Actually a Raven

Doodle of Astarion going from starved and newly freed to eating better and getting chubbier

Controversial, but i'm six-pack hater. Out of romanceable male companions only Wyll should be allowed to have defined abs. Thank you for coming to my ted talk

Me: Ok Adam. This is fresh as fuck every time

Adam: And one day, he meets this beautiful blonde, and she doesn't really respect him. But he KNOWS there's a connection, and there must be something wrong that she doesn't see it

Me: Adam you're blowing my fucking mind this is untouched territory for you

Adam: So the guy crosses a few lines, yaknow? He steps over the line a little bit but it's for love, right? So it's cool. He solves the problem with social heroics, stays persistent and even though things get rough he wins her heart

Me: Yesssss this is literal gold Adam this is ingots

Adam: And I'm thinking, like, who we can get to play the guy?

Me: I think we both know just the guy

Adam: You don't think it's weird that the awkward everyman hero with a heart of gold is me again?

Me: Adam. Hand on heart bro. I couldn't care less

Adam: I'm so glad. You're my rock

Cassidy!

(She didn’t like it)

>2 weeks later

The above is a video shared by smrchildsadness on Twitter, showing a person participating in a pride parade exchanging a pride flag with a person standing on his (am using his pronoun based on the TikToks/Tweets of what happened) doorway who had a Portuguese flag. There are sounds of cheers and crying and the two people hug each other as they exchange the flags. The man at the doorway then waved kisses to the crowd within the pride parade.

The Tweet says: "NO YOU DONT UNDERSTAND HE WAS WAVING THE PORTUGUESE FLAG BECAUSE HE DIDN'T HAVE A PRIDE FLAG AND THEY TRADED FLAGS AND HE'S SO EMOTIONAL TO GET HIS OWN PRIDE FLAG I'M EMOTIONALLY RUINED"

For context, apparently they were worried that maybe he's a nationalist because he was waving the Portuguese flag and some nationalists opposing the pride march were waving that flag. But upon interacting with him, it turns out he didn't have have a pride flag and he wanted to wave *a* flag in support of the pride march. So they had an exchange and now he has his own pride flag 😭🥹.

The image above is a Tweet by kunwara_ladkaa that says "I'm crying so much right now (Image taken by Manuel Fernando Araújo/Lusa)". The image shows the same man from the pride parade crying as he hugs his new pride flag.

The above image is a Tweet by dudz_zZzz that says "ainda não parei de pensar nele," which according to Google translate from Portuguese to English is "I still haven't stopped thinking about him." The image is a drawing of the person from the pride parade, crying as he hugs his new pride flag.

This elderly gentleman lives alone in Porto, when he saw the march coming up his street all he knew was he wanted to participate, so he ran home to get the only flag he had to wave as they passed by, when they did he was overcome with emotion and called over one of the activists, they hugged and exchanged flags, he felt so overwhelmed that he could only hold it and cry.

This isn't a story about a closeted elderly man, António lives and has been living alone for many years now and that little moment made him feel included in something for the first time in many years.

Says the article:

"The act was "of support”, guarantees the man, especially because “each one is as they are and we are all the same”. “The joy I felt at this moment. I cried,” he recalled, still emotional when looking at the photograph offered to him during this report.

However, even though it reached thousands of people, the moment screams a feeling of belonging, of joy and also a portrait of loneliness as a consequence of aging.

Behind that door, whose image spread across the country, António is the portrait of a condition that affects many others like him.  He lives alone, but the walls of his home are full of memories of a life shared and full of love. “Memories I preserve,” he stresses.

He's not gay, nor does he need to be to support and respect the cause.

“We all have the same color blood. We are all the same.”

Still with an emotional look glued to the photograph that immortalized his gesture at the march, António remembers: “I felt embraced by all of them”. After a sigh, he says: “See this photo? I want to take it to my coffin.”

1. i need to be doing/watching/reading/thinking about this act or i will not get aroused, my response to it may be seen as irrational

2. i actively seek out others who enjoy this to ensure it's a part of my life as often as possible, but i don't need it to be aroused or achieve orgasm

3. i enjoy this act sometimes, it's not the main focus of my sexual adventures

4. i would happily try this act if given the opportunity

5. i enjoy this act in fiction/fantasies but i would not enjoy it in real life

6. i am neutral toward this act, it neither arouses nor disgusts me

7. i dislike this act, however seeing it will not cause me any distress or discomfort

8. this act makes me a little uncomfortable, so i tend to avoid it if i can because sometimes it can kill the mood

9. this act makes me really uncomfortable, i avoid it as it ruins any sort of arousal i had going on

10. this act invokes feelings of disgust in me, i avoid it at all costs and keep anything to do with it far away from me

1. hehehe yessss jorking my peenits :3

2. *shrugs*

Reblog chain in which @sliceofpearpie said “hear it hurgling,” which changed me as a person, 2020.

https://www.tumblr.com/elodieunderglass/661935333399756800/conspiring-limabean-dapenguinninja

^ also reblog chain with WEIGHTY amount of research done by @nightbringer24 , 2021. This version of the post educates and informs in a fascinating way about the “why the fuck.”

^ also hilarious documentation of Dr Glass vs the Unwanted Rhubarb (he has finally defeated it)

This sort of thing interests me because it’s very hard to curate social media in a meaningful way. The post chains I linked above had 80k notes but that doesn’t matter; not only is it fresh and new to many, there will always be another thing to say about it. In 2026 you could write a pretty identical post about forced rhubarb to these two, and charge money for it, with a clear conscience. Like, it feels like you shouldn’t be able to, but you can. It could even be completely spontaneous and original. Like the capsaicin post i reblogged the other day: it’s known and reasonable that some natural spontaneous thoughts lead to similar ideas - convergent evolution happening all at once. Today’s lucky 10,000 and so on. Everything feels novel!