#can't pick things up

[vellatra]

8 and 1/2 months pregnant and starting to feel more and more like Sophie 😆

[time-to-write-and-suffer]

I love how on Tumblr, "media literacy" has become "Um, just because someone writes about this doesn't mean they're endorsing this. I hate all these media puritans ruining everything."

I'm sad to inform you that knowing when and whether an author is endorsing something, implying something, saying something, is also part of media literacy. Knowing when they are doing this and when they're not is part of media literacy. Assuming that no author has ever endorsed a bad thing is how you fall for proper gander. It's not media literacy to always assume that nobody ever has agreed with the morally reprehensible ideas in their work.

Sometimes, authors are endorsing something, and you need to be aware when that happens, and you also need to be aware when you're doing it as an author. All media isn't horny dubcon fanfic where you and the author know it's problematic IRL but you get off to it in the privacy of your brain. Sometimes very smart people can convince you of something that'll hurt others in the real world. Sometimes very dumb people will romanticize something without realizing they're doing it and you'll be caught up in it without realizing that you are.

Being aware of this is also media literacy. Being aware of the narrative tools used to affect your thinking is media literacy. Deciding on your own whether you agree with an author or not is media literacy. Enjoying characters doing bad things and allowing authors to create flawed or cruel characters for the sake of a story is perfectly fine, but it is not the same as being media literate. Being smug about how you never think an author has bad intentions tells me you're edgy, not that you're media literate. You can't use one rule to apply to all media. That's not how media literacy works. Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! Aheem heem. Anyway.

[c-is-for-circinate]

Holy shit, y'all

The Munsons are Catholic.

[swan2swan]

Yeah, I think if you and all your coworkers find out you got fired via a press release, you should be allowed to sue the corporation who fired you.

[petitesmafia]

hc thinking about Dazai practicing how to control his heartbeat around Chuuya except Chuuya doesn’t know that, so every once in a while when he unknowingly causes Dazai to slip up Dazai would glare at Chuuya and Chuuya would be like. tf are u looking at. are u tryna fight with me

Dazai, steadying his heartbeat: okay this is easy Chuuya, leaning over Dazai to grab a pen beside him: 'scuse me Dazai, heartbeat speeding up: Dazai: UGH. what is your problem Chuuya: ??? Chuuya: what the fuck is YOUR problem

[ddarker-dreams]

there needs to be a name for the emotion you experience when you can tell a guy's about to turn a normal convo into something real awkward

[lesbiancassius]

sketches for palestine

Donate to Palestine & I will draw you a pencil portrait

Email me at alchemycatbird@gmail.com with

a receipt of donation to one of the following: PCRF, UNRWA, a gofundme from Funds for Gaza and/or Operation Olive Branch; and

a photo/reference/description of the character you'd like me to draw.

I'll get back to you within a week with a proper scan of the drawing which you are free to use in non-commercial capacities with or without credit.

(And psst: if you live in Canada and donate more than $35 CAD i will send you the hard copy in untracked lettermail if you give me your mailing address.)

[youremyonlyhope]

I love when I see posts like "Share how many crochet WIPs you currently have! I have 5, it's so many!"

Like, girl, I have unfinished projects from over a decade ago that I refuse to frog on the off chance I decide to finish them. I've found years-old projects I forgot I even started and will impulsively just finish it on the spot. I've started three different projects in the last 2 months, including one I started yesterday, that I already know I may or may not finish within the year depending on motivation.

The number of WIPs I have is infinite.

[cerbreus]

3 months with my partner today :-) ♥

[camarilla-arts]

tmntntmtntmtnmtntmtnmtntmnts

[gammija]

ok since the Magnus Protocol is confirmed AU from tma, and jonny and alex have purposely not said that their voices are not reappearing in TMAGP, consider:

evil AU jon and martin. mostly because I just know jonny and alex would have such a good time acting that out. And also because i want to see a completely unhinged jon and a web!martin used to their full potential damnit

[minecraftian1213]

Baby Obi-Wan once stared so hard into the Force that he was never the same. Ever since he joined the creche the Masters knew there was something... off about the little one. They weren't quite sure what to think of the littlest of the younglings. He always seemed to know things he shouldn't and offered words that often intimidated padawans, knights, and even gained concerned expressions from seasoned masters.

The guards in the temple were less amused when he learned to properly shield himself. Gifted in the art of shielding, Obi-Wan tended to wander from his creche. Normally, a wandering youngling wouldn't be a problem. Where one youngling lingered, a sentinel was hiding in the shadows not too far away. Obi-Wan Kenobi, however, finds the right moment to slip away.

When questioned what he is doing so far from his creche, Obi-Wan always answers, "Force says so."

Qui-Gon keeps stumbling upon a small ginger boy when he finds himself alone. The first time was a memorable experience. It is, after all, the first time Qui-Gon met his future apprentice.

"What are you doing?" And the voice makes Qui-Gon pause in his walk. A youngling is staring at him from behind a pillar.

"Thinking," he answers honestly. The boy, probably no older than four or five, steps out and walks up to him, arms held out in demand to be picked up. Qui-Gon obliges and settles him on his hip, changing his destination to the creches. "Why aren't you with your creche?"

"The masters say I should listen to the Force. The Force says I should be here. With you."

Qui-Gon's lips quirk upward. "Is that so, little one? What else does it tell you?"

The youngling tilts his head, blue eyes shining. Qui-Gon feels like he isn't being seen despite the boy's eyes clearly on him. "Nothing you should know yet," the boy says.

Qui-Gon doesn't ask any more questions, too stumped to know what to ask the boy. The boy of course takes Qui-Gon's silence as his cue to talk. He offers his name as Obi-Wan Kenobi and tells him all about his friend Quinlan who sees things when he touches stuff and- "He doesn't see stuff when he holds my hand because my shields are good. Did you know the guards don't like it when I leave? Guard Feemor says I shield too hard."

And doesn't that take Qui-Gon by surprise. "Is that so?" Temple guards wore masks to protect their identities. Qui-Gon wasn't aware his former padawan took rotations as a guard.

Obi-Wan replies easily, "He doesn't know I know."

Qui-Gon quickly returns the youngling to his creche. The second escape and return allows Obi to decide he likes this master. It's the seventh escapade from their first meeting that the guards and creche masters and even passing jedi learn that when Obi-Wan goes missing he's with Qui-Gon.

[raayllum]

Yeah, you can face this You're on your own, kid You always have been

[aroaceleovaldez]

actually in hindsight why did Rick repeatedly have Piper solve all the ghost problems on the Argo II when. Hazel was right there. A daughter of Pluto. who by all logic should be able to control ghosts even a little bit. like, we know she has at least some of those types of powers. she just never gets to actually practically use them. ever. and then when there are zombies Hazel once again. does not get to use her powers about it. what.

[molagboop]

Noise game.

[pangur-and-grim]

yeah, the problem is definitely the fact that this ask was sent multiple times, rather than the content of the ask.

and I dunno man, what made me think I could author and illustrate a children’s book published by Quarto Press?

what made me think I could create an exhibit for the Chicago Field Museum?

what made me think I could publish my poetry in literary magazines? (NO YOU’RE NOT GETTING EXAMPLES OF THIS BECAUSE I WAS A TEENAGER AND IT’S SO EMBARRASSING)

what made me think I could speak at a palaeontology conference and win an award for my presentation, beating out a phd student whose talk was about how he discovered a whole ass dinosaur? 

what made me think I could do anything at all?

I think the problem isn’t that I believe in my ability to create, it’s that you lack belief in yourself. are you afraid that your own work will be judged, rejected, mocked? mine certainly has been, but I keep going. are you worried that your work will be immature, unpolished, outshone by better examples? mine certainly has been, and yet I continue to believe in my illustrations and writing. 

what level of perfection do you need to reach before you value yourself? aren’t you allowed to be messy and human and passionate, and try things just because they’re fun?

anyways, I’m definitely not hiring you to play the mad sorcerer when this book gets turned into an HBO series after topping the New York Times Bestseller list 43 months in a row, so better luck next time.