#pride asks

Please and thank you!

Second pride ask done finally 😭😭

I actually hate this sm the colours look like shit to me but I’ve spent too long on this I planned to spend maybe 2 hours max on the pride asks

Also this is based of my living room so it looks more like an English farmhouse then a Victorian American mansion but whatever I’m not an interior designer or whatever

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Day #303 - Aroace Maedhros

I'm so sorry @ashley-the-fox, my drafts ate your ask :((

LET’S:

🌈 — attend a parade together

🎨 — make each other Pride bracelets

🌻 — go on a picnic date/friend date

📸 — take selfies at a Pride event

🎵 — exchange playlists

🛍️ — shop for Pride outfits

☕ — have a deep (or fun!) conversation around identity

🍿 — watch queer movies all day

🎆 — watch fireworks together

💖 — have my muse confess something personal

💌 — receive a Pride month letter / post-it/ text from my muse

🎲 — learn random headcanons about my muse during Pride

🌙 — spend Pride night stargazing

Yaaaay! I feel like I haven’t gotten too many asks regarding them.

So let’s go in order.

Dropletshine is a Molly, she’s very uninterested in romance, it’s not out of the realm for her and she’s open to having a mate. But unless someone asks her about it, she doesn’t think about romance. I could see her being demisexual with no specific preference.

Kelpjay is also a Molly, and she is very interested in romance. She is only interested in toms and would love to have a mate or two in the near future.

Coralheart is a Molly and she’s probably the most normal about romance. To her it would be nice but it’s not something she’s perusing or thinking about often. She has a preference for mollies but is open to gibs and toms.

Choose a cartoon character that was your queer awakening.

Who were the first characters you wanted to get together in a gay way?

What was the first book you read that had a queer character in it that you were aware of?

What book is your favorite flavor of queer? Explain.

Choose a song that speaks to your identity.

How comfortable are you in your identity? If you could change something, what is it?

What Hollywood/movie monster is your chosen mirror of yourself?

What example of queerness in nature speaks to you the most?

Is there a trope you HATE in queer media?

Is there a trope you seek out in queer media?

Let’s be honest, who is your fictional partner?

Do you have a quote from a piece of media that speaks to your queer identity?

Choose a guardian animal/deity of your specific identity.

“It is dangerous to be a storyteller, it has always been dangerous to be a storyteller.

We must be brave and we must be strong.”

Athren: 7 and 9

Lyd: 12

Gal: 7

9. Are their cultural or lore-specific aspects to their identity? If applicable, does their species affect it?

Pandering to my predilections!

There are cultural aspects to ALL our identities, right? 😉 Baked into Athren Dahana's DNA is an excuse for me to think about just how radical it would be to grow up in a cis-sexist world that marginalizes men and centres women. Canon Forgotten Realms has never gone REMOTELY far enough with this shit.

In the spirit of FR's ur- wordbuilding pervert, Ed Greenwood: imagine if in Undercommon, the active verb "fucking" doesn't describe penetration, but engulfing. A vagina fucks a penis. On a fundamental level, drow metaphorical touchstones should focus on yonic imagery: caves, dripping water, devouring mouths, the enveloping shelter of darkness. Begging R.A. Salvatore to read Ursula LeGuin's The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction.

ANYWAY. Athren is a Menzoberranyr man—a natural follower, passive, pursued-not-pursuer, object-not-subject. Physically, he is a member of the smaller, weaker, more delicate sex. Men who excel as warriors or wizards are exceptional; in Athren's City of Spiders, the heads of Melee-Magthere and Sorcere are women, as are the majority of the instructors and pupils. Men's natural domain is the home.

Athren's quite comfortable with all this!