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thor a feminist:

Panel two, bottom left corner — that is definitely a strap-on harness. This whole thing makes so much more sense now. I cannot believe I didn’t see that before.

tony’s totally letting women take charge 

look at this soft boy

(gifs from @tonystarkz x )

And that was all before he quitted being a playboy, even as he lived his playboy life you never see him disrespect women and quite the opposite to what op is implying, he plays the role that serves and submits to his partner, and do I need to add how he is with pepper who he’s in a committed relationship with for more or less 8 years now:

Queer is the label which became genderqueer, and from which non-binary and genderfluid sprung. Queer is the label which is the un-box, in which everyone who is not cishet (including ace people!!) fits. Queer is community.

Queer is activist. Queer is in the streets screaming ‘we’re here, we’re queer, get used to it!’ Queer is not ashamed.

Queer was ours from the beginning. Queer was ours a century ago. Queer was used against us, and we said ‘fuck you,’ and we took it BACK. Queer is butches and bears with bats, protecting our community.

Queer is blue-collar. Queer is working-class. Queer is poor. Queer is people who can’t afford to sit out Stonewall quietly and then go fight for marriage equality when the tax bills come due. Queer is a distinct identity, and queer is the un-box.

Queer makes TERFs and exclusionists angry, because it doesn’t let them define people by gold stars and terms like ‘SGA’ that come from conversion therapy. Queer doesn’t give a shit about historical revision to exclude members of the community who have always been here, because queer has always been here and always will be.

Queer is the life raft onto which we climb. Queer is community. Queer is important, and people will have to pry it from my cold dead hands. I’ve been queer for thirty years. My community is queer, and it is opt-in.

queer is a slur and none of this changes that fact. is it so hard to have some respect for LGBT people who choose not to reclaim it?? it wasn’t “ours” to begin with. society took a word that means “weird” and used it against lgbt people (AND continue to do so!) some people have chosen to recclaim it and thats fine! what i do not understand is how you have no sympathy for people in the very community you claim to love so dearly that you willingly throw their pain at their face while also delegitimizating their pain.

No? Because that’s an okay reclaimed slur, but queer is so toxic that somehow in the last two years and only on Tumblr it’s become such a discourse point that y'all gonna ignore that the first uses of queer for our community are a century old, and come from within the community?

Literally everything you said is either incorrect or can be equally applied to gay. So, no, I’m not going to censor my identity out of sympathy, because I have to listen to people call themselves gay every day and do so with the knowledge that it’s their identity word and is important to them. I, you know, made my trauma my business and worked on it and didn’t insist that other people stop being gay (and calling themselves gay in my earshot) because that’s the word that got weaponized against me.

I have PTSD. I know how trauma and triggers work. I also know my trauma and my triggers are my business to manage, and not the business of another person to change a core part of their identity so I can manage my trauma. Insisting that other people change their identities for the trauma of others has nothing to do with “sympathy,” it is about control. This sudden upswell in “q***r” and “q slur” and “q*eer” - censoring an important identity word as if it is a swear word, making it a word so bad it can’t be spoken, as if it’s a community’s Voldemort - did not come from nowhere.

We literally sat here and watched it happen. We watched TERFs start this particular virulent bit of discourse, marrying “queer is a slur” - with the implication that “slur” means “irredeemable and unable to be redeemed” - and we watched exclusionists pick up the water of TERFs and carry it for them. This isn’t some bit of old contention that goes back decades - five years ago, the word we had PSAs about how it shouldn’t be weaponized was gay.

But queer is everything I said: it doesn’t let TERFs and exclusionists know for sure if they should be hateful because it’s the un-box. So that just can’t be tolerated.

Dorian Pavus, The Black Divine(or Archon!) / Temptation cards

Continuing the companion ideals & fade fears series! [Cole- Sacrifice/Despair]

When I’d first seen Dorian’s fade fear, my inquisitor had yet to gain enough approval from Dorian, so the reason as to WHY his fear would be temptation of all things was rather unclear to me. Then I romanced him, and seeing him so careful and restrained at love to the point of being fearful made me think that maybe it wasn’t just the temptation but also the yet unknown(to him at least) consequences of succumbing to attraction that he feared. But I found this still a bit lacking… And then I read a thread on reddit interpreting his fear to be that of giving in to Tevinter & his father’s expectations, to just settle down, have perhaps a family with an unfortunate spouse, and be the corrupted yet powerful magister that everyone expects him to be, and ultimately lie to himself. I guess I sort of… mashed the two interpretations to do this piece? Anyways, it shouldn’t be too hard to spot the differences between the ideal / fade fear cards :) hehe

A warlock who’s basically a harem anime protagonist; their “patron” is a collection of 3–5 inexplicably hot eldritch monstrosities whose affections the warlock must precariously balance, lest any one of them establish a definitive claim upon their soul.

A warlock whose patron has fallen on hard times, and subsequently showed up to crash on their couch. The patron is still capable of granting unfathomable cosmic powers, but can’t seem to get a goddamn job, and keeps hitting the warlock up for money to buy pipeweed.

A warlock whose patron is the mysterious author of a series of blasphemous self-help manuals. Their devotions consist of a collection of increasingly bizarre positive thinking exercises, and they keep trying to recruit NPCs into some sort of soul-twisting pyramid scheme.

A warlock who is to all appearances a middle-ranking member of an obscure trade guild or other mortal organisation, and insists in the face of all evidence to the contrary that their powers and invocations are merely the skills of their wholly mundane profession.