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Astral Antlerman

@stellar-stag

Hi I'm Alain and interest-specific blogs are for nerds. Hella Gay, poly grey-ace, white cis guy. 25. Furry. Programmer. Interested in a whole bunch of nerd stuff. If you want something tagged please let me know! Icon by @solarbyte

general dnd advice is just don’t play with straighties but also gays only make characters that have like 5 int and 27 charisma so you can’t win honestly

your only hope is a semi-reasonable bisexual

wrong bisexuals are always chaotic there’s no hope at all

here is an absolute truth about the dragon age inquisition fandom

if Vivienne’s role of Circle Mage Politicker had been played by a white dude character, we would have had 100 fics within the first week with people’s Inquisitors joining that character for some Orlesian scheming, or making that character their mage sugar daddy, or coaxing that character to their point of view about mage freedom in an Aladdin-style I Can Show You The World montage. even if this dude wasn’t a love interest we would have had so much romantic fanart and fanfic about how complex and interesting and engaging he was

and if Solas’ role of Secret Fen’Harel Antagonist had been played by a lady of color then all there would be is fics about the mean dark lady jealously coveting a pure innocent white lavellan for her love of the Dalish and her kindness and skill and how beloved she is. even the sympathetic fics would still slide into “taming” metaphors for the relationship dynamic. and fandom would absolutely call her The Dread Bitch and pat themselves on the back for how clever they were being

i feel like knowing the word “yonic” (the vagina equilavent of phallic) really changes a person because after that point basically any shape or objective can be classified as genital-shaped. eyes? yonic symbolism. fingers? phallic symbolism. thats all there is

poking yourself in the eye? a cunning symbol of sexual intercourse

exactly!!

Might I add:

Yonic the Hedgehog

you might not have, and yet you did, entirely cognizant,

what even are any of these “alternative sites to tumblr in case it dies” everyone’s suggesting like i’ve never heard of any of these in my life do you really expect me to create an account on babar the elephant dot com or some shit and follow you there

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alternative to tumblr :) 

  • site that has the same problems
  • site no body uses 
  • site that doesnt load
  • site that requires payment to sign up
  • site that hasnt existed since 2010
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Fun fact: in the 1993 animated series The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, the voice of Dr. Robotnik was performed by a famous English-Canadian blues singer named Long John Baldry. During his lifetime, Baldry produced over two dozen albums and had multiple Billboard-charting hits. After his move to Canada in the 1970s, he got into cartoon voice acting, taking on roles in shows like Star Wars: Droids, Captain N: The Game Master, ReBoot (did you ever wonder why Captain Capacitor sounded familiar?), and of course, Sonic the Hedgehog. In his personal life, he lived as openly gay starting in the early 1960s – a time when male homosexuality was still considered a jailable offence in the UK – and was reportedly friends with Elton John.

So every time you queue up a YouTube Poop? You’re hearing the voice of this man right here:

We’ll never know how Baldry would have felt about one of his most enduring pop-cultural legacies, as he died in 2004, several years before YTPs became well-known. I’d like to think, however, that he would have had a sense of humour about it!

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#Are you telling me that this is the man responsible for pingas (via  @knightsblade)

Yes, Long John Baldry is indeed the man behind the pingas.

Apparently he was also the inspiration behind Elton John’s “Someone Saved My Life Tonight.” Which, boy, that’s a weird mixture of cultural legacies to leave behind…

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I dunno, I think it’s pretty fantastic that “‘Someone Saved My Life Tonight’ by Elton John is about Dr. Robotnik” is a technically accurate statement. Now there’s an AMV I’d like to see!