Personally, as a bi nb person who mostly presents as my AAB sex, I enjoy thinking about my attraction to trans people as not my attraction to boys or girls, but as a secret third gay thing.

To me being trans is just another flavour of person. Skinny or chubby, darker or lighter, masculine or feminine (or a secret third gay thing), trans or cis, tall or short, hairy or not. Transphobia is so silly and baseless. A big population of mostly cis people will eagerly go bomb children and die in a desert of an oil corporation, but will shit themselves to death if they see a person that doesn't fit their boy/girl binary, just because it's such a groundbreaking revelation to them, that gender is not a 1 or 0, it's a fuckin character creation menu slider

I think trans people are pretty cool and attractive, and as it is commonly known I am never wrong

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New headcannon because I REFUSE that Tenshin is gone.

The reason why Teshin won't appear any longer is because he retired. That's right. RETIRED. He is safe and sound and living his best life. He is to old for tenno stuff and people hardly go to conclave so he has a hologram activated just in case. He occasionally checks in on the Tenno but he is no longer taking part in any system saving. After tnw he decided to just let the tenno deal with everything coming up.

I will continue to refuse what happend in tnw. It didnt happen. I can replay the quest and that part doesnt exist.

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Wranduin, a toxic relationship after all?

Im not new to this ship, years ago Ive also shipped it, to a lesser degree, while playing WoW on a private server. I liked it, the dynamic seemed cute and interesting and the characters seemed to have a backstory together and all was well, I didnt question anything, and soon forgot about this ship after I stopped playing WoW.

Now Im back, I started shipping it again, but soon I came to the disheartening realization that this ship may  not  be as cute as I thought.

Again, all my knowledge of this ship and the characters come from tumblr posts so I obviously lack information, but I need to vent about the things I noticed.

Feel free to correct me.

From what I could gather Anduin and Wrathion met as teens in Pandaria, they played chess and became friends (?)

After that they met again a few years later (?).

But instead of a hearty reunion, Anduin punches Wrathion.

I mean sure, Anduin been through some shit, but so has Wrathion and he still tried to reunite with a hug.

There apparently also were letters written by Wrathion to Anduin, which the king just plain out ignored.

Which makes me think, this sounds like a onesided, toxic relationship.

And no the punch wasnt full of sexual tension and unspoken lustful desires like Ive read in some posts, that was a punch full of hatred.

Blizzard seems to have overcorrected their subtle possible homo relationship into a toxic one sided friendship (while still put in a little bit of queerbaiting cuz why not).

Blizzard really mistreats the poor dragon.

And made Anduin into a petty toxic bitch.

Again feel free to correct me.

(My prior post to this ship and the points Ive made still stand though)

IMHO the toxicity actually mostly comes from Wrathion's side. I love him, he's one of my favourite characters, but he is a scumbag and the punch not only was well deserved, my man needs to be a put on a leash. So judging by your post you're not very knowledgeable on the Pandaria-Draenor-Legion part of the timeline, therefore let me tell you a few things you missed :D

1. Wrathion was afraid of Legion's returning, and had some really wild ideas about how he wanted to prepare Azeroth for Sargeras' coming. For once, he wanted for one of the factions to finally win and absorb the other into itself, so that Azeroth meets the Legion unified to prevent in-group bickering which cost everyone their freedom, their planet and their lives. He chose Alliance and through Varian would put an end to the war and finally destroy the Horde.

2. Not only that, but he was also acting totally on his own. This self absorbed fool was surrounded by people who have lived decades, hundreds, thousands of years more than him and understood the world of Azeroth intricately, yet he never cooperated with anyone and basically decided the future of Azeroth on his own.

3. When Garrosh was finally captured, he hoped for Varian to kill him and every other Horde racial leader present at the meeting when Vol'jin was appointed Warchief. He was really disappointed when Varry did not, and decided that the best course of action WAS TO FREE GARROSH 💀

4. This bit

5. Garrosh escaped to an alternate timeline Draenor with the help of a bronze dragon. WoD happened. I personally blame Wrathion for that expansion. He brought THAT upon us lol

6. Alternate Draenor had alternate Gul'dan. Gul'dan, a powerful and scary dude who was thankfully killed during the first war, whose skull Illidan ate to become what he is today, IS NOW BACK. Of course, alternate Gul'dan contacts the legion, becomes a warlock, etc etc etc

7. WoD is over (thank fuck!!). Gul'dan brings the Legion to Azeroth. Wrathion caused that. Varian is killed. Wrathion also caused that. Anduin the poor guy is going through the roughest time of his life as to date (Shadowlands are right around the corner though lmao) so there's nothing toxic about him ignoring letters from a dude who knocked him out while Anduin was trying to stop him from freeing the scariest war criminal Azeroth has ever seen, and then very much directly caused the invasion of the Burning Legion, unimaginable suffering and countless deaths, including his only surviving parent. (His mother was killed during communist riots in Stormwind)

8. In general, Wrathion is a super clueless person due his egotism and how little he thinks of others. Trying to contact Anduin after everything he did was outrageously tone deaf, and not in a "pure uwu babygirl" kinda way, but more in a "I'm uniquely competent and the fact that you hold a grudge against me for my masterplan going south is your own personal failure... anyway, here's more about how I spent my day" kinda way.

9. Also, Anduin was being influenced by N'Zoth in that cutscene. Andy is the real babygirl here, bro deserved so much better than what he got 😭🙏

10. Also, this might be a personal gripe, but Wrathion is kinda ruthless. Just to compare him to Sabellian (who I'm not a fan of, frankly, but this is a good contrast) - while Sabellian was trying to fight the corruption and actively working on purifying fellow black dragons from Old Gods' corruption, Wrathion did the exact opposite. Back in Cataclysm when we first met Wrathy, he hatched in the basement of a bandits' headquarters and hung around with those rogues for a long while. One of his closest advisors who was very intensely loyal to him, and stayed lotal even when Deathwing returned, was Fahrad. Fahrad kept his black dragon identity secret and helped Wrathion cull other black dragons, since Wrathion judged them beyond salvation (not even having tried or even considered any other way btw). In the end, Wrathion did sus out Farhad as a black dragon and ordered for the player to kill him, while Fahrad pleaded with Wrathion to spare him because he was in control of the voices in his head, and it was Wrathion's words that triggered him to go off the rails and attack us. Which, he could've done at any point. I am sure that he had plenty of moments to surprise attack Wrathion, and I frankly doubt a whelp could defend itself from a fully grown, rather old drake. Additionally, to have someone be so loyal to you, to spend so much time with them and not even grow attach enough to try to help them instead of killing them due to an affliction they did their best to control, which they were not to blame for? I think that's really messed up. And Wrathion is definitely not a positive or trustworthy character. He is the toxic one here lmao

I can see that you clearly know a good deal about the events related to your country and are not scared of taking your stance. I know it takes a great deal of courage and I admire you for that.

I'm also glad you replied with a wall of text. It sure as hell did inspire me to write more because I left so much unsaid in the ask lol

I've taken some time off from politics because of mental health problems and all that (used to get worked up about things I couldn't do anything about) but still can't resist the urge of taking a peek at the recent events, so while I'm not completely aware of all the details, I'm not completely ignorant either.

the dictator here runs a cult, I think that's what most dictators do anyway. it's mixed with religious sentiments. I doubt anyone buys their bullshit nowadays unless they have a stake in it, and by the looks of it everyone has a stake except the common people who are suffering. Their propaganda has been successfully hooked unto religious fascism from the beginning and that's been its propelling engine for some time now, manipulating people's beliefs for their own benefit.

now for the war-mongering part - and I'm not going to discuss Iran's intervention and support of dictators and militants in Yemen, Syria, and Afghanistan - I'm sure the wreckage of Iranian drones used by Russian forces in Ukraine is pretty the hot topic of the recent news of what's going on there. I, for one, thought it to be western media just bunching up bad guys together to increase dramatic effects or something. Like who would team up with the LOSING side when the sentiment in the country is completely against that and the negotiations you have with the west over the whole nuclear thing and sanctions are hanging by a very thin thread but man I was wrong. the regime openly admits to this, is proud of it, and goes on delusional rants about how Putin is defeating the evil west and Ukraine is just the beginning, and so on and so forth. You get it. almost North Korea level of anti-western sentiments.

And recently, I had the opportunity (or should I say "misfortune"?) of reading a piece of news about how the head of the regime has very subtly changed his views on Russia and its invasion of Ukraine because he's somehow felt that Russia is losing? and just like that the regime is probably going to unlatch itself from Russia and cling to a more profitable ally that'd safeguard its continued existence. All the while the minorities are being oppressed and the money-printing inflation is plunging the people into ever-increasing poverty, the prisons are choke-full of political dissidents of ethnical minorities waiting to be hanged, and don't even get me started on the situation of LGBTQ+ people here, it's the last place you'd want to be gay in.

The people ARE fighting back, I don't know if you've heard about the recent wave of protests that was set off by the death of Mahsa Amini this September. But the people are exhausted, so many of the protestors have been outright killed, or are in jail, waiting for their death sentences. God knows what outside force is keeping this regime fed, maybe it's the very enemy that the regime likes to pretend it's fighting? I honestly don't intend to find out (or maybe I do, curiosity will take the better of me eventually.) I just want to survive the unexpected internet blackouts as long as I'm here.

My views on the opposition might get me in trouble with its supporters but that's for another rant, suffice to say that most of the opposition you'd meet on the Internet don't have a first-hand experience of what living here is like. That being said, I don't mean that their "solutions" are completely useless but maybe a little too idealistic and far from the reality of our lives here.

You keep bringing up stuff I can relate to so much. I love this place, and hell it's not even nostalgia. this place is beautiful, I WANT to spend time here just enjoy the essence of this land. Leaving it feels like… defeat? but I keep telling myself that I've got no choice (which is a lie honestly, I do, just don't have enough courage or willpower), that if I really want to make an impact, I first need to get the hell out of here and out of this pitiful existence of my everyday life where the word "progress" is basically meaningless.

I want to honor the ancient tradition of hospitality of my people by inviting you to visit Iran (or what's left of it, that is). Despite everything, the country is still a lovely place, tho a distant echo of its ancient history. True, it's being ruined by the regime's constant efforts to impose its ideology, exploiting almost anything until it has turned into a hollow husk of its former glory.

I wish you the best of luck in your efforts and contribution to help your people and I sincerely do hope that you find a nicer place to live and manage to look after your family.

Finally, it's a little late but I want to say Happy Nowruz! it's celebrated by many ethnicities in central Asia so I just assumed that Tartars also share this tradition :)

>waiting to be hanged

Bruh I completely forgot Iran has the death penalty that's insane. And I've heard about the recent protests, you guys are 100% braver than us over here, and I don't know what the statistics for pro-regime and anti-regime sentiments look like, but much smarter than us aswell, seeing as only 20 to 30 something % of Russia is actively pro-Putin, the rest either being too cowardly (like me 🤕 I've been to protests, but never gotten violent with the police, and I really regret that. Although I am a small 165cm girl, I'm still really ashamed of running away instead of fighting them), or too indifferent ("I'm outside of politics") or just plain ignorant, having no idea what's going on and living without a care in the world. So Iranians are definitely the real deal here, while our opposition is kind of all bark and no bite at all. I think I do remember seeing videos of protestors chasing the police off the streets, I do wish we aswell had the guts do that.

I definitely would love to visit one day. I know it's an exonym, but I always loved the word "Persia" the westerners use for you guys, it just sounds so like... cool, I guess, and desert-y, and very pretty :D I generally hate exonyms, they're cringe, but I always loved the sound of "Persia", and the way a Persian would be called in Russian - "Pers". Such a colourful word. One of the few places I've seen from Iran is the Yazd city, I suppose it's the historic part of it, the one made of sandstone. Absolutely gorgeous. I in general am the biggest fan of the Middle East, and I am guilty of liking both the western romanticised orientalist version of it, and the real culture as told by actual Middle Easterners. I'm actually developing a fantasy world of my own as a side project for fun, and a bunch of things are very loosely inspired by the Amazigh, the Arabs and several Indo-Iranian cultures. Also, GUH there's a compatriot of yours called Farya Faraji who creates bangers like this and safe to say I am also a huge fan of the general Indo-Iranian microtonal musical tradition. (I don't know about Indo-Iranian languages that much, but I think Kurdish and Farsi are closely related enough where you might understand a few words? anyway there's a couple Kurdish bands I listen to on the regular, and I think this is a great example of what I mean by the Indo-Iranian musical tradition. Biggest thanks to your ancestors for giving the world and me specifically such bops to listen to when I'm at work or commuting or whatever :D love Farya and the Kamkaran so much)

In general you guys are great and deserve the best. I definitely wouldn't want a super ancient culture and people like yours to live under a despot, and I'll never understand and forever hate schauvinists (of which there are many) who dislike or are prejudiced against Middle Easterners - I think meeting a person who comes from such an incredible cultural background is amazing, and the last time I spoke with a Tajik man who lived in Afghanistan and Iran for a good chunk of his life, I asked him so much about his travels, what he saw, the kinds of peoples he met. In general, I'm personally super depressed to see countries that are actually culturally and historically interesting to me, like every country in Central Asia and the Middle East, not be a _super_ economically viable option of a place I'd consider moving to, especially compared to the racist road ridden hellhole of America and the built-on-African-bones rich countries of Europe. If I had that choice, I'd love to live in Central Asia or the Middle East, or at least be a frequent visitor to either. Now I'm the one being a little weird, but there is no purer joy for me than the one I feel when I learn a cool word or name from another culture, or when I learn something new about another culture, or just to have an opportunity to share just how much childlike glee simply listening to songs like the ones your ancestors sung :))) Humans are so fucking cool man!! We'll definitely make this, don't worry. Our bright future is a long and difficult road ahead of us, and we'll have to work hard for it, and it won't be an easy journey, but we'll make it, and I'm sure our ancestors will be so proud of us.

And I've never celebrated Nowruz, my family is unfortunately quite culturally Russified xD Don't know much about it, but now that you mention it I should look into it. But Ramadan Karim, if you personally celebrate that because we do :D Also, we're TATARS* not Tartars like the sauce hahaha

(by the way if you've got any Iranian ethnic bands, mind sending me some names?? I've been running dry on interesting ethno music, and since I'm such a sucker for that Kurdish band, I'm sure I'll love whatever you show me aswell. Unfortunately without knowing the target language it's quite difficult to find folk music, you just stumble on pop and rap, which are great, but not what I'm looking for lol)

Surya Bonaly, 1998. Photographed by David Madison.

nimbus i have feelings for u

I am OBSESSED with people telling me how they met the love of their life. Just found out my director met his wife through a misdirected email - that’s fate right there.

“I saw her last name was Jewish - and I’m Jewish, so when I corrected the email I told her Shabbat Shalom with a smiley face — this was the very beginning of the emoticon era, you understand. She had a watermark of a dog rescue at the bottom of her email, and I love dogs, so I found her website and there she was — all these videos of her rehabilitating dogs and talking about the organization. I fell in love with her just from those videos.”

“I asked if we could meet for coffee, told her I was looking for volunteer opportunities — which was halfway a lie — and she said ‘okay, but just so you know I have a boyfriend, so this is strictly business,’ and I was so disappointed, but I did want to meet her. We sat in that coffeeshop until they turned the lights out on us, and she broke up with her boyfriend the next day.”

MULTIPLE people in the notes have told me how important these tags are to them so here’s to keeping it in the main post.

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"also they were in their 40s at this point. not young lovers. which is a reminder that love stories happen at all ages." end id]