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len gogos 🏳️‍🌈👽 Open for work! @lengog.bsky.social · 18d

WITCHING SEASON - A Witch Horror Comic Anthology is LIVE on Kickstarter!

BOUND is our little story, written by me and drawn by @coddledtamago.bsky.social ✨✨ It's about a famous photographer who takes something that belongs to his clients in return...

www.kickstarter.com/projects/phi...

A comic page showing a trippy magical photoshoot in which a piece of the model's soul is being detached

Part of a comic page showing a man with shackles around his neck and a strange creature standing behind him, touching his shoulder

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Marlon Rando @marlonrando.bsky.social · 12h

I don't consider myself aromantic (too prone to falling in love) but romantic love has never been the number one priority for me, especially in fiction. I don't care about a ship unless it would still be just as interesting without the romance

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Marlon Rando @marlonrando.bsky.social · 12h

the romance is not incidental but the relationship between the characters involved would still be compelling even if it wasn't there

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Marlon Rando @marlonrando.bsky.social · 12h

re: quoted post, I think the best fictional romances out there are driven by tensions unrelated to being in love, and built on connections unrelated to attraction. a "yes, but" approach to romance.

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Linnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social · 21h

I have a personal theory the way our society concieves of Romance (esp in fiction) is a bit boring & this is why most good ships out there are the ones originally written as intense friendships, rivalries etc.

💥Alex.W💪🏾💥 @jokeb0i.bsky.social · 23h

The struggle of modern media is that if you make a relationship between two people a little too flavorful people will start shipping them and you have no control over this whatsoever beyond nuking the quality of your own story

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Marlon Rando @marlonrando.bsky.social · 12h

now I am realizing I just basically restated what you already said. sorry about that, you're very correct is all

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Marlon Rando @marlonrando.bsky.social · 12h

and then it's fun to explore such non-romantic sources of tension through the lens of romance. romance as a framing device instead of a plot arc.

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Marlon Rando @marlonrando.bsky.social · 12h

I think there's also expectations and conventions about the arc of a romance narrative that make the romance itself the source of tension, which is less interesting to me (and probably others) than other interpersonal problems.

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Marlon Rando @marlonrando.bsky.social · 1d

I am not in danger of death or permanent injury. I will recover eventually and be fine. but right now I am going through it and the trials and indignities seem vast and endless

Marlon Rando @marlonrando.bsky.social · 1d

I swear on every last iota of sanity I possess if I am developing conjunctivitis on top of the bronchitis I am going to do something drastic

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Marlon Rando @marlonrando.bsky.social · 1d

EXACTLY

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Marlon Rando @marlonrando.bsky.social · 1d

it is LAUGHABLE to think the paltry payouts we saw in the usa during covid caused the subsequent inflation when it was so obviously a combination of decreased workforce, shipping disruptions, and corporate greed — globally. like, so laughable that I assume it's bait or a bot.

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Marlon Rando @marlonrando.bsky.social · 1d

I am being so strong and not getting into economics discussions with randos on the internet

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Marlon Rando @marlonrando.bsky.social · 1d

sometimes in movies people use this very effect to communicate that a character is dazed or injured and it's wild how accurate they make it

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Marlon Rando @marlonrando.bsky.social · 1d

due to this illness my ears have been completely plugged for like three days and it's so creepy how quiet the world becomes. like I can still hear but everything is muffled. except for the tinnitus of course

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Marlon Rando @marlonrando.bsky.social · 1d

fucked up that I'm probably still gonna be too sick to celebrate my one year germanniversary this week

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Marlon Rando @marlonrando.bsky.social · 1d

I feel you on that because I can never root for an LA team. there's nothing like a rivalry of neighbors

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Marlon Rando @marlonrando.bsky.social · 2d

mine was in juk... I foolishly thought I would deglaze the pot before adding water for the rice and reached for the rice vinegar instead of the wine. I do not recommend this approach. it was inedible

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Marlon Rando @marlonrando.bsky.social · 2d

oh no... I made that blunder once and the flavor profile was. Very different

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Marlon Rando @marlonrando.bsky.social · 2d

honestly I would even say the same impulse is mirrored for men, though of course the closer you are to the white patriarchal ideal the less you're actually punished for it. but racialized, sexualized, and lower class expressions of hypermasculinity are all punished or at least looked down on

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Marlon Rando @marlonrando.bsky.social · 2d

I think you're onto something there. if you have to try so hard there must be something wrong with you, it should be inherent, etc etc

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Marlon Rando @marlonrando.bsky.social · 2d

it's the ABSOLUTE worst. insult to injury. and then you have to cook AND clean again!

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Marlon Rando @marlonrando.bsky.social · 2d

keeping it horrifying culinary style

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Marlon Rando @marlonrando.bsky.social · 2d

if my partner or friend or family member needs a hug, I'm not going to tell them that actually my love language is acts of service or whatever. I'm gonna give them a hug. if I can't for some reason, I'm gonna find a compromise.

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Marlon Rando @marlonrando.bsky.social · 2d

but telling someone, I show love in this particular way, without room for how that makes them feel... is not actually loving or caring for them at all

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