#roots in things

[thelaurenshippen]

watching bridgerton and obviously there were a lot of things wrong with the way socializing has worked in the past, but honestly the idea of a "calling hour" is so appealing. office hours for friendship. you can show up unannounced at my home between 1 and 3pm. you must leave by 3pm. I may give you a pastry. lets bring that back

[goblin-enjoyer]

Uh homestuck review type thingy before i go to bed.

reading homestuck has definitely been a trip. having to deal with and figure out how to work with some signs of old internet age, despite using the collection. trying to download some kind of app only for it to work worse than the main one. having to go to the original site as some of the more special links didn't work on the unofficial collection. having to sync up music. all these and probably more I had to deal with to read homestuck. definitely got me more invested ill tell you that much! liked a decent chunk of the humor, disliked another decent chunk of it as well, am neutral on other jokes n' such. some of the stuff early on doesn't age well but it gets better the farther you get in. the 4th wall stuff and all the non main story stuff swung a pendulum (hekekkek) between very fun and enjoyable to grading and annoying. I liked most of the characters though a few I wish got more screentime and interactions and a few I wish were a bit less president in some parts. the "shipping" stuff was inherently confusing and at times annoying for me, nothing stable, often felt like some pairings, both friend and relation ship, could be in the forefront in one part but then completely dissipate over a timeskip. though i will admit i did get somewhat interested at around the end when things were starting to get more stable. (favorite pairings friendship or relationship go as follows: terezi and dave. some of my favorite characters with a great dynamic, really wish they got to interact more, even after the offscreen hook up and break up. > Rose and Kanaya. great solid pairing to the end! also could have used a bit more time for development, but overall better off than most. they work really well as a dynamic duo. > John and Vriska. eh I could take or leave the relationship but I did like their friendship and wish their interactions didn't end so abruptly as they did) Speaking of confusing things, time travel. I feel like that and the fact that this is a early to mid 2010s webcomic should clue you in to how confusing this aspect can be at times.

Overall thoughts: I liked quite a bit of it, though I also disliked a decent few chunks of it. unlike most things I cant quite say I'm neutral on homestuck. not actively positive, yet not actively negative. but I still have some feelings on the thing, I just cant really make them out as the line between "thing I like enough to start putting the characters in situations" and "thank goodness I'm finally done with this piece of crap". Would I recommend reading it, even if you get it working better than I can? no, not at all. Did I enjoy reading it? other than a few issues, Yes! it was fun to read and experience, a real bit of ancient internet history and time capsule from right around the time i was first exploring the internet as a wee unknowing child of roughly 7-13. despite not going around that area much at the time, it still felt a bit nostalgic reading an mspaint internet comic from that era. an enjoyable romp threw a time before the internet was as part of daily life as it is today, while not quite being from back from the dawn of the thing. Reading homestuck definitely had me in awe with hindsight at times with finding out how deep its roots were in the internet. I will never roam the internet the same way again. but i think I've rattled on about homestuck being stuck in that sweet spot of old internet for too long so ill try and give my summarizing words here without going off on side rambles for too long, its like 2:30 am and i should probably try and get my sleep schedule back after having it messed up for like a week. (thank you eternally obnoxious BRAIN. and to a lesser extent the new world of warcraft expansion and homestuck cliffhangers)

Summary of sorts: I wouldn't call homestuck "good" but I wouldn't call it "bad" either. It is confusing, annoying and doesn't work half the time but when it does it oozes with charm, humorous bits that can crack open the core of anyone who likes older memes and internet humor and great music that gets stuck in playlists but not in your head. (in a good way) I would not recommend reading it as it takes time, effort and patience for a variety of things as well as a high tolerance for a bunch of stuff I'm getting to tired to mention. but i am glad I experienced it and I doubt you would too if you did dropkick my and many others warnings into a ditch and read the accursed thing. heck your on tumblr, you probably already accustomed to humor like that in homestuck! I don't know how to finish this so here's a funny skeleton gif to tide yall over as I go spellcheck everything and go write the tags.

[futuristichedge]

Keeping the future fixed [original post here]

[bruciemilf]

Doesn't sit well with me how people honest to God believe Bruce would deal with Dick’s (or any of the batkids’) bullies by using money and/or status.

Excuse me?? NOT Bruce “left, right, goodnight” Wayne.

“Never choose peace when victory’s an option.”

Alfred asses him with a flat look. “You’d be more intimidating without the crocs, sir.”

“Socks make my teeth itch.”

“Alright.”

Give me a Battinson who recognizes that quiet hitching sob echoing from Dick’s room, nodding to himself with teeth sunk deep in his cheek.

Imagine Dick’s surprise when his foster father, dressed in all black, a most perfect recreation of a gothic gargoyle, sits next to him In a comically small table, stone-faced and expecting.

“You’re gonna want to twist his pinkie backwards. Apply mild pressure on the bone.”

He instructs, after one of the boys in class tried to cut one of Dick’s curls. His baby has very good form.

This is AFTER Bruce shoves a paper in some kid’s mouth for throwing it at Dick, which has some very nasty words written on it.

[u3pxx]

raise your hand if you miss him

[valtsv]

eiars moodboard

[murmurmurl]

I'm back on my bullshit I guess

that redraw I was talking about.. previous versions under the cut

I like how it's less stiff now

[yallemagne]

Seeing people be like "Rumi should have joined the dark side so she could be with Jinu" is so disappointing. I know you can't account for the dumbassery of shipper's brain but what you're telling me is that you'd completely scrap Rumi's acceptance of herself and her reconciliation with her best friends? You'd rather have a young woman who has struggled her entire life give in completely to self-loathing, all so she can be with a man? Right after he deliberately ruined her life? Like damn.

[w1f1n1ghtm4r3]

alien bugs your gs

[linipik]

Hunk with Samoan-style tattoos, they feel very at home in him ☀️

[angelcake10023]

Scarf Duo 🧣 💛❤️

A little sneak peek for their older designs I thought I’d share hehe the au is evolving

[vincentvangoghs]

When Tommy saved Bobby for the second time—this time eight years in the past—it flashed me back to last summer, when Tim Minear posted a BuckTommy video to his facebook.

In that video, a fan effectively highlighted the concept of 'Invisible String Theory' and how it related to BuckTommy as a pairing, while also pointing out how this made Tommy Kinard stand out as not just a unique and effective love interest for Buck, but also an influential character for the direction of the show in general.

So, having a new flashback where Tommy is the one to save Bobby in the past, when it could have just as easily been anyone else who saved him, adds even more contextual layers to the concept. Because had Tommy not intervened at this moment, Bobby likely would have fallen into the inferno and died, leading to the alteration or complete erasure of just about everything we have witnessed in the show since 1x01--never mind just Buck no longer meeting Tommy. It makes me consider that the concept of ‘Invisible String Theory’ may have actually resonated with Minear in a truly influential way once it was brought to his attention, via that video or elsewhere, and that he didn’t just post that video for mere fandom points. Because with this latest development, we have veered away from ‘accidental Invisible String Theory’, to what appears to now be intentional. With this latest development, the writing continues to integrate Tommy into the show’s past and present, while further establishing a strong foundation for his place in the show’s future. It's yet another solid piece of evidence pointing to true longevity for the BuckTommy pairing.

Hen has her Karen, Maddie has her Chimney, Athena had her Bobby, and Buck will have his Tommy.

[jakeperalta]

the taylor swift ai porn issue is such a bleak reminder of how inescapable the horrors of misogyny are. like obviously there's the talk of sort of "celebrity problems" like treatment by the tabloids etc, but beyond that there's just the constant heinous shit that women seemingly cannot escape no matter what. it doesn't matter that she (as well as other female celebrities) is extremely rich and famous and successful and has basically as much privilege and power as it is possible for any person to have, ultimately that's still not enough to escape the revenge porn and sexual assault and stalking and harassment. like there is literally no level of power a woman can have that puts her out of reach of all the men who hate women and want to control and humiliate and subjugate us in any way they can.

[littlemissshifter]

TITLE: shifting is instant BUT ALSO i fell out of the Doraemon universe and saw awareness doing ballet so....

alright enough blabbering. let's get into why i said a shift isn't 'instant'. because yes i landed straight in the Doraemon universe but then i CAME BACK and saw awareness doing backflips around me to return me from the cartoon world with the blue raccoon uhm... cat to my current reality.

so get in loser (lovingly), we're going shopping (on a quest for knowledge).

it all started a few days ago. on a very peaceful evening when the vibes were crisp, i laid down to take a nap. there was a tiny whisper in my head that what if i shift during this little endeavour? i was like yeah okay cool. not clinging. only allowing.

NEWSFLASH: i did shift. being locked inside a picture book while waiting for Doraemon to free me was definitely not the vibe i was going for but i'll take it. so this universe to that universe, smooth shift, very expected.

BUT

on my way back? whole another story.

i didn't just wake up in my bed. i floated. i saw the in-between. this weird floaty, liquidy transition layer where awareness wasn't just me anymore- it was moving, changing, becoming. a space between realities where awareness has decided to become something and is morphing into it.

in this case, it was my current reality.

that's when it hit me -

Shifting IS instant - but 'instant' is a PROCESS in the 3D.

we're so used to this overused idea of shifting: "i affirm = i arrive". but what actually happens is:

you decide, you align and then awareness becomes the thing. that becoming can feel like everything and nothing at all. because becoming is just unfolding within yourself. you breathe and breathe and you "become". before i bore you, it's just vibing with yourself.

here, your 3D is catching up with what you already ARE. that's the moment where you can blink and be in Doraemon's living room or blink and feel like the most unreal version of yourself ever.

so no, shifting isn't always instant in a "blink and you're in a new life" kind of way. but it IS instant in terms of your being deciding to shift. the rest? that's the transition. the remix. the unfolding.

and guess what? even if you don't feel this floaty liquidy moment like i did, it still happened. your awareness still became the shift. you shifted because you became the shift. it happens everytime. this 'layer', this 'becoming' is what your awareness does for the physical to show your desires. you might not catch it. but it happened. it was real. it is what 'instant' is.

the truth is:

awareness doesn't teleport. it becomes. and you're already the version who shifted. you're just watching it click into place.

[escyn]

Old Wounds Reopened[flood]: Kyoshi Warrior Sokka | Blue Spirit

Zukka Week Day 3 (id in alt)

+some close-ups bc I love them so

other things from ZW2024: Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Heh...Literally nothing personal, kid.

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