#bc them

[icksam]

steddie ficlet “do u love me”

“Do you love me?”

Eddie glanced at Steve once before doing a double take.

“What?”

“Do you… yknow,” suddenly bashful, Steve looked at anywhere but Eddie. He shifted in his seat before asking again, but with more finality.

“Do you love me?”

Eddie wishes he wasn’t driving right now. He wants to give Steve his full attention. Alas, he thought, maybe Steve feels more comfortable this way.

“Where…” Eddie clears his throat, “where is this coming from?”

Eddie, cursing his predicament, misses the furrowing of Steve’s eyebrows. What he doesn’t miss is the hesitant pause before he speaks.

“You know what, it’s—“

“No, Steve, really—“

“Forget I said anything—“

“Steve, c’mon—“

“Eds—“

“Steve!”

Eddie catches Steve’s flinch in his periphery. He only jerked his arms a bit, but it made Eddie feel horrible. He knows Steve hates raised voices and sudden loud noises, but he didn’t want him spiraling and he needed his attention, damnit-

“Stevie…” Eddie huffed, giving Steve a small smile when he glances his way. He grabs Steve’s hands—which were laying in Steve’s lap, trembling a bit— and rubbed placating circles. “I’m not saying no. I’m not rejecting you. God, never. Just,” Eddie glances to Steve again. “It just caught me off guard is all.”

Steve looks up and meets Eddie’s eyes. Again, he can’t maintain the eye contact, but Eddie makes sure to keep drawing the circles.

“I’m just… nervous. Scared, sometimes, that you’ll leave me. Realize you’re better off.” Before Eddie can object, mouth already open, Steve continued, “and I know! I know, I know, I know it’s irrational. Kind of. But I really don’t want to fuck this up, Eds. Feels like a theme for me.”

And Eddie, God, Eddie has to pull over then. This conversation is way too heavy without risking an accident; whether it be a sudden vehicle makeout sesh or Eddie’s van eating dirt from a ditch, he doesn’t want to find out.

Eddie finally finds a spot to safely park. There’s a little section of gravel to the side of the road, guarded by lines and lines of trees. Steve looks a little ashamed when Eddie gets to look at him full on. Frustrated, Eddie jumps forward and pulls Steve into a sudden, brief kiss. When he pulls back, Steve still looks ashamed, but it’s accompanied with a smile he’s fighting to hide.

With Steve’s face in his hands—cheeks slightly squished—Eddie begins to channel as much passion as he can into his words. “You are not a fuck-up, sweetheart. Your past doesn’t define you, and you’re allowed to have flaws. Shit, I love them all anyways.”

Eddie inhales deeply, then, “I love you. All of you.”

“You do?” Steve asks, softly and a little starry eyed.

“Yeah. I love you.”

[magpie-sherlock]

does anyone want to give me some sillies to doodle

[musicalchaos07]

I am once again offended by Jancy being so Bruce Springsteen coded but knowing Jonathan hates Bruce Springsteen

[captainjonnitkessler]

Sometimes I wish we would start calling out the performative radicalism on this site for the poser bullshit it is. "Remember, it's always morally correct to kill a cop!" "Don't forget to firebomb your local government office!" "Wow, it sure would be a shame if these instructions on how to make a molotov cocktail got spread around!"

Okay. But you're not killing cops or firebombing government offices. You are posting on a dying microblogging website to a carefully-curated echo chamber that has radicalized itself into thinking that taking the absolute most extreme position on any subject is praxis but that anyone discussing the most practical way to effect actual change is your sworn enemy. You do not have the street cred OR the activist cred to be talking about killing cops, babe.

[loverboybreakdowns]

high school teacher voice hello neurodivergent openly queer kid everyone sees as weird. you need to select a partner for this group pr- what do you mean everyone partnered up already? what do you mean youre the only one left without a partner? well i guess i have no choice but to force you to walk up to a random set of friends and join their group while they ignore you for the entire class again

[badolmen]

People against piracy fail to realize that no, I can’t just ‘buy it.’ They stopped making DVDs and Blu-Rays. They’re barely offering digital copies for download. I am not spending money I could use for food or bills to pay for a subscription service just so I can always have access to a beloved piece of media. Especially not when the service will remove media on a whim without concern for how the loss of access to that piece will make its artistic conservation nigh impossible.

For example, I recently learned that Disney+ had an original film called Crater. It’s scifi, family friendly, and seems cool - I would love to buy it as a holiday gift for my little brother! But: it’s exclusive to D+ and THEY REMOVED IT LITERALLY MONTHS AFTER ITS RELEASE.

The ONLY way I can directly access this film is through piracy. The ONLY available ‘copies’ of this film are hosted on piracy websites. Disney will NEVER release it in theaters, or as something to buy, and it may NEVER return to the streaming service. It will be LOST because we aren’t allowed to purchase it for personal viewing. If I can’t pay to own it, I won’t pay for the privilege of losing it when corporate decides to put it in a vault.

So yes, I’m going to pirate and support piracy.

[cute-pluto]

ive just been born into the world what are some good games for beginners

[blinkpen]

(i Will go back to everlasting haitus if that GFM slows down too much btw, seeing it to its goal ASAP is my primary focus right now)

[andi-o-geyser]

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

[visualnovelboyfriend]

why should palestinians have to leave behind their land because israel wont stop killing them. why should anyone have to leave behind their life and memories and sentimental value just because an aggressor is left unchallenged. please think this sentiment through and delete it from your thoughts. instead of blaming an oppressed people for living in a hostile land, ask who is making that land hostile to live in.

[bl00dalchemist]

So i finished reading dungeon meshi

[reineydraws]

this is a scene from opla s2, black leg gazpacho told me himself!!!

src by @op-trash-blog-of-hell

[acorviart]

not to sound like a boomer, but I need some people to learn how to write emails in a semi-professional (at the very least) format so you're not cold emailing a business/potential employer/any other stranger about formal matters in the exact same way you'd DM a close friend on instagram

the formality/language can loosen up in the email chain once you've established a rapport and you match the other person if they're being less formal, but please don't have the very first email you send a stranger be written in all lowercase ultra-casual sms slang with no greeting or signature and a billion emojis

[talaricula]

Things I've seen tumblr memeing about James Somerton doing à la "How did no one see how bigoted he was!" as if those things haven't been a significant part of tumblr culture for over a decade :

Presenting untrue and bordering on conspiratorial versions of (queer or otherwise marginalised) history without any sources

Completely disregarding and disrespecting any expertise on socio-cultural topics/humanities and distrusting academics and historians (incl. acting as if no academics or historians could be queer or marginalised)

Downplaying the role misogyny played in the historical oppression of queer women and concluding that queer men must have been more oppressed than queer women

Bi women are, at best, not as queer as "real" queer ppl, and at worst, simply equivalent to straight women

Despite nominal trans inclusivity, transmasculine ppl are functionally women when convenient (combined with the above, bi transmascs are functionally straight women)

Despite nominal trans inclusivity (bis), shamelessly attacking, threatening and actively endangering any trans woman who questions them or smth they find important (often by unfairly presenting her as violent or as a threat)

Having absolutely fucking wild and reductive takes about ace ppl, the oppression they face and their place in the queer community

Stating that marriage equality is an assimilationist fight while completely ignoring its direct roots in the horrifying consequences of the AIDS crisis for partners of ppl who died of AIDS

Praising western media creators from the past for queer coding even under censure and in the same breath condemning current non western media creators for being homophobic bc their representation isn't explicit enough

Blaming China for all existing homophobic censoring in western media

Assuming all queer media would be better told by western creators and by western standards

Only out queer ppl get to tell queer stories

Heavily criticising almost all queer media created by women or ppl they see as such (see above points about trans ppl) or involving/starring a significant amount of women for any perceived or real amount of "problematicness", but fawning over and praising and negating criticism of queer media created by and starring mostly or even functionally exclusively men (even when it could be argued that, you know, not involving/seriously sidelining women is a pretty clear example of misogyny which should probably be considered "problematic")

And I'm probably forgetting stuff or there's stuff I have internalised myself and don't recognise as an issue

Like idk but I feel like the takeaway from Hbomberguy and Toddintheshadow's videos should maybe be "be aware of such patterns in your communities bc they definitely exist" and not "this guy is uniquely awful" and I feel like a lot of the discussion I've seen surrounding this has been severely failing at that. Most ppl who've spent any significant amount of time on tumblr prob either have internalised at least one of those thought patterns, have had to de-internalise them, or have had to be extremely vigilant to not internalise them (which is done by, you know, seeking out other sources, which also seemed like an important takeaway from the videos)

[runawaymarbles]

The midjourney stuff just reminds of when we were trying to find a new platform to host the ao3 donation form, and companies kept trying to tell me about all their "ai" features that would track donor engagement, and figure out the optimal pattern to email individual donors asking for follow up donations, and all the ways they suggest we manipulate people into staying on our websites. It was a great way to filter out who either wasn't listening to us when we described our ethics and donor base, or just didn't believe us.

Now granted ao3 is a unique case based on a) the amount of page views we get in any given time period and b) the fact that most donors absolutely do Not want to be identified as such anywhere, (the default "list of recent donors" module got nuked Immediately) but it surprised me some that the concept of "donors who value their privacy and would be furious at even the whiff of AI" is unique. Some of us really are just existing in different worlds.