I lose myself between the sounds

if u didnt romance anders so u r not running off with him into the sunset (and he’s alive and everything) then i assume since nathaniel showed up to the final battle in the last straw that you just give him back. it’s only fair

the warden-commander said its MY turn with the anders youve had him for SIX YEARS

actually i specify anders being alive but since we’ve established the whole “i am not of mortal men” bit. and since i believe hawke just leaves the body there. i think if justice managed to hang around for a second and he spotted nathaniel he would simply make them get up

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like I think it is good and important to be able to criticise porn and erotica for the relationship to the political environment/context of creation etc, but I think that’s not too different from criticising any other art on these grounds. how is the erotica speaking to conventions of the genre? what is the author trying to tell you in what they hold up as attractive? what might the author be saying that they’re not necessarily aware that they’re saying? how does the narrative relate to other dominant cultural narratives? these are all valuable questions to ask and can be answered in nuanced ways that do not involve kink-shaming & do not involve calling people degenerate perverts. yknow.

something I read the other day had a storyline that involved a woman being kidnapped by foreign “disgusting perverts” (<- not supposed to be sexy) so that she could then be rescued by an army general (<- sexy) who had to fuck her as part of the rescue. now it’s no bother to me if someone else gets their rocks off to that, power to them. that said, we can criticise the framing of Woman Ending Up In Sex Trafficking Requires An Army Man To Fuck Her To Safety in the same way we would criticise similar framing in non-erotic contexts. how is this serving the image of the benevolent military? how is it feeding into the white woman’s fear of the other? what is being held up as ‘perverted’ in its juxtaposition to ‘sexy’? etc etc. this was bad erotica but it was also pro-military propaganda and that does mean something

if your partner doesn't want you to take hormones or get surgery, you should break up with them or divorce them. your body is yours alone.

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we need to periodically remind everyone that a headline not including a person's name isn't an attempt to erase their identity from the narrative, it's just not good practice to put someone's name in a headline unless the reader can be expected to already know who they are

"if you can say the name in the article why can't you say the name in the headline?" what do you think a headline is for

in 2026 let’s start actually noticing and taking seriously the true scale and impact of jkrs transmisogyny and how she’s been funneling decades of royalties and ip owner cash directly into anti trans lobbying thats been making the uk hell while gradually worsening conditions elsewhere through impacting the zeitgeist

i’ve said it before but anglo lesbians are so so racist about yuri it’s actually absurd how bad it is

obviously the OOP is jsut insanely racist but this comic is especially baffling when you consider how much western lesbian art has been made about incest. like instinctually i wanna ask “have you never heard of ginger snaps” but i know the answer is “who cares at least it isn’t as bad as the Perverted Asians”