There shall rise a Queen of Carrion Birds, and her Flaming Sword
The kingdom will fall into blood and ash under the force of her rage
But from the ashes, like a phoenix, will rise a kingdom of Light and Honor
It shall be prosperous, shining, a beacon of the new world
Jadzia has survived everything life has thrown at her, and some things she’s thrown at herself. Victory looms on her horizon after years fighting a continental war to equalize the standing of Magic and Creatures in a world long-ruled by the Mundane. The same war will guarantee her a singular, personal revenge- but that just doesn’t look as good on paper, does it?
Victory is hard-earned, her revenge taken, but what happens after victory? When revenge turns to a sucking hollow in her ribs, and stone walls become mirrors and magnifying glasses?
How do you live surrounded by ghosts, drowning in Prophecy, clawing to create a world worth raising children in, all while shattered at the joints?
Hallo! Long time no personal posts, but this is my new baby!
Me: Mizu’s gender in Blue Eye Samurai is complex and ambiguous even to him/her/them and that’s part of the richness of the story, not a reason for the fandom to get upset at one another or especially at the show creators for saying they envisioned Mizu as a woman struggling to survive in a society hostile towards her racial background and women in general. Mizu’s upbringing was, to put it lightly, supremely fucked up and I respect the show for leaving Mizu’s gender identity and sexual preferences fairly ambiguous because I think they’re ambiguous even to Mizu, who doesn’t exactly lead a life or display an internality in which this question is any kind of priority for Mizu to answer, even if Mizu had a cultural context that gave the tools the answer it, which Mizu does not. Mizu’s relationship with all aspects of their identity, including their race, gender, sexuality is an ongoing question and dialogue being actively explored in the show itself, without a strict conclusion offered, and a conclusion might never be offered, even in later seasons, as Mizu continues to grapple with identity. In this essay, I will…
hello please can I sleep in a studio ghibli bed it’s urgent
Okay there all look great with the EXCEPTION of Howl’s bed, are you kidding me
Look at that thang. The duvet, the pillowcases- that shit is embroidered and beaded to FUCK. That’s your victorian great-great-grandmother’s fanciest display sheets for the decorative guest room nobody ever uses. You roll over the wrong way on one of those appliqué czech glass flowers and lose a goddamn eye. Abrasive as hell. Too delicate to machine-wash, too, so the fabric itself gotta be tough like sandpaper. That, or frayed all to shit, like you shift a little in the night and get sequins falling all over like a drunk queen in a bouncy castle. You know I’m right. Look at him. Look at how he’s sleeping and tell me that man’s so much as SAT on those sheets in his life. My girl Sophie did her best but we all know that’s his fancy interior design hashtag #aesthetic Instagram influencer background room. He doesn’t SLEEP there, he sleeps on the couch or on the floor or in the reclined seat of his busted-out Subaru in the garage that hasn’t worked right in five years cause he doesn’t know what an oil change is. That’s the room he uses for makeup tutorials and Shien Hauls (derogatory). Look at that man. Look at him for five seconds and tell me he isn’t gonna wake up in an hour crying over snagged hair and floral imprints on his face. What the HELL Sophie baby that blowdried bitch has a twelve step twice daily skin care routine and you’re RUINING it. Walked right past his twin size flannel futon in the corner down the hall and dumped him in the biggest bed she could find like a bedazzled roadkill possum. Didn’t even put his bonnet on. Sophie I love you so much but first thing he does after he chips his nails clawing his way out of that thing is get your Amelia Bedilia ass. I’m so sorry
This almost compares to that guy who wrote The Rant about hating Olaf
I heard about 20 girls in the crowd have a lesbian awakening around 2:40…
It’s like her hat was limiting her. The second it fell off… she was unleashed
So that’s Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, and the video is of her gala exhibition skate from 2018 Skate Canada International (at which she won gold). She won bronze at NHK Trophy that year, and bronze at the Grand Prix Final. She has landed the quad toe loop, although not successfully in competition. So basically, in addition to preparing a very exciting exhibition skate, she’s just plain impressive as a figure skater overall. :)
To the people like me who don’t know a lot about ice skating but were watching like “Is this allowed?? Is this allowed???” some people in the replies have pointed out that gala exhibitions have different rules than the usual stuff you see and are meant to be super flashy and exciting like this, so that’s why she can use props and take her hair down and parts of her costume off without getting disqualified.
I hate how people will look at popular indie artists who had one or two songs go viral on TikTok and start making fun of anybody who listens to them. “Oh you listen to Lemon Demon, Will Wood, Jack Stauber, Glass Animals, and Mother Mother? Tsk, don’t you know that is stupid TikTok neurodivergent white transmasc preteen music? It’s so mid and bad you should listen to real music–” you are a pit of misery
People can’t just say “I don’t like this music” anymore they gotta call you gay and autistic for listening to a band that had one song go viral
tried to vent in a trans space about how, as a trans man who’s been on T for a long time (over 7 years now), i have noticed that the more i pass as a man, the less welcomed i am in queer spaces unless i go out of my way to feminize myself. and how that sucks! and it’s isolating!!! and it feels horrible to see ppl who used to like you and be close to you drift further and further the more masculine (& therefore more comfortable in urself) u become…
only to get ppl replying to me and saying “well if you dressed more fem then ppl wouldn’t be intimidated by you. you signed up for this”
i’m sorry but i didnt sign up for social isolation when i transitioned, i signed up for gender euphoria and comfort in myself and my life. and i had hoped that the ppl in my life would be able to see how much joy that brings me and continue to love me.
i need ppl to realize that telling trans ppl to change the way they present to make other ppl comfortable with their gender is fucking transphobic. it’s transphobic when it’s telling a trans woman to dress more femme or feminize her voice so she doesn’t ‘intimidate people’, it’s transphobic when it’s telling a trans man the same. it is explicitly and inexcusably transphobic and it is literally never okay. trans people belong in queer spaces. period. there is no dress code. we belong there bc we built those fucking spaces.
would also like to add that as a fat, balding, very passing bear of a trans man who DOES dress and present very femme, the whole “if you were more femme people wouldn’t be uncomfortable” thing doesn’t even fucking work for me because i pass as the Wrong Kind of feminine man. i’m not a skinny little 20 yr old twink, so it’s gross and offputting when i crossdress, but if i go full masc i’m even more offputting, and even if i out myself i still get Looks or am treated coldly lmfao. you’re only allowed to be a cute little genderbending boyprincess if you’re palatable: thin and pale and hairless and harmless. i’ve said it before but the root of this problem, and the problem OP faces, is that queer people need to get the fuck over their fear of people who look like they might have a penis because it is isolating to trans men and fucking deadly to trans women. it’s all “gender is fake you can do whatever you want forever” until you set off too many Penis Haver alarms and suddenly you’re treated like a loaded gun. anyway butch tgirls and tboy fembears i love you
Anonymous asked: do you have an "about" page with relevant information about yourself (eg pronouns, a name you go by, etc)? only i like your blog but always feel strange about following blogs with no face so to speak
I’ve answered this before so we’re going to do this bullet points style
-If there are categories of people you don’t want to follow please assume I belong to all of them
-If you need my demographic info before you can decide if you agree with my opinion or not please disagree with my opinions
-Please assume I am up to no good - this is a good thing to assume with any blog on here - even blogs with faces may be no-faces in disguise
-All of the information you want has been posted here at one time or another if you want to know but I like having that threshold of difficulty in place - if you want to get your creep on I want you to have to work for it
-I am hoping the irony of your having sent this ask anonymously is not lost on you
And, for all bloggers everywhere, a quick reminder: you don’t owe anybody jack shit!
Angel, being aggressively Italian: Pizza should have poison in the sauce and the antidote is in the crust to kill off all the weak people who don’t eat the crust.
