#fuck this piece of shit website

[aleshakills]

I've always known that existing as a trans woman on the internet carries some inherent risk, but I don't think I've ever seen the CEO of a whole ass company have such direct and personal beef with a woman just for posting jokes

You know what, I think I will

[gremlingirlsmell]

ngl if your hitpiece about a subgroup transfems starts with "I think transmisogyny is real, BUT" you know youre gonna read the most egregious transmisogynistic drivel

[gremlinbehaviour]

hey tumblr i want my FUCKING buttons back

[scaramutual]

always torn between "you must be your entirely unfiltered self and express your interests so that you'll make good friends" and "if you're too honest you will be pelted to death with rocks"

[godbirdart]

quite surreal watching my work go from receiving a Decent crumb of reach on twitter to flat-lining because i keep speaking words like Patreon and Commissions and getting nerfed by the algorithm there

[firstfullmoon]

what i love the most is stumbling upon a poem by a previously unknown (to me) poet & loving the style so much i look them up & end up devouring their poetry published online & falling in love right then

[king-killaway]

Oh don't you just love transwomen getting perma banned off this site and transmen's voices being silenced every damn day on here

Only for the explosion of extremely bigoted terf rhetoric to be spewed left and right everywhere on this damn platform?

Its so fun isn't it

[m1d-45]

Let it be known that I love writing fluff, and I listen to character audios sometimes. SO! I came up with a cute idea for sagau imposter au. I heard somewhere that Xiao's adeptus form is a bird, so I wonder, what kind of bird? And that got me thinking. Xiao being a little song bird, or perhaps even a cardinal.

Now imagine: while looking for the imposter, Xiao stumbles upon them sitting beneath a tree, just feeding some birds. Said birds are absolutely loving the attention since the creator of Teyvat is giving them food and love!

Xiao watches, rather curious. The creator he knows hates birds, because they always dive and cause problems for them. But now... these little birds have completely abandoned any fear they may hold for human beings, happily landing on the hands and shoulders of this supposed imposter.

So he decides to test something.

Xiao turns into a small bird and approaches cautiously. In his smaller form, he's vulnerable to attack. But the person before him doesn't try to hurt him. Rather, they smile and call him "little friend" as they offer food to him. In his distrust, he bites them with his sharp beak.

His heart shatters when he sees divine blood spilling from the wound.

He's about to fly away, get as far away from here as he can. He found the true creator, and instead of worshipping them, he bit them! He caused them to bleed, he shouldn't even be near them-!

His mind stills when they pet his feathered head.

They murmur kind words to him, apologizing to him. They believed that they had startled him, that he bit to protect himself. They forgave him, they felt no hatred towards him, no anger or disappointment. Instead, they offered some chopped almonds, hoping he'd prefer that over bird seed.

He sang for them as he perched on their shoulder.

After that, he did his best to secretly protect the creator he'd harmed. He would adopt his smaller form and sing for them when they felt sad, and he'd use his human form to guard them from a distance. Yes, it made his chest ache whenever they looked at him with fear when they saw his more human form, but the yaksha only shook it off. It only made sense that you'd be scared. He was a frightening person, one that had tried to harm you before. He refused to try and change your feelings towards him. He didn't have the right.

He would be content to sing for you as a harmless bird.

-sibling anon (sorry if this is out of character for him I just like the idea)

oh….. he’s so soft…..

xiao hovering near the edge of the crowd, at first, drawing your attention since he doesn’t seem to be eating any of the seed you’d passed out.

when he finally hops within arms reach, you reach to nudge some of the food next to him closer, only to quickly whip your hand back. the birds around (on) you all flutter at the sudden movement, but you inspect your finger, the blue blood of teyvat welling up. your instinct is to stick it in your mouth, but that doesn’t seem safe considering a bird bit it, so you dab at it with a napkin.

the bird cries and flaps his wings, distraught, and your heart hurts. poor guy, you probably scared him, moving so quickly.

you pull out some chopped almonds from your pocket. the plan was to have them as a snack, but now… you put a few in your palm and close your hand around it, reaching forward to gently run two fingers over the birds back.

the other birds in the area seemed receptive to that, and this one does too, calming down considerably.

you take your hand back, opening your palm to drop the almonds on the floor, nudging them close before backing off.

“there you go,” you murmur, as the bird dips down to inspect the food. “i won’t hurt you.”

you allow yourself a silent cheer when it eats one of the almond pieces.

you see the small bird fluttering around you often, always on the edge of your vision. it’s easy to identify, the purple patch of feathers on its forehead easily standing out, and you’re always certain to push some food over to it. almonds, not birdseed.

the bird is a dark blue-teal, the underside of its wings a softer blue. it’s like no other bird you’ve seen in liyue, something that quickly catches your attention.

you brush some dirt off you as you stand, noting the way the bird immediately looks up from its food, unlike the others, to flap up into the tree you were sitting under.

you crack a smile, carefully reaching a finger for it. you’re slower this time, cautious of its skittish nature, but it lets you approach. when you carefully pet over its head, the birds eyes close.

your smile grows, and you try not to laugh at how confused the bird seems when you pull your hand away.

“i have to go,” you explain. “the millelith… they’re getting too close again. i won’t be able to see you again, little friend.”

the bird chirps, nearly indignant, and you do laugh this time. putting a small piece of almond on the branch in front of it, you wave goodbye to the other birds, seeing the blue one hadn’t touched the almond.

you frown. hopefully it’ll be alright….

xiao watches you until you’re out of sight, and even then, he stays on the branch.

you…. he’d forgotten you were being hunted by the millelith. he’d forgotten the order to look out for you. he’d forgotten the qixing called you a criminal.

who could blame him? it was easy to forget everything at your side, when you carefully ran your fingers over his feathers, scratching at his jaw with the edge of your nail. yes, he was vulnerable as a bird, but it was easy to be vulnerable with you. it was easy to be open, to sing as best he could in this form, to allow himself close enough to see the way your eyes lit up whenever another bird landed on your outstretched finger.

xiao dropped to the ground, morphing back into his human form. predictably, the birds cawed and flew away quickly. he watched them go, his mind contrasting it with how readily they flocked to you.

you…

he turned to the branch he was on, to the small almond piece left behind. the small symbol of your care, of how you recognized that he didn’t touch the birdseed and instead offered him your own food to eat. normally he wouldn’t lower himself to eating off the ground at all, let along bird food, but almonds weren’t awful and you seemed so happy when he ate..

xiao looked back to where you’d gone, to the sandbearer trees swaying in a soft wind.

he allowed his form to fall away and spread his wings, taking flight on the same breeze that urged you along.

perhaps he’d forget his orders for a little while longer, if it meant he could spend that time with you.

perhaps he’d forget his orders for a little longer, if it meant he’d get to spend that time with you.

[butchyena]

okay i know i harp on my bad luck a lot and tell lots of stories but i think if i explained what was happening rn with my short term disability you all would think i was straight up lying

[theskyexists]

Wow.

[mymarifae]

you have got to be fucking kidding me......................

[llatimeria]

JUST WATCHED ONE OF MY NEIGHBORS GET FUCKING ARRESTED???

[the-gayest-show]

not going to lie I don't go there (I don't participate in the fandom) but gravity falls (a show I have watched Max 2 episodes of, and I forgot both) is resurging again.

and some of the art made is fucking awesome actually. shit goes crazy. bill's in therapy/the psych ward now? crazy. this is JUST like that episode of house-

if I have anything to contribute to this fandom it's that I personally get the feeling The Mind Electric needs to have an animatic made of it with Bill. just saying, it looks like the song fits 100%. if someone already made one that's awesome but i'm just putting the idea out there

[h34vybottom]

Alisa Ilinichina Amiella

[alittlebitofrainbyyourside]

Do you know any non-binary creators of color?

'creator' here can be used extremely wide- I have a friend who is indigenous and has recently started their journey to self acceptance. There are... certain forces in their life that want to convince them that nonbinary people are all white middle class people and 'aren't real' and I would really love to continue to expose them to more non binary/gender fluid rep.

[rxttenfish]

can we please kill the “this character did something problematic!” people already theyre making it very hard for me to talk about actual issues of how narratives are handling characters doing Absolutely Fucked shit or when a character does something fucked but the narrative has some utterly unhinged idea on what’s actually wrong with it or unintentional philosophies that narratives dont mean to have but it ends up enforcing regardless