That's because this is Silmarillion

One of the most memorable interactions was Saturday. Into our booth strolls a small family, tempted by free samples of freshly brewed tea. We chatter and give them the spiel, that the tea is character merch and we’re a cozy health-based app called Forage Friends.

The young girl zeroes in on our pride pins.

“They have my pin!” She says excitedly. “They have my flag!”

The dad blinks. He is surprised, but also calm and positive when he sees it’s the lesbian flag. “Oh. That’s… different from what you told me.”

“That was months ago, dad.” And she rolls her eyes. Definitely a teenager.

I turn to him and say, “Yeah, dad.” And we share a little laugh about it.

He says, “No, it’s great. That’s amazing, honey. It was just news to me.”

“Well, I guess I just decided to stop lying to myself. About liking guys. Like right now.”

A little lesbian just came out to her dad and he was super cool about it.

I’m standing there in my tie-dye mask and my cheery blue apron pouring tea and making small talk and I’m trying really hard not to cry or compare it to my experience, the fire & brimstone, the disgust, the conditional acceptance as long as I never bring it up.

So as this beautiful bonding is going on, the girl’s even younger brother turns his gaze around. He’s in a snorlax hoodie and bored and wants to go look at the swords across the hall. But on the other side of our booth….

“WHY DO PEOPLE DRAW THAT?” He asks loudly, and we all turn to our neighboring booth.

Our neighbors were extremely lovely people. Every time we had a break we would talk, and we became good friends over the weekend. They kept apologizing that their booth was next to ours and we kept repeating that it was totally fine. Their booth was great. I even bought their merchandise.

The thing that was so contentious, that they felt the need to apologize for, was that they were selling explicit titty hentai stickers of popular characters. They were censored with little yellow R18 labels but the content was very clear.

So back to the family: I freeze and immediately go somewhere else to let dad handle this question. With adult customers I’ve been loud and positive about our neighbors. (“Man, how has it been boothing next to them?” It’s been great! They bring a lot of foot traffic and they’re kind and wonderful professional neighbors. If anything it’s a fun juxtaposition. We believe in artistic freedom. I bought a sticker too!)

But this is a kid, it’s not my place to explain anything…. But I was extremely curious about what this chill dad would say.

“Well,” dad says with a long measured silence between each word. “Sometimes people are horny.”

Why indeed?..

~ 6 months ago ~

I have been thinking about the top gifset all day. I know technically Larian didn't include the prestidigitation cantrip, but it doesn't make sense to me that a wizard of Gale's caliber wouldn't know a simple cleaning spell, or at the very least wouldn't be able to compose one in the insane event that prestidigitation truly Does Not Exist in this world. This leads me to believe some combination of the following: 1.) Gale doesn't actually care that much. It legit doesn't sound like he does. He says "it turns out" a lot of his clothes are bloodstained, like he only just realized the extent of it when he specifically searched his wardrobe for something spotless. 2.) Ascended Astarion likes that look on him. If he didn't believe Gale to be presentable in his presence, he'd make it known. Instead Gale walks around with blood on his collar or wherever Astarion feels inclined to bite him, and it just serves as a possessive reminder that Gale is well and truly his.

Shipping fictional characters isn’t representative of your moral values. It’s representative of your particular psychic damage and the themes and motifs that haunt you. Hope this helps.

i'm so obsessed with this magic card. the title of the card, the quote at the bottom, the homoeroticism of the art, the fact that in the art, it appears that astarion is feeding off of gale, and not only does gale seem to be enjoying it, but also actively encouraging it (see the hand holding his collar open) shoutout to whoever designed this card. THE magic card ever (i've never played mtg)

[Credit for picture of fiction's nastiest boy here.]

Arrested Development – 1.03: Bringing Up Buster

and this is why baseball is the best sport (see also: these baseball sidequests)

Another version of Loki from the season 2 finale

WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS 4.01