#(frankly i am scared of it)

[wormspoodle]

watched the captain underpants movie and it made me wanna draw some beloved childhood comics characters

[mermaidsirennikita]

sometimes it drives me literally insane to see romance requests that are like

--I want a romance wherein it's basically the happy epilogue throughout the book

--I want a romance that has great communication and they never withhold anything from each other ever

--no "miscommunication trope"

The last thing is just a general gripe about how so many of the things people say are tropes are not tropes, and it's pedantic and snobby but like. Miscommunication is so broad. It's not a trope. People are miscommunicating. WHAT are they miscommunicating about? Is one of them keeping a secret identity from their partner? Because a secret identity romance iS a trope. Is one of them withholding their feelings out of fear of rejection?

Because people DO miscommunicate. Often writers do write it clumsily. If people miscommunicate for no reason, sure, whatever. But if they miscommunicate BECAUSE of a REASON--like, often it's not even miscommunication lol. It's the hero keeping his dire supernatural secret from his wife because she'll die if she finds out (honestly, valid to me, but whatever). It's the heroine finding it difficult to trust the hero with her heart because her dad left when she was young (maybe cliche in theory, but actually a very real thing that happens).

If all you want is plotless nothing wherein everyone is happy and nobody makes mistakes, I personally have a hard time thinking of it as a book, because there is no story. It's just vibes. And essentially EVERY time, people have to mess up and make mistakes in order for there to be a plot.

I just don't understand the point.

[xxxemogrrlxxx]

drew some homos for pride month

[yourstormthlaylirahh]

Mom come pick me up my shows are being mean to me this week 😭😭😭

[vinyl-pop]

My knee is killing me, I have low blood pressure, I have an ass ton of homework and stupid executive dysfunction won’t let me get out of bed and do shit (thank the lord my iPad was on the floor nearby). But uh- other than all that stuff, I’m feelin good. Got the first page of The Choices we Make done, working on the second and uh- was my cousin’s birthday so I got some cake. Yay.

[wakebymoonsleepbysun]

There is...truly...no excuse...for my behavior.

I apologize to any non-Music Man people who end up seeing this.

To those of you wondering wtf is wrong with me...I'd tell you if I knew.

[nooooough]

Is it even normal to consider suicide at 18 years old?

[fjordfolk]

honestly the hardest thing for us and for me dealing with a fear reactive/aggressive dog constantly was creating the emotional distance to not get scared/stressed/frustrated when ur dog freaks out. the 2nd hardest thing was the constant vigilance required to first learn and then predict possible environmental triggers to maintain progress/avoid regression - without causing more tension or validating their fears.

which makes the whole 'oh if you had only cared more/tried harder' just outright ridiculous.

[elfyourmother]

Hello! I know that you identify as poly, and I'm not sure how much you've been following the Larian game Baldur's Gate 3, but they said that some of the romances will be poly! It seemed like something you would enjoy, so I wanted to make sure you knew <3

thanks, but I already know. I am deliberately avoiding prerelease hype etc though and am keeping my expectations very low on purpose

I have very mixed feelings on this game tbh. the og BG trilogy were some of my favorite games ever back in the day, and I am scared they will divorce it from the franchise too much to appeal to new players and the little bit I’ve seen about it pretty much confirms that. another reason for my deliberately low expectations

[smileandasong]

society if i could go one day without a sw*ftie literally threatening me when i rightfully acknowledge and call her out on her problematic behaviors. like your faves can and will be problematic, babes, and that is *fine*, you can still like them!!! you just also have an obligation to be aware of this and call them out, like, why is this such an abstract concept to them, what fucking hold does this woman have on them.....

[goldensunset]

kieran’s champion battle theme is a banger i’m literally feeling residual fear and stress listening to it even afterwards

[melto]

to be honest i should be a lot more scared of how bad my memory is. But i cannot be bothered to be worried about that when there is so much else

[jackgoodfellow]

My pitbull is completely convinced that everyone at the weed dispensary is there specifically to say hi to him. People love him there so much (and he loves so much that they showed up today just for him) that today he attempted to become the store greeter and sat right at the door as people walked in.

And while queer stoners apparently love pitbulls, I had to pull him away - Romeo does NOT understand he is 80 pounds of muscle and teeth and therefore cannot lie in wait at the only entrance into a building, no matter his intentions. He is just stumped by it. After all, as far as he knows, he is an extremely tiny guy! Maybe even the tiniest! He may actually be TOO tiny! Perhaps that is why people fear him. They think he is a mouse, for no dog has ever been so smol, so miniscule. But fear not, everyone - it is only Romeo!

Alas, for every chihuahua that thinks it is a pitbull, there is a pitbull what thinks it is a chihuahua. But good news they both have anxiety!!!!

[spitblaze]

Has it been long enough that we can all admit a lot of the backlash we all had to AI art was kneejerk and that we should have fully directed our anger at the shitheads who intended to use it for a quick buck by either selling the results it spits out after typing 'beautiful angel in the style or george rutko with well drawn hands' in the prompt at a markup and call it 'original creative work' or by cutting real human artists out of the equation in commercial settings in favor of having an underpaid intern type prompts into dall-e until they get something good enough they can use as a publishable graphic

[pepprs]

genuinely so angry and scared im shaking. how many other times this week this month this year have i been exposed without knowing it. do people even tell each other anymore. it’s just so grim. it’s so fucking grim

[glitteratti]

wait actually one thought here. i think in online leftist discourse there is a MASSIVE smith college or whatever it is problem. where they have seen feminist rhetoric so much that they kind of think of feminism as “solved,” or at least more so than other forms of oppression. which i genuinely think buzzfeed played a HUGE part in, along with gamer gate coming along when it did. there’s still this cultural memory of that one red haired woman saying like “patriarchy fuckface” or whatever and that buzzfeed video about “women try manspreading for a week!” and so now feminism, in mostly online leftist circles, HAS to be rebranded as “well here’s how it helps men! here’s how misogyny and patriarchy hurt men too!” like okay. sure. yeah. but what about women. can we please circle back to how misogyny and patriarchy hurt women.