Latest Posts by hexstrapstan - Page 2

The absolute worst type of accounts are the ones based around hating on fan creators. You make fandom worse if you're mocking people trying to keep fandoms alive.

Dear Anon, op was more respectful of their identities than you, know your place.

Also on changing characters' sexualities and gender for headcanon purposes, next you're gonna say im being heterophobic for shipping a straight character in a gay pairing.

Its the same logic, and sounds just as stupid.

Sometimes you just want to see your favourite thing in a different font, it doesn't take away from the original, it adds more things to love. Let characters be complex. Let people love characters in their own way.

How can you be a "transmasc Vi/Cait truther" (or whatever it is) and at the same time say that you love lesbian characters? Like you change the gender of canon lesbians to make yourself feel good about being trans, if you do that then I assume that you do not in fact love lesbian characters because you are unable to respect their identities without making them men (or attaching masculine labels onto them).

i absolutely love lesbian characters and i don’t usually attach masculine labels to caitvi. if you look at my posts, I’m usually referring to both of them with she/her pronouns, my fic about them used only she/her pronouns for both of them, etc.

however, butch lesbians exist. transmasc lesbians exist. i’m not doing this to make myself feel better about being trans (i’m genderfluid so idk), I’m doing it because it’s fun and because i can. i respect lesbians a lot. sounds to me like you’re the one who struggles to respect lesbians who don’t fit into your personal definition of what a lesbian has to be.

vi using she/her and he/him pronouns, caitlyn using he/him and they/them pronouns, that doesn’t make caitvi not a lesbian relationship. whatever your “lesbian purity” thing is that you’re trying to do here is kind of silly. at the end of the day, the labels we use are made up and they are as restrictive as we allow them to be. i don’t believe that gender and sexuality labels have to be restrictive, so i make caitvi he/him lesbians.

i hope you can enjoy your versions of characters and learn to let other people enjoy theirs.

Caitvi, but H A M P T E R 🐹

Repeat after me: You don't have to put something down in order to elevate another.

And also while you're at it: People can date and love more than one person in their lives. People can ship more than one pairing at the same time. Love and respect are unlimited. They won't run out if you use it.

absolute tragedy seeing people tear down one ship to talk about another ship like. do you actually like your ship more than you hate the other? please learn to like things without having to tear other things down thanks!

Tumblr... why?

she dooooooess

ARCANE | vi [3/∞]

jinx and caitlyn’s rivalry restarting by them both leaving hickeys all over vi because they’re competitive as hell and it ends up being both of them constantly trying to kill each other in a hot way and vi is lowkey terrified that they’re actually going to die one of these days. she simply doesn’t understand the hostility lmao

she finds caitlyn tied up with a bomb strapped to her and violently thrashing and trying to get out and she goes “oh no cait” and helps caitlyn out and then caitlyn’s all grumpy and “i could’ve done it myself now it’s not fun”

she’s watching caitlyn practice shooting when jinx steps right in the way so it’s like 50/50 she’ll get shot or the bullet will barely graze her and vi nearly has a heart attack and SCRAMBLES to stop caitlyn and jinx pouts because “honestly, have you never been on the receiving end of a bullet? the danger makes it better”

vi’s slowly going crazy and caitlyn and jinx are mutually trying to murder each other and giving vi kisses and head pats for her efforts lmao

House MD x Meljayvik

Huddson and Meljayvik are basically the same ship guys. Also Foreman would be Ekko, Cameron is Cait, Chase is Vi, Thirteen is Jinx and Sky is Amber

Prettier ass sometimes too

Something something but they’re SISTERS

Bish the day I look at any of my siblings like that, climb on top of them on full out horizontal and choke them id prefer to be thrown in jail

On a fucking altar too

That’s gay as fuck dude

I have eyes ???? Is not my fault they put the sexual tension there?? Blame the show!

/Bunnyhugs you ❤︎

Your interests are fun and fresh, so its a good time all around

What makes it even funnier is I post more about trans hcs and ambessa than actually caitvijinx lmao but sure

GASP

Warn the masses!!!

there’s a dirty proshipper in town!

You know that @hexstrapstan is a CaitViJinx shipper, right? Just letting you know that you interact with some problematic accounts.

my sibling in christ. i am the problematic account.

fear not! i’m aware that the meme blog that my friend (who has not watched arcane) made occasionally features caitvijinx posts. so does my blog.

god bless lmao

where’s my slightly toxic, weirdly dangerous older milf gf?

Painting study 💞

I mean I did make the account entirely to reblog your correct great amazing arcane takes, which includes the occasional caitvijinx (and to thirst over ambessa) so I hope you'd know yeah

im straight giggling that this asker took me so seriously they had to go give you an warning without even checking my posts - where not only I reblog your caitvijinx post but also say its a meme acc and I have not watched the show

baby its league its not that serious

You know that @hexstrapstan is a CaitViJinx shipper, right? Just letting you know that you interact with some problematic accounts.

my sibling in christ. i am the problematic account.

fear not! i’m aware that the meme blog that my friend (who has not watched arcane) made occasionally features caitvijinx posts. so does my blog.

god bless lmao

NEED HER!!!!

OMG THATS ME!

arcane fandom I’m actually begging.

if u don’t like a ship then BLOCK IT AND LEAVE IT ALONEEE

and this applies to the problematic ships, the dark ships, the normal ships that aren’t your ship, the multiships, just please shut the hell up.

i’m tired of seeing “omg they’re literally family” on random vijinx posts or “ew age gap” on caitbessa posts. like. no SHIT. omg i think they know that.

i don’t like caitcass or jilco or plenty of other ships but oh my god get over yourselves. it is not that deep. block the tags, block the people posting, move the fuck on.

reading replies and reblogs from fandom police like -1hp -1hp -1hp -1hp

Arcane watching should be less about morality and more about picking your fav war criminal

Periodic reminder that you are not immune to reactionary radicalization through fandom.

We all know the “jokes” about how old bronies either came out as queer or became fascists - except they’re not really jokes, and a lot of the queer ones admit to having been in the pipeline before they came out (some in a way that implies they never totally got out of said pipeline and don’t understand the gravity of it),

GamerGate was an entire right-wing reactionary movement that was - and this is not hyperbole - partially responsible for turning fascism into a “legitimate” position by the American Overton window, composed entirely of people who feared losing their fan spaces,

We’ve had terfs right here on tumblr dot com BRAGGING about how useful fandom is as a recruiting space,

TJLC was a big pipeline for acephobia on this hellsite in particular, when people argued that headcanoning Sherlock as ace was inherently homophobic because it was denying a TOTALLY GONNA BE CANON (while the creators were promising that it wasn’t going to be canon) gay pairing, and puritanical, and just HAVING that headcanon was saying that people COULDN’T ship Johnlock, all in the interest of a “fake” sexuality and “pretending to be oppressed” and oh whoops there you went,

We see people who all but center their fandom activity and identities around figuring out which people in predominantly queer fandom spaces are SECRETLY PEDOPHILES AND GROOMERS, acting consciously or otherwise under the assumption that predominantly queer fandom spaces are just massively infested with them in a way that other spaces are not for SOME reason, who twist the definition of “pedophilia” in these spaces until it covers shipping a 17-year old fictional character with an 18-year old fictional character, or a 30-year old with a 45-year old, or including an autistic character in a ship, and drawing two 17-year old characters kissing constitutes “child porn”, and who unironically say we should bring back the Hays Code and Censorship Is Good Actually And Our Problem Is We Don’t Do It Enough and this often becomes a pipeline to “sex ed is child abuse; people shouldn’t even know what sex is until they turn 18; you need my consent to wear certain outfits in public if I see them as sexually charged, and Pride SHOULD be an assimilationist sideshow for our corporate overlords family-friendly party with no sadness or anger or ESPECIALLY acknowledgement of sex allowed”,

We’ve seen otherwise progressive people defend literal hate symbols in fanart when pushback against the above brand of reactionaries gets corrupted into zero-nuance “it’s us vs. them so anything they don’t like is Good”,

Even outside of those examples some of the most vicious, unapologetic, blatant queerphobic abuse I’ve seen in recent years hasn’t come from right-wingers but from LGBT+ people, dressing their deep, violent, seething hatred for queer people who aren’t exactly like them in a thin veneer of progressive language, who have become so convinced that they’re the main character of the fucking universe that they think writing or enjoying a queer story that doesn’t resonate with them is more queerphobic than sending a queer person who writes or enjoys such a story countless rape and death threats and denying their identity,

We’ve seen these examples again and again and again, and we keep seeing it again and again and again, so I am once again on my knees BEGGING people to recognize that this is not Something That Happens To Other, BAD People, or Something That Happens To People In BAD Fandoms, or Something That Happens To People On The OTHER Side Of Perennial Drama; this is something that CAN happen to you.

These things are the result of the fact that fandom is, by nature, a place of heightened emotion and if you don’t know what to look out for that is very exploitable; you need to know the methods people use to do this, simply Being In The Right Fandoms or Liking The Right Ships is not enough.

So, if you see someone trying to convince you that you have the ONLY valid approach to any specific character, or ship, or show, or whatever, that your ship is activism and your fanfics are praxis, and liking something else or liking the same thing differently is Only For Bad People, that is the single biggest red flag that YOU NEED TO RUN, THEY’RE TRYING TO SELL YOU SOMETHING THAT YOU DO NOT WANT

Darling, this is a meme account. Do you know how bad it gotta be for a meme account to call you out?

I'm not calling you a transphobe because I disagree with you, although I do, im calling you a transphobe because using the “transness errases women” talking point is transphobic

Because saying they're “perfectly good characters” when you were just calling them toxic and subpar to other ships, only for the sake of them being cis, is transphobic

Trans headcanons don't take away from the character history they work from it.

Its just as valid as seeing love that isn't canon in a story as canon for you, and shipping said characters even if they're not together in the original material. Waiting to see something in art doesn't invalidate what the art is, doesn't stop others from wanting to see something else in said art. Because we're all our own people and we can all get joy from the same sources without hating on others for getting joy in different ways.

testosterone could fix caitlyn kiramman

It isn't about yaoi or yuri, its about trans stories getting told through whatever means people want to tell them, and people respecting that.

Everyone has different opinions and Tumblr is a much better place when you interact with those you enjoy the content of instead of to hate on it. There's why we have fandom etiquette in the first place.

Many trans men - myself included - one day identified as cis lesbians, there's nothing wrong with identifying with a character and wanting to see a little bit of yourself in a story you love. It doesn't make caitvi any less, in fact it shows that the story is so beautiful to them more people wanted to see themselves in it.

Men can't be lesbians ok, sure, but a man can have been a lesbian or could become one.

Both things can be true.

Trans people get fewer characters and less story variety, just ship and let ship instead of sending people hate for having their own.

testosterone could fix caitlyn kiramman

Have you ever heard of something called a headcanon?

Everyone can look at characters and think what they want is for free, that doesn't take away from the original

There's not just gay ppl and lesbians out there trans ppl can also look at things and go ME just as much. Also, we sure aren't getting as much rep so nothing we do will not be “erasure” in some way

Transphobia isn’t funny

testosterone could fix caitlyn kiramman

tag urself I’m “swings both ways” lmao

arcane ship discourse is like 1000x funnier when you realize these goons are fighting about LEAGUE OF LEGENDS characters. do y’all realize how humiliating that is for you guys?

i need hoRRENDOUS levels of gender fuckery from the arcane characters right meow.

transmasc femboy caitlyn? gold star.

he/him butch vi? thumbs up.

silco who’s too busy running a revolution to think about gender? five star review on yelp.

neopronouns shark/shar jinx? rattling the bars of my enclosure.

time and gender goofiness ekko? approved.

is this me projecting? oh absolutely. give me all the gender bullshit. labels are words and words are made up and more people need to take advantage of that shit!

arcane characters as warrior cats part 1: the piltovan council

i’ve been thinking about arcane characters as warrior cats recently, and i’ve come up with a bunch of lore for it. i’ve got plenty of characters already made, so here’s one of the groups! you may be wondering at this point, “saph, why not the main characters? this is weird as hell.” and to answer that, because i want to. so there.

piltover in the au i came up with is a clan called gildedclan. the clan has had to adapt to their territory being destroyed to build upper class neighborhoods. unable to retreat further into the forest lest they trespass on other clan territories, they’ve begun supplementing their hunting by taking advantage of the kindness of twolegs. they pretend to be kittypets when it serves them.

heimerdinger in the au is a runaway kittypet who teaches the others in gildedclan how to draw twolegs into feeding them or giving them food they can take back to the clan.

because of the way the clan operates, they don’t have a clan leader, which means no -star suffixes here. instead, they’ve formed a council that splits power evenly between themselves. this comes in handy because on occasion, the cats in the council will be mia for several days or even weeks at a time while cozying up to twolegs.

anyway, here’s the council!

mel- goldveil

cassandra- diamondleap

salo- cunningfang

hoskel- timbertail

heimerdinger

bolbok- goldengear

shoola- rustwisp

+ a bonus cat!

tobias- slatebreeze

sorry that you think my fictional ship is illegal. I actually consulted a fictional lawyer about it and he had a talk with a fictional cop about the fictional laws and then they both looked at me, and very seriously said "we'll allow it because it's hot."

"meljayvik where mel and viktor share jayce" OR THEY'RE ALL IN LOVE, PLEASE. i want them all happy.

hello melvikers

Ekko brought the Jinx out in Powder for a second.