#and thoughts!

[stupidiinspades]

If you could change one thing about rp on tumblr, what would it be? Why?

What’s one thing others seem to hate that doesn’t bother you?

ooc asks - accepting~!

JUST ONE THING? I have at least three immediately to hand, but the largest and most irksome that I have seen in THIS latest excursion of mine into the tumblr rpc, is how FUCKING PURITAN the kids have gotten.

I've been here, on and off, since 2012. I've lived through trends and things that would make some here grow grey hair and draw ass up to elbows.

From W.incest (understandably uncomfortable and not my cuppa either) to legitimately toxic Sh.eriarty (ahh guilty pleasure ship); to it being common to, under a read more, write visceral torment or mad science experimentation in graphic, gore-porny detail (I'm "guilty" of this last one myself).

So like, this whole fandom sanitisation is jarring to me. 'Creator/creation (think Pygmalion) is awful and gross and equivalent to parent/child-', && 'if you write (insert villain/anyone morally off-kilter) that obviously means you sympathise with them and are objectively an awful person' which- these two are WILD takes, let me tell you.

We have gotten to a point where I've even seen some blogs say 'porn isn't for the dash' (like, as in policing others) which, to each their own, and your comfort is paramount, but do not police those you write with.

I've seen takes about how writing conflict and it's resolution, or unhealthy ships (platonic or otherwise) is toxic and encourages the normalisation of abuse. Which, again, is a wild take and makes me mourn the loss of media literacy.

Fuck I'm bitter and rambly- but the WHY of why I want this to change, is because all of these ideas, whether they have merit or not, only serve to turn writers against each other. It encourages inter-platform abuses- judgements that are not theirs to make. It has birthed a resurgence, and new form of cyber-bullying under the guise of 'being the morally better person'.

Hyper political correctness comes to me to die, fictionally speaking. I will piss on it like a belligerent german shepherd.

FOR SOME REASON, some folks hate unformatted/non-aesthetic replies. I give absolutely no shits. What matters to ME personally is my fellow writer's creativity and readability, and if our muses have chemistry. I prefer my friends to be comfortable; never do I expect anyone to bend over backwards to do anything they can't/don't want to bother with!

You don't do small text? Excellent! No colour emphasis? Amazing, I love you~. No icons? Paint me a portrait with the watercolour of your imagination and let me get lost in the woven patchwork of your creativity.

You colour the very stars with your imagination in ways that would make Creation itself smile. Take pride in it, and don't give in to pressure to conform.

[nosimpincurly]

You’re not depressed. You just need $250,000 in your bank account.

[noknowshame]

I’m watching Splash (1984) which is a romcom about a guy who falls in love with a mermaid, and when she chooses a human name she chooses Madison and guy says “that’s not a real name, but alright” which seems to imply that Madison was not a name until at least the 80’s and all girls named Madison are actually named after the mermaid. thought you should know

[babushkaat]

let’s hang on mama (of another species)

[mouthtapedguy]

lions are very mean and like jellyfish

[drumlincountry]

If your life is horrible and you need a new source of meaning and direction.... Do NOT find religion. Learn to identify plants.

[stealingpotatoes]

happy neil banging out the tunes day to everyone who celebrates

[alleesaur]

doodling a bunny vs doodling a hare

[problemnyatic]

"Punishment works!!!" We're drowning in three to four generations of people so pants-shittingly terrified of ever being wrong that half of everyone has constructed a worldview wherein they never even consider the possibility that they could be wrong and the other half behaves like one wrong move will make anything or anyone explode violently into a million irreperable pieces. I don't think it works guys

[ahotknife]

the thing is that childhood doesn't just end when you turn 18 or when you turn 21. it's going to end dozens of times over. your childhood pet will die. actors you loved in movies you watched as a kid will die. your grandparents will die, and then your parents will die. it's going to end dozens and dozens of times and all you can do is let it. all you can do is stand in the middle of the grocery store and stare at freezers full of microwave pizza because you've suddenly been seized by the memory of what it felt like to have a pizza party on the last day of school before summer break. which is another ending in and of itself

[tmmyhug]

when i say “girl” randomly as an interjection i’m speaking to the omnipresent all knowing being of Girl. asking her for mercy. taking girl’s name in vain

[thegreatyin]

"how can m/f ships be good-" first of all through the power of bisexuality anything is possible so write that down. second of all if we start othering ships based on gender and nothing else we're no better than the opposition. third of all you need to watch more addams family

[theunfairfolk]

the spirit is unwilling and the flesh it feels not so good also

[cilantrhoes]

[dramatic-dolphin]

i actually think it's rly cool for people getting an abortion to joke about the abortion, and it's not tasteless or bad. btw. they are allowed to joke about it. and it's funny.