i have to share with you all my favorite totk video ever

reblog to bonk the person you reblogged it from with a hollow cardboard tube

A man and a woman platonically raising a child together and not falling in love has to be the biggest plotwist in the Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves movie AND my favorite part

(@leupagus tags) And they’re both sexy people! And are shown to be sexually attracted to the opposite sex! Just not each other. They have a whole child together and live in the same home, and the movie makes it very clear that Edgin values her opinion above all others, and you never see that in media without the assumption of sex/romance.

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#I can’t quite put it into words but there’s so much about Holga and Edgin’s love that is a beautiful fantasy #which ties into this idea of a man loving a woman without wanting her sexually #loving her to the point where he will sacrifice LITERALLY EVERYTHING for her #to the point where they are soulmates #but without the expectation of sexual obligation #and that happens between men and women! but it is not valued in media

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I'm saying this as a fan, but also as somebody who worked their arse off writing screenplays at film school, don't hate on the writers when they go on strike.

Writers control the story of the show, there is so much detail and fine tuning done in the scripts. Everything an actor or a director adds, is adapted from the script. There is no show without the script, but still screenwriters are horrendously underappreciated and underpaid.

Director, actors and producers usually end up with most of the credit.

Writers deserve to be seen. If your favorite show is delayed because of the upcoming strikes, don't be surprised and please don't be angry at the writers. They are fighting for their art to be appreciated.

Some of your shows are gonna get cancelled.

Some will come back but lose their momentum and you'll wish they'd been cancelled.

This isn't the fault of writers. This is the fault of the studios.

The Writers' Guild has made a list of demands that will cost $500 million a year across the ENTIRE industry. Every studio, every streaming service, every film, every show, every writer: total cost $500 million. One streaming alone could foot the entire bill and still be in comfortable profit. Its half of what Amazon spent on Rings of Power alone. A little more than what Netflix spent on The Gray Man.

The studios can easily afford this. They're just being assholes about it.

Don't blame the writers.

hey so - we frogged your boyfriend. The pattern wasn't working out and we'd rather use the materials for something else. Yeah, we unraveled all of him, wound him into balls and put him back in the stash. Sorry. You can help us pick out a new pattern, if you want.

-gasp- you reduced him to boyfriend material??

te/rfs and transphobes on tik tok are currently losing their mind over an older trans man saying “hey the laws you wanna pass that would put trans women in the men’s bathroom would also put me in the women’s bathroom” and all their responses have basically been that he’s a predator and that if they saw him there they would physically assault him. so yeah i don’t ever wanna hear ppl say “oh these laws won’t affect trans men” or “trans men only have to deal with infantilization, not actual violence” bc there is at least one example out there of the above actually happening.

also before anyone comes in with “it’s only bc they think he’s a trans woman!!!!!!” nope. many of them specifically reference him being a “female shooting male hormones.”

the consequence of this poll I am immediately really enjoying is seeing all the stories of ways people happened to get their pets in the tags :]

This is gorgeous

Today I had to get a private patdown by two TSA agents because my incontinence pad set off their screening devices

Out trans people have talked a lot about how the screening devices stigmatize trans and intersex people, when they work by comparing the body being examined to the “normal” male or “normal” female body. But there’s also something to be said about the way that that “normal” body is presumed able bodied and neurotypical. My ear defenders have to come off before I go through. People with mobility aids and prosthetics have to either leave their aids or be subjected to a full body pat down. When they ask “do you have any metal in your body?” They are asking about medical devices; the system is designed on the assumption that people lack metal implants or bone replacements. Anything that deviates from the cisgender, not intersex, and abled norm is seen as an aberration, and our bodies are treated as a threat and as public curiosities

Traveling is a goddamned nightmare for me and my wife. She needs a wheelchair, and we travel with her extremely small (6lbs.) un-invasive and mostly silent dog (went through a four-hour flight once and no one even realized she was there). She has a wheelchair and an airport employee escort. I'm nonbinary and androgynous enough that by sight you can't usually clock me. This is important.

When you go through TSA in the US, you have to take off your shoes and jacket, unpack any electronics bigger than like, a 10" tablet, put shoes in their own bins, laptops in their own bins, and then put your carry-ons on the belt. My wife and I each have a laptop and each have a tablet. The dog has a carrier. When we go through, my wife, holding the dog, goes to a separate line while I juggle four carry-ons, unpack two laptops, two tablets, our phones, like four different bins for all of our stuff, my own shoes and jacket, her shoes and jacket, and the dog carrier.

Then I go through the scanner, and usually 2 out of 5 times I'll get stopped because the person running the machine was like "Oh that's clearly a dude" and then there was a confusion because I am not, in fact, A Dude.

"Do you want a private or public patdown?"

Like I have fucking time to go somewhere else, just do it here.

Then I have to get all of the stuff from the security belt and just hope they didn't flag my bag because no one can decide if a Switch qualifies as bigger than a tablet and they just need to search it. By this time my wife is on the other side and sitting down, and the employee escort is watching me like I'm the slowest, most annoying person in the world while I get our bags, laptops, tablets, shoes, jackets, etc. and try to drag everything over to where they're sitting. I almost forgot my damn phone at security once because I was so frazzled. The TSA guy called out like five times asking whose phone it was and my wife finally said, "Love I think that's yours?" and my dumb ass went "No I have my phone right - FUCK."

(TSA Guy had a good sense of humor about it and said it was cool after I apologized like five times for making them think a mysterious phone had been left unattended.)

It's a fucking ridiculous process and the fact that it has to be this obnoxious and exhausting is insane.

secret third option: only wear sports bras and never worry about the clasps

some good tags on this one fellas

Thank god I get to visit Pelican Town

I feel old and I'm only 22

Ayo, trans people who are worried about passing, i see you and i, to a pretty decent degree, understand you. I have but one set of encouraging words for you on this day: take solace in the fact that your transitioning will never be as shitty as this guy's

i’m about to start gatekeeping interacting with fic authors from a lot of y’all. u need to learn how to behave

“i need more” “pls continue this” “when are you posting the next bit” why don’t you try showing some proper appreciation for what’s already written before you go demanding more!!!

​a lot of time and energy goes into each piece of writing and it is incredibly disappointing for the primary feedback to be “give me more!” if you’re trying to motivate authors to continue, this kind of response has the opposite effect.

you know what is motivating? specific praise.

let me break it down for you.

it’s quite simple, and it doesn’t even have to be a long thing. this can be done in a hundred words or less.

and yeah, it takes effort. takes a bit of time. but fandom is about mutual support. it’s about community.

fic authors are not celebrities who don’t even see your attempts to get their attention. there is a real person on the other side of that screen living a real life, and if you want to encourage them in their craft and properly motivate them to write, try treating them like a fucking human being.

authors put in hours to create content (that only ends up not being truly appreciated). i think you can spare a few minutes to leave a detailed, thoughtful comment in turn.

idk just a semi-friendly reminder that authors don’t owe you shit actually

Okay I’m sorry but the bit where Buffy just fucking BLOWS UP the judge is incredible

Like the whole ‘no weapon forged can kill me’ and then Buffy is like ‘that was then, this is now’, whips out a fucking bazooka and blows him up

Why can’t that happen in more supernatural media

I was watching Pokémon: Indigo League on Netflix and the Pokédex called Kakuna a “transitional Pokémon”

and then suddenly this happened

update!!! I still love my children

to everyone who says they’re dating: correct