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goes without saying the boycott is still on and absolutely NOTHING target does now or in the future will be good enough to forget or ignore their enthusiastic support of this fascist regime

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I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.

The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.

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I feel like normies think of tumblr as the fanart and aesthetic and gifset website but real tumblrinas know that our most culturally significant output and our lifeblood is the humble text post

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Bound by Honeysuckle and Morning Glory - Submitted by SeesawSiya

#eea39e #ffba90a #fde7ab #b7e58d #86c49b #6a8fe7

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if you're writing and find yourself thinking 'this is too weird/gross/offputting/esoteric/ambitious/catered to my specific interests + sure to push away a broader audience' that is the devil speaking and it is a lie. you are already firmly on the right path and you need to double down

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The remedy to despair… remember that our power is in our hope and action.

Art by Grace D. Chin

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i first watched ohshc when i was like 10 on a bootleg dvd bought off a bootleg anime con in mexico (licensed items are for first worlders, real otakus make do...) and who knows where the japanese to spanish subs came from, probably a hero-without-cape rogue translation team doing their best, but in the scene from the pilot where tamaki is helping haruhi gather her stuff from the fountain there was a line in the subs that was something like "water cannot harm handsome men" and when i tell you that this is something i have quoted my entire life whenever i'm caught up in the rain or get splashed on or whatever and it makes it not a big deal. water literally cannot harm handsome men. that's literally a proverb from the bible. to me. anyway imagine my surprise when a couple years ago i made my bestie watch ohshc with licensed english subs and tamaki at no point says this neither on netflix nor any other translation i could find online. well he said it in my heart

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Wild Blackberries - Lucy Clayton

British , b. 1970s

Watercolour, blotted line technique and ink on paper , 42 x 59.4 cm.

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BOTW fan comic about Zelda I’ve posted everywhere else but Tumblr. I have a lot of feelings about Zelda’s character in BOTW, and I desperately needed to make a comic exploring how she personally relates to the demon she’s working so hard to keep dormant.  

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my (segmented) zine piece for holy shuggazine!, a celebration for the 20th anniversary of the debut of srmthfg.

this show was a catalyst and a major source of inspiration for my art journey, so it holds a special place in my heart. i'm truly grateful to be a part of this incredible project, and i'm truly grateful to ciro nieli for this incredible show.

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saw this cute post and now I'm not going on reddit for the rest of the day. quit while you're ahead

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Art by Jim Musil

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05.10 - Morningstar

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Girl Sanji should he just as weird about women as normal sanji is. Obviously (based on her own personal, lived experience) men are brutes even if they love you and mean well but women are truly beautiful creatures who would never wrong another woman.