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[loafbud]

ARTFIGHT IS NEXT MONTH EVERYONE

[vinyldraconia]

THIS GIF MEANS EVERYTHING TO ME

[shroudbud]

omg OKAY SO UHHHH I KNOW THIS IS A TWST BLOG BUT I NEED EVERYONE TO SEE THIS RIGHT NOW‼️‼️🗣️🗣️🗣️

THE FACT THIS GUY FROM DISLYTE LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE HOW I IMAGINE IDIA SHROUD!!!!!

LITERALLY EVERYTHING ABOUT HIM: THE FACE STRUCTURE, THE SKIN, THE HAIR COLOR, THE EYES, (maybe) THE CLOTHES..... GRRRR IM IN LOVE WITH THIS DESIGN BRO

[splatloafbud]

regardless how the results will look an hour from now, frye always believed in us 💚🎸

[elitadream]

I feel grateful for the year I've had, despite it not having been easy or always pleasant. I'm glad for the challenges I've faced and the things I've learned from them. I'm glad for the sincere relationships I'm a part of and for all the wonderful people who have shown kindness and support towards me.

I'm glad for the fact that I'm not in the same place as I was a few months ago, both mentally and emotionally. I'm glad that I've progressed on my personal journey and fully reconciled with my art. But most of all, I'm grateful and happy to be alive, in good health and surrounded by friends and family.

I'm looking forward to making new discoveries and having all sorts of memorable experiences in 2025, be they good or bad. I feel content knowing that I will get to share these things with the people who I cherish most, and it's with a peaceful mindset that I'm ready to leave 2024 behind.

Wishing you all the very best, and until next time everyone. Cheers! 😊🥂💞✨

[arashi-no-saxlphone]

if tumblr dies you can't find me. The internet has become so dogshit and this is the most tolerable corner of it and it isn't even that good. You can locate me in the woods at your own peril where I will be flaying and exsanguinating those who do not know how to fucking clean up after themselves in the only nice forest preserve in town

[selfship-confession-void]

"Isn't Enemies to Lovers proship" Nope! Here's Why (+ Explaining Strawmen)

Proship/comship/neutral/darkfic DO NOT interact!! This post is not and never will be for you, stay away from me.

So I got this question as an anon but the ask just disappeared 😭 anyways I feel like this is a good topic to tackle because this shoddy argument is thrown around a lot

Short answer: No, but it can be depending on the execution

Long answer: Enemies to lovers as a trope isn't inherently toxic, but if it's handled wrong then yes the relationship would be abusive and ergo would be proship. But just because it CAN be handled poorly doesn't mean it's AUTOMATICALLY toxic and bad on principal

More under the cut:

I've had people I've hated who I later warmed up to. Happens all the time, that's life, you're not gonna like everyone. But that doesn't mean we abused one another or made one another's life a living hell. If you're thinking about ETL (Enemies To Lovers) in the context of the Enemy being this ruthless tyrant who tears down the MC at every opportunity, ruins their life, and overall makes the MC severely harmed from their actions: yes, that is abuse. THAT relationship would be proship.

But that's what I call BookTok ETL, cause BookTok is where it's most normalized (and let's be fr, they normalize proship stuff ALL THE TIME). BookTok ETL is specifically different from general ETL cause most interpretations of the trope are written by people who know there's a line between flirty angry banter and actual harmful interactions. Any sane person who loves the trope will tell you there's definitely a limit and that it becomes gross and uncomfortable when that line is crossed.

And, what I find important to emphasize: every trope CAN be toxic if done wrong. Childhood Friends to Lovers can be unhealthy if the childhood friend in question is a thoughtless shitbag and torments the MC. Coffee Shop AUs can be toxic if it's someone harassing an essential service worker the whole time. I've experienced media that's made me love tropes I usually don't care for just as much as I've seen media do a trope I love so badly that the relationship is a cesspit mess that I wouldn't ever dream of supporting.

My point here is judging a general and inherently harmless trope just based off of the idea that it could sometimes maybe be portrayed as toxic, doesn't mean the trope is on principal bad/toxic/gross. "But what about hero x villain?"— same rules apply. If Villain is terrorizing Hero or the ones they love so badly that it gives Hero trauma or deeply negatively impacts them in a scarring way, that is abuse and no one should argue that it isn't. But the trope can also be lighthearted and sweet, depending on the way it's handled.

Now onto my second portion:

What is a strawman?

A strawman is directly defined as "an intentionally misrepresented proposition that is set up because it is easier to defeat than an opponent's real argument". The very question of attributing harmless tropes to abuse romanticizing proshippers is a strawman. An argument that's meant to seem like a "HAHA GOTCHA" to people who don't sit and think for more than two seconds on how you're literally grasping at straws. This ties into a common trend of proshippers trying to worm their way into everything.

Let me be blunt: proshippers did NOT and never have invented shipping, selfshipping, fandoms, or anything of the like. They like saying that as an imaginary "gotcha" card to the rest of us, just claiming with zero proof or evidence to have invented online spaces because that's easier to argue over than the fact that they're supporting actually disgusting things. 9/10 they just wanna piss people off and then flood them with harassment when the person points out the obvious holes in their argument (pretty ironic coming from the "we don't support harassment!" crowd by the way)

So, to reiterate and be as clear as possible; no, enemies to lovers and hero x villain aren't proship. They can BECOME proship if specific portrayals are done in a very toxic way that make the relationship abusive, but any trope can be represented horribly, so no it does not automatically mean the trope as a concept is proship. Claiming it is is a strawman argument largely used by proshippers because they're deflecting from what they're actually doing wrong and trying to grasp at straws to "epically own the stupid antis" or something like that

Ty for reading

[aspiringstoryteller]

Hello Again!

Hello everyone! Hope you are all doing alright. Here to let you know I've migrated both The Monster Within and The Last Laugh to cogdemos so you can all have fun revisiting the demos. Will update the links on the other post later. Keep in touch.

[squishysoftmonsters]

Triggers : Random Hornyposting/Peen Talk [Mature +18 Minors DNI]

💚Let's talk about peens... 🥒

Is it spotted,twisted with clasps that hold your holes open? Idk,is it like a drill bit that vibrates?What if it has huge throbbing veins on it that naturally pump once they start getting in those guts? 😵‍💫

Does it bloom like a flower when they're hard and then the stripped peen reveals?Do little tongue thingies come out of the pee hole to tickle and touch more sensitive parts or penetrate and open up your other hole with some crazy aphrodisiac that makes you all fuzzy and super sensitive to touch😏 [Throwing Beleth under the bus]

Does it split or something and just goes all insane while they're thrusting,with fine keratin hairs decorating it to tickle their lover once they get in? Do they stick in those areas and pulse tickles through you? 🥴

Because when you think monster,you think otherworldly. Their stuff shouldn't be generic. It's good to always give the reader a gloss of what they're going to get from that said monster.

[Plants and other creatures/bugs/aliens/slimes are my faves to write about. Their peens don't have a default option or default size! Or my Katten species! Their tails double as peens! So you get three🙃]

The fandom is mostly wolves,vamps and orcs. Some writers get really creative with their packers..which I really can't do😳Spectacular reads I tell you..🥵💚

TYSM for reading 💚

[gleeokposting]

HAPPY 1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY TO TEARS OF THE KINGDOM ‼️‼️

HERE'S SOME OF MY TOTK GLEEOK FANART FROM LAST YEAR

[burdenedrose]

y’all don’t get it and i will never ever expect you to. it’s only for myself to understand personally.

[loafbud]

Reminder that since love day is tomorrow, it's about ALL forms of love. Even if it may feel like it's "romance day" or that is feels like a day exclusive for couples.

Don't forget to also celebrate and embrace: platonic love, familial love, self-love, and unconditional love (and the romantic love, as well). ❤️

Here is also you're reminder: YOU ARE LOVED!!!!!

[vinyldraconia]

Guys I want y'all to meet my single gem 🥺💜💎

Imma call her Patricia

[shroudbud]

WAKE UP, IDIA BOARD GAME CLUB CARD IS HERE!!!!!!!

[splatloafbud]

I'll never forget the time when me and a freelance team in Salmon Run stayed together for over 8 shifts and the only thing that separated us was the rotation change. 😔