#bc nobody understands or thinks to ask

[und3adazrxel]

I needed to hear this today

you are not "inconvenient" for using pronouns other than he or she or for having a complex gender, or one other than male or female. you are just being honest about who you are, people who refuse to acknowledge you correctly are the ones being inconvenient.

[acaciapines]

Homegrown Hearts, 12

:3

12: What do you like least about this fic?

its how i wrote kris's aromanticism <3. at the time i wrote this fic i wrote kris as aroace, but not as loveless aroace. but now that i write them as loveless i really wish i'd explored that more in homegrown hearts lol. as i write kris in the holiday-dreemurr series specifically i think its like, fine? it fits for that version of kris i used to write and i think in regards to this being a story about RALSEI, i really like it as her ending--its this blurring of the lines rather than the black/white she used to exist in with all the ways the prophecy harmed her. but i still feel like it couldve been a tad stronger.

honestly though i do still really like homegrown hearts...i feel like the way i feel on how i'd do it differently is very much biased by the fact that like, i think im mostly past my kralsei era? like i said all i want to say on them and now i'm partial to exploring other relationships (loveless kris + noelle/susie/ralsei). i am glad i said it how i said it, back then. but time has turned on and now there are other angles of these characters i find myself drawn to instead.

[thatneoncrisis]

If Gideon Nav and Terezi Pyrope got in a fistfight which do you think would try flirting first

neither. im approaching this from just their standard canon counterparts (i dont care for hs2 so no adult terezi) so she would be some gross offputting baby teen that gideon cannot conceptualize without insulting based on the aforementioned gross and baby parts of her. youre 13 wheres your mom (she would not know the maturity of children relative to their ages). also gideon doesnt reeeeeally flirt, shell mention someone is an attractive as an aside but we all saw her with cytherea. there was a specific dynamic that enabled her acting like that and terezi wouldnt trigger it

on terezis end she doesnt really flirt either she antagonizes heavily. which some could argue Is a kind of flirting but idk trolls are weird their convoluted social negging as negative reinforcement is its own essay. she called karkat cute a bunch but 1 she knew it would bother him and 2 it was more about how unthreatening and silly he acts. she might find gideon really cool, much like her dancestor latula, but even if she was attracted to her i dont think shed have the stones to go for it, shed just slink off to go tell her friends how cool that lady with the big sword is.

[godlygivenanxiety]

you’re so real for that peacetime au jilco post,, i will admit i think the fact they added that half baked au to canon in the first place is bullshit. but setting the annoyance aside, there’s potential there for some really interesting jilco

one thing that could be fun is seeing what their dynamic is like when they have external limits: canon jinx&silco exist in their own little bubble with nobody who gives a fuck what they are and what they do with each other, and they have no external reasons to take a step back besides the fear of abandonment/ruining what they have and silco’s inevitable self vitriolic guilt spiral.

but in the everyone’s-happy-au they’re a. less deranged, and b. surrounded by actual reference points for what healthy relationships should be, which would up the taboo factor. and there would be consequences if anyone caught on that they were fucking. both of them (but mainly silco because he would be perceived as predatory) would risk losing their carefully crafted little life and family and the things that let them be so content.

but with it being riskier and them having to fight harder to actually have each other, i also think things could be softer between them? one of the fun and less healthy bits about canon!jilco is the way he encourages her to be crueler and sharper. but underlying the way he shapes her into a monster like him and urges her to lean into that vicious anger, the primary goal behind it is he wants her to be the best she can be. canon!silco sees an unchained and focused monster as the ideal. it’s what he wishes he still was. and he sees all of jinx’s potential to be better than him and to be everything he couldn’t. she is literally synonymous with zaun to him until he finally learns that she is the priority over zaun. she’s the embodiment of his dreams.

and in the au, powder still has all that potential and the spark burning in her. she’s stifled by the same fear she has in canon, but without silco pushing her to lean into and weaponize being a jinx, the fear manifested differently. it inverted and now she doesn’t try anything or explore her ideas for fear of jinxing it. multiversal ekko didn’t have time to convince her of her full potential beyond a few cryptic sentences, but i think the softer and less sharp-edged silco would be able to. he could be able to help her overcome the fear in a different, less destructive way, that would probably leave both of them happier than they ever got the chance to be in canon.

i would love to hear your opinions on them or any thoughts you have on how au jilco could go, there’s so many possibilities there

YOU GET IT YOU GET IT DING DING DING

something i love about Silco with Jinx is that he BELIEVES in her so so soooo much, and i feel robbed of it with the Good Timeline because we barely see him, but i just know that even if he IS a man without a grudge, he's still much more similar to jinx than Vander will ever be- and i have my... theories, about when Vander and Silco made peace (after Vi died and Vander's family was in a more fragile state, i assume? and i do think it was Vander's initiative to forgive and forget), well how could Silco even begin to help the family heal? perhaaaaaaaps giving more attention to the little girl that just missed her big sister? perhaps because when the girl's parents died, he also lost friends? perhaps because he wasn't a father to them, but he empathized with the loss of a loved one regardless of circumstance?

perhaps Vander even failed to look Powder in the eye at first, and Silco helped, in his own way. therefore, he's not Anybody in Powder's mind but a kind older man that helped her through the toughest time, even if he had no obligation to. who cares what he had been doing before becoming part of their family? Powder never cared much for rights and wrongs as strongly as her sister, and well... we count our blessings, don't we?

THERE'S SO MUCH THAT COULD HAPPEN!!!! especially when talking about Powder's potential as an inventor, i just KNOW that Silco would encourage it, and oh, imagine her not only afraid of exploding something but of hurting Silco... god, what if she makes her own version of HexTech to help her people, what if Silco himself sponsors it, what if they meet at her lab and have their first kiss while he's praising her blueprints and she asks to the sanctuary of her big sister if she's going insane for how she feels and cringes at her sister 'seeing' them kiss- what if she feels the same rush of making something work when she's around Silco, who doesn't just tell her to think of herself but shows her how, that tells her she's as charming and efficient as a leader should be (and she never thought herself a leader, no, but it does make her heart beat faster, nobody ever told her to lead anything)...

AAAAAAAAA I JUST WANT IT SO BAD

[kirkwallguy]

is there any universe in which mary/varric could happen

hmmmm ive actually never thought about this one... i think everything IS possible if you twist the characters hard enough, but these two are sort of coworkers with 0 chemistry. mary reminds varric of a younger anders but in a bad way that makes him really not want to get emotionally attached to her while she finds him disconcerting and fake and doesn't read many books so never gets any of his jokes.

varric does accidentally call her blondie a few times though which is pretty bad

[disdaidal]

The moment I think I'm finally getting the hang of this thing, I don't. And it puts my mood down instantly.

[edelgards]

look away

[omegamoo]

found some of my essays from a world history class i took... you know the essays you spend two nights prepping and panicking for and then scramble to write during the bell period... well i found one about the universal nature of war in response to a class project and What the Fuck was I On when writing that. What The Fuck

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

what the hell is happening rn

[butchotter-md]

mad respect to the lesbian cameron hcs but if im being honest her behavior in the show to me genuinely does read as someone who's confidently bisexual

[ianthesmells]

tried to ask my ex if she wanted her stuff back which was a horrible idea i shouldve just left it as it is. So i got to humiliate myself ONE more additional time n make her dislike me EVEN more, i hope i learn how to let go someday

[kavehayati]

Man I made a really bad choice …

[elytrafemme]

(kinda gets 18+ in tags srry. i never know how/where to talk abt it) and honestly it's never like i can pull up and talk about like, emotional abuse either. or like atmospheric triggers and shit. because talking about any of that is hard. but it's specifically fucking impossible to ever talk about sexual trauma to anybody ever, which is fucked because like... i'm trying and i'm doing good at it, i'm proud of myself, but it's so like. idk. when something dominates your entire life for an incredible critical five years of your life and entirely transforms how you approach anything it's like... i don't actually know how to express any of this at all. and i guess it's sometimes hard for people to get it. i dunno.

[dead-star]

I think it’s interesting how they’re both Y7 but have completely diff views

Nobody asked but my thoughts about these are below + a clip from a wk episode about it

Octonauts’ setting is a double edged sword- because they give every organism a voice, they can make people empathize with bacteria, coral, and other things people forget to see as living beings. However, that also means they portray consumers/predators as the bad guys, even when they try not to have a bias. Which means for when the urchins had to be eaten, they couldn’t be portrayed as alive (or at least at the same level of consciousness as other animals).

For the record, I do think their setting of making every animal talk is good for helping others understand issues a species might face, especially for man-made causes like pollution and climate change which the show covers. it’s definitely something I think should be taught bc I still know a lot of people my age or older who end up mistreating animals simply because they don’t communicate in the same way we do.

On the flip side, Wk uses predator/prey relationships to show off the different abilities an animal has. I was honestly very surprised with how they handled the topic of death? For a couple animals, their life cycle is taught by following a particular individual of the species, from the start of their journey to the day they die. And even though they passed on, their offspring can continue the journey their parents started. I think that’s a good way to look at it imo. Every animal has a role, and even in death their life is not wasted. They even bring up the fact it can be dangerous to be a predator, since prey animals have developed a bunch of defense mechanisms, and losing to those could mean dying. I’m glad they cover death along with life, and they handle it well considering it’s a tricky subject esp for a younger audience. I think it can be summarized well in this clip from the king cobra episode

They also touch on it in the episode where kid musky is introduced (forgot the name but Chris basically goes on a monologue abt the human perspective on prey/predator relationships and how hard it can be to watch. I thought that was neat)

That being said: I do think sometimes the deaths are a little mean, and the fact they’re so comfortable with it after s1 sort of gives you a shock when you remember the rating. Like we JUST met and named the snake in the clip and then bro dies🫡 not to mention the life cycle episodes getting us attached to an animal for 22 minutes and then they die at the end. Juice’s death was even played for comedic effect (at least I think it was. It made me laugh. Maybe that’s just me LMAO)

TLDR: both methods are good for diff aspects of wildlife education but I think wk handles it in a better way esp when they consider the fact that humans are outsiders to it. Send post

[mildmayfoxe]

over 20k votes and almost 5k notes on my candy poll... i wouldve done so much different if i had known

[apocalypticdemon]

every day I think about how the admissions office fucked around with the money I was told I was going to get and every day I get so mad about it