#*ourselves and each other

[dafpork]

I KEEP MAKING VARIATIONS OF THE SAME POST LOL this is just important to me to stress. and i wanna beat it into my head. BUT i’m really trying to make an effort to be more proud and comfortable and Free in using this account and less like a neurotic prey animal.. more “congrats you’ve stumbled on my secret club let’s have fun im glad you’re here” and less “here is my secret shame corner. sorry you had to see that Gary”. i’ve been thinking a lot lately about how my own attitudes can rub off on or influence other people, for better or worse, and i don’t want people to feel like engaging in dafpork Stuff is something to be ashamed of! i want more people to experience the joy of it! and i’m not gonna do that by following every post with how embarrassed i am and how cringey i am because what does that say to people who are curious about them! i like to rag on how these guys playfully embarrass me and that Porky needs a restraining order against Daffy, but these guys are deeply deeply important to me and a very intrinsic part of my identity, and i don’t want people to have this accidentally negative impression of them, or absorb my weird neuroses by proxy…

i wish i could be even louder and prouder about them due to circumstances i’ve mentioned before, but i sort of want this little side log to be just.. a fun bonus! a fun little bonus of art and love and fun for these characters and love for the people who love them, and less of a shame corner that i need to haphazardly stuff everything into. i wanna stop holding back and really just put the full potential that i know i have into my art and writing and musings and postings of these guys… because i want others to do the same!

so, yay! take this as a sign if you’ve been looking for a similar reprieve! i love these guys immensely and hiding or discounting how much i do love them completely defeats the purpose of this blog. Pig and Duck Summer (and fall, and winter, and spring, and so on)

[charl0ttan]

whats really really scary that i think abt a lot is how many people lived their entire lives not knowing it could be better and what are the odds that i was born into a life that breaks that cycle. what am i missing out on

[teaboot]

Sometimes at work it's not my place to tell people the things I want to say, and I find I often go home at the end of the rougher days to stand blankly in my shower and tell myself over and over what I wish I could pass on.

This accomplishes very little, and mostly just gives me a tension headache, but through it all I think I've narrowed myself down to a few solid things I'd like to tell people the most.

You can't change people. Not permanently, not for anythig. You can support them, encourage them, love them, give them tools and opportunities and resources, but you can't make them change. They can change themselves if they want to, but they have to want to, and they have to want it for themselves, because they're the only one that's certain to be with them forever.

For better or worse, you make your own choices, and blaming bad choices on others doesn't only work to absolve you of responsibility- it also robs you of control. Because if you say you only did something because I did something, then you arent only shifting blame- you're admitting that you cannot control yourself, that you cannot truly make choices for yourself, that other people can control you- and as long as you truly beleive that, you'll keep facing the same problems over and over. You'll keep letting others dictate your choices, because you'll beleive that they can, and you'll never be free.

White knights on horseback are from fairytales. Nobody can help you if ou're not willing to help yourself. To try, to put the dirty work in, to belive you're worth that effort- Act as though nobody is coming to save you. From a struggle, from pain, from bad relationships, from yourself. And when you do save yourself, because you will, because failure here isn't an option if you want to survive, you'll never find another dragon that can keep you prisoner.

Don't say anything to anyone that you wouldn't want them remembering forever.

Doing the right thing in bad circumstances is hard. It's the hardest thing. But if you make the choice to do that hard thing anyways, despite your fear, you'll go on the rest of your like knowing that you're the sort of person who did something.

The present only seems the hardest because the past I over and the future hasn't happened.

There's so much joy ahead of you, the kind you can't possibly understand until you see it yourself.

The responsibility of consequences is often disguised as the power of permission. "I won't do this if you help me", "I'll work on my anger if you do this for me", "I promised you I'd quit, but can I have just one?". The unspoken question is, "Can it be your fault if this goes badly?"

You cant make someone love you the way you need to be loved. Someone can love you very much and still be bad for you, even if you love them very much in return. Two people can love each other very, very much, and try their very best, and still be wrong for each other.

Sometimes being near to someone changes you, even in good ways, and the people you become don't fit together as well as the people you were.

Caring takes work. Even if it's real. Especially if it's real. And the most important gestures aren't the grand, poetic, songs-and-flowers-and-tears moments; they're getting out of bed even though you don't want to. Paying attention to things you don't enjoy. Scrubbing pans, or opening a window, saying "thank-you", or helping carry groceries into the house. The small things fill the big things- without the small, boring, mediocre things, big things feel hollow.

Thrre is honour and dignity in humble work.

If you are a cruel and spiteful person, then you will find every place you visit to be full of the same cruel, spiteful people. This is not because the world is as cruel as you, but because everywhere you are, you will be disliked. This is the curse that comes with being persistently cruel and spiteful.

If you are a kind and ppsitive person, you will repeatedly encounter kind and positive people, because as they grow familiar with you, they will be happier to have you near. This is the reward of being a kind and positive person.

When splitting paths with loved ones, briefly or forever, aim for your last words to always be "I love you".

[real-skel]

I know I draw them being gay and playing tongue guitar all the time but let’s be real they were not always like that

[chronicpaingirlie]

just a small reminder for this disability pride month:

please accommodate yourself in whatever way you can. please accommodate your disabled loved ones in whatever way you can. please accommodate disabled strangers in whatever way you can.

the world is so inaccessible & hostile to disabled people. please make it as gentle for yourself & others as possible, in whatever small ways you can.

[naamahdarling]

Bunny butt!!!

I know this is going to get slapped with a content label INSTANTLY because I'm saying the words "butt" and "bottom" a lot. But here, enjoy Fancy's little round bottom.

ID: Fancy, a rumpled urchin of a cat with a disproportionately furry ass, wriggles and purrs on a bed, peacock feather toy abandoned nearby. She has no tail at all. A human Bothers her continually throughout and Fancy permits it. It seems to be a regular thing.

"Nobody knew about your bunny butt, Fancy! Nobody knew! I had to tell them. Look at this!" Fancy is on her back and the human playfully tugs her hind paws up so her absolutely tailless and VERY FLUFFY back end is visible.

"Look at this little bunny butt!" The human covers the entire fluffy butt with one hand, jiggles Fancy, pets her. "Hahaha, you don't even have as much as a bunny! You got nothin'. You got nothin' back there. You have nothin', got a little nub!" The human lets go and one small area of fur is slightly less mashed down. "There it is. That's all. Just a ñub! Yeah, hahaha. OHhoho!" (Fancy has nipped the human lightly off screen but is still purring loudly.) "Oh yeah, I bet that's annoying. It's so annoying, yeah? It's your butt!"

The human relents and pets Fancy on the head. "There! Now everybody can see your naked bunny butt. Good girl Fancy!" /End ID

[idonthaveacontract]

[jakeperalta]

don't get me wrong I see the fun in like using "girlie" as an affectionate nickname or the idea of reclaiming your girlhood or whatever. but I am begging young women to refer to themselves (and others) as women, not girls. even just some of the time. even if it's just pausing to consider whether you could say woman or person in that sentence instead. you are not "just a girl eating girl dinner after my lazy girl job 😌💅✨️" you are a self sufficient grown adult with a career HAVE SOME SELF RESPECT

[maxz-b]

forever thinking about michael schumacher forcing nico rosberg to piss into a bucket anyways this is part 4/???

[son-of-avraham]

Person with no whimsy: Why are you trying to trick g-d with loopholes? 🙄🙄🙄🙄

[hadesoftheladies]

it's bleak how most of the things people think will assuage and temper men are the things that embolden them. "prostitutes exist so men don't rape us" the human trafficking industry that is prostitution is an ever-growing industry that produces propaganda that enables men in society to rape MORE not less. by objectifying women and children, it puts all our heads on the chopping block. "he just needs to settle down and get married" most femicide, rape and domestic violence are committed by husbands/boyfriends. "if men just had daughters/sisters they'd see women as human" as a daughter and sister, i can confirm that we're extra caretakers of said men, and that our kindness is taken as proof that "good women" are subservient and domestic helpers.

if you want to de-radicalize men, you have to actually just stop tolerating misogyny in any form no matter what woman it's done against. stop trying to dialogue with men and start socioeconomically punishing them. people want to act like "separatism doesn't solve anything" when governments and companies only started paying attention when they saw birth and marriage rates drop. it is not women's job to save men from themselves and some feminists still don't get that. pandering to men always results in LESS rights for us. we have to become radically INTOLERANT.

[bvckbiter]

listen, lukelli could be so funny. all post ttc luke wants is to finally die, so when he sees a hot man-eater (literal) making moves on him his manwhore ass is like “you know what. might as well go out with a bang.” meanwhile kelli does very much want to eat this man (after getting to know him ofc. shes not a savage, she prefers to wine and dine her food). but unfortunately hecate and the titans have given explicit orders that luke castellan be kept alive, and if their little fling helps keep his mind away from offing himself, then she better keep wining and dining him. the entire time they’re together, luke is in agony because he wants to die and kelli is in agony because she cant kill him. but consequently they’re also matching each other’s freaks and having the most irresponsible cruise fling ever. when kelli kills that random demigod in seattle, notwithstanding luke’s upset at a wasted demigod life, his depressed brain is going “THAT SHOULDVE BEEN MEEEEEE,” which then leads into a whole thing of “ofc this was all about keeping me alive for the titans” in which he finally realizes hes truly got no one on his side. and by the time botl rolls around, kelli is just bummed that she’s lost her favorite boytoy bloodbag. she cant be caught kissing the geezer lord of the titans smh

[thorough-witness-enjoyer]

Maybe it’s my experiences with my culture and having relatives who are immigrants, but the conflict between humanity and the eliksni reads more to me than just a message on xenophobia.

To me, it’s also about how groups who have experienced oppression are often pitted against each other by the circumstances created by their oppressors to keep them stuck in a cycle of violence and mistrust with one other. This cycle keeps groups who share similar pain and plights from extending mercy to each other and joining forces to fight against the systemic forces that brought them both into a hostile state, which is exactly what those forces want as it keeps those groups powerless and unstable.

[polin-erospsyche]

The fact that these two

Are these two:

Are also these two:

And all in the span of one year and a half

Sometimes they just make me laugh maniacally

[kypopkypop]

Growing up the chubby girl and never being able to get a piggy back ride, you were always the one giving them to your friends. 😔