CRY ABOUT IT

How defuq do we crop shiet on tumblr y’all idk

Bought a PS5 just to see Rafa swim in the water. Thank you Unreal Engine graphics. My eye-thirst is fully quenched. I was so dedicated within these past 40 minutes to simply stare at this f****-it-we-ball-YOLO / charismatic / one-liner hispanic fellow splishy-splashing his way through the bay with some fishies…that I totally forgot the point of the game. Looter-shooter? More like : eye candy + shits and giggles + particle effects spam that’s overheating every console across the globe, all at once. It’s part of the usual post-BL2 Bobolands package. Love this franchise for many reasons, even if it cost me my entire left nut on the black market. (Keep that between us pls.) Randy B*tchfork is still getting hissed at for his controversial tweets (and questionable history cough cough), but at least (I’m hoping) some peeps from the dev/program/artist/etc crew are actually being well fed with the 200$+ dollars I just sent them. Hope I saved the franchise from bankruptcy lmao. This is my first official 4K 60fps gaming journey (I come from a dark place ok. aka a rock) and it begins with me trying to control my impulse to screenshot everything, to resist saying WOW to everything and to survive the fact that I’m neglecting my carpel tunnel pain, but that is the joy of the ultimate premium gamer experience!!! I shed a couple of very manly tears. Some moans came out when I saw Raf- REALIZED WE CAN SWIM in this new Borderline Personality Disorder Four game. I’m lovin’ Boys Love 4 so far. Rafa is so extra. I would totally go to an Outback Steakhouse with this guy. Mmmmeeeeaaat. (No hidden mischievous pun intended.)

Can’t forget the usual memery. :P

My endgame Rafa will defo yearn for these simpler swimmy times.

I went a little crazy on the GIF making don’t call me loco pls I will cry.

…also how tall is Rafa?? cuz istg he is so smol he only need 1 popcon.

I got 3 theories fo this fella :

RAFMON OR AMORAF!?!!? Pick your poison.

I ship them now before anyone else does even if it’s canonically wrong and Amon would NEVER break his true love’s promise. Rafa would tho HAH. I pin Rafa as heteroflexible and Amon as a sweet patootie cutie who didn’t win the lbgtbbq allegations. *insert gay reverb sound effect*

pee yourself

I declare this ship... REVIVAN EL SHIP ! It's been dead since dokyakutu vanished from the net hAHah RIP + screw Activision for just swallowing up all of Prototype's rights and leaving it to rot in our faces with like zero proper closure ... just straight SILENCE for over a decade now ... ALEX HAS BEEN INSIDE HELLER FOR AGES NOW GET HIM OUUUUT !

— btw : tis just sum random ProtoCreed content I shat out myself at 3 a.m. on a Tuesday afternoon while being butt naked and fighting for my life on someone's unwashed toilet bowl definitely not after I wasn't microdosing on 35% heavy cream desserts (back when it was affordable) + expired lunchables in 2023

i am not sorry for the cringe this is literally tumblr 😃

Why are there no transmasc or intersex or transfem or enby sirens?

Someone please explain this to me.

You’re born in the wrong body, but you’re granted these incredible powers — and transitioning through hormones, as an example, doesn’t affect them...because your powers are resilient as FORK!! Think about it!!

Would that be possible? Is simply having a more male-leaning gender identity/pronouns/sex what makes someone ineligible to become a siren? And what about nonbinary sirens?

The lore says you have to be a “girl”... but what does that even mean? What do they mean by “girl"? (Granted, this piece of lore was created before LGBTQ+ representation became more mainstream for the game and the rest of Earth — but still, I digress.) Would a trans woman be able to be a siren? Or do you absolutely have to have XX chromosomes 100% of the time?? Do chromosomes even exist in the Borderlands universe, also since there are aliens involved? Gene pool is funky, yo! I bet the aliens' chromosomes are like aĕ³éräXỳæÆ...no offense! (Had to do it to em.)

Are the aliens in Borderlands all nonbinary btw, which, y'know, could mean the sirens also are — because of their Eridian connection? So maybe they’re not actually “girls” in the human sense at all? Huh!!!

Could sirens be intersex, or do they have to be strictly cis female with XX chromosomes at birth, "medically confirmed"? What if there's a mistake on the medical confirmation too, huh? What if the doctor got it wrong? Big talk here.

If a transgender man were a siren, he’d be the first-ever male siren too (Troy doesn't count) — and honestly, that would be so SWAG. I’d 100% support the idea of having trans sirens in the games, as well as more trans, intersex and nonbinary characters throughout the series — not only for representation, but also because Borderlands has always been a world without borders. It’s the perfect franchise to showcase inclusivity and diversity to its players and maintain the realism of a distant space utopia. (Cough cough, Call of Duty ain't got SHITE.)

What would the risk even be to have them included? Some transphobic gamers being unhappy? Politically-right-wing-infused-raging-bigotry-ishing backlash in Borderlands' Twitter comment sections? Hyperion stocks going down??

We have Lor (formerly Lorelei, nonbinary), who came out as a trans man in the New Tales from the Borderlands (even if that sequel was, uhhheermhm, not well-written at all, no love, no sauce...I won’t elaborate any further, it’s pretty obvious...cough cough. No one got attached to the characters. Rhys had a nice dumpy tho. Not the mini TFTBL1 robot, I mean his muffins, y'know? Bakery shop fresh! Huh!!? Who said that??!?).

So why can’t we have more enby, intersex and trans folks in the mainline Borderlands games, yo?

PS: Ayo...and where the flip are the Polyamorous characters, yo? Besides that one Maliwan gun, that doesn't count, even if you consider guns to have a soul. Did I skip that part of the whole story if there was anyone poly??? Everyone's monogamous?! I could go on for hours with these questions, yo!!! HELP!

If google translate wrote the dialogue for the tf2 comics or sum shiet. idk. haven’t slept in 8 days...

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Link to the comics page: https://www.teamfortress.com/comics.php

Never trust French people.

Team Farts (the secondth)

This SFM is 1 year old but everyday is slayy day so STFU.