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Happy Pride Month 2022!!!

Faust the Crow loves you even more than she did last year!

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arabic poetry is so beautifully yet painfully romantic, i mean “they asked “do you love her to death?” i said “speak of her over my grave and watch how she brings me back to life" and “because my love for you is higher than words, i've decided to fall silent" and "it is not enough to say love in Arabic, you must say 'be the thing that buries me'" could have got jane austen crying and shaking

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definitely don’t go to theowlclub.net in order to watch episodes of the owl house online completely for free without pop ups or viruses or having to have a cable subcription or having to wait until disney feels like adding the episodes to their highway robbery service. definitely don’t use the site that even the show’s creator uses to watch their show haha that’d be illegal youse guyse

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I'm still not over Dana Terrace openly admitting on Twitter that she doesn't have cable and watches episodes on The Owl Club. She's also publicly endorsed fan artists who sell merch and says they deserve the money more than Disney.

Fucking icon. Pirate the show, buy fan merch, say "fuck you" to the Mouse in every way. Hell yes.

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It’s essay writing season for tons of students!

After being a college writing tutor for over a year, I thought I would share my advice with all you awesome people on tumblr. This is how I write essays, but if you’ve got more tips, feel free to add them below. 

Happy writing. You can do it!

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ADHD is cool until ur having a panic attack in the shower over missing yet another deadline causing you to spiral n have a massive breakdown over the agonizing reality that easy things are hard and you will never be like the neurotypicals no matter how many self help guides you read or how many tips you apply . you just have to keep doing things the NT way and keep failing while not asking for special help or mercy bc society views it as weakness

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“Kit, did you make Olivia Colman cry?”

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In Witches before Wizards, it hurt Luz SO badly for Eda to laugh off the idea of Luz being a chosen one. Then in Covention she angsted over being a real witch. And by Enchanting Grom Fright, Luz felt partially motivated to prove she wasn’t weak by challenging Grometheus, only to fail! And then Separate Tides, Luz feels she was a burden for getting Eda captured and losing her magic, and tries to prove she’s not that, only to need Eda’s help in the end.

...She really must’ve thought that all of these incidents, especially Grom, just certified to Eda that Luz really was just some weak kid; Confirming another worst fear. Luz just has. SUCH a complex about being a burden. About being unwanted. A nuisance. And so she has to be useful, Luz has to bottle up her problems so she’s as low-maintenance as possible. Luz has to be cool and someone people actually like and would want to hang out with! She has to be worthwhile to others, and this entire scene... Where Luz realizes Eda is trying to send her and King away, her RSD leaps at the culmination of all these little storylines from past episodes that stemmed from this fundamental self-doubt!

So I love this show for having Eda reiterate that it’s not because she thinks Luz is weak, because even the strongest kid in the world shouldn’t handle this, especially not by themselves, and Eda should know because she experienced that herself. Eda doesn’t think of Luz as weak or a burden, Luz and King are EVERYTHING to her and if it comes down to it, they may as well be all that matters to Eda. It’s like before at Grom, when Eda didn’t lord it over Luz that she couldn’t handle Grometheus; Instead she reassuringly tells her it’s okay with zero judgment, and moves to help before Amity barges in with her gayness.

I feel so bad for Luz because it feels like she’s constantly repenting and apologizing for who she is, for her ‘shortcomings’ as a person and it’s such a good parallel/foil to Philip, who would’ve had a Puritan upbringing that hammered in such a toxic mindset. But Luz at least grew and chose compassion as a coping mechanism, even if she’s gone too far with it at her own detriment. Luz just wants people who would accept her, from who she is to what she has to offer, to believe in her; And after Camila sent her away to summer camp, for her own good, Luz managed to find Eda... The one person she felt she could count on not to do that, because Eda DID let her stay, instead of sending Luz back!

So this was the ultimate betrayal to her. No shade to Camila nor Eda, they both had their reasons and are both struggling... But again I love this show reiterating that adults are not perfect. That they try but they’ll make mistakes and they don’t always know what’s going on. But they do care and they don’t mean for it to come across that way (which reminds me of being neurodivergent, another aspect of this show). And it really is just about communicating and explaining things to your loved ones, instead of keeping them in the dark. Kids just want respect, especially growing teenagers, so getting that is such a huge coming-of-age hallmark. As is the realization on Luz’s end that Eda doesn’t have it all figured out, as cool as she thinks her mom is; But Luz still wants to be told that and treated as a person that people will talk to and regard seriously.

...Ah well. As heartbreaking as that fight between student and mentor was, it was also kind of a wonderful show of Luz’s strength and growth, how much her magical prowess has developed to keep up with Eda for even a bit; Which, given how Eda said Luz would have to earn her Palisman by showing her capabilities as a witch...

Yeah, that pairs very nicely with Eda realizing it’s finally time for Luz to carve her own, and Luz agrees as she decides her future.

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Part of the trans struggle is having a hard time picturing when you’ll ever feel okay in your own skin. It’s times like this that I gotta remind myself that… I’ve come a long way. And that’s enough to celebrate.

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Reblog this to prove your blog was made before the February 2022 tumblr resurgence

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ATTENTION ALL GIRLS AND LADIES: if you walk from home, school, office or anywhere and you are alone and you come across a little boy crying holding a piece of paper with an address on it, DO NOT TAKE HIM THERE! take him straight to the police station for this is the new 'gang' way of rape. The incident is getting worse. Warn your families. Reblog this so this message can get accross to everyone.

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if you would be so kind as to reblog this if you feel insecure about your writing skills.

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happy birthday someone

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Anonymously tell me wtf is wrong with me.

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i just really liked the name, but the funny part is that my plush fox is also Nathan, so yeah, i laugh that i named myself after my plushie

so many times i see trans peoples chosen name stories involve really deep meanings and stuff, and that’s great and all

but. literally i chose elliott because when i heard it in an episode of family guy i was like “oh hey that name sounds dope”

please gamers, share your incredibly lame chosen name stories

psa i don’t fucking watch family guy anymore so shut the fuck up about it

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collecting these like pokemon cards