#i failed the task this year

[jvgsjeff]

[navree]

Incorrect, the fact that Biden has dropped out and a candidate with history of supporting medicare for all and being more receptive to a ceasefire in the I/P conflict has made me go from "I cannot morally support the Democratic nominee" to "I am voting for the Democratic nominee despite the fact she isn't perfect in every respect." I'm really happy this played out. The Dems for the most part abandoned the old Obama platform and it feels like its possible an actual progressive agenda could come to pass in my lifetime.

Kamala 2024!

If you weren't going to vote Democratic in this election before Biden dropped out you're a dorkass loser who does not care about any of the issues you're yammering about here and also a fundamentally bad person, and I hope you get run over by a bus.

But you got one thing right in all of this gibberish, Kamala 2024.

[bowenoke]

we talk a lot about how current kids, teenagers, and parents never learned internet safety in this age of social media, but i think we also gotta be honest with ourselves that most of us, adults on the internet who participate in fandom, never really learned how to engage with young people without setting them up for disaster.

might be weird to say it like this, but it's important to leave people how you met them or better. like hiking or going to a nature reserve. if you are regularly talking to people on the internet, especially teenagers, you need to consider whether your behavior with them is how another, shittier person would take advantage of them, because you have no real way of protecting them if that happens. like if you're going into discords and saying 'hey i'm mom! let me help you with your homework and irl issues. also please feel free to vent to me if you have any mental health issues or problems at home" you have to understand that the next person who says that to them may be leaving out the end of their plan; "that would make you easier to abuse."

sometimes you have to say "you seem fun and have a lot of great ideas but you are also 15, so if you wanna talk fandom, here are the boundaries we're going to follow, because these are the boundaries other adults should be following with you." or just refuse to talk to kids.

you decide what your responsibility, is but what you can't do is build an illegal fire pit on the hiking trail, if you catch my drift.

[s2pdoktopus]

Totally normal 10 year old mindset

[mortellanarts]

Hm.... Do you hear something?

Look at the details I put into this thang

[genuflectx]

Maaan I love the optimistic advice "keep practicing and you'll get better at art" as much as the next artist, but it always rubs me the wrong way when that evolves into "just keep practicing and you WILL 100% succeed and CAN get into the industry."

It changes from good general advice to implying you're just doing something wrong if still haven't "made it" yet. Not in the industry? Well, you just haven't worked hard enough, obviously, as if there aren't plenty of other factors that play into "succeeding” in a highly competitive industry like art.

Don’t let advice that’s supposed to be encouraging turn into something discouraging 😭

[mr-aftons-rotting-pussy]

a vincent portrait has hit my tumblr blog 😁

[ourceliumnetwork]

me, the symptoms experiencer, experiencing symptoms: wow gee i wonder what the fuck is happening right now i have no context for why i could possibly feel bad, surely i'm not experiencing symptoms. me, when i figure out it's the symptoms:

[sweet-cuddlebug]

I FUCKING HATE WRITING AUTOBIOGRAPHIES

[cadere-art]

tfw you procrastinate on a task for litteral years and when you finally get to it it only takes you an hour and a half.

[yoohyeon]

For Halloween reblog and tell us in the tag what’s your favorite Halloween / creepy song 👻🎃 Mine is Dead man runnin’ by Seulgi (RV)

[miabebe]

Okay. Okay. So I read chapter vii--er, more like devoured--and can I just tell you my heart was in my throat when Na bi drank the damn orange juice?

(I hope my reaction gifs come through because I feel like tumblr didn't used to do that in asks?)

And the way he just answers all the questions so frankly, no serum needed? Girlbye.

"the winding key of the underworld?" <-this analogy is so *chef's kiss*

"like someone capable of being hurt" <-also so meaningful. i love this. Last chapter was exposing Kyun's soft spots, and now we're seeing hers. It's lovely.

"she knew if she asked, he would tell her and Na bi wasn't ready to hear that answer just yet." <-ugh, this is literally one of my favorite things to play with in writing. So nice to see. My heart pitter-pats. It's so human to be afraid of the truth. It's safer sometimes.

Also, my utter shock that she walks away otherwise unscathed??? It's both surprising and almost unprecedented. So much of me wanted him to ask *one* question that she'd have no choice to answer, BUT it makes him sooooooo attractive for not. It also leaves such a question lingering--did he know there was something in the juice? Was that a test of her loyalty since that's of utmost importance to him--that she is willing fall on her own sword for him? (lol, I'm reacting real-time in my reading, can you tell?) Anyway... there's only one word for that notion:

(I'm going to feel like such a jerk if these gifs don't come through, seriously.)

Mysteriously missing phones are certainly mysterious... ¬‿¬

Ooh, the self-orchestrated chill running between them. I love the angst and the unacknowledged pining (lord knows that's my wheelhouse), but oof, does it cut. It's another human thing to ask for distance and be granted it and then resent it. We all want someone to fight for us, huh? To long for us, too? It's an unfair test we put out there because we're yearning for the other person to pass--and they don't even know that's what we want. Very counterintuitive, but also I suppose that's often part of the test. Who will break first?

"Being the one left behind..." Oh, Mrs. Lee, I will hug you so tightly!

In the end, she didn't even need the truth serum to just confess everything. What an important moment on a terrible day. How meaningful. And Kyun sits there so silently and just lets her unburden her heart. As a person who has been a "Kyun" to a friend who needed to do something very similar, I know how important this is--the kind of connection it forges between people. My best friend often tells me that's what she needed from someone when she needed it most, and so this scene really resonates with me. Listening--being present--it's such a beautiful thing. <3

"waiting for her to untag me." <-what a powerful image

Such a pretty little ending to this chapter. A friendship being forged ahead of just a physical connection. I think real-life Changkyun is such a complex person. He seems the type to me who would just melt into the physical because it's easy and chemical, but to be the one who forges a meaningful link to his heart--who stays by his side and needs him but also doesn't demand anything of him--I think it takes a very particular kind of person. Na bi is a good portrayal of the type of person I think he could give his secretive heart to even irl. Great work!

(And I'm sorry for everyone who has to scroll past this monster reply on feed but what's a reader to do? What are we if we don't interact with worthwhile work???)

AHHHHH you read it omggg and I SEE ALL YOUR REACTION GIFS YAYYY

Oh Na bi drinking the juice was a terrifying moment but it was important to show her that one, Changkyun never needed any sort of coercion to tell her anything and that there was nothing he wanted from her - he never questioned or doubted anything she did, he always just let her be! In the end his nature allowed her to come to him whenever she was ready and the irony is neither of them needed the serum to come clean to each other

And two, Na bi who always felt a strong irresistible physical urge to jump him under the serums influence, for the first time was more interested in just knowing more about him - something for her to think about

Meanwhile what Changkyun has been thinking this entire time and the reasons for all his actions should be revealed after chapter 9(?) I'm gonna do a whole one just from his POV, that's gonna be super interesting and eye opening hehe

Unacknowledged pining is soooo fun, like idiots who are in love yet don't know it is such an effective trope. I'm not ready for the pining to end but its going to have to soon, these two are falling hard and fast T.T

All her life Na bi was searching for love and having it snatched from her when she was least expecting it made her incapable of ever looking for it again - Changkyun bringing back her ability to trust in someone, being there to share the burden she carried was the turning point she needed for the insane physical attraction she had to become something deep and meaningful

You're a beautiful person to have been someone's listening ear like that, your friend is lucky to have you! And I am also so lucky to have you sending such detailed notes on my work, I might have cried a little my friend

[thedevotionaltour]

man. thinking about how my insurance is out of network i feel so fucked i have so much money owed in therapy bills. literally over 1k bc of my weird insurance happenings and also bc idk if insurance was even doing its thing before i dont know and just other various things im sure i've forgotten. man.

[ourceliumnetwork]

i was going to say i hate when i'm right but actually i enjoy the sensation of being correct even if i don't like the thing i was right about. So I'm very happy to be right so often, actually (especially now that no one in my life is actively trying to gaslight me)

[mayra-quijotescx]

Hello! I don't know who needs to hear this, and most modern websites thankfully won't even give you the option to anyway, but DO NOT USE YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER AS YOUR PASSWORD.

also there are companies that use employees' SSNs as their employee IDs, and they REALLY need to cut that shit out expeditiously! (In the meantime, if you work at one such company, try to get a claim or reference number when working with third parties so you can give that instead of having to give strangers your literal SSN every time you need help.)

[justthatspiffy]

girl dinner has hit the discourse circuit and i am sure in its feral meme state it has many problems and i don't know a thing about it but i cannot partake in the commentary because my main understanding of girl dinner is from when i was telling my bf about my food struggles and he very gently suggested "have you tried girl dinner"

i am a medieval peasant and my lover has returned from pilgrimage. he describes to me a rhinoceros he saw from far off and i choose to cherish this marvelous unicorn which has been described to me don't tell me what girl dinner is