#feel free to reblog this btw

[sanjipussyindulgence]

what's your favorite thing about sanji? 💙🩵

okay as a funny answer i'd say its because hes so loser-coded. like hes a pathetic sopping wet purse dog of a man.

but as a genuine answer it's because of how layered he is. for as over the top and anime tropey his personality is... he's very realistically done? somehow he feels grounded and human to me in a way that some of the other straw hats arent.

even though his defining trait is kindness, he refuses to show ANY emotional vulnerability due to his trauma. instead he'll play a dramatized caricature of himself to distance any of the genuine emotion involved. he'll hide any kindness under a layer of either grouchiness when it comes to men, or infatuation when it comes to women.

sanji almost never lets his walls down, even when hes with the straw hats, so we dont get to see/understand him fully until he's at his worst emotionally (whole cake island).

its at times like that when we see who sanji truly is - a deeply insecure yet kind man with a severe guilt complex. the reason why sanji acts the way he does is because he HATES himself, even to the point where he doesn't want to be himself.

which is why he puts on the act of a tough guy womanizer because, in his mind, thats better than the soft-hearted little boy he still is at his core... but its that part of him that i love the most! i love whenever he gets to be honestly sweet!

obviously his pervert gag has its moments where it shoots sanji's characterization in the foot but i dont HATE his attitude towards women and i feel the people who want him to change entirely miss the point.

his strict binary for the genders stems from his early childhood where all the men in his life were monsters and only women were kind to him. even once he got picked up by zeff it was a tough love situation and sanji adopted that.

he views men as inherently worse than women, and its a character flaw that defines his personality. its important for a well written character to have a flaw like that. it fleshes him out.

i could go into a whole different conversation about his unintentional queer-coding... but this post is already long enough so i wont.

[mutopians]

I teach middle school science. My students have all recently been assigned a research project in their English classes where they choose an issue, research it, and then make an argument for one side of the other. As a science teacher, I was ecstatic. We try our best to encourage our students to think critically about the world outside of the classroom, and this was the perfect opportunity to do it!

But then I heard some of my students say they're researching "sports and transgender athletes".

I'm an adult. My students aren't even teenagers yet. But as a young adult who has been doing a very good job at coming off as a feminine cishet teacher with just a sprinkling of androgny, I suddenly felt so young. So small.

I know my town. I know our statistics. We're a small red farm town. Our GSA only started up this year in the middle school, and the one thing that they've really done so far is make safe space posters that were discretely handed out to teachers. There's a reason that I haven't come out as even being not het.

So, as a secretly nonbinary adult, when I hear my students speak with distaste, confusion, or a lack of empathy about trans people, I know they don't know any better. I know that my students grew up in probably conservative houses, ones where they probably don't know any trans family members or friends.

But, statistically, there's students out there that are trans in my school, and either haven't realized it or have and are keeping it under the radar. I don't think there's necessarily anything wrong with teaching kids to research topics like this, and I hope they learn to care more about trans people as a result.

But I still can't help but feel horrible for those trans kids who don't know what I do.

[alliumdykes]

Just saying this once more as the video might drop today. But im not going to be talking and disproving the lies in the video, i am not even going to watch it out of my safety. This goes for anyone else, especially my followers and friends who are younger than me, your safety is your first priority in this situation. If you can’t even look at peoples responses to the video feel free to hop off the internet to stay safe.

In this situation (especially if you are a victim) your safety is number one. Stay safe out there. Filter tags, watch things unrelated, go for a walk if possible, maybe plan Christmas presents if you celebrate Christmas, and most of all stay safe.

[rjalker]

"I'm not fooled by AI!!!!! I know what's real and what's fake, and what's fake is ALWAYS trans people's transitions!!!!! They're all completely fake!!!!!" *shares her 20th absolutely blatantly AI ''photo'' of the day absolutely amazed at how beautiful it is*

adventures of explaining to my mom that trans people exist and no, that is not a real photo of a cake, the lighting is coming from five different fucking angles and the background is nonsensical.

[ask-the-crimson-king]

On Writing, Art, and Creativity

Hello.

My apologies for this being another "behind the curtain" post written by the mysterious hermit who runs this blog, but I have some things I would like to articulate.

This post is more than likely going to be deleted within a day or so of it being up, but I'm going to write it regardless and maybe others will get something out of it.

This is going to be a bit of a reflection/maybe kind of a vent post in regards to my feelings on writing, art, and creativity in a space and environment that I frequent in my online spaces.

I will also preface and say I do not own any social media. I do not have a Twitter, nor an Instagram, nor a Facebook, nor a Bluesky, Mastodon, Pillowfort or whatever other platforms exist. The closest I have is a Discord and this blog, basically.

This will go under a readmore to prevent textwalling.

Hello and welcome to those who are curious enough to read my thoughts. Maybe we can have a discussion on this. Maybe people will tell me I'm being egotistical, I don't know.

It is no secret that I have struggled to maintain a will to be creative on this blog and my alternate. I find it difficult to even write a singular sentence or prolong a banter thread beyond four replies before I'm hitting "open in new tab" for it to hang in purgatory with the rest.

I have been taking time to reflect on why I am having such immense difficulties, and I've spoken about it with a few different humans.

I think I've finally nailed down what the issue is.

Engagement.

No, not likes or empty reblogs. Actual engagement with what I produce creatively. Comments beyond "nice job!".

Now I know; "hey, you only like things or leave empty reblogs too!" -- I am aware this is going to sound hypocritical, but hear me out for but a moment.

I do not create for me. I create for others. I create because I think that art is a conversation. It is a way for me to put things from my brain out there and for others to see a window into how I am. I create because I enjoy being able to express myself and engage with people while doing it. I do not create for clicks, I do not create for likes or notes, I create so that I can share something with others.

It takes a lot of effort for me to write something. It is genuinely something that feels Herculean to me. Writing this is lower stakes; this is not a creative piece, this is me putting my precise thoughts down into a written medium. This is me being analytical. That is second-nature to me.

But being creative, whether it be writing or even drawing, is a chore. It takes so, so much effort just to set up my tablet or open a new document. Writing a singular sentence takes an age. Rarely does it come easy. I am always nit-picking it; "this isn't catchy enough. This paragraph is too long; people aren't going to read it. This isn't splashy enough."

I have gotten to the point where I think I know how to get people to simply read what I have written, and even then, still no one reads my writings. In part this is due to my writings being a niche within a niche. I cling on to characters and concepts long since forgotten and abandoned by many, and thus there is no audience to engage with my work.

So I stop writing. I know that if I post anything over a thousand words, no one will actually read it. Most of my writings cap out at only two thousand words, with an exception being a piece I made that sits at almost five thousand that will go unpublished because no one is going to read it anyway.

Why put in so much effort if no one is going to engage with it?

I used to put in effort engaging with other people's art and writings more often. I'm trying to do it again, and I remember seeing so, so often people reblogging posts that said, "remember to reblog writing too!" and then no one does.

So I stop writing. No one reads it anyway, so what is the point in putting in the effort? Just so it can continue to be ignored?

My art gets only a few likes. Rarely more than five. I know it isn't great. AI generated pieces get hundreds of likes and reblogs that comments on how pretty it is, how gorgeous. This is not a post that is going to tell you to go back and find my art -- I do not keep tags on this blog, and genuinely my art is garbage enough that if I could find the old art posts and delete them, I would.

But then I see posts about supporting improving artists. I see people reblogging posts that say "support all forms of art", and then no one engages.

I have been trying to engage a bit more. I have been trying to leave nice comments in tags and the like, I have been trying to be more proactive in that regard again, because I know how great it feels to have that engagement as an artist. And I know I am not the only one for whom art is tortuous and arduous.

I know my biggest issue is that I write things that no one is interested in reading. I find myself occupying niche areas of interest that no one else is interested in. The only thing people want is kinky sex in their fics. People don't want to have philosophical and moral discussions in them. People don't want complicated things or fics that span more than 1200 words. I know this because I have written, or attempted to write, and post such things before. All go unread, forgotten, ignored.

It's ridiculous of me to whine and complain about fic of all things, but it is still an artform. It still takes effort. But why should I put in the effort if no one is going to even try reading it? Why should I even try, if only for someone to then turn around and tell me, "I prefer this person's writings to anyone else's currently present"?

I know my writing is not good. It is not of novel quality. Maybe I'm just an entitled old bastard. I don't know.

But it's hard being creative and trying to create art for an endless open void when you make art to make a connection.

I don't want your likes. I want your thoughts. I want your feelings. I want to know if what I have created has influenced you in any way.

I want a connection. It's why I even have an RP blog to begin with; writing collaboratively and telling a collaborative story is wonderful and amazing.

I don't know where else to go with this without being even more cyclical.

That's all for now. Maybe I'll post some more writings eventually.

[mossolantern]

ok so for ahnawn's handle (or at least the one he uses to.. yknow.. be anonymous), i have a few things in mind but i'm not sure which is better so im going to shove them into a poll

[thelocalconstellation]

just some thoughts on people

One very interesting thing to me, is the ways that people try and tell me that the world isn't fair, that the world is cruel, and hurtful, and unkind. That maybe I should be too, so I don't get hurt. And it worked, to an extent for several years too. If somebody said or did something that hurt me, intentional or not, I was quick to bite back.

I got bullied a lot as a kid, I didn't have many friends, maybe one or two in any year between the ages of 6 to 13, and then they were all online friends I'd made. I didn't have any friends I could go and do things with in person until a year and a half, maybe two years ago.

And one thing I'm slowly relearning, is how to trust people again. I haven't been able to call anybody my friend until they call me theirs for the last five years. Any time I think to, I get filled with anxiety, and part of me panics that I'm wrong, that I'm going to be lying, that I'm going to get laughed at again. And it was getting better, and then a friend turned out to be an asshole and we had to drop him, and I'm barely making it back to where I was, over a year later.

I'm still relearning how to trust people again, how to trust myself again. I don't think I ever really lost the part that tried to be kind, I was never really mean to others, I avoided it wherever I could. I still do.

And I know there are going to be people who tell me this is a mistake, who tell me I'm just going to get hurt doing this. But I'm trying to be friendly now too. Because I think that to some extent, everybody was taught that the world sucks and you shouldn't have to play nice. That sometimes it's better to bite first so you don't let anybody close enough to hurt you.

I know the world isn't fair, and I know the world isn't kind. But I don't see why that should stop me from trying. It might be futile, it might be naive, I don't care. I'm done being mean. I'm willing to take that damage so somebody else doesn't have to. because being mean might be easy, lashing out and putting up walls might keep you safe, but what's the point if it means you're alone? If it means you live in fear?

I don't know. Maybe I'm just hoping that at some point, people start asking why the world is mean. Maybe if we ask it enough times, people start to figure out that it doesn't need to be. I can't help but sit here sometimes and ask how people got to where they are now. All the people who hurt others, who try and enforce a made up list of rules they follow on others. Who are you? What happened to you? How did you get to this point in your life?

What if we stopped letting apathy and indifference and desensitization win and just. Cared again. I dunno. I'm just tired of being mean guys.

[0zzysaurus]

beest warz... :]]

[identityquest]

a lot of folks have reached out to me, so I'd like to bring attention to their campaigns. please share and donate what you can, even a little bit can add up and go a long way!

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[currentlylurking]

Thinking about... low stake Fenton Family headcanons. Those kind of things that have no wider world-context when it comes to fic ideas but really speak to their family dynamic.

Like, one of my favourites is that Danny doesn't avoid swearing because it's a kid's show from 2004; he avoids swearing because when he and Jazz were little, Maddie and Jack caught them repeating what what they'd heard from the lab. So they promised their children that if they could make it the next decade or so, until they got their drivers licenses, without swearing in front of them, Maddie and Jack would buy Jazz and Danny each their own car! They assumed the kids would forget before they had to follow through, but Jazz did not. And once she was sixteen, she traded the inability to swear for a car.

Danny can fly. He doesn't technically need to get his driver's license. But by this point he's committed, and won't swear at all - he doesn't want to risk slipping up in front of his parents, and losing his chance at a car!

Another one I really love is that up until he was about ten, Danny spent most of his time at the public pool. Maddie had him and Jazz in baby swim lessons, but Danny loved the water, so she kept him in it. And Danny was an amazing swimmer - he was incredibly fast and by the time he was seven, could dive well enough that there was barely a splash when he hit the water. Danny thrived in the water, and with some guidance, absolutely could have become an olympic level swimmer.

Unfortunately, when he was 10 or so, he mentioned to his parents that the chlorine in the pool hurt his eyes so Jack tried to replace the pool filter with an ecto-based one, which went very badly. And the family was banned from the public pool. They set up a blow-up pool in the backyard for Danny during the summer, but it wasn't the same.

Fortunately, he turned 14 and gained the ability to fly, so he doesn't miss it too much anymore, but Jack does still feel bad.

And of course, the last quality one - none of the Fenton family can cook. Maddie and Jack can bake extremely well, but baking and cooking are different. They like the experiment too much with their cooking, and even without ectoplasm, it usually leaves their food inedible. Jazz can make simple things, like macaroni, but whenever she's tried something more complicated it hasn't gone to plan. She's too much of a perfectionist to risk that.

Danny, meanwhile, has burned soup before and will burn it again. But he's still eaten it. Sam and Tucker have joked about how Danny's tastebuds must've died in the portal too, because there's no way a normal person would eat the kind of things he does, but he's always been like that! He's far too ready to eat almost anything.

It was particularly stressful for his family when Danny was a baby, because it seemed like for the first four years of his life, his sole goal was to eat every single battery he could find.

[sanjipussyindulgence]

every day i want to eat glass

okay time for my regularly scheduled monthly rant about transphobia in the one piece fandom. specifically i wanna talk about how people treat yamato's dream to be oden because nothing inspires more anger in me.

dreams are so so so important in one piece. literally everybody knows that. the entire series is built around chasing your dreams, regardless of how impossible or ridiculous they are. yamato's desire to be oden will be played for jokes sometimes whenever he takes it too literally and addresses momonosuke as son, but the core of it is portrayed seriously by the narrative.

the samurai in his backstory fed him because they respected his drive to be oden. kaido abused him for years because of his dream but yamato never let that crack him. he helped save wano and was prepared to carry on oden's dream to open up the country on his own before learning that the nine red scabbards were back. he even learned from oden's past mistakes and choose not to abandon the country in its time of need and set out to sea, even though he's been imprisoned his entire life and has no concrete obligation to stay behind. his dream is treated just the same as anyone else's.

yamato wanting to oden has the same significance as luffy wanting to be pirate king. oden means freedom to him, and being a man is apart of that freedom.

so when people miss that and say hes "just a delusional girl" i feel like tearing shit apart with my teeth.

when has one piece EVER been about disrespecting someone's dream. can you imagine if the fandom reacted similarly with any other character? if people said sanji was delusional for wanting to find the all blue because it couldn't possibly exist? or that usopp was delusional for thinking he could be a great warrior of the sea? saying something like that would cause a fucking flame-war.

and yet its fine when that treatment is directed at yamato. which is, of course, because of transphobia. his gender being tied to his dream makes it something to be laughed at.

okay rant over i dont really have any sort of conclusion for this post.

[mutopians]

can there be a scale of monsterfuckery pls. 0 for the spirit, but no actual fucking, and then 10 for the most STEAMY thing you've ever seen in ur entire life

- sincerely, a sex-repulsed ace who's a monsterfucker in spirit but can't fully commit to the bit

[canines-crown]

Black critters assemble!!!

Reblog with a picture of what you look like so we can build a collection of black theriotypes! if you wanna

🖤Here's me!🖤

🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

[felassan]

Dragon Age on YouTube live chat: "'We drift upon the echoes of the vast, eternal dream.' - Emmrich. 💜 Goodnight everyone, see you tomorrow!" [source]

The YouTube live chat info session draws to a close with a beautiful quote from Emmrich. :> the language reminds me of the "sea of dreams", "emerald waters of the Fade" imagery when it comes to the Fade. 😴

[lambentplume]

Maui Fires & How to Support Relief Efforts

(Posted on 8/10/23) Hi, I'm Jae and my family is from Lāhainā. I watched my hometown burn down this week. The fires caused immeasurable loss in my community so I'd like to spread awareness of the situation as well as provide links to support local organizations directly assisting survivors. I'm pretty sure most of my following is Not local so I'm writing with intent to inform people outside the situation, but if you're reading this and happen to have family in the affected area that isn't accounted for, message me and I can send you the links to the missing persons tracking docs + more localized info!! If you'd like to skip down to how to help and follow community organizations, scroll to the bottom of the post after the image.

Earlier this week, Hurricane Dora passed south of the Hawaiian Islands, bringing strong wind gusts that caused property damage across the islands. On Tuesday August 8, high winds caused sparks to fly in the middle of Lāhainā town, knocking out power lines and immediately igniting drought-ridden grasses. The fire spread quickly and destroyed the entire center of town, the harbor, and multiple neighborhoods including Hawaiian Homes (housing specifically for Native Hawaiians), parts of Lahainaluna, basically all of Front Street, and low-income housing units. There is only one public road in and out of town, and after a very hectic evacuation period that road has been mostly closed off except to emergency responders, thus it is extremely difficult for anyone to leave town to get help. The nearest hospital is 20 miles away in Wailuku, and most grocery stores in town have burnt down.

As of Thursday, August 10, over 1,000 acres have been burned and 271 structures (including homes, schools, and other community gathering places) have been destroyed. Cell service is still extremely spotty, many of the surrounding neighborhoods deemed safe for evacuees are still without utilities. There are currently confirmed 53 deaths but that number is expected to increase as search-and-rescue efforts continue. Countless families have been displaced and many have lost the homes they lived in for generations. Places of deep historical significance have been reduced to ash, including the gravesites of Hawaiian royalty, the old Lāhainā courthouse where items of cultural significance were stored, and Na ‘Aikane o Maui Cultural Center. To add further context: Lāhainā has a population of about 13,000 residents. EVERYONE I know has been impacted in some way--at best forced to evacuate, at worst their house was burnt to the foundation, they cannot find a loved one, etc. I'm still trying to track down family members and it's been over two days. My neighbors down the street had homes last week and now many don't have ANYTHING. The hotels are taking in residents (tourists are also being STRONGLY urged to leave so that locals can recover). Without open access to the rest of the island, Lāhainā residents are now dependent on whatever people had in their homes already as well as disaster relief efforts coming in, but it's been difficult to organize and mobilize due to the location + conditions. People who have made it out are in shelters where no blankets or medicine were provided. Friends and acquaintances from neighbor islands are preparing aid to send over. Community response has been incredible, but the toll on the town has been immeasurable. My parents were desperately walking through town yesterday, my mom sounded absolutely hollow talking about it on the phone with me. It's horrifying. Below is a satellite map with data from the NASA Fire Information for Resource Management System showing the impacted areas from the past week; all of the red blotches were on fire at some point in the last three days.

Here are ways you can help:

If you have the means to donate:

Here are three donation sites verified by Maui Rapid Response, which also lists FAQs for people who are wondering about next steps.

Hawaiʻi Community Foundation - Maui Strong Fund accepts international credit cards. Maui United Way

Maui Mutual Aid Non-monetary ways to support:

If you know anyone who is planning to travel to ANY Hawaiian island, not just Maui, tell them to cancel their trip. Resources are extremely limited as is. Advocate for climate change mitigation efforts locally, wherever that is for you. The fire was exacerbated by drought conditions that have worsened due to climate change.

Lastly, remember that these are people's HOMES that burned, and Native Hawaiian cultural artifacts that have been lost. Stop thinking of Hawaiʻi (or any "tourist destination" location, really) as an "escape" or a "paradise." If that's the only way you recognized my home... I'm glad I got your attention somehow, but I would ask that you challenge that perspective and prioritize local and native voices. For transparency, I don't currently live in Lāhainā, I've been following efforts from Honolulu. My parents and brother have been updating me and I've been following friends and family who are doing immediate response work. I'm doing my best to find reliable and current sources, but if I need to update something, please let me know. If you're going to try to convince me that tourism is necessary for our recovery, news flash ***IT'S NOT***!

Thanks for reading.

[aarafox]

Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of reposting of artwork in the helluva boss fandom, idk if it’s people who are new to tumblr/the fandom but there’s one thing I want to make clear:

Reposting - the act of uploading a pic of someone’s art to make a new post - is NOT a good thing to do. Reblogging - I hope we all know what that is - IS a good thing.

IF you want to repost an artwork, because it’s only on Twitter/X or for other reasons, approach the original artist to ask for their permission. If you don’t receive permission, DON’T POST. If you do receive permission, CREDIT THEM WITH NAME AND/OR LINKS.

If you don’t know who the artist is, use reverse google images or saucenao.com to look for a source. Can’t find the original artist/source? DON’T POST THE ART.

A work of art posted without permission or credit is considered stealing, because others will believe YOU made it and therefore YOU will receive the credit, which is unfair. Artists put a lot of time and work into their pieces and deserve to be credited/respected. Putting “credit to the owner/creator” under the art is not enough; other users still won’t be able to find the actual creators and it’s no proof that the artist gave permission for their work to be posted elsewhere than their own blogs/accounts.

I know many people find pictures on Pinterest, but the artists often aren’t credited there either. Don’t upload these artworks if you don’t know who made it.

Hope this helps!