#be constructive or be quiet

[psifitopia]

advice

So, I reblogged and commented on this thread here. And, sadly, I let myself get pulled into some discourse that now is starting to get hostile. Let me give you some advice:

If you want to get people to support independent creators, read classical literature, or anything of that nature...

Make recommendations! Gush about the writers/musicians that you love. What books or songs really moved you? If you can, recommend great, unknown artists from multiple genres. But for the love of mercy...

DO NOT TRY TO SHAME PEOPLE FOR WHAT THEY ARE ALREADY READING OR LISTENING TO!!! Do not shame them for NOT doing the thing you wish they would do!

Seriously. One, you ARE going to come across as a stuck-up, judgmental arse. You are. Period. Second of all, people might not know where/how to find the works you think they should be interacting with. Third, unless you give them a reason to be passionate about what you're selling, they aren't going to invest time and energy into just pleasing you. I'm not out to prove myself by reading the "right" books or whatever.

Accusing people of not thinking for themselves just proves point number one and does nothing to help them get past points two and three.

I mean, the whole thing is just a mess. The op of that thread never used the word independent, just said to get off Spotify. I assumed they meant also get off Amazon and other mainstream booksellers, including the library, which, in my mind, is the most mainstream of mainstream sources for reading. I commented asking for suggestions of alternate archives, because I stupidly thought someone might suggest to me a new source of books, which is always a joy. :D I goofed. The OP just meant support independent authors and like...I will if they write good stuff, but I'm not reading independent authors just to earn a "thinks for herself" badge.

[flowerbloom-arts]

Change is a two-way street.

(Is my favoritism towards the Damsel obvious enough, or?)

note: TLQ [aka my sona Bloombird] is a butch sapphic and this is yuri

[phantombre]

You know, I haven't drawn the Princess in a while, so here's (in my opinion) the most intriguing lore wise:

A web of nerves laid upon a web of nerves laid upon a web of nerves...

[shithowdy]

realized a drawing i'm doing rn is almost identically posed to one i did 8.5 years ago of a different oc, except the old drawing was instantly tainted by one of the players featured messaging me asking if i could take it down because their abusive, possessive rp partner saw it and got jealous of them "roleplaying behind their back" and i said "nah" and it became a whole Thing that i should have walked away from at that exact moment but didn't and the 6 months that followed contained some of the most truly condensed batshit i have ever witnessed in an rp community already well-known for its batshittery.

... anyway i love my friends. so happy to accidentally redeem the pose.

[salty-an-disco]

was having MOC feelings yesterday so today decided to do some doodles about it

might do more, depends on what my brain feels like focusing on next

[aquillwieldingmagpie]

I don't know WHY, but for some reason I've had a vision of a Golden Ratio Slay the Princess AU.

I genuinely don't know why, maybe it's because of Ratio's owl motif and one of 2.1 quests being named A Cat Among Pigeons (in reference to Agatha Christie and possibly Aventurine's role) and then later owning three black cakecats even if he's mostly associated with peacocks? Maybe it's because I somehow associate Aventurine's many masks and personas we see over the time we know him with the Shifting Mound's many perspectives and how both her and him are so confident their respective foil won't kill or betray them at the end of everything (and are even fine with it if it does happen), how both the Princess and Aventurine always, always fight for freedom and are denied it until the very end of their story when they finally are granted a true escape through their own efforts and an outside force be it through being show the way or death? How they're both connected to a being so much larger than them but have no say over it (the Princess being seen as only a part/perspective of the Shifting Mound even if she can be found at her heart, Aventurine was blessed by Gaiathra Triclops and ultimately none of that did them any good).

Or maybe it's because I can practically hear this line from the Princess coming out of Aventurine's mouth to Ratio the more close he is to knowing who the real Aventurine is after I woke up in a cold sweat from a nap to write this out:

"Have you figured out what you want to do yet, or are you going to keep trying to find a center that doesn't exist?"

(The Princess saying this about herself and how she's the heart of the Shifting Mound and hasn't really been herself or stopped playing a role through the entirety of the game, but in this context Aventurine saying that there is no 'Kakavasha' or 'No.35' or even 'Aventurine' anymore, just the many masks he wears even though he admits to himself he hasn't changed)

I have no idea if this is anything though or if it would fit their characters at all though. Maybe it's just a silly vision I'll write out one day, maybe not.

[lloonlloon]

Literally I love you can just pick whatever for commands cause it really can look like a conversation. “All done petting.” “Ready for beddy?”

[skunkg1rll]

[warwickroyals]

There is a special pit in hell for people who are so fucking loud before 9:30 am, especially when they know other people are still sleeping.

[narcissusbrokenmirror]

i love watching jatp interviews. Especially when the interviewer asks abt juke becoming an actual couple and Madison, Charlie and Kenny always explain how Luke and Julie's feelings for each other get to be explored through friendship instead of jumping right into a relationship.

For Luke and Julie being both aware of their feelings and choosing to be stay right where they are and becoming the best of friends, because they want more of each other, they want to be a place of comfort for each other and grow as people. All of it, without the overwhelming pressure of being a couple and changing the dynamics in their band/family, or having that "but this can't last forever" feeling always hovering over them, all the complications with Luke being a ghost and Julie being a lifer, bc they don't know how to fix this. That would eventually tear them apart from the other.

Instead, Julie can deal with her feelings in a comfortable zone where she can take her time and focus on their plans as a band and bond as friends, the same goes for Luke, clearly he likes Julies and knows there's something between them, even with his emotional intelligence of a peanut, he understands that seeking a relationship is not worth it especially when what they already have as friends is so special and important to each of them. They don't need to be dating to do anything for the other, they don't need to be dating to be able to trust each other and have a deep unique connection.

[friendofcars]

about to try to purify two different proteins in parallel. do you think the wax on my wings looks heat resistant enough

[salty-an-disco]

If we consider stranger the true heart of shifting mound. Can that mean contrarian is the true heart of long quiet?

while I do think Stranger is the most thematically appropriate heart, the very idea that there's a true heart goes against the game's themes and Shifty's very nature as an ever-changing being with many possibilities.

And much like their counterpart, Contrarian is one of the possibilities for Quiet's heart. Not necessarily the true one.

[aud-chron-images]

[us-the-voices-and-more-voices-2]

you have really got to stop reblogging posts with tags like "#I stand with Israel"

I'd recommend blocking some of the common zionist tags on this site, it'll help prevent you from accidentally reblogging from zionists

wait who are u?????

I’m actually not against Zionism as it’s like an incredibly benign ideology. (Super benign lol, literally harmless stuff)

though what everyone keeps confusing it with and you are as well is kahanism which I am THOROUGHLY AGAINST.

(Yk the Islamophobic, anti-Arab and stuff people? Yeah that’s them, “technically” they are Zionist but it’s like the extremist radical version of it, it’s literally RIGHTWING! The kahanist party was LITERALLY banned from running for office due to being that hateful and rightwing. It was due to the uh terrorism and racism actually. They are basically the Israeli equivalent to the MAGA types. And yeah they exists and they suck.)

But yea some of the ppl are nationalists, but like.. weird shit to say.

They also do mean it in a completely different way, as again most of the people are literally Israeli they literally mean “I don’t think the destruction of Israel is GOOD and I don’t wanna die to war and shit, I hope the hamas and the government stop this shit soon. Screw bibi”

tbh a lot of people literally lost their families and friends and loved ones due to the kidnappings, they’ve been held hostage for MONTHS and MONTHS almost a year now! some aren’t even confirmed to be alive. Everyone is fucking pissed and angry, and can’t do anything but bully the government and bibi.

I went through like 7 character arc’s this year and like dude no this isn’t right bro.

I am a thorough hater of the Likud party, and Bibi.

I just also believe people should not be worried about being hate crime’d internationally because antisemitic rhetoric is making a comeback.

like become a likud party hater, truely those guys are the fucking worst, kahanism sucks man. 🧍‍♂️

[wolpatinga]

[clembian]

JUST GOT COSTCO PIZZA !!!!!yayayy