Nov. 10th, 2017

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crashing the AO3 by changing popular mononymous character’s canonicals to ones using the Sans Undertale format for jokes

lying on my bed with a glass of water, getting ready to pull the trigger on “rey sequeltrilogy” time for a little anarchy
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whenever I see people talking shit about qplatonic relationships as a concept bc “that’s just friendship” or “that’s just a romantic relationship” I’m like. you know both friendship and romance are socially constructed categories right?

the way that people talk about qplatonic relationships, the relationships they choose to call qp, and the things they call characteristic of qp relationships can sound more like what an individual imagines is friendship or romance, but that also applies to… friendship and romance. there’s no official concrete definition of either. going out to a fancy restaurant every other Friday and being physically intimate and getting married can be a friendship. watching movies on rabb.it and talking about your crushes can be a romantic relationship. relationships are defined by what words the members feel describe them best.

even using more traditional definitions of friendship vs romance, people often form relationships that aren’t easily categorizable with either term. one of the reasons that these discussions tend to irk me personally is that I have complicated (positive! I know a lot of the time that means “fraught” but here it means “emotionally intimate”) relationship with my ex that involves both friendly and romantic feelings. I wouldn’t call our relationship qp for a number of reasons, but it bothers me to see people acting like it’s ridiculous to seek any relationship labels other than “romance”, “friendships”, “friends with benefits”, or “it’s complicated”. sometimes, you want to label something more specifically than “complicated”!
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hailmaryfullofgrace55675:

whenever I see people talking shit about qplatonic relationships as a concept bc “that’s just friendship” or “that’s just a romantic relationship” I’m like. you know both friendship and romance are socially constructed categories right?

the way that people talk about qplatonic relationships, the relationships they choose to call qp, and the things they call characteristic of qp relationships can sound more like what an individual imagines is friendship or romance, but that also applies to… friendship and romance. there’s no official concrete definition of either. going out to a fancy restaurant every other Friday and being physically intimate and getting married can be a friendship. watching movies on rabb.it and talking about your crushes can be a romantic relationship. relationships are defined by what words the members feel describe them best.

even using more traditional definitions of friendship vs romance, people often form relationships that aren’t easily categorizable with either term. one of the reasons that these discussions tend to irk me personally is that I have complicated (positive! I know a lot of the time that means “fraught” but here it means “emotionally intimate”) relationship with my ex that involves both friendly and romantic feelings. I wouldn’t call our relationship qp for a number of reasons, but it bothers me to see people acting like it’s ridiculous to seek any relationship labels other than “romance”, “friendships”, “friends with benefits”, or “it’s complicated”. sometimes, you want to label something more specifically than “complicated”!

warning: this post uses the term queer uncensored a lot. if you don’t like it, I suggest a word replacement browser extension.

I’ve also seen plenty of posts made about the inappropriateness of “queer” in this term. any and all q-slur discourse aside*, I think it is important to discuss the supposed “queerness” of these relationships. important background: “queerplatonic” originates in this post by author S.E. Smith http://ift.tt/2zxZQr0 made January 22, 2011.

in my observation, I have encountered a lot of LGBT people whose 1) have romantic lives characterized by unconventional forms of romance like long distance and polyamory, 2) have friend circles composed mostly of people they are or would be attracted to/of the sort of people they are attracted to, and 3) have emotionally intimate friendly relationships with people they are or may be attracted to. and thus, I believe that there is a tendency among LGBT people to have special relationships that transcend the usual boundaries of romance and friendship.

I think that these relationships are not just especially common among LGBT people, but especially characteristic of LGBT social communities (that tend toward more fluid or unconventional relationship forms, that are composed of people who tend toward attraction to each other). I think that there is a special kind of emotional intimacy, that is characteristically LGBT, between people of same or similar genders and orientations (who share similar experiences of the world, who may or may not be attracted to each other). I think that this emotional intimacy deserves words to discuss it with.

even if you disagree, and feel that that’s just friendship and should never have another word for it, i think it’s a special LGBT form of friendship that deserves discussion.

*I don’t like queer theory as an academic institution. I don’t like it when people, especially cishet people, use “queerness” the way TV tropes editors use “subversion”. I don’t like it when cishet people use the term queer at all, unless specifically requested to do so by someone who identifies that way. I used to like it. I used to think it was a fine and useful phrase. over the years, it has come to taste strange and bitter in my mouth.

I think that use of the term queerplatonic to describe intimate, unusual relationships between straight cis people is grating and unpleasant. I think use by aroace cis people is fraught. I do believe that these people are fully capable of relationships that transcend the traditional boundaries of friendship and romance, but I don’t think that means that they get to use our words for their lives.
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I’m reading a gay fanfic and man I really am a sucker for romance. I absolutely love this shit. reading about people discovering romantic love with each other just drives me hog wild.
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Welcome to my Wonder Woman fanndesign where she has a neatly clipped beard and a unibrow and her canonical length of hair but curlier. She’s 6'4" and she wears sweatpants all the time. Wonder Woman quote: “They’re like individual blankets for your legs! Man’s world has progressed far since last we Amazons knew of it!”

Please consider Wonder Woman hanging out in the watchtower. leaning back with legs crossed like this http://ift.tt/2te9cVo wearing sweatpants printed with her logo, reading a book about Emma Goldman and projecting her voice across the room to read interesting passages out loud to Batman.
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hailmaryfullofgrace55675:

Welcome to my Wonder Woman fanndesign where she has a neatly clipped beard and a unibrow and her canonical length of hair but curlier. She’s 6'4" and she wears sweatpants all the time. Wonder Woman quote: “They’re like individual blankets for your legs! Man’s world has progressed far since last we Amazons knew of it!”

Please consider Wonder Woman hanging out in the watchtower. leaning back with legs crossed like this http://ift.tt/2te9cVo wearing sweatpants printed with her logo, reading a book about Emma Goldman and projecting her voice across the room to read interesting passages out loud to Batman.

Wonder Woman’s collection of size XXL volunteer and participant t shirts from charity events. “Badges of honor. But they’re clothing! So practical!”

Wonder Woman would never just take someone’s clothes (romantic/friendly “favorite shirt stealing” trope) but she would absolutely trade, borrow, and lend freely.

People who will borrow Wonder Woman’s clothes:
-Kyle Rayner because he’s a gay graphic artist who plays MMOs and is only slightly smaller than her, so event shirts are already a substantial part of his wardrobe + the Green Lantern uniform construct clothes are not very warm? It’s nice to have something over them in the usually-chilly Watchtower.
-Martian Manhunter but only if they’re soft. He doesn’t really “wear clothes” but he will take any nice feeling object that Wonder Woman hands to him.
-Clark because aside from suits for work that’s just exactly how he dresses too. They’ve gotten identical shirts from the same event mixed up multiple times.
-Bruce but “only as mementos”. He “would never actually wear that” (He does. Alone at home. He refuses to be known as wearing informal clothes or being sentimental but he is. He is sentimental. And he does sleep in themed nightwear)

People who will not borrow wonder woman’s clothes:
-Wally just does not really have a time or purpose to wear a shirt that large.
-Jon has his own thing going on clotheswise (e.g. color coordination, garments that fit close but not snug to the body, remembering to bring jackets) and just prefers to plan and wear his own stuff. Jon voice: Daily routines are good.
-Shayera only wears her own Thanagarian clothes and a careful selection of athletic wear that she finds comfortable and practical (read: sufficiently similar to the uniform clothes she’s used to).
-Aquaman doesn’t like cloth in general.

Diana sees Bruce wearing a suit and thinks it looks cool but uncomfortable. He says they’re comfortable if they’re nicely made, and she wonders aloud about getting one in her colors. Bruce quickly sets to commissioning her a tailor made red blue and gold suit, but when he sees it a month later after several design drafts he’s like. This isn’t enough. Aaaaaaa. So he ends up spending like 6 months planning and fabricating a bunch of themed jewelry.

When he finally gives her everything, almost a year later, she has pretty much completely forgotten about the original conversation (she went suit shopping with Clark once but she found normal black and white/neutral tones kind of boring and nothing fit well) and she’s like
1) Oh, a gift! How kind of my dear friend, I wonder what it is :0)
2) A suit! it’s so cool and I love it! :0D
3) WE TALKED ABOUT THIS… HE REMEMBERED… HE MUST HAVE WORKED ON THIS SO MUCH :0DD
4) THERES ACCESSORIES!!!!!!

Bruce is initially anxious, then, when she responds positively, desperately restraining himself from pointing out each individual item while grinning wildly.
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hailmaryfullofgrace55675:

hailmaryfullofgrace55675:

hailmaryfullofgrace55675:

Welcome to my Wonder Woman fanndesign where she has a neatly clipped beard and a unibrow and her canonical length of hair but curlier. She’s 6'4" and she wears sweatpants all the time. Wonder Woman quote: “They’re like individual blankets for your legs! Man’s world has progressed far since last we Amazons knew of it!”

Please consider Wonder Woman hanging out in the watchtower. leaning back with legs crossed like this http://ift.tt/2te9cVo wearing sweatpants printed with her logo, reading a book about Emma Goldman and projecting her voice across the room to read interesting passages out loud to Batman.

Wonder Woman’s collection of size XXL volunteer and participant t shirts from charity events. “Badges of honor. But they’re clothing! So practical!”

Wonder Woman would never just take someone’s clothes (romantic/friendly “favorite shirt stealing” trope) but she would absolutely trade, borrow, and lend freely.

People who will borrow Wonder Woman’s clothes:
-Kyle Rayner because he’s a gay graphic artist who plays MMOs and is only slightly smaller than her, so event shirts are already a substantial part of his wardrobe + the Green Lantern uniform construct clothes are not very warm? It’s nice to have something over them in the usually-chilly Watchtower.
-Martian Manhunter but only if they’re soft. He doesn’t really “wear clothes” but he will take any nice feeling object that Wonder Woman hands to him.
-Clark because aside from suits for work that’s just exactly how he dresses too. They’ve gotten identical shirts from the same event mixed up multiple times.
-Bruce but “only as mementos”. He “would never actually wear that” (He does. Alone at home. He refuses to be known as wearing informal clothes or being sentimental but he is. He is sentimental. And he does sleep in themed nightwear)

People who will not borrow wonder woman’s clothes:
-Wally just does not really have a time or purpose to wear a shirt that large.
-Jon has his own thing going on clotheswise (e.g. color coordination, garments that fit close but not snug to the body, remembering to bring jackets) and just prefers to plan and wear his own stuff. Jon voice: Daily routines are good.
-Shayera only wears her own Thanagarian clothes and a careful selection of athletic wear that she finds comfortable and practical (read: sufficiently similar to the uniform clothes she’s used to).
-Aquaman doesn’t like cloth in general.

Diana sees Bruce wearing a suit and thinks it looks cool but uncomfortable. He says they’re comfortable if they’re nicely made, and she wonders aloud about getting one in her colors. Bruce quickly sets to commissioning her a tailor made red blue and gold suit, but when he sees it a month later after several design drafts he’s like. This isn’t enough. Aaaaaaa. So he ends up spending like 6 months planning and fabricating a bunch of themed jewelry.

When he finally gives her everything, almost a year later, she has pretty much completely forgotten about the original conversation (she went suit shopping with Clark once but she found normal black and white/neutral tones kind of boring and nothing fit well) and she’s like
1) Oh, a gift! How kind of my dear friend, I wonder what it is :0)
2) A suit! it’s so cool and I love it! :0D
3) WE TALKED ABOUT THIS… HE REMEMBERED… HE MUST HAVE WORKED ON THIS SO MUCH :0DD
4) THERES ACCESSORIES!!!!!!

Bruce is initially anxious, then, when she responds positively, desperately restraining himself from pointing out each individual item while grinning wildly.

Wonder Woman buying red/gold camo cargo pants online so she can carry snacks: “Nice.”
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hailmaryfullofgrace55675:

Welcome to my Wonder Woman fanndesign where she has a neatly clipped beard and a unibrow and her canonical length of hair but curlier. She’s 6'4" and she wears sweatpants all the time. Wonder Woman quote: “They’re like individual blankets for your legs! Man’s world has progressed far since last we Amazons knew of it!”

Please consider Wonder Woman hanging out in the watchtower. leaning back with legs crossed like this http://ift.tt/2te9cVo wearing sweatpants printed with her logo, reading a book about Emma Goldman and projecting her voice across the room to read interesting passages out loud to Batman.

Wonder Woman’s collection of size XXL volunteer and participant t shirts from charity events. “Badges of honor. But they’re clothing! So practical!”

Wonder Woman would never just take someone’s clothes (romantic/friendly “favorite shirt stealing” trope) but she would absolutely trade, borrow, and lend freely.

People who will borrow Wonder Woman’s clothes:
-Kyle Rayner because he’s a gay graphic artist who plays MMOs and is only slightly smaller than her, so event shirts are already a substantial part of his wardrobe + the Green Lantern uniform construct clothes are not very warm? It’s nice to have something over them in the usually-chilly Watchtower.
-Martian Manhunter but only if they’re soft. He doesn’t really “wear clothes” but he will take any nice feeling object that Wonder Woman hands to him.
-Clark because aside from suits for work that’s just exactly how he dresses too. They’ve gotten identical shirts from the same event mixed up multiple times.
-Bruce but “only as mementos”. He “would never actually wear that” (He does. Alone at home. He refuses to be known as wearing informal clothes or being sentimental but he is. He is sentimental. And he does sleep in themed nightwear)

People who will not borrow wonder woman’s clothes:
-Wally just does not really have a time or purpose to wear a shirt that large.
-Jon has his own thing going on clotheswise (e.g. color coordination, garments that fit close but not snug to the body, remembering to bring jackets) and just prefers to plan and wear his own stuff. Jon voice: Daily routines are good.
-Shayera only wears her own Thanagarian clothes and a careful selection of athletic wear that she finds comfortable and practical (read: sufficiently similar to the uniform clothes she’s used to).
-Aquaman doesn’t like cloth in general.
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there’s a fanfic on the ao3 titled “a reylo fic” that’s just like one sentence “Rey smashes him into a trash can also she’s a lesbian” and I commented on it like last year which means I’m essentially signed up to receive level-of-the-discourse updates in my ao3 inbox from pro-reylo trolls ranging from “explicit fanfic excerpts, essentially sexual harrassment” to “commenting to redact/correct my comments by putting my username as their name on an anon comment”. I went looking at the comments and I thought I was aware of reylo discourse before but the sheer level of squawking disarray displayed on this doc is something I never couldve imagined.
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omgthatdress:

This is going to be a fucking mess and I am 1000% here for it.
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hailmaryfullofgrace55675:

hailmaryfullofgrace55675:

hailmaryfullofgrace55675:

hailmaryfullofgrace55675:

Welcome to my Wonder Woman fanndesign where she has a neatly clipped beard and a unibrow and her canonical length of hair but curlier. She’s 6'4" and she wears sweatpants all the time. Wonder Woman quote: “They’re like individual blankets for your legs! Man’s world has progressed far since last we Amazons knew of it!”

Please consider Wonder Woman hanging out in the watchtower. leaning back with legs crossed like this http://ift.tt/2te9cVo wearing sweatpants printed with her logo, reading a book about Emma Goldman and projecting her voice across the room to read interesting passages out loud to Batman.

Wonder Woman’s collection of size XXL volunteer and participant t shirts from charity events. “Badges of honor. But they’re clothing! So practical!”

Wonder Woman would never just take someone’s clothes (romantic/friendly “favorite shirt stealing” trope) but she would absolutely trade, borrow, and lend freely.

People who will borrow Wonder Woman’s clothes:
-Kyle Rayner because he’s a gay graphic artist who plays MMOs and is only slightly smaller than her, so event shirts are already a substantial part of his wardrobe + the Green Lantern uniform construct clothes are not very warm? It’s nice to have something over them in the usually-chilly Watchtower.
-Martian Manhunter but only if they’re soft. He doesn’t really “wear clothes” but he will take any nice feeling object that Wonder Woman hands to him.
-Clark because aside from suits for work that’s just exactly how he dresses too. They’ve gotten identical shirts from the same event mixed up multiple times.
-Bruce but “only as mementos”. He “would never actually wear that” (He does. Alone at home. He refuses to be known as wearing informal clothes or being sentimental but he is. He is sentimental. And he does sleep in themed nightwear)

People who will not borrow wonder woman’s clothes:
-Wally just does not really have a time or purpose to wear a shirt that large.
-Jon has his own thing going on clotheswise (e.g. color coordination, garments that fit close but not snug to the body, remembering to bring jackets) and just prefers to plan and wear his own stuff. Jon voice: Daily routines are good.
-Shayera only wears her own Thanagarian clothes and a careful selection of athletic wear that she finds comfortable and practical (read: sufficiently similar to the uniform clothes she’s used to).
-Aquaman doesn’t like cloth in general.

Diana sees Bruce wearing a suit and thinks it looks cool but uncomfortable. He says they’re comfortable if they’re nicely made, and she wonders aloud about getting one in her colors. Bruce quickly sets to commissioning her a tailor made red blue and gold suit, but when he sees it a month later after several design drafts he’s like. This isn’t enough. Aaaaaaa. So he ends up spending like 6 months planning and fabricating a bunch of themed jewelry.

When he finally gives her everything, almost a year later, she has pretty much completely forgotten about the original conversation (she went suit shopping with Clark once but she found normal black and white/neutral tones kind of boring and nothing fit well) and she’s like
1) Oh, a gift! How kind of my dear friend, I wonder what it is :0)
2) A suit! it’s so cool and I love it! :0D
3) WE TALKED ABOUT THIS… HE REMEMBERED… HE MUST HAVE WORKED ON THIS SO MUCH :0DD
4) THERES ACCESSORIES!!!!!!

Bruce is initially anxious, then, when she responds positively, desperately restraining himself from pointing out each individual item while grinning wildly.

Wonder Woman buying red/gold camo cargo pants online so she can carry snacks: “Nice.”

I’d like to clarify that Diana is 6'4" and 300 pounds and both incredibly built and somewhat fat/generally bulky. Kyle Rayner is like 6’ even and actually heavier but not nearly so muscular and doesn’t have such broad shoulders. all factors together, they wear the same size t-shirt.

Also Diana is what Man’s World medical science would generally recognize as intersex. She has congenital adrenal hyperplasia. The Amazons are a utopian society with incredible medical technology that allows people to live for hundreds and hundreds of years, as well as a reproductive society with a distribution of sex characteristics that resembles that of the human population in general. Neither Diana’s body, nor the bodies of other Amazons, are recognized as “sexed” or “gendered”. There are no gender roles within Themyscira, and womanhood for them is a social and political affiliation shared by all Amazons as Amazons. It wouldn’t occur to Diana or any other Amazon that Diana’s womanhood would ever be questioned based on her appearance, because she is clearly an Amazon by her armor and stated affiliation, and therefore clearly a woman.

Diana is a particularly exceptional Amazon, not because she is seen as alien to Themiscyra by herself or others, but because she is an especially kind, outgoing, and curious person with a particular interest in venturing beyond Themyscira (and quite an impressive warrior to boot).

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