To be completely fair to all the parents who never told their kids they were queer, I know multiple people with an openly bisexual parent who genuinely had no idea because they assumed the parent in question was straight and doing a very committed bit.
I recently learned from a childhood friend that apparently my mother had a habit of grabbing other moms' asses when she hugged them. I really didn't want to know this about my mother, but it does put her (conservative Christian) campaign to instill me with a strict sense of heterosexuality in a slightly different light.
Joke's on her: I'm trans, so that campaign gave me a crushing psychological obligation to be a flaming homosexual.
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I've posted both of these vids separately, but today I watched them both back to back, and it made me really want to post them in one place. Though I made them a year and a half apart, for two totally unrelated events, in my mind they are one continuous project. On their own, each explores a specific and important thematic element of Miyazaki's body of work, but together they capture what is perhaps the most interesting aspect of his films, to me - the tension between his conflicting and interrelated fascinations with both environmentalism and technological progress.
When I first heard Watershed, I felt immediately that it would be the perfect song to examine the environmentalist message in Miyazaki's films. I was particularly taken with the first-person perspective of the song which beautifully gives voice to nature itself as it is depicted in Miyazaki's films - this magnificent, ancient force, both benevolent and destructive, and far more vast than the scope of human existence. This choice of fandom/music pairing was even more affirmed when Vienna Teng actually commented on my vid, saying she loved the parallels I'd drawn between her lyrics and Miyazaki's work - I geeked out pretty hard about this!
Watershed - AO3 Link - Premiered at @vidukon 2024
I will unsettle the land beneath you, send my waters ashore, creep into your bed, find you in every corner
Sometime later, I received a request to make a Castle in the Sky vid to Landsailor for Fandom Trumps Hate. While I'd heard the song before in the context of other vids, I had never considered the intended meaning of the lyrics outside how vidders had recontextualized them. When I listened more closely and realized the song was both an ode to and warning about the innovations that allow humans to live in comfort, shrouded in metaphorical language, I knew this would make the perfect compliment to my existing vid, and asked permission to use the song for a multifandom project.
Landsailor - AO3 Link - Made for @fandomtrumpshate 2025
Headless and faceless, tireless and seamless, behind these walls
The result is what I consider two of my most ambitious, thematically rich multifandom vids to date. I'm very proud of them for how far outside my typical comfort zone they fall, being two of only a handful of vids I've made that focus on a theme that is not character- or relationship-driven, showcasing instead something bigger than the individuals these stories are about. While I think these vids stand perfectly well on their own, I also think they are stronger when put in conversation with each other, so here they are in one post!
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My favorite thing about them
Auntie Ethel is everything a hag should be. She is the hag of all time. She's got style, she's got humor. She is, at all times, completely comfortable in her own skin. She knows herself and her place in the world, and she loves both without reservation or remorse. Spite and malice are no more choices for her than gills are for a fish. As a villain, she makes no pretense of invulnerability—what she is, instead, is persevering.
CR Campaign 2, you know I love you above all others, but Isharnai could fucking never.
My least favorite thing about them
How dare you suggest there is anything about Auntie Ethel that couldn't be loved, Petal.
My favorite line of theirs
You deserve to feel beautiful, petal—and only I can make it happen.
This is from a note found on the body of the Mask of Servitude in act 3, and it's simply…perfect. It's a perfect example of Ethel's technique; it's a perfect encapsulation of who and what Ethel is. It's hope, it's a promise. You could reject that promise because you know it's also a lie—but she's bundled only I can make it happen so neatly with you deserve to that you can't reject one without the other. It's affirmation hand in hand with precision pressure on the one insecurity that runs straight to the heart of her target (victim, client, pet).
Auntie Ethel may feed you poison, but it'll be a custom brew every time. Auntie Ethel may ruin your life, but she knows you. Auntie Ethel knows your soul better than any god can be bothered.
Auntie Ethel will sort you out.
Runners up:
"Think you're a person because you're walking on two feet?"
I mean, I'd take 2d4 psychic damage from that.
"Let me know if anything catches your eye—myself included."
It's true what they say: there's nothing more beautiful than confidence.
My brOTP with them
Oh, man, this one I have to think about. We get to read correspondence around Ethel's teahouse that seem to be to and from her coven sisters, but we never meet those other hags. I could almost see her and Minthara having (poisoned) tea, but Minthara despises chaos, and I think Ethel despises what Minthara understands as order. Astarion, chaotic evil, clearly loves Ethel's style; I can't see Ethel respecting him enough in most scenarios, but if he Ascends and they both have eternity to inhabit the same city together? Maybe.
My OTP with them
Ethel/me
My nOTP with them
Ethel/not me
A random headcanon sensible extrapolation from canon with them
Ethel was, of course, born the same way her own daughter would have been (will be): her mother ate a baby, and nine months later (well, in spirit), little Ethel came along. Where did you think she got her keen understanding of human nature, after all?
Anyway, that's the thing about hags: digestion is reproduction is digestion. Other species get high and mighty about the baby-eating thing; it's all, "Hags can't create anything of their own, they can only devour," as if rutting about it were any better, and as if any of them ever created anything without devouring. Life is devouring! Deal with it! Bless us, you're as slow as a wet week. You penned that sonnet on a belly full of veal, and you don't see hags giving you grief over it. Your wife ate half a dozen eggs this morning, and odds are all she's going to have to show for it is another cobbler, in the end.
Ethel? She's making a magical being in her stomach. This is clearly a skill issue.
An unpopular opinion about them
My opinion about Ethel is that she is amazing and perfect, which cannot see being unpopular
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Scotty complains but that's just how he talks, he doesn't mean it. He's like my grandpa, who would always tell people how he was up at 4am slaving away at a hot stove to cook all this food for everyone... which he didn't actually cook and of it, he just transported it to the potluck. Scotty will complain Kirk is a slavedriver keeping him up to all hours of the night making him fix the engines when all he had to do is walk over to a panel and hit a few buttons.
Bones means every word, but complaining is how he vents his anger so he doesn't kill anyone. He has to complain, or that anger builds up inside him.
Spock absolutely has complaints about EVERYTHING but he keeps them in his head and, and occasional facial expressions. Complaining simply wouldn't be proper, so he'll just let his complaints slowly kill him.
Chekov complains and means it but would never complain about something that matters. He complains about the little shit that bugs him.
Pretty Pride Month Challenge batch 2 🌈 by kappamairi
Here is the next post for my personal Pretty Pride Month Challenge 🌈
🌈For June 8th : Rei x Usagi from Sailor Moon 🌙 Deep in my heart, since I started reading the manga as a teen, I always shipped Rei and Usagi together. I always thought they were a better match than Usagi with Tuxedo Mask 🤣🤣🤣 I'm happy my first fanart ever of this manga is one featuring these two gals together 🌙
Take care dear folks and see you for the next batch !
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Rumi: And it’s good for fans to see us just relaxing and having fun. Helps them not just see us as rich idols.
Celine: Okay…while I don’t disagree with that I would like to know who’s idea it was to go to a bar, for Rumi to get on Mira’s shoulders while Zoey is on a chair as you three lip sync to Gangnam Style.
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Headcanon - Based on all the videos I’ve been seeing of people experiencing America for the first time thanks to the World Cup, Zoey has an album of videos and pictures that are all centered around Mira and Rumi being in America for the first time. Her personal favorite is a video of the first time she took Mira and Rumi to Texas Roadhouse with their faces covered in bbq sauce.
"Hey... Got a light?"
"Yeah."
"Huh... Bet that saves you a fortune on lighters."
"You pay in other ways."
"Mm."
"Rough day?"
"... Yeah. You could say that."
"... Yeah."
Attack for @nyoxt!
