#honest label

[urloveangel]

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

[alevens]

zolu is maybe one of the easiest ships i've ever liked. they're dating, except when they're not, they're best friends even when they're kissing and they're still captain and first mate when they aren't. they hold hands, they hug. they have sex. they don't.

Luffy can hold Zoro's katanas and Zoro can hold Luffy's strawhat and no one bats an eye. one says "You're so cool!" and the other says "You're strong" and it's just another way to say "I see you, this is why I follow you/this is why I trust you". it's not seeing each other for a long time and still knowing how the other's steps sound like against wood and sand. the captain runs and the first mate follows. it's always "Zoro and the others" and "Where's Luffy?"

if they're just friends, if they're something more, if they don't have a label for it, at its core, it's just about how they get each other. they understand how the other's mind works. however you view them, it doesn't erase they fact that they love each other in a way they don't love other people.

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

The most infuriating thing about outrage grifters saying "you can't criticize anything nowadays" is that they're the reason it's so tough to criticize anything diverse. Every review of something that's being targeted has to be written very carefully so racists won't think you're one of them and even then you know your words are gonna be taken and used against you to fuel some bigoted agenda. A man wrote a negative but good faith review of Glass Onion and Ben Shapiro stole his points to clumsily camouflage the rest of his review which is just far-right rage about Elon Musk is above criticism and how much he hates female protagonists of color. You make a criticism that you would have made if the protagonist had been a white man and it gets quote mined for some Youtuber's video about how the movie would have been perfect if only the protagonist had been a white man. You mix in criticism and praise and they only hear the criticism, because they decided they hated it just for having marginalized people and are looking for excuses.

If you make your own opinions, you get swarmed by a mob of people who get told their opinions by outrage grifters. This happens regardless of whether your opinion is positive or negative. But there is something uniquely infuriating that genuine, good faith criticism that respects the creators is being drowned out by people who think bigotry is "criticism" and that if they slap the word "woke" on it that magically makes it not racist.

[sunscall]

they're literally each other's home

[hoofpeet]

It feels like a lot of the ppl who are asking you to trigger tag the derealization stuff r probably the same people to ask for trigger tags on self harm scars. Like yeah mayb some ppl might be triggered by them but it's also a very real part of someone's body (+life) that they r always living with. And it's weird to ask someone to trigger tag that??? Like what a fucked up thing to say to someone? No you can't have your arms uncovered in your own space because it makes me upset to see that part of you/no you can't make a mild vent post on your own blog because it makes me upset to see that part of your life?? The unfollow/block button is right there goddam. Just walk out you can leave and all that. Anyway ur post really resonated with me and I'm so sorry for all the hate you got over it

YEAH people treating any kind of scarring as some sort of taboo subject is also really annoying to me.. Putting effort into any art starts to not feel worth it when people expect to like. Take everything they want from you while ignoring whatever they don't want to 'deal with'.... very very disheartening to be expected to be quiet about normal parts of my life while. also pouring all my time into making art for other's enjoyment . Like an internet jester

-neway ! Glad my post helped a little at least- it was nice to see others relate to it, so whatever weird discourse it sparked is worth dealing with if it comforted anyone 👍

[bloodofgrapes]

sometimes it pains me that people, whether they're bigots, allies, or sometimes even other trans people, will only ever see me as trans first, and anything else second

one of my biggest fears is people remembering me for being trans, and not for being an artist, a writer, or any of my other meaningful accomplishments

"He was very good at what he did—for a trans man."

[faunandfloraas]

Han, Changbin and I.N agreeing that Seungmin has a "sharp tail bone that injures" what has he been doing to them...

[engene28]

Jungwon: That's greatly offensive to my people.

S.coups: College dropouts?

[starrjoy]

Are you transmasc ?? There's just this vibe you give off that I relate to 🥹🥰

!!! yes :DDD 🩷🤍🩵

[euphreana]

Planning for next month - for which of my current fandoms should I make valentines for?

[urloveangel]

[ottiliere]

Idk if this is strange of me to thank you for but I'm learning about the brain right now and because I remember reading your vagus nerve theoryposting it's been crazy easy remembering things regarding the parasympathetic nervous system so thank you for your hand in my education

No, it isn't strange at all...... In fact this is probably the best kind of ask you can give me lol, I love the parasympathetic nervous system and I think it is incredibly fascinating so I'm very happy to have spread the knowledge. I was just talking to someone who was considering pursuing a neuroscience degree due to those blog posts (unrelated, I recommend a neuroscience degree for anyone who is even slightly interested in the brain + if you are financially able... if you find it a little too much for you you can always pivot into just bio or chem and feel secure in the fact that you will practically always be able to get employment as a lab grunt if you don't want to go to grad school. I digress though) + I sent him these excerpts from a book whose .pdf I haven't been able to find on the internet once since it came out (Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory). maybe you'll enjoy them, too. the pages don't all fit here so I'll continue in a reblog

[bishonenspit]

Patalliro stickers included in issues of Hana to Yume (1980)

[hamartia-grander]

So y'all get upset when you see "booktok" recommending garbage corporate conveyer belt books that have no substance but you also get upset when actually good books that would enrich people's lives are recommended via "booktok". I'm not a tiktok defender but explain that to me.

[scribe-of-elysium]

Quietus: Status Update

Hello, Tumblr followers. I've started working on the next chapter of Quietus. I'm aiming to write up until Sakura's Rebirth, which will be covered in the next 2-3 chapters, depending on whether I split the content. So there will be a few more updates until we get to that point.

After that, I'll be formally Discontinuing the story because I sadly have no time, inspiration, or motivation to keep working on this project as things stand. It's a commitment I can't make; I have too many responsibilities, too little free time and can't be as active as I used to be, unfortunately.

This is not an easy decision for me to make, and has been on my mind for the last year. I'd been wanting to stop sooner, but I pushed on, hoping I could continue it, but it's now becoming really difficult to find the time and effort the story requires to maintain its quality.

Placing the fic on hiatus indefinitely as I have in the past pressures me to keep thinking about it knowing updates are anticipated and is counter-productive. It also feels unfair, like I'm constantly leaving readers hanging and waiting with the regular starting and stopping, and I'd rather just be honest that I've been struggling with it at this point.

I can't force myself to write something rushed, either I give 100% or nothing. If my circumstances ever change and I can pick it up again, I'll return to announce that, otherwise, I want to sincerely thank everyone who was still following and reading up to this point, everyone who patiently waited for updates all these years, and everyone who took the time to interact, comment, share, recommend, make art or commission it. I appreciate my readers and their support more than I can express on here.