#BUT ITS ALL IN MY BRAIN

[mediumgayitalian]

thinking about the fact that baby will is SO SMALL for his age..... what made you come up wi th this devastating headcanon

im just imagining cass. eighteen. terrified about her future. will she have to leave camp? what will she do? she can't go home. camp is her home. and then that very summer this little kid stumbles into camp, glowing lyre above his head before he even crests half-blood hill, can't be more than six years old. crying and clinging to his mother's shirt, scraped and bleeding from whatever monster chased them here. and immediately her worries take a step back, and she tugs this little kid from his mother and hugs him as she walks backwards, crying and pretending not to, promising her son she'll be back as soon as it's safe, and this little kid clings onto her and looks to her with big, blue eyes, red-rimmed, and suddenly she's got this baby brother to watch out for, much younger than any of her other siblings, and it turns out he's chatty and open and endlessly energetic and bad with boundaries and social queues, and he's eight, actually, but he was a preemie and spent every year of his life in the back of his mama's tour van. and she and diana and lee and michael are the older kids at camp, although not by much, and they look at each other and nod and know they will be making sure this little kid with a smile as bright as the sun will grow right as they know he's meant to with his big feet and stumbling limbs.

[nonebinary-leftbeef]

DEVASTATING the lyric you've been mishearing is better than the real one

[kottkrig]

People liking your personal OCs is still such a crazy feeling, I've been doing this for years and ppl asking about them still fills my entire heart with warmth and idk how to handle it

You enjoy this fictional guy I made up for fun?? Whose only content is random artwork or writing made by me and a handful of other artists at most? They have no show/book/game with a large fandom, it's just one person with an art blog?? I love u

[andi-o-geyser]

a full SAGA of chaos choices at the diner in the centre of your mind

[pickled-flowers]

Sex positivity is also about not calling Ace people prude and using virgin as an insult 👍 hope that helps

[obsob]

hmm anyway. holds u in my arms

[seijouhigh]

[ash-and-starlight]

hades atla bisexual simulator

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

world's longest staring contest GO-

[lucabyte]

isat doodles in the form of a silly-serious-silly sandwich

[fungi-maestro]

Happy tdov to fat trans people. 🏳️‍⚧️ Biggest thing that helped me as a trans kid was seeing older fat trans people. There were a lot of really irritating "advice" posts going around early in my time on the internet with a lot of misinformation in them, but one that I constantly saw (in addition to people claiming you should wear your pants rediculously low or only wear button ups) were posts saying you had to lose weight to transition. Can confidently confirm that is completely untrue. 👍

[courtmartialme]

i'm not late for royai day if every day is royai day to me 🔥🪶 also for royai week day 1 - raison d'être

[lenin-it-to-win-it]

[tea-cat-arts]

Shen Yuan getting transported into pidw isn't "the system punishing him for being a lazy internet hater," but instead representative of "step 1 of the creative process: getting so mad at something you decide to go write your own fucking book" in this essay I will

[obsob]

love is stored in the parallel play

[sugarcoatednightshade]

thinking about how Humans Are Space Orcs stories always talk about how indestructible humans are, our endurance, our ability to withstand common poisons, etc. and thats all well and good, its really fun to read, but it gets repetitive after a while because we aren't all like that.

And that got me thinking about why this trope is so common in the first place, and the conclusion I came to is actually kind of obvious if you think about it. Not everyone is allowed to go into space. This is true now, with the number of physical restrictions placed on astronauts (including height limits), but I imagine it's just as strict in some imaginary future where humans are first coming into contact with alien species. Because in that case there will definitely be military personnel alongside any possible diplomatic parties.

And I imagine that all interactions aliens have ever had up until this point have been with trained personnel. Even basic military troops conform to this standard, to some degree. So aliens meet us and they're shocked and horrified to discover that we have no obvious weaknesses, we're all either crazy smart or crazy strong (still always a little crazy, academia and war will do that to you), and not only that but we like, literally all the same height so there's no way to tell any of us apart.

And Humans Are Death Worlders stories spread throughout the galaxy. Years or decades or centuries of interspecies suspicion and hostilities preventing any alien from setting foot/claw/limb/appendage/etc. on Earth until slowly more beings are allowed to come through. And not just diplomats who keep to government buildings, but tourists. Exchange students. Temporary visitors granted permission to go wherever they please, so they go out in search of 'real terran culture' and what do they find?

Humans with innate heart defects that prevent them from drinking caffeine. Humans with chronic pain and chronic fatigue who lack the boundless endurance humans are supposedly famous for. Humans too tall or too short or too fat to be allowed into space. Humans who are so scared of the world they need to take pills just to function. Humans with IBS who can't stand spicy foods, capsaicin really is poison to them. Lactose intolerance and celiac disease, my god all the autoimmune disorders out there, humans who struggle to function because their own bodies fight them. Humans who bruise easily and take too long to heal. Humans who sustained one too many concussions and now struggle to talk and read and write. Humans who've had strokes. Humans who were born unable to talk or hear or speak, and humans who through some accident lost that ability later.

Aliens visit Earth, and do you know what they find? Humanity, in all its wholeness.