You Ever Have A Dream That Makes You Just So Concerned, But Not For The Traditional Reasons. Like, I

I’m afraid for my life

It took me so fucking long but I finally found the drawing. Don’t mind the rips and coffee stains and folded corners, this thing has been through it (it fell down the back of my desk)

please dude my little brother made me design what we’d look like in the Zelda franchise because he’s a strange little autistic Lima bean of a child (seriously, he’s memorised Breath of the Wild so thoroughly that he can tell you what’s in every chest before you open them) and I know it’s cringey but they low-key fuck would y’all publicly execute me if I showed them off :/

Hey ask me about the inherent heteronormativity of top/bottom discourse in fandom

I just saw a fanart that looked a little too much like a fanfiction I wrote when I was 16 and orphaned recently, and it’s definitely not a fanart for my silly little fanfiction that never got more than ~800 hits, but it was so horribly similar that for a moment I could taste the ink-blood of my creation, my child, choking me to death.

https://www.tumblr.com/squaloropera/749207242108256256/hey-ask-me-about-the-inherent-heteronormativity-of?source=share

Okay explain because I'm interested

Oh thank god. You will regret this.

Now, the first thing to do here is to explain exactly what I mean by ‘top/bottom’ discourse. What I’m referring to, specifically, is people arguing over fictional characters (usually) and their preferred positions in penetrative sex. These characters being gay, almost exclusively. Pretty fucked up, but now that we have that point of reference, I can explain better. Now, there is no inherent heteronormativity in thinking a character prefers to bottom or top, but the discourse here is usually where the problem lies. First of all, roles of ‘top’ and ‘bottom’ aren’t exclusive. A top can bottom, a bottom can top, there is no set rule. Thinking anything otherwise dangerously borders on ‘____ is the girl of the relationship cause he only ever takes’ territory. This is the heart of this heteronormativity claim. In general, this discourse will be in the comments of any fanart or fanfiction of a gay fictional pairing that happens to be sexual. Usually, you’ll find at least a few comments of ‘Nooooooooo, ____ totally tops!’ and with the expectation that said character should always be the more sexually dominant one, even if there’s no penetrative sex being displayed and the word ‘top’ is being used to refer to sexual dominance. The core of this discourse is never actually about the actual meaning of ‘top’ and ‘bottom’, but in fact the words are being used in place of ‘the girl’ and ‘the guy’. If you replace ‘____ is the bottom!’ with ‘____ Is the girl in the relationship!’ it suddenly makes the comment make sense, and also reveals the sinister nature of top/bottom discourse.

I hope this was coherent, lol.

I don’t even go here but this makes me want to become physically violent

AAAAAAUUUUUUURRRRRRRGGGHHHH

quotes and lyrics that make me think of asheiji:

I was in pain putting this together

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anime women in the 90’s versus now. I’m violent.

I’m biting people

new batch of xie lian memes but theyre just really sad and existential this time hahaa

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