#and a new url

[d-dantes]

Going to bed but gonna put all my gaming nonsense on @fadingsignal from now on

[anna-sawais]

Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn as Joe Bradley and Princess Ann ROMAN HOLIDAY 1953 — dir. William Wyler

[richyjerimovich]

“I meant nothing by it, Sydney. Saying 'sweetheart' is just part of our Italian heritage.” THE BEAR, 1.01 "System"

[wilanco]

--- Rising from the Zukka grave with this

[yangjeongin]

bonus:

[reasonsforhope]

If I can also offer some additional thoughts to strawberryraviegutz, and anyone else who's worried about the same things:

There's zero evidence for the "250 year/10 generations" rule or whatever they call it. It's been a popular theory for quite some time, but every post about it cherrypicks examples of nations in history that lasted around that long and ignores all the ones that lasted longer or survived by adapting over time.

Literally every doomer post about it is based on that same cherrypicking and contemporary trends you see on social media, not long-term realistic projections used in actual academic circles, where they employ real scientific and historical evidence. Evidence that doesn't round off the lifespans of nations to some arbitrary number.

Not that I'm trying to downplay any existing problems, just that what we're dealing with today is hardly anything apocalyptic. It's really important to remember that increased awareness of a problem does not correlate to an increase in scale of said problem.

Also, despite what you may hear, there haven't really been many true collapses of entire civilizations in history. When states in the past have collapsed- Rome, China, India, the Mongol Empire, Alexander the Great's Empire, etc.- the people living there don't just disappear. They survive and go on to build new states that grow, change and evolve from there. That's a form of continuity, not total destruction.

And just as there has never been a true utopia, there has also never been a true dystopia. A dystopia is a literary device, not a state of being. So long as people disagree with and oppose cruelty and tyranny in any form, as is human nature, a true dystopia is impossible.

Especially because a dictator will never outlive the people. No matter how they may want to pretend otherwise, their grip on power is only ever temporary. The power held by the people is eternal.

I've seen more tangible good done in the last ten years than I thought would be possible, and I don't see any reason to stop believing that'll be true.

So don't give up just because of a few social media posts from people who have no idea what they're talking about. Every generation has had people who say these things and they're always proven wrong, so it's not worth your time and energy to worry about it.

Be kind to yourself and to others, and remember the world is a better place with you in it. We have not reached the end of history, not by a long shot.

Thank you for sending this in, and agreed!

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

y'know what actually pisses me off every time some shitty adaptation drops??? it's when fans of the original are rightfully disappointed and make valid criticisms of ways the adaptation betrayed the themes of the source material and snobby assholes who've turned their brain off for the day brush them off like "erm... its an ADAPTATION ofc things are gonna be different 🙄 its not gonna be a one-to-one adaptation you just hate changes"

like... no. thats not true. at all.

im fine with (and often DELIGHTED by) changes that actually add something enjoyable to the story and/or expand on the original themes. it's when the adaptation makes "changes" that completely spit on the source material and contradict its message that people get pissed off. its not that we hate changes. we just hate dumb ones

but im sure the ppl whose favorite response to criticism is to go "ugh its an ADAPTATION get over it 🙄" without actually thinking about it don't care to understand that

(This is not about racist pissbabies who throw tantrums about some disney princess not being white BTW yall can get fucked)

[arwen-evenstar-archive]

Natalie Dormer as Anne Boleyn in The Tudors (2007–2010)

[fawnduubackup]

Alright gang, If you didn't see my main blog got marked as mature!

It's been radio silence from tumblr staff on getting it reclassified so I moved my url to this new blog.

Please give it a follow!

Theres still a chance my original blog will get reclassified but anything I post over there will get suppressed and I want to keep posting as usual!

Looking for links???

Read My Dragon Girlfriend HERE

Read Big Cats HERE

You can buy physical copies of all my comics as well as prints and other goodies HERE

You can buy digital copies of my comics HERE

You can get access to my whole backlog of NSFW comics + art on my Patreon ~ <3

[lautakwah]

there is no such thing as a "trans inclusive radical feminist" the entire foundation of radical feminism is built off of transmisogyny!! like, there is no way around it, 2nd wave feminism was notoriously bad at being intersectional and recognizing how different types of marginalization interact, positioning women as a distinct class regardless of race, age, class, orientation, agab, and so on, who were supposedly all oppressed the same way under patriarchy which simply isn't true.

if you really do believe you're trans inclusive then you cannot be a radfem it simply doesn't work like that; hate to break it to you the basis of your feminism is transmisogynistic as all hell and no amount of padding it out with being "trans friendly" (to whom?) will ever change that. i could even be mean about it but let me put it this way: there are so many different feminisms, many of which are incredibly accessible with tons of literature online, at your local library and in the bookshop close to your home, in english and your native language, that actively choosing to be a radical feminist is an act of transphobia in and of itself.

[sensitiveheartless]

Hullo y'all! Just a couple quick updates: sorry for going super quiet without warning again, one of my grandparents ended up in the hospital last month with a serious health issue and everything's just been a lot. But the situation is improving somewhat, so my brain is slowly returning to a workable state. Anyway, all that to say: thank you very much for your patience with my in-progress fics and comics, I really appreciate how non-pressuring and kind everyone has been. You all are awesome!

(And I have once again fallen very behind on asks — that is on my list to catch up on as well, thanks for your patience in that area too aksjfksdj)

Other update: as my brain was returning to equilibrium I went on an OC-drawing spree, so I revamped my original art blog to post that stuff over there. Changed the profile pic (I cut my hair recently so I wanted a new self-portrait to match) and also changed the URL cause I wasn't super fond of the old one, so!

If any of you are interested in checking out my non-BSD art, my other blog is now @betsytwohats

(Ah, and to be clear, I'm not gonna stop posting on this blog, my other blog is just a separate place for me to put OC stuff + some non-BSD fanart 👍)

Aaand lastly, here is a Dazai doodle from my sketchbook! I wanted to draw him looking like he's going to cause Problems (plus a scribble-Chuuya from the big sketchdump I just posted on my other blog)

[revvethasmythh]

it's so funny to me that caleb and veth really did just trade off the job of intensely pining for the other at like the halfway point of the campaign. like, imo, nott in the early days did not behave in any real romantic or even romance-adjacent ways toward him--I imagine it would be very hard to even think in that way when you hate what you look like so much, have such low self-esteem, and are actively lying about your entire past, including a secret husband. caleb, on the other hand, is kind of diving directly back into the sort of relationship he had with astrid and eadwulf. very close, very intimate, we-huddled-for-warmth-together-and-oops-it-led-to-something-else sort of thing. he is the one who expresses that he's fine with it if people think he and nott are romantically together when they're talking to keg. nott is the one who pushes back on that. he calls her his life partner. unknowingly, he compares his feelings for nott to nott's feelings for yeza. his behavior only really starts to change after he finds out about veth's husband because suddenly all of that other stuff is rendered inappropriate in retrospect. but even then he compliments her to yeza over dinner in the most awkward of ways, he admits to being jealous, he calls yeza "a lucky man" to have her, he stares at veth and yeza closed bedroom door for far too long, he creates an entire arcane tower with room for her family just so she'll stay with him. in general, his behavior is not, um, totally and completely platonic about it, you know?

like, veth's feelings for caleb are canonical and therefore indisputable in their existence, but caleb in the early days was not that dissimilar to how veth was acting near the end of the campaign. it really paints a picture of "right person, wrong time" in the way things just didn't line up for them. or, as veth would say: "in another world, maybe"

[catcze]

𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐇𝐈𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐒. ₊˚⊹ᰔ

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Been wanting to do this for a while, as some of you might know. For months I’ve been tired, anxious and felt out of place— like I don’t even know what I’m still doing here. I’ve been losing inspiration & my drive to be creative, and being on here just isn’t making me happy like before. I don’t want these feelings to spiral into something even worse, so I’m taking a step back.

I’m not deactivating yet. I might come back to get excited about new Sylus cards, but for the most part I’m taking a good long break to focus on myself and to think about what I want to do with this blog in the future. I’m sorry for all my shortcomings, and know that I love you all so much. Please be safe ‹𝟹

“ You don’t have to come with me, you know… I don’t even know when I’ll be back. I don’t even know what I’ll be doing while I’m away. ”

“ All the more reason for me to tag along, little cat. Being apart from you… I’d miss you too much. ”

“ …If you’re sure. Just— don’t regret coming, okay? ”

“ It’s cute that you think that could ever happen. I’ll be happy anywhere, as long as I’m with you— nothing in the universe can change that. ”

[sakasakiii]

i just saw the previous ask you answered and wanted to say your work is also what got me into silmblr!! I dabbled in fanart stuff for a while between reading the silm and landing on tumblr, but you were the first silm artist I encountered! I also "followed" you for a while before I actually made an account (aka I saved your url on a sticky note to check every so often lol) and you've definitely been a huge influence in my art and headcanons :D

thank you sesamenom!!! sososo sorry for like, a whole year's delay on answering all the lovely things youve sent in the past?! 🙇‍♀️ but i do hope you know that your kind words in both them and your reblogs have always made my day :DDD its such an honour to hear that youve enjoyed my tumblr stuff, esp when youve got so many unique headcanons, aus and other assorted works on your end too! i have a blast whenever i check in on your blog, and look forward to more of your art in 2025!!

hope you dont mind, but you probably know by now that im totally obsessed with your blue haired maglor so here's a little piece of him in his high king design <3

additionally as thanks for all the other cute assorted tag game asks, here's maglor and daeron at karaoke (their modern designs are super cute... 🥹 i think they deserve some time off once in a while)

[goatfactsofficial]

was watching Dungeon Meshi today and had to stop and take 30 mins to carve this out for a new profile picture.

[girlintheafternoon]

In daylight I belong to the world. But in the dusk I belong only to myself — and you.

L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars (1936)