Friendly reminder that LGBTQ+, Queer, and LGBT+ are the preferred terms for the community (x).

Friendly reminder that Queer is approved by 72.9% of the people, and the groups who don’t prefer it’s use as an umbrella term are straight people, exclusionists, transmeds, truscums, sex-negative people, and sex work critical people (x).

Friendly reminder that aros and aces are excluded only 9.2% / 8.1% of the time respectively while being included  78.9% / 81.2% of the time (x)

Friendly reminder that exclusionists are in the minority and aro/ace people are included in the LGBTQ+ community by the people within the community.

Also, i checked out the survey the second claim sources a while back: this is not OP choosing the words truscum, exclusionist, etc. These are labels that the survey gave people the option to self-identify as. It’s self-proclaimed exclusionists who dont like the word queer, not random accusations

yeah that’s super important. 

This one gets reblogged on main. The reclassification of ‘queer’ as an inexcusable slur is a recent development which stems in part from exclusionist rhetoric. We reclaimed it decades ago. Learn our history. You are not immune to TERF propaganda, but you can absolutely choose to educate yourself to spite it.

Be kind. 💜

gideon's weirdly specific description of harrowhark's philtrum made me remember that my dad used to say that pronounced philtrums were the result of angels pressing a finger against your mouth to make you shut the fuck up (listen i talk a lot! like a fucking lot okay!!!) anyways overly chatty child harrowhark i love you

do you think kiriona has a better shot with harrow than gideon bc now she’s more harrow’s type (a literal dead body)?

You didn’t know how to leave.

I love this picture so much I think about it every time I use the mimic tear and go to town on a boss

I dont remember why I made hmmboob.png but I’m thankful for it every single day

i showed this to my brother and he said ‘curiostitties’

iPod brothers fan edit

You know how Art Fight lets you bookmark characters and lets you type in a reason why? I think Tumblr should do that for your blocklist. Sometimes you just forget why you blocked someone. Here's a poorly drawn example.

do you think a dude ever had sex with another guy

it might be difficult to figure out. consult the scriptures

these scriptures just have pictures of dudes kissing and groping each other

Penetration, my liege?

not now my dearest advisor i need to read these scriptures

i feel like if you stabbed an angel the blood trail would look like this

Neil Gaiman ( @neil-gaiman ) in Neil Gaiman Answers Mythology Questions on Twitter | Tech Support | WIRED video

[ Image description: a series of screens from a video of Neil Gaiman sitting and answering the question with subtitles. He says “‘Could I ride Minotaur like a horse?’ No, obviously, you could not. You could ride a Minotaur like a man (…) Unless you could find a Minotaur into sort of pony stuff or you probably have to find a furry minotaur, like, not a furry Minotaur, a Minotaur who was actually a furry, would get into a horse costume and get down and you could ride that one.’ End of image description. ]

Well, this would be interesting...

Like to charge, reblog to cast

Going back and playing Pokémon games from before the physical special split just fucks me up a little. What do you mean Thunderpunch exists in a game where all electric moves are special? What’s the point of it?

It makes Abra EXTREMELY good

Generally, I think the physical/special split is when Pokemon becomes much more enjoyable to play, but there are quirks to the old system that are interesting in their own way. Its such a love/hate relationship for me because it gives some pokemon FANTASTIC options for coverage and raw damage output in some cases, but in most others it just makes a large portion of the roster very difficult to use effectively. 

Physical hyperbeam feels really good to use on a pokemon like Slaking, and Alakazam getting full access to all of the elemental punches using it’s incredible special attack stat is SO satisfying... but then you also have pokemon like Gyarados, who completely lack physical STAB outside of awful moves like bounce (which im not even sure it got until gen 4), or Gamefreak’s titular punching bag - Flareon - being doomed to near uselessness due to it’s stat spread + it’s typing... (Editor’s note: they still haven’t given Flareon a break LMAO). 

I dunno where I was going with this. I think it just creates such a weird split between pokemon generations that most people don’t think about at all. The only region(s) that you can’t visit in a modern era with all the modern mechanics is Kanto, (if you don’t count HGSS’s truncated postgame visit or Let’s Go!’s lack of abilities and standard catching mechanics), or Orre - though Orre’s status as “Canon” to the mainline franchise is shaky at best. Kanto’s been done enough as-is, but I’m hoping some day, every region  is featured with all the mainstay, modern mechanics and typings. Pipe dream, I know. 

It’s so strange in retrospect because you’ve got Pokémon with high attack and miserable sp attack like Hitmonchan who end up having all their thematically appropriate coverage moves scale with their worst stat

In Gen 1-3 Hitmonchan has moved with “punch” in the name that don’t do any damage because of how the split works. It’s honestly kinda ridiculous.

And physical hyper beam felt great for a lot of pokemon in Gen 1, but once they removed the accidental-but-really-cool mechanic of removing the recharge turn if hyper beam kills, it became a lot worse. Which is a shame because the introduction of Giga Impact as the physical Hyper Beam replacement never actually saw use due to said recharge turn being detrimental. I know the meta would become significantly worse if they have some of the power creeped special sweepers of today access to 150 power moves that don’t punish you if you kill in the form of Hyper Beam, Giga Impact, Blast Burn, Frenzy Plant, and Hydro Cannon, but I still love the idea of that mechanic even if it was a total accident. Well whatever, at least Slaking can use it without issue. Okay I’m gonna stop typing here because I have jumped to a completely different topic at this point. Physical Special pre split is weird though

I don't think a single pokemon suffered from the pre-split more than sneasel. Back in gen 2, both dark AND ice were special types, but sneasel is a physical attacker. Not only that, but its pool of coverage moves was extremely limited, so one of its best options was fucking slash.

It’s so weird that dark moves were special originally considering that there aren’t really that many special dark moves today

HEY this looks pretty messy but i read gideon the ninth a few days ago and im not normal anymore so i wanted to draw them, and my copy of harrow the ninth is still gonna take a day or 2 to get to my house so i am completely inconsolable, DONT TELL ME ANY SPOILERS OR ILL PISS A BRICK AND CRY

This line from lysandres wiki is so funny his motivations are truly incomprehensible

Never let them know your next move

i have witnessed unspeakable horrors . the horrors weren't undescribable or anything, i just had to sign an NDA

I wanna come back to this, because I think its emblematic to something common that I hate to see in fandom interpretations of characters. Seeing a new character with different interest to your own should be an opportunity to expand your world view. literal children will see a character who’s a firefighter or an astronaut and develop an interest in that.

but adults will see a literal punk musician, and rather than decide to explore what music and culture inspired this character, instead re-imagine him engaging with material they find familiar, and ultimately safe.

I don’t like... have any feelings towards this guy personally... but this is a trend I see in fandom, especially around characters of color from cultures the fans are not familiar with. there is a desperate need to decontextualize them.

there is this absolutely DESPERATE need among especially white fans to prove that characters of other races but ESPECIALLY black characters are Just Like Them For Real by just copy pasting their favorite personal characteristics (or often just straight up stereotypes, like that shoplifter miles headcanon that went around) onto these characters. God forbid having to learn about a culture or even a subculture unlike your own, right

This is so real actually, I am white, I generally try not to do this, and it’s a lot of the reason why I don’t make too many interest based or music based headcanons in the fandoms I’m in unless I’ve researched into it ( primarily because I’m in a lot of anime fandoms and I’m like. I look at music headcanons for these characters who do not speak english and I’m like he would NOT listen to that. Sorta joking here but yeah. )

Erm but yeah also headcanon Hobie would actually hate Taylor Swift 😭 it’s just in character for him to dislike a millionaire who portrays herself as something just to be actively dating someone with bigoted ideals. Don’t wanna get into too much Taylor Swift discourse because that’s a whole can of worms but it is very unpunk of Hobie to like big artists like her.

One opportunity I have to be like “He would NOT fucking do that” to a headcanon without feeling mean.

Also generally like you can project some things onto characters but imo if it actively goes against their culture I think it’s blatantly a bad headcanon. Like sometimes things go against canon and it’s like fuck it we ball they are trans despite it making zero lore sense. And other times it’s saying that Hobie Brown likes Taylor Swift.

Daily Cephalopod #58

hi i finally read harrow the ninth and WTF??? WTF???? WTF!!!!!!!!!!!???????? maybe sometime in the future ill draw more real fanart but until then take all my cope meme doodles