Tadpoled, Shartpilled, and Gay

a few days late for June, but I had to finish and post these bg3 pride doodles<3

bonus:

shadowheart <3

So may I present my own casting choice for Odysseus:

Absolutely not

You know who would try that shit?

Is this the face of a man who would defy the very gods to get home to his wife?

You know who would defy the gods just to show he could get away with it?

recently I've been thinking about how I think some (I repeat some, not all, not even most) of the reason behind why it's harder for female characters to get popular enough to achieve real blorbo/The Character status is a kind of overcompensating reaction to a certain type of male gazey voyeurism in mainstream media. in my horror/tragedy niche I'm seeing six posts a day on my dash along the lines of "mmm I need that brunette bisexual man writhing around crying out in pain," and, yknow, love that, strong agree, but I absolutely never see that kind of blorbo sadism posting where the vague character figure is a woman. the most discussion I ever see of female characters suffering beautifully/sexily is people making fun of booktok m/f dark romance; wanting to see a woman as that kind of "chew toy experiencing the horrors and accidentally being kinda hot about it" protagonist is treated as completely off limits. at best it's laughable and at worst it's a sign of rising fascism.

#grace: *trips over nothing in the Hail Mary's lab and eats shit*

#rocky: *points and laughs*

#rocky: *immediately trips over nothing in his enclosed xenonite tunnel and eats shit*

#they are soulmates your honor

#and 'being soulmates in every way' includes ways that are not. dignified