All Y'all Fuckers When You Say You Ain't Gonna Vote

Today we are highlighting the fictoromantic and fictosexual microlabels! We’ve received a couple of requests to talk about this label - if you’re ficto or feel connected to the label, we invite you to share about your experience!

[ID: “Ficto-romantic. Someone who is mostly only romantically attracted to fictional characters or whose romantic orientation is influenced by fictional characters. Ficto-sexual. Someone who is mostly only sexually attracted to fictional characters or whose sexuality is influenced by fictional characters. While some ficto- people may not identify as aspec, others do because they are not attracted to anyone they could form a relationship with.” Pictured are the fictoromantic and fictosexual flags. End ID.]

Romeo to his Juliet

I turned Stanley Snyder into a marketable plushie.

Holds

stanley snyder at francois

t'es woke toi. toi t'es un wooooke left.

jayvik nation, how we feelin’

Boy/guy/mandarling!

A gender related to being a boy/guy/man and a darling; a gender related to boy/guy/men darlings; a boy/guy/mandarling

Coined by me. Requested by no one. Tagging @hypnosiacon

There is this one troupe that keeps cropping up with Stanley & Xeno that I absolutely love and I'm living for it. It's that Xeno without Stanley is actually worse off whereas Stanley without Xeno is better.

They split ways after graduation and Stanley enlists. The military is harsh and stressful but not only does he survive; he thrives. In only a few years, he climbed the ranks. He commands a special unit and the whole unit puts their full faith in Stanley fucking Snyder. 

Xeno goes to school and is faced with not only immense stress and pressure to succeed, but he has to do all of it without his only support: Stanley. We can assume this based on the heavy parallels between him and Senku. Stanley is the equivalent of Senku’s full friend group since he’s the one who’s got great stamina, brute force, and talent in skill heavy tasks. Xeno finds kinship with Senku because he sees himself in the kid, except he didn’t have a mentor to guide him. Due to the heavy parallels we can also assume he had a situation like Senku where his parental figure wasn’t around much in his life. 

All that stress, a major lack of support, and finding himself trying to make up for the sudden hole left by Stanley who's shown to be a caretaker type to him? Xeno fucking cracks. He gets through school but he’s already changed. He’s got a malice that he brings with him to NASA and it only grows with the constant pressures placed on him by those who hold him back. Those cracks start to widen. His mentality falters and we see him go from the happier, innocent, science-loving doctor who started messaging with a talented boy to a man who’s ready to sell out the whole world in order to progress. 

The manga even alludes to this quick mental degeneration as the first few times he’s shown in the flashback chapter as being dressed in all white with a more relaxed demeanor.

The first panel that shows him touting the power of science is the first time in the flashback where he’s dressed in something black.

When it cuts to him giving the dictatorship speech we see him now dressed in a black coat entrenched in shadows. Even his eyebags get more and more noticeable during this change signifying the on-going stress in his life. 

What makes this the best troupe to me is that its importance hinges on one solid aspect of Stanley and Xeno’s relationship: Stanley needs Xeno. He can command his unit as needed but goes off of the orders given by Xeno. Xeno gets kidnapped? Stanley is the only one who actually cares enough to not only chase him halfway around the world but to conduct a full on operation just to save him. Even after he’s reanimated a second time, Stanley is *always* by Xeno’s side.

There’s something silently bittersweet about the whole situation. Xeno’s the only one who makes mention that *he* holds *Stanley* back and Stanley ignores it, opting instead to continue on his path. 

📖 Book Themed Pronouns (Very Big List!)

A bunch of book based neopronouns!

- book/book/books/bookself

- book/mark/marks/bookmarkself

nov or vel/novel/novels/novelself

hae/chapter/chapters/chapterself

vol/volume/vols/volumeself

mem/memoir/memoirs/memoirself

per/paper/papers/paper self

paper/back/papers/paperbackself

page/page/pages/pageself

co/cover/covers/coverself

- fict/fiction/fictions/fictionself

- non/fiction/nons/nonfictionself

bind/bind/binds/bindself

pir/print/prints/printself

text/text/texts/textself

ley/letter/letters/letterself

auth/author/authors/authorself

plot/plot/plots/plotself

di/dialogue/logs/dialogueself

pub/publish/pubs/publishself

Ugh, it was awful last week. I'm free from The River of Styx now tho! Had to make a goofy vent doodle about it... Senku suffers from endometriosis. And poor Ginro caught the stray.

uhm so... screw it better?