if he could clarify which lines are his so that I could make sure I wasn't using any, in which he clarified that he is "the voice of Kaidan in a literal and legal sense."
This threat hung around for a week until someone was able to talk to Dan about the situation. While I never heard back from Dan, I did get confirmation that my interactions were in the clear.
In all honesty, this situation really has ruined Kaidan alot for me. But since the character was such a big part of how I experienced Skyrim, I don't want to give up on the character.
Due to all this, and that he isn't open to being hired outside of the EE team, I rather not work with Dan as he's made me super uncomfortable with this situation and the legal threat.
I'm sorry about posting this, I really didn't want to. But I've been told my name is being dragged about for not messaging the EE team and not wanting to work with Dan. I feel icky, and stupid, and... I'm not sure. This situation did leave me scared for a bit as I'm just a college student. I'm 23. I don't know about all this legal stuff. But I'm thankful I had friends to help me get through it and give advice. If I didn't, I don't what I would have done about Dan intimidating me with this...
Sorry once again... I hope this clears some things up.
TLDR; I didn't message EE team because the email I sent was about old lines and none of their work, and I don't feel comfortable working with Dan because he sent me a legal threat.
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