Introduction

More people have been following me for blogging about Wheel of Time, so just so everyone knows I’m Bri, I blog about anything and everything, especially books. If we’re lucky and the show gets a full run, then I’ll be blogging until either the death of the show or Tumblr, lol.

If you have questions lemme know, imma try to keep spoilers properly tagged, so that I don’t spoil the episodes for anyone (But spoiler culture is dumb and I am not reliable so just b/c on air dates, i’ll do my best)

My tags for WoT are

#WoT, #Wheel of Time, for everything related,

#Wot Spoilers, and #Wheel of Time Spoilers for show spoilers,

and

#Wot Book Spoilers, or #Wheel of Time Book Spoilers for book spoilers.

lilacandladybugs:

“what if im a bad person” yeah? well what if you arent? what if you’re trying your best and you’re growing and you’re kind? what then?

femcorp-official:

Sorry i moaned when you called me a “pretty girl”. I will do it again.

calysto1395:

scaredgirlsilly:

scaredgirlsilly:

whats that defunct land quote again? every part of the film making process is awful, but not making film is even worse? idk something like that. anywah im being completely normal about art rn ::))

found it

supreme-leader-stoat:

2urban2fantasy:

supreme-leader-stoat:

I’m afraid that I have the worldbuilder’s disease and it is terminal.

Fascinating. And where did this disease come from, how is it spread, and what demographics does it affect the most?

defilerwyrm:

prismatic-bell:

nepenthean-sleep:

genderpunks:

the point of my masculinity and male positivity posts are to underline that masculinity and manhood are seen as a threat or in direct opposition to queerness, and that often times in order to be seen as queer you have to be partially or wholly feminine or gender neutral, or express your manhood in a feminine or gender neutral way in order to no longer be threatening, invasive, or a problem.

it is very difficult to exist in queer spaces as a hyper masculine person & a man. you’re made to feel like you need to walk a tight rope feeling like you’re inherently out of place, as if you existing and being masculine or a man in queer spaces makes others uncomfortable inherently.. just know that when i make positivity posts it is to remind us all that masculinity/manhood and queerness are not opposites and that you do not have to be a feminine man or masc person to be viewed/seen/heard as queer.

chasing men, masculine people, and masculinity out of queer spaces isn’t helping anyone currently and won’t help anyone down the line. please accept masc enbies, butches, bears, and masculine trans men with the same kindness, love, and passion that you do neutral and feminine people. that’s the point when i make these kinds of posts. thank u

ALT

tags by @mac-n-cheese-flavored-arson

This is 100% thanks to the “No kink at Pride” people. Because?

They didn’t want these men at Pride. This is a leather daddy. (A rather covered-up leather daddy, because this addition doesn’t do anyone any good if it’s flagged into invisibility, but best believe that dude has hella abs under there, and a 50/50 chance of heavy tattooing.)

Here’s another. Again on the modest side for the sake of not triggering the automod thing, but you can see the interplay of queerness and masculinity—particularly a kind of forward, unashamed sexual explicitness, if you take a look at their crotches. That’s a kind of…for lack of a better term, mating display. “I have this and want to use it, or at least know there are men here fantasizing about me using it.” It’s akin to a woman wearing a plunge neck. You’re supposed to look, and if you’re a dude, he’d like you to like it.

These dudes (well, most of these dudes)? They’re bears. (I said “most” because the guy in the sunhat is technically a cub. He’s too young to be a bear.) The furriness and the beards and the age and the bellies ARE THE POINT. The name “bear” is an affectionate one. Literally “I’m big and hairy!” In the 00s there was a stereotype(?) that bears were also super-cuddly. I don’t know how true it is, but I can confirm every bear I’ve ever met gives amazing hugs. They will readjust your spine, your touch starvation, and your entire outlook on life.

None of this touches on the rather large queer kink communities around “men in uniform.” Military, police, construction, I can’t tell you how many strip nights I’ve been to at a local gay bar with a guy dressed as a sexy firefighter getting absolutely swamped with dollar bills and lap dance requests.

You aren’t seeing these men because they’ve been forced out of spaces THEY CREATED. One of the best things you can do is to help bring them back.

They’re not threatening, they’re not disgusting, they’re not somehow dangerous just by virtue of being open about their sexuality and sexual desire. They’re just human beings who human slightly differently than you.

But more importantly?

They’re family. And don’t you forget it.

Rejection of queer masculinity is also largely—but not solely—a problem among people whose only contact with queer folk is online. Yes, I am fully saying this is largely a Terminally Online problem. If you’re gathering with queer people in meatspace, you’re gonna see pretty quickly that queer male culture idolizes masculinity in the real world. We love men. We love masculinity—sometimes to a fault. We’re not all drag queens and Sassy Gay Best Friends. Hell, watch some gay porn and you’ll see this. Look at erotica drawn by & for gay men. You ain’t gonna see many bishies in women’s lingerie there.

What you’ve gotta understand is that Leathermen, biker gays, the uniform fetish, queer male BDSM clubs, and more arose after scads of queer men got a taste of being around each other all the time in WWII, came home, and found they still needed spaces like that. They formed clubs. They invented Leather. They developed cultures. And those things are all still around today.

Who do you think kept the queens safe at Pride parades in the days when the cops weren’t there as escorts but as crowdbreakers?

A TERF can’t go into a Leather club or gay bar and drip poison into the ears of baby queers nearly so easily as they can online. And seeing as how in much of the world it is still literally dangerous to be out, a lot of us don’t HAVE the option of going to munches or Leather bars or gay clubs and learning from our elders, who are, as you might expect, not nearly so active on the internet as said baby queers tend to be.

Capitalism and mass media don’t fuckin’ help here, either. Queer masculinity is so threatening to cishets that masculine queer men pretty much only exist on film as threats—basically as homophobic rape jokes. Muscle daddies don’t appear in ad campaigns. No one’s making cutesy coming-out/coming-of-age movies about cubs.

But we exist, and we have always existed, and we will always exist.

Broaden your horizons. Don’t buy our enemies’ bullshit. Queer masculinity is a good and natural thing.

squidong:

DNI if you’re a bad person. This will certainly filter out bad actors, who both self-identify as such and respect the boundaries of people they are bad actors against. This will certainly not alienate people who have internalized shame or feel like outsiders in community spaces.

tkingfisher:

I have been doodling a lot on my iPad mini these days, after a couple of years of just not feelin’ anything artwise. But I have shamefully neglected to post them to Tumblr! So have an art dump!

ALT

It started with a sheep. I was messing around with new watercolor tools and crosshatching tools, thought “that looks kinda like a sheep” and then took out the bits that didn’t look like a sheep.

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The noble Aukhound, originally bred to herd migratory seabirds. These majestic, slightly damp creatures are now used extensively in ecological restoration work.

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I do this whenever I see a frog.

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Then I was just in the mood for weird shadowy cloaked figures.

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You know that’s a clove cigarette.

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Portrait Of A Creature With A Chicken On Its Head

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Just two weird little creatures having tea together.

frozenknight:

Gotta get married so I can avoid situations with a “oh sorry I can’t, my wife needs me home asap” and then go home to my beautiful wife

Do I love 80’s style perms and the women who wear them? Yes

louisegluckpdf:

me when one of my girlmutuals posts about how they got a little coffee beverage or took a nice walk or started a book they’ve been meaning to read for a while or otherwise found meaning and joy in simple pleasures