Lexi Lightningwing

i missed animating ponies

MIDNIGHT SPARKLE¡¿

excuse me I'mtearing up a bit

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There is always a fandom discourse about how fandom is too much about shipping and romantic love, but my beef is actually with people being too fond of the idea of a family as the purest form of love and the strongest unit.

Starting from pople tending to turn every story about siblings who are not besties into this huge tragedy instead of awknowledging that maybe, sometimes, people are not close with their siblings. Or that people are so weird about mothers.

But what irks me even more is the tendency to decide that two people who are close in canon have a "sibling coded relationship" which suddenly also means that shipping them together is wrong. Or if a character has an older person in their life whom they look up to - well that is their parent now!!!! They can't fuck their parent!!!!

There is this underlying idea that elevating characters into a familial bond is above such concepts as romantic love or sex. Which sucks because that is not what the concept found family means - it was meant to describe the queer experience of finding your people and community from outside of your blood relatives, and it was never meant to say that there can't also be romantic relationships within that community.

And it is not even always about the fact that I want to ship my blorbo with everyone who comes near him (although I absolutely do), but I think that sometimes there can be meaningful dynamics that are not about family. I want my blorbo to have friends, lovers, partners, mentors, neighbours, a trusted older person who they can call to but is not their parent.

Maybe some of this rises from the fact that family for me is something complicated and sore and not as important as my friends and community. But also the idea of a nuclear family as the pillar of society is such a conservative talking point and it is weird that people keep throwing a fit about romance and dating as societal standard but don't seem to notice this one.

I had an oddly touching dream about Bluey & Muffin, so I drew out some feelings 🐶

At Dusk, I Will Think of You... Dearly Beloved.

I drew Kairi in every Drive form!

has tumblr heard about the saga of raefarty yet

Midnight heartfelt comic

People: This series/game/movie is so gender fuck and queercoded! It’s the greatest rep ever!

Me: Is it? Or is it just misogyny, queerphobia, and transmisogyny in a trench coat and you’ve misinterpreted the mean spirited jokes at our expense as “irreverent comedy”?

People: NO ITS SO GENDERFUCK QUEERCODED AND SO GOOD!

Me: Okay, I’ll try it then. *watches/plays it and is hit by a wave of misogyny, queerphobia, and transmisogyny … with a dash of surprise copaganda sprinkled in!*

Me:

i wish my choices in life mattered, like in fallout 2. but instead i live in a fucked up world where nothing i do matters, like fallout 3